#a-r-yips

[adolfusraptor1985]

I hate Reddit.

I HATE Reddit.

I don't feel safe there.

I used to use Reddit a lot because the therian and alterhuman communities on there felt welcoming and well informed.

That couldn't be farther from the truth.

As a physical nonhuman/holothere, Reddit is extremely uninformed and quite frankly exclusive. Talk of physical therianthropy immediately gets shut down or passed off as delusion. r/Therian is, in my opinion, toxic as fuck.

There's no doubt in my mind that if I were to post about being a holothere and supporting physical therians, I would be at high risk of being banned. Banned BY MY OWN COMMUNITY. If not, I would get called a delusional zoanthrope. Called delusional BY MY OWN COMMUNITY.

So yeah, fuch Reddit. Fuck r/Therian. Fuck the people who act so high and mighty for ignoring and silencing their own community.

PHYSICAL THERIANS WON'T BE SILENCED. We've always existed, and we'll always continue to exist. We won't let our own community drive us out.

[adolfusraptor1985]

This literally made us cry, thank you so much Mewo.

Daemon and I have been together as long we can remember. We're like brothers and our bond is extremely important to us. He has stepped forward and gotten me through SO MUCH shit I wasn't strong enough to face alone. I will always be unbelievably and forever grateful that he's been here to protect me.

Again, this means so much to the both of us. Thank you for this.

Anways shoutout to my fellow folks who actually are incredibly GREATFUL to be a system/collective.

Shoutout to folks whose headmates have saved them from going through this alone.

Shoutout to folks whose headmates improve their life daily and keep them safe.

Shoutout to folks whose headmates help them with tasks around the house and take the load off your back.

Shoutout to folks with headmates who they're friends with, who they're partners with, who they genuinely love and find comfort in.

Shoutout to folks with headmates who took on your burdens and made them their own, simply to protect you.

Shoutout to folks who wouldn't be here without their headmates.

Final fusion isn't what all plurals want or need. Some of us need a little extra help in life, and sometimes that comes in the from of headmates.

Plurality is not all suffering all the time. It is not defined by whatever trauma or struggle you've gone through, and it shouldn't be treated as such.

Be kind to your fellow plurals and their headmates. Don't assume everyone detests their alters as much as you may.

[adolfusraptor1985]

Does anyone else want to just worship nature itself?

Like- forgets about all the types of gods and religions there are and just... appreciate life. Pay respect by caring for its plants or living off its products. Have a display of objects like bones, feathers, and crystal, showing your admiration of its beauty.

I'm not a religious person, but the natural world means everything to me. I would totally worship it like a god.

[confronting-reflections]

Got that foxgirl dysphoria (desperate want for fox ears and a matching fox tail)

[trainingdummyrabbit]

:] yay yippy ! doodle requests...

[adolfusraptor1985]

So real. Agree with everything you said.

The berserker shifting thing has always pissed me off a lot. I've seen so many people on other platforms tell those with these types of shifts that it is "a dangerous symptom of a mental illness" and "not normal" and even "not real therianthropy".

Like- what the fuck? Everyone's experience is unique, and just because something has potential risks doesn't mean it's automatically a mental illness. And regardless of if it is, it sure as hell isn't invalid.

Honestly, fuck the alterhuman and therian wiki for always excluding clinical zoanthropes and physical alterhumans in general.

I wanted to look into berserker shifts and then I see shit like

Ah yes, because being a clinical zoanthrope means you're not alterhuman! Obviously!

Then there's also stuff like this in the official definition of modern therianthropy??

Has the same energy as 12 year olds on TikTok going "Therians KNOW they're human, they're not weird!!!! They're just normal human beings pls accept us 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺"

Why are we doing this??

Oh, you identify as an animal?? So cool!! What???? You identify as one physically????

Unacceptable! You shall not be a part of the community where people identify as animals!!!

What.

[foxgirlpauldrons]

I think its really interesting how whenever minecraft gets criticism for its slow updates from the twitter crowd, its dev #5’s fault personally for working for over 6 minutes per year or whatever, but whenever any game under any other team gets criticism, like splatoon for example, its the big company nintendos fault

Like, minecraft is managed by microsoft, if anything ppl should be pissed at them for not giving mojang enough support development wise.

