#nonhuman tips

[mxmorbidmidnight]

Broke: tell my parents I’m a medieval goose shapeshifter eternally bound to tormenting the English monarchy

Woke: talk about geese and medieval Europe 24/7, send cryptic messages in Shakespearean into the family group chat and replace common words such as hello with honk so that family members now communicate with me through goose sounds as a “joke” without realising I have tricked them into supporting my identity. Honk honk you hath been fooled

[sauropsidsongs]

all my winged kin out there go get yourself a wrap

[coyote-swims]

(domestic) equestrian alterhuman tips!!

hii! i'm grey, and i volunteer on a horse ranch. that means several days a week i'm around horses for probably close to 5 hours each day. i'm here to give you some tips related to things i've learned working with domestic horses! most of the horses i work with are either show or just plain domestic.

info under the cut!

1. Food

most of the horses on the ranch i work on eat either something called Gro Strong 33, ADM, senior feed, alfalfa, or a mix of these.

most of these are pellet-shaped, or shaped like a long, skinny cylinder. certain cereals can look like this, and if you're a domestic horse therian/kin/whatever, maybe try eating cereal like this!

many horses on the ranch also get supplements, most of which are just powders than range from a green color to tan to white. it gets mixed in with their feed, which they eat dry. you could, IF SAFE, mix vitamin powder or supplements into the feed/cereal

a few horses on the farm get their food soaked, so it's soft and easy to eat (ex. the seniors do, and a horse named Ethan who choked once does) this makes the food like a mush, and it gets soft and squishy. soaking cereal in your desired whatever could recreate this!

2. Gear

almost year round (expect for winter), most horses wear some kind of fly gear: most of the time either a mask or a blanket.

fly masks, which cover most of the horses face (their ears, eyes, side of face, and nose) are to protect from flies irritating them and biting them. the portion over their eyes is normally mesh. a normal face mask could help recreate this feeling, but it's not ideal. i'm not sure how you could recreate a fly mask tbh

fly blankets, which lay over their back and strap under their belly, are so flies don't irritate their backs. i've only met two animals that normally wear fly blankets, a mule named Duke who was allergic to flies, and a clydesdale who stayed at the barn for one night while traveling. this is pretty easy to recreate, just tie some sort of fabric to your back with the knot on your belly

some horses wear things called bell boots. these are bell shaped things that cover their hooves so they don't throw their shoes (their shoes fall off and get lost). any kind of this that has elastic around your ankles and kind of splays our over your foot can mimic this :)

most horses typically only wear shoes if they live on rough, rocky terrain, to protect their hooves from injury. any horse can wear shoes, though. it's just more common for ones that live on rocky terrain to have shoes. metal sole shoes or hard sole shoes can mimic the feeling of wearing horseshoes :)

thanks for reading! i may update this as needed. feel free to correct me if any of this is incorrect :)

special appearance from Lady the horse

[nonhumanpositivity]

I just wanted to share thingz that give species euphoria

My teeth

Little grammar

Eating rice because it's like eat soggy pebblez

Using z instead of s in thing like "bake cakez with dad"

Thankz for ur time

-random creechur

thank you for sharing!!

[sauropsidsongs]

Btw if anyone has any mask, gear, or quadrobic content that focuses on mythic creatures or non mammals, especially reptiles, birds, and dinosaurs youre so welcome to send them to me

[mxmorbidmidnight]

How I motivate myself to do things as a nonhuman

Doesn’t always work, in fact it often doesn’t however it helps to think of everyday human things in a more creature way.

• cleaning: fixing my nest

• food shopping: hunting, same goes for eating regular meals. Leaving my room = going out to hunt

• bathing: connect with water based aspects of my kin types/forms

• going on walks: scouting my territory.

• getting dressed: helps me represent my shape shifting. Putting on my jewellery, makeup and clothes is like putting on my skin.

• self care tasks such as teeth brushing, you can imagine as if these tasks were being done by a carer onto an animal (where you are the animal).

• I like to call things by different names, my room is my nest, hands are my claws, showering is taking a bird bath, sleeping is taking a cat nap, hair brushing and nail clipping is grooming, etc.

[sauropsidsongs]

btw paleokin and fishkin you should check out Ray Troll, he’s a paleo artist paleo musician and runs a paleo podcast, a lot of his work also centers fish (paleo and otherwise)

[sauropsidsongs]

speaking of hydrothermal vents and brine pools I recommend anyone looking for ocean docs, but especially for my deep sea creatures out there to check out this doc channel run by a student who wants to go into science-communination