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Last night I wasn't feeling the best emotionally so I decided to do what I often do and blindly write about whatever to get the feeling leveled out ... but I ended up finding myself with something I decided to run with and kinda liked it

I don't have the energy to copy and paste the story here so I'll leave the link if anyone is interested ,,

It's a small creative piece related to myself as a coyote but not quite , interpret it as you like <3

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im scrolling tumblr (with my paws)

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the sound you hear when a bunch of coyotes reblog your posts

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Awakening

by Sivaan of Candlekeep

Blurb: A poem about my relationship with my awakenings. Feeling out of place and completely isolated from my kind were things that came up during my awakening(s), which I explored here.

Day 18 of the Alterhuman Writing Challenge

With grass licking at your heels,

You are awkward in your steps.

So fresh, so new to this world,

yet you were born fully grown.

Of vast, urban savannas,

And jungles of brick and mortar,

This den is wrong yet it is yours.

Are you at home, or are you not?

Why do you wander so far?

Neither herd nor pride could fill

This hollowed space,—

For you alone are enough.

[werevyote]

Ohhh I got a few things I've been doing;

Personally for me funny enough; tattoos and piercings are a huge aid. Even though both of my tattoos I have now ( only have two , one is a mushroom and the other is a fandom specific thing ) , they're still unique patterns on my body. Coyotes too can have unique patterns in their color and fur so I associate it with that. However I'm looking into a few future tattoo ideas, looking at paws on my feet, a coyote related sleeve, and I want a coyote's fur pattern on my back <3

Piercings I can't really say why they're kin affirming, they just happen to be. I believe maybe it's the extra shine from them that's added onto my fur. I like to imagine that's the case <3

Another thing is just generally wearing some clothing that feels good to myself- personally my hearthome is a huge part of my identity as a coyote. So I wear a lot of foresty and earthly colors, so browns and greens are my main go to and occasionally tan, black, and grays to fit the coyote-like feel

Social transition is a huge part of my transition journey I believe. Both of my partners actively see me as a coyote and call me as such, as well as some friends <3 I think that's one of my main things that help a lot, I get treated like a spoiled coyote by my circles and genuinely it means a lot, especially in the sense of my species dysphoria. 9/10 times when people use pronouns on me it's always it/its so I personally find that to be helpful <3

HRT !! This helped me greatly and I'm being completely honest, I had absolutely no idea that going on T would have helped. Even before T I was a very hairy individual but now? I'm. A very very hairy individual LMFAO. I've been nicknamed a werewolf as a result by my mom over it haha, but ofc it's my fur :] I really enjoy being able to feel my fur over my skin and I have been now associating being on T with species transitioning too. Kinda helps a lot to play with the thought

Vocalizing is a part of it too with me, thankfully I was very in-tune with the idea of being a canine as a kid so I kinda just . Naturally learned to growl with my words. Now it's a natural habit as an adult where I growl with words sometimes, half the time I never even notice until someone points it out haha, but growling with words, learning to vocalize properly, etc etc is nice as hell :]

Make up is something I rarely ever wear since socially I'm also a transman ( I'm more butch than a man I believe but it's just easier socially to call myself a man in social groups ) and make-up can cause gender dysphoria - however - , eyeliner can be such a nice touch in the sense of coyote eyes. I think (??) the style is puppy eyeliner !!

Other than the tattoos I have other future plans to create a mask I'd like to wear, esp considering I have been thinking about looking into being a DJ, I'd like to wear a coyote headset on stage. I'm also looking into getting a canine-like packer for my bottom dysphoria, something that's been bugging me like crazy </3 I'm also looking into more piercings, possibly looking into getting angel fang piercings buuuut I'm still looking into it, if not just lip :3

Regardless that's kinda some of my main things I've been working with to transition, mainly just social with some physical stuff !!

transspecies folks-

if you are actively transitioning/aiding your species dysphoria, what are you doing? be specific please.

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here's a thought right before i go to bed, why should i be palatable to people who's support is dependent on me suppressing myself. why should i suppress myself for people who's support is conditional. if you take a look at me being a queer, non human, very physically disabled individual and think i should tone it down because people won't take me seriously or support me, i don't think i want your support to begin with.

