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I also learned about what a "mutual" is this year but people describe mutuals more as friends then what the definition is, is it ok to follow people back and mutual them ???? I swear I'm not crusty dusty moldy oldie 1000000000 years old I just don't what I'm doing because I was raised on YouTube, Animal Jam, and lost obscure flash games

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I found out that I really enjoy making moodboards !! I've made a few for my ?? types ?? (I'm still learning please forgive if I'm using that term wrong) And I'm thinking about maybe opening requests for them, would anybody be interested ?? Also I see those posts with other beings ?? types ?? with the white outlines on them and they look really cool !! I'm not sure what they are though, is there like a meaning behind them or is it just something you do for fun ??

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I think I should've added that I'm sorta new in this community as well and tumblr in general. I only recently decided to join after making one post back in 2018 and never really opened tumblr again until last year, and I started making my own posts just a few months ago on my art account. I've known I'm nonhuman basically my entire life and have known about the community since I first got internet access when I was little but I haven't really involved myself with it at all until last month. I'm still learning a lot of terms and about myself so I hope I'm doing everything right. I want to make an intro but I'm still figuring out how to do it without it being a huge mess because I've never made a proper intro that looks right

Hello !! I'm looking for some advice

I've always struggled with meeting and talking to people because of extreme anxiety where sometimes just going into a place with a few people can send me into a panic attack. Because of this I've never really had any friends online or irl and so I never really learned any social skills either.

I've only ever had one real irl best friend but he is not in my life anymore and hasn't been for 2 years. I currently have maybe 2 online friends but we don't talk very often because I don't know how to talk to people and they have their own life and other relationships. I don't have any irl friends either, my previous best friend was my only one for a good majority of my life.

I live in a fairly small town but it's unwalkable and I can't drive yet. I don't know if I can be friends with people who aren't alterhuman in some way or who understand fictionkin because it's a huge part of who I am and I don't know how to involve myself more in the community to try to meet new people, I would love to just post about my experience being nonhuman and living with psychosis how can affect it and meeting people that way but I really don't know how and posting my thoughts publicly can send me into a massive spiral, even typing this is starting to freak me out.

I really want friends, especially irl friends, but I feel kinda stuck. I'm 18 and I'm not sure what I can do here, if anyone has any advice at all I'd be eternally grateful thank you so much 💚

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Inspired by @/sunfl0wersaphhic

!! Warning for insects in drinks, moldy fruit, and veins !!

Shapeshiftercore mood, shapeshiftercore drink, shapeshiftercore hobby, shapeshiftercore season, shapeshiftercore animal, shapeshiftercore color, shapeshiftercore food, shapeshiftercore place, shapeshiftercore plant

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Hello !! I'm looking for some advice

I've always struggled with meeting and talking to people because of extreme anxiety where sometimes just going into a place with a few people can send me into a panic attack. Because of this I've never really had any friends online or irl and so I never really learned any social skills either.

I've only ever had one real irl best friend but he is not in my life anymore and hasn't been for 2 years. I currently have maybe 2 online friends but we don't talk very often because I don't know how to talk to people and they have their own life and other relationships. I don't have any irl friends either, my previous best friend was my only one for a good majority of my life.

I live in a fairly small town but it's unwalkable and I can't drive yet. I don't know if I can be friends with people who aren't alterhuman in some way or who understand fictionkin because it's a huge part of who I am and I don't know how to involve myself more in the community to try to meet new people, I would love to just post about my experience being nonhuman and living with psychosis how can affect it and meeting people that way but I really don't know how and posting my thoughts publicly can send me into a massive spiral, even typing this is starting to freak me out.

I really want friends, especially irl friends, but I feel kinda stuck. I'm 18 and I'm not sure what I can do here, if anyone has any advice at all I'd be eternally grateful thank you so much 💚

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Did that Pinterest thing where it’s like “type in _____ and the save the first image, that’s how your Pinterest sees you”

well I got bored and put martencore in front of it. so now it’s a kintype thing lol! so for example a wolf would be wolfcore and then animal, color, food, season, etc after it.

