Mae

Dark Goddess - Nonhuman - Adult - in a relationship

[a-shattered-goddess]

Something emerges from the Void . . .

My name is Mae, I'm a Dark Goddess who uses it/its pronouns. I am not human, this body is not me. Please remember this.

I'm host to a system, we have a separate blog, feel free to ask me for it.

Asks and DMs are accepted, I enjoy getting questions or just random hellos!

Below the read more at the end are divider credits

Leaving a trail behind it . . .

@darklunadoll is my main blog, I follow from there. @lunar-songbird is my general blog.

@snow-paw is my therianthropy blog, I'm a snow leopard also.

@guardian-shepherd is my german shepherd otherlinking blog.

@pomegranate-omega is my misceanimalis blog.

@otherkin-confessional I run with my friend Seraphiel.

@alterhuman-encyclopaedia is a pet project that needs a new tagging system, a hoard of info posts I collect on and off.

You can find me over in Divine Side most days. A divine alterhuman discord server I also run with Seraphiel.

Carving its own path . . .

I block freely and as needed. My stances are warning enough to not need a DNI in my opinion.

Endogenic systems are safe here. Generative AI and Purity Culture can eat glass and fuck off. I want no part in shipcourse. Bigotry and harassment will not be tolerated towards anyone.

Worship is strictly off the table, my partner and my system are the only ones I accept doing so.

Kin for Fun should use these terms or this one

The radqueer community is not safe in any capacity, if you're part of it you aren't welcome on my blogs.

Weight loss and eating disorder content will get you blocked immediately.

A shadow passes overhead . . .

Dividers

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[who-is-page]

The Nonhuman National Park is a new forum moderated by myself and @liongoatsnake aimed towards nonhumans, alterhumans, and plural systems. While most forums pride themselves on building fences, this forum focuses on building gates: participating here is not contingent on whether you're nonhuman, alterhuman, or plural in some way, but on wanting to discuss and interact with nonhuman, alterhuman, and plural people and discussions. This forum is open to everyone, regardless of where you come from or what you identify as, because we want to make information and conversation surrounding nonhuman, alterhuman, and plural existences accessible and inclusive for everyone. The Park is hoping to establish itself as a community hub and resource center focused on strengthening bridges between various communities and individuals, helping tear down faction-based mindsets, and promoting new growth and ideas. If this sounds like something that appeals to you, become a member on the forums today at https://nonhumannationalpark.boards.net/!

[gone-fish-mode]

i need everyone to know that I am JUST now realizing the logo to this forum (like right now, today, 5 mins ago), which I have been on since 2023, is a creature curled up. and not just a face rising out of the ground, a la evangelion

anyway. join NNP if you haven't. Good day.

[fish-thing-ferret-thing]

Worst editing job of my life but. Does. Does anyone else See

[who-is-page]

LMAO?????

[a-shattered-goddess]

To be fair, i kept trying to look for a forest in the logo...

I have also only just registered it is a creature

Sky, mountains, lake, grass/trees... i think i regiatered the eye as a spacial anomaly.... 😅

Knowing it's a creature though is adorable

[a-shattered-goddess]

I'm about to start clawing the wallsssssss

Companies™️ are pissing me off and i feel like a caged predator waiting to be set loose to deal with the issue.

Go on, set me free from my vessel. Ignore the sharp teeth and glowing eyes... Claws? What claws?

[blankblankblanche]

The important other step to remember is figuring out and starting to build what will be left after the destruction. I want to do many things to the powers that are harming people for profit. But claws around necks and flames of divine wrath will not bring food and shelter and healthcare to those who need it. My sharp claws are housed inside soft paws. Both are important parts of me

[a-shattered-goddess]

This is true and is when i would bring my sisters in to help, I am the Darkness that brings an end, they are the Light and balance to begin anew.

In the meantime while housed in this vessel i will help those around me to the extent i can, sheathing the claws.

But one day...

[a-shattered-goddess]

I'm about to start clawing the wallsssssss

Companies™️ are pissing me off and i feel like a caged predator waiting to be set loose to deal with the issue.

Go on, set me free from my vessel. Ignore the sharp teeth and glowing eyes... Claws? What claws?

[a-shattered-goddess]

So this is a bit different to my usual posts! I promise it is related to otherkin!

I decided to download the app called Slowly, it's essentially a penpal app, you write a letter and it delivers it within a timeframe, same way actual mail works.

Ive been writing letters with my friend Seraphiel (even though we talk on discord the slower letters are nice and it helps me learn the app and get used to letter writing again plus memes)

I figured I would introduce it to the otherkin community, or at least see if any of us are already on there and see if anyone wants to exchange letters?

I feel like getting into letter writing would be good for the community, as really that is whete this community started. So why not exchange letters about our experiences again.

If you want to write letters to me (and receive some in response!) Let me know and i'll send you my ID :)

I have recently considered setting up a PO box to do physical letter writing also, but that is way off in the future.

[a-shattered-goddess]

Sometimes being unable to shapeshift feels like I'm missing a limb.

