#this is our animal headmate

[elliott-the-creature]

school is kicking our collective asses time to sleep for 10 hours and be lazy and regret not doing schoolwork wheeeeee

(more context in tags cuz we feel like it lol)

-K (📺📚, 🍁☮️)

[theinsterminators]

"surely this will remedy itself on its own," i say, ignoring a problem of my own doing

[headmate-ideas]

waves !! attempt at a gift related to the requirements u gave ! >w<

headmate who's a pd holder, delight, & a masculinity holder, & an anthro serval !

🐆🔶🍗🪐📦🧸 emojis !! { hope this is enough information :3 }

🍗 HEADMATE TEMPLATE 📦

✦ Name(s): Scarecrow, Vega, Ledge ✦ Pronouns: he/him, it/its, e/em/eir/eirs/emself, co/cos/coself ✦ Species: serval anthro ✦ Age: 35 ✦ Role(s): DPD holder, BPD holder, delight, masculinity holder, interest holder, spiritual headmate ✦ Labels: transmasculine, agender, xenogender, mspec veldian, aroace ✦ Xenos: meat, space, technology ✦ Interests/likes: cooking videos, stim toys, gender coining ✦ Dislikes: disruptions to routine ✦ Music taste: industrial rock, doom metal, pop punk ✦ Aesthetic(s): metal aesthetic, voidcore, retro ✦ Objectum attraction(s): plushes ✦ Kins: striped hyenas, demons, ringed planets ✦ Emoji proxy: 🍗📦 ✦ Details:

Scarecrow is an anthropomorphic serval who dresses in a masculine metalhead style and enjoys horror, industrial music, knife collecting, and other various interests that the system consider masculine and possibly somewhat morbid. He takes a great deal of pleasure in these things, sharing them with any of the system's friends who have similar interests. Scarecrow likes the movies and video games that the system enjoys, often talking to the system's friends about movies while playing games with them. E also has the system's spiritual beliefs that center around celestial objects. Scarecrow experiences the system's DPD and BPD. Symptoms of one or both disorders that co experiences include: strong and disordered attachment to people (the system's partner), difficulty coping with boredom and with being alone, anger, and lack of life direction. Being away from his partner is especially upsetting for him, and co may need the help of caretakers in the system to help him engage with things he enjoys instead of worrying about being unable to talk to them.

[These can be edited and changed as needed, and headmates will almost definitely not turn out EXACTLY as described.]

[While this was a request specifically for my system to create a headmate for ourselves, it is okay for anybody to introject him.]

[echidnana]

there's probably some interesting patterns of like. predator vs prey therians. it really does seem like carnivores are much more common at least on tumblr

[kienansidhe]

im not allowed to get a kitten or any new pets rlly (my own rule for myself, enforced by my loved ones) but god if any of my housemates get a new cat at some point i am going to beg so hard to be allowed to name it

[inevitable-pretty-chaos]

I am feeling very self aware tonight and it's not actually a bad thing!! I just started feeling aware that I'm a system and a therian so suddenly...

(It happened because I saw some pictures of barn owls + Killian started talking to me more than usual)

But it's fun so far!! I love being a system and a therian, yaay!!

~Lawrence

[schadenfreudich]

Franz, walking past a goose shaking its feathers: Almost adorable, but I would not get any closer.

[interstellarsystem]

Fictives are so fucking funny. Like, we'd been in a period of burnout for months, going downhill, falling behind on all the things we cared about and needed to do. Hell, we'd ended up being so fatigued we didn't want to get out of bed and that process alone took hours.

So one morning we wake up with a new headmate--as you do in periods of high-stress--and the new guy is god damn Bakugo from MHA and he does more self-care and general life shit than anyone in the past three months combined. Straight-up fixing our life.

How am I doing this? I have no fucking idea but I'm being productive about it and it's hilarious if you think about it for more than a few seconds. The brain was struggling so it was like "Yeah, didn't wanna do this but we gotta bring out the big one. Get The Anime Boy." Like what.

[the-crystal-femmes]

Therian tags, do you ever learn how to properly tag your stuff? I'm not being passive aggressive by the way, I'm being completely serious.

You aren't supposed to censor filter tags. You trigger people by doing that. You also should be tagging things like paranoia inducing posts and animal gore.

I understand this community is about being alterhuman and whatnot but some of you LOVE running rampant and making others uncomfortable. It's annoying. We get the phrase that others need to curate their online experience but it's also just courtesy to tag things that are disturbing.

