voxel

Hello, we're Voxel(s), a multispecies, alterfictional plural system. Our special interest is Minecraft.

Folks you may meet:

Aspen (uses dragon icon)
- angelic wyrmwolf
- Kintypes Georg, including but not limited to:
  - enderman
  - Miles Edgeworth
  - The Lamb
  - utahraptor
- devotee of Pan (Hellenism) and Orphion (Wynncraft)
- bigender menace
- light-aligned
G (uses parrot icon)
- blue and gold macaw
- Grian fictive
- just some (bird) guy
- casually masculine
Selene (uses wolf icon)
- wolf goddess of secrets and weird kids
- lesbian
- darkness-aligned

Links:

Our home site: voxel [dot] gay.
We're a bureaucrat at the Otherkin Wiki.
We run a little community for Minecraft alterhumans that we call the Nylium Network.

The stars are falling. Catch them, if you dare.

We've sort of known this for a while, but it came to Out attention recently that our time of colonialism, subjugation, and fascism is a mere blip. Where We live now, there have been people living for thousands of years in ways that, while by no means perfect, were more peaceful, sustainable, and productive than how Our people live here now. The past few hundred years have been a dark period in history, but nothing lasts forever and there have, through this whole time, been people who know it is wrong. Humanity shall restore itself to its natural, loving place upon the Earth.

Last night, G visited with some furries and therians in VRChat. G was thrilled to be bale to present as a bird. I am somewhat disappointed by the premise: rather than Doing Nonhuman Things, these people Do Human Things, just in nonhuman form. I find it beautiful, but superficial. Maybe my opinion would be different had I experienced the species euphoria first-hand, but I do think that We generally are more motivated these days to Do nonhumanity rather than to Be nonhuman. Being is a sort of doing, but being alone gets shallow (and, I suppose, doing alone gets shallow as well).

We need to go find our what this star falling thing means.

"/ - geek spirtuality" - Animal Quills — LiveJournal

The lovely caninecorundum found this and shared it with Us on discord. It puts into words something We've been trying to articulate for a long time.

Wondrous Tr*nny Life - Thesis Film 2026 - YouTube

This animated short film about a transmasculine creature really spoke to Us when it appeared in Our youtube recommendations.

Read this first: “A Cultpunk Manifesto” – CULTPUNK

Xylia (of Wonderlight) shared this in her Transcosmia discord server. Coming to Us at a time when the gods are calling Us to a journey, it felt very empowering.

The Ratpile Resource

We haven't investigated this one Ourselves, but it's a new resource site from a tulpamancy system. It was shared by Phosphor of NinethLions in the Otherconnect discord server.

Nortantis Fantasy Map Creator — J. and J. Heydorn

This is sort of like a simpler version of that Inkarnate website, but it's a local program. We found it while looking for map makers to draw Our internal world.

North + South Passenger Rail

These are plans to build a new rail line across the lower peninsula of Michigan! Arcade (of vitaanteacta) shared this in Our Great Lakes Alterhuman+ discord server.

Creature Rigs | Creature Bionics

This company makes body attachments for animal-like movement. The examples they give are motion capture (for animation), stage performance, and exercise. Felid/Smolpaw sent a couple videos of their mini arm xtensions in the Otherconnect discord server, so We sought the website out.

What Fantasy Gets Wrong About Sacred Groves | Nebula

This is ReligionForBreakfast's latest video. I'm not sure what compelled Us to share it here, but I feel like it ties in nicely with other things We've been doing. (youtube link for those who don't have Nebula)

osteophage: Arguments Against Wikia/Fandom

Whenever We ask people to avoid fandom.com, there's always some curious soul wondering why. Well, here's why. mord (of allium house) shared this in the Otherkin Wiki discord server while we were discussing finally sending our leaving-fandom message (apparently we haven't actually done this yet in the 2 or 3 years since we jumped ship).

Of the nations whose joining processes We know about, all have some form of initiation ritual. Judaism and the United States, namely, both require that a potential initiate receive education, demonstrate their understanding, and have membership conferred upon them. If one is to create a new nation, then, it follows that they must initiate themselves. This journal is Our initiation.

We are faeries, some of Us say. We look, and often act, human. We blend in with human society. But a closer look betrays the truth. A faerie, contrary to the current pop-culture idea of a small human with insect wings, may take many forms. A faerie could be a dragon, a tree, a star, perhaps nearly anything one could imagine. And, I say "some of Us" because We do not all agree with this line of thinking. We do all agree that We externally appear human, but We do not agree that this makes Us faerie. The same applies to Our ideas of the gods. Some of Us believe they are creations of mortals; others believe they predate mortals.

