I don’t know who needs to hear this today but if you love having lots of kintypes you are valid. if hoarding alterhuman flags and terms is fun and euphoric for you then you are valid. if you don’t know why you identify with every kintype you are valid. if you have a long hoard of kintypes that just feel right you are valid.

you do not owe anyone an explanation of your alterhumanity. you are not inferior to those who are deeply introspective about their types just because you label hoard, or don’t have a complex reason as to why you id this way

I appreciate you 🫶🐾

I want to be plugged into an outlet at night to recharge while I just sit and eat something

Gonna try to make this a "Quick post".

(warning some light swearing)

Maybe, just maybe one of the reasons we're seeing so many new Therians nowadays is because humans have fucked up the earth so bad that the universe just went fuck it and threw in a bunch of nature brains to balance things out. People who wouldn't just be able to look at the devastation of wildlife and their homes and just move on like nothing happened. Because they can see themselves in those creatures, and it hurts them to know that they are suffering. And maybe if there's enough nature brains, seeing themselves in the withering world around them, then more and more people might stand up and say this isn't right. We need to fix this. And maybe in a human world where one of the most lovely traits of humanity is being able to work together a bunch of nature brains with human faces can make a difference. They say animals can't speak human. Well they can, and are. Maybe Therians are the voices of nature coming out from the wilds, to places and bodies where they're not comfortable, where the air is heavy with pollution and trash litters the ground. And they have to learn weird shit like math, and work exhausting jobs that are often just to pay the bills that allow them to keep surviving. All so that they can see the damage from the other side and better understand the problem and together find solutions to stop it.

I'm not saying humans (and others) can't and/or dont do anything. I'm saying it's harder to do nothing when you look at creatures suffering and see yourself. Empathy is a beautiful thing. It helps connect us. But in a world where almost no one can afford the barest minimum just to survive. Where finding happiness feels like a struggle because you're constantly grinding and pushing yourself beyond your mental, emotional and/or physical boundaries, how easy is it to just shut yourself off. To put on the blinders because you're stuck yourself and you don't feel like there's anything you can do, so why upset yourself further by caring. It's sad. Terribly sad. Soul crushingly, heart wrenchingly sad.

Most people nowadays suffer from anxiety, depression or some other mental illness. And yes those illnesses are more known and understood now, and are more easily diagnosed. But I think the reason we see them everywhere now, is as simple as everyone is suffering. The human world in its current state, is not a healthy place. Fun times are often merely distraction from the crushing reality around us. It hurts to accept how much hurt there is right now.

I'm not saying it's all on the shoulders of Therians. I'm not saying you have to quit your job or your school and run off into the wild picking up every piece of litter and chaining yourself to trees. That's not what this post is about.

This post is about the increase of Therians and my personal hypothesis as to why there's so many now. And it's as simple as this. One Therian does not shoulder all the burden of the earth. Just as one human does not. But if there are Therians in schools, going "hey look at this little/big guy isn't he cute/cool" showing their friends and classmates"it's so sad he's going extinct because his home is being destroyed" , Therians on trails, streets, beaches seeing litter and using just a little bit of their time to remove at least some of it. Therians in stores refusing to buy certain products because of animal cruelty/testing, Therians manifesting/praying to help even if it's just a little bit, Therians on the Internet/TV spreading awareness, Therians in government actually trying to do what's best for the environment and the people, instead of just what's best for their bank account etc etc.

In reference to that horrible math stuff, a million ones together doesn't equal nothing. No matter how small an act it still adds up to something. Therians everywhere means more people who can't forget, who can't move on, who can't just shutdown and hope for the best. People who feel like they have to do something. So they don't eventually see themselves disappear (go extinct).

The universe and the earth can sometimes have a funny way of balancing things out. Maybe Therians are one way to at least try regaining that balance.

I'm overjoyed to see more Therians. Because I feel like more Therians means more voices for nature, and more chances to save this beautiful planet ☺️✨🌍🌎🌏💚

Anyway that's my two cents. Sorry this post ended up being longer than I intended 😅

And now my fascinating and fantastic creatures, great and small, furry, feathered, scaled or whatever-ed, and all others of open mind who took time to read my ramblings, I wish upon you a most glorious day/night. May we all follow our hearts/souls to do what we feel we can for this magnificent planet. ✨

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Till next time

Actually a tragedy that I’m not a soft little doll. Like what do you MEAN I’m not small enough to fit in someone’s bag and be carried around as a little buddy. What do you MEAN I can’t just sit on a shelf and look pretty all day. What do you MEAN I cant make diy adjustments to my body, add ears or little patches of colorful felt. What do you MEAN

The most powerful thing to connect to kintypes, in my experience, is to simply get away. Stand outside before the moon, or in fields and orchards, far from human problems and thought. In the silence, for me, allows me to fully immerse myself in the mind of my inhuman self.

