Your neighborhood mustelid

Adult, she/her, nonhuman. ΘΔ European pine marten. Eurasian stoat ⚓Δ. I interact from @among-the-pine-trees. Header is by abyweb.

[kunavi]

Intro

Good day/night, visitors. As you've stepped on my online territory that is my blog, let me introduce myself.

Call me Kunavi (koo-'nah-vee), it's Greek for marten (kounávi - κουνάβι), I simply like how it sounds.

I am a physical nonhuman, holothere, mainly a European pine marten, Martes martes, and secondary a Eurasian stoat, Mustela erminea, all on all levels including physical. Also I'm a European badger otherflicker.

I like and follow from @among-the-pine-trees.

I got a personal tag "kunavis weird shifts", for well - weird shifts I have!

She/her, 26 years old, asexual, demiromantic, Ukrainian. I'm not fluent in English, forgive me for my mistakes here, with this blog I train to make my English better.

Alterhumans are welcomed with open paws here! And I mean everyone: therians, otherkin, nonhumans, physical nonhumans and more...

Orthohuman guests are welcomed too if you're respectful.

Though I have one DNI point: those who support russian invasion to my country - get out!! I don't want to see you in my safe space, that's a principle. Go away, shoo.

If you passed this simple test (on not being a ruzzian) -

Welcome to my weasel blog! 🐾

[kunavi]

Lol, I found my own blog on Google while searching for mustelid fantasy. Wait...

Yeah! I'm a weremarten!

Indeed, I am mustelid fantasy! 🤎

[kunavi]

Folks, get ready for the long-awaited return of our favorite tag kunavi's weird shifts.

Last night my left. shoulder..! blade..! sprouted thick fur.

Isn't it weirdly specific?

[indornaga]

Species-Based Misgendering

The goal of this survey is to gather information of on incidences of species-based misgendering within the Alterhuman community. Please do

Introducing a survey on Species-Based Misgendering, hosted by Duranos of The River System.

     Species-Based Misgendering: the assumption of one's gender and/or pronouns based on the expectations of one's species, stemming from biases, when the expected gender does not match the individual's gender.       Gendered Expectation: the expectation set for a species' gender, whether this bias comes from a cultural or folkoric background, establishment in a media, a linguistic framework, etc.

The survey is open both to the identities underneath the alterhuman umbrella, as well as nonhuman/human+ folks within plural conglomerates. While this survey is primarily looking for responses from those who have been misgendered based on their species, those who have not experienced species-based misgendering are welcome to complete the survey as well. Interpretation of what counts as species-based misgendering is open to interpretation by each individual, and there are long-form fillable responses throughout the survey to accommodate this.

The survey is set to close on July 31st, 2026. I welcome folks to share the link to the survey wherever you are active in the alterhuman community.

[kunavi]

Somewhere on this blog I wrote that I planned to watch the second Woodwalkers movie.

I watched it.

And I disliked it. Very much.

I thought I disliked the first movie, but the second movie is worse. Horrible fanfiction with tiiiiiiny elements from the books. One element from the beginning of the third book, one element from the end of the first book, one big element from the second book, and one element from the end of the third book.And mixed with original scenario that isn't anywhere in the books. It's confusing. These elements from the books were the only good part.

You see, I am a fan of the books. And overall I am a fan of faithful adaptations without foreign fantasies from movie makers. I am from the camp of people who want Disney remakes that are made frame by frame, without any new additions that may ruin everything. I can understand if they must remove some book parts for a shorter movie. BUT not to replace them with weaker fanfiction that changes character personalities upside down or make weird plotlines. That's not their personality! The book characters would never behave like this or say this! I now admit that the first movie is more bearable against the backdrop of this flop that is the second movie.

It's a fanfiction (where most of the vibe is unrecognisable) with the good books' elements. This is my conclusion.

[kunavi]

I am the Kunavi I speak for pine martens The martens are saying Let us in your gardens

[azuremist]

There is no one better at animalposting than therians. The next time you see a banger animal post, check the OP’s tags, because there’s a higher likelihood than you think that it’ll be tagged #animal therian #therian #otherkin #animal etc. Everybody say thank you therians

[kunavi]

If you want to know something about the animal, then ask the animal itself. It's that simple.

[kunavi]

Every time I open a video about animals, I always come across some funny types of people in the comments. Some say, "Ban zoos right now, they're awful!" Others say, "Ugh, humans are scum - they’re all cruel and disgusting."

Yeah, right - tell that to the people who protect species from extinction. Biologists, scientists who are working on how to save them. Tell that to the vets who save your pets and wild animals. To the wildlife sanctuaries that are kept by, you know, humans? To the volunteers? To the rescue workers who pull people out along with their pets? Are they evil too, only because they happen to be humans? How awful they all are - they’d be better off disappearing, ha. And those who advise "releasing" animals born in captivity, who eat from a feeding spot and have no survival skills in the wild. So the animal just sits and waits for some predator to attack them right there.

I think wild animals too would be happy not to catch ticks and fleas, not to be hungry, to be healthy under the care of vets, and to have no predators or enemies.

[kunavi]

Alterhuman communities be like

[theplant-system]

I'm not a therian but pls reblog or something if youre an adult therian. I need to find more nonhuman blogs, a lot of people on here who identify as animals are children.