A Minecraft villager knows what a player is. It knows what a zombie is. It knows what lava is. It knows about time, emeralds, information exchange. It cares about all of these things, as much as a computer program is capable of caring, anyway. A language model cannot care, because it cannot know. Language models do not go deeper than the Unicode we use to represent information. They cannot know the information itself. Testificates are AI. ChatGPT is not. -🦜

Oh to be a digital angel playing piano tiles in AR! -🐶

I belong to a feathered people. We have cloacae and little reproductive difference. Whosoever wishes to lay eggs might do so. Whosoever wishes to produce sperm might do so. That means we don't have any concept quite like human sex/gender. We certainly have individuals whose personal sense of style aligns more with my human cultural ideas of masculinity or of femininity or of androgyny. Don't mistake them for men or women though.

It's funny—I'm Grian, but that has less to do with my life in EVO and Hermitcraft and more to do with what "Grian-ness" represents to Us: avian humanity, casual and flexible masculinity, Minecraft prowess, storytelling, bringing people together, a penchant for harmless trolling, the scary side of therianthropy and plurality, a connection to the divine.

We perceive gods. An athiest does not. Neither& of us are wrong. Gods exist in our perception and in a space outside of perception or lackthereof. The truth value of a god's existence is not comparable to that of anything tangible. A god is a social construct that retroactively creates its own history. Gods, existing in a realm outside our own, are more real than anything tangible. They predate us and will outlast us. Men create gods. Gods create men. All is chicken. All is egg.
Explanatory note: there is a later entry that explains this paragraph's contradictions.

Many act as if basic decency—not being racist, not bullying, seeing fascism for what it is, sharing instead of hoarding, etc.—is the greatest virtue there is. While a person who learns decency after being taught only dishonor should be encouraged, these sorts of behaviors are only the first step. Real improvement comes not from recognizing that there is violence and dishonor, but from concrete planning and action that leaves room only for honor and justice. We often see people behaving this way online. They take such gradeschool knowledge as "Do not bully" or "Do not be bigoted" for profound, revolutionary wisdom. We seek true change to Our world—change for the better—but are met only with repetition of the same simple knowledge over and over. Even an in-person talk We recently attended showed similar problems.
Clarifying notes: We do expect this kind of behavior from children—they're still learning—but We see it all too often from adults as well. That's the real problem We're trying to get at.

We need to tell others about the tribe—especially those who seem to feel the call as well. That is the first sort of person who belongs. It seems that they are especially receptive to the ideas and that they dream big. There will be other sorts of people who shall reveal themselves. Keep an eye out always for them. We shall be lovers, we shall be dreamers, and the world we build together shall be right here, on the far side of the rainbow.

We've been getting visions. We are a wolf running through a forest. We are a wolf running down into a vast, grassy valley. It is overcast, perhaps drizzling. This valley is, or was, or will be, a battlefield. Sometimes Our pack is there and sometimes they are not. The forest is joyful. The valley is beautiful but dangerous.

Growing up on the Internet has taught Us nothing if not the inevitability of ephemerality.

The veil is not a barrier between this world and a separate, more magical world. It is a mental barrier that prevents you from seeing the fullness and magic of this world. There is magical potential in all things. Europe's Enlightenment period separated magic from science. It is our duty to restore their bond. The veil will not fall all at once in some great cataclysm. It will happen bit by bit: person by person, community by community. You must rend the veil in your head and help others rend theirs. There is no higher world or power that can save us all at once. We must build Heaven on Earth, together. While there are almost certainly gods & spirits and heavens & hells in some form or another, it is not they who have the capacity to reshape our societies. It is only us.

A tribe of animal-people, of shifters and trannies. Curiosity and knowledge are great virtues. It takes a village to raise a child. Are our children shifters as well? It is Our calling to start this tribe. We will go out into the world & find its members. They might be anywhere and they might look & sound like anything. They might not even know yet who they are. Once We find the first few, they shall be sent out to find more. It might not be possible to find all of them—there will forever be people newly discovering that they belong here.

Do not mistake today's advice or worries for tomorrow's wisdom or prophecy.