- Lazuli

(This is all with a flat tone. A lot of our headmates struggle with writing tone tags for some reason so I thought I'd clarify for you all. I'm not trying to be passive aggressive or mean.)

[darkmagenugget]

Everyone, say hello to our newest headmate, Star. She just showed up randomly yesterday. I'll let her introduce herself!

Star- Hi new friends! I'm Star! Ms. Ashe Just finished my form. And thanks to Ms. Lycan, we were able to figure out something I liked in terms of Animal. I'm a winged Bunny Cat! Nice to meet you all!

I'm still not sure of anything in here, or how I even got here, but everyone has already shown me so much kindness and hope to give that kindness back. ^-^

[transpandaart]

??? HRT Part 2: "What did he mean by that...?" | First | Previous | Next

"What did he mean by that...?"

Our "Hero" continues to be wildly oblivious to her visiting the animal hrt clinic for animal hrt. But she and her cofronting catgirl Shampoo headmate almost cross paths with @prettiestplatypus! A game of cat and mouse narrowly avoided? (Pharmacie originally appeared in @ayviedoesthings's art here)

[jrwi-eldritchstrings-event]

Eldritchstrings Event Sign-Ups Open!!

Hi! Are you looking for some Apothy fun in these trying times of no new Apothesosis episodes? Wanna get together with other toxic yuri fans to make something swag? This post is to let you know that sign-ups are now open for the Eldritchstrings Event - an event centered on Exandroth and Rumi!!

This event is solely being run by @burning-sol (me) and @exandr0th-0f-viscera (my headmate). It probably won't be that large-scale, and we'll be kind of loose with management as we get an idea of what the members involved want from the event in terms of development and a final product. Our biggest rules are to HAVE FUN and TRY YOUR BEST!! If you don't feel like you're having fun, then this event is officially so joever.

If you're interested, please read through everything after the cut, the Sign-Up Form's link is at the end!! Sign-ups close November 16th.

Who can join?

If I've blocked you that's probably a bad sign... Obviously. But other than that, no limitations we can think of! Just know that Xander and I are pro-endo and pro-mspec lesbians; so if that gives you the impression you wouldn't gel well with the group, it's best to steer clear. All we ask of our participants is that they'll...!

Communicate clearly, and consciously try to take others in good faith.

At the least tolerate their cohorts if they can't outright get along with them.

AND, most importantly, they'll reach out to us if there are any issues!! It is no bother and it's actively better for the collective if you're open about anything that may have come up :3

What's the estimated time frame?

Sign-Ups close November 16th! ..however, the time frame for development and publishing will be up to participants to decide - with that process of consultation concluding before 2025.

At the LATEST the deadline for the works themselves will be July 31st, which will leave time for the editors to finesse the final product and publish it August 27th... (the anniversary of the first Eldritchstrings post!) So if you think you could make something by July 31st, even if you're initially busy, join the sign-ups!

If you miss it you will NOT be let into the event late, unfortunately. But no worries, because if the event goes well then there's a high probability another will be held in the future! :D

What contributions are we looking for?

Firstly, anyone who can help with visual design, editing, accessibility and publishing otherwise would be appreciated! There's also room for people who have general experience overseeing events and/or those who would like to help with promotion.

There will also (potentially) be groups, so if all you wanna do is hang around in case a pinch-hitter is needed, you can do that!

In terms of those submitting work to the event, ANY form of art goes! You may want to submit something like...

Fan-fiction, poetry, essays..

Illustrations, comics…

Banners, blinkies, icons…

Moodboards, stimboards, webweaves..

Textiles, cosplay, photography…

Edits, animations, PMVs, AMVs…

Original music, playlists…

Coding, games, 3D works…

Or whatever other weird and unique things you can think of…!

Romantic, platonic, situationship... Angst, comedy, abstract works, complete bullshit… Canon, non-canon, post-canon, somewhere in between… All is welcome so long at it centers on Exandroth and Rumi!!

Our ONLY limitations are that we will NOT be allowing any erotica, and no portrayal of genitalia in terms of artistic nudity! If you are otherwise unsure your work would be allowed, feel free to ask about it!

Also! Works that are exclusive to the event would be super cool, but you can submit older art or continue to work on something from your already existing WIPs if you'd like! The only catch is that you wouldn't be able to resubmit those to any future events... So if you're okay with that, go on ahead!

..and that's about it!

