i have had the tattoo for a few years now and i just put my hand in the tank to move a plant when some shrimp came over to hang out on me!

I have a few big cats that I have to help when I’m feeling dysphoric! Wondering if anybody else does too

Man, I dont know. I AM A DOG, I ALWAYS HAVE BEEN so alike and so affirmed in my being a dog and idk why but possibly being a cat is almost betraying myself since im a shepherd( ´△｀)

I guess I shouldn't put anything in stone, ive only been feeling such a way for a few days and I know I dont have to identify that way if it bothers me so much but it feels gross if I dont, I have to acknowledge it if its there. Another is, i mean, I dont want a cat tail, or ears, or to be referred to as a cat or any other such things that I do feel bc im a dog! If I was gonna have a whole nother theriotype ig id want it to be held to the same standard...i dont want another theriotype( ´～｀)

Wth do I do with this, if I dont identify it it'll bother me, if I do, it will ALSO bother me.

Ggahhhh

I really wanna know more about some types of therians, since I haven't found a lot of info about those things online. Here it is:

1. What is a holothere? How does the experience being a holothere feel?

2. What are biological therians? How does the experience being a biological therian feel?

3. Why are these identities so disliked by the non-physical and non-biological therians?

Also, it would be really awesome if you would share the things that you do for self expression as a holothere or a biological therian. Thanks!

i have been super dysphoric recently and I dont know what to do anymore, ive been mostly dysphoric about my legs and not having a shark tail

if any Shark therians could give advice that'd be awesome

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)

{[DISCLAIMER] I'm aware most of the calculation methods aren't scientifically accurate or mathematically consistent I'm just doing this for fun}

I am trying to convert tiger (specifically Siberian Tiger where I can) athletic feats to achievable human ones. I Averaged out female Siberian tiger length and weight stats from Wikipedia to find I am 35% smaller than the average female Siberian tiger and used that to scale down some feats and other physical measurements by 35%. For dragging/lifting capabilities I found how many x the tigers body weight that is equal to and used that number to calculate my goal. For jumping i tried to scale it down but it was still over human world records, so I subtracted my own height from the scaled down distance to make it achievable :)

So far I have bite force, drag/lift weight, vertical and horizontal jumps, and 100m sprint time but I'm struggling with the more obscure measurements. Id like to estimate how many pushups, pullups and other things a tiger could theoretically do but dont know how to go about it. Any help or ideas would be greately appreciated!

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

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.

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.

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 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 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)

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 :<

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!

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?

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 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?

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 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…