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✨️✨️✨️i dearly hope you have a fantastic day, the nontraumagenic headmate reading this ✨️✨️✨️

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I’m not exactly therian, but not entirely human either, it’s like I have some wild beast blood deep inside. I am a million different animals, yet so very human. Sometimes I am a whale in the ocean but then a stalking lynx, I just can’t figure it out.

Just nonhuman things IG

-Marlowe

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Scared of traveling alone?

Lonely nights? Sad meals?

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Alterhuman Survey

I have finally completed it! Please reblog and share this elsewhere, I am trying to get as wide of a dataset as possible.

It will most likely take most of you less than ten minutes to answer these questions and could put together such a big picture of our wonderful community together. Knowledge is power after all and I know if I (at thirteen) had known about the demographics of this community back then I wouldn’t have felt so isolated and alone in my identity.

I may over the next couple of months do some more follow up work on this survey before publishing the results. Potentially try to interview some folk and gain some more in depth insights. I think it’s long overdue that someone took on a project of this scare within the alterhuman community.

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hello white therian folk please for the love of everything, third post i’ve had to make, STOP spelling out and putting a certain cannibal based native creature name on my dash. i block freely but also it’s just so ignorant and it really is starting to piss me off. it’s not that hard. native people have consistently asked yall to stop even outside the therian / otherkin community. it is not ✨ aesthetic ✨ or harmless. it genuinely makes folk uncomfy, and it is a part of a CLOSED CULTURE you are not entitled to. especially when you’re white. and you clearly haven’t done any research on the true meaning of this being, or what it symbolizes. it’s not some cannibalcore gender identity. you can still actively contribute to racism and ignorance and you don’t get to renounce whiteness just because you are an animal. just like how i don’t get to ignore the privileges of being white passing. or that i still have/had to unlearn systematic racism that we are all a part of and have been exposed to.

it’s so annoying seeing it happen all the time. i shouldn’t have to worry about participating in my community as much as the next creature.

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Hey, endogenic plurals and other plurals who don't have DID/OSDD! I wanna see something.

If you are sick, tired, and annoyed at the amount of people accusing you of "wanting DID", "roleplaying as a DID system", "pretending to have DID", and forcibly assigning you as a "DID wannabe", REBLOG THIS POST.

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I command you bother me

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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Our Cosmic Address

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Harris hawk for a $15 Ko-fi supporter

Harris hawks (Parabuteo unicinctus) are unusually social among birds of prey, and are known to often live in groups comprised of more than just 2 adults, and hunt cooperatively to overwhelm large prey. Hunting groups can be comprised of a pair and their adult young, or of unrelated hawks. (x, x)

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recent zooglyphs

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I am the stars, the blank empty vastness of a vacuum, utterly void yet full with my light and glory.

I am the planets I so lovingly crafted with vibrant swirling colors and hundreds of moons.

I am the wonder you feel in your heart when you gaze into the cosmos on a clear summers night.

I am the creeping eerie fog that sends shivers down your spine when the dark consumes you.

I am that silent horrible feeling you feel when you just barely escape demise.

I am the cold talon of unforgiving death, but also the warm embrace of wonder and release of mortal chains.

The pain stops, the stars twinkle, the moon rises, and it shall all be well.

Starkin : identifying partially or entirely as a star.

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You do not get the privilege to witness me, I am but a god walking among mortals, supposed to be blind to your weakened shallow eyes, and yet you see me and lust after me. I curse you to the thousand winds, I smite you to the depths of the underworld pits.

Once while working retail, I smiled at a man (as I do to all, this world could use more joy and smiles) and he licked his lips in reply

I am not your morsel of meat to hunger over you wretched thing

I hate when men—especially older men—stare at me. I already feel so uncomfortable in this body, don’t make it worse and just mind your own damn business.

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ZOOCHOSIS

{I posted this on my main blog but I thought it fit to post this here as well}-❤️🧚

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I feel so ever changing, yet eternal. Mortal life is fleeting and fast paced, so quick and flashing past. I wish it would slow and cease for just a moment, enough for me to catch my breath

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It’s not kindness you’re after

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sketches!!

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'Common' Theriotypes. Why They Exist and What The Cause Might Be.

Aka. Uh oh guys, Tiercel’s been thinking a little too much about nonhumanity.

If you've been active in the therian community for any amount of time, you may have noticed the prevalence of a few animals absolutely dominating discussion boards, video posts, and therian-centric sites. I am, of course, referencing the high number of wolves, domestic or large cats, and foxes. You may have also noticed that folks in (or outside) of the therian and broader alterhuman community claiming that a majority of people with these theriotypes 'must be faking' due to their (apparent) majority. I won't deny that certain theriotypes seem more 'popular' than others, but I don't personally believe that their prevalence actually has anything to do with 'faking therianthropy'. I'll be breaking down why this might be into multiple sections to better organize my thoughts on the subject matter. Easy Visibility When a therian first awakens, discovers what the therian community is, or begins to question their therianthropy, they often reach out for help or search for resources to assist them in figuring out what their theriotype may be. Frequently they're told by other therians or the sites they look to to research animals that align with their instincts, shifts (if they experience them), and the environments they remember (if they believe the origin of their therianthropy to be a past life) and/or feel most comfortable in.

