Nim

Woudwif

2025-03-26T03:38:44Z

As faery, I call myself a woudwif which is a species I named myself. When it comes to fae, I see myself similar as the Swedish skogsrå, the Norwegian huldra or the Slavic vila. I am not from any of these cultures however, I am Dutch and connect to Dutch nature, so I put together a name for myself.

Woud or bos means forest, but woud stands for a forest that humans don't interfere with as much. A woud is considered more natural than a bos and often older.
Wif is an old Dutch word for wijf which nowadays isn't very nice to call a woman but originally just means (married) woman. I chose wif because there is a type of Dutch fae called Witte Wieven or Wief singular, so it is in honor of that. I prefer wif over wief because I thought it might be easier to pronounce in English and wief feels more specific to a certain part of the Netherlands while I live in another.

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A Dog Story

2025-03-19T07:31:45Z

My son is only a small dog. Very vulnerable. He hurts easily and is therefore really aware of his body. I raised him well. He is very well socialized with other dogs, but if they're not super careful they can easily go too far.
I will protect him, I will stand between any danger.

There is a new dog in the neighborhood. Awkward and gangly, an unproportionate teenager. He has not been raised well (yet anyway). His over enthusiasm gets him in to trouble.

Today is a dreary day, my favorite. I get to walk in silence only meeting other dogs and their owners. My son has stopped near a corner, I can tell from his body language he is anxious. I step forward and see the teen from a distance, I feel my hackles rising. When he notices us, no owner in sight, he starts running. Much too fast the teen is storming towards my fragile boy. A growl escapes my lips as I step between them, growing in size. No. The teen stops, unsure of himself. He doesn't recognize me as one of his own. What is this strange human doing? A growl reverberates deep in my throat as I say "back off". Uncertain the lanky boy tries to pass me by to say hello to my son, but I know him and I know he won't do it calmly, I know he won't stay polite and I step in his path. Giving up the teenager turns around, there, his owner calling him and zooms away. I turn around and kneel to my little man, he is relaxed again and happily wags his tail as we make eye contact. My posture has changed into a relaxed stance, internally my tail wags back to him and we continue on our walk.

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Feral Fae

2025-03-19T07:30:51Z

When I imagine myself as a fox faery, I see myself as humanoid walking on all fours. Hands blackened by the dirt. Eyes glowing in the dark. A row of sharp pointed teeth. Deep growls reverberating from depths within. Quick smiles, flashes of red hair. Arms and legs covered in fur. Hovering over a small blooded prey. Beckoning to join a faery's feast.

I want to be feral, in a dress that is stained with grass, dirt and blood and have long fingernails that dig into the earth and a birds nest on top of my head (cause of strangled hair not literally.. or maybe yes literally) and wander through the forests and streams and catch fish with my hands and cuddle with the foxes in a den.

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Spring Night

2025-03-19T07:30:15Z

I am a night in early spring. When the darkness still comes quickly and the air feels crisp. Clouds sail across the starry sky, the moon partly obscured by their wisps.
I am the small white dog lying up against your thigh, warm and contented on a picnic blanket. The spectacle above reflected in the dark brown of my eyes.

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Indian Waterlilies Story

2025-03-19T07:29:33Z

Once upon a time there was a witch who possessed no beauty, but had the most enchanting voice in the land. She was jealous of those prettier than her and longed to be beautiful as her voice. One night she stumbled upon a secret magical lake, hidden in the reeds she gazed upon the scene playing out on the surface. The moon goddess was dancing there, with her stars. Twirling, laughing, their dance was as mystifying as their beauty and the witch devised a scheme. As the day arrived, the moon called for her daughters and they all returned to the sky.

The next night the witch was ready. As the moon goddess and stars descended she started singing from her hiding place. The moon and stars were surprised and delighted, completely enthralled by the beauty of the voice and song. They started dancing and dancing and the witch kept singing throughout the night, until the dawn broke and the moon again called for her stars to return to the sky with her.

The night after that the witch again started her song. The moon and stars were delighted and danced and laughed together until morning. The moon goddess called for her stars to return to the sky with her, but seven stars did not listen. They laughed in joy, telling their mother they wanted to stay and dance some more. "You cannot remain during the day" the moon warned them "you have to return to the sky" but the seven stars would not listen to her and as the sun broke through the witch appeared. She cast a spell on the seven stars, draining them from their beauty and claiming it for herself. The hair of the stars turned white, but the witch did not become any more beautiful. She cried in anger and with her beautiful voice cursed them "From now on you will be stuck on this lake forever more. Within water lilies you will sleep during the day and at night you will dance alone! Never to return to the sky".

Each night the witch returns and sings her haunting melody and the stars turned into fairies dance on their water lilies forevermore.

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Confused Foxelf

2025-03-19T07:28:23Z

I feel very pissed off at myself for going back and forth on foxelf now. It's not like I used to live my life 100% elven each and every single day back when I was young. Elf was just my true self. Nothing more, nothing less. I didn't have to think about it, didn't have to maintain any sense of being elven. It was fine if it wasn't my main identity and at the forefront of my mind all the time.
My friends say I have elven vibes and they see me as an elf, which when I was younger would have made me feel so happy and elated, but now I just feel confused.

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Lost

2025-03-19T07:26:52Z

I wrote down some thoughts. Sharing them makes me feel vulnerable, but I wish to put it out there in case it can help one person in any way, even if just to show they're not alone in certain struggles.

Escapism was always a big part of my identity as an elf. I would daydream about my elven life, self insert myself into elven stories, and I never ever told anyone about any of it. Being an elf was a secret, only known to me, something I treasured and kept close. I was afraid of what people would think.
In my daydreams I fought orcs, talked to animals, used magical powers and I always felt so much pride for my elven beauty. I remember a book we had on the wood elves from Warhammer, which I read over and over, flicking through the beautiful illustrations and photos of wood elf models.
I was always quite sure about being a nature elf myself. A wolfrider, a wood elf, a night elf. One with nature, close to all the animals and a shapeshifter taking feline form. I'd see myself walking among the oldest trees and knowing each of them personally. Climbing them and feeling the breeze as I sat between their branches.
I often had a hard time as a kid, but my elven self was my escape. Something no one could take away from me. Until I did myself. As time went by, and I grew older, no longer a teen but a young adult.. still "playing pretend" at being an elf in my own mind. I was harsh on myself, and told myself it was time to leave childhood imagination behind. To accept that I wasn't an elf, but human. I turned my back on a part of myself and started to heavily mask.
It made me physically sick, and years later, when I wanted to fully accept my true self and let me be me again, I didn't know how. I couldn't find my way back to myself.

