#copinglinker

[your-pal-nebula]

I love how I'm in this weird position with my dad where I'm like... half in half out when it comes to my alterhumanity

Like I've never sat him down and told him I'm an alterhuman, I don't think he's ever even heard of therians/otherkins/alterhumans/nonhumans, but I have just straight up told him "sometimes I feel a tail that isn't there" and "sometimes I feel wings that aren't there" ect ect

He doesn't judge or anything or try to call me mentally ill, like he actually listens to me

I usually say it in a joking manner, like "I keep trying to use my snout to nudge this but then I keep remembering I don't have a snout"

He also knows I do quadrobics, as far as he's concerned, I just like the sport. I do them in his front and backyard, when I told him he was like "okay cool just wash your hands afterwards if you don't have gloves on"

Sometimes when we watch or talk about Hazbin Hotel together, I tell him things like "Oh yeah I'm literally Velvette" and... yeah he probably thinks I'm being sarcastic there but he doesn't mind

Sometimes I'll draw dragon scales, stitches, or other patterns of my kintypes on myself. The first time he saw he was like "Oh what's that? Oh you draw animal patterns on yourself? Cool"

It's kind of a weird state to be in, one foot in one foot out of the alterhuman closet, but tbh I'm happy with it. I don't think I'll ever properly tell him, but it's nice to have someone I can crack jokes about it with and doesn't try to say I'm just crazy. If anything, he thinks I'm just being a kid, but he knows I'm not harming myself or anyone else with it

#alterhuman #alterhumanity #therian #therianthropy #otherkin #otherkinity #fictionkin #fictionkinity #dragonkin #dragon therian #velvette fictionkin #hazbin hotel fictionkin #dollkin #copinglink #copinglinker #doll link #objectkin #objectlink #living doll link

[vulpecula-noctua-thats-me]

My iirls saiid II can wear my taiil to priide tHiis year but tHey wiill make fun of me (poliitely) for beiing a furry (II prefer to not be called a furry)... but Hey II get to wear iit!

[My irls said I can wear my tail to pride this year but they will make fun of me (politely) for being a furry (I prefer to not be called a furry)... but hey I get to wear it!

#alterhuman #nonhuman #nonhuman gear #copinglink #copinglinker #otherlinker #otherlink #foxkin #otherkin #therian gear #therian

[onlyhalfdemon]

on being kin: why go that far?

it’s funny to me when people write off the otherkin/therian experience by saying we’re immature or just going through a phase or we just want to feel like we’re beautiful and special and like our existences matter because like

if we just wanted to feel special or cool or scary or whatever, we would all be unicorns and cats and wolves and maybe some vampires and dragons. you’re out there, of course. and your identities are valid. i love you. i see you. you’re not making this up. that’s not the point i’m making.

i’m just posing the question: if that’s all this is, why go that far?

when a human being identifies as an angelic being made of eyes and wheels and fire with a voice that rattles the heavens

or when an individual feels more like a Venus fly trap caught in human flesh than a human being

you really CAN’T just make blanket statements. you don’t need to identify as some kind of eldritch being in order to attain that kind of validation or escape reality or relieve boredom or love yourself or what have you. again: why go that far? some of us have kintypes so far removed from the human experience that even the harshest skeptic couldn’t dismiss as nothing. our loved ones reject us. we put up a wall. we’re all alone until we get on our laptops and log onto Tumblr. this is something.

yeah, maybe we’re wrong and it’s not real or whatever. i disagree, but again. not the point. point is: even if we’re wrong, there is still something going on that you can’t just roll your eyes at. what makes a human being identify as a shapeshifter from the void or a monster with nine heads or a deranged comic book villain or a videogame hero most don’t take seriously? and on and on and so on and so forth.

in conclusion: this is a psychological phenomenon, and if you’re not taking it seriously, you’re not paying attention.

#alterhuman #otherkin #kin #therianthropy #therian #copinglinker #otherhearted #otherkin community #shifting #angelkin #wolfkin #wolf therian #kin discussion #demonkin #fallen angelkin #divinekin #godkin #starkin #birdkin #catkin #felinekin #monsterkin #voidkin #faekin #elfkin #fictionkin #fictive #plural #dollkin #cryptidkin

[local-xenogender-icon]

New pfp

yes, Toby is my comfort character.

