Hello everyone! My name is Moss. I'm a 22 years old nonhuman from Europe, studying social education in college on my third year. I use he/they/it/pronouns.
When it comes to nonhuman identities, I use terms such as nonhuman, alterhuman, therian, holothere, fictionkin and otherkin to describe myself.
✧ SPECIES
As of species, they are, in order of intensity and importance:
Watcherkin (main form: Winged human, other known forms: barn owl)
Winged catkin (white cat with magpie wings)
Dog therian (greyhound)
Moonhearted
Phantomhearted
Child of the moon archetrope
Lab experiment archetrope
Prey archetrope
My body is nonhuman (something I explain here, and some of my shapeshifting habilities). I don't allow reality checkings, as I firmly believe my body is physically a watcher body. I am and consider myself holothere, that means, nonhuman in every possible way.
Community archive directory (WIP): Personal Archive
✧ OTHER SOCIALS
𓃢 My website: Watcher's archive
✧ OTHER STUFF ABOUT ME
I awakened on april from 2024, and I started this blog on september of the same year. (My pronouns (he/they/it) and identities).
I'm also plural (part of a system), so I will post about this from time to time.
✧ PLURALITY
I'm part of a mixed origin system, although we believe we're more stressgenic than anything else, as I don't consciously create headmates, they just appear. We don't really identify with any origin label tough, as we think it only creates division amongst the community. In total, there's twelve of us, in order of formation:
Charlie, or Moss, the host. Bodily 22 years old. He/they/it pronouns. Watcherkin (main form: Winged human, other known forms: barn owl), winged catkin, dog therian (greyhound), moonhearted and phantomhearted. Child of the moon, lab experiment and prey archetype. Aroace, genderfaun and nonbinary.
Orion, protector. A couple of thousand years old. It/he pronouns. Watcherkin and raptorkin. Aroace and agender. He won't post as regularly as I do, and we don't have a system to sign off our posts, so sometimes I'll be posting and sometimes he will post.
Theo, little. Around 7 or 9 years old. He doesn't really post here, as he doesn't like social media. He/him pronouns, a fox hybrid/kenomimi.
Clementine, positivity holder. 24 years old. She/her pronouns. Human and questioning horsehearted.
Leo, a Leonardo Hamato fictive from ROTTMNT, persecutor. 16 years old. He/it pronouns.
Nero, protector, dissociation holder and co-host. Shapeshifter, took a long while to form, as he was stuck trying to convey some sort of identity. Now he's pretty chill, handles stressful situations and dissociation. We don't really know their role, he's just there to block memories and emotions when needed. Voidkin, ageless. They/them pronouns.
Lana, social protector. She likes cheeseburgers, we think she's around 22-23 years old. Human, she/her pronouns.
Angel, an Angel Dust fictive, emotional protector. He's around 35 years old. Pretty chill, uses he/she pronouns but generally doesn't care a lot about gender.
Kinger, a Kinger fictive. Acts a lot like a dad. He's an old man, don't know exactly his age but maybe even older than Orion, he/him pronouns. Doesn't front often.
Vance, a Vox fictive. We don't know exactly his age (around his thirties), and he's pretty source separate. An anxious mess most of the time, age regresses pretty easily. He/him but doesn't care too much about gender.
Nico, a nonhuman headmate. He's a black fox, probably an adolescent or a child (acts 18 or younger). He/him pronouns. Doesn't talk much when fronting, even less not fronting.
Caine, a Caine fictive from TADC. He looks a lot like his source, and he's source-conected with Kinger, both from the same canon. He/him pronouns.
We're neurodivergent, with autism and ADHD, both diagnosed. Because of this, sometimes we might read the tone of a post wrong, and we may reply with tone tags.
✧ WHAT IS THIS BLOG FOR?
I will post mostly about my experiences as an alterhuman adult, such as little stories, and anecdotes. I will also post art and poems from time to time. I will also post about plural shenanigans.