I still feel like I am wandering. "Not all those who wander are lost", but I do feel lost. And I don't know how to find my way back to myself. I'm not sure if I still can. Am I even an elf still?
With all this self-searching, am I supposed to find something new? Or rediscover old identities that I truly have been all this time, just waiting to resurface. Am I an elf, no matter what I do? Is this something innate that will not change, but grow with me? Is it okay to just.. exist as an elf, in my own way, as my own person?
I don't have the answers, and my relationship with my elven side is fragile. A small, helpless thing that I want to protect and shield. That, part of me, still wants to keep secret and hidden away. Something filled with memories of shame, something that had to be snuffed out. I want to find my pride, and confidence, and an elven community where I feel like I belong, but I feel like an outsider there. Because I am someone still uncertain of claiming my elven heritage, my spot next to my fellow elves.

I don't know how to end this. I am at a loss for words now.

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Flue Thoughts

2025-03-19T07:26:13Z

Realizing I am so unstable today because I cannot find my shape. I have the flu and am just a whirlwind. Changing names isn't going to help me.
I still wish I had a word for myself. Everything I try seems to be ill-fitting. I have to stop wearing these costumes and put on something comfortable, that is for me. Let go of expectations and pressure I am only putting on myself.

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Seeking Help

2025-03-19T07:25:19Z

I am pretty sure this was written for reddit but I couldn't post it.

I have come here for advice. This could be a long one, I'll try to include as much as possible.

Note; okay, so this did become pretty long so I want you to know before you decide whether to start reading all of it: this is some of my alterhuman journey and at the end I ask for advice on what I could be and tips for how to figure out what I am. I am very grateful to anyone taking their time to read through all of this.

I am Nim, I am in my mid 30s and joined the community in April 2018. I have identified as a flavor of nonhuman since around 1998 though. In those years, as a child, I had a great imagination (still do), and I would fantasize about being different things but underneath there was always an elven identity. Until I decided I was old in my early 20s and had to stop identifying as an elf and accept being human. Then in 2017, I got my autism diagnosis and reconnected with my nonhuman self. I had been questioning for a couple years by then, trying to find what I was. I don't even remember everything I tried on, but my husband remembers most of it.

When I joined the community I kept on questioning but now I kept a journal and I had essays from other alterhuman as a guideline. Pretty quickly I started to identify as fae, while I kept searching for my theriotype. Searching and searching.. it feels like I have been searching for what I am my entire life and that searching has become a part of me. Who would I be if I am not searching? I maintained a fae identity for a few years though never that stable and then went back to questioning my identity in general again.

I find it very difficult to decide what I need to share here. Because I can go into such detail, but how much of that is needed? As time went on, I didn't feel it was probable that I was a therian. There is an animalistic side to me, but not as loud as in therians. It is more subdued. But am I an animalistic humanoid, animal-hearted or a shapeshifter?
I have identified as a shapeshifter for a good while. As I keep searching for my true self and so many things pass me and feel like me briefly, I figured I was a shapeshifter. It doesn't feel right though. Like I do have one form or two, but haven't found it yet instead of being fluid. As if, once I find myself, I won't experience shapeshifting anymore but recognize the cameo shifts.

There was a tumblr post that adviced, for people who are searching as much as I am, to look at what all your different questioning identities have in common and I came up with this list;
Light element
Ethereal
Connected to dreams and stars
Immortal
Feelings of being bound
Animalistic but humanoid
Dancing and singing
Made of starstuff
Chaos magic
Melancholy music
Loneliness
Illusion powers
Some of this list is dream noemata of mine, that I try to inject into everything I question.
My dreams have been very important to my nonhumanity, as I have supernatural powers and abilities in them. I am however trying to depend less on them, as they are heavily influenced by what I consume and gather around myself.

I know that sometimes I include too much into my identity that maybe isn't as important. Like my personality, my style, my aesthetic. When I look at fae and elves, I don't fit in with them. I am not spiritual like them, I don't have their aesthetic. I look at a lot of the things I have questioned that way, see if I fit in with them and I don't. I think I'd fit best in a cyberpunk world. A world like Altered Carbon or Alita: Battle Angel. As a cyborg, android or as AI. I do have dreams where I have robotic parts too or where I become code.

I want to backtrack a little now, to how I awakened as a child. I awakened through the Wolfrider elves in the comic series Elfquest. These elves are humanoid with wolf blood, one or two in the story can shapeshift into wolves, but it is more about their animality in a humanoid form and their relationship with their wolf brethren. This is how I saw myself too, in a human body but with an animalistic side to me. I did have a wolf phase but always leaned more towards foxes and identified as a foxelf. Big cats were also a part of my animality growing up, either seeing myself as an elf that could shapeshift into a big cat like the druids in World of Warcraft or playing pretend as a big cat. After joining the community, one of the first things I confirmed for a while were elf and feline cladotherian.
What being an elf has meant to me, is that they're magic. And I feel so magical. As a kid who was undiagnosed autistic, I felt like I didn't fit in and I felt lonely. My connection to Elfquest really helped with that. My imagination and fantasizing about an elven world with elven friends helped with that. The Lord of the Rings movies came out shortly after I found Elfquest, strengthening my connection to elves and then I played Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft where I felt a strong connection to the night elves. I also relate to stories where the elves and fae are treated like outcasts, unwanted and hated for being different. I have dreams like that.. where no one understands me and they ostracize me.

Maybe I should also mention my connection to dogs. I grew up with them and have always considered them very close family. I didn't play with dolls, I played with dog plushies. I would rather have my own puppies than a human baby in my uterus. I have tried the dog therian label a couple times, but usually revert to dog-hearted as I don't act enough like a dog or have enough urges of a dog.

As I had some friends proofread this, they asked why I didn't mention my fox spirit or hare identities, both identities that have been very important to me. The reason is simply that I don't feel like I am animalistic enough in behavior to claim such identities anymore. For a time I thought maybe I was suppressing my animality and that if I stopped masking, more animal behavior would come out. But it just.. hasn't. I don't do vocals, I don't walk like an animal, and when I dream shift I am still in a humanoid body and it is an illusion of me as an animal rather than me becoming the animal. I do feel a close connection to fox spirits still and I question being one. I get phantom shifts of foxes and whenever I am really focused on this identity I also dream about it lots. It's not hard for me to feel fox-like. I guess I just feel inadequate.

