#CALLING ALL THERIANS

[umber-weed]

Not that anyone asked, but I think that therianthropy is a w i i i i i i i i d e spectrum.

//Therian meaning all alterhumanity, not just therianthropy but it’s the easiest thing for most to understand//

Therians who:

Identify as animals spiritually

Identify as animals mentally

Identify as animals emotionally

Identify as animals physically (I don’t quite get it, but do you.)

Identify as mythical animals

Identify as extinct animals

Believe they’re an animal trapped in a human body

Believe in non human past lives (that’s me!)

Are religious

Are Non-religious

Don’t quite understand themselves yet

Understood themselves since kindergarten

who decided to choose the therian label (despite falling into a different one)

That don’t use gear

That do use gear

That don’t do quads

That do quads

Have no clue what a therian even is

At the end of the day, we are ALL alterhuman, whether or not you use the therian label, the otherkin label, or whatever label you choose…

We are all non-human. We all deal with online and irl bullshit, let’s just be there for each other and look past the small differences, please? Can we not exclude each other? If we don’t understand, let’s ask questions respectfully.

I love you guys, you are all my family.

[therealcatlady123]

so, I'm a therian and I figured it out bc I read warrior cats so my yt feed is mostly warrior cats and it started giving me furry stuff bc some of the Fandom are furrys then it started giving me therian stuff. I ignored it at first but then I researched it and kinda realized it related to me so I started using it as an identity bc there's been signs all throughout my life and plus I heavily identify with it.

My experience with theriantropery is mostly phantom shifts (when u feel the body part of an animal u don't have, like a tail) or sensory shifts (when one of ur senses is heightened like one of ur therian types, like hearing) and I do some quads and vocals but I don't own any gear. I also sometimes experience that some days I don't identify that much with my theriantropery and other days I identify heavily with it.

To be a therian can be many things. U don't need to do quads and have gear to be a therian it's just something ppl do to connect with their theriantype. Same with vocals. Theriantropery is a connection, something ur born with.

CALLING ALL THERIANS AND FURRIES

how did you therians figure out you were a therian?

how did you furries figure out you were a furry?

what does it mean to be a therian to you/what is your experience as a therian?

what does it mean to be a furry to you/what is your experience as a furry?

[o-xurxur-o-sosoj]

Every time I come back here to find more people arguing over "physical nonhumans bad evil cultists. Let ME tell you what to call yourself and what your experience actually is" the more I'm glad I don't talk on this platform. I'm tired of the conservatism of therians on this site who are threatened by the idea that nonhuman identity is not all make believe and has physical reality for many of us. It is a waste of time trying to argue for the space to exist where people think our experiences are impossible and a threat to their way of life. I will not be told I'm "depersonalized" and forced to label myself pathologically in a way that implies I'm out of touch with reality. I am physically nonhuman. No amount of mocking or policing the language I use will change that.

[dieyeena]

Fine Dining

[coyoteinatree]

sobbing crying whining rolling on the floor rubbing my face on my bed cry cry

I need to be a dog I need ears and a snout and a tail and I need short hair I need to be a boy but a boy in the dog way and a dog in the boy way

whine whine cry awoo please please

[heregoesren]

something something my teacher telling us to close our eyes and just saying 'dog' and using it to show we all thought of the image of a dog/sound of a bark/etc

meanwhile me who just had a tail and ears shift because of it: oh well

[catwouthats]

“How can this many people simply vote for Trump in the first place?”

✨Gaslighting✨

And

✨Teaching themselves apathy because they have been pushed to the brink and are only focused on their own survival and think that this guy will give it because he

gaslight themmmm✨

[leaf-g0t-l0st]

haven't been online on here for a while, how are y'all?

[the-haven-keepers-collective]

My first attempt at writing that's vaguely like poetry: from a dragon

I am not what you think.

I walk around, awkward limbs and flighty mannerisms, and you think I’m strange. You have no idea how strange you would think I am if you only saw what was underneath.

