#therian
Also, joy of joys, LycanTheory, also known as “that guy who has provably committed multiple acts of bestiality and should be in prison”, has cropped his head up on tumblr.
He’s at @mountainshep17. Wouldn’t it be a shame if he was mass-reported for bestiality and driven off-site?
I think it’d be funny.
-Southern Star
yo yo! what’s up? i’m B and this is our silly little kin help blog! We’re a system ran blog with a few alters helping out here and there! We do a lot of cool stuff from icons & stimboards to positivity & tarot readings! Make sure to check out our carrd before following and requesting, please and thank you! Can’t wait to make you guys happy! Love, love! ♥
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So, I’ve been inactive recently. I’d like to explain myself, my opinion, and what happened.
I’ll start off with this:
I’m definitely not angelkin anymore.
To start, at the time when I believed I was angelkin and focused myself in the community, I was in a toxic relationship with my best friend who I was in love with. He was my best friend of five years and I was struggling to notice how he was caring less and less about me; I suppose it was in my subconscious, lingering there, but it was hard for me to accept. It was my last close friendship and relationship and I couldn’t lose it. He was Christian; I was keeping my beliefs solely for him and out of fear of what he would do if I wasn’t Christian. So, I let my hopes manifest in the form of a past life, imagining what he and I were like then. It was an extremely toxic relationship; he didn’t care about me, at all. I was just another person. As much as I put into the friendship, I got little to nothing back, and it was incredibly painful to me. It was toxic and we broke away very suddenly right before my birthday and the holiday season after he told me he didn’t want to talk to me anymore. He was leading me on for no reason. I was blind to how homophobic, borderline racist, and against other religions he was. I made mistakes as well, of course, I shouldn’t have forced myself to keep up with him, I shouldn’t have kept warping my personality to fit his. I myself was being as manipulative as he was, trying to bring a dead friendship back to life.
And it brought a whole series of changes to my life.
If I am being honest with myself, angelkin was an escape. It was a fabricated reality where I was shaping myself into someone he’d like me to be; something that told us fate wanted us to be together. I became obsessed with the thought of another life at the loss of interest of my own; I started to shape myself off a past life which I didn’t even know at the time if it was real or not. I was creating a second personality and identity for myself where I convinced myself it was me, when it really wasn’t.
I am now an omnist, meaning I find truth in all religions, while my faith is Wiccan. When I turned away from that toxic relationship, everything was like a breath of fresh air. I could explore my own religion without his pressure. And that’s what I did.
Through this, I learned one of my most integral lessons: we cannot dwell and obsess over our pasts if we wish to grow as people.
Angelkin, for me, was an obsession with a past life. It was creating an identity out of a past I was using to cope with. I, with all my heart, believe the past is something to learn from; something to look back and learn lessons, take with you to the future, but not to obsess over. If we, as humans, focus ourselves so much on our past, we can’t advance ourselves in the now. Focusing on someone you once were cannot shape who you are now. The only way for us to grow is to explore and venture away from our pasts, become new people. I am on this earth not to dwell on a past life; I am on this earth to be who I am now. I cannot do that while also being angelkin and dwelling on my past life. Making ourselves something we aren’t is not going to help us in any way; it’s a lesson I believe I should spread to others after this experience. We cannot be both an angel and a human; we can only be who we are in the now, and that is human. Being human is such a wonderful, wonderful thing, a wonderful blessing no matter what your religion is. Humans are imperfect, make mistakes, and unholy. An angel cannot be a human; an angel is an angel, and it is as simple as that.
Granted, I still very much respect the otherkin community and wish you all wonderful days to come. I understand the need and want to know a past life or shape your identity into something inhuman; humanity can be as scary as it is appealing. I, however, felt the need to share this lesson as I believe others in this community might be able to learn from their own experiences from my lesson.
I am not sure who I was in a past life. Perhaps I was an angel; would there be any way for me to truly know? The fact remains; I am who I am now, and the lessons from a past life will eventually make themselves known to me in this life. I do not need to know my past life in order to grow and follow the course of the karmic cycle and life.
I can love and heal - my core values - just as much as a human as an angel. I do really believe in love, light, and peace for all, just the same as an angel. But I don’t need to be an angel to do that. I can heal in the now, work on smiling every day at someone new, and embrace the small miracles in life we, as humans, can bless other humans with.
I am happy and confident with who I am now. I have tapped into my identity, and for the first time, merged my spirituality and religion with who I really am. I will not be disclosing my identity on this account; of course, Azhira was not my real name. This is a part of me I hope to leave and learn from in the past myself.
Thank you for anyone who read through this and anyone who supported me as I went through some rough times in the community.
This will be my goodbye. I will end up deleting my account in a couple of days. I will answer messages for a short time if there are any.
I hope you all have a wonderful day and night!
Uintatherium
Mounted specimen from American Museum of Natural History, and currently part of the traveling Extreme Mammals exhibit.
Reconstruction by Charles Knight
When: Eocene (~49 to 39 million years ago)
Where: North America
What:Uintatherium is one of the first large mammalian herbivores. It stood about 6 feet (~1.8 meters) high at the shoulder and was roughly 13 feet (~4 meters) long. This isn't that large for an animal today, but in the Eocene it was a giant! It lived in the lush sub-tropical forests of mid-Eocene North America, most likely eating a combination of terrestrial bushes and shrubs along with aquatic plants from lakes and marshes. Uintatherium has a nasty pair of upper canines, not what you would expect from a herbivore! It is thought that these teeth were involved in sexual display, as they appear to be much larger in males than females. Uintatherium vanishes from the fossil record in the late Eocene, at about the time the temperature of North America was falling and the vegetation was thinning out.
