Otherkin Community - Blog Posts
Me and the boys hunting for food (going to pick up our Braum's chicken strips) and risking our lives (having to talk to like- two employees)
I fucking HATE not being able to just go out and see one of my main theriotypes (the Tyrannosaurus rex), even in a zoo. Like- I just have to go off vibes and I just have to have what media I actually like relating to it. Like- I have prehistoric planet and that's pretty much it. I love it a lot because there are NO people in the show and they don't effect anything in that setting, and the Tyrannosaurus looks JUST LIKE ME!! But- that's it. Nothing else looks like me and Prehistoric planet is the only thing that doesn't portray them as scaly tanks on steroids. Like RAAAGGHHHHHH just let it be a creature!!
I hate it when I'm in an argument about dinosaurs then it gets dangerously close to the Tyrannosaurs or literally the T-rex and I'm sitting there like: Bro, I'm Literally a Tyrannosaurus. Trust me bro. I was there.
Like- Do you know who you're talking to? Look at me, I am OBVIOUSLY a Tyrannosaurus rex rn. Are you stupid?
Hoarding rocks... crystals... bones... prns + xenogenders.... stuffies.... yeeeesssss happy drgnn.... rar (Moral of the story: Dragon (me) luvsss Hoarding thnnggss (Physical or not >:3))
Dinovember!
So like- I'll be participating in Dinovember for most, if not all of the prompts (Unless something happens that causes me to not be able to). The drawings won't be the best, they'll be on paper, and they'd probably be a bit messy. I'm not gonna be posting it on here, but on my side blog @confused-therian so if you wanna see that be on the lookout! (Also- I'm doing moodboard requests on that account!)
I miss you Cele. I'm sorry I wasn't there to protect you, or our egg. I hate those humans for what they did. I hate that I couldn't save you. And you, that tiefling, I'm sorry I wasn't there for you. I'm sorry I died. It wasn't supposed to end like that. I hope that damn sea serpent got what it deserved. I miss flying with you Cele. I miss singing you the songs of the dragons, Tiefling. I miss you singing me the songs of your kingdom and songs that you gathered on your journeys, Tiefling.
Sincerely, Pyrothium.
Nobody: Me and my dragonkin ass having a box of random shiny (And non-shiny) stuff that I found (If you touch it I'll burn you like the pyre I was named after)
I miss being a Tyrannosaur. The mud squishing underneath my feet? Claws? Whatever they're called. The little chirps of my babies. The scent and taste of the triceratops. All the plant life. It was beyond amazing. And English is hard so you'll just have to get over all of my grammatical and punctuation errors.
I'm happy to see the idea of "you don't have to categorize yourself you can just be" growing in the therian/otherkin community.
When I first found out about otherkin spaces I always felt fake not being exactly like all the creatures I saw posting. So I'm glad that now young otherkin can see that it's OK to just be. You don't need to know the exact colors and size of your kintype or have past memories or shifts or anything.
And I feel like it opens up more understanding for otherkin/therians like me who just Are their type, all the time. I'm just a werewolf. I don't have anything really past memories or shifts I just am all the time, it's me. It's OK to just be. You don't have to explain yourself to anybody.
Intro I guess
Ello! I'm your local creature! I am a minor so feel free to leave if that makes you uncomfortable! People over 18 can interact just don't be weird (duh)! I do not require tone tags but I do use them a lot! If you have them in your pinned I'll try to keep that in mind but I might forget! You can call me Tor or Theo! I'm also fine with the terms 'good dog' and stuff along those lines (species euphoria go brrrrrrrrr)
My theriotypes/Kintypes are: Tyrannosaurus rex, Great plains coyote, Bottlenose dolphin, Long-eared owl, Melanistic Spinosauridae cladotherian, Blue jay and Harlequin great Dane! I am questioning wolfkin! I'm also a Shirshu fictotherian, along with being a Dragon and Merfolk kin!
