Way out in the wilderness A cold coyote calls

it/wolf/coyote | lycanthrope | 21 | mated (follows back from @coyotebrained)

[coyotesinew]

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AGONISTIC BEHAVIOUR, FEAR, DOMINANCE, SUBMISSION, DRIVE, RITUALS, SOCIAL ANIMALS, GREETING, SELECTION, PATHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR.

cohabitational coextensive animals

lycanthrope | western urban coyote | coastal wolf | unicorn

I am beasts that (currently) extend to and are limited by the same boundary. This is subject to change. I am a lycanthrope first and foremost. I am all encompassed, I am biologically a canine to an undefined extent. I am an animal above all else.

My species are inherent to all aspects of my lived experience, and color all areas in which I interact with the environment around me. Mentally, physically, relationally, emotionally, and metaphysically.

I am much more active on Bsky, if you want my user just reach out

Only comfortable with DMs from those 18+

Asks are super welcome, I love giving out advice or answering questions or just chatting.

If you would like to commission me for an art piece of your theriotype you can find my info here: creatureindex.carrd.co

[coyotesinew]

Finally finished some very special projects, my faces! Been chipping away at these for a bit, got em done right in time for the con I went to last weekend (Furlandia!) all three are made with eva foam, paper mache, and acrylic paint.

Feels really crazy and good to have my physicalities realized in this way, to be animals that exist in the world undeniably seen by others eyes. Species' are all listed below :•]

Western urban coyote

British Columbia wolf (? Maybe? It's species is still not completely pinned down and is sort of flux-y mixed up with a lot of lycanthropic influence)

Coastal wolf!

I don't plan to take commissions for these as the painting process is very tedious, and I don't feel entirely comfortable being trusted to create another creatures visage in this way, it's a lot of pressure. but maybe I'll change my mind at some point!

[gone-fish-mode]

i will always be a fan of people describing themselves however they want, do not take this as me shitting on any label in any way.

i do think that it is very telling how i see a lot of folks saying that they have "outgrown" the therian label and taken up holothere instead, saying that it feels more real and legitimate.

something about it wigs me out. and i think that it has to do with perceived seriousness and a bid for legitimacy. linguistic shift is normal and expected, it's not like this is really avoidable. but the difference between holothere and therian is not the same as therianthropy vs. therianism.

therianthropy vs. therianism is really just people using the wrong term. it's not intentional. it's what happens when "therianthrope" has been shortened so much that the original tenses and forms of the word are just forgotten. it's an arguably pretty normal linguistical shift. im a little annoyed by it, mind you. "therianthrope" and "therianthropy" are some kickass words that I think should be used more. but i can't really be shocked or even upset that it's happened.

holothere is different. while the coining of the word + the way many use it can be very genuine, there is undoubtedly a growing population that uses it because of its perceived to be more serious than therian. it's adopted as a way to been seen as a more legitimate identity. and i can't really be mad at that, either. to say that therian has lost some of its.... idk.... power? due to it being picked up by certain demographics is not wrong. like there is nothing in the reasoning or the desire that is bad or wrong with any of this.

but it does make me a bit squemish, I think? Because it introduces therianthropy as something lesser within the community. You have an internal conflict with legitimacy, here. And it's based off the label you use. In the past, the community has negotiated legitimacy through grilling. And I am not calling for a return to grilling, I don't think it was a great thing, but... it is something I'm noticing.

How we are changing the way we assert our identity's seriousness is now based off of the initial words we use, as opposed to the understanding of that word.

I could talk more about this. as I said before, this is not an attempt to convince anyone to stop using holothere. I know it has a lot of differences to it and it's deeper to most people. I'm not going to sit here and try to combat this very natural shift in behavior. This is just something I've noticed in the way people talk about the term. It's 7:51 am, I have a final exam at 8:00. So I will be going now. But I would love to hear if anyone has more thoughts on this. I will probably come back around and amend some of what I've said here, I've only been thinking about this topic specifically for like. 15 mins. Give me a day and I'll figure out how to say this a better way.

[lynxweed]

it’s frustrating to see this happen. i understand people’s want to be taken seriously, but some people’s use i feel is damaging to both therianthropy and holothere/physically nonhuman/etc.

because some people perceive holothere etc as “more serious” it leads to accusations that we think we are better than therians, when most of us really don’t feel that way.

i also feel overtime that holothere etc have lost meaning too. because there is the perception that therianthropy is “less serious,” people who would have called themselves therians a few years ago now find themselves in physically-identifying-spaces when their identities are not physical? it makes it harder to use the words as originally defined.

i do think the adoption of holothere instead of therian is out of an earnest feeling of wanting to connect with others, and definitely has to do with the commodification therianthropy has been experiencing. however i think the solution is not to migrate to holothere, because that continues to perceive therianthropy as lesser and misconstrues the meaning of holothere. i don’t have a meaningful suggestion, but i think archives like yours (+other blogs’) are a good start. i also like that people are starting to post therian informational content on youtube again. i can only hope that through digital preservation and dissemination of information that this issue subsides!

