Fiction-identifying people with human or human-like identities are real, important and deserve to be able to talk about their experiences in the community. It’s not something that’s super common, but it’s still an important experience to talk about.
Been a while since we had one of these threads – time to share your alterhuman collections! I’ll start with a snippet of mine: My Ben 1O dvd collection, my Juryrigg figure, various bison toys, a spider toy, a spider lithograph, and my spider dice :3
I haven’t watched The Neverending Story in a decade (and it’s been even longer since I’ve read it), but I was just reminded of it… Does anyone else get fictionfolk vibes from Bastian? I don’t know if my memory is failing me, but I feel like Bastian might’ve been some kind of fictionfolk??
The internal ghost type and death-oriented Pok/emon urge to talk in dept about death from a cultural, spiritual, and personal-experience-based standpoint. Like it is INTENSE.
I had written up the outline for a personal essay about death from my position as a death-related fictherian and as a person in my current life who has had up close and personal encounters with it and near death experiences, and also subscribes to the Death Positivity movement. But I never got the motivation to turn that essay into reality, partially out of fear of going so in depth on personal trauma and such like that.
But y’know? I still want to.
Send me death related asks and prompts, either in inbox or reblogs/replies, up to you. I need to talk about it a little bit.
Y’all I made a wiki page for Fictherian. Feel free to add to it if you have an account, correct things, or even just send me addition/correction suggestions.
what is your fictotype? are you a specific character, a nonhuman species, or both?
i’m late to the party, so it’s time to play catch-up!
i think i’m going to primarily focus on john-related things for these prompts, considering i know the ins and outs of this part of my identity pretty well. i do have other fictotypes, but i don’t feel as though i could write much about them just yet.
i am a specific character, (censored to keep it out of the tags) j//ohn e//gbert from h//omestuck. you could reach and POSSIBLY argue that i’m godkin due to god tiering, but i can’t say i enjoy that part of being john all that much. i’d rather not focus on it too heavily.
the human parts of my identity are something i tightly hold onto for reasons related to my reincarnation… but some of my fictotypes are partially nonhuman. my comfort levels with regard to partial nonhumanity fluctuate based on my current shift.
Right after the 30 nonhuman challenge ended, I expressed how fun it would probably be if there was a 30 day fictionkin challenge to complement it. Now I’ve made this, I guess… anyone who wants to hop on it can do so. Although, since there’s already a challenge going on right now I believe (21 day alterhuman challenge?) and it’s much cooler if it starts on the 1st of a month and ends on the 30th, I myself will be starting this on April 1st and I encourage participants to do the same.
Don’t feel pressured to credit me. This is just for fun and it’s for everyone.
alterfictionality? is that the word? i sure hope so.
anyways, i want to talk about how my adhd impacts my alterfictional identity and, consequently, my activity in alterfictional circles.
i feel like it’s a bit of a “no, duh” moment to point out that adhd results in me picking up quite a few fictionflickers. hyperfixations lead to a strong connection with a source, and thus, shifts and changes in how i perceive myself follow–and you could argue that a big part of self identity is perception.
it extends beyond just flickers (flicktypes?), though. i’d say it impacts my relationship with my fictionkind identity quite significantly.
it’s not uncommon for me to fixate on being fictionkind. i hesitate to say this; people who misunderstand hyperfixations might assume this means that my kintype is the result of interest, and not a genuine state of being. hyperfixation is basically just another word for hyperfocus–it indicates an extended period of hyperfocus in regards to a specific topic is what i’d say. it goes beyond just an interest or thing somebody happens to like.
so, for me to hyperfixate on fictionkinity just means for me to hone in almost *exclusively* on this part of my life. this tends to lead to more memories resurfacing, more ideas for posts, and overall more activity on platforms like tumblr. when the hyperfixation fades, everything stays the same… i just turn my attention towards other things.
sometimes, i like to compare facets of my identity like kinity, sexuality, and gender to a name. you have a name, it’s always there in the background, and it just exists. you can draw attention to your name, you can bring it to the forefront of your life if you so choose, but most of the time your name is a part of you that doesn’t necessarily need to be pointed out. that’s how i view my fictomeres, including my fictotype: they simply are, whether i talk/think about them or not.
