I know everyone has been stressed recently about the therianthropy community as a whole with everything that’s been happening, but I just wanted to take the time to appreciate alterhuman tumblr. I’ve been on here for so long, and honestly I’ve seen more of a community be created over time. Everyone is so incredibly sweet and looks out for each other. Everyone I’ve talked to in the comments feel like friends. So yea, alterhuman tumblr, you guys are awesome.
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Didn’t manage to fully finish it before my surgery- still hoping to do so, but I still wanted to share what I have of it now. I’m actually feeling pretty okay at the moment overall, the main discomfort is just bloat right now, which is common, but ;-;
Finally got around to writing down some thoughts and experiences around my granite kintype.
From an animal perspective, being a stone is about time. When I shift as granite, the world slows. I feel myself still and root in place, and all notions of cellular needs and thoughts fade into distant obscurity. I observe the world around me without judgment or interpretation, noting movement and sound as one might regard wind on the ocean. I anticipate how my surroundings might change with the seasons, as though I may blink and see the flowers change to snow. I feel the rise and fall of temperature, the gentle brush of erosion, the molten life of the earth beneath me and the gravity that binds me to it. I feel the trees around me grow, bend, and wither, the constellations shift, and the cliffs return to the sea. I am awake and asleep all at once, dreaming and lucid, both motionless and full of all the potential energy of my chemical composition. I experience the past, present, and future almost simultaneously– time stretches out around me, no less tangible than right, left, up, or down. It is an intensely calming state, and one that connects me to the earth in a much deeper, more universal way than anything else. Shifting as granite feels like being home. If I am heightened or upset, I can simply watch a video of a volcanic eruption and immediately feel my heart rate slow and my mind find peace.
Stones are people to me, and always have been. My rock collection is part of my family just as much as my houseplants and pets are. I understand them on an intuitive level, and holding them feels like a hug. Some have been with me since childhood, and others I've picked up along the way. Some stay with me a while before I put them back, and some are permanent residents. Most would not be very impressive or interesting to others; I find rocks based on interpersonal chemistry, not human value. I am largely disinterested in crystals, their uniformity makes them feel like meeting a beautiful person with an empty head, and refraction of light is not a property I relate to. I am instead drawn to complexity, to stones with evidence of the years of reshaping and change they've endured. I feel they have stories to tell me.
A stone does not have emotions and sensations the way an animal does, but it does feel. It is concerned mainly with six things: movement, pressure, abrasion, fracture, temperature, and chemical reaction. It does not have opinions on these things should they happen gradually or on a small scale, they simply define the nature of its existence and are felt almost the way an animal senses its own bodily processes, observed the way one might idly watch bugs on a log. Should a change occur dramatically, however, the stone may take notice, and its reaction depends on how unlikely that change is. An igneous rock, for example, would find it natural to be melted and re-formed, while a sedimentary rock might find those temperatures confusing but have a great affinity for drastic erosion. The most common reasons for a stone to be confused are extreme displacement and fracture, most frequently from mining but also from natural processes like glacial movement. Smaller stones tend to adapt quickly, but larger ones may take much longer– many glacial erratics are still unsure where they are, for example. Mined areas in particular are usually traumatized. I can relate my own traumas to the feeling of having hidden parts of me removed and destroyed, and doing spiritual work with mines with that background has helped both me and them better understand and process those feelings. The granite mine where I awakened to my stone nature, however, was on an exposed mountaintop and experienced being mined as a form of expected erosion. Finding a mine unbothered by the process was a new perspective, and I would like to go back there someday.
In contrast to historical opinions in the community, having a kintype like this has never felt like an implausibility to me. I have never felt the need to question whether "life" is necessary for an identity, because all matter is in some way alive to me. We can say that life moves and reproduces and thinks, sure, but no test can show us where consciousness comes from. If a plant can think without a nervous system (and we know they do), why couldn't a stone think without cells? Among physicists this is even a popular theory, that consciousness is an inherent property of matter and life is just matter with agency. Broadly this is called panpsychism, but my preferred term is quantum animism (the concept is explained well in this theoretical physics essay though I disagree with a lot of his extrapolations for various reasons). It is gratifying to know as a science-minded person that this part of me is no less explainable than any other from a physics perspective.
