sagetheblackcat

[sagetheblackcat]

it’s “everyone deserves love and respect” and “be yourself!!” until the person standing in front of you feels comfortable enough to look you dead in the eyes and tell you they aren’t human

[sagetheblackcat]

awesome sauce mutual

My brain:

The werewolf+canine+golden retriever puppy are near each othe cause the mix/cross over on certian parts.

What the golden retriever part controls/percieves:

•Emotions: The way i feel and express/handle them.(coping mechanism)

•My gender

•The way i percieve certian humans: Such as friends + family and how i respond to them.

•My behaviour:Mostly animalistic or pup like

•Personality:playful, pup like etc

•Energy/zoomies

Canine part:

•Mixes in with gender:He/it and xenos/neos.

Im masc in the way a dog is

•Emotions aswell

•Decisions/response in situations: Fight or flight

•Vocals + language

•Communication:Body language

•Perception of the world:I feel like an outcasted/stray dog in the world

Werewolf part:

Mixes in with canine part:

The way i view humans/society/nature and the world.

•Emotions/feelings: Anger,agression etc

•Senses:Mixes with canine part.Mostly smell.

•Appitite/hunger: Prey drive

•Style/look

•How others percieve me: I want them to percieve me as a werewolf/canine

•Communication: Canine-like

The theriotypes are psychological identities but also spiritual.

•Shifts

•Some parts of behaviour

•Instincts: Like the other parts

Human part:

The basic human functions,

such as the frontal lobe etc etc.

•Causes species dysphoria

Important: I feel better using We/ours on myself.

As far as i know, im not a system and i do not claim to be one.

I feel like different people or that i should be. Like i should be plural.

This is why i think im polymind or might have OSDD

(Theres more than that, its simplified)

[sagetheblackcat]

REAL and you should not be watering down your identity. *cough cough* therianthropy *cough cough*

Dear alterhumans and nonhumans,

Don't try and appeal to people who don't understand you. People are always going to think we're strange, cringe, and delusional. There's nothing you can do about it. Just let them. You know who you are, and you accept you. In the grand scheme of things, thats all that matters :]

There IS a community that accepts you and wants to understand you, so stop obessing over the ones who never will.

[sagetheblackcat]

As long as it's not bought from fur farms yes

tip for therians/nonhumans/alterhumans: real fur is not inherently harmful!

in fact, real fur is better for the environment because it is biodegradable. faux fur is made of plastic and will never break down. it also releases millions of microplastics during the creation process.

[sagetheblackcat]

THIS like I am a physical black therian and there's always a fear I will get attacked when I say so on tiktok

I hate Reddit.

I HATE Reddit.

I don't feel safe there.

I used to use Reddit a lot because the therian and alterhuman communities on there felt welcoming and well informed.

That couldn't be farther from the truth.

As a physical nonhuman/holothere, Reddit is extremely uninformed and quite frankly exclusive. Talk of physical therianthropy immediately gets shut down or passed off as delusion. r/Therian is, in my opinion, toxic as fuck.

There's no doubt in my mind that if I were to post about being a holothere and supporting physical therians, I would be at high risk of being banned. Banned BY MY OWN COMMUNITY. If not, I would get called a delusional zoanthrope. Called delusional BY MY OWN COMMUNITY.

So yeah, fuch Reddit. Fuck r/Therian. Fuck the people who act so high and mighty for ignoring and silencing their own community.

PHYSICAL THERIANS WON'T BE SILENCED. We've always existed, and we'll always continue to exist. We won't let our own community drive us out.

[sagetheblackcat]

THIS IS SO REAL AND THE WHOLE THERIANTHROPY IS NON PHYSICAL

the amount of therians and "supporters" ive seen lately trying to claim that "therians don't identify as animals" is genuinely concerning

like actually how did misinformation spread get this bad ?? that is the entire fucking point of therianthropy what are you talking about my dog in christ

yes, i identify as an animal. no, not in an ironic or metaphorical or satirical or for funsies way. i am an animal. i am a therianthrope. stop watering down our labels so that you can appeal to judgmental humans who don't give a shit about us i am begging you

[sagetheblackcat]

No matter how rude or unlikable or bad someone is, if they’re a nonhuman I will NEVER call them human to hurt them. I wouldn’t wish that feeling on anyone because I know it well myself.

[sagetheblackcat]

Nothing pisses me off more than Manmade junk in my den, in my forests, in my safe space.

Hunks of metal and large obstacles, Trash / litter.

[sagetheblackcat]

Yuh

any other feline therians/kin get urges to knead something when you're feeling happy or affectionate??

[sagetheblackcat]

I'm not a canine or wolf therian but rather every wild canine other link (personally I identify as the canines out of spite) but kinda real

The urge to chew and tear up everything

[sagetheblackcat]

Personally, I find the community need for consistency to be a detriment to my overall experiences. "Kintypes are permanent" Well buddy I think these feelings can stick around forever, but shit happens and one day you may realize you're not a dinosaur (what happened to me) and end up switching labels a whole ton. And even if you find a label now that fits, you might end up changing it again in a year and that's totally valid!

