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Three hundred years, and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon.

Reblog this if you support sex-averse and sex-repulsed aces, including:

Aces who never want to have sex

Aces who had sex in the past but don't desire it anymore

Aces with sexual trauma who feel like their trauma ties into their asexuality

Aces with sexual trauma who don't feel like their trauma caused their asexuality

Aces who don't want to talk to you about sex

Aces who don't want to hear about sex

Yes even aces who do not want to engage with any sexual content and don't want it in their own personal spaces

Yes even aces who express the desire to have more spaces for queer adults where their boundaries are met (on top of the queer spaces that exist, we do not want to sanitize your existing spaces ffs)

If you cannot be normal about these people existing, if you believe they're a threat to our community and to how we're viewed by people who aren't aspec and the rest of the LGBTQ+ community, you are not an asexual ally. Yes, even if you're aspec yourself. Especially if you're aspec yourself.

Because it's been pride month for 4 days and I'm already seeing people trying to throw us under the bus or pretend we don't exist because that makes the ace community more palatable to exclusionists and people who swallowed too much "aces are puritans" propaganda.

Ok so since I'm bored and need to do something art related, I'm doing therian PFP requests!

Some examples:

These can be used as pfps or just to have! The pictures I use do not belong to me, and I find them on Pinterest. I will provide the photographers when I can find that information :))

You can submit requests through an ask or through the comments of this post!

I have been thinking about starting to share more on here, besides the bigger essays that I share on my other socials as well. Maybe some of the daily thoughts I have about my alterhumanity. I might also want to share more about my current 'types as I settle into them, like a post with what I look like as each.

Today I wanted to give a little overview of the main labels I am using now. In my last update, I mentioned going back to Golden Retriever therian instead of dog cambitherian and I have been feeling incredibly happy calling myself a Golden again. I hope I can stop going back and forth, which I mostly do out of insecurity and shame, and embrace my golden-self fully. I would still say that I do not identify as a golden retriever fully, but partially, which still falls under therianthropy, but maybe one day I will feel safe enough with who I am to stop calling it partially.

I also mentioned my dream self in my last update, an identity that I have labeled as voidling since. I know that in dreams I am mostly made of void, and am a part of the void. This happened through corruption by using too much chaos magic. Sometimes when I am awake, I yearn to reach out and touch the chaos magic, drink it in, let it completely fill me, and then direct it to work for me. Magic is supposed to run through my veins and I miss it when I am not dreaming.

My other kintype is Vulpecula, the constellation. This identity is a celestial fox spirit and part of the celestial realm. Where voidling is what I am in dreams, Vulpecula is what I am in my imagination and fantasies. I don't actively make up any noemata, it comes to me naturally. Everything that feels right, makes sense to me, and that I experience that doesn't fit my other identities. Such as being an eidolon/summon that I have talked about a couple of times before, is part of this identity. I have also been able to divide abilties I have in dreams, as well as abilities that I feel like I should have awake, over my two kintypes. Light and celestial magic is fully tied to being Vulpecula for me. Where voidling is something I have been becoming in dreams my entire life, Vulpecula is a newer identity that has been forming these past few years. All my feelings related to stars that popped up in those years, as well as fox feelings I have had since I was at least 10 years old, are combined into Vulpecula.

Lastly, I have been questioning hares since 2019 and have used theriotype, tried to link mountain hares, and tried archetrope, and folcintera, as well as trying out rabbit instead, but right now I think European hare folcintera is the best label. For me, that is a combination of both therianthropy and archetropy, which means I also have exemplars (an archetrope term) for this 'type. Even though I relate to both white and brown fur, which fits the mountain hare, as a hare I am incredibly connected to my country, the Netherlands, and a biome found in my country, heathland. I also have Dutch wildlife in general as a paratype for hare. Which is why I call myself a European hare, and I connect to both normal and albino coloring. European hare just really clicks for me, even if I find mountain hares more interesting.

I will also briefly mention what I posted about recently, how I see my body as physically fae. I don't want to go into it much yet still though.

Lastly I still identify as the Dreamer archetrope, for which I also have a few exemplars. I also have some hearthomes, paratypes, anteatypes, and common forms I shapeshift into as a voidling shapeshifter, that I might go into some other time as well.

Thanks for reading and maybe you will hear from me sooner than normal. These posts will be simpler than my posts usually are. I will read over them, but not as much as I tend to do and there will only be little editing if at all. I am not sure yet how I want to tag them. Probably something else than "nim dreaming", to keep those for what I consider more essay type posts. "Nim musings" perhaps.