I've noticed in the time that I've spent lurking in kin & therian spaces on tumblr that a lot of us worry about sharing that part of themselves with loved ones, especially romantic partners. Which is a completely reasonable fear. Not everyone understands or is openminded.

But, now that I finally got around to making a blog to share my thoughts about these things, I just wanna say: there will be people that understand you. Like real life in person people, even.

I'm engaged, and my partner has known since we started dating that I don't feel human. And they've fully embraced it to the point where they don't even react if I end up nonverbal and just making vaguely canine noises and gestures to interact with them. People exist that will accept and love you for who you are, just do yourself the favor of not settling for less than that.

This is my first mental fae shift

This is very strange

Its the first time I've ever not felt my fox ears, which is strange but I feel like my ears are not round anymore Like they're less squishy and they're slightly pointed

I also feel like some of my bones are like tingly?

I just want to go outside and gather bones and take things

I want to steal and I want to trick people and I feel like I unlocked a part of my brain

This is so crazy

IM GONNA GO FOR A WALK AND LOOK FOR BONES UPDATES TO COME

God As Otherkin

I want to talk to you about how being otherkin, and growing up (distantly) religious, has influenced my understanding of God. If that interests you, then buckle in.

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My family wasn't religious growing up. My parents weren't, neither were my siblings. My grandma however, was. I did the prayers she told me to do before bed, and sat quietly while she read and explained various parables and passages from her text.

To me, religion was a thing that I was told to do. Not a belief that I had.

Eventually, that changed somewhat. I began "making up" my own prayers. Treating God as something to talk to, even if I wasn't getting any answers.

Over time however, that faded. I began to proudly proclaim myself an atheist at first. Then an agnostic.

In terms of conventional beliefs regarding God, I'm still agnostic. I don't believe in any of the Gods outlined by any religions I'm currently aware of.

Yet now that I'm an adult I find myself seeing nature in a very similar way to how I experienced God and religion.

A distant force, vast and on some level incomprehensible. Capable of being spoken to, but not likely to answer you. A thing to which you belong, without ever really understanding what it is.

People talk in reverence about being in the presence of their deity. In a sense, I feel similarly about nature. It isn't a reverence exactly, but a sense of awe and even smallness.

My kintype isn't quite human, nor is it an animal exactly. But it belongs to that world anyway. Made in the image of this complex web that I don't fully understand.

As a werewolf, I see myself as a product of nature. Even though my kind may have never existed in the wild, in a way we did. The myth of the werewolf is in many ways, a fear of the natural world. I am every predator that mankind has ever been afraid of. And yet I am also none of them.

When I'm out there in the wilderness, there's the feeling of connecting to my kintype. But there's also another feeling. The feeling of being surrounded by something ancient, indisputable, and in a way powerful.

That's my God. Not a definable figure, or a thinking being from another world. Instead, a vast force comprising every living and inanimate thing. The organic and inorganic history that shaped my bones.

An invisible shepherd.

The og context wasn't even related to nonhumanism. I just said the way people look repulses me & mf thinks that just cause u don't wanna fuck people means u hate how u look.. Like.. I do but that doesn't mean I'm obligated to feel attraction. And there's no way I can change into a cryptic creature.

Also idk why the gif doesnt play out.

Does someone have any tips to help me with my kin type??? I am Starkin and Supernovakin.

All I have is dance around in star lighting 🧍🏾‍♀️

i’ve been wondering about some stuff for a while now and questioning things and i’m too scared to reach out directly or post on my main account about this so i’m just gonna list questions here and hope someone is willing to help.

what is a therian?

what is being otherkin?

how do you know if you’re therian/otherkin?

what does it feel like being therian/otherkin?

i do have more questions but i feel like i need to know more about this so i can phrase it properly

Ok so I'm questioning my kintype again but not fully, I need you guys to bear with me on this-

How do you know if you're fictionkin? How do you know what's memories, what's like headcanons and an active imagination, and what's just scenes you've watched from a show? ( I know that's a lot at once but I need all the answers I can get cause Im new to this side )

Is it possible to be supernatural beings from a specific show and also have a kin of one of the characters from that show? ( I kinda assume it is on this one but would love confirmation. )

I'm thinking I'm specifically a seraph and demon from supernatural, as well as possibly being Castiel or Gabriel? Maybe? I'm not sure yet-

I don't connect as much with real life angels and demons anymore and now that I know about supernatural canon version of those I'm thinking I might not have to begin with, but I didn't know how they were in the show so I couldn't have known.

