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Mask tutorial part one!

Step 1: get scissors and card

Step 2: cut this shape, the rough size of the top half of your face

The width is how wide the mask will be, the cut out triangle in the middle is where your nose will go

Step 3: Cut out this shape for the muzzle

Step 4: construct the muzzle. You can use either tape or hot glue here.

It should end up looking like this:

Now we are going to go back to the flat bit and cut some eyes.

Step 5: get a felt tip pen. Take glasses and stuff off your face. Put the card on your face and use the felt tips to trace around your eyes while feeling like an idiot

Step 6: cut out the eyes around the bad guidelines you drew

Step 7: attaching the muzzle. You can use hot glue or tape, and depending on how much you squish it, you can make the muzzle wide or thin. Anyway glue/ tape the muzzle around the nose hole but preferably not over the eyes.

That's it for the base! I'll make another tutorial on how to fur it and put the strings on, but that's it for now!

Mask tutorial part 2

Equipment: glue gun, scissors, mask base, fur or another material you want to use.

Step 1: cut a piece of your fabric slightly bigger than the muzzle and cut a small square out of the end, like we did when making the muzzle for the mask base

Step 2: start glueing the fur to the muzzle. Start where the muzzle meets the flat bit, then work along the edges, folding the fur under the edges

(sorry for the bad pictures)

You may have extra flaps you need to cut off like the one above that I ended up with

Muzzle finished! You can see I left a gap, that's because I'm going to attach a plastic nose later and this just makes it easier to stick on.

Step 3: attach the ties / elastic. Poke it through the base, tie it, you can glue the tied end down if you want. Do this on both sides. Please don't be an idiot like me and forget until you've glued half the face fur down... 🤦

Step 4: cut the fur for the rest of the base. Cut/ trace around the base, leaving some overlap. Make sure to cut around the triangle for the nose too, or it won't fit around the muzzle properly.

Lay it on top of the mask and cut the nose bit to fit around the muzzle nicely.

Step 5: glue the fabric to the base! (Yes we will cut the eyes out but that comes later) Start at the muzzle and glue around the edges, folding the edges over to the inside of the mask.

Step 6: cut out the eyes. Make sure there is no fur going in your eyes, and if there is, trim that fur. Then if you haven't already, glue around the eyes but DO NOT FOLD THE EDGES INSIDE THE MASK. It puts fur in your eyes. Not comfy.

I'll do another post with the finished thing, but I can't add any more images

Day 1 of adding gear to uniform:

It went ok, I kinda chickened out a bit though because while yes, I did have the chew toy out at break, I didn't wear it around my neck on the ribbon I attached it to.

Meh

Edit: I haven't added any more gear but I've been more open with the chew toy. Someone growled at me and my (accidental) response was to growl back. Oh well. I also had someone bark at me but they sounded so damn high pitched. I was like mate u sound like a puppy. Get over yourself.

Poem from last night because the species dysphoria was bad

I'm tired of paper muzzles

And plastic claws

Just let me go home

And walk on my own four paws.

Kinda vent ig?

No part of this body is my own

Despite all the years I've lived in this body, it still doesn't feel like me, and I don't think it ever will

I'm not the right species. I'm not the right gender. Where is my fur? My paws? My ears and tail? Why do I not have a flat chest? Why do I not even smell right, the one sense that I used to be able to depend on?

This body isn't right. This society doesn't accept me.

Why can't I just go home? To the forest, to the snow covered pine trees, to the joy of bringing the pack a new kill?

Home to the wooden floors, the warm bed by the fireside, the human who could scratch just the right place behind my ears?

I just want to go home.

Bshsydhshshd I'm annoyed I don't actually have a muzzle cos my muzzle's a bit itchy and I really need to scratch it!

Anyway I've had a good and quite canine day. Someone outside my friendship group noticed my bone chew toy and seems to be accepting! I guess we'll see next week though.

wooo we gotta love getting barked at in class…

People barking n howling at me and I'm just there like. Why. How do you think barking at me will intimidate me. Do you think I'll come and roll over at your feet? You can't even bark properly. Just... Shut up before you embarrass yourself further.

