(Reposting this here since the First Family Pack has been going after pshifters, be safe.)
Just greeting you, OP, Hi ^^
I'm not from the first family pack, nor does this convention actively support or allow entry to those who are participating in their pack. We have strict rules on the dangers of cults and how to steer away from them; Harloqui is a good source in their #safety tag
The First Family Pack is an infamous pack in pshifter circles that was once led by Silver. She lied primarily about her lycan species, and manipulated a lot of people who are still in the pack to this day while spreading a lot of misinformation about pshifting online. They started out in 2016-2017, and can be defined as a cult by the way they demand high value attention to the pack (even if online), cults have an unquestionable leader "alpha" and their directing "betas", they create a YOU vs THEM mentality, and spread blatant misinformation in and out of the community. One of the mods here was in the waiting room for the pack, and was rejected upon finding out that their alpha; Aquamarine, has a real distrust in those who are plural/multiple or non-disordered versions of such. This is discrimination based on a factor that didn't matter or was never questioned when applying for the survey, so I would say DID, OSDD, plural etc people should watch out for the pack.
Rules found on different subblogs on tumblr explain that disrespect will result in a punishment "supervised" by the Alphas, and that death penalties exist for harming children. These rules obviously do not follow to them today, but the overlooked threats of being in a group as young teens pulled in multiple packs with strangers rather than real friends and family. That is the danger.
The pack demands that you believe genetically that you are physically nonhuman, and will not take any other belief seriously. In their history of the pack, they have held beliefs that genes can skip generations (why this is not true) , Silver and many of them claim that they used to blood bond, which is drawing blood to mix with anothers. They claim that shifting works through a hormone, but hormonal imbalance can and will kill you, this claim can get younger shifters in trouble if they don't know what they're doing.
Silver uses "modern lycan" now as a descriptor, but she once went by Jãger. This is species from a fictional book, and while fictional shifters are not bad (dragons etc), she led many to believe that they were REAL. Jãger is a mistranslation of jägermeister, which means "one who hunts". She claimed it meant "Earthwalker". This species and many more were taken from Daryla Gray's book Fighting For My Mate, the fourth book in the Jager Alpha series. The book was published on October 12th 2015, a year before Silver made the pack.
There is proof that a lot of the names of species are taken from indigenous folklore and other cultural spaces. Unfortunately a lot of what Silver did wasn't just "using folklore names," it was rewriting their history and spreading the idea that persons of any culture can be the species from another culture when they have no real knowledge. It's appropriation at worst, and weird at best.
Silver had believed in some doomsday hunters that were coming to get the pack, and led a fearmongering campaign that basically led into a bunch of shifters running with their heads off spreading posts about hunters, which again... weren't real.
Overall, their history as a pack has been so muddled in fantasy that a lot of it refuses to be anything other and the people following in their steps rarely have success. The people that one of the mods had talked to in the waiting room barely knew how to shift, but as they waited they could see the univeral "you must be genetically this way" to join and it twisted their head. Here's a post from Palevulture to sum up why generalizing and popularizing one belief through the form of a widespread cult pack is absolutely dangerous, and the harm done by TFFP is a lot more than just the mistakes of one alpha; link here.
Pshifters are not inherently a bad group of people. Alterhumans like otherkin have had worse cults and groups of people in them to this day, but certain people who hold too much power and lend that power to others seem to always find their way into our communities unfortunately. There are some good packs out there for shifters and physical nonhumans, but a pack is a very.. personal thing. it isn't something you join. TFFP isn't a pack, it's a culty group of individuals with backgrounds defending Silver tooth and nail through all of their misdeeds. 2016 wasn't that long ago, do not forget.
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