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An Intro to Therianthropy (Zine)

Made by me to hand out at irl events and meet-ups. (Available on my itch page as a pdf, printable version and a transcript)

Transcript below cut:

[Cover Pages]

AN INTRO TO THERIANTHROPY ZINE BY ORB 29 . 09 . 2025 theorb.itch.io

[Page 1]

THERIANS: Man and Beast

THERIANTHROPES (aka therians) are a subculture of people who on some level identify as nonhuman animals. For example, a wold therian is a person. Who identifies as a wolf on some level.

Being a therian is generally considered to be something intrinsic and involuntary; we don’t choose to be therians or what animals we are.

Therians exist in all walks of life, come from all backgrounds and are all ages. There’s many explanations someone may give for what makes them a therian…

[Page 2]

‘I was an animal in a past life’ 

‘I grew up around animals so I feel like one’ 

‘I’m an animal soul trapped in a human body;

‘My neurodivergence makes me feel more animal than human’ 

‘I just am what I am’ :)

[Page 3]

Not all therians are mammals like cats & dogs; they can be any genus and species, living or extinct.

They could also be a mythical creature (sometimes called theriomythic) or an animal species from pop culture (fictherian).

[Page 4]

SHIFTS are experiences that make someone feel more aware of their animal side. For example…

PHANTOM SHIFTS feeling supernumery body parts, e.g. wings

MENTAL SHIFTS change in mindset to be more animal

DREAM SHIFT Becoming your theriotype in a dream

AND MORE!

[Pages 5-6]

A heavily abridged HISTORY LESSON

1993 Usenet group alt.horror.werewolves begins discussing animal identities

1994 First inperson therian meetup (aka the first ‘Howl’)

2003 The theta-delta symbol was make to represent therianthropes

2007 ‘A field guide to otherkin’, written by a therian, about therians was published

2009 The term ‘animalhearted’ was created for those who were not quite therians, but did feel a strong connection to a type of animal

2017 ‘Therianthropy day’ was created to celebrate therians. It happens yearly on the 1st November full moon. 

2020 The first ‘othercon’ – a convention for alterhumans and therians takes place

2025  ;) [winkey face] This zine is made!

[haloveir]

I suspect the only thing preventing me from announcing myself as non-binary is general apathy towards how I am perceived.

[world-of-wales]

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒 and lifelong Aston Villa fan holds the Europa League trophy alongside the team's Manager Unai Emery following the UEFA Europa League Final 2026 match between SC Freiburg and Aston Villa FC at Besiktas Park in Istanbul, Turkey | 20 MAY 2026

In a statement he said :

❝ Amazing night!! Huge congratulations to all the players, team, staff and everyone connected to the club! 44 years since the last taste of European silverware!

Special shout out to Boubacar Kamara who has been out injured but is such an integral part of our team and helped lay the foundations of this success.

UTV! ❤️💪VTID

W ❞

[lace-dreams]

“Average person eats 5 statements a day” factoid actually a statistical error. Statements Jon, who lives in the archives and eats 10,000 statements per hour is an outlier and should not have been included.

[meadow-does-writing]

Imagine -

Jonathan Sims with synesthesia. Yes, you could argue that feeling tired after reading statements is close enough, but I'm disregarding that for now.

Jonathan Sims who can taste what he's reading. The taste of berries as he reads about the sky eating people. Burnt rubber as he reads about running from abandoned churches, and the feeling of gravel slicing his mouth.

The smell of sawdust and rain, stinging his nostrils as he forces himself to read aloud.

Words jumping out of the page at him in vivid colours, and visions of shapes dancing across the walls. Burning in his fingertips and the feeling of bugs across his skin, bruising grips on his wrist.

Sure, he always feels like he's being watched. The tingle on the back of his neck and the ache in his head. The exhaustion seeping into his bones.

But what if he felt more? What if he experienced everything in his life with more than one sense at a time.

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Just made a silly