4-7 year old me: no guys! I'm part cat! My parents adopted me from a cat and I have night vision and I walk on all fours!
8-11 year old me: oh my god that was such an embarrassing phase of my life what the fuck? Well its probably because of the autism anyway yeah it's normal other ppl had that phase too I'm normal this isn't a weird occurrence
*proceeds to use art as my personal therapy and sketch out all the things I long for (any of my at that moment unknown theriotypes cause i still wanted to be an animal or creatures eating raw meat etc)*
13 year old me: yeah uh I am not human mentally
12-15 year old me: I'm a werewolf! Grrrr!🐺
Post middle school me: well my parents are really pissed about me being a werewolf so I guess I can't be a werewolf. It's probably just a cringey phase anyway.
18-20 year old me: my werewolf phase was likely born from the consistent and inescapable child abuse I suffered, and my desire to protect myself from it. It was also a way for me to connect with my friends at the time and express my love for nature. Yeah it was cringey, but it made those difficult years worthwhile.
21 year old me: ok, so you know what would be really funny...
The tags are everything I know. I am sharing this with every single one to try and spread the word.
I get the urge to walk on all fours but then I realize I suck at quadrobics and it doesn't feel right with the short arms and long legs I have. Man I wish I was at least created to be quadrupedal so I would maybe feel a bit less dysphoric :(
Game characters cannot have family members unless they were established in the game canon (Because Archie went overboard).
Game characters cannot be killed off.
Sonic cannot cry or get too emotional.
Exception: Sonic Prime didn't follow this rule despite being canon.
The terms Mobius and Mobians are banned, during the early 2010s, Earth was called "Sonic's World" because they wanted to appeal to 90s Boomers who hate Sonic living on Earth without calling it Mobius, it died down later though.
Exception: Ian Flynn has stated SEGA recanonized Sonic Spinball, which takes place in Mobius, so it exists somewhere in game canon, Veg-O-Fortress even has a cameo in Sonic Origins, Ian also stated Spinball takes place in between Sonic 3 and Knuckles and Sonic 3D Blast.
The heroes must always win at the end.
Characters and elements from Non Canon media cannot be used, Cosmo and the Metarex were potentially allowed to appear but according Ian Flynn, they're off the table now, the Metal Virus serves as a replacement for Robotization, Eggperial City serves as a replacement for Robotropolis, Restoration serves as a replacment for the Freedom Fighters.
Exceptions:
Sonic liking Chili Dogs (90s Cartoons)
Eggman's "I hate that Hedgehog!" and "Snooping as usual" lines (Aosth)
Scratch and Grounder appear in Eggman's livestream in one of the covers for IDW 40
Sonic's "Let's do it, to it" line (Satam)
Sonic being referred to as the "Fastest thing alive" (Satam)
Sonic Spinball being canon again, somwhat canonizes Sally, Bunnie, Rotor, Muttski and Scratch, Ian Flynn has clarified they're just cameos for now but could be a backdoor to make them canon if SEGA chooses to (Aosth, Satam, Archie)
In one of the covers for IDW 31, Storm's mugshot mentions he was arrested by the Knothole Village Police (Satam, Archie)
Tails being afraid of lightning (OVA)
Knuckles's cowboy hat (OVA)
Vector's crush on Vanilla (Sonic X)
Cream's favorite show, the NEXT Show (Sonic X)
The Chaotix Office building appears in the Sonic Channel Comics (Sonic X)
Sticks the Badger appears in the Sonic Channel Comics and is mentioned in English Sonic Frontiers (Sonic Boom)
The Eggnet has been canonized in both IDW and the Games (Archie)
The GUN Commander's name, Abraham Tower (Archie)
Bark being mute (Archie)
Bean and Bark working with Fang as a trio, Sonic even calls them the Hooligans (Archie)
Sally and Bunnie cameo in one of the Sonic Forces prequel comics with their Archie designs (Archie)
Shadow's Chaos Spear being shaped like an actual spear that he can throw or use as a melee weapon (Archie)
Badniks from Sonic Mega Drive appear in Classic IDW (Archie)
The term, Super Badnik (Archie)
Male characters that aren't humans, can't wear pants.
Exception: Tails Nine is allowed to wear pants.
Classic Era characters aren't allowed to appear in Modern Era and vice versa, during the 2010s there was the Two Dimensions retcon because of it, however they later removed it, Team Chaotix are also not allowed to appear in Classic because they considered Sonic Heroes to be their first appearance, however Knuckles Chaotix was recanonized in Tailstube, in the same episode, they acknowledge Mighty, Ray and Fang's Gang and teased a Modern Trip, recently, SEGA is considering retiring Classic Sonic after the disappointment of Sonic Superstars.
Exception: a Classic Froggy appears in various Sonic PICT artwork
Only one Metal Sonic is allowed, not multiple (They must really dislike Shard and Metallix)
Exceptions:
Metal Sonic 3.0 from Sonic Rivals 2
Chaos Sonic and Grim Sonic from Sonic Prime were allowed
Shadow: He has the most guidelines out of any character, most of them come from SEGA wanting Shadow to remain an Anti-Hero and not be too heroic, however SEGA has easied up on these with Shadow Generations
Knuckles: Knuckles is the only Echidna and only resident of Angel Island besides Chao and Baby Animals, (Ken Penders lol), Knuckles is also not allowed leave Angel Island without a reason now, prolly due to critiques with games like Heroes
Silver: Silver's Future is off limits, only SEGA can explore that, if they ever choose to
Super Forms: Male hedgehogs are the only ones allowed to go Super, this has been changed with Sonic Superstars and Otherworld Comedy.
Humans: Due to complaints from 90s Boomers, Humans besides Eggman weren't allowed until Shadow Generations
Romance: Characters can have crushes but they can't date or get married.
Money: Only Team Chaotix can talk about money
Rings: Ian Flynn was told Rings were no longer canon, however Rings appear in Sonic Prime and cutscenes in The Final Horizon, which Ian didn't know about
Special Stages: No longer canon and Fang's bio of living in the Special Stages is retconned
Off Limits Characters: These characters can only be used by SEGA/Sonic Team only:
Eggman Nega
Black Doom
Solaris (Mephiles and Iblis)
Infinite
also I tried not using a cat base for this one which was... Really fucking hard to get right with cardboard actually it kept bending and stuff
but hey I'm getting better at long snouted animals and there's less of a time limit since last time (I got notified my friend was hosting a bd party 2 days before the bd so i had to rush it cause she had to get a good present from me) so I can take however long i want
"Wanting animal genitals is gross"
"Having an animal packer is weird"
"Having species dysphoria like this is not normal"
You're narrow view of Therianthropy will only bring the entire community down. You're doing nothing but throwing your own community under the bus. Therianthropy is like an actual fucking identity that can affect someons whole life. It can affect the way you see yourself, others, and the world around you. Why is it such a shocker that someone who believes they where born in the wrong body and is ment to be an animal might want to do things that make there body look more animal-like!?!?!?!
You think this is bad? Wait until you find out about the tattoos some of us get 😂
Sorry you think that species dysphoria is just wanting ears and a tail.
Sorry that you can't gasp the idea that someone who identifies as an animal might have species dysphoria from their genitals.
Sorry you didn't grasp the idea of actually feeling like you should have a different body that is not human until now.
Sorry that Therianthropy isn't just a connection and dress up.
someone with one of those “jesus loves! Jesus saves!!!” accounts just put ‘yall insane’ under a pretty basic therian post. Thats not very jesus loves of you my guy.
i may or may not have come to the realization
i am a draft horse