No Civilizing Hides Our Animal Impulses

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[frosted-shadowss]

Welcome to my blog

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Yo! Welcome to my blog! I'm Dustin, but you can call me Dust.

I was awakened about 3 years ago and have since been embracing my alterhumanity. This blog is just to document and talk about it.

My main blog is @cannidolly if you want a more disorganized everything blog.

Please understand that my pronouns are there for a reason. No, I don't care that you're dehumanizing me by using it, that's what I prefer. It makes me more comfortable in my skin.

I usually don't like listing off kintypes (as I feel like the community is too obsessed with types rather than the actual experience) but I'll go ahead and list them anyway, just so you can get the gist.

Kintypes

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Werewolf/Wolven Cryptid

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Probably the kintype I'm connected to most days. It's also the one I get the most shifts from.

Trico

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My Trico kintype is definitely the runner up to most connected. I don't shift much for it however. Mainly wing shifts.

African Lion

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I usually don't talk much about my lion type. It's almost always dormant and I only feel connected to it when I'm in the blazing heat.

Other

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Domestic Cat

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Hearttype/kith. I've been bonded to cats since I can remember. I'll occasionally have a cat shift, but I don't consider them kin.

Toko Fukawa/Syo Fukawa

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Hearttype/Kith & Copinglink. Coming to terms with this one is weird but they're too much like me. Ever since I played THH back in 2018 I knew I was going to be super attached to these two.

Tagging System

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Werewoofs

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Own posts & thoughts.

Werelogs

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Journal entries of my alterhuman experience.

Werelikes

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Reblogged posts I agree with/like.

Pawpainting

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Art relating to my nonhumanity.

Not Safe For Pups

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Nsfw posts.

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[pinto-leaf]

Shitty photo of my drawinggg :P

[skyhounds]

I couldn’t become a misanthrope. Humans are far too complex to be shoved in one side of the “good-or-evil” box. In my eyes it confuses me to place so much distain for a species, as they are neither “good” or “bad” as a whole. Like any animal, humanity is raw. Hungry and thirsty. Stumbling around like any mammal trying to survive.

But that’s just from my experience living amongst humans, and I’m fortunate to have bumped into many that are some of the kindest souls out there.

[atlasastrum]

I hope you don't mind me adding this, but I find this conversation very important, especially because there are many young people in alterhuman circles who need more education. Not just them, everyone really.

Misanthropy directly feeds into eco-fascist and nihilistic worldviews, which paralyzes leftist movements that actually do something. Believing that humans are inherently power hungry, awful, and apart from nature, viewing people as pests upon the earth and saying that the only way to solve what we did wrong is for humanity to die out, then you're not doing much better than the common folk who don't give a shit about our effect on the ecosystem and laugh green movements off in favor of their dictatoric billionare politicians.

Blaming a whole species for why everything is going to shit and acting like you're better doesn't make you above everyone else. Being alterhuman doesn't put you above humans. Adopting this worldview is a very immature way to see the world. If you think this way, sooner or later you will likely get lost in all the hate you brewed and feel like everything is pointless, but this doesn't absolve you of your responsibility. You CAN do something to make things better. There are people doing so many things to make things better.

Read books, learn about why capitalism is harmful for the earth and us, join movements, learn about your local issues and how you can show up to help, go vegan, etc etc there are so many things you should and can do starting today. Humans are beautiful, and are not apart from ny other creature on this planet. You can do better.

[lynxweed]

small potato. but physically nonhumans/clcz/holotheres tried to defend our terms ~2 years ago and we were all met with so much hostility (to the point a lot of us left the internet or at least retreated to the outskirts). it’s good to see the conversation pop up again and be much more well received, but it does hurt that like. our initial voices and efforts were ignored or outright shot down and we were kinda forced to widen our definitions to avoid further hostility. im glad people are speaking on it and realizing the truth in what we said now, but i wish we were also listened to then.