So let's ditch the narrative that you need to find your forever kintype and start embracing being /wrong/. Let's show others it's ok to question yourself every couple of years, to take breaks, to leave the community for a bit and be able to come back without judgement. The pressure to "settle" basically is just so tiring. That's how you get onto the fast track of identity burnout.

[sagetheblackcat]

Welcome to Equidae! We are a discord server for everyone with an equine identity. You are welcome whether you are an earthly, mythical, or fictional equine, or if you have an equine system member or heart-type. You must be 13+ to join as per the Discord TOS.

If you are not an equine but would like to join as an ally you may, as long as you are respectful of the fact that this server is focused on equine alterhumanity.

This server is a safe space, you are welcome here regardless of your beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental and physical disabilities, or system type. Bullying and harassment is not tolerated. Bigots, racists, ableists, sexists, pedos, zoophiles, and people who want to engage in syscourse are NOT welcome.

Come join the herd!

[sagetheblackcat]

This is beautiful

We’ve got a lovely performative writing project here in NC known as the Poetry Fox. He comes around in his fox costume and typewriter to make custom poems based on whatever word you give him. And they can be free as well!

Since therian day was last Friday, I chose the word “Therian” with a short definition and wanted to share this gem

[sagetheblackcat]

hai fellow agender lesbian :D

u seem super cool :3

would you like to me mutuals? /nf

Hello! Thank you so much! And sure why not :)

[sagetheblackcat]

You're wrong + ratio + I got sharp claws and teeth + you're gonna be my dinner if you don't shut up

[sagetheblackcat]

i know this is a redundant topic, i see at least one post a day on here about therians on tiktok and the “we know we’re humans” talk.

how did we get this far that so many on tiktok, even reddit nowadays, say things to adhere to societal standards?

sure, physically, i am a human. nothing will change that. even still, i am a dog. i am inhuman.

why do i care if someone says “you’re a human” in my comments? i don’t.

and i’m just really growing tired of my own community changing definitions that have existed for years.

[sagetheblackcat]

This is absolutely beautiful

Vermin

a short essay about being bug hearted, and killing bugs.

I think one of the most cruel thing to love might be invertebrates. Insects. Arachnid. Worms. Pest. With any other animal, it is seen as unreasonable to want to eradicate. Some insects do manage to earn human's favors, bees (but only the useful ones), moths and butterflies (but only the cute ones), and if you're facing a true bug lover, beetles and dragonflies and perhaps even spiders and centipedes and scorpions. But not all, and it's still simply reasonable, to hate even seeing them.

I've loved bugs since I was a kid. I think it felt wrong not to, because people didn't like them, and people didn't like me. I don't think I've ever understood what in how they move felt less alive for people than a puppy. Still now I love bugs. I love mosquitos and I love botflies and I love hornets and tiny annoying ants that crawl through the windows and cockroaches and the wasp that stung me on the thumb when I accidentally grabbed a stick she was resting on when I was 9.

You cannot possibly live a human life without killing countless things. It's impossible. The most vegan, most peaceful human, refusing to walk on grass to not harm the grasshopper that didn't jump fast enough, will not be able to live a life without killing an insect even accidentally. It's something I have thought about a lot overall. I'm not vegan. I've thought about it. It would make sense, I don't see a lot of difference between my own flesh and the flesh I eat. But somehow it feels even more insulting, to be something that kills, and to pretend I don't. I eat insects, too. I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly how I feel about it all.

Maybe it makes me an hypocrite, to be so perturbed about the way people treat insects when I still eat meat. But it's, I think, in the end, the fracture between someone seeing a dead cow, and a dead fly. Most people wouldn't have the courage to kill a cow. They would feel guilt. In fact, a lot of people already hide the fact that meat is flesh and is, strictly speaking, part of a cadaver. People who refuse to eat a fish with the head. Pork, not pig. Beef, not cow. I hate that too. But insects ? People kill a fly without even thinking about it. It's annoying, then it's dead. A dead fly doesn't elicit guilt.

People expect me to be the same. Even knowing I love insects, it's seen as amusing that I acknowledge them as more than a mindless automaton, and, if I can, if it costs me nothing, avoid killing them. I have killed countless insects. I've had to, purposefully, many many many times. But it is, in fact, killing. I just want to be allowed to recognize that.

I work in a lab, on ants. We dissected more than a hundred, ovaries, poison gland, brains, understanding how they work, how differentiation happens and how they communicate it. Reconstructing brains to evaluate changes in different structures, measuring how many proto-egg each individual has post-dissection and correlation to dominance, reading articles and articles about theory.

These specific ants like shallow humid grooves for their nest. Today we tested a large foraging arena, brightly lit for the cameras, dry, wide, open, empty. Ants panic after being picked up even with the least harmful tools we have. When in an unfamiliar space, we've had them in the past run until they died of exhaustion, unable to find the entry of the nest to hide. Two of them were placed in the foraging arena to test the cameras, test if we could read the tags they have on their back. Again and again, they like to follow the walls, possibly because it feels less exposed. And again and again, they stop, groom each other, and calm down if they meet, huddled into each other.

I can't claim to know what's going on in ants brain, whether they feel things similarly to us. But it's hard not to project.

Ant tagged 16, and ant tagged 12, close, unmoving.