Supernaturals Only

A blog for supernaturals and supernaturally inclined people (especially and including shifters). We will help in any way we can.

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Something to Know About Shifting...

It’s an all or nothing process. Assuming you know what you’re shifting into, you will shift everything that’s there. There’s no way for your body to discard limbs or forget things in the process. This applies to wings too. If you’re shifting into anything that naturally has wings (such as a bird, a mythical creature such as a pixiu for example, etc.) the wings will appear alongside everything else that is shifting. Why would your body discard them? Keeping the Law of Conservation of Mass in the equation, you wouldn’t shift into a pixiu and have no wings just because. You’d shift into one, probably be a lot smaller generally than you were expecting to be, but have wings of some sort. Discarding them is the equivalent of having clay, being able to form it into the shape of something, and discarding a part of the design, when you can just make everything proportional, except smaller. Additionally, since much of shifting is innate, there’s nothing there to actually tell the body to discard a part. Whether you want to or not, you’ll shift your full body. Even if we bring avians into the mix (and let’s assume there’s an avian with fully grown wings and everything that’s also a shifter), why would the wings be any different compared to the rest of the body? During shifting, every single part of the body changes and reforms to another creature, from the tailbone all the way up to the skull and eyes. Avians claim that shifting with wings wouldn’t be possible, but if the wings are another part of the body, and they’re growing there, then they would also naturally shift and change to allow the person to take on a new form. Since the wings would add extra mass, if the avian was shifting into a wolf for example they’d be a huge wolf, but the wings wouldn’t just stay there while the rest of the body is shifting. To claim such is to have a fundamental misunderstand of what shifting is like, or otherwise imply that grown wings aren’t really a part of the body at all. Shifting is a strenuous process, but this doesn’t negate the fact that shapeshifters (those with multiple forms) exist either. Instead of always shifting into a wolf, they might shift into a wolf at one time, then a fox another time, and so on. Of course, a shapeshifter could also choose to stick to one form. It’s nothing big or incredible, other than the utilization of different forms instead of the one. You won’t die if you shift into a fox and then a cougar, or have more than one form. 

-Mod K2

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Actually, this is incorrect. You can’t shift in your sleep mainly because the pain of doing so would be too hard to ignore. It’d be like breaking your leg in your sleep and sleeping through it, or getting cramps and sleeping through it. If shifting is painful, how are you supposed to sleep through it? And teenagers cannot shift because most of their energy is being devoted to finishing up growing and getting through puberty. Hormones making you shift means nothing if you don’t have the energy to actually keep the shift going. -Mod K2

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The execution could have been done better, but this person is right- mental shifting is NOT a real shift. Absolutely anyone can mentally shift, and it’s not required to be a shifter, so I don’t understand why someone would waste their time with it. -Mod K2

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The Wolf You Are

For all those who are just getting into the community and are thinking that they’ll need to make contact with their “wolf side” or “spirit animal”, you are terribly misinformed about what it means to be a shapeshifter, or worse yet, what it means to identify as and be a werewolf, or hold any other animal or “other” identity.  Whatever you identify as, if you identify as is, it’s you, and you are it. There is no communication between the two sides of your identity, in much the same way there isn’t communication between your hand and your eyes, or your eye color and you. It doesn’t make sense to talk to yourself in this manner, and it can have consequences. Now, there may be a tiny amount of separation between your shifted form and you, in a cognitive/logical sense. It doesn’t make sense to be thinking as yourself as that form if you have other things to focus on, and to a certain degree the physical reality of your body at the time might take center stage. But there shouldn’t be such a huge gap that your shifted form is talking to you, and has it’s own identity. What can happen, if you’re not prepared for it? Well, eventually your identity splits artificially into two parts, and they start acting on their own. This can lead to a dominance battle, or in some cases simply injury from each part acting on their own without any sort of cohesion. Even if in the best case scenario you manage to deal with all of these issues, there’s still the fact that you would no longer have a “shifted form”-it would be an independent form separate from you, and depending on the separation, you’d either be an animal, and possibly unable to do basic things like understand English, or otherwise communicate and manage yourself in the world, or a regular, non-shifter human in identity, possibly eschewing the animal side of yourself further. 

So, if you’re creating this gap artificially, by talking to your animal side, considering your animal side a separate part of you, you need to stop that. Speaking to your animal side is not possible, and if you are truly experiencing such a thing, its not a shifter-specific thing. If it’s uncontrolled, even with times when you lose control/are not in control, or dissociation, you need to look into other topics such as plurality or spirit guides. This is not innate to shifters, nor is it something that should be encouraged to form with an identified shifter form if not already there.

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Werewolves

There’s only one type of werewolf. That is to say, while breeds do exist, there’s no such thing as “lycans”, or any of that. They’re not separate things- a lycanthrope is another word for a werewolf, and vice versa.  Nor do werewolves live as the stereotype suggests. No one loses control on a full moon, goes raging out and destroying houses and buildings, nor is their wolf side a separate part of them.  Additionally, mental shifting is a concept that has been popularized in other communities, but isn’t really relevant to being a were or a shifter. If you are both a wolf and human, or able to switch between the two forms, why would you need a separate mindset for both? How do you know what a wolf thinks like, if you’re not a wolf at the time?  This is not to say that trying out other kinds of shifts can’t help you. But, if you are a were of any sort, the best kind of shift to try out is a physical shift, because mental shifting won’t really do much for you, and/or lead to a physical shift anyway. Is this confusing? The mods will go into detail on this later, so it can be more clearly understood. -Mod R-K2

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About

This blog is for educating and helping other supernaturals as they come into their own both spiritually and metaphysically, as well as physically. There is a lack of reputable, true info in the community, and what does get spread around is often full of misinformation, or otherwise not relevant to the people and the communities its supposed to support. This blog aims to correct the misinfo, as well as be a good source of info for (especially shifters) those in the community.

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Mod R-K2!

Funny name, hehe. I’m Mod R-K2, or K2, one of the people who also help run this blog. All you need to know about me is that I’m a shifter, and know enough about the supernatural, and even some topics that may be similar-but-not-quite-supernatural to call myself reasonably knowledgeable. I’m always happy to help with any problems you may have, and hope to see the online community grow into something everyone can be proud of. 

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Introduction 1.

Hello, call me Ark. I’m a dragon shapeshifter and I know quite a bit about the supernatural. I’m here to help anybody that may be struggling. I’m a genderfluid, panromantic, demisexual person. I’m part of a system. Thank you for reading. - Ark.

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Hi, we're here to help the supernatural.

We're fairly good to talk to, unless of course your intent is to irk us. We will be posting information when needed and helping in general. There is a lot of misinformation out there and I personally think it's best to have an open mind. The world isn't all black, white, and shades of grey. - Ark.