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oh to have big fluffy wings to wrap around my wife

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head, shoulders, wings and toes (wings and toes)

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I believe that therianthropic culture became materialistic partially because most of its media moved to visual-based platforms sometimes around 2020: TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

These platforms encourage you to upload videos and images as a way to connect with the other users. Typically these are videos and images of yourself. And since gear is a way to visually represent your theriotype, creators will want to wear their gear in their posts. This signals to others that they are therian and what their theriotype is.

Having gear then becomes the norm, since you only see therians with at least one or two types of gear on them. It doesn't matter how many times you say "you don't need gear to be therian" because actions speak louder than words; the action of only showing yourself in gear tells others that gear is a norm, a necessity.

Its also in part of pre-existing consumerism, likely because a lot of therian influencers (if we can call them that) tend to be from western and more capitalistic countries. Theres the belief that having stuff in general will alleviate your discomfort, in this case it's owning gear to alleviate species dysphoria. You could very well just spend time doing something that connects you to your theriotype for free, but since theres a decline in those skills (and the willpower to learn those skills), people feel the need to instead buy something to avoid the learning curve it takes to learn those skills and do those activities.

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I'm so tempted to say 'I'm going to go have a bird bath.' rather than 'I'm going to go have a bath/shower.'

Gotta get my feathers clean somehow so why not call it something euphoric to me. This has been in the back of my mind since I already call my bed my nest.

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Don't underestimate me

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So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

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i frequently make these stupid niche transgender honey buzzard memes so i figured id share

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it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

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Lambert’s Bridge no. 77, also know as the snake bridge, on the Macclesfield Canal. location: Astbury Congleton, England

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birds that look like fruit <3

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The last blossom whispered.

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Cristina Gottardi

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Dreaming of wings

About a month ago I had a dream I knew someone who had the glider wingsuit thing pictured above. It was a very short dream. I tried on the wings and they turned into something like realistic fursuit wings, but I chose to represent that instead as the mirror reflection showing what it felt like.

This also shows how my "tail" functions in flying dreams. It's essentially just the leg portion of a wingsuit since dream flight for me requires a tail for stability and needs physical limbs to represent nonhuman things like wings and tails for flight to function reliably

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red-tailed hawk

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Animorphs fandom: Tobias is one of the five human Animorphs

Tobias:

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red-tailed hawk

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"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."