I have seen the word "otherkiv" once or twice its unnecessary (I think) according to one YouTube video (I could not find anything else on it its --
An otherkiv is someone who receives/has non-human experiences, much like a therian. unlike therians however, they do not identify as their would be theriotype, or kivtypes.
I am new to this community but ehhh sort sounds weird. I think this counts faunalune I think. (corrent me if I am wrong)

Therianthropy is a term originally from Greek meaning “wild animal” and “human.” Historically, it referred to mythological shapeshifting (like werewolves), but in modern usage it also refers to a personal identity experience where a person feels, mentally or spiritually, that they identify as a non-human animal.

Therianthropy is not a medically recognized mental disorder as of the time of writing this.

Psychological therianthropy
The identification with an animal may come from neurodivergency, the subconscious, or personal coping mechanisms developed over time.

Some theorize that early experiences (like trauma or unique brain wiring) could contribute to how someone relates to an animal identity.

There are rare clinical conditions (like clinical lycanthropy) where someone literally believes they are an animal, but that’s distinct from how therians describe their experience.

spiritual identity
The connection to an animal might be understood as a spiritual essence that resonates with that animal.

This interpretation is personal and varies. It isn’t tied to a specific religion, and many therians who think spiritually about their identity still practice entirely separate religions or none at all.

Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therianthropy?
https://thetheriansociety.com/therian-discussion-document
https://alterhumanity.fandom.com/wiki/Psychological_Therianthropy?
https://alterhumanity.fandom.com/wiki/Spiritual_Therianthropy?
My own experience lol

Not sure how much you have in, but when I was poking around where my little sib interacts with other therians, I found this dictionary. It seems very well-thought out with a whole lot of terms, both genuine and fanalune. It also has sources (lots of tumblr but there’s a few genuine sources, even TG!).

If anyone has any other therian-related words they want me to chop up and put into the faunalune generator, please reply to the thread with the word and its supposed definition. Or even just chunks of word work fine as well. This is meant to be something we can all have a knowing giggle at.

Or if anyone knows a good place to source more terms which isn't TikTok, that would be great to know too.

Thanks to @Murray for the spiffy faunalune logo also!

(2026-01-29 23:04)TJWolf Wrote:  In my last reply to this thread, I detailed how the shift from online forums to social media is what enticed females into these communities but there's another side of the coin.

Aesthetic based social media such as Facebook and Instagram also gives young females bodily dysphoria because they are constantly comparing themselves to whatever image and behavior the internet deems to be the "ideal" woman.

It's no stretch to consider that there's only two main avenues a young female can travel down when she searches "I don't fit the ideal, I feel like I'm in the wrong body".

Aye, I think that's a possible factor too.

this is amazing. lol but really unessary word are funny but should not be used unironically.

In my last reply to this thread, I detailed how the shift from online forums to social media is what enticed females into these communities but there's another side of the coin.

Aesthetic based social media such as Facebook and Instagram also gives young females bodily dysphoria because they are constantly comparing themselves to whatever image and behavior the internet deems to be the "ideal" woman.

It's no stretch to consider that there's only two main avenues a young female can travel down when she searches "I don't fit the ideal, I feel like I'm in the wrong body".

(2026-01-28 0:33)Zero Wrote:  I'm pretty much of the opinion that social roles are reinforcements for what nature already built. Codifies it in a sense. But there's still no hard and fast rules about how everyone should act or needs to act. Nature creates the general trends and socialisation adds a bunch of extra detail and filler. Well meaning campaigns push for men to subvert expdctations and let themselves cry or talk about their feelings more, to push against the narrative that they should be stoic all the time. And such subversions can be acheived but only to an extent, enough to not he ashamed when crying. But testosterone directly affects how emotions are expressed and if you're T dominant then crying is quite sporadic.
And doing things to distract generally works better than delving into feelings talk.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was going for in my long-winded speech hehe
You worded it in a much more concise manner than I did

(2026-01-28 0:33)Zero Wrote:  It certainly is something that can make male friendship difficult, as when, for some reason or another, you can't do the formerly shared activity or do ti as often as you could in the past, don't be surprised if your male friends drop you like a sack of hot coal. I've had that happen many times. There's nothing malicious or personal about it. It's more that the reality is as you say, male socializing tends to revolve around shared activities so when that shared activity dwindles or stops, so does the friendship.

