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okay I'm seeing people in the tags upset with the lack of non-canine therians.
if you are a therian who is NOT a canine, please interact with this post and get your visibility out there!
maybe this will lessen the aggravation of others!
Fun fact those dry markers were supposed to have water put into them to make them work. You take off the bottom thing and pour water in and bam, instant marker success. Only learned about this four years after I’d lost my set 🙃
WHAT
Hey. Reblog to save some poor kid lots of grief.
Fucking what?!
Every ‘90s child on Tumblr raises their head in outrage.
I just stood up so fast and snatched mine out of my closet brb going to the sink
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
OH MY GOD
HUH
"otherkin/therian need to go touch grass/go outside/get a life"
i touch grass a lot, i love the outdoors. i actively hike and canoe and go camping with my friends and every single time i am met with a deep and profound love and appreciation for who i am and i am so grateful that i get the physical human ability to travel and the alterhuman soul and lens to see and understand it all through.
I go play paintball, I go camping and I got two jobs. I think I got a pretty decent life.
hi.
so i’ve been questioning therianothy (sorry if i spelled that wrong) and need some help. i also have tons of questions! if the fellow therians could help me out, i would love that.
okay so… my questions
Am i therian if i don’t identify as one animal specifically?
Am i therian if i only feel half animal and half human?
Am i therian if i don’t experience shifts often?
Am i therian if i don’t have dreams about past lives?
what is the difference between furry, therian, otherhearted, otherkin and animal-hearted?
do you have to have a mask to be a therian?
am i therian if i have a extremely strong connection to the natural world and act like animals all the time?
do you guys have any tips for quadrobics?
edit: if you guys have any other tips or rules that would be great! ❤️
i have been having a bit of an identity crisis because of this… ugh lol. thank you guys!! love you ❤️
Welcome, fella!
I hope you'll find the answers needed. Imma save some time for both of us and answer the questions shortly. Oh, btw: it's therianthropy. Thought Imma add that, so you know.
1. You don't have to be one specific animal. There are therians out there with more than one theriotype - called polytherians. They're very common!
2. Yes, ofc. The only aspect you gotta reflect onto is if you identify as one or more nonhuman animals. Half, ⅔, ⅘ ... doesn't matter. Simply be you.
3. Yes. Some don't experience shifts at all and still are therians. > "identifying as a nonhuman animal" ;)
4. Same thing here. You absolutely are. There's no need to have dreams or such. And not all theria s believe in past lives. A quite huge amount of therians are psychological therians, means that they see a neurological or other scientifical explanation for their identity. Past lives are not needed.
5. Otherkin: identifying as any nonhuman creature
Therian: identifying as some non-human animal (extant or extinct)
Furry: Fans of anthropomorphic animal art
Otherhearted/Animal-hearted: Feeling an extremely strong connection to some animal(s) to a point where you might relate heavily to them.
6. No, gear's no obligation at all. I personally don't have any gear and I'm still a therian. It's not a fashion style, it's an identity.
7. Can be an indicator of you being a therian, for sure. Can be something human as well, though. Both are possible.
8. Don't overdo it. You're gonna hurt your body on a long-term.
I hope I could help you a little. I wish you a great day.
Creature of the Night:
“Feathered Dinosaurs aren’t scary,” is false, it’s about how it is presented and nothing is more terrifying than a bitter truth.
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I am SICK and TIRED of seeing so much hate towards Al! Al hasn't done ANYTHING to hurt ANYONE! Al is harmless!
But I can already hear the Al haters out there!
"Al isn't original!" No shit, Sherlock! That's what we love the most about Al.
"People aren't supposed to look like that!" That sounds like a problem between you and God, and frankly, plenty of people like the way Al looks.
"Al is just too WEIRD!" Have you ever thought that you might be to NORMAL to actually appreciate Al?
I think you all need to apologize to Al right now!
APOLOGIZE TO HIM
APOLOGIZE TO WEIRD AL RIGHT NOW!
AI is actively taking jobs away from people
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it's actually hurting people
so shut up about "AI is so cool and has done nothing wrong" corporations are using it for greed
The reading comprehension on this site....abysmal
S N O W ❄️
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This might be a hot take related to the current discourse (and is much more broad than the original topic and only tangentially related) but like, I don't think you have to know anything about your kintype/theriotype/etc. to know that's what you are.
Not to say that research doesn't help people, it certainly can help someone confirm/deny what their nonhuman identity is, and it is possible to be wrong the first time around, but for some people that's legit just bonus information. Neat to know but not necessary to figuring things out. It makes absolutely zero sense to be like "you can't be sure unless you can recite some wikipedia facts to me right now", or if you can play spot the difference between two (very similar looking) species. There is no alterhuman diploma.
To use a personal example: one of my kintypes is a wolf, I do not know most things about wolves off the top of my head. Don't ask me anything about wolf ecology outside the bare basics, I couldn't tell you. When I was really young I thought my nonhuman identity was a dog until one day I had the epiphany that I was actually a wolf. I didn't have to bury my head in research to figure that out, I just knew for not much reason. Any information on wolves I know today is stuff I picked up here and there over the years, independent of my identity. Even so, most wolf facts are irrelevant to me as a wolf since I wasn't wild and don't act like most wolves do or have the same instincts or behaviors. If anything I would've been thrown off-path, possibly for years, because my experiences didn't match that of wild wolves.
All this to say, you do what works for you and don't set the bar for entry based on your personal journey. Your experiences are not universal and all that. Some people just know for no reason, that's fine. Some people don't know and need that extra research, that's ok too. This feels like The Discourse Ever(tm) to be starting 2024 with, this feels like something people would've argued about in 2010.
Nansen - art by Boris Artzybasheff (1940)
A winter walk
It snowed a tad bit, melting again already. But the short moment of snow touching my skin made me shake my fur internally. I wanna jump and roll in it. Jump and roll.
shoutout to:
therians with diet restrictions or allergies that can't eat what they should have
therians who are disabled and can't do quads
therians who feel like something's always missing because they can't fly
therians who can't reach the territories they're supposed to be in
therians who don't have the money to buy affirming stuff
therians who hide because they're worried about being harassed for who they are
hey. shoutout to you guys. i get it, sometimes the traditional stuff that would make you feel less like you're in the wrong body is just out of your reach. i dont have any big suggestions because of just how many kintypes there are, but i really hope you find something. do something small for yourself and the creature you know you are, alright?
Animals I thought were my theriotype that were not my theriotype
(Some of these are technically otherkin but whatever you get the idea)
Horse
Owl
Norwegian forest cat
Dragon
Pheonix
Selkie
Gryphon
Australian Cattle Dog
Border Collie
Puffin
Pegasus
Mouse
Rat
Raccoon
Ferret
Wild Pig
Bay Cat
Jaguarundi
Welsh polecat
Weasel
Stoat
Harp Seal
Opossum
Dhole
Wolf
Dog (several different breeds)
Golden Jackal
Anyways I wanted to post this because it's a good long list of all my years of questioning - and none of these were my theriotype. A handful were even in the same classification, but they still weren't.
Don't feel discouraged if you've been cycling through animals over and over and can't seem to find your theriotype. Sometimes it takes a while, and a LOT of animals before you find it
Wayne Barlowe. Styracosaurus albertensis. (The Horned Dinosaurs, by Peter Dodson, 1996)
