eclipsenonhuman

[eclipsenonhuman]

GUYS I MADE A NEW ACCOUNT FOR MY NONHUMAN STUFF

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MONSTERKIN BINGO - 100 Followers💚

Squeals we made it to 100! As promised here is the monsterkin bingo sheet! Unfortunately no prizes for now...

I hope you guys enjoy!!

(Also sorry for the lack of culture-is posts for the last couple days, I haven't had the chance to schedule stuff but everything should be back to normal starting tomorrow!)

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Now that I'm going into the city every Saturday I might start wearing my gear a bit more. Like my ears and paws but probably not my tail because I can't sit down with it and I still have to sit for music class.

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WOLF CLUB

holy shit it’s finally done

huge shout-out to my roomie @acia-berry for making the cover

this comic was a year in the making due to school and life - but now i can present it in the fullest. an ode to my middle school self, with all its furry wonders and terrible friend-making skills, i give you: WOLF CLUB

this may be continued later. we’ll see. thanks for reading!

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This week I went on a walk and went to a small forest near my house, collar on. I felt so free. I ran around, watching everything, chirping at the birds, doing vocals, staring at the water and splashing it with my paw to watch the water moving

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Like bro, I'm just existing here. I wear a tail and a collar outside? Yeah, but I'm not harming anyone

I hate hate hate how our community recieves so much hate form outsiders. For a while now I've been wondering about telling my roomate about my winged cat identity. Not just because I wanted her to understand, but mostly because if I have shifts it isn't weird. But a couple weeks ago my friends and I were eating and for some reason therians came up. I felt like my ears perked up, my tail wagging, my claws flexing. I sat there completely ready to mentioning lightly that I'm a winged cat.

But my heart immediatly dropped, because they only see us as "crazy kids that need therapy and are delusional". I was devastated. Because I thought they would understand, but they are just the same as everybody else. They are good friends, but they would ever understand. No human would

[eclipsenonhuman]

I hate hate hate how our community recieves so much hate form outsiders. For a while now I've been wondering about telling my roomate about my winged cat identity. Not just because I wanted her to understand, but mostly because if I have shifts it isn't weird. But a couple weeks ago my friends and I were eating and for some reason therians came up. I felt like my ears perked up, my tail wagging, my claws flexing. I sat there completely ready to mentioning lightly that I'm a winged cat.

But my heart immediatly dropped, because they only see us as "crazy kids that need therapy and are delusional". I was devastated. Because I thought they would understand, but they are just the same as everybody else. They are good friends, but they would ever understand. No human would

[eclipsenonhuman]

I want to start posting more about my non human experiences methinks. For a long time I've been thinking about making a journal, and this blog may be perfect for it

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I'm a winged cat otherkin. My urges are mostly for fish and meat, so mostly birds and roedents. In my shifts I often crave tuna, raw fish and raw meat. My hunting urges are to chase birds mostly, but also mice, rats, and fish

Attention all meat-eating alterhumans (Especially therians!)

Could you please write in the comments what prey animals you have the urge to hunt?

This survey will help a lot with something I'm doing irl, but I don't know enough alterhumans personally to get a good enough range of data.

Please write everything you can think of, and reblog so this post reaches more people!

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Sometimes, The way you experience alterhumanity can be explained by what you see when you look in a mirror

(I had this thought at 2am, does this make sense??)

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option explanations

fully feral: just like an animal you'd see in real life

mostly feral: has limited humanoid features. might have unnatural colors, can talk, might have opposable thumbs, etc.

somewhat anthropomorphic: very animalistic but might stand on two legs, such as a monstrous werewolf

very anthropomorphic: standard furry type of body. is fully bipedal, may have digitigrade or plantigrade legs. probably has to wear human clothes.

limited animal traits: a human with some animal traits, such as ears, tail, maybe a small snout. think of a kemonomimi.

completely human: just a human

[eclipsenonhuman]

i love this community so much

i finally feel like i belong and im apart of something

love u guys

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Original poem

I'm a Jackalope Hare! original poem by me about being the tricksome, troublesome critter that I am. Prrrrrr!!

I am also thinking of doing a poetry collection entirely about nonhumanity as I have found myself greatly inspired and deeply fascinated by the many wondrous souls I have encountered within the nonhuman community. Those who I meet here seem so very worthy of being captured within art with such beauty I wish to replicate in verse.

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Yeah :(. When I first found about the therian community it felt immediately as if I had to do certain things to "become" a therian. Trying to do quads didn't work for me. I'm too skinny and have basically no muscle. Tried to make a mask once but in my country don't sell animal masks and buying one in Amazon would raise questions. I have a yarn tail and that's it, but I mostly don't wear it.

For me, "therian gear" is using things your theriotype would use. I have collars, cat toys, a nest, and that's the gear I'm proudest of. If I wear it in public, yes, people stare, but no one has commented anything so far.

But gear shouldn't matter! I'm a psychological non human. I believe my winged cat identity comes from my neurodivergence, I'm autistic and have ADHD, so I believe that that makes me different than humans, and my behaviors and ways to see the world are more animal like. But I also have shifts. I've known that I'm not human since I was a kid.

Discovering the "therian tiktok" made me believe there were certain things I was "supposed" to do to be myself. It frustrated me, I would prefer for people to post educational stuff and throw away misinformation but alas. In the end, I'm just me. I'm a winged cat, in any way except physical. No one can change it.

Theriantok is very heavily centered around ableism and fatphobia. Transphobia and racism too but thats a conversation for a different time.

