Felid is the name. Screaming is the game.

After much searching, I found a place that sells fried crickets snacks! I was originally hoping to find grasshoppers, but these are also acceptable for my natural diet. Heres my input:

Plain salted: Have an airy crunch, the crickets themselves didn't really taste like anything to me. The friend i tried them with compared them to corn nuts. I was really hoping to like these, as theyre closest to what id eat in the wild, but I'm hypersensitive to salt, and these had a little too much for me

BBQ: Did not like, but that was expected. I am not a huge fan of barbecue flavoring, but my friend is and commented that the flavor of the crickets blended nicely with it

Jalapeño: Good, I liked the level of spicyness, these were my favorite. They were too spicy for my friend.

Cheese: Was okay, I thought they tasted kind of like white cheddar pop corn. These were my friends favorite, she said they taste like pirates booty.

For you, this may mean buying cat ears or cat ear headphones. It may mean amber contact lenses to mimic the eyes of a wolf, dyeing your hair black and wearing it shaggy and long. It may mean implants on your canines to get fangs. Tattoos. Piercings. Claw-shaped acrylic nails. I mean, who knows?

Your homework for the day: find something about your current form that you like. Speak positively about it. Be kind. Maybe you've got long eyelashes or a cool scar. Maybe you have dark eyes or a nice smile. There's something. It may not be you, but it's yours. Treat what's yours with love, kindness, and respect.

hi

how are you

tell me something about yourself

share a thought

Sorry my child

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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.

⭐ THE CATS OF YELLOWSTONE ✨

I have had this idea mulling around for a while now! I love cats and I love Yellowstone so why not both??

One such worker for the purpose of this post we shall refer to as Dave.

Dave is a very quiet man. He confesses that if conversation happens too quickly and for too long he gets tired so we often work in silence. He's very polite and good natured but it's obvious that he would happily live and work alone for the rest of his life given the option.

He's very much in the previous generation of ranger, a practical man in his fourties or fifties happy to be kept physically busy for a day and then be sent home with some pay. I had to show him how to use a work issued smart phone.

Meanwhile the rest of the team is made up of the current generation of rangers; openly nurodivergent queer women in their twenties or thirties who work this job because it's the only setting where we can vaguely look sane.

So Dave sticks out a bit. It's really nice when he opens up though because he's an impulsive individual when left to his own devices and has plenty of stories to tell if the mood takes him. I really like working with Dave.

Anyway, one day we've got a job that takes a three hour hike to get to and early on the topic of deer comes up.

I hadn't realised this was the first time we had discussed deer, but blatantly it was. Dave's entire demeanour changes, there's a bit of passion in his voice, but it's also hushed as if he's talking about something sacred.

"Deer are my favourite animal." He says.

I'm also eager to hear Dave talk about himself, so I encourage him to say more.

"I'd love to be a deer myself."

And more

"If a genie offered me the opportunity to become a deer I'd take it. I wouldn't even stop to ask what the price was."

And more

"Sometimes I feel like I'm a deer having a dream about being a human.*

And there I am, a long time commuter to the therian/otherkin community keeping up the encouraging face of someone being politely interested, knowing that this man is straight up a therian with no frame of reference.

And I decided that I wouldn't push the subject outside of the bounds of what Dave is comfortable with, I wouldn't try to teach him the terms "Therian" or "Otherkin" but absolutely I would talk with this man as if he's a deer.