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lycoris | 20+ | it/its, or no pronouns | main blog
will contain posts regarding nonhumanity, plurality, maybe other things. occasionally will make explicit or suggestive posts, please filter "therian nsft" to avoid this if you want.
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i am multiple creatures. the ones youll see most often are:
- red fox
- false killer whale
- wild boar
and a few fictional species, such as zoroark and odogaron.
this is not a space for "discourse", though i of course have opinions and know that others like to be aware of them.
pro-fiction & kink, anti-censorship & abuse
attraction =/= abuse, actions matter more when judging a person.
pro-all forms of plurality, and pro-systems not disclosing "origins" unless they make the choice to do so.
not comfortable with "radqueer" ideologies/spaces/etc, as they frequently tend to cover for abuse and enable harm to others.
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being physically nonhuman and/or having a body like a theriform doesn’t automatically unlearn you of racist and anthrocentric propaganda and ideals. matter of fact being any level of nonhuman or alterhuman doesn’t automatically unlearn you of it either. changing what names you put on yourself doesn’t change the fact that you are still living a lifestyle supported by a habitat that is shaped by systemic racism and human supremacy and sustained by willful ignorance of the everyday evidence of those facts.
this goes beyond the physical nonhumanity misunderstanders in the community too. i’m sick of white alterhumans posting endless lists of labels and microlabels as proof they’re “woke” when being anti-racist and woke isn’t in your fucking identity and self-talk, it’s in your actual actions towards others or by yourself, ESPECIALLY in your reactions to getting criticized for doing something that goes against what you “identify as” standing for.
As someones who've been put off from interacting seriously with the otherkin/nonhuman/therian communities for over a decade for this exact reason, we could fill several pages with ranting on this subject. Maybe we will, someday, but for now I'll offer some reading that I strongly recommend to anyone trying to unlearn these toxic patterns.
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a Potawatomi botanist, is a brilliant and hopeful read about the ways that indigenous peoples learned from and related to the land, and the ways that the rest of us today can draw from that knowledge to realize kinder, more reciprocal ways of living with the world. Check your local library for it if you can't afford a copy; if mobility is limited, check to see if your library offers ebooks via Libby.
For a shorter read (but honestly do read Braiding Sweetgrass if you at all can), The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans is an article that addresses a number of the same topics.
Some additional context: one of the most subtle but insidious forms of racism that we see in the community is this attitude that Humans Are Inherently Bad For Nature (which then often generalizes to Humans Are Inherently Bad). People so often treat this as Obvious Fact, when... it's really not! The idea that humans and nature Can't coexist, that they are Fundamentally Separate, is a myth constructed by an exploitative and imperialist society, which erases all of the indigenous cultures that have very different ways of relating to the earth and its beings.
Racism is a many-faceted beast, and to be clear, this is only one facet of it, but it's one that's so pervasive and so unquestioned in the community that I wanted to call attention to it in particular.
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oh goodness theres a good few new faces here, hi. im not strictly an nsft blog, so hopefully im not being followed expecting that! i just like being more honest about my nonhumanity and all the feelings and wants that come with it
sighs & imagines awakening things in humans who are watching me from their boat. my large, sleek body swimming and porpoising in the water… im curious about them, and admittedly i enjoy the attention too, so i stick around and let them observe me. maybe its just my build and sociability that makes a human blush and question themselves, or maybe they catch a glimpse of my slit or a penile display…. who can say
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I saw you eyeing me the whole time you visited my tank. how your eyes lingered on my genital slit. I bet you were imaging what I look like when fully erect. I kept swimming by you and flashing my underside.
And later that night, when I was just about to doze off, I heard the sounds of footsteps coming towards the small pool where I rest. and you appeared in front of me. a hungry look in your eyes. you began to undress in front of me. I watched eagerly, making soft curious clicks. you slipped into the chilly water completely naked. you swam towards me and rubbed my smooth skin, moving your hands swiftly to my underside.
eager fingers quickly rubbed and dipped into my gential slit. and immediately, most of my length slithered out. I saw momentary hesitation flash across your face. It was obvious you underestimated just how large a dolphin's cock was. After a few seconds, your hand returned to the base of my dick and began to stroke again. I bucked into your hand with much force, which seemed to spook you even more. You seemed to realize that maybe this fantasy wasn't thought all the way through. I was a fully grown dolphin, lithe and muscular, and you had just entered into my habitat.
My moment was so swift that I knew I had caught you off guard. All it took was a quick turn, a forceful push and I had managed to shove you onto the slideout connected to my tank. You coughed up a bit of water that you had breathed in during my "suggestion" to join me on the slideout. You looked a bit shocked but not deterred. Once I was on the slideout with you, I saw that you were on your hands and knees. you trembled as I pushed myself towards you.
I pushed myself on top of you, easily pinning you down with my weight. My flippers rested at your sides as my tapered penis began to poke at your entrance, the tip easily slipped inside. It didn't feel like much as I adjusted myself. My tip was not as thick as the base. Without any warning, I slammed my whole length inside you. I heard you let out a panicked but pleasured noise. I could tell I was much much too big for you as your inside squeezed me so so tight.