Make sure you've read over this and any relevant posts on this blog thoroughly. Participants will gather in a Discord server, the invites of which will be distributed via Tumblr PMs from this blog. If you're chill with everything stated above, here's the sign-up form!!

-> SIGN UP HERE <-

Note: We will not be personally promoting this event to other social medias, but you have our permission to share this sign-up with Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, etc!!

[echidnana]

blinks at u. do you have any pokemon where you prefer the shiny version? and do you have any redesigns u really like (either made by others or existing in ur head) i love look at peoples takes on the concepts theres so much creativity out there .. tasty for the brain

OK idk if there are any where we hard prefer the shiny? for us there are a lot where we like them equally like shaymin and the ralts line (pretty basic answers 😭) but idk if there are any we like much better than the nonshiny... oh but we are a big fan of when they make the shiny like. a pastel-ish version like with the gothita line and mawile...

ok wait we take it back we love shiny yamper and indeedee probably like 30% more than the nonshinies

AND YEAH OMG we especially love when people make them almost uncannily realistic looking, like really defined fur and stuff we adore those. we also LOVE love love fusions like that's one of our favorite things ever LMAO it's so fun especially with combining the two pokemon ecologies and stuff.

[traumagenic-positivity]

im not sure if this is the right place to say this but your page has popped up on my feed a whole bunch so i thought maybe it was the right place ...

i dont see alters / headmates using names of other cultures that they aren't bodily as rude or cultural appropriation . for example , i see a lot of people saying that non - bodily asian systems , specifically bodily white systems , shouldn't let introjects of asian media ( anime , kpop / jpop , or games like genshin ) use their source names and i think ? that's so weird ? as a bodily japanese system , i think its SO beautiful and so sweet that people love our names so much that they don't WANT to change it . i love seeing people with japanese headmates use japanese names , no matter what their bodily race is , i always viewed it as appreciation instead of appropriation . i suppose there's some cases where it can be appropriation , or icky ( like , i dont think using the name of a god or deity is really all that cool ) , but if someone wants to call themselves a name from a culture they don't come from , i dont really care . i think it's beautiful and i love seeing people think my peoples names are beautiful .

THIS!!!!!! THIS, NONNIE!!!!! I think names from other cultures are beautiful!! and it should be common sense to stay away from names of gods/deities, but others are good!! I think they should be able to use the names as well!! as long as they're being respectful about it :>

[mousegirlheart]

idea

photoshop this to say super lesbian animal headmates for our bio. wouldnt that be cute???

like just above these???

[multiplicity-positivity]

Here’s some positivity for systems whose alterhumanity caused or is intrinsically connected to their plurality!

Many systems may find that their members don’t identify as human, or they even collectively identify as nonhuman or alterhuman. There’s nothing wrong with being a system whose plurality formed due to or is heavily influenced by alterhumanity! This post is for the systems whose alterhumanity caused them to become plural!

🐅 Shoutout to systems whose members started out as one headmate’s different kintypes or theriotypes!

🦎 Shoutout to those who are unsure if they are plural or just have multiple alterhuman identities!

🦌 Shoutout to systems who identify collectively as alterhuman or nonhuman!

🦈 Shoutout to systems without specific animal or nonhuman identities, who are simply alterhuman without more focused labels!

🐈 Shoutout to systems whose plurality and alterhumanity both developed due to trauma!

🦜 Shoutout to systems with many uncommon or unique alterhuman identities!

🐏 Shoutout to systems with members are alterhuman without being otherkin or therian!

🦑 Shoutout to systems who have always known they’re alterhuman or nonhuman in some way, and to those who have discovered their alterhumanity fairly recently!

🐇 Shoutout to systems who wouldn’t be alterhuman without their plurality, or who wouldn’t be plural without their alterhumanity!

🐉 Shoutout to systems who love being both plural and alterhuman!

Both alterhuman and plural experiences can be deeply personal, intricate, diverse, and complex. For those of us whose alterhumanity and plurality are intrinsically connected, it may be difficult to tell which came first, or how to approach our senses of self and identity with each! However, we hope every alterhuman system out there can find joy and comfort in embracing their plural and nonhuman selves just the way they are!

Please do your best to show yourself and your headmates some kindness today. We hope you can find small and fulfilling ways to express yourself and find a home in your alterhumanity! Rest assured that, regardless of how your plurality or alterhumanity came to be, you are valid and cherished both as nonhuman and as a system. We consider ourselves lucky to be able to share these spaces with you!