vagabond-sun:

@ other people who use both ‘-hearted’ and ‘synpath’ terminology for themselves: what’s the difference for you?

-hearted is for the things you’d classify under therian / otherkin, synpath is for characters and entities instead of concepts / species / whathaveyou. It’s a linguistic thing. Foxhearted sounds all right, but Harry-Potter-hearted Does Not, so thus Harry Potter would be a synpath.

Functionally they’re synonyms, but it’s more a linguistic difference than a functional / definition-relating one.