[frosted-shadowss]

My hind legs are fully shifted rn n it's super annoying of a sensation

[guppyscolita]

Hand to werewolf paw transformation

[raventhewolf9]

Food tips for carnivorous/predator alterhumans

(That aren't just to eat meat!)

Burritos! I've recently found that they're really good for tearing into with my teeth like ripping into prey. 10/10 would recommend going absolutely feral on your burrito. Pizza is pretty good for this too

In a similar vein, soft fruit that you can tear off chunks of with your teeth is also great for this, especially if they're really juicy. I like to do this with cooked pineapple (specifically cooked because it's softer and easier to tear pieces off of). I've also heard of "shower oranges", where you take an orange into a shower to eat it so you can be as messy with it as you want, and in a place where it's relatively easy to clean it up (and apparently it smells amazing too, if you like the smell of citrus).

Tear up some lunch meat and mix it in with rice-- I don't know why, but this works, at least for me. It's very good. I like to do it with turkey.

If you have a kintype that crunches on bones like a Tasmanian devil, try pretzel sticks! You can also stick marshmallows on either end of them and cover them in white chocolate for a treat that looks like a bone too.

Speaking of bones, whenever I eat bone-in chicken I like to crack open the bones, then dig out and eat the marrow. Be extra careful if you try this though because the broken edges can be very jagged and sharp.

I've never tried this before, but I think it might be fun or affirming to do some exercise like running, and then "reward" yourself with food afterwards, to simulate hunting. Even though you don't actually catch the food, I think that running specifically to eat food afterwards might still recreate that feeling a little bit. If anyone tries this do let me know if it works!

Try to find candy / snack versions of your prey, like marshmallow mice, peeps, sugar or gummy insects (Annie's makes bug-shaped fruit snacks that I like!), Swedish fish, animal crackers, etc. Some of them, like the ones made of marshmallow or gummy, are also great for tearing into like I mentioned about burritos and fruit.

If your kintype eats insects, there are plenty of places to find actual insects sold as food like fried crickets. There are shops that sell these online, and I believe you can also find them in Asian markets or the like. (And if you don't like to eat real insects, there are candy versions like I mentioned above!)

Jerky is also really great for satisfying prey drive, but if you don't like jerky or are vegetarian, fruit leathers have a similar texture.

Let me know if you've tried any of these and if they work for you, and if you have any other ideas do tell me so I can add them!!

[graveyardpanther-deactivated202]

advice for alterhumans : build your territory

you don’t need a forest or mountains.

territory can be a chair by the window.

a walking route you take every evening.

going to the same coffee play everyday -

return to the same places. sit there regularly. let your body recognize : this is mine. this is safe. this is my territory -

territory isn’t about ownership. it’s about familiarity. a space where your nervous system doesn’t have to stay alert.

wild animals don’t wander endlessly. they move within a range they know. create places your body can come back to. create something thats yours.

it can be as simple as a place in your room. make it accessible for you. make it yours. 🐾 💫

[thetadelta]

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[sealfaring]

Hunting and Fishing as a Therian

Recently, I've been making an honest effort to start supplying myself and my household with meat that I catch and kill myself. It's been a slow process because the startup is expensive and there's a learning curve to it as well, but I'm dedicating myself to doing better and better until it can hopefully be the majority of my meat source. Next week, I'm taking a 2 hour long introduction to hunting class ran by the Department of Fish and Wildlife and besides that, I've invested in a Dungeness crab trap this year and got my shellfishing license again.

For a really long time in my life and especially once I realized I was a therian, I've always felt deeply sympathetic for animals in factory farmed settings. Since moving to Oregon, I've made it a priority to soon get a large freezer and I'm working with a farmer in the rural area close to me to purchase half a cow that they process themselves. While this has been a step up for me, I still feel this sense of disconnect with my food and knew I could do better than that. I wanted to know exactly how the animal died because I'd do it myself, and if I can't do it, that's something I feel I need to sit with and reflect on if I want to continue eating meat like I want to. I know hunting is controversial, but I truly couldn't keep driving beside the factory farm chicken truck on my way to work daily with their feathers flying on the road as the wind and rain hit them and not have some sort of reflection on my own impact and role in that. Even if I make very little impact, I like thinking that I still helped fight the issue by saving even a few animals from an industrialized, unempathetic death.