[orcinusorka]

Hey,

If you feel invalidated by someone's completely harmless label, that's on you

If you feel 'inferior' because someone chooses to use the word prosthetics instead of gear, that's your problem

If you feel insecure and jealous over people who can shift, that's also your own problem

And if you're offended by someone being biologically an animal.. then it's, yet again, your problem

Don't project your insecurities onto random people on the internet, deal with it yourself

[kunavi]

It's time to get serious. I rarely write posts like this, but now I feel the need to speak my mind.

This whole discourse is driving me crazy.

Some say that others are bad rep. Others say that other others are bad rep. And once again, the general word "therian" is being equated with some childish, immature people who do nothing else but just run around taking everything from everyone. "The therians have stolen our term," "The therians have ruined our community," "The therians are eroding our experience." It’s a whole different story with the words "nonhuman" and "holothere" - they’re seen as "serious", "mature", "cut off from these little therian kids". What the hell does that even mean?! These are just other labels for specific personal experiences, there isn't some "what's less and what's more" factor in all these terms, is there? All terms just exist, and they shouldn't compete with each other "in coolness" or whatever!

Once the word "therian"/"therianthrope" used to be taken seriously! And that was enough! If you consider yourself an animal, then you’re a therian. And that was enough: both 100% animal and 1% animal folks were considered therians! There used to be a few subtypes like contherian or suntherian etc., but now other identities have crushed the general term "therian" so much that people are SCARED TO EVEN USE IT, for fear of looking like TikTok kids?

What have we come to, fellow animals? To the point of fearing a word that once belonged to us, to all of us - spiritual, psychological, biological, physical, clinical zoanthropes - everyone who identifies as an animal to some degree. And what do I see now? I see posts along the lines of "Oh, those foolish therians, they’ve ruined everything, pushing us out and leaving us no room."

Now even I have no idea how to describe myself from this labyrinth of words. I personally believe that I have some sort of genetic inheritance from a were-marten in my lineage, I have the corresponding genes and altered DNA, and I experience physical shifts from time to time. I have no idea which specific category my identity fits into. Physical, biological - I don’t know! And guess what, I’m totally fine with the word "therian"! It’s upsetting when I see people treat the term this way - like they’re actually afraid to use it!

We’re all animals here, some for 1%, some for 100% - let’s just treat each other’s experiences with respect! Let’s not bash other terms! What word is left that hasn’t been dirtied up? What the hell word is left untainted by bad rep? I don’t know. And it’s already hard for me to even begin to understand what’s going on, what kind of split is happening in our animal community. It’s making me sick.

[soft-trills]

Creature P.O.V. 🐾🍃🎶

[kunavi]

Your paws are so cool!

I think these paws were created with another animal in mind, but I just wanted to say that these look so much like marten paws, it made me so shifty, wow!

[kunavi]

holy shit another pine marten alterhuman???? wowowow hihi

(im pine marten otherhearted, so not the same thing, but it's still cool to see! hope u have a great day ^_^)

Hello! :D Mustelid 'types are less common to see than even other carnivore family 'types, so it's always very nice to see more mustelid alterhumans!

Have a nice day too!

[kunavi]

Wild Thing out of the Wild Woods, what do you want?

Personal therian goal: to achieve such an aura that this would be the first question a person asks me in the first conversation

[kunavi]

ΘΔ Pine martens in their natural habitat! 🌳🌲

Well, not really, it's not a forest, but a park.

I decided to take my kit outside, take some photos, read a book, and feed my favorite birds, the pigeons.

As you may know, I don't have much practice with digital art, it's my phone and my finger, but I tried so hard with this selfie edit!! It's me :D

Compared to my tiny marten, the pigeons are huge!

[kunavi]

r/therian is a mess, I'm out of here

Me saying that the Freedom of Form Foundation is a pseudoscientific science-fiction-esque project that no one should take seriously (but take it as a hypothetical research), is seen is "You were deemed to be trolling or otherwise disrespectful towards a user or alterhuman identities."

When I try to tell people to be careful, that such concepts are otherworldly, like changing skull bones, stretching existing nerves, growing feathers on human skin etc. all this radical change in anatomy, a restructuring of the nervous system to accommodate a new body form, is incredibly hard and near to impossible; and not even saying a personal thing to the commenters (as if to disrespect them). So they won't pay money to this science-fiction project foundation, all hoping that their ideas will come true in our lifetime.

And all they say is "people used to say that X was impossible too, so give it some time and it will be possible". This does not imply that anything is possible. And this funny thing from one of repliers telling me that new technologies always needed time and FFF just needs their time: "Maybe when you finish high school you'll understand that." Haha. Like yeah, new projects always take time, but they also stay feasible? Do not confuse partial repair or replacement of part of the body like replacing a heart valve, tissue engineering or kidney transplantation with a complete redesign of the adult body into a new body plan. I think there were different biology lessons in our schools..?

I perfectly see transitioning with body modifications, implants, plastic surgeries and prosthetics (I'm all for it, really), but not with changing bones, rearranging nerves, growing scales on skin, and moving muscles and blood vessels!

Otherwise, I wait for projects that will make teleportation (of living matter, not info), magic wands and a time machine (not to the future, but to the past) possible.

Perceive FFF as a curious science-fiction project, and don't believe as if it could become real, that's it, don't fall for them, please.