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the hunted 🐇🩸 click for better quality!

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have there been any community writings discussing or written by beings whose identities are or are based on colonial caricatures/portrayals of native* folkloric creatures? I'm really interested in tackling a personal conundrum I've experienced being within the community and learning its history, and I'd like to know if it has been discussed before by the community!

*not specifically referring to the indigenous peoples of North America but any pre-colonial culture, including that of pre-colonial Ireland, Finland, and other nations that might not typically come to mind for the predominantly American alterhuman community

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Remnants of the Danish otherkin* community

*Otherkin used as shorthand for otherkin, therians, nonhumans, linkers, and anyone who might feel at home in these communities

In 2014 the Wayback Machine crawled a personal website called Tusmørke (Dusk/Twilight), belonging to an unnamed (presumably) therian. According to the Wayback Machine, the website had three articles about therianthropy, which have not been archived and are only recorded through their dead links from other pages:

The articles were: Therianthropys 3 løgne (the three lies of therianthropy), Skifte (shifts), and Fakta og teorier (facts and theories). I visited the site while these articles were still up, though I don't remember their contents. The only note I took was that they used the word "andenslægt" to refer to otherkin.

The Wayback Machine additionally archived page 13 of the site owner's webcomic, Et Andet Liv (Another Life):

On the comic's page there are links to bios for the characters Marcus, Shela, and Chez, none of which have been archived.

The website additionally has a link titled Det Ukendte (The Unknown), which leads to a fantasy roleplaying forum called Moranien. In the single archived thread (from 2006) we can see a user, named Sündir, playing as a wolf character named Cheza, and on a list of recent threads the same user is playing as a character named Marcus. This is likely the same person who created the comic characters Chez and Marcus, but impossible to know for certain.

Additionally, on a current iteration of the Moranien RP (character page last updated in 2011, though the site was seemingly update months ago), there is a character named Sündir who is a wolf shapeshifter and follows a god named Therian. This RP group also wrote the song "Therians Ulve" (Therian's Wolves) in 2006 for one of their live sessions.

I assume that, by the time the Wayback Machine crawled Tusmørke, these pages (the articles, the comic, and the list of links) were not meant to be seen by anyone except the site owner, as the front page had, by this point, become a link redirecting visitors to a forum by the same name, Tusmørke.

The redirect had the following description:

"Tusmørke er et forsøg på at skabe et dansk hjemsted for furries, therians, wiccans og alle andre slags spirituelt interesserede. Lige nu er vi ved at revurdere vores side, men du er altid velkommen til at besøge vores forum, hvor vi blandt andet debatterer alt mellem himmel og jord, hyggesnakker samt arrangerer vores næste årlige træf! Vi glæder os til at lære dig at kende. Ønsker du yderligere oplysninger, kontakt en af administratorerne på forumet."

In English: "Tusmørke is an attempt at creating a Danish home for furries, therians, wiccans, and all other kinds of spiritually interested. At the moment we are reevaluating our website, but you are always welcome to visit our forum, where we, among other things, debate everything imaginable, chat, and arrange our next annual meet-up We look forward to meeting you. If you wish to know more, contact one of our administrators on the forum."

Though no individual threads of the forum have been archived, we can see the titles of one thread from 2010 and two from 2012, started by users Fenrisskorh and Ulven, respectively. Ulven was also a member of the Moranien forum. Everything related to Tusmørke seems to have started in 2006 or earlier and ended around 2012.

In 2017, a hyena therian from Denmark, calling himself Dæmien, started an English-language blog about the daily life of an adult therian. The blog was abandoned after 4 posts.

Also in 2017, I tried to get a forum going titled teriantropi.jcink.net. It only gained one other member, a dragon furry who questioned whether or not he was otherkind (he wasn't), and I abandoned it within a year.

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thank you for 150 followers! here's a unicorn 🩸

closeup ^.^

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how i've been feeling lately. adjacent hoofed beasts have been calling to me for the past few months but I haven't been confident enough to actually pursue anything rip </3

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Been seeing a lot of "is this possible? Can I be this [and that at the same time]?" posts lately, and I just wanted to say: you can do whatever you want forever.

Experience predates words. Language should serve people (species neutral), not the other way around. Contradictory labels are completely okay if you feel that they're the most accurate description of your identity.

Come on, be free.

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"There has never been a time without unicorns. We live forever!" - Lady Amalthea, The Last Unicorn

sources of the images under the cut

De Historia Et Veritate Unicornis, 1943

The Hunters Enter The Woods, 1495-1505

Trionfo Della Castita E Dell Amore, 1480

The Unicorn Purifies Water, 1495-1505

Unicorns 1131, Unknown

Altarpiece Of The Dominicans Mystical Hunt, 1470

The Lady And The Unicorn, 1500

The Unicorn Surrenders To A Maiden, 1495-1505

De Historia Et Veritate Unicornis, 1943

The Lion And The Unicorn, 1818

The Hanging Of Saint Etienne, 1450-1540

The Unicorn Defends Itself, 1495-1505

The Unicorn Rests In A Garden, 1495-1505

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would love to be more active in the community but truly every time i look in the tags it's like . [post wildly out of my age range] [discourse where both sides have zero reading comprehension] [not applicable to me] [not applicable to me] [not applicable to me] [guy who made up a fake native american tribe to roleplay as that one time] [post wildly out of my age range] [otherwise normal post with a giant DNI banner] [uncredited image]

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funny little medieval manuscript beaste...

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let's be geometric with mama

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I laid in the grass yesterday, it was really nice :)

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I made detailed paw shoes :D technically heels?

They didn't actually take that long maybe 2ish hours!!

(sorry for the bad camera quality I was in a rush 😭)

I want to make some sort of paw print on the bottom of the shoe, but I'm not sure how to make it 3d and be grippy, any being have any ideas?

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Looking for an essay I saw a while back about someone's experience being a mouse therian. I loved the essay and would like to read it again, but I didn't save it anywhere. I think it was posted to tumblr, but I remember also finding it on a stand-alone website. The author also spoke about being a raccoon, I think, but more in passing.

Anyone know who the author is, where the essay may be, or what that website might have been? Hoping some of my more well-read mutuals + followers have it tucked away somewhere.

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Zamek Ogrodzieniec, Poland [•via•]

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About the sketches! A spotted or brown hyena with headphones around its neck and a small scar across the top of its snout?

Alternatively, a namielle (monster hunter) esque aquatic dragon, or a bully mutt dog with floppy ears and white fur with grey spots? All with headphones and the scar. Just choose whichever you'd like to draw, tag @pawlybius for it please!

spotted hyena for @pawlybius !!

sorry that i literally forgot i was doing requests LMAO a lot of things are happening in my life right now so i got super busy suddenly. they're good things! just things that take up a lot of my time and energy ^.^

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