Gloam

Female gray wolf therianthrope born in 2004.

[wolfgloam]

I’m Gloam, a 21-year-old gray wolf therianthrope. She/her.

My identity is psychological, rooted in how my brain is wired and early childhood imprinting.

This blog is where I share personal nonhuman experiences, including instincts, behaviors, and the day-to-day of being a wolf therian. I also post my own art.

Posts may include predatory instincts, hunting, and consuming meat. They will be tagged #cw hunting, #cw meat, #cw prey drive, etc.

I block freely.

Thanks for reading.

-Gloam

[wolfgloam]

thanks for making that post about hunting and prey drive 💖 been a long time since that thing roused in my chest and I missed it

Absolutely. I'm really glad it resonated with you.

[wolfgloam]

Please let women have authentic self expression. The "not like other girls" accusation gets thrown around a lot at women as a way to dismiss and belittle their self-expression, basically saying "you can't just exist, you must be performing specialness for attention." I don't think many people realize that it is yet another way of policing how women talk about themselves.

For example, me describing my internal experience and someone immediately reframing it as me putting other women down is pretty telling in itself as it assumes women can't share personal reflections without it being a competitive statement against other women even when other women are not mentioned whatsoever.

The "not like other girls" is a valid critique when it applies, we should not be putting down women for behaving feminine, or calling them shallow or basic. Implying that feminine women lack depth is ridiculous and wrong.

But the assumption that my self-expression must secretly be about other girls rather than just... about me... is pretty misogynistic actually.

[wolfgloam]

I am not a gamer, but I love Wolfquest and even saved up for a nicer laptop that could run it well. I remember begging my mom to buy it for me as a kid, and then trying to run it on the ancient family computer. I don't think it even started up. Anyways, Wolfquest is great.

[wolfgloam]

Shut the fuck up. Nobody cares that you go around killing animals. Honestly, you're pathetic, and so is your family.

No.

[wolfgloam]

CW for hunting, consuming meat, animal death I do not typically eat meat from restaurants, fast food, or grocery stores. I procure the meat my family and I eats through taking the animal myself.

There are several reasons for this, the first being that I am physically able to hunt and I don't ever take this for granted.

2. Hunting is honest and practical. You either read the situation correctly and succeed or you don't, and you leave with nothing to show for it. However, a single successful deer hunt can feed myself and my family for months and for a fraction of the cost. It is more economical for me, thanks to the fact that I have access to relatively nearby public lands where I can hunt small game like rabbits and hares, and deer during their respective seasons.

3. I am directly accountable for the kill, there is no distance between me and the reality of what taking an animal's life means. There is no insulation from the reality of how the meat got to my hands and no distance to make consuming it easier, and certainly no outsourcing the uncomfortable parts. I see the animal, I make a decision, and I am responsible for the outcome. Because of that weight, I waste nothing and am deeply interested in conservation.

4. The animal I hunt lived a completely wild life engaging in natural behavior, natural diet, and natural social existence up until the end. That stands in stark contrast to the conditions most commercially raised animals experience, even in relatively humane operations.

5. it gives me a complete skill set. Reading terrain, tracking, patience, fieldcraft, marksmanship, and eventually processing the animal. The grocery store removes all of that. I am just left with the end product and removed from everything that produced it.

6. Providing for my pack is a responsibility I choose to take seriously. I go out, I apply real skills, I face genuine uncertainty, I succeed, and then the people I love most eat because of what I did. Hunting benefits those that matter most.

7. There is coherence. Given my wolf identity, hunting my own food aligns with my values, my actions, and my sense of self. What I believe, what I do, and who I am all point in the same direction while hunting.

[wolfgloam]

People call me a bitch like it’s an insult. I am a female wolf. So yes. And I bite.

[wolfgloam]

As a wolf, female is just what I am. There’s no thought or performance attached to it.

Growing up, I knew I was female, but I was what many would call a tomboy. Not because I rejected femininity, but because performing gender was never an instinct I had.

Being a wolf clarified this for me. She-wolves don’t perform being female, they just are. That’s always been the case for me, too, and having the language for it makes me feel more comfortable in what has already been true.

Femininity as a human social construct is a completely separate thing that I can engage with or not on my own terms, when I want, because I want to.