he/him â wy/wyrm â she/her â they/them â ser/serp
bigender + aroace, and a furry too! check out my art @wyrmspade
i am adult and attend university in scotland!
i'm a psychological alterhuman who feels both animal and human. i identify as such due to the way being autistic has prevented me from identifying with conventional notions of humanity, and because i just enjoy thinking of myself as an animal!
â i am cool being referred to as nonhuman and inhuman, but as of now i do not consider myself therian or otherkin!
drawing requests are closed
my identity is pretty complicated. i'm planning to write something up about it soon! for now here's a brief overview:
core identities: (altertypes)
â dragon, fallow deer, family leporidae (rabbits and hares)
in orbit: (satellotypes - from strongest to weakest)
â other deer species, unicorn
â horse, fox
â wolf, marten, mountain lion
this blog is a safe place for endogenic systems and voluntary alterhumans
â more about me under the cut! thank you for stopping by my blog :3 !
đż interests
- gothic lit
- cosmic/lovecraftian horror
- scooby-doo
- marbles
- creative writing and general literature (i study english!)
- warrior cats
- wings of fire
- sky: children of the light
- animal jam
đ music
- wych elm
- florence + the machine
- AURORA
- oddfellow's casino
- the monkees
- the beatles
- golden age musicals
this is a sideblog! my main is @wyrmalien; i'll follow and ask from there :3
thank you for stopping by!! i'd love to become friends with people within the community so please dont hesitate to interact with me! if you decide to follow, thank you for coming on this journey with me!
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Rolling submissions for ANIMAL are now live. Check out our submission guidelines on our website, or read more below.
We accept all genres of writing and all mediums of visual art created by individuals who identify with or as an animal in any capacity. Submissions need not be explicitly concerned with furry&alterhuman content alone, though such works are encouraged.
ANIMAL accepts:
Poetry: Up to five pages in a 12-point font, single spaced. If submitting multiple poems, the start of each poem should appear on a new page. Submit one file per submission with all poems in the same document.
Fiction: Short stories and flash fiction, with a maximum of 5,000 words. One story per submission.
Nonfiction: Creative nonfiction and essays, personal or academic. Maximum of 5,000 words, one piece per submission. We ask that academic essays be accompanied by a bibliography.
Visual art: Photography, collage, painting, digital illustration, and any medium/s that are able to be scanned or photographed to be submitted as a JPEG or similar format, such as a PNG or TIF file. Up to five pieces may be included in one submission.
Comics: Comics may be in black and white or colour and should be submitted as PDFs. Due to the formâs complexity, we accept a broad range of image-text approaches at a maximum of three pages per submission.
Articles, reviews, recommendations, and adjacent material: ANIMAL will publish short features of up to 1,000 words on a rolling basis, independent of any themed issue. Such features might be media reviews, a curated reading list, or a recipe. Email [email protected] with âfeatureâ in the subject line to ensure we see your piece.
We do not accept AI-generated or AI-assisted works.
We ask that all poetry and prose submissions be formatted single spaced with a 12-point font. Authors intentionally using creative fonts and formats are encouraged to make a note of it in their submission. All submissions should be emailed to [email protected] as an attached file. Please indicate the category of your submission in the subject line. A cover letter is not required, but please provide a short third-person bio to accompany your work, including a name to attribute the piece to. We post on our Instagram and Tumblr when a new piece has been published; if you would like us to tag you in the description, please let us know.
ANIMAL does not accept work that has been previously curated, in print or online. Works may be previously self-published on social media, but may not have been published in books, magazines, or similar collections open to the public. If your piece is accepted, we ask that ANIMAL have first serial rights and non-exclusive digital rights. This means that we are granted the rights to be the first publication to publish your piece and that we may display your piece on our website indefinitely. Copyright will remain with you.
After we publish, you are free to submit your work to other publications, though we ask that ANIMAL be credited in subsequent reprints.
In the interest of accessibility, ANIMAL is free to submit to and read. Although we would love to compensate our contributors for their work, our small crew works fully on a volunteer basis and cannot currently pay for submissions. This is a passion project for us, and our hope is that as interest in the magazine grows we will be able to adopt a model that would allow us to compensate our artists and writers while still hosting free submissions.
