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https://professionaljaywlker.dreamwidth.org/

[archive-professional-jaywalker]

I'll be honest, making this post + discussing it w/ folk has made me realize trying to keep up with the Alt-H community on Tumblr currently is making me fucking miserable so I might take a hiatus and try to get into a community that has less tendency to fuck up my brain accidentally. I've been unfollowing a bunch of ppl bc it's just kinda not worth it. Maybe I'll pop up for zines, but I think I'm just gonna stick to dreamwidth mostly.

[vintagewildlife]

Siamese fireback pheasant By: Jean Howman From: Pheasants of the World 1993

[shalmonsdraws]

honkin yappin

[smrow]

utahraptor, for a friend

[fuckedfowl]

What if we cuddled up on the couch and preened each other… no homo tho

[archive-professional-jaywalker]

Experienced Tiktok Kid Therians for the first time. Wild.

[who-is-page]

Spring, 2025: Achievements, Goals, Community Happenings

[Cross-posted from my Patreon]

It's been a while since we updated our Patreon, but we're not dead (yet)! Life's been a whirlwind of changes as we settle into a new job and try to wrangle affording the last two college classes we need to complete our second Bachelor's, but we wanted to once again take a moment to reorient ourselves and talk about what we've been doing and we're we've been going.

Achievements. 💡

We (alongside our partner Orion Scribner and our friends Abraxas) were first-time vendors at the Tampa Zine Fest, selling printed copies of A Wolf in Man's Clothing, Alterhuman Horoscopes, and updated versions of the Daily Dragonsbane #1 and #2. It was a smashing success and we sold out of all the copies of A Wolf in Man's Clothing that we had brought with us!

The second Centaurus Festival happened this March! While peak attendance was unable to be measured due to re-using last year's server, we had over 193 registrations for the event and a total of approximately 200 server members. There were 16 panels in total and the convention raised $111.70 for the spotlight nonprofit, the Internet Archive. If you weren’t able to make it to the convention this year, don’t worry; you can find the 2025 panels on our YouTube! Much the same as last year, this convention would not have been possible without our amazing staff team. (Important note: the website is currently down for Firefox users; I'm working with our web provider to help get the errors worked out!)

Goals. ✒️

We took a social media hiatus with Orion this past May and are hoping to continue it strong into June. It was great to step away from the doom-scrolling that social media can inspire in us, especially given how much of it centers around the current political climate. We've almost entirely moved to Dreamwidth for the time being, although our daily posts are access-locked.

We signed up for the Hot Wet Queer Summer Jam, a writing-centered jam where the only requirements are that the submissions are "wet" and "hot," in whatever way you want to take those prompts. The jam runs from June 1st to August 31st, and we're hoping to write some swampy monster stories set in our home state of Florida.

Community Happenings 📬

The newest alterhuman convention, HowlCon, has officially opened up its Artist and Panelist applications! Attendees, keep your eyes peeled for registration to open up this July. Convention dates will run from September 19 - 21, 2025.

The oldest alterhuman convention, OtherCon, is open for Artist and Panelist registrations-- see more details here. Registrations close June 1st, so hurry! OtherCon is scheduled for August 8 - 10, 2025.

Nonhuman Notions, a quarterly newsletter for nonhumans and by nonhumans, was recently founded by Gillman and a team of other talented folks. They're currently open for submissions and, if you'd like to get in touch with them, their email is [email protected]. More information regarding submission guidelines can be found on the Nonhuman Notions website.

Nova founded the Fictionfolk Webring for folks with fictional components to their identities. If that sounds like you, look into how to join here.

The Body et. al created the SouthBeastern Webring for alterhumans in the southeastern United States. It's currently only open to folks who are also a part of the Florida (Alterhu)man Discord server, a group organized by Orion Scribner for alterhumans in the southeastern US as well.

Draconity: A Draconic Zine is open for submissions! Created by Nova, this zine is seeking pieces about draconity by alterhumans and nonhumans. Submissions close November 1st, 2025.