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Another long winded ramble on my relationship with the word " transspecies " 🤟 ⸻ personal to my experiences I'm not saying anything is a requirement to anyone else, this is just me

I really do enjoy the word " transspecies " admittedly, I think it's a word I want to use more of. My identity is complex and vast but more or less all together -of how I see myself and experience my identity- I am a coyote

For basically majority of my life I have always been a canine of some sorts and actively strived to take the effort to fit the part. Not saying I mean to transition into a coyote but yet ... I kinda already am and have been. Ofc not in the fun little animal HRT things, but more or less mentally, socially, personally to me and myself I have been

In a previous ramble of mine I stated;

“ A lot like my trans identity, there always has been signs. I grew up to not only defy my assigned gender but to my species, and I love it. I fully embrace it. Yes, it’s so hard, it truly can be so so so hard, but it is me, it is true. ”

I believe my trans identity is intertwined with both species and gender, I do not experience what I assume is human-like gender but more experience coyote-like and nonhuman-like gender. I cannot separate it and it does in fact show socially and physically

I wear a lot of coyote fits, I often wear a coyote jacket and coyote items and accessories, people I know irl and online call me / refer to me as Coyote as a name, there are folks I know who refer to me as a coyote because they are aware of my nonhumanity. A lot like my trans identity I was socially slowly coming out and was actively being referred to as a guy ; it's basically the same thing with being a coyote. While I'm much more selective on who I come out to, I'm still yet socially seen as a coyote to some and I feel like that's important to me in the label

The word transspecies in itself also feels more solid than other common labels I would believe, at least in how it fits in my own personal experiences. At one point could I have been seen as human? Yea absolutely I was. I'm not human, no, I never was I absolutely was born as a coyote but yet still was raised as a human by a human family of course. So, in a way I'm redefining that and making it into my own thing, I'm not erasing any of my human experience, I deeply embrace them- just " human " isn't what I am. Therefore, accepting myself as a coyote and actively making small efforts online and offline with fitting myself as a coyote; it feels like a solid label to me

Dunno, I've been heavily considering using " transspecies " more often and that's kinda part of why and my experiences with nonhumanity sort of fitting into how I'd experience the label

I'm a coyote through and through, transcoyote if you will <3

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Chronic pain havin' and cane using coyote here 🤟

it feels a little isolating to be non-human with a feeding tube and i was wondering how many other non-humans are physically disabled or chronically ill as well? where are yall, and if you post i will definitely follow you!!

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Wasn't originally gonna post this but sure why not 🍂

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Sick day , laying in my bed unable to barely move I genuinely feel like a coyote who's under wild life care but I still have the instinctual urge to bite anyone who gets near me , body achin too much

My mind always gets so ? Hyper coyote ? Whenever I'm hurt or sick , I'm always pretty damn coyote but I have some sort of a strong ass mental shift whenever I'm more vulnerable. Either natural instinct playing a part or something else , it's happening and I'm a very sick bitey yote

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COYBOY-

male coyote therio/xenogender. shorthand for masculine coyotegenders; similar terminology to “tboy.”

note: being a tboy is a very sloppy, hot adult thing for me and many others. anyone is welcome to use the term, but know that the “-boy” suffix does NOT mean child or child-like here.

[ID: flag with stripes in varying shades of brown. cool toned brown at the top, warm toned brown at the bottom, with a stripe of beige in the middle. there is a blue grey coyote paw print in the center.]

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this therian post from 1997… i hope ur doing well now AJ i feel ur pain

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Reminder that there's so much more to alterhumanity than just being an animal or a supernatural creature or whatever. The term alterhuman encompasses a lot more than that, including (but not limited to)

Systems / Plurals

Fictional identities / Fictionfolk

Objects

Plants

Food

Concepts

Songs

'Link identities, 'hearted identities

Constellics and synpaths

Physical identities, identities caused by things

Whatever reason someone may identify as alterhuman for!

Additionally: alterhuman is an opt-in label. You don't have to consider yourself alterhuman if you don't want to. Same with nonhuman.

Oh, and also, everyone is valid. There isn't anyone who's less valid due to how they experience things.

- Spinel 💗

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R.Tanaka - New project series “ CAZA”

http://rafamonzo.tumblr.com   / http://tanaka-clan.tumblr

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Coyote Chase