One very unimpressed doggy. Get some original insults. I genuinely find it funny that you've ended up barking while trying to insult me for being a doggy

Anyway they were misgendering me too but yeeeahhh try not to think about the part that actually offends me.

Nevermind I've reported it someone else can deal with it now.

Me at the people who's choice of insult at me wearing a DOG BONE was to meow at me???

Apparently I'm not allowed to wear my dog bone because it's too obvious and goes against jewelry rules???

Yes I am allowed a smaller chew toy, but it's not the same, it's not gear.

And now the haters are going to think they've won.

So I've decided to start a therian pack! Idk how many people will be interested, since it's going to be in person and in the North East of England, but here goes anyway!

I've made an Instagram called nighteyes_therian_pack , and already posted there about it!

Message me or comment the info if you're interested!

Hope that at least some people are able to join! Thank you!

Age limit is 20, just because I'm not really comfortable with anyone older, me being a minor.

Forgot to mention reblog for reach if you can!

Can we be moots?:3

Ya!

Wanted to do this for a while...

WET

BEAST

WEDNESDAY!!!

Guys please check out the Freedom of Form Foundation.

It's amazing. They're working towards body modifications like tails that you can move as instinctively as the rest of your body. It's a few years out yet, but it could be brilliant!

Owwww my tail shifts have been really painful recently. It's like my tail's trying to grow back... It's annoying because it gives my stupid brain false hope, but I know I'll never naturally grow a tail in this life.

Also it hurts which is never good, but I would be fine with it if there was actually a chance of randomly growing a tail.

Yeah I feel like it sounds stupid but between being ill, painful shifts and species dysphoria my brain isn't working 100% right at the moment

list of resources about alterhumanity!

alterhumanarchive.neocities.org "is an ever-expanding collection of information, writings, and creations meant to function as a community resource and memory bank."

anotherwiki.org "is the free encyclopedia written by, for, and about the Otherkin community." primarily focuses on otherkin and therian identities.

thehornedgate.wordpress.com or Beyond Awakening is a collection of essays and stories about alterhuman identities by those who experience them.

beyondhumanity.net "was created as a resource for those curious about alterhumans and/or questioning an identity, to dispel misconceptions, and to provide an online space for [the creators] writings."

alt-h.net "began as a tumblr blog dedicated to content and articles on alterhumanity. [...], and it was the growth of the community here that began to push us towards our current goal of alterhuman advocacy."

obscurities.sonverrid.org "is a project & site for content, mainly writings, about personal animality from therians, otherkin, & other alterhumans, but for animal types that are uncommon or rare in those communities."

fromfiction-archive.rookerystudios.com is, like name suggests, an archive focused on fiction folk and fictional identities.

and a list of every site relating to alterhumanity, one way or other:

luunaathh.dreamwidth.org/The Directory of Nonhuman Spaces "I have compiled a directory of every single nonhuman/otherkind/alterhuman/etc site which currently exists on the internet. This list is inclusive of every alterhuman/otherkin identity which is currently defined." writes the creator. It lists forums, discord servers and more!

For more sites, make sure to browse Beyond Humanity and The Directory of Nonhuman Spaces, listed above!

I was trying to do quads and. I think I broke my toe. But where I live they literally don't do anything with it except tell you to tape your toes together, so ice pack and weird medically tape it is

Shut now I'm dog whining as well cos of the pain

(this is when we find out tomorrow it's literally just bruised isn't it)

Update it's not broken just badly bruised.

(sorry for the bad drawing of fur)

The shift drawing thing!

Here's the blank one

I went to the cinema to see Dune 2 today, and I'm just? So shifty? The entire time? And idk also now the urge to learn how to knife fight has come back as well, I think I just want to hunt too much yeah that'll be it. But yeah questioning fiction kin of the main character now.

Sorry for not making much sense I just wanted to write it down somewhere

Do we think it's a mistake that I spent £10 on a small bottle of shower gel that smells like grass?