ghost 𓆩♡𓆪

ΘΔ || canine || you said you’d die for me, well there’s the ground

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✩🎧 ghost/katya . 23 . she/they/feral/dog . 🇨🇦

★🌑 canine therian . werewolf . angelic

☆💿 theriotypes : eastern timber wolf . dog ambitherian . church grim . cheetah

★‧₊˚ ☁️ enfp . genderfae + doggender + femcanis

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hello!! i post about being therian and nonhuman, spiritually, psychologically, and biologically. i’m also angellink/otherlink, cowhearted, doghearted, and thunderstormhearted :)

userboxes by fisheatingorca (x2) and hampaanirvi!

#bad dog anon — anon hate/discourse/negative asks

#good dog anon — friendly/positive/other anon asks

#d0g barks — updates on me/my life that are mostly unrelated to alterhumanity

[d0gbite]

ur so cool i literally looked up to u when i first started on tumblr i cant believe ur my moot sometimes

that’s actually crazy dude cause that’s how i feel about you, you’re literally always serving and the coolest person ever,,, and i’m like damn i can’t believe we’re moots !!

every time u post im like waow!!!!! that guy is everything i want to be !

[d0gbite]

sometimes i learn about something new that i am ABSOLUTELY immediately into and im like sign me up!!!! where do i learn more!!! and i have so much enthusiasm and questions that the people already in the community think i am making fun of them. but i am not. i promise im not. i am so excited even if im dumb about it im sorry i know nothing but PLEASE tell me more

[d0gbite]

Forgive me if you've answered something like this before but I'm just curious about how you differentiated wolf from dog and vice versa - someone currently questioning being both a wild canid & a domestic dog

i have once before, but it was long ago, and i would like to add more :)

my wolfhood to me is both spiritual and very wild. it’s connected to nature in a way that no other part of me is. being a wolf to me is being a wild animal; living free, at my own whim, doing what i want when i want it, being outside in nature, being self-sufficient and being able to provide for myself and my pack. it feels like running free in the snowy northern forested mountains, hunting, howling with my pack.

these days, i don’t tend to feel all that wolfish and usually lean in favour of being more dog, but my wolf side has never left me and never will. ill always have the soul of a wolf <3

being a dog is much more domestic to me. it comes with all sorts of doggy/pet instincts like barking, liking tennis balls/collars/leashes, wanting an owner/having “my person”, being trained and praised, being loved and cared for like a beloved pet. in a way, it’s more submissive than being a wolf as i am almost always submissive to my owner, whereas as a wolf i am more independent and help my mate lead our pack.

i have always known, in some way, that i’m canine since the very moment i could think at all. when i was a kid, i was much more wolfish and wild. now, i am much more domesticated by the humans who i am surrounded by. i have learned to behave in ways appropriate to human society (as an undiagnosed autistic child, i was not good at this. i was a wild animal, after all!). my doghood to me feels inherently different to being a wolf, too, because my doghood is much more mental/psychological and physical.

lastly, the way that i am able to tell most of what i am is through the feeling of “me!” i get when i look at pictures and videos of creatures like me, and i get a strong sense of that feeling when looking at both dogs and wolves. to me, that feeling has never overlapped, and they’ve always felt distinctly dog-me and distinctly wolf-me, rather than wolfdog (although that’s a consideration for you as well). specifically, videos of wolves hunting with their packs and of dogs doing agility or herding make me feel very connected to them, and watching wolf documentaries definitely helped confirm that’s what i was when i was first learning about therians. watching dog agility ALWAYS triggers shifts in me, so i think finding out what sorts of things can trigger shifts (if you shift at all) can help, especially if those shifts feel different from each other.

happy to talk about this always—i hope it helps even a little! i wish you luck in figuring yourself out ! self discovery is always fun and exciting to me :)

[d0gbite]

possible term for those who think therians must be physical or clinical zoanthropes to be real animals- theriomedicalists/theriomeds? Its not nearly as big of an issue as folks who dont accept physical therians and the issues of ableism and sanism in the community, but it seems like a very clear line to draw between this behaviour and transmedicalism

ehhhh not a huge fan since physical therianthropy and clinical lycanthropy aren’t the same thing, and many who are physical therians acting superior to others aren’t clinical lycanthropes. there is no ‘medicalism’ involved in this case.

funny enough, i had a dream several months ago where someone tried to cancel me on here for being a ‘theriomedicalist’ but i did not know what that means lol,,

[d0gbite]

2025 theriomed jumpscare omg ! i totally forgot this ask existed until just now,,,,, perhaps it was a prediction of all the troll nonsense going on

