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he/him ▸ ΘΔ ▸ 1997 ▸ western USA

Part personal blog, part therianthropy journal. Expect to see art, wildlife, natural sciences, some memes, some fandom content, and more. Check under the cut for more info!

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holopics

mule deer

talos-stims

source

riverwindphotography

Canyon contrasts

(c) riverwindphotography, May 2026

handbasket-to-helen

konketsu

dont care if i sound corny or cliche but to love and be loved back and not having to second guess where u stand in someones heart is such a warm and safe feeling & everyone should have the luxury and pleasure of having it always

talons-n-scales

cave lion from prehistoric planet compared to neolithic cave lion art

#shut up im emotional #cave lion #kith

weepingwidar

Kensa Hung (Chinese, 1993) - Orangutan Grabbing Plantain (2019)

aestherians

Way before learning about otherkinity or therianthropy, back when I was a little baby creature, trapped in school, forced to hang out with 8 y/o humans, I would often sneak off and hide in the school library.

We weren't allowed to be there without a teacher present, but they often forgot to lock the door, and way in the back, far away from the windows, back where no one could find me, there just so happened to be a shelf full of 'mystery books.' They had everything, from UFOs, cryptids, and mythology to ESP, folklore... and werewolves.

These weren't big tomes - it was a village school with only 120 students, ranging from 5 to 12 years old. They were paperbacks catered mostly to 3rd graders, and they had all the trappings that those kinds of books tend to have, being sensationalist, scatterbrained, and simplistic at the best of times, and downright misinformed at the worst.

I know now that hypertrichosis had little to nothing to do with werewolf mythology. Werewolves were largely born out of fear of your neighbor, fear that they might be hiding something - and hypertrichosis is not exactly easy to hide. The tell-tale signs of werewolves are monobrows that can be plucked, a furry back that can be covered up, and a tendency to disappear for long stretches of time, while livestock get killed by wild animals.

But of course I didn't know that back then. My folkloric studies, as a 3rd grader, consisted of Dragonology and looking at pictures in my aunt's "Mysteries of the Unknown" collection, that I was far too young to have the patience to read.

So when I read about people who were thought to be werewolves because of their appearance, I took it at face value.

I wish the story takes a fantastical turn here, and that I started drawing fur on myself or wearing fur to school. But I was a quiet creature. I already got chased around by bullies at recess - why I hid in the library in the first place - and I didn't need to add to that.

But I envied the people who had fur. At least they were targeted for something visible, I thought. They didn't have to wonder why people might throw rocks at them or call them animals or act like their touch was poisonous.

I still sometimes wish I had hypertrichosis.

aestherians

I finally found the cover of one of the books I would read over and over

It was 40-50 pages of 16p font with grainy greyscale images, explaining very basic facts (and 'facts') about werewolf mythology. And I devoured it.

I think that specific werewolf depiction is one of the reasons I am what I am today. The horns, the mane, the bulk... I remember trying to draw it, but I could never make it look quite right. Probably because I was 8.

Turns out the artwork is "The Orphan" by Don Maitz (1979). The original sold back in 2018, so I guess I'll just have to print out my own copy to frame.

#i relate soooooo much #werewolf kin

canislupuslatrans

Alterhuman/therian spaces constantly try to lump zoanthropes and physical nonhumans into their communities when we are not the same community.

Its not a "we're better than you", its we are quite literally not the same community, we have different experiences. please for the love of god stop trying to use our terms in contexts that don't fit them. Zoanthrope is not a broad-spectrum label like nonhuman or alterhuman is, Zoanthropy has very specific meanings.

please for the love of god just let us keep our spaces, our communities. we've been fighting for so long to have a space where we can exist, now we can barely find eachother due to how mis-used our tags and terms are.

physical nonhumanity has already lost a lot of its meaning. please just leave us alone, we just want a space where we can exist

#signal boost!#i am not a zoanthrope but i support y'all and i see the misappropriation of labels that's been happening

woodswalker96

Don’t take the wrong way. This franchise (specifically the rebooted version) is up there with my favorite franchises.

But I have one critique that has been eating me up lately since I saw the newest one: I want the apes to be, in a way, more ape-like.

Let me explain: I simply want them to incorporate more of the species-specific behaviors we recognize in the apes to shine through in conjunction with their heightened intelligence.

For example, if modern gorillas have a social structure dominated by a dominant male (the silverback), with a harem of females and associated lesser males (known as blackbacks), then I’d like to see that translated into a higher intelligence gorilla society. Perhaps you could have them be a largely agrarian species with a focus on agriculture (since they’d still be vegetarian) and a strength based culture where a wanderer male could ritualistically challenge a silverback for the harem.

Another example could be how in some species, it’s the females who leave to find new troops, so perhaps there could be ceremonies where different ape tribes (of appropriate species) come together and exchange females.

Another thing related to this statement is that I want the main ape characters to look more ape-like. Like you can literally see it in Caesar and Noa how the creative team made them more appealing to the human audience (I get why they did this, I’m not stupid, but I just want them to appear just a little more like actual chimpanzees). Such traits I focus on are the eyes. If you look at a chimpanzee, they have instead of whites in their eyes, they have “darks”. I wish this would’ve been more incorporated into the designs. The other apes also have whites but in some species this may be present versus with chimps. And if it isn’t then it’s done less obviously than with the main ape characters.

Anyways, those are my only two real critiques, which aren’t even really critiques as in nitpicks or “this is how I would’ve done it”. I was a little sparse about the details about ape eyes and social structure but that’s because I primarily know only bare basics of those subjects and did not have time to research them properly (this was written on the fly). I may rewrite this and add more details later if this is received well.

Thank you.

#yesss to all of this!#planet of the apes #pota

millionsknives

please make sure that wherever you’re at in life, you don’t treat it like a transitory period. don’t waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. don’t waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while it’s important to better yourself and reach for your goals, don’t neglect the present because that’s where you are now and it’s your now that determines your future.