It's also a bit unfortunate because the canon lore for both in supernatural is pretty messy-

Please please please spread this around if you can't give advice

Ok So this one is for the Fae/Faerie kin that also identify as Therians or feel a connection with certain animals.

I've seen many Fae/Faerie kin who are also Therian, and I'll admit I have a connection to some animals myself and have been found to mimic their behaviors. However I don't remember living like an animal. Now it's possible that they are simply kin memories that have not yet surfaced, but I don't feel like that's the case. I can remember being said animals just not living as them. For example I would romp and play as a fox among other foxes but I did not survive the way they did. For me it was merely fun. Not unlike a child playing pretend. I feared no hunters and I did not need to hunt for food myself. And if ever I did hunt it was simply part of the game rather than survival. I know there are plenty of Fae that could and would change into the forms of animals, and as fun as messing with humans might be, I just don't think it was the only reason Fae would go about as animals. Which only furthers my belief that sometimes it was just for the pure fun of it. And I'd imagine that just as some people have favorite animals so too do some fae. I don't think it was always just a one time thing either. Fae can communicate with the natural world in ways most humans would only dream of, imagine just being that one deer in the herd that just disappears and reappears but after years and years of interaction the rest of the herd (while probably sensing that you are not quite a deer, no matter how much you may look like one), has also come to accept that you are not a danger to them. Perhaps over time you've kept an eye on this one herd and their descendants. steering them away from the occasional danger or leading them to the juiciest greenest hidden pastures. You become a kind of faerie god-deer (like faerie godmother). And after so much time acting like a deer, you find yourself slipping into the animalistic habits even when you're not taking the animal form. But you don't mind. Your experiences are part of you, it was only natural. And perhaps after a while you find that the courts and humanity are just not all that interesting to you. You think about the deer. Your deer. The herd you'd been watching, protecting, guiding. You start spending more and more time as a deer. It's fun, it's free and after a while most predators learn to keep their distance from your herd. You are still Fae but the deer is part of you now, perhaps just as important as the part of you that is Fae.

I'm curious are there any Fae/Faerie kin who resonate with this at all? Do you remember (if in fact you have any kin memories at all. Not everyone does. And there's nothing wrong with that 😊) being an animal living, surviving as an animal? Or, do you remember being interested and/or amused playing as an animal while all the time knowing that the other animals can sense that you are different? Does the Fae/Faerie kin side and the Therian side feel like two separate lives or do they feel almost blended? Do you remember being afraid when you were an animal or did you know that you had almost nothing to fear? That no matter what, you were a magical being that could charm, trick, or enchant your way out of most situations?

Please understand I'm not trying to invalidate anyone. As far as I'm concerned no one can tell someone who or what they are but them. If you resonate at all with this post it doesn't make you any more or less Fae/Faerie kin or Therian. In the end, only you can know who you are. I also write this post for the Fae/Faerie kin who don't quite feel Therian but find themselves acting in animalistic ways. Those that feel connection and memory but still just don't quite feel they are/were animals (at least not normal ones). Kins that feel like it was/is more play than survival but who still find it quite satisfying to shriek, bark, meow, growl, chirp, squawk, etc.

If you've read this far, then I appreciate you and may you have a most marvelous and magical day/night 😊🍀✨🌙🍄☀️👁️

Till next time

I love hoarding things, it feels instinctual to keep trinkets and interesting knickknacks, but that doesn't match with any of my kintypes. I feel like it should though, it feels kin-like when I do it

Not sure if anyone else here shares the opinion, but I find meats that I can just like. Tear into. To be the best meats to feel dragony. Human body may not like raw meats, but some of em feel close enough

Like steaks that you actually have to tear from the bone and chew because it's pretty tough? Excellent. I like fillets of smoked salmon where you gotta rip it from the bones (although gotta be careful for that reason also) and you can take strips of it off with your teeth because it's softer. Chicken wings may be poor-tier meat by quality but cracking the bones and biting the edible bits off? Satisfying as hell. (Also they come in fantastic spicy flavors, nice bonus). Ripping the meat off one of those giant renn faire turkey legs captures the feeling pretty well

For when I wanna eat crystals or stones, meanwhile, I usually go for rock candy because it's sparkly and really hard so it captures a rocky feel. Chocolate rocks are a close second though

Prototype N.1 (left) and N.2 (right) of my Werewolf Altar

At least I have this to console me...

Awooooooooooo

Hope u like it!