inclusive queer system, mostly adults

just don't be a dick. under-18s beware, occasionally we reblog nsfw posts and we do not tag them

[sharedheadspace]

things we block for:

'pro-ship dni'

honestly just being inordinately judgy about people's tastes in fiction. dislike whatever you want but if you're publicly going 'anyone who writes/draws [whatever fucked up thing] needs to be hunted down and shot' we don't want to be anywhere near you

anti-endo/endo neutral

any kind of queer exclusion

[zurin]

[obsidian-thing]

Imagine constantly dehumanizing neurodivergent people and then being surprised when they start to identify with something non human

[aromantic-journal]

Am I "more aromantic than asexual" or does my aromanticism just fit more into the typical understanding of aromanticism as opposed to my asexuality which I had to doubt more than once simply because this is not how most people imagine being asexual

[vi-visected]

a gathering, a murder

[oddarette]

Star Shrimp is unapologetically gorgeous. The most beautiful shrimp in the galaxsea 🦐✨

[creatureheart]

I do wish I had things to talk about when it comes to my alterhuman identities, but without many strong experiences I don’t even know what I would write about or where to start

[torbli]

Are you nonhuman, alterhuman, otherkin? Are you queer? Take our survey!!! This survey is gonna be used to see if creatures view there queerness and non-humaneness+ as connected and if so in what ways!

Queer Nonhuman Survey

Exploring the intersection of nonhuman and queer identities

These questions are completely anonymous and some are skip able

[shiftythrifting]

oh my god

[the-upper-shelf]

badass kingfisher lady!

[night-dark-woods]

ID. A detailed digital painting of a woman with kingfisher wings, long horns, and light brown skin diving into murky green water, viewed from below the surface. she has one taloned foot extended in front of her, grabbing hold of a fish she just impaled with a spear. blood blooms in the water around the fish, and streams of bubbles trail around her. golden sunlight is visible through the surface of the water. End ID.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[starful02]

@ariaste

[stevviefox]

So cool.

[leathersys]

on having a "collective consciousness"

[foxboy-angel]

If your sub has autism and a humiliation kink all you need to do is say "look at me when I fuck you" and make them hold eye contact, and you'll have them melting every time I 100% guarantee

[himekokosu]

Hydrangea 

[thetadelta]

Teenage therianthropy in the 2000's

Just reminiscing a bit. TL;DR: I love you modern teenage therians & otherkin, and also if anyone was on Chicken Smoothie circa 2008-2012 please say hi!

When I first stumbled upon therianthropy back in 2006, I quickly realized that there wasn't a place for me in the communities whose essays and information I was excitedly reading. It had been so freeing and exhilarating to know that I wasn't alone in how I am, but all the therian forums were for adults, and I was a teenager. I probably could have joined the "adult" forums and talked to grown-up animals instead of just lurking, but I didn't feel comfortable talking to strange adults (this was back when we actually taught kids to not disclose personal info online!), and the people on therian forums didn't feel like my peers anyway. So many of their conversations just sounded like dry philosophy, or referenced "adult" things I didn't relate to. I resigned myself to just reading what people wrote, and being a lonely teenager with nobody to talk to.

My first time really talking to other nonhumans, not just lurking, was on the forum for a digital pet website called Chicken Smoothie. It was barely even a browser game at the time, just a cozy little forum with a pet adoption feature, and the users were a few hundred teens and preteens chatting and making art. But, in probably late 2008 or early 2009, someone started an otherkin thread and I finally found my peers. We spent hours a day swapping information we'd read, figuring out what people were, and just having fun. There was no gatekeeping or unfriendly grilling or essay-writing, and no sanctimonious adults to tell us we weren't being "serious" enough about nonhumanity. We were serious, but in the way kids are serious, before society makes them afraid to be authentic and silly. Conversations about spirituality and phantom shifts were interspersed with people roleplaying and making animal sounds, and we enjoyed both just as much. It was a space for all of us to act openly nonhuman around other people for the first time, and we did it like teenagers. We chatted through text and made art for each other because that's all the Internet really was at the time, but if had been possible (and socially acceptable) to take and share photos and videos of us acting like ourselves we would absolutely have been doing that, too. I can't even begin to imagine how much fun we'd have had with access to modern social media, when just talking to each other about who we were was already so fulfilling.

I don't know how many of the people I was friends with still call themselves therians, otherkin, or vampires. It's likely some of them were just roleplaying and left those things in the past. But I'm still here 15 years later, so I know I was far from the only one genuinely expressing who I was. It doesn't matter to me whether those people I was a nonhuman kid with "grew out of it" or not, because that sense of joy and community was real. There wasn't a space for nonhuman teens online, so we carved one out ourselves.

Modern teens don't have to search so hard to find their community. When I look at the therian and otherkin tags on tumblr today, and when I see videos of teens on tiktok wearing homemade masks and running in the grass, what I see is a bunch of young people doing the exact same things I was doing on a forum in 2009. The infrastructure of the internet has made it hard to find and share accurate information the way we used to so there's a lot more misinformation, but the joy of teenagers learning they're not alone is still the same. There are so many high schoolers out there talking about shifts and posting silly animal sounds the same way I did, and that makes me really happy.

Maybe some of them are roleplaying and will stop calling themselves therians or otherkin in a few years, but that doesn't actually matter. There are people out there exploring nonhumanity for the very first time, and the joy is real.

[thefeathercollective]

everyone wants shapeshifting or to have separate bodies but may I suggest: shadow clone jutsu

for anyone that hasn't watched naruto it's like-- he creates these clones that can go off and do their own things, and when the clones despawn all their memories and acquired skills and whatnot go to Main Naruto

have one headmate front in each shadow clone and you're able to be in multiple or single bodies whenever the hell you want it

I wish superpowers were real, man

[jame7t]

my girlfriend is soft and cute & then she uses her teethful fangs on me. so basically I’ve got everything I want…now I have to figure out new life goals. $75 maybe? Life goal 75 dodars ❓