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looks so peaceful!

Ok everyone reblog with their favorite ascii art of their kin. Ready? GO!!

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Subtle Gear for Cat Therians!

Hello! My Pinterest and Etsy are full of cat related things, so I thought I'd share some things that could make cute and interesting gear for the therian community!!

Most of these you can wear, but remember gear can take any shape and form, meaning it could also come in the form of decorations :3

Enjoy!

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"If you could have any superpower, what w-"

Shapeshifting. Shapeshifting shapeshifting shapeshifting. I'm a transgender therian, what the fuck did you think I would pick.

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When I'm super happy, I can feel my ears up right and my tail swaying; when I'm extremely sad, my ears are down and my tail wrapped around myself for comfort. I just thought I'd share these phantom shifts cause :)) cool! You can reply with some of yours too!

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Orange-white shorthair cat outfit, inspired by how i dress. I could do more of these for you guys one of these days, if you're interested!

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I can confirm it's so good to have supportive people in your life. I was on call with my boyfriend and I said something about cats and they were like "But you're a cat!" true!!! Or when I send pictures of orange cats and my friends tell me I look good in them. It's silly things but they make me happy

My friends are so supportive to the point where its funny. I looked at one of my friends and said "I want paws." They looked right back at me and went "You're a druid, grow some."

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The song "Little Dark Age" by MGMT has a sentence that resonates with me and my experience with theriantrophy a lot: "Just know that if you hide, it doesn't go away."

Behaviors that I would try to suppress unless behind closed doors, feelings that nobody else seemed to relate to so I would just try to not talk about them, hoping they would go away sooner or later.

All this time I just thought I was weird because that's what everyone used to call me while I was just being myself.

But hiding doesn't lead anywhere, because if these feelings are real, they won't just go away.

What if I Am weird? As I make my way into adulthood, I'm trying to be myself as often as I can, and perhaps one day I'll tell my friends and boyfriend about this blog. For now I'm just testing out things in the community. It took me a lot of courage to even come out as a Therian to them but I'm glad I did.

One last thing for the younger Therians/Alterhumans; school sucks for everybody but especially for us, and for whoever doesn't fit into the norm.

I'm glad I'm well out of it now and I can dedicate my time to being kinder to myself, as kind as I wish everyone else had been in class.

So if it it's too painful to express yourself during school because of the bullying and the mocking, just wait a few more years, and you'll be free.

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015. ame from wolf children (2012), but with my own design that gives him a more wolfish coat

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I love this! Thank you so much ^_^ if only that bracelet wasn't so expensive...

hellow! could I request an orange-white domestic shorthair cat care kit? thank you :-)

Orange and white domestic short hair cat care kit for anon!

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🐾 | | 😸

☘️ | 🌿

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Do you guys own anything of your theriotype(s)? If yes, what is it?

Besides being my theriotype which is a bit more specific, cats have always been my favorite animal, so of course I own a lot of cat related things.

More specifically I found myself gravitating towards orange cats because I felt like they depicted me best (duh!).

I own two plushies, keychains and a pin besides having a lot of art of myself on my pc and 2 whole sticker packs that I've been using for years on whtspp, I'll also admit that when people save and use those stickers...I feel uncomfortable, because they're supposed to be me.

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I've only come out as a Therian to my bf and 3 friends, and two of them want to buy me a tail but like. while I appreciate the thought, I don't want them to accidentally buy one from an unethical source and if they get somebody to make one for me that's also going to be a problem because I want it to look very specific :,)

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Wow, these are both very impressive! The poses are very fluid and the colors in the second one are so pleasing to the eye 🥹

I'm also part of the furry community, and while I've never had problems making my sonas stand out I've always drawn myself as this orange/brown and white cat. The way I saw myself always remained pretty consistent other than the markings changing a bit! I find all of this very fascinating. I might show my art as well on here one day.

For now I'm just gonna compliment OP again because, wow 🧡🧡

Alright this one's for the therian/otherkin researchers that may or may not still be active here. Or for anyone idk.

I am an adult in my last semester of college and I just felt like sharing my experience because I used to be fairly active here and it seems like younger generations are even more attracted to therianism than in the past. I guess my goal is to provide an example of a different kind of therian experience than what you normally see on social media. Long personal adult therian experience rant below.

To start off, I had the typical therian signs as a young kid. I never wanted to play make-believe as a person, only as an animal. I crawled on my hands and knees playing up into ages that kids would normally stop doing that. Didn't care about human dolls, I only wanted animal toys or stuffed animals. All that stuff, and eventually I settled on what I called then my spirit animal which was a lioness. It was always me though, not something separate from me.

