therians trying to make relatable tweets is so funny because they’re always like “going to the grocery store would be so much better if we all. um. were covered in fur. and walked on… four legs… and… used our ears and tails as means of communication.. hah.. right guys”

I got new T pellets in my ass recently and my doc has like zero filter in the funniest way so she was cutting my ass meat open and telling me about when she used to live in a punk house with like 6 men and how it was kinda rancid but fun overall, and then she was like "You're so calm about me cutting open your butt. I can't tell if I'm hurting you or not" and I HAD been telling her when the lidocaine wasn't working (because my biology is insane and it wears off super fast) so I was just thinking like "Do I shout?? Should I just like honk or something if it hurts??" but instead I was just like "Sorry my ass is so strong"

This is the same doctor that, when I told her I was bad at sleeping, said "You have to be more animal about it" and now I'm in an otherkin webring (still bad at sleeping but it's funnier now)

30 Day Non-Human Challenge, Day 10: What Have Other People Said About Your Non-Human Nature?

Funny enough, I actually read this prompt outloud to my husband. He said it's very fitting of me. I remember when I had that spiritual awakening, when I discovered my dragonkinity, he was there with me and didn't seem at all surprised when I told him what I heard. It's just... me. That's it.

What my mom said is way funnier. She went, "A-hah! I knew it!" She had always gotten an odd vibe from me. She never felt I was particularly human, and honestly, she isn't really either (huge voidpunk vibes actually). So she's always very lighthearted about it. It's really nice. Actually, I still haven't given her my infodump about what I've learned about this community! I should call her soon. I think she'd think it's really neat.

This doesn't really answer the prompt, but I did sort of come out to a penpal of mine in the letter I wrote to them last night. I didn't say much, just asked how much they know about the community. I was too scared to just come out and say I'm otherkin without that context. Obviously they haven't said anything about it yet since I only just put the thing in my mailbox, but I'll probably post an update about it when I get their reply.

Yes, they were almost a horde in their own right! Our nests were made to be large enough to have two (or large enough to fit everyone if it was polyamorous. We don't judge). We would make them out of grasses, branches, moss, fur from challenging beasts, and all the things we developed as we built our civilization. We would show our nest to the party of interest, and shower them in shows of strength! Cooking, fighting, singing/poetry, dancing, flight, whatever you were best at. You would consumate the acceptance of the courthood by sleeping together in the nest (not in a sexual way. Just sleeping in the nest together, genuinely.) We would also build houses together when enough time had passed, it was almost our proposal to ask to build a house together. We would move the nest into the house first and the village would watch and celebrate.

Meanwhile my partner's culture was a bit similar in shows of strength- but also had that pursuer pursued thing. I had to be taught his culture to understand he was trying to court me, LMAO. I was wondering 'why is this man bringing me the biggest fish in the lake? Is he showing off? Dick.'

He also gifted me proposal jewelry and forgot to tell me that it was proposal jewelry. I found this out in this life by talking with a member of the other species. I would have said yes. but he assumed I had been taught that.

Sorry, I love talking about courting technique differences and the stupid interspecies romantic comedy that was my life.

That's so interesting! And makes a lot of sense to me, on pretty much all counts. It sounds pretty similar to my kind in theory, even if the application is different - look at these things I've done, look at these things I can do, look at the proof of my ability to protect, aren't I attractive? wouldn't I be a good partner? (To put it very bluntly xD)

And gods, interspecies romance is hilarious and definitely one of the funnier things that's a semi-unique experience to otherkin - just one of the many joys of being a nonhuman in a human society xD You are definitely not the only ones I've heard of who've had trips and falls because the courtship methods of the respective partners each flew past the other's head.

I see you've heard about the recent fae and dragon trying to stir up all community discourse then?

I'd say they succeeded since so many beings got riled up.