Computer is much more fun when it is recognized as Computer. It's not like the analog world & you shouldn't expect it to be. Minecraft is an Earth simulator, but sometimes its terrain generation behaves strangely. We call them uncanny hills because they have Earth-like composition but alien shapes. They reach to the heavens and the hells and they soar & twist. They are fantastical reminders of Minecraft's digital nature. These hills have been in the game at least since 1.7, probably even earlier—Beta or even Infdev. That would mean this feature has be retained through a generational overhaul, or even upwards of three or more.

The calling involves a vague notion of stars falling. We are all made of start dust. Does that mean we are fallen stars?

We've started keeping a physical journal. We'll post its entries online as well (likely modified in some cases). Here's the first:

Art is not stored on the screen. It is stored on the hard drive. If the cloud is somebody else's computer, then become the cloud. Let your friends put pieces of themselves on your computer.

Everything has the potential to be reverence. To honor the world, and any gods or artists there may be, keep this in mind. Respect any objects. All of life is an opportunity, which you might take or leave at your leisure.

This is a simplified version of a really long list of prompts for writing about alterhuman identities We compiled recently. The full version is available at https://voxel.gay/library/identity-prompts.

This list is intended to be comprehensive for a lot of different kinds of alterhuman identities: archetropes, extranths, factives, facttypes, fictives, fictotypes, hearthomes, hearttypes, kintypes, theriotypes...

This was written because We wanted to share about Our alterhuman identities, but We're not very good at communicating without being prompted. We compiled this list from a bunch of prompt lists We found online (linked at the bottom). We're sharing this list with you in hopes that it may help you too.
( Read more... )

This post serves as a list of Things We Want To Make. It will be periodically updated as We think of new things and work on existing ideas.

idea	status
Minecraft-alterhuman Internet space	done (ongoing)
local region alterhuman Internet space	mostly done
luni-solar otherkin calendar	in-progress
information about Our Minecraft canon and lore	in-progress
Minecraft-alterhuman community survey	in-progress
otherkin religion/revival	in-progress (w/ OS discord)
web series explaining the basics of alterhuman identities and their histories	in-progress
one-page zine about alterhumanity	not done
religion and kink surrounding Our god-kinhood	not done
Internet commerce site centering queer people	not done
geek code encoder/decoder	not done
wiki-like website where users can submit their own entries to pages, but can’t touch others’ entries	not done
~~alterhuman commune, domestic polycule, or other group living situation~~ werehouse. it’s called a werehouse	not done
general alterhuman project/group listing site	not done
podcast, livestream, youtube channel, or Internet radio show that takes call-ins about alterhumanity	not done
Minecraft community wiki (youtubers, mods, folklore, SMPs, etc.)	not done
pride flag image board	not done
ender conlang	not done
Minecraft mod that overhauls enchanting and repairing	not done
horror story (game?) about shame and saneism that has zero jumpscares	not done
video game fictionfolk zine	not done

It's raining on and off today. Our family's dog came into our room at about 5 in the morning to hide. He even tried hiding in our bed with us, but got up after a few minutes and decided he preferred our closet.

Last night, the moon was full. It was so big and bright. I watched it. I knew logically the moon moved quickly across the sky, but I never knew it moved that quickly. I charged my wizard staff. It's only wood, no crystals or anything, so I don't know how well it'll hold that. I think I get why some people say they p-shift. I don't know what it was I felt, perhaps an intense phantom shift.

I tried air frying tofu today. It came out pretty good, but I think I'm going to add a little bit of oil next time. The tofu didn't get quite the same kind of crispy it does when you pan fry it. I also updated Nylium Network's dynamic map to use the cloudflare proxy directly instead of an unnecessary tunnel. I had to update some DNS records for us to be able to receive email to our voxel.gay domain, and every time I work with DNS, I seem to find it's even weirder than I initially thought.

I think we're gonna play Wynncraft with a couple of friends tonight. I'm excited. Wynncraft is really important to us in a way that doesn't match with a lot of the "try-hard" guilds on there, so we prefer to keep our interpretation of it relatively personal.

Have a silly discord message I sent:

Voxels — Today at 11:50
ok hang on
*brings out a corkboard covered in red string*
Bedrock is the alterhuman of PE and console edition
and Mojang only using PE as the base and ending their contract with 4J... that's people acting like alterhumanity is only nonhumanity
I don't know where I'm going with this, but I connected the dots!
Voxels — Today at 12:01
What's Java in this context? transgenderism

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What Fantasy Gets Wrong About Sacred Groves | Nebula

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alterhuman identity writing prompts (abridged)

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