I use He/It/That! I love FNAF, Gravity falls, Wings of fire, Hazbin hotel, and Dinosaurs so expect me to reblog or post a lot about that stuff! I am a Singlet so please don't try to drag us into system discourse! (I also like to use the term 'we' and 'us' to refer to myself, so keep that in mind)
My vent tag is 'The Rex growls' and my original posts related to my Tyrannosaurus paleotherianthropy is 'Rexy rumbles'
I'll update my DNI whenever I feel like I need to
Peace out bros!
DNI under cut
I am not comfortable with you using the term 'kinnie' for me. If you use it you can still interact, just don't use it for me. Please and thank you ^^!
DNI: 18+ BLOGS, PRO CONTACT FOR HARMFUL AND NON-CONSENSUAL PARAS (ZOO, PEDO, NECRO, ETC), PROSHIP, R@CISTS, ANTIKIN, ANTI LGBTQIA+, ANTI MOGAI, TRUMP SUPPORTERS, SEXISTS, TERF, TRUSCUM, PEOPLE WHO THINK ALL AGE/PET REGRESSION IS NSFW, NSFW AGERE/PETRE, RADQUEER, N@ZI, NEON@ZI, SUPPORT THE GENOCIDE AGAINST PALESTINIANS
Little rant (maybe)
I noticed that i felt shifts way more often this month. No matter what place or situation i'm in, I can feel my tail, occasionally my round ears, and my snout. My animalistic urges like eating straight from my mouth also likes to kick in. I do so by putting the food on my "paw" and gently eating it while tilting my head mimicking an animal. Utensils dont really do me a favor while feasting.
I enjoy being under the sunlight because i depict it as a "photosyntesis" kind of stuff.
I remember when I was swimming yesterday, the feeling of receiving some sort of energy from sunlight gives me a lot of euphoria especially when im just standing. But when i am actually swimming inside the pool, I feel my hyena body parts. Im pretty much free being in the water because even though i swim like a baby being thrown inside, nobody commented about it.
Maybe i have shifts as a hyena AND a tree. For the space kin?? Not yet.. or.. I do feel like emiting an energy from me but idk if that even counts
Also it has been a year since i have awakened as a hyena therian!! Yipee!!! (I dont remember when but i remembered it was last year lol)
Treekin Flag!!
Hey yall! After a while i finally made a flag; specifically one for alterhuman identity. I noticed the fact that I cant find a treekin flag anywhere so i made it myself instead :3
Treekin is a type of otherkin where individuals identify as a form of tree in anykind.
⭐ Made by me!!
Interact w/ this post if using the flag!! (Credits also appreciated)
Kewl spacekin moodboard <3
Credit is optional but appreciated ^_^ 🌌🌠
None of the images above are mine
guys if someone did an X-ray on me they wouldn't see anything human
I'd have my bones and joints that turn 180 degrees so I can climb freely, a stomach that can eat any bug or creature smaller than me, sharp teeth and sharp claws
my flowing blood would be wild and feral like the animal I am
FINALLY MADE MY AGERE BLOG!!!
@the-clone-nursery
It's a little rough rn but finally made :)
does it ever make you dysphoric that like, you understand language. I can write and read and speak it and sometimes it just feels wrong. I don't like it. speaking sometimes makes me so dysphoric I almost just dissociate to deal with it
having to do and live through the very basic parts of human society makes me feel even more dysphoric and stuck in my own body. I don't see myself like them and yet they see me as them and I'm bound by their norms and omg I hate it
hey everyone, please remember you can accept and acknowledge your physical/biological nonhumaness and *still* take care of your body
accepting that your body isn't human doesn't stop you from taking care of the body you do have, and please don't think that it does (I saw an argument that said accepting your body as not being biologically human will cause those to neglect themselves)
it isn't wrong to understand that your body isn't human (mine isn't, in anyway)
but just for a general life thing:
drink water and eat meals
bathe yourself
it's good to get doctor checkups if able
brush your fangs and teeth+gums and your tongue
spend some time outside :)
why can't I be theriform...
Mildly annoyed at the trend of people... Forgetting that many of the strong experiences one can feel about alterhumanity are historically very very common in otherkin and therianthrope? This is not... Beef toward anyone, in fact this popped up bc I checked in on a non anglophone alt-h server, but god. Like speed round. As a note this is gonna be more therian linguo heavy just bc I'm very tired, a therianthrope, and mostly was in therian spaces so it's what I default to but a lot of those are applicable to otherkin n fictionkin.