I know terms like 'therian' and 'otherkin' are never going to encompass all nonhuman or beyond-human or slightly-to-the-left-of-human experiences that make up the world but I don't think having a particular experiences gives anybody the rights to say who is really their species and who is just a human who really wants to not be human. Nor to try and create and maintain elitism about which kinds of experiences are real and genuine and therefore make the person their species or identity and which don't despite the fact that all these 'not really your species' people genuinely identify as, which is the only thing which separates nonhumans and fictional humans from humans of this world who are kinning for fun i.e. taking on a nonhuman identity or fictional human identity for fun. At that point, where you're just saying x-identities-aren't-real, it doesn't matter which specific community term you use or are trying to purify especially when most of us use large terms like alterhuman and nonhuman as well. If you live your life being elite, you will always come across people you don't believe, whilst expecting everyone to believe you - which is ironic. There is nothing wrong with believing somebody at face value and letting them explore and grow in a safe environment just because in the past you were forced to grow by the negative reinforcement of constant backlash and suspicion of you. Some people don't grow from that. Some people just go back to faking human. Why would you wish that on anyone. Don't give me any survival of the fittest if it really meant that much to them then they would do this rhetoric either. (This is aimed at those people not You you Anon). Like I do feel a little sorry that that dragon isn't getting the same feelings from the community as before. That they've lost the deep sense of spirituality that used to be here when nonhumans cowered in tiny corners and many never discovered the parts of them which felt different at all. That they no longer feel quite so special or unique because there's too many of us to get that little rush of happy hormones from meeting somebody like you with a rare identity. But their arguments made me laugh because a) they're actually talking about how kin for fun has ruined the community and all those people you're against agree because their fictional identities run more than just skin deep, and b) they're a dragon. They identify as a dragon from a made-up/mythical/fictional place that is only real to them, through their particular belief system, and in the beliefs of those who validate or agree with them. They're no different, really, to somebody who identifies as a specific character from a piece of media that happens to be fictional here but that is absolutely not fictional to them and/or in their multiverse theory(not that only this theory is valid it's just most like how this dragon thinks). And what's funnier is that elitists would absolutely count this person crying for gatekeeping as out of the community and not really a dragon 'because that's impossible' too, as I know there's still those out there who ONLY validate earthly animals proven to exist upon this Earth here and now and dragons are not one of those creatures. I think they're just nostalgic and misinformed and should probably listen to even half of what is being said to them. If they want to identify as dragon spirit instead of dragonkin they're free to without throwing other identities under the bus and sparking tempers amongst beings way too sick of being invalidated when they live their lives as x or y very seriously every day. About the fae person...yeah, again, I just found it funny that they think they're one of the only real fae because they can 'talk to their court in the astral realm' and 'can help people get there via x and y techniques' when like...if you don't believe in stuff like that, it doesn't leave any impact at all. It did not make me think of them as more legit because I personally don't believe that it's possible to do what they claim, but they think it is and that's fine. What's

not fine is them then saying that any fae who doesn't do this isn't really fae then, and also claiming that every fae court hates faekin and other such fae-identifiers who don't have this one beings specific beliefs. Anything which promotes such hate and elitism of others you cannot possibly know the inner workings of just is not going to fly. The problem with elitist attitudes in communities like this is that it goes beyond the mild gatekeeping needed to maintain the integrity of a term (e.g. KFFs are NOT kin) and into pushing those who do belong out because they don't meet your personal expectations. In the same way, there will always be somebody who doesn't think you are legit so nobody is untouchable. It's a rotten stupid circle of invalidation that nobody escapes from. The mythical animal doesn't think non-spiritual versions of it are real, the earthly extinct animal doesn't think the mythical animal is real, the nonhuman humanoid doesn't think the earthly extinct animal is real, the earthly living animal doesn't think the nonhuman humanoid is real, the humans don't think the earthly living animal is real and on and on and on. Tell me, when nobody is honest about their nonhuman feelings any more out of fear of being rejected, who will these elitists fight? Who will they turn to for community, comfort and sharing of being not a human? Their community will forever be small and hostile, full of suspicions and harsh treatments so long as they cannot accept that their are 'fictional' entities living in human bodies on this world, which happened to create a piece of media similar to or identical to their lives and also members of their own species who do not interact with their specieshood in the same way they do.

11.16.20

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I wish slore could do something, anything, original. The statement I made earlier about her entire life just being pathetic attempts to copy Summer and I? It rings more and more true with each passing day. Future me, when you miss them during break, remember this moment. Remember that they’re both just selfish pieces of shit who will ignore how you’re feeling and steal your ideas from you. Never in my life have I hated a character more than Rueben. Reading the rp between her and otherkin’s characters bores me to tears- and then she has the fucking nerve to critique my characters. The truth is, she’ll never write a single character of value because she doesn’t actually understand what rejection is. She’s gotten whatever the hell she wants her entire life. ⋇⋆✦⋆⋇ 8:56 PM ⋇⋆✦⋆⋇ 

Jesus Christ, it’s even fucking funnier now, considering that she fixed his addiction within five fucking minutes. Now he really is just a piece of cardboard with clown makeup. The one “interesting” part about him? Fucking gone. 

-Taken from Discord