Underneath, I am a creature of the ocean. Something that could never pass as human, and no longer wants to. Saltwater rushes through my veins in secret, silent to everyone but me. To me, it’s a roaring sound of the waves that I have never seen except for within my soul. It yearns to dissolve into the ocean like it could long ago, but for now those days are over and I am hidden underneath skin and muscle.

Underneath, there are wings; fins; antlers. They ache to tear from my back, through my skull. Nonetheless, they stay hidden for me, safe in the silence. Protected like I protected my kin in a lifetime so close to the surface and yet unreachable. Wrapped in a form that no longer coils around them like a serpent, but keeps them hidden from predators well enough I suppose.

I suppose.

I accept my form reluctantly and do what I can to make it mine. I shape it to feel better when I discover my gender, and when I can’t shape it to fit my true self I cover it in things that feel a little more like home. A little more draconic. A little more like the ocean that I never have seen, but feel homesick for anyway.

I do find joy in being in this body, at least. Out there, there are others. Angels working minimum wage, dragons sitting on a park bench, wolves buying groceries. We hide, but we do so to be free. We walk through crowds, and no one notices our scales and fur and feathers. But we do. We see each other, even if from miles away, and we see what’s underneath.

And underneath, none of us are what you think.

(Tags for side commentary/context)

[irbcallmefynn]

I am a firm believer that some people on this Earth were not meant to be humans. Like if we lived in a world where anthropomorphic animals were real and robots and toys and stuff could be as alive as any person? So many people would not be human. Myself included. And many of my friends, too.

I feel like we are maybe approaching a future where we can live in this world. We just have to fight for it. Fight the systems that want to keep that from you with paywalls and morals.

Fight for that dog or cat or fox or dragon or shark or bear or whatever hrt. For the plushy or rubbery or plastic or metal or wood or whatever body you should have.

Fight for the right to look how you feel and feel like you're you.

How do we fight for this? I don't know. Who do we fight? I don't know. When? Why? Where? I don't know. All I know is there's people that will try and keep that away from us and we can't let them.

[strawberrylemongrass]

"You say you're Ghost but you've never played call of duty, that's weird..."

oh yeah sure let me play TRAUMA SIMULATOR!! I love relaxing after a long day with THE WORST DAY OF YOUR LIFE - THE GAME!! really is great for my mental health :)

[16-puppies]

”I don’t consider theriantok part of the community!!” “I don’t consider physical therians part of the community!!” “I don’t consider xyz part of the community!1!1!!” OH MY GODDDDDD SHUT THE FUCK UP. ALL OF YOU JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP. PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF THE FIRST HOWL .WE HAVE TO BE BETTER THAN THIS!!! all of yall wanna pretend you’re accepting and different and Special soooo bad but it’s just not true is it! pull your snout out of your ass im begging. This applies to all of the community not just the “nasty tiktok therians”!!!!

[mechanical-sunchild]

I am here to tell all physical nonhumans and supporters to not engage with tumblr user ursacanid on any of his posts about physical nonhumans and perhaps consider blocking. He is not open to even tolerating physical nonhumans and will not change his mind. I ascertained this myself from a very long and frustrating conversation in which he kept rehashing very classic and familiar 'anti-thisidentity' povs. Namely:

He talks a lot about 'you can be tested and your DNA and blood etc would come back as human, therefore you are physically human' and won't accept any reasoning or arguments which oppose this as the one objective truth or suggest that the experience of being physically different even if it is all psychological perception warrants the use of the word physical or literally (blank) 1/2

Not accepting the personal happiness/euphoria of physical nonhumans and the fact it's harmless (except the issues he's invented) to be a good enough reason for the use of the word 'physical' and anyone saying 'I am literally physically nonhuman' due to above 'it's illogical' mentality. 2/2

'You're special snowflakes', although he didn't use that exact phrasing he may well have as he believes that physical nonhumans simply enjoy being more special than other nonhumans and enjoy starting fights by interjecting that they are physically nonhuman and accusing people of being ableist and exclusionary.

'I don't understand your labels, so you must be doing it to confuse me', he strongly believes that physical nonhumanity is a confusing term because of it's inclusion of the word 'physical' and that refusal to change it to something he deems is more fitting is being done because the community likes to confuse people and make communication difficult and unclear.

