I generally encourage everyone to recycle and therians are no exception.

It is a beautiful experience to make something new out of what you already have. Cardboard, cans, soda tabs, plastic, boring and/or damaged clothes.

General tip: You can mix laundry softener and acrylic paint to make fabric paint. It may fade over several washes, but the paint keeps very well if placed in a container in the fridge.

I am starting a youtube channel called UrsaCanid where I will be giving tutorials on some of this list as well as video essays about therianthropy and hopefully therian interviews down the line.

Here are some ideas for ways to create joy out of junk:

1. Masks. Thin cadboard like from cereal boxes are perfect for masks and BirdyDogs has youtube tutorial on both feline and canine cardboard masks.

2. T-shirt yarn tails. Look up how to make t-shirt yarn and keep the strad thin. Then follow the typical yarn tail instructions minus brushing it out.

3. Claws. This can be made of either just cardboard or cardboard and metal from a soda can. Either method uses a good bit of hot glue. It is difficult to explain over text, but generally you make a ring out of cardboard for each of your fingers (marking which one is which) then you form the claw with your chosen other material. You then apply it and build it up with hotglue. Fingernail polish works really well for coloring them afterward. I will have a tutorial for this up soon.

4. Make your own kin plush out of t-shirt material and put something important or meaningful inside like at build a bear. You can then paint it or sew on buttons or random trinkets.

5. Paint. Your. Clothes.

6. Collect tiny junk like soda tabs, bread clasps, bottle caps, etc and make jewlery or a sensory jar. This is a particularly scavenger aimed activity.

7. Put packaging that has your theriotype on it up as wall decorations. If it's plastic, sew it onto stuff like a patch.

8. Be resourceful. Nothing, and i mean NOTHING, has only one purpose.

Sploot wide, kick hide, take pride

-UrsaCanid

imhumanization

lowkey considering saying "imhumanization" instead of "dehumanization" to describe, in a value-neutral way, the process of unlearning human traits and behaviors that don't suit you and expressing/becoming more nonhuman.

the im- in "imhumanization" is the same as in impersonal or impassive, which have mostly neutral connotations as words. it means "not" or "oppositely", so imhumanization says "becoming not-human / opposite of human" without inherently implying that nonhuman = less than human.

in the same way, impersonal and impassive describe being less personal / emotional, without inherently implying that it is inferior to being more personal / emotional.

it's slightly different from saying "unhumanized" because that implies someone was humanized/human-like/human before they went through a process of dropping those traits. "unhumanized" also has a neutral-to-negative connotation because searches say

and it's different from "nonhumanized" because that implies never experiencing (voluntary or involuntary) formative human influence at all. "imhumanized" is moving away from formative human influence one's actually experienced

this is just my take as a weredog of color who likes to bridge gaps i see in alterhuman language, since it rubs me the wrong way when animal folk say "dehumanization" like it's a good thing, but then realized there wasn't an alternative that didn't imply nonhumanity was below humanity.

but what do y'all think?

i dont rly need to make this post bc like. its tumblr. the number of people who are cool with physical therians is exponentially higher than on instagram or clock app. however, i will anyway. sniles at you so sneetly.

footnotes that i left on my post on instagram:

I.D. in alt text! i love u mwah!!

I'd like to add that going out of your way to question a random person's decisions about how they live their life or treat their body under the guise of "it's unhealthy" is a form of concern trolling. That is, using "I'm just worried about you" as a sneaky way to disrespect and discredit a person's identity and autonomy.

As it says above, people only ever do this stuff to those they don't actually understand and respect. It is solely a way to police strangers' identities and behavior. A common example of concern trolling is thin people mocking or nitpicking fat people's habits because "I'm just worried about their health". Spoiler: they are not, they just hate fat people and will violently argue with you if you try to show them the mountains of evidence proving that being fat is not unhealthy. It usually takes these kinds of people less than ten seconds to drop the "I'm just worried" facade and start spewing outright bigotry.

If you are someone who has a gut reaction to go "I'm just worried about you" to certain strangers, please take some time to dissect where that urge comes from. I can almost guarantee that the root of it is that either a) you are prejudiced against that type of person or behavior and projecting those feelings in a paternalistic way makes you feel justified in your beliefs, and/or b) you have a savior complex and "help" people without their consent to feel better about yourself.

Work on unlearning this stuff and stay out of other people's business if they aren't hurting anyone, please.

[Just noting because this is the piss on the poor website: This post is about people using concern as a way to hide their prejudice, it is not about informed harm prevention. If, for example, you see a minor online doing something you are certain could doxx or seriously injure them please say something.]

Lake Therio, Pages 1-14 🌲✨

(December, 2024)

It took me 7 years to figure out my theriotype. Here's what I learned.

Hi everyone,

I've been in and out of the community for a few years now and during that time, I've had to do a lot of introspection and stablizing. I'm an adult now at 23 and have been questioning my alterhuman identity since I was around 15 years old, but knew I was "other" since I was very small. Here are some little points of wisdom I'd like to give to people who are new, confused, have been questioning for a while, or whatever else they might be feeling or experiencing.

Need some cash for rent.

Doing collages for dabloons.

I can do ANY animal in ANY color scheme/aesthetic.

I prefer to do animals but will do characters upon request.

Prices negotiable. I will take what I can get within reason.

wash him he smely

here’s how the other Eeveelutions react to bathtime 🛁🫧

I wish I was a silken windhound. They look so majestic, I wish I could run that fast, I wish I could have their coat.

Why... Why am I getting phantom shifts...

Oh god. Not again

carefully confirmed

Therianthropy Day is Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Therianthropy Day is on the first full moon of November each year. This year, it will be on Wednesday, November 5, 2025. According to NASA, this will happen to be a supermoon, which means it might be slightly brighter than usual.

Why that date, and what is the history of that holiday? 

Therianthropy Day commemorates the first Howl, which was held 31 years ago in November 1994. A Howl is when therians meet up together in person. That was a year after the first therians started to meet up together online in November 1993. Therians first proposed commemorating it as a holiday on that date in 1996, in a conversation thread you can still see here. Based on that history, in 2016, Muninn the Raven proposed observing it as Therianthropy Day, though the first posts and community poll about it attracted little attention. I think the holiday finally really caught on in 2021, when I first saw many therians posting on social media about fun things they were doing for it.

What are therians, anyway?

What can we do for Therianthropy Day?

Are there days for other sorts of alterhumans too?

There are. Alterhuman Day commemorates when Lio of the Crossroads System coined that word on September 26, 2014. Otherkin Day is on July 9, commemorating when the word was coined in 1990, though the word’s origin is a little more complicated than that. Plural Pride Day is the third Saturday of July, and Plural Acceptance Week is that week.

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