Latest Posts by wanderingcritter - Page 6

seeing this become the top/one of the top posts under all of the niche fandoms I originally tagged fills me with primal joy

god gives his most niche fandoms to his most autistic warriors

ooooooo i love this sm it's such a cute idea, OP you're a genius :3

and then what if the gift shop also sold stuff (stickers, jewelry, books, etc) made by independent/freelance alterhuman artists to help support them, and there could be a whiteboard for folks to doodle on while they wait for their orders <3

I remember years ago I dreamed of opening an alterhuman cafe. I imagined a little paradise where all species could get together and just chill. We would serve drinks and snacks for specific theriotypes, there would be a little gift shop selling tails and stuff, a lounge area upstairs where you can make a den out of pillows, an outdoor quadrobics course etc. It’s not something that’s really possible, but it’s a nice idea I think.

PLEASE

Alterhuman meet up where we all wear these:

From PantheraComics on Etsy!

Therians whenever they need to buy groceries :)

I'd rather hangout with the straight boyfriend than the queer cop who insists they're one of the "good ones" while harassing people of color

I'd rather hangout with the straight palestinian grandma than the queer zionist who keeps insisting that the death of palestinians is the one way ticket to queer liberation

I'd rather hangout with the leather dyke who is a mspec gaybian and uses paw/pawself pronouns than the puritan who makes "callout posts" clearly targeting disabled queer artists

Drag is to transsexuality what furry is to therianthropy

Thank you for coming to my ted talk

I just had one of the most positive "coming out" therian experiences Ive ever had the other day.

I was hanging out with a couple friends I hadn't seen in a while (technically it'd been years, but we've all kept in good contact online so it felt like much less), and one of them asked me about therianthropy because they had seen me post about it once or twice on my main. So I tried to be less awkward about it than usual and just told them straight up "It means I identify as an animal".

And there were no weird looks, no blank stares or awkward silence. They just kinda laughed and were like "Oh yeah that makes perfect sense for you :)"

We talked about it a little bit off and on during the rest of the hang out, I told them about my phantom shifts and mental shifts, about how I met my irl therian friends, about how I found the community. They asked me genuine questions, and while talking about alterhumanity irl is still a rather uncomfortable experience given how infrequently I do it, I never once felt judged.

And the thing is that neither of these friends are even part of adjacent/intersecting communities. Neither are furries, neither are cosplayers or really even into fandom at all. By all accounts they're both very "normie", but they accepted me with open arms.

After really only having coming out experiences where the other person just responds with "okay 🙂" and then never acknowledges it again, it felt soooo good to just have a normal open conversation about it, just like I would with any other aspect of my identity.

Sometimes humans are really cool :)

Palaeontology moodboard.

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here ya go <3

[Wilderness - May 2020]

proshippers: "anti's are so mean to us, it's causing us to have mental health issues, we're people with feelings too yk :("

damn that's so crazy, it's almost as if the things you say online can and often do have real world impacts and don't just exist in the vacuum of "fiction"

what a truly wild concept

Reblog to scare a proshipper

(Captions: This means that the more you immerse yourself in fiction, the more your real self can and will be changed by those fictional events, exactly as if those events were real. Your brain doesn't know that they aren't. They're just as real as everything else you experience — that is, not especially. - Fiction is Reality, As Far As Your Brain is Concerned)

call me cringe or cliche or whatever idc I cannot be silenced any longer

as a werewolf, i wanna make out with a vampire sooooo bad you have no idea. like pls bro i need a forbidden were x vamp romance irl right noooww i am on my knees

might start referring to myself as a therianthrope, rather than just therian. it really bothers me how much the word therian has come to be associated with gear and quadrobics and being "a tiktok thing", but at the same time it feels wrong to just abandon the word altogether given it's history in the community, so maybe this is a good compromise?

YOOOOO this is so sick!! :D

idk if anyone else has done this yet, i feel like it's a pretty obvious combo but i have yet to see it used around the community anywhere else, but uh yeah if this inspires u at all go crazy with it ig 👍

For Young Therians -- Please Read

(Tw: venting and swearing. Not mad, just want people to be better.)

I don't think I'm human.

Scratch that, I'm not human.

I'm not human because of my therianthropy.

All of you kids saying "therians don't think they're ACTUALLY animals" or "therians know they are human" can fuck off.

Don't speak for a community you hardly understand.

I don't care if you're trying to make haters understand, you're still spreading misinformation.

I'M A FUCKING ANIMAL. DEAL WITH IT.

Don't even get me started on the "therians identify as animals non-physically, they know they are physically human".

Shut the fuck up and stop reminding me.

That's like saying "trans women know they are physically men"

I DON'T HAVE TO IDENTIFY AS MY PHYSICAL BODY.

I'm transmasc. I would never refer to myself as a woman even though it's my biology. The same goes for my therianthropy.

If anything, I'm transspecies.

And that's a perfectly valid type of therianthropy.

STOP PRETENDING PEOPLE LIKE ME DONT EXIST.

