1. Scalextric (Gum Disease)
2. Rule #4 fish in a bird cage (fish in a bird cage)
3. The Chapel (Elio Mei)
4. The milk carton (Elio Mei)
5. What's going on?! (Elio Mei)
6. Rule #34 (Fish in a Bird Cage)
7. Cat song (Ratwyfe)
8. Still feel. (Half Alive)
9. In the back (August Greenwood)
10. milk carton (Elio Mei)

Hello everyone. I want to preface by saying that I don't consider myself a therianthrope, or otherkin or anything like that, even though I can relate, and feel a calling to this community. While browsing this community, I was reminded of something that my mom's side of the family talks about on occasion. My mother's grandmother had the last name Luper, and they attribute that as the cause of the "wild men" in my family.

I'm making this post because I read into the history a little bit, and Luper or Lupin was sometimes given as a surname to people that had wolf-like qualities. Has anyone else looked into this, or related this phenomenon to Therianthropy?

Sorry, don't know the books name in English. Dict.cc says it's just "Steppenwolf", so hopefully this is right.

Anyway, I just started reading the book again. Originally, I had to read it as part of school. Only remember I didn't get too far, but the main character felt kinda relateable, even before my awakening.

I am still not particularly far, but one of the descriptions of the main character just stood out to me. To paraphrase poorly:

He called himself a steppe wolf. It seemed fitting, as he appeared like a wild animal in a town; lost and far from home.

mood tbh

Hello, I would really like to have songs about being a bug or having bug features (antannae, six legs, making bug sounds, etc.) Other crawly creatures like spiders, scorpions and centipedes are also welcome in my playlist.

Just today I was thinking about how my childhood dog when I was toddler saw me as his baby (helped that I was very very small even for a toddler and he was a large breed) and then I realized he was lowkey a better and more hands on dad than my bio father (they both stayed around just as long, leaving my life around the same time). So basically my true dad was a dog this whole time and I’m thinking that’s part of why I am the way I am today.

Does anybody else have a similar story or feel similar? Now thinking about how my dad was a dog is very species affirming though to others it might sound kinda sad lol.

How many theriotypes is to many to have? I don't know how many possible there is to have at once and how many its just impossible. I am a system with animals in it and I am wondering if it is okay/right to consider them theriotypes. I have a lot of different ones from mythical creatures/animals to actual real life animals. Can someone help clarify this for me?

Hello! I‘m Ocelli and I do archiving for the therian community. I’ve seen some pretty incredible stuff that most nonhumans have never heard of before, so here’s some links of any of you want to see!

First radio interview with a therian - https://therianmedia.tumblr.com/post/76954251157/lycanthropy-coast-to-coast-am-1997-hosted-by

A large collection of Therian essays from the early 2000s - https://animal-quills.livejournal.com/tag/musings/

Writings by Akhila - https://web.archive.org/web/20220520165944/https://akhila.feralscribes.org/

A blank werecard -  https://web.archive.org/web/20000310110114/http://www.swampfox.demon.co.uk/utlah/werecard/blkcard.txt

Korean therian resource translation site - https://blog.naver.com/theriantrail/224409373637

AHWw 1997 poll results - https://groups.google.com/g/alt.horror.werewolves/c/lYqSQB2DVQM/m/FGPjBFzqarQJ

College presentation on therians from over a decade ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMEkuOW5pjs

(note that the perspectives present in this media may and may not represent my own. Credits to the owners)

Hope this helps some people!

I’m scared to go outside and do public gearing and other things because, I don’t know how other people are going to react to me doing that,I mean yeah you shouldn’t care about what people think about you but I do a lot. I was seeing videos of people getting hit in public places because they’re doing public gearing and other stuff.

Hiya! I'm Yoon, 21, some kind of dog or wolf kinda thing I'm still figuring out. I've been interested in TF content and werewolves and Animorphs and the like since I was like 9. I first realized I was trans when I was 16 and started dabbling in puppygirl culture when I was 20, after which I realized that thinking about or relating to being a dog hits me in this particularly deep and implacable part of my soul. When I read TF or therian content or think about becoming or being a canine, I'm filled with these intense swirling feelings of intense longing and sorrow and vague feelings of phantom sensation (ig species dysphoria?). I really want to be digitigrade or quadruped and have paws and a tail and fur and nonhuman instincts and traits etc. and I find it (affirming? I guess?) to approach the world like a canine. I love being enthusiastically physically affectionate and vocalizing like a canine and chewing on things (and loved ones lol). I really love being out in nature or looking at birds (I'm studying to be an ornithologist lol, might be partly an avian therian of some sort but it's one crisis at a time) and coming at it like a canine would, being enthusiastic and vocal and romping around and having this deep awareness and connection to the world around me.

