Hello all! I'm a newly awakened, questioning polytherian! As of now, I am exploring my shifts, urges, behavior etc. and I feel a draw to multiple different species, this could just be a temporary thing and may narrow down to fewer over time as nothing is super clear to me and I don't want to jump the gun and try to limit myself to just one or 2 theriotypes. right now I am researching animals that line up with my shifts, behavior, and what feels most "right" and like "me", the theriotypes I'm questioning are, Timber wolf, side-striped jackal, red fox, pine marten, sable marten, clouded leopard, and mountain lion. How I experience multiple different theriotypes is interesting. Sometimes I feel very strongly like a canine, other times very much a feline, and other times, a mustelid. I'm still gonna take the time to explore before I claim anything, but this is a little of my experience as a questioning polytherian, and I hope it can help someone on here or any questions people had about polytherians! feel free to ask me more questions about it!

Thank you to the staff team for listening to feedback, I'm glad things were resolved

Thanks for hearing our voices Bagera and other staff that have worked behind the scenes. Us having our voice heard means the world to us.

Yes, yet another announcement about a rule. Since making rule 24, we've been in discussions with many of the systems on the site about how to make this a welcoming space for everyone, within reason. We've updated rule 24 to allow mention within journals, and that can be seen in the announcement before this one.


Rule 8, for those who aren't familiar with it, read as such: 8. Only one account per person. You are not allowed to share your account to other people, if they want in they have to sign up for their own accounts. You are also forbidden from creating more than one account for your own use (except temporarily when allowed by a staff member to recover a lost account). When speaking, do not suffix alter names. Speak as you would normally in real life, when meeting a stranger.


This rule was made years ago due to people constantly spamming alter changes, and the same person would also pin blame on their alters for bad behavior. It came off as someone making the whole thing up in order to dodge responsibility.


The updated rule 8 is as follows: Only one account per body. You are not allowed to share your account to other people, if they want in they have to sign up for their own accounts. You are also forbidden from creating more than one account for your own use (except temporarily when allowed by a staff member to recover a lost account). For people who are required to share an account due to being systems the account is treated as one person for moderation purposes and will by subject to appropriate consequences regardless of alter. When speaking, do not suffix alter names. Speak as you would normally in real life, when meeting a stranger. Stating what alter you are at the start of a conversation or when asked directly is allowed, as long as you do not repeatedly suffix every message.
An example: "Hey Susan, how are you today?"
"Oh, it's Alison right now, but I'm doing well"
-they both continue the discussion normally and without bringing it up again-



This allows you to express who is fronting once, to avoid confusion. As per rule 24, you are still not allowed to discuss plurality, DID and such outside of designated spaces, but just mentioning your name is fine.

This rule also changes things to make people accountable for their actions. It does not matter who is fronting if you're a system. I don't care if the main host is Jesus of Nazareth, if someone in your system breaks the site rules and causes a problem, the account as a whole will be punished.

I hope these alterations help clear up issues, making tg a healthy and welcoming environment for everyone.

I personally only identify with one kintype as well. I am grizzly bearhearted but I wouldn’t say that I identify as one, I just identify with them! I’ll always be a Honeymala at heart.

I am a bit curious of polytherians, I wonder how you can identify as multiple species at once. I do see traits of myself in other animals like brown bats and binturongs and hares, but I wouldn’t say they’re part of my identity. Not trying to invalidate polytherians, I’m just intrigued

Well, I have only one theriotype! Also one of my friends has only one, and I also watch videos of therians with one theriotype. But I really can't say if there are more therians or polytherians ahah.

As I browse the forums, I notice lots of people have multiple theriotypes. It got me thinking, am I in the minority being that I only have a single theriotype? What do you think, is it more common to have just one or multiple theriotypes?

I think to some extent, it is an aesthetic at the moment. I recently got together with an old friend, whom I have known since elementary school (we're both in our 30's now), and she really surprised me when she said her kid was in to therian stuff. I was like "whoa, you know what therians are!?" I didn't mention anything about being one, or my experiences in the community, but instead asked what animal her daughter was. I was initially thinking and expecting the community to be more like how it was when I first found it. She replied that her daughter was just really into wearing tails and making masks. So maybe her daughter is a therian, maybe she isn't, it doesn't really matter. However, it's mainstream enough now that my friend is aware of the community.

I say its fine to put TW/CWs on things, and things such as graphic descriptions of suicide, self harm, gun violence, just stuff that's extremely intense should be expected. I'm personally not triggered by these, but I know people who are very triggered by talk of graphic self harm.

while there is no such thing as a therian hunter, there are people who will harass and bully you in public for wearing gear, so be careful.