#werecatkin

[monsterkin-culture-is]

Monsterkin (and therian) culture is wanting slitted eyes like a cat

^^^

[were-bastard]

(Tumblr please don’t eat the quality)

I drew myself again, but this version is nicer, so I’ll share it with y’all! This is how my body feels just like, as a default. I don’t consider it a theriotype since I’ve been like this since birth, and it’s just how “human” feels to me! (The colors aren’t accurate, they’re just for funsies)

[awkwardlysocialcatterfly]

me when i remember i've identified as a cat longer than i've identified as trans

[a-cat-called-fish]

p shifters teach me ur ways ... /srs

[raventhewolf9]

It's a full moon.... you know what that means....

*turns into a giant intimidating feline creature with massive fangs and claws*

yippee!!!!

[phantom-feline-teeth]

Just werecat thangs

[kinfeelings]

by @p0lyb1uz -- a $5 comm!

my werecat self!

[rabidpunkradio]

qwonderiing maybe iif wanttinf to eat thiings ii find vv cute iis a form of prey driive

[sunflower-werecat]

Hi! I go by Sunflower (she/her) and I’m a feline therian!

🌼 I am a minor, but won’t be saying my age

🌼 I am queer and neurodivergent

🌼 Theriotype: Cat or werecat

🌼 Hobbies: Drawing, reading, and writing, just to name a few

🌼 Interests: Warrior Cats, Wings of Fire, Undertale/Deltarune, Pikmin, Animal Crossing — that’s only some of them

DNI: Basic DNI - Any bigotry, MAPs, z00s, proship, anti-therian or anti-otherkin, NSFW

I plan on mostly posting about my experiences as a therian and maybe some fandom content which will be tagged.

Have a great day!

[monsterkin-culture-is]

10 Monster & Mythological Kintypes You Might Not Have Kinsidered!

Quick intro! I want to do some more monsterkin related original blog posts & content to make this blog more of a community hub for the monsterkins of tumblr. I'll be using #thebitingblogger for these posts! TW for some very mild mentions of gore in the context of mythology.

10. Haunted Dolls: There is definitely a large dollkin community on Tumblr but I haven't seen many haunted dolls/plushies. They're such a staple of horror media & spiritual subcultures - I'm so surprised by their absence!

9. Werecats & Other Werebeasts: The werewolfkin community on here is already limited but the werecat tag is tiny (and I don't think there even are tags for any other werekintypes)! Maybe the concept just hasn't been explored enough yet but given the popularity of other feline kintypes I wouldn't be surprised if there were some undiscovered werecats. I'd also like to add on about hellhounds & hellcats! Plenty of mythology there but a rather empty part of the kin community.

8. Revenants: Revenants are reanimated corpses revived to haunt the living. They're most prominent in Western European & Norse folklore. I can see some similarities to ghost & zombie kins but given we already have other subtypes & related kins (phantomkin etc) there is definitely a place for them in the kin community. Honestly as I'm writing this I'm starting to kinsider whether my skeletonkin might be a revenant...

7. Headless Horsemen: I suppose this is technically a human but I'd consider them a potential type of undead or spirit! The headless horseman is a recurring myth in a lot of Western Europe & America. My favourite version is the Dullahan from Irish folklore. The Dullahan is a mysterious omen, causing death whenever he stops riding. He carries his head in his arms and wields a whip made of human spine. The most famous media depiction is probably Disney's "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad." I think you can tell I'm a little bit in love with the horseman mythos...

6. Minotaurs, Centaurs & Fauns: I'm not sure I'd consider these monsters but they fit with the themes of the rest of the list! A minotaur is a man with the upper half/head of a bull, a centaur is a man with the body of a horse and a faun is a man with the legs of a goat or deer, often accompanied by horns or antlers. Man is being used without gender here. I originally was only going to write about Minotaurs as I've seen plenty of centaur & faun kins but there's no harm in including everyone! I'm not going to type out the entire mythology of these creatures but a fun fact for you is that the Minotaur of Crete's real name was Asterion!

5. Selkies: Again, not sure if these would be monsters but they fit the list & some retellings portray them as such! Selkies are humans (by appearance, not species) that can take the form of seals using their fur coats. If their coat is stolen, they can be forced to marry the person who has it.

