i saw in ur therianthropy day that you have a pack!! could i ask how you went about finding them?
They're just my irl friends :]
I got really lucky with my girlfriend also being an alterhuman. I grew up in a small town where every alternative kid just clung to one another. My group doesn't really call itself a pack, but I see them as my pack. We're like a family. We talk to each other all the time. They don't mind when I act dogish and even join me at times (hence the howling at the moon comment). It also helps that we have a weekly hangout where I can crowd them into my home and just watch over them while they relax. It itches my dog brain just right.
I think community is everything. So if you're looking for a pack, or at least something you consider a pack and you dont want to look online, focus on that. Only one other person in mine is an alterhuman. The rest are humans. Focus on finding people you can be your most authentic self around and encourage them to be themselves. It doesn't have to be a big group. Some packs are just made out of a wolf and their mate. It can just be you and someone you care about.
The most important part of having a pack to me is respect and support. It does wonders for my mental health and gives me so much species euphoria to have such a good support system.
So if you can find some folks in your area who you can trust, and who even if you don't say it explicitly still accept your identity with all of its traits, I think you've got yourself a pack :]
Anyways! A pack is different for everyone, so if you are looking for a pack made up of alterhumans, this post may not have helped, lol. But I hope maybe it gave you something.
Playing so much fallout 4. Absolutely losing my mind. Is here the place I can yap about my goofy ass vault dweller dude or do we all just shut up and die about that stuff? Because I'd love to tell you all about Nicholas Marino the drag queen mad man in love with the other Nick and how my friends jokingly call them Nick squared. I'd love to tell you about The Mariner and how they're literally siblings. I'd love to tell you how he found a home in Far Harbor and it almost killed me leaving it. ID LOVE TO TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH HE HATES MIRELURKS AND MISSES HIS DEAD WIFE!!!!
but idk if yall would be into that. Anyways.
Me when I look at pictures of cryptic messages on old TVs, and suddenly I remember strange staticky laughter and some adrenaline inducing feeling that isn't mine but still familiar. WHO ARE YOU!??? WHO ARE YOU STRANGE TV MAN AND WHY ARE YOU IN MY HEAD!?!??!
Overactive imagination? Weird fake memory??? Idfk
"I got that dog in me" I say as a tiny dog presses buttons in my brain by violently wagging it's tail.
I wanna age like an old cowboy. Give me a southern squint with very exaggerated crows feet and a furrowed brow. Make me rough and tumbled. I won't smoke, but give me a scratchy voice. I want my grandkids to look at me and see coyote, wolf, dog, raccoon. I want them to see weathered and wild.
I love you, Minecraft. You have never failed me in my moments of need. Desperate for an escape but not wanting to be self-destructive? Minecraft. Haven't seen my friends in a while, but we can't hang out in person? Minecraft. Just need to clear my head for a while but still want to feel productive? Minecraft.
It's always there. The universe loves you because you are love. I love it right back.
This picture but they're both me.
me (wolf) and my doggy friend, we're so silly !!!
Maybe 👀
I need to be so terror inducing that it's worthy of Wesley level of grotesque description. I also just really like Princess Bride and accidentally quote it :3
I used to use, "I want my _____ back you son of a bitch" a lot too when I was younger lol. Like when someone took a pen or smth.
Born to walk around in the woods, and have someone shriek in horror, exclaiming, "Good GOD, what is that thing!?"
Then, to have a group of kids make up stories about that weird dog thing that stares at you from the edge of the woods.
Forced to just be socially awkward and pay taxes.
Rays! I love rays. They're so beautiful. One of my favorites is the cownose ray. I mean, just look at how silly they are. They're very shy and can migrate in schools as many as 10,000 rays!
And then there's giant oceanic manta rays, which can have wingspans up to 29 feet!!!
That's insane!!!!
Any other therian have animals they love but don’t kin? I absolutely adore opossums! I think they’re just the most beautiful adorable creatures. I’m just not one, and that’s quite sad :(
Hanging out with my girlfriend annnnnd my pack for therianthropy day? Don't mind if I do >:3
(I'm going to make them go howl at the moon with me)
She deserved so much better 😔