- Alterhuman (general)
- Fictionfolk (general)
- Transspecies
- I use this label because most of it is a part of a self-established journey much like my gender transition. At some point in my life, I realized how out of place I felt in this world. My species felt fluid, and my overall existence felt connected between this world and worlds within fiction. As a result, I started transitioning.
- My transition focuses on the social, political and philosophical aspects of my identity. I'm not interested in body modifications or other forms of physical transitioning since there's no procedures that could theoretically help me with changing between multiple forms.
- I also prefer to this label as there's no set criteria to being transspecies. I feel free to discuss my experiences how I see fit.
- Were
- I am both human and nonhuman. Oftentimes, there’s a split in my perspective as a (nonhuman) animal and a human animal. Although the levels of my humanity and nonhumanity are equal, the overlap I experience between these forms of animality are best understood through this.
- I am a were in both the general sense (someone who is wholly human and nonhuman at the same time) and the folkloric sense.
- Imagithrope
- This means I'm an alterhuman whose identity can be created and/or formed partially or wholly from imaginative play (roleplay, writing, art, acting, etc). This label mainly applies to my fictionkinity, but my practices help support my hearttypes and linktypes as well.
- Some altertypes are listed as "imagitypes" on my list. For me, my imagitypes are typically fictomeres. Although a lot of my fictomeres involve some kind of self-invention, experiences that are exclusively imagitypes exist nebulously. I do not feel them as intensely as my fictotypes, but they're distinct enough to not be vaguetypes. They're also consistent enough to not be flickers. Unlike linktypes, some imagitypes exist involuntarily; only the information around them is created, not the subject myself.
dec 8 2025 ∞
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