#amphibious therian

[elliott-the-creature]

Autistic therian culture is stimming by acting like your ‘type (like vocalizing, biting, swimming, climbing, doing quads, etc.) and getting weird looks from others

[bumpytoad]

I'm Alterhuman because I have an Alternative experience and way of being human that the mainstream doesn't recognize as typical or really have a name for, and this involves and affects my self-perception. I also love things on an extremely deep level that most humans don't understand or share the same appreciation for or even much of any appreciation for, and these things have become part of me.

For me, it's neurological and psychological and identity-forming differences, special interests, defense mechanisms, and imprinting that inform how I experience things, and this way of perceiving is something that does make my spiritual sense of the world rather different, but it's not primarily spiritual (Especially not in the same sense as having a bunch of unverifiable beliefs), and imagination and various things that might not be so unusual do definitely play a big part.

I don't think of reincarnation as playing much of a role. I'm not sure about past lives. I don't have some elaborate backstory or memories. I don't have dreams regarding flashbacks as another species, or living in another time period or being on a different planet. I don't have special abilities from being Alt+H. I do, in fact, believe that anything could be possible, including alternate realities and universes, but for me it's more psychological and I'd like to concern myself with the here and now, rather than speculate about past lives or an afterlife.

I am myself, I am me. Through awareness, it's possible to transcend biology, at least to a certain degree, or else not let it limit you. I am ultimately a creature of my own design. My imagination definitely is a big part of what makes me who I am, though this isn't roleplaying or pretending. For me, it's an artistic construct that became an ingrained part of myself, as well as a result of imprinting and, yes, perhaps a certain level of spirituality. It has sociological implications and relates in a major way to me being Autistic. It's part of my self-concept and is a personal identity and subjective experience.

[vermilionstarlight]

Made because I'm bored on the shitter. No shapeshifting because I know this website and I know my sphere of influence and it'll automatically sweep.

A statistically significant portion of you are transgender / therian / queer / autistic / otherkin weirdo freaks (affectionate) (loving) (I fit almost all of these descriptors wholly or partially)

OVERLY DETAILED ELABORATION BELOW THE CUT:

1. Flying - Top speed of Mach 1. You're immune to the negative effects of G force on your body, low pressure environments, low oxygen, low temperatures, and damage from air resistance.

2. Amphibious - Your swimming is not enhanced (you must learn to swim, same as anyone). Any water inhaled is magically turned into breathable air as it passes through your mouth or nose. You are immune to pressures up to and exceeding that of the Marianas trench, low deep-sea temperatures, and the bends. Wildlife that would otherwise be aggressive or dangerous will simply ignore you, and venom from aquatic or semi-aquatic creatures will not affect you. Basically, you're safe from hazards unless you explicitly attack something.

3. Teleport - You have the ability to place the portals (similar to those from the popular video game Portal) at your choosing, and they can be placed at any point in space that you can see. It can be any 2D shape, so long as it fits within the area of a five m^2 square. You can 'bind' the portal to an object (car, wall, article of clothing, yourself), or you can simply have it freestanding in the air and be stationary relative to the Earth's surface. You can only place two pairs of portals at a time. If you attempt to place a new pair, you must choose an existing pair to remove. If you close or remove a portal while something is passing through it, it shears that thing perfectly in two. You can't open a portal in a position or orientation that would have it intwrsect with a solid object, only liquids, gases, or plasma.

4. Time Loop - You can start a time loop of indefinite length at any time. It resets whenever you wish, or when you die, whichever comes first. You can end the current loop at any time, or begin a new loop with a new start point and reset interval/reset condition at any time. You can only have one 'start point' at any given time.

5. Telepathy - At any time, you can think of a specific person and project a thought, concept, emotion, or sensory experience into their mind. Once you do this, it establishes a connection that the recipient can use to transmit in the same fashion. You can create telepathic "group chats" between people, with a maximum of 10 participants (including you). Any participant can exit the connection at any time.

6. Inventory - When you're touching an object, you can will it into an extra-dimensional space. There are no weight or size limits. You can store singular discrete objects, containers and their contents, and "piles" of objects (like a mound of dirt). You cannot store living organisms, meaning any object put into your storage is 100% sterilized. Non-living organic matter (vegetable matter, meat, bone, dead bacteria) can still be stored. You can mentally access this space at any time, and can get a complete mental inventory of everything stored inside it at any time. Time doesn't pass for anything stored in this space, and qualities like arrangement and temperature are preserved. Whenever you wish, you can retrieve an object from the space, and it appears as it was when you stored it, and in any orientation you wish, so long as it's touching you as it comes out (e.g. it comes out of the space in your palm, at your fingertip, on top of your head, touching your ankle, etc.). If you attempt to retrieve an object in an orientation that would make it intersect with anything solid, the retrieval attempt fails.

7. Invisibility - You can, at any time, choose to switch between being visible and being invisible. This does not affect the way light interacts with you, but instead makes it so that anyone perceiving you will contextualize you as not being there, and never having been there recently. The fact that you are walking around, talking, and interacting with the world around them does not change that you are not there to them. Light still reflects off of you and hits their eyes, but they will simply be unaware of the fact that someone walked into the gas station two minutes ago and is standing in front of them right now. Because the you are not there at that moment, most suspicious activities do not register to anyone perceiving you, because you aren't present to them at that moment, and people that are not present aren't able to do things.

8. Healing - When you touch an organism, you are able to heal it of any given perceived malady, affliction, or harmful effect. This relies on the perception of the one receiving the healing, not on the perception of you, the healer. Cancer, aging, alzheimer's, even relatively "minor" afflictions like male pattern baldness or a mild tendency towards pimples. There's no specific limit, so long as the receiver perceives it to be bad or harmful. This also can heal congenital disorders. Specific afflictions can be targeted, so a "full heal" isn't always necessary. If you want to heal someone of a spinal disorder, but they were also raised Catholic and perceive their sexual desires to be inherently harmful and sinful and in need of removal, you as the healer can choose to only heal the former and not the latter, if you are uncomfortable with that. If somebody wishes to have their hearing damage healed, but they are also a paraplegic and consider that to be an important part of their person-hood that shouldn't be changed, it's possible to target specifically the hearing damage and not the paralysis. This ability is also able to affect mental afflictions, chemical imbalances, and the like. This will change the receiver's mind to be in line with whatever they consider to be "healthy," relative to their perceived affliction. It is not possible to apply healing without the desire of the receiver. Verbal consent is not required, only conscious desire for the affliction to be remedied. It's supernatural bullshit, so there's no gray areas. If they would have said yes to an explicit question of consent, you're able to do it even without verbal consent. If they would have said no, then you aren't able. This is specifically to allow emergency life-saving healing, in the case of someone being unable to explicitly verbally consent. Morally dubious, but generally very helpful. Also, so long as you and nobody you care about are killed instantly (or killed too far away for you to heal in time), you and everyone you care about is immortal for as long as any individual desires.

9. Mind-Reading - You are able to non-consensually probe the mind of anyone you can directly see (television screens do not count, there must be direct sight-line between you and the target). You can see any memories they have, though the clarity and veracity of these memories is context-dependent. You can glean their immediate surface thoughts, and you can perceive through their subjective experience. You aren't immediately made aware of their deepest most subconscious desires, but you can analyze and infer from their thoughts and memories to deduce such things. Unless you're skilled in self-reflection and psychology, it won't be easy to immediately understand their entire person-hood. This may be morally dubious at best, but it can be useful for vigilantism and the like, depending on your moral allowance for such things.

10. Skill Retention - Your brain just works better when it comes to getting better at mundane skills. You are not supernaturally more capable than a normal human, you are just able to rapidly get better at things within normal human limits. Skills come easier to you, and not just things like "playing the piano" or "throwing objects" or something. You also find it easier to improve with critical thinking skills, emotional awareness, general kinesthetic coordination, and other such things. Additionally, you retain these skills far better than a normal person can. You don't easily "get rusty" with any sort of skill unless you go entirely unpracticed for decades. You can learn how to perform advanced acrobatics, go unpracticed for 15 years, then pick it back up at almost the exact same level of technical skill. Some tasks require more than just skill and mental capacity, like sports, and you're granted no special ability to get more physically capable. However, this ability does make it significantly easier to learn how to keep yourself disciplined and stick to a routine, allowing you to become more physically capable anyways. You are the most average superhero ever.

11. Clairsentience - You are able to create a supernatural, intangible "camera" whenever you like. You can perceive sounds and sights through this camera, even if you are physically deaf or blind. Your brain functioning is changed so you're able to adequately process two simultaneous sets of sensory input without biologically blue-screening. You can move the camera around as you please, with no range limit, and it's able to move at speeds up to 0.99c (99% of light speed). You can spy on anything, anywhere, whenever you want. Spy on billionaires, spy on political backroom deals, spy on your asshole neighbor to steal their Dropout password.

12. Animal Speech - You can intuitively communicate with and understand any and all animals. Animals that are solitary and lack much social capacity like tigers, polar bears, and some shark species will mostly make for boring and/or antagonistic conversation, though they'll still be able to transmit and receive basic emotions and concepts (territory, fear, food, bright, dark, baby, sex). More social animals, like many canines and felines, will be far better conversation. They still don't have the complex language capacity of a human, but they'll be more amiable even if they aren't generally able to handle more complex concepts. Very intelligent and social animals like crows, orcas, or elephants will likely be mostly comparable to a full human person in terms of conversation, if not functionally the same. They have generally better language capacity than many other animals, and complex social intelligence.

[starscatteredsky]

hello! hope this request finds you well, could you do selfcare tips for a omni therian?

selfcare tips for an omni therian!

pt: selfcare tips for an omni therian! end pt

keep a journal or scrapbook of all your kintypes!

brush your hair/fur!

use moisturizers or other skincare products to keep your scales/skin/etc healthy and cared for (or use extra to feel a bit better if you're amphibious at all)!

take time out in nature! just connect to yourself! try to find time to go to a few different biomes if they’re nearby to connect to different parts of yourself!

try all sorts of different vocals! just have fun!

relax and watch some nature documentaries!

get some comforting snacks or teas that remind you of your kintypes!

get some plushes, chewellery, and fidgets/stimtoys that remind you of your kintypes or help with certain instincts. (like biting, packs, etc)! and have a selfcare night!

hope these help!! i love doing selfcare tips :D - mono

[ID in alt!]

[cowboywizard]

THERIAN FAQ !

hey hey hey! welcome to my post where i try to explain therianthropy to the best of my ability for the ill-informed, uninformed, and maybe even the well informed to inform them of my personal experiences, definitions, and answers to the burning questions i see in the tag and on kin help blogs.

first of all, what even is a therian?

by my own definition, a therian is someone who believes that they were an animal, mammal, reptile, amphibious or whatever in a past life. it comes with the belief of reincarnation. it is identifying as, not with. it is not someone who believes they were a demon, ghost, celestial being, star, mythical creature, or anything other than an animal, living or extinct. those are called otherkin.

how does Google define therian?

the only Google related search i could find was UrbanDictionary which defines it as,

“Short for therianthrope a therian is somebody who feels a connection with an animal.”

this was taken out of a very large paragraph, keep in mind.

this is very close to my own personal definition, though the original source states,

“Not necessarily an animal from this plane either, although most therians tend to be animals such as wolves or big cats there are some who believe themselves to be unicorns or other mythical creatures.”

by my own definition and what i have seen in the tag, this is not the case with therianthropy. they mixed in the term otherkin with therian.

while they are closely related, they are not the same as previously explained.

while i cannot tell you myself if you are a therian, but there are methods.

these are the few i strongly discourage you from doing:

1. Having someone work a pendulum for you.

NEVER have someone do a pendulum test online or for you! even if you are in the room, this is not reliable. while pendulum tests are very good to have, do them yourself if possible! 

i have personally never used a pendulum, but the website crystal tiger says to never let someone else use your pendulum, and to never use someone else’s. pendulum tests use your own energy, and if someone else uses it, their energy makes it go all screwy.

2. Saying you are one without research.

When i say research, i mean research. really dig in there.

When was the term “therian” coined? Who was the first therian? There are so many more things you need to research. Research does several things.

1. It helps you find out if you truly believe you are a therian.

2. Keeps you well informed if you do join the community.

And many more.

3. Choosing your theriantype.

This is a very big one.

You can not pick your theriantype/theriotype.

If you decide it yourself, you are not a therian.

 So how do you find out if you’re a therian?

1. Meditation.

This is what i personally did. There are guides online, but this is how I did it myself.

The first time you meditate, sit upright. Look up celestial white noise in youtube, put in headphones, and sit with your legs uncrossed if that’s uncomfortable. Now, for a few minutes, breathe in and say 1 mentally. breathe out, and say 2 mentally. continue this pattern until you get to 240. you may have felt tingling or saw flashes of light, but don’t worry about this. this is normal.

you are allowed to think, but do not interact with these thoughts. you can watch/listen, but do not think further on them. if a question pops up, do not answer it. if something happens, do not comment on it.

if you lose count, open your eyes and start over.

it may take a few tries, but once you hit 240, you should be good to ask for yourself to show up. then, you will have a bonding experience, whether that be shaking hands, hugging, or just having them poke you. there has been a case of a wolf therian being eaten by himself and then becoming the wolf. it is different for everyone.

i, being river otter and sea otter kin, have had to meditate upwards of twenty times. river otter was harder to figure out, and sea otter just took about six tries.

my experiences were hard to tell if they were enough to be bonding experiences. the river otter was long periods of eye contact each time, and the sea otter just held my hands down on my chest with its paws.

2. Doing a pendulum test on yourself.

While you can’t use someone else’s pendulum, you can use your own pendulum if you own one, or plan to buy one. Once again, I am unaware how these work, but good luck if you choose this method.

3. LONG periods of self-questioning.

I don’t exactly suggest this as a stand alone method. Use this along with the pendulum test or meditation. Because, while meditation and pendulums are probably your best bet, only you can decide if you truly want to go along with what your sessions reveal.

well, you’re diddly darn wrong!

many people felt nonhuman before, such as myself, but didn’t realize they weren’t broken until they went on tumblr and found a term for it, and a way to figure out what they were.

they may have identified as an animal way before they went on tumblr, but didn’t find out what to call themselves until they went on this stinkin’ website.

as a member of both the therian and furry communities, i can confirm that they are similar. however, they are also vastly different.

Furries use animals to represent themselves. They identify with.

Therians are the animals spiritually. They identify as.

Short and sweet!

as stated earlier,

they don’t!

humans have created a list of cool animals. animals themselves, have not.

while wolves and foxes are very common, that is simply their true self. they can not help that, and many are even uncomfortable after finding out themselves. so, next time you use this an argument, remember next time that therians do not  choose their theriotype, nor do we have a hierarchy of the best/most attractive animals.

first of all, what is p-shifting?

p-shifting is defined as shape-shifting, as it is short for physical shifting.

it is the act, or the belief of the act, of becoming the true form of yourself, instead of being a wolf soul in a human body you would be a wolf soul in a wolf body.

the closest people will ever get to shapeshifting is using the behaviours of a theriotype, so, in turn, p-shifting is not real, and is something straight out of a sci-fi novella.

Alright, I need to close this up.

This post may be continued another day, but as of now, these are my base definitions and knowledge on the subject of therianthropy and otherkinning.

Thank you, if you took the time to read this, and I hope you at least learned something.

[elliott-the-creature]

Mood board rq if you don't mind: Axolotl moodboard, any color is fine really, border between photos in plain white, thanks!

p.s I'm gonna use it on my therian blog should I credid you in my blog desc?

Here you go, I hope you enjoy! You can use this without credit, but it would be appreciated if you did :3

[elliott-the-creature]

(Please reblog this to get a bigger sample size, I was dumb and forgot to change the time limit to a week)