Baelyynda

I AM MY KINTYPE. That's what non-humanity is about. It's not "a strong connection", it's not only a past life or an aesthetic, it's litterally all/any/some level(s) of your identity. Who you are. What you are. You absolutely can feel human to some extent, and that's OK. But if you don't feel like you ARE your kintype on any level (which disqualifies you from non-humanity), then you are just... human

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Being alterhuman does not mean you have some ~special ability~ to interact with wild animals.

DO NOT go touching/chasing/ generally messing with wildlife. You aren't special and you could harm those animals, or be harmed by them. Even small things like bugs can kill you. You aren't immune to rabies.

If you scare wild animals by chasing them for species euphoria or whatever, you can genuinly kill them. Birders have a term for when it happens to birds, its called a Dread Flight. When you unnecessarily scare a wild animal, you are causing it to waste energy it needs to survive. Wildlife can't afford to waste energy. You're enjoyment is NEVER worth disturbing wildlife.

You do not have the training to rescue wild animals just because you're alterhuman. If you don't have the actual training to resue wildlife and you genuinely find an animal in need of help, CALL A FUCKING WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER!!!! It isn't that hard to find the number for your local center and they'll tell you what to do, if anything, and help you if necessary.

"Biological and physical therians are crazy and delusional ! They harm the community !1!1!!"

First of all : fuck you.

Second of all : disabled ("crazy and delusional") therians are valid and are an important part of this community.

Third : Biological and physical therians built this community. You should be grateful and not hateful.

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Therians who experience delusions are valid

Therians who don't experience shifts are valid

Therians who identify because of trauma are valid

Therians who identify spiritually are valid

Therians who just are their kins are valid

Therians are valid

And I don't care if you think this is all a delusion, either. Even if it is, you're not my doctor. You're not part of my care team. I didn’t ask you for a "reality check." Stay in your lane.

And if you think I'm just "playing pretend?" Who cares? I'm not, but why do you care so much? Is it because you think I'm having fun, that I never stopped imagining, playing, creating? And why is this your business, anyway?

You can still be alterhuman even if you acknowledge parts or all of your humanity.

You can still be alterhuman even if you find comfort in human rituals, culture, etc.

You can still be alterhuman even if you display human behaviors and characteristics.

You can still be alterhuman if you look or act nothing like your 'type.

You can still be alterhuman without dysphoria, euphoria, or both.

You can still be alterhuman even if you never plan to transition or present physically or socially as alterhuman.

You can still be alterhuman without blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars on gear.

You can still be alterhuman even if you aren't queer (surprisingly common misconception by the way!)

You can still be alterhuman even if you don't find the furry community appealing.

You can still be alterhuman even if there weren't 'signs' of alterhumanity in your childhood.

You can still be alterhuman even if you find aspects of alter/nonhumanity uncomfortable or scary (and this may change as you discover yourself!)

You can still be 100% alterhuman and 100% human at the same time.

You can still be alterhuman without misanthropy.

You can still be alterhuman without a spiritual connection to nature or a religion pertaining to nature.

Even if you aren't alterhuman, it's okay to be human.

Even if you aren't alterhuman forever, it's okay to recognize your humanity afterwards.

No seriously, it's okay to be human in some aspects or all aspects.

You don't have to constantly strive to be the 'most nonhuman thing possible' and you don't have to try and reinvent the wheel coming up with a new term thats 'more nonhuman' or 'further than humanity' than the last.

There are infinite ways to be alterhuman and you may never find a term to define yourself. You might not even find a species to label yourself as.

On the same coin you may find that your experience is painfully common, or not 'original' enough to warrant a 'true' experience. You have to remember that it's okay to be one of the gazillion black wolf psychological therians out there and that it is functionally the same (and has the same moral weight) as having brown eyes.

It's okay to be unlabeled.

It's okay if you wouldn't be considered alterhuman by the old standards from the days when alterhumanity was mostly on independent forum boards.

Grills and grilling aren't relevant anymore and it's better to block people that try to bring that back.

“But therians inherently know they’re human-“ not all of us.

if you support hahadit get the fuck off my blog and block me, because theyre genuinely disgusting. they give ticcimask a bad name and ship pedophilic and incestuous ships. as well, they basically ran antlergrave out of the community with their bullshit.

this goes for supporting their game, creepydates, as well. if you support the game youre directly supporting them. this isnt a case of separating the art from the artist, given that theyre still actively developing the game.

