Skeptic Therian

I am a Kodiak Bear and Chinease Water deer polytherian. I'm also an atheist and a skeptic (which I know sounds like a contradiction). The aim of this tumblr is to drag logic back into the Therian communty and hopefully inspire someone with a spare MRI scanner to do some tests for us!

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What dysphoria do you have?

For me my hands are the worst. Fingers feel so wrong and some days I can’t stand to look at them. Then it’s my face. The lack of a muzzle its so disconcerting that I’be been known to turn the mirrors around.

Shit, this post should be called ‘reasons I’m getting a therapist when I leave home.

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Your Life should not revolve around being Therian or Otherkin

If it does, that’s unhealthy. Don’t obsess over this. This can’t be the only thing that you focus on and think about. Other hobbies, likes, dislikes, etc. also make up your overall identity and who you are.

The internet is good for researching and finding information, but if you spend all of your time on Tumblr and the internet, please think about stepping away from the computer and/or your phone for a little while.

You can’t truly know who you are by starring at a computer screen and constantly being influenced this way. You won’t learn who you are unless you spend a little time alone, not being influenced by others.

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Every therian needs to read this.

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If I said that I had a pill that would cure you of Therianthropy, would you take it?

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WTF has happened here...

I’ve been a therian for just over five years now and for a short while at the begining I was active on small threads but then left completely when there were a phase of hierarchical packs comng through. I’ve just come back after years of being innactive about therianthropy online and well...wtf.

There only used to be a very small group of Fiction-kin and they where species not characters. As a phycological therian identifying as a fictional species seemed reasonable as if the disphoria you were experiancing best matched a fictional character then alrighty but identifying as a specific character...the author owns that character and shits going to happen to them that you may not like and then what? I’ve seen many people play the ‘multi-verse’ therory but the problem with that is even if it is true there is no way each reality could ever effect another.

Next is this pronoun bullshit. What the fuck? I have a pet cat and I call her ‘she’ and ‘herself’ not ‘cat’ and ‘catself’. Your pronoun is your gender not your species! I am actually praying that the posts including it are trolling becuase we do not need any help looking crazy and, in my opinion, it offensive to the transgender community who actually need to change their pronouns. Some have said that they use the pronouns of their theriotype and I can understand that to some degree as my Water Deer side is male but when I’m shifted the last thing im thinking about is ‘oh boy, I hope no one calls me ‘she’, a english word that means absolutly shit all to me!’

However it’s not all doom and gloom, I’m really happy to see a rise in anti physical shifters mentality. As I said, we need no help looking crazy, and those claming we can physclly shift were certainly helping that view. I’m also made hopeful by the amount of positivity here. I remember when I first joined the community the emphasis on packs and hierarchy, the speciesism and the frankly rude nature people who were ill informed were treated. But I can see a massive improvement here.

We are taking big steps forward but dont let our progress be dragged back again. We need to talk to our opponents and prove that we arn’t the special little snowflakes they see us as; prove that the are reasonable people; and prove that we are valid. But to do that we reall must be it first.

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Tag yourself I’m what

I made this because people have been leaving the therian community or just complaining about the hot mess that it is at the moment, and I felt that we should all just take a moment to laugh at ourselves! This isn’t meant to be offensive.

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I’m definatly too old for this shit...

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What is with the pronoun stuff?

Like seriously, I don’t say my ‘cat-self’ to my pet I call her ‘herself’ so why are some people insisting that we call them ‘wolf’ even if they are cis gendered? Pronouns are a persons gender and your kin-type is not a gender. Is this actually a thing? If so why!?

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Fluffs VS Therians

Fluff: OMG, I am like totally a wolf because I like the moon and I think they are cool.

Therian: I’m probably some sort of  wild canine due to the shifts I get and my kinship with these animals.

Fluff: My therian name is Lunapaw because thats what she told me her name was and it sounds all wolf like and stuff.

Therian: Therian name? Well if you mean what’s my online name it’s ***** but my Theriotype is me, we dont have seperate names.

Fluff: Yeah I shift constantly, like last week I woke up and I LITERALLY had a wolf paw but it went away before I could get a photo so I can’t show you...

Therian: I shift regually. A mix of phantom and mental are the most common but I do occasionally dream shift too.

I know that there are differences such as suntherians who don’t shift but this is just a bit of fun so calm yo selves.

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We aren’t helping ourselves

You aren’t helping the community if you:

-Flip out when people ask questions.

-Block those who disagree and silence conversations.

-Pick the title of “otherkin” when you’re not.

-Claim you can physicaly shift.

-Call people childish names, just because they think differently.

-Refuse to listen.

Please, we need to understand they we are a new and painfully under studied phenomenon that wont be accepted until we have evidence. Until then the best we can do to make ourselves be believed is by not being assholes to non-therians and skeptics. If they abuse you then you are well in your right to block them but if its just questions or discussion then understand that this is the normal responce to beimg confronted with something new  and alien to them. if we are kind and understanding the hopefully they will be too.