I don't really have a DNI, just don't be an asshole. I'm pretty neutral on everything surrounding drama, but I have a general stance on being nice toward others and don't judge other's lives or business in general. When it comes to syscourse, I'm endo friendly as I'm part of a system myself (prob traumagenic or mixed origins), but I think the drama and in-fighting is pointless and in general rude. If someone tries to start drama in this blog, I block freely, as this blog is open to all kinds of plurals or systems.
As I stated before, we're nonhuman in every possible way, also called holothere. That means we're a physical, psychological, and spiritual nonhuman. I believe my body is the one of a Watcher, and my mind is the one of a dog and, my soul is the one of a winged cat. I'm not open to reality-checking, as this is my reality.
In general, discourse will not be tolerated in this blog.
✧ Tags I use:
#thecatchirps will be my talking tag (#thecatreplies for reblogs, #thecatanswers for asks, #watcher asks for all asks and #watcher flaps for everything)
#watcher writes will be my poems and essays tag
#thecatcollects is my tag for genders and sexuality
#thecatdraws is my art tag
#thecatmoodboards is my moodboard tag
#community archive is for my favorite posts
#watcher talks about lore for information on my canon as a watcher
The dissolution of the early forums and websites this community used to gather on means that a lot of history and culture has been lost. "Library of Alexandria" amounts of lost history. For this reason, you have to write. I don't care if you don't think you're a good writer. And for this reason, you must create art, whether that means paintings, picrews, poetry, or flash fiction. It doesn't matter if you're not a "good" artist.
And not only must we create - we must add to the archive. The alterhuman archive is alive and kicking, and I highly suggest we add our creative works to the mix.
We are in danger of being forgotten. We cannot let that happen.
hhmmmhnhbm. can someone else who gets phantom limbs please explain exactly how they get it? like do you guys COMPLETELY feel them all the time? I’m kinda new to this but whenever walking around I keep having the sensation of my tail behind me but. more mentally than actually feeling it? it’s like I know it’s there but I can’t completely feel it. then usually when sitting it’s just. gone. (to be fair, if I had my tail while sitting it would be crushed and very uncomfortable… that thing is like my whole physical body weight/length.)
Hey there! Nonhuman phantom limbs are different for everyone - my limbs aren't the same as yours! - but I can say that your experience is very common. It's normal to have phantom limbs that waver in intensity and disappear on you. Having them 24/7 or feeling them as strongly as a solid body part are in no way required. You feel the concept of a tail sometimes? Congrats, that's still a phantom tail!
As someone who doesn't get phantom limbs by default, but can choose to conjure them up - think of phantom shifts like your mind's best guess of where your body parts are.
Your tail isn't physically attached to your spine, not in the way that your legs are attached to your hips, so your brain doesn't have the same amount of practice with knowing where it is. It's had many years of knowing exactly where your legs are in space from seeing, touching and moving with them - it's had far less time to figure out where your tail is, and knowing exactly where it is gets harder when you can't directly see, touch, or move with it!
If you want to make it feel more present, that is a skill you can improve! In my experience, it's a lot like a body scan meditation - you're bringing your attention to a part of your body and increasing your awareness of it.
I can't physically sense my wings to give my mind an anchor, so I practice picturing them attached to me in my mind's eye, in as much detail and as many senses as I want. I focus on how my feathers may look as they glide over each other, how they'd feel brushing up against my skin, the weight of them, the sense of where my wings are in space in relation to the rest of my body, the soft sound of my feathers ruffling, my own familiar scent. Focusing on it can help my brain feel its presence easier, and the practicing builds on itself over time.
Seconding what raptorish said! What you're describing is a very typical phantom limb experience, the sensations are generally felt more in someone's mind since they aren't coming from a physical body part, and limbs sort of disappearing when they're in conflict with an object is common :)
As someone who has phantom limbs 24/7– my ears, tail, and wings are part of my body, but in the same way I'm not always consciously aware of my physical limbs I'm not always consciously aware of my phantom ones, either, and they fluctuate in intensity (that is, in how "real" they feel). Sometimes I just have a faint suggestion of movement when my ears swivel or my tail swishes, and sometimes they might as well be physically present because they have weight and I can feel everything they're touching (which can get uncomfortable in chairs and stuff). Usually it's somewhere in between leaning toward the latter, but that's just me and it's different for every person. No matter how subtle or intense it is or where/how you feel it, if you feel the presence of body parts that aren't physically there it "counts" as a phantom body part!