"can phantom shifts feel like physically shapeshifting"
-> yeah this was an experience talked about not uncommonly on forums. A lot of therianthropes expressed the feeling of "a pelt under your skin begging to breach out" or feeling limbs push out against their skin as the phantom shift took place. Sure a lot of people also feel very mild phantom shifts. Both exist. But this experience is in fact a phantom shift experience. We called ourselves "weres" for a reason. Seems more common in people who distinctly see themselves as werecreatures, but this is not abnormal for a phantom shift, although preferably you should do a doctor check if you feel pain (also an experience ppl talked about, but it's not usually thought of as "normal" just bc. Well that's kinda bad and may hide an injury or whatever so it's better to check mundane reasons first. But painful shifts seem to exist you should just be very very certain nothing else could be causing it).
"I can't turn off being an animal / I can't stop my instincts at inconvenient times / I don't feel suited for human society"
-> this one always surprises me when it's presented as bizarre for otherkin/therians. That was like... A baseline therian experience. Yeah no a lot of us can't either. Usually the difference is that this feeling is at an all time high when in situations where you are constantly pressured to "human" correctly, socialize and have no breaks to wild it out, which corresponds a lot to The Entire Duration Of School and is therefore a more common complaint amongst teenagers than adults. It gets a bit easier as an adult sometimes if you're lucky to have opportunities that let you manage your life around instincts and such, although sometimes, well, you gotta play by societies rules to survive n it stays hard. Also a commonly reported experience. You do learn! But some people are better at hiding instincts than other, some instincts are easier to hide than other, etc.
"I have shifts I cannot control under very intense emotions"
-> "Berserker shift" is a controversial term due to a variety of reasons that span the usual "that's too weird, don't talk about that", the fact you're still responsible for what you do while shifty, or just bc it sounds kinda... Edgy, from a first glance, but it IS a term from our history and a lot of people do report the experience of going fully animalistic if freaked out enough. Sometimes alongside extremely strong phantom shifts as described in the first point! I've heard of people who had complete verbal shutdown and could neither speak nor understand speech, could not walk on two legs, reacted with growling spitting and biting, just the whole thing. I think this experience is a bit harder to find mostly because it's... Very vulnerable, usually. It tends to require less than pleasant conditions, and tends to be very vilified, so not talked about much, but very much something that is recorded.
Transhumanism, species transition and body mods overall
-> I'm not gonna talk much about this one bc I've said a lot in other posts, but there's a reason trans species and therianthropy are super intertwined and it's... Because a lot of therianthropes did historically attempt to transition or at least modify their body and surroundings to their best capacities. The idea that therianthropes, as a rule, mostly do not attempt to modify their bodies seems to me very incorrect.
"I feel a strong, almost supernatural drive toward nature / I feel in my bones I am nonhuman / I believed I could physically shift during most of my life under the right conditions"
-> This one is going to be a bit hard for me. As a result of having psychosis, I have kind of a mental block over thinking too much about it in regards to myself. It's also I think A Major way ppl seem to be confirming physical nonhumanity, so like, you do you, I'm not Telling you anything about yourself. However I do want to note that these feelings aren't particularly rare amongst nonhumans overall. A reason why so many therianthropes got in toxic groups that promised being able to go back to one's true form was... Because a lot of us are deeply convinced in some way or another that if things align juuuuust right maybe just maybe we'll have our bodies again. It's not hard to. Understand why an entire community defined by being in the wrong body would have this trait. A lot of us felt a strong drive toward nature, a feeling of being displaced amongst humans, a lot of us attempted to physically shift.
"I wish I could have my species's offsprings / I feel dysphoria over my sexual functions / I have sexual drives that align with being weird fetishes in a human society"
-> this one is more getting erased due to puritanism I think but yeah no for a lot of nonhumans it. Does not stop magically under the belt. And it's not a problem unless any theriform animal is involved. Yes even if it's kinda nasty to think about. I will however note for the first point "no theriform animal is involved" kinda still goes, please do not adopt animals, especially exotic animals, under the impression that you can parent them as a theriform animal could? It CAN be possible to raise a theriform animal in a way that would satisfy parental instincts if you're trained for it, but we're not special. We got raised by humans, we don't magically understand our species better than people trained for it. Very imprinted animals commonly make poor parents.
