it’s time to shut down the lie that children who don’t grow up being hit, humiliated, and scared into obedience will grow up into spoiled, entitled, selfish monsters. there is zero truth to that. children grown in a healthy and nurturing environment will get a chance to grow up healthy. children who are raised by monsters who try to pretend that abuse is for the child’s sake and that the child would become a monster if not abused will be stripped of their health and will be denied an actual start in life and will be forced to fight for survival. I’ve had enough of abusers pretending they’re helping the child while they’re just taking and taking more and more away from them and leaving them permanently traumatized and emotionally injured. Don’t let them get away with it.
Abusive parents will trauma-condition you to obey them, they will punish your every healthy instinct, every independent thought and every resistance to their authority to the point where they fuck with your survival instincts and force you to fear for your life if you don’t do as you’re told.
Then when you come down with ptsd they have the nerve to say “You got too affected by it.”
They made sure you were extremely affected by it when they were doing it. They were the ones who wouldn’t stop until you were unable to do anything but to be controlled by them if you wanted to survive. Do you know what kind of extreme torture will get a person to obey you unconditionally? It means keeping a person in death fear.
You being affected by it so much that you couldn’t be a human being but their property was the point of it. They’re perpetrators of a torture crime. They do not get to have a say in what your reaction to it means. You’re a human being and they had no right to hurt you whatsoever. They do not get to turn around and say “Oh, actually, we wanted to get different things from torturing you, and being held responsible for it is not one of them.”
Did you see the video that shows where the ambulance that went to rescue 6 year old Hind was from the car she was trapped in?
Mere meters! Meters! The paramedics would have been able to see the car from where the ambulance was before it was struck by Israel.
The paramedics were there. Hind was moments away from being rescued. Israel is fucking monstrous. They lured paramedics in so they can kill them before killing the child.
The are no words to describe how inhumane Israel is. Fuck Israel.
hey therians, friendly reminder saying phantom limbs can be very disrespectful to amputees! theres so many other terms you can use to describe the feeling of animal limbs that arent actually there! :D
There was just a whole debate about this, so I hope you'll forgive me for handing you a link to one thread of that post (well, those two posts - the original version has a lot more people's counterpoints than that one, but it's linked early on in my first response, so) instead of rewriting it all. Happy to discuss it further here if you have counterpoints/questions/concerns/etc! I just don't want to spend the time to rewrite something I just wrote up like less than a week ago lmao.
friendly reminder to all that being okay with or connected to your humanity isn’t wrong. for some, like myself, it’s an essential part of your identity. a werewolf without humanity is just a wolf, and i know i’m not just a wolf. but whether you’re a were creature or not, enjoying being a human isn’t bad. you can enjoy school, and cafes, and house parties. you don’t have to always been in the woods, or fantasizing about the meadows, or daydreaming of being domesticated. you’re allowed to enjoy human things and be non human at the same time.
When we're talking about physical shapeshifting (p-shifting, from here on out), we are specifically talking about a spontaneous bodily change, partially or wholly, into something other than human.
We are not talking about somatic shifts, where your body changes in ways that human bodies are known to do, such as piloerection, pupil dilation, hysterical strength, and related phenomena.
We are not talking about sensory shifts, where you perceive one of your senses differently than when you are not shifted.
We are not talking about delusions or hallucinations of transforming into an animal.
We are not talking about changes made to yourself through bodybuilding, biohacking, or body mods.
All those things are possible. No one is disputing that those things are real. Those things are not what "p-shifting" refers to.
Science
Have you ever looked at a diagram of an animal cell at a molecular level? Let's zoom in. Here's a highly oversimplified animal cell:
And here's a slightly more accurate look at it, though a lot of details are still missing:
Do you notice something about the cell membrane?
It's made up of an unfathomable number of lipids, each made up of a dozen or two atoms, interspersed with the occasional protein, which itself can be made up of hundreds of atoms
You got that?