#xenogenders #xenogender #neopronouns #xip #xenan #autism #autism spectrum #creepypasta #ticci toby #copinglink #copinglinker #clink #clinker #nonbinary #pansexual #pfp #profile picture

[a-dragons-journal]

It's the dragonlinker anon, just wanted to thank you for the help, and ask a couple follow-up questions if that's alright? Do you have any tips/tutorials for dragon vocals? You mentioned "throat-clicking" which sounds like it might be a noise I've been trying and failing to make lol. Also, less of an advice thing, but how do you feel about quadrobics in relation to your own draconity? Personally as much as I want to walk on all fours my body is just not proportioned the way it should be for that

Of course! Glad it was helpful.

Assorted Noises Posts:

On clicks of various kinds

The bullshit tongue-click that's a part of my name (R-ani, except I have no way to transcribe it properly lmao)

From @/dreamingdragonkin, a bunch of assorted noises and their meanings + an explanation on roaring

A recording of various noises of mine

A recording of me hurring, unvoiced, since I kind of skipped over it in the above link

An explanation of throat-clicking, complete with diagram

Bonus explanation of growling high up in the throat (as opposed to the hurr, which is much lower):

Growling - there are a million ways to do a growl, but the way I do it I can sustain it for a lot longer than hurring, and it takes a lot longer to wear my throat out (I can only hurr so many times in a row before my throat starts hurting). It does sacrifice some of the low pitch, however, since it’s higher in the throat and thus has a smaller chamber of air to vibrate. It’s a uvula motion, not involving the vocal or vestibular folds at all, and it’s basically closing up the back of the throat as much as you can and then forcing air through so the uvula is forced to rapidly vibrate/open and close the passageway, creating a kind of rattling/hissing growl. Tense up the muscles in the floor of your mouth/jaw to accomplish that. If you put a hand on your thyroid cartilage (Adam’s apple, the hard bump you can feel most prominently when you run a hand down the front of your throat), you should feel that move upward as it partially closes off the airway, like it does when you swallow, except it stays elevated instead of dropping back down into place. Then exhale while holding that, and it should produce that rattling growl sound. (I find it helps if I snarl/pull my lips back to bare my fangs teeth, possibly because it helps pull the submandibular muscles tense.)

Bonus crocodilian noises for your enjoyment, because Big Dragon Feels for the me

And personally, I'm a big fan of quadrobics/bear crawl, though I can't maintain it for terribly long. It feels very natural and very awkward all at once because of how bad human proportions are for it - it's not just you, humans just aren't built for it. It gets easier with practice, as you might imagine.

#noises #<- there's more in that tag but this is all the helpful stuff i think #dragonkin #dragonlinker #copinglinker #rani talks #asked and answered #anonymous

[rowanwolf]

In my last post, I talked about my copinglink. Firekeeper is a character from Jane Lindskold's Firekeeper Saga novels. In the novel there are different types of animals: there's Cousin kind, which are the animals we're used to, and then there are Royal beasts. Royal beasts are larger than their Cousin kind and have an intelligence and sapience on par with humans. Firekeeper was orphaned as a young child and was raised by a pack of Royal wolves. She is a wolf in all but body. That was why I originally took her on. She too deals with species dysphoria and a disconnect from human identity.

It's interesting, I talk differently about her - when I do talk about her at all - than I do my theriotypes and kintypes. And she does feel quite different. I have a lot of gryphon shifts at work for some reason. And that actually is helpful and can help me deal with the craziness. Firekeeper does much the same thing when she's present at work. However, while my gryphon is just me, settled into my body, but with a slightly different mindset and phantom talons that make typing all sorts of fun, Firekeeper feels like... a whole other person, honestly. It's almost less like I am her and more like she's sitting next to me in my head, borrowing my eyes and ears. It's genuinely like I can picture both of us sitting side by side and looking out through my eyes. It feels like there's someone sitting next to me, but in a mental sense rather than a physical sense. I'm really not doing a good job of explaining this, but I don't quite know how to phrase it. I mean, I could do a short little prose piece and describe it well. Might do that at the end of this.

Regardless, she feels present in a very different way than my 'kintypes and theriotypes. This was going to be longer, but then suddenly it's 11pm somehow and I need to go figure out food.

And the aforementioned non-fiction prose drabble, featuring something that happened at work the other day. (I guess it's non-fiction prose? Journalistic account? Whatever.) The space and imagery are what's actually going on in my head when this happens, although the dialogue is very slightly altered because privacy:

"What this?" I heard a voice behind me ask. Apparently she wasn't having a good human-speak day.

