#bear barks

[pumpkinstep]

I'm super curious cause where I live it's a super normal thing but I realize that it might be super weird to other places within the states. I also don't know how common this style of bus is ha.

I was actually thinking about this when I was riding the bus.

as always reblog for more responses.

bonus if you add what state you live in/where you've seen and/or rode one in the tags, only if you're comfortable doing so of course

[maledistributionsystem]

part of what makes me so passionate about this blog is that the version of black masculinity that most cishet black men portray is NOT the only version of black masculinity allowed to exist.

My father is an empathetic and emotional man. when i cried in front of him he didn't think anything of it. He freely talks about his own emotions. We're both weird recluse nerds. He made a career out of weird computer shit just like im doing right now. He shamelessly loves plushies and little figurines. We both have barely-mitigated rage that blossoms at the drop of a hat. I love my dad. He didn't raise me yet somehow i am a beautiful mirror of him.

I didn't grow up with him in my life though. Instead all black male figures in my life growing up were either assholes or didn't do shit for me. I hated watching how my god brothers' father treated them. I hated how they were berated for cursing. I hated how they so easily shunned me when we got old enough for us playing football to become "inappropriate". I hated how they reinforced their distance from emotionalism through calling harmless and natrual behaviors gay.

When i think about being a man, i think about my father. I think about nerdy cisbi/cisgay black men who try very hard to keep to themselves and keep their heads down. I think about a gay boy i knew in highschool who loved dancing and was still a pretty masculine guy. I think about how unfair it is that my white counterparts get so many examples and options for manhood while black boys get one culturally accepted version of it.

Admittedly, i don't always love being the soft little freak i am. But thats okay, it doesn't have to feel good all the time. It doesn't have to be perfect. I only need to keep my drive for who i am. And that's enough.

All this shit to say: I hope all the black men following me know they're allowed to redefine masculinity without inherently being comfortable with femininity. Yall are allowed to be masculine in all the different ways and nuances that white men get. We aint just allowed to exist, we have a fucking right to.

[softservecanine]

Being psychologically kin is so!!! Hard to explain!!

(By the by, not trying to put down spiritual therians here! I love you guys /gen)

“How did you know?”

Well I can’t answer with “meditation and spiritual discovery.” I used to think that was it. But no when I was 13, I found the otherkin community, and just kind of started getting in tune with that part of myself that, over time, has become more and more inseparable from my being until we get to where we are today, where being a dogboy is my whole personality, identity, and life.

“Why are you a therian?”

MAN IDK. I don’t think I was born this way. I can’t say that it’s “part of my soul.” I think I was made this way, through social conditioning mixed with my autism. Idk why I ended up like this specifically, or why I specifically feel like a dog. I just do.

Spiritual therians seem to be able to explain themselves so easily. I love y’all. To an outsider, it’s easier to think “oh yeah reincarnation and spiritualism and animism and stuff!” Like that can be easy to digest. But for people like me? That’s a harder pill for most people to swallow.

[butchpreyboy]

its such a shame that i'm all high and puppy brained but there's no mean (were)wolf girls to take advantage of me,, and knot me

[werewulf-dyke]

I haven't used this hellsite in a Very long time but the existence of the butch bait tag is doing irreparable things to my brain

[bear-selfships]

mhhhehhe im finally redrawing my s/i :·3

& fuck it im changing her name- hes just gonna be called bear :·)) i cant think of anything else i like so heh

[fag-freak-2]

fuck kissing. if I like you I'm slubbing on you like an opossum

[blingusdlingus]

fuck it. my tumblrinas get an early look at the 2 page comic i did for my upcoming sonic riders zine. read it and weep folks.

[gracefuldisasters]

I might make an Eggman later ;) But here's some more!

Nicole, Shard, and Knuckles are my favorites out of these I think. The Chaotix will probably be next, but feel free to suggest more!

The original set the next ones another bit

[grizzly-bear-official]

SWIM through the fishes and

SCRATCH all your itches and

SLAM all the salmon it's GRIZZLY BEAR

[pumpkinstep]

I'm too lazy to draw this but

harry wearing a leather jacket that says, "the dead leech off the living through memory" on the back

open prompt

[maledistributionsystem]

I love you black men. I love being a black man. I love redefining what black manhood means for me, and rejecting the idea that it's incongruent with queerness or emotionalism. I love being a black man who loves myself and my wife wholeheartedly. I love being a black man whose weird and nerdy and autistic and mentally ill because i never saw black men like me growing up. I love being a black man because my father introduces me as his son and he is so proud of me. I love being a black man, because this is who i am and it cannot be taken from me. I love black men so much. black men have my whole fuckin' gay ass heart. I love my brothers.

[softservecanine]

Gender/Kin board

Puppycore dogtix Australian shepherd!

[butchpreyboy]

You need to know what even just the phrase "butch prey boy" makes me feel. I need to make you know.

hhh please do.. 😵‍💫🥺

[werewulf-dyke]

thinking about these pics I took of my little old man today