BEASTPUNK

To copy-paste from the original Tumblr post on it here:

Beastpunk is subculture/term for anyone who identifies as partially or entirely as a nonhuman creature in an integral or intrinsic way, regardless of the origin or perceived nature of their identity, and who:

Embraces and celebrates their nonhumanity and animality, and (if applicable) the overlap and entanglement between one’s human and nonhuman identity

Embraces abnormal instincts and behaviors related to their own and others’ nonhumanity, so long as no active harm is done to another non-consenting individual or any real life animal

Interacts with their nonhumanity and displays it in socially unconventional or undesirable ways, and accepts and celebrates others doing so as well

Revels in the history of animal-people and beast-folk in all ways known: from the alterhuman community, from mythology, and from cultural or spiritual backgrounds relevant to the person in question

Throws respectability politics into the dumpster, lights it on fire, and dances around the burning corpse of the god “Cringe” in the moonlight

Is, unabashedly and genuinely, animal

This term is meant to be a reclamation of animalistic nonhuman identity, especially regarding individuals who may experience their nonhumanity in eccentric, “feral,” or otherwise socially unacceptable or even stigmatized ways. Beastpunk is also open to endels, clinical lycanthropes, and others who experience nonhumanity in ways related to their mental health and physical bodies, although it is not open to self-identified p-shifters and p-shifter packs. Anyone who’s ever been told that their animality is “too much,” or that they’re taking their identity as a nonhuman creature “too seriously,” or who has lost previous words/groups they’ve used to define themself due to terminological drift, KFF appropriation and re-defining, or others gatekeeping their identity’s authenticity is welcome to take up this term. Fictherians and fictional nonhuman creatures are also included in beastpunk, which is meant to be explicitly pro-fictionkin and fiction-based identities; theriomythics, folcintera, and mythkin are also included in beastpunk. Any and all nonhuman creatures, regardless of source or origin, are included.

🚫 This term is not meant for KFF and other forms of anti-otherkin, anti-fictionkin, and similar. This term is not meant for self-identified “zootherians,” “zoosexuals,” “zetas,” and similar. 🚫

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It doesn't make any sense.

* I am aware of history of p-shisting groups but come on, not every p-shifter is bad. And if go into p-shifting deeper, even phantom or somatic shifts could be considered types of physical shifts.

you are why anthropology is so hard to decolonize.

if you want to SEE that humanity is not inherently evil and retroactively shift the focus of humanity away from the greed that exists in Eurocentralized doctrine, you NEED TO LEARN.

A few months after I awoke as an alterhuman, I wanted to participate in making my community more accepting of alterhumans... but I found absolutely fucking nothing.

A year later there still seems to be nothing and I'm tired of it. So I've created the "Alterhuman Resistance" community (@@alterhuman-activism). It's dedicated to anything and everything pro-alterhuman activism.

One of the things we do is creating and sharing things that can be printed off, so beings all around the globe can print them off to advocate in their own communities (we need some multilingual beings to translate stuff).

Anybeing is allowed to join, this includes, but is not limited to beings who are, otherkin, otherlink, otherhearted, fictionkin, ficitonfolk, fictives, objectkin, conceptkin, plural, questioning, unlabeled, supporters, p-shifters, physically alterhuman, otherhuman, curious about alterhumanity, phytanthropes, zoanthropes, and much much more :3

Edit: I've also created a sideblog that is dedicated to fighting alterhumisia (hate of alterhumans), its @oakleys-activism-sideblog

My favorite Project (running list -- they're all hyperlinks)

Educational zine "What is an Alterhuman" (free to use)

I'm honestly so fucking tired about the "if you are a misanthropist you are a facist/racist/white supremacist/ableist/whateverthefuck!!" Argument...

Misanthropy in itself is NOT just thinking "I hate all humans". For some can it be that? Yeah! And is that in a way very ignorant to say? YEAH!!! But that is NOT what like 90% of the nonhumans who use the term misanthropist with themselves think. It's almost ALWAYS thoughts like "some humans are shit", "some humans have ruined the world/are ruining it", " I hate some humans because they oppress me and what I am", or "I have been abused by some humans and I now have a general distrust with humans" (and many other possibilities).

I saw an argument calling being a misanthropist "self-harm"... What??? Theres a VERY BOLD line between " I hate myself" and "I hate some humans".. And that same individual was essentially saying stuff like how basically no matter what we are human or are in human shapes/shaped boxes and thats just plain ignorant imo. Especially considering they were referencing nonhumans in this argument.. Like I identify in EVERY SINGLE WAY POSSIBLE as nonhuman. Do I believe I was born in a " human shaped box"? No. I believe I was born in a lycan shaped box. And that same individual was calling someone (who was a misanthropist due to abuse) an ecofacist??? All because that individual said something along the lines of having distrust in humans due to the abuse and thinks some humans have absolutely ruined the world?? Dude...

In the grand scheme of everything I AM a misanthropist. I have a general distrust with any human outside of my friends and/or my family. And I HATEEE HATE HATEEEEE facists who are.... SURPRISE!!! ARE HUMANS!!! every single corrupt power/money hungry being is like 99.99999999999999999% human.

