CadaverCat

he/purr/lover/warm || writer + artist >:3 || just a silly little catwolfbirdbug dont mind me =^w^=

[cadavercatt]

hi hi, meow!!

my names Cadaver, but you can call me anything really :3 i love getting nicknames or stuff like that!!

this is a sideblog mainly for my alterhuman related posts >:3

i also might yap a lot about my boyfriend >w<!!! hes my mate and i love him sosososo much!!

i most likely wont follow u back if u have a super long/specific dni list!! i feel like ill mess up and break it by accident lmao, just to let yall know. i dont have a DNI myself because i believe its up to me to curate my own experience, but i will say that i am a physical ahterhuman and a DID system and i dont care much for endo "systems". theres other labels for having guys in your head that isnt taking labels from people with an actual disorder. i didnt spend my entire live going through trauma and abuse so someone on tumblr would look at my stressful coping mechanism and go "omg i want that 🥺"

might post mildly suggestive things from time to time, theyll all be tagged as suggestive.

i lovelovelove water and rain and storms !! and generally being outside !! i make gear (masks and tails mainly, but i have other plans for other gear like wings and spikes/horns) !!

im many many things!! heres a few

cat

wolf

werewolf

coyote

bug (all of them)

jolteon >w<

bugcat (my own original species)

The Sun (sometimes)

(theres more btw. lotta stuff going on here)

objectum as hell, mainly with tech and soundboards (the physical ones). my attraction is mainly platonic and sometimes familial (with my stuffed animals), but strays into other territory with tech...

uhhh what else. im taken irl (I LOVE MY MATE AAAAAAAA)

tags? tags.

#cadaver meows: general chatting tag

idk more to be added ig :3

(userbox by @/stranger-from-beyond)

random userboxes under cut !! (warning you theres a lot and the list WILL keep growing as i find/make more)

[coastal-wolf]

Something that is annoying about the classic animal mask is that it's amazing gear for me. I feel great when i can look in the mirror and actually see myself and not a humanoid shape. But i wear glasses and masks are hard to wear with glasses :(

[cadavercatt]

i find that putting some extra foam padding on the inside usually works for me!!

[anti-endo-alterhumanity]

DYNAMITY ; alterhumanity term coining post!

dynamity is essentially an anti-endo exclusive variant of alterhumanity! it isn't meant to be a replacement for the term, unless you'd like it to be; rather, an addon to let other anti-endo alterhumans know that you're anti-endo too! "dynahuman" can be used in place of "alterhuman", and "dynabeing" can be used in place "alterbeing"!

you can find a slightly more detailed explanation here(link), which includes the reason behind the labyrinth on the flags! thank you @mumbling-martes for the wonderful idea!

unlabelled stamps below the cut, labelled stamps found here(link)! ; coined by mod frost

taglist; [ @aemogai-archive ] ; ask to be added or removed!

[deafandbewildered]

Of course you think endos are real, you’re twelve.

[cadavercatt]

got told off for being anti "endo" and it turns out they were into incest lmao checks out. its always pedos and rapists and incest enjoyers who say ts like can u actually fuck off 😭

[winrytheweirdo]

alterhuman community, can we have a goal to stop being ableist

please and thank you

[cadavercatt]

tbh with the way people seem to argue really hard that plurality is a part of alterhumanity its no wonder this community has such little respect for those with CDDs

[muledeers]

tell a bird their call is beautiful,

tell a reptile their scales are wonderful,

tell a canine their fur is shining,

tell a deer their antlers are mighty,

tell a feline their claws are impressive,

tell a bug their resilience is inspiring,

tell a shark their teeth are gleaming,

tell a werewolf their howl is powerful,

tell a dragon their hoard is magnificent,

tell an angel their halo is radiant,

tell a machine their wires are superlative,

💐tell some being something nice today!