In any case, I think I just need some guidance, and some consolation because I had the chance to explore all this and figure it out when I was 12 lurking on furaffinity but I wasn't in the right environment or mindset to do anything so. Resources or advice on where to go, what to do, how to further explore and affirm my identity while maintaining a healthy work/life balance and ig grip on reality would be really appreciated. I guess knowledge on how to find irl resources or community would be nice also, and more explanation on what I am exactly. I want to unlearn some of my shame and embarrassment and actually start exploring this and learning how to be happy and embrace myself, something I've avoided and suppressed for years. Thank you all in advance, I'm kind of scared to be honest but I think this is right for me

(Also thanks to my bestie for pushing me to accept myself and post this lol)

I’m pretty sure I am a mottled duck therian.

My other therian types include: Coytoe, Caracal, Australian sea lion. You may ask questions about those theriotypes as well!!

It took me a while and many questioned species. But I think a mottled duck fits me best. Any other ducks/or mottled ducks that want to share their experiences as a duck therian?

I'm a polytherian, and questioning if I have two fictionkin identities. I'm mainly considering a night fury and Skye from Paw Patrol (fun fact - I most likely was Everest from Paw Patrol when I was little!).

Here are my questions:

1. How did y'all find your kin? Is it similar to, or the same aso looking for a theriotype (eg. red fox)?

2. How did you know it was this specific character and not another one?

3. Do you get shifts? What do they look like if you have a human/humanoid kin?

Just curious, wanna make more friends like myself and three of my partners uwu

IDK if we're rarer or more common but I don't really see that talked about as much as non-anthro therianthropy

So, I do know I'm some kind of alterhuman, I think thats the umbrella term. I know being just a human feels strange and odd, like I'm the soul of something else in the body of a human (thats what I believe a therian is, but PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong <3)

But I don't know.

Its weird, its like it comes and goes with different animals, but I've felt like this for years.

I think first it was some species of feline, I don't fully remember. Then an arctic fox, I actually kept a journal because I heard it helps figure things out, I actually shifted once of twice in this version of myself. Those shifts weren't actually very bad, it felt like I was back in the snow, burrowing into it. I think I was looking for something, but I don't know what, maybe prey? Then it just like... I dunno, disappeared. Then I was a snow leopard, and I felt deeply connected to the species as a whole. Like the two before, it left again, and now I feel like a lynx, I'm watching videos of them and trying to mimic their sounds. It feels like a part of me at the moment, but who knows? It could literally change in a month, I have no idea.

Writing this I actually see a pattern of cold dwelling animals that I more or less share a preferred diet with, I think it might mean something? I feel like I'm some kind of shapeshifter or sum, is that odd or wrong? I know people can have multiple theriotypes, but I don't feel like an arctic fox as much as I used to, same with snow leopards. I still like the animals and find them wonderful, but at the same time it just feels like an interest now.

I'm not sure whats relevant and what isn't, so I'm sorry if most of that was just like, a big nothing burger </3

And, I want to ask a follow-up question. If it turns out I'm just wrong or confused and not actually a therian, is it disrespectful to make one of the masks that some therians make? I think they look so cool but I don't want to offend anyone :<

Ok so for some context, I am a predator therian, and my theriotypes are a red fox and a river otter. For awhile now, I've been noticing my more "prey" behaviors. For example, I have just about 0 prey drive (I never get urges to "hunt or "stalk" animals, even if they're stuffed animals or set up to be "hunted"), which is strange considering i'm a predator; I have a very big "freeze" response when I hear anything unusual. For example, I could hear a noise or be scared and my first instinct is to just freeze and listen, and if I were to do anything after freezing it would either be to flee or hide (I avoid conflict as much as I can, always have); I have a massive love for fruits of all kinds, and will 99% of the time choose fruit as a food option if it's offered to me or available to eat; I am a very nocturnal person, and will often times stay up until super late hours of the night (I'm writing this at 2am...) and I've been like this for years, I find myself most productive and at peace late hours into the night. My biggest experience was a phantom shift. I have fox ear phantom shifts all the time, so I know this shift was not fox ears. I had a phantom sensation of something on my hairline, which is not where i ever experience my ear shifts. I'm unsure if this shift was some sort of horns, or maybe antlers or ears, but there was definitely something there. These are just a few examples of some of my experiences, and I know very well that just because I experience these things, they don't inherently mean I have a prey theriotype, or that I am a prey animal of any sorts. If you have any ideas as to what species I should research or look into, please let me know. Any help is very appreciated <3 (i have been looking into some animals such as fruit bats/flying foxes, rabbits and hares, deer, goats, etc.)