"Not sure. Can't quite... It's like I'm hearing it, but nothing is sticking. It just rolls right off like rain," I replied. I glanced back to see a young woman with dark, short-cropped hair emerging from the gloom. Her red shirt and leather breeches were bright splashes of color against the darkness.

The place in which we stood was very strange. There was nothing. It wasn't quite a place so much as it was a concept of space-time in that regard. Here, where I stood, there were two windows looking out into the brightly lit beyond. I knew these to be my eyes, but I felt somewhat separated from them. On our side of the windows, there was a bit of floor, still black, but lit by the light shining in. As the light faded the further it got from the window, the world dissolved into the unreality of endless blackness. Here, there was no limitation of space, if indeed that's what it was, and no laws of physics to govern passage through that space/not-space. There was no time, either. All things happened in an instant and then faded into the primordial gloom.

"I help," Firekeeper said as she stepped up beside me. Apparently frustrated by her broken human speech, she resorted instead to the language of beasts. She cocked her head and told me, "It is to do with your work."

"That much I know."

"I do not understand why two-legs insist upon doing this to themselves. You do not enjoy this. So why are you here? What drives you to come here day after day to complete tasks for which you feel no passion and occasionally more than a little loathing?" she asked, a genuine curiosity in her tone.

I sighed at having to explain this to her again. I knew she understood it, but occasionally she was intentionally obtuse about human things. "Money. I have to be able to able to pay rent and buy food and clothes and anything else I need."

She scoffed. "Two-legs are so concerned about money. When I am hungry, I hunt. When I need shelter, I make a den. When I need clothes, I use the skins of my kills. Two-legs might be happier if they allowed themselves the freedom that comes with such a life."

"Yes, well, not everyone has your background knowledge. Believe me, I would love to be able to do that. I'm a wolf, it feels only natural. But trying to live as a human in today's world..." I trailed off with a shrug.

Beside me, I heard her sigh in exasperation. Switching once more to human-speak, she told me in a tone that made plain how tedious she felt all of this to be, "Fine. I watch. I remember better. You don't remember well."

I nodded easily. "Yeah, we both know my memory sucks. But just... let me do the talking...."

#otherlink #fictionlink #copinglink #This is just such a wildly different experience than my experiences with therianthropy and otherkinity. #Just so vastly and insanely different. #prose #otherlinker #copinglinker #fictionlinker #Description of identity through non-fiction prose.

[grahamcrackerpup]

Android Thoughts: Curious, requested by @quinnwritesstuff

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Software Status: Up To Date…

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You opened your eyes, scanning the area around you. you were "home" as your programming called it.

You unplugged yourself from where you charged and got to work on your tasks.

"Clean Up Area."

"Make Sure Power Supply Is In Check."

"Run Any Diagnostics If Necessary."

You got your tasks done quickly and decided to walk around for a bit. As you did, you saw a curious sight.

Creatures buzzing around one of the fluorescent lights above you.

Scanning the scene, you find out these creatures were "moths", simply thinking the light was the moon.

You smiled at the sight, and watched for a while.

Though confused, these creatures were still doing their best, adapting to the world that you were created to. It was a sight to behold indeed.

#writing request #androidkin #android otherkin #robotkin #robot otherkin #otherkin #android copinglink #copinglink #copinglinker

[copinglink-love]

I’d love to be active here again one day, maybe I should just give it away to someone who will use it, though

#if you saw a rly similar post from a positivity blog for weird kintypes. that’s also me 😭😭😭 #sorry I don’t mean to hoard blogs lol #I rly did wanna run these smh #copinglink #copinglinker

[aasherstarr]

my copinglink character list ! just to let ppl who follow me know that if i get a little touchy with said characters, get a little insistent, etc, it's because i partially identify as the character

☆ eluca (pb)

☆ nagisa shingetsu (danganronpa)

☆ frank frankly (welcome home)

☆ hot date (pvz2)

☆ austin (backyardigans)

☆ POSSIBLY ron (pb), idk yet

#asher yapfest #kinda important #??? idk #but if me identifying strongly with any of these characters is an issue then feel free to unfollow #except for frank and austin i tend to get really on edge when people are like “im the ceo of such and such” #so yk #if you think this will be an issue you can unfollow me and i wont take it to heart #copinglinker #copinglink

[your-pal-nebula]

#alterhuman #alterhumanity #otherkin #otherkinity #otherlink #copinglink #dollkin #living doll kin #doll link #living doll link #otherlinker #copinglinker

[vulpecula-noctua-thats-me]

Just submiitted an essay to an alterHuman ziine... lowkey kiinda scared lol no clue wHy. II ranted about feeliing out of place iin tHe alterHuman communiity because II am an otHerliinker... and feediing off tHe anger/Hatred of alterHumans that exclude fellow alterHumans.

