Welcome!

[mackerelgray]

This is the Dreamwidth account of Machina - a very human alterhuman plural system of three people, plus visitors - and it's a hub to keep and link to our personal identity essays and journaling.

We all prefer to be called by our first names if being spoken about individually, but if you need to refer to all of us together, Machina's the way to go - it's one of our (several, disparate) last names, and it's the funniest one to call us by.

We're all adults, so consider this a blanket warning that our writings will likely contain strong language, which we often use amongst ourselves. All sensitive content (e.g. violence, abuse, existential dread) that we're aware of is warned for in a Content Warning paragraph before the body of the post, but feel free to contact us if you noticed that we let something slip!

If you're not sure how to interact with us, we have an [etiquette guide] which answers some frequently asked questions!

System Members, in short

Max (he/they) - a wereanimal human-velociraptor person in a median system with his raptorself Biscuit (it/its), which is a moderately annoying tamed housebird. Check out their therian Tumblr blog if you want to hear more about that!

Jude (they/them) - a transspecies-human android who's metaphorically a dog and literally a former murderbot.

Gavin (he/him) - a completely human guy, no added flavors, who's written a few essays on how humanity and nonhumanity can relate to one another.

You can find most of our personal essays crossposted to our system's Tumblr blog, Neocities, Nekoweb mirror, or GitHub repository.

Thanks to Dreamwidth's privacy features, this account will contain more personal writing that isn't posted to other websites - made available to view via requesting access, which we grant at our discretion.