The Blog of a Winged-Wolf Therian

She/They| Winged Wolf Therianthrope] Just a place to put all my Therian/Otherkin things. You may refer to me as Celtic.

[childhoodgrave]

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[spiritawoo]

Hey, so, some real talk here. I'm thinking of changing up this blog to just sincerely share my Therian experiences where applicable, and to drop the whole spirituality aspect. The reason? It has come to my attention in recent years that what I have been deeming as "spirit guides" all this time might actually be more of a psychological phenomenon that is related to both my learning disability and/or mental illnesses. I'd rather not go into details about it, because it's personal (and I don't have definitive evidence to rightfully know what the condition is exactly), but I have concluded that for one reason or another, this is a coping mechanism related to my brain functionality and nothing more. Sorry if this is disheartning to some. I am just someone who is more interested in figuring out what is true rather than sticking with what is fabricated, and all my research has lead me to this more grounded conclusion. I was mistaken in my stance in the past and that's okay. I am correcting it now.

[spiritawoo]

Me, placing a happy paw on the people I care about but haven't spoken to in years: Friend! OwO

[tea-rabbits]

“If you claim to be a wolf, then be one. If you claim to be as rooted as a tree, then you had better grow some bark. If you claim to be as strong as the sea, then you had better brace yourself. Because when thunder crashes down, and lightning strikes from on high, you will be the only one who decides, where your waves crash. If you claim to be as calm as the wind, you had better remember, that the wind is neither calm - nor silent. It is a ferocious force, always waiting to move, and push, and howl. If you claim to be a wolf, then you had better remember- a wolf needs no master. As a tree has strong roots, as the sea rises and falls, as the wind howls at the moon. If you claim to be a wolf, then be one.”

— (via thecrowqueenxvx)

[cryptidlibrarians]

I hate that it’s a controversial thing to say that if you choose to associate yourself with something, if you choose to identify, that your experiences will NOT be the same as someone who has always been this way. This is an experience-based identity, and I feel that people keep forgetting this.

Choosing to identify as a specific species or “character” will be a much different experience than growing up as one, as organically discovering who and what you are and have been for a long time. There wouldn’t be years of experiencing unknown thoughts, feelings, memories, instincts, behaviors, homesickness, even energy and astral experiences that ultimately do shape how you are as a person, even if you find the origin of those things was wrong.

You can say that you’re just as much a wolf or a cat or an elf or a dragon as someone who came into this life like that. But are you really? Have you really experienced all the things that leads us to seek out answers? Have you really lived your entire life as this thing, knowing the ins and out as intimately as someone who has dealt with it from a deep, internal level for their entire life?

If it makes you feel better, by all means, do so. But please acknowledge the differences in scenario and lived experience between these things, and the decades of time and effort people put into learning about these experiences and defining them so those of us who were born into this without choice could find ourselves and others like us.

[bodaciousbanshee-deactivated202]

Speaking as a queer woman with estranged relatives, Idk why people on this hellsite seem to think that "ancestor veneration" means that you have to honor every single person in your family line. It's like y'all want to find excuses for not doing magic. If you have an ancestor you don't like, just fucking skip them. Don't pray to them or for them, it's easy! Geezus, it's not like anyone is twisting your arm like: "pray to your abusive grandad or else!". If you don't do ancestor work, you will never find out which ones of your own bloodline were witches and/or queer. And I guarantee you, there are queer witches in every family line because humans have been on earth for a long ass time.

[manynamedshe]

This. This is why we have specific prayers and protection work that goes with the ancestor veneration...it truly is a party, but not all of your folks are invited, certainly not until they’ve healed and elevated enough to get even half a plate of some greens or a crumb off somebody’s pie.

Like. The ones who won’t acknowledge queerness or who use homophobic slurs? Never get to chill at my altar. The ones who are all about that patriarchy? Never get to chill at my altar.

The ones who simply don’t like me but will use me to get their power-up? Never get to chill at my altar, and I make SURE of that. And you have the right to enforce similar boundaries with your own people. The ones who love you will make sure that you don’t get crossed up by the ones who don’t.

Otherwise what are we outchea for?

[blackbearmagic]

enthusiastic jazz hands Evolutionary Ancestor Veneration

[thewitchexchange]

This is just a reminder for everyone, because I keep seeing this come up:

If you are not of Native blood, you do not have a spirit animal. Native American religions are closed to outsiders, and the term spirit animal is NOT interchangeable with other terms. You may have a familiar, or a patronus, but you do not have a spirit animal.

