nova_dergs: Long-eared owl peeking around a tree with a question mark beside them. (Long-eared owl)
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



As promised, I got more factkin (and factive) pieces added to the archive. Renamed the folder to factfolk
They are questions that were asked on tumblr about how to handle grief about not being able to return to your other life, terms and definitions and navigating interacting with your source:

https://www.tumblr.com/fact-anonymous/784820143211626496/i-kinda-doubt-you-can-suggest-anything-i-havent?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/fact-anonymous/764265726763843584/hi-we-have-a-good-chunk-of-factives-of-our?source=share

https://fact-anonymous.tumblr.com/post/669278420369391616/hey-theres-lots-of-different-types-of-factives

 

Nylium Network

We were digging through our link hoard and found another alterhuman archive for minecraft related identities! Is it weird for one archive to link to another? I don’t think so. There’s a ton of fanfics with characters with alterhuman identities along with more formal essays and even art:

https://nylium.network/works

It would have been obvious, easy even, to quietly snag one of Talon’s enderman pieces from this network to archive. We *did* say last week we wanted to archive more of its pieces!

However!

We have not lost sight of our other goal: to clear out old links from our “to archive” hoard! Thankfully, we did have another piece from Talon already in there.

 

misceanimalis identities and alterhumanity
https://talon-dragonbeast.tumblr.com/post/760967871401738240/misceanimalis-identities-and-alterhumanity

We’ll be honest - the only thing we know on the topic come from this post and a video by Strange Aeons. But I do think I understand it kind of now. It’s not my thing, but it’s genuinely cool to see someone else so passionate about something that’s so clearly their thing, you know?

 

Time for a blast from the past: Othercon 2021 Conbook
We were digging around our files and found this relic from Othercons past. It’s filled with tips about surviving the con, along with info about that year’s event in general! It is still available in the 2021 discord server, but we felt it’d be good to archive it here for those without access to the server.

Othercon is going on six years now, isn’t that wild? Fun fact, this is the only conbook ever finished – there was also one for 2022 planned, but it was cancelled due to lack of interest/submissions.

You can view it on the archive under the Othercon tag.

For some reason it shows weird for us when we open it on the zotero reader, but totally fine if we download it. idk how to fix that one.


Also, the Alterhuman Archive just surpassed 1,600 uploads!!


New segment! Favorite artwork we reblogged to Alterhuman Art this week.
This isn’t a section for the most realistically drawn piece, or most popular piece - it’s the piece we personally liked the best. Based off vibes and how long thinking of it stuck in our brain.

This week’s winner is: Happy Pride by @/thefangsystem

The Fang System holding their respective flags, with "Happy Pride!!" above them. Suv is holding; Intersex-Inclusive Progress, Aromantic, Fraysexual, Polyamorous, Medusan, Omnisexual. Jinx is holding; Omnisexual, Aroflux, Ilyagender. Jay is holding; Gendervoid. Sergio is holding; Achillean. Cobra is holding; Enbian. Hypno is holding; Bisexual. Juniper is holding; Aro-Ace. Sanz is holding; Asexual, Intersex.

Why it was chosen

Because it's squad goals. Just look at it! And we're super happy we were able to find it in time to be the first post we made in June. Looking at this artwork gets us fired up to make our own version for pride.


nova_dergs: Long-eared owl peeking around a tree with a question mark beside them. (Long-eared owl)

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.

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