[Just submitted an essay to an alterhuman zine... lowkey kinda scared lol not clue why. I ranted about feeling out of place in the alterhuman community because I am an otherlinker... and feeding off the anger/hatred of alterhumans that exclude fellow alterhumans.]

#alterhuman #nonhuman #copinglinker #copinglink #otherlinker #otherlink #objectkin #conceptkin #plantkin

[onlyhalfdemon]

on flickers

the whole "i just watched this movie and accidentally absorbed this character into my personality and will feel like and act like this character for at least the next few days" thing is a well-documented phenomenon and experienced by people who've never even heard of the alterhuman community.

this is a very real thing. for many, many people. it should be taken seriously. studied. researched. why do so many people involuntarily turn into someone and sometimes even something else when exposed to characters they connect to?

#alterhuman #flicker #otherkin #kin #fictionkin #fictive #plural #therianthropy #copinglinker #otherhearted #therian #wolfkin #angelkin #demonkin #divinekin #godkin #monsterkin #starkin #dollkin #ghostkin #dragonkin #otherkin community

[local-xenogender-icon]

Intro!! X3

(my pronouns page: https://en.pronouns.page/@alexniemajaj )

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🌈Alex/Toby

🌈2008

🌈They/he+ neos (ono/on)

🌈Polish

🌈Polymorph, otherhearted, otherfix

🌈Proffesionally diagnosed with: autism spectrum, tics, bipolar disorder.

🌈My hobbies/interests: nature, crystals, art, music, plushies, theriantrophy/otherkinnity (learning about them)

🌈My LGBT labels:

🌈nonbinary, transgender, xenogender, nebularomantic, ambiamorous, autigender, demiboy, panromantic, homosexual, semifictoromantic, semifictosexual, xenoboy

Tags:

#alex draws - my art,

#alex coins - coining terms and flags

#alex vents - my vent posts

#alex answers - answering your questions

❌DNI:

Nsfw/fet1sh blogs (I'm a minor)

Homophobes, ableists, transphobes, ect. (People who hate the others for no logical reason)

P3dophiles/z00philes

#autism #lgbt #xenogender #autism spectrum #xenogenders #autistic #intro #copinglinker #copinglink #c!link #c!linker #alterhuman

[beepshroom]

sounds pretty based to me

#my art #ms paint #angelkin #otherkin #alterhuman #therian #copinglink #therianthropy #nonhuman

[a-dragons-journal]

Hi, so, I'm an otherlinker, and ive been considering linking a dragon, but I'm not sure where to start, so I was wondering 1) if you could give me some advice on being draconic, if that makes sense? And/or 2) link some blogs/resources that might be of help? Sorry if this is a bit much, I'm just not sure where to look for this kind of stuff 😓

So, first off, I'm... honored by the request, honestly. I'm no 'linker, and I confess I don't know much about how to best go about 'linking something in general, but I know draconity, so let's see what I can give you there.

I am going to assume, since you're coming to me, that you're looking to become a dragon at least somewhat similar to my own species. I clarify this because, as you likely know, "dragon" is an enormously broad term that can mean a lot of things. There are dragons out there that have almost nothing in common with my species. That may, if you haven't considered it yet, be a good place to start - what kind of draconity are you looking to achieve? This can be as broad or specific as you like; don't feel like you need to iron out every detail, but having a vague idea is probably a good move.

For the rest of this, I will mostly assume that the answer you came to was something adjacent to my own species, because that's the experience I can speak to most directly. So:

What does being a dragon mean to you?

