I'm Going To Start Barking At The Next Person Who Tries To Make Me Sit Down And Do My Work.

*gripping my hands so hard on a young trans persons shoulders that their bones are about to break*

do not log on to 4chan.com. do not get involved in passing olympics. you will always lose. do not put afab/amab/tma/tme, that is cisgender society trying to know your “real” gender. you do not exist to please cisgender people. there is no ‘right’ way to be trans. learn your goddamn history, listen to your elders. listen to other disenfranchised groups. listen to intersex people and check yourself for intersexism. listen to trans poc and check yourself for racism. listen to disabled people and check yourself for ableism. be open to learning always. labels are meant to fit you, not the other way around. you are not weird or predatory for simply being attracted to others. you’re fine if you’re not a skinny white twink or a barbie doll. you’re fine if your body is ‘weird’. you’re fine if you don’t have heavy or any dysphoria. it’s okay if you actually don’t want to transition or anything like that. life is worth living at any stage, you deserve to be happy. I SWEAR THAT YOU ARE OKAY!!!!!

I get so excited at the idea of what my future readers will find out when they analyze my works to gain a better understanding of my psyche :3

Like damn Crypt. That's a lot of dead or absent sibling motifs mixed with characters going through some kind of identity crisis (often paired with them experiencing a disconnect from reality).

Yeah, reader. It's my brand.

We have always existed, and we always will.

I really like making masks and realized I never really showed any of them. This is my main personal mask of my dog theriotype :D

The eyes glow in the dark >:]

Hi My name's Minnow or Mini, my pronouns are it/it's or he/him

wanna be doggy buddies

Heck yeah hello :D

One thing ya gotta know about me? I'm gonna analyze a Gorillaz song. I'm gonna dissect it like a mad scientist. I'm going to play the same Gorillaz song over and over again until I have it SWIMMING in my brain. I'll listen to so much of it that my inner monalogue will turn British.

Are my takes on the songs gonna be what was intended??? PROBABLY NOT! BUT THATS OKAY. Because I'm having fun.

I will never shut up about Chalk Tablet Towers or Souk Eye or Fireflies. OR TO BINGE.

Mmm Gorillaz.

I get this. Before I awakened and before I met my pack, I didn't realize the full extent of how touch starved I was. Now, touch is so normalized for me. I'm constantly hanging off someone's arm, leaning on their shoulders, just gently touching in some way. I love dog piling with all my friends in my living room. I love how easy it is to hug them and ruffle their hair. Aaaaaaa I love my pack. I hope you find some people you can do this with too. Promise they're out there.

Anyone else wish huddling/cuddling was more normalized with folk outside your partner? With it getting cold outside, I wish nothing more than to be close and huddle with all my loved ones. And not in a romantic sense, but more in a sense where a pack of animals keep close with one another to conserve body heat and make it through the winter.

It’s hard to bring this up to humans. Of course you can get hugs from family and snuggles with a significant other, but anyone outside of that will take it the wrong way. But I’m an animal! I yearn to be touched! I want to cuddle close to my companions and keep them warm! I want to feel connected!

This looked fun.

1. I don't mind being called any of the things listed. I'd also add on shapeshifter. Not because I actually believe I can shape shift ( :[ ) but just that my form changes so much and my relation to my types is so fluid it really just feels like sometimes I sneeze and grow ears haha. It also plays into my interpretation of shape shifters.

2. I have a couple! A radioactive mutt (closely resembling the chernobyl dogs), a common raccoon, southeastern coyote, wolf (I've never been able to fully narrow this down to a specific kind, so I just say wolf.), and a livestock guardian dog (I haven't been able to narrow down which specifically, I think maybe a šarplaninac).

I'm kinsidering the chestnut wolf from Minecraft and one of my own characters as some kind of fictionkin, though I'm hesitant on claiming it :/

3. Probably the radioactive mutt.

4. For the mutt, sour candy. Anything that turns my tongue a different color. As for the rest, comfort foods and meat like chicken fried steak, brisket, potato soup, mac n cheese.

5. Green. Bright, bright green. Also, muted earthy tones.

6. I own lots of gear! I have a whole list about what I consider gear on my blog. I like to make masks and have made 4 for myself so far. I have a few collars, a pair of ears, tails, and gloves. I also consider all of my clothes and a lot of my jewelry gear. Even the way I dye my hair, I consider gear, haha.

