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.

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Alterhuman Questions - [Archie, 2021] (886 words)
A list of questions to help you figure out your alterhuman identity, or just for fun! Intended as a useful self-grill.

Plural or Otherkin? - [Archie, 2020] (319 words)
A quick list that made to help you determine if you're plural or otherkin.

Signs of being Otherkin - [Martin, 2024] (708 words)
A response to an ask on Tumblr, listing some common experiences that may indicate nonhumanity.

To be added.

Any sort of heartedness-aligned identity--hearthomes and similar concepts included.

To be added.

Canonmates - [Fleety, 2021] (235 words)
A quick post about the dangers of "canonmates" as a concept and a warning to be wary.

Source Memories and Trauma - [Vince, 2024] (768 words)
A post talking about how exotrauma is commonly percieved and the irrelevancy of how "real" such experiences truly are.

How to Talk to Medical Professionals About Plurality - [Veil, 2022] (447 words)
A quick guide about how to talk to medical professionals about plurality.

Managing Life as a Large System - [Xeros, 2021] (538 words)
A post about how we personally manage having upwards of 100 headmates.

Our Soulbonding Guide - [Xeros, 2021] (364 words)
A guide on how to soulbond, with some information about soulbond etiquette.

Plurality and Suffering - [Shrapnel, 2024] (786 words)
Discussion of the community sentiment that suffering is a prerequisite to being a "real" plural, and how healing is still possible despite these sentiments.

So, You're New Here? - [Peri, 2021] (1,467 words) - A basic guide about this world and systems, geared toward new systemmates that are confused regarding their current situation of being here on Earth.

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.

Terrorpunk: Embracing the Horror Within - [Mal, 2023] (449 words)
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.

Intra-Disordered - [Martin, 2024] (217 words)
A term for those in-system who experience a disorder that the body does not have.

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.

Ability Dysphoria - [Shrapnel, 2024] (260 words)
A quick post about the fear that comes with feeling like you should be stronger than your human body, and how disability impacts that further.

Alterhuman Joy - [Martin, 2024] (270 words)
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] (577 words)
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] (257 words)
Graphs showing the stats of how many identities we have in our system from individual sources--fictional or otherwise.

Our Personal Alterhuman Timeline - [Archie, 2021] (1,899 words)
A personal timeline of events surrounding our alterhumanity and our journey through it.

Self-Expression Checklist (Sort Of) - [Dain, 2024] (339 words)
Talking about being confidently and openly "weird" in public, and gear we use to feel more like ourselves.

Rambling About Phantom Shifts - [Shrapnel, 2024] (266 words)
Shrapnel talks about questions relating to phantom shifts he experiences.

Writing related to being otherkin or nonhuman in general. Includes fictional nonhumanity where the nonhuman part is the main focus.

Big Fish Phantom Shifts - [Fin, 2024] (622 words)
Fin talks about his experience with his phantom shifts, being a leviathan sea serpent.

Cosmic Horror Identity - [Vince, 2024] (503 words)
Vince's experiences with an unnamed conceptkin-esque identity he has relating to cosmic horror and death.

Feather Dysphoria - [Merlin, 2024] (289 words)
Merlin talks about the transition of seasons into winter and how his phantom feathers interact with his dysphoria.

Nonhumanity Induced Gender Euphoria - [Merlin, 2024] (491 words)
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] (374 words)
A (vaguely poetic) post with various examples of how nonhumans are all around you, using members of our own system as examples.

Society and Being Other - [Fin, 2024] (702 words)
Fins experiences around the fear that comes from being nonhuman. Isolation, knowing many of the people around you wouldn't understand, and battling misanthropic sentiments as well as your own fear.

To be added.

Any sort of heartedness-aligned identity--hearthomes and similar concepts included.

Being Collectively Birdhearted - [Merlin, 2024] (543 words)
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.

Emotion Differences - [Sark, 2021] (474 words)
A post about experiencing different emotions than you're used to due to alterhumanity.

Exotrauma (And Children's Media) - [Fin, 2024] (412 words)
Our experiences relating to having exotrauma while being from a "silly", "cringe" or "for kids" source.

Experiences as a Fictive in the Alterhuman Community - [Red, 2025] (1,304 words)
An essay about walking the line between fiction and reality, and experiences with people not knowing how to treat fictionfolk.

Experiences as Possessed!Hunter and Being One-But-Three - [Mal, 2023] (774 words)
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 technically three due to the possession experience.

I Do Not Fit Into This Body - [Mystery, 2024] (773 words)
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.

I'm A Skarmory - [Icarus, 2025] (1,133 words)
Icarus shares its experiences as a skarmory with species dysphoria and seeing the silver lining in being within a human body.

Past Languages - [Sark, 2021] (410 words)
A short post about languages from past lives.

Problematic Sources - [Sark, 2021] (330 words)
A short post about being from a problematic source and the journey to become better.

Questioning a Future Life Kintype - [Merlin, 2024] (686 words)
Merlin detailing xyr experiences about feeling like a character should have you as a kintype.

Abstract Plural Presences - [Vince, 2024] (1,205 words)
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] (544 words)
A post on syscourse and how it leaves us outliers feeling alone.

Disorder Differences in Systemmates - [Martin, 2024] (1,020 words)
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] (1,284 words)
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] (709 words)
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] (1,358 words)
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] (538 words)
A post about how we personally manage having upwards of 100 headmates.

To Singlets - [Archie, 2022] (442 words)
A personal post about singlets and how they interact with plurals.

Waking Up After 10 Years of Dormancy – Identity, Grief, and Change - [Dain, 2024] (1,721 words)
A post about Dain's experiences with how waking up after a long dormancy felt, and the events leading up to it.

Waking Up in the Wrong Brain - [Fin, 2024] (404 words)
Fin's experiences with showing up in the system for the first time, and the shock of no longer having his body, and the expectations society places on us--worded poetically.

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.

Born in the Wrong Nest - [Crowley, 2023]
A short comic about homesickness and not fitting in due to being different for reasons out of your control.
Part. 1 - Part. 2

Fronting Car - [Shrapnel, 2024]
A piece based on a "draw the squad" meme featuring our main fronters.
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Phantom Limbs - [Merlin, 2024]
A one-page comic about phantom limbs and the loss of Merlin's previous body.
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String - [Mystery, 2024]
A short comic representing Mystery's feelings of being an eldritch being (Michael Distortion from The Magnus Archives) in a human body.
Part. 1 - Part. 2 - Part. 3

Systember 2024
A series of artworks following Systember 2024's prompts.
1: Together - 2: Protective - 3: Animal - 4: Peaceful - 5: Love
6: Family - 7: Introject - 8: Memory - 9: Blurry

(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.