#rabbit kintype

[pastelporcini]

This was me at 16

[pastelporcini]

Every time someone says “being a therian is just wishing you were your favorite animal” I can’t help but feel so frustrated. Because if it were true, then I’d be a cat!

As a kid, I always played cats on the playground. I was an avid warrior cat fan. I used to only draw cats. I even share some (stereotypical) traits with them! I’ve always loved seafood, I love milk, hell as a kid I even loved playing with actual cat toys. I would eat catmint from my friend’s garden to be like a cat. So much of my childhood was spent obsessing over these animals. I even wanted to be one. I wanted to be a cat so badly as a child.

But I’m not a cat. I’m a rabbit.

I’ve never obsessed over rabbits the way I did cats. I never cared much for them at all, actually. Rabbits were barely a thought in the back of my mind. They have never been my favorite animal once in my life.

Yet I AM one. Despite being more similar to and sharing a deeper love for cats, I am a rabbit. And that’s just how it is.

I even pondered if I was a feline therian because of my childhood connection to cats. I thought about it a lot, actually. But I just don’t feel the same way about cats as I do being a rabbit. It isn’t a “want” to be a rabbit. I AM a rabbit. It isn’t a question in my mind, it isn’t something I think about. It is just what I am. And no matter how much cats meant to me throughout my life, I simply do not share that same connection.

So no, therianthropy isn’t just “wishing you were your favorite animal.”

[pastelporcini]

Me trust

[pastelporcini]

As a bunny therian, cottagecore brings me so much comfort. I’m not a wild rabbit, I’m a domestic one, and something about cottagecore really speaks to that part of me. It’s everything I could ever want. A cozy, warm home to live in, gardens of fresh greens, nature- it’s just perfect. It feels so right.

[pastelporcini]

Wdym I have “tourettes” my nose twitches cus I’m a bunny, duh

[pastelporcini]

Very bad doodle of myself with a silly strawberry bow <3

[pastelporcini]

It does make sense! It’s just that sometimes like. the feeling of “that’s me” isn’t immediate or feels hard to differentiate from “I’m hearted/connected with or even just interested in that.” and I see a lot of things that can feel me and I wonder at what point do I consider that a ‘type and actually me or do they just feel relatable? and then. Something matches well and could maybe be me but the feeling isn’t strong as I want it to be. confusing. Maybe I’m looking for other ways to confirm a type besides looking at media and research and journaling. I feel like I’m doing the same thing over n over lol. if it’s not too personal I’m just curious .. when did it click for u that rabbits are you? what was that feeling like?

Damn this is a late response but-

If I’m being honest, I don’t really know. For me it really was just researching. I already had a deep connection to rabbits, I just didn’t think much of it until I learned about therianthropy. Same thing with me being ghostkin. I just sorta knew, if that makes sense?

I wish that I did have the words to explain it. And of course, everyone experiences therianthropy differently and can discover who they are in several different ways.

Another example of mine is that I’m Urzukkin (Urzuk as in from Creatures of Sonaria) and I had absolutely no idea until I played the game and started playing Urzuk. It was then I began to grow deeply attached to the species as a whole. It took a few months of me playing to figure it out, but eventually I began to get Urzuk shifts, phantom limbs etc. and I started to realize that might be me.

But again, everyone experiences it differently. The ways I discovered/learned of my kintypes could be completely different from how you might find yours!

[dogfish-is-silly143]

I’m really not build for this cold weather. I should be frolicking in the fields rn but no!! Ive literally seen a River freeze over from how cold it is.

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