Mask Tutorial Part 2

Mask tutorial part 2

Equipment: glue gun, scissors, mask base, fur or another material you want to use.

Step 1: cut a piece of your fabric slightly bigger than the muzzle and cut a small square out of the end, like we did when making the muzzle for the mask base

Step 2: start glueing the fur to the muzzle. Start where the muzzle meets the flat bit, then work along the edges, folding the fur under the edges

(sorry for the bad pictures)

You may have extra flaps you need to cut off like the one above that I ended up with

Muzzle finished! You can see I left a gap, that's because I'm going to attach a plastic nose later and this just makes it easier to stick on.

Step 3: attach the ties / elastic. Poke it through the base, tie it, you can glue the tied end down if you want. Do this on both sides. Please don't be an idiot like me and forget until you've glued half the face fur down... 🤦

Step 4: cut the fur for the rest of the base. Cut/ trace around the base, leaving some overlap. Make sure to cut around the triangle for the nose too, or it won't fit around the muzzle properly.

Lay it on top of the mask and cut the nose bit to fit around the muzzle nicely.

Step 5: glue the fabric to the base! (Yes we will cut the eyes out but that comes later) Start at the muzzle and glue around the edges, folding the edges over to the inside of the mask.

Step 6: cut out the eyes. Make sure there is no fur going in your eyes, and if there is, trim that fur. Then if you haven't already, glue around the eyes but DO NOT FOLD THE EDGES INSIDE THE MASK. It puts fur in your eyes. Not comfy.

I'll do another post with the finished thing, but I can't add any more images

Exciting!

Attention, alterhumans!!

…particularly those in the UK!

This is a post to gauge interest in an educational organisation for therians and other alterhumans! It would have a focus on homeschooling and be mostly online, but would also be very open to anyone attending school.

As it stands right now, it would likely encompass an online community (e.g. on Discord), an archive of resources, “after-school clubs” of therian activities, and regular voice and/or text chat sessions to help with studying, talk about alterhumanity, or just be a bunch of nonhumans hanging out! However, if the project became large enough, we could be looking at irl meet-ups – howls, hiking, wilderness walks, workshops and the like.

The organisation would also be able to support our humans with finding tutors and groups for home education purposes, and for those who are in school, supplementary lessons and tutors.

Basically, it’d be a big group of therians, otherkin, nonhumans and anyone under the alterhuman umbrella, for school purposes and also developing the ability to live in human society, without feeling othered or disconnected from their alterhuman identity.

Please rb/share if this sounds interesting to you!

It would be UK-based, so while alterhumans from all over the world can be involved, the focus will be on the education system here, so GCSEs etc.

I'm finding some good posts this morning!

Okay! Id love to go into more detail of what being transspecies means! Educating people on the topic is one of my favorite things. So transspecies was a phrase coined around the mid-late 90s on were-forums. It indicates a more "serious" identity than therian/otherkin, though the label can be used in combination with them! There's multiple reasons why someone might ID this way: It fits them the best and their nonhuman experience, a political label to reclaim dehumanization, (through things such as being disabled - people who are often treated as "less than human"), or simply the desire to transition to ur kintype/to a less then human form. Yes! The next part! This identity DOES call for transition! There's a plethora of ways you can do this -- lets start for the non permanent ones. The first and simplest would be social transitioning ! This could be asking the people around you to refer to you as nonhuman, and openly using another name that you associate with your nonhuman side. Another method is gear! Paws, masks, fangs, those little limb extenders !! all of it !! Anything that makes you physically appear more nonhuman Now onto permanent mods,, there's stuff like tattoos to give your body scales and texture,, or just simply paw tattoos to show you ID this way,, Theres also skin insertions and all that jazz. This part is something im not super educated on The most common definition of transspecies is "bending the cultural boundaries of what it means to be human."

Thank you for explaining this to me! I really appreciate it. And I might even myself identify with this label more-so than therian. I will definitely do some research/soul searching. I always always always love having new info about the community and being able to use my platform to share it so THANK YOU!!!

Eee all my gear came at once!

The paws, ears, and tail weren't supposed to come until next month, so I'm super happy!!

Me at the people who's choice of insult at me wearing a DOG BONE was to meow at me???

wooo we gotta love getting barked at in class…