Sure there's a replacement; costumes made from cobbled together parts to give a flimsy illusion that fools no one, a presence online to show who I am. It helps, but I'd rather just have my ability back.

I am unable to move as I used to, settling for an awkward half gait with limbs the wrong proportions, or the upright posture of a humanoid when I desire the fluidity of a cat or the bounding of a canine, or perhaps even the swooping flight of a bird.

I can feel how I am meant to move in these forms, but this body is not made for the shapes of my soul. I lost many parts of myself over the years, but this is one carved out through lives. A wound that only grows deeper.

I am tired of mortality. But still I march on.

[thisisalterhumanity]

Whats the difference between Therian and Alterhuman?

Genuine question, not trying to be disrespectful.

This isn’t a disrespectful question at all!

Alterhumanity is a broader term for all who identify as other then Human or beyond what’s traditionally seen as such.

This can include Therianthropy, Other kins, Fictionkins, otherhearted or animal hearted, coping links, or other links (possible more but this is what i remember at the moment!)

Some examples, but not the only examples are Angels, Unicorns, Dragons, fictional characters of any kind, and wolf therians

While Therianthropy or Therians typically only include those who identify as non-human animals.

Bugs, canines, felines, fish, etc etc just animals

This is the major difference between the two,

I hope this helps!

[a-shattered-goddess]

I have the finalised coining post on hand for Alterhuman actually, if youre curious!

few more things alterhumanity can include are: furry lifestylers, plural people, daemonism archetropy and soulbonders (who do not always consider themselves plural, though a few do!)

the full coined term is alternative humanity personal identification AHPI, shortened to Alterhuman :)

Hope this helps!

[a-shattered-goddess]

Didnt have the return of antikin trolls on my 2026 bingo but i guess some people are bored and have nothing better to do than be pests in the tags and comments of groups that dont harm them.

Bugger off back to your hole in the internet...

[the-gender-and-sexuality-list]

We're doing research on different pronouns & sexualities & how they work so we're doing a tag game!

All you have to do is say something similar to

"hi, I'm [name], I'm [gender] , [sexuality] and I use [pronouns], which are used like [this]!"

Hi, my name is Ashton. I'm voidreflux, I'm omnigay, and I use many pronouns including he/she/they/it/feathers/xey/zem! Himself, herself, itself, their self, xerself, zerself!

[a-shattered-goddess]

Hi I'm Mae! I'm genderqueer and bisexual, i use it/its pronouns.

It/its/itself are how they're used

[otherkin-confessional]

It feels like therianthropy is no longer an identity but a performance. I search the tags for discussion, only to be met with a sea of dances, masks, flags, and stimboards. People (mostly younger people, I've noticed) will all but ignore you if you show no interest in "therian gear" or quadrobics. No one wants to just talk about therianthropy and how it impacts our lives.

It's fine to have fun with therianthropy. That's not what has me upset. What bothers me is that therianthropy has become a fandom where people are more concerned about posting cute edits and arguing about who is and isn't valid than they are actually discussing therianthropy itself.

Therianthropy is basically Furry 2.0 at this point. I miss the way the community used to be, because what it is now has little, if anything, to do with identifying as an animal.

🌌

[lycanspaws]

Many are keen to argue that this is just how the community is now and to just post your own content, but I've seen it firsthand how there is a lack of care about others' identities depending on what social medias you look on. When I first joined the community almost 10 years ago, there was such a magical, welcoming feel to it. At the core, I think the issue is a lack of community connection and not so much the "trend" sides. Personal posts overridden by, dare I say, broad engagement farming.

I remember watching a 2010s quality video tutorial on how to do quadrobics like a hyena, with special attention to sloping the back and pacing accurate to hyena gait. There were recommendations on how to find videos of your theriotype walking and how to mimic that.

There were aesthetic boards with links to items you could buy or make yourself based on your theriotypes, like a wolf blanket, or an elk bracelet. Crafts like environment-friendly scent sprays and theta delta made with sticks could be found around the community.

Folks had their own websites and blogs for documenting their experiences. A new phantom shift here and a term for a unique identity there. A post about one experience could be turned into a discussion, and from there, a community, all centered around a unique and beautiful nonhuman experience.

It's not about cutting out quadrobics and gear, it's not about barring and gatekeeping voluntary identities, it's not about banishing the newer generations of kin folks that we once were. None of that. That's a part of what makes this community a community.

To me, it seems to be about community engagement. Whether that identity is physical, spiritual, voluntary, fluid, flickering, intense or not, just for fun, or otherwise. I feel like the root issue ends up being the lack of care or interest in others' identities, which is what pushes down personal posts that express what the community is about, and boosts solely generalized, non-content posts.

There is no reason to stop posting memes and silly posts, and no reason to attack them, either. That does nothing but contribute to the useless discourse in the therian community. That's where posts calling out an issue become the issue.

