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Herten in een bos - Adolphe Mouilleron, after Karl Bodmer - 1859 - via Rijksmuseum

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It’s okay… They only bite a lil’ 😂✨🫣

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This will be my first art post, I’m trying to grow my art account. Feel free to follow and share for love support 🙈🤍

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ceramic deer by roselane

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Harrison Wood Hsiang

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Intertwined

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Spinning through a darkened sky — a colder star, a brighter eye.

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The purpose of this survey is to collect data about the experiences of people who feel sensations of nonhuman body parts, for example, wings or a tail. Some call these supernumerary phantom limbs, phantom shifts, otherlimbs, or astral limbs, though you may have other preferences for the words you use for your own experiences. If you haven't had those experiences, you can participate in this survey too. This survey was made for people who call themselves otherkin, therianthrope, furry, or any other potentially alterhuman or nonhuman identity. If you don't describe yourself with any of those words, you can participate in this survey too.

The survey will take you about 6 to 15 minutes. Everyone age 18 and up is welcome to fill out the survey at the below link, until it closes on July 6, 2024:

Survey Link

Who is running this survey and why: The person running this survey is Orion Scribner (they/them), an otherkin/therianthrope who has been making projects about these communities since 2005. I will use the results in my panel at an Internet-based convention later this year (OtherCon 2024), and in other future research projects.

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every mile per hour over the speed limit

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every mile per hour over the speed limit

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it can be really discouraging once you get out there and realize pictures aren't enough but you can do it! like scarsmood said, it takes time, but as you get used to differentiating the more obvious plants, you'll get better at picking up all the little details that you can use to differentiate harder plants

it might be nice to do a research day to really acquaint yourself with what's in your region (i like to think of researching that being a comparison to the kind of natural experience and skill i would have gotten as a nonhuman) and then it might be a good next step to have a day where you go out and forage but not necessarily with the goal to bring something back. like a preview day to practice and do observation and things like that

it does take time for sure but you haven't lost your connection to the wilds. you just gotta rekindle it, it's still in you

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So, I wanted to go foraging today. The idea of eating something from nature and not from a grocery store really really appeals to my nonhuman side. I have a book on how to forage in my region, but I’ve never used it. As soon as I got to the forest, I realized I had no idea what to do. I couldn’t identify any plants, I couldn’t even guess. I was flipping through my book and trying to match pictures, but nothing was working. I hate it. I know I’m not going to be good at something the first try. But it really feels like I’ve lost my connection to the wilds. That I’m fully human now. And that’s sad. I went home. Back to my human house full of human food. Ugh.

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Stereum

Prints here.

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ugh in a feelings funk today. i know i'm literally part of a system but why can't we all just feel the same way about all the same things. i don't need to cause problems again

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I literally look like this humans can’t see me behind my human guise I wish someone [another deer preferably] could see the real me