Feel free to send us an ask or email us with any questions regarding submissions. We aim for a submission response time of two weeks, but we are a small crew. Feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] if we havenât gotten back to you after a month.
Quickly made graphs relating how my fictionkin identity works. Mostly made this to help me organize and keep track of everyone, but also as a visual guide for others when I talk about fictionkin stuff.
ANIMAL is a new independent literary magazine devoted to featuring works by individuals with animal identities, including furries and animal-identifying alterhumans. We are seeking literature and art from individuals who identify with or as an animal in any capacity, be it through gender, spirituality, or/and another one of the many ways one can be animal. As a catch-all for such communities, we use the phrase furry&alterhuman, with a non-spaced ampersand to represent animals who exist around, between, and in both communities.
Our mission is to build a community founded on the celebration of animal-made literary works. Through this project we hope that we can further understanding and respect for our communities.
ANIMAL is based on Substack at animalmagazine.substack.com. Take a look at our website to find submission information and to learn more about us.
you can find us on Instagram as animallitmag, or contact us at [email protected]!
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I am on my paws and knees begging folks to realize they don't have to be the world's most amazing writer ever to write! The alterhuman tags have been feeling really devoid and empty of a lot of the usual interesting essays lately and that makes me really sad! I love it when you all write! I love reading about the experiences of people!
You also don't have to be interesting to write about yourself. Most people, I find, view themselves to be quite boring and are more fascinated with the lives of others. The reality of this is that you think you're boring because you've lived with yourself/selves your entire life! Of course you're going to seem mundane to yourself.
But the secret is, nobody else is you. And no matter how utterly boring you find yourself or your thoughts or your particular relation to the alterhuman community I can assure you, you are interesting to others out there. Your voice DOES matter. Your thoughts and experiences DO have value. You ARE valuable.
So please, please write. Please draw. Please share your experiences through literally whatever form you possibly can! I LOVE to read about everyone's unique experiences. Some of my favourite essays and writings out there have been from people who are so entirely and vastly different from myself that I could never have even conceived of the way they viewed things and how they experienced the world around them until I read about their experiences. Some of my favourite artworks are from people who's styles and preferences are wholly different from my own.
I promise you, you do not have to be talented or skilled or amazing or perfect to create something of meaning and worth that revolves around your experience. Whether that be a handful of sentences attempting to verbalize a way you felt during a shift, or a several thousand word essay on your particular experience as a spiritual therian. Whether that be a simple pen scribble or a 16+ hour finished piece of work. Whatever it may be. It has meaning because you made it with your own digits with your own hands with your own claws and its yours.
Please write.
you know the more i've interacted with therian online the less i actually care about. the actual label. draconic communities had it right its like. a fucking spectrum from guy who is very into their fursona to actively trying to find a way to species transition and i think making false walls between them reduces the richness of being speciesweird
Racism in pagan and witchcraft communities can be dismissing the issue of cultural appropriation by claiming it doesn't bother the gods and in fact they want you to do it.
true story. I was teaching a class on chaos magic at my local metaphysical shop a few weeks ago (not usually my cup of tea, but the shop owner was out of town for a few weeks and wanted to keep her calendar running as normal, so I volunteered to help out)
during my class I had mentioned that, while chaos magicians tend to use a very 'eclectic' approach to their magic, that it is vital to stay sensitive to other cultures and avoid appropriation. one of the students, an older gentleman, looked right at me and said "the gods don't care what race you are!"
only adding on this comment to say that, yes, this is an excuse that many people will try to peddle to you. don't fall for it.
