Avigayil

24/Gemini/F/Bisexual/ADHD/Jew/Environmentalist/Artist/Writer

[thericare]

Therian/Otherkin Journal Prompts

I journal often and over the past few years Ive slowly accrued a bunch of therian/kin specific writing prompts so i thought id share in case anyone else journals as well.

How did you first discover your alterhumanity? What was the process like? Did you accept it right away?

Do you feel more connected to your alterhumanity in certain environments or seasons?

How has your understanding of yourself changed over time?

What does a shift (mental, phantom, dream, etc) Feel like for you?

Do you enjoy your shifts? Or are they a negative experience for you? How do you manage them?

What physical things or activities make you feel more "you" during your shifts? Are there specific items that ground you in your identity?

Do you have memories from another life, timeline or world? Write one down in detail

how do you differentiate between a memory and a dream or feeling?

What emotions come up when you revisit your source, species environment, etc

What challenges do you face being alterhuman, and how do you cope

are you "out of the closet"? if so, how do others react. If you are still in the closet, what keeps you from telling others/certain people?

Write a letter to your younger self about your identity

Write a letter to your kinself

How do you explain your identity to others (if you choose to at all)

How do you balance being alterhuman with the expectations of society?

What misconceptions about alterhumans frustrate you the most?

Are you active in the community? What about the community itself frustrates you the most?

Do you believe your identity is spiritual, psychological or something else?

What are your beleifs about the soul, consciousness and past lives?

Do you feel a calling or "purpose" related to your identity?

How does your identity fit into your beliefs about reality and existence?

Do you meditate or do any sort of dream work? what are your experiences?

Do you practice any form of spirituality (Witchcraft, a pagan practice, folk magic, etc) If so, what role does your alterhuman identity play in this? Bonus creativity and expression section:

Design/plan a cozy selfcare day centered around your kintype. What do you do?

Write a poem/song expressing your identity

Use a page to doodle/draw some vent art

Draw or describe your nonhuman self/form

Write a letter from your kintype to your human self, or vice versa

[mouthtapedguy]

lions are very mean and like jellyfish

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Something something purple monkey typwriter dishwasher. Such bigly. Much people are saying.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

…………….y’all ready for Pesach?

Because this person certainly is!

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

My goyische fiance: “Is this a prank?” 

after being informed it is not:

“At that point you should just go outside and build a kosher hut” 

also

art becomes life I guess

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

I’m sobbing this is a perfect addition

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

We knew this couple from our schul back in the day who had an issue with birds continually flying into their french window, so upon advice from an animal control expert they lined the outside of the window with foil as a measure to ward off the birds. 

They happened to do this right before Pesach and their neighbours asked them if this was some kind of Passover tradition. At the time they were like “Huh? OMG goyim have such weird ideas about Jews!” but after seeing this, I’m now in the opinion that the neighbours were right.

[transenbyhollis]

I am not jewish so my presence is not relevant. However i am high. And i genuinely cant tell if this makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WHATEVER because i am high or because im not jewish. Or are jewish holidays just…. Like that.

[transenbyhollis]

Jewish people: this post

Me, a simple non jew who happens to be high as balls, sobbing: what the fuck does this mean

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Yo @transenbyhollis that is an extremely fair question, high or not. 

For you and the rest of the peanut gallery, the joke here is honestly…. just kind of something you had to have lived through to really get? 

So you may be aware that many Jews (in particular, religious Jews, but some secular Jews also) keep the dietary laws known as kashrut. The really, really basic meaning of this is that we only eat meat from certain animals that has been slaughtered in a certain way, and we separate meat and dairy. How people observe this in practice varies a lot. If you follow the strict traditional rules, you have separate dishes, cookware, and ideally appliances for meat and dairy. However, there is a whole continuum of practices that are more lenient. 

In any event, for eight days a year, during the holiday of Pesach (Passover), those who keep kosher year-round (and even some who don’t) observe unique kashrut rules that involve removing all of the chametz (leavened grain products) from the household and one’s diet. If one holds by traditional observance, ridding one’s life of chametz in preparation for Pesach is a BIG deal, and includes a truly insane amount of cleaning and then the covering of surfaces that cannot be kashered. 

