Why Are We Criticizing "TikTok Therians" For Not Grasping The Nuances Of Their Therian Identity... Most

John Matthias Kuehne, Electrical discharge patterns

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Happy pride month to Zero and Zero only

+ plus some silly Zero doodles and a nonbinary pride flag made with colors picked from the Prodigy poster

"I collected" but in present tense

For therians and other animal alterhumans:

As a kid, did you collect animal figures, and were they your kintype?

I ONLY collected animal figures of my kintype.

I collected animal figures including my kintype and other animals.

I collected animal figures, but not of my kintype.

I didn't collect animal figures at all.

I don't remember.

Different answers for different kintypes.

It's complicated / other answer

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I selfship with Zero not in a pedo way but in a "we're besties and we solve jigsaw puzzles and go to escape rooms and do other nerdy shit together" way

time to cat

https://youtu.be/wrxHTU8TOo4?si=0rwIXUYNGxPeE72_

I like this one. This band makes a lot of songs about aliens and first contacts. Might be too New Agey for you though IDK

Can anyone help me find songs that are about aliens non-metaphorically??? Or at least songs that can be interpreted as being literal. I want to put together an alienkind / starseed / wanderer playlist but having a hard time finding songs actually about aliens. Any genre is fine!!

Some activities that help me feel connected to my kintypes:

Light entity

- singing

- dancing (music plays a major role for my species)

- swimming (because it feels like flying/levitating)

- swinging on a swingset (same reason as swimming)

- meditating

- yoga and other exercises that improve flexibility (that's the closest you can get to shapeshifting with the human body)

Cat

- playing and hanging out with my cat

- climbing/bouldering

- doing obstacle courses (you can make one at home with various household objects)

- eating messily and licking my plate afterwards

- roaming outside at night (make sure to do this in a safe area and/or with people you trust)

- doing nature photography (because it feels like you're hunting an animal without actually killing it)

Obviously I am quite an energetic and active person, so these activities won't be suitable for everyone, but I hope that someone finds this post to be of help. I might add other stuff later on

The curious one

Fuck being in a pack, I wanna be part of a hivemind!! Let us wordlessly share thoughts and concepts and be as one!!!

Hellour

1. I mainly identify as alterhuman, otherspin (so I'm my special interest, basically) and voidpunk

2. I am a cat and an extraterrestrial (maybe even extradimensional?) being of light. Fun fact: I also used to be a reptile cladotherian

3. I experience plenty of phantom limb shifts, mostly of having a tail, pointed cat ears or ethereal tentacles. Lately I've been having a lot of paw shifts, too. Due to my amorphous nature, I experience a lot of cameo shifts: I've already been a snake, a river otter, a gryphon, etc.

4. Oooh this is such a huge giant question... Well, to sum things up, it is an experience that is melancholy yet very refreshing and exciting... It means having to sit for hours at school when I really want to be pouncing and playing and zooming about, but it also means that when I do something as mundane as, say, eating chocolate, I am experiencing it as a human who likes chocolate, as a cat who usually wouldn't be able to eat candy, and as an energy being who wouldn't be able to eat material food simultaneously. If I wrote any more, this would quickly venture into essay territory

5. The otherkin community (I'm using "otherkin" as an umbrella term to make the text less cluttered and because I've seen it used that way before) has a lot of similar dynamics and issues to the furry fandom and the wider LGBT+ community (gee I wonder why). On the one hand, it is very accepting and welcoming and holds space for beings from all walks of life, on the other hand it has a lot of petty high-school-esque drama, which isn't surprising for a community consisting largely of high schoolers. Guess the elder otherkind are out there doing their own thing *shrug*

6. Being a cat and an energy being means I'm very... Well... Energetic. That means a lot of delightful zoomies. My parents even bought me an indoor trampoline so I'll stop bouncing on furniture and breaking it :3 I'm also an infovore, so learning is yummy. That's why I actually don't hate going to school. I still have a lazy side that likes napping and sunning, though. Additionally I like hiking and exploring this beautiful planet, taking in all its sights and sounds and smells...

7. As a shapeshifter, I usually don't experience species dysphoria, this is just another form that I have to adapt to. And since cats can be found almost anywhere in the world and my alien species is nomadic, everywhere is my hearthome! Still, I occasionally experience episodes of dysphoria. One time, for instance, I didn't wear my cat ear headband to a youth club I go to and I had a mini-panic attack because my friends wouldn't perceive me as a cat

8. Don't feel pressured to put on a show in order to prove your alterhumanity (unless you want to, putting on a show is fun!). You are not the ambassador of your kintype. And like a snake sheds its skin, don't be afraid to shed parts of your identity that no longer serve you

9. I have the aforementioned black cat ear headband and a small collection of collars. I guess you can can count my fur coats and my obnoxiously brightly-colored clothing, too

10. Maybe I am in my larval stage and will hatch into my proper form after I die, maybe I'm here to collect information for my hive, maybe I had past lives, maybe I'm just an autistic girl who was ostracized in the past and deeply identifies with cats and incorporeal aliens. In this crazy universe, who knows what may be possible?

11. @kitsuneechoes @pocketsizedking @cosmicwolfdog @fr0g-0bzz3z3d tell me your SEEEECRETS (or don't, it's up to you)

If you are a alterhuman, reblog and answer these questions!

(don't be afraid to write a lot, do what you want ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯)

1/ Which category of alterhumanity do you belong to?

2/ What/who is/are your type(s)? (if you have any)

3/ Do you experience shifts? If so, can you tell us your most common shifts and your strangest cameo shift (if you've ever had a cameo shift)?

4/ How do you experience your alterhumanity in everyday life?

5/ What do you think of the community?

6/ What are the things that make you most comfortable and euphoric in your alterhumanity?

7/ Are you experiencing species dysphoria?

8/ What advice would you like to say to a young alterhuman who has just awakened?

9/ Do you have/want to have gears?

10/ Do you know/have any theories about the origin of your alterhumanity? If so, tell us! (all beliefs are legitimate)

11/ Tag someone/a creature to answer these questions!ㅤᵕ̈