#alterhuman in public

[adventures-of-trout]

Had a wonderful time at the Ohio Renaissance Festival this weekend- met several other therians and furries which was super exciting!

[petbrain]

you called me a yapper knowing full well im a barker

[fellow-queer-birdguy]

Fellow creatures!! Look what I made!!

I customised my shoes!!!! Added some paw lines and symbols (nonhuman and biohazard)

[lemon-pawz]

It's crazy how I (a wolf) just learned how to use the bus transit system 🐺🤌

[sodatabs-ontherun]

Note do not do public quads especially when on a trip for summer school, I was harrased but those kids did get kicked out

I was wearing my mask in front of teens on a hike, not a good idea

[thatstuckietherian]

🐈hey hi hello!!! this is my silly little therian/alterhuman/otherkin sideblog for posting rambles and such! been wantign to interact with the community more sooo here we are

🐆you can call me stuckie or moth, but feel free to make up nicknames for me based off of my kintypes (like pidge, silver, blue, etc.)

🐺info abt kintypes and abt me under da cut

🦊theriotypes: melanistic grey wolf, silver fox, feline suntherian + ambitherian (specifically domestic cat and snow leopard), seawing (from wof)

🦉hearttypes: crow, melanistic barn owl

🐍linktypes: moths, ball python

🐛fiction kintypes: pidge gunderson (voltron: legendary defender), pidge (voltron: force), sylvester ashling (epithet erased)

i have lots of fiction hearttypes/linktypes btu i wont list them all as i want this to be a more therian-centric blog

🌠kinsidering: spacekin, machinekin, consolekin (specifically nintendo consoles), maned wolf, cross fox, marble fox, werewolf/werecreature, amphithere, peryton, reshiram, xurkitree, rayquaza, palkia, kaiju, botw/totk link, enderman, nightwing, icewing, winged human (? idk how to describe it)

🐉as for info abt me, im an autistic guy whos special interests are stuffed animals, speedrunning, and pokemon (i will assign pkmn to any1 who asks) currently hyperfixated on homestuck unfortunately (/j), but im also interested in drawing, writing, making ocs, most 2010's era cringe stuff, smo, botw/totk, hollow knight, voltron, sonic prime, warrior cats, creepypasta, old tech/consoles, taxidermy/vulture culture, biology, reptiles, and bugs!!

🐾if u ask me abt any of these things i will be very happy, i love yapping to anyone who'll listen :] anyway i hope u enjoy ur stay at my silly little internet corner

help how do i center thhis gif

[p4ws-n-cl4ws]

going crazy rn /pos

I'm in public with my mask and till on and some rlly kind person passed by me and gave me a smile and thumbs up before running off😭

[lupi-usque-ad-finem]

daily shifts are fun and all until you’re sitting at brunch with your handlers in silent terror that everyone in this room can see the bigass bipedal wolf at table 23 who is now shaking with an overpriced mocha latte in paw

[c4fin4t3d-f1sh]

Shoutout to that one young therian me and my boyfriend saw at the park yesterday that was too scared to talk to us (all of us, including the young, supposedly(?), therian we're wearing our masks).

Never stop being yourself, even in public. <3

[froggowivdagudvibes]

If this can get 3 notes in the next 5 minutes then ima go public gearing

[who-is-page]

What are your thoughts on the use of "ΘΔ", and where do you see it as appropriate/inappropriate to use? Thanks!

This question might be better directed at my partner system House of Chimeras (@liongoatsnake), who wrote and published Symbols Found In The Alterhuman & Related Communities. I'm afraid that while I know about the theta-delta's general history, I'm actually not very well-informed of the history behind "ΘΔ" separately as a character set used by the therian community. I want to say it was started by Ember (@synanthropic) on Twitter in late 2019 or early 2020 (the earliest use of it I can find on Twitter through its search bar is here, when a polytherian mentioned it in a reply to a suspended account, and I know Ember's account was suspended sometime during the Naia debacle in 2019-2021, which makes me feel like I'm right about this timeline?), but beyond that, I'm afraid I don't know enough to say much on it besides things that are already obvious (i.e. that people shouldn't combine the symbol with known hate symbols/movements). If there's a major controversy connected to "ΘΔ," then I am entirely unaware of it and have no knowledge of such. Sorry anon!

