my claws might be plastic

[gift-shop-dragon]

wowie an intro post

machine/robot/android and demon-thing with draconic characteristics, polymorph with too many forms

psychological alterhuman/nonhuman with some social and metaphorical (or conceptual) aspects

i prefer not to use most labels

singlet but please keep syscourse far away from me, the gift shop is open to all systems

i type quickly and am not a fan of grammar, if you see typos lol, lmao even

currently 27

hoping to use this place for essays and more or less introspective stuff one day, but for now, my posts

names: you can call me ghost or haunted or or something else if you feel like it i'm not overly attached to names

any/all pronouns

welcome to my gift shop!

[cabbitgirlwhore]

I want to be a shapeshifter so bad. Just.... It would be so SATISFYING to express emotions by like.... Briefly exploding into an amorphous spiky blob and then going back to normal like nothin happened.

[leathersys]

not quite human

[identitty-dickruption]

I firmly believe that all identities are relational and formed through partaking in certain sets of actions. I also think when you’re isolated it’s very easy to lose track of who You are. I think this is why so many lonely/isolated people end up obsessing over labels and label discourse. it’s one of the only processes of identity formation you can partake in by yourself, in your bedroom. this is not meant as a value judgement, just as an observation as someone who was that lonely label-obsessed kid in the past

[scavengerflight]

《 VultureHuman 》

I am human. I identify as human. This doesn’t make me feel any less vulture. 

This is something I’ve understood since I first discovered and embraced this identity, something that also went against everything I knew and previously felt about alterhumanity and therianthropy. I don’t feel nearly as much species dysphoria as I used to. In fact, I hardly feel any at all. The few times I do, I’ve noticed that it’s when I’m particularly stressed, wishing I could fly away from my problems, which isn't really species dysphoria. This doesn’t make me any less alterhuman.

It’s been difficult to admit, but I believe my previous identities were tools of escapism. Without diving into the details, my childhood had its fair share of hardships, as many often do. As a snow leopard or smilodon or whatever else, I found escape. Not only that, but I found community and belonging, something to bury myself in when being human was too much. 

As I grew and healed as a person, my alterhumanity did the same. As much as I tried to shove it away out of shame and label it as a childhood coping mechanism, the more it didn’t feel like that. This nagging feeling of missing a piece of myself kept coming back, making me go in and out of the community several times.  

I’ve been asking myself, “why now?” Why now do I suddenly not feel ashamed of my alterhumanity? Why am I able to now completely embrace this part of myself? 

Why am I now ok with myself?

I think It’s because this identity is so different from my past ones. Being a vulture is not an escape. It feels more like a fact, in a similar vein as a gender identity: It’s simply who I am. This feeling intensified specifically as my spirituality evolved to where it is now. Every aspect of my being is tied to the fact that I am a child of Mother Earth, dedicating my life to her well-being. I think this is why I am a vulture, why I chose to pursue conservation, why I love myself.

Being a vulture describes my identity, my purpose, my will, and my love.

I am wholly human. I am wholly vulture. These aspects are one in the same, so deeply integrated into one another that they are utterly indistinguishable. 

[alterhumanity-positivity]

Sometimes 'types fade away. Sometimes 'types don't feel like you anymore. There's nothing wrong with it. You change with time. Your identity changes too. This is a natural thing that happens. The fact that your identity changed doesn't deny that it was your identity in the past. It's okay to change. It's okay to not feel like your 'type(s) anymore.

[animalmagazine]

"On Being a Mule of the World: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Species Transition" is the latest nonfiction essay from ANIMAL by @liondrakes ☀️ "'Mare' doesn't hold the same meaning to me as it does to most people. Usually, folks think of a female horse when they think of the term. That much is true from a technical standpoint, but sex isn't the reason why I consider myself as a mare. For me, it is the social implications of the term that make me feel comfortable with using it. I'm not an equestrian, but I know there's no shortage of horse owners, riders, trainers, etc. who treat fillies and mares as if they're from an entirely different planet than colts and stallions. Despite being a construct of human society, misogyny is capable of affecting any species one can think of. Oftentimes, mares are portrayed as bitchy, irritable, aggressive and harder to manage than stallions. Although I'm aggravated by this mindset, I also see myself in mares because of it." Read the full essay on our website:

On Being A Mule of the World: Reflections on Race, Gender and Species Transition

An essay from Liondrakes

[two-facedgod]

We're all familiar with the animalistic traits some of us exhibit during shifts - growling, hissing, howling, etc. But what about those of us who are more monstrous, more eldritch, more alien, or less... acceptable?

Shout out to those monsters who curl their fingers into claws.

Shout out to the beings who restlessly tap and click.

Shout out to the creatures who react with a vicious smile when exposed to certain music or lyrics or movies.

Shout to to the entities with behavior we've never seen before.

Shout out to the spiders and centipedes and devils and ancient primordial horrors. I love you, I love you, I love you.

