feathered-dumbass

he/they, 25, therian and fictionkin

[feathered-dumbass]

Hi hi new intro post/kinlist - it's been like 3-4 years I need to dust this blog off. This post will be updated as needed.

My preferred names are omen or silver but I will respond to feathers or dumbass as well lmao. I use he/they pronouns

This blog had previously shifted into kind of an everything blog (mostly bird related stuff) and that will still be present but I want to recenter it on otherkin and alter human content, and also acknowledge what I've discovered since I left- I am fictionkin! So there will be fictionkin related content as well.

Kinlist below, very bare-bones, will be updated as needed

Theriotypes:

- Common raven (corvus corax)

- felidae clade (all cats especially house cat)

Fictotypes:

- silver the hedgehog

- the pokemon luxray (pmd: explorers of sky player character)

[permanenteclipse]

May I present to the room the fictionflicker severity scale, designed based on past experiences:

Category 1: not even really quite a flicker, more like “a character I felt odd about” or maybe it was even just the source but who can say… It must have been the wind

Category 2: once it’s gone it’s gone and looking back on it now. I feel nothing. “A flicker I had”

Category 3 type A: one-time flicker that definitely had some lasting effect at least but revisiting the media gives a very diluted feeling, if any at all

Category 3 type B: one-time flicker that had like 0 impact on my life overall but revisiting would probably put me right back in where we left off

Category 4: recurring flicker, rewatching means reflickering, even if I haven’t touched the thing in years some things still manage to bring up old flicker feelings, we are now entering “one of my flickers” territory

Category 5: beyond level of recurring flicker, some mild background radiation level of brain presence is still consistent even outside of flickering them, this is “a fictotype I questioned” territory now

Category 6 type A: Oops! That’s You!

Category 6 type B: Oops! That’s Not You!

[feathered-dumbass]

Having shifts that I just cannot distinguish between if it's hedgehog or cat. That's very Silver-coded of me I think

[canines-crown]

Me:

Yeah being deathkin is a really calming experience for me, it makes me feel connected to nature in this soft, melancholic way, and I really don't feel scary or violent because of it 🌹🤍🦴💫

Also me expressing that identity through art:

[feathered-dumbass]

The duality of death

[narcissistcookbook]

this is so so important to me and mine, and I'm asking you to Do Something so I'll respect your time and keep it brief

in the UK, if 100k sign a a government petition it will be brought to Parliament and debated. y'all know this country is suffering from some 80s-style bigotry right now, and this is one symptom: almost 200k fuckholes have come together to force the government to discuss whether it is 'appropriate' to tell children that queer people exist. this is a big symbolic victory for them. and i am burning with fury.

please, if you're from the UK, sign this counter-petition so they can at least see how much of a minority they are. simply put, the attempt to put these bastards in their place isn't gathering enough steam. there are barely 2000 more signatures now than there were this morning, and that isn't enough. i refuse to let these people feel even a moment of victory or satisfaction. please help.

[feathered-dumbass]

Ya ever just

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[todaysbird]

can we discuss why there’s a massive demand for albino/melanistic/unusually colored animals to be shot/taxidermied? like i could be wrong but it kinda sucks the joy out of rare sightings if you immediately exterminate the rare animal?

[todaysbird]

(2) If my mom would have locked me in the house my whole life bc I am more likely to die outside or get abducted etc, it would be called abuse. And to the environmental problems there are solutions like having your cat wear a bell around it's neck, so it can't sneak up on birds anymore. Or living in a place where no wildlife center with threatened animals is around. I don't mind people who have their cat indoors. But it feels bad being hated for allowing my cat what he loves to do.

you’re not a cat

[feathered-dumbass]

No wildlife centers around doesnt mean there's no endangered animals around. Also. If your cat does damage to another person's person or property while they're out. That's on you

[end0skeletal]

The green broadbill is a small bird in the broadbill family endemic to forests of Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula, where it feeds largely on figs. (x x x x)

[ambipom]

kermit the frog bird

[psyche-noire]

Crowflakes!

Photography by Shawn Bergman (Vancouver)

[eerie-qwq]

Birb says gay rights

[ajaxbird]

snowy close up 1

[todaysbird]

today’s birds are these pigeons!

[feathered-dumbass]

Hi hi hello! I just wanted to say I’m really glad I found your awesome blog, I’ve never looked up bird therian stuff despite being a birb myself, and I have achieved the happy brain chemicals now, so thank you!!!

Aw that's great to hear! Glad you got the happy brain chemicals!

[a-dragons-journal]

I feel like the term “cameo shift” is falling out of use and it’s something that probably bears a PSA. (I also want to preface this with the fact that I’m not vaguing any particular person; this is something I’ve been meaning to say for a while.) So, here goes:

Just because you have a shift of something (phantom, mental, astral, whatever) doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a kintype.

Cameo shifts are shifts of things that aren’t your kintype - whatever kind of shift (phantom, mental, etc.) they may be. They may be one-time occurrences, they may show up regularly in response to a specific stimulus, or (in more unusual cases) they may be just as regular as shifts of your kintype but without any other factors (behaviors, instincts, homesickness, etc) to make them actually relevant to your sense of identity.

(For example: I experience phantom shifts of canine/feline ears every so often, usually as a response to me either expressing emotion with them (ie pinning back) or being surprised by something and them pricking up. However, I don’t really identify as canine or feline in any way, so they’re just cameo shifts.)

Anyone can theoretically experience cameo shifts, including non-’kin folk. In fact, there’s a fairly well-known phenomenon of non-’kin people suddenly starting to get phantom shifts when they first discover the otherkin community and start reading about them a bunch; generally these shifts go away within a few weeks to months, and it’s the reason a lot of older ‘kin folk may tell you to take some time away from the community and intentionally try not to think about it if your phantom shifts only started after finding the community, to see if the shifts persist. It may be something you feel is relevant to your experiences, or it may even be linked somehow, or it may not be all that big a deal to you.

Point being: Don’t feel like you need to question whether you have another kintype if you suddenly have phantom shifts of something unusual. It’s not necessarily a kintype thing, sometimes the brain just does weird things. Just let it lie, see if it persists, and see if there’s anything else to make it important enough to your sense of self to be a kintype. (Not to say that phantom shifts alone can’t make something a kintype for some people, just that there’s usually more to a kintype than that alone.)

[cherrybudgie]

So pretty little boys and girls ✨

[oomles]

I’m honestly just geekin’ out right now - it’s so cool seeing my artwork like this! ;v;

[oomles]

Totally forgot to mention - you can get this pin RIGHT NOW on my etsy OR at Oomles.com! 💖