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I often find myself wishing that sometimes , I was just as much as the habitat and setting as I am the animal ; I find peace in imagining I am the snow and leaves , I am the cold and everything apart of the setting is a part of me ⸻ I like to imagine myself as the trees that protect the wildlife , the water that provides and the dirt that hides , the wind that cools from the heat and the breeze that carries a scent of fresh kill meat

Maybe as a coyote that is my core of my being , like a heart , my trees my limbs hide that part of me , keeps it alive and lets me thrive

I often wonder if I were the setting , would the dead be a part of me too ? When something dies when decays , it melts and fossilizes into my skin and then new life from the decay begins , mushrooms and plants , I think a part of me is in an everlasting cycle of life and death's dance

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Samantha Fields

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Little paintings with lyrics from the song ‘Coyotes’ by Modest Mouse, which has a quite poignant music video featuring a live coyote riding a train.

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YAY!!! reqs for the draconic community :)) i hope these r all okay... bweh bweh bweh

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I really think that the therian community needs more essays on former trends and general forms of conduct, because I've said it before and will continue to say it, but the way the community was structured in the mid to late 2010s when I was first awakened was fun and exciting and helped me really find the good in my identity, but also was extremely toxic, judgy, and detrimental to my overall journey.

In my first few years in the community, I was embraced into a corner of the internet that was all about animals and the ethical treatment of them and appreciating and worshipping nature as we all considered ourselves more a part of it than "others". I was also dragged by my tail into a corner of the internet that forced me to give up every single personal, little detail about my personal identity and how I felt about it and the step-by-step of how I got there just to be allowed to speak.

That community both sang the praises of wolf therians, put them on a pedestal, to the point that it felt like they were above all other 'types, while also simultaneously tearing down anyone who questioned wolves, especially certain coat colors, to the point that you had to defend a master's thesis in front of a panel of graymuzzles for anyone to allow you the label "wolf therian". From day one, you were conditioned to believe there was no fun and intimate community, no pack meets, no content for you, unless you were a gray wolf, but you had to be educated on par with the top experts in the world on both identity and the species to not be considered "another kid that likes wolves". If you were anything else, you were an outcast in a world of outcasts. You were just "trying to be unique". You never got edits, outfits, etc. without asking creator accounts for them yourself. The community's terminology was structured around wolves. Howls, packs, etc. You either had to accept that you were going to be outnumbered in any close-knit small group you joined, if you were even allowed and it wasn't "wolves only", or, you could make a group designed around 'types similar to yours, which would never be found by others like you, and would quickly only become a failed idea.

That community is what led to my complicated and painful feelings towards wolves. For the rest of my life, no matter what happens, I will always have doubt in my identity because of it all. I will either be a wolf who believes I'm one because of the community's influence, or I won't and will believe I'm not because I want to escape the stereotypes that come with being a wolf.

That community also was riddled with rigid, unspoken rules about what was and wasn't an acceptable therian identity. I never heard of systems during that time, never saw anyone identify solely psychologically, and no one identified only because they felt like that creature. Back then, you were a standard therian with a single 'type, maybe a second if you'd been researching and journaling every single day without fail for more than a year with statistics to back it up. You had a reason for your identity, but it couldn't just be that you imprinted on your pets as a child (that's not enough), or that it developed from trauma or autism (therianthropy isn't a mental illness), or that you simply feel that way (you're just a wolfaboo). You had to be a misplaced soul, someone with past lives, on rare occasions, you could be a permanent walk-in spirit (but definitely not in a plural way). Don't even get me started on the idea of polymorphs, conceptkin, etc.

I personally feel like a standard therian, but to this day, I still question the origin of my identity. So much of my identity as a red wolf hinged on it being endangered and from my area, because then I could be a misplaced soul due to there not being enough bodies for red wolves to be born into. When I first awakened, I thought my identity came from a past life, even though I personally don't believe I can ever find out what those were, if I even have any. Later on, when I realized being raised with dogs and always seeing and being compared to canines likely had something to do with it, and I considered it to have come from imprinting, I still felt as if I was required to find some spiritual side to it as well. I still struggle with this, to the point that I barely know what I believe in afterlife-wise anymore, and I certainly don't understand what led to my identity, if something even led to it at all.

Those kinds of things needs to be discussed more, because to an extent, I feel like it's still present, both in the same and different ways. The newly-awakened alterhumans of today, yesterday, and tomorrow, all deserve to have a truly accepting space to figure themselves out without pressure to conform to an unspoken standard of how one should identify. Tumblr is better about it than most sites, but ones like TikTok might set things back, if they haven't already, despite the attempts of well-meaning individuals who are trying to break through the algorithm and educate others. I just think more discussions need to be had and more perspectives and experiences need to be shared for the sake of awareness and making sure damaging practices don't continue forever.

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Soulful Osa by X

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a poll for the wing-havers

for me, my back has always felt much more sensitive than the rest of my body, to the point of feeling uncomfortable being touched there. sometimes when people touch my back i jump as a reflex, but not if they touch the rest of my body. i wanted to know if this is a common experience in wingedkin, so please answer the poll to satiate my neverending hunger for knowledge :}

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Got stressed so I reasonably doodled a coyote smoking

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Steam rises from a hot spring on a winter morning at Yellowstone National Park. Photo: Raymond Gehman

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don't you EVER give up. keep fighting, keep living keep loving keep doing things that make you happy. don't even think about hurting yourself. doomscrolling is never going to help, reach out to friends and family, reach out to those who love you. my asks are open for support and so are my dms. i love you all. i will always love you.

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Something more chill , but I deeply enjoy making these sort of small 'type edits , they're a lot of fun 🌿 💚

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Coyote camouflage might not be as flashy as some others in the animal kingdom but you gotta admit this does what it needs to do here

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My winter coat will keep me warm!

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Growing up in a human society and world, now you're an adult but you feel a sense of loss because you never grew up as yourself, as your 'type. Nostalgic for something you never had, sense of sadness for a childhood you never got to experience

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Mark ur calendars!! 🗓️

Therianthropy day 2024 falls on 16. November!!

Context: therianthrophy day is celebrated after the first howl (therian meet) ever done, which was organized to be on the first full moon of November so that’s why it is always celebrated on a varying date!!

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