4. Gorgons: Just talking about these as a species rather than their specific Greek mythos. Gorgons are humans with hair made of snakes. Often different interpretations give them patches/designs of scales, snakelike markings and/or fangs. My favourite modern depiction of a gorgon is Viperine from Monster High!

3. The Grim Reaper: I'd be lying if I said I hadn't been kinsidering this for a while! There are hundreds of personifications of Death throughout the history of humanity but the Reaper is probably one of the most recognisable in modern times. The Grim Reaper is most frequently depicted as a skeleton in a cloak, suit of armour or robes, bearing a farmer's scythe (it harvests souls like crops). I've been talking about media interpretations of these throughout so shoutout to Discworld Death, one of my favourite comfort characters! I love the animated version of Soul Music.

2. Shade: Finding information on this one was a little challenging! Shades are the spirits, ghosts or apparitions of someone currently residing in the underworld.

1. Custom Monsters: Got a bunch of phantom limbs that don't match a different kin? Have memories of being/feel like a cryptid that doesn't currently exist as a legend? Be your own monsterkin. Be a kin of your own species. I have one! I just need to actually draw them...

That's all folks! 10 more niche monster & mythological kintypes for you to kinsider! Please send me an ask (anon is enabled) or reblog or whatever if you're any of those kintypes, I'd love to hear from you! As always, please do your own research on these species & their folklore, I've only done some brief googling to add some more context to this list. This blog is for entertainment purposes, not educational! Let me know if you guys like seeing this sort of content though, I've really enjoyed researching this so I might start doing some more in-depth and well-researched posts on some of these.

[were-bastard]

The Word “Chimera”

(where I ramble on about how I feel connected to calling myself a chimera. Beware, it’s a wee bit long)

I’m wondering again about my connection to the word “chimera”. In the same way that calling myself changeling feels correct, so too does chimera. Not in the sense that I am one in the lion, snake, goat-creature type way– moreso in how I’m a creature that takes great joy in peering over the edge of the abyss we call humanity.

As a werecat, I’m an animal raised by humans, birthed by humans, and often seen as human (with even my body mirroring them in some ways, despite its full inhumanity). I’m quite good at playing as human (at least, I would hope so), but I always feel like something that’s just slightly out of place. Though I know that my nonhumanity stems from my neurodivergency– and not from more spiritual sources– I frequently feel (and have felt since I was young) like a “something else” birthed in place of a human child.

As a neurodivergent and nonhuman child, feeling connected to the idea of “changelings” was somewhat expected. The pull to “chimera”, less so, but still explainable.

To properly explain this, I must preface it with the brief introduction of two stories– the Greek myth of the Minotaur and the Scandinavian folk-tale of “King Lindworm”.

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur is a bull-headed child borne to Pasiphaë– the queen of Crete– after a “union” with a bull given as a gift to her husband, as a gift from Poseidon. She only pursues the bull because of a curse (put upon her by Poseidon as punishment for her husband’s refuseal to sacrifice the bull).

In the Scandinavian story of “King Lindworm”, a queen in desperate want of children (but previously unsuccessful in producing them) heads to a witch for a solution. The witch gives her two roses– one red, one white– only one of which she is meant to consume, in order to birth a child. She instead eats both and gives birth to twins– one a human and one a lindworm.

In both of these stories, it isn’t the conception that’s important to this discussion, but the births. The reason I want to call myself a “chimera” is the way Pasiphaë and the Queen would have felt birthing their sons. With Pasiphaë, at first her child might have seemed to be more “normal” (which is, by the way, an incredibly loaded word)– with human limbs, fingers, and toes (what she might have expected). But over the course of the birth revealed to be something other– supplanting the idea of a plain, human child she held in her mind (very much changeling related, but also the idea of someone being a mixture/amalgam: something more animal than is deemed acceptable).

With the Queen of “King Lindworm”, she doesn’t get the mental “cushioning” of a partially human baby, instead she births something fully nonhuman– a serpent of a child, lacking those expected limbs and little newborn fingers. Despite that, he is still related by blood to his fully human brother and mother, which must, in some way lend him some humanity, right?