[adventures-of-trout]

Fit for the Ren Faire I’m attending tomorrow- IM SO EXCITEDDDD

TROUTS FIRST PUBLIC OUTING- IMA BE RACCOONING ALL AROUND BECAUSE IM GOING THERE TO BE WEIRD SO THATS EXACTLY WHATS GONNA HAPPEN

🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝

(Featuring babie Daryl whom is pestering me as I try to type this and my gross bathroom lmao)

[todays-a-good-day-to-be-tired]

I'm gonna wear my tail to scouts tmrw and no ones stopping me :) (technically it would be my first time sort of public gearing but my troops chill so B) )

[crocodyless]

be normal while eating beef jerky challenge (impossible!!)

[niimda]

I've been following some of those plural poll blogs for a little while now. I think it's fun to answer questions, especially ones that make me have to think really hard or consult others. It's a good way to learn about the worlds I inhabit and the people I inhabit them with, but I've been noticing some (if not most) of the questions are almost.. not applicable to us or our experiences. Specifically now: questions that want you to answer as or for the collective.

"Collective favorite [X]", "[Y] that describes everyone", "Collective opinion on [Z]."

While thinking about these questions I realized that it probably feels pretty bad to be expected to be radically different from everyone you share a brain with. That kind of expectation can unintentionally de-legitimize peoples' experiences and make them feel like they aren't "separate enough" to count.

At the same time, we don't have…a collective anything. Even this body is off-limits to at least one person. Trying to make all of us agree on something has made us run into more butting of the heads than anything else in the past six years, and that feels very strange! Being asked to exist cohesively and uniformly causes some of the most upset I've ever seen.

My favorite ice cream flavor is pistachio. Verin likes specifically Quality Dairy's Death by Chocolate. Oliver wants nothing to do with any of it. To answer with a single "collective favorite" would mean disregarding most opinions in favor of one. It's a silly example, and it's true most of the questions tend to be silly and un-serious in nature. So why should we have to fight over whose favorite gets the spotlight?

There are plenty of other common plural-community things that don't apply to us, being a system of less than ten with only one (introverted) introject. We don't tend to subscribe to common frameworks (roles, origin labels, and the shiny new consciousness labels), and microlabels in general just don't seem to have that luster. Being unconventional isn't new to us for many, many reasons.

The polls aren't even really my main concern here. We don't follow many, so it's possible it's just a few of them. But it's not the only context we're expected to present as less individual than we actually are.

The name of the group, Solsten, is neutral at best for more than half of us, but existing without a link to others in the system online is heavily frowned upon. "System tags" are commonly required in Discord servers that have bots for accessibility. Intra-system communication in public is laughable & weird at best, and outright banned at worst. We are expected to be a very single group of people.

We've known about each other for years longer than we've known about the plural community, so I guess it makes sense that we don't fall in with the norms presented here. We're in the age range now where we're "too old" for the youngest members to be comfortable with, and "too young" for the oldest.

The easiest thing for us to do has been to find others through our interests, and we've been very lucky to find three(!!) other systems who we're now very close with. They don't seem to be as interested in alterhumanity as I am, but I think all I can really do is take what I'm given. They listen and allow us as much space as we need to be uniquely and separately ourselves.

This was sort of an aimless ramble from the get-go. I haven't been here long enough to make in-depth critiques of common trends. (It's my understanding that other platforms like Dreamwidth and some personal websites host wonderful content of that variety.) But maybe we should start making all of our coworkers decide if they all had to be one animal what it would be. Even if our coworkers are already strongly and separately wolves, birds, and human beings.

[sodatabs-ontherun]

☆°•I wonder who that could be•°☆