Bayou started the Alterhuman Minizine Jam in February to massive success! Zines created by the community can be found on Tumblr.

The Interstellar System started a new alterhuman comic, What's Alter-Happening? Comic pages can be found on their Tumblr.

Nova has challenged themselves to make a regular comic strips for 2025, titled collectively under Three Heads One Braincell. These strips are about their lives as an alterhuman system, and you can find them on their Tumblr.

The NSFW zine Nocturne has officially cancelled its second issue, with no plans from the creator to return to the concept. The creator no longer considers itself to be a member of the alterhuman community (so don't pester it about it.)

The Journal of Being zine which was originally slated for a 2025 release has been cancelled.

The status of the Mosaic of the Unhuman zine remains unknown: organizer Soweli-Musi reported last year that the zine has been compiled, but is still waiting on absent co-organizer Starry-Bear to provide additional writings and artwork.

The Hall of Creators convention, which was scheduled for May 3 - 4, 2025, was cancelled without warning. It's currently unknown if the biannual convention will be scheduled for its fall session or if it will remain on indefinite hiatus.

After publishing Issue #3, the Inky Paws zine has officially gone on hiatus for 2025.

[amayensis]

Bird wing drawing tips! 🪶 I made a sheet of cool tips that I learnt these past months and wanted to share. I uploaded the full sheet on early access for my Patrons!

I hope you will enjoy this sneak peek 👀

Edit: it's available for public viewing now! (See link above)

[amayensis]

The full sheet is available! Have fun c:

[raw-wild]

Brown Pelican & Osprey | Mark Smith

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put osprey in to n\ap! inside very Soft and Comfort osprey sleep soundly put osprey in Pelican Mouth. Put Osprey In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth because good Shape and Support for osprey neck weak of big osprey head. Apelican Mouth yes a place for a osprey put osprey in pelican mouth can trust pelican for giveing good love to osprey. friend pelican

[oblivious-chaos]

The osprey escaped this encounter btw...here's Mark's series of photos from his youtube channel:

[teethwreath]

The above video is WELL worth watching, the guy is a fantastic narrator and takes incredible photos of the battles between ospreys and the pelicans who want to take their fish and eat them keep them safe:

But it is not actually the video the original picture is from! I think I have found the actual one though!

Featuring the increasingly insane attempts of a juvenile pelican to put something, ANYTHING in their mouth.

Starting with fish:

and culminating with trying to swallow an osprey whole twice😭

So it turns out that original picture was of an escape in progress:

Because it turns out when your weapon is a large bag, it's hard to fight against someone who's armed with fistfuls of knives.

Bedraggled, but free!

Don't just go by my cliffnotes though, you really have to watch (or just listen to) the video for the full drama

[archive-professional-jaywalker]

oughhhh i need to update my neocities.... coding hard....

[archive-professional-jaywalker]

Thinking about survival dragon games. Like draconia is fiiiiiine but it's stagnating and i'm expecting it to become yet another dragon themed chat room.

I think what i really want in a dragon survival multiplayer game would be monster hunter : now you're the dragon. It's probably... too much to ask of indie game devs, honestly, but the idea of a game where you have the kind of attacks the beasts in monster hunter do, with the same kind of timings as how you play the hunter in the game, would feel GREAT when throwing down w/ another player in another beast. Just turf wars but both monsters are players. Hunting involves also using ur skills to defeat the smaller monsters to eat, be it by being undetected until you're sure to get it in one go, through traps, or whatever else.

I remember i had so many dreams for a monster hunter game where you play the monster as a kid. god i wish that existed i prolly would not exist outside of the game for months.

