#krokanthrope

[crocodyless]

was feeling weird while laying down for a reason i wasn't quite sure of until i realized that i hadn't scented my room in a while (don't worry - it's just an herbal room spray), and as soon as i scented everything, i felt fine. creature brain peace restored

[we-are-other]

being a humanoid crocodile, or "krokanthrope" as i call myself - impacts my daily life. despite what many may think, it doesn't usually come in the form of intense, gorey hunting fantasies or cravings for raw fish (though the latter is still common), the main, and probably most embarassing way it impacts my life, is my posture.

now, i've had back problems (scoliosis) for most of my life, so even before i realized i was nonhuman, i was having issues - and then came the issue of believing i had to balance a crocodilian maw and a tail longer than my legs - causing me to occasionally lean forward both while sitting and standing, in a way that very much looks unhealthy to any bystander (or any reasonable being, for that matter.)

believe me when i say i'm trying to remember that in this body i don't have to account for that.

- sydney, saltwater/nile crocodile, she/he

We are other

[crocodyless]

if anyone wonders what it actually feels like to be a krokanthrope, sometimes it can be:

i am a mysterious and hungry creature beyond human comprehension - neither human nor beast.. understood by neither.

alternatively it's:

rah! i'm the creature :3 please let me warm myself on the nearest hard object or i will cry

[crocodyless]

i’m questioning zoanthropy, but it’s not canine/wolf-related, so i wanted to ask.. how did you figure out that you were a krokanthrope with so little resources on other species within zoanthropy?

i think before i answer this question i should mention that i do not have zoanthropy, so honestly, i am not the best resource to respond to this question if you're looking for advice on the matter or in deciding whether you have or not, as i'm just simply not educated enough to answer.

krokanthropy is a word i use in a similar vein to lycanthropy - as in, human-wolf, human-crocodile. i realize now that the first time i felt this way was in middle school, when i used to picture myself as my oc, who was - you guessed it - a humanoid crocodile. it wasn't even until high school that i found out what nonhumanity was and meant to people.

from there, i labeled myself as a crocodile therian, and i went along with that for a long time. it was servicable, sure, but it just.. didn't feel right, because i didn't feel like a four legged, feral creature, i felt like a humanoid crocodile - one with the head, teeth, tail, and claws of a crocodile, and the general body of a human. and it would admittedly range as well, sometimes i did feel more feral than other times. krokanthrope was a word i started using for myself a few months back to simply describe how i felt. sometimes i was a human, sometimes i was a crocodile, and sometimes i was both. it doesn't make biological sense in the slightest, but it's how i feel the most comfortable in my own skin.