oportunity to talk about phantom limbs? don't mind if I do! we don't really feel our phantom limbs all the time per se, but for us our phantom limbs depend on the kintype. being polykin, we have our variety of phantom limbs depending on species: cat ears, fluffy tail, paws and claws, magpie wings, and sometimes teeth as phantom limbs because I'm catkin; muzzle, ears, paws and tail phantom limbs because I'm dogkin, etc. for my hearttypes and archetrope's types, I don't normally feel phantom limbs. all of these limbs we feel for various reasons, usually triggers such as seeing or hearing a cat, or a dog, or a magpie. we're minding our own business and poof! we suddenly have ears! or a tail! we don't feel those all the time, they get triggered in.
in the case of my watcher identity, it's pretty interesting. because I'm a physical nonhuman, I have the body of a watcher and I can feel my wings all the time, outside or inside of my body, attached to my back all the time and either trupped under my skin or letting them out through... I'm gonna say transformation. I don't really have a world for it, they just phase through my skin and "go outside". I also get sometimes shifts of pointy ears, little wings over my ears and feathers behind them. tho these are not permanent and rare, they are part of my watcher body. sometimes I get phantom talons in my feet and claws in my hands, sometimes some sort of enderman tail. I'm debating if this limb is part of my watcher biology or just a funky cameo shift that got stuck in this body.
One thing I think is important for understanding the daemian community – especially if you're coming from an alterhuman perspective – is that daemonism is not a word for a shared experience, nor a shared identity.
Daemonism is a practice. The concept of it can be used by anyone: alterhuman or not, plural or not. It can be pure playfulness. It can be imaginary, and that's okay! That's a beautiful experience in its own respect!
There's no universal daemian experience because we accept and embrace that our minds, and our experiences, are ours alone.
The community isn't built on a shared experience – just a shared idea which we all create unique versions of.
Some people stick closer to the basic idea we started with. Some just take what they like from it and throw out the rest. Some only take vague inspiration from it. Some people adapt it more than others, sometimes due to being neurodivergent, plural, and/or alterhuman.
It's still daemonism because daemonism isn't defined by us all "doing the same thing" or "having the same experience".
Daemonism is, for the most part, defined by a person deciding that they want to call what they are doing or experiencing daemonism.
And a large part of that is often in connection to the community, whether directly or in a peripheral way, by taking inspiration from the practice, making use of the community's writings, and so on.
This is why I think daemonism is often misunderstood in an alterhuman context. Daemonism is not an experience, it's not an identity – it's just an idea we each take and make our own. And that's what it should be. That's the beauty of it!
Anyone could be a daemian if they want to. There's no requirements. A lot of people get started with daemonism purely because it sounds fun! A lot of people start with only their imagination, and many people remain so.
For others, it might become something else in time, or they might discover there was something underlying their imaginings all along. It's no more or less a practice of daemonism, either way.
A lot of alterhuman concepts don't apply to daemonism because of this. Fact is, there's plenty of daemians who are orthohumans too, and plenty of people who specifically see their daemonism as an orthohuman practice.
I see it get included under the alterhuman umbrella a lot, and I feel like it gives the wrong first impression to come at it from that angle by default.
Really, it's more comparable with being a furry. For some people, it is a deep, impactful, life-altering experience, and the people who feel that way are a vital part of the community. But equally, for some it is an exercise in whimsy, playfulness, or creativity – and those people are no less members of the community for it.
We're not united by being plural, or having thoughtforms, or being alterhuman. We're united by being a bunch of people who were inspired by some books (or a film or TV show) to play around with the idea of daemons, and ended up sticking with it for one reason or another.
