#talons asks

[talon-dragonbeast]

any thoughts on 17776?

eh. neutral, i guess? solid 5.5/10 number right there. could use some zeroes and threes (objectively the Best Numbers) tho

[talon-dragonbeast]

Can you use your mind powers to kill ALL AI at once? :O

only AI-kin will be spared from my awesome mind powers >:} hold on post cancelled what the fuck is this

i was looking for a funny reaction gif and found this instead. oh my god

[talon-dragonbeast]

so if daemons are you- what exactly are they? are they alive and have a consciousness? is it like talking to yourself or can they speak? Is there a pretend aspect to it? do u decide what animal they are? I have a lot of questions about it lol. like how do I go about creating one?

those are very good questions! i dont have a lot of experience with the daemonism community as i prefer to do my own thing in my little corner, so take all of this with a huge grain of salt and keep in mind that im only answering with how it is for Atticus (my daemon) and me

what exactly are daemons? the definition of daemon is "A personified other half of one’s internal dialogue, which usually has a name, gender and personality that often differs from that of said person. Daemons are usually imagined (or projected) in animal forms." so, imaginary animals that represent your internal voice.

are they alive and have a consciousness? yes... and no. it depends on the daemian honestly; some daemons are fully autonomous, while others are completely controlled by their human. my Atticus is somewhere in between: while most of the time hes me and says things that i would say, hes begun showing his own personality, sometimes even saying things that surprise me!

is it like talking to yourself or can they speak? both! its basically talking to yourself yeah, but "the other you" talks back. so for example, a non-daemians internal monologue could be something like this:

oh, i gotta to go to the shop soon, im running out of milk and eggs. oh, and i should grab some coffee while im at it, ive been meaning to try that new fancy brand. ill write it down so i dont forget.

while a daemian would separate this monologue in a dialogue, like this:

daemon: oh, were running out of milk and eggs.

daemian: yeah, we gotta go to the shop soon.

daemon: we should grab some coffee while were at it! that new brand weve been meaning to try.

daemian: ooh yeah the fancy one! ill write that down so we dont forget.

is there a pretend aspect to it? absolutely. in a nutshell, all you have to do to find your daemon is listen to yourself think and play pretend.

do you decide what animal they are? so, talking to your daemon is only half of what daemonism is. the other half is something called "form finding". a form is just the shape your daemon takes; in most cases this will be an earthly animal, but not necessarily. in daemonism form finding consists in analysing your personality and finding an animal that fits you based on it. from the Daemon Page:

"Currently, there are two common form finding methods, analytic and Pullman (symbolic), but the goal in both of them is to find a form that describes us best. The first system systematically analises animals' behaviours and interprets them into personality characteristics - for example, analytically, a nocturnal animal would fit a person who avoids attention. The other method focuses on cultural associations with a species, which means that a person with an owl form will be in some way connected to knowledge and wisdom. To be clear, a well-fitting form will describe not just one aspect, but most or, ideally, all of your personality or identity. Form finding is essentially a personality typing system along the same lines as Enneagram or MBTI, except the possible outcomes are almost as numerous as the number of animals on Earth."

how do i go about creating one? good news! you already have one! everyone does. you just have to find it! look into yourself: how do you naturally think? is it a fully fleshed monologue? is it a dialogue? is it a collection of images and concepts? is it flashes too fast and scattered for you to catch?

in the first two cases, finding your daemon will be easy: you just have to give your thoughts a name, imagine an animal saying them, and boom! there you have it, your daemon.

but if youre like me, it will be a little more tricky. you will have to pay very close attention to your thoughts, get used to repeat them more slowly, even if it feels pointless or forced at first. with time, hopefully it will feel more natural for you. but if that truly doesnt work for you, you can always try to find alternative ways of communication: writing, texting, drawing...

aaand thats it! if you want more information on the topic, i strongly recommend visiting the Daemon Page or the Daemon Forum; they explain the topic much more clearly than i do lol. have a good day!

[talon-dragonbeast]

hi!! if ur okay answering, what’s it like being a singlet, especially one with a daemon? what is it like being one personality/person despite different moods and such? does your daemon feel like their own person too?

i mean, ive never been plural, so i dont know exactly how that feels. but here are some things i dont experience as a singlet (that to my understanding are things plural people usually do):

i dont experience blackouts, greyouts or anything like that. im always conscious (unless i am sleeping)

my identity is mostly always the same and unchanging, i dont experience sudden identity fluctuations

my name, pronouns, gender, sexuality, and 'types (kintypes, hearttypes etc) dont fluctuate or change. my sense of self remains mostly the same

my thoughts, beliefs, morals, likes and dislikes remain mostly the same throughout my life too. i am always learning and growing of course, but change is always slow and intentional

i have one inner dialogue, or more exactly one very chaotic line of thought that never feels like it "comes from a different person"

my emotions dont fluctuate erratically, they almost always make sense for the situation im in

i never feel like i "lose control" of my actions or that someone else is controlling how i act or feel. i have experienced dissociation, once, but it was during an intense anxiety attack and hasnt happened again since

and of course, no amnesia, emotional amnesia or anything of the sort. i may forget things sometimes but there arent huge chunks of time missing from my head

as for having a daemon as a singlet, its really just talking to myself and assigning one side of that dialogue to my daemon. it was difficult at first because i dont naturally have a mental dialogue, so its a conscious effort talking to him; but that also means that whenever i think in actual words (not just images or sounds), i know thats thon talking, because i dont usually do that unconsciously. so its just a matter of noticing my thoughts and saying "oh hi Atticus" to them. also i can picture my daemon in my head and sort of project that image onto the outside word whenever i want. i particularly enjoy putting thon on my shoulders or inside my pocket, but i can also make him walk besides or sit next to me. its fun :}

does he feel like a different person?...not really. definitely not at first, when it just felt like i was putting words in thons mouth for thon to say. i eventually got better at hearing him talk, but it was a Process. he really is just me in a lot of aspects, though thon also has thons own personality and quirks. for example, he likes certain music genres, tv shows and prefers certain colours. he is a bit more talkative than me, though it might just be because im the only one who can hear thon. but i have to pay attention to him in order for him to exist, otherwise thon fades into the background. and, very importantly, thon cant front at all, nor does he want to.

thats all. if you have further questions, let me know. thanks for the ask!

