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Daily reminder that if you want something to be more present in your community you have to start posting about it

If you want more serious discussion posts- you need to make more serious discussion posts.

If you want more silliness around your type- you need to post more silliness around your type.

If you want more art, writing, photodumps etc. of your type or kin- you need to get to creating and posting.

You have autonomy online, use it

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Have recently started journaling in hopes that I'll be able to better track shifts, behaviors, and feelings. So far it's been functioning almost as an observational log book for myself lol. I find myself writing my behaviors and feelings down referring to myself in third person a lot especially with my canines. Will probably post excerpts from it here and there :0)

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Not to even mention the mess of my unicorn. It's fully and entirely not human, not even a little bit. it feels more like something stuck and trapped inside my form, as opposed to physically inhabiting the body in any largely meaningful way, save for occasional moments. For the unicorn the body is irrelevant, it's just as unhappy inhabiting a coyote or wolf form as it is a human

I think being polykin makes things much weirder for me, wrt: labels. Coyote is physical & all encompassing, holothere is applicable there. Werewolf is physical/biological too, but in a completely different way that holothere as a label does not feel applicable to. Unicorn is an entirely different can of worms that I am far from having sorted out yet.

I like what Holothere represents, it's cool to be able to draw attention to an aspect of nonhuman identity that (I feel) is often overlooked & undervalued. But generally, labels are hard and weird, I feel somewhat averse towards using a term like this because like I mentioned, being polykin makes it complicated. I am many things, they share the same space and are not all present at the same time.

Yes, I'm entirely a coyote, but I'm not only a coyote. I can't deny the link to humanity that I have as a lycanthrope no matter how hard I try/want to. And when multiple facets of myself are equally important and relevant in my life, what is there to do? I partly feel as if I can't claim this for myself, despite being fully an animal. I can and do reject my humanity but I believe that as a werewolf, too much rejection is damaging to myself in the same way that rejecting my animals would be. For me, the curse of lycanthropy is being stuck with the the human, not the wolf. It's all very conflicting.

I know at the end of the day, a label doesn't make the difference, I know what I am and I'm comfortable with how I experience (most of) the facets of myself, words won't change that. It's just hard not to be able to fully describe yourself and connect with others through said descriptions. The internal conflict will hopefully settle at some point.

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I think being polykin makes things much weirder for me, wrt: labels. Coyote is physical & all encompassing, holothere is applicable there. Werewolf is physical/biological too, but in a completely different way that holothere as a label does not feel applicable to. Unicorn is an entirely different can of worms that I am far from having sorted out yet.

I like what Holothere represents, it's cool to be able to draw attention to an aspect of nonhuman identity that (I feel) is often overlooked & undervalued. But generally, labels are hard and weird, I feel somewhat averse towards using a term like this because like I mentioned, being polykin makes it complicated. I am many things, they share the same space and are not all present at the same time.

Yes, I'm entirely a coyote, but I'm not only a coyote. I can't deny the link to humanity that I have as a lycanthrope no matter how hard I try/want to. And when multiple facets of myself are equally important and relevant in my life, what is there to do? I partly feel as if I can't claim this for myself, despite being fully an animal. I can and do reject my humanity but I believe that as a werewolf, too much rejection is damaging to myself in the same way that rejecting my animals would be. For me, the curse of lycanthropy is being stuck with the the human, not the wolf. It's all very conflicting.

I know at the end of the day, a label doesn't make the difference, I know what I am and I'm comfortable with how I experience (most of) the facets of myself, words won't change that. It's just hard not to be able to fully describe yourself and connect with others through said descriptions. The internal conflict will hopefully settle at some point.

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my habitat !!! all photos taken by me in nova scotia and washington state :33

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Really big aching melancholy unicorn feelings tonight. Journaling out my emotions feels less like writing and more like channeling, I'm having trouble figuring out if this distanced feeling I'm having is just extreme dysphoria in regard to the body or something else entirely

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04.05.2025

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Strawberry Moon

6/11/25

I went with several members of my pack to a different part of our territory than usual. This area was a rolling field cut through by a dry creek bed, lined with forest on either side. After climbing up into a tree to relax and talk for a while, we headed out into the field for shift time. Today, we had myself, my mate Callum, another werewolf, and a raccoon.

