#alterhuman shift

I just want to put it out there and say, you aren’t broken! Identities ebb and flow and change throughout our lives and that is totally okay. this goes for any self identification, but I find it especially relevant here. If you feel yourself start to change, try and let it happen. attempting to cling onto something that you’re not in that moment is only going to make things worse. I know people who have identified for years as one species before suddenly changing halfway through their life, I know people who change identities on a regular basis, and I see almost every member of this community go through periods of connection and disconnection from their alterhumanity. It’s all completely normal and not something to be worried or ashamed about, and it doesn’t even mean that you were wrong before. I know it’d be so much easier if things stayed stagnant, but change will happen whether you want it to or not.

I have a few. I'm sure a few will agree with me on petrichor, the smell of spring. Everything I correlate to petrichor gives me a certain euphoria--thin rain, the very start of spring, my moss stump, the mourning doves that nested outside of my room, my early years of awakening, a simpler time. And so many more memories I couldn't try fit into words.

Another is water. Water? Water!

The lake water of my grandmas house, giggling when encouraged to really swim instead of doggypaddling; replying "it's on instinct!" Without knowing what I meant yet; the chlorine pool at the barbecue, the drying water on my dog's fur that everyone insisted stinked--while I found a comfort in. The particularly yucky tap water of a vacation home.

I hate the smell of garlic and it always ends up with some deer shift; at one point I started doing it intentionally.

A really specific one of my mothers natural perfumes, and on that same note, any herbal scent. Self explanatory.

Aloe and at a lesser extent watermelon !

Self care is important friends

i need a bit of help with a phantom shift i keep getting recently, note phantom shifts are something i experience near constantly and i am very fluid in my identity so those sorts of factors don't hold much meaning

i keep feeling two things on the lower back of my head (image attached for reference), i'm not sure how much i can describe them but i can feel the base of them and i keep having the temptation to reach behind and grab them. they feel like they stick out a decent amount because i brace for impact if there's something behind my head but other than that it's pretty fuzzy

they're not completely moveable i don't think? but that could also be down to not knowing, like it's easier to move my wings when i know they're wings

this has been near constant for days and is bugging me, does anyone know any animals or creatures or insects or mythical beings or anything with inhuman features on the lower backs of their head???