I also hate when others use the term "people" as a word that describes humans and is a "species inclusive" term. People as described by the Oxford dictionary (as a noun) is described as: "human beings in general or considered collectively"... I do not consider myself as a " people" or flat out a "person" 💀

This shit just flat out fries my brain like an egg. People AND other beings are so fucking exhausting (except for my besties 🙏) and atp I hate nearly everyone. Let others be "woke" "haters" who "self-harm" in peace. It LITERALLY doesn't affect you whatsoever

(And not to mention but 90% of the beings who are misanthropist or use misanthropy tags are mostly minors who have been put under systemic pressures or have been oppressed and ostracized by parents, school, work, the government, etc. And to say that loving yourself will fix that problem is basically just invalidating those beings feelings so.... Yeahhhh...)

In beastpunk, the celebration of animality does not discriminate against species; it does not discriminate against any variety of animals, up to and including humans. To hate an entire species for the actions of a few, to scowl and growl at those who have never harmed you and disavow them in their entirety for what they cannot control and what they have not themselves done, is something that beastpunks cannot and will not support. To quote 'BEASTPUNK: Being Unabashedly Animal,' the coining essay:

"Fash, including eco-fash misanthropes who say that all humans are a “disease” that need to be “eradicated,” cannot be Beastpunk. Beastpunk is explicitly pro-fictionkin, pro-therian, pro-otherkin, pro-Were, pro-extranthrope, pro-plural, pro-queer, pro-human, and pro-alterhuman."

What other symbols should I add?

I'm not sure about the lycanthrope symbol. It's the upside down y / greek l. I just don't know if that's a symbol beings used by lycanthropes.

I'm also not sure if the ink and quill symbol is the fictionkin or fictionfolk symbol.

Alt text / symbol explanation:

18 stickers that say "Here Forever". The symbols on each sticker are :

otherheart

plantkin

otherkin

plural

nonhuman

alterhuman

archetrope

therian

fictionkin

lycanthrope

fictionkind

conceptkin

otherlink

fictionkin / fictionfolk

fictionhearted

objectkin

holothere

beastpunk flag

I've made a site button for my neocities page!

had a sudden urge to do one of these

Of course there are plenty of great humans out there, but as a whole they kinda suck.

But let me reassure my followers that forms of bigotry, up to and including misanthropy, are not beastpunk.

In beastpunk, the celebration of animality does not stop at the threshold of species that someone may consider undesirable, "weak," or "helpless." It does not discriminate against species; it does not discriminate against any variety of animals, up to and including humans. To quote 'BEASTPUNK: Being Unabashedly Animal,' the coining essay:

"Fash, including eco-fash misanthropes who say that all humans are a “disease” that need to be “eradicated,” cannot be Beastpunk. Beastpunk is explicitly pro-fictionkin, pro-therian, pro-otherkin, pro-Were, pro-extranthrope, pro-plural, pro-queer, pro-human, and pro-alterhuman."

i made a lil zine for myself for when i get anxious about being a therian and unsure of myself. also it’s just cute :3

Big shoutout to @who-is-page for coining beastpunk, when I saw the coining post a few months ago it really inspired me to try out some new dogcore fashion looks and I’m really happy with how my first attempt went! ♡

I put some photos of the dog vibe I was going for below the cut!

Huh well let's see.

So as usual for me, i always recommend masks, not quite a cloth/accessory idea but I'll still take a second for it, like last time i'll mention dragonartist15 if you have the materials to 3d print out and assemble a mask (in France we have free access 3d printer in some places, gotta pay the material but not the machine). They have a woodpecker mask, will come up if you just type their username, Etsy, and woodpecker. For other therian watching, works with other species, especially birds and dinosaurians but there are skulls and non avian creatures too.

If you want a sillier, less realistic mask, there are one of those dumb rubber mask for woodpeckers, apparently, in the pidgeon or horse mask fashion.

Now for the more low key general stuff :

birdlifestore.com seems to be a site for graphic t-shirt based on eco-friendly/conservation messages, and birds. There is one woodpecker t-shirt on here, but will mention for Bird Purpose overall. Not much but hey.

Shovava makes wearable shawls and clothing with a lot of inspiration from birds. I own the saffron wings one, that superficially look like roadrunner wings. There's also a few non bird ones (butterfly, snow leopard, wolf/deer...). They are expensive, but worthwhile and very good quality.

Birdcollective.com is another bird clothing site. A bit expensive, but very cool designs. They have woodpecker patches and a t shirt. (And even some roadrunners :]). They seem mostly based on American fauna, and have a monthly patch subscription if you're into that.

gotta mention effinbirds.com for Funny Swearing Bird t-shirt. Do not worry about the NFT tab on the site. just click on it.

Redbubble has stuff but be warned that you will wade through ton of woody woodpecker stuff. As a roadrunner and beep beep and coyote victim, i feel your pain. Here's a few user with woodpecker and general bird content (mcm653, Steven stanich, lottibrown... You can find it easier through going through Google image honestly)

Bird pins and patches are pretty easy to find usually, since bird watchers aren't rare by any mean.

I'm pretty sure it should be possible to create a "bird tail" to attach to one's hips in the way canine attach theirs. Wouldn't recommend taxidermy or real feathers for "like 99% sure whatever you are it's illegal" reasons but if you have feathers that are in fact not illegal have fun. Otherwise, making a fake in the same way cosplay artist make fake feathers for costumes should work. Honestly just one accurately colored long tail or wing feather as a keychain attached somewhere would look pretty damn cool