Saying some things about therianthropy and naming your theriotypes.

1. Your theriotypes don’t have names. However, there can be some exceptions to this. For example, if you had a past life as a pet, then your theriotype could have that name, as well if maybe you were a circus animal. Other than that, though, they don’t have names.

2. It doesn't make sense to name them. Do bears use human words? No. Do wolves name their pups things like “Moon” and “Cherish”? No. So why would you name your theriotype?

3. “But it feels… natural.” Then that would be a preferred name. Face it. Cats don’t go like, “[insert cat noises] Lillie.” (Translation: Hi Lillie!) Cats don’t have the vocal capability to give each other “human word” names.

4 Naming your theriotypes also doesn’t make sense because your theriotypes ARE you. They aren't a separate identity who needs a different name.

I am open to correction and discussion.
(Also this may have been terribly formatted but I am terrible at writing things sooo..)

I do have to agree with you on everything. It is extremely annoying to see people diminish Therianthropy to an aesthetic and a spiritual connection. I see people with the wrong definition or idea of Therianthropy evey time I open a TT comment section about Therianthropy that blew up. There are so many Non-Therian people and some Therians who say things like "Therians are people who have a spiritual connection to animals!" And like no, that is not what Therianthropy is at its core. I usually just correct them and move on but it's very disheartening to see.

We've never used TikTok so everything we know about it comes second hand, but it reminds me a lot of what happened with otherkin/fictionkin back on Tumblr in the 2010s what with people trying to change the identity because they think actually identifying as nonhuman is "too weird".

Then all of a sudden quadrobics came out of nowhere during the pandemic, and now it's everywhere in the community. Like you can't escape it and it is really weird how sudden and gripping its been. For me, of course I'm not going to move like that, I'm a grazing herd animal! Something's wrong if you see cattle twisting their limbs like that.

Most of this has got to do with the format itself and a part of the enshittification of the web. Social media like TikTok favors short, non-controversial videos that spoon feeds people algorithmic content that gets hits. A scorpion therian giving a detailed lecture about their experiences isn't going to hit the algorithm in the same way a short video of showing off some jumps.

-Pon

ive been wanting to make myself one of these for so long! this is definitely helpful even for me as someone who tends to forget terms and then has a hard time talking about therianthropy

This is a great list
As a newly awakened wolf therian, I especially love the parts about fakeclaiming,trying to fit in as a newly awakened therian and "common" theriotypes.
Have a great day/night!

Ohhhh! This explains some things! (proud cladotherian (dog) here!)

@DustWolf
Thanks for the warning! There are a lot of creeps on the internet, so I’ll keep a look out.

@ViaraAmethyst
Wow thanks for the advice! You’re amazing, Viara!
Have a great day!

I've come here to add something tha I've seen a whole lot. People saying their a therian after doing quads once. No your not. It's gotten to the point where people will wear gear and then just do quads and say their a therain with 30 therotypes. and then after a month they act like it never happened, this is not what therianopthy is!

hi @DustWolf, Im gonna save up my points and try helping you.