Hi! We saw this and wanted to ask:
2 : When did you awaken as an alterbeing ?
7 : Does your alterhumanity affect your gender/sexuality ?
eeee thank you for the ask !!! so sorry i didn’t notice it until now!!
2 : i awakened circa 2016 (10 years ago! wow!) when i discovered the term therian from an old news clip posted to youtube about “teenage werewolves” or something like that. immediately i knew “this is me. these people are just like me”. i knew immediately that the term therian was what described me, but i was too intimidated to do anything about it and so i just sort of filed it away in the back of my mind as a “this is the reason i am how i am”. and then around 2019 i started engaging with more of the community, watching old therian youtube videos. around 2021 i started interacting with the community, and about 2 years ago i made this tumblr account :) and here we are
7 : absolutely yes! i am xenogender (doggender, wolfgender, femcanis) and nonbinary because i am a dog and a wolf. my gender is simply female dog or female wolf. animals do not concern themselves with gender, but their sex is a meaningful part of their lives. even my femininity and girlhood are deeply affected by my nonhumanity. i don’t relate to being a human woman, because i was not a human until very recently when i became humanlink, and i don’t understand human concepts of gender. but i am a girl, the way a female dog would be called a good girl. which is partially why i consider my womanhood inherently trans, despite being afab; i am not a cis woman. i do not experience my femininity the way cis human women do. i was not assigned doggirl at birth, but doggirl i am nonetheless. my gender cannot be separated from my caninehood.
and while i do not think it affects my sexuality, i do think it affects my romantic orientation. i am alloaro because i am a dog; dogs do not mate/bond for life. they are considered promiscuous and have multiple sexual partners without really understanding the concept of romance. and that perfectly describes me. my aromanticism affects my queerplatonic and alterous attractions as well, which i similarly attribute to being a dog.