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@tiercelgreen
Welcome to my Den!
I'm Tiercel Green aka Obsidian Ghoul. Irish American part-time illustrator, full time Nameless Ghoul, and host of the Quintessence System. Here's where you can find a bit about us and what we do!
VERY LONG LIST INCOMING
You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. Outrage about hedonism is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radical rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.
i hope you dont mind, i was posessed by these words until i drew this little zine and i just thought id put it here
Well, here it is again.
"The physical therianthropy isn't therianthropy", "Call yourself physical alterhumans/nonhumans/transspecies but not therians, which is strictly non-physical, you can't claim and shouldn't use this term", "Stop envading therian spaces, this isn't your community you contradictory physical ThErIaNs" I don't even want to ping the users here, iykyk.
Where the hell do I, a born werelion with some lion genes, belong then?! Do I need to create a mini micro nano label for myself and only myself now?
Let's just keep a simple 'identifying as an animal' definition for therianthropy! So all animal identity experiences fall there, mental, spiritual, physical, biological and more.
And now some people take our shared term away from some of us.
I'm very angry and disgusted right now, don't touch me.
That “cringe” nonbinary xenogender genderfuck therian who uses neopronouns and may or may not go on HRT while being loudly, proudly themselves will always be more revolutionary and subversive than a binary trans person who aggressively reproduces the cis status quo and shames anyone who doesn’t do the same.
By the way, I threw “therian” in here as a bit of a litmus test for those responding to it as something widely regarded as “cringe” but ultimately completely harmless and benign that’s often maligned by people with conservative beliefs. And well. It did its job quite amazingly given how many of the negative responses I’ve seen have focused on that rather than the overall message of shaming people for their identities is bad and counterproductive. It’s almost like these people view all of those stated identities this way but used the silly furry one as a “weak point” they’d get minimal pushback on to dismiss the very clear point of the post. Literally hilarious honestly
Crellick in the water
This is incredibly unrelated to my usual content but I find it very grating when some* artists will go out of their way to decry fanartists and fandom as a whole and call all of it bad and awful and slop all while having a sizeable fanbase for their own works and regularly reblogging fanart people make for them. I find it grating and annoying when some* artists say they don't care about people taking inspirations from their designs and works down to saying "you can copy me idc" and then blocking people who do so and talk about them like they're scum and leeches who drain them dry of ideas. I find it extremely saddening and disheartening when artists people look up to constantly talk about how annoying other people are and how much they hate the way people interpret their characters. I hate it when I find a new cool artist to follow and in every interaction with their fans that isn't directly praising their work they're abraisive and rude. I hate it when some* artists put themselves on a pedestal and condescend to everyone around them.
I understand, as someone who is also an artist who does have a big chunk of people following me over on my art blog(s), that you don't necessarily owe it to everyone who interacts with you to be kind and understanding and nice all of the time. I understand constant comments and interactions from folks who don't really get your works or understand your characters in the way you'd want them to are annoying. I understand having people disagree with you constantly can be irritating and the natural response for some is to lash out and hit back with equal meanness, but it is so so disheartening to see several very genuinely creative and talented artists be so extremely rude to everyone around them. I cannot control you or what you do but it costs nothing to not be nasty to people.
* I am not talking about any one artist in particular or any one site in particular and will not provide any handles for users you think I may be talking about! I am also not talking about anything that has personally happened to me or any personal issues I have with another artist. This post is a general statement about a trend I've noticed among some bigger art blogs that I tend to browse that has kept me from following them.
Sometimes, when a wishing well has taken many, many offerings, all that gold starts to attract wildlife…
My enormous project I've had going on behind the scenes Is complete! I sat down and decided to undergo the process of drawing Every Single Member Of Our System and lining them up Height Chart Style both for the benefit of us and our friends and for anyone who may be wondering what all of us look like. [This post is best viewed on PC. Open the first image and click/scroll to your right to have everyone lined up correctly]
Names in order of depiction. Odhrán, Apolilla, Cumulus, [?] (aka Gweeb), Cathaoir, Endiemon, Thera, Mountain, Azem, Astraoimh, Xanthe, Storm, Rrkyevekisk, Tern, Vangiw-Lawat, and Blue Teymareth. Blue Teymareth is the only one not 100% size accurate because drei still had to fit on the canvas. This comparison is more accurate.
And for those curious about actual Heights proper. We tend towards being very large as several of us are either from big species or introjects of early ocs when we had some sort of complex about needing to have the tallest character around.
Everyone also has their own individual transparent PNGS but those wouldn't fit in this post so I'll instead be using those as website assets! This project was an utterly massive undertaking but it's relieving in a way to be able to see all of us actually have some sort of tangible representation of ourselves that we can show to others. That's us! We look like that! We won't be tagging this post as any fandoms despite the fact that we very clearly have two endermen, several nameless ghouls, a centaur alien from Runaway to the Stars, and a pernese dragon within the system given that these are all depictions and representations of us and not meant to be fanart. As a sidenote, we'll be on artfight again this year and I've specifically been given permission from our system as a whole to place all of us as 'ocs' able to be drawn! I can't guarantee my activity level as a whole given that my patreon work and commissions come first, but I will be participating regardless.
