š¾ I am a Celtic (Irish, Gaulish) + Norse pagan and animist!
š¾ Interests and Hobbies: Digital and traditional art, music (I play violin, guitar, banjo, mandolin, drums, and ukulele), just about any craft, nature/hiking, furry fandom, Brother Bear, The Magnus Archives, Lego Monkie Kid, Warriors, Project Hail Mary, Object Shows, Night in the Woods, Spiritfarer, Tomodachi Life, and so much more I havenāt listed
Spending the past few days so far in Southern Spain and Portugal have honestly confirmed to me that my theriotypeās habitat is Northern. I belong where itās cold, where the snow is. Somewhere either in North America or Northern Europe is my best guess.
While Iām here, I feel more human and further away from the wild. Perhaps thatās just because Iām spending all my time in the heart of these big cities, but I really do belong in the mountains and cold.
I also have a hard time with heat because of my medication, which makes me overheat very easily and itās like 100 degrees Fahrenheit here.
No, I donāt know how to ālock inā and āwork on my finalsā Iām a coyote shouldnāt I be wandering and hunting in the plains, deserts, and forests of North America??
Itās pride month so Iām gonna talk about my queerness and alterhumanity
First of all, I use the labels transmasculine, genderqueer, genderfaun, therian, alterhuman, nonhuman, otherkin, and (maybe) transspecies? I also identify with rabies pride and some xenogenders out there
My gender is generally impacted by and correlates with my alterhumanity! As an animal, my understanding of my own gender doesnāt fit with the human societal expectations of gender. When I say I am queer, I mean in every aspect of myself. My gender is queer, my sexuality is queer, my species identity is queer.
Growing up, I was always surrounded by people who didnāt approve of or accept queerness in any form. Friends I had always turned me away and acted like I was strange, that I didnāt belong in the same group as them. Growing up with autism didnāt help this at all, either.
Finding out I wasnāt a human after all didnāt come as a surprise to me. Basically my whole life Iāve been treated as a pest or an animal, and this part of me has always been present. I also associate my alterhumanity with my transness in many different ways. I know I made a post about dysphoria before, but thatās a good example.
Finding community in online spaces as a queer critter was probably the best thing (kindaā¦) to happen to me. Communities like tumblr and discord allowed me to test out names and pronouns, speak to other critters about their queer experiences, and learn more about myself in the process.
you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads
you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride
these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.
final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. š
Itās so strange having friends who know Iām weird, but donāt know just how weird I truly am.
They just think Iām a furry into fandom culture, just wait until they find out Iām a real life coyote thatās been chilling with them this whole time.
Iāve been considering whether or not Iām some type of horse, unicorn, or peryton
When I was around 13, I identified as a horned/antlered forest spirit for a few solid years, though I didnāt use an alterhuman label at the time. I always connected with the identity of an unidentifiable being that humans canāt quite understand. Something mythical and strange.
In adulthood, I am feeling a unicorn or a peryton are really encapsulating this part of myself very well. A hoofed, horned/antlered mythical being that is seen as mysterious and inhabits the wild.
As for horses, this is something Iāve thought about for years. Iāve been thinking about it a lot again lately, ever since the unicorn kinda came up.
These are very different from canines, which is usually what I post about on here. But, it is something Iām considering might be a part of me.
This might go hand in hand with my thing with āstarfleshā creatures as well??
Sometimes I feel so generally canine that itās hard to discern what ākindā of canine I really am.
I feel like a coyote most, but I also feel like a dog, a wolf, a dhole, a dingo, etc. and it gets very confusing at times. So, I often default to calling myself ācanine.ā
Either way, I feel I am more wild than domestic. I am domesticated in the way a wolf raised by humans would be. Still a wild animal that can bite, but able to settle around humans for a game of fetch.
A radiocollar is a device placed around the animalās neck, like a real collar, and itās mostly used on wildlife.
Thanks to this device, the movements, migration routes, and habitat use of animals are monitored using the global positioning system.
The spatial and temporal resolutions provided by the GPS tracking method allow the identification of critical habitats, migration routes, and breeding grounds, which are essential for the survival of species.
The method has been found to be very useful in the conservation of endangered species, as it provides the opportunity for continuous tracking without invading the habitat of the species.
(from Wikipedia - GPS animal tracking)
WHY DO I FEEL CONNECTED TO ITā
Everytime I come across a picture of a wild canine or feline wearing one of these collars I immediately think āyup, thatās meā.
As a domestic dog, Iāve always felt very connected to dog collars, and this connection doesnāt end when Iām feeling more wild.
Iām a wild animal, but my life is constantly āmonitoredā by humans: I have to depend on them when it comes to friendships, relationships, food, house, school/work, public transport,ā¦ all of these things canāt miss in my life and, in order to have them, I have to be with humans and to depend on them.
Humans also take care of my wellbeing, like doctors and psychologists. And the humans I live with actually track me on a geo locator app to make sure they know where I am in case something happens and they need to reach me.
On this aspect, itās something kinda āphilosophicalā: this connection reflects how I feel in my life with humans. Wild animals normally shouldnāt wear collars, but these devices are necessary for their individual and specie wellbeing, and so humans are in my life.
But thereās another aspect: the more animalistic one.
The tought of being an animal with a radiocollar makes me really euphoric bc itās like being a registered wolf, an āofficialā wolf, if that makes sense (and a lioness aswell).
I would love to have a real radiocollar as gear, but it would be really expensive and I donāt know if you can just randomly buy one.
So, a few months ago Iāve decided to give myself an ID number like the ones radiocollared wolves are identified as (based on their birth date, etc.).
My ID number is 1309F.
HOW DID I CHOOSE THIS IDā
13 -> it would be 2013, when I started to experience my first animalistic experiences.
09 -> Iāve born in 2009.
F -> stands for āfemaleā, my gender.
I hope you liked this kind of post, lemme know if you relate in some way!
