Our Works!
A page for compiling a bunch of stuff we've made in various other places. Content warnings and dates posted are included at the top of the page once you open the PDFs if needed. There are separate sections for resources and personal experience-based writing.
Please note that if it's been a year or two since we wrote an experience post, things may have changed. This is not a place we will censor our past selves in, this is as much of a personal archive as it is a public one. Some of our past wording in experience posts may have been misinformed, and that needs to be kept in mind.
To Upload:
- Fin's Waking up in the Wrong Brain post.
- Fin's "Exotrauma" post.
- Systember images.
Alterhuman Resources
General Alterhuman
Anything alterhuman related that is more general or spans across multiple categories enough that we don't feel it could neatly fit into just one of them. This also includes things about the alterhuman community and identity itself, separate from being an umbrella label.
- Alterhuman Questions [Archie, 2021] - A list of questions to help you figure out your alterhuman identity, or just for fun! Intended as a useful self-grill.
- Canonmates [Fleety, 2021] - A quick post about the dangers of "canonmates" as a concept and a warning to be wary.
- Plural or Otherkin? [Archie, 2020] - A quick list that made to help you determine if you're plural or otherkin.
- Source Memories and Trauma [Vince, 2024] - A post talking about how exotrauma is commonly percieved and the irrelevancy of how "real" such experiences truly are.
Otherkinity and Nonhumanity
- To be added.
Other/Copinglinking
- To be added.
Otherheartedness and Hearthomes
Any sort of heartedness-aligned identity--hearthomes and similar concepts included.
- To be added.
Plurality
- How to Talk to Medical Professionals About Plurality [Veil, 2022] - A quick guide about how to talk to medical professionals about plurality.
- Managing Life as a Large System [Xeros, 2021] - A post about how we personally manage having upwards of 100 headmates.
- Our Soulbonding Guide [Xeros, 2021] - A guide on how to soulbond, with some information about soulbond etiquette.
- So, You're New Here? [Peri, 2021] - A basic guide about this world and systems, geared toward new systemmates that are confused regarding their current situation of being here on Earth.
Alterhuman Coining Posts
Terms we've made. We don't make terms often, and when we do they are made for personal use--though if they are listed here, they are free for you to use too.
General Alterhuman
- Terrorpunk: Embracing the Horror Within [Mal, 2023] - A coining post for a term/punk subculture surrounding being unapologetically you no matter how scary you seem. Overlaps heavily with alterhumanity and societal perceptions of us intertwined with mental illness and gender.
Plurality
- Intra-Disordered [Martin, 2024] - A term for those in-system who experience a disorder that the body does not have.
Personal Writing
Writing specific to us and our system. This will largely involve personal experiences with things such as general life, interactions within the community + personal opinions on them, relationships, sources and fandom, shifting and anything related to our personal alterhumanity.
General Alterhuman
- Alterhuman Joy [Martin, 2024] - A tiny post about progress we've made in being open about our identity, and the happiness it has brought us.
- Alterhumanity in the Family [Vince, 2024] - A short post about the discovery of younger alterhumans in the family and the thought process behind knowing how our family reacts to alterhumans and figuring out how to best aid our therian sister.
- Identity Statistics [Mike, 2024] - Graphs showing the stats of how many identities we have in our system from individual sources--fictional or otherwise.
- Nonhumanity Induced Gender Euphoria [Merlin, 2024] - Merlin talks about his nonhumanity in relation to his gender and how nonhuman features can be gender euphoria inducing to him as a trans person.
- Nonhumans are Here [Crowley, 2024] - A (vaguely poetic) post with various examples of how nonhumans are all around you, using members of our own system as examples.
- Our Personal Alterhuman Timeline [Archie, 2021] - A personal timeline of events surrounding our alterhumanity and our journey through it.
Otherkinity and Nonhumanity
Writing related to being otherkin or nonhuman in general. We felt that our writing about being nonhuman system members didn't always fit best within the plural section as those experiences don't focus on being plural, so fictive identities and such are also included here.
- Cosmic Horror Identity [Vince, 2024] - Vince's experiences with an unnamed conceptkin-esque identity he has relating to cosmic horror and death.
- Emotion Differences [Sark, 2021] - A post about experiencing different emotions than you're used to due to alterhumanity.
- Experiences as Possessed!Hunter and Being One-But-Three [Mal, 2023] - A post detailing personal experiences of being a fictive of Possessed!Hunter from The Owl House and how it feels to be one person, but also three due to the possession experience, and falling adjacent but outside of regular system experiences.
- Feather Dysphoria [Merlin, 2024] - Merlin talks about the transition of seasons into winter and how his phantom feathers interact with his dysphoria.
- I Do Not Fit Into This Body [Mystery, 2024] - Mystery talks about being a fictive of The Distortion (The Magnus Archives) and how it feels as an eldritch horror trapped in a small, all-too-normal human body.
- Past Languages [Sark, 2021] - A short post about languages from past lives.
- Problematic Sources [Sark, 2021] - A short post about being from a problematic source and the journey to become better.
Other/Copinglinking
- To be added.
Otherheartedness and Hearthomes
Any sort of heartedness-aligned identity--hearthomes and similar concepts included.
- Every Bird is our Hearttype: Being Collectively Birdhearted [Merlin, 2024] - Writing detailing our experiences with how we cam eto the conclusion that we collectively have every type of bird or bird-adjacent creature as a hearttype.
Plurality
- Abstract Plural Presences [Vince, 2024] - Writing on our experience of the ability to "sense" other's presence near the front, and putting how that feels as an abstract concept into words to explain what some people "feel" like.
- Being a DID System That's Excluded from the Community [Hazard, 2022] - A post on syscourse and how it leaves us outliers feeling alone.
- Disorder Differences in Systemmates [Martin, 2024] - A post on systemmates who experience disability different to the collective system, such as symptom holders or those with intra-disorders.
- Endogenic Systems and Experiences in the Neurodivergent Community [Mystery, 2024] - A post on syscourse and the contradictory sentiment of "real disabled people" when it comes to excluding endogenic systems.
- Experiences With Being Out as a System [Six, 2024] - A post regarding our experience being out as a system in the physical world, and the challenges we've encountered and steps we've made along the way, along with the personal importance of being recognised as more than one individual.
- Little Plural Things [Vince, 2024] - An account of personal experience with less noticeable traits of being plural and minor differences between headmates and how they present.
- Managing Life as a Large System [Xeros, 2021] - A post about how we personally manage having upwards of 100 headmates.
- To Singlets [Archie, 2022] - A personal post about singlets and how they interact with plurals.
Alterhuman Creativity
Visual Artworks
(Most of our alterhuman artwork is omitted from this section as they are not things we deem substantial enough for this page. For more of our art, check out our art Tumblr.
- Born in the Wrong Nest (pt. 1, pt. 2) [Crowley, 2023] - A short comic about homesickness and not fitting in due to being different for reasons out of your control.
- Phantom Limbs (pt.1) [Merlin, 2024] - A one-page comic about phantom limbs and the loss of Merlin's previous body.
- String (pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3) [Mystery, 2024] - A short comic representing Mystery's feelings of being an eldritch being in a human body.