7. It has made me more comfortable in my skin, and having a label and a community has helped ease a lot of the loneliness and yearning I felt before I considered myself nonhuman.

8. I'll never really be perceived by others the way I want to be, I can't change certain characteristics of myself to fit how I feel. It's harder for me to communicate with others at times because of how much of my communication is nonverbal.

9. I love hiking, camping, listening to certain types of music, dressing in clothes I feel fit my types, DIYing, and interacting with my friends and community. I get to act like a canine around my loved ones, and they don't mind.

10. I have several! Most of my types tend to revolve around the seasons, so I have different playlists for each. In the colder months, I experience more wolf and livestock dog shifts, so I listen to my winter woods playlist more. In the warmer months, I experience more raccoon and coyote shifts, so I play my summer woods playlist. My radioactive mutt type is present all year round, and I have a playlist dedicated to it called Apocalypse Dog Radio (lots of Gorillaz and other funky jams). Music is a huge part of my identity!

11. Outside of stuff I wear, I also have a ton of trinkets and such that remind me of my types and my hearthomes. I have a bunch of minecraft and some fallout 4 merch, journals I write in, sticks, rocks and shells, bells, and other little various things.

12. Yup. Lots of comfy clothes and layers. Either in warm tones or muted earthy ones. I love clothes I can go on adventures in. I also love Converse because they keep my feet close to the ground and feel like paws.

13. I used to when I was younger, and I had a fursona. I don't so much anymore, seeing as my types aren't characters. They're me. I think furries are really cool, though :]

14. I don't draw animals a whole lot but here's one of my radioactive mutt type:

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nonhuman asks

what term(s) do you prefer to be referred to as (otherkin, therian, nonhuman, etc.)?

what are you(r kintypes/theriotypes)?

most niche/obscure 'type?

what foods do you associate with your 'type(s)?

what colors do you associate with your 'type(s)?

do you own any gear? if so, what is it?

best/favorite thing about being nonhuman?

worst/least favorite thing about being nonhuman?

what activities help you connect with your 'type(s)?

do you associate any music with your 'type(s)? do you have a playlist?

do you collect anything besides wearable gear that you associate with your 'type(s), such as plushies or merch?

do your 'type(s) influence your sense of style or the way you dress?

would you consider yourself a furry? if so, do you have a fursona? is your fursona based on one of your 'type(s)?

draw or share your artwork of your 'type(s)?

this isnt a question but a request that you drink some water!

authors note: feel free to reblog! other beings can ask you questions from this list, or you can simply answer them all yourself.

i saw in ur therianthropy day that you have a pack!! could i ask how you went about finding them?

They're just my irl friends :]

I got really lucky with my girlfriend also being an alterhuman. I grew up in a small town where every alternative kid just clung to one another. My group doesn't really call itself a pack, but I see them as my pack. We're like a family. We talk to each other all the time. They don't mind when I act dogish and even join me at times (hence the howling at the moon comment). It also helps that we have a weekly hangout where I can crowd them into my home and just watch over them while they relax. It itches my dog brain just right.

I think community is everything. So if you're looking for a pack, or at least something you consider a pack and you dont want to look online, focus on that. Only one other person in mine is an alterhuman. The rest are humans. Focus on finding people you can be your most authentic self around and encourage them to be themselves. It doesn't have to be a big group. Some packs are just made out of a wolf and their mate. It can just be you and someone you care about.

The most important part of having a pack to me is respect and support. It does wonders for my mental health and gives me so much species euphoria to have such a good support system.

So if you can find some folks in your area who you can trust, and who even if you don't say it explicitly still accept your identity with all of its traits, I think you've got yourself a pack :]

Anyways! A pack is different for everyone, so if you are looking for a pack made up of alterhumans, this post may not have helped, lol. But I hope maybe it gave you something.

I always found shifting in school to be the worst. I always felt too awkward and wrong and out of place. I couldn't focus on my math when all I wanted to do was run. I couldn't sit through my biology class without practically chewing through my pencil. I was always a nervous kid, and then on top of that I had to walk around and pretend like I couldn't feel my claws and fangs.

It got even worse as it got colder. I felt so vulnerable tucked into a classroom, like I never had enough to shield me away from the world. I'd never go to school without a jacket, and it still only helped so much. Sometimes, I'd wear fingerless gloves or bring little trinkets I could roll around in my hand. They helped.

Being an adult can suck, but I was a teenage werewolf (shapeshifter, but for the sake of the pun), and that shits rough.