#apekin

[delta-kong]

he/him ▸ ΘΔ ▸ 1997 ▸ western USA

Part personal blog, part therianthropy journal. Expect to see art, wildlife, natural sciences, some memes, some fandom content, and more. Check under the cut for more info!

Feel free to shoot me an ask any time :) I love to chit-chat!

For some lore:

I realized I was a therian about 15 years ago when I stumbled across a wiki article for therianthropy over a decade ago. It put a name to thoughts and feelings I had had for as long as I could remember.

I've explored various possible theriotypes over the years--including mule deer, lion, and wolverine--but nowadays, I best understand myself as a mountain gorilla (primarily) and a red-tailed hawk (secondarily). Understanding myself and my experiences is a never-ending journey!

In my "human life", I'm a park ranger with a background in wildlife ecology. I'm also neurodivergent and a trans man. I do find my trans-ness and neurodiversity plays a part in my therianthropy, and you may see me ramble here and there about how those three things intersect in my own life.

[w3r3wolfboyfri3nd]

"Humans aren't special, they're just apes that got lucky and made fire."

Just apes? Fuck you, apes and all primates are cool as shit. The intelligence that primates display is fucking awesome to witness, and that includes humans. The stereotype of apes being nothing but violent monsters is absurd and immature. Shove your misanthropy and primate-hating up your tail hole.

[canines-crown]

Alterhuman because I'm an animal, but also alterhuman because I literally experience being human differently

Like... I'm a human. The animal. I'm a primate.

I wanna sit around a fire with other humans. I wanna climb trees. I wanna go eat fruit! I wanna chase after a herd of deer!!

I don't mind my human body at all! I love how I can just grab things! I love how absurdly strong my jaws are! I love how I evolved to run and run and run and never stop!!

I don't mind being human! I just hate the society I'm trapped in.

[konnk-autistic]

I made the LPS edit with my Therian Kin!!!

Me when they don't want to buy me fruit...

[bumbl3mind]

Nooooo wet beast Wednesday.....

[goddamnitlopori]

The Troop

https://discord.gg/6EBpnDn4

Made a serverrrr. Aimed at primate therians (or questioning!) as well as -hearted and any other adjacent thing. Anything from aye ayes to denisovans are welcome. I thought it might be fun :3 I've modded similar servers in the past and those were fun while everyone was active.

We're rather spread out as it stands, but certainly around, I keep a mental note aha. The server is still rather basic, a few basic channels, but we can build upon it over time if this little experiment works out ^.^

Check out the The troop community on Discord - hang out with 8 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[scribblyspaceskeleton]

Honestly? I'm not a wild gorilla, either.

I'm captive born. I was raised by humans and live in a zoo. I like eating bananas and having a bed I can climb up into/make nests in and going outside into green places and figuring out different enrichment for my enclosure.

I see so many people talking about how sad it is to see gorillas "locked up" in zoos, and all I can think is dude, I've got it MADE.

[mechanical-sunchild]

Being a primate therian is actually really neat because I feel like all primates are my cousins in some way, you know? And in a way they kinda are? I mean we all in theory share a common ancestor.

Then there's how all us New/Old World Monkeys, gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and humans who are all anthropoids on top of that!

I love looking at other primates including humans and going - I am like you but I am not you but I see myself in you and I see the world in the both of us.