being a wolf therian and not getting dysphoria for a while is like “oh man i wonder if i’m not a wolf therian after all” and then the Misery™ hits whenever you hear howling outside your house
Me with my lightkin 😔. To be a glowing orb.
Obscure otherkin culture is forgetting that you, in fact, do not glow and are not physically a burning ball of gas.
— 🦋🐾🦖🐏🦝🌌
Obscure otherkin culture is
Yes, I'm a Polytherian/Polykin :] I'm writing down current types! I will remove or add to the list if I awakened something.
I'm an Otherhearted
Awakened: 06/28/24
I experience phantom limbs of wings, tails, fangs, teeth, claws, and ears. Especially Phantom ears and wings.
Slight mental shifts and emotional shifts.
Confirmed Therian types:
Canines:
Dhole
Grey Wolf
Tan wolf
Bouvier des Ardennes
Yakutian Laikas
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Feline:
Bobtailed Cat
Norwegian Forest Cat (Black coat)
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Bears:
Kodiak
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(Doing research)
Unconfirmed/questioning types:
Batkin
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Otherkin:
Angel/Divine
God - light, stars, and comfort
Monster
Winged
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Conceptkin:
Light
Stars/Sun
Winter
Clouds
Music
Void
Liminal spaces
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Heartypes:
Dragon
Calico
Siberian Tiger
Bat eared fox
Great Eared Nightjar
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Fictionkin:
Sol (Sky kid, Sky: COTL)
Mae (Night In The Woods)
Selwyn Kane (Legendborn)
Shadow Milk Cookie (Crk: Cookie Run Kingdom)
It feels nice to make this list!
I need to get me something like this, I've been planning on buying seraphim and ophanim pins recently to connect to mine more or clothing related.
Got some fake gauges that look like wings, and lowkey they help me connect to my divine kintypes a lot
therian culture is stretching, flapping, and then/or nestling your wings close to your body when they become restless
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DOG DAY!!!!!!! GO PET YOUR LOCAL DOG (ME)!!!!!!
I actually made the account the other day, ngl how much euphoria I get making this account.
I actually had suppressed my Godkin for like months, and it's been more up front than every.
For a while, I didn't think I was one, but it was how hard I suppressed it, and I felt ashamed and extremely cautious about it cause I didn't know what kind of reactions I would get - plus, I legit gaslit myself thinking I was a terrible being for it 💀, but I already know that is farther from the truth - nothing has changed about me at all, I'm still the same kind being that I am.
I'm embracing myself more easily as I explore my alterhumanity/ therianthropy.
Yes! I would have shifts whenever I was younger. It was mainly ears and tail shifts - but rarely wings. It's completely flipped for me now since I'm an adult and know the nonhuman community.
And I agree, a lot of things are making sense now due to my understanding of the nonhuman side of me.
did anyone get like phantom shifts (or any at all) when they where younger and didn't know what they were or really question them until you learned about being nonhuman/alter human? a LOT in my childhood makes sense now learning I'm not a human
I've been recently thinking I'm dragonkin? I mean, I had a shift similar today. If not, it was something reptilian.
I was actually pretty dysphoric during the shift. My legs were shifted for a few hours, and they felt wrong being human legs. They didn't feel like fur or bird talons. And felt smooth but rough. Goodness 😔 discovering is hard.
Be aware of the discord server "Therian festive forest"
The server is a huge server with multiple thousand members, which is why I'll be discussing this a little further. It's run by a 15yo.
When i got accepted into the server i asked to talk to an adult staff member about their rule that states that you arent allowed to mention being objectum.
After a staff member created a ticket for me, i tried explaining why the rule is 1. Feeding into a harmful stereotype, and 2. Can have negative effects on objectum folk such as shame and blaming oneself for their HARMLESS attraction.
Instead of an adult, which i asked for, multiple minors started talking to me (+ one actual adult). That's also where i found out about the age of the owner.
Not only did they handle the situation incredibly immature, they also made fun of me, kept deleting messages and didnt really respond to my arguments at all. Instead they kept repeating how i can be in the server if i just hide myself and keep my mouth shut about the topic.
The issue wasn't about myself. It was the general rule that feeds into the stereotype of objectum being harmful and something bad that you shouldn't talk about.
So, instead of actually trying to solve the problem with me, they ignored most of my messages and then started bringing up trans IDs.
After i stated that u cannot compare trans ids to objectum since trans ids are infact harmful while objectum isnt they started to attack me personally for being transspecies wich i havent mentioned in the chat at all, its in my bio and they just brought it up for whatever reason.
They stated Transspecies is a transID, its invalid and disrespects transsgender people.
I tried to explain to them how transspecies literally has been a thing way longer than transIDs but again they didnt give a shit and instead told me im not valid.
I told them Transspecies is part of the Alterhuman umbrella, their response was telling me alterhumanity is strictly non physical.
Not only is this false but i also provided them a source (otherkin wiki) wich they ignored again.
I then got banned with the reasoning "claims that objectum and transspecies is valid and that alterhumanity includes physical identities"
So basically they told me i can be in the server if i dont bring up objectum in the channels but then proceed to ban me for.. being objectum?
Okay bud.
In conclusion, this server is not just anti objectum they are also anti transspecies aswell as anti physical therianthropy/nonhumanity.
I can not recommend this server to anyone who is looking for an open and welcoming community.