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Thank you so much for the game lists I didn't know there were so many games or exercises for systems on itch.io !!

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Hi anonymous, you're welcome, I'm glad to help! You never know how or whether folks will tag their creations, so I've been challenging myself to search through as many possible variations on keywords as I can think of to discover things that are hard to find. I have to give credit where it's due, it really helped when I looked at other folks' collections of plural content they'd found on itch:

Community archivist LB Lee collected "Plural Stuff."

The Corvidae Collective made a bunch of collections, one about plurality.

Cube Well made a collection called "About Plurals By Plurals."

The plural collection I made draws largely from these, plus a few more items I found on my own. Collections on itch.io themselves seem to be sort of hidden away and hard to discover, too. Does anyone know if there's a way you can search for collections on certain topics?

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Hey, I saw your article that describes therianthropy as a lifelong identity, and I have a genuine question about that. If someone begins to identify as an animal when they didn't before (for example, if their identity is endelic and begins during a delusion), would they still be considered a therian? If not, is there a reason why?

Hi, anonymous.

It would be that person's own job to figure out for themself what labels, categories, and communities make the most sense for them. That's part of their own self-discovery, not something that I can do for them.

I can tell a little of what they're likely to find on that journey, though it's still theirs. That person would be different in a couple of ways from what the therian community has come to think of as the definitive (or at least typical) therianthrope: someone who has always felt they are an animal (or something other than human) from their earliest childhood memories and throughout their adulthood, whose therianthropy is not associated with a delusion.

Because of that, the person you describe would find people in the therian community who would tell them that means they don't count as a therian at all. They could meet a lot of rejection there. That person also might find friends and writings in the therian community that help them understand themself, deal with their new experiences in a good way, and build a life that they like. They might decide that the typical therian is not the only sort of therian, and that they feel it's big enough for them too. Or they might decide they're different and make up their own word for themself instead. They would have to find out for themself.