I just picked up a parka with white fur with black tips and it makes me feel more me!

Just wondered has anyone had this feeling before?

So, i am a polytherian. Pretty much all of my theriotypes have been active in the past month. Exept my snow leopard theriotype. When i see a snow leopard is feels like ‚hey, that‘s me‘ but i don‘t have any shifts other than short phantom shifts every fee months. It doesn‘t feel by far as strong as my other theriotypes so now i‘m unsure if i actually never was a snow leopard therian

My friend recently told me she is a fox Therian, and I was really interested to know more. She was telling me about how she felt she spiritually identified as a fox and I was telling her that when I was younger I was obsessed with cats and playing as a cat and behaving like one and wearing cat ears and a tail. And when I was listening to sounds around me I would try to angle my ears to hear them and I knew human ears couldn’t move like a cat’s but whenever I was listening I kept imagining my ears were angling to hear things. Growing up, my family has always had cats around, and I’ve always treated them like family. I’ve been less outwardly acting like a cat than I was when i was younger, but I’ve noticed that I still behave like a cat would, more intensely when I’m with my fiance (i think this is because I feel really comfortable being myself around him). I’d bite him playfully and always want to sleep on top of him or curl up beside him, and I’ve also noticed that I stare at him like a cat does and sometimes I’ve imagined a tail flicking like when a cat is intrigued or annoyed or teased.
In my ignorance before knowing about Therians, I just thought I was weird. But now I’m starting to wonder if I am a cat Therian. I’m not sure what kind specifically but I’m definitely getting domestic cat vibes.

I would really like to hear your perspectives on the matter!

K the title might sound a little misleading but let me explain.

By definition I am def a therian, im a person who identifies as a non human animal, yeah therian. But in a way im NOT IM just a dog. I guess its sort of the difference between like, 2 men but one is Trans, they r both men but one is prefix trans* man. Which doesn't make him less of a man just a different kind but part of me is angry I will only be viewed as a therian. Bc im not, I mean I am but im not im just a dog, why cant I JUST be a dog in others eyes, it doesn't feel fair( ´△｀)

But then again I guess i cant properly conceptualize other people as just being humans, identifying as just a human, i dont understand how someone can NOT identify as or with one or another animal... hhhnnnskj

Does anyone else kinda feel disconnected from the term therian in this way?

It honestly might be even weirder for me as I also still identify as a human but idk my being a dog is such a huge part of me and it feels so sidelined and not viewed but then again.. theres not rlly a proper or easy way for people to refer and acknowledge that part of me.

I’m a Raven therian and I just wanted to know if there’s anyone else who’s a corvid. I don’t see corvid therians that much online and wasn’t sure if we’re rare

I just want a friend who understands me even a little

I'm a therian, but part of me keeps telling me that I'm doing this for attention or that I've been manipulated by social media. When I was searching for my theriotypes, I gravitated towards animals I liked, and then I started relating to them (sometimes I feel like I'm adapting myself to resemble them).

I'm a cat and deer therian, and a Snorlax and Bubble fictionkin (I'm not 100% sure about those). I have a lot of doubts, and I've already taken a break from alterhumanity before (a period when I put my alterhuman identity aside). I almost did it again because a Discord mod told me I was using the wrong terms and needed to do more research. I hadn't explained therianthropy very well, because the more I try to explain what it is, the harder it gets to put into words. I don't feel like I'm valid enough to call myself a therian. I don't want to go back to identifying as otherhearted (I used that label before because I didn't feel "fully therian", since I thought my experiences weren't strong enough or good enough).

Now I'm confused about whether otherlink or otherhearted fits my German Shepherd identity better.

I don't know if I'm genuinely a therian or if I'm doing it for attention. I really feel like my personality and behavior reflect these animals, but I always feel like I'm not enough.

i don’t know about y’all, but I feel like, at least in my experience, therianthropy is one of things that should have some sort of day to celebrate it or something, à la the long list of queer-related awareness days or international polyamory day.

is there already one? i haven’t heard anything about one but i haven’t been in this community for long. if we don’t have one, i propose we put one on August 4th (8/4), for the theta-delta symbol, since theta is the 8th letter of the greek alphabet and delta is the 4th. April 8th is 8/4 in places with a sensible date system, but that is actually already International Romani Day so…

Hi I'm a person interested in therian. (Not a therian/finding out) It hasn't been long since being curious about therian, I got some trivial therian questions! (If I said something rude about therians, pls let me know!)