'You're in an echo chamber because you don't like it when I tell you that you're wrong', dislikes that most physical nonhumans won't and thinks they absolutely should debate him on their identity despite the fact that he won't accept any counterargument that doesn't result in you relenting that you've got a human body. Hates all that go 'Nope I am literally this though' due to feeling they do not have to justify their identity to strangers and can't seem to understand that hostility towards this behaviour is because it is rude and uncalled for and that no group enjoys it when people not in their group or even in their group tell them that they're not actually (blank). 1/2

Sees this as indication that physical nonhumans are a toxic group which exists in an echo chamber because wanting support for your identity, or at least tolerance, and to be included/considered in the wider community/communities language and disliking anti's who tell you you're not what you are is apparently wrong. 2/2

In other words, it's completely pointless and probably upsetting to try and speak with him on the matter. His posts are going to be inflammatory because he really wants to convince the community to go against physical nonhumans, or at the very least acknowledge that 'it's not physical, it's (blank)'. I have sympathy, he's Autistic and so am I and I know what it feels like when something doesn't sit right with your internal perception of 'real and logical' and how the mind makes a mountain out of that molehill because of it, so please please don't harass him, but I keep seeing his one post go around with different people trying to get something across to him and I'm telling you it's not happening. Here is all he has to say and will ever say, you don't have to engage with him further.

[scintillating-scales]

I mentioned in a previous post that trauma and neurodivergence has influenced my nonhumanity. It's honestly a big part of why I've gone back and forth on whether or not I really am nonhuman, or if it's just like. A trauma response/coping mechanism. I know when I was very young, I liked to imagine myself as a dragon, and wished so much to become one. After all, being a dragon means you're big and strong and powerful and nobody can hurt you. And if you ever do fear for your safety, you can simply fly away. Being a dragon meant safety, and that was important to me, because I didn't feel it much as a human.

It's also a way to sortof reclaim the emotional isolation I've faced my entire life. Part of my particular brand of neurodivergence is my inability to connect with anyone, and my very low empathy. I don't know if I was born like this, or if it was stripped from me after a childhood full of neglect and solitude. But it's something I've had to come to terms with and learn to live with. Dragons in my mind are very solitary. Of course there are dragons who are social and feel things very deeply and have close-knit families. But I am not one of them. I'm the type to hold my own territory and immerse myself in whatever matters concern myself and myself alone, without care for the world beyond.

Then the trauma I experienced later as a young teen served to dehumanize me completely, and further divided me from the very few people I would've considered myself 'close' to. All the shame from what I went through manifested in a sense of deep self-loathing, that has never really gone away, and has only made me acutely aware of how inhuman and monstrous I am. Being a dragon then was less about safety, and more about embracing the alien, predatory sense of self I had. That specifically, in conjunction with my inability to connect, has created the very reptilian form I take. Nothing about me is soft or mammalian, and it feels wrong to ascribe any traits of that to what I am.

Because of all of my 'issues', every interaction I have involves masking. I like to think I'm pretty good at it. I come off as charismatic to those around me. But it's draining, unnatural, and it makes me feel even more like an impostor; like a coiled, tense predator. A dragon has no expectations of the sort. It can be distant and isolated and callous, with no mincing of words or faux platitudes. It can be vicious even, with no 'violation' of how a dragon is meant to be. It may be resented for its nature, of course. But it is no less draconic for it.

Ultimately, my draconity may only be a product of the hand I was dealt in life. A way to cope with an isolated experience. But my identity has been draconic for so long, I don't think I can dismiss it, even if it's not the typical experience for nonhumans.

[lemonynuggets]

“Lmao why are you fictionkin are you insane. Imagine thinking you’re a character irl what’s wrong with you” have you considered I can do whatever I want

[andiv3r]

I feel like a lot of people would be fixed if they knew the distinction between therian and otherhearted. "Im not therian cuz I do feel human but like I feel ssoooooo much like this animal like ohhhh my god but i dont identify as it so im not therian" look up the definition of otherhearted im begging u