Somniafamiliar

Hello~ Names: Somnia/Feather/Night Pronouns: They/them Age: 18 (Jan 20th) Nationality: Norwegian Green witch and proud child of earth. (Cat familiar otherkind)

[somniafamiliar]

Introduction post~

Hello, I'm a green witch born and raised in Norway. Having been born into spiritual practices without really realizing it, I'm on a journey of spiritual rediscovery and exploration of my inner child.

I will post content related to my beliefs, both as a witch and as a "therian" though I prefer the term 'otherkind'.

You're welcome if...

•You have a curious heart and soul

•You approach difficult topics with respect and humility.

•You view nature as something to be respected and preserved.

You're not welcome if...

•You hold bigoted beliefs.

•Put down others in the name of something 'divine' if you're going to be an asshat do it in the name of yourself and take responsibility for your own words and actions.

•You have a problem with physical non humans.

•If you're anti science.

•Anti abortion/women's rights.

•Supportive of disability/illness of mind or body until said disability/illness causes you some sort of inconvenience. Basically if you're ableist get off my page.

•I may on occasion speak ill of the abrahamic god, so I'll state that clearly right at the beginning. Your god, is never going to be my god.

•Supporters of consumerism, fast fashion or wasting resources just because you can, can get tf off. (I do not care if you buy from H&M or something if you can't afford anything else, though I will give you the bombastic side eye if you buy a bunch of things you never intend to use more than once.)

[somniafamiliar]

A lot of people act like avoidants are evil, but like no?????? Avoidant does not equal distant or cruel. A lot of avoidants will only have cold periods if they're feeling very vulnerable and/or unsafe. Like for example repeatedly breaking boundaries, trying to get uncomfortably close to the avoidant too early, saying things jokingly that you find funny but might make the avoidant question their sanity and whole personhood... as a fearful avoidant it isn't fun to feel like avoidance is the only way of surviving. Heck I wish I didn't feel sick from physical touch, I wish I didn't think through every interaction during the day before I go to bed, I wish I didn't want to push away my friends if they get too close, I wish I wasn't scared to be vulnerable, I wish I could stop wearing a constant mask, I wish I didn't feel physically and mentally horrible after almost any social interaction which obviously isn't people's fault. Attachment styles are formed by trauma, such is also the avoidant attachment and by extension the fearful avoidant attachment. Instead of vagueing your avoidant friend on twitter I promise you your friend might actually feel 100% better if you talk to them directly. There is a reason why anxious attachments and avoidant attachments don't do well together, and no the avoidant isn't always the abuser in the way people have been led to believe. It's a psychological incompatability, where one is desperate to stick closer and closer, while the other when feeling vulnerable and unsafe will pull away and away. I promise you the anxiously attached can also be abusive, it all depends, sometimes neither of them are. You guys just don't understand attachment theory and how trauma shapes our relationships. While you can work on dealing with your attachment style in better ways, it's incredibly difficult to entirely change it, because it forms in your formative years.

[somniafamiliar]

I've found out pathetic soggy cat autistic girl rizz works strangely well, sometimes too well... I remember that time I was trapped in a love angle against my will😀

[ferncloud]

triple threat

[somniafamiliar]

Don't mind me just ominously filling my biweekly post quota.

[somniafamiliar]

One of the dumb parts about being a pretty damn closeted witch around people I care about is that instead of listening to my somewhat cryptic advice, they end up doing the exact opposite of what I told them to do. I told you to relax and not stress yourself out, why did you just decide to take on 10 new errands when I said that, are you TRYING to spite me??😭

[somniafamiliar]

I'm Norwegian (wow surprise)

And I must admit I'm a little bit confused by why the english language calls heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality etc for sexuality instead of like... heterophilia, homophilia, biphilia etc... this might be a weird take but it's partially because philia means love/attraction. Calling something a sexuality feels oddly clinical to me. I understand that in english the word carries negative connotations but I also need you guys to understand that philia by itself didn't originally mean abnormal and or harmful attraction. In Norway we have heterofili, homofili, bifili etc as the words for different sexualities, which is essentially just taken from the greek word philia. Again I need someone to explain to me why the english language is like this because it is just a hint confusing💀

[somniafamiliar]

Some free advice from a witch folks

1. Don't keep chairs in your room that serve no particular purpose. If you have no desk, you don't have a need for a chair, this essentially just invites spirits to sit down and watch you sleep. Overall just bad feng shui, psychologically having an object facing you that is associated with being sat on gives the impression of being watched.