[afam-culture-is]

afamilial culture is being afamilial

[therian-confession-booth]

disclaimer that i love you transmascs i love you all so much im just. not transmasc myself. this is more a me issue if anything

i dont like that my entire for you feed is filled with transmasc canines. im not one of you (general you) and i feel so alone. i may be a dog/werewolf yeah but im transfem and also a bunny on the side. maybe i need to try to curate more but even when i go looking for other transfem alterhumans i cant really find them. and bunny content feels lacking but maybe im not searching right. it feels lonely here. i feel like i dont fit the mold :(

i am tmasc canine BUT!!!! I AM ALSO A RABBIT!!!!!!!!!! I AM HERE HOP HOP

but i totally feel you. transfems are often overshadowed in anything that isnt their own transness, and not just trans women, cis women and black women as well. ESPECIALLY black trans women! they always get overshadowed in nearly everything, which sucks. sadly, this is kind of a diy situation…make the content you wanna see so other people will make it! and never be ashamed of being transfem you guys are so fuckin cool never die ever

i cast a magical spell that gives every transfem my excess estrogen and you live forever

[d0gbite]

this!!! i’ve been saying!!!! the tumblr therian community is so incredibly transmasc heavy, we need more fem therians on tumblr !!!!!! it’s lonely when you scroll through pages and pages of posts and don’t see anyone like yourself :(

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bought a new tail at a cute indigenous clothing/accessory store near my cottage ! and then got to go swimming in the river and on a walk in the woods/on the golf course with my cousin :)

while i generally do not like being outside (too many bugs :( sensory hell, my poor autistic ass cannot take it), it DOES make me feel so connected to being an animal. it reminds me that who or what i am in this moment matters only to me and to mother nature. i love being canine outside in my natural habitat, and being in the woods in quebec is veeeerrrry close to my natural habitat as an eastern timber wolf (as i have always known i am a wolf native to eastern canada)

i find being indoors makes me feel much more dog, and being outside in nature is much more wolf for me. which, of course, makes sense, and it’s so nice to be able to connect with my wolfhood after a long time of being almost entirely dog. though these days i usually feel more dog than wolf, i will never let the wolf part of me go <3 i am a wolf in spirit, in soul, and i always will be <3

[aukionpaw]

[d0gbite]

considering (linksidering?) becoming a pomeranian copinglink. mostly to cope with misogyny

they ARE a spitz breed (which i am), they ARE very fluffy (which i am), they ARE curly-tailed (which i am)… so i already feel connected to them in a way. i love pomeranians whenever we get them at the shelter i work at.

i don’t identify as any small or toy dog breeds. i have always been a big dog, and i’ve always known it. but i feel the way people treat small dogs, especially ones considered ‘feminine’ like pomeranians/chihuahuas, is emblematic of the way i am often treated as a woman. how i am treated as an accessory, an object. how i am used by those around me, not treated like a real person due to something beyond my control (sex, gender, breed, size…)

i fear it is very hard for me to cope with misogyny. i tend to embrace hyper-femme aesthetics to deal with it. becoming a pomeranian could help this, i think

[d0gbite]

Hi! We saw this and wanted to ask:

2 : When did you awaken as an alterbeing ?

7 : Does your alterhumanity affect your gender/sexuality ?

eeee thank you for the ask !!! so sorry i didn’t notice it until now!!

2 : i awakened circa 2016 (10 years ago! wow!) when i discovered the term therian from an old news clip posted to youtube about “teenage werewolves” or something like that. immediately i knew “this is me. these people are just like me”. i knew immediately that the term therian was what described me, but i was too intimidated to do anything about it and so i just sort of filed it away in the back of my mind as a “this is the reason i am how i am”. and then around 2019 i started engaging with more of the community, watching old therian youtube videos. around 2021 i started interacting with the community, and about 2 years ago i made this tumblr account :) and here we are

7 : absolutely yes! i am xenogender (doggender, wolfgender, femcanis) and nonbinary because i am a dog and a wolf. my gender is simply female dog or female wolf. animals do not concern themselves with gender, but their sex is a meaningful part of their lives. even my femininity and girlhood are deeply affected by my nonhumanity. i don’t relate to being a human woman, because i was not a human until very recently when i became humanlink, and i don’t understand human concepts of gender. but i am a girl, the way a female dog would be called a good girl. which is partially why i consider my womanhood inherently trans, despite being afab; i am not a cis woman. i do not experience my femininity the way cis human women do. i was not assigned doggirl at birth, but doggirl i am nonetheless. my gender cannot be separated from my caninehood.

and while i do not think it affects my sexuality, i do think it affects my romantic orientation. i am alloaro because i am a dog; dogs do not mate/bond for life. they are considered promiscuous and have multiple sexual partners without really understanding the concept of romance. and that perfectly describes me. my aromanticism affects my queerplatonic and alterous attractions as well, which i similarly attribute to being a dog.