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This is super super important and a topic that is significant to me personally.

Mutt is a slur. When you use mutt in reference to human-bodied beings (even yourself) it perpetuates the idea that it's okay to call people that slur. It hurts beings within the community and humans outside of the community. Please do not perpetuate the dehumanization of people of color.

The use of this slur may not be a common problem where you come from, but there are many places and contexts where it is still a big problem, and people coming across your posts may not recognize that.

Image ID: 3 screenshots of a conversation between the users Honour and PsychWolf.

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Honour: "one of your pronouns, (mutt) is a racial slur and those of us the term is used against feel very negatively about human bodied individuals using the term for things like names, identities, and pronouns. The problem is that even if you can reclaim it (which I always assume the benefit of the doubt and assume a person is able to use the slur they choose to make their pronoun), it furthers the belief that the term is okay to use. White people think "mutt" is an okay pronoun because they saw someone else use it with no disclaimer that it is a reclaimitory slur, if that makes sense. Sorry to be a bother, I went to your profile because your pride flag thing seemed interesting and I was curious, but as someone who is viscerally uncomfortable with the word, I felt the need to let you know instead of digging further into your profile"

PsychWolf: "I specifically use said set of pronouns as it connects to the mix of what my labels are - being alterhuman, therian/otherkin, and the sub sets of xenogenders I am (fauna, pup, etc). For a shorter explanation that doesn't get into deeper more personal chunks of my identity - I do not view myself as human or human bodied ( also please do not refer to me as such) . The closest is more specs of it throught my perception like sand in sugar or salt. I originally was introduced to using them do to the large mix of species that were related to said identifies and the fact it didn't belong to one singular breed. These are common in these spaces"

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Honor: "While your reasoning may make sense to you, there are a multitude of other terms that can mean mixedbred dog, and ignoring the request of someone who is genuinely affected by this use of a word which is, no matter what you believe, a recognize racial slur, is wrong. I did not call you a human, but you do need to understand the fact of the situation. You may not be human and I am not here to tell you otherwise. But mutt, when used on someone with the /body/ of a human, is a racist SLUR. You are choosing to label yourself with a slur and trying to excuse it in the face of someone the slur is against."

PsychWolf: "The line about not referring to me as human was added to include the point - not a human body. The top message was explaining the meaning behind using them - as in alterhuman and therian spaces it is commonly used for a long list of reasons"

Honour: "I didn't see a reason listed that trumps the fact that you are using a racial slur and encouraging others to use it as well in reference to you while continuing to have to clarification anywhere that the word is a racial slur"

Honour: "you are sporting a slur against me in a gif. asking people to refer to you as a slur against me, a racial slur. The word does not only have history in meaning mixed breed or unknown breed animals,"

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PsychWolf: "It isn't used in the therian and alterhuman communities because they " like the term" it is used do to the existence of mixed breed animals, and for a larger chunk of the community that do not have singular species identity because of the issues they faced because of said identities. As multiple groups spent years harassing them which lead to it spreading and other issues that I don't have the current spoons to go into."

Honour: "you haven't answered any of the questions, you are just deflecting. I am a therian, I know that the therian community has the ability to coin new terms. I know that there are terms that are not related in any way shape or form for people who have multiple, complex, confusing, mixed breed, and other similar relating theriotypes. there are options that are not slurs. people like yourself who choose to continue to use the term are, in fact, using it because they "like the term", because if you had any genuine care for anyone in any minority besides your own, you wouldn't use a racial slur as a fucking pronoun. being harassed for being a therian is not equal to being harassed for being a racial minority and you know that. again, I ask: Why, in any position or universe, should it be okay to use a word that you now know is a slur, to encourage others to say a word that you now know is a slur, when someone who is directly affected by the use of the slur is telling you intently that they are hurt by it? How is that appropriate?"

Well, I hope you're prepared for how wolves fight back then.

Even the human jaw is capable of biting off fingers. I can fight just as well.

Okay so with love, affection, treats, snuggles, respect and all of that shit? Or did you just admit that you abuse animals?