2. Don't put lucky horseshoes with the front facing up, this makes your luck "run" out. Keep the front of the shoe downwards facing so the luck stays and accumulates in the horseshoe.

3. Don't keep statues in bathrooms, just don't. Especially not statues of religious figures, not only is it disrespectful but it frankly feels like asking for some sort of curse. I promise you no statue wants to watch you shit, and you don't want to be watched shitting. No, this doesn't only go for religious figures either btw, any statue can be made a home for a spirit, animism 101.

4. Be nice to your surroundings

5. Remember to be careful what you wish for.

6. Last little bit or advice for today, remember to practice mindfulness, has proven both scientifically and spiritually to be beneficial for heart and mind. Additional benefits to not carrying a bunch of stress is not being an easy victim for an ill meaning spirit. Your mental health is 100% intertwined with your spiritual vulnerability. Ill meaning spirits definitely have a preference for burnt out and stressed out people who have a habit of accumulating endless negativity which is essentially a feast for the spirit. Do yourself a favor and take at least a few minutes a day to fully relax yourself. This is good for you from both a scientific and spiritual stand point.

[synth3ticanimal]

y'all i fear the acceptance of physical therianthropy on tiktok has gone south... i've just seen a physical therian saying that physical therians identify as their theriotypes, and exhibit animalistic behaviours, and other therians don't.

as a non-physical therian, i can confirm i DO identify as my theriotypes, and i DO exhibit nonhuman behaviours.

i don't wanna tell people what labels they can and can't use, however i fear this is just going to lead people to call therians who actually physically identify as their theriotypes, "clinical lycanthropes" (or most of the time simply "lycanthropes" bc nobody understands the difference). and so we'll be right back where we started.

[p-concolor]

i see a lot of posts along the lines of “i want to wear collars” “i want people to refer to/treat me as a dog” followed by:

“BUT I DONT WANT PEOPLE TO TAKE IT THE WRONG WAY!”

“BUT NOT IN A SEXUAL WAY!”

and what i will say in response is, why are you ashamed of sexuality? why are you ashamed of instinct? why are you ashamed to potentially associate with kink?

it is true there are people who might treat you weirdly if they suspect it’s sexual, but at the end of the day those people likely hate you already for some other reason (ie: if you’re not white, able bodied, or cishet).

provided you are physically safe, should you care about the opinions of others? NO.

you are allowed to personally not like sex or even find it repulsive. but you don’t need to tack a disclaimer that you’re not an icky sex freak onto your objectively tame statements of wanting to be treated as your species.

[p-concolor]

ah since this is the piss on the poor website…

firstly, as i said above: YOU don’t have to like sex. YOU can find it repulsive. but there is a way that sex is talked about in the therian community that i find grating, as a sexual adult. im allowed to feel the way i do as are you.

secondly, within the THERIAN COMMUNITY i feel it unnecessary to clarify that it’s not sexual. your fellow therians know it is not. if someone reblogs your post to an nsfw blog and that makes you uncomfortable, that is within your right and you have access to the block button.

lastly, to the “therianthropy shouldn’t be sexualized” argument: is it “sexualization” or are people just having sex how they want to, as the species they are?

to the reblog that brought up a million other unrelated discourse topics such as but not limited to: if being fat is healthy or not, dating preferences, transmisogyny, and transandrophobia: wow………. would love to know why you felt the need to unload that here.

[p-concolor]

for the third time: YOU can dislike sex. YOU can find it repulsive. but as other reblogs have pointed out, the addition of “but not in a sexual way” “but not in a wrong way” does, in fact, fuel the notion that it is a sex thing.

nothing is inherently sexual, except maybe sex itself. we don’t need to clarify within the community that it’s not sexual, when we as therians know it is not.

to everyone shouting they are a minor or bringing up minors: minors are not exempt from being harmful? at least half of the packer discourse was exacerbated and created by minors.

minors: this post is not sexualizing you or advocating that you should be sexualized- and to quote my favorite movie, “you keep using that word but i do not think it means what you think it means.”

