“Alternative Attachments/Alt-attachments

Alt-attachment is a term referring to when an alterhuman falsely attaches onto a source/a type because of surrounding sources/types that other people have. Types and shifts are collected and/or dismissed based on who you are surrounded with and their individual types.

I coined this in 2022 and this is its official coining post. Archive this please.

I will now explain how different they are from cameo shifts, flickers, links and hearttypes.

A cameo shift is a category of shifts that happen with types that are not your own or do not belong to you.

Alt-attachment is not a shift and does not require shifts to latch onto identities. Alt-attachments are also not temporary things, they are sometimes predetermined by a set of feelings- waiting to be set off by people they can latch onto. Cameo shifts do not always contain an immediate or follow up of intense feelings of controlling yourself as something other than you.

A flicker is an identity that “flickers” into existence when media, knowledge or awareness of a source is consumed. It involves a changing perception of yourself as or in relation to that source. Many say it is like imprinting.

Alt-attaching does not come voluntarily at some points and appears to have a spontaneous formation. I will agree that the idea of changing perception would be a thing in those intense feelings I have described.

An otherlink, copinglink or -link is an identity that you link yourself to in order to use it for something, cope or for fun.

Alt-attaching is nothing like copinglinks or otherlinking at all. It may be for coping or to hoard identities with your choice to keep or toss when they benefit you but it is not voluntary.

A heartype, otherhearted or -hearted is an identity where you identify with the feelings, urges or the heart of a character, animal or creature. These feelings may be bonds like family or friend, which is usually used in the form of otherkith, kithtype and -kith.

Alt-attachment has the intense feelings and urges that are similar to heartypes/otherhearted people but they are not the same and do not act the same either.

Alt-attaching is the involuntary act of taking on the alterhumanity of others around you.

Cycling is experiencing a form of connection with said people, and the eventual absolving of said identity, to then pick up another form of alterhumanity from someone else.

Alt-attacher is someone who does so.

Flag colors, top to bottom; Black, Lemon yellow, Nut brown, Light brown. Symbol is a thick white triangle with a white oval through it. Representative of a door with a knocker on it.”

Coined by clowncaraz on October 11, 2024.