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start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret

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Stained glass window

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Sword, Korea, 17th-19th century

from The National Museum of Korea

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tfw your riddle was too easy

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Heavenly bodies (met gala themed look) - The Glossier.

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Angel Numbers T-Shirt

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Yu Hong (Chinese, b. 1966), Cloud Layer, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 200 cm.

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dw dude urielsfeathers is literally scum

Damn ty for the heads up. Had no idea who they were but had heard some stuff. Thanks

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Thanks! We already had unfollowed you but glad you made it public. ☺️

This was hands down the funniest message I've received on this app in a long time thank you

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angels of sorrow and bravery

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In Defense of Blue-Eyed Wolves

Other people’s identities are none of your business. If they’re not causing tangible harm to anyone, leave them alone.  If you only take away one thing from this essay, make sure it’s this.

The therian community has a long history of policing and invalidating the identities of its own members. Practices like fluff-hunting and grilling, and the elitist mindsets that they encourage, have been part of the community for decades.

This should not be the case. Elitism causes harm to the therian community as a whole. It drives questioning therians away, traumatizes the ones that stay, and will eat away at the community until nothing is left.

Let me get this out of the way: I’m not a therian. I am nonhuman (a moth, specifically), but I don’t identify with therianthropy. If this leads you to discard my opinion out of hand, well, I can’t stop you.

I have experienced the harm that elitist attitudes in the therian community cause firsthand. I know what it’s like to have an identity that’s too weird to be accepted, even by a community that’s supposed to be for people like me.

There’s been a lot of mockery in this community directed towards people who identify as a species that’s too silly, too woo-y, too “fluffy.” Sometimes this is directed at people who identify as certain species (usually invertebrates for some reason) regardless of how close they are to the “real thing,” but sometimes it’s directed at people whose theriotype is a species that’s normally accepted, but their specific iteration is somehow too weird and divergent.

An example that seems to stick out as a quintessential “fake therian” is a “blue-eyed black-furred wolf that howls at the moon,” which is so different from how wolves are in reality that apparently there’s no way anyone could seriously identify as one.

If therians want their community to live on instead of burning through its own members, they need to embrace blue-eyed wolves, and every other animal who has a weird identity. There is nothing to gain from shooing away people whose species identity is different from the norm.

If you’re on board with accepting weird species but not divergent members of well-accepted species, well, let’s face it: no therian is exactly like their theriotype. There isn’t a wolf therian out there who acts like a 1:1 match with a “real”, physical wolf.

No matter where you draw a line to mark a theriotype as “too different” to take seriously, it’s completely arbitrary, and it only serves to make a small group of people in the community feel better about themselves by picking on others.

If you’re one of these people—if you think that gatekeeping is the way to go and you need to make sure everyone’s theriotype is “real enough”—you should ask yourself this:

What leg do you have to stand on?

The therian community is defined by a subjective experience which is intrinsically unprovable. How can you prove that someone doesn’t seriously identify as a blue-eyed wolf? How can you prove that you seriously identify as your theriotype?

You can’t.

In the end, this is all just subjective identity stuff. No one can prove themself, and no one should have to try to.

Regardless of whether you think someone is wrong about their own identity, it’s none of your business. If they are wrong, they can figure it out on their own and decide for themself.

Obviously, I’m not advocating for blindly letting in trolls. But trolls weren’t stopped by fluff-hunting or gatekeeping anyway. Sometimes people really aren’t serious, but you figure that out by looking at how they act to other people, not by checking the species they identify as against whatever metric you think measures their seriousness.

Give people the benefit of the doubt. And go pet your local blue-eyed wolf.

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Hi, you said in a previous post to submit an application to your fallen haven server? But i'm not seeing a place to actually do that.

Yes, there is an application! We are currently working on remaking some stuff. Please DM me for the link and I’ll try to remember to post one later.