Yeah I can absolutely see that being the case. I think I have a somewhat masculine social approach? I meet most people through hobbies and most of my friends are men, and I do have a tendency to forget to keep in touch when out of context. I use regular, prescheduled furmeets near me as a friend-keeping guarantee. And I am generally more talkative in a setting involving my own or a shared hobby.

(2026-01-28 0:33)Zero Wrote:  My approach is kind of hybrid since I think shared activities are a good way to meet knew people and start to get to know them and create the foundation for a deeper friendship, and then after that point constantly Doing Things together doesn't have to be an emphasis, but as I've said, in practice it tends to not go well with men.

I think I'm similar, activities are a way to arrange stuff, but I still like to just spend time connecting for the sake of it. And this is usually achieved with very close friends of any gender.

(2026-01-28 0:33)Zero Wrote:  It's interesting how things changed. Back in the. day, it was generally reckoned that female autism didn't really exist. With the rise of the warrior cats fandom online in the mid teens, that seemed to be a solid counter-example that can't be denied, generally seeming to be the female autistic equivalent of what the Sonic fandom was to male autistic people in earlier eras. Those are stereotypes, of course, but they do have at least a kernel of truth to them. That's a tangent.

A tangent but a relevant one I think. The pieces of media that end up popular among autists (eg Sonic) are 1. a bit formulaic. 2. Have a roster of characters that are colour coded and come with listable stats/categories. There's something very pleasing about that. When I was a kid the tv programmes I obsessed over had colour coded characters and extremely formulaic episode formats.
Warrior cats has those elements plus is a bit girly because of talking fluffy animals. And I think "nerdy" girls are quite unlike their non-nerdy peers in that they also socialise through shared hobbies more often.

(2026-01-28 0:33)Zero Wrote:  One big counter-example that occurs to me is that historically the therian community was largely male dominated. From its inception all the way up to maybe 2010-2015 it was overwhelmingly male dominated. The influx of new people during the Tumblr era decisively shifted the demographics to the reverse. It is interesting to think about why. Why does it appeal so much to preteen and teen girls? Cultural factors I don't quite understand. I haven't bene a teenager in over ten years so I'm old and out of touch with these things.

The internet was male dominated until around 2010 because computers in general were still the realm of techy nerds. The more mainstream the internet is, more diverse interests get hosted including interests that attract women, I think.

(2026-01-28 22:39)Snapdragon_ Wrote:  

(2025-02-23 11:19)DustWolf Wrote:  But I would like the reader to consider why the above is what we see? If online gender identification is genuine in the sense of someone claiming to be trans male being male, why does the majority of them seem to adhere to female behavioural stereotypes? If they didn't, the correlation mentioned above should be tied to gender and not sex, no?

Other queer folks have already commented on this, but as an AFAB trans guy I wanted to pitch in too.

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Sorry if this is rambly, missing some points, or poorly structured. Im being very general with what I'm saying and am aware of that; no two people are gonna have the same experiences in life but there can be some trends because of the strict society we find ourselves in.
Also it's late, I'm sick for the umpteenth time this month, and I'm writing on my phone which is less than convenient. Please do question/debate anything I've said that sounds off

I'm pretty much of the opinion that social roles are reinforcements for what nature already built. Codifies it in a sense. But there's still no hard and fast rules about how everyone should act or needs to act. Nature creates the general trends and socialisation adds a bunch of extra detail and filler. Well meaning campaigns push for men to subvert expdctations and let themselves cry or talk about their feelings more, to push against the narrative that they should be stoic all the time. And such subversions can be acheived but only to an extent, enough to not he ashamed when crying. But testosterone directly affects how emotions are expressed and if you're T dominant then crying is quite sporadic.
And doing things to distract generally works better than delving into feelings talk.

I'm losing my mind on that generator. But I'm kinda worried about the fact that I'm 90% sure I saw most of these words being used for real and unironically... the "marrow" thing is especially familiar for some reason. And "omni" is just making me shiver at this point.