[kitten-of-bast]

Maybe I'm mistaken but it feels like these days in the tumblr therian community its much more common to be 0% human.

Feel like a bit of an outsider now. Somecreature posted a more poetic version of this sentiment a few days ago: something like too beastly to be human, too human to be beast.

[a-minke-whales-tale]

How Wolfy is the Nonhuman Community?

It is something that is quite often repeated in therian spaces is the abundance of wolves in particular. Rather than doing the methode where a bunch of species are listed I am curious how close the community on average is to wolf.

Please select the closest common clade. If you do not have a nonhuman identity, please select the bottom result if you wish to see the results to avoid skewing the information. If you have multiple types select the closest (or most significant depending on your desire). If your type is not classified such as theriomythics, please select the Other option. If the type classification is unclear (i.e. certain ediacaran or similar ancient life) select which you think best fits.

Examples: Minke Whale (balaenoptera acutorostrata) - Mammalia, African Wild Dog (lycaon pictus) - Canidae, Common Tern (sterna hirundo) - Chordata, Pegasus - Mythical: Other, Silver Elf - Non-Terran: Other

How Close to Wolf Are You?

Species: C. Lupus

Genus: Canis

Family: Canidae

Order: Carnivora

Class: Mammalia

Phylum: Chordata

Kingdom: Animalia

Life: Terran

Non-Terran, Non-Life, Non-Classified, Mythic, or Other

Results/I do not identify as non-human

Voting ended onJun 25

Please reblog this to share it further as I am quite curious and would benefit from getting responses beyond my immidiate circle.

[leathersys]

well that's one way to make yourself known

[the0peratingsystem]

what fictionflickers feel like

[thesillybunch]

what's been gnawing at us lately, besides the everything that is our life, is that i do feel there's a weird "default" that you just ... gotta ... be aesthetic as fuck in the system community.

you gotta have pretty bios, you need icon masks and entirely filled out info with 49735345 fucking symbols screen readers can't read and/or don't work on all devices.

this is purely a me thing. there's no system god pointing their gun at my head to make our shit aesthetic and nice looking but i feel like if we don't we'll die or something.

shout out to the systems that just...cannot... do aesthetics. you're either too big, can't decide, disabled in any form, and/or just don't want to. i get it. you aren't alone.

also extra shout out to systems that will never be satisfied with what they've got documented. we'll never be finished with ours i'm convinced. we're too polyfragmented and caught up in our own thoughts about it all. ugh.

[wizardsoftheroundtable]

Frequently fronted together. Do not separate.

[manylittleguys]

no no please worry about the "evil" alter. they're doing this for attention please for the love of god give them attention they are touch starved and in need of love. cause they're not really evil, they're lashing out. if everyone else gets compassion when they lash out, so should the "evil" alter.

stop calling people who are hurting "evil". start taking care of the "evil" people. they're still people, and people deserve compassion.

[muzzleoleum]

I think there's a huge push in non-human spaces to make very very very clear that you don't have a psychotic disorder like having one makes you exempt from being non-human or physically non-human and i think a lot of you need to asses why you feel the need to completely distance yourself from people with psychotic disorders or other mental health issues for the sake of being taken seriously by people who already do not like individuals who identify as non-human.

I'm not ashamed of having mental health issues or being physically non-human, and i feel no need to explain myself unnecessarily in hopes of having 2 or 3 more people believe me. Distancing yourself unnecessarily from people who you personally do not understand and throwing others under the bus for the sake of a bit more validation does nothing to prove your non-humanity or alter-humanity, it only serves to prove that you fundamentally do not understand what it means to be in community with people who are already outcasted by the general public.

everyone's experiences with non-humanity are completely different and trying to create a dichotomy of who is inherently "more valid" based off of different variables serves nothing and does nothing and only shows that you value social status in the community as one of the "good ones" more than actually engaging with your non-humanity and engaging with community.

(I know there are already so many posts like this and talking about this but since remaking my new account I have seen way too many accounts and posts like what i mentioned and im very sad that this is STILL a problem)

[barley-beak]

I feel like folks need to talk more about types fading. We grow up, we change, and we figure out our identity more. That doesn’t mean that what we experienced wasn’t real. That type helped us understand ourselves more and we simply no longer connect with it and that’s okay.

I recently lost my connection to Cloudjumper and no longer feel that I am him. I still love him dearly and what he represented to me as I was discovering my fiction identity will always be important.

I think with all of the younger alterhumans joining online spaces, there is a heavy want to know exactly who you are right at the start. That’s not how identity works. It takes lots of time and you’re gonna make mistakes. The internet has made it really easy for others to shame individuals who haven’t fully figured out their types or change their types. You are growing and changing so your types will change to.

Something might fit right now, but one day you may find out about a creature that represents you more so that connection to the old type fades. That doesn’t make the new type or the old type and more or less valid then the other.

Take your time. There is no rush to finding out who you are.