Hunting with a gun is obviously not natural and seals aren't out in the woods hunting deer, but for me, it still feels more right as long as I'm in this body. The deer for example will be in the wilderness, and it would reflect more of a natural selection type of process. The deer, rabbits, pheasants, or whatever else that avoid the human populated areas, hide better, or run faster will never be seen by me. The crabs who avoid traps and avoid the piers or the clams who dig deeper and stay further out won't be able to be grabbed by me either. It will be up to me to be stealthy, efficient, and simply gain experience as I plan to follow fair chase principles and give the animals a reasonable chance to escape. If I catch them, I can manage exactly how they die, use the whole animal, and have more care and honor in the process. I'm even expecting that for the first animal I kill, I might cry if I'm being very honest.

Last weekend, I went shellfishing for razor clams at the Oregon coast with a lot of excitement to finally go and bring home my own dinner, but it was a complete bust. The air was colder, the rain was pouring, the waves were acting rougher, and a bunch of by-the-wind sailors washed up all over the beach. All the clams buried deep down in the sand and any holes they did make were immediately covered by the jellyfish and water. Even the experienced clammers found maybe one in the entire time they were out there, but despite my lack of a successful catch, I really deeply felt in my bones and heart and body the adrenaline of a hunt. The thought that if I was a seal here in the water doing the same thing, this would have been a day I would not have succeeded all because of the environment and the good survival skills of the clams. That's nature.

My husband is vegetarian, but even he's been deeply supportive of me and even proud that I'm going this extra mile to be more "wild" and pick the most ethical way of getting meat that I can, on top of the fact that this will help save us money in the long run compared to me buying pasture raised meat constantly which is getting real pricey. Personally, I'm spiritually a therian and view all animals as having their own souls and conscience, so this is probably the most important thing I've done for myself in all of my years of being a therian. I didn't grow up with a family that ever hunted or fished so I'm starting from absolute scratch, but I feel deeply nonhuman, even in this human lifestyle. I feel like a seal who was given land, sea, and civilization for one lifetime.

[thylogale-procavia]

"A fucked-up family's a fucked-up family, whether or not werewolves are involved." -  Carrie Vaughn (Kitty Takes a Holiday (Kitty Norville, #3))

[frosted-shadowss]

I'm so deeply hungry for raw meat. I recently had raw tuna and now I'm chasing that taste. Grgrgrgrrr I wish I didn't live with someone who has a seafood allergy I'd be MUNCHING on fish if I wasn't

[selkiecoreaesthetic]

★ A Selkie’s Guide to Eating Fish and NOT Getting Poisoned by Mercury and Microplastics ★

📖 See end of this post for two book recommendations 📖

DISCLAIMER: This post is NOT intended to offend anyone, and is meant for EDUCATIONAL purposes only. What the reader chooses to do and how they react is ENTIRELY up to the reader. 👍🏻

Greetings fellow fish eaters!

Today I present y’all a selkie-coded guide to choosing the best fish for frequent feasting, avoiding mercury and microplastic poisoning, and why we should side-eye anything that came from a fish farm.

✦ First: What even IS mercury and why is it in our dinner?

Mercury is a naturally occurring heavy metal (yes, it’s in the earth’s crust, volcanic eruptions release it, forest fires release it, etc.).

Mercury also comes from coal-burning power plants and gold mining. It turns into methylmercury in water, which is the neurotoxic form that builds up in living things.

The rule of the sea: the bigger, older, and higher up the food chain a fish is, the more mercury it has accumulated. Apex predators = mercury magnets.

✦ Selkie Approved Low-Mercury Fish (eat these all you want)

Atlantic mackerel (not king mackerel—king is high!)

