My Hot Take Is That It Doesn't Matter Why You're Otherkin Or How You Came To Be Otherkin- If You Identify

i may be a wolf but i will still meow at you

Kinda nonhuman because mental illness, kinda nonhuman because not being properly socialized as a kid, kinda nonhuman because queer, kinda nonhuman because angry at humanity, kinda nonhuman because longing for the unconditional love of a pet and it’s master, and kinda nonhuman because secret sixth thing.

When you're half asleep so you feel like you're bobbing between the real world and the headspace but you can't quite fall asleep until one of your alters snuggles with you in the headapace and you finally relax enough to actually fall asleep ❤️

Fictives, Fictionkin, Soulbounds, all of fictionkind

seeing art and thinking “That’s me!” Is okay, you’re not selfish or self centered for it. Seeing ship art or smut about you and feeling strange about it is okay to feel and also okay to talk about on your blog or to your friends. If you’re not harassing the people who make them, then it shouldn’t matter and nobody should care. Non fictionkind do this shit all the time, they look at characters and say “they’re so me”, so why should it matter if you do the same? It’s you! - V

Here’s some positivity for proxy systems!

According to Pluralpedia, proxy systems are “where one functions as a singlet (or approximately close to one, such as a median system) due to a frontstuck host, yet all members of the system are completely distinct in the headspace.” Many systems may find that they function in this way! This post is for all the proxy systems out there!

🧡 Shoutout to willogenic, paromancy, imagian, or other willfully created proxy systems!

💛 Shoutout to systems who are writers, artists, or other creators whose headmates are characters who are unable to switch or front!

🤍 Shoutout to proxy systems with headmates who wish they could switch!

💜 Shoutout to proxy systems whose members often cofront, blur or blend together, or are coconscious!

💙 Shoutout to proxy systems who love, embrace, and celebrate the way their system works!

🧡 Shoutout to protogenic proxy systems, or those who have always been plural even if no one but the host has fronted!

💛 Shoutout to proxy systems who identify as specutien or have some other specific labels for their experience as proxy systems!

🤍 Shoutout to proxy systems with vast, complex headspaces, and to proxy systems with no headspace whatsoever!

💜 Shoutout to those who are questioning whether or not they are a proxy system!

💙 Shoutout to hosts of proxy systems who work hard to help their headmates live the lives they want to live, even if they can’t fully front!

🧡 Shoutout to proxy systems who prefer to present as a singlet in their daily life for their own comfort and/or safety!

Proxy systems have always been and will always be valued, cherished, and integral members of the plural community! To any proxy system who reads this, please know that your system is real and you are valid, regardless of how you experience plurality or the ways in which your system functions! It’s okay if most of your system members interact with the world through your system’s host. That doesn’t negate the validity of your system in any way, shape, or form!

We hope that every proxy system out there can have an amazing day today. Know that you are so loved, and you make the world and our spaces a better place simply by existing in it! Regardless of how your system came to be, you are special, your system is beautiful, and we are so pleased to be able to share this wonderful, diverse community with you. Please keep you chin up, have some pride in your system and how it works, and do you best to take care of each other!

Shout out to the alterhumans!!!!

-To all the beings with 1 kintype

-To all the beings with loadsssssssssssssss of kin types

-To the beings who don’t feel very connected to their kin or only faintly feel like them

-To all the beings who wholly identify as their kin and very rarely or don’t even at all in any way identify as human

-To all the beings who are transspecies, physical therians/kins, have clinical zooanthropy/lycanthropy or experience creature-like delusions

-To the therians with common theriotypes

-To the therians with extremely rare/not well known, extinct or nonexistent theriotypes

-To the fictionkins who don’t really act like their kin’s a lot

-To the non-therians who regularly get mistaken as therians

-To the therians who don’t do quads or wear masks

-To the other/animalhearts, otherlinks/kins, copinglinks and otherpaw

-To the clado, omni, ambi and cambi-therians

-To the conceptkins, plantkins, objectkins, songkins, placekins and others

-To the beings with extreme species dysphoria

-To the beings with no dysphoria

-To the beings who don’t have a safe space to express their alterhumanity

-To the grey-muzzles and to the newly awakened

-To the beings who do or don’t wear gear

-To the beings who have no clue what their kin is

-To the beings who don’t know what labels to use yet

You are all valid and so, so amazing, you all deserve recognition and love. I may not know a lot about some of you but I do love and accept all of you. Keep being yourself darlings and I hope you all have a lovely day/night, love from Archie💗

Hey, wanna know the ultimate trick to help you explain alterhumanity?

