#otherkin experiences

[rosymothgod]

Being an adult therian/otherkin is so wild cause wtf do you mean an elf is assembling burgers, A moth is working a 30+ hour work week, A dragon is trying to rent an apartment, A rat is paying students loans, A god is trying to get piercings and tattoos, A demon graduated college, a cow is responsible for a pet, a doll is trying to maintain savings and a crow is looking for new jobs?? Ts is so funny

[interstellarsystem]

Exotrauma is so stupid. What do you mean I've lived through horrors a psychologist would barely be able to conceptualise? What do you mean it's hard to find one who would want to help with that?

[revamp-ed]

transspecies transition goals

• red contacts

• be as pale as possible

• start dressing like its the 1700s

• longgggg nails

• permanant fangs

• pointed ears

• plenty of piercings

and here are my non bodily goals

• start drinking only red liquids and only out of blood bags

• have a victorian home / victorian themed home

• coffin bed

thats all for now if i find any others they will go on my list

[gutz-the-dead-wolf]

Coyote Metamorph' note N16

It's so painful I don't have legs like these. Why, why do we have so straight knees, so short feet, why do we step on the heel... I do walk no like a human sometimes but it's pathetic with those monkey legs.

[wanderingcritter]

Werewolf mental shifts are definitely the most common kinds shifts I get. They can be triggered by a variety of things like listening to specific music, eating meat, being out in the forest, being around other alterhumans or seeing another person act in an animalistic way, being in the dark, but especially seeing a full moon will almost always trigger one.

The feelings that come with the shift itself kind of depends on where I was or what I was doing when it started, but generally they're pretty distinct. I'll get chills all over my body, which will make me sort of shake my head a little bit. It will feel like the front of my face has elongated into a short snout-like shape and my canine teeth have grown into fangs. I can still speak, but doing so feels more unnatural than usual. When I do talk, my voice gets slightly deeper and more like, calm I guess? During more intense shifts I'll have a ton of extra energy, it will feel almost like a mini adrenaline rush. I can run longer than normal and recover from tiredness quicker. I feel physically stronger and more energized. If I was alone or out in public when the shift happened I become sort of misanthropic, and will have a strong desire to be away from humans and human made things. If I was with close friends or family when I shifted, most of the time I'll want to rough house with them or play "hunting" games like tag or hide and seek. I tend to develop a sense of prey drive towards whatever or whoever is closest (this is usually where tag comes in lol) and I might start craving meat. I start to think predominately in emotions and images, rather than in words or a voice in my head. I feel more in touch with my instincts, which makes it harder to suppress the urge to vocalize. My gait will also change sometimes. Instead of walking normally I crouch down and hunch over ever so slightly, trying to walk as quietly as possible as if i were stalking something. My eyes widen a bit to help me be alert of my surroundings and I feel much more tapped into all of my senses.

From an outside perspective, if you were really paying attention you might be able to tell something was out of the ordinary with me, but for the most part Im able to stay subtle about it. Overall shifts are very enjoyable experiences for me, so long as Im not having to try and resist them due to being in public or something.

[wolfislost]

Life as a Disabled Alterhuman

Let's talk about being alterhuman without being able bodied.

If you've never met me before, i'm a werewolf. I use the label of psychological otherkin, but nowdays I mostly just say alterhuman.

A lot of individuals in the community can relate to wanting to spend time in their natural ecosystem or habitat. Some of them don't live in a country where that habitat even exists.

Conceptually, I'm lucky. I'm surrounded by nature reserves that are an hour away at most. Some are much closer.

Every part of me wants to be out there, in the trees and bushes and soil, every week. I'm sure some of us ARE out there every week based on some of the responses I've gotten on my posts.

I can't be.

I'm chronically ill. Partly from birth, partly acquired later in life. My mobility is limited by my threshold for suffering. The more I move, the more i'll have to pay for it later. And those debts don't have an upper limit.

I would love to prioritise letting my animal out more, being in nature more, travelling more. Hell- even running. But not only would doing that wreck me over and over again, it would make it impossible for me to meet the demands and responsibilities of my human life.

As a werewolf, there's an internal pull towards more feral behaviour and imagery. But my chronic illness requires constant upkeep, constant maintenance. My wellbeing depends on frequent visits to professionals.

I've always dreamed of running off to a cabin in the woods. I'm sure many of you have. But it's patently impossible for someone like me, who relies so heavily on human healthcare to survive.

The truth is I wouldn't be able to function without humans to look after me. And I have responsibilities that come before my desires for freedom.

None of this stuff makes me any less of an alterhuman. Makes me any less of a werewolf. All of these smaller restrictions do add up to a certain kind of distance from the "ideal alterhuman" perhaps. But my identity has always been, and will always be, an internal thing for me.

I'm not a werewolf IN SPITE of being disabled.

I'm a werewolf who IS ALSO disabled.

[doodled-doggy]

swisches my big fluffy fucking tail