Hello I hope I'm not bothering you. I saw on a post you were doing research into the history of therian. I've been wanting to look into older terms of the different communities like kind, therian, were, etc and was wondering if you had any links or advice or even a list to help me get started? The main goal for me is that I don't understand many of the modern terms but I came across a couple old ones and their descriptions that made more sense to me so I wanted to dive further. Thank you -Panax
no bother at all!
first and foremost, i would definitely recommend starting with HouseofChimera's Timeline of the Therianthrope Community, it's where my research began and is incredibly comprehensive, they do a lot of good work keeping our history!
i'll put links that i have pulled so far under a cut, tho i do want to forewarn; there's a LOT of old 'net personal websites that are eyestrain and/or flashing, and that they're a product of their time; we've come a LONG way as a community on understanding alterhumanity, so some of the sites may be outright hostile to thoughts these days.
i'm also going to be presenting a lecture on this exact topic at Othercon22 where i'll have it more comprehensibly laid out and all the links that i've gathered for the community's perusal