[somniafamiliar]

One of the more painful parts of being a familiar is being a masterless one... instead of seeking only to fulfill one person I seek to fulfill as many people's lives I can to any capacity I'm capable of... I also feel ridiculously unfulfilled and unsatisfied when I cannot be of any help. People will act as though "oh you should remember to tend to yourself", that kind of thing makes me depressed, I need purpose, I need to seek that selfish fulfillment I get from seeing someone smile. Is that really so wrong of me?

Sincerely

- Somnia

[somniafamiliar]

I know it's very unlikely, but I honestly hope my future mate ends up being a cat alterhuman like me... *sigh*

[gnometa233]

Saying "Labels are to help us communicate" and "labels can mean whatever we want them to" right after one another makes zero sense. If I say that something is a chair because I say so and someone else says that it's a duck because they say so then how are we ever going to get anything done around here.

Labels do need to have a definition in order to properly communicate ideas. If you have to change a label so much in order for you to fit into it then maybe that label is not for you.

[honeylemony]

Every single anti- bi/pan-lesbian post i make goes the same way.

I go "hey lesbians dont experience attraction to men actually."

And some fucknut goes "thats exclusionary!! Lesbians can fuck men!!"

And i go "so thats rape culture. Youre advocating for lesbian corrective rape"

And they go "you dont respect diverse genders/sexualities!!"

And i go "i dont care what people call themselves, feel free to make up new labels, but lesbianism does not include attraction to men"

And the circle back around to "youre being exclusionary!! And a terf!!"

And i go "excluding is not inherently morally bad. Including is not inherently morally good. Also, im only talking about not being attracted to men, why do you think i mean "trans women" when i say men"

Then they go "well theres a long history of lesbians fucking men! Dont deny history!"

And i go "those lesbians were bisexual women who fought hard to have their own label and identity. You are being biphobic by erasing their struggles. Additionally, something having history doesnt absolve it of any crime"

And sometimes theyll go "but men fucking lesbians is a kink! You cant kinkshame!"

And ill go "something being a kink does not automatically mean it can't be criticized. Are pedophilia and beastiality a kink? Are they something that should be allowed? Kinks are not some magical, untouchable item that can do no harm in any situation."

And they'll go back to "some people just have open or fluid genders/sexualities! You cant box us in!"

And i go "sure. And you cant tell me how open or closed my sexuality is. You cant redefine a sexuality for all lesbians just because you want to. A sexuality is not more morally correct when open, and not more morally condemnable when closed. Aren't you against political lesbianism? How is political fluidity any better? (fluidity just for the sake of being more Politically Correct)"

And they go "but youre being mean!! Youre being loud and mean and your tone is bad"

And i go "well im a sexual assault survivor advocating against sexual assault of lesbians. My tone is probably indicative of how strongly i feel about this issue. Plus, its fucked up to ask an oppressed class to try and get the boot off their neck as prettily and quietly as possible."

And then they devolve into calling me a transphobe-terf mean scary fat lesbian who doesn't care about other people. All over me saying "lesbians do not fuck men".

[self-made-sir]

"oh, everyone is a little bit bi"

No, not everyone is a "little bit bi" Jessica cuz if everyone was a little bit bi, then bisexuals wouldn't get as much hate as they already do and if everyone was a little bit bi, then being with whatever gender you wanted to be with that's outside of your typical straight relationship wouldn't be as big of an issue as it already is.

[wizardsfang]

Daily reminder that if you want something to be more present in your community you have to start posting about it

If you want more serious discussion posts- you need to make more serious discussion posts.

If you want more silliness around your type- you need to post more silliness around your type.

If you want more art, writing, photodumps etc. of your type or kin- you need to get to creating and posting.

You have autonomy online, use it

[runewerewolf]

i knew you before you had a name

(a poem about the voice of the forest)

(slowly posting the writings i talked about, haha)

you came back.

not all do.

some forget.

some bury me under concrete

and noise.

but you—

you never really left.

i felt your feet

before your mind caught up.

saw the way your shoulders moved

like you were carrying a different shape

underneath.

i know who you are.

don’t flinch.

i remember your shadow

when it had four legs.

i remember your breath

when it rose like steam

in the cold before dawn.

you were always one of mine.

even when the world

pressed its hands

over your ears.

you don’t have to shift

to belong.

you don’t have to prove

your paws.

come lie down.

press your ear to the soil.

i will sing you

the names

you forgot.

and maybe this time

you’ll answer.