Boost a kinfirmation post, tell someone their phantom shifts sound really cool, ask someone what movie resonates with their identity most, make a post about a weird animal fact and how that affects your identity, take a picture of a tiger plushie at the store and tag a tiger therian. Engage with the community, and I bet we'll see at least a bit of improvement. ^^

[thetadelta]

The thing that gets me with these kinds of posts is that yeah, social media culture has degraded the most visible parts of most online communities into image-focused, performative content, but the rest of us are still here. The community looks like it does only because social media algorithms boost posts that purposely cater to a sensationalized, marketable aesthetic and bury posts with authentic discussions about identity, which creates a feedback loop when people are introduced to the community only via that kind of content and never look elsewhere for more information. And I cannot stress enough that this is not unique to alterhumanity, everything is like this now.

2010's (and even 00's) style community is still around, you just have to actually seek it out! Forums, webrings, dreamwidth, and private chatrooms are all still around. Even the content in the tags on tumblr honestly isn't that different from the way it was 10 years ago other than containing infinitely fewer anti-otherkin posts. Before tiktok therians it was KFF, and before that it was teen werewolves. There are always going to be highly visible communities that use the aesthetic of alterhumanity for things it doesn't quite mean, but that doesn't mean the meanings of things like therianthropy are actually changing– and, importantly, people get introduced to the community via those phenomena and eventually find the "core" community and learn about us. I've seen so so many people say they came to tumblr or discord from tiktok and are excited to learn about community history.

None of us can fight big social media algorithms, but we can still foster the kinds of authentic community we want. If every person who spends their time complaining about the inauthenticity of tiktok therians used that energy to start genuine conversations about their experiences, create resources, or do outreach we'd be far better off. Go be the change you want to see.

[plural-blocklist]

Troll in tags

Can't tell what theyre on about tbh but we're not havin it here. Likely a troll of some kind

glacialorchestraapex

@glacialorchestraapex · realkin

real actual kin

Block and move on. Do not harass anyone listed

[otherkin-confessional]

Where did all the orca and cetacean clinical zoanthropes come from? Genuinely?? What happened? There were *zero* cetacean nonhumans in general. Now there’s 2852102 orca clinical zoanthropes claiming they were all a lab experiment turned human when a calf and essentially having the same backstory? How does that work?

🌌

(Just so we're clear. The mods are looking at this like 🤨 if one comes forward wouldnt others?)

[a-shattered-goddess]

When one comes forward, others will, thank you to the kind rebloggers here.

I have been monitoring this post, because anon does sound passive aggressive, i honestly love seeing the orcas and cetaceans around :)

[a-shattered-goddess]

Small updates for the profile, changed my header, edited the colours of the blog a bit.

[a-shattered-goddess]

Well. We just blocked that one anti alterhuman blogger on this account, the kinfessional, snep and otherlink accounts. So those blogs are safe from any potential interaction from them. We urge others to do the same,

Interacting with them will only make them double down tbh. Harassing them will only cause further harm for everyone.

Honestly this is the second blogger who seems to be really mad about the community just existing, because they can't wrap their head around it not being harmful for everyone (yeah the community has its moments where it can be tbh). Hopefully they can work through it and move on. No ill will towards them on our end.

(The first being the person clearly struggling with their own identity)

there is a listing on plural-blocklist if you need the link to block them

[fandomnerd3]

Reblog if you're not human.

[remmickshop]

Never was

[aestherians]

It's crazy that I still see "please don't tag as kin" in some fandoms. I thought we were over fictionkinphobia.

[a-shattered-goddess]

Unfortunately it's never really gone away, hell it's gotten worse in some areas, some of the fictives in my system refuse to tag their names because people will demand they separate themselves... or just insist they cant exist (or otherwise treat them nastily).

Fictionkin is still seen as something that one "chooses" as if theyre stealing the character rather than existing alongside as it.

[echoflect]

Echoflect

When you strongly relate and/or see yourself in a fictional character. Created as an alternative to the non-fictionkin "kinning" so that there's no need to water down other terms

Usage:

[Character] is my echo. I'm a [Character] echoflect. I echoflect [Character]. Echoflection is fun.

FAQ:

Why not just kinning? Being a kin of a character is more than simply relating to it and "kinnie" is overall seen as a derogatory term towards the otherkin community. Even if you say that kinning and being a fictionkin are different things and that terms change meaning over time many feel uncomfortable with it and don't want to use it.

Why not synpath then? I think it would water down the term. Being a synpath is still a very important part of one's identity, just like being an otherkin is, and most people who "kin" characters don't have such deep connection, from what I've seen.

Is it an alterhuman term? No, it doesn't differ from the "common societal idea of humanity".

Am I an echoflect? Most likely yes, I feel like everyone has at least one character that they relate to. Whether you want to actually use the label is up to you tho.

Anything else? Feel free to use it however you want. Do you want to say that you reflect the character instead of echoflecting it, or to call yourself an "echoling" of a character? Go on. Do you want to make a new flag or symbol? Sure. Do you want to call yourself an echoflect but feel like you don't relate strong enough or maybe too much? Do whatever you want, I don't mind. The only thing I ask you is not to use it in a way that would harm others

That's all, if there are any more questions feel free to ask