#nonuman

[sleepysnowdin]

nonhuman/alterhuman tumblr pls interact i need more nonhuman friends lmao

[rabbitafy]

Some pokemans and an even cheeber cheeb from Yesterday’s Stream :3

Thanks to Lucentai for giving me the idea to draw Mew!

I’m looking forward to seeing y’all at my stream tomorrow :D

[dyrewrites]

Pale Blood - Snippet

The wolf snorted and Bosch had to bite the laugh—it wasn’t a gesture that worked as well with a human face—before the wolf answered, “mother’s tastes are…unique, but we’re not talkin’ ‘bout who my mother beds. I’m here ‘bout the blood. It’s different and I’m bettin’ your runner knows why.”

Bosch smiled, and it bubbled through his voice, “So you do know more than three words. Marvelous! Think I could get a name then, before you clam up again?”

“Nash,” the wolf offered, rolling his eyes at Bosch’s enthusiasm.

“Oh-ho, if only you’d led with that! We could’ve saved ourselves from all that snarlin’ and droolin’,” Bosch was giddy. Nash was a name he knew well, as the answer to, ‘what the fuck happened to you?’ whenever Delmas was late from a job and covered in gaping wounds. Bosch slapped his thighs and stood up, smiling as Nash began to wobble, “at least now I don’t gotta feel too bad about spikin’ your tea. Real load off my shoulders, that. Was worried I put a target on my ass for someone what mattered.”

Nash threw an arm out, throwing cushions to the floor as he growled and clawed, and his head thunked against the thick wood of the table. Bosch considered moving him. He took inventory of the wolf’s long legs and oversized torso and mulled it over, but  Nash was big and Bosch was…less big, so he decided to let almost-sleeping wolves lie—twisted up and halfway to the floor.

“Del’s gonna have a fit when he sees you like this,” Bosch told the spasming wolf as he wiped up spilt tea and rearranged the dropped cushions. “See, he actually gives a shit about our little truce, but me?” He bent close to Nash’s ear, grinning as the wolf tried to lunge only to flop further off the couch, and whispered, “I know who holds mama’s leash.”

[roguesareth]