People literally clean for a month to be fully prepared. In fact, you know what? I’m just gonna drop this here: https://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach_cdo/aid/664473/jewish/Printable-Passover-Guide-2019.htm. 

It’s such an intensive process that once you’ve lived through it, it only makes sense to make jokes about it. Covering items that do not have and couldn’t even have food on them (see: the toilet paper) is hilariously over the top, but a good tension relief when you’re on your tenth hour of scrubbing your entire kitchen with a toothbrush to ensure that literally no cookie crumb has escaped. 

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS AGAIN

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sudden mental image of a dude just taking a power washer to his kitchen

[kindigo]

when i was a small child i (christian-raised) understood: Passover and Easter are two holidays that are around the same time of year but different; Easter is the Christian holiday celebrating Jesus’s return from the dead; Passover involves a ban on chametz and can involve observers throwing a lot of chamitz away. Young me came to the knowledgable conclusion that Jesus = chametz

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

How dare you leave this in the tags:

[Screenshot ID: tags from @kindigo

#christians: so easter is coming up #jews: *busy cleaning for pesach* love that for you. SARAH CHECK ON TOP OF THE CABINETS. I DON’T CARE GET A STOOL. #christians: …so have you heard about our lord and savior jesus christ #jews: YES EVEN THE TOILET PAPER. ALL OF IT. sorry im really busy. what’s so special about this guy? #christians: he is risen– #jews: *screaming* End ID]

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Someone liked this post and therefore made it surface in my notifications again and uh. Rude reminder that Pesach is less than two weeks away 😳😨🥲

[titimylove]

i’m crying laughing

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

For the record, my earlier reblog appears to be randomly truncated (full post here). I didn’t just randomly start talking about birds on an unrelated post for no reason, it just cut off the second paragraph, I promise.

[bilgisticallykosher]

“They happened to do this right before Pesach and their neighbours asked them if this was some kind of Passover tradition. At the time they were like “Huh? OMG goyim have such weird ideas about Jews!” but after seeing this, I’m now in the opinion that the neighbours were right.”

The second part of the bird story, copied from the post linked.

I’m dying, this whole post is so damn funny.

[prickly-porcupine-memes]

P!nk was so far ahead of the curve.

[kedreeva]

It is with the heaviest of hearts that I bring you sad news today. Murphy, the eagle who incubated a rock (and later raised a foster eaglet after his rock "hatched"), passed away at age 33 (almost a decade longer than long-lived wild eagles!). A tornado hit his local area. It's believed he sustained blunt force head trauma, likely from spooking during the high winds, as his cage and fellow eagles were unharmed.

Murphy is survived by his foster son, Baby 23-126, who was successfully released into the wild, and a second foster eaglet he was still caring for; this eaglet is expected to be able to be released as well.

I know a lot of people on Tumblr enjoyed seeing his story, and I know we will remember him fondly.

[homunculus-argument]

A restaurant named You're Not Supposed To Be Here, where the whole point is that the vibes are unnerving. The lighting is weird, the whole place has a faint scent that's not a bad smell, but it's certainly not food smell and you can't quite identify what the hell it is. The music is weirdly janky and you can't quite tell what's wrong with it, the vocals aren't exactly garbled but sung in a language you swear you've never heard anywhere and couldn't name if you tried. Only hiring staff who have anxiety and they're 100% permitted to show how much your presence here stresses them out.

[lonelycity]

[kureijei]

FINALLY FINISHED THIS!! my own interpretation and additions to Sebastian's room in sdv ! Tried to keep anything in the image from the year 2010 or predated. i think theres a few give and takes but i really like the "older brother" early 2000s grunge aesthetic on another level and i thought who better fits it than him. I put a lot of references to stuff i personally like as well ^_^

[deliaistyping]

look at this roooooom!

[sabertoothwalrus]

one of my favorite things about using inaturalist is how it’s gotten me familiar with even the common, less “impressive” species. especially since spring is rolling around and I’m spending more time outside.

Like, before where I’d just say, “oh look, a butterfly!” now I can say “oh look, a mourning cloak!”

