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related to attitudes in drama and debate - as soon as you insult someone and call them names, say that their identity is just "seeking attention", and boast that you absolutely positively have 100% the right opinion, you have admitted you have no argument, that you are just covering your ears and you're not actually interested in helping or protecting anyone.

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this is kindof just a really late follow up to my last anon but like ,, i just want to say that there is really only one piece of criterion that makes you a therian and that is identifying as or seeing yourself as an animal in some way. i dont really think that “identifying with” and “identifying as” are in any way mutually exclusive, obviously someone can do both. I’m not saying that they are synonymous, per se, but if someone says they identify with or have a connection to an animal so much that they see themselves as one (even if it’s Not all the time), but they say they don’t identify as one and they still call themselves therian i dont care. Like its a non-issue to me. If every therian was only allowed to identify as an animal in a literal and accurate sense, we’d have to have a serious conversation about like… More than half the community then.

Identity is confusing. Words are confusing. “Identify as” is incredibly broad and multi-faceted. Yes, I agree that people generalizing the community is bad. Spreading misinformation is bad. But we also have to understand that most of the misinformation and generalization is being spread by children, which is Normal and Common in any community. It doesn’t mean they’re all intentionally “watering down” therianthropy, it doesn’t mean that the community is “over” or whatever other doomsday description people use, and it doesn’t mean that they Aren’t therians. You can still be a therian even if you get the definition completely wrong. Being right isn’t part of the criteria.

I’m just kind of sick and tired of everyone hating eachother. I’m sick and tired of people on here like… acting like the kids in this community are being “Evil” on Purpose. If you were their age now don’t pretend like you somehow would magically not fall for any misinformation on therianthropy. I know *I* did at that age, I literally used to be anti-therian even though it was so obvious I was one.

I’m not saying you have to teach them or educate them, but at least show them that it’s okay to not be seen as normal by the rest of society. That’s really what all of this is about in the end, because I think it’s important to understand that the only reason any of this is happening is because young therians were being hated, bullied, and harassed by non-therians in the first place. When you are young, acceptance by others is everything. Denial of who you truly are is commonplace. Less than a decade ago I was that same kid, and I’m sure a lot of you were that same kid too, thinking that abandoning your animal was the right thing to do, thinking that making fun of the ones who saw themselves for who they really are would make you normal.

Acting like young “tiktok” therians are the enemy is not the way to go about this. I absolutely understand being upset because having people try to change the meaning of something you’ve identified as for so long is obviously upsetting. But they are only mean because the world is mean to them. I’m not saying that some of the things they say in retaliation to physical therians, CLCZ, and anyone who tries to correct them is right or justified, but im saying this is an explanation of their behavior. Ignore them and block them if you must, but don’t try to divide the community over the fact that a child was wrong.

-🦮🌓 / moondog

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therianblr doesn’t like to admit it but some of yall are Almost just as bad with invalidating people’s identities as theriantok is. Like… I had an ex tiktok moot who was like “oh theriantok is so bad :( therianblr is so much more accepting” and i go to his tumblr account and he had a post about how “Most Therians on Tiktok are actually Otherhearted ☝️🤓” and ppl were agreeing with him… like. what? Based on what criteria? They got the definition wrong??? Ohhh shiver me timbers!! the 12 year old got the definition of therianthropy wrong!! should we bring back AHWW? should we pray to the first full moon of november? give me a fucking break.

Someone getting a definition wrong or anything else does not justify fakeclaiming them or saying they’re actually something else. Like, even though I think a lot of yall have an extremely reductive view of animals and their lives that doesn’t mean I think you’re faking therianthropy. I’m not gonna say you can’t be a therian because i think your opinions on animals are shit. That’s ridiculous! So we shouldn’t be invalidating therians for getting things wrong or being a certain age or having hobbies or “treating their theriotypes like OCs” or whatever the fuck you guys complain about these days. Right.

I also wanna say that like… no matter what you say, it’s up to the individual to decide what feels right to them as a label. YOU cannot make that choice for someone. I don’t give a fuck if you’re like “but waaahhh waaaahh they’re watering down therianthropy!!1!1” because if a few people identifying in a certain way makes you want to drop the label entirely, maybe that’s on you..? Like go ahead and think that they’re otherhearted or otherlink or whatever else for your arbitrary reasons. You can even tell them you think that. It won’t change their mind, they’ll probably just think you’re rude. There’s a lot of overlap with these identities anyways, and it can be hard to make the distinction, especially since they’re ALL integral parts of people’s identity. If someone identifies with wolves so much that they think they should be one or was one in a past life, I’m not going to say they can’t use the word “therian”. It’s not up to me. 

-🦮🌓 / moondog

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A bit of a rant about words but since I saw someone defending the use of "therianism" due to its usage in the 1990s: HOLY SHIT. IT'S 2025. THERIANTHROPY IS THE ONLY WORD WE NEED. NOT SOMETHING THAT IMPLIES WE'RE A RELIGIOUS GROUP OR JUST A SPIRITUAL BELIEF AS "THERIANISM" DOES. YOU ANNOY ME JUST AS MUCH AS THAT ONE GIRL WHO KEPT CALLING ME A "THERIANTHROPIST".