TLDR the devaluing of therian(thropy) flattens both experiences, and pits us against each other. how can we fix this?

[gone-fish-mode]

I think back to this post from Baumarius on Zoesthesia and the discussion I saw on Tumblr and TG about it. I know that this was spurred on by the therian community in China, and while I do not know enough about it to really have a solid opinion, I do generally agree with the sentiment and think it's a worthy endeavor.

Many of the points brought up are about knowing when to leave a sinking ship. And I get it! I do get it. There are some situations where you need to move on and find somewhere else. Sometimes things are a lost cause, and you just have to move on from it.

I remember back with the "clcz exodus" there was a ton of talk about how the appropriation (?) of physical nonhuman terms and labels just made it significantly harder for them to exist in the community. I don't know how accepting many of us actually are of the physical nonhumans as they were these days, part of me thinks that any wide-spread acceptance of them is because "normal" nonhuman experiences have just been renamed and reapplied to the physical definition. Causing for the previous groups to leave that label behind in search of other words to use. There is still a lot of saneism directed towards their experiences, it's just not specifically towards physical nonhumans as a group (mostly). If they grow close to the larger nonhuman community again, I'm sure those new words will meet a similar fate.

I've had a few conversations recently with some folks about the differences between physical nonhuman, transspecies, and holothere. there seems to be little to no general consensus on how or why these three groups are separate. any differences i proposed were shot down. ultimately is just came down to preference, which is a vague and unhelpful thing. this wasn't an aggressive conversation or anything, we were just chatting. and i'm not sure entirely where this fits in to everything, but i'm sure it has its place.

I'm mostly reiterating what you've already said. It's just a hard thing to talk about and navigate around without seemingly shitting on people doing their best to connect with others. No one is doing any of this on purpose. And whatever will eventually happen with "therian" as a term will take time. Physical nonhumanity is a much smaller part of the community, so I think that change was able to happen more rapidly. There are many factors in this that may impact the outcome. Who knows. I have no real way to combat any of this, I don't really think there is an answer anywhere, ha! I think we just need to do our best to be kind and interrogate what terms we use and why. We all clearly care deeply about the community and want to make sure it stays a safe place, it's just hard to figure out how to do that.

[a-minke-whales-tale]

I do think much of the acceptance of physical experiences has not been so much the experiences that used to be discussed in physical spaces becoming accepted as an evolution of how the term is used and by whom rather than the range of acceptable experiences growing. There has been a significant commidification of the broader therian identity which brings it to focus on masks, quads, aesthetic, and consumption - both of media and goods as well demanding a full understanding of identity but for many devoid of the introspection and for many spirituality that used to define much of the community. I think for many people, they have suddenly found themselves in community that no longer reflects how they experience things and so seek towards more extreme terms because for these more intense experiences are seen as more valid rather than simply different (while ironically these experiences have historically been treated by the wider community often as invalid or even dangerous). I have over the past few years recieved quite a few messages from people asking if their experiences count as physical or asking for help to identify their species and if it is phsyical off vague information. I think there has been a signficant migration into physical spaces as more and more people use non-literal understandings to define themselves in this manner.

The irony is these terms and communities existed to haven those that often had no meaningful place within the broader therian community. We, in turn, find ourselves often displaced from our terms and communities as others come to our terms hoping to find community, and I think for many strengthen the belief in their own legitimacy of their identity and experience. It has been a consistant pattern that our terms steadily become taken, watered down, and used for another tag spam of therian. There have been points that some of us have formed groups in order to discuss concepts to form a new term - but as discussions would go on it became pretty clear that it was not so feasible to construct a new term that was meaningfully different from existing terms and would not become in time simply another term that would become watered down and used as metaphor or inevitably be met with criticism of elitism like "actually nonhuman" or "literally nonhuman". In the end we had dropped the concept to try to create a new term to consolidate around it. This has though really left many of us without community as we are not tolerable within the spaces we helped make. For myself I find that I have largely had to retreat to insular spaces of a couple discords and personal messaging to a few I am close to. I have found myself largely denied community and meaningfully have only the clinical zoanthropy tag to find others, but even that is often misused or set for discourse about our existance, that simply there is no place for us.

[seawolfed]

[godogmode]

wanted to do another one of these but grey wolf-themed this time 🐺🩶

once again - inspired by tigerwires' post!!

