Skeptic Therian

For me my hands are the worst. Fingers feel so wrong and some days I can’t stand to look at them. Then it’s my face. The lack of a muzzle its so disconcerting that I’be been known to turn the mirrors around.

I’ve been a therian for just over five years now and for a short while at the begining I was active on small threads but then left completely when there were a phase of hierarchical packs comng through. I’ve just come back after years of being innactive about therianthropy online and well...wtf.

There only used to be a very small group of Fiction-kin and they where species not characters. As a phycological therian identifying as a fictional species seemed reasonable as if the disphoria you were experiancing best matched a fictional character then alrighty but identifying as a specific character...the author owns that character and shits going to happen to them that you may not like and then what? I’ve seen many people play the ‘multi-verse’ therory but the problem with that is even if it is true there is no way each reality could ever effect another.

Next is this pronoun bullshit. What the fuck? I have a pet cat and I call her ‘she’ and ‘herself’ not ‘cat’ and ‘catself’. Your pronoun is your gender not your species! I am actually praying that the posts including it are trolling becuase we do not need any help looking crazy and, in my opinion, it offensive to the transgender community who actually need to change their pronouns. Some have said that they use the pronouns of their theriotype and I can understand that to some degree as my Water Deer side is male but when I’m shifted the last thing im thinking about is ‘oh boy, I hope no one calls me ‘she’, a english word that means absolutly shit all to me!’

However it’s not all doom and gloom, I’m really happy to see a rise in anti physical shifters mentality. As I said, we need no help looking crazy, and those claming we can physclly shift were certainly helping that view. I’m also made hopeful by the amount of positivity here. I remember when I first joined the community the emphasis on packs and hierarchy, the speciesism and the frankly rude nature people who were ill informed were treated. But I can see a massive improvement here.

Fluff: OMG, I am like totally a wolf because I like the moon and I think they are cool.

Therian: I’m probably some sort of  wild canine due to the shifts I get and my kinship with these animals.

Fluff: My therian name is Lunapaw because thats what she told me her name was and it sounds all wolf like and stuff.

Therian: Therian name? Well if you mean what’s my online name it’s ***** but my Theriotype is me, we dont have seperate names.

Fluff: Yeah I shift constantly, like last week I woke up and I LITERALLY had a wolf paw but it went away before I could get a photo so I can’t show you...

Therian: I shift regually. A mix of phantom and mental are the most common but I do occasionally dream shift too.

You aren’t helping the community if you:

-Flip out when people ask questions.

-Block those who disagree and silence conversations.

-Pick the title of “otherkin” when you’re not.

-Claim you can physicaly shift.

-Call people childish names, just because they think differently.

-Refuse to listen.