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To Be Free

(Therian Short Story)

Nothing could beat nature. It was too amazing, too perfect; so comfortable, relaxing, energizing, full of life. The sights, sounds, and smells never failed to feel amazing. The soft blades of grass under your paws, the blowing breeze through your fur. Birds singing, squirrels chittering. A beautiful forest that’s bursting and bustling with life. Running under the trees, hopping over fallen branches and small trickling streams, letting your powerful legs carry you as the natural environment energizes you. This is the life that makes you feel whole and complete. It’s the simpler things. Hunting and catching food, creature watching (you never truly know how entertaining it is to watch birds and squirrels). Everything boils down to just your instincts and your nature.

Until everything dulls. The colours are less vibrant, sounds become muffled and distant, smells became faint. You can no longer feel the breeze blowing through your fur or the soft blades of grass under your paws. Experiencing the same things but they aren’t the same, because you aren’t the same. You don’t have paws, or claws, You don’t have fur, and you aren’t on four legs. Your mind and soul don’t match your body. Something else stuck in the body of a human, forced to live a human life, experiencing this world as a human.

But how nice it would be to be free…

a-dragons-journal

I keep seeing "transotherkin" flag creation posts in the otherkin tag recently, and I just - takes your hands gently in mine. You are already otherkin. I don't know how to say this more gently, but - regardless of your feelings on other transx/transID identities and how well they are or aren't handled, transotherkin is a word that does not make any sense basically no matter which way you slice it. It's like saying you're transtransgender. It's already an internal identity determined entirely by your feelings and how you see yourself. If you want to be nonhuman/feel you should be nonhuman enough to be calling yourself transotherkin you are already otherkin - genuinely, what else do you think is required to qualify, exactly? And even if you well and truly are absolutely certain you're not already despite those feelings, you can just... become otherkin, or an otherlinker (a term that will yield more "okay but how do I do that" resources if you look into it), whatever term you prefer. It's okay. With all the gentleness in my heart, stop enshrining questioning doubt and gatekeeping-inflicted self-doubt as part of your identity and just claim the word that you have every right to anyway. It's okay. You're allowed. Come sit with us.

talon-dragonbeast

alterhuman trick-or-treat!

as october comes to an end, the time for Spooky approaches. the creatures of the night awaken, their reflecting eyes shine in the darkness. and what better way to celebrate than a good old trick-or-treat?

inbox trick-or-treating is a beloved tradition here on tumblr, which consists in sending an ask to the blog(s) of you choice as if they were houses in your neighborhood and you were the kid politely knocking on their door. you would ask, "trick or treat?" and the asked would then choose whether to reply with a treat (picture of candy) or a trick (a joke, a poem, a haiku, a drawing...).

well... thats the normal one anyways.

i propose something a bit different this year: an alterhuman-themed trick-or-treat! what is that, youll ask? simple: the 31st of october, instead of sharing candy, we will share our 'types snacks! for example, if youre a cat therian you can share a fish-shaped treat, if youre fictionkin you can share your favorite food from your source, if youre alienkin you can share your cultures traditional dish... the possibilities are endless!

how to participate? reblog this post to let your followers know youre doing this! the 31st ill send an ask to everyone who interacted with this post so no one misses out on the fun. see you on halloween!

kalliekattherian

I have ADHD so prepare for randomness for tricks

#cat therian #domestic cat therian #therian #feline therian #alterhuman #calico cat therian #alterhuman community #fictionkin #otherkin

This cat is no longer engaged

werelioness

Normalize bunting as a love language

Lions will often greet each other with this head bunting behavior when returning to a pride after a hunt.

I love doing this to my mom, I feel so happy!

And my kitten does this to me, I do this to him; the harmony.

Bunting is a form of animal behavior, often found in felids, in which the animal butts or rubs its head against other things, including people. Bunting as a behaviour can be viewed as a variation of scent rubbing.

kalliekattherian

HELP I LITERALLY USED TO DO THIS TO MY CAT AND SHE WOULD DO IT TO ME TOOOOO

cloverwood

shout out to therians, otherkins, alterhumans, nonhumans and co. who still identify as partially human or have some connection to humanity.

Be it feeling half human half not, a little creature pretending to be a human or some other arrangement,

Ur cool and im giving u a little kiss on the forehead. muah.

Every time I have a reallyyyy good stretch, my brain is just

*biiiiiiig cat stretch*

(aka imagining myself as a cat stretching, very species euphoria for me)

#cat therian #domestic cat therian #therian #therianthropy #catkin #feline therian #cat theriotype #feline theriotype #calico cat therian #snow leopard therian #alterhuman

rareblackcat

If I had to describe my identity with being human and a cat with one term, i think bispecies would work (not coining btw). I am a cat because that's just who I am and my personality but that also applies to me being human too. I need both my human and animal identity to be acknowledged to be fully me. And that's a bit difficult when I look human at times where I don't feel human. I am ok with being viewed as human but it does bother me that others can't see me as a cat either.

nolongerphantom

Can we take a moment to appreciate forests?

