#Because species dysphoria

[randompolykin]

"be comfortable in your own skin" I'm not comfortable in skin period.

Or at least not skin that isn't covered by fur or scales

“be comfortable in your own skin”

man this isn’t even MY skin 😭

[randompolykin]

you know what? I'm gonna ignore my anxiety and post this

been procrastinating making this but "here goes nothing" as they say for some reason

worried this is obvious, or everyone has been subconsciously meaning what I fear they mean

But, it's true so...

Here's to the otherlinkers

Not just the copinglinkers

But the funlinkers

The aeslinkers

The supportlinkers

The otherlinkers who are in-between those labels

The otherlinkers who feel none of those labels can describe why they link/they link for another reason

To ALL the otherlinkers

It seems like (this could just be me, idk) in a lot positivity posts saying that otherlinkers are valid and no lesser then therians, otherkins and fictionkins, there is a switch between using the term copinglink and otherlink, as if they are synonyms. But they aren't. One is a subset of the other, which includes alot more in it's definition. If you only mean copinglink, and are excluding the rest of us linkers, then say so. And if you aren't, then be a bit more careful on your wording, please. I am losing it slightly with this, my anxious brain can't handle the fact I have no idea over where everyone stands on this, yet I want to know

Otherlinkers are extremely valid and awesome, and are no less then voluntary identities. No matter why they link, only the linker gets to decide if they are any less then, with there link types, just how polykins can have kintypes that are more important to them than others, etc.

[mechagic]

Marcille is trans, but since she's half elf and was mostly surrounded by elves she didn't really have to transition that much, since you know elves are very fem

Every time someone tells her "hey you look masculine" she would just say that it came from her human father's side (if shes comfortable saying that) or that the lion decided to fuck her over one last time (as a joke)

Extra ramblings in the tags bc why not 👍

[peach-ribbons]

I was at work the other day and was suddenly so painfully aware that I was breathing and that my heart was beating and that when I moved it was because I have muscles and bones and joints and nerves, I felt so disgusting in that moment I hope it never happens again

[the-mechanisms-system]

Overwhelming euphoria from discovering your otherkin identity vs overwhelming sorrow from realizing you're stuck in a human body: fight!

[thegroundhogdidit]

i feel like the whole situation with randall tier could've been avoided if hannibal had just explained otherkin identities to him as a kid

[uncanny-tranny]

I think part of what helped my dysphoria in the short-term was to remember that human bodies are varied, but wow, they're also so similar, and that my body doesn't really differ from many men.

When I'm dysphoric about my chest? Well, other men are, too, and that means I'm not the only person like me. I've also done some research into human anatomy and biology, and it's taught me so much. The idea that male and female bodies are, like, separate species is patently false. The structure of the "average" male and female are actually more similar than you'd think, and that makes sense. When I'm dysphoric, I remember that little fact. Does it help every time? No, but it reminds me to slow down and remember that I'm not a species separate from everybody else.

This isn't to say this cures dysphoria. I'm still dysphoric, but at least reframing how I view myself and my body allows me to help myself. This is just one of my personal ways I help myself, and I hope it might perhaps give other people ideas or inspiration if they are in a similar place.

[wewillbeseen-butnotbeheard]

it’s a little weird calling myself an animal. not because it’s wrong but probably because i’ve thrown myself off the deep end a little and because it takes some guts to do that in a way maybe. and maybe it’s directly contradictory, but i would say that i am not an “alterhuman” and i’m not a therian despite what it sounds like

well i’m human. i guess. because i have the body of a human. sapience and humanity are different things really, so the only “human” thing about me is my own body. and that’s the problem. i can’t exactly call myself NOT human. because if i wasn’t human, i wouldn’t have the issues i do

i mean i’m not sure how much i feel like a member of the human race even if i am a person. if i think about it it’s weird. and if i’m not mistaken they often say that “love is what makes us human”. i’m not sure if i used to like that phrase or not. i swear i did. either way, i don’t get a lot of those feelings nor have i ever. i thought i would by this age. i sort of presumed that i would have those feelings by now. it sounds funny, but maybe it’s because i’m “not human”. it’s kind of unrelated, i know, but i feel like maybe it fed into this idea partially.

i don’t care really whether it’s “voluntary” or “involuntary” or whatever, it just IS. it’s more like a different lens that i put on my life experiences and weird feelings and behaviour that i couldn’t ever figure out, and when i see it from this angle it all makes sense. i’m just a fox. in SOME way, SOMEhow

i’m not sure why a fox. i WANT to be a lot of things but maybe i gravitated to foxes in general. if i felt like choosing, i’d probably want to be something similar. i think. i just feel stronger about foxes in the first place, it’s clearly more than just WANTING it right now

i’d like to feel more like a fox, and i want to push the whole thing further and further, as extreme as it gets. i feel like maybe i’m not nearly “fox” enough. i’m not. but i prefer being called fox and over a human and i feel a little bad most of the time once i remember i’m human. not to say i’m not human by default. i’m scared i am, i think. because that’s also distressing

i don’t want community and i don’t want to have “friends” that are just as weird or relate or anything, this is purely about myself. so i’m not part of a community. i already said it, but i’m not this or that i guess.

when i imagine myself in my head, it’s just some random human. not even how i look in real life. i’m doing it on fucking purpose and i hate it

i’m just a fox. yet i’m not at all. i’m not sure what brung me to start calling myself that and i think it’s stupid, but i don’t think i’ll stop simply out of my own desperation. my body is holding me back and sometimes i think i forget how low this keeps taking me. i don’t know

[irusanw4]

Babygirl I got dysphorias you ain't even heard of

[derpinette]

i am a therian but instead of something cool like a wolf or something i know in my heart i am a senile homeless dog Within

[joowee-feftynn]

watched a video of a cat doing cool acrobatics and now I'm sad that I can't actually do any of that

[sable-dream]

I stopped doing quadrobics in september (because my spine doesn't bend like a sable's and it felt stupid and weird) but for a while there I was kind of okay at it, so last night I thought I could pick it up again and be fine and BOY was that a mistake my shoulders are SO SORE 😭

[therxtking]

"How do I smile? What more can you expect of me? How do I say I love me for me when no one will, cause I could have been somebody? How do I act proud? What else do you want me to say? How do I say I'm content when that somebody coulda been pretty?"

[cicadaland]

the brain is very interesting also I just procrastinated for like five hours at least I sort of got half of the outline done on this essay but man this day really sucked I hope tomorrow is a lot better. I feel awful it's already going to be two days late and I don't even know if he accepts late work PLUS there's other late work I have to finish tomorrow and Thursdays are such busy days for me. I seriously need to log off but then I'd get distracted by like the wikipedia talk page for the article on the Haudenosaunee like I did last night

[nexus-nebulae]

yearning has gotta be the worst emotion ever invented why do i gotta want things that are physically impossible for me to achieve

[defending-harmony]

Men and women are absolutely not different species and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling you something