I've Been Lowkey Kinsidering The Chestnut Wolf >:

This this and only ever this

“You don’t like winter! You like Christmas!” Look at me. Look me in the tumblr. I love temperatures so cold that they reach into your spine and play your muscles like ukulele strings. I love snow drifts you have to wade through, snow slinking into your boots and turning your feet into wet, senseless lumps. I love taking a first breath in the morning and feeling every hair in my nose glitter with frost. I love slush and snow and short days and gloriously long nights. I love the awful muffling of the world under the blanket of snow. I love the quiet death of winter.

You think I’m in this for Christmas? I’m in this for the cold, for the dark, for tap dancing on the edge of survival. Winter wants to kill me so bad and I love it like a falling man loves the ground, like a Molotov cocktail loves a flame: wholly, consumptively, with everything I have to give. When the stars go out and all we have is that lush, endless winter, I will go out waltzing in winter’s arms.

And if you don’t like winter, fine, I respect that, but don’t put your words in my mouth. “You don’t like winter you just like Christmas,” the gall. The unmitigated gall.

I love you, Minecraft. You have never failed me in my moments of need. Desperate for an escape but not wanting to be self-destructive? Minecraft. Haven't seen my friends in a while, but we can't hang out in person? Minecraft. Just need to clear my head for a while but still want to feel productive? Minecraft.

It's always there. The universe loves you because you are love. I love it right back.

I understand this completely. I personally knew about the therian community well before I ever labeled myself as one, but as an outsider, I was always too nervous to call myself one because of a lot of the conflicting information that I would hear. I didn't know if I followed enough of the "rules" to consider myself a therian, even if I'd known I'm an animal for a long time. I call myself a lot of labels, I personally don't mind what others call me.

I'm an animal, I grew up like one. Others treated me as one. The only thing that changed was the empowerment I felt when I started openly referring to myself as one.

it's interesting to me when therians speak of having an "awakening" when it comes to their theriotypes. I don't mean this in a invalidating kind of way, just in a "we have very different experiences and I want to discuss that" kind of way. i never had an "awakening", because i felt like an animal from as early on as i could remember. all my life i knew that i wasn't human. that if given the choice, i would swap my body for an animal one in a single heartbeat. if i had never heard of the word therian, it really wouldn't have mattered, because I WOULD STILL BE AN ANIMAL. when i found the term therian, my hesitance was not at all from "am i an animal or not" because i knew that i was. it was more... me doubting my understanding of the specific term. "is this a spiritual term only? would i be using it incorrectly?"- i was afraid to upset anyone. to step on toes. "am i an animal" was never even a question for me because it was always a YES.

This picture but they're both me.

me (wolf) and my doggy friend, we're so silly !!!

Born to walk around in the woods, and have someone shriek in horror, exclaiming, "Good GOD, what is that thing!?"

Then, to have a group of kids make up stories about that weird dog thing that stares at you from the edge of the woods.

Forced to just be socially awkward and pay taxes.

Hey! Heeeeyyy! The 2000s called >:D

I answered. It felt nice to hear the memories of my childhood echoing through the receiver. I heard the ocean, back when the 30 minutes it took to drive to the beach felt like an eternity. You were there too, mumbling something over the waves and the cars engine.

This would be such a cute children's or young adult series

imagine a bunch of therians living on a huge ranch together, except they’re shapeshifters who can turn into their kin.

the horse therian tends to the herds, and is an avid rider. He’s responsible but has a hot temper.

The border collie therian is the horse’s right hand, she’s fiercely protective and loyal to a fault.

the coyote therian is feral and lives somewhere on the edges of the property. They live with a coyote pack on and off, and sometimes live as a human.

The crow therian is curious, intelligent, and tinkers. She makes small machines and toys.

the mountain lion therian is aggressive and detached, sometimes preying on the horse herd, but she doesn’t mean any real harm, and still loves the farm and those on it.

The two barn cat therians are a bonded pair, both pragmatic and detached, but affectionate to those who treat them well.

WAIT I NEED TO WRITE THIS-

Inside me there are two wolves.

Only one of them is actually wolf, and it's watching, exasperated, as the other wolf (a puppy) jumps around asking for a treat.

I also do! I've done it for yearssssss.

NEEED to have a tail to wag

it feels so wrong to not have one T^T

Some older art I either never posted anywhere or still think is cool or both.

1 & 2. More detailed background practice. First one is Tom from Eddsworld, the second is my bro sitting in our imaginary apartment.

3. Stupid Eddsworld doodle

4. Another background practice piece but also because I really wanted to draw my baby girl Quinton being silly in a radio room. I love them.

5. Technically concept art? It later inspired a videogame concept called Catastrophe Castle. This is the main antagonist. I use me and my friends as inspiration a LOT.

6 & 7. Pixel art I made for a silly slasher au I made of me and my friends. I randomized all of our roles and made it into a big murder mystery. It never really went anywhere, and I lost access to the account I was using to post art, but I still liked it. It was my first time really trying to do pixel art, and I had a blast.

8 & 9. More videogame concept art. It was a game called Blue Noise. It looks depressing, but it was more of a gloomy slice of life with a happy ending.

10. My design for the communicators I imagine are used in Minecraft. I know nothing about tech. I just like the idea of mashing together a lot of other technology together into one device.