[cadavercatt]

has anyone noticed that one therian community here that seems to be full of misinformation? i dont want to join it because the vibes seem off but i keep getting posts from there that are just straight up incorrect and all of the comments on them seem to be positive and no one seems to be mentioning how its misinfo?

like i just saw a post where someone called themself a therian but then stated they dont identify as an animal and just liked making masks and doing quads and all the comments were like "yeah label yourself however you want who cares!"

and ive seen a few posts about how physical therians arent real and stuff? idk

[dinocanid]

(I originally posted this on bluesky, but I'm expanding on it where higher word counts are easier)

As different facets of alterhumanity gain more of the public eye with each passing year, the more I ask "Ok so, what are we going to Do sociopolitically. When are we going to organize and start advocating for ourselves". Because eventually that will be necessary, and "let's bury our heads in the sand and hope we become obscure again" isn't realistic in any way. We've gotta start organizing and teaming up with our allies (queer groups, neurodivergent groups, mad pride, etc.) that we are heavily intermixed with.

Therianthropy for example, for the longest time has relying on the niche nature of the concept while hoping that they'll always be forgotten about by the public eventually. They keep popping up though, and visibility has been a rising line on a graph, it's never once returned to the obscurity that it had in the 90s-early 00s. By now, a majority of information that (for lack of a better term) "normies" have about therians is all bullshit.

There was an attempt at alterhumans organizing one time in the form of AltH, but they're already defunct and have left nothing behind except "AltH" as a convenient acronym for "alterhuman". Outreach and advocacy just kind of died in the water before getting anywhere.

I've seen the argument "alterhumanity faces no issues on its own, so advocate for other things instead and it'll help us by proxy". On one hand, yes, their fight is our fight. At the exact same time, alterhumanity is its own thing, it doesn't only exist as the sum of other groups. Using nonhuman identity as an example, there are people calling therianthropy a psyop and also trans people believing that nonhuman identity is made up by transphobes and not real. "Let's go along with it and wait for this to blow over" isn't an acceptable conclusion, we need to go "yes we are real, no will not be weaponized".

Our voices are important. Our identities deserve to be respected. Neither of the two will just fall into our laps, we have to work for it.

[theorchardsys]

Coninumimi Coining Post!!

CONINUMIMI (cahn-IN-oo-MEE-mee): a contherian/alterhuman/nonhuman that experiences constant shifts of ears and tails in a way that resembles kemonomimi fashion, anime design, or just how they imagine kemonomimis to be!

EXAMPLES:

A German Shepherd contherian who has constant phantom shifts of having ears and a tail!

A dragon fictionkin having constant phantom shifts of wings, claws, horns, and a tail!

A whale zoanthrope who believes that they have a whale tail (with or instead of legs) and a fin on their back!

A kemonomimi kin who has constant full body shifts!

STANCES:

This label is inherently pro-p-shifters, pro-physical alterhumans, pro- TikTok therians, and pro- CLCZ (clinical lycanthrope/clinical zoanthrope)! Please do not use if you are anti any of those things :)

FLAG:

PLAIN FLAG:

Caramel (#ac703a): Kemonomimi flag top color! Beige (#c7ae96): Kemonomimi as fashion connecting to your nonhumanity! Light purple (#a699bc): The constant phantom shifts! Purple (#593c8f): Alterhumanity/nonhumanity!

CREDS:

No credits needed! Feel free to use this flag or term for whatever your needs are!

[lizardywizard]

The therian and otherkin communities really do harbour a lot of unexamined racism.

And I understand why. For many of us, our identities are inherently based in wanting to be seen, treated, as something other than human. We're often eager to disavow humanity, having spent so long being forced into that role, and so we embrace ideas of dehumanisation. But we don't often consider that alterhumans of colour, who have long histories of being treated as subhuman and having their humanity denied, might have more complex relationships with these narratives.

As a community in the internet age, we have the myths and legends of the whole world at our fingertips. But we often give very little care to the meanings of those myths and the cultures they come from. (Are you actually a human possessed by an Algonquin spirit of starvation, after falling prey to greed and the exploitation of other people? Or are you a woods monster with a skull-deer head? Because the former is not the latter, and if you actually are the former, a lot of Native Americans are going to be rightfully upset by you, as that spirit represents immense amounts of cruelty that was done to them and is still being done to them.)