Alright.
Every single element of a cell is made up of an equally stupid ridiculous amount of atoms.
In order for your body to change, this stupid amount of atoms would have to change or be rearranged too, to create new proteins, which in turn can create new DNA and RNA, which in turn can create new pathways, which is how your body's appearance is determined. You couldn't even p-shift something as simple as your hair-color because your hair gets its color from pigments, and those pigments are produced by melanocytes, which produce melanin through melanogenesis, and they only know how to do melanogenesis because of enzymatic and structural proteins in the melanosomes, and those proteins need to be synthesized through a long and complex process in the ribosome and... I could go on. There are just so so many things that would have to be modified and so many atoms that would have to be rearranged for even the most simple change to show.
Do you know how atoms are rearranged? It happens through chemical reactions, which require a catalyst and have an energy loss - most commonly a heat loss, known as enthalpy. Of all the chemical reactions that would have to take place in your body in order for your body's pathways to change, a significant number of them would result in enthalpy.
The temperature of your body would be raised a lot due to the sheer number of reactions taking place (reminder that a single animal cell has about 10 billion proteins and that your body is made up of 30 trillion cells). In short, your body temperature would be raised above the 108°F/42°C required to destroy your neurons.
You can not shapeshift without billions of chemical reactions, fundamentally changing the makeup of your cells, happening in your body. You can not fundamentally change the makeup of your cells without raising your body's temperature the point that neurons are cooked. If you could shapeshift you would be braindead by the end of the process.
Logic
If a fraction of the human population could shapeshift, we would know about it. Trust me.
The military exploits every single advantage it can get. They've tested every inkling of supernatural things that might give them an advantage in combat, from brainwashing to psychics. DARPA (a branch of the US military) had their "Inner Armor" project which sought to bio-engineer soldiers' bodies to be more like sea lions. The military is at the forefront of this. Nothing, and I mean nothing, that could give them an advantage would get past their noses.
That alone should be enough proof, but... I mean, there's just no way something like p-shifters could be kept secret, no matter how small their numbers were. We regularly see things as rare as progeria and stoneman syndrome in the news. And there are always people contacting Ripley's and Guinness' with their talents and quirks, hoping for fame. In the 150 years that we've had film, in the 200 years that we've had photography, where billions have died and been born, do you honestly think not a single one of them happened to both be a shapeshifter and attention-seeking? Especially considering how often supposed p-shifters seem to show up online, seeking attention. If they were real, do you honestly believe not a single one of them would have gone to the news before going to tumblr?
Mindfulness
Those who claim to p-shift are either in need of support, which our community is not equipped to give them, or they're egotistical, selfish, downright cruel assholes who prey on our community's collective pain for... I honestly don't know why anyone would want to perpetuate our suffering... for fun? For clout? Either way, their callousness is not something that should be welcomed.
I understand the desire. I understand how p-shifting brings you hope. I really do, trust me. We're all nonhumans here, trapped in the desert of our human existence, yearning for that one drink of nonhumanity, wishing for the oasis of p-shifting. But the oasis doesn't exist. It's a mirage. You will never get more than a mouthful of sand if you try to drink from it. It's energy wasted on a false hope.
We all want so badly for p-shifting to be real. No one understands the ache quite like those of us in this community. But we can't live our lives, chasing impossibilities. We have to focus our emotional energy on the things we can change. We may not be able to shapeshift, but we can modify our bodies through fashion and exercise and tattoos and surgery. We may not be able to sprout wings, but we can take up mountain climbing or hang gliding or sky diving.
The oasis of p-shifting doesn't exist. But dig deep and you will probably find a spring to drink your fill from instead. You just need a bit of hard work and a lot of patience.
what's up with painting otherkin as cringe? I literally am a creachure. I am scratching mud as we speak. have you tried laying on a rock? how is being a little guy dancing in the grass cringe? grow up.
