#werecard

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What are werecards?

During the late summer and into early fall of 1994 an aspect of the therian community (note: it was still commonly called the were community back then) that would come into existence were it would remain in general popularity for years to come would be the werecard. A werecard is a short questionnaire for the individual person in the were community. Werecards began being posted on alt.horror.werewolves in September in 1994 and by mid December in 1994, werecards rapidly began to be posted by various members. By late 1994, the with questions for the werecard had become standardized to how they would be known as for nearly two decades. These early werecards included standard fields such as at place for a person’s given name (called their “human name” on the werecard), their personal name or username (called their “were name” on the werecard), their birthday, their hobbies/interest, and so on. Of course, considering alt.horror.werewolves still being a place for werewolf fans in some extent, as was its original intention, there were also fields like “Favorite Were-art,” “Favorite Were-movie,” and so on. They also included fields more geared towards weres (meaning therians) including a field for someone to note their “phenotype” (the word they used for some years until theriotype was created use to phenotype having a meaning other than what they were trying to imply). At the end of the werecard it included a field called “Personal Therianthropy” (though the earliest versions said “Personal Lycanthropy” instead) were people could give a more detailed explanation on their experiences and so on. These werecards were used extensively on alt.horror.werewolves and even still used outside the newsgroup on other therian websites for many years. It wasn’t until the mid 2000s that the use the werecard dwindled, and now is no longer used in the therian community.    Sources:  Utlah, "Werecard Archive", The WereWeb,  http://web.archive.org/web/20100530023624/http://www.swampfox.demon.co.uk/utlah/Werecards/index.html [accessed April 13, 2013] Alt.horror.werewolves, https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/alt.horror.werewolves[accessed April 18, 2013]