While the individual experience can be very deep indeed, that isn't what makes daemonism what it is.
not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally
Why tf do I have so many half written drafts I should actually write the essays about the shit I want to euuugghhhhh
Also buying a good mic for vocals and learning to build in paralives and maybe I should actually check my tomodachi life island and make some more islanders
Maybe the twilight crew, cause me and my wife have been watching it for fun
Or the Steven Universe cast, cause I fucking love them, especially Bismuth <3 mmmmmmm Bismuth
Maybe I'm mistaken but it feels like these days in the tumblr therian community its much more common to be 0% human.
Feel like a bit of an outsider now. Somecreature posted a more poetic version of this sentiment a few days ago: something like too beastly to be human, too human to be beast.
I think this is an issue of the communities trying to merge each experience, therianthropy and non humanity are not always experienced side by side, you can be therian or nonhuman without being the other.
I've seen this a lot with the physical nonhuman community, folks have tried to blend it in with other communities which in turn has led to folks trying to change the definition.
The main cause is how separate communities are seen as the same community when we aren't, nonhumans and therians aren't the same community, they tend to overlap but they still are separate communities.
There's also been a rise in the adoption of terms from the physical nonhuman community, and as a physical nonhuman, don't feel pressured into making your experience something that's not authentic to you.
I've never understood the hyper empathy approach to other animals and how humans are villainized for killing animals. Animals will literally kill and eat each other, they aren't more morally "pure" than humans are. I promise you that the coyote eating roadkill has no empathy for the roadkill, they are just trying to survive and reproduce like every other living organism.
Please stop applying human empathy onto animals, human morals don't apply to animals.
Now, this isn't to say to not be sad at an animal's death, it's a totally normal and okay reaction to have. But don't villainize humans who hunt other animals to survive, they are as much a part of the ecosystem as we are. Humans are animals, they are also a part of nature.
Hii I’m new to therian and related concepts, but can you have a therian type (sorry if I’m saying that wrong) for fictional creatures & animals?
Totally unrelated question… do y’all like HTTYD?
Hello, new friend! Welcome to the community.
So, the correct term would be theriotype or kintype (/nm), though I believe I understand what you meant!
If I'm understanding your question correctly, the answer is yes! You can have real animal ‘types (e.g. moth), fictional animal ‘types (e.g. dragon), plant ‘types (e.g. tree), fictional character ‘types (e.g. Hannibal Lecter), anything! Some beings even have “real person” (?) ‘types, such as those who kin Robert Downey Jr., and object ‘types, such as roller coaster kins. Anything that you can think of under the sun, you can kin and identify as. All those “I identify as an attack helicopter” jokes would have actually been valid identities!
Also, the amazing thing about life is that the limits to what you can identify as are nonexistent! You can have as many kins, theriotypes, and microlabels that your heart desires, no matter what anyone else attempts to tell you. Or, alternatively, you can have only one or two and that would be just as acceptable. So long as you are happy, that is all that should matter.
To answer your question at the end, yes! I love HTTYD. Hiccup always gave me such gender envy whenever I was growing up.
I hope this satisfies your curiosity! Feel free to ask me more questions, I love receiving things in my inbox.
not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally
One thing im uncomfortably woke about is bugs. And im actively trying to get more uncomfortably woke. By this i mean i DO believe the normalised fear of bugs stems from both government and business propaganda. The start of household pesticide sales coinciding with the boom in insect related horror movies. The promotion of anti intellectualism and anti enviromentalism. If you're scared of bugs, you wont care about saving them. If you dont care about saving them, you wont care about saving our home, since without bugs it cannot be saved. If you dont care about saving our home, the rich can do whatever they want with the chunks of it they continue to destroy.
I WILL calmly and kindly try to help anyone who is afraid of bugs. I will show them my finds, i will explain their importance, i will tell them just how sweet and gentle and friendly they are. And I WILL shoot down any immature loser who believes senseless killing is the only possible response to not liking something.
Get woke. Love bugs.
EDIT: this breached containment. My usual like count is like 5 😭 i want to clarify i mean people who conflate fear with hate are the ones who wont care about saving our planet, like people who threaten to kill peoples pet bugs or actively kill bugs outside for no apparent reason. Not people who run away from a bee.
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