[beckybarnes]

❗️Attention all RTC artists who have their own unique Jane Doe designs❗️

Hii so I wanted to do a little project where I draw a bunch of peoples’ Jane Doe designs sort-of interacting with each other in some sort of way (because I need to get out of my drawing comfort zone a little more)

Basically what I’m trying to say is please rb saying if it’s ok for me 2 include your Janey in this project (+add a pic for reference if u can)

(any1 whose Jane I draw will be tagged once it’s done)

[ladyvinnie]

I DREW @missraetaylor ‼️ (i was bored😖)

I KINDA LIKE IT☺️

[swsptvwrld]

genuinely i dont think the if im james dean youre audrey hephern music vid gets enough credit, like the lighting and everything was insane like guys why we not talking about this more? am i the only one who overanalyzes the music vids (◞‸◟；)

[canineical]

a very brown, sapphic poem

[adolfusraptor1985]

I really like this post, and I agree 100%.

I feel like the confusion around this topic also applies to some of the misinformation spread on other platforms (mainly by young therians).

I see people constantly throwing around the statement "therians identify as animals" immediately followed by "therians don't think they're animal".

...

But aren't those totally contradicting? I understand there's often more context not communicated in that statement, but at face value it's blatantly incorrect. Therians identify as animals because in some way they ARE animals. The entire purpose of identifying as anything ever is because that's what you are.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer to say I AM a dog, or I AM a fox, rather than saying I "identify" as such, but I still recognize that those two phrases mean the same thing. You used the perfect example earlier, if someone identifies as female, they are female.

I understand replacing "identify as" with "am" feels more impact full or genuine, but people need to understand that at the end of the day they still mean the same thing.

On "I don't identify as, I am" language

While this is no means an issue exclusive to the physically nonhuman community, that is the community I consider myself a part of, so that will be my focus.

With the steady growth in individuals being open about their physical nonhumanity (holotheres and clinical lycan/zoanthropes included), I think we-as-a-community need to sit down and have a discussion on language in order to nip something in the bud before it gets out of hand:

I don't "identify" as [thing], I am [thing].

This phrasing ^ is something I have seen a lot in an attempt to try and create a difficult-to-word distinction from otherkin and therians and the like. I understand there is no harm meant in this (again, it's a very difficult thing to communicate), but we need to be careful not to stray into common bigoted phrasing to try and describe things. Even if it is completely unintentional, the phrase above still carries the connotation that "identifying" as something is somehow different from being the thing, that they are on some level not ""truly"" what they say they are. We must remember that these are synonyms, you are what you identify as, that's what "identify as" means.

To use a personal example: yes, I identify as a dragon. Because I'm a dragon. If I didn't identify as a dragon then I would say I'm something else. To give it a parallel: I identify as female. Because I am female. If I didn't identify as female then I would say I'm something else. If someone identifies as something then they are that thing, full stop. We risk straying into dangerous territory if we mirror phrasing used against transgender individuals on a regular basis. "I don't identify as, I am" is not only flawed and inaccurate phrasing, but carries poor connotations.

I've made some posts in the past about how I've had some difficulty communicating in many otherkin or therian spaces because me physically being a dragon is sometimes quite different experience-wise (not 100% of the time, but often). It is difficult to phrase "was born a dragon, has always been a dragon and never been anything else" in a way that doesn't imply that non-physical dragons aren't dragons still. Because they are.

But what is a better way to say this then? Do we need wording to create distinctions for those that are perceptibly human and those that are not? Even this isn't so simple, because physical nonhumans that seem human outwardly also exist. That doesn't entirely solve the linguistic gap.

[therosevest]

UM my class was cancelled today... life can be a dream... shboom

[adolfusraptor1985]

Fully prepared to accept my alterhumanity as a symptom of mental illness.

Why?

Because it changes absolutely nothing.

Maybe it's a delusion. Maybe it's a reaction to dissociation. Maybe it's a coping mechanism to hell knows what. Maybe it's the onset of psychosis or related disorders (though I highly doubt it).

But all that doesn't matter, but it's still real to me. It's my experience. It's my identity. It doesn't matter what it's caused by, I still feel how I feel. Just because it's a delusion or disorder to the rest of the world doesn't mean it's not my own personal reality.

At the end of the day, I'm still not human, because that's how I experience my own identity.

[confronting-reflections]

Considering the injury she sustained in the Major, do you think Whislash has bad/sloppy handwriting due to having to use her non-dominant hand now? Or has she trained herself enough to write well with her right hand?

[adolfusraptor1985]

Totally!

I definitely wag my foot/leg a lot, but I think my most common translation is tilting or turning my in place of ear swivels. I also curl my tongue and pull my lips back when I yawn. When I'm with friends I sometimes rub my neck against their's or snap my teeth at them.

any other nonhumans "translate" animal behavior to their human bodies?

ive seen a lot of people who shake their feet to convey a wagging tail, but other than that, do you do something else?

i noticed i have a lot of these little translations and i find them cute. i do the slow blinking, the fullbody shake, the whale eyeing and the head tilting, which are obvs easier to do as a human. but i also managed to learn how to play bow!