We deserve to be included in discussions about therianthropy and in the definition of the label itself.

Don't be a turd.

Stop gatekeeping.

Stop watering down our identities for others.

Googling shit and reading wikis isn't research.

Talk to real people.

Talk to real creatures.

sorry but being autistic and "not understanding conflicting labels" is NOT an excuse to put queer labels on your dni. Saying "lesboys dni" is just as bad as saying "trans men dni" or "lesbians dni". You can't pick and chose which queer people you do and don't accept. You either accept us all or accept no one. We are a community. Don't use autism to excuse transphobic and lesbophobic behavior.

born to howl at the full moon every month, forced to not get animal control called on me by the neighbors

This coyote is going to the Seattle Pride Parade for the first time this weekend and I'm so crazy excited >w< ☆.°✧🏳️‍⚧️

Catch me around wearing some of my pins that I made :3

hey that's me! ^^ <3

went on a walk today with @wanderingcritter !! we went to our local park and put some stickers up! one is on the back of a dogs must be on leash sign, how ironic!!

Poll time! :3 Interested in hearing community thoughts on this

what neurotypicals think autistics want:

what autistics actually want:

how can u be so queer but still an exclusionist like bestie we're all freaks u arent better than anyone

Being against racism/ableism isn't exclusionism what??? Istg hateful and ignorant people will do the absolute most to try to rationalize the harm they cause others rather than take the time to critically assess themselves and their beliefs. Glad im making my queerness apparent enough though, shout out to all my ethical freaks out there, love yall with my whole heart <33

my favorite thing is when 2 therians whoes theriotypes are normally sworn enemies are just absolute besties irl

quick question, and i mean no hate or disrespect, but how can you not support/like transIDs when you use a transID (Transspecies)? /genq

Thanks for asking about this! I get that it can seem confusing or contradictory to some so Im happy to discuss it :)

For one, transspecies isn't transID, it's just.. a regular trans identity. The term transspecies has existed within the alterhuman community for literal decades, long before the creation of the "transID" community. It's a term that has quite literally been stolen and appropriated by a group of people who the majority of alterhumans dislike and want no part in. In terms of origin, function, and social implications, it is infinitely more comparable to being transgender (an identity i don't see ever being included in transID specific discussions) than it is to something like "transBPD".

Secondly, even if it was somehow transID (which again it's not), it still doesn't carry any of the same discriminatory mindset or just flat out impossibility of existence the way most transID do. Species identity and the idea of what it means to be "human" is almost entirely socially constructed, not completely dissimilar to gender. There are rules and de facto societal ideas about how someone must "be a human", which not everyone can neatly fit into. It is something experienced by all beings living within human society, and is therefore something that can be transitioned away from or out of. Whereas something like being autistic is not socially constructed and not something someone can simply transition into. While yes, there are certainly social implications, expectations, and roles placed upon autistic individuals, autism itself is not a social construct, it's an actual tangible neurological phenomenon, making it impossible to be "transautistic".

This ideology also promotes discriminatory beliefs against minority groups. It dismembers and fetishizes the lived experiences of entire cultures, communities, and individuals, lived experiences these "trans" individuals will literally never have. If you are not "cis autistic" you will never ever truly know what it is like to live as an autistic person, no matter how badly you want to. Same can be said for other transID identities. I understand that atypical dysphoria does exist (hell, I have some of my own), and I dont doubt that these are real emotions people have, but that doesn't make it okay to try and say you actually are those things and impose yourself upon groups of people you are not part of. I guess if someone has a harmless transID like "trans brown hair color" or smth then I don't really care all that much, but otherwise I have zero tolerance for people who believe they can forcibly integrate themselves into an entire culture just because they feel like it.

TLDR: Transspecies isn't TransID it's just regular trans, but even if it was I would still support it because it doesn't promote discriminatory and fetishistic ideas about certain groups of people.

idk if anyone else has done this yet, i feel like it's a pretty obvious combo but i have yet to see it used around the community anywhere else, but uh yeah if this inspires u at all go crazy with it ig 👍

I wish I could see everyone as what they are on the inside. Not in a personality way I mean it'd be awesome to go for a walk and just see a bunch of nonhumans going around living their life as weird awesome creatures

wore my coyote tail to school the other day and on my way out of class my friend was telling me about how her younger cousin, who i would guess is probably like 9 or 10, has a bunch of tails like mine, likes to sit in cat trees, and "wants to be a cat so bad". and in my brain i was just like "shit man, idk how to tell you this but i think your cousin is actually just a cat."

currently wishing i had a therian friend who lived close to me so i could have someone to do quadrobics with whenever i get the zoomies

me: I do not have a horse theriotype, im sure of it this time, i just happen to really like horses

*listens to one song off the Spirit: Stallion of The Cimarron soundtrack*

FUCK

yo quick shout out to objectum folks out there. im not one of you but yall seem chill as hell and have my respect fr, objectum folks are welcome on my blog anytime