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Awoooo it’s #werewolfwednesday! The new Hunter V5 werewolf is so cool I had to try.

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The duality of hellhound

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"why do you eat so fast?" they ask, not knowing i have the brain of a wild animal that still hasn't grasped the concept of regular meals

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y'know when you just

when you

yea?

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Buff and snarly! Process video: https://youtu.be/rBopCwQ0K_g

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thinking abt werewolf hands today

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“The Healing Church”

Bloodborne inspired werewolf for Mab’s Drawlloween Club.

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Museum Obscurum last weekend with my boyfriend

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Anybody get a little feral when the full moon comes around…or is that just me?

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You meet a werewolf! 

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might i be a werewolf pirate ? or a werewolf prince?? i don’t know you’d have 2 find my sword 2 find out

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A spread designed for finding out what the current full moon means for you. You can also pull out The Moon card in your deck and place it in the middle for more clarity.

What is revealed

How this affects you

Message

Culmination/Outcome

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change of pace. here’s some gross werewolf content

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Guess I should put myself out there

Local demonkin here, looking for other people to talk to!

Please reblog if you’re:

•Otherkin, specifically demonkin, angelkin, dragonkin, or any “dark kin” (fae, vampires, etc)

•Into witchy stuff

•Post Trans positive stuff

•Generally wanna learn about kin stuff! I wanna learn too, and swapping info is Awesome

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børhella lighthouse

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My name is Eliza Fable...

I’m thirty-three years old. I’m a writer by profession, but I mostly write boring things for clients. I also write about paganism, magick, religion, and therianthropy, in my spare time. I live in Warsaw, Poland with my husband.

I’ve been aware of my therian side in some form since 1999. Before that, and before I’d heard of therianthropy, it manifested simply as a vague sense of otherness and some behavioral quirks.

Upon learning about therianthropy and the therian community, I began serious soul-searching. It was several years before I became confident of my theriotype. For an unpleasantly-long time, I really, really, really wished I was otherkin (mythkin?) instead of a regular normal therian, too. Eventually I got over this and started to pick up on my own intuition a bit more.

Even then, I was unclear about specifics beyond the notion of “otter.” I also wasn’t able to participate much in the therian or otherkin communities online, owing to my own paranoid nature and shyness at the time.

Roughly three years ago, I decided that I needed to take my therianthropy more seriously. In other words, I began to feel a certain duty due to the unique experience of therianthropy. This led me to involvement in wetlands conservation and research, as well as general environmental activism.

Through connections in the wildlife conservation community, I found photos of the Asian small-clawed otter. This made me aware of nuances in my own animal side, and I knew that the small-clawed otter was my specific theriotype.

Until very, very recently, I only rarely spoke openly about my therian side. It’s true that most people knew I had a connection to otters, but I avoided openly using words like “therian” and “otherkin” until shortly before I created this blog. 

This was, of course, mostly due to the controversy such terms cause these days.

Embracing my therianthropy was quite influential in the trajectory of my life. Prior to fully coming to terms with it, I was incredibly shy. I was introverted, but never really happy with that.

When I began to work on developing my connection to my theriotype, I discovered that I gradually became more extroverted. The small-clawed otter is, after all, well-known as an extremely social creature, and they tend to live in interdependent families called romps.

I realized that the “real me” was an extrovert (just like my theriotype), and that it was only early negative experiences that kept me from that. I’m a lot happier with my social life now.

When I was younger, I also had a lot of trouble developing hobbies. I was basically a workaholic during my undergrad years, and burned out easily because of it.

As I grew closer to my theriotype, this changed. I began to remember the joy of play, and the importance of leisure and hobbies. Otters are known for their playful nature, of course.

A lot of the changes I experienced as I connected with my therian side might’ve just been part of growing up. Still, I think my therian nature facilitated this process.

I created this site to support my own project of writing a book (from my own perspective) about spiritual therianthropy. There are far too few books for therians out there! I want to create and publish one!

I was also dissatisfied with many of the therianthropy and otherkin resources online. They seemed piecemeal, incomplete, and often came with a whole lot of drama. I also grew sick of troll blogs appearing to be the most vocal therians. In addition to documenting my book project, this blog will share therian tidbits and hopefully be a positive voice in the community!

I believe that my own perspective on therianthropy is rarely expressed online, but I’m willing to bet other therians do, in fact, share my views. If you do, cool! We should talk sometime. 

If not, well, write to me anyways! I’d love to showcase/post other views on this site, even if they’re different than mine!