could you educate me on the w*ndigo thing and the problems with using the term? ^^'
Yeah of course! Do keep in mind however that I only looked into this recently, so I may not be completely right
(TWs are listed in tags, please be mindful of them)
The first issue is more about the beliefs, in the culture that the original w*ndigo comes from its believed that saying its name will catch its attention. Which is not good at all. It is an extremely evil and malevolent evil spirit who sometimes even posses the bodies of humans. When it does posses others , it’s said that the victims will have insatiable hunger, the desire to eat other humans and extreme urges to commit murder.
The second issue is cultural appropriation, here’s a quick comparison of the popular media version and the original that comes from folklore.
The popularized version of it is actually extremely insulting to the original culture it came from. If you wanna read more about it, you can check out the Wikipedia article for it which has a pretty decent summary.
If you want to still refer to the modern version, I recommend using deer man/woman/person instead (or alternatively notdeer).
I hope this explanation made sense, if anything here is wrong please let me know ^^
i am a wolf , a coyote , a predator . but i feel strangely non violent for my kintypes . when i see a small animal , like a mouse or a squirrel or deer , things my theriotypes would hunt , i just feel care for them . i want to play with them or help them , sometimes i even feel parental . maybe this is because my father is an Elk ?? do any other therians who have predator theriotypes feel strangely non violent about them ? like i dont even get hungry seeing them
Hi!! Could you perhaps do a canine skull mask design? I'm getting one soon and I dont know how to decorate it tbh
If its possible, make the coloring simple and focus more on accessories (I'm not sure how well I will be able to color it... the base will be black)
Thanks in advance <3
Oh my god so... I have NO idea if you're content with this, if not then I'm really sorry- Thing is, I didn't know what the base looks like, nor do I have much experience in accessories- I hope this is okay 😭
There's little rings on the canines, I don't know how well you can see them-
I hope you like it and again, I'm sorry if you don't aaa
Just a heads up changed it from w*ndigo to deerlike cryptid and I apologize for the fact I didn’t do enough research at first. Thanks for the backlash /gen (does that make sense? Idk without it I would have stayed ignorant…)
as someone who’s firm anti cop… that anon you got the other day was dumb as hell. police dogs are often victims and they aren’t humans making the conscious decision to do what they’re doing, they’re trained dogs. much love <33
Dw it’s fine lol /gen A lot of people have this misconception :)
guys im not a therian or furry but like why is everyone so mean to them? They didn’t do anything? They’re not affecting you? Ignore them and move on? Has anyone ever taught you how to be kind????
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