What Neurotypicals Think Autistics Want:

YOOOOO this is so sick!! :D

idk if anyone else has done this yet, i feel like it's a pretty obvious combo but i have yet to see it used around the community anywhere else, but uh yeah if this inspires u at all go crazy with it ig 👍

Massive gripe ive been having with primarily the therian community lately, I really dont feel like we focus enough on animal rights causes considering how "connected" we're supposed to be to nonhumans.

Like I see it around for sure, but when I do it usually isn't more than just "hunting for sport is bad👍" or "dont beat your dog 👍" and that's it. The main focus of the community is still very much on biologically human individuals rather than on bio nonhumans, who are very literally treated like garbage in society and it's frustrating because i feel like we should be right there on the front lines when it comes to animal liberation.

Im not saying all of us need to be members of ALF or anything, im not even vegan and have no plans to be, but as of rn the community's overall acknowledgment and support of animal rights causes is pretty pathetic. Hell, I still hear therians confidently and proudly infantilize adult/highly intelligent nonhuman species ("animals have the intelligence of human toddlers") and spread blatant misinformation about them. Shit just annoys me

The whole idea that forcing shifts is bad and something you shouldn't do really irks me ngl. Like yeah, if you're using it as a way to determine kintypes that's definitely not the best route to go down, but with already confirmed kintypes idk what everyone's issue is. Personally, I don't get shifts of any kind too often, so by forcing them, specifically in the case of phantom shifts, I'm able to relieve some of my species dysphoria that I may not otherwise have an outlet for. If anything, I think actively trying to get yourself to shift rather than passively waiting for one to happen (not that there's anything wrong with that) is further proof of your desire to be connected to your nonhumanity.

currently wishing i had a therian friend who lived close to me so i could have someone to do quadrobics with whenever i get the zoomies

mfs be like "species dysphoria isn't real" bro I WISH it wasn't

"wHy aRE yOu DyspHoRic ABouT tHat PaRt??1?!!" idfk man, literally why are any of us dysphoric about anything? not sure if tiktok therians understand what dysphoria is and that like... you don't get to decide what you are or aren't dysphoric about??? sorry that not all of us fit into your neat little sanitized 1000% kindergartener friendly stereotype of what it means to be an animal, cope ig

i no joke just saw a therian on tiktok say “can our community just go back to normal” in context to the packers situation. BE SO FOR REAL??!!! we are literally THERIANS! we were never normal and we never will be. the therian community was never normal. istg 90% of tiktok therians would flip their shit if they went on tumblr and saw how our community SHOULD be in other spaces

Omg this is such an amazing project, so glad I finally got around to reading the entire thing I loved it sm! Thank you to all the talented artists who worked on this, hearing other animals discuss some of the more raw and ""taboo"" parts of their identity felt both comforting and liberating. Let animals be kinky, horny weirdos forever amen

NOCTURNE IS FINALLY HERE!!!!

Thank you animal people in my phone! Truly a labor of love to compile everything. The second edition submission info will be out shortly! Happy New Year!

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went on a walk today with @wanderingcritter !! we went to our local park and put some stickers up! one is on the back of a dogs must be on leash sign, how ironic!!

I get nicies when I'm awesome like a good dog ^-^ I want to jump into greeeeen meaaadowwwss