This is going to be crossposted over to @translunaryanimus with a more succinct caption btw so if you follow me over there and see the same post with different words, this is why!
My enormous project I've had going on behind the scenes Is complete! I sat down and decided to undergo the process of drawing Every Single Member Of Our System and lining them up Height Chart Style both for the benefit of us and our friends and for anyone who may be wondering what all of us look like. [This post is best viewed on PC. Open the first image and click/scroll to your right to have everyone lined up correctly]
Names in order of depiction. Odhrán, Apolilla, Cumulus, [?] (aka Gweeb), Cathaoir, Endiemon, Thera, Mountain, Azem, Astraoimh, Xanthe, Storm, Rrkyevekisk, Tern, Vangiw-Lawat, and Blue Teymareth. Blue Teymareth is the only one not 100% size accurate because drei still had to fit on the canvas. This comparison is more accurate.
And for those curious about actual Heights proper. We tend towards being very large as several of us are either from big species or introjects of early ocs when we had some sort of complex about needing to have the tallest character around.
Everyone also has their own individual transparent PNGS but those wouldn't fit in this post so I'll instead be using those as website assets! This project was an utterly massive undertaking but it's relieving in a way to be able to see all of us actually have some sort of tangible representation of ourselves that we can show to others. That's us! We look like that! We won't be tagging this post as any fandoms despite the fact that we very clearly have two endermen, several nameless ghouls, a centaur alien from Runaway to the Stars, and a pernese dragon within the system given that these are all depictions and representations of us and not meant to be fanart. As a sidenote, we'll be on artfight again this year and I've specifically been given permission from our system as a whole to place all of us as 'ocs' able to be drawn! I can't guarantee my activity level as a whole given that my patreon work and commissions come first, but I will be participating regardless.
[ reposted from some other conversation i was having ]
Ah, I am arthropod (bug) otherhearted. Almost violently so. They take up such a deep part of my life, it's hard to articulate.
I have had repeated dreams featuring massive bugs, and they are very common. Some nightmares, some really really good. All inhabiting a strange place in my mind. I have also had repeated dreams about being brought in and introduced to ant religion by the ants. Most of these dreams, I end up dying.
I have always had to deal with minor infestations. Anyone living in an old house or apartment complex will. I've dealt with ants, roaches (multiple times), silver fish, spiders, and other creatures. I was perhaps 4-6 when my mother started using me to help track down all the crickets in the house. Either she didn't want to do it, or she was right in that I had a unique ability to track them down.
When I was young, I had a particularly hard time dealing with infestations because I couldn't handle the amount of death that had to happen. It still upsets me now, but I understand the necessity to protect public health.
In high school there was a minor (but noticeable) uptick in wolf spiders in the house. They were harmless and went away with time, but they did get in the way. I remember waking up one morning and discovering that one had died in my mouth. I was reasonably upset and disgusted, but it also was incredibly alienating. I tend to pride myself on being a protector of all arthropods, and knowing that one had died within me was.... hard. I can't help but think that the poor thing was seeing somewhere warm and safe to hide, only to get completely crushed.
During that time, I was regularly called out of (and excused) from class to deal with bugs in other classrooms. In college, I would run across campus at night and early in the morning to rescue my friends from them. It was just known that I was the one you should call when there was a bug. I would always handle it.
At some point last fall I was out drinking with my friends. On the walk home, I ended up sitting on the sidewalk and holding a large millipede, crying, because she would never understand how much I loved and wanted to protect her.
Not long ago, I opened a chocolate and a maggot fell out. My roommates were all upset, but I felt incredibly maternal towards it. We had to throw out all the chocolate, but I did my best to be gentle as I walked them out to the dumpster. I like to imagine they grew big and fat and went on to live good fly lives at whatever trash pile they ended up at.
All throughout college, I would go on "bug walks" where I would wander campus between the hours of 10pm - 1am and just... collect bugs. I have images of myself with them all over me. It was the best feeling in the world. Often my friends and I would go on normal walks and I would make them stop while I hunted down a bug. They called this my "bug sense." They could never figure out how I immediately spotted them and thought my nearly compulsive need to find them was amusing.
Despite all of this, I have been stung by a bee once, sweat bees a few times, and by a wasp once. I have never been bitten by a spider, and by ants only a few times. In all of these instances, they were justified.
I have many issues with gender and presentation. When I had a breakdown over needing to wear I dress, I remember crying into my girlfriends arms about how "I need them to just let me be an ant". While some may have an inclination to suggest I might actually be some sort of bug therian, I am not. I just seek their comfort whenever I am stressed. The image of them as my equal puts a feeling into me almost like... the satisfaction after a cry, that comfortable fullness after a meal. Laying in bed with a good blanket, cool pillow, and a fan on. An overwhelming sense of joy and purpose fills me when I see them, when I know they are around.