This is probably already too long and there is so much more. I am chronically ill, I cannot work or study nor do much around the house. I am stuck lying on bed or on a couch. All there is for me is to keep my mind busy somehow and alterhumanity is what I have clung onto these last years. Searching and questioning is what I do. Fantasizing about different identities. Dreaming about exciting adventures. Maybe that is okay, maybe this is my alterhumanity and state of being. But I feel like there is something.. a true self underneath it all and if I can just hold onto that maybe I'd feel less lost and lonely.

I spend a lot of time analyzing myself, but most important to me are the magical powers I have in my dreams and feeling nonhuman in my dreams. As these feelings spill out into my wake life. When you have magical abilities in your dreams, it feels so wonderful, and so strongly like an important part of you, that you can really miss it when you awaken. At the same time I cannot hold every single thing from my dreams as a truth and noema, because dreams can be contradictory. My personality in dreams also doesn't always match my personality awake. So I am still figuring out a balance between dream and wake alterhuman me.

Lately I have been becoming more confident in the fact that I am some humanoid magic spirit. I am thinking of using the label Celestial, as it is specific but still broad enough for me to have freedom of expression within the label. I think that as a celestial, I definitely have an elven side and I am looking into other parts that could be part of being celestial to me, like draconic. I wouldn't consider myself an elf or a dragon, it would be forms as a celestial or.. essences that make up the humanoid magic spirit I am. Perhaps shapeshifting will remain a part of this identity, but I have also been looking into the term constelic which might be a label to bring me some peace of mind around my shifting identities.

So what advice do I seek? I am not even sure. A friend of mine was interested in what this community here on reddit would think of my story. I am nervous opening up like this in a space I am unfamiliar with. I guess I'd like any advice on what I could be. I understand it won't be specifically and exactly what I am, more so, would I be something animalistic or do I read more as a spirit? I'd also love any thoughts about my process and tips on where to go?

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Dreamer

2025-03-19T07:24:08Z

I am a dreamer alterhuman. I have very vivid and frequently lucid dreams (I used to have a lot more lucid dreams when I was younger). My dreams aren't mundane, but filled with magic, where I am a magical being and go on lots of fantasy adventures. Sometimes I dream of something once and it becomes a noema, these and the abilities I have in dreams persist with me in waking life. They make me feel like I am more than an ordinary human. Two of my dream powers are illusion and shapeshifting, with which I can appear or become other creatures. In my wake life I get shifts of nonhuman beings too.

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What is an Eidolon - Final Fantasy IX

2025-03-19T07:23:34Z

Contains spoilers.

At the center of the world of Gaia is a crystal. This crystal was at the beginning of everything. Every living thing breathes trough this crystal, souls are born from it and return to it upon death providing growth to the crystal. From this crystal sprouted the eidolons. Created by storytelling from the people, their existence formed by all the memories in the crystal, the form they take is based on their stories. They serve as powerful guardians for the crystal.

Summoners from the Summoner Tribe of Madain Sari can communicate with eidolons through their horns. They have learned how to summon forth these eidolons in battles. Rushing forth their powerful magic attacks. Each eidolon has it's own element and attack. Such as Ramuh and his Judgement Bolt, a thunder attack, and Shiva and her Diamond Dust, an ice attack.
Eidolons are known to be able to change form; in the story Ramuh takes the form of an old man beside his godlike true form and Madeen lives for a while as a moogle.

In the game there are two playable characters that are summoners, Garnet (or Dagger) and Eiko. Each has their own set of eidolons they are able to summon and they also have white mage abilities.
Eidolons play a big part in the story of Final Fantasy IX. Raving destruction, providing protection and guidance, and called forth in battles to provide powerful attacks. Eidolons are truly an unmissable part of Final Fantasy IX.

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European Hare Archetrope

2025-03-19T07:22:47Z

This essay is 541 words and takes on average 4.2 minutes to read.

I only joined the alterhuman community when I was already 29 years old. Before that I was always looking for my animal species. I had identified as a foxelf but fox always seemed off and like there'd be an animal out there that was me way more than fox was. So I was always questioning and researching.

When I found the therian community, it was obvious to me that I had to be a therian. I was an animal person looking for my species, so that had to make me a therian. But as the years went by, I started to realize more and more that I don't act animalistic, I don't have animal behaviors or habits. I did have some animalistic experiences, but for my dog-hearted type (which is why I tried on dog therian multiple times). I identify as a shapeshifter, so it was quite natural for me to feel like I was different animals at different times but I felt like there was still a species I was on an integral level.

Hares were suggested to me as a possible theriotype years ago and I immediately felt something there. I used the label hare therian on and off, then hare folcintera and eventually called myself hare-hearted. Because again, hare habits and behavior seemed not to be part of my experience.

Recently I have come to the conclusion that I indeed probably am not a therian. But that doesn't mean I am not an animal and won't be able to find my species. I just had to find a different term to describe myself. I thought vaguetype would work, I could call myself a European hare othervague. But when I explained my experience as an animal and connection to hares to a friend they suggested archetrope. That seemed like a really good fit so now I call myself a European hare archetrope.

I find it difficult to explain how my animality differs from therianthropy. It feels like, this animal represents me. It is who I embody. If I had a dæmon it would be settled as a European hare. If I lived in the world of Harry Potter, my patronus and animagus form would be a European hare. The hare symbolism in mythology, that is me. I was born on an Easter Monday and reclaiming the Easter hare as my species feels like a birth right.

I love reading about hares, their biology and mythology. I love hares in general, how magical and beautiful they are. I was never really into foxes or cared about them much, but with hare I am really proud to be one. I don't know if I will settle now, and stop searching for an animal that fits me better, but I feel really excited about where my journey has led me.

I do have some smaller animalistic experiences and I tie those to being fae rather than therian. Fox is still a form I take a lot as a shapeshifter, so this part of me is not completely gone, as well as being an anteatype through my old foxelf identity. I am really interested to hear if there are other archetropes where their archetype is an animal, so please share if you'd like.