"I remember my past life / I communicate with my animal self spiritually / other spiritual experiences"
-> this one is such a surprise to me to see so uncommon now. Spirituality used to be a cornerstone of otherkin and therian spaces and it's kinda wild to me to see it's so rare now. So yeah no that's very much a thing. I don't think I've seen someone soul search for their "true name" in ages, when that was everywhere on old spirituality inclined forums. I can't speak much on this bc I am not a spiritual therianthrope + point about psychosis made before but I've seen parallel lives, I've seen past lives, I've seen future lives, I've seen misplaced souls, I've seen having a chat with your theriotype as a representation of your soul... Awakening seemed to have a meaning of the... Spiritual event of your soul kinda ripping to reveal your inner self for a while, a singular event in which you start remembering. Was very common on an old french forum over here. Not sure if that was as common in English ones. A lot of people's nonhumanity was not as based on shifts and instincts as on uncovering that hidden self through spiritual means, memories, and such.
Weird Shit Happens Around Me ("I can't digest things a human should digest in accordance to my species, ppl have noted my nonhuman traits as if they could see my invisible limbs, animals react weird to me, etc")
-> noooooted in the past but I think these have always been subject to doubt to be fair. Like you can find records of stuff like that quite easily, but also its very hard to prove in any way, shape or form. So that's a reason it's not in the basics of nonhumanity. But yeah historically a lot of otherkin/therianthropes have claimed Weird Shit Happens. Not rly my case so can't speak on it.
And I think I've mentioned what I had in my brain but this is just to remind ppl like... The therianthrope who wears a mask for fun and is only mildly inconvenienced by their animality is not really a representation of the community historically. Weve always been pretty fucking intense and pretty fucking weird. Chances are, if you are experiencing a very weird thing, it's not particularly a disqualifier of therianthropy or otherkin historically. Not that people might not give you shit about it! Pretty much all the points here, while not uncommon reported experiences, ARE in fact also things I've seen ppl be antagonistic about in the community. Which to be clear is stupid. But yeah it doesn't mean you're wrong, it means they don't realize the extent of our experiences.
all my stuffed animals are my essas and even essas for each other !!
OH MY GOD. PHYSICAL THERIANS ARE VALID. this shouldn't be discourse. if you are a physical anything, you are valid. I'm so sick and tired of the mainstream resources available saying it's all nonphysical or it's only okay if you "recognize your human body"
my body has never fucking been human and it never ever will be. for some, they do have a human body or partially do!!! and many of us don't as well!!!!
I am physically and biologically a ringtail and have never ever been human in literally any way. sure my sapience is higher but does that mean anything? NO I'm so frustrated and upset
thank you for reading my rant
how do other non/alterhumans feel about keeping pets?
if anyone wants they should totally ask me questions that you would ask someone who is a system/plural/multiple in anyway and maybe it'll help me figure out how I experience plurality :)
(plus I just like answering questions)
so because I'm questioning my plurality I put together a list of "symptoms" that could explain it, I won't share them here unless anyone wants to see them but I think it's helping me figure things out
grrrrrrrrr I hate questioning my plurality
ofc I'm coming to Tumblr for things like this :p
so basically, I've never been plural in my life and I for sure don't think I am. but I'm talking to something that's like a part of me like in my mind I think? I don't think I'm plural but when I have hour long conversations with myself I feel like there is something there listening and that's why they flow so well in my brain. does anyone have any idea of what this is, am I just weird
to all the "cute" animals out there who might need to hear this
you are strong
you are brave
you are powerful
you are terrifying
your teeth are sharp
your claws are strong
humans fear you
others cower from you
but most importantly, you are seen and heard. You are more than just looking aesthetically nice, more than what others say about you.
-an animal that has been told I am only myself because I "choose" something cute looking