"Village Beacon" zine submissions open!

Deadline: July 31st, 2024

The goal of Village Beacon is to celebrate the alterhuman community and comraderie, where submissions can detail the positive experiences and sense of belonging found among other alterhumans through writing or visual art.

Submission specifications are:

Written submissions can have a word count between 300 and 7k words.

Artwork must be half-page (1530 x 990px) or full-page (1530 x 1980px) in .png or .pdf format. File size must be under 10 MB

No sexually explicit content

More than one submission is allowed

Please note that we reserve the right to reject any submissions that we feel does not fit the spirit of the zine. We're predicting rejections to be unlikely, but would rather mention this than not.

Release date: The zine will be made freely available on August 9th, to celebrate Othercon's 5th anniversary.

Ah it is beautiful! I love it <3

Hawooo! Could I have a grey and yellow themed Smoke Fury moodboard, please? It is a Night Fury subspecies of mine (I believe). You can find more information here! And thank you so much in advance ^^.

Sure! (Smokefury Ya! Hawo! Hawo! Hawo! Hawo-)

Could I request affirmations for a spiritual gray wolf Therian who doesn’t remember much at all of their past life? :) /nf

It's okay that your past is foggy, friend. Even a wise old wolf wouldn't dwell on memories they can't quite grasp. Focus on the powerful instincts you have now - that's the wolf spirit whispering wisdom in your ear. Every sunrise is a chance to start fresh, to feel the thrill of the hunt, the bond with your pack, and the connection to something much bigger than yourself :]

How stretching feels when you have phantom wings

I’m a therian that barely does quads, and that’s totally valid. Remember you do not have to do quads, have gear, or shift to be a therian. Everyone’s therianthropy is different, and those things listed don’t make you ‘less’ or ‘more’ therian. All those things help with is bringing you closer to your theriotype. We’re all in this together

i fully support therian kids, yes even the ones who are like 9 and younger.

no i dont think they should be on the internet making videos (for safety reasons) but i dont think theres anything wrong with identifying with therianthropy at that age

i was always a therian. i didnt know what the label was until i was 17 but as a kid id always known i was a bear. i used to get told to "stop eating like an animal" and wrinkle my nose up in a snarl and bare my teeth. Or id be told to stop running around on all fours because id hurt myself, i was told to act "normal"

ive been like this as long as i remember. So why would i ever deny someone else the right to be themselves?

Mossy hemlock

I think we need to normalize using "people" as a species neutral word.

Like idk in my brain the word people just doesn't automatically = human. To me it's just a way to signify intelligence and individuality, and to emphasize the need for respect towards another creature, not specific to any one species.

Dogs can be people, mice can be people, dragons can be people, humans can be people, birds can be people, elves can be people, robots can be people, and so on.

It's also (in my opinion) just much easier than always saying "beings" or "individuals" when referring to varying assortments of creatures.

just this feeling, excited to sail on the northern sea this year.

June moon

Wednesday June 12th 2024 8:28-8:29pm

Fun facts for flowerkins/therians! :D

The world's smallest flower, the watermeal, is so small it can only be seen with a microscope! On the other end of the spectrum, the Rafflesia arnoldii can grow up to 3 feet wide, making it the world's largest flower.

Believe it or not, broccoli is actually a flower! We harvest it before the beautiful florets open up. And if you're looking for a sweet treat, some flowers like pansies and violets are edible!

Flowers have been used for centuries to create natural dyes. Madder root can be used to create a deep red, while woad leaves result in a pretty blue.

Did you know there's a whole language of flowers called floriography? Victorians used different flowers to convey hidden messages. For instance, a red rose symbolizes romantic love, while a sunflower expresses adoration.

Some flowers, like the corpse flower, attract pollinators by giving off a foul odor that smells like rotting flesh! Not exactly the most pleasant perfume, but it gets the job done.

Majestic

That would be amazing!

Had a dream that Tumblr added an “audio atmosphere” effect to everyone’s account

So if you looked at someone’s blog, it would have an ambient sound to match the vibe of their blog aesthetic

Alterhumans ate this up and added sounds of their habitats/hearthome to their blog overnight

🐶Hello dog therians! Let's do a Picrew chain! Show me your dogself using this beautiful link

🍗This is me, a blue merle Border Collie, although the avatar creator didn't had bluish grey colors, so I had to use normal grey bahaha.

oops i did it again~

still can't sleep so i'm making it into a series for the whole of HTTYD1

i need to practice water more. and rock

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