I could go on. I have so many stories from so many points in my life. They are so integral to me. You can not have me without arthropods, no version of me exists where I am not deeply deeply enamored by them. I am not the most knowledgeable on them. I can't tell you facts or immediately ID them. But I just know that I need them around me, always, or else I am just a shell of a person
ragebaiting my fellow nonhumans by petting your fur/feathers/scales the wrong way.
success.
common grackle and red-winged blackbird best friends forever!!!
My very big project is almost complete and so I've decided to give you all a little sneak peak of it! This is Teymareth, our pernese dragon headmate.
Some of you may be able to guess what this project is and I may have mentioned it in prior posts (or perhaps on my dreamwidth I don't remember) but it's near completion!
My absence was for reason, I will return with the finished product soon enough!
WOW I AM INCREDIBLE. I AM MADE OF BLOOD AND ELECTRICITY AND I CHANGE THE WORLD ALL THE TIME. VERY COOL
Don't be shy about reposting your art over and over again!!! You've put in the effort, and many people should see your thoughts and feelings! Especially since Tumblr feeds work like a train; people who follow you have plenty of other blogs that actively post, and when they visit at a certain time, your art might simply disappear down the list, and no one will scroll to it. Reposting makes it rise to the top! Then just remove repost later if you're embarrassed about your action. But it really helps (only the weakest will mistake your repost for spam)
sometimes i feel like the alterhuman community is super obsessed with reality in an often unhealthy sort of way? you dont need to have Literally Experienced things for them to be real to you. You dont have to actually believe in past lives or anything to feel you have had a past life experience. You dont need to really believe that you are an alien that came from beyond earth to feel like an alien that came from beyond earth. You don't need to believe in the multiverse to feel like you are experiencing something to do with it. Just like how nobody else has to believe in those things to understand that you feel them. You can do whatever you want actually. Feelings are fickle things and they do not care about what you believe is true, and this is not always a bad thing despite what people might say.
Sometimes you are a shapeshifting starthing from beyond the veil of space and time while simultaneously believing that that's not actually possible. Sometimes you have spirits in your head while simultaneously not believing in anything metaphysical. Sometimes you have reincarnated beings in your head without believing in reincarnation. The dissonance is perfectly okay if that's what brings you peace - it is what brings me peace. I do not feel any desire to "debunk" myself or my headmates despite my beliefs, nor do I feel a desire to bring any of the things I currently find impossible into how I understand the world. Your identity does not need to be perfectly explainable within the bounds of anyone's reality, including your own, because it is not something that relies on anything but your own feelings. Live a life that brings you peace
Perhaps this is moving away from the point a little, but I feel like this conundrum especially does a disservice to communication. If you only allow yourself to describe your experiences by what you completely, absolutely believe to be true and real, you limit your options for language and communication, and it becomes harder to find the words to describe yourself. Describing two of our kintypes, We might say that We are/We feel like a violin that gained a soul, and then that soul got stretched into a dragon shape before being put into my body. Do We one hundred percent believe that this is what definitely, literally happened? No! We're using poetry to try to communicate something that doesn't really fit any words at all! We're gesturing in the general direction of what's going on with our identity so that others can understand it enough. They might never understand it perfectly, but that's okay, they just have to get the gesture.
I can't really blame people for being so concerned about what is "real"; tangible, probable "reality" is what people use to hurt us, after all, whether that's casual mockery or psychiatric institutionalization, all because our beliefs don't align with "objective reality". But I think we (honestly, both inside and outside the alterhuman community) should become more comfortable with the idea of something being a gesture at whatever's really going on, or an imperfect attempt at communicating something that might be impossible to perfectly communicate. It's language, not reality. Communication is messy and identity is messy; don't make up rules for yourself, make some poetry to express yourself. The world of language is your curtain of worms on a string; even if what you make looks silly, if it brings you joy and helps you express yourself, then that's what really matters.
great thing about me starting to accept my fictionkinity about a year ago or something is that now I can fully embrace the "fake" or less respected parts of my identity.
oh i know this identity is probably temporary? who cares. i ID as XYZkin just as much as my non temporary idenitities and i deserve to talk about them.
i think back to when i was too scared to mention i was fictionkin and realize how far i've come in my own self acceptence and it makes me happy. so, i will continue to unapologetically be myself. to not censor any part of my identity because its lesser liked/known, cuz somewhere out there there's someone who was just like me. Someone who is scared to share about themselves, someone who doesn't know people like them exist, someone who is scared to share their experience because what if it isn't "alterhuman enough? and that soneone needs to see that rep and support in the community. much love to everyone who came before me to pave the way for me to be able to be writing this post now, fully embracing who i am.
