what We do
We've been playing Minecraft for ten years now. We started with Pocket Edition on an iPhone 3GS, and switched to what is now Java Edition when We got Our first laptop. We fell in love with the game pretty much instantly and it's been Our special interest ever since. We've been running an SMP (Survival MultiPlayer server) for alterhumans for about a year, and another one for Our meatspace friends since 2019.
Another interest of Ours is computers. We run EndeavourOS Linux on Our laptop and PC, and Debian on Our private Minecraft server. We've been daily driving various Linux distributions for almost 10 years. We have an undergraduate certificate in I.T.
We engage actively with the alterhuman communities: We help run the Otherkin Wiki, run a website for Minecraft alterhumans as well as a discord server and that SMP, and Our main social circles online are alterhumans.
Other things We enjoy doing include playing other video games, watching youtube, talking with friends, and learning new things. We always seem to have a shelf of books We're meaning to read.
what We're working on now
Nylium Network
The Nylium Network is our effort to bring together alterhumans who associate with Minecraft. It's mainly a space for fictionfolk with Minecraft and Minecraft roleplay sources, but there are a few alterhumans there who just enjoy playing and discussing Minecraft with other alterhumans.
The website currently hosts a directory of writings by minecraftfolk (as we call ourselves), a map of the associated SMP Minecraft server, and some other info. There's also a discord server.
Otherkin Wiki
We, along with Willow Rosenberg, are bureaucrats over at the Otherkin Wiki.
This wiki is about otherkin and other alterhuman communities. We joined because We are passionate about communicating alterhuman history.
meatspace stuff
Right now, We're looking to get an I.T. job and potentially to relocate to another part of the country.
other interests
Some of the other things We enjoy learning about and exploring include religion, Internet culture, fandom, video games, horror, xenofiction, and linguistics and symbology. We particularly appreciate Internet memes (We have a very great friend in Rome named Sussus Amogus) and harmless religious movements with unusual beliefs. Most recently, We've been getting into the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. We don't actually play the games though—We're terrible with jumpscares!
how to talk to/about Us
The Internet is very language-based place, so it's useful for netizens to know what language their fellows prefer. We only have a couple requests, which are as follows:
- We would appreciate it if any pronouns that refer to Us be capitalized (ex. “You” instead of “you”). When talking about Us in the third person, the pronoun ‘It’ is appropriate.
- We dislike tone tags.
/sand/jare acceptable, but We would prefer you avoid any others while talking to Us. See why We don't like/hj(and tone tags in general) and why We don't like tags like/gen,/pos, or/info.
Our personal identity
alterhumanity
We are plural and otherkin, primarily a god, a dragon, a wolf, and an enderman. We are also a Minecraft Server Admin archetroper with a magical and religious framework.
There are many different forms (or “avatars”) that We might take. Usually, most of Us like avatars that resemble canines, dragons, or birds. Here are some forms that various voxels have been known to have, use, or connect with (some might call this a “kinlist”). Primary identities are marked in bold (some might call these “high kins” or “IDs”).
species, etc.
Some of these are kinds (or kintypes), some are theriotypes, some are “base” species, some are heart-types, and some are vague.
- angel
- cat
- crewmate (from Among Us)
- deity
- demon
- digital being
- dog (domestic)
- dragon (many variations)
- dragon-wolf/wyrmwolf
- enderman (Minecraft)
- falcon (peregrine)
- human
- human (winged)
- hybrid (Minecraft folklore)
- lion
- mountain
- obelisk
- owl (barn)
- owl (spotted)
- player (Minecraft)
- satyr
- sheep
- slime (Minecraft)
- tentacle monster
- utahraptor
- warped fungus
- watcher (Evolution SMP and Minecraft folklore)
- werewolf
- wolf (anthro)
- wolf (dire)
- wolf (gray, wild)
individuals
These include fictives and factives, fictotypes, synpaths, walk-ins, soulbonds, introjects, flickers, worshiped deities, and vaguetypes.
- Bonny* (various FNAF entries)
- Chica* (various FNAF entries)
- Grian (various sources)
- Herobrine (Hermitbrine)
- Jim Pickens (The Sims 4 With Jim Pickens)
- The Lamb (Cult of the Lamb)
- Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)
- Mumbo Jumbo (Hermitcraft)
- Orphion (Wynncraft)
- Otulissa (Guardians of Ga'Hoole)
- Lord Pan
- Ranboo (various sources)
- Scraptrap/William Afton (Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator)
- The Silent Expanse (Wynncraft)
- Slimecicle (various sources)
- Steve (Minecraft)
- Tommy (Dream SMP)
- Voxel (Our fursona)
- Xisumavoid (various sources)
We also have other alterhuman identities that don't fall into either of the above categories.
archetypes & tropes
- admin (Minecraft culture)
- explorer
- that which goes bump in the night
- jester
- large, underground structures
- misunderstood monster
- mountain-man/wild-man
- secret-keeper
- scholar
- wizard
hearthomes
Some of these use a generous definition of “hearthome”.
- The Backrooms
- The End (Minecraft)
- The Far Lands (Minecraft)
- Gavel (Wynncraft)
- Hermitcraft Season 6
- mountains
- Poppy Playtime Chapters 3 & 4
- sky islands (real biome)
- The Warped Forest (Minecraft)
gender
The simplest way to put Our gender is “butch werewolf” (maybe with “xenogender” if you want to get on-the-nose). “Gender anarchist” might also serve. We like Our beard and mane long and Our clothes comfy.
We don't really believe in sex/gender as a useful method of dividing people. Gender identities are interesting and useful to a lot of people, but sex/gender as a legal or medical category is only situationally useful at best; at worst, well we have a word for that: sexism.
As for orientation, We're aroace-spec and We tend to care more that someone shares important things with Us—namely, that they're trans*, nonhuman, and a computer nerd—than about their gender. Lesbian wouldn't be an incorrect descriptor though, at least for some of Us.