Post by ezratheghostcat on Feb 14, 2024 3:55:17 GMT
I fisrt heard about therians from my mom kinda. Not called by the right name, but when my mom told me what a "furry" was. She said it was someone who thought they were an animal and used litter boxes. *sigh* Under the correct term and not as horrendously incorrect as the last one probably TikTok sadly. I just saw quadrobics at first but luckily I didn't fall down the rabbit hole of "quads and gear are what make you a therian" thing and later learned about other non-human identies on TG and such.
My first encounter with the otherkin community was with fictionkin on Tumblr - not a bad introduction, I'd say, drama aside. I wasn't part of the community and didn't actively engage with it, but I followed several fictionkin, some of whom spoke a lot about their experiences. I knew animalkin existed for a while, but it was a while before I heard the term "therian" in use; could not tell you where.
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I, uh, well I was looking for youtube videos of how to physically shift because I wanted so badly to be able to. I learned about therians after that, after probably a years worth of experimenting and facing reality. I joined a therian pack on deviantart in 2010 I think and some other forum and came to understand the community and myself better. I was a stupid, lonely kid that just had just suffered the first heartbreak of my little life and was looking for an escape, it was all very angsty. Little Snowshoe was working through some shit.
Sammee. My first exprience was with a pshifter cult because i wanted to physically transform so bad. They assigned me a specific mentor and everything. Luckily that person was chill and was like. Listen we cant actually shapeshift idk why ppl say that LOL
I found the community through the furry fandom which I had first entered at some point in 2005 or 2006. For the longest times, I misunderstood the furry fandom and really thought they were all animals like me (this is still a thing I struggle with projecting even though I know better now. A non-therian furry is always a little bit of a shock to me). I was in my early teens by the time I found the therian & otherkin communities due to a thread on a furry forum.
It makes me feel kinda old remembering that exact forum/group. I know the late 2000s & early 2010s aren't really that long ago but oh my god. Brings back memories of when I'd lurk on there & its offshoots under aliases. Didn't believe in what they were claiming but was very curious and found it entertaining.
Technically our first exposure was to a fictionkin canon call blog that posted to in a Tumblr fandom tag in about 2014. It didn't really explain what fictionkin was so we assumed it was a roleplay thing, and we didn't really connect that it was a canon call blog until later.
The first exposure that made us actually look up what otherkin/fictionkin means was another Tumblr post about Pokemon-kin in 2015, so we checked the tags and almost immediately connected that was how we felt.
Gosh I can't formally really remember. I think it was somewhere between 2013 and 2015. Something like that. Back then I started to really get immersed into the occult, spirituality, and the esoteric. I also hung around some circles back then that led me to discovering things such as tulpamancy. After a while of hanging out with who I am fairly certain is a system or something like that I began to question who I really was spiritually. I didn't feel a connection to being human, and then I found out I was something else. I wanted to know if such feelings had a name or something like that and that's when I learned of Otherkin. Admittedly I didn't really try to like, interact with the community much, fear of people finding out and what not and thinking I'm insane. But faaairly recently (mid 2023) I decided what the hell let me try actually being around other alterhumans because I had ran into another alterhuman on Mastodon who talked about a public discord they were in. And I've been loving every moment (apart from a little rough patch later in the year that led me to isolation until recently). Honest to the divines this community is filled with so many caring and loving people who are more than willing to teach you the ins and outs, give you support, and accept you for who you really are (I was so shitscared at first I kinda ommited for a while that I was a deity!).
Post by goldmanguyperson on Mar 21, 2024 13:12:51 GMT
I don't remember exactly. But honestly, it very likely was YouTubers reacting to that Therian documentary that the "on all levels except physical, I am a wolf" quote came from.
Post by randomrobin2243 on Mar 22, 2024 7:20:39 GMT
First time I heard it almost certainly in my tumblr years, starting in I wanna say '15? Where I def didn't get it and then later was like "yeah sure alright long as they hurt nobody"
I only fell into the community, uh, this very week. Once I learned some specifics and connected those dots to past behaviors, things started clicking into place rapidly. I consider myself questioning largely because of how quickly I feel I plunged and want to be sure it's right before I stick for good.
Post by dogwithglasses on Apr 1, 2024 23:48:21 GMT
back in high school when i was, i think, 15 or 16, i had to write an argumentative essay for my english class, and i decided to write it on why i would rather be a werewolf than a vampire. during my research for the paper i found the pack's den message board, a werewolf-based forum formed around the werewolf movie (that still hasn't come out, unfortunately; i would still loooove to see it) Freeborn. multiple members were therian or otherkin and talked about their experiences. i didn't start identifying as nonhuman immediately but i definitely didn't stop thinking about the concept. a seed was deeply planted
ripley's believe it or not made me who i am today ------ oh no a full moon!!! get away before i transform into a horrible monster that just wants treats and tummy rubs!!!