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some of yall heard "but does it hurt anyone?" and took that to mean "if im not actively watching someone get physically or verbally assaulted then [x thing] is completely fine and should never be criticized or critiqued by anyone ever"

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According to his socials, he was also a therian

Sad to see such an admirable member of our community gone, I hope he knew how appreciated his work and presence was

i would like to thank the uc berkeley professor who created the technology to put heart rate monitors in watches who also happens to be a furry

bc of you i was able to get my pots diagnosis and better understand what’s wrong w me 🙏🙏

furries contribution to this world is unmatched yall

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nonhumanity will never not be funny because why is this thing

working at an escape room and doing a customer service voice while it tells customers to pretty please not break our props

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I should do something spontaneously nice for someone else today

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Hey so just btw, the original coiner of the "chosen therian" label just revealed themselves to be a troll who isn't even alterhuman and the whole chosen therian thing was meant as rage bait for real therians LMAO😭

I don't ever wanna see anymore shit from any of yall about "chosen therians" being a legitimate form of therianthropy, yall literally came from a rage bait troll, that should say a lot lol

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oughgh my bed… ohohib boy my bed..

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Okay chat I was wrong Im *definitely corvidhearted, not corvid otherlink lmfao

*im never sure of anything ever

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do you think it’s okay to consider behaviors and feelings you know are due to trauma/illness as apart of your theriotypes behavior and reason for being that theriotype? like if a coyote has escorting behavior and you have escorting behavior due to trauma so you consider it part of why you’re a coyote and part of your coyote shifts/behavior. or must your behaviors have like no other explanations besides “this is coyote behavior and cannot be explained by trauma/illness/human behaviors”

Oh absolutely!! While not trauma necessarily, I definitely consider part of my werewolf/wolfblood identity to have originated from feeling outcasted by my peers for being autistic as a kid. Trauma and mental illness are part of your lived experience, they can very much so shape who you are as an individual, it's just as valid and understandable of a reasoning to identifying as nonhuman as anything else. I think it's very much so up to you to put a label on it, if you feel like it's an aspect of therianthropy for you, then it is!

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I don’t think anyone talks about how incredibly lonely it can be sometimes to be alterhuman. Sure, there’s online spaces, meet-ups, forums and groups, but outside of that? You’re inevitably going to have at least one small period of your life where no-one around you feels the way you do and you have no idea why. Maybe you’re a child who’s never heard the words ‘therian’ or ‘otherkin’. Maybe you’re deep in the antikin community, lashing out at joy with hate and fear. Maybe there’s something else keeping you seperate.

Whatever the reason, that part of life is… almost unbearably isolated. You feel different, different in a way you can barely put words to. Different in a way you often see others institutionalised for in books and movies. Different in the way you hear your thoughts, speak your words and experience your feelings. And more often than not, you don’t know why.

Why you? Why were you chosen to shoulder the burden of being so different? What made any benevolent creator (or lack thereof) reach down and plant such joy in your heart, and such pain also?

Your hands are not your own as they grip foreign objects of an alien world; cutlery, pencils, jewellery. Are you even meant to have hands? Sometimes your fingers ache with the knowledge they were never meant to exist in any meaningful capacity. Your heart beats too fast, too slow, too… human.

Your friends and family don’t understand. They can’t. They’ve never felt the call of the camphor-laden breeze, never lost themselves to the wild, frenetic energy of the night. They’re human. Your spirit extends beyond yourself, in impossible limbs that they will never yearn for. Your soul will not be contained within this flesh prison, it never could be, all whilst theirs rests comfortably at home.

There’s no words for this feeling, not in any book, nor television show. There’s no representation except for in the monstrous. There’s no celebrity that openly talks about it. There’s no dictionary that explains it. You’re different, alone, and entirely certain that you are the only person on earth to be a facsimile of a person; not a person at all.

And then you find the therian community. And you realise they’d been there all along, hidden from the mainstream conversation, away from the late-night talk shows and trivia competition questions.

And you wonder, in what cruel world could such unbearable loneliness continue to be allowed to persist when the answer existed in the background all along? Who let your heart break over and over, just to reveal it broke for nothing so painful at all? Who let you scream hoarsely into the void, begging for answers, all while the answers sat so close by?

How could any of this be fair?

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i love bein on this app. dnt nobody know me. dnt nobody care what i be doin. peaceful

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my panther/lion trans girl oc, Luna, has a transmasc stud brother, they're twins!!!

(his name is TJ)

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I have never seen a therian who didn't physically look at least a little bit like their theriotype(s) Im so serious

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Okay found out what exactly this means (thank you to the elf who provided me the info lol), my previous point still stands that I don't generally care about who interacts, but I will say this term does makes me a little uncomfortable. Claiming to have an involuntary identity that you don't actually have for fun definitely feels more than a little icky, like saying you're "bisexual for fun", you're not actually that thing you're just someone who views an important aspect of someone else's existence as an accessory of sorts. If you're rping as an oc who happens to be kin then I think that's completely fine, but my understanding is that this is more of a you yourself pretending to be kin sorta deal, which fs rubs me the wrong way. Idk idrc that much but I wouldn't wanna be friends with someone who "identifies" that way

Are people who are kin for fun allowed to follow / interact?

Sure? Im honestly not totally sure what this means, like otherlink? But except for actually dangerous/predatory ppl I generally don't really care who interacts with me lol

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Are people who are kin for fun allowed to follow / interact?

Sure? Im honestly not totally sure what this means, like otherlink? But except for actually dangerous/predatory ppl I generally don't really care who interacts with me lol

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Controversial take but I think it’s okay for people to want animal packers for sexual reasons

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my habitat !!! all photos taken by me in nova scotia and washington state :33