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Formerly: Earthen-heart . This is my therianthropy-centered blog.

[archiemcphee]

“They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon…”

The Department of Unexpected Interspecies Friendship is seriously considering setting up a permanent satellite office in Japan. Their latest discovery is an inseparable pair made up of one Scottish Fold Kitten named Marimo and a Little Owl named Fuku. That’s right friends, these two are the makings of a real-life version of “The Owl and the Pussycat.”

This adorable pair live together at Hukulou Coffee, an owl-themed cafe in Osaka, Japan, along with a few more owls and sometimes a bunny friend too. They hang out on perches together looking cute as can be. But the best times are the cuddly shared naps and goodnight kisses:

Head over to the Hukulou Coffee Twitter feed for more photos of this awesomely sweet pair of furred and feathered friends.

[via RocketNews24]

[black-usagi13-deactivated201905]

My heart…it hurts. Cant handle this

[featherling]

zooophagous

[zooophagous]

The department of unexpected friendship? Thats a really nice way of saying “we cram together natural enemies for the sake of cute photos.”

This post is gonna be salty as Hell but you know what? People who cram animals together that are natural enemies like snakes and mice, birds and cats, tigers and dogs or whatever else are worse idiots than people who fight dogs for entertainment.

Dog fighters at least know what they’re doing. They try to give the dog the best chance. They stand by ready to administer veterinary care, and they have the tools to stop a fight when it goes too far.

People who do dumb cutesy shit like this are much the same, they stick together animals that have a high likelyhood of seriously hurting each other, in the name of cutesy entertainment instead of gorey entertainment. Unlike dog fighters though, they don’t know how to break up a fight or administer emergency care. When fights do break out all they can do is throw water on the two and shriek that they never saw it coming.

Owls are shitty pets to begin with, even making poor birds for real falconers, keeping one in a home with a cat is an awful idea. The owl could seriously hurt the cat (they have huge talons and foul tempers) and whats more, cat saliva is very, very bad for birds. One overly hard playful nip from this kitten could open the bird up to serious infection, and how many small animal veterinarians do you think operate on owls?

And good lord did I read about a “bunny friend?” The natural prey of BOTH of these? Being cute doesn’t remove instinct. Why would you gamble with their lives like this.

For the love of God owls are not pets.

[kaleighbytheway]

Sadly, these aren’t even pets. They live in a cafe. Japan is full of animal cafes where you go to spend time with the animals. So not only are they with animals they shouldn’t be with, but they get harassed by strangers.

[zooophagous]

Even worse. I hope a business has at least a care fund set aside but I feel like its more likely that “euthanize it and get a new one” is the standard for this.

[whisper-of-wolves]

Even worse is the fuck face that actually believes dog fighters give two shits about their animals. 

[zooophagous]

They give enough of a shit to keep the animals alive long enough to breed them or make a profit. Out of the dog fighting documentaries I’ve seen, it’s pretty common for the “dog men” to have stockpiles of medical equipment to patch a dog up after a fight. Dogs aren’t single-use, they have to stay alive to win more than one fight to be valuable for anything. So yes, it is an established fact that dog fighters do administer medical care to their dogs (at least the ones that take it very seriously and make large amounts of money off of them)

There’s lots of chumps who “fight dogs” that are stupid kids who try and train a dog they got for free on Craigslist to fight and they have no issues with killing it the moment it loses, but the dark seedy underbelly of dog fighting that spreads across the nation (and even internationally) involves a LOT of veterinarians, many of whom will patch a dog up or accept payment on the side not to say anything to anyone about where Rover got his glasgow grin.

Trying to believe otherwise because you’re uncomfortable humanizing a dog fighter is nothing more than sticking your head in the sand.

[webelieveinyoukris-blog]

like seriously I have nothing against gay people but can you please stop shoving your lgbt rights in everyone’s face. like we get it, all 50 states now accept gay marriage. just accept that and move on, stop trying to make everyone support you.

[daywavve]

Is this a real post that I read with my two eyes

[sleepinghoneybee]

[earthenhart]

At this point, Ruby Rose is a phase that straight girls go through. Haha

[thespoonmissioner]

[zodiacmadness]

Capricorn: You don’t like to let many people in because they wouldn’t understand your way of thinking.

Capricorn (via zodiacmadness)

[bombcollar]

interests: that little fast walk birds outside do when they wanna get away from you but they’re not like super committed 

[gaywrites]

The next LGBT-friendly commercial you’ll see on TV soon is brought to you by Tylenol, which included several same-sex couples (as well as interracial families and single parents) in a new ad about what makes a family. Awwww.

[earthenhart]

Oh my bad, I had no clue what that was. I thought it was a baby crow like they said.

Haha, it's alright. Either way it's a really cute bird. I just don't want more people getting confused. But for future reference: That chick looked more like a baby chicked. It was all fluffy. That is a precocial bird species, meaning that the babies hatch with down, open eyes very soon, and can eat soon after hatching. Most "game" bird species are this way: geese, ducks, chicken, pheasants, etc. Corvids will have the typical "ugly" babies that are helpless balls of nakedness. Hahaha

[remnantofthelegacy-deactivated2]

REBLOG if you're pan/bi/asexual

[lamecaptain-deactivated20150512]

The holy trinity of non-existing sexualities 

[kagoma-deactivated20180417]

Crow babies are important

[built2bulk-blog]

Somehow it never occurred to me that crows start out as babies.

