hi!! so I'm gonna explain my own experience it could be different for others
basically, my body even tho it does not look like the stereotypical animal of what I am, is that animal. so my body (even if it doesn't "look" how it's supposed to) is that animal. I'm nonhuman and that makes every other part of me nonhuman, and that means biologically too!! my blood and bones and DNA are that of a ringtail (my species). some parts of me are more ringtail showing imo too. like my eyes, teeth, nails, proportions. basically my DNA and biological species isn't human either, it's a ringtail. because my body is physically my species that includes the inner workings of it too !! I hope this helps
@sleepy-sunny-puppy
OH MY GOD. PHYSICAL THERIANS ARE VALID. this shouldn't be discourse. if you are a physical anything, you are valid. I'm so sick and tired of the mainstream resources available saying it's all nonphysical or it's only okay if you "recognize your human body"
my body has never fucking been human and it never ever will be. for some, they do have a human body or partially do!!! and many of us don't as well!!!!
I am physically and biologically a ringtail and have never ever been human in literally any way. sure my sapience is higher but does that mean anything? NO I'm so frustrated and upset
thank you for reading my rant
when I regress, I regress to such a small age I can't stand to be without my caregiver/girlfriend, I just want to be her little baby and have her hold me I can't take it
but I regress due to stress mainly and I get stressed when I can't see her then regress which makes it worse ;-;
as a personal thing, I don't think I like the term therian anymore, it just, it feels like it's connecting me to humanity too much
I am not a human, or even connected to humanity at all which is why I really like just being called a holothere or nonhuman
(this is just a personal experience for me, I know not everyone relates to this!!)
EDIT: I AM NOT SAYING THOSE WHO ARE THERIANS ARE HUMANS!!!!! I personally am not comfortable with the term and do not like it. But I also understand that those who are therian are also not humans!! We all have a different, or no, connection with humanity. Physical therians do exist!
physical nonhumanity is not just OK , just acceptable , just valid or otherwise - physical nonhumanity is , honestly , as profound and sacred as other expressions of nonhumanity .
regardless of origin , regardless of reasons , any of that . everyone have rich lives , rich stories to tell about those lives , and that is so very wonderful !
New ref of my main oc my silly my shayla
Be the creature you want to be
Be the nonhuman you want to be
Be the alterhuman you want to be
Be otherkin
Be therian
Polykin
Polytherian
Fictionkin
Plantkin
Voidkin
Conceptkin
Be uncommon
Be common
Be you. <3
apparently there are a bunch of tiktokers planning to migrate to tumblr so i'm on my knees begging PLEASE THERIANS OF TUMBLR. AIM TO EDUCATE. NOT BE MEAN. I used to fakeclaim fictionkin and people who had more than 3 kintypes and now I literally kin the concept of dissociation I promiseee i PROMISEEE THEY CAN LEARN.... Being mean won't help they'll just be pushed away aim to educate and do it at a slow pace. Let them know therianthropy isn't a connection, and use the term otherhearted as proof. Ask them what's wrong with identifying as an animal physically, and tell them that anti-therians will hate us anyways and there's no point alienating parts of the community that do nothing wrong. Gently let them know that not every alterhuman has the ability to do quadrobics and that saying it's required for an identity is ableist. BE PATIENT. BE KIND. IF YOU'RE NOT THEY WON'T LISTEN. BEING HARASSED WAS WHY I KEPT HATING ALTERHUMANS WHO WERE SOMETHING OTHER THAN THERIAN/OTHERKIN.. BEING HARASSED WAS WHY IT TOOK AGES FOR ME TO ACCEPT THERIOGENDER BEINGS. BEING HARASSED WAS WHY I COULDN'T EVEN COMPREHEND CONCEPTKIN FOR MONTHS. If someone had told me about it respectfully i may have changed my mind so much sooner so don't make the same mistake. thank you for coming to my ted talk
PLEASE I NEED CREATURES TO BARK/SPEAK/GROWL TOO ME
Reblog this post to let others ask you question(s)!
I tried to make this accesible to all alterhumans.
🌈 - how many _types do you have?
🌌 - when was your awakening?
👾 - is your _type real or fictional?
👽 - do you enjoy being a […] (therian, otherkin, ect. Just put your label here)
🧷 - what's the reason of your identity? You can say that you don't know. (Ex. "My theriantrophy is spiritual)
💚 - what are your beliefs? Does it affect your identity?
⚧️ - does your _type have a different gender/sex than you? Do you even know your _type's gender?
🧤 - do you own any gear? If yes, what is it?
🏳️🌈 - are you also a part of the LGBT+ community?
🌚 - do you experience shifts? If yes, what kind of shifts do you experience most often?
🌝 - how does your identity affect your everyday life?
💊 - is your _type more nocturnal or does it prefer daytime?
🤖 - for how long do you know about your identity?
🍁 - do you think that you were born with your identity or has it "started" during your life?
🧸 - does your _type affect your diet?
🛍️ - do you have alterhuman friends? If yes, in real life or in the internet?
🍂 - what is your _type's natural territory/home?
😺 - is your _type an animal?
That's all byeeee :3
Never ever mistake me. I am not just in favor of the uwu romantic version Being An Animal. It's not all moodboards and waxing poetic about tails/wings/etc and running in the forest wild and free. All of that stuff is GOOD and FINE and a nice outlet for all flavors of nonhumans, please do not stop engaging with that sort of thing. I'm talking about me also wanting to embrace the gross and so-called ugly and less fortunate aspects of animality. like when you're wrestling a large prey animals into submission so you can eat that day but it fuckin Gets You with a claw/antler/horn/hoof/beak/etc and suddenly you're hurt real bad. Lost an eye, a toe, half your tail. Got a permanent limp from being stomped so hard that will make hunting difficult so you may not live your full natural lifespan. dying of severe cold or heat and then your body decomposing slowly, being food for other things. scent marking with piss, shit, musk. being young and inexperienced so you go without food for days cuz you can't hunt for shit.
there is no part of animality that is something I don't desire. I want it all, because all of me is animal. does it suck to downgrade from human sized complex brain to smaller wolverine brain? No not really! I am not mourning the loss of things I never asked for in the first place. sure I could say that woo, less complex brain means less capacity for things to go wrong, but that is a very human lens to look through. does a wolverine know it's "lucky" that it cannot have certain human mental illnesses because its brain may not be that complex? no, and that's why I'm not worried. I could turn into one fully physically overnight and then die stupidly 2 years later and that would still be ideal. sure I also may romanticize some things in ways that are not really Natural for my species, like how I think places that feel like Home just seem so beautiful to me, but no damn animal is perfect. I am allowed a couple flaws. several, in fact, lmao.
I Crave It All
if you were a loom kid did you grow up into a Kandi kid cuz same