the-forest-cat

[the-forest-cat]

#!!!!!

[the-forest-cat]

In a mesmerising scene of three adult leopards all in the same frame, the Tamboti Female (closest to the camera) walks side-by-side with two males (father and son) the Tu-tones Male in the middle and the Camp Pan Male at the back.

Photographed by James Tyrell, 2014

[the-forest-cat]

being transmasc agender is like being a little creature that got a gender vessel but they sent me the wrong model- like imagine a cis man and his vessel is male and fits him perfectly and im just there like

[the-forest-cat]

An African leopard (panthera pardus) rests on a tree. Photographed by Aamir Khatri.

[the-forest-cat]

[the-forest-cat]

[the-forest-cat]

Ignore my bouncing leg, I was born without a tail you see

[the-forest-cat]

My biggest, first, most important piece of advice for therians who awakened roughly a year ago? You are still NOT immune to the "I'm pretty sure I know everything by now" phase of being, relatively, extremely new to a community; which is to say, the education blog you have the urge to start is not necessary and can wait. You are in the learning and figuring yourself out phase.

[the-forest-cat]

In case you need it today:

You are under no obligation to publicly perform your identity.

You are a therian without a mask or a tail or shoes or fun snacks or 'good' vocals. You are a therian without a wolf shirt or a paw pendant or a theta-delta pin. You are a therian without quadrobics or other athletic activities.

You are a therian even if you participate in human society. If you want to blend in with people. If you don't 'dress like a therian'. If you don't want to wear your heart on your sleeve.

You are a therian even if you never want to show anyone that you are.

[the-forest-cat]

Anyone else believe in reincarnation without direction or purpose? Your energy kinda...goes where it goes. The great jeweled net reflects on.

#THIS #Shit is RANDOM #I was a leopard and now I’m a man #why?? because that’s how the cookie crumbles babey

[the-forest-cat]

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

[the-forest-cat]

For therians researching their identity! (and anyone looking up animals.)

There is a site, animalia.bio, that lets you not only check out animals you already know names of, but also search by habitat, genus etc.

It lists behavior, appearence, biomes in which the animal lives, shows distribution, climate zones and even lists characteristic traits (which you can click and find even more animals!!) like if the animal is nocturnal, nomadic, a predator, territorial, social or a migrant. You can also find diet, lifestyle habits and mating habits information.

Hope this'll help someone

[the-forest-cat]

Angry that the body doesn't look nonhuman and doesn't work how it feels like it should. I should be able to climb the tree gracefully and hide there with my food, tear it apart with my teeth, and people should walk away cautiously when they notice me there. But nooo. I have to sit by the table, use fork and knife, and hear people talking about some boring shit I do not even care about.

It feels stupid. I can't even growl at them.

-Sylvian

[the-forest-cat]

Leopard therian culture is having every leopardkin group chat slowly die because we’re not very social animals

.

[the-forest-cat]

Might go back to 2019's otherkin community and make mood boards. Outfit inspos, even.

#the simpler times lmao #my post #otherkin #therian #leopard therian #big cat therian

[the-forest-cat]

I’ve never not felt like a leopard. I’ve seen countless posts declaring a fear of a “disconnection” to one’s ‘type. I’ve never experienced this, but there are times when I just can’t focus on what being a leopard feels like.

I mean, I’m a leopard with two full time jobs working ~70 hrs a week. I simply don’t have time to be anything else. And I kinda hate that.

I hate that I have to set aside what I am and focus on “being human.”

There’s no point to this post other than me yelling into the void. I think I’ll try to dive more actively into the otherkin community to try to make nonhumanity a more prominent presence in my life again.

#I need a self care day in general but it would be nice to hear one around my natural behaviors tbh #my post #vent? #saw someone else’s wistful post and got wistful myself lmao #otherkin #alterhuman #alterhumanity #therian #therianthropy #leopard therian #big cat therian

[the-forest-cat]

(by shaazjung)