How does one go about televising the subjective? The current question being faced by a large majority of the Otherkin community. As of right now, the entity in question? Animal Planet/The Discovery Network. The big ticket in question? A documentary about ” the daily lives of otherkin”. The televised media begins with a simple, straightforward letter, presumably (and apparently) addressed to Otherkin community forums all across the board: “Hello, I’m casting a new Animal Planet show following members of the Otherkin community. The intent of the show is to educate and explore all things Otherkin, so we are seeking authentic members of the Otherkin community only, and all Species are welcome. The series will document the lifestyle and beliefs of five individuals, while exploring through their eyes, what it means to be Otherkin in America. Those chosen to be featured on the show must be comfortable discussing their beliefs and showing their lifestyle on camera. This is a great opportunity to raise awareness and be heard. . . “ Communities contacted so far include Otherkin.com, Otherkin Alliance, Otherkin Phenomenon, and several otherkin live journal groups. The writer of the letter then proceeded to instruct individuals ” interested in the show” to send a brief bio of themselves with an attached photograph. The bio is to include “species” type. The writer did not leave their forwarding information in any of the emails, other then an ambiguous, ‘occasion’ created Gmail account instructed those same parties to contact them with their information. Across the community, members scratched their heads and debated if, whether or not it was in fact a hoax. The otherkin community, since it’s start and continuing forward to the present day, is a favorite target of trolls. It is a movement that has drawn plenty of skeptics and criticism in it’s time-criticism calling it a haven for ” people who like to think they’re special”, crazy kids with Aspergers, living in their mother’s basement with a stash of Hotpockets, or maybe even people who have played too many Roleplaying games. Geeks, nerds, people with no lives. These are the popular stereotypes. However, there is a fundamental problem with otherkin in the media, and the image that the community has in general-and just how damaging the image can be to members of the community, their families, and even their livelihoods. Notice one line of the email: “Those chosen to be featured on the show must be comfortable discussing their beliefs and showing their lifestyle on camera.”-an email that would later be confirmed by Discovery as legitimate. Otherkin, it seemed, were being asked to come out of the woodwork and ” be heard”. To most otherkin, this is a prime opportunity to disseminate information about our spirituality and deep-seated personal mythology. How good of an opportunity is it, though? How worth it is it? What are the risks versus the benefits of such media attention? The problem, first and foremost, with any kind of show focusing on Otherkin: just what kinds of people are you going to get on camera representing the community? The opinions and ideas of respectable otherkin-people who are grounded in society and working as “normal” people do, are the opinions and ideas we are going to want to hear. Why? Because these are the people who dispel the negative stereotypes that people have of the community. When people talk of otherkin, they are usually people spoken of as having no lives outside of the internet: no sociability. However, this idea is done away with when it is revealed that otherkin are not only productive members of society-mentally grounded and sound-but are people that are an integral part of it’s infrastructure. As of my writing, outside of my own work in the field of EMS, I know a Social Worker, a Laywer, a Journalist, a Policeman, a Teacher-people who are otherkin, but who are every day Joes. People who have reputable jobs and social networks of coworkers and peers. People who have families to feed, families to come home to. People who might loose their jobs, their careers, their professional reputations, if it was discovered that what they believed was in line with a subculture that is anything but mainstream. If they were discovered as being people who believed that, in some manner, they were not human. People who might be called out on their mental soundness by their employers for this. People who, at best, may have to be subjected to internal reviews or drug tests ” just to make sure” they are fit to do their jobs. All because no one has heard of the idea. All because someone who may have has heard only the negative. How is this a problem for otherkin, both individuals and communities? I can speak on this from the personal. I am an EMT. This means long, exhaustive shifts in a very high-stress environment. Do I have time to be on T.V? To have a camera following me around 24/7 to monitor my life “as an otherkin?” definitely not. What Animal Planet would be getting is an episode of Rescue 911, not the ‘show’ they are seeking to appease a mass audience. On a day to day basis, my being otherkin doesn’t even come into play. Most of the time, I don’t even think about it. For that matter, just how would my employer, a large ambulance company, react to a camera following me around for my 48 hour workweek? What about HIPPA and patient privacy? These are problems associated with what I do, and of course, when the subject of the documentary, nevermind the show itself which could easily be seen by my team or even my boss-came to light-I could be fired. Fired from the job of my dreams, left without an income to support my Veteran spouse or my child. Would ‘coming out’ be worth taking such a risk? I don’t have the time, long and short of it, to devote to such media attention. But what about the people that do? People that WOULD be able to donate their time to the filming? At best, perhaps, we would be looking at college students, but again, depending on their future choice of careers, even this may not be such a good idea. Lets look at the kind of people that the networks would want to show: the email says it all. They want to film how ” otherkin