[d0gbite]

reading ur othwrpaw defense post has left me kinda confused... im not an anti iv never thought otherpaws are "appropriating" I just... kinda dont get it? like what seperates an otherpaw from an otherkin or therian? is it just community vibes?

otherkin and therians identify as nonhumans/animals, whereas otherpaws do not. an otherpaw is someone who enjoys roleplaying and/or dressing up as an animal. its a hobby rather than an identity, similar to being a furry. being an otherpaw is not inherently alterhuman, although otherpaws can also be alterhuman. hope this clears it up! /gen

[alterhuman-vents]

Just to correct you

Alterhuman is an umbrella term for individuals who experience or *express* their humanity in ways outside of traditional societal norms.

The definition of Otherpaw doesn't experience humanity in a way outside of traditional norms, but it DOES express it. Which in this case falls under alterhuman for it expresses nonhumanity.

Although otherpaws are not an identity, it still falls under alterhuman as it expresses something that falls under it. Nonhuman. They are roleplaying as theriforms animals like how people can roleplay as certain genders (gender non-conformity, draq queens, draq kings, etc)

But there is a difference to it, that is true. But I want more people to understand and accept that it does fall under alterhuman and is alterhuman because it fits the definition. Even when they don't have an identity.

[d0gbite]

whose definition of alterhuman are you using here?

based on the coiner’s original definition and explanation of AHPI (alterhuman personal identity), alterhuman means “a category of personal identity which encompasses identification that is alternative to the common societal idea of humanity”. it does not include expression, only identification. otherpaws who identify as human do not fall outside the common societal idea of humanity, because humanity is commonly,,,,, human.

the coiner also specifically included, as an example of something that DOES fall under ‘common societal idea of humanity’ (aka not alterhuman), “Identify as human regardless of personal subculture”, and went on to describe furries as not being alterhuman despite their expression as nonhuman because they still identify as human (unless they don’t. furries who identify as furry more than anything else (aka furry lifestylers) are also mentioned as a way of being alterhuman, and i think the same applies to otherpaws, which is why i mentioned that otherpaws can also be alterhuman).

i have never seen ‘expression’ used in its definition because i have never known alterhumanity to be about expression; its not an aesthetic, its an identity. the same reason all furries aren’t automatically alterhuman; because they don’t (typically) identify as anything beyond human.

do you also believe furries, pet players, kemonomimis, and animal-character-cosplayers (like bronies or animal crossing cosplay) also inherently fall under alterhuman?

(/nm)

[aukionpaw]

how i look with she/her in my bio

[virabotz]

ANGYL !

═══════ A term/label for angels in any way that are not directly related to or sourced at all from the Bible; or don’t believe in the Bible to be accurate to them in whatever way.

already coined? consider this an alternative flag. (and tell us! especially if you wish for the original flag to be linked.)

non-requested, self-indulgent for one of us. ═══════

tagging, please tell us if you wish to be removed. @rwuffles @radiomogai @liomangel

[neopronouns]

flag id: two flags in the same format. each flag has a background with 4 rectangles over the background, each one smaller than the last and centered within the previous rectangle. the rectangles are the same ratio as the flag shape, but are angled to the left.

the left flag's background is caramel brown and its rectangles, from largest to smallest, are light caramel brown, very light brown, cream, and bright golden yellow. the right flag's background is dark warm grey and its rectangles, from largest to smallest, are faded brown, soft brown, dull cream, and golden yellow. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

puppyholid | dogholid

puppyholid: when one’s entire identity — gender, modality, pronouns, orientation, alterhumanity, etc. — is (related to) puppies

dogholid: when one’s entire identity — gender, modality, pronouns, orientation, alterhumanity, etc. — is (related to) dogs

[pt: puppyholid: when one’s entire identity — gender, modality, pronouns, orientation, alterhumanity, etc. — is (related to) puppies

dogholid: when one’s entire identity — gender, modality, pronouns, orientation, alterhumanity, etc. — is (related to) dogs. end pt]

puppyholid for anon, plus dogholid to go with it! these use the holid format.

tags: @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @macchiane, @genderstarbucks

tags cont: @maggore, @dragonpride17

dni link

[winter-scented]

Can they make a misce identity that doesn’t come with a crushing sense of yearning for extremely unique kinds of relationship dynamics in all areas of your life

