Therionyms & Therioilleism
a zine about animal identity by hale (but you can call us wolves)
Are you an animal? Do you think of yourself as a creature? Do you call yourself a beast?
Names have two aspects: external identifiers which are used by others and internal identifiers which you use to refer to yourself. Congurency between the twoยญยญ - when others think of you in the same way you think of yourself - is empowering.
Wolf, coyote, tiger, elk, fox, doe. Do any of these words >feel< like you?
Do your ears prick up when you hear them spoken?
(Yes, we can see your ears)
You are already accepting an animal name as your own. A therionym.
Ask the critters around you to call you by your animal name. Feel acknowledgem-ent spread over your pelt like warm sunlight. You are being Seen. Through this, and every moment just like this your true nature is being Observed.
Likewise, by using your packmember's therionyms you hypostatize their animal forms.
A feedback loop will grow between you.
This is a kind of power even humans take notice of. The invisible threads of our reality, our context, are made plainly audible.
It is up to you whether your therionym is a nick-name, a parallel truename, or even becomes part of a legal name.
On homonyms (same-names):
It is quite likely your pack has more than one member of the same species and you will suffer therionym collisions. Names, historically have always collided. Before
Our latest zine, Therionyms & Therioilleism is done! Hope everyone who received physical copies at furswap enjoys <3
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Therianizing Radiation Zone warning sign that reads "IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU ARE TOO CLOSE"
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) โ Alberto Castaรฑeda Mondragรณn says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.
But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.
He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friendโs car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.
He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man โpurposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.โ
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldnโt remember he had a daughter.
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im using pronouns you cant pronounce and identifying as genders you couldnt even imagine
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lowkey designing a new main sona for myself
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I miss summer ๐ #pupplaycommunity #puppyplay #therian #furryfandom #hippie #raver #kandi #plurfur
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#abolishice #ice
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"therian" is putting it lightly, "furry" invokes an air of pretend, "lycanthrope" makes me sound insane but I am, "were" implies I've ever not been this, "holothere" doesn't layer around the shape fully, "biological nonhuman" is a layer of abstraction, I AM a wolf
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give them hell. ๐ฅ๐ง
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Going to put 3 more Rubicund adopts in my Kofi shop ko-fi.com/kayfedewa/shop over next day or two. That might be it on these guys for a while, as I want to focus on making the pages now!
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Furry Is a queer subculture.
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I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement.
Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
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Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
โThey killed my wife,โ the distraught woman says, adding, โThey shot her in the head.โ
NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: โThey killed my wife. I donโt know what to do."
โWe stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,โ the distraught woman sobs.
www.advocate.com/news/minneso...
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pick a lane
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I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
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A pale yellow dog is asleep on a yellow couch with only their head resting on the arm next to a quilt. There's a lamp on a wood side table to the left casting warm light. Behind is a window showing snow on trees and a grey sky. The room is a warm brown.
The best season for sleeping. ๐จ๏ธ
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Drawing of a puppy with the caption; "Physically I'm here but mentally I'm just a little puppy"
Little Puppy
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If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:
The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.
The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.
The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.
The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.
The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.
The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.
The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.
Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.
The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.
If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.
You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.
The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.
Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.
Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.
Veterans' benefits suck these days.
Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.
The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.
The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.
A lot can change in four years.
If you need a reason not to enlist, there's many.
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i think furries should start being more freaky honestly. so it can scare normies and reactionaries away
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Elon Musk's vanity AI admitted to generating child sexual abuse imagery and it won't get as much attention from the New York Times as whatever panic about trans people they're trying to incite this week
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