Uintatherium was also one of the fossils involved in the great ‘Bone Wars’ between Cope and Marsh. It was by far the largest of the fossils to come out of the Fort Bridger fossil localities in Wyoming (this fort gives its name to a land mammal age - The Bridgerian!), and thus highly prized. Cope and Marsh both applied multiple names to specimens from this region which would later prove to all belong to the same species. The name Uintatherium wasn’t even one applied by Cope OR Marsh. Joseph Leidy named this creature in 1872, just barely edging out Marsh’s names of Dinoceras and Tinoceras. So that particular battle in the bone wars was won by someone who didn’t even have much of an interesting in fighting!
Uintatherium is not thought to have any living descendants, it is possible that the Eocene Uintatherium was the last of its kin. However, the position of Uintatherium and its brethren (grouped as the Dinocerata) within the mammal family tree is highly uncertain. They are well accepted as placental mammals, but beyond that? It is highly debated, and in my opinion, nobody has really done a rigorous enough study to support any one position over another.
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Procoptodon - The giant short faced kangaroo
Mounted skeleton on display at Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte Caves National Park, South Australia
Reconstruction by Peter Trusler.
When: Pleistocene (~ 2 million to 15,000 years ago)
Where: Throughout Australia
What:Procoptodon is a giant fossil kangaroo. Exactly how ‘giant’ it is has been a bit exaggerated, heights of up to 10 feet (~3 meters) have been reported, but this would have been its maximum height when it reared up fully on its hind legs, with its arms reaching up for high branches. Procoptodon was capable of this posture, but (like living kangaroos) it did not stand fully upright most of the time. In its normal feeding (and most everything else) poster it would have stood about 6.5 feet (~ 2 meters) tall; about the same height as the largest of the modern red kangaroos. Procoptodon was not the same size as these animals though, it was much more massive and would have been over twice the weight of a red kangaroo of equivalent height.
Procoptodon was very well adapted for the semiarid conditions that characterized much of Australia during the Pleistocene, but fossil remains have also been found in the more hospitable regions of prehistorical Australia. The marsupials of Australia are well known for their convergence evolution upon forms from other continents (such as the tasmanian tiger and the marsupial mole), but the kangaroo does not look like any placental mammal known. However, in terms of its lifestyle, the ecological niche that it inhabits, the group is convergent upon hoofed animals, such as deers! Procoptodon overlapped with human habitation of Australia, and it is thought some Aboriginal folktales are about this massive kangaroo.
Procoptodon is a member of the group Sthenurinae - the shortfaced kangaroos. As you probably guessed these kangaroos had much shorter snouts than the modern species of kangaroos. This group is completely extinct. It is one of the subgroups of the Macropodidae, the clade of marsupials that contains all kangaroos and wallabies, as well as a few other groups. It has been proposed that within the Macropodidae the closest living relative of Procoptodon is the Banded hare-wallaby, though this is not universally accepted.
In the prehistoric outback Procoptodon would have co-exsited with the largest marsupial of all time Diprodoton and was a hunted by the marsupial lion Thylacoleo. And the second link you can see this marsupial predator hunting a close relative of Procoptodon!
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Hello, I’m still here even with my crazy disappearing acts! Just to let everyone know, there is one week until the 2014 Tumblr Otherkin Census is closed and a final count will be done!
All information on the census can be found here, but a TL;DR version would be as follows:
- Send me an ask with your URL and kintype(s), your URL will not be shared, therians are included.
- Ends on January 1st.
- I will be posting the results of the census a week(give or take a few days) after the census ends.
- This is Tumblr ONLY.
Let’s get a final push for the last week of this census! My ask box is located here as always, and please reblog to spread the word!
The Beast by Imogen Heap
“One by one, we’re becoming the beast.”
Hello everyone! This is your friendly neighborhood kin-spiration mod. How are you all doing today?
For a while, I’ve been wondering what kintypes are on Tumblr, who identifies as what, and how prominent are certain kintypes. Now that it’s the end of the year, I figured now is as good a time as any to do an end-of-the-year 2014 Otherkin Census.
How will this work?
Quite easily. All you need to do is send me an ask with your URL and saying what your kintype(s) are. If you are a polykin, I kindly ask for you to name all of them. I will not be sharing your URLs, so your information will be private and confidential. I will be using URLs to make sure I don’t count the same people more than once and to avoid trolling.
How long will this last?
It will start today(November 26) and end at the end of the year(January 1). At that point, I will count and group like kintypes and release it on this blog, probably within the week. This will also give time to those who will submit their kintypes last minute.
How will you release the census?
Everything will be released on this blog in the form of graphs. I will give the number of submissions as well as the percentages of each kintype.
How do I get started?
Just send me an ask with your URL and kintype(s). I also encourage you to reblog this post so the visibility of this census rises. Let’s get as many submissions as possible!
Note: This is a strictly-Tumblr census. The results of this census are a reflection only of the Tumblr otherkin community and not the wider community.
DIY: Claw Nails
What scents do you associate your theriotype with?
Pine, jasmine tea, rain, the ocean, and dry earth
fresh rain and damp earth
Dumpster garbage, grease, and dog breathe
Earth, pine, vanilla, and lavender
Raw and cooked meat (especially ribs and arrachera), that smell when you know rain is coming and after it, puppy breath, fresh grass and morning (THERE IS A PARTICULAR MORNING SMELL IDK WHAT IT IS BUT ITS SO FRESH AND COZY)
Derailing, pine smells like minty rosemary very sharp smelling and a stench that follows you everywhere. It is quite nice
grass, sunlight, morning (there 100% is a morning smell, I agree), wool and fur