I went out to the forest next to my city with my mom today, wearing my tail

It was the best experience I've ever had, there were barely any people, the weather was perfect, my siblings weren't there to complain, I was just walking around with her

It was amazing

Forests are majestic and magnificent, people don't appreciate them enough

I don't care about the bugs, or the annoying small plants, or even the people.

Forests just make me feel so... Alive.

sisterofiris

Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

yay855

I mean, if someone wrote that to me, I’d probably believe they were sick.

rox-and-prose

“Slutantions” has me crying laughing

watermite

i once emailed my professor with a migraine. a mistake.

“I amsick will not to choir because i have a heache. i Hope its very and i am so sorry

love,

blue”

the subject line was “OW”

xakumi

THE SUBJECT LINE IS THE BEST PART JSJFJSJDJS JUST IMAGINE GETTING AN EMAIL WITH NO CONTEXT OTHER THAN “OW”

themodernsouthernpolytheist

As someone who has taught college, please send those emails because 1) We WILL believe that; no one would write that on purpose and 2) we need a laugh sometimes.

asortoflight

On the other side of this, once after getting taken to the ER by ambulance, I got an email from the professor whose class I’d passed out in, and the message had no text, just the subject line “you good?”

whisky-gerblin

Reblogging for the last addition

badgraph1csghost

Claritin makes me weird, but I have allergies so there’s about a month and a half block of time where I’m taking Claritin and am just weird most of the time.

Anyway, my last year of college, I got the flu or something in late March and was also taking Mucinex. I told my professor I couldn’t come to class one day by email except I couldnt think of what to say, so my medicated ass decided to make a Fry meme. I think it said something like “Not sure if I can go to class with a head the size of Texas, bottom text.” I didn’t think until the next day that it probably wasn’t socially-acceptable to tell your philosophy professor you weren’t coming to class via Tumblr style memes. When i got back to class, i found that she’d printed it out and taped it to the classroom bulletin board.

badgraph1csghost

Oh shit you guys i turned on my WinXP laptop that I used to use back then.

IT WAS ON THE DESKTOP. THIS IS WHAT I SENT.

It’s even worse than i remember it

omnicat

I laugh myself hoarse every time this post comes around, so here it is again.

bucketbunny

Once emailed a professor from my hospital bed high on painkillers after a really bad car crash which my heart actually stopped the email “Dead cant class sory”

Hey everyone, I’m looking for moots that I can talk to and hopefully become friends with! 18+ only please, and as a warning I’m really bad at replying to messages and I struggle a lot with talking to people due to mental health reasons, but I’m trying to put myself out there and be more social :)

Feel free to message me if you wanna be friends!

#cat therian #therian #domestic cat therian #otherkin #therianthropy #cat theriotype #calico cat #catgender #calico cat therian #catkin #fox therian #snow leopard therian #alterhuman #fictionkin

dollystuffs-chiori

(disclaimer/heads up: usage of the word "you" is a general you)

might be a hot take but I think harassment of anyone is bad. no exceptions. "oh what about thie group" "what about this person" nope. don't care. I don't even care if you're talking about a criminal. harassment is bad. shut up. being on the receiving end of harassment is guaranteed to wear anyone down (not to mention harassment isn't legal).

this isn't even just a "they're human too" thing. it's a "why the fuck do you think harassing people makes you better than them." spoiler alert: it never will.

also callouts are stupid too. people are gonna be awful, yeah, but that doesn't mean it's okay to actually allow people to harass them. (you can name people without giving people the means to harass them. hell, you can even give them a fake name.) especially when you don't have all the key information to make an educated decision. even more so when you aren't involved.

seriously block me if you think harassing anyone is okay. learn to realize you never will be better than the people you're harassing.

#anti harassment #online harassment #anon harassment #targeted harassment #cyberbullying #cyberbullies #if you don’t like me don’t interact with me

This cat is engaged

normalbirb

Having adhd is like being stuck in rooms with no exits and then told by neurotypicals i should have just done like them and walked through a door

kalliekattherian

Real… my family doesn’t understand

dinocanid

PSA about using school emails and internet safety

I wanted to write this since in the past, semi-recently and possibly beforehand, people have sent email inquiries to the official Othercon email address with their school emails. Do not do this.

This doesn't just go for Othercon either, it's for anywhere. School emails are for academic use only. Don't use it to sign up for websites or send emails to anyone that is not also in relation to the school. Why? Because school emails hold public and easily identifiable information about you, don't doxx yourself. Someone can easily find your state, your school district, and potentially your name and the general location of where you live all from that school email alone. One simple Google search is all that's needed to find that info. Strangers on the internet do not need to know where you go to school, please stay safe and don't give out this kind of information.