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Heya! Just wanted to say your post about being a child of the moon archetrope was a very interesting read. If its' okay to ask and you wanna talk more about it, for you are there any things in daily life that help you feel more connected to this side of your identity? Have a nice day!

Hello hello! Thanks anon for giving me an excuse to talk more about this! I'm planning an essay on it to explain what I mean, but I still haven't had time to do it since I'm a working doggo. I can try to explain now though.

I'm assuming you know what archetropes are, right? It's an identity based on a role or trope. As I said in my post, the moon is really important to me as a symbol. Watchers used to study the skies and the stars of each world, and we see the moon as the eye that watches from above. Our role is to watch. Because of this, the moon is an equal. We watch and she watches. One and the same. This is going to dive into my own beliefs for a second, sorry. I'm not religious, but I've always seen the moon as the protector of the night sky. Without her, beings on the earth can see in the night.

Also, because of my canine, barn owl and watcher species, I see myself as a nocturnal being. I see myself as "new" and "younger", and the moon, being ancient, is older than me. So I'm a child of the moon. In my day to day life, watching the night sky, the stars, and the moon itself, walking beneath the moonlight whenever I can, is very conforting.

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my frieands (ave, atlas, teri, ro and vesper) as kitty :)

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this is me true real and you know i'm serious

psst you should follow my art account : @bloodified

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You know, that post we reblogged about the lack of visibility for some people in this community, when it can feel very therian-centric, got me thinking.

I should talk about this more, because not everyone can do the heavy lifting and not everyone is comfortable or as assured in talking about their own identity. And that's okay.

Even in therian spaces or the tag itself, I feel forgotten. And I'm a therian. It's just that I'm not a wolf or a deer or even a mammal. I'm a hercules beetle.

Dynastes hercules specifically. And it's just. It's tough out there sometimes. It's tough feeling like you have to censor images of your own species. It's tough because there isn't any affirming gear. I can't eat something to affirm my identity, hercules beetles literally eat wood.

There aren't many cool GIFs or even photos on blogs and those affirming posts about running wild in the woods or flying or hunting just... Don't hold true for me.

Obviously I'm glad for other therians in this community, I love that, I support them, I just... Wish I wasn't such an afterthought in my own spaces. The most I've gotten out of talking about it was a few people mentioning they're also insect therians.

Typing in insect therian and typing in canine therian paint two very different pictures of activity in the community. And the top post in the insect therian search is talking about how we face mistreatment and have to constantly fight misconceptions for being an insect.

I guess my point with this post is that we need more of you. It's completely fair if you feel nervous or don't want to be mistreated, it's up to you! But also?

This is your sign and encouragement to talk about your experiences.

- Cayden

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its okay....its gonna be okay.....were gonna be reborn as wolves

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“when’s the next full moon?” i ask with definitely no howling related plans

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I hate how the backrooms has been wildly misinterpreted.

As a D1 backrooms fan and a being who has it as a hearthome it just makes me growl a lil :,)

the whole point of the backrooms is that its eerie and disturbing, it isn't "scary", its "creepy".

let me explain.

the original photo of the backrooms (level 0), was meant to give you the liminal space feeling. The liminal space feeling is meant to make you feel alone, and give you that existential dread.

the main appeal of the backrooms nowadays is the entities and adding new random things, but thats not what the backrooms really is or what it was meant to be as a horror concept.

youre meant to be alone, which is what's so terrifying to the human mind. you dont want to be alone, humans are social creatures.

there IS no entities.

nothing is chasing after you, youre just wandering through halls endlessly not knowing where you are and where (or if there is) an exit is.

don't get me wrong, I love all backrooms games (minus a couple, backroom loop im talking to you), theyre all fun regardless of whether they're accurate or not, buuuuut a lot of them would be more fun if they were geared towards the original concept.

Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk if you have any backrooms questions im disgustingly educated in this

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I had a bit of a moment, a few days ago. It was late, and I needed to wash my talons. I couldn’t be bothered to turn on the lights.

I looked into the mirror, and for a split second— in that darkness —I could’ve sworn that I saw a theriform-like reflection.

In an environment where I was entirely unobserved by humankind, I saw the version of me that fits.

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"IS THIS ALL THERE IS?" / digital collage

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I’ve been a BAD DOG

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I decided to make a reference sheet for my wild Icelandic theriotype, dubbed Atlantis after his ecotypes name. Fun fact, Atlantis was the original name I had for one of my TikTok accounts! :]

I'm not sure if he was a past life of mine or not, and I'm still trying to figure out if I had any scars or nicks anywhere on my body.

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Guuuuuuyyyyysssss

I came out to my mum as a transspecies physical nonhuman and she was ACCEPTING!!!

She said it makes sense to her why my trauma would have caused this and that she has no problem with me being a canine.

I don't know if she'll use my viviterms, but I don't care. She is accepting, and that's all that matters. I love my mum. She has always been rooting for me.

Ahhhhh, this is so exciting, X3

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I'M A BIRD YEAHHHH also other things

WHERE ARE MY FELLOW NON-CANINES AT???

this community is VERY canine and feline heavy. (I'm a feline and canine aswell, among other things) low-key no shame to my fellow cats and canidae <33

anyway, WHERE ARE MY FELLOW SEALS, SNAKES, BIRDS, ALIGATORS, CONCEPTS, ETC ETC!!

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YEAHHHHHHH

HAPPY OWL DAYYY‼️‼️💥

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So uhhhhh I think it’s finally time I hard launch something on this account I have not talked about yet and the reason why making wolf content has been a bit hard in the past like year, so when I started this account I told myself it would be lycanthrope and canine themed, and that that’s what the focus would be because it would be easier, but running this account I started feeling like I had to hide aspects of my nonhumanity that in my mind would make others think I was like over exaggerating my existence and experiences. And that made posting not as fun, so in order to make posting fun again I’m going to be as open and blunt about my nonhumanity as I can as well as talking about being a horse zoanthrope which is not a new thing for me and has coexisted with me being a lycanthrope forever but will be new to me talking about it on this account and not just with my partner. There will be a revamp of this account coming soon and hopefully I will be posting more often because I’ll have a lot more to talk about :) I got like caught on the same topics with being a lycanthrope and I honestly have a lot more to talk about with being a horse zoanthrope anyways, hopefully y’all will be interested still in this account even with a shift, but i have a lot more motivation now that this will be out in the open :)