Reblogged beastlybardou
Art about transformation I think
Anonymous asked:
i really love your otter and lion species transition lists/ideas. some stuff id never seen mentioned or thought of myself, very neat!!
if you don't mind me asking (and if you do mind, please disregard my asking), do you have any ideas for a wolf? thanks in advance either way!
Hi there, thanks for the ask!! I'm happy to give my paw a shot at this based off of the documentaries and papers I've read across the years. Hope this is helpful in some way!
PS: I don't recommend faux fur due to the environmental implications, but I don't condone it if you prefer it over real fur! I do however advocate for using vintage/antique fur and recycled fur and never support fur farms or unnecessary hunting.
Physical Aspects
- Grow out your body hair if you're not already
- Try your best to exercise and stay healthy. Running, walking, hiking, lifting, and/or quads.
- Wear clothing with recycled fur on it
- Wear natural colored items and accessories based on nature (feathers, leaves, flowers, claws or teeth, etc)
- Wear a tail (consider using vintage fur or "waste" fur)
- Get a clear claw manicure or shape your nails out to be more claw like
- Consider permanent fangs or custom fangs
- Consider buying a realistic wolf mask or making yourself one
- Find realistic wolf ears that match your hair color
- Get paw print tattoos on your palms or use henna
- Use eyeliner to shape the eyes to seem more wolf like
- Use dark lipstick to create the canine "mouth corners" on your lips
- Eat a more whole foods diet (red meat, poultry, fish, veggies, eggs, berries). Wild meat is especially great too!
- Consider drinking bone broths as an additional means of hydration (still drink water too!!!)
- Eat less popular cuts of meat to make more use of an animal
- Consider tattoos of additional nipples if you feel called to it. Top surgery may also be another consideration if you were born with breasts you don't want to have.
Lifestyle Aspects
- Form a small social group if you can, be it online or in person. It's healthy to not be extremely isolated. Even one friend is better than none.
- Consider learning to hunt, fish, or forage and gaining the necessary licenses
- Refer to yourself as a wolf or as wolf-like in social situations, even if casually or in a silly way to get it into people's minds
- Decorate your room to feel more like a den. Add bone decor, earthy colors, shape your bed to be more body encompassing, etc
- Learn as much as you can about your species and try to emulate aspects of it into your life
- Seek enrichment in ways that your theriotype would i.e. sniffing, scent marking, exploring new environments, digging (gardening is a good way), swimming for some varieties, and so on.
- Volunteer for projects involving wolves and their conservation if you can. Zooniverse.org has various projects that people can participate in online only and sometimes can involve wolves or their ecosystems.
- Express yourself vocally more! Even if it's in private, it's important to communicate sometimes how you feel you should. Howl, whimper, whine, grunt, bark, all of it.
- Maintain a territory of your own, even if it's small. Grow native plants there, keep trash out of it, and visit it regularly.
- If you can, consider a career in forest management, conservation, at a national/state park, in environmental science, or another similar field. Obviously this isn't possible for everyone, but could be a future goal.
- Use your free time to go outside, even if only in the yard or on a balcony. Bathe in the sun, get off your phone, just be an animal
- Play games where you play as a wolf. WolfQuest is the best one I can think of for a realistic wolf experience, and it has a first person POV option!
- Watch movies and documentaries about wolves and/or werewolves as well if you'd like to
Reblogged river-selkie
You're overthinking your theriotype research.
"What do I act like. Whats my personality. Whats my mood? Whats-"
What do you feel like.
You could be a wolf that likes being pet and like toys.
You could be a cat that likes water and forests.
You could even be a dog that prefers forests.
Therianthropy is what YOU feel like you are.
If what you're personality "shows" you are is something that you feel like you arent. Then you arent. Despite what the signs are.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE.
This doesn't mean "oh I WANT to be a bird so ill pick bird." No- do you *feel* more like a bird than human?
Remember. Getting your theriotype wrong is normal. Theriotypes changing is normal. Were all non-human together.
DONT OVERTHINK IT!
Reblogged
Felid claw tattoo idea
to add to my lion species transition list 🦁
I drew skinny triangles on my fingers with a black pen. I'm impressed - they do look like claws!
Personally I won't make these into permanent tattoos. But I'll do it very often with henna :D
Love it so damn much! Subtle but at the same time expressive!
Reblogged sunpoweredog
"I want to be a dragon."
Anonymous asked:
Just saw your species transition post and it's cool to see a fellow transspecies individual from Oregon!!! Hope you have a lovely day and achieve some of those goals!!
- Local werewolf and lion :]
Thank you so much!!! I'm not 100% sure if I should call myself transspecies, but I definitely want to find some ways to ease the species dysphoria I feel even a little. I've never considered ways of doing that until transspecies individuals started coming forward in the community and I'm very grateful for that. Oregon has also made it easier to feel like an otter than living in a deserty plains state like I used to.
I've honestly been wanting to find someone or a small group of folks in Oregon who are also nonhuman adults just for a hike or a picnic, would be so fun! 😭
Got my shellfishing license today for only $10!!
I'm about an hour from the coast and have been wanting to find ways to more sustainability feed myself and enrich my life as an otter. Shellfishing is the most accessible, affordable, and easiest option for me. The license let's me get clams, crabs, urchins, scallops, mussels, shrimp, and apparently even squid.