Left to right I did:

___core mood, ___core drink, ___core hobby, ___core season, ___core animal, ___core color, ___core food, ___core place, ___core plant

you might just get an image of your kintype, up to you if you’d like to do that or go the next image that is relevant to the prompt

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Isofic, a New Term for Fictionfolk

[PT: Isofic, a New Term for Fictionfolk /End PT]

I've been looking for a way to communicate my belief system for a while now, and I've landed on creating my own term.

[ID: A flag in muted colors. It has an orange stripe on top and a yellow stripe on bottom. The stripes are even and there is a blue rectangle overlayed over the center. The rectangle appears transparent. /End ID]

The contrast of the yellow and orange stripes represent the difference between fiction and reality, while the rectangle represents how fictionfolk fit inside that balance perfectly.

Derived from iso- (equal) and -fic (fiction) (basic I know), "isofic" (eye-so-fick) is a way to describe people and ideas that follow this line of thinking:

Fictionfolk* should be allowed to exist as themselves without being accused of being "anti-recovery," "promoting delusions," or "being unhealthy."

Fictionfolk should be allowed to choose for themselves how they want others to talk about them and how they talk about themselves. It should be considered a natural, or even expected occurrence for fictionfolk to dislike terms such as "kintype" and "kinning" and being reffered to in third person.

The proximity of fictionfolk to their fictionselves should be dictated only by the person. Fictional identities should be believed regardless of how "similar" they are to their fictional/past self, and the only scenario in which someone should be told they are not a character is when they themselves have said so.

This is more of a summary of the three beliefs above, but it covers a lot of bases I cannot: Fictionfolk ARE fictional characters in every sense of the word. Again, it's totally appropriate to view it differently on a personal level, but mostly we are all the people we say we are. We are ourselves the same way Mitsuki Miyawaki is Mitsuki Miyawaki.

All views of fiction by fictionfolk are valid. Examples include media being a biography of your life, jumping out of the media into the real world, ect.

This is where it gets controversial: Fictionfolk deserve to have the most important voice when it comes to discussion of ourselves. I deserve to be listened to when I say someone's headcanon about me is wrong. I am not advocating for all creativity of this manner to be stopped. For example, if someone headcanons that I don't like apples and I say "I actually do," it's totally okay to me if they go "oh cool. I'm still going to pretend you do." Where it becomes an issue is when they decide to say "that's not true because I said so."

Likewise, things like this need to be treated as potentially triggering content. I don't want the enforcement of "if you don't tag your headcanons you're EVIL" or some bullshit like that, I just believe it needs to be recognized that these things can hurt people! For example, if you already have a trigger tagging system, it should be normalized to add the "not fictionfolk safe" tag to that.

This is going to sound highly specific, but all of these principles apply to media as well. If a character is fictionfolk-coded, then they are the character they say they are within the media! Can you tell my fandom is super gross about me? Lol.

*Fictionfolk, for the purposes of this coining, refers to fictional characters regardless of origin. This is different from the actual definition of fictionfolk, which includes fictional species, places, plants, and concepts, and includes experiences such as relating to these things rather than just being them.

There are also some beliefs that are not explicitly related to fictionfolk, but still need to be touched on.

Species dysphoria is real and dangerous, and should be treated with the same level of gravity as gender dysphoria.

Referring to alterhumans improperly should be viewed similarly to how misgendering is viewed in that it needs to be acknowledged that it's deeply disrespectful and due to species dysphoria should not be taken lightly.

Alterhumans may not be systemically oppressed on the basis of being alterhuman by itself, but we are oppressed on an individual level. Additionally, some forms of alterhumanity are systemically oppressed, for example endels, clinical zoanthropes, systems, and more are often subjected to incarceration.

Following the model of queerness as a deviation from the norm rather than specifically meaning "LGBTQ+," alterhumanity is queer.

Alterhumanity should not be censored or gatekept from good faith actors. However, those considered KFF are absolutely not good faith actors.

Any attempt to water down alterhumanity is unwelcome, no matter if it's a TikTok user saying "Therians know they're human" or a Tumblr user "setting healthy limits for alterhumanity."

Everything should always be based on someone's own perception of themself as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

I know that's a lot, so feel free to comment if you have any questions!