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Kintypes? Silver Ice Dragon
What do you prefer to call yourself (therian, otherkin, nonhuman, etc) A dragon. I call myself otherkin simply because it describes my experience, but I don't really like labels. Nonhuman works to describe me as well.
How did you find out you were alterhuman? I've always felt different. It just took a bit of soul searching. That and I made a dragon OC and realized I was getting a little too hyped at the idea of being that character instead.
Favorite kintype? Dragon is my only Kintype.
Most recent kintype? Dragon. For a bit over a year now.
Least favorite kintype? None. :)
What are your reasonings for being alterhuman? When I was pretending to just be human, it always felt like something was missing. This is that missing piece that makes my life make sense.
Do you wear gear? If so, what kind? Nope. Would love to get some gloves with a scale pattern on them, though.
Any advice to new alterhumans? Controversial, butโฆ Don't come out? Unless it's someone you know for SURE you can trust. Your parents don't really need to know, nor do your classmates or teachers. The world isn't ready for us just yet. You'll find out more about yourself if you keep this as a personal journey of self discovery anyways.
What're some things you do to affirm your kintypes? I don't really do specific things... Does drawing art of my dragon form count? TBH I'd be down for more suggestions on dragon things to do but I don't always feel the need to "affirm" my kintype. I know it's me.
Strangest thing you do to affirm your kintypes? I write my diary in draconic letters instead of English.
What are your goals to affirm your kintypes? Get strong! I won't ever have the strength of a dragon, but getting into better shape as a human would help a LOT. I've already started by running a mile almost every day... I need to start training my core strength next. Also, a dragon scale tattoo would be awesome.
Do you do quads? Nope.
Funniest way you found out a kintype? Cries in only one kintype
How does being alterhuman affect your day to day life? I can ALWAYS feel my phantom wings... So sitting in chairs is hard.
Does being alterhuman affect your religious beliefs? Not really. I already believed in souls and astral projection. Knowing I have the soul of a dragon just fits my beliefs.
Do your mental illnesses affect your view of your alterhumanness? Yeah, I mean. Autism is a huge part of all this, obvs. I have social issues that contributed to me feeling different in the first place. It works though, whenever something happens where I have trouble speaking, it just feels like a cultural/language barrier between dragons and humans, instead of just regular old social anxiety. Kind of took away a bit of the shame I had for being socially awkward.
Does being alterhuman affect your gender? I care a bit less about gender when I imagine myself as a full dragon. But I still care about being a pretty lady in human form.
What is your favorite thing about being alterhuman There's magic in the world. We live in a world with dragons and fairies and werewolves. That fact alone is awesome. But it's also really fun just going about life knowing "hehe nobody knows I'm actually a dragon ๐"
What is your least favorite thing about being alterhuman I feel like "species dysphoria" is a bit of a dramatic term for it, but god DAMN I really hate that I can't just be a real dragon. I wanna fly!!!!
There we go :) Also yea I'm cool with asks I guess EDIT: Formatting
Alterhuman questions
Kintypes?
What do you prefer to call yourself (therian, otherkin, nonhuman, etc)
How did you find out you were alterhuman?
Favorite kintype?
Most recent kintype?
Least favorite kintype?
What are your reasonings for being alterhuman?
Do you wear gear? If so, what kind?
Any advice to new alterhumans?
What're some things you do to affirm your kintypes?
Strangest thing you do to affirm your kintypes?
What are your goals to affirm your kintypes?
Do you do quads?
Funniest way you found out a kintype?
How does being alterhuman affect your day to day life?
Does being alterhuman affect your religious beliefs?
Do your mental illnesses affect your view of your alterhumanness?
Does being alterhuman affect your gender?
What is your favorite thing about being alterhuman
What is your least favorite thing about being alterhuman
PS. I know not everyone resonates with the word kintype and I'm sorry for using it I just didn't know what other word to use
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Technically a lot of lizards have a "3rd eye", a patch of photosensitive cells on the top of their head that's used for regulating a reptile's circadian rhythm and pineal gland functions. They can't "see" out of it, only detect light. It's really fascinating stuff!
Not too big of a stretch a dragon would have one too. I'm pretty sure I'd have one in dragon form. Perhaps yours is just further developed than a regular reptile's!
Any other dergs got an odd number of eyes? I have three
This is the most relatable image ever. I've been blessed with the ability to feel my wings at all times but oh my GOD they make it hard to sleep. After sleeping on my back for my whole life it is bizarre to adjust to the feeling of crushing your wings when you lay down
Phantom limbs.
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Tbh lugia is goals as a fellow trans silver sea dragon
apparently lugia was created specifically for the second pokemon movie?? like the creator was surprised to see it in the games??