While I call myself a "river otter", I do feel as though I belong in a coastal environment, or in rivers leading to the ocean. I particular have been eyeing down the eurasian otters, which live a very oceanic life and yet are very much like river otters in body and behaviors.
I feel that always eating things from farms and grocery stores causes me such a disconnect from my food and the ecosystem. Kind of makes me feel like a pet eating out of a can, and I don't enjoy that feeling. Obviously I'll always rely on these systems, but I'd like to forage edible plants and harvest my own meat where I can. I look forward to feeling more connected with both myself and the things that I consume.
Image by Pete Walkden Photography
Hey there!! I saw you in both the otter and selkie tags and wanted to say hello since I’m kinsidering maybe both??? Or perhaps an otter creature that functions like a selkie?? So I wanted to ask if those overlap with you or are they distinct? How can you tell the difference if they are??
Thank you so much in advance!! 🐾
Thank you for asking me this question!! It's a great opportunity for me to clarify on why I always include selkies in relation to my identity.
I'm 100% otter. I identify as strictly the animal and don't exactly consider myself to be a selkie as a genuine "type", but I'm also willing to acknowledge the fact that I'm experiencing life in a two legged, fleshy, human formed body.
To me, the lore of selkies is almost the exact same as my experience as a therian. I'm an otter, stuck in a human form. I constantly long for my fur, my nose, my whiskers, my teeth. Essentially, I long for the "pelt" that makes me what I am which is an otter. I think most therians can strongly relate to this feeling and experience, and since selkies and mermaids have always really resonated with me, I incorporate them into how I talk about my identity!
If I were to compare the two though in terms of looking for my label/kintype, I imagine a selkie would feel more comfortable with a human body. That they should be able to move freely between a human form and a marine animal (seal typically) form. I personally feel intense dysphoria from being a human and don't want to be human at all, so I feel very trapped and constantly experience longing, much like a selkie who had the right to change taken away. That said, if I ever got my "pelt" back, I'd never change back to a human form. That's ultimately why I'm just an otter, and not a selkie. I just deeply relate to them.
I hope this was at all helpful! ♡
Ways I want to live more like an otter!
I'm not sure I consider myself to be transspecies, but these are some things I'd like to do to actually feel more like my theriotype in my day to day life and ease my species dysphoria. 🦦🐚
Physical Focused Amendments
- Wear more brown fur every day, specifically vintage and recycled fur coats.
- Get permanent fangs or at least custom ones I can put on and remove at will.
- Start swimming again and get better at it, especially swimming in rivers and lakes. I plan on getting a membership to an indoor pool again eventually!
- Vocalize like my type more often and be expressive in more animal-like ways.
- Allow my body hair to grow out more and not feel as pressured to shave constantly for others.
- Eat more shellfish, cephalopods, and eat vegan substitutes for finned fish dishes. Besides just that, eating a more whole foods diet in general.
- Stop chewing and picking at my nails and allow them to grow out, eventually shaping them more like claws. Might just get acrylics honestly.
- Find a way to get webbed finger gloves for everyday wear, maybe sewing fabric on brown gloves. Would also like to add paws to it.
- Make and wear accessories with sea bird feathers, ethically sourced shells, and sea glass. While this is more humanistic, it would be more for humans around me to recognize as ocean items.
- Get a proportionally accurate, realistic otter tail eventually.
- Possibly get a tattoo of the paw "beans" on my hands and feet.
- Get an earthy scented perfume to use as my "scent", otters are rather pungent!
- Possibly (but optionally) get top surgery or a breast reduction to get closer to an animal chest size than a human chest size.
- Train my 5 senses, specifically my smell, to be stronger and pick up a bit more in my environment.
Lifestyle Focused Amendments
- Get a shellfishing license and catch my own food more.
- Make my bedroom more like a waterside den, adding plants, maybe recycled glass floats and netting, grasses as houseplants, and so on! Would also use my humidifier more.
- Refer to myself as an otter more regularly around others, even if casual or in a joking way to get them to associate me with them.
- Spend more time at the rivers and the ocean.
- Collect oceanic and river items more often in a sustainable way.
- Clean up the waterways and plant native plants in the areas around them.
- Provide money to water focused and animal conservation efforts.
- Add an aquarium to my home, even if it's just a bowl of water plants.
- Develop an artistic hobby so I can make ocean themed and otter focused pieces of art.
- Use my phone and social media far less. I'd eventually like to only use social media for this community and finding recipes.
- Get a kayak and start kayaking the rivers and lakes, then eventually the bays.
- Consider getting into scuba diving, although this would be difficult in Oregon. Same with surfing.
- Play ambience in my room to feel more at home.
- Get a job working in conservation or at an aquarium or zoo, even if it's an office job. I've considered working in grants in the past.
- Feel less shame and embarrassment about behaving like an animal, even in my own home. Being an adult has made this a bigger hardship for me personally.
- Advocate against the trapping of wild otters and support efforts that improve their lives.
Things I Already Have
- My hair is currently an otter shade of brown which I really like and don't want to change.
- Moved to the PNW, which got me close to the coast and surrounded by far more rivers and a lot more rain.
- Have gone snorkeling a couple of times, which was very euphoric!
- My fiancé is aware of me being a therian and is entirely accepting of it, which I'm extremely happy about. I wouldn't marry someone who doesn't support an intrinsic part of me.