The primary issue with this advice is that animal behavior, while specific to each animal, can be generalized across clades and even across unrelated species. If the questioning therian searches for their theriotype based on their food-guarding tendencies, growling, and love of cold climates, they're equally likely to be a wolf, a marten, a wolverine, a fox, a bear, a lynx, or any other predatory cold-biome mammal. Which one of these animals do you think is going to pop up first when they're researching cold-climate predators that match their specifications.

A Wolf. And because questioning therians are not frequently encouraged to search further than the first result, or are not sure how to fully determine if the animal is their theriotype, or is just one they feel a strong connection to, they go with the first animal that popped up. This is the primary reason why 'popular' theriotypes happen. They're the first animal(s) in the search bar when questioning therians go looking, and they're often not informed enough about the process of discovering one's theriotype to look for other options. They may also feel pressured to have figured out their theriotype already, given that every other therian around them already seems to know. Solving this issue is as simple as encouraging further search and not jumping headfirst into declaring an animal your theriotype. Reassure questioning therians that it's OK to not know their theriotype immediately, and it's OK to keep looking. It's also OK to find out you were wrong later on and 'change' (not actually change, but rather adjust the label of) your theriotype to your more accurate one.

Not A Theriotype Perhaps controversially, the 'popular' theriotypes may not be theriotypes at all. When questioning therians are introduced to the community they're often unfamiliar with terms such as otherhearted, otherlink, copinglink, or archetrope. Because they're unfamiliar with these other words and definitions, they assume any sort of connection with an animal (extant, extinct, or mythical) is therianthropy. The reason that 'popular theriotypes. may show up more often as hearttypes, links, or tropes (though this one is fairly nebulous) is because they're often easier on a fundamental level to relate to or project feeling, emotion, or connection onto. They're easier to identify with from a human perspective due to the human nature of anthropomorphizing nonhuman animals and due to humanity's familiarity and fondness towards them, and so they appear more often as hearttypes/links. In the case of links especially, because it is a voluntary identity, more 'popular' animals are chosen specifically because there is an aspect of choice involved. 'Popular' animals do have a 'cool factor' to them that makes them more beloved by linkers and more likely to become links. And this isn't a bad thing in the slightest! This particular issue can simply be resolved by further educating the alterhuman community on the terms used within it. I personally recommend the Alterhuman Dictionary as it has easy to understand and up-to-date definitions. Not A Therian We must be able to calmly confront the fact that, at the end of the day, some of these therians with popular theriotypes may not be therians, otherhearted, otherlinkers, or copinglinkers at all. However, that does not mean that they are faking, and it's harmful to assume so or claim that someone is. Firstly, many of the therians with 'popular theriotypes' that other therians complain about are very young. 12-16 most of the time. Secondly, this age is when a lot of things about one's personal identity are in flux, and it's prime time to begin discovering who you are. Exploring one's identity is fundamentally nonharmful, and this can mean testing out labels and identifying as something you may turn out to not be at all. There's no shame in this. I myself thought I was some form of canine for many years before realizing that my ‘canine’ behaviors were not canine at all, they were draconic. And ultimately, age does not factor into this as much as you’d think it does. Yes young therians are likely to be a little more tactless than adult therians on the internet, and are more prone to bullying, but anyone of any age is capable of exploring their identity and getting it wrong the first few (or few-hundred) times.

Therians in New Spaces The real catalyst for the vast majority of this [extremely pointless] discourse is the fact that therians are in the public eye now more than ever. Videos of therians go viral on TikTok, the news (inaccurately and harmfully) reports on us occasionally, and bigots who scream about ‘identity politics’ and ‘blue hair and pronouns’ have latched onto us as a new target to bully and harass. This is nothing new, the community has weathered harassment before, but the widespread nature of it is what’s inflaming this discourse. People make fun of ‘popular’ theriotypes because they want to distance themselves from ‘cringe therians’ (usually just vocal and proud younger therians), they want to avoid the bullying that easily targeted therians are facing so they join in, or because they feel like gatekeeping the community from supposed ‘fake’ therians is the only way to keep ‘true’ therians safe. The best way to mitigate this is to correct misinformation, educate, and if worse comes to worse, block. The block button is your best friend on the internet (where most of this discourse and bullying occurs), if someone is harassing you and won’t let up, or even if they just severely irritate you, blocking them does no harm and is ultimately better for your mental health and (sometimes) safety. Conclusion While perhaps more scrambled, I hope this essay has helped you understand the inane discourse around ‘popular’ theriotypes and what to do about it (if anything). I’ll leave you on the reminder that you’re under zero obligation to educate those who won’t listen, your experience with alterhumanity is going to be different from everyone else’s even if there are similarities, and you do not have the knowledge or right to tell anyone you do or do not know that they’re faking an aspect of their identity. Leave people with ‘popular’ theriotypes alone. And by the fucking gods, please stop arguing about it. It does not matter.