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Mildly annoyed at the trend of people... Forgetting that many of the strong experiences one can feel about alterhumanity are historically very very common in otherkin and therianthrope? This is not... Beef toward anyone, in fact this popped up bc I checked in on a non anglophone alt-h server, but god. Like speed round. As a note this is gonna be more therian linguo heavy just bc I'm very tired, a therianthrope, and mostly was in therian spaces so it's what I default to but a lot of those are applicable to otherkin n fictionkin.

"can phantom shifts feel like physically shapeshifting"

-> yeah this was an experience talked about not uncommonly on forums. A lot of therianthropes expressed the feeling of "a pelt under your skin begging to breach out" or feeling limbs push out against their skin as the phantom shift took place. Sure a lot of people also feel very mild phantom shifts. Both exist. But this experience is in fact a phantom shift experience. We called ourselves "weres" for a reason. Seems more common in people who distinctly see themselves as werecreatures, but this is not abnormal for a phantom shift, although preferably you should do a doctor check if you feel pain (also an experience ppl talked about, but it's not usually thought of as "normal" just bc. Well that's kinda bad and may hide an injury or whatever so it's better to check mundane reasons first. But painful shifts seem to exist you should just be very very certain nothing else could be causing it).

"I can't turn off being an animal / I can't stop my instincts at inconvenient times / I don't feel suited for human society"

-> this one always surprises me when it's presented as bizarre for otherkin/therians. That was like... A baseline therian experience. Yeah no a lot of us can't either. Usually the difference is that this feeling is at an all time high when in situations where you are constantly pressured to "human" correctly, socialize and have no breaks to wild it out, which corresponds a lot to The Entire Duration Of School and is therefore a more common complaint amongst teenagers than adults. It gets a bit easier as an adult sometimes if you're lucky to have opportunities that let you manage your life around instincts and such, although sometimes, well, you gotta play by societies rules to survive n it stays hard. Also a commonly reported experience. You do learn! But some people are better at hiding instincts than other, some instincts are easier to hide than other, etc.

"I have shifts I cannot control under very intense emotions"

-> "Berserker shift" is a controversial term due to a variety of reasons that span the usual "that's too weird, don't talk about that", the fact you're still responsible for what you do while shifty, or just bc it sounds kinda... Edgy, from a first glance, but it IS a term from our history and a lot of people do report the experience of going fully animalistic if freaked out enough. Sometimes alongside extremely strong phantom shifts as described in the first point! I've heard of people who had complete verbal shutdown and could neither speak nor understand speech, could not walk on two legs, reacted with growling spitting and biting, just the whole thing. I think this experience is a bit harder to find mostly because it's... Very vulnerable, usually. It tends to require less than pleasant conditions, and tends to be very vilified, so not talked about much, but very much something that is recorded.

Transhumanism, species transition and body mods overall

-> I'm not gonna talk much about this one bc I've said a lot in other posts, but there's a reason trans species and therianthropy are super intertwined and it's... Because a lot of therianthropes did historically attempt to transition or at least modify their body and surroundings to their best capacities. The idea that therianthropes, as a rule, mostly do not attempt to modify their bodies seems to me very incorrect.

"I feel a strong, almost supernatural drive toward nature / I feel in my bones I am nonhuman / I believed I could physically shift during most of my life under the right conditions"

-> This one is going to be a bit hard for me. As a result of having psychosis, I have kind of a mental block over thinking too much about it in regards to myself. It's also I think A Major way ppl seem to be confirming physical nonhumanity, so like, you do you, I'm not Telling you anything about yourself. However I do want to note that these feelings aren't particularly rare amongst nonhumans overall. A reason why so many therianthropes got in toxic groups that promised being able to go back to one's true form was... Because a lot of us are deeply convinced in some way or another that if things align juuuuust right maybe just maybe we'll have our bodies again. It's not hard to. Understand why an entire community defined by being in the wrong body would have this trait. A lot of us felt a strong drive toward nature, a feeling of being displaced amongst humans, a lot of us attempted to physically shift.

"I wish I could have my species's offsprings / I feel dysphoria over my sexual functions / I have sexual drives that align with being weird fetishes in a human society"

-> this one is more getting erased due to puritanism I think but yeah no for a lot of nonhumans it. Does not stop magically under the belt. And it's not a problem unless any theriform animal is involved. Yes even if it's kinda nasty to think about. I will however note for the first point "no theriform animal is involved" kinda still goes, please do not adopt animals, especially exotic animals, under the impression that you can parent them as a theriform animal could? It CAN be possible to raise a theriform animal in a way that would satisfy parental instincts if you're trained for it, but we're not special. We got raised by humans, we don't magically understand our species better than people trained for it. Very imprinted animals commonly make poor parents.

"I remember my past life / I communicate with my animal self spiritually / other spiritual experiences"

-> this one is such a surprise to me to see so uncommon now. Spirituality used to be a cornerstone of otherkin and therian spaces and it's kinda wild to me to see it's so rare now. So yeah no that's very much a thing. I don't think I've seen someone soul search for their "true name" in ages, when that was everywhere on old spirituality inclined forums. I can't speak much on this bc I am not a spiritual therianthrope + point about psychosis made before but I've seen parallel lives, I've seen past lives, I've seen future lives, I've seen misplaced souls, I've seen having a chat with your theriotype as a representation of your soul... Awakening seemed to have a meaning of the... Spiritual event of your soul kinda ripping to reveal your inner self for a while, a singular event in which you start remembering. Was very common on an old french forum over here. Not sure if that was as common in English ones. A lot of people's nonhumanity was not as based on shifts and instincts as on uncovering that hidden self through spiritual means, memories, and such.

