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essays
here's a bunch of stuff i've written on social media sites that i thought was good enough to preserve. currently, these are mostly about alterhumanity. if you want to link someone to a post of mine, please consider these the 'canonical' versions.
- 🆕 magical practises in the alterhuman communities: a curated bibliography
- “What does it feel like to identify as an archetrope?” - Daystar asks on the Archetroper's Guild
- moments of moreness - when you feel ‘more’ your archetrope than usual, what does it feel like?
- fictionfolk for the nonhumans that don't understand them - why do fictionfolk claim that they are fictional characters, rather than just using them as a point of reference?
- the hart jumping out of my chest - reflections on being a red deer otherkin, therian and -hearted all at once
- words coined on the alt+h discord server
- an untitled essay about archetypal identity which i wrote while such things weren't really getting talked about in the community yet
- 6 years of dragons in the Alt+H Discord server - a collection of themes extracted from conversations about draconity in the Alt+H discord server over the years
- glamourbombing - i talk about the old community practise of glamourbombing, and why it failed
- an alternative alterhuman definition - a more personally useful definition of 'alterhuman' that i wanted to know people's thoughts on
- what's the difference between otherkin and kinnies? - an observation on how words are getting used these days
- ⎇ - my proposal to use ⎇ as an alterhuman symbol
- what are semiplural pronouns? - a coining post and explanation
- what is the Self? - i talk about some ways in which medians can be median
- here are some ways you can be human and alterhuman, by the way
- otherkinity isn't LGBT+ but alterhumanity is queer - a response to a certain platitude i was seeing way too much of
- how i learned to stop worrying and love ontological ambiguity - a treatise on the definition of 'aterhuman' that a lot of people like to reference
- an open letter to my furry friend who very obviously has species dysphoria - an assurance that it's ok to just be nonhuman
- here (were, are, will be) dragons - a pre-post-mortem on the draconic community
- you are the sum of your friends - i talk about community and why people might choose different words to describe the same experiences
- Les otherhumen ("otherhumans") - 'otherhuman', a term gaining popularity in the anglo alterhuman community, has its origins on a french forum
other stuff
- transspecies: two flags and an FAQ - a comprehensive document on the history and symbolism of my transspecies flag designs (yes, plural) and the answers to some questions they might bring up
- alterhuman symbol emojis - a set of symbols representing various different alterhuman groups in funky emoji form
- sticky things - posters and stickers you can print out