Well shit I guess I'm transpecies, by this definition. Like, the whole idea of pursuing different life paths that line up with your species. I'd like to actually get in shape so I can at least have some semblance of the strength I'd have as a dragon. Can't exactly teach yourself to blast gigantic beams of ice from your throat but. You can learn to build muscle.
I dunno if id do bio-hacking but some scale tattoos would be nice
Also I'm letting my nails grow out so I have dragon claws muahaha I am a danger to society >:D
Re- your question about trans-species.
I obviously can't make a lot of physical changes as I would like to, and I think people get hung up on "surgery" when there isn't much that can currently be done. for me, being trans-species is more about making paradigm changes and pursuing certain life paths/not hiding aspects of non humanity. I'm an alien and basically I'd say my "transition" was about recognizing that aspects of my life are so terribly distressing to me because I'm just not human and then making a choice to change those things to suit being an alien. It felt like getting more serious about actually accommodating being non human.
An example- I don't have a normal circadian rhythm anymore, I hacked it over time by not forcing myself to stay in bed when I inevitably wake at 3 am. I support this with naps when I need them but my kin dysphoria lessened when I saw aspects of human living as societally constructed. It's controversial, which is why I'm on anon, but trans-species can mean a lot of things, but it for me is about making the choice to allow aspects of your kin self to be more physical or be more visible. be that body mods or some other kind of bio hacking.
Some of this, yes, is not good for the body. Like toe-walking for the feeling of digi legs for example. I make sure to stretch after spending time doing something like that. It's all a risk assessment kind of thing.
It's just people think it's about physical ears and tails but it can be about lots of aspects of one's lifestyle.
this answer was actually so fucking perfect, thank you so much, im so sorry it took me so long to respond, i had no idea what to say
i had been ever so slightly questioning if i was perhaps trans-species when id posted my question, thanks to all the answers i got ive come to the conclusion that im not as i dont have the desire to transition into my species. i already am my species :)
thank you, my fantastic alien anon, and thank you to everyone else who responded to my post for all your great answers, and please, by all means, keep sending me stuff!! i wanna learn about yall, ur so cool :)))
That casual moment of realizing youโre an otherkin and the kintypes have weird overlaps and/or conflicting feelings.
Enderman kin - supposed to hate water
Seafolk kin - I love water
Dragon kin - I want to be in the sky not water
It kills me-
This realization of my kintypes explains a lot:
Endfolk kin:
Hate eye contact, love purple and darkness, Iโm tall and lanky already but feel like I need to be TALLER ๐น
I like picking things up like an Endfolk too :}
Seafolk kin:
I specifically feel like a leviathan sea folk, Iโm a 50 foot long, glowing scales, head fins, large clawed, lots of frills and fins, CHARCOAL SKINNED BEAST, yet a gentle giant!!!
With dragon kin, I kinda already knew (I have a dragon sona)
Green scales, 3 pairs of horns, dark green & purple webbing for my wings, larger than most dragons, tall and imposing yet also lean and long.
I want to fly, I want to swim, I want to blip through the fabric of reality and leave purple sparkles in my wake.
And all this is also paired with already being a magical and supernatural and mundane entity thatโs SOMEHOW BECOME AN ELDRITCH DEITY AND I ACCIDENTALLY IMMORTALIZED MYSELF WITH SHEER SPITE WHEN I WAS 9
*Insert Sad Eldritch blob here*
Gndzgbdfhvdf (ยดยฐฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅฯยฐฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅฬฅ๏ฝ)
Emojis to try and describe myself:
Endfolk: โจ๐๐ค๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธ๐ชป๐โฎ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ชฌ๐พ๐ฆโโฌ๐โโฌ๐ฌ๐ช๐๐งฌ
Dragon: ๐ฟ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ฆ๐๏ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐
Leviathan Seafolk: ๐๐๐ฆ๐ค๐๐๐ฉป๐ฎ๐๐ช๏ธ๐ชท๐ชธ๐ฆ๐ชผ๐๐ฆญ
Eldritch Deity: ๐๐โ๏ธ๐๏ธโ๐จ๏ธ๐ธ๏ธ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ชฌ๐ฎ๐งฌ๐๐๐
Hi we need to bring this back immediately thanks
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โถ DRACONIC GLORY โถ
[ * ARHRRGRGHJRGHRGH this is finally DOOOONEEEEE ]
[ * I've never done such rendering with this method before (painted it and picked the colors by hand in a layer above the sketch/lineart and base color layer) and it turned out SO SO WELL ]
[ * I also wanted to give it a touch of computer-screen-ish-look because that just adds so nicely ]
[ * Took 8 hours in total, drawn on Krita along with a Wacom Intuos S tablet ]
[ * Feels nice to draw my dragon kintype :} i haven't really done a fully-rendered drawing of myself in a while ]
[ * Also a small attempt at poetry... alterhuman poetry.... i don't really write poetry so apologies if it's wonky :P but i'm personally happy about it! ]