Humans call me a clinical zooanthrope, but I’m really just turning into a bird. I was born in a human body but ever since I was little I could feel my wings starting to sprout and my feathers come in. Now I have wings with a wingspan of about 35 inches, with small flight feathers. These wings are located about 5 inches below my shoulder blades, and 4 inches apart. I also have baby feathers growing from my shoulders, chest, and back.
The doctors have tried to medicate and diagnose me, but nothing has “worked”, because I AM a bird.
I will use this to document my transformation, and connect with others who are similar.
Fly free
Live fast
Love hard
Personal info and dni/boundaries below cut
diagnosis
Name: Juice / Juice box / Birdie / 0927X
Pronouns: It/Its/Itself and Feather/Feathers/Featherself mostly, They/Them/Themself as needed
Homophobia, racism, colonialism, transphobia, ableism/saneism, and other forms of exclusion WILL NOT be tolerated here. I am a queer, disabled, Native American, I find this things disturbing, triggering, and disgusting
I am an open book, all questions that are not explicitly nsfw will be answered. Please, don’t be afraid to send asks, I have hyper empathy, so as long as I can understand where a question is coming from, I’ll be understanding in your asking, plus I love to talk about things.
You are always welcome to reblog my posts!
Tagging system
Juice squawks - my original posts
Chirps from creatures - asks
Juices flock - specific posts about / from my flock
Resquawk! - reposts
Bird and brush - my art
Angel x bird - posts and asks from my packmate Liam
Fly high swim low - posts and asks from mootie cyana reef
Bird and dragon - asks from the dragon friend
The sky and the sea - cetacean and avian interactions
❤️💚red & green💚❤️ - asks from the lovely scarlet macaw
I also use the tags “zooanthropy” “zooanthrope” “clinical zooanthrope” and “clinical zooanthropy” quite frequently.
Juice goes by Juice and uses It/Its pronouns.
I frequently post things about my “delusions” I will not label them as unreality because this is really for me.
I'm not a misanthropist in a "all humans are scum and I despise them" way. I'm a misanthropist in a "I know what these creatures are capable of and I'm terrified" way.
Hello! I couldn't find a satisfactory bird band, so I am making my own out of brass. Just to make sure I don't mess up: the engraving should include my name and a four number code, along with a gender marker, right? Is that everything or is more text supposed to be there? Does it matter if the gender marker is in front of the number or at the end? I think it looks cooler in front of my number haha.
Also, are you planning on making the bird band directory? If so, I am interested in being on that list.
Yes! Whatever your ID is. Most wild birds would be banded with gender marker, a number code (based off of find day/hatch day, or what number of a population they are) potentially a name, and potentially a location.
The organization of the info doesn’t really matter, as it would change between people who band.
Also yea, send over your ID whenever and I’ll add you.
purposefully using they/them for an it/its user because you "don't want to disrespect them :(" is still misgendering!!
the difference to using it/its respectfully is consent. an it/its user is giving you full consent! just use people's pronouns, please. they are not for your comfort.
The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2025.
It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.
After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.
If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!
Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com
The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.
I'm confused.
So basically, some alterhumans say that alterhumans are not physical. But that's obviously not true, because I've met some.
So I have a question:
Well, in my specific case, I am specifically a biological physical alter human. This means my genetic material is both bird and human, and as the dna has been activated more of my bird genetics show.
For me, being a physical alterhuman means I am literally, physically, a bird.
I feel like discrimination against otherkin (and, let’s be fair, any non-therian alterhumans) is WAY too fucking normalised in alterhuman communities.
I just mentionned in an alterhuman serv that I was questionning a songkin/fictionkin identity and people reacted like "Is that possible ?" That one is okay, it’s okay not to know, just annoying people in alterhuman communities for months or years don’t know anything except therian.
Other people were like "Oh that’s too complicated… in my time we only had therians and mythical creatures" or even "It doesn’t feel right to me that people identify as something that’s not real". Thanks ya pals now I don’t even feel safe in my own goddamn communities. Sure y’all liked us better when the host was just a fox therian. I won’t miraculously stop identifying as something because it’s not is the teeny tiny window of what you consider palatable.
Hey therians. Unfriendly reminder that your communities were built by otherkins. Werewolves and fairies and elves and aliens. Seems like some of you forgot that. Now these people feel as alienated with you as they are with humans.
Non-therians have it hard. I’ve been fakeclaimed by folks because "You can’t be something that doesn’t exist". I can’t find safe spaces, have to explain what I am half the time (honestly that one is not a problem since I’m a yapper), feeling constantly left on the side. People use animal-centric language because sure if you’re not human you’re an animal. A living animal- a mammal - a carnivore - let’s say it, a dog. Just I’m not a homo sapiens doesn’t mean I have paws and a snout. We can’t find euphoria tips, gears, we’re constantly forgotten. These are the same for therians with rare theriotypes, monkeys, herbivores, invertebrates, birds.
Otherkins and fictionkins and therians with rare theriotypes have it hard, but don’t get me started on factkin, conceptkin, otherhearted, songkin, plantkin, objectkin. CONSTANTLY FUCKING EXCLUDED. It’s therian this and therian that and sometimes otherkin and the rest is forgotten.
Ok don’t get me wrong. I love my therian brothers and sisters and sibling and friends and elders.
But if y’all therians really care for your non-therian pals you’d better show it right now.
We don’t feel safe or understood in the spaces ya built.
Happy disability pride month all my fellow alterhumans! I wish a happy disability pride to:
Disabled therians, disabled queer alterhumans, disabled transspecies, disabled holotheres, disabled unlabeled alterhumans, disabled systems, systems, my fellow autistic alterhumans, my fellow physically disabled alterhumans, my fellow mentally ill alterhumans, my fellow alterhumans with stigmatized illnesses both physical and mental, my fellow alterhumans with ME/CFS, and so so so much more.
Unfortunately I ran out of the mental energy to add more to the list rn but if I am missing people from my list please please please lemme know in the comments! Much thanks
i dont rly need to make this post bc like. its tumblr. the number of people who are cool with physical therians is exponentially higher than on instagram or clock app. however, i will anyway. sniles at you so sneetly.
footnotes that i left on my post on instagram:
i recommend reading about dignity of risk in detail as i didn't have the space to really get into it here. its a really interesting topic and if you're disabled, can help you give you the language to advocate for yourself
i use therian and alterhuman community interchangeably here
No.4 for the ask game if it’s still open: Do you own any gear? Have a great day fellow bird!!
4. What gear do you own
Well I own lots of masks of lots of different animals, I don’t have a bird one, but I’m considering making it. I have a beak that I can connect to my face with liquid latex, I’m working on a pair of prosthetic wings and tail. I also have keychains, feathers, and art.
3. What’s something you do for species affirmation
I don’t really do anything for species affirmation, as I don’t find myself in doubt of my species or feeling uncomfortable about my species. But something that does affirm my identity would be singing. I don’t sing for that reason, I just enjoy it, and it happens to be affirming because I like it.