Instead of “a squirrel” it’s “a fox squirrel.” Instead of “a snail” it’s a “garden snail.” Instead of “a rabbit” it’s “a desert cottontail.” Instead of “a ladybug” it’s “an asian lady beetle, which is invasive.” Instead of “a lizard” it’s “a bluebelly, but they’re really called western fence lizards.”

It’s harder to take the little guys for granted when you know their names, y’know?

[myfriendthecouch]

I used to love this app. I should get it again.

[feefal]

Tiger sketches~ I sure wish striped cats were real

[webz-friendz]

[ms-forever-suicide-deactivated2]

wiggles my ass at you bug style

[strawberryamanita]

Observation #1: The prefix "a-" means "none", such as in "asexual", "apolitical" and "Atheism".

Observation: The word "unicorn" is a combination of "uni", meaning "one", and "cornus", meaning "horn".

Conclusion:

This is an acorn.

[the-nameless-human200]

I couldn’t reboot it for some reason

[myfriendthecouch]

This is so, so random, but a few years ago I decided to start doing research on my genealogy. I did this by finding my ancestors' names through obituaries. While I've been able to go back some generations through both parents, not all have gotten me very far. For example, my dad's paternal side only goes back to my grandpa's grandpa. In my mom's maternal side, I've been able trace it back pretty dang far. Not sure how far, but far enough. The only side I haven't looked into yet has been my mom's paternal side. I'm not sure why I haven't look into it, I just haven't.

But out of all of the ethnicities I've been told that makes up my blood, the only one I'm 100% sure on is Rusyn. This is on my mom's maternal side for reference, and oddly enough it's been the only ethnicity my family didn't know about (so far).

One thing I have noticed, is that at some point, and lot of places my ancestors have come from have all been Austria at some point in time, despite being told I'm not Austrian. Like, it may not be Austria now, but it was at some point.

I'd like to keep digging, but I'm losing track of my family tree. Some of it does go back pretty far and I don't subscribe to any of the ones online since they're super expensive. Maybe I could make one out of paper and just, fold it up and keep adding more sheets to it or something. idk.

[everythingwasnormalhere]

Ok so, I just remembered how people in the comments of a tiktok video were being assholes, and I want to rant now :3

The video showed two wheelchair users at a train(?), who had just arrived to their stop to find nobody was there with a ramp so they could leave the train. One of them blocked the door so it wouldn't close, and this lasted for 15 minutes. The train was stopped for said 15 minutes. There was a button by the door, that said that it'd contact the driver when pressed. It didn't. People offered to go find the driver, and they came back with the news that there were no people in the platform to put the ramp. In the end, passengers had to go out, and place the ramp themselves, before the train could carry on. The wheelchair users had warned they were coming, and asked to have the ramp put there so they could get down. The platform turned out to have workers, they all just ran away because they'd never encountered the situation in which they needed to do this simple task.

Because of the workers' negligence, the train was forced to stop for 15 minutes.

Everyone's comments?

"Why did they block the doors and stop the train? So selfish" Selfish were workers who refused to do their job.

"What if someone had needed to get to their stop urgently? They shouldn't have stopped the train" It wasn't the disabled people's fault, it was the workers who were negligent.

"Why didn't they just wheel themselves down those steps?" They shouldn't have to risk their (expensive) chairs just because people didn't do what they were paid to do.

"If I had been in that train I would've been pissed, how dare you stop it" And you probably wouldn't have even thought about fixing the problem yourself, would you?

"Entitled assholes" Ok I'll leave you stranded in a train with everyone who could help you get down outright refusing to. Let's see who's an entitled asshole now.

If someone fights for accessibility, as much as it might be a bother for you, you do not have the right to be mad at them. If someone fights for accessibility, it is exclusively the fault of a world catered exclusively for able-bodied people.

So next time you think, "hey the consequences of these disabled people fighting for their rights bother me", instead of blaming them for this, help them solve the issue. This way, next time they will not have to fight at all.

Able bodied people, go out and fight for a fucking accessible world if you're not an asshole.

[ Able-bodied people are encouraged to reblog this post, but try not to derail ]

[chronicallydragons]

Anyone else with chronic pain ever get really absorbed in a project and dissociate from your body while you're working but then you finish and you come back to your body and you're just like AAAAAAAHHH! WHAT'S WRONG?? oh yeah. The horrors. Never mind