#pshifters

I've made a survey to collect community data for my book that I plan to write on shapeshifting lore and current shifter topics. If you're a pshifter or other physical nonhuman and you want to participate, feel free to go to the link below, and don't be afraid to add feedback if you think something is missing or needs improvement!

I see some irony from p shifters when it comes to subjective vs objective reality. One moment they're saying that consensus reality shouldn't be forced and people can live in their own different realities. Another moment, they claim that physical shifting is objectively real in shared reality, and that anyone who says it isn't real is either lying or don't know any better. Hmm... Saying that p shifting is objectively real surely does look like a form of forcing consensus reality.

That reminds me of how evangelicals get all pissy when an atheist, or someone of another belief system, says that they don't also believe what the evangelicals believe.

I really am getting a "you must believe in what I believe in and if you don't you're a horrible person" vibe from p shifters.

I admit I haven't been lurking in the main tag much for some weeks/months but I believe it, lol. It might seem like a huge problem from here, but if you can get enough folks blocked you should be okay. It's just tumblr, and pshifters are nothing new under the sun. Don't give them attention and they have no incentive to interact with you.

I encourage you to set whatever boundaries you need! DNIs aren't flawless, I find it more effective to just block frequently and focus on people who don't set you off, but if it helps you, then do it. If it makes you feel better, no one's come after me, and I've been somewhat outspoken about how uncomfortable the whole thing makes me. I keep my paws firmly on the ground of consensus reality, with an eye towards the sky for possibilities that contradict it. If I spot one, I examine it, and if it's verifiably nonsense like pshifting is, I toss it. We used to hold onto some really toxic magical thinking, and our whole system is STILL dealing with that. All embracing it did was make us need anti psychotic medication.

In a way, we all live in our own bubbles of reality that are unique, just by existing as separate organisms. But anyone who has a fit that their reality isn't immediately accepted by others needs to get a grip. Excluding actual acts of bigotry and violence, it doesn't matter what other people think, and pshifters are some of the most insecure people I've unfortunately met on the net. You would think literal shapeshifters would have better things to do than harass people online.

do not be afraid to label your body as nonhuman!

It’s an all or nothing process. Assuming you know what you’re shifting into, you will shift everything that’s there. There’s no way for your body to discard limbs or forget things in the process. This applies to wings too. If you’re shifting into anything that naturally has wings (such as a bird, a mythical creature such as a pixiu for example, etc.) the wings will appear alongside everything else that is shifting. Why would your body discard them? Keeping the Law of Conservation of Mass in the equation, you wouldn’t shift into a pixiu and have no wings just because. You’d shift into one, probably be a lot smaller generally than you were expecting to be, but have wings of some sort. Discarding them is the equivalent of having clay, being able to form it into the shape of something, and discarding a part of the design, when you can just make everything proportional, except smaller. Additionally, since much of shifting is innate, there’s nothing there to actually tell the body to discard a part. Whether you want to or not, you’ll shift your full body. Even if we bring avians into the mix (and let’s assume there’s an avian with fully grown wings and everything that’s also a shifter), why would the wings be any different compared to the rest of the body? During shifting, every single part of the body changes and reforms to another creature, from the tailbone all the way up to the skull and eyes. Avians claim that shifting with wings wouldn’t be possible, but if the wings are another part of the body, and they’re growing there, then they would also naturally shift and change to allow the person to take on a new form. Since the wings would add extra mass, if the avian was shifting into a wolf for example they’d be a huge wolf, but the wings wouldn’t just stay there while the rest of the body is shifting. To claim such is to have a fundamental misunderstand of what shifting is like, or otherwise imply that grown wings aren’t really a part of the body at all. Shifting is a strenuous process, but this doesn’t negate the fact that shapeshifters (those with multiple forms) exist either. Instead of always shifting into a wolf, they might shift into a wolf at one time, then a fox another time, and so on. Of course, a shapeshifter could also choose to stick to one form. It’s nothing big or incredible, other than the utilization of different forms instead of the one. You won’t die if you shift into a fox and then a cougar, or have more than one form.