Please do not use Native terminology or beliefs if you are not of Native blood. This goes triply for sales - it is actually illegal to sell things described or tagged as “Native American” “Indian” or any Native group’s name (Cherokee, Nahuatl, ect.) if you are not a recognized member of one of those groups.

[theriannation]

Also known as supernumerary phantom limbs. One does not need to be Therian or an amputee to experience phantom limbs. Experiments prove that people can be fooled into thinking that another object or even an invisible limb is part of them. The deception is known as the rubber hand illusion. You can visit the Therian Wiki website to see references, links to further reading, etc.

#therian #therianshift #phantomshift #therianthropy #therianeducation #therianlesson #therianhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/ByyGY0Gjyoh/?igshid=gd3vn5iyexs0

[morgainefae-deactivated20190711]

Why Otherkin and Copinglink is  a False Dichotomy

Because there is no hard and fast line between wish fulfillment and species dysphoria. Except perhaps one thing:

Truephoria.

I find, when, asking myself the question “what am I?” that there is a difference between what I feel I AM, and what I feel I WANT to be. I initially explored this question with regards to gender, and found that the trans community didn’t seem to draw a distinction. Anyone who was rejecting their agab was considered trans, even though there is obviously a difference between the people who think of themselves as misidentified at birth and the people who want to change what they are.

For me the difference is that people who consider themselves misidentified have a form of gender euphoria I call “truephoria”; identifying as the opposite sex feels true. Meanwhile, no matter how much evidence I find to suggest I am bigender, I still only feel truephoria for my own assigned sex (but still experience other kinds of euphoria for the opposite one).

I read that species euphoria is supposed to be “truephoria”, and I would like to call bullshit. Here’s why.

Just as no perisex person is truly misidentified at birth, no otherkin person is truly not human. It’s a false epistomology. People are claiming to be something they aren’t either way.

So claiming ridiculous things like “gender is never a choice” and “otherkinity is never a choice” and moving the goalposts when people demonstrate that it can be a choice is just gatekeeping designed to justify an epistemology of identity that was never true in the first place. 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Other people can see magic in you that you will sometimes overlook. Don’t you dare try to convince them they’re wrong just because you can’t see it yet.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

side note: this doesn’t mean you have to automatically accept inconvenient quests from oracles insisting you’re the chosen one

[teaandtarot]

Spirits are not your personal helpers. Just because you can summon a spirit, any kind of spirit, just because you can communicate with them, doesn’t mean they owe you anything.

[theriannation]

Hello! I am a silver fox and I was wondering, since I've been seeing so many kin posts about memories, if all therianthropy is tied to a past life. My religion doesn't believe in reincarnation, and I was wondering if that means I'm not a therian. Is believing that you were an animal in a past life the only way to be therian? - Silver Anon 🐾

There are many spiritual and psychological hypotheses for identifying as a Therianthrope or Otherkin. Believing that a past life as an animal is still somehow strongly effecting this current life enough to feel nonhuman is only one of the many spiritual explanations. Having a past life (and memories) as an animal is not a requirement. Not every past life as an animal leads to feeling nonhuman in this one. Really, nonhuman feelings and experiences should mostly come from the present. What in this life, in the here and now, makes you feel animal-like? 

Spiritual Causes - https://theriannation.tumblr.com/post/156634257350/07-spiritual-therianthropy-script

Psychological Causes - https://theriannation.tumblr.com/post/152908005217/06-psychological-therianthropy-video-transcript

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[engimaticcraft]

Whoever started the “watching horror movies lowers your vibration therefor you can’t be a spiritual person and enjoy horror movies” bullshit needs to shut up

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

This is like watching the very tip of an iceberg float past and being glad you can’t see how big it is under the water.

[goddamnitlopori]

“I just know” my thoughts on feelings being an explanation for kintypes

Many years ago, before I entered the otherkin and therian communities the general consensus was that if you couldn’t take grilling and answer with essays on why your kintype is the one, then you weren’t legit. While on some sites nowadays there’s a growing trend of accepting everything and anything, no matter how farfetched (50 anime characters at once), residues of the old mindset are still around on facebok groups, older members of tumblr and forums. The question “why do you think you are x species in particular and not y species?” often crops up, like a maths test asking for your working. 