I've never been much one for quads, given that their getting popular coincided with a lot of changes in the community that I don't particularly enjoy, but the night before the moon I had such an intense dream about sprinting on all fours, the ground rushing by beneath my hands as I slowly watched them turn to paws and realized that I had fully transformed. Because of this dream, I decided to try my skill on fours in the field. I need some work, but I was able to do it for a good while, and man, was it a core workout! I'm actually considering swapping my usual core exercises at the gym for practicing quads on my off days. I'm still not interested in the quads side of the community, but it would be euphoric for me to get good at dropping to all fours to go under brush or sprint up a leaned over tree trunk. I'm looking to get better at animalistic primal movement, basically.

I unfortunately did stick my paws all up in some toxic plants during this, so I've got blisters up my forelimbs, but oh well, I've had far worse.

As we were setting up camp in the dry creek, I noticed that I could smell deer on the wind from over the hill. I've been working on my tracking skills lately and was excited to notice myself passively picking up information like that. Their warm and hay-laden scent threw me into a strong shift, and I snuck away from the pack and up the hill. After a moment, the others followed close behind. It's an intoxicating feeling when you have other nonhumans with you in person, where you can watch the way one of you shifting ripples out through the group, infecting each other with your energy.

The deer were bedded down in the grass on the far side of the hill, but I let them be and moved on to exploring the surrounding areas.

Finally, after a few hours, the moon broke the trees, and I decided to play with my packmates instead of exploring alone. The fellow werewolf in attendance had been telling me about how she longed for the feeling of running and chasing as a wolf, so I caught her attention and sprinted away with her close on my heels. Even though I wasn't on all fours, it felt almost like my dream, watching the ground rush by faster and faster. I was surprised by how surefooted I was even in the dead of night. When we had our fill of running, we howled our hearts out to the moon and to our packmates who couldn't make it.

Returning to camp, I settled in to cuddle with Callum in the grass as we watched a thunderstorm slowly roll in. Together, we built the stone theta delta to leave our mark where we had set up camp. As we walked back to our cars, it started raining properly, and I relished in the feeling of the drops across my bare and furry skin.

Another moon passed. Another night dancing in my true animal skin.

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Went crabbing this morning with my family and as we were walking along some train tracks we saw coyote prints!! Hehe so cool to be walking the same paths as them 🐾

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Otherkin-as-a-subculture has never been about fashion. Therianthropy-as-a-subculture has never been about fashion. Nonhumanity is not a fashion movement. You don't need gear/costumes/accessories to be part of otherkin or therian subculture, and own those things does not make you part of the subculture. The subculture is first and foremost about baring your soul to other otherkin and expressing your nonhumanity through writing and art - and yes, fashion, but fashion itself has never been a defining part of our community. Otherkin is a philosophical, spiritual, self-perception-focused, identity-based subculture. Not a fashion-based subculture.

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Being an uncommon kin type is so lonely. That solidarity that other therians get from others of their kind, relating to what they say and connecting with them. When I post about being a goose there isn’t anyone out there who will reply and understand exactly what I mean. I find myself wishing that my kin type could have its own communities and that there’s a chance I could meet someone else like me in real life. Theres that level of connection that you can never find. No matter how loudly you call out there isn’t anybody out there. It’s especially lonely when you’re a species that needs companionship to survive

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Back on my drawing wolves to process complex emotions bullshit

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Happy full moon my fellow werewolves, do spend some time under its rays tonight if you can 🌕🤍

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Blue Moon

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”SPECIES TRANSITION”

(full thread below)

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coyotes are so so under appreciated!!!!!! look at how awesome and cool they are!!!!!!! they are not second class canines!!!!!