live” on a day to day basis. How does anyone live on a day to day basis? Most practical otherkin would admit to giving their kinship little thought throughout the course of the day: in short, it is a means to explore a person’s identity, usually in a spiritual manner. It is not a lifestyle, for the most part. It’s an intricate skein of personal mythology and self-exploration. In the end, though, we get on with our lives, we do our jobs, and confide in those closest to us. When it impacts our lives in a manner which makes us unproductive, to each other and to society, then we become the negative image that so many members of the community have fought so hard to be distanced from. So now we must ask ourselves the question. Those who do have the time to be filmed for such things. . . just how well do they represent a real, functional member of the community? Are they simply blessed enough to have the time to take off work, or have such a casual employer that it wouldn’t matter? Or are they indeed adults with nothing better to do, rolling dice and eating countless cup-o-soups until they can’t stand up? How well do they show how we really want to be seen? Are they people with grace and manners, or full of bitterness and snark? Who do we want representing us? More importantly, who has the time? Who is willing to take the risk? What is the risk for, for that matter? Lets take a look at who is doing the production, firstly. Discovery Network, more specifically, Animal Planet. Outside of A&E and The History Channel, this is a network who has one of the worst records for editing and cuts to get more viewers/ratings, with little to no concern of the individuals personal image or how they are depicted to their regional communities or families and friends. In short, is this something we really want to do? How much cutwork and editing would be done, and towards what end? The first thing that rubbed me the wrong way, of course, was when they asked for “species”, and that the final product will be aired on Animal Planet. Right away this makes the assumption that kinness can be fit into a neat little box. It also, because of the nature of where it will be aired, implies that only the ‘animal’ kin types will be considered. Again, not an accurate representation of the community-there are, of course, other types of Kin: Fae, Starseeds, Walk-Ins, Angelics, hell, even Demonics for that matter (no pun intended). Saying all otherkin are ‘animals’, which is likely a message an unknowing audience would get out of it, is not a far step from putting us in the same subcultural grouping as fursuiters, something many otherkin would gladly tell you is totally off-base and a far run away from how they actually want to be seen. This reflects back on all of us when and if someone does find out a person is otherkin. Again, it comes back to reflect on their homes, lives, jobs, and family. People will judge the entire community by what they have seen shown in the community, and it will be yet another off-base, damaging stereotype. The second thing that concerned me was, of course, if I was wrong and other types of Otherkin were publicized. It may broader on the infamous “otherkin persecution complex” (which I promptly scoff at. If you want to see REAL persecution, see Poland circa late 1930s-1940′s) there is no government conspiracy to capture us all and use our UBAR POWAZ (which I also scoff at), or people lined up at a person’s door with torches and pitchforks. . . However. Consider entities such as extreme christian fundamentalists. People that protest soldiers funerals and teach their children hate, who decry a person’s right to love and wed whom they so choose. It is entities and bodies such as this that the otherkin community has a very legitimate fear of: hate groups. The courts have been notoriously lax on these individuals, too. Consider one of the most virulent hate groups in the United States: Westboro Baptist. This hate group protests soldiers funerals and shout words of filth and hate at the families of American war heroes. The court, in the meantime, has done little to support the victims of this kind of virulent tearing-down of our military forces, and what does this do for their moral? Yet the courts allow them still to harass families and protest just outside of funerals. A 500 ft. limit on protest at a soldier’s memorial is not a solution to the damage and pain being done in a situation like that, but it happens. What’s to stop such a group from harassing someone until they loose their job? Consider a judge. I can think of two people off the top of my head-pagans and homosexual-who lost a child (from a loving, nurturing home) to someone with serious problems simply because a biased authority figure thought what the other party believed (Wicca) was not an appropriate environment for a child. This is all it takes-an accusing finger, a person who has a wrong impression about what and who believes what, and a family can be torn apart. Otherkin subculture is not immune from this! And the more misleading the image of an individual, and their community, the higher the risk is for this. In theory, America holds the right to Freedom of Religion is one of the most sacred. In practice, it strongly leads towards it’s puritanical roots-and that, too, must change, before we can even begin to introduce such new ideas to the mainstream. All of this being said. I’ll summary my post with, we must, as a community, be careful. Be careful what we do and who we talk to. Be careful what image we allow to be put out about us. Let us not be media hogs or people desperate for their 15 minutes of fame at the expense of each other. Let’s not jump on an opportunity just to get on T.V and jeopardize the overall work that we as a subculture have been doing for years: to be taken more seriously, to be looked on with respect rather then scathing, to be seen for what we really are: just people. Don’t lay down pride and sacrifice dignity for a promise of notoriety. We can do better then this, and we are better then this.

http://hellsmedic.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/myth-and-media-why-t-v-and-otherkin-dont-mix/