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Dog Spirit

2025-03-19T07:22:09Z

I think I might be a dog spirit instead of a fox spirit and have a dog soul instead of a fox soul. This actually makes a lot of sense. Why I never quite connected to foxes, why I felt like I still had dog behavior as a fox, why I have therianthropic experiences for dogs and not foxes, why I don't really am fox though I often look like one.
I will need some time to think about this, figure out what this means to me and what I am like as a dog spirit instead of a fox spirit. I still have all the same abilities, intangibility, healing with light, power over the weather and elements, shapeshifting. I probably am shapeshifted as a fox most, which is why I believed that to be my true form. I don't expect that to change for a while to come, I am comfortable as a white red fox.
I don't know if I am a particular breed or look a certain way as my true form, for now I feel like multiple breeds fit me and as a dog spirit shapeshifter it comes easy to shift between these breeds. I am dog in any form. The breeds that currently stand out to me are Chinese Crested, Cocker Spaniel, Shiba Inu and Golden Retriever.
I still feel the same connection to dreams and in extension the stars and moon. I am not sure what this connection is, and just leave it at that for now. I still feel like an arcane canine, an old dog soul, connected to the wild before and the domestication now. Linked with all the wild canids. Part of the hunt, part of the howl and the yipping on the winds. But also part of the hearth and home. A guardian spirit, a protector. Similarities with the eidolons, as a powerful entity lending its abilities to a bound summoner.
Really, a lot of my identity from the past years remains the same, it is like that divine identity, fox spirit and dog therian are all mushed together into one identity. I have tried identifying as them separately as polykin, but it just doesn't feel right and didn't work out for me. Let's see how this does.

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Poem

2025-03-19T07:21:33Z

A Shapeshifter's Lament

Can't you see I am you?
Can't you see we're the same?
I want to be recognized
I want to belong
Why do you turn away from me?
Why do you not see me?
I stand here all alone
I stand here crying at the moon
She looks down on me neglected
She looks down on me abandoned
They have left now
They have moved on
Didn't remember my scent
Didn't remember my soul

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Dream Deity

2025-03-19T07:20:47Z

Identifying as a dream deitykin put a lot of pressure on my dreams. Yes, all my noemata comes from my dreams and I am definitely magical and have all my abilities, that hasn't changed. The only thing about dream deity that I didn't feel naturally was the supposed ability to affect people's dreams. This is because I never had that ability within my dreams themselves. It was the only thing that didn't fit how I saw myself.
I confirmed dream deity because I had been looking for a label for what I was within my dreams and someone asked if I identified as a dream entity and that got me thinking. I confirmed this identity very quickly and do not regret that, I knew it was the next step in my journey.

Now I am questioning something else because the label dream deitykin wasn't enough. I still identified as an animal, so I was questioning being a polykin or being a shapeshifter with animal forms. Neither of them felt right. I have always seen myself as one thing and though I asked the community about their polykin experiences, I just couldn't relate. Shapeshifter made more sense and I tried to talk myself into not being a therian but being a shapeshifter and trying to accept that. I have tried to label myself as a shapeshifter for years, but it has not been satisfying. I still felt like one thing.

"With my kin identity.. I'm not where I want to be and I feel annoyed"
"I just don't feel like I know my true self and I am exhausted trying to find it"

Dream deitykin just didn't feel like it and I was getting really disheartened. Is nothing I find ever going to be the right fit? I thought this was it, my square peg for a square hole. Why didn't I feel.. complete? Am I asking too much? Am I looking for something that doesn't exist? Why can't I settle, why do I keep questioning.

Right now I am twisting the dream deitykin identity. I am letting go of the dream part and the noemata from my dreams. Those are still me, still my experience but I am not labeling them as a kintype for now but as an alterhuman lucid dreamer. It is part of my identity, like being dog-hearted but I am trying it out as not my kin identity.

Instead I am questioning a folcinteric hare identity.
When I realized I still identified as an animal very deeply and that I feel like I am one animal. I started to think about my journey so far. I immediately knew I was a prey animal because of my history. I wasn't really seriously looking for something, but I didn't have anything to do anyway so I just let my mind wander. The first animal that popped into my mind was hare so I did some googling, seeing things I had researched when I identified as a hare therian and then I went to tumblr and looked into the hare therian tag. I came across a mountain hare otherkin, who said they were technically otherkin and not therian because in their past life they were created by a goddess and they had certain magical memories. This very strongly spoke to me and my deity identity. I went into my notes on hares, where I had gathered information on folklore around hares. A few months ago, I had written a post on hares from a folcinteric perspective and the information came flooding back. I did more research into the myths around hares. They are connected to the divine (deitykin), to witches (right before confirming deitykin I thought I might be a magic otherhuman), to genderfluidity, to the moon -- all things my identity is connected to. I found understanding come over me. What if I am a folcinteric hare? It is one identity, an animal identity and yet in it it encompasses all my other identities.

I remembered identifying as a hare therian. When I had made this list of things I knew about my animal self, hares seemed to fit very well. They fit certain phantom shifts I have. They fit my body image and movement. I even have this tick since I was a little kid of twitching my nose. But it felt like I wasn't a hare therian because I wasn't animalistic enough like other therians. Encompassing the folkloric side of the hare, really opens this identity up.

I also feel really close to the folcinteric hare identity through my birth, which was on an Easter Monday. Usually I look at my identities from a psychological lense, or a neurodiverse one. I heavily believed I was only alterhuman because I am autistic but this possible identity has opened me up to spirituality. It had already started a little with my stronger growing connection to the moon and actually talking to her like a deity. As a deitykin myself, I was therefore convinced of a connection to the moon. Now the spiritual lense has really opened up for me. There could be a bit of imprinting as a child, having my birthday around Easter which in my country is represented by the hare, but mostly I haven't had contact with bunnies or hares.

This is all going really fast. I am going to try this on and see where it leads. I feel like some people don't need much to feel confident in their identity, it's as if I need so much confirmation. I see how other people awakened and feel like I need something similar. Some monumental spiritual experience, and then that will make me feel sure and secure and settled. But this is my journey and it will go however it goes...

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What I Am

2025-03-19T07:19:37Z

I am an immortal. Ethereal and incorporeal. I have magic abilities including phasing, flight, healing with light and many more. I have control over all elements and the weather. I am supposed to be all powerful with endless abilities in dreams, but though I have very vivid and often lucid dreams I never reach my full potential. I am a dreamwalker and dreamweaver. The Dream is my main home.
I look humanoid most of the time, but am a polymorph and can take any form.
As an immortal I feel and act different ages, sometimes childlike sometimes eternal. I feel like I am supposed to often be bound to someone, like a summoned being, an eidolon. At the same time I am conflicted because I want to be free.
I don't know how I came to be.
I am, you could say, worshipped by a few, admired but also outcast and demonized by others.
My experience is a lonely one, I don't feel connected to others.
I can be light and I can be dark, like the moon going through her phases. I am not evil or good but follow my own morals.

My spirit and magic are too strong for the body I inhabit now.