[coyotesinew]

your pfp is the same stuffed animal i have. also your art is beautiful

Thank you 😁

[monstersovka]

✷ Unicorn ✷

[lone-pylon]

hey, you, you're finally awake

[wulfbones]

Poland. MAMMALS & THEIR YOUNG. WOLF.

Scott 3628c A1230, Issued 2002 Mar 25, Perf. 11 3/4 × 111/2 Sync., 1.10./Idb.

[yorkie-puppy-gutz]

hi everyone, it's yorkie. someone reported me & i got termed :( plz rb so i can find my mutuals !!!

[crowcreechur]

Mask dump one of three lol Have a bunch of unguligrades from almost a month ago ’:D Painting the unicorn’s horn was definitely my favorite part of all of this, I’m soooo freaking happy with it-

[I’m trying to make less long posts cuz I don’t like how they look scrolling through my blog, so the rest are below cut :3]

I love the gazelle’s nose so much tho oh my gosh x3

And getting to make antlers for the first time was very fun

[liminal-therianthropy]

!!!MASK REVEAL!!!

So i did say i was gonna post my mask!!!! So here it is! My mask was made by @crowcreechur and it was technically made last year! I just didnt have time to post that i got em ^^;

Dont mind my bathroom or that i dont know how to make selfes. BUT LOOK!! ITS MY FACE!! AAAAAAAAA!!! Sorry for the caps im just so excited to have my face right there! I think my mask is perfect, i can see great and most importantly, ITS MY FACE!! When i got this i think it was like closeish to my birthday so it was so awesome!! {I know it was at least before my birthday.} When i can i'll just wear it, and when im on discord calls i'll sometimes just put it on and turn my camera on for friends! Or just to show it off. AND THEY {my maker} MADE THE BUTTON ITS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD!! I have my hoof print as a button that i wear when i can!! I havent worn it outside mainly as i dont want to right now. SO just inside for now. My horn on it is so pretty too and the shimmery paint they used is perfect!! I love my mask. Again shout out to @crowcreechur for making this commission!! Yall should really check them out if yall get the chance to, they are super sweet too!! {If i get the means i might comm them again. Just need the money rn}. Me when my face. Also the band shirt is joy division! Anyways uhhhhhhhhhh gallops away.

[huariqueje]

Above Stromness - Victoria Crowe , 2023.

Scottish , b. 1945 -

Gun-tufted wool wall-hanging, collaboration between the artist and Dovecot Tapestry Studio , 160 x 212 cm. 63 x 83 1/2 in.

[antiqueanimals]

The Children's Book of Animals Around Us. Written by Bridget Gibbs, Su Swallow, and Ruth Thomson. 1978.

[lukanthropi]

The moon felt heavy in the sky, a pale silver illuminating the forest. The air was crisp, biting at my skin as I walked through the underbrush. Each step felt heavier, with my breath showing in the cool night sky. I’d come here to escape. What from? I wasn’t sure. The city, perhaps, the expectations, or maybe the restlessness in my chest that I simply could not dull.

I stopped in a clearing, emerging into eerie silence without the crunch of leaves under my feet. My heart pounded. Not from tiredness, but from something deeper. Something I couldn’t name, but felt in every fiber of my body. The moonlight seemed brighter here, almost harsh, as if it was exposing me, or a truth I’d been avoiding.

And then it began.

It started as an ache in my bones, with a pressure that kept building up. I fell to the ground, feeling a burning heat and nausea spread through me. My hands trembled, with my bones slowly shifting into something new. I could feel fur sprouting from my skin, my teeth changing and lengthening, my flesh and organs boiling underneath. I tried to scream, yet all that came out was a raw and guttural sound. My body was turning into something wild, primal.

My vision blurred, yet quickly sharpened in hues of yellow and blue. The remnants of my human self dissolved into the ground, and all that stood in its place was a beast. The forest was alive around me, the sounds of rustling leaves and animals hidden from my sight, yet not my hearing. As I took a step forward, digging my claws into the earth, the ground felt real in a way that it’d never felt before.

For the first time in my life, I felt whole. This is what I’d been running towards, and what my heart’s been aching for. Not an escape, but rather release.

[coyotebrained]

[audhd-catboy]

time to advertise my alterhumanity + nonhumanity survey again !! we're so close to 400 responsesss

Nonhuman and Similar Survey- 2026

A survey for nonhumans or similar, and those who are questioning. I use the term "alter/nonhuman" here, that's because not everyone taking t

please repost to other sites, I wanna get responses to be as diverse as I can !!

also if anyone has another survey software that they use, please let me know, I wanna figure out getting it to be more advanced