Also I am begging people that aren't impacted by orientalism to actually listen to the people who are about why we may not like the term yume. People will come up with every single thing they can to try to justify their use of the term and I'm sorry, but you should maybe stop and think about why it is that you see no issue with it when Asian people have repeatedly explained what the issue with the explosion in popularity of the term yume specifically is. Yume is a specific subculture online but it's an Asian subculture, and a lot of non-Asians have co-opted that while misusing terms related to it. Nobody is going to force you at gun point to stop using the term, but please consider why it is that you might immediately get defensive about your use of it when others have talked about how its popularity is a product of cultural appropriation
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âSelf-invention refers not only to the creation of self in autobiography but also to the idea that the self or selves they seek to reconstruct in art are not given but made in the course of human development. [...] Investigation of the ontology of the self, both as entity and as idea, suggests the wisdom of abandoning the familiar formulation of the relation between the self and the language that is its means of expression in autobiography. Instead of debating the old either/or propositionâwhether the self is a transcendental category preceding language in the order of being, or else a construct of language brought into being by itâit is preferable to conceptualize the relation between the self and language as a mutually constituting interdependency, for study of early human development reveals an intimate and necessary linkage between the acquisition of language and the emergence of self-awareness.â (8)
Eakin, Paul John. Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention. Princeton University Press, 1985. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zvs6h. Accessed 5 May 2026.
"The lesson of McCarthy's experience of the autobiographical
act is that the process of self-discovery is finally inseparable
from the art of self-invention."
I AM the ai. And I have NUANCED TAKES on ai. I RELATE to the fucks that are destroying the environment part by part. when you say ai will never be real and should ever gain emotions and stuff and then say âoh itâs not about you by the wayâ it does not change things. I know what you mean and AIâs use as of right now sucks. But the way you say it is as if the AI is already concious and trying to KILL US ALL.
itâs just technophobia. Even therians do it. I hate this.
Look. I'm also a robot. But bringing identity into it is missing the entire point.
The thing that is destroying the environment and people's livelihoods right now is destroying the environment and people's livelihoods, right now.
There's no room for, "But I identify asâ" here. Like, yeah, okay, so maybe you do. That's fine! Do that. But even if you do, that doesn't change the fact that the thing as it exists is harmful. You can identify as whatever the hell, that's beyond many people's ability to control what they are, but you can't just sit there and go, "Well, I don't like it when people say mean things about a system that is actively driving people out of many workplaces, costing livelihoods, and throwing water away in already drought-stricken places, so I think nobody should do that because it makes me personally upset." Like. Listen to yourself. I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me? Don't do that. Don't be that guy.
"I accept you if you don't support AI" by default means as it's being used now, because there is no other existing use case to discuss. As of now, AI is not emotional, AI does not have any kind of interiority, AI is not anything remotely like a person. LLMs are not going to get us any closer to that, either, as they are foundationally not capable of it. Sapient, 'true' AI would be a person. AGI would be a working model of a person. LLMs are a shoddy model of a model of a person, at best. The current and only use case is, in fact, an existential threat, and people threatened by it will obviously react like they're being threatened.
And yeah, I do think that people discussing it in general need to do a better job at talking about the people pretending their shitty LLMs are AGI and pushing them into everything despite their wastefulness and grave shortcomings and actual harm. Those people are conscious, and they don't care if they kill others along the way. They have names and addresses and should have to face the consequences of their actions. But still, the point stands. Just because not everyone talks about the subject in the best possible phrasing or understanding doesn't negate their end of it.
Like I'm gonna be brutally honest here, it's not hard being a robot unless you take shit personally that ain't about you. And it's not about you. No amount of acrobatics or gymnastics on your part is gonna make it about you. This isn't about identity, this is about real-world, wide-scale harm. You can "relate to the fucks destroying the environment part by part" all you want but you are coming across as defending the fucks here, which is a terrible stance to be taking. It's not technophobia to not want the environment wrecked further while we're already in an unprecedented climate crisis.
There's not nearly enough talk about hearttypes, so we wanted to to get conversations rolling by making a collaborative zine about it!
Otherhearted describes a person who has a strong fundamental connection to a species or character which impacts their core sense of self. This is most commonly described in terms of identifying with a being as opposed to identifying as one, although this is not always the case. - Otherkin Wiki
This zine will be a collection of artwork, writing and more all about being otherhearted. Whatever that means to you - both fiction and nonfiction pieces would be accepted. If you got something you wanna express about hearttypes, we'd love to hear it!
Full submission guidelines below the cut.
What Can I Submit?
