Happy birthday Alt+H! On the 27th of this month, Alt+H will be one year old! How we've all changed and grown since then - whether you've been along for the ride from the very beginning or you just discovered us yesterday, we're glad to have you here. Our birthday gift to you is this question:

What would you like non-alterhumans to know about your alterhumanity? What sorts of questions would you want non-alterhumans to ask our communities? Is there anything you think we have as alterhumans to say to non-alterhumans?

You can answer on tumblr, twitter, or the facebook page; or you can link us to something on your own site via any of our social medias or the #qotm channel on the Discord server.

You can also send your submissions to althstaff@gmail.com with an optional alias to have them published on the site, and you can submit anonymously through the tumblr as well! So many options!

You can submit whatever you like! It doesn't have to be a whole essay. And if you think you can get your feelings across better in the form of a comic, or a poem, or a flash mob, then that's cool too!

Of course, there's also the QOTM Roundtable to look forward to. This month, it's on Friday 8th at 8pm EST. See that in your local time here and then join the server so you can participate!

And just like last time, at the end of the month, we'll round up our favourite thoughts and show them off here. If your answer is particularly thoughtful, entertaining, or inspiring, that could be you!

Thank you to everyone who's ever participated for a year of great QOTMs!

Guess what? It's gonna be May! Time for this month's question:

How do you react to your identity 'in the wild'?
For example, if you're therian, what's it like seeing your species and similar?
If you're fictionkin, how do you react to fandom and fiction in general?

You can answer on tumblr or twitter; or you can link us to something on your own site via any of our social medias or the #qotm channel on the Discord server.

We're also giving you a new way to submit anonymously starting this month, as per some requests! Send your submissions to althstaff@gmail.com with an optional alias to have them published on the site. You can submit anonymously through the tumblr as well!

Submit what you like! It doesn't have to be a whole essay. It can be a paragraph, a sentence, a short poem. Hell, it doesn't even have to be writing! Art is welcome too. Interprative dance? Music? Sure! Whatever you have to contribute is valuable and appreciated.

Of course, there's also the QOTM Roundtable to look forward to. This month, it's on Friday 5th at 5pm EST. See that in your local time here and then join the server so you can participate!

And just like last time, at the end of the month, we'll round up our favourite thoughts and show them off here. If your answer is particularly thoughtful, entertaining, or inspiring, that could be you!

We're looking forward to seeing what you've got to show us this month!

If you already have an idea for next month's question, let us hear it!

Source: Puzzler4879 on Flickr

Spring has sprung, and so has another monthly question! This March, the community wants to know:

How does your alterhumanity interact with other parts of your identity?

How does it intersect with (for example) your gender, your spirituality, your nationality?

And if you're, say, both therian and fictionkin - how do those relate to each other?

(Alright, that might be paraphrasing the actual voted-on question a little, but we wanted to make sure that people who don't have multiple different types of alterhuman identity were able to answer too.)

You can answer via tumblr or twitter; you can link us to your writing on your own site; and you can join us for the round-table discussion on our Discord server on March 10th, 5pm Eastern Time (see it in your local time here).


And just like last time, at the end of the month, we'll round up our favourite thoughts and show them off here. If your answer is particularly thoughtful, entertaining, or inspiring, that could be you!

We're looking forward to seeing what you bring to the table this month!

Pssst, if you already have an idea for next month's question, let us hear it!

Source: Alexander Stielau

This month is a month of firsts - it's the first time we're doing a Question of the Month on the new site, and it's the first time we asked you, the community, to pick this month's question. The response has been fantastic! Thanks to everyone who submitted questions and voted on them.

This is what you've chosen to be February's Question of the Month:

What is your relationship to humanity? 

Do you identify with any part of being human? Do you feel like you’re a blend of ‘other’ and human, or fully not human inside? Are you human but alterhuman in some other way?

You can answer via tumblr or twitter; you can link us to your writing on your own site; and, for the first time you can join us on our Discord server for a round table discussion on February 3rd, 5pm Eastern Time (see it in your local time here).

At the end of the month, we'll round up our favourite thoughts and show them off here. If your answer is particularly thoughtful, entertaining, or inspiring, that could be you!

And if you've got an idea for next month's question? Now's the time to submit it!

Thank you for your contributions so far, and your contributions yet to come!