Overall, granite is a very comforting and spiritually meaningful kintype for me, but it's also one I need to be careful around sometimes. It's all too easy to slip into seeing the big, beautiful picture of the universe and forget that right now I have animal agency, and the opportunity to do all the little messy activities that make this kind of life so interesting and fulfilling. I like being grounded from within and stopping to watch the world go by, but I need to fly, too.
I hope this was a gneiss read, even if you think I'm full of schist :)
This is absolutely beautiful, this stone has an incredibly descriptive way of explaining things, as an ADHD person who has a hard time reading long things, I was hooked during this entire one. OP needs to write a book from the perspective of a stone or something omgg
Me as a trans vampire telling myself that my period only happens because I keep drinking too much goddamn blood, my body needs to purge some of it so I can drink some more:
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I’ve known Im an insect therian since I became a therian over three years ago, but in that time I haven’t found WHICH bug I am!!! And I reallllyyyyy want to!!
The only things ik is that I’m not a mantid, moth, or butterfly. I think I would make clicking and squeaking sounds, and when I get physical shifts, it’s of wings (duh) antennae (duh) and more curiously, mouth parts.
I have a deep attraction towards tropical rainforests and feel like I belong there, if I could up and move right now I absolutely would, making me think I could be from there.
I was kinsidering a Hercules beetle and cicada, but am unsure about both.
Went into Houston today with my tail on for the first time ever, and it was such a good experience! No one hassled me over it, and actually some people came up to me to compliment me on it.
The only thing is, every one of those people were children, 15 yo max, which was sweet don’t get me wrong, but being an adult therian, it’s soooo hard to find others like you. Especially in your area! I’ve been wanting to start a pack for a while, but all the therians around me are children.
I’m glad to see kids enjoying themselves and it makes me so happy that seeing me brings them joy, but I wish I could find more adult therians!! (Technically only 18 so not THAT adult but still lollllll)
In only a year, I’ll be an adult, and I’ll have been a therian for five years. Dont let people tell you it’s just a phase or that you’ll grow out of it :o)!!
I have been a fox and a vampire all of my life, and nothing has changed when I used to tell myself over and over to just “ignore it, because it’s a phase and I won’t be like this forever.” But look at me now, I’ve collected so much gear over the years, made some too, and have grown comfortable in my identity.
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Although it’s scary, I’ve finally experienced peak joy in being out as a therian to all of my friends. And that is loads and loads of therianthropy gear for Christmas!!
The holiday is still a week away and already I’ve gotten a small fox squishmallow to hang onto my keychain and a patch with a fox and my chosen name to ALSO hang off of my keychain!! I’m so so very greatful for all of my friends accepting me and celebrating this sort of taboo part of me! So yeah, there is some joy to being a therian :o)
Recently I’ve been craving blood something fierce. It gets worse and worse everyday, like no matter how much I eat it won’t satisfy me any longer. I believe it’s due to me growing and being closer to coming of age.
I cannot drink blood though unfortunately, does anyone have any tips for substitutes? -From your local vampire
I am a fox. This is something I’ve tried to deny and still am in disbelief about to this day due to the fact that foxes are just so common in the therian community. Sometimes it makes me feel as though I’m faking it or that I’m not unique in the slightest, and I try to push this part of my identity back.
Although I don’t think its too common of an occurrence, I’ve seen people’s theriotypes being disrespected because of how common they are. Even though I do recognize this tends to happen more with uncommon theriotypes, it’s still stuck with me.
In these times, I just try to remember the good things about having a common theriotype. There’s almost endless amounts of media covering these animals and so many facts out there about them. It’s more likely to find friends with my same theriotype. There’s more therian specific things related to my theriotype.
And no matter what, I and everyone in this community, whether you have a uncommon or common theriotype, we are all unique because we are therians :o)
As cozy as it is, I hate the cold weather. Makes my crocodile self wanna go straight into brumation, not do MORE things that subject myself to the cold ToT
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My partner knows that I’m a fox therian and so every time he sees a fox he goes- “Look it’s you!” But recently, he’s been seeing a lot of those fox and wolf posts and he’s gone- “Look it’s us!”