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[odd-art-cp]

[gayfellers]

who else but THESE GALS 🐾🌈🫃😼🏳️‍⚧️

[g-moron]

@grok capture my melancholy

[dolsit-tones]

[citrusmillie]

Tumblr makes sense to me bc if i see something i like i get excited and hit the button to show other people and theres no weird unspoken social conventions my autistic brain doesnt understand. I can literally sit here and reblog 150 niche shitposts about harvest mice in an hour just bc they make me happy and i dont have to explain myself to anyone and i'll actually *gain* followers instead of just being called weird and downvoted or whatever its so cool

[patricia-taxxon]

where do you think the roots of feeling like a furry even, like... come from? why is it common that furries--myself included--feel kinship in just, like, any nonhuman shape? i feel lots of euphoria from specific shapes, but also euphoria from just not being human (in a game or online or what have you). and a kinship seeing anybody else who isn't playing human at the moment. how deep do these feelings go in the psyche, you reckon?

I don't think its possible to go through life without at some point being made to feel inhuman, even if u aren't autistic. a lot of people land on vampires or lieutenant data or something else, the metaphors for feeling both human and inhuman are endless. it gets written inside us early.

[patricia-taxxon]

Furry and therian broadly overlap, even though both groups try to deny this. Like, the furries don't want to be associated with freaks who actually think they're animals, and the therians don't want their deeply held personal identity to be reduced to just a fandom or fetish. However, just from orbiting around furry spaces for as long as I have, I am convinced that basically all furries are also therian.

When I first started toying with the idea of identifying as something inhuman through a furry lens, a lot of annoying therians told me that what I was experiencing is not just being really into furry stuff, it's a sign I was never human to begin with. I don't really understand this impulse, it felt like just the same thing. Are you going to diagnose every furry with therianthropy? I mean, you probably could, but it's not a distinction worth splitting hairs over.

My therian identity IS kind of fandom-like in its conception, like I do think I reasoned my way into it somewhat. I was made to feel inhuman by my upbringing, but I could have landed on many different metaphors. I think part of species dysphoria and my intermittent phantom tail/ear phenomena is really a manifestation of wanting this metaphor to come true. This is the reason I've felt a little alienated by therian spaces, I felt like I was being smothered with the reading that I literally had a non-human mind, and that doesn't make sense to me. "Dog" is an externally defined category, if I'm anything, I am a human's idea of what a dog is.

All that being said, this doesn't diminish the importance of my identity. I'm really starting to think that one of the main boundaries you need to break in order to be happy is to erase the distinction between "i identify as" and "I AM." Like maybe you don't just love and relate to that character in your favorite manga, maybe that's you. Perhaps, you were the fursona all along.