And then there are the myths and legends that are explicitly tied to racism. The New Age narrative of starseeds and ancient alien ancestors originates in white supremacy (we never see Black alien progenitors, but we do see explicitly "Nordic" ones), antisemitism (anything to do with the world being secretly run by alien lizardfolk, which have widely been understood by Jewish scholars as code for the Jews), and literal Nazi occult practices. While some starseeds disavow racism, disavowing it personally is not enough- not when the community continues to circulate white supremacist beliefs.

And then of course there's the police dog thing. No, it doesn't make you evil to have been a police dog, or to have enjoyed having been one. No one can expect you to have understood racism as a dog. But you have this body and mind now, you are aware of racism now, and you are aware of the baseless cruelty of the police, the countless Black and Brown communities that have been terrorised by the police and K9 units. You have the choice to keep condoning this system, or to learn about it and the harm it does. Perhaps that's what you're meant to do as a dog in this life- perhaps that's why you're here, why you've been given this mind and this awareness in this current time. To become a better, more compassionate being than you were in the past.

This isn't to say you're not a dog who served the police, or a kitsune, or an alien from the Pleiades, or an animal who enjoys dehumanisation. (I'm that last one myself!) But we have to understand that when we talk about these things uncritically, when we're wilfully ignorant and don't do the research or care about how these ideas might make people of colour feel, we are driving said people away from the community and making it a very, very white space.

[anti-endo-foxs-den]

What's That Flag Behind Me?

It's the anti endo alterhumanity flag!

This flag was coined by me (@cryopathyzone) and @the-complicity-system as a flag to represent specifically anti endo alterhumans (of course), as our own little flag unique to us! I'm so glad he could help out with the flag's design, because I had the colors down, but I was struggling a bit with putting it all together. This was a nice flag to start off this blog, so I hope you enjoy it!

The yellow represents alterhumanity. It's a natural yet mystical color, representing the nonhuman aspects that make up alterhumans. It also represents the various labels that make up alterhuman, such as therian, otherkin, etc, by encompassing both the natural and unnatural beings within the alterhuman community.

The pink represents systemhood. It's a color reminiscent of the brain, which resembles how systems are only brought up through trauma at a young age, trauma that affects their mental health throughout their lives. The pink being right in between red (an intense color) and blue (a relaxing color) also resembles how being a system will have its ups and downs, its calm times and stressful times.

The white stripe in the middle, first of all, is the alterhuman stripe, so more alterhumanity representation. But second, it also resembles connection and unity between the two groups. However, you'll notice that it's not a perfect white. That resembles how it's not a perfect unity, because of - you guessed it - pro endos, and other nontraumagenics, who claim that the alterhuman label is only for them, and try to push the two groups apart. (Some of them even claim systemhood is only for them, which is a yikes!)

So that's the symbolism behind the flag. I hope you all enjoy it. I personally like how it turned out.

Main post here.

[anti-endo-alterhumanity]

hello! we're a bit extra fatigued today, so we're heading to bed early.

in the meantime, what are some things about being alterhuman that bring you joy? what's something that brings you joy at all, really!! we turned our replies back on for this; we wanna spread some positivity in this community!

[cadavercatt]

getting to love my mate the way that feels natural!! purring and nuzzling him and nosing under his wings and pressing back into his hand when he runs his fingers through my hair and letting him preen me and bringing him shiny things and little pebbles and whatnot and and!! eek!!!!

[cadavercatt]

its so funny when i see posts talking about how anti-endos dont exist offline because i very much do exist offline <33 and my stances on ableists do exist offline <33

[cadavercatt]

having to block so many blogs that i followed bc theyre pro DID roleplayers </3 that shit is so nasty actually

[mammalianmammals]

Banded Linsang (Prionodon linsang), family Prionodontidae, Thailand

Once thought to be in the Viverridae, with genets and civets, the 2 species of Asian Linsangs were placed in their own family in 2004, based on genetic data.

They are actually more closely related to the family Felidae.

photograph by Ayuwat Nature Photography