Archival Rambling 3

[nova_dergs]

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!

Written by Hortense

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We took a break from doing an archival update last week since our wrists were hurting, but we’re feeling better and are back at it again!

Tags updated:

Otherhearted:

Added Interstellar System’s “Otherheartedness, Synpaths and Hearthomes – A Quick Rundown” 

A nice, concise guide on being otherhearted and common terms. This piece has actually been hiding out in our tumblr save drafts for a while. It was good to finally give it a read and reblog it.

Other:

While we were on the Interstellar System’s website we ran across another piece from them - one we’ve actually already reblogged on our tumblr. Coping With Alterhuman Identity Dysphoria.

It’s a huge list of suggestions for dealing with alterhuman related identity dysphoria. It starts with general suggestions and moves into more niche ones based on habitat and body part. Give it a read if you’re looking for ideas! There were some things on the list we never would have thought of before that made a lot of sense when listed out this way.

Alterhuman

It’s not every day we get to add something to this tag because it’s specifically for pieces about alterhuman as a term.

Thank you to gossamer_musings for making us aware of this piece from The Dragonheart Collective by including it in their recent piece about conceptfolk This is not a dragon: exploring conceptual alterhumanity

On Alterhuman Frameworks

What’s really interesting about this piece is instead of just defining alterhuman as a term, it gives a huge list of ways individuals might explain their alterhumanity. Such as “I identify as this.” “This thing is my family.” etc. It’s a unique resource we haven’t seen before and one we think others will find valuable - especially if they are questioning being alterhuman.

Soulbond

Thank you to saarn for making us aware of this resource by linking it in their recent post on Why "Soulbond" Instead of "Fictive"?

What is Munbonding?

We remember seeing munbonding brought up at the last OC, we’re glad to see there’s a site with all the info about it!

The discussion of psychological aspects to this term are beautifully described. I think the authors found a wonderful way to convey the experience, detail why they felt the term was needed, and how one can go about re-enforcing their own bonds. We’ll definitely bookmark this neocities to check back on later.

And another piece we found on the Winery Place neocities about sharing a munbond with another person.

My personal favorite artwork reblogged to Alterhuman Art since my last archival rambling is:

For the Pride by Falconthropy

Why it was chosen

Because I’m bird-hearted and it’s pride month. The piece is also beautifully shaded and we find the saturated colors and sparkles just perfect. Every time I look at it I find some new detail I never noticed before (like the subtle reflection of a rainbow on the breastplate) – clearly a lot of love and attention-to-detail went into creating this artwork!