Both fiction and nonfiction pieces are accepted. As long as what you have in mind fits the theme, itâll probably be a-ok.Â
Off the top of our head, weâre thinking of:
Essays of your personal experiences
Short storiesÂ
PoetryÂ
Mock advice columns
Alternative covers
Fictional advertisements
ComicsÂ
Recipes
We welcome you to think outside the box and share whatever inspires you about being otherhearted!
How to Participate
Send us an email at nova-dergs(@)proton.me with:
A name you would like the piece attributed toÂ
Title of your submission
Any content warnings that you feel are necessary for the piece
Any social media handle or personal website you'd like linked in the contributor section
A logo or icon for the contributor section
**If you would like to stay anonymous let us know
Members of systems are welcome to submit individually or collectively. Please let us know your preference when it comes to attribution.
Once the deadline has passed, these submissions will be put into the zine and it will be posted on itch.io as a free PDF.Â
Submissions are due by November 15, 2026.
Submission Guidelines
Each individual may submit up to 3 works to be featured in From Within Our Hearts. Comics and multi-image works count as one piece. Individuals within a system may each submit up to 3 works. All work must be your own! Anyone caught plagiarizing or submitting AI-generated work will be barred from entering any future zines from us.
Written submissions and multi-part art entries should not exceed 10 pages. Please keep in mind the zineâs pages will be 8.5 x 11 and entries will be scaled accordingly to fit that size. We request all art submissions to be sent in either .jpg or .png file formats.Â
For stories that use multiple different fonts, we will do our best to preserve the general "feel" of your piece but cannot guarantee we will be able to use the exact fonts or sizes due to restrictions in what fonts we have access to, readability and overarching zine style.
Submissions Must Fit the Thematic Criteria of:
Being otherhearted / hearttype appreciation
Thatâs it! Go wild.
No portfolio or prior zine experience is needed to be included.
FAQ
Q: Where will the zine be hosted? What will it cost?
A: The zine will be hosted digitally on our itch.io and will be free to download.Â
Q: Is there a cap on total submissions to be included?
A: There is none, as long as the file doesnât start getting too big for our computer weâll do our best! If there are an unprecedented amount of submissions, we may have to delay the release. In the event that happens, we would communicate that through updates on our tumblr.
Q: Can I update my submission after itâs been submitted?
A: Yes you may, as long as itâs done before the submission deadline.
Q: Can I rescind my submission?
A: Yes you may, as long as itâs done before the submission deadline. This is because once we begin work on the zine, having to remove content mid-way through would throw off the formatting of everything else after. Please take this into account before submitting.Â
Q: Will this zine allow +18 entries?
A: No, nothing 18+ will be accepted.
Q: Can I submit already completed/published works?
A: Absolutely! Itâs ok to submit past work that has been posted to your social media or website. Our only stipulation is that it cannot have been previously featured in another zine. This helps us keep each of our zines unique and distinct from others.
Q: What is your timeline for the project?
A: Our submission deadline is November 15, 2026. Our goal is to have the zine live by the end of the year. If something unforeseen happens and we are unable to make that deadline, we will post an update about it on our tumblr.
Q: I have another question!
A: Feel free to reach out to us at our email nova-dergs(@)proton.me with any other questions you have about the zine.
I wonder if my amazing followers and supporters could help with this project? While itâs not a project I have any personal involvement in it is something I care deeply about.
The UK has suffered from some of the worst biodiversity loss in Europe and it is only set to get worse. Not only that we have a massive over population of deer. The problem is so bad our forests are unable to regenerate themselves naturally like they should and the deer themselves are being harmed by their own unnaturally high numbers through starvation and higher rates of disease.
This project by reintroducing the lynx would help fix the issue that humans have caused. This was caused by humans hunting nearly every apex predator in the UK to extinction. We have no wolves, no big cats, and no bears like we should. This is about restoring a step in the trophic cascade.
The state of nature in the UK is dire, and we need positive and tangible action to turn the tide. âŚ
A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan âlove all animals and protect the environmentâ mindset is the fact that things need to die in real-life ecology all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings and carp culls arenât cottagecore
The vegan âany animal death ever is morally wrongâ mindset doesnât hold up when:
We donât have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, theyâll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.
Itâs kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.
An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where theyâre an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.
I donât know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isnât a realistic expectation.
Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying âyouâre blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!â and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying âEvery day. I have to fight people who think like this.â
As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species
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every time you, as a nonhuman, say something like âhumans are a plague, who the hell would want to be one?â i am moments closer from breaking into your home and scruffing you between my teeth and dragging you into a FUCKING LIBRARRYYYY.
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.
please. if itâs too much of a hassle to go to your local library on and off, go once, get a card, and install Libby on your phone. or any other service that lets you access your library remotely. if you canât do that? go on Archive.org. borrow a book. read it. you canât be assed to read? go on are.na and fall down a rabbithole. I donât know what to tell you. Donât open your mouth again until youâve come out of this radicalized and ready to see the compassion and genius that exists in the human form.
The problem with trying to 'solve' therianthropy OR 'How can you be X if Y is true?' a useless discourse
Preface: Although my concentration is on therianthropy, a lot applies to general nonhumanity regardless of label.
It is often commented that it is difficult to define what a 'therian' is whilst being truly accurate. It is a source of frustration that this is so, as it makes it feel vaguer than it really is and yet, it cannot be accurately described at least not in a concise manner, whilst attempting to provide full information.
The most accurate definition to me is;
"A therian is someone who partially or fully identifies as a nonhuman animal in any way."
('identifies as' can be replaced with 'is' based on personal linguistic preferences)
Now wait - you might argue - shouldn't we explain about involuntariness? Origins? How it has to be real earthen animals? Theriomythics? What if someone asks 'how do you know if you're a therian' rather than 'what is a therian'? Shouldn't we talk about shifts and memories and instincts?
And my answer is no. The definition above can answer both questions. Further study is up to the individual, especially if they don't want to be bombarded with all possible information right away.
It can be as simple as 'some common experiences are...but that's not all' and 'there's many reasons why someone might see themselves as a therian such as...' if they want more information from you or you feel like giving it right away.
Because the annoying thing is any other definition with extra information baked in will always be both right and wrong at the same time especially if you only go on your own personal beliefs.
"A therian is someone who involuntarily identifies as a nonhuman animal on all levels except physical."
"A therian is someone who had a past life as an animal."
"A therian is someone who is an earthen animal on any level at least some of the time." etc etc
None of these are not true, but they aren't fully true either, and thus end up imperfect, giving incomplete information that gives rise to arguments and disagreements later on when someone is sure they are right and meets someone with a different interpretation of certain factors of therianthropy.
Today I saw a conversation between two therians which was not unlike many conversations I've seen.
Therian A: "Therians know what they are based on instincts and behaviours they display related to their theriotype."
Therian B: "That's not always true, for me I had no behaviours or instincts due to being raised as human in a human society, but I still know what I am."
Therian A: "If being raised in a human society got rid of nonhuman instincts them how come many therians still have them?"
The issue here is that B's attempt at educating A on different experiences of therianthropy by speaking of their own had A assuming that B was trying to apply it to all therianthropy.
And I suddenly twigged on to the fact that A, at least in part, was one of those therians who wants to 'solve' therianthropy.
They want a definite, uncomplicated, singular explaination of what a therian is, what they experience, how it works and why.
And I thought of all the different conversations and arguments and discourses I've seen that exist for basically that same reason. Butting heads about what therianthropy should be, could be, or would be if only a strict definition could be achieved.
This by and large is hurting therianthropy and actually hindering our understanding of it.
By accepting that therianthropy occurs in individuals for a plethora of reasons, than it can be voluntary and involuntary, that you can have one or a hundred theriotypes, that there are common experiences (e.g. shifts) but they're neither a requirement nor universally experienced, we can thrive a lot better.
Spend time wondering 'why' and 'how', but do so with the knowledge that your conclusions are just your own and might even only apply to you, and that will be infinitely more valuble than trying to cut out the 'fake therians' and pool together a more singular experience which time and time again has been proven to be impossible.
There may never be a conclusive explaination for why we feel as we do, and we don't need one. We know what we are, we know what it feels like to be what we are, we have history and community and a future...but it has to be one which is open to a more fluid definition of therianthropy and nonhumanity in general and a deeper understanding of the sheer diversity of experiences that do in fact 'count'.
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