I was born a werecat, to a human mother, from a human family. And yet, the most human thing left was my hands– overshadowed by fur and teeth and sharp eyes and a tail.

The feelings of chimera-hood come from that idea of a human bearing something that is very much of their body (and sometimes carrying their image with it, even just in the sense that they were a provider of some of the necessary materials), but clearly not [fully] human.

It’s the feeling of nebulous humanity, but only in the context of profound inhumanity. As a simpler explanation, it’s like how werewolves, selkies, harpies, and things like that can still be fully and completely animals, despite their ties to humanity (often as seen through a folkloric or mythical lens).

Fuck, I just realized I might be folcintera.

[awkwardlysocialcatterfly]

my coworkers know im a cat >:3 i bap shit around when im bored & every time someone'll say " i didnt know we had a cat on the crew " or somthin hehe

[a-cat-called-fish]

being mostly expressionless not bcuz im neurodivergent , but bcuz im a cat & we dont emote like humans do

[txmpus-edax-rxrum]

ruminating on the fact that im just. a werecat.

like everything werewolf except feline.

what the hell lmao

[raventhewolf9]

A list of all my nonhuman identities

I thought it would be good to have a list of this somewhere!! So here you go!!

General Nonhumanity

- Shapeshifting feline Description: a domestic cat that can transform into a lion-sized wildcat-like creature with a lynxlike face, fluffy gray and white rosetted fur, a long tail, slit pupils, feathered wings, long fangs, and a pair of small forehead horns (can also hybridize these forms; for example, can turn into a normal domestic cat but with wings) Origin: partially past life (see "Fictionkin-Adjacent" section), partially psychological

- Werecat Description: semi-bipedal (can stand and walk on two legs, but can go faster and has better balance on all fours), mostly feline in appearance, but with opposable thumbs; transforms on full moons; can infect others by biting them Origin: psychological

Fictionkin and Fictionkin-Adjacent

("adjacent" bc not all of these are fictionkin, just fictionkin-related)

- Simon Tally OCkin Description: One of the major characters of Hall of Miracles, a series based on Tally Hall and Miracle Musical. (More info- https://toyhou.se/25363960.simon) Origin: Past life (Partially responsible for my identity as a feline, as Simon is a cat)

- Sydney Sargent Sympath Description: The main character of Mayfield and Belov's podcast Camp Here & There. (NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!) I relate to him and feel a connection to him. Origin: N/A

- QUESTIONING Sydney Sargent Fictionkin Description: (see previous) Origin: Unsure

- Dipper Pines Sympath Description: One of the main characters of Alex Hirsch's television show Gravity Falls. Again, I'm not him (I used to identify as him, but only very briefly; I don't anymore) but I relate to him. Origin: N/A

Other / Misc

- Feline, snake, and rodent otherhearted Notes: Kind of funny that both felines and snakes eat rodents... But that doesn't change the fact that I feel a connection to all of them at once! It's probably a bit odd that a cat would feel a connection to rodents and not see them as prey, but I never said I was a normal cat.

- Cryptidkin Notes: I identify as a cryptid. I consider my winged-wildcat form and werecat form to be sort of urban legends. I also have a connection to Gef the Talking Mongoose (aka the Dalby Spook) but do not identify as him.

- Physically nonhuman / Nonhuman on all levels Notes: I've never been fully human, but after some stuff that happened in my past, what little humanity I had got flushed down the drain! So now I'm just a cat, through and through. Not human in any way. My physical nonhumanity is complicated; I recognize that I live in a human body (I don't think I'm delusional?), but I don't accept it or incorporate it into my identity, if that makes sense? Like yeah, I'm in this body, but it's not mine. I'm just stuck in it right now and can't access any of my true forms. Also, me being a werecat is actually the only part of my identity that's dependent on this body, weirdly enough. I only consider myself a werecat because I'm stuck in this body. If it were up to me, I wouldn't have a human form at all. But I am affected by the full moon, and I have a human form whether I like it or not, so I guess that makes me a werecat. Idk if the way I phrased this makes sense, but it makes sense in my head...

Anyway I think that's all o' them :3

[phantom-feline-teeth]