#this body may be human but i am not

[zukishaylupo]

I wanna talk about the terms/identities I use for my alterhuman/nonhuman identities.

Alterhuman: I use this term as an overall and kinda a specific identity. It's like the way I use queer for myself.

Nonhuman: Same as alterhuman but more specific on the fact that I am not human. The only thing "human" about "me" is the body that I am in.

Therian: I haven't really been using this term for a while. No real reason just prefer the 2 mentioned before. I still use the symbol for this though [can't remember what it's called rn]

Otherkin: I think the only things I use from this would be calling them kintypes other than that I don't use this term. No real reason other than alterhuman and nonhuman feel better to me.

Fictionkin/Ockin: Putting these together cause all I have are ockins so far. I do use these terms but not as often as the first 2 terms/identities.

I can't think of any other terms or identities I use at this point, will update this post if I think of anymore. I'll probably try and make it clear what is the original and what would be an update.

- Zuki Shay Lupo (They/it)

[Trying out it/its pronouns, this is the best place for me to do it. Cause I don't want it to be in a negative way, I want it to be positive, and I feel like here is the best place for that.]

[zukishaylupo]

Haha. I'm not even human, so checkmate to the people who say that. (The ones who say "love is what makes us human," I mean, lol)

- Zuki Shay Lupo (They/it)

"love is what makes us human" actually it's 'select all images with boat' but go off I guess

[fisheito]

@requiodile YAKUMO EATS BUGS AND I LOVE THAT FO RHRI OM

[ct-hardcase]

just typed out a war and peace style post about wanting there to be an equivalent of body neutrality in feminist spaces re: periods/childbirth/etc and though there are so many caveats to what I have to say, I think that there can and should be a middle ground between "your divine feminine body was built for these processes and you will embrace the pain with grace/this is easy for everybody" and borderline misogynistic fearmongering surrounding standard bodily phenomena

[woodsborostabathon]

have been fighting for my life trying to find this one richie/ethan x reader fic (it was like. an ethan fic but there was a pretty significant sort of kind of fake dating richie subplot) on here that i rbed onto a sideblog on my old acc and saved NOWHERE ELSE apparently bc it was so good but im getting NOTHING 😭

[zukishaylupo]

[Not alterhuman/nonhuman related]

I'm 19 years old. I'm going to go trick or treating. I don't care that I'm an adult. When I was younger, I had issues with trick or treating cause I was a scared pup so I have only really been going trick or treating properly in the last like 4 or 5 years, a little before COVID time. So let me have my fun.

Also, if anyone says anything about my scared past self, listen I was a young pup and was very terrified of scary things, I am still not entirely into scary things, some I like more than others, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Be yourself and do what you want to do as long as no one gets hurt.

if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are “too old for trick-or-treating” because that will literally break their hearts and that’s not cool.

[moeblob]

What Deacon thinks: what did that mean? did he want me to wear a collar too? why else would he mention my neck? i mean, if he /asked/ me i would wear one but he didn't so would wearing one be weird?

What Ymber meant: It's nice to be near someone who isn't tethered to this world to serve it with a physical reminder for all to see.

[zukishaylupo]

Made some pins/buttons at my college's "Maker Space" as they call it, lol.

Ignore how bad they look, I had to draw the designs by paw, lol [I am refusing to say hand].

- Zuki Shay Lupo (They/he/hx) :3c

{He/him and hx/hxm pronouns are equal to which I prefer, lol}

[I also almost put my actual preferred name instead of Zuki, lol]

[ahxiang]

genderqueer tharn/wansarat my beloved <3

[zukishaylupo]

Can we just stop using "human" and "humanity" to mean good or kind or normal or anything like that as well?

Cause I sure as heck ain't human, but I'm not bad because of that.

NOT EVERYONE IS HUMAN AND IF YOU CAN'T ACCEPT THAT, THEN FUCK OFF.

I am not less than or anything because I'm not human, I am not worse than because of my nonhumanity.

I get where this person is coming from, and what they are meaning and that I agree with. Just please don't say that everyone is human or anything like that.

Also, what the second post in this thread likely meant is treating it like it's ok or good and shit like that. I don't agree with the way they phrased what they said, of course.

I get where pretty much everyone in this conversation is coming from before anyone comes for me. I am just disagreeing with some word choices and shit.

If anything, I said here whether in the actual post or the tags bothers you, then block me, it will save so much time and energy for both of us.

-? (They/it)

90% of arguments about media could just be solved by saying “different people like different things in their stories” and leaving it at that

[ehh-is-the-name]

It's past 11 on a school night and I'm fucking crying over robot sentience.

I could never understand what it would feel like to be created with the intent to kill and maim. Maybe, the intent to work and be worked, but not kill and maim.

I will never understand what it's like to be created with the intention of being a product for the masses, either. I think, I hope, I beg, no one does.

I will never ever be able to fully comprehend why hours of people's work, time, and money would be put into formulating my sentience only for me to be seen as disposable. Even if I could be improved, even if I were "defective", there is no reasonable justification for giving me emotions only to dismiss them by pushing me as a product for a year before starting anew.

It's... It's cruel, to the machines. Sentient or not, it's cruel. Though, I guess we are cruel.

[sysig]

VUXisms (Patreon)

[zukishaylupo]

Absolutely true.

- Shay (They/it)

no amount of forcing humanity on me will ever change who i am. i hope that eventually that the ones who need to understand that will finally get it.

youre a broken record, with your speaker facing a wall. nothing more.

[farmergilesofham]

"Israelis doing something comically evil! Source: Hamas affiliated propaganda outlet." Y'all believe anything and everything an Arab site/paper/whatever tells you.

Perhaps, if it were only one solitary example in a calm field, I would be inclined to doubt tales of Israel performing 'comically evil' acts.

But it is not.

It is a single voice in an ocean of news, of photography and video evidence and cruel, tiny people trying to run from their own self-hatred by inflicting it a thousand times over on others.

Why are local newspapers less reliable than european and american ones? Is it because they are biased in favour of their oppressed neighbours? Or is it because they aren't white, and therefore must be duplicitous liars, always out to paint the West's friends as monsters?

If you had enough of a spine to append your name to this ask, I might still have some respect for you.

Do not come here again, coward.

[pyrriax]

well today's as good a day as any to try and learn something new!

[zukishaylupo]

I agree with this!

While I am personally not human whatsoever (although the body I am in is human), if you are human in any way, you are valid!!

- Shay (They/it)

People with alterhuman identities that aren't strictly nonhuman have just as much place in the community as anyone else. If you're entirely human, or human as well as nonhuman, or even aspecies or something more nuanced--you're important, you're valued, and you're still alterhuman.

Share your experiences more often, if you'd like. The tags might be mainly filled with posts about nonhumanity, but that doesn't mean that your identity should be kept quiet! Be proud of who you are, humanity and all included.