Saying that you "identify" as something can be really, REALLY hard to grasp for a ton of people, so just use a different phrasing with the same meaning!

For example, if you're in a situation were you have to explain your identity to someone who's a bit less open minded, instead of saying

"I identify as a fox"

just say

"I see myself as a fox" or "I feel more like a fox instead of a human"

That has the exact same meaning, but is much easier to understand!

"Yeah, I just kinda see myself as a fox. When I see images of them I kinda go 'hey! That's me!', and doing things a fox would do makes me happy"

Boom. Your chances of being understood just went up by like 80

collection of plural resources:

beginning:

What is plurality? (link)

Am I plural? (link)

New/Questioning system (link)

Plurality hub (link)

Plurality resource (link)

guides:

Multiplicity links (link)

Healthymultiplicity (link)

DIS-SOS (link)

First person plural (link)

The plurality playbook (link)

Multiplicity database systemology (link)

New alter (link)

Unblur (link)

specifics:

System sources (link)

Resources for faceclaims (link)

System communication and journaling (link)

System internet safety (link)

Powertotheplurals (link)

System Comfort's plural resources (link)

Plurality resources (link)

Discussing dissociation (link)

Exploration into endogenic & non-disordered plurality (link)

Endogenic systems (link)

Endogenic systems new carrd (link)

Endogenic hub (link)

Tulpas and mental health (link)

The tulpamancy guide I wish I had (link)

Tulpanomicon (link)

Tulpia.io (link)

The chimera's library (link)

information:

The plural dictionary (link)

Plural terms (link)

Quick'n'dirty plural history (link)

Pluralpedia (link)

Multiplicity and plurality wiki (link)

Kinhost.org (link)

Tulpa.info (link)

Soulbonding info (link)

Soulbonding links (link)

services:

Simply Plural - alter logging & chatting (app & site)

Anytype - journaling (app)

Twinote - chatting (app)

Ifake - chatting (app)

Antar - chatting (app)

Fortelling - system logging (app)

Notion - system logging, journaling, chatting (app & site)

Pronouns.cc - system logging (site)

Lighthouse - system logging & journaling (site)

Pluralkit - social bot (discord)

Tupperbox - social bot (discord)

Firefox Multiacc Extension - multiaccounts (extension)

Feedbro - multiaccounts (extension)

feel free to reblog with more resources, will update as new resources are found! last updated: Dec. 16, 2024

You might be a soulbonder if…

You are a writer/roleplayer whose fictional characters “have a will of their own” or “refuse to do what they’re supposed to”

You experience fictional entities sharing your mind/body in a unique way

You have the sense that fictional characters spontaneously or gradually take up residence in your mind as full people.

You feel like you can ‘channel’ fictional characters spirits  the way a medium would channel the spirits of dead people.

You have a fully or partially realized internal space where characters interact in your mind with one another and/or with you

You ‘just know’ things about certain characters even though they were never stated in their source material, whether you are the author or not. (character’s exact height, favorite ice cream, etc)

Someone in fiction, or in real life, addresses a certain character and a reply just automatically comes out of your mouth.

You get into whole conversations with people ‘as’ a fictional character without meaning to

You experience periods of being a fictional character/a fictional character inhabiting your body (shifts/fronting)

You pose a question mentally to a character and they answer back.

You ‘sense’ the presence of a certain character in your mind mentally/emotionally

You sense that a character has a certain emotion for you/or wants something from/for you

You feel an emotional connection/friendship with a character that feels returned

If any of these sound like experiences you’ve had, you might be a soulbonder!

You can find out more about soulbonding here.

I cna tell im a system because wjhenever i hit my head relaly hard on the wall i hear screaming and noise complaimnts from The people

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