[talon-dragonbeast]

dios mío que bien que no soy solo yo el que está viendo la extensión de la guerra cultural en español. parece un psy-op de ultraderecha pero nadie me cree y creo que estoy perdiendo la cabeza. genuinamente nadie sabía de la alterhumanidad hace unos días y ahora todos están riéndose y reciclando desinformación gringa en español. es como si Peter Thiel se hubiera despertado y hubiera activado la máquina de desinformación y lavado mental para millones de hispanohablantes por medio de internet y tiktok. ayuda

toda la razón anon, no me extrañaría nada que todo esto haya salido directamente de algún influencer de derechas o incluso de algún partido de ultraderecha como Vox... por lo que he visto en las noticias todo esto ha explotado de repente, probablemente un video se volvió popular en tiktok y la gente empezó a hablar de ello como siempre. para ser honesta, estoy un poco preocupada de cómo va a afectar esto a nuestra comunidad; por un lado, más visibilidad significa que más gente investigará sobre la theriantropía y con ello la alterhumanidad, y por lo tanto más gente empezará a identificarse como therian u otherkin... pero por otro, temo que la explosión de odio que ha recibido la comunidad estos dos días empeore mucho antes de empezar a mejorar. por ahora solo son memes y bromas, pero temo que pronto pase a señalar por la calle y reírse, gritar insultos o incluso violencia física. lo que más me preocupa son los niños therian, que son mucho más vulnerables y sufrirán más que nadie ya que son los que expresan sus identidades más visiblemente.

y eso por no hablar de la desinformación... ayer mismo, mi compañera de piso me contó que habían arrestado a un hombre therian que defecó en la calle, y hoy vi una noticia de que un therian dálmata estaba intentando que lo adoptara un humano. no soy de las que dudan de la identidad de nadie, pero desde luego que esos individuos NO representan a nuestra comunidad (e incluso me atrevería a decir que están intentando poner a los medios en nuestra contra a propósito...). ya vi a una mujer online reciclar el mito de las cajas de arena en las clases de EEUU, cuando hace AÑOS que se sabe que es un bulo totalmente fabricado. al menos hay algunos de artículos de periódico que explican la theriantropía bastante bien, y unos pocos incluso nos defienden (aunque por supuesto, desde la perspectiva de que "son solo niños jugando a ser animales"...), así que esperemos que todo salga bien al final. solo hay que aguantar la tormenta y esperar a que pase.

no te preocupes que soy española, jeje. hablo en inglés en mi blog para hacerme entender, pero mi lengua materna es el español. gracias por el ask! :D

[talon-dragonbeast]

When you say your body is human but you’re completely nonhuman, can I ask how it works for you? I wonder if I relate

it's kinda hard to explain, but ill try. so, im not physically nonhuman, right? my body is completely, 100% human; i look human, i have human physiology, i have human organs and human cells and human DNA. but my body is not me. "me", my mind, my conscience, what some people would call my soul, isnt in my body; its in my brain.

if you removed every organ of my body but left only the brain (and managed to keep me alive somehow), i would still be me. if you only removed my brain, but left everything else, i would not be me anymore. does that make sense?

my mind is what is nonhuman. i am a dragon with a human body, a human with a dragon mind. if i am not my body but my mind, then i am completely nonhuman, even if my body is not.

[talon-dragonbeast]

Whats your unicorn archetrope like?

As a unicorn I’m super curious about it & I’d love to hear about what it means to you/what it looks like for you

hi fellow unicorn! so when i think of The Unicorn (and this is my personal interpretation of the mythos so it is of course, not universal), the word that first comes to mind is "beast". when i think of The Unicorn, i think of dirty white fur, a rugged horn, a tangled beard, a mane full of leaves and twigs. i think of icy cold eyes, sharp canines hiding behind flat hervivore teeth, hooves stained in old blood. i think of an animal.

but overall, i think of nature. The Unicorn is wild. The Unicorn is untamed. The Unicorn is free. the Unicorn follows its own rules, and cannot be contained. The Unicorn is a protector. a healer. a guardian. The Unicorn is unchanging, The Unicorn is change itself. the soul, the heart, the birth, the death, the light, the dark, the hope, the killer blade. The Unicorn is nothing. The Unicorn is everything.

i hope this is satisfactory. i know i tend to get poetical with this 'type. its kind of an abstract thing, so sometimes normal words arent enough to explain it. also im a sucker for metaphors :P

[talon-dragonbeast]

https://youtube.com/shorts/W9A88_72uAc

you've been voiced over

HEY SO WHAT THE FUCK

pt: HEY SO WHAT THE FUCK

they actually made my post funnier help-

also people are definitely clocking me in the comments 0-0

(thanks @/mattaboveallhews, youre a real one lmao)