[earthenhart]

This is a CORNCRAKE chick!

Not a a baby crow! These do not even resemble baby crows, and the corncrake is not even related to the common crow or any corvid!

[earthenhart]

Does anyone think that someday I might have the chance of making a profit on my artwork? I promise the flower one looks so much better in person. Haha. The flower one is oil on canvas, and the house is oil on a wooden plague. I definitely need to improve, but I've gotten a few requests from some people already, albeit no commissions. I was thinking about maybe selling some art as well as other things on Etsy. What do you all think?

[gifsthatmakesyoulaugh]

[afraiddave-deactivated20220727]

This saw senses when it hits flesh.

I just thought that was the world’s most powerful hotdog

[earthenhart]

Life Story

Me: *avoids mirrors all day because I'm so ugly*

Me: *finally looks in a mirror* Oh, I'm not THAT bad. I could work with this.

Me: *does my hair and gets cleaned up*

Me: *takes a selfie and shares it online*

Me: *instantly loses at least six followers*

Me: Oh.

Me: *goes back to avoiding mirrors*

[a-therians-haven]

Not up-to-date..?

Is the proper and common term ‘astral limbs’? The forum and website where I went to with questions, back when Therianthropy was first introduced to me, called them ‘phantom limbs.’ I’ve learned this could potentially be offensive for amputees. I don’t want to talk about the limbs and say ‘phantom’ with not knowing the correct term and someone get all over my ass about it.

[liongoatsnake]

No, its not the proper or common term. The phrase “astral limb” is completely something tumblr created and its not accepted in the actual therian community, (The shift is called phantom shifting after all.) Also, the idea that its “offensive” is also something tumblr cooked up without actually doing any research. The phrase “phantom limb” is not limited to amputees at all actually. Sure, the most well know kind of phantom limb is Phantom Limb Syndrome where an amputee still feels like their amputated limbs is still there. However, there are also instances of “extra” limbs being felt that a person has never had. Supernumerary phantom limbs is a condition where a person feels the presence of one or more limbs that they never had (such as a third arm). These extra limbs are also called “phantom limbs.” Also, temporary supernumerary phantom limbs can be brought on by illusions such as one called “the rubber hand trick” which shows how easily the mind can form sensations all on its own without any loss of an actual limb or so on. This has been researched too and is also called “phantom limbs.” Further, there are several cases where people who are transgender feel phantom parts related to their proper gender rather than their sex. These two, in academic papers or otherwise are called “phantom limbs.” Finally, in the small but ever growing list of academic papers about otherkin, in reference to otherkin expereicnes sensations on their body that isn’t there, they use “phantom limb.”  

[samoyad]

s/o to all the girls with hairy tummies, hairy arms, hairy knuckles, bushy eyebrows, deep set under-eye circles, and hyper-pigmentation of their skin. s/o to girls with “man-hands,” “masculine-framed bodies,” brown eyed, dark skinned, acne scarred bodies, and stretch-mark scarred bodies. 

i hope that you love yourself as much as i love you and that someday you meet people who love you as much as you love yourself. 

[dekuzmum]

honestly thank you so much

[ulibeanzz]

i mean. its ok if personally you prefer girls who arent hairy. but like. think critically about why. like fucking take a step back and really assess why its so important to you that girls don’t grow hair in places they do and why it doesn’t matter on men. im serious. come back to me and tell me one good reason. give examples and show your work. its due on my desk monday morning

[earthenhart]

I honestly find it quite strange and amusing that some people want to be otherkin (or perhaps just want a place to fit in?) so badly that they’re willing to try to bend definitions to get in.

Like, why?…

[awolfsdream-deactivated20200419]

So you have bird mental shifts and phantom limb shifts as well even though you don’t identify as a bird? (I am asking to learn, not to antagonize. ^^” I know a lot of times ppl will ask questions repeatedly to tease or something. I’ve been on that end before. I’m not one of those ppl, promise. I just wish to understand better from the perspective of one who knows)

If that is the case, what is it exactly that stops you from identifying as a bird therian if you feel the same exact things as you would a deer therian? (and I’m generalizing. I’m aware not everyone’s therian experiences are the same) If I may make an example, I used to have dreams of being a mer-person growing up, but I’ve never felt quite the connection to mer-folk as I do with my therio-self (I am a wolf therian). That doesn’t stop me from having mermaid dreams and loving mermaid things and feeling a connection to the sea despite not visiting regularly (I actually live near the coast and used to go all the time when I was a kid, just too busy now) Would that be an example of one who is other-hearted?

[earthenhart]

Yeah, that could be like what being otherhearted is.

For me, it's like this: I am a deer. But I would rather be a bird.

I just don't feel enough like a bird to consider myself one, though there are similarities between being a therian and birdhearted. I actually don't have a connection (outside familiar, because sometimes deer feel like family in a way) with deer. They do not interest me all that much. But birds, on the other hand do. I feel a fondess and connection with birds in general. I'm a bird lover. Haha.