Post by ironwoodcollective on Mar 13, 2024 17:44:03 GMT
I realized over the course of the Centaurus Festival that I'm humanhearted. That wasn't a term we had heard before I went into dormancy. We didn't know about any sort of alterhumanity. I've only been back for a few weeks, but there's enough I remember from before to feel confident in that identity.
But that got me wondering, is that common? I'm not a therian or otherkin, I'm a coyote extranth. So I'm still not human. But I just wondered if anyone else is humanhearted.
I am! I don't remember if I mentioned it or not during the Centaurus Festival, but I've identified as humanhearted for awhile now. I don't think it's too common since I haven't seen a lot of people identify as humanhearted or treat humans like animals in that way in general. There's still a bit of a misanthropic culture within the alterhuman community and not much discussion in general about human identity.
I'm a walk-in so I have the experience of not exactly being born a human, but because I've been here since 2012 or so, I feel like I've been imprinted on by humans in the way psychological nonhumanity is described. It's one of those things where I've been trying to write an essay on it but my feelings on it boil down to humans being animals and I think "human as great ape" kind of describes how I view my human identity as a species.
I'm pretty sure extranths are alterhuman inherently, but it's not a term that my system personally uses. The terms otherkin and therian are still open to nonhumans in systems.