[d0gbite]

hi, i love otherpaws here. otherpaws are always welcome.

in light of the recent influx of otherpaw hate, i have some Things To Say.

truly, there is no real difference between otherpaws and furries, except the materials they use to roleplay as animals. we should not be gatekeeping materials, guys. you cannot seriously call yourself furry-friendly if you are anti-otherpaw. but that is not my main reason for disliking the anti-otherpaw stance.

i find a laaaaarge issue i have with these “but otherpaws are copying therians!!!!” folks is that the term otherpaw was created specifically to distance otherpaws from alterhumanity; to create a clear distinction that masks and quadrobics ≠ alterhuman (therian included). which is a factually correct distinction. and folks whining about copying are (maybe unintentionally, maybe not) obscuring that distinction.

no, someone wearing a mask or doing quads is not inherently copying or mocking therians, because masks and quads aren’t exclusive to therians, and they never have been. wearing a mask does not a therian make. wearing a mask does not necessarily have anything to do with therians. claiming that anyone who wears masks or does quads is copying therians is trying to claim exclusive rights of therians over masks and quads. it’s gatekeeping, yes, but worse than gatekeeping, it’s trying to cement masks and quads as inherently ‘therian’. which they aren’t. which we have tried all this time to teach folks that no, not all therians wear masks/do quads, and just because someone does those things doesn’t make them alterhuman.

but now these anti-otherpaw folks are regressing again to “mask = therian, therefore they must be copying and mocking therians”. which is factually inaccurate and damaging to what being alterhuman and being therian truly means. it’s what leads to the misinformation about the true depth of alterhuman identity on places like tiktok. and i’m so sick of it.

i know it’s not a widespread issue (yet). but given that i’ve seen a handful of posts and comments about it, this is why i hope it doesn’t become one.

(i have also alwayyyyyys found the argument “but x is too similar to y!” to be a terrible argument against x. cause like…. who cares. things are allowed to be similar. humans and nonhumans alike are so incredibly numerous that you will almost never have a completely unique experience which no one else has ever had. our experiences overlap significantly because there are so many beings in this world. there is no fault in someone having a similar experience to you. you will not die just because you aren’t in fact that worlds most special snowflake. i prommy.)

[cybermagusnex]

This is the first I'm hearing about this subject, and what I personally find strange is the need for a distinction at all. I'm furry and otherkin, have been since the mid 2000s. I think people have gotten the wrong idea about what furry is and is not. I can't even articulate what people think it is anymore, and the few times I've seen someone try to explain it or read a comment debate about it, it usually boils down to "it just doesn't have the furry look".

My creatures. Furry does not and never has had a "look". There are trends and styles that get popular, sure, but those trends are not what make something Furry. The core of the furry fandom is being fans of anthropomorphic animal characters. You can express literally anything you can think of. Furries have always ran around on all fours, which is now called quadratics. Furries have always incorporated realistic styles. And "Furry lifestylers" have been a thing for quite a long time as well.

Idk I just feel like a good chunk of these newer terms popping up are things that already exist, but for whatever reason, either not being informed enough or being afraid of seeming "cringe" or "invalid", people feel the need to isolate and distance themselves. I've seen it very often lead to the spread of misinformation that bleeds into the communities that are already there.

[d0gbite]

are otherpaws anthropomorphic, though? some may be, but i believe the whole point of otherpaws is to roleplay an actual feral, theriform animal, not an anthropomorphic one. i think that is the distinction, although i also don’t find it a huge deal. i think otherpaw could be considered a kind of furry, if they consider the animals they are roleplaying anthro.

(also chuckling a little at ‘quadratics’…… i think you mean quadrobics <3 /lh. imagining otherpaws calculating the quadratic equation lol)

[undercover-werewolf-k1d]

There are feral furries though- my own fursona is a feral wolf

[d0gbite]

true—as someone whose fursona is a feral dog.

however, in my 9 years of experience in the furry fandom, i find furries tend to use the words “feral” and “anthro” only to denote number of legs, and not much else. a feral furry is a furry that is quadrupedal, but most of the time still possesses human-level intellect and/or human speech, which still actually qualifies as anthropomorphic (since they are human qualities given to an animal).

otherpaws, on the other paw (pun intended), typically roleplay feral theriform animals; they roleplaying just actual literal animals, without human speech or intellect. not fictional ones, not anthropomorphized ones. and an animal without any human qualities at all is not anthropomorphic. it’s just an animal.

to reiterate, though, i do not think this distinction is a big deal. if otherpaws want to call themselves furries, i’m happy with that. if they don’t, im happy with that. idrc that much. i think it depends on the individual and what they consider their hobby to be.