Archival Rambling 1

Written by Hortense

Welcome to this week’s archival update! Every week, I spend some time reading and archiving essays and other written works from the alterhuman and nonhuman community.

I file them away at the Alterhuman Archive, but I enjoy the works I read and want to give them more specific shout outs on our blog! Because I can!

I’m sick of tumblr’s search function
So I’ve been digging around for people’s neocities and dreamwidths to find things to archive as of late.

That said, pretty much everything I archived recently was from tumblr! I just have such a back-log of tumblr links that they were starting to get on my nerves and I HAD to clear some of them out.

Tags Updated:

Factkin - 2 pieces added. I didn’t know there was a symbol for factkin, but not only is there one, but there’s also a post detailing OP hunting down the possible origin of it! The second piece was a flag for factual identities. So I also placed the later piece in the factive category.

Expect more factkin content soon - while archiving these I came across another blog called fact-anonymous that I am very excited to browse through! There are so few things in the factkin section of the archive - and most of them are by the same person. I am excited to add more pieces, particularly from different authors.

Otherlink - Otherlinking and You Lecture Script was removed from tumblr, idk if the blog was deleted or what, but since it was a private tumblr now the wayback machine archive doesn’t work either. Yikes! A friend brought this to our attention and we spent some time sniffing out the original text from the text-based panel from the OC 22 discord. The fire has been put out! We copy/pasted the panel into a PDF so the text was not lost! Phew!

Holothere - When holothere was first coined, I debated archiving the caard, but decided against it. I didn’t think the term was going to catch on, so why archive it? Well, I was wrong. It’s gotten a lot more popular and it was high time to add the coining caard. I also added a folder under Other specifically for Holothere and pasted the existing pieces we have floating in the archive to it.

Also check out this creative writing piece by Coyote called It we recently archived to the holothere tag.

As a fellow canine, I loved the detailed descriptions of what it was like to move, run and sense as one.

We had another piece linked in our stash to archive and a website to check out for this tag, but both were deleted before we could read them unfortunately.

Fictive - Viciously stole a piece we found on Wondertrading (a fellow alterhuman archive for pokemon specific identities) from the Sparks System about their experiences as a shiny shinx.

Abandoned by the Sparks System.

If y’all ever come across pokemon alterhuman essays or art, definitely let Wondertrading (run by the Interstellar System) know!

Other - Anglocentrism in alterhuman communities: ramblings of a Spanish-speaking dragon and a cat added. How has this not already been archived?? How is this the only thing from Talon in the archive?? Literal crime, I must correct this.