[zestyskyrimwoodenbowl]

YOU GET IT YOU GET IT

I’m tired of “creature survival games” in general becoming glorified chatrooms and oc makers. I want these games to instill fear, excitement, and savage behavior in me. Enough with the spam clicking, I want to grapple other creatures and smack them around. Hunting should be more than running through Unreal Engine 4 Grass Field Asset #375 and spam biting a deer that only notices me when I’m 2 feet from it, and runs in a straight line. They all have that mechanic. I want to grab my prey off the ground, or slow it down by wearing out their stamina or damaging their legs mid-hunt. I want to forage through dead leaves for food or enrichment. I want to see more little details, because they really do make the whole experience.

The ONLY 3D game that comes sort of close to my vision is Path of Titans. It’s not perfect, but the first couple times I played it, I could only play it for a couple of minutes because my hands and chest were trembling too much. It and Golden Treasure are the only games to fully trigger Creature Mode in my brain. I don’t know why I had such an extreme reaction and it was a little embarrassing, but the whole time my brain was screaming in ecstasy. Please, more of this. 99% of creature sims either turn into scams or fade out of existence due to a lack of focus, organization or some other reason. And the ones that don’t are missing The Secret Spice.

Also I strongly believe that draconia should’ve gotten 1.5~ more years of development before early access and the team needs to have a better idea on what to prioritize but that’s a whole other can of worms

[archive-professional-jaywalker]

Kinda wish I could get a thorough grilling session like on old forums sometimes. the aggression was unwaranted but by god if it didn't help with putting being used to a type aside and actually Looking at instincts and what matches or doesn't

Every so often I requestion things, bc like, there IS a lot of birds out there and i do have weird traits like the appeal of dimorphism, a slight affinity toward migratory birds that i have a hard time placing (in the sense of "do i find it cool? do i kinda wish i could do it?"), and other stuff, and it's weirdly grating to have that very slight uncertainty in the back of my mind. but alas grilling is actually kinda annoying to do as the person who is grilling another when not motivated by Wanting To Prove Something bc it's inherently a little bit mean sometimes

[wanderingcritter]

idk if anyone else has done this yet, i feel like it's a pretty obvious combo but i have yet to see it used around the community anywhere else, but uh yeah if this inspires u at all go crazy with it ig 👍

[nyctohyloph0bia]

This is fuckin' awesome, so we made it into a digital symbol!!!

Anyone is free to use with or without credits!

[alterhuman-art]

[Image description: Several different variations of the trans symbol mixed with the theta delta. In order: Original sketch on lined paper, black symbol with transparent background, with a white border and the final with both a white and black border. End description.]

[archive-professional-jaywalker]

research projects are always SUPER EXCITING!! I'm actually on one now in northern Africa, HA! Hope it goes well for you!! 💚

@gone-fish-mode

oh HELL yeah that is cool as fuck. I plan on trying to get a research project outside of France between my two years of master, this one is just in a laboratory near where I live. It is very fun though, it is on social insect cognition and how ants differentiate in castes in species that are more fluid between reproductive dominants and worker subordinates. Hope you have fun on your side!!!

[eroguroseal-deactivated20250525]

hate the notion that "im not a person, im a ThErIaN, i don't need to worry about human issues" because the human issues are affecting your brothers and sisters in the wilderness and you are not listening to them when they cry out

when you say shit like that all i hear is "i dont actually care about or identify as/with my species, im just here to feed my misanthropy and laziness :3"

same bitches that complain about my lack of empathy btw ⬆️

[a-dragons-journal]

It also ignores the fact that like... regardless of how you identify and perceive yourself, you still live and participate in human society, whether you like it or not. "that's a human issue" is a stupid statement because I promise you are contributing exactly as much to whatever said issue is as the average human around you is.

[aestherians]

Here's a crazy thought: Human issues are therian issues too because therians live in a human society.

[swanngalleries]

H. BOYLSTON DUMMER

The Robin Book, circa 1925.

Featured in Art, Press & Illustrated Books.

[gone-fish-mode]

anyway. Beasts in and around my pond. Tell me how yall are doing. I'm curious and too busy to keep up with my mutuals + tags. ily.