Sardines

Herring

Anchovies

Wild-caught Alaskan salmon (basically the selkie national dish)

Pacific jack mackerel

Trout (freshwater, usually very low)

Shad

Mullet

Butterfish

Smelt

Fresh/snap-frozen pole-and-line-caught skipjack tuna (light chunk, not albacore)

Basically: small, fast-growing, short-lived fish = very little time to collect mercury.

✦ Fish to Eat Rarely (or never, if you’re full selkie and eat fish daily)

Swordfish

Bigeye tuna

King mackerel

Marlin

Shark (tbh we don’t eat them they eat us lol)

Tilefish

Orange roughy (also these poor things are ancient - some are 150 years old. Leave them be.)

Albacore/white tuna

Spanish mackerel (Gulf of Mexico)

✦ Why Wild Caught is BETTER than eating Farmed Fish

Farmed fish are basically aquatic feedlot cows:

Crowded → disease → constant antibiotics

Fed processed pellets made of wild fish (it takes 3–5 kg of wild fish to grow 1 kg of farmed salmon.

Higher levels of PCBs, dioxins, and other persistent pollutants because of that feed

Often dyed to look pink (wild salmon are pink from eating krill; farmed ones get it from chemicals)

Escapes interbreed with wild populations and wreck genetics

Sea lice epidemics that torture wild salmon nearby

If we wouldn’t eat something raised in a warehouse swimming in its own poop, don’t eat farmed fish. Simple.

⚠️ WARNING about Microplastics ⚠️

✦ What are they?

Tiny plastic bits (<5 mm) and nanoplastics (<1 μm) are now in literally every corner of the ocean.

This plastic comes from man made plastic products that can be found in everything from toothpaste, laundry detergent, soap, cosmetics, and even food preservatives - disturbing fun fact: in the USA nearly all brands of pickles contain a microplastic preservative called Polysorbate 80.

If you’d like to help keep the sea and your body free of microplastics, always check the ingredients and do not purchase if the ingredients list a word that starts with “POLY”.

✦ Who in the sea Absorbs these microplastics?

In the sea, filter-feeders and bottom-dwellers eat the most because that’s where the plastic sinks or floats in the water column.

We’re finding 100–600 pieces per individual fish in some studies. Mussels in the Arctic have hundreds of pieces each.

✦ How are microplastics absorbed?

Once in the body of any living organism, polymers (plastics) are stored in lipids (fats) in the body, and it’s difficult/near impossible to remove them.

What becomes the hazard factor is primarily related to reproduction, when fats stored away in the body are used to help a fetus grow, and the toxins absorbed by the fetus can cause many developmental issues, and sometimes result to premature death.

This is often the case why the first born calves of whales do not survive as whales absorb a lot of microplastics through the krill they eat (krill eat algae and other small microscopic organisms that feed on microscopic matter - including plastics).

Mixroplastics aren’t just a concern for whales, but for all living creatures who reproduce. If we want a future where life on earth still exists, then we must stop using products with plastic and spread the word.

✦ Why We Shouldn’t Completely Blame the Corporates

We cannot blame the manufacturers alone, because 90% of them have no clue the materials they use to make awesome products are actually harming everyone including themselves.

This is why educating everyone about microplastics is so important so we can find better ways to make the same products but with healthier ingredients.

✦ So What Fish Can we Eat?

LOW microplastic risk – your safest daily bites

Wild Alaskan salmon (they eat clean squid & krill high in the water column, far from coastal plastic soup)

Atlantic mackerel & herring (pelagic, fast swimmers, shorter life → less time to accumulate)

Sardines & anchovies (small, live near surface, poop out plastics fast)

Smelt, freshwater trout (if truly wild and from clean lakes/rivers)

✦ Medium risk – fine sometimes

Cod, haddock, pollock (bottom-feed a bit, plus trawling stirs up plastic-laden sediment)

Skipjack tuna (open ocean, but they live longer than sardines)

✦ High risk – basically eating the Pacific Garbage Patch in fish form

Farmed salmon & tilapia (fed pellets that often contain microplastics from processed trash fish + tanks concentrate plastics)

Bottom-dwellers: sole, flounder, farmed shrimp

Shellfish (oysters, mussels, clams) – filter thousands of litres of water a day. They are the ocean’s vacuum cleaners. Delicious, but plastic city.