I very quickly had begun a quick rhythm. I slammed as hard as I could into you. I saw you reach up to your stomach to feel the bulge that formed each time I fully pushed myself into you. I very quickly reached my limit. I pushed myself up, making sure I had the right angle to thrust as deeply as I could into you. As I reached my climax, I felt myself begin to pump you full. You were moaning as it overflowed and begun to drip down the back of your legs.
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(A mirror of a post that I made first on Reddit, and then to our website.)
In a discussion about system member roles, it was brought up that much of the history around roles has been buried. There is no reference for who came up with the concept of roles or where the older roles like "protector" originated. My system is in contact with LB Lee, who are an older system with a great dedication to researching and documenting plural history. We reached out to them to ask if they had any knowledge regarding the origins of system roles, and they wrote a post about their findings.
The post itself is extremely well-cited: it delves through medical texts and biographies from as far back as the 1970s. It is worth your time if you have an interest in plural history. But I think the most important takeaways come from these paragraphs:
[...]of all these other terms, all of them come from medical contexts. If they aren't outright, obviously created by therapists themselves (Ralph Allison, Cornelia Wilbur), they're cited in books that they were involved in--like Sybil or the Minds of Billy Milligan. These are terms created by medical personnel to compartmentalize and organize headmates like a stamp collection... and often deny us the right to self-determine or grow. There's an icky historical context there; there's a reason these terms were considered unfashionable tools of the oppressor when we came on the scene in 2007!
These therapists are not little tin gods you should worship. There's a reason Allison, Ross, and Wilbur have controversies about them! [...]
To be clear, I am not sharing this to shame systems for using roles. Nor am I sharing this to claim that roles are for trauma-formed systems only and that it is appropriation for other systems to have roles. Please do not use this post as grounds to start yet another exclusionary slapfight.
What I do want us, as a community, to do instead:
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We should question the assumption that system member roles are an innate part of plurality, especially when it comes to systems who do not fit within medical models. If we are to be a truly inclusive community, then we must refrain from making assumptions about how a "normal" system works.
We should think carefully about how we are using roles. Roles, if they are used, should be descriptive, not prescriptive. It is okay for a role to be important to you, but it is also important to recognize when it is a vehicle for unkind expectations. It should not be the end-all, be-all of your identity. To every system member out there: you, individually, deserve to exist without having to justify your existence with a role.
In general, we should be aware of which terms and assumptions come from clinical contexts, think carefully about the contexts in which they arose, and avoid applying them by default to all systems. Again, I do not mean this in an exclusionary sense; I am not making an argument that we should divide these things into "all systems allowed" and "trauma-formed systems only." Rather, I am calling upon us to remember that, while it is true that people benefit from competent psychiatric care, it is also true that psychiatry is not infallible. Both on the institutional level and on the level of individual doctors, it is as vulnerable to the prejudices of greater society as other professions are. Many marginalized communities had to fight to be treated with respect by psychiatry - and even now, abusive forms of "therapy" persist, diagnoses are used to minimize the trauma of people of color, and official publications talk about disabled people as less-than. The plural community is no exception to the struggle. We should not uncritically adopt psychiatry's assumptions about us. We should not center singlet outsiders in discussions of our lived experiences, our validity, our lives.
What does this look like? Many things: this is a mindset, not a set of rules. But, if it helps to have examples...
When meeting new systems, we can refrain from asking them what roles their members have. Likewise, if we ourselves have roles, we can choose whether to disclose them or to keep them private.
If we learn that someone has a certain role, we can refrain from making assumptions about them based upon the role. We can ask them what the role means to them if we have questions.
If applicable, we can look at the roles that are present in our own systems, and ask: "Are any of these stifling our individual growth? Does this role bring the member who holds it joy, grief, or both?"
We can refrain from assigning roles to other members, and instead allow them to choose their role. (Including no role at all, if that's their choice!) We can also give them time and space to explore who they are before choosing a role, and make it clear that it is always okay to put down a role, and that they will be loved and valued nonetheless.
If we do not feel that roles are working for us, we can try living without them to see if having no roles works better.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post. If any of you are feeling stuck because of your roles, I hope that it inspires you to find a new way forward.
people have been enjoying the one throwaway post I made about "The Real One" centrism in plurality so I nudged lark to put his much more high-effort and extremely relevant post about system roles and plural community norms/history on here. we constantly see people going "is it okay if my headmates don't have roles?" and "which role should I assign to this guy who just arrived?" and "why do I exist if I don't have a role??" and it's just. important to remember that none of this stuff is set in stone. roles are constructs, not Rules(tm) made by god or nature, and their entire history is very fraught.
you're still allowed to use them if you want, but please don't use them as a way to box yourselves or others in. you are more than a function.
(also a point that I feel like some folks missed on the original throwaway post is that you can still have damaging Real One centrist ideas and pigeonholing of headmates even if you disavow role labels. we're certainly still working on that! and even singlets run into this all the time in their friend groups and families. that being said, we do feel like roles can "formalize" these things in a way that make them harder to break out of.)