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now that I have a sign off i feel like i have to lovingly craft my hottest takes with blood, sweat, and tears before I submit them. i’ve reached the equivalent of an art block but for anon submissions LOL

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Hshgsvshs real

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I don't know what any otherkin words mean and at this point I'm afraid to ask (:•{

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i just wanna say I agree so hard with the recent anons about how… like most of the community just Does Not understand animals at all. and I don’t wanna be like elitist about it and say that these ppl aren’t therians or whatever but i think there seriously needs to be like… a focus on how no matter how Nonhuman Animal you may be, you are still very much socialized as a human. You probably know less about your theriotype than someone who studies them for a living does. You might not even know as much about your theriotype as someone who’s absolutely obsessed with them (who might not even be a therian themselves). And even if you seriously did know just about everything to do with your theriotype, that doesn’t mean you understand animals in GENERAL. Therianthropy isn’t like some magic power that makes you able to communicate with nature. For all of you who think animals have “simple” lives, that animals aren’t sentient or sapient, that animals cannot be people (even when there have been many cultures throughout history that disagree), that animals don’t have culture and social customs… it’s hard to see you as an animal at all. And I wish I wasn’t like that because I really don’t want to invalidate people but some of you guys like… don’t even know the first thing about animals. And that’s just really, really sad.

-🦮🌓 / moondog

(i’ve posted a lot of anons here before but im upgrading myself to Sign Off Status 🫡 )

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The way some therians with non-domestic theriotypes speak about domestic animals makes me wanna do some biting. Tell me you know nothing about dogs without telling me just by spewing some nonsense about how you're a wolf and not a dog due to not lacking agency or whatever.

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My therapist said I should explore the therian community based on my reported experiences, like communicating with wolves at the zoo and "feeling" ears and snout and tail, and what not. Now, I'm in my thirties, and I've been a furry for decades, but I have never explored otherkin until now... and I don't really want to stay. It's just like the furry fandom except that there are far fewer adults and everyone takes everything so goddamn seriously. Jargon and artificial divisions don't matter in real life. You're not going to get hate crimed for wearing animal ears in public, good Lord. Calm down and enjoy your life. Animals live outside, log off and go there.

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Hi chat its your favorite drama loving opossum again back with another rule ✨️

DO NOT COME INTO MY ASK TALKING ABOUT PRO ZOO/BEASTIALITY IDEOLOGY

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Why are so many otherkin unaware of the ways that nonhuman animals think and live? How can a therian, of all people, believe that other species aren't sapient? As though they're just thoughtless bodies whose existence can be defined for them by human admirers instead of real, living people who have their own cultures and values--parallel to our own, not lesser or greater.

The idea that animals have no conscious mind or sense of self is a very recent and Western belief originally created to justify dog vivisection. Anthropocentric superiority is constantly challenged by studies of intelligent apes, rodents, carnivorans, birds, sharks... every species objectively studied defies the belief that humans (or primates, omnivores, mammals, tetrapods...) are uniquely intelligent or self-aware compared to "lesser" species.

It's comforting to think that only humans are smart enough to be evil or that other animals have simpler, easier lives, but it just isn't true. Not in the real world. Animals couldn't develop mental illnesses if they were as stupid as humans say they are.

I genuinely do not believe that a person who thinks full-grown dogs are mindless or childishly innocent could have the soul of a dog, because that's definitely not what dogs think about themselves.

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I really wish the one trying to bring back AHWW-style introduction posts would stop.

People already use pinned posts in whatever format they please to give basic info, and carrds for longer deeper shit which are at least courteous enough to be small links we can choose to follow, we don't need to try and bring back a strict or strict-ish template, especially not one a single user can then take create for reinventing/bringing back

It's way too long to be done just 'for fun' come on

The reason they look and are formatted as they are is because they were used as right-of-passage posts to the forum where people would GRILL YOU UNDER THEM this was never meant to be individually useful though I'm sure there's going to be lots of people going 'but but but I want to fill it out!'

I am not reading a intro post that long sorry

Tumblr is going for format such a thing like shit especially if people add images as they're supposed to

Really don't want baby therians to think that's how you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO introduce yourself it really lacks personal flare, freedom and vetting of what info should and shouldn't be included no matter how many warnings or pieces of advice you put first

I just think putting a / between things is dumb

Did you really include discourse stances in there I'm so done with this shit

Clearly bias towards mono or near mono therians

With the way it was hyped up I thought it was going to actually include some interesting lost aspects of identity introspection, very disappointed. Just the regular shit written out again as it's always been, was actually interested to see if I'd forgotten something special about it

generally wanna put my AHWW days behind me

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TW: zoophilia and bestiality mention

i feel like my threshold for what I consider zoophilia is a lot lower than other people in the community which makes me feel out of place. There are a lot of things I have zero tolerance for that other ppl welcome with open arms. I also feel like the people who are okay with and engage with this stuff conflate zoophilia with bestiality more often than they realize, like just cause I think you’re somewhat zoophilic for being attracted to animal genitals in any way doesn’t mean I think you actually do it with irl animals, why do YOU think that?

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FUCK THERIAN TERRITORY FR. I'M IN THE TRENCHES WITH YOU OTHER ANON

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therian territory’s entire existence in the therian community was one of the catalysts for a lot of the misinformation spewed today if you really think about it . at least in my opinion

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While I'm grateful to have a community for my main kintype, domestic cat, I wish there was more for my second. I'm an Aruba whiptail and there's no community at all that I can find past reptile-kin. I hope I'm not the only one.

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Is it strange or weird that I know I’m a dog therian but more specifically a service dog?? I don’t know how to explain this to anyone- I don’t wear any gear but I’m thinking about wearing a lowkey “service animal��� patch somewhere on my jacket.

I don’t know how to explain this, my closest friend has habits that could harm them or bring them away from their present self that I interrupt almost on command. No one knows I’m otherkin or a therian, but I’ve openly stated to people I’m a service dog and they agreed it fit well for me. They don’t understand the deeper meaning but I wish they knew

I love looking up service dog training videos, I’m so connected to them I can’t explain it

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