Hear me out, what if, (hypothetically) bark bark woof woof bark bark woof wo-

sounds pretty based to me

Furry and therian broadly overlap, even though both groups try to deny this. Like, the furries don't want to be associated with freaks who actually think they're animals, and the therians don't want their deeply held personal identity to be reduced to just a fandom or fetish. However, just from orbiting around furry spaces for as long as I have, I am convinced that basically all furries are also therian.

When I first started toying with the idea of identifying as something inhuman through a furry lens, a lot of annoying therians told me that what I was experiencing is not just being really into furry stuff, it's a sign I was never human to begin with. I don't really understand this impulse, it felt like just the same thing. Are you going to diagnose every furry with therianthropy? I mean, you probably could, but it's not a distinction worth splitting hairs over.

My therian identity IS kind of fandom-like in its conception, like I do think I reasoned my way into it somewhat. I was made to feel inhuman by my upbringing, but I could have landed on many different metaphors. I think part of species dysphoria and my intermittent phantom tail/ear phenomena is really a manifestation of wanting this metaphor to come true. This is the reason I've felt a little alienated by therian spaces, I felt like I was being smothered with the reading that I literally had a non-human mind, and that doesn't make sense to me. "Dog" is an externally defined category, if I'm anything, I am a human's idea of what a dog is.

All that being said, this doesn't diminish the importance of my identity. I'm really starting to think that one of the main boundaries you need to break in order to be happy is to erase the distinction between "i identify as" and "I AM." Like maybe you don't just love and relate to that character in your favorite manga, maybe that's you. Perhaps, you were the fursona all along.

this is how i feel every time i post on this account

* bark bark bark *

i deserve to arf and maybe awoo

slowly filling the woods near my house up with theta deltas >:3

REBLOG IF UR BLOG IS SAFE FOR THERIANS AND FURRIES

goodnight friends. *curls up awesomely like this*

I am far too dog today. Too domestic. Too sweet. Too desirious of human attention!! I go out in public and am not immediately swarmed by humans? Blasphemous! I am a good boy!!!!

Therianthropy isn’t always all about memories or past lives or the community and finding out your theriotype and especially not gear. You just are a therian and you can just know and be one, you don’t need to be justified by all of these things, your not hurting anyone

imagine a dog doing the dishes.

That's me. i'm literally a dog and i can do dishes.

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what the FUCK is this supposed to mean, Spotify ??????

call it what u will, identifying with an animal is one of the most ancient and universal human experiences. the oldest known depiction of a human has a lions head. i am being dead serious when i say there are few things in this world more normal than being a furry

Template if anyone wants it, I just realized I haven't posted in 3 days.