Ketrino’s Essays, Rants and Other Writings

Ketrino’s Essays, Rants, and Other Writings

*The following paragraphs are just something I want to get through to people who read my stuff. Not required reading, but it’d help you understand my writings and me a bit better. Or just scroll down to view my writings.*

Many of the things I have written are informational. It’s not because I feel that there is a lack of good therianthropic material out there, but because I feel that the subject is all too often misunderstood. It could be that I feel this way because I get a lot of people who run by this site and email me about werewolves, or that I often go looking about the net in non-therianthropic forums and see some misunderstanding (which, really, is to be expected…). Basically, it’s a mix of people (mostly teens) who think “omgz werewolves” to people who think we’re crazy, role-players, exaggerating furries, or what have you.

I do write about my therianthropy on occasion, usually when I’m feeling creative or like lamenting (in the case of some of the things I write). I write about my therianthropy mainly because I like to explore it for myself. I believe that therianthropy is more personal than public. I really could care less about how someone else discovered their therianthropy, but reading about how it works in their daily lives and other topics is always entertaining to read. If you’re interested in my very jumbled and odd Awakening, you can check out my Werecard.

I also hit some odder topics, such as the occurrence of wings in therians. I write these things mainly out of my own interest for the subject, since I’m a winged wolf, along with the fact that the subject is not often explored. Many of my ideas also revolve around Otherkin ideas. I believe that therians should be included in the category of Otherkin, not separately. Therefore, when I say Otherkin, I include therians, and I also include Otherkin ideas with therianthropy, such as the “Yearning” which is explained in one of my essays. Some of my ideas may be deemed fluffy by some, but I think it’s just because I use therianthropy and Otherkin together.

I also have some misanthropy worked into my writings. As I grow older and my views change, I may not agree with my misanthropy. Certainly it has ebbed since I’ve written my earlier essays, but I am not going to go back and get rid of what I said. I admit I don’t like humans all that much. It isn’t just “humans suck” for me, mind you, but I’m not explaining here when you could read what I’ve already written about it.

I am currently, as of typing this April 2008, no longer present in the online werecommunity. To me, the so-called werecommunity is essentially an online world linked by forums, websites, and other similar things. Let me say here that my thoughts on the werecommunity (which does NOT include the online Otherkin community) should NOT be taken as how all therians view our community. Reasons for my retreat are varied, and you can check out my thoughts on leaving in my essay about it. Finally, I am not really active in the Otherkin community, nor was I ever, though I was active on Otherkin Alliance until the forums closed down. Personally, I prefer the Otherkin community to the werecommunity considering the ‘Kin community seems more open than what to me feels like a more logical and “solid-minded” werecommunity, compared to the ‘Kin community, which bases many things on past lives, magic, ect, and doesn’t spend too much time contemplating itself, fighting, or boasting egos.

What I have presented to the world on this page was written between 2005 to the time you are reading this. I’ve aged quite a bit since my first essay. You may find that my tone of writing, ideas and other things have changed. I don’t typically go back and change my ideas in my essays, so what you see is the raw form of how I thought at whatever age these essays were written. Most aren’t dated, but I’ve been dating some. So, no more rambling. Enjoy the essays!

Read These First

P-Shifting: Where I Stand

Arctic Wolf

What is Wolf?- A small bit about what wolf means to me
The Wolf Theriotype- My thoughts on why there are so many wolves,
and why people may jump to conclusions
Rain- Written when I was craving the rain
Shift Analysis- A look at one of my wolf shifts
A Longing For Home- Why I feel I can't live in the human lands
The Wolf as a Symbol- A short piece on wolf symbolism
Possible Physical Shift?- An attempt to explain what happened to me one night
Balance- A somewhat poetic musing about one of my tattoos,
and the balance between wolf and human that it represents
Why I Shift- How shifting and my interpretation of my wolf self go along. Should be read with Wolf Manifesting.
Wolf Manifesting- A brief essay about why I am wolf. Should be read with Why I shift.

Bighorn Sheep

The Battering Ram: Awakening to the Bighorn- A much more in-depth piece than Being Bighorn Sheep.
A deeper look at discovering my bighorn half. Still in progress of editing it.
Being Bighorn Sheep- Living life as a bighorn
Contemplation of the Sheep- A piece that tries to figure out where sheep fits in with my therianthropy
Ram Dreams- A bit on how simple, yet driven ram is
Transgender Sheep?-My thoughts about having being a human female with a male theriotype and being transgender
Chronic Sheepwalking- a short essay about walking on phantom sheep legs

Personal

Fears- My biggest fear animal-wise
My Deinonychus Life- About my first incarnation on Earth, when I was a deinonychus
On Eagle’s Black Wings- A brief essay about discovering one of my past lives as a predatory bird
School And The Animal Person- On school and how it has affected me as a therian
College and the Lone Wolf- An extension of the above essay, further exploring how college can eat away at me as a therian
What's in a Werename?- My thoughts about my own werename
My Retreat From the Werecommunity- My feelings about leaving the community and why

Community

Discrimination Via Labels- Why discriminating against others who don’t use the typical labels is unnecessary,
and how the werecommunity should back away from it.

Rants

Werewolf/Vampire War?- My thoughts about the little “war”
We Have Human Duties Too! - Ranting on people who think we are free of human strife
Humans And The Desire To Be Other- Theory on why humans want to be non-human
Wannabes: A Bane On Were-Society- On were-wannabes and their plague
A Wolf-Sheep's View On Humans- My views on why some become hateful towards humans, and just why the very concept
of such heavy misanthropy is ridiculous
To Those Who Bitch About Werewolf Movies- Rant about those therians who complain about were-movies giving us a “bad name”

Still Unorganized

Being Winged- A collection of my ideas regarding winged animals, and how I think it works out
Werewolves, Shapeshifters and Therianthropes, Is There A Difference?- A jumbled attempt to differentiate
between terms commonly used to all mean one thing
The Yearning- Describing what’s usