#p-shifter culture is

[pshiftcultureis]

Pshifter culture is having doubts about shifting, only to encounter someone who shifts the same way you do/end up shifting yourself and seeing the proof

Like 🤦‍♂️ of course it's real, how could I have been so dumb

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[moodbroads]

gettin used to tumblr so i may mess up- mini intro (feel free to ask questions!): hihi! u can call me nine/sketch/mikko/milo/whatever u wanna call me (yes even mcquackthedumbestofseven)

i go any/all pronouns!

ive been an elk (wapiti) therian for about 6ish years i think? idk i dont remember when i awakened i wasnt as online as much as i am now- i have been questioning some sort of other kintype though

i love vulture culture and have a few bones i found myself!

im into wings of fire, watership down, helluva boss/hazbin Hotel, warriors (duh lmao), worldbuilding in general tbh, speculative biology, nostalgic things, red dead and harry potter! (i prob have more but rn im running at 2 hours of sleep)

i are the pro in bad grammar B)

games i like rn (changes alot-): clangen, wolfquest, spore, red dead 2, planet zoo and hogwarts legacy lolol

roblox games i like rn XD: lake territory reborn, skyven, canine odyssey, a lions pride, wild horse islands, prehistoria, catalog avatar creator and creatures of sonaria!

small fun facts:

i wanna film animals/photograph them one day!

im on the autism spectrum and hypersexual but i dont like to mention it often due to my mental stuff being well- my mental stuff

i get way too many ideas in my head xdd

im very much queer and wanting to try everything in the book cuz like WOMEN YESSS but also MEN YESSS but also PEOPLE NOOOO soooo-

THERES A BIRD JUST CALLED BRANT..THATS IT..WHY BRANT?!?

i have 2 dogs! :)

dni: basically nobody cuz like..you can just lie or scroll on..its the internet do ya boogers not know what your on rn-

(AAAAA SORRY BIG TEXT WALL COMIN IN I JUST ACTUALLY WANTED TO GET A DNI IN) actual dni if people care: fictionkin-explained in a post factkin-explained in a post terfs or any kind of that shit (im lookin at you homophobes, cuz most are terfs too) jk rowling supporters (just the person and what they did, not the community/harry potter itself) anti-alterhuman, pro 'p-shifters' or 'p-shifters' art critiquers (WITHOUT PERMISSON) sexualizers of basically anything, no i dont wanna 'hear you out' that is a dog on 2 legs with an obvious dog dong hanging out-get help pro-PETA (vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians and animal cruelty people that are ACTUALLY HELPING are totally fine- love yall <3) pedos pedos and more pedos im gen z, i basically grew up on the internet, i know your intentions so no, fuck you who are you even tryna trick- not even 2 year olds can read your creepy ass pm cuz its all like 'hEy 11M wAnNa ShArE NUdS' like who even says 'numbergender' anymore other then omegle users (rip omegle but also horray cuz that site was horrid)

[1000aurapoints]

✨💜Intro💜✨

Welcome one and all!!! My name is Aura (any pronouns), and my partner is a riolu named Fable! We’re currently trying to survive my freshman year in highschool together so I’ll be posting random school related stuff or just whatever else I want to spit on the screen

⭐️Here is some stuff about both of us;

⭐️Me: I am panromantic and probably asexual! And as I’ve stated before I am a freshman, and Arceus highschool is scary😭

I caught Fable as my first pokémon (and partner) last August, we’ve been friends for over a year now already! Time flies bro

I enjoy writing and drawing and reading in my spare time, but I also like to train Fable to get her better at battling! We’re considering challenging a few gyms in the future

Also, have you noticed something Fable and I have in common?

You know how riolu evolves into the aura pokémon, lucario…

AND MY NAME’S AURA???? IS THAT NOT SO SUPER COOL

we were DESTINED to be partners bro I literally found my twin flame/p as a pokémon and I’m all for it

⭐️Fable:

she is very odd looking! In a good way. I’ve noticed she seems a little tall for a riolu, and her eyes are blue instead of the typical red. Could just be a genetic mutation, or maybe she’s a hybrid of some kind? Either way, her appearance is the only thing that’s unusual, so I’m not worried

i found her last summer while on a hike in an area where pokémon hunters sometimes set up traps (I hate those fuckers) and ended up finding Fable caught in an ursaring trap. I was able to help her out and we skedaddled to a pokémon center and next thing you know we’re partners :p shit makes me feel like the main character lmao

one thing we like to do together is watch movies, especially animated stuff, sometimes horror (to an extent) or anything that’s just stupid. I enjoy making fun of the dumb stuff and she likes the colorful moving pictures and musical parts (same tbh)

Sometimes we train with my sister and her misdreavus, and whenever we get the chance, we’ll battle my cousin and his froakie. It’s super fun

That’s all i feel like sharing! You’ll learn more throughout my dumb posts

⭐️here’s my boundaries btw:

This is a safe space for: anyone of any race, culture and religion, queer/trans people, reality shifters, agre/petre, sfw (emphasis on SFW) tickle community, furries, and anyone who is chill

DNI: racists, mysoginists, zionists, homophobes, proshippers of any kind, pedos/zoos, nsfw/p0rn accounts, people under 13, trainers who think of pokémon as tools instead of living beings, basic dni stuff

⭐️I have a couple tags too to make it easier to search specific posts

Sigma thoughts- random things/rants/opinions

Fable- Anything to do with my partner!

Gooner labyrinth- anything related to school

Reblog- reblogged stuff

Ask- answering an ask

Anon- answering an anonymous ask

Balltastic art- art reblog

OOC- out of character stuff 😔

so yeah that’s it! Have a stellar rest of your day/night 💜✨

(OOC: please play along! If you want to interact with real live me and not pokemon trainer me, please ask to dm because I don’t want to break the magic!)

[harloqui]

I have an argument... (P-shifting vs. Delusions)

Okay, so you know how people often try to claim shifters are delusional, mentally ill or must be suffering from something, right? We all know that's wrong (and other shifters and I have addressed it before), but I think I have a more coherent argument against shifting being considered a delusion specifically, as that seems harder to confront.

(Note: You can be a shifter and also be mentally ill, delusional, etc. however the two are not inherently associated with one another.)

Here are the diagnostic criteria for Delusional Disorder, as listed in the DSM-5. I'm aware other countries may use the ICD-11, here's a link to the criteria for delusional disorder as listed there.

Diagnostic criteria for delusions are broad, since delusions can take many forms and impact people in a variety of ways. However, in order to qualify as delusional you need to have one or more delusions lasting a duration of one month or longer.

Generally delusions are suspected when a belief conflicts with someone's (sub)culture or deeply held beliefs. If a belief is found within someone's culture or subculture it doesn't typically qualify as a delusion, because it is then understandable and may serve other functions. Physical therianthropy (the act of physically shapeshifting into another animal) has existed as a belief in all sorts of cultures, and the Western shifter community is one form of this. So that reduces the possibility that shifters are all delusional - if we were this belief would not have persisted for so long throughout the ages.

Delusions can be neutral or rarely positive, but generally they tend to impact people (or occasionally others) negatively, hence why they're listed in the DSM. Unlike religious, spiritual or supernatural beliefs they are not adopted and practiced; you cannot decide to become delusional or learn how to be delusional like how some people claim to have learned shifting. If a delusion is positive and doesn't appear to be affecting one negatively in other ways, psychiatrists may leave it alone, treating it similarly to other religious beliefs.

The ICD-11 says this about the boundary with normality:

A continuum of delusional beliefs, attenuated delusional beliefs, overvalued ideas, and unusual or eccentric beliefs has been observed in the general population. Such beliefs may be more common among people under conditions of adversity. People with Delusional Disorder may display greater psychological distress, greater preoccupation, and higher degree of conviction compared to people in the general population with beliefs that are similar in nature to beliefs that could be characterized as delusional.

So generally, unless you're distressed, highly preoccupied (to the point of it affecting your life negatively) and unreasonably closed off to other possible explanations, your beliefs are not indicative of an illness. Many people have some kind of odd, unusual, or borderline delusional beliefs, but they don't usually become a cause for concern until they affect someone's life negatively.

A delusional syndrome that people often try to link to shifting is clinical lycanthropy. However, in both clinical and modern cases I've seen it is typically a distressing and dysfunctional syndrome to live with. Clinical lycanthropes don't generally enjoy shifting or being an animal the same way shifters do, and often experience other symptoms that signal a psychiatric or physical disorder, such as inability to control shifting and other negative supernatural phenomena, distress or inability to function, or disorganized thoughts.

I hope this reassures anybody who was worried that shifting might be delusional for them due to the stigma surrounding it. Other people may freak out about physical shifting because it's not the norm, but it isn't an inherently delusional or pathological condition or belief. If it isn't causing issues in your day-to-day life and you're not distressed by it, you're fine. (And if you are distressed/having issues, you should seek help. You deserve to feel comfortable in your body!)

[who-is-page]

Can I ask, what is beastpunk? - Alex

To copy-paste from the original Tumblr post on it here:

Beastpunk is subculture/term for anyone who identifies as partially or entirely as a nonhuman creature in an integral or intrinsic way, regardless of the origin or perceived nature of their identity, and who:

Embraces and celebrates their nonhumanity and animality, and (if applicable) the overlap and entanglement between one’s human and nonhuman identity

Embraces abnormal instincts and behaviors related to their own and others’ nonhumanity, so long as no active harm is done to another non-consenting individual or any real life animal

Interacts with their nonhumanity and displays it in socially unconventional or undesirable ways, and accepts and celebrates others doing so as well

Revels in the history of animal-people and beast-folk in all ways known: from the alterhuman community, from mythology, and from cultural or spiritual backgrounds relevant to the person in question

Throws respectability politics into the dumpster, lights it on fire, and dances around the burning corpse of the god “Cringe” in the moonlight

Is, unabashedly and genuinely, animal

This term is meant to be a reclamation of animalistic nonhuman identity, especially regarding individuals who may experience their nonhumanity in eccentric, “feral,” or otherwise socially unacceptable or even stigmatized ways. Beastpunk is also open to endels, clinical lycanthropes, and others who experience nonhumanity in ways related to their mental health and physical bodies, although it is not open to self-identified p-shifters and p-shifter packs. Anyone who’s ever been told that their animality is “too much,” or that they’re taking their identity as a nonhuman creature “too seriously,” or who has lost previous words/groups they’ve used to define themself due to terminological drift, KFF appropriation and re-defining, or others gatekeeping their identity’s authenticity is welcome to take up this term. Fictherians and fictional nonhuman creatures are also included in beastpunk, which is meant to be explicitly pro-fictionkin and fiction-based identities; theriomythics, folcintera, and mythkin are also included in beastpunk. Any and all nonhuman creatures, regardless of source or origin, are included.

🚫 This term is not meant for KFF and other forms of anti-otherkin, anti-fictionkin, and similar. This term is not meant for self-identified “zootherians,” “zoosexuals,” “zetas,” and similar. 🚫

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If you have any more questions on it, feel free to ask! :V I just didn't want to retype and resummarize the Beastpunk stuff because I'm sick and don't have many spoons right now.

[leophnyx]

"P-shifters are following psychotic people to make them into clinical lycanthropes to control them in cults" is on par with conservatives saying that kids are identifying as cats and peeing in litterboxes because of woke culture

Pardon my skepticism, but that's a 4D move that I don't think even abusive p-shifters have thought up, and also, isn't clinical lycanthropy an uncontrollable expression of psychosis? Especially clinical lycanthropy, even judging from some posts here the condition is not controllable by other people, if someone was purposefully trying to make a cult of clinical lycanthropes, that would fall apart fast I would think?

But also, most p-shifters don't claim to have psychosis or suffer with clinical lycanthropy, and hang around other supernaturals instead. If you, as a psychosis blogger with a form of clinical lycanthropy, are attracting p-shifters left right and center, might it be the case that some of those p-shifters want education, maybe so they can figure out what's wrong with them (if something is wrong with them) or that (shocker) they're clinical lycanthropes who identify with the p-shifter label.

Additionally, all the active p-shifters I can see have either a) put warnings on their blog for delusional and psychotic individuals b) block individuals who may be at risk for these issues, or c) keep to their own circles. Call me stupid if there's a secret little cabal of evil p-shifters that are trying to make clinical lycanthropes for some nefarious purposes, but I really don't think that's what's going on here?

[starry622]

hello, im oliver, or v for short. i am 20 years old, bodily. im an artist, a dog, and the host of a system.

ive got bpd, hpd, dpd, and schizophrenia, all of which, of course, affect the system. my biggest psychotic symptom is that of clinical lycanthropy and cynanthropy, which you will see reflected often on this blog (especially under the tag #clinical zoanthropy). i cant effectively be reality checked, at least in this regard, so dont even try it. more info on this under the cut. :]

im very into social justice, mogai/liom, art, and general fandom stuff

i now have a somewhat stable home, but i still take donations, as i lost my job last month and currently have no way to make any money besides commissions and donations. i work hard every day applying to every job i can possibly find, following up on applications, and getting interviews, but that does not fund the cost of living in the meantime. im working to put up a commissions carrd (that will also function as a mini portfolio), though i will still be taking commissions before the carrd is finalized. i havent had a meal in a week, so i could really use the money, if anyone is willing to help.

if you need a dni, my basic boundaries are that proshippers, pro-contact harmful paraphiles, and radqueers dont interact. i do, however, have a byf, which is on my carrd (linked below)

my personal carrd is here: [link]

my commission carrd is: still unfinished

my cashapp is: $Starry622

do be warned, my tumblr webtheme (starry622.tumblr.com) is not safe for those who are sensitive to flashing or eyestrain. there is no necessary info on my webtheme, so you will not ever have to visit it for any reason.

for more zoanthropy info: my body can morph and change to become more canine-like, and it can go through certain stages. human-> boy with canine features -> full canine (with the regular animal anatomy) or werecanine (more like a hollywood werewolf) and my transformations can cause pain and discomfort, though i mostly just feel fur sprouting and my organs shifting. my mind is that of a humans, however my soul and dna are that of a canines.

i dont really know what a p-shifter is, but i guess you could call me one? i dont think shifting is something you can learn anyways and i cant control it, so i feel like most people either can or cant shift. theres always exceptions to the rule, however, not that i would be teaching anyone how, especially because that seems like a dangerous move for all involved parties. plus, i dont even know how i do it, i just do, so id be useless for that.

i dont know what the deal is and why i am both a wolf and a dog, and my identity as a whole is definitely more dog, all i know is that its me. thats why i use canine instead of specific dog or wolf when speaking generally, because "dog or wolf" is a mouthful.

i dont identify with the word human, but its easier to explain that way. i am more a person. my brain is and stays that of a sentient, sapient person living in a human society. im culturally human, you could say.

rarely, ill have short-ish bouts where i am a different animal, usually on top of being a canine, which confuses me, but i choose to go with the flow about it. if i think too too much about it, im afraid ill confuse myself more than just suddenly becoming a lagothrope/kounanthrope (family including rabbits, bunnies, hares) and accepting it until its over. i dont know what those little bouts are about, and i kinda dont wanna know!

i identify with my diagnosed clinical label simply because i experience a lot of double bookkeeping (i believe thats what its called). im aware of myself in some ways, and see how others see me alongside how i see myself. this is also exactly why reality checking doesnt work on me. i am aware of my symptoms, and i believe the delusions and semi-rare hallucinations that act as proof of my true self. my experience is constant clashing in that way, like i can see more than everyone else, but it rarely causes a problem, and so i go with it. no use fighting it. im a lazy dog, if youll forgive the pun.

[mountain-lion-gremlin]

sigh.

missing physical shifting :/

feeling empty from feeling like I can only relate to therians when I'm not a therian.

God do I wish I could rip the skin off my bones and find fur beneath... It's been so long since I've attempted to physically shift.

Went through a period of disbelief from both reading constant hate on physical shifting and along with the fact that I felt like I would never actually get what others have because I wasn't good enough.

I think I identify with more of a physical aliurothrope then just "nonhuman" it feels too broad for me. (I think I spelt that wrong, I need to actually make sure i get that spelt right.

Along with that, physical shifters, just the term itself "p-shifter" has such a horrible wrap and stereotype attached to it I don't want anything to do with it anymore. I'm not really looking to be treated like garbage online tbh :/

I feel like my progress has plateaued since... early 2023? I would love to investigate, but I'm too busy stressing over school ✨��✨️

I will no longer be using the "therian" tag in my posts. Nor will I use alterhuman. Might still use nonhuman tho. I probably will continue to use the physical shifting labels tho, until I spend some time confirming my true feelings about everything.

Not a therian... the culture doesn't feel personal to Mr, it never has. I've always related more with nonhuman and lycanthrope but c a t

-mrrp.

[pshiftcultureis]

Pshifter culture is being scared you're crazy despite knowing you're not due to your real experiences but others doubt you do much

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[mlobsters]

supernatural s1e6 skin (w. john shiban)

(this is a rewatch, so spoilers abound)

an effective teaser, having dean be the bad man doing bad things to that nice lady. bummer again with the netflix music sub, should be in-a-gadda-da-vida by iron butterfly which has a very particular vibe but we got this serviceable good deal by mommy and daddy instead. (cheesy start but) not the worst, not great.

DEAN Alright, I figure we’d hit Tucumcari by lunch, then head south, hit Bisbee by midnight. Sam wears women’s underwear. SAM I’ve been listenin’, I’m just busy.

can't get anything by sammy boy. transcription says palm pilot, but it's a palm treo 650 i believe 🤓

reports from my initial watch - baby stylus! still laughing about that one. heady days of weird smartphones

speaking of laughing, LAWBOY@STANDFORD.EDU haha

DEAN You’re kidding. You still keep in touch with your college buddies? SAM Why not? DEAN Well, what exactly do you tell ‘em? You know, about where you’ve been, what you’ve been doin’? SAM I tell ‘em I’m on a road trip with my big brother. I tell ‘em I needed some time off after Jess. DEAN Oh, so you lie to ‘em. SAM No. I just don’t tell ‘em….everything. DEAN Yeah, that’s called lying. I mean, hey, man, I get it, tellin’ the truth is far worse.

he'd know *cough* cassie

SAM So, what am I supposed to do, just cut everybody out of my life? You’re serious? DEAN Look, it sucks, but in a job like this, you can’t get close to people, period. SAM You’re kind of anti-social, you know that? DEAN Yeah, whatever.

revise that to can't get close to people not in the life, and even then it's rather hazardous for their health. but even if you're not divulging everything, it's good to have friendly contacts in a normal universe where you're not being tracked and hunted by demons and whatever

SAM They’re in St. Louis. We’re goin’. (DEAN chuckles.) DEAN Look, sorry ‘bout your buddy, okay? But this does not sound like our kind of problem. SAM It is our problem. They’re my friends. DEAN St. Louis is four hundred miles behind us, Sam.

standing his ground then folded in 2 seconds. can't resist the face

little wine mom moment on the counter there. "when in doubt add more wine"

so sam's close enough with them that he's in a picture on the fridge, but we never hear of them before or after this episode :p soo la voo or whatever

SAM Hey, Bec, can we take those beers now? REBECCA Oh, sure. SAM Hey. Maybe some sandwiches, too? REBECCA What do you think this is, Hooters? DEAN I wish.

good answer, bex. i laughed. also eyeroll at the obligatory piggishness of getting her out of the room by asking to be waited on and hooters business :p

watching this conversation about the glowing eyes again just upon reflection, knowing that supposedly there's this whole world of hunting and documentation and knowledge out there and they're having to brute force figure everything out themselves realtime, that they're running into things that dean never heard of even in the time he has been hunting with john... it's just a lot to consider

DEAN I still don’t know what we’re doin’ here at 5:30 in the morning.

another thing i've had on the slate to paint since i watched it originally, grumpy grumbly dean with his coffee and baby

it is REALLY bright for 5:30am :p sunrise in st louis missouri in march is ~6:30am :P 100% doesn't matter but this is not the first time i noticed some impossible sunlight hours lol of course i can't find it. it involved a boat.

SAM Shapeshifter? (DEAN shrugs.) Something that can make itself look like anyone? DEAN Every culture in the world has a shapeshifter lore. You know, legends of creatures who can transform themselves into animals or other men. SAM Right, skinwalkers, werewolves.

this one doesn't get a unique name though i guess? just shapeshifter. i was thinking they called them shifters, but maybe it's the true blood terminology leaking in again

DEAN I hate to say it, but that’s exactly what I’m talkin’ about. You lie to your friends because if they knew the real you, they’d be freaked. It’s just—it’d be easier if— SAM If I was like you. DEAN Hey, man, like it or not, we are not like other people.

and other first watch screenshots. you can assume from here on out that any sort of earnest brotherly interaction i took screenshots the first time around as well :p freaks together forever

sam's underwear #2 (#1)

also *shudder* at sam walking around the sewers in his ripped up dragging pants and sneakers. perhaps the stapled jeans (couldn't find a non-tinhat post version of this story so be forewarned) :p

laughing at all these people casually walking by on an evening stroll with no reaction to sam and dean climbing out the sewer. nothing to see here!

your canada is showing, show!

sweaty betty with light eyes lookin good even if he's an evil monster

SAM You caught those keys with your left. Your shoulder was hurt. SHAPESHIFTER Yeah, it’s better. What do you want me to do, cry? SAM You’re not my brother.

now this is the sam and dean i know *bangs pots and pans together* i hate in later (and not even much later, like swap meat) seasons when no one notices that hey sam is acting really fucking squirrelly or SOULLESS. ugh.

from my 5x12 swap meat recap

not in any universe, especially when sam has been possessed before, do i believe that dean winchester is not going to notice sam behaving so differently. you don't get every demon, monster and psychiatrist within a 50 mile radius calling out your codependent relationship with your brother and not notice some bumbling teenager is behind the wheel of his body.

extended rant on how they handled soulless in 6x01

SHAPESHIFTER I swear, the more I learn about you and your family—I thought I came from a bad background. SAM What do you mean, learn? SHAPESHIFTER He’s sure got issues with you. You got to go to college. He had to stay home. I mean, I had to stay home. With Dad. You don’t think I had dreams of my own? But Dad needed me. Where the hell were you? SAM Where is my brother? SHAPESHIFTER I am your brother. See, deep down, I’m just jealous. You got friends. You could have a life. Me? I know I’m a freak. And sooner or later, everybody’s gonna leave me. SAM What are you talkin’ about? SHAPESHIFTER You left. Hell, I did everything Dad asked me to, and he ditched me, too. No explanation, nothin’, just poof. Left me with your sorry ass.

wonder how much groundwork this laid for our ideas about dean's abandonment issues. it becomes clear too when it's actually dean, like in 1x16 shadow where he wants so badly for sam to stay with him and not go back to school when everything's over. and how that keeps coming up. and of course sam runs away periodically. that little cycle felt like it might never end. not a ship thing they just legit needed couples therapy but slap another name on it to save face. disasters

SAM Yeah, it’s me. He went to Rebecca’s, lookin’ like you. DEAN Well, he’s not stupid. He picked the handsome one. (SAM gives him a confused look, then continues to work through his ropes.)

dear transcriptionist, forever thankful for everyone who did this work, but i beg to differ regularly on their described expressions. this is a bitch face glare if i've ever seen one :p

SHAPESHIFTER Maybe. Evolution is about mutation, right? So, maybe this thing was born human but was different. Hideous and hated. Until he learned to become someone else.

well we know shifter babies are adorable from 6x02

SAM Yeah, that’s the thing. He didn’t just look like you, he was you. Or he was becoming you. DEAN What do you mean? SAM I don’t know, it was like he was downloading your thoughts and memories. DEAN You mean, like the Vulcan mind meld? SAM Yeah, somethin’ like that. I mean, maybe that’s why he doesn’t just kill us. DEAN Maybe he needs to keep us alive. Psychic connection.

trying to recall other shifter episodes. the bank thing he was just killing the people before assuming their form iirc (2x12)

SHAPESHIFTER It’s funny. I kind of understand him. He’s all alone—close to no one. All he wants is for someone to love him. He’s like me. You know, everybody needs a little human touch now and then. It’s so hard to be different. REBECCA You should go.

sometimes it's the little things in a show like this that actually hit home in a realistic way that for me are so much more upsetting. that feeling being the more vulnerable person around a man and he's starting to do things you're not comfortable with and knowing the power balance is heavily in his favor. jackles did a good job being uncomfortably creepy

the relatively rare (in this show, at least) jackles shirtless situation

another bad netflix music replacement, when the shapeshifter is fleeing the cops it's supposed to be filter's hey man, nice shot (i had this cd (or tape?) and literally only remember this song)

laughing though at the lyrics in the replacement song, "I don't wanna be a freak show pretty boy anymore" little on the nose for dean/shapeshifting out of a dean meatsuit

they really decided to go all-in on the gore of this transformation. two cuts to his teeth pinging out of their sockets. kept the samulet on too so the cord is gonna be all goopy :|

do places still do this?

DEAN The thought of him drivin’ my car. SAM All right, come on. DEAN It’s killin’ me. SAM Let it go.

silly, but cute. sam trying to placate him

SAM Look, they can’t hold me. Just go, keep out of sight. Meet me at Rebecca’s. Dean. Stay out of the sewers alone. I mean it! DEAN Yeah, yeah!

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DEAN: I’m sorry, Sam. But you know me—I just can’t wait.

😑

SHAPESHIFTER Murder in the first of his own brother? He’ll be hunted the rest of his life. I must say, I will be sorry to lose this skin. Your brother’s got a lot of good qualities. You should appreciate him more than you do.

back when the show was fresh and the threats felt threatening. and who's to say sam doesn't appreciate him, did he mind meld with sam too

SHAPESHIFTER Not bad, little brother. SAM You’re not him. SHAPESHIFTER Even when we were kids, I always kicked your ass.

okay fake dean, not like being 4 years older had anything to do with that :p

laughing at the way she's cradling sam's head. boy's always getting choked! plenty of time for someone to save the day though. and good thing they cut away when dean went to retrieve the amulet, effects were not gonna hold up an interaction with the body :p

some kind of 00s outfit she's got there

SAM No. REBECCA Did Jessica know? SAM No, she didn’t. REBECCA Must be lonely. SAM Oh, no. No, it’s not so bad. Anyway, what can I do? It’s my family. REBECCA Well, you know, Zack and me, and everybody at school—we really miss you. SAM Yeah, me too. REBECCA Well, will you call sometime? SAM It might not be for a little while.

(or ever) this storyline was rough, the whole sam wanting out thing. creeping toward the eventual conclusion that he wants to hunt, wants to be with dean. but it took a long ass time to get there.

DEAN Sorry, man. SAM About what? DEAN I really wish things could be different, you know? I wish you could just be….Joe College. SAM No, that’s okay. You know, the truth is, even at Stanford, deep down, I never really fit in. DEAN Well, that’s ‘cause you’re a freak. SAM Yeah, thanks. DEAN Well, I’m a freak, too. I’m right there with ya, all the way. SAM Yeah, I know you are.

freaks together forever and ever amen ♥️

freak became such a loaded word with this show over time. funny seeing sam roll with it now

good fucking grief this got long. there's just so much notable stuff in the early seasons and well, now i have a whole series worth of references i can point to while watching.

[melaniem54]

Review: A Sucker for Christmas: A Winter Holiday MM Tentacle Romance by J P Sayle

Rating: 3.5🌈 J P Sayle’s A Sucker for Christmas is a fun, sweet addition to the Winter Holiday Tentacle collection. A best friends to lovers story with an added twist of one of them being an octopus shifter, there’s not a lot a universe building or exploration of the octopus shifter culture here. It’s a soulmate relationship, where the shifter recognizes his mate early on in life, in this case,…

[who-is-page]

BEASTPUNK: Being Unabashedly Animal

A subculture/term for anyone who identifies as partially or entirely as a nonhuman creature in an integral or intrinsic way, regardless of the origin or perceived nature of their identity, and who:

Embraces and celebrates their nonhumanity and animality, and (if applicable) the overlap and entanglement between one's human and nonhuman identity

Embraces abnormal instincts and behaviors related to their own and others' nonhumanity, so long as no active harm is done to another non-consenting individual or any real life animal

Interacts with their nonhumanity and displays it in socially unconventional or undesirable ways, and accepts and celebrates others doing so as well

Revels in the history of animal-people and beast-folk in all ways known: from the alterhuman community, from mythology, and from cultural or spiritual backgrounds relevant to the person in question

Throws respectability politics into the dumpster, lights it on fire, and dances around the burning corpse of the god "Cringe" in the moonlight

Is, unabashedly and genuinely, animal

This term is meant to be a reclamation of animalistic nonhuman identity, especially regarding individuals who may experience their nonhumanity in eccentric, "feral," or otherwise socially unacceptable or even stigmatized ways. Beastpunk is also open to endels, clinical lycanthropes, and others who experience nonhumanity in ways related to their mental health and physical bodies, although it is not open to self-identified p-shifters and p-shifter packs. Anyone who's ever been told that their animality is "too much," or that they're taking their identity as a nonhuman creature "too seriously," or who has lost previous words/groups they've used to define themself due to terminological drift, KFF appropriation and re-defining, or others gatekeeping their identity's authenticity is welcome to take up this term. Fictherians and fictional nonhuman creatures are also included in beastpunk, which is meant to be explicitly pro-fictionkin and fiction-based identities; theriomythics, folcintera, and mythkin are also included in beastpunk. Any and all nonhuman creatures, regardless of source or origin, are included.

This term is inspired by Anomalymon's original coining of kinpunk.

🚫 This term is not meant for KFF and other forms of anti-otherkin, anti-fictionkin, and similar. This term is not meant for self-identified "zootherians," "zoosexuals," "zetas," and similar. 🚫

Edit (09/28/22): Because someone asked me to clarify this: KFFers as mentioned in the above are meant to refer to individuals who redefine otherkin and related terms to just mean liking something a lot, rather than identifying as anything. They have roots in Tumblr anti-otherkin communities of the mid-2010's and in meme/fandom culture both, resulting in typically ableist and ahistorical language aimed towards otherkin: claims that otherkin are "taking it too seriously," or "just crazy," that otherkin and therians identities are "just a Tumblr thing," and that 'kins' should be based around fandom ideas of characters and morals.

Arguably, KFF are also largely responsible for the fictionkin community crash of the late 2010's due to their interactions in fictionkin community spaces, muddling of language within, and their insistences on bringing fandom wank in as a gatekeeping cudgel to ostracize others (the most common of such being the idea of what fictotypes are "moral and allowed" versus on what were "problematic and made you an evil person," which inspired no less than three separate OtherCon lectures from 2020-2022.)

[bearwithmeshifting]

I’ve always been fascinated by the topic of p-shifting, but really unsure of reliable resources. I’m not exactly in the therian or otherkin scene, do you have any resources I can look into?

Yeah P-shifting tends to be a very dubious concept, especially when you’re used to one set of terms and attempting to see if another group is describing something similar with different terms. I’d personally suggest that you avoid finding truth as part of the enjoyment with the topic of shapeshifting, assuming you aren’t a shifter. The various claimed experiences of shapeshifting are interesting enough on their own, and maybe its best to consider it folklore. When it comes to recorded resources on physical shifting, I only know of one that is probably truthful, and its about the social structure of Selkies around Orkney (I think, I may be misremembering the region). The document was written to be seen in private among a few, and I may add it to this post should its author deem it alright. (Edit: check reblogs, its there.)

Here are a few hints at what to consider untrue when investigating the veracity of shapeshifting claims, if only because I know that what I said probably won’t discourage you from attempting to find truth anyways.

Who wrote the source? Witnesses may be mistaken, authorities may be motivated, and self reported claims are uncommon.

Is the shapeshifting process described? Is something is explained in a way without a way to materially verify it? (For example, claiming that shapeshifters are ACTUALLY just people who dream themselves into a new form at night, or that a secret new hormone that’s undetectable to all medicine is responsible.) If so, its likely to be misinformed to some degree, and may be false.

Is the ability to shapeshift contagious? If so, it’s highly likely that the source was written with conceptions of shapeshifting after the werewolf monster became popular in pop culture. A common pattern in older sources was that shapeshifters just were shapeshifters, perhaps by curse/blessing or birth, but without spread.

Does a person claim to have made themself into a shapeshifter? The processes that would make this possible are ahead of science by possible centuries, and the magical ability to do so is dubious. Doubly so if the source was written to inspire others the “become shapeshifters” by their guide, and triply so if the price of the source is in the triple digits.

This one is obvious, but if there are generally any notable features that were only brought up in fiction prior to its sourcing, its likely untrue.

Should you find yourself changing into a beast, the secret cheat code is to find sources that detail things similar to what you experience, and read about other topics written by the same individual. Should they say something that goes against all reason, then you can discard them on the truthfulness. Otherwise, info of maybe truth is helpful backside knowledge to reference when investigating similar subjects.

This is a nonexhaustive rough guide to tell if a shapeshifting source isn’t based in reality. This isn’t to say that those sources are less valuable when physical shapeshifting is out of the picture. Werewolves who couldn’t shapeshift were sometimes “just” murderers, their humanity being taken away by systems of power to help make their executions more moral. People who would dream of being wolves in the night to help fight back demons are a wonderful story of harmless metamorphosis and devotion to one’s community. When the truth of shapeshifting is less of a concern, it can make the enjoyment of the concept easier.

If you wish to find resources on what it means to be a physical shifter, most of the people who claim to be physical shifters tend to vary on specifics. The only uniting factor is that we’re people who claim to physically shift. If you aren’t a physical shifter yourself it’s difficult to discern who can shapeshift or not, especially only online. I’ve written some about my experiences, but you should really check out all the blogs who have posted in the physical shifting tag to contrast and compare. Offsite I can’t easily recommend anything else.

[mountain-lion-gremlin]

Hello I have a question, how do you know if you're a shifter if you haven't p shifted yet???

Hello! I've heard this once or twice before, I'll try answer the best I can.

Everyone's experience is different first and foremost, so things that would seem like they are indicators aren't for others, and vice versa. Personally for me, I haven't p-shifted yet, and shifting is just a label some people like to use. It isnt a requirement to p-shift to call yourself a shifter.

For me, I have seen many signs that I am a shifter. Fur, shapeshifting in dreams and feeling it in real life, attempting p-shifting and getting symptoms. Many people think that to be a shifter, you HAVE to p-shift. And I get it, there's a concern of people not wanting fakers around, so having only people who have p-shifted keeps everyone who is fake out once and for all.

I dont really see it that way, I just really see a group of people anxiously waiting to do something without actually trying to do so. It's sort of this idea that it will just happen to you, which is pretty far from the truth. (Respect to people though who are apart of this idea, I mean no hate but that's what I see. Please do not send hate or spread the idea that people who are apart of this are a cult.)

If you want something in life, barely anyone just has it fall in their lap. Most of us will spend months or even years practicing before it happens, it all just depends on how much you practice and dedication you have to p-shifting.

Most people know simply because they have another side of them, and it just feels right to them. A lot of shifting has to do with intuition (that gut feeling) and analysis of yourself and your other side.

Many have m-shifted and just knew, or others have been working for years to finally get to the point of starting to p-shift, like I have!

There's also a few ideas surrounding how people know, and p-shifting itself. Some people have p-shifted in the past but they hid it from themselves, causing this sort of "memory gap" to where this event happened. They subconsciously tuned it out for survival or because they panicked about it. (P-shifting can be traumatizing for some)

There's another idea that shapeshifting is genetic, so you can look at your family tree or it's in your dna. Some people say native blood and shapeshifting have a correlation too. But, no one has actually found this "shifter gene", and it's pretty hard to use your family tree to understand if you are a shifter. And plus, there's not a lick of native american in my blood, and I'm a shifter. (On the bright side though, legends of shapeshifting are in almost every culture, so it's almost impossible to narrow down how or why we are shifters. There's also the question of why we can shift in the first place, and even I dont know.)

Thank you anon for the ask! I hope this helped a bit, and if you have any other questions my inbox is always open.

Good evenings beneath the moon to you.

[pshiftcultureis]

Pshifter culture is having to walk on eggshells around alterhumans and otherkin because if you say you're a shifter, you are going to get fakeclaimed.

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[leophnyx]

Otherkin stop conflating p-shifters with abusers and liars challenge

Can a p-shifter be abusive and a liar? Yes, they can. Is it true of everyone who calls themselves a p-shifter? No

All I've been seeing for the past couple of weeks has been people implying all p-shifters are either clinical lycanthropes or culty abusers, which is far from the truth. You don't need to be a clinical lycanthrope to have experiences of p-shifting (especially if you actually like your experiences and function well with them) but you also don't need to be an abuser to identify as one. Remember, sometimes people with cultural beliefs surrounding shapeshifting and roleplaying kids identify themselves as p-shifters too, it's not a good look to insist many POC and children online are inherently trying to manipulate others or delusional for believing in werewolves.

And quit it with the double standards. Everyone is willing to look past contradictions and absolute nonsense in the community to hate on p-shifters, which feels incredibly backhanded to say the least.

When someone claims they were born otherkin it's applauded and celebrated, but when a p-shifter claims they're genetically a shifter it's "eugenics" and "white supremacy". When shifters don't want to publicly talk about the intricacies of their shifting experiences and only want to find others like them it's considered a red flag, but when otherkin are afraid of publicly sharing their intimate experiences because of ~trolls~ and try to publicly seek out other kin like them it's understood.

Otherkin will (rightfully) shout down shifters trying to recruit and peer pressure others into being shifters, but nobody bats an eye when otherkin try to recruit and peer pressure others into identifying as otherkin. Otherkin sometimes try to act on their kin urges, sometimes even in concerning ways (eating grass, for one) but despite that everyone assumes a p-shifter will automatically do something dangerous even with no indication that they're thinking of doing anything wrong. When zoophile therians claim to need support and acceptance and that their attractions aren't inherently abusive much of the community nods its head, but when non-abusive p-shifters simply exist near the community everyone throws a fit.

Quit misleading everyone and stop insisting that p-shifting = abuser. It's not always the case, and even when it is it's not because they're a p-shifter, but because they're a genuinely shitty person. Stop giving abusers a free pass.