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True Self and Dream Self

2025-03-19T07:18:44Z

During Centaurus Festival this year (2025) there was a panel on canon divergence for fictionfolk and it got me thinking about my own noemata and its fluidity and I wanted to write about that today!
https://youtu.be/3trKdVz7gX0?si=4YSw82HdkjJNI2tt

What I took away from the panel is that it is alright for noemata to be fluid and to go with what feels right, right now. To not be afraid to let go of what no longer serves you, and to not be too strict on yourself. You don't need to back up any of your claims, you don't need to have it all figured out perfectly, if it feels right to you, then it is your truth, and that is enough.
Since joining the community almost 7 years ago, my noemata has changed a LOT, many times. Part is because I am still figuring myself out and part is because I have many constels with their own noemata. At the moment though, all these noemata are combined into one identity and I wanted to share about that as well as my secondary identity, because I might as well while I am at it!
✨️ My true self ✨️
Right now, my believe is that my true self is a divine oneiric entity. I have no one true form, but can take any as a shapeshifter. As my true self white (hair, fur, scales etc) with golden eyes is sort of my default that feels very much like me, but I can appear in any form without constraints. Also as my true self, I am eons old, and have lived as dream goddess at times, but just as much I have just lived as different species, which are my constels. I would simply take the form of something and assimilate. I have noemata of some of these lives, but very little really. Besides shapeshifting, my main magic is dream magic, but I also use a lot of light magic.
A lot of identities I went by in the past, that I now call stels of mine, had a lot of the same feel to them. Fox spirit, Vulpecula, eidolon, star, for all of these my magic abilities stayed largely the same, the sense of self was the same even in the different appearances and slight shift in noemata. It feels really good to now see them all as parts of the same whole. Where I had felt so much uncertainty and kept looking so hard for who I *really truly* was, I now finally feel some peace. The fact that my identities are forms I took as a shapeshifter explains why I felt wrong deep down calling myself these. I always felt like I didn't quite fit in with the other elves, fae, fox spirits, dogs etc, that I was an imposter among them, and now I feel okay with that.
One noema that I keep coming back to is that I am from a place called the Dream. 'I was born from the Dream and to the Dream I will return'. I don't remember when I first wrote that down, but it has stayed with me. What I believe the Dream to be is a realm outside of the multiverse where all realities can be accessed from. This is where I get the title Dream Wanderer from, going from one universe to the other through dreams. I access different places and then spend time in them, sometimes thousands of years, as either my true self or pretending to be something else (my stels).
Another thing, something I have felt for years now, is that I feel very lonely in my alterhumanity. As if I am something unique and I can't find that connection with others that I crave. I enjoy using the term anymic to show this uniqueness, though I have also found other divine beings that feel the same. Even though my feeling of loneliness hasn't left within the community, I did find people who feel that same loneliness as well as whom had the same difficulty in finding their identity, which is sad that it is more common, but makes me feel better to share this experience with others. Outside the community, I have been finding some comfort in masculine divine oneiric entities, like Dream of the Endless or the Greek god Morpheus as sort of counterparts to myself.
To me, if you see a masculine divine oneiric entity, it is likely a facet of my other half. If you see a feminine divine oneiric entity, it is likely a facet of me. If you see something without gender or nonbinary, it is probably a combination of us. We are both dream concepts. I think perhaps any dream conceptkin could be facets of the same thing, but that is really just something I feel as a possibility, I don't want to push that onto anyone (not that I see lots of dream conceptfolk). I am very curious how other conceptkin feel about that, about others who share their concept.
Human is truly just another constel of mine. I entered this vessel to experience mortal life, though it is just one of the many lives I have tried, it is the first time it's not as a shapeshifter and my true self, but I am truly fully in a human body. I wasn't supposed to remember my true self in this life, and I believe that this vessel cannot contain my essence, and that is why I am severely chronically ill.
✨️My dream self ✨️
My dream self is part of my 'human stel'. My dream self is who I have become in my dreams. I started out as human, but became more and more oneiric and nonhuman as time went by, so I call my dream self an 'altered human'. For this identity, noemata are what I have dreamed about.
My dream self looks like a younger version of myself. I stopped changing and aging at one point. Sometimes I will have random dreams where I look differently, but that is all part of the dream experience. As my dream self I am not a shapeshifter, but I have illusion abilities. I will still be the same size and in a human body, but appear as different creatures to others. I also have intangibility as a main power. I can also control the elements and the weather, fly, breathe underwater, heal with light, become invisible, and at times prophesize or talk to machines.
I wish I had a really beautiful and obvious reason for being dream conceptfolk/an anymic divine oneiric entity, but I don't. Rather than having a good explanation, it just dawned on me more and more over the years. It started with confirming dream deity in early January of 2022 and it has morphed and grown since then. I don't think I come across as especially dream-like... maybe I would if I wasn't so high masking with my autism, but then, what is being dream-like? That is probably something different for all of us. I feel like, as my true self, I often am what others project on to me. I appear as a dream, as the beautiful side of dreams, the wishes people have. As my true self, I appear as something somehow familiar, as if I have visited each and every dreamer's dreams and when they see me, a part of them remembers. Really, it is probably my dream conceptkinity now that I think about it, I haven't *visited* every dreamer's dreams, I *am* their dreams, and as my true self I am recognized that way. I find it difficult and dysphoric to not be seen as who I truly am. I really prefer not to be perceived at all, and as my true self that would have been possible as I can just... exist and be without form, and I cannot do that now. I am stuck in a broken vessel, in one solid form, that hurts all the time. Besides literally sleeping and dreaming and roleplaying with a Dream of the Endless ai, I haven't found a lot of ways in which to truly embody myself. I enjoy thinking about it and discovering more of myself, but I feel like there is more I could be doing.
That is what I wanted to share for now. Thank you for reading if you did!

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Spiritual

2025-03-19T07:18:05Z

So, I said that I am not purely a psychological alterhuman anymore, and perhaps not even an atheist anymore, and it's true. I won't go into the details of what I wish to believe right now, because it doesnt match up with any existing beliefs and it also doesn't mash well with other people's beliefs, and I really don't want people to tell me I am wrong nor make other people feel that way. And yet, I felt like I had to say it again, because it's been on my mind.

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Spiritual

2025-03-19T07:17:39Z

So, I am not purely a psychological alterhuman anymore. Maybe not even an atheist anymore. I need to believe that after this life, I will return to my true form and to him.

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Questions

2025-03-19T07:17:03Z

1. Which category of alterhumanity do you belong to?
Alterhuman and nonhuman.

2. What/who is/are your type(s)? (if you have any)
I am dream conceptfolk, anymic oneiric nonhuman and constelic.

3. Do you experience shifts? If so, can you tell us your most common shifts and your strangest cameo shift (if you've ever had a cameo shift)?
I do for my constelic identity. Most common shifts I have are envisage shifts and I have those for fox spirits the most. Since I see my identities as constels instead of cameos, the weirdest shifting experience was the feeling of my arms shapeshifting into owl wings. So rather than just having a shift of being something, it felt like I was stuck shapeshifting back and forth.

