me me me 🐾🌲🪶🪽🦌

sighing longingly and yearning for a pack [again]

rambling under the cut 🐾

Gross monster who likes soft things

horses and bulls

I wish I could just shapeshift. I wish I didn’t have to buy gear that matches how I want to look I wish I could just physically be those animals.

Your alterhumanity can be positive, it can be negative, it can be both or neither.

But you do not have the right to post shit shaming those people. Their experiences are just as valid and important as yours.

That’s it.

Oh nothing just my best friend's mask from 2024 and his new one from this year ☺️ recreating the pose and everything I love it sm

Den ideas

*licks my nose just before poking you in the arm with it*

I agree with the not encouraging suicide to be reincarnated (which I've never even seen but I won't say it doesn't happen) but I'll say it 10000000000 times of I have to;

NOT ALL PHYSICAL/BIOLOGICAL NONHUMANS ARE EXPERIENCING A DELUSION AND IF THEY ARE IT'S NOT INHERENTLY HARMFUL.

You, no matter your own condition, don't get to decide what is harmful to others even if they are delusional.

Your only reasoning I can see for thinking that physical/biological nonhumans must be engaging in harmful delusions is because you think it's impossible and therefore shouldn't be believed and wouldn't be believed by sane persons. Yeah, I'd call that sanist.

There's no proof any Gods exist and scientifically it seems impossible/improbable that they do but religious people aren't all delusional and those giving advice on contacting deities or angels or spirits aren't enabling delusion. Yes, even when it causes distress and yes, even though religion based delusions are common.

I could go on and on with examples.

Some of your community strongly feels that we are physically and biologically nonhuman despite lack of scientific proof. Yes, it can be because of delusion but it's not inherently so or inherently harmful or even often harmful and supporting us isn't enabling harm.

It's actually more ableist to look at a belief that's not based on 'something actually possible' and go 'well you must be mentally ill to believe that, there's no possible other option and so agreeing with you is enabling. It's my duty to encourage you to ground yourself because I know exactly how you feel and experience this.'

Never forget that most orthohumans think nonhumanity is inherently delusional too and use the same logic of 'well it must be bad that you think like that because you're dehumanising yourself and it's not possible to not be human and have you considered grounding yourself and reminding yourself you're human before it becomes a problem?'.

I don't see lots of nonhumans talking about leg dysphoria, so here we go;

To me, my legs feel absolutely deformed. Sometimes I become aware of them when I walk or sit and it doesn't just feel dysphoric, it feels straight up wrong.

Y'know those analog horrors with creatures whose joints are too many or misshapen or at the wrong places? That's what this feels like.

I'm a hare, I'm known for the fact that my hind feet are giant and I can use them to leap across fields in seconds and outrun pretty much anyone. I'm also a canid, I'm supposed to have legs that allow me to run, chase and hunt, with claws at the ends. But guess what? I don't. And it's something that I will never be able to change. I will never reach the speed I'd be able to reach if I had the correct body. Not to mention having to run on 2 legs instead of 4 is already a pain (unless your theriotype has 2 legs). I can imagine therians with more than 4 legs like insectkins, bugkins, otherkins with many legs, etc feeling this too and I can imagine creatures without any legs perhaps dislike having them at all.

Of course, there are shoes I can wear to simulate the feeling of hooves or hare feet, but they are still not mine. Leg warmers can look nice, but they don't change the shape of my legs. I can get into quadrobics for the way I feel about running, but that way I'm even slower than on two legs and all they do is look awkward and bring me pain because they are longer than my arms. (Besides, not everyone can do quads for a multitude of reasons, just like not everyone can run, obviously.)

TDLR: At least to me personally, I hate my legs because they don't and will never look or function as those of my theriotypes and I don't have a way to change it. The feeling of them being deformed in a strange way makes general everyday life and walking/running feel uncomfortable. Creatures with more or less legs who feel dysphoric about it don't get enough recognition, in my opinion.

For any deer therians:

After this pic he just went right back to eating.