Weird Shit Happens Around Me ("I can't digest things a human should digest in accordance to my species, ppl have noted my nonhuman traits as if they could see my invisible limbs, animals react weird to me, etc")

-> noooooted in the past but I think these have always been subject to doubt to be fair. Like you can find records of stuff like that quite easily, but also its very hard to prove in any way, shape or form. So that's a reason it's not in the basics of nonhumanity. But yeah historically a lot of otherkin/therianthropes have claimed Weird Shit Happens. Not rly my case so can't speak on it.

And I think I've mentioned what I had in my brain but this is just to remind ppl like... The therianthrope who wears a mask for fun and is only mildly inconvenienced by their animality is not really a representation of the community historically. Weve always been pretty fucking intense and pretty fucking weird. Chances are, if you are experiencing a very weird thing, it's not particularly a disqualifier of therianthropy or otherkin historically. Not that people might not give you shit about it! Pretty much all the points here, while not uncommon reported experiences, ARE in fact also things I've seen ppl be antagonistic about in the community. Which to be clear is stupid. But yeah it doesn't mean you're wrong, it means they don't realize the extent of our experiences.

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Wasn't gonna say anything because of embarrassment but my partner and I recently got a "werewolf" dildo and omg I didn't expect my therian side to get so happy from it??? Like it's not exactly "realistic" it's just a silly werewolf dick but omg,,, hope this isn't tmi??? Sorry yall I'm an adult and do adult things lol

Reminder! Animal packers no matter how realistic aren't promoting harmful zoophilic practices and don't count as beastiality. A human being sexual with a therian, whether they're using a realistic animal toy of some kind or not is not 'making someone into a zoophile' or beastiality. Drop it and leave it alone. Other people's dysphoria relief and/or sex lives don't concern you.

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tar mouth

ink and watercolor, 2025

prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mxmorgan/tar-mouth/

for sale: ko-fi.com/s/ac7f1d02bb

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Reminder! Animal packers no matter how realistic aren't promoting harmful zoophilic practices and don't count as beastiality. A human being sexual with a therian, whether they're using a realistic animal toy of some kind or not is not 'making someone into a zoophile' or beastiality. Drop it and leave it alone. Other people's dysphoria relief and/or sex lives don't concern you.

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Guys they're doing quads /j

Giggling & kicking my feet

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Realsies

breadsticks: the warm comfort of bread combined with the therian joy of putting a stick in one's mouth

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inspired by a friend misspeaking

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This sounds fabulous, will do at the nearest opportunity

Therians with predator 'types, especially those of you who don't eat meat, might I recommend a shower orange? Take an orange, cut it in half (unless you think your claws can tear into it or you don't mind the taste of the peel), take it in the shower with you so you can make a mess and just tear into that shit like it's meat! Would probably also work with mangoes, peaches, any soft fleshy fruit but I find oranges are nice because they're big and the juice gets everywhere.

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As someone who's been wearing tails my entire life (got my first one when I was 2) not as many people give a shit as it might seem on the internet. Miraculously, people in real life are a lot more inclined to mind their own business as long as we mind ours. I think the most I've ever gotten is "Hey look kids, that guy has a tail. That's so weird right?" And then I waved at them and they awkwardly walked away.

Although on a side note, please be mindful of WHERE you wear tails in public. Most places should be totally fine!! But I wouldn't wear one anywhere the crowd is majorly straight cis men, period. I'm talking metal concerts, gyms, sports games, anything like that. Straight cis men can be really nasty when they feel like something's encroaching on their territory.

Although! Depending on your age you might have a higher chance of getting away with it. I only started getting stares when I was around 16, so I guess that's the cutoff of it being socially acceptable to do kid things?? Society is weird.

Anyways, sorry for the long ass ramble!! I'm just really passionate about tail wearing, oops

love wearing my tail in public so much :3 it is single handedly the most anxiety inducing experience though

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When I went to a renfaire I saw at least five people in therian style masks, and saw one person doing quads. I've only been to the one but it seemed pretty therian friendly. A bunch of vendors were selling tails too

Idk why suddenly my mind discovered that renfaires are such a "safer" place to explore therian gear. I mean. You could say that you're a dog and only for the magic and the things no one could judge you. The faires usually happen in natural areas, near to forest. Is so... Interesting as a concept

Btw idk if renfaires actually work like that because unfortunately I've never been in one before, don't took me as a reference

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NOT being a good girl today. barking and ripping things up and just freaking it

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Man this is sick as hell, I'm not even someone who would want to permanently go full animal mode forever but reading all this it's like... damn if only this were real

”SPECIES TRANSITION”

(full thread below)

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I suggest looking up patterns/tutorials from fursuit and plush makers, then using slightly more realistic looking material (there's plenty of faux reptile skin on the market of varying degrees of realistic-ness)

filled with the sudden urge to either make or buy myself a tail? honestly since i don't have that much experience (i can sew up my clothes if need be, but i'm not too keen on making things from scratch) i may just buy it, but it's also a question of how many multi-foot long crocodile tails are on the market. for a price i can afford.

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Working on a fursuit, which pattern should I do

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@cosmopolitan-thedrink ur my badger btw

Badgers and coyotes hunt together. It's a thing. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service explains that “studies have shown that this unusual relationship is beneficial for both species. The coyote can chase down prey if it runs and the badger can dig after prey if it heads underground into its burrow systems.”