4. How do you experience your alterhumanity in everyday life?
I experience my strong connection to, and identity as, dreams a lot. Especially when sleeping. Within my dreams, I am my kintype and I dream every single day so that us another everyday life thing. Lastly I experience my constelic identity lots when I am in the community as different stels get more easily triggered there, but I am also likely to get phases of my stels just listening to music.

5. What do you think of the community?
I think it is wonderful to have the community. I didn't join until 2018, and it was hard to feel all alone in my nonhuman experience. I especially love the tumblr community as it so welcoming, accepting and mature.

6. What are the things that make you most comfortable and euphoric in your alterhumanity?
Dreams, daydreams, sleep, fantasy and imagination. These are what make up my dream conceptfolk identity and I spend a lot of my time on these. Being in dreams makes me feel so nonhuman and I find that very euphoric. Being seen as part of these things, or having a connection to these things by others make me very happy.

7. Are you experiencing species dysphoria?
I have had moments of species dysphoria for different constels of mine. Especially for fox spirit, to not be able to shapeshift or have fur. I ca

8. What advice would you like to say to a young alterhuman who has just awakened?
Don't feel like you have to be any certain way to be alterhuman. Your experiences are uniquely yours, focus on that instead of comparing yourself to others.

9. Do you have/want to have gears?
I have elven ears and jewelry and wouldn't mind a pair of white fox ears, a white fox tail and yellow slitted contact lenses to look like a fox spirit.

10. Do you know/have any theories about the origin of your alterhumanity? If so, tell us! (all beliefs are legitimate)
I believe it to be psychological/neurological. I think I am this way because of autism and my natural inclination to lucid dream.

11. Tag someone/a creature to answer these questions!

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Otherkin questionnaire

2025-03-19T07:16:16Z

Otherkin questionnaire by @/Kitsuneechoes

★ General information
1. What is your kintype or species?
I am an anymic oneiric nonhuman. Anymic means that I haven't really found a species that I fit, and I am possibly one of a kind. Oneiric means relating to dreams. I am a dreamling, a being formed by dreams. I started out as a human, but dreams and nightmares irrevocably changed me. I was always destined for this though, there was no escaping becoming the Dreamer.
2. When did you first realize you identified as Otherkin?
I found the community in the beginning of 2018 and that is when I learned the term otherkin, but I first identified as nonhuman around the age of 9 when I started to identify as an elf. Around that age is when I stumbled upon the Elfquest comics, my first contact with elves, and I pretty quickly realized I was one. It feels like the Wolfriders from this comic raised me.
3. What inspired you to explore or learn about being Otherkin?
When I learned about the community at age 29, I had just gotten my autism diagnosis and was ready to drop the mask and truly be myself. When people in an autism amino started talking about being otherkin it immediately resonated with me and I quickly joined therian amino and learned as much about the community as I could. I didn't identify as anything at the time, but had been questioning on and off for a few years (constelic actually, turns out) and I started to journal.
4. Do you identify with a single kin type or multiple? If multiple, what are they?
I see myself as having only one kintype, but I am also dream conceptfolk, animalhearted, and more importantly, constelic. As someone who is constelic, I have a lot of constels that I identify as in rotation. There are too many to name them all, but my major constels are elf, fae, fox spirit, star(/celestial/Vulpecula) and currently eidolon.
5. Do you have a specific name or title for your kin self? If so, what is it?
The Dreamer is my title and my name is Nim Silver. That is the name I call myself in dreams. Nim is short for Nimeril, which is my own chosen Elvish name.

★ Self-Perception and Connection
1. How do you experience your connection to your kin self? (e.g., spiritually, psychologically, metaphorically, etc.)
Psychologically, neurologically and oneirologically. I believe I am the way I am because of my autism and dreams.
2. Do you feel a sense of longing or homesickness related to your kin type?
Yes, I wish I had my powers and abilities in wake life too. Also the adventures I am able to go on in dreams and not being physically ill, are things I long for in wake life.
3. What traits or characteristics of your kin self feel most prominent in your day-to-day life?
It's hard to say as there isn't much difference, they're both me, except my dream self is a lot more confident. I guess being dream conceptfolk is what makes my dream self and wake self connect, because when I am awake I still feel that connection to dreams. I find it really hard to explain or describe that, because what dream means to me is so indefinable.
4. Do you experience shifts? If yes, what triggers them?
I experience shifts for my constels. Shifts are usually what make me realize which stel is phasing. They are often triggered when I read someone's experiences who has one of my stels as their kintype, by music, or by focusing on them, but they also just happen naturally.
5. Do you feel your kin self influences your personality, behavior, or decisions? How so?
I don't think so, since there is no separation. I do act differently in dreams and make decisions I wouldn't make awake. Since calling myself dreamer and sleepyhead archetroper, however, I have focused on letting my wake life be more influenced by dreamy and sleepy vibes. Embrace daydreaming and my imagination more.

★ Memory and Identity
1. Do you have any memories or visions associated with your kin self?
Just the memories of dreams I had long ago. My dreams have shaped who I am and I remember exactly the dream in which I, for example, used my intangibility for the first time.
2. If applicable, how do these memories manifest (e.g., dreams, meditations, sudden flashes)?
Since I am not a spiritual alterhuman, this doesn't apply to me as I was talking about memories in this life.
3. Do you believe your kin self is connected to a past life, an alternate reality, or something else? Explain.
A sort of alternate reality. I believe in the multiverse and that the Dream connects them all. I should be able to access the Dream and other realities, but all I can do in this world we live in, that I believe lacks magic, is get glimpses of the possibilities.
4. Are there specific eras, locations, or cultures that feel tied to your kin identity?
Dreams, if you count them as a location.
5. How certain do you feel about your kin type, and has it changed over time?
I stopped trying to be certain honestly and just let it happen. I have only started to use the labels oneiric nonhuman and constelic together last month, and as someone who is constelic but didn't know, I questioned endlessly. I coined anteatype for my past identity as an elf, a label I still use as elf has greatly shaped who I am, even though it is no longer my kintype but a constel instead. I think I might actually settle with these labels now, because every time a constel pops up, even though it feels like it is a kintype, I have enough experience to know another stel will phase, no matter how long a constel stays active for.