Some explanations or parts of the explanation for why you are otherkin are often disregarded or not deemed intelligent enough to count. This can include dreams, meditation, or the general vague feeling that you’ve always felt this way. It pays to come with pre-prepared explanations quantifying your claims, listing in-depth your shifts, behavioural urges, any possible spiritual beliefs, and you must question yourself at any given opportunity. I mean why not, it weeds out the posers and fluff right? If they feel uncomfortable with the questioning they’re obviously just in it for the lulz, we don’t need our waters muddying, to make us less legitimate. 

I used to think a little like this, or atleast, I presented myself in such a way when I entered the community to be accepted by the serious-therians. Being a slut for social acceptance I looked up as much terminology as I could, parroted the embellished language of those I looked up to. I had the whole nonsense script ready and it worked, I was accepted, and I feel I’ve been active long enough to admit something. I “just know”. My reasons behind identifying as a bonobo therian and mermaidkin simply boil down to the simple notion of feels. Sure I have shifts and whatnot, but any kind of introspection I force upon myself leads me to the same conclusion. I’m a bonobo at heart, fuck knows why but I shan’t sweat the small stuff.   

The correct definition for otherkin is “identifying as a nonhuman either wholly or partially” and a therian is the same but specifically animals or animalistic mythical beasts. Tumblrkin misinformation make my eyes roll to the back of my skull until they fall into my brain, of course. Assuming you still adhere to that same definition, who cares how you got here? You’re one of us. I really don’t see the point in grilling, of only accepting “intellectual” explanations that don’t mention dreams etc, you don’t owe us anything and we certainly can’t claim to know you better than you do. Your emotions and gut instincts can tell you just as much as any number of hours spent researching and compiling lists of qualifiers. It’s very telling when a subculture intimidates people into speaking a certain way to fit in, I’m not the only one who used a script either as others have confessed. I no longer look up to those who gate-keep, instead feeling utterly relieved that I didn’t find the community in the mid-2000s. I for one hope to cultivate a warm, welcoming atmosphere that also educates and offers resources for newcomers.

tl;dr You just know? That’s okay, so do I. 

[bearxuniverse-deactivated202004]

Grilling started several years after the start of the therian community and didn’t become popular until even later. It’s nice to see a return to the days before gatekeeping like that started.

[the-forest-cat]

I really only support “grilling” that sorts out the misinformed and the trolls.

Basically anything along the lines of:

A) “I’m 20 anime characters and 30 different animals.”

B) “Could you please explain why you feel like you have so many kintypes?”

A) “Lol I dunno, they’re just my favorites UwU”

When I ask “Why do you think you’re X” I’m not really looking for essays. Sure, I’ll make sure the individual I’m asking isn’t basing everything off one fluke vision or dream, as that’s not the most reliable way, but if they told me, “At my core, I feel like I am X. I have supporting evidence but I really do feel like I’m X”

Then you’ve answered my question, and I’ll believe you!

I’ve always known I was feline. I just…did!

Sure, I’ve got the traits and the shifts, but I didn’t even have to question other genuses. I knew I wouldn’t fit any other label but feline.

[mollieddyy-blog]

Spell to stop thinking of someone who has negatively influenced you 💫

This is a spell in which I wrote myself, recited it myself and witnessed it work a charm. I have been overthinking about an “ex” friend who was toxic for me and who was running me down after we decided to no longer stay friends. This spell has uplifted me so that I no longer think of them or let it bother me. This spell can be used for anyone who is a negative presence in your life currently, or who is still on your mind without consequence.

Write the persons name on to a piece of paper

Place both of your hands around the name in a triangular shape, locking the name into place and specifically targeting them.

Recite the following until you feel the negativity in yourself begin to shift, and end with replacing “the person” with their actual name.

Once you have completed reciting, dispose of the paper with their name on by Tearing, burning or doing whatever you feel best to do, I personally like to tear.

[ No more shall I care for

The person that doesn’t care any more

No more will I think of them

And feel bad for ridding of them

I will live positively

Without the one who gave negativity

I will now discard of their name

So that it completely rids from my brain ]

I hope this helps anyone who just wants to flourish without being held back by negative presences and people, good luck my darlings ✨ Feel free to share!

[generalwitcherydeleted]

Sometimes your gods know exactly what you need even if you don’t want it.

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