Sprout 🌱

🌱 Welcome to my account for people like me (but really anyone).

This is a primarily positivity blog for those with zoophilia, but I will work to have education, discussion, and community as well.

If you're a zoophile and struggle with finding any sort of community outside of pro-contact/animal abuse rings, please have hope. There are resources and places for you to be okay and not worry about harming an animal. These thoughts can be violent, scary, and deeply uncomfortable and unsettling, but you will be okay, and you will not act on them.

Feel free to send requests for posts! (ie. "Can you make affirmations for zoos who..."Can you make a positivity post for zoos who are..." or anything really, as long as it's relevant).

🌱 This blog advocates for:

• destigmatization of paraphilias, primarily zoophilia.

• anti harassment against anyone.

• pro fiction- acting out fantasies and attractions in fictional settings to cope does not make you a bad person, and you are not failing at "repressing" your paraphilia.

• anti offending/contact stances for any paraphilia that's harmful to act on. there will be no posts that cater towards other stances.

• understanding that paraphilias cannot be "cured" and instead must be accepted and coped with healithy to survive.

• saving people. you should not die simply because you have a paraphilia, your life is valuable and wanted, and you are not disgusting.

🌱 About Me & Tag Key below the line...

You're not a failure, it's entirely reasonable to have negative reactions to fiction. Fiction is not INHERENTLY harmful, but can be to some people. If it does not work for you, it doesn't work, you're not a danger.

Fiction can be an incredibly helpful outlet to some, while incredibly harmful to others. Your boundaries are your own, if fiction makes things worse, you're not a failure, you're not doing anything wrong. It's okay, it's not the only way to handle things.

I think people get so into defending fiction at times that they forget nuances. I've always preferred the statement "Fiction is not equal to reality" over "Fiction doesn't affect reality" because that's blatantly not true. As long as you're not harassing or policing others' ways of coping and self-help, you are not harming anyone.

You are no different than any other being with zoophilia. If indulging hurts, there's nothing wrong with not, if you think it hurts, please don't.

Please take care of yourself, please love yourself.

🌱 Affirmations for zoophiles who feel ashamed or upset.

It's okay to be scared, it's okay to not be sure how to feel about yourself.

Many people feel deep shame, embarrassment, or sadness over their zoophilia. This isn't abnormal to feel, and you're not alone in it. It can be hard to reconcile with your attractions and urges. You might feel the need to punish yourself, to feel bad, to make it so you don't feel comfortable as long as you have those thoughts.

But you do not deserve that, you deserve to love and accept yourself. You never need to be happy that you have zoophilia, but accept that it's okay, that there's nothing wrong with you. Urges and attractions are not actions, and punishing yourself in any way for your feelings will not make them go away.

You're not bad for simply living as you are, feeling how you do. You are good, you will be okay.

I am planning on writing up posts and responding to asks starting this week.

I've dearly missed this account. Remember to love yourself, you are good, you are okay, you deserve acceptance, and that starts with yourself.

Much love, forever and always,

Sprout.

I'll be back sometime soon, I hope (going through some rough patches, but I will be okay). Thank you, everyone, for your kind messages, I promise I read all of them.

Reminder to give yourself space, love yourself, and understand you are not broken. You are loved, you do not need to be fixed.

You're not evil, you're just yourself. That's enough. Your attractions will never be your actions, don't let anyone convince you of that.

Much love,

Sprout.

Much love right back at you guys!! I hope all necrophiles are having a great day. You guys are awesome, and I love seeing the contributions y'all make to this community.

Reminder to tell your friends you love them because they're cool (and so are you).

I think we're in the same boat here.

Zoophilia isn't my "main attraction" either, but it's always there. It's always been an "option" in my mind, and I've always hated that.

It's stressful and scary to feel, it's confusing too.

The stigma makes everything so much worse as well, so many people refuse to understand because hating others irrationally is easier.

It's hard to feel okay about it, ever. But, you can and will, someday.

I hope someday it's not scary at all, and people can have paraphilias without living their lives in fear all the time.

Your ask is fine, don't worry.

I'm so happy I've made this blog, I was originally terrified to- so much stigmatization and fear mongering. But I'm glad I did. I'm happy to help you and anyone else, this is very healing for me and I hope it heals others.

I'm also a therian, it's scary sometimes- I fear that I'm making the stereotypes true or giving the community more reasons for hatred... but I'm not. I'm just me, I'm not hurting anyone or anything and that's what matters most at the end of the day.

Thank you!

And I love hearing from them, it encourages me to keep posting and everything. I hope I can really help build us all a better, stronger, safer community.

Thank you for your blog too, and every other paras blog. I really enjoy your posts.

❤️.

I'm glad this place has brought comfort, you're so so welcome.

I hope I can write more and help as much as possible. I promise you, you will learn to live on such a happy life with your paraphilia. You're gonna do great!

🫂 it's gonna be okay. I'm so sorry you've had to deal with so much pain over something that you can't even control.

I made this blog out of frustration over similar issues- I really wanted to let people know they weren't alone and didn't have to suffer. There is so much love waiting for you, so much good you deserve.

I'm happy this place is helping, I've almost cried over some messages I've gotten like this because I truly just want to help people understand that they're okay. I'm glad I am helping.

You are not evil for these feelings and never will be, I'm sorry the world has made you feel like you are.

Thank you for staying and continuing on through all these struggles. I'm so proud of you, genuinely.

🌱 Shoutout to zoos who use art as an outlet!

Shoutout to zoos who draw themselves happy and at peace with their identity!

Shoutout to zoos who draw vent art of their urges and attractions!

Shoutout to zoos who draw animals from their fandoms or their own ocs!

Shoutout to zoos who draw themselves as animals!

Shoutout to zoos who draw self ship with exclusively animal characters!

Shoutout to zoos who draw self ship with exclusively human characters!

Shoutout to zoos who draw feral/feral!

Shoutout to zoos who draw feral/anthro!

Shoutout to zoos who draw anthro/anthro!

Shoutout to zoos who draw!!

🌱 Shoutout to all therian zoos, you have a place in this community and don't deserve the discrimination and hate you get!

Your experiences with therianthropy are just as valuable as anyone else within the community.

Peoples stereotypes and the misinformation surrounding your identity don't define you.