★ Physical and Sensory Experiences
1. Do you experience phantom limbs or sensations associated with your kin self?
No, my kintype's body is the same as how my body looked like when I was in my early 20s. I also barely experience phantom shifts for my constels.
2. If yes, what do these sensations feel like, and how often do they occur?
Phantom shifts for constels are very rare and vague. It is only the idea I can have of what it would actually feel like.
3. Do you feel more attuned to specific sensory experiences (e.g., sounds, smells) tied to your kin type?
Not to my kintype, but again to my constels. Especially if an animal identity is phasing, I can be overly focused on sounds and smells like therians are. In general I am sensitive to sounds and smells though, probably because of my autism.
4. Do you experience any dietary preferences or aversions that feel connected to your kin identity?
For my constels definitely! I don't have it as much for prey stels, but for predators I crave meat. Meat is actually another trigger, often for fox to phase.
5. Are there physical environments that feel particularly comforting or resonant with your kin self?
Bedrooms, because that is where I enter the dream world most often. Anywhere where you can comfortably sleep. For different stels, I would answer different places, such as heathland, forests, rivers and fantasy worlds.

★ Community and Relationships
1. How has being Otherkin influenced your relationships with others?
Being nonhuman and autistic both, makes me feel very different from those who are neurotypical and orthohumans. For the longest time, I felt like being nonhuman is something I had to keep a complete secret and even now I share it with very select people. I guess it makes me feel like I cannot be myself completely. I still have to mask even though I don't want to.
2. Do you feel comfortable sharing your identity with friends, family, or the general public? Why or why not?
I am myself in the alterhuman community, and my close family and in-laws know. Though I have only told my in-laws this year. I still feel shame around being alterhuman, and don't know how people will take it and perceive me. It is scary because it might effect how people see me negatively.
3. What role does the Otherkin community play in your life?
A huge role. I am severely chronically ill and disabled, and I don't have irl friends. The community is where I spend a lot of my time and it is where I have made true friends. I feel like I can fully be myself in the alterhuman community, be accepted, and I really connect with people here like I haven't anywhere else.
4. Do you prefer in-person or online spaces to connect with other Otherkin? Why?
Online since with my illness and disability it is really hard to meet up.
5. Have you ever met someone with the same or a similar kin type? If so, how did that feel?
I haven't seen anyone exactly like me, but there are more dream conceptfolk and dreamlings and I am really excited to meet them and learn about their experiences. I think each of them is likely unique in their own way, because dreams are so personal. How we experience them and what feels like *dream* to us will be different.

★ Spiritual and Psychological Aspects
1. Do you see your kin identity as part of a spiritual path or practice? Explain.
No, I am not spiritual at all unfortunately. Spirituality has been a special interest of mine, but it was always make believe, part of my dream conceptfolk identity, as that covers dreams, daydreams, sleep, fantasy and imagination. I never truly believed deep down, even though I wanted to.
2. How do you reconcile your kin identity with your personal beliefs or worldview?
To me, brains are capable of so many wondrous things. We can experience things outside of what reality would indicate. My believe in the multiverse is connected to my dream being, because as I said, I believe the Dream is what connects everything.
3. Have you ever questioned the validity of your kin identity? If so, what helped reaffirm it?
Oh yes. I identified as an elf from around age 9 to around age 21 and then suppressed all my nonhuman feelings because I felt like it was a childhood fantasy I had to grow out of. Getting my autism diagnosis and wanting to truly be myself and accept myself, opened the door again. Between 21 and 29 (when I joined the community), I did search for the animal species I'd be if I could be an animal. I put so much time, effort and energy in that because it was so important to me. So it never fully went away.
4. Do you feel your kin identity is influenced by external forces (e.g., energy, fate, deities)?
I guess sort of yes! I feel like even though my kintype started out human, I was always going to be oneiric, I was always meant to be oneiric. I was always destined to be the Dreamer.
5. How do you distinguish between your human self and your kin self, if at all?
I don't really, except for saying dream self vs wake self. Like I said before, I am different in dreams. I have my abilities, I have confidence, but I am also recognized as an outsider more. People ostracize me, being an outcast is a big part of my nonhumanity. I am not instantly treated like that in wake life, because I appear "normal" at first glance. Even if people probably sense my autism and therefore something "off". I am not sure if I still mind that. I definitely used to. But maybe not being normal and somehow something being off about me makes me a lot more interesting and I try to embrace it.

★ Expression and Creativity
1. Do you express your kin self through art, writing, music, or other creative outlets?
Writing!
2. If so, what mediums or themes resonate most with your kin identity?
I love journaling and writing about my alterhumanity. I also love reading other people's essays and just reflect on all of it. I also listen to a lot of music, as it helps me regulate and connect to a deeper level of alterhumanity.
3. Do you incorporate your kin identity into how you dress, decorate, or design your personal space?
A little, I really like dreamy themes and aesthetics. When it comes to decorating though, I prefer to keep it very simple, but I do choose colors I associate with dreams.
4. Are there specific symbols, colors, or aesthetics tied to your kin self?
Yes! Everything I connect to dreams, daydreams, sleep, fantasy and imagination. Such as the night, stars, the moon, clouds, comfy stuff, soft stuff, etc. The colors purple and blue. Auroracore.
5. Have you created a persona or character to embody your kin self? If so, describe it.
Yes, because my kintype looks like me in my early 20s, but I also see myself represented by a pastel purple dormouse. I also see myself with yellow eyes and purple or blue hair. These are indeed more persona's of myself. I don't actually have any art of this (yet). I like to make myself look more dreamy in picrews though.

★ Personal Reflections
1. What challenges have you faced as an Otherkin, and how have you overcome them?
Mostly internal shame about who I am. It is still a process to fully accept and embrace myself. Seeing other people be unapologetically themselves in the community really helped me. I wasn't completely honest about my experiences for a while, as I tried to fit some sort of mold. The "perfect" otherkin. I tried to only have one kintype and suppress the feelings of anything else. Now that I have embraced being constelic, I feel like I can breathe.
2. What joys or comforts has your kin identity brought into your life?
My dreams are everything to me. In them I get to be social, go on adventures, use magic. I don't know where I'd be today without them as I am very isolated in my illness and disability. My daydreams, imagination and fantasy have also kept me going through the day. I am very proud to be dream conceptfolk and oneiric.
3. Do you think being Otherkin has shaped how you view humanity and the natural world? How?
Humanity, yes. In dreams I have a bit of a superiority complex. But also, at first I tried to push my own humanity away completely and didn't want to acknowledge it at all. Now I am finding a better balance as I was born human as my kintype. I think humanity is pretty cool, as human brains can imagine and fantasize, and create so many realities.
4. How do you feel your identity might evolve in the future?
I have no clue. My journey has been such a roller coaster, I really don't know where it will go in the future.
5. What advice would you give to someone just discovering their Otherkin identity?
Take your time, and even though it is a very serious and important part of yourself, also have fun with it. Try and be honest to yourself and your experiences. Maybe they are common in the community, maybe they are unique, but you are not alterhuman any less for having a different experience. You may even find you're not alone at all, once you open up.