Fast forward to when I was around 13-14 and it was apparent that I was suffering from a severe anxiety disorder. All I knew was that everything was terrifying, I didn't understand anything, and I felt like I wasn't supposed to be here. I clung onto my animal identity as one of the reasons for why it was so hard to exist. But I had support and medical help. I got better, then worse when it was time to learn to be an adult.

On the verge of adulthood I developed agoraphobic tendencies, meaning I was afraid to step outside my door. In this time I wanted to do nothing but be the animal I thought I was meant to be. And for a while I entertained that. Just stopped mentally trying to adjust to adulthood, even though I was taking the real-world steps the people around me where helping me with. And guess what, I felt like garbage. It was around this time that I realized if I don't learn to be human, I might die.

This was the real beginning of my learning to be human. I could never fully abandon my self-image as feline, but slowly (even making itself apparent in my drawings for my art degree which is pretty cool), I started to see myself as a hybridized version of feline and human. It's definitely not over for me, I still have to work every day to do "normal" tasks, but if I had not made this decision for myself and if I didn't have a good support system I could be in a very different place.

I don't know why I've felt this way my whole life and I don't bother looking for an answer anymore because all I know is I had to become human to survive. It sounds sad, and maybe it is, but I have never been in a better place than right now. Gotta compromise because life sure isn't fair.

Disclaimers: This isn't a one size fits all situation, I'm not trying to tell you what to do. Also, I haven't abandoned this part of myself, it just isn't all consuming anymore.

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This was a very interesting read, and I could relate to many parts of it. Was also always on all fours as a kid lol, wether because I was playing house and I was the dog/cat/whatever or just because I felt like it. Never wanted dolls, only animal toys. I also express myself through my art and I've always drawn myself as a cat/half cat, and this differed from a sona, it was supposed to be simply...me. This helped looking into my past as a newly awakened therian and in general it's nice to read someone else's experience, even though being physically human is hard and we might feel uncomfortable in our own bodies sometimes <3

Alright this one's for the therian/otherkin researchers that may or may not still be active here. Or for anyone idk.

I am an adult in my last semester of college and I just felt like sharing my experience because I used to be fairly active here and it seems like younger generations are even more attracted to therianism than in the past. I guess my goal is to provide an example of a different kind of therian experience than what you normally see on social media. Long personal adult therian experience rant below.

To start off, I had the typical therian signs as a young kid. I never wanted to play make-believe as a person, only as an animal. I crawled on my hands and knees playing up into ages that kids would normally stop doing that. Didn't care about human dolls, I only wanted animal toys or stuffed animals. All that stuff, and eventually I settled on what I called then my spirit animal which was a lioness. It was always me though, not something separate from me.

Fast forward to when I was around 13-14 and it was apparent that I was suffering from a severe anxiety disorder. All I knew was that everything was terrifying, I didn't understand anything, and I felt like I wasn't supposed to be here. I clung onto my animal identity as one of the reasons for why it was so hard to exist. But I had support and medical help. I got better, then worse when it was time to learn to be an adult.

On the verge of adulthood I developed agoraphobic tendencies, meaning I was afraid to step outside my door. In this time I wanted to do nothing but be the animal I thought I was meant to be. And for a while I entertained that. Just stopped mentally trying to adjust to adulthood, even though I was taking the real-world steps the people around me where helping me with. And guess what, I felt like garbage. It was around this time that I realized if I don't learn to be human, I might die.

This was the real beginning of my learning to be human. I could never fully abandon my self-image as feline, but slowly (even making itself apparent in my drawings for my art degree which is pretty cool), I started to see myself as a hybridized version of feline and human. It's definitely not over for me, I still have to work every day to do "normal" tasks, but if I had not made this decision for myself and if I didn't have a good support system I could be in a very different place.

I don't know why I've felt this way my whole life and I don't bother looking for an answer anymore because all I know is I had to become human to survive. It sounds sad, and maybe it is, but I have never been in a better place than right now. Gotta compromise because life sure isn't fair.

Disclaimers: This isn't a one size fits all situation, I'm not trying to tell you what to do. Also, I haven't abandoned this part of myself, it just isn't all consuming anymore.

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Me ⭐🧡

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What if we were little critters who went thrift shopping together

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I saw a list of movies that Therians might enjoy and it was missing one that's a little bit more niche, but it's my favorite so I thought I should let you all know: Wolf Children. It was made in 2012 and directed by Mamoru Hosoda. It might resonate more with wolf therians, but it left an impact even on me.

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I wanted to ask to the therian community: is it valid to feel like you're a mix of a human and your theriotype?

I definitely experience involuntary cat-like behaviors and shifts but it's rare that I feel only cat, it's like I'm just missing features and the freedom to act like one whenever I feel like it.