Why are you looking to become a dragon? What about it appeals to you? The strength and ferocity of a territorial apex predator, able to protect itself and the things and people it cares about and unafraid of much of anything? The wisdom and knowledge of a being that can live hundreds or thousands of years, the riddlemaster dragon archetype who knows secrets the rest of the world has forgotten and who approaches difficult times with wisdom and grace? The freedom of a child of Earth and Sky, able to fly up high, see the world from afar, and remember that this, too, is smaller than it seems up close and shall pass into a gentler future? The ferality of a creature free from the constraints and expectations of human society, living by instinct? A creature that can be proud of its strength and beauty and flawless nature, never wavering in its self-confidence? Something else entirely? All of these things are dragon, and yet not every dragon experiences all - or any! - of them. (Such is the nature of a word that includes so many species within it.)

What are the downsides of what you're considering, the parts of draconity - specifically, the type of dragon you're considering becoming - that might cause problems for you? A powerful, protective apex predator likely comes with a territorial instinct and a prey drive that can be inconvenient at times. A wise, knowledgeable, ancient being may also become slower to move and hesitant to make changes it needs to. A creature of freedom and distancing may become prone to escapism and not wanting to face its problems up close. And just in general, dragons are prone to vanity and pride - we are, after all, creatures that deserve to be proud of ourselves ;) (joking. this is a joke) - and while that can certainly be good for your self-confidence, it can also easily go too far and turn to arrogance and an allergy to admitting wrongness. (There's a reason draconic spaces are so prone to toxicity, violent misanthropy, and interpersonal drama.) Are these things things you can manage, things you're willing to risk taking on as part of yourself?

So. All those things that hopefully weren't just repeating things you'd already thought about aside.

Giving you advice on how to feel more draconic is... difficult, given that I'm starting from a place of draconity to begin with, but there are things that help me connect with my draconity. Physical activity works for a lot of people; aggressive things like Krav Maga works best for me, but some report biking feels like flying and other things like that. Being out in nature, especially places where I can get up high and feel the wind, helps a lot - plus my prey drive goes wild in any place where there's a lot of birds and other small animals moving around; trying to pay more attention to them may get your predator drive in gear too. Hoarding behavior - collecting hoard items, arranging and displaying them, and showing them off to others - definitely is high-key draconic hours for me.

Games that let you play as a dragon are few and far between, but I'm going to give Golden Treasure: The Great Green its own paragraph here, because as a game made with input from dragons, I'm of the opinion it's probably a really good way to get you thinking from a draconic perspective - at least one kind of draconic perspective, one that's very reflective of my own, though there's certainly dragons out there who don't connect especially well with that kind of dragon.

Generally speaking, actively taking time to engage with your senses, try to induce phantom shifts and imagine yourself as a dragon, make draconic noises, and otherwise act like a dragon is probably the biggest way to go about it. In terms of more daily-life activities, I... kind of don't have a lot for you, actually; most of my constant-small-daily things are me trying to manage my draconity (don't growl or snarl at that person annoying you, remember that no one else can see you gesturing with your wings and tail, don't listen to the instinct that says you should steal and hoard the crystal in that drawer because its owner isn't guarding it appropriately, etc. etc.), and I'm not really sure how to give advice on going the opposite direction without giving you more problems than help, ha.

As far as links go, I don't have a whole lot on otherlinking, or on draconity specifically, but some places to start:

The Chordata Guide to Otherlinking

Can't link it directly without Tumblr blocking my post from the tags, which I don't want because I want people to give input if they have it, but the website tomorrowlands.org/draconity/index.html, has draconic writings that helped me enormously during my awakening

beyondhumanity.net/home

invisibleotherkin.neocities.org/

lunastre-draconis.dreamwidth.org/641.html, which is a big ol’ list of other websites, forums, and Discord servers to look through

And there’s probably more in my “kin resources” tag (which, contrary to the outdated name, contains resources for all sorts of alterhuman terms and experiences)

Hopefully that all helped at least somewhat, and maybe others have more input, especially 'linkers and especially dragonlinkers - I'm afraid I don't actually know any dragonlinkers firsthand, but I'm sure they're out there. Keep an eye on the notes on this post for a while for any others who might be giving input!

#otherlinker #dragonlinker #copinglinker #dragonkin #draconic #rani talks #asked and answered #anonymous

[phantom-feline-teeth]

A playlist for tiger copinglinkers! Or any person under the alterhuman umbrella who wants to listen! 🧡🐅

Tagging this “Tiger therian” so more people find it!

#c’linker #copinglinker #tiger #tiger therian #alterhuman #tiger playlist