Anything from heavily polluted areas (Mediterranean, South China Sea, etc.)

✦ Selkie Microplastic Hacks

1. Stick to pelagic (open-ocean, swimming) fish over benthic (bottom-hugging) ones.

2. Smaller = usually cleaner. A sardine has had 1–2 years to eat plastic. A 30-year-old tuna has been marinating in it since the 90s.

3. Wild >> farmed every single time. Farmed fish eat plastic-contaminated feed and live in plastic-rich water.

4. Gut & clean thoroughly – a lot of microplastics hang out in the digestive tract (yes, this is why some cultures only eat fish heads or fillets).

5. Eat higher in the water column species: mackerel, herring, sardines, salmon.

★ TL;DR Cheat Sheet (now accounting for BOTH mercury AND microplastics)

DAILY / NO WORRIES

- Sardines

- Herring

- Anchovies

- Atlantic mackerel

- Wild Alaskan/Icelandic/Faroese salmon

- Smelt

ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK

- Wild cod/haddock/pollock (gut them!)

- Pole-and-line skipjack tuna (light chunk)

ONCE A MONTH OR LESS

- Shellfish (if you love them, maybe boil/steam and discard the broth)

- Bottom fish (sole, flounder)

- Anything farmed

NEVER (mercury + plastic double whammy)

- Farmed salmon/tilapia/shrimp

- Swordfish, shark, big tuna species

- Mussels/oysters from urban coasts

✦ Quick Selkie Rules for Safe Feasting

1. Eat low on the food chain

2. Eat small & young (a 2-year-old mackerel has 1/50th the mercury of a 20-year-old tuna)

3. Prefer wild-caught from cold, clean waters (Alaska, Iceland, Faroe Islands, etc.)

4. Check your regional advisories - some local fish are contaminated by poor water quality

5. If you’re pregnant, planning to be, or a selkie pup, be extra strict - methylmercury and microplastics loves developing brains and bodies

Stay safe out there, spread knowledge, help others, and happy fish eating! 🐟

★ P.S. If you’ve gotten this far and are wondering how I know all this stuff, PLEASE read these two books that I studied in college for a class on oceanography.

These two books, “The Ocean of Life”, and “Cradle to Cradle”, taken with a grain of salt, will open up the mind to the truth about our oceans (and the manufacturing industry), might give the reader an existential crisis, but in the end will help the reader understand the importance of why we must continue educating ourselves and others, along with find innovative ways to improve the health of our planet. Inspire us to do our due diligence abolish pollution if we want life on Earth to continue, whilst have the prospect of a future where sustainable abundance is possible for all species. 📖👇🏻

[glowingclitmagnetraccoongirl]

It's a work in progress, but here are the dragon scales my girlfriend got. She eventually wants to get them up and down her arms. She's gonna get them tattooed with a shaded gray once they have healed.

[frosted-shadowss]

The way I used to strip back my identity on here for fear id get skinned alive for existing.... now idc. I'm physically non-human. I DO believe I'm fully a werewolf and I will continue to be so obnoxious about it. Yay <3

[frosted-shadowss]

The wolven urge to piss on things in my room just so people leave me alone

[meadowchewtoy]

sniffs you sniffs you sniffs you sniffs you

[wolfboyfelix]

Any other non-humans hate showering?

Showering sucks for numbers of reasons for me but one of the most odd ones I suppose is the fact it gets rid of my smell...

Let me explain, so as an animal my scent is important to me. It helps me claim areas and mark where ive been, it helps others know where I am and its oddly comforting.

But nope! Humans decided that its gross and we need to shower daily and use things that smell like chemical flowers

Let me be stinky guys please 🙏

Anywayyyy im going to shower so im not stinky :cc