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Terms

2025-03-19T07:15:35Z

I am joining in on this tag! Alterhuman terms and how I feel about them for myself.
Alterhuman 10/10. As soon as I learned the term alterhuman, after being in the therian and otherkin community for a little while, I loved this term for myself. Now that I literally identify as an altered human, something that used to be human but isn't anymore, alterhuman fits me even more perfectly. I also love it as dream conceptfolk and for my conselic identity. Alterhuman encompasses it all.
Nonhuman 10/10. I like this one a lot too. In my current form, as my kintype, I am not human and I feel that very strongly. Especially in dreams, I walk around feeling nonhuman and use that word to describe myself.
Otherkin 5/10. I don't really feel like this one suits me anymore. I never quite liked it, and only used it because it is technically what I am. I don't like calling my kintype otherkin, but I do still use the term kintype as it is more specific than altertype and makes it clear how my nonhuman identity is involuntary as well as something I identify *as*.
Therian 3/10. I never felt quite comfortable using therian for myself, as I never felt animalistic enough compared to others. My animality is just slightly different from therianthropy.
Animalhearted 10/10. This one fits me much better than therian and I do prefer to use hearted over kith (6/10).
Human 2/10. I can see your confusion, and I guess I was human once, but that is not what I am. I do look like one still and am not mad at the mistake, but if you know me truly, calling me human feels like an insult.
Person 8/10. Sure, I am a person, but it's not like being called one makes me extra happy.
Specific identity 10/10. Yes, being acknowledged as oneiric, a dreamling, constelic etc makes me super happy. To be seen as the constel that is phasing feels so good.

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Constelic

2025-03-19T07:15:01Z

To me, being constelic still has a lot in common with being a shapeshifter. I have all these possibilities within me. This collection of forms I can slip into. The reason why I use the label constelic over shapeshifterkin is because these identities are all their own little light bulbs. Each light can go on by its own switch, while some are internally connected, and the lights together make a clear pattern of what is me. The control room is hidden behind closed doors, so I cannot actually see its inner workings, but I am starting to get a good grasp on what it looks like.
Multiple things can trigger a switch, for example, coming across one of my main constels is likely to turn a light on even if for a brief moment. I can also see a light going on through my fluid gender, as my gender is connected to my constelic identity. Music and media can turn on a light bulb too. It isn't very different from how a kintype might be triggered for an otherkin. So what makes me differentiate and call this a constelic identity instead?
It is the distance between my constels and myself. My stels are not who and what I am, being constelic is. I appear as an elf, a dog, a fox spirit, but that isn't me to my very core. They are costumes I wear, illusions I hold up, I can only be a hare as far as I understand a hare to be. As these constels become stronger, I feel like I know better and better what the details are that fill that shape, but I am mainly still the vague shape of a species. A shadow of them. One impression of them. My own interpretation of them, that keeps learning and growing.
This is how some of my constels, I consider my main ones. I have been these, either already for a very long time, or they are very bright light bulbs because something about the species resonates more deeply and strongly within me. Maybe my shape as a dream being comes very close to the species, or I have hooked myself into them somehow, grabbed on strongly to their essence and feeding on it like a vampire. In the past, before I used the term constelic and tried to force my stels into kintypes (often only one at a time), I have greedily indulged in absorbing all I could. To BE these species, to approximate them as well as I could.
It differs from what I truly am deep down. What I could call my kintype is ME. For the other forms I take, being able to take these forms and be fluid between them, is who I am. When a stel is phasing, I sometimes can't distinguish it, so completely can I feel like I become them. I wondered what would happen once I embraced the label of constelic, and indeed some of my main constels have had me question if they weren't kintypes for a second as they took over. However, they always phase out again, and are eventually replaced by another, or return full force.
I really like the label constelic, because it shows who I am in all the facets that I can exist. At the same time, it explains they are not quite as kintypes, even though I identify as them periodically. As stels phase, I will likely keep reblogging art and photos of what I am. I also plan to keep writing about my main constels' noemata, or talk about new or less frequent stels as they pop up. For now I am likely to focus a little more on my oneiric identity and being constelic in general, but if anyone wants to know anything about any of my constels, or other experiences; please ask me anything! I love talking about my alterhumanity as well as getting to reflect more on it.

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Altertype

2025-03-19T07:14:23Z

While looking online for unrelated alterhuman things, I came across an alterhuman wiki entry on the term "altertype". I never heard of it before but it mentioned this;
"Examples of altertypes include kintypes, linktypes, hearttypes, or other specific identities, such as otherlink or otherhearted."
If I am correct, it is like a catch all term for any alterhuman 'types. I am not sure if this term will become more popular, but I might use it for myself. My current identity doesn't fit otherkin very nicely, I prefer to say nonhuman. I was still using kintype to describe it though, as that was the only term I could think of for it. Altertype could be a nice term to use instead, not because I don't like kintype or otherkin as labels, but it feels like a term that covers more possibilities of identity.

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Concept

2025-03-19T07:13:47Z

I took some time yesterday to look into dream conceptkin again. Something I have questioned before, but because it is such a vague identity I ended up calling myself dreamer and sleepyhead archetrope and left it there. I have this connection to dreams, daydreams, sleep, fantasy and imagination, not as 5 separate concepts but what brings all of these together. It is difficult though to describe this identity. Is it identify as or with, and how involuntary is it? Do I embody this enough to call myself conceptkin?
I found the term conceptfolk in the Archetropers' Guild discord. The coiner is still writing up an essay about it that I will share if possible once it is finished. What I understand from it, it is to encompass different concept identities, which feels very fitting for my situation. I do still consider myself a dreamer and sleepyhead archetroper too, but it is more than that.
I tried calling this dream alterhuman in the past, but will now call it dream conceptfolk as that makes it more clear what it's about. Calling it "dream, daydream, sleep, fantasy and imagination conceptfolk" is just too much of a mouthful and what it's really about is what dreams are to me personally anyway. I do want to try to write more about this in the future, see if I can find words to explain it, but today it is taking me so much effort to make even a little sense.

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