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domestic dog alterhumans.. if your alterhumanity has something to do with a past life, do you remember anything abt your owner?

i remember his scent and home distinctly, but not his face. he was a retired veteran, living in a shitty trailer on a few acres of hunting land. i was gifted to him as a pup by his daughter, i think so he wouldn't be lonely. he trained me well and always shared his meals with me. he never took me hunting with him, but let me hang out outside while he was cleaning ducks and deer, feeding me scraps. he always had a cigarette or a beer in his hand, often both. we'd watch crime dramas on tv and fall asleep on the flannel couch together. he was always kind to me.

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Artwork

Title: Caged

Time: 57 minutes

Program: Ibis paint

Drew this on the 8th of August but forgot to post until now 🥲

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If you call pedophilia a kink please unfollow me and never talk to me again

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I have not really considered myself alterhuman so perhaps this is not my place, but I think part of the reason why I have never connected to the term is that it frames itself as oppositional to a normative human existence that simply does not exist.

Obviously if you find community with the term and space then more power to you. I’m not condemning that in the slightest. But fundamentally there are as many “normal” human experiences as there are humans. Difficult to suggest there is anything alternative about any particular way of being.

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does this in front of you

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ok here is. silverlight's red dragon. see their beast

extra red dagon lore: his name is crest bc silverlight thought his crest was really big and stupid and silly looking when he was a hatchling

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I've been following your blog for a long time and I just wanted to say y'all are extremely cool. Coolest creatures this side of the galaxy, even!

That's it that's the ask have a wonderful day

awwww thank you so much, you're too kind!! hope you have an amazing day too! :)

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FINALLY figured out pluralkit. it only took us like, four months lol

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caged.

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25 ceramic mountain hares ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ these were part of my final piece for my foundation year for a project about cycles <3

these completely sold out at the show and i couldn't be happier, but if you're interested in buying/commissioning one or just have questions then drop me a dm!

paired with three screenprints u can peek at here

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three hares, aka the a1 screenprints from my final foundation year project on cycles <3

this was my display, alongside 25 handmade ceramic hares which you can check out here! (ignore the empty shelf - that's a spot for some mini prints + business cards i needed to replace)

these are open-screen prints made with paper stencils, and thoroughly worked into with soft pastel and pencils <3 they depict the summer, spring/autumn, and winter coats of mountain hares.

this project concluded 3 years at my school of art, and the next step is undergraduate illustration in london <3 i'm really proud of how far i've come

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When will people get it through their heads that being a therian means identifying as an animal. If you don't identify as an animal AT all then you're not a therian. I'm sorry if that seems gate-keep-y, but telling me I'm misinformed because I said therians have to ID as animals on some level to be therians pisses me off.

(Screen shot from YT, a comment replying to mine)

I'm not responding because I really don't wanna argue with people and because I likely won't change their mind.. BUT OH MY FUCKING GOD I COULD EAT SOMEONE (/half serious)

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I just had.. an experience, today. I mentioned my nonhumanity to my mother. I’m not sure how to feel about how it went.

I have been openly, and unabashedly nonhuman for about six years now. My parents were the first to hear my thoughts about me being a nonhuman. The concept of it isn’t new to them, and I don’t care what they think, but.. this time was different. It’s the first time I’ve mentioned it since I stopped using the term therian.

Therian is a pretty word, in my opinion. A comfortable word. A word easy to swallow. It’s not a bad word, but I’d much rather be more brazen about what it is that I am. I believe this made her uncomfortable this time around. I didn’t exactly expect her to care.

She quite egregiously opposed me, but this has never been an issue before, so it was.. confusing? Told me I was crazy. Told me that me considering myself nonhuman was a result of privilege (?). That it isn’t okay for me to think that, and that I am a human being. “I’m not opposing your spiritual beliefs!” But oh boy, she sure was.

Undeniably, down to the flesh, blood and bone, this body is a human one. But good LORD I did not expect such a barrage. I don’t care what she thinks. I don’t plan to change, but I don’t need her to understand it either. It just doesn’t matter to me. But, wow. Wow, oh wow. I was not expecting the hostility.

Im not sure how to feel about it; I’m confused, above all else.

I will take this as an opportunity to simply strengthen my own confidence I believe. By the squishy bleeding meat that surrounds me, I am human, but at the core of it all, I am a dragon. Such a fact cannot be denied, nor defied.

Makes me wanna write.. makes me want to help in the efforts of aiding the acceptance of nonhumanity. Perhaps.

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frankly, i never really liked the term ‘alterhuman’.

imo it’s just so extremely vague. “an identity not typical of humanity” could mean literally anything; depression is atypical in humans, schizophrenia is atypical in humans, being xenogender is atypical in humans, aromanticism is atypical on humans, autism is atypical in humans. yet none of these count as alterhuman. why not?

other disorders like DID and other dissociative disorders are alterhuman since plurality is inherently included, according to the coiner. to say plurality is ‘typically unhuman’ but not other disorders or atypical identities seems… not only rude to call plurality uniquely atypical of being human, but also arbitrary. how is it different?

i still use the term alterhuman when speaking broadly of the community. but it’s not a label i find any connection or relation to, because it doesn’t make much sense to me. i far prefer using “nonhuman” for myself, but even that is imperfect because it describes only what i am not rather than what i am. which is why “therian” will always be my favourite.

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There's not much in the world that gets a majority of us to feel super creaturey or animalistic that compares to just.... Cracking open a hard boiled egg. Which might seem so simple and so benign, but I think it taps into a lot of our foraging and hunting instincts at the same time.

It's so good. You grab something, crack it open and eat the stuff inside, which can all be pretty easily done with just your hands. Like cracking into a walnut or crunching a bone. It's just one of the best nonhuman euphoria foods possible to eat because it feels like a more involved process than just eating a steak. And we like meat and even fruits and vegetables more than we like eggs, we don't really enjoy egg for the taste--it's the experience that gets us.

We're not even sure what 'type of ours this would relate to, but it's a pretty universally animalistic experience across the board. Maybe our collective dragon 'type ate eggs from others' nests? Maybe it's some sort of bird thing? Hard to tell. But it's definitely a thing. Would recommend.

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Had this interaction on YouTube, very curious of their thought process here lol, my only thing is legitimately asking do they just hate dogkin?