Much of theriantok is based around quadrobics and masks, not that this is a bad thing by itself! But it leaves open little room for people trying to spread information!

The algorithm pushes out people with pretty scenery, good quality, a nice mask, skinny body and very good quads.

This leads younger therians, (who are oft3n actually otherhearted) to only see that side! Only seeing past lives and connections, only seeing skinny bodies doing perfect quads with very palatable feelings.

Animal urges are demonized, doing messy quads is ugly.

Being fat gets you nowhere, your just cringe.

If your delusional in any way they hate you, and say your promoting delusions.

You must be sane, you must be skinny, you must be pretty.

I hate this culture on tiktok, i want to SEE my fellow freaks and creatures, animals who arent fully sane and their therianthropy stems from delusion. Animals who run around in the mud and growl at strangers.

I want animals like me.

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This is a very random thought, but I lowkey miss the simple times when being a therian meant simply to be intrinsically an animal in any extent and "psychological" and "spiritual" were only the theories one held about the origin of their therianthropy.

I don't know, I just feel like we unnecessarily complicated the matters for ourselves. I feel like a lot of people out there (especially on theriantok, but I saw this on youtube and in discord servers too) wouldn't jump into the "it's just a spiritual connection" bullcrap if the community didn't attach those two theories to the definition at whatever point.

I'm an animal. It's what I believe to be, regardless of how I explain it or how is it expressed, or to what extent or on what level that is.

I feel like a lot of people would get mad at me for wording it this way, for no real reason. I would understand it outside of the community, but fearing stating something as obvious in spaces I considered safe, a part of the community, is a little saddening.

Besides this point, I would really like to know where did the whole connection thing come from in the first place.

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Zoochosis and how it effects my life as a coyote in human society

TW: mentions of animal abuse + self harm + mentions of hunting + mentions of consuming raw meat

Zoochosis is a form of psychosis that exclusively is found in animals in captivity, zoos are the most common places to find animals with this. Animals will display this with what are called Sterotypic behaviors. Sterotypic behaviors are monotonous, repetitive, and obsessive actions that serve no purpose. These actions may manifest as pacing, bar-biting, swaying, bobbing, weaving, rocking, self mutilation, over-grooming, or regurgitating food and reingesting.

Animals are complex and active creatures who are normally stimulated by preforming tasks they have to do to survive in the wild. In captivity, it is impossible for any human establishments (no matter how well they treat the animals) to meet those sensory + physical needs and mental stimulation. This where zoochosis starts to develop. Due to this extreme sensory deprivation and lack of instinctual needs being met, animals in captivity can become depressed, stressed, and frustrated. Sterotypic behaviors are what animals in captivity are forced to develop to cope with their instinctual needs not being met.

This is a basic summary.

How I as a nonhuman experience zoochosis:

(as a schizophrenic who is able to double bookkeep, I am aware that many of these behaviors can be explained by one of my conditions. but I personally believe that it is zoochosis, even if there is evidence otherwise. Please be aware that I experience these delusions as reality and no amount of reality checking will change that.)

I've struggled with zoochosis for a long time. it's all very real to me. being nonhuman is very very real for me, including my ability to find closure and satisfaction in human society.

my brain was not made for any of this. I have instinctually urges and wants that cannot be satisfied by human things. my body cannot move or handle the amount of freedom of movement my coyote brain needs. my animal brain needs so many things that I just can't do due to being disabled or it not being safe.

It leads to me being restless and often times it causes severe mental anguish. I sit up at night trying to think of how to make my brain stop panicking about how we will never be able to do certain things. Hunt and chase rodents and lizards. Feel the rush of catching one in my teeth and then consuming it raw. To run miles and miles with a pack, marking our territory and bickering between each other. Play fighting with a packmate. Growling, yapping, barking, yarring, howling. The freedom to just be. To just exist.

Human society is not built to accommodate for a literal coyote to live in it. I consider myself a coyote who has been raised in captivity and still is in captivity. I am expected to do all the things a human can do. But these human needs do not meet my requirements. I'm expected to work an 8 hour shift at the place I work. I do it but I struggle, and those struggles cause a lot of mental strain. That mental strain is something my coyote brain does not understand how to cope with. So, it manifests as sterotypic behaviors. For me, it's self mutilation in the form of skin picking, nail biting, pulling on my fur, and biting myself. Sometimes, it also forms as rocking or pacing. These behaviors are compulsive, and I have to do them.

To be perceived to be human is the hardest thing for me. I know I am not human, in my mind I can see my coyote body clear as day. Feel my paws, swish my tail, move my ears, and raise my hackles. It's all so so real to me.

[eclipsenonhuman]

The September full moon is tonight! The harvest moon, and also a supermoon this year!

Tonight there is to be a nonhuman howl at 5:00pm PST, brought to my attention by @thatonesalamandertherian !

This howl is not just for wolves, but for any therian/alterhuman, so come join in! Whether your howl is loud and proud or quiet and hidden, we are overjoyed to have your beautiful, unique voice joining us!

Not sure what time that is in your time zone? I have made a handy list below the cut!

5:00pm PST

6:00pm MDT

7:00pm CDT

8:00pm EDT

9:00pm BRT

12:00am UTC

1:00am BST

2:00am CEST

3:00am MSK

4:00am GMT

5:30am IST

8:00am SGT

8:00am CST

9:00am JST

10:00am AEST

12:00pm NZST

Hope this helps! Happy howling!