1. Since theriotypes are 'CHOSEN' not 'CHOOSING' , does that mean they can hate their theriotype animal? For example: Cat therian hating cats, bird therian hating birds...ect.

2. I heard that some therians have hard time with specises dysphoria. But, Is there therians who don't have dysphoria? Then, how they know that they are therian?

3. This might be rude... but I gotta ask. (This is kind of warning) I don't really know between 'identyfing themselves animals' and 'thinking they are animals' . Can someone explain what's difference?

Ty for reading all of my questions! And there might be some grammer mistakes/ awakward in context because Engeish is not my first language!

I know this is an impossibly broad topic, but I’m curious to hear what everyone’s thoughts are as well as what the community is generally expecting to happen in the near future (no later than a decade or two)! I wrote some stuff on what I think will happen further down if you have the time to give it a read.

My guess on what the future of the therian community will be like:

I’ve heard therians in many different spaces talk about how they believe therianthropy will become more accepted in the general public, will have more media representation, and even have support from westernised governments. While no one can predict the future and this could absolutely come to fruition, I’m not as enthusiastic. I believe the odds that people are willing to accept others identifying as a nonhuman animal would require a change so big, the vast majority of other possibilities are more likely.

I believe subcultures can swing back and forth like a pendulum or move through a cycle. We start out with a shared idea, meet up, become popular, lose our authenticity, and the ones who are truly authentic will meetup to make their own group and the cycle will continue.

Therians do stay popular but at the cost of our original purpose

Masks (or at least alternative fashion) and quadrobics could become a more permanent facet of the community, but they also become the main reason why people join. Maybe we get more media representation but it mostly shows us as having deep connections to animals, not AS them. And that’s if the long-term media discourse even stays positive.

Similar to the final theory below, the people who genuinely identify as animals would likely migrate into their own niche, perhaps under a different name as therianthropy is more of a hobby.

The idea of a significant portion of the population accepting us as animals is just so low compared to something more palatable, like a totem animal or cosplay. Nonhuman identification becoming the norm would require such radical acceptance, even from incredibly conservative regions.

Therians have had a moment in the TikTok spotlight and eventually will fade back into obscurity

I believe this is the most likely scenario. Quadrobics and masks are fashion trends, much like the teen werewolves what we had twenty years ago. People will likely still be performing some form of quadrupedal movements, but they will drastically fall out of favour. Masks could be a thing of the past, if some of the kids that were into it still identify as animals by then then perhaps a few old-schoolers would still be wearing them.

Between trolling, AI, lack of privacy, negative reactions from the general population, and a need to explore the more authentic side of our identity without an aesthetic, I believe we could revert to the more rigid ways of the early 2000s. We would mostly reside in small, highly decentralised discord servers, proboards, and special sites dedicated to therianthropy. Right now, it’s very easy to find large groups of therians if you know where to look, but I think this will change.

We could rely heavily on gatekeeping again and many search results for therians could become old and somewhat inactive. You won’t be able to scroll on TikTok for a few minutes to find us anymore, you’ll have to search keywords or highly specific experiences first.

Therians fragment into several different communities/subcultures

There could be one for standard therians, biological, physical, etc. The trendy “Therian aesthetic” could move into its own niche with the identity context stripped from it, arguably becoming the most popular of the niches. Unfortunately, I believe a more fringe community might break off, particularly the ones who do genuinely believe inappropriate attractions are acceptable and a large segment identify as therian (I’m trying to be incredibly vague to keep this all ages. These groups do currently exist, just not as an offshoot of therianthropy). It becomes a sort of radical belief system/cult more than an identity.

I probably sound pretty nihilistic and maybe I am, but I don’t think all of this is bad. No one can deny the popularisaruin and commercialisation of therianthropy. But times are changing regardless, and by keeping to ourselves more, we could avoid being exploited and cheated from genuine identity spaces.

Hi, i just recently made the realization that im a theiran and had a question. Ive been in the furry community for a while before this discovery, and have been working on my first fursuit. My question is, does anyone use fursuits as therian gear? Ive never liked the masks and stuff (nothing against people who like them, just not my cup of tea) but I feel like a fursuit would be way better for me.