Iridescentmoon

🌙 They/it/moon 🌙 Seal, Alicorn & Wolf Therian 🌙 27 🌙 (Requests: Closed!) ☆

[iridescent-moon]

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Hey there! My name is Luna, you can also call me Moon. I'm a therian and otherhearted. I awakened in 2012. My main blog is @iridescentclaws so likes and follows come from there.

You can find my tag list here. And if you're looking to submit a request, check out my guidelines here.

Also, consider joining the Equidae Discord! An Equine Alterhuman community!

About Me

I'm primarily a spiritual therian. I believe my soul is nonhuman. That my theriotypes are different forms of my true self. This blog is one way I cope with my species dysphoria, I post about myself and my experiences as a therian.

(↑ Art by me)

My sealself (Pagophilus Groendlandicus) I' currently unsure of what i look like. For as long as I've known about it, I saw myself as a pup, pure white coat and black anout. Over the last few years I've identified more and more as a fully grown harp seal. It's almost like it's grown with me

(↑ Art by me)

As a wolf, I am a black and beige/cream Northwestern wolf with greenish yellow (Canis Lupus Occidentalis). I think of pretty average size? Might be a little on the smaller side. Also, It's most likely influenced by my life now as a human, but I do have a lot of dog-like behaviors which I've picked up.

(↑ Art by me)

As an alicorn, I'm really just a horse (Equus Caballus) but with a unicorn horn and feathered wings. I know very little about this side of myself besides whatever I can intuit or just what I feel sounds right. I look very much like an Irish Cob but I'm about as tall as a Clydesdale (About 6ft at the shoulder). All of my fur and hair is white, my eyes are light blue, and my horn and hooves opalescent/pearlescent. I have no idea if there are any more define features/behaviors. It can be hard to tell as I have a lot of overlapping phantom and sometimes mental shifts.

(↑ Art by me)

Lastly, I am orca & cat hearted. While I do not identify as either an orca or cat, I do sometimes experience shifts of either. My connection to orcas is inexplicably spiritual but my connection to cats I would say is almost purely psychological. Regardless, both species are like family to me and they are very important to me. I don't feel any particular connection to any ecotype or breed, it's just as a species.

I do also have some past lives that I consider kardiatypes or just important to me in general, but I don't really have very much info yet. I do feel I was a big drake living somewhere Northern and snowy at some point. Anything else is more or less unconfirmed.

Also, I don't feel comfortable with KFF following me. And I'm not comfortable with the term "kinnie". I cannot and will not stop anyone for using the term. I just would rather not be called it due to it's history and similarity to the transphobic slur.

[iridescent-moon]

Ever since I've learned I was a harp seal, I always saw myself as a pup. A pure white coat and black snout.

But over the years I feel I identify more and more with an adult coat. Almost like it's been aging with me

Never understood why that was when I never saw myself as a wolf pup or foal

[iridescent-moon]

Wow, it has been another good long while since I posted on here. I think I'll try to be more active again, get some more thoughts out that I've had over the months/year(?)

I did end up finally. finally. making that comic I was struggling to conceptualize. I think it turned out very simplistic and maybe doesn't even get my feelings across as good as I'd hoped. But I think it's the best I'm going to be able to manage to get out.

Part 1/2(?)

[iridescent-moon]

2/3

[iridescent-moon]

3/3

[iridescent-moon]

Wow, it has been another good long while since I posted on here. I think I'll try to be more active again, get some more thoughts out that I've had over the months/year(?)

I did end up finally. finally. making that comic I was struggling to conceptualize. I think it turned out very simplistic and maybe doesn't even get my feelings across as good as I'd hoped. But I think it's the best I'm going to be able to manage to get out.

Part 1/2(?)

[iridescent-moon]

2/3

[iridescent-moon]

Wow, it has been another good long while since I posted on here. I think I'll try to be more active again, get some more thoughts out that I've had over the months/year(?)

I did end up finally. finally. making that comic I was struggling to conceptualize. I think it turned out very simplistic and maybe doesn't even get my feelings across as good as I'd hoped. But I think it's the best I'm going to be able to manage to get out.

Part 1/2(?)

[iridescent-moon]

Still alive. Just going through it. 2024 and 2025 have not been kind to me

[iridescent-moon]

I'm still sorta on hiatus (still around but not really posting besides the occasional rb) but I've been kinda playing around with the idea of being potentially shapeshifter kith, or with animals in general.

My fursona is a shapeshifter, and even in alternate universe they tend to still be a shapeshifter or have magic that allows them to do so. And while I still feel that I am for 100% certainty a seal, wolf and alicorn, I still feel this connection and desire to be other animals. I also don't find it hard imagining myself as those animals and experience cameo shifts very easily.

Still wondering about how I'll be making my nonhuman project. At first, I was ready to just write an essay despite my poor skills, that didn't work out with the few attempts I made. So I thought "well, why not instead make a comic of some kind?" But I'm turning up empty so far

As it turns out, creating something or talking about how I struggle with communication is very difficult! How do you talk about not being able to talk? Ehh, I'll figure it out eventually

[iridescent-moon]

Still alive, just haven't opened tumblr in a hot minute

I feel so blocked up in every way imaginable lately, I just have no energy for anything

[wolfbon3z]

Mark ur calendars!! 🗓️

Therianthropy day 2024 falls on 16. November!!

Context: therianthrophy day is celebrated after the first howl (therian meet) ever done, which was organized to be on the first full moon of November so that’s why it is always celebrated on a varying date!!

[nyctohyloph0bia]

I felt a certain way about my identities and synpathy today. Mostly how they feel through my synesthesia, I tried putting it on a comprehensive artwork.

[This is how my identities feel, not how the labels themselves feel.]

[spiritofthemeadow]

ig - afternoondreams

[slaterinc]

wild horses crossing a river in iran, eydi heydari

[apup1nthest4rs]

Is the term transspecies culture appreciation? /gen

[a-dragons-journal]

No. Cultural appropriation would imply it's a stolen term being used incorrectly. This is not the case. The prefix trans- does not belong solely to the transgender community.

People have periodically tried to argue that it's disrespectful to the transgender community, but that relies on species identity being inherently lesser than gender identity, which isn't true, and also the vast majority of people using the term transspecies are transgender - one of the reasons people use the term is because their experience of species is very similar to their experience of gender and they explicitly want to compare the two!

[apup1nthest4rs]

Thank you, I thought it wasn't. Just wanted to check because a therian of 10 years, said the community avoided the term/people who used it because of that. Aswell as saying other wrong things and that apparently physical alterhumans: Holotheres etc, are a new thing.

[a-dragons-journal]

People love to say incorrect things about transspecies, largely because it's a word that sparks an instinctive flinch response in a lot of people (because of the instinct to downplay species identity as not really as important/real as gender identity, mostly).

In fairness, the terms "physical nonhuman", holothere, endel, etc. are all pretty new, but the concept is not necessarily, though physical nonhumanity as a concept has has a pretty rough history with the otherkin and therian communities.

On the one hand, the belief in genetic causes for nonhumanity such as literal biological descent from faeries, elves, or other creatures has a long history in the community, and is actually far less accepted now than it was originally; and the philosophy of "this is my body, I am a wolf, therefore this is a wolf's body" has been at least moderately accepted for a very long time.

On the other hand, the community has a really bad history with self-proclaimed p-shifters consistently and repeatedly pulling young nonhumans, especially therians, into cults and abusive relationships by dangling the impossible carrot of teaching them to p-shift, which means a lot of us have an instinctive flinch response to anyone claiming to be "physically nonhuman" (and anyone outright using the word p-shifter is going to be shunned, and if I'm honest, probably should be, even if they're trying to """reclaim""" it - you can't "reclaim" a word that never referred to you in the first place, and if you do fit the actual meaning (ie, not "I acknowledge this is (at least to others) a delusion but it is my personal reality and I want/need to acknowledge that" kind of physical nonhuman, but genuine "I can teach you to p-shift, no listen it won't be a cult this time I promise, this time it's real, don't worry about the fact that I refuse to provide any proof of these claims" p-shifter), then... well, you are, bluntly, being dangerous to others for the exact same reasons the old p-shifters were).

Partially as a result of that, and partially as a result of a) ableism interplaying with b) the fact that "you're delusional" was a really common antikin insult back in the day (and still is tbh), the community (myself included) got into a really bad habit of firing back with "no we're not, because here's the definition of a delusion and we don't fit that definition" - without acknowledging the fact that that response was often wholesale throwing people who actually do experience delusions associated with nonhumanity under the bus. Clinical zoanthropes and other delusional nonhumans have been frankly not well-treated by the nonhuman communities for a very long time, and it's only in the last handful of years that that's really started to turn around.

.....soooo, yeah. This turned into a ramble, sorry ^^; tl;dr there's a long and complicated history with that, and there are reasons people get bitey on both sides of it, but no it's not as simple as "physical nonhumans are a new thing" or even "physical nonhumans have NEVER been accepted before".

[iridescent-moon]

I'm still sorta on hiatus (still around but not really posting besides the occasional rb) but I've been kinda playing around with the idea of being potentially shapeshifter kith, or with animals in general.

My fursona is a shapeshifter, and even in alternate universe they tend to still be a shapeshifter or have magic that allows them to do so. And while I still feel that I am for 100% certainty a seal, wolf and alicorn, I still feel this connection and desire to be other animals. I also don't find it hard imagining myself as those animals and experience cameo shifts very easily.

Still wondering about how I'll be making my nonhuman project. At first, I was ready to just write an essay despite my poor skills, that didn't work out with the few attempts I made. So I thought "well, why not instead make a comic of some kind?" But I'm turning up empty so far

As it turns out, creating something or talking about how I struggle with communication is very difficult! How do you talk about not being able to talk? Ehh, I'll figure it out eventually

[iridescent-moon]

Closing ceremony whiteboard :3

[iridescent-moon]

Totally didn't forget about othercon until the last day, definitely not *I shed a single tear*

[camelidae]

Process for the appaloosa pegasus – I went about this one very intuitively, just laying in the lights and darks and building things up as they felt right. I also used some different colors to shake things up – light turquoise for the white shadows and black raspberry/tuscan red for the darks and blacks. This worked great for the pegasus, but the grass and flowers gave me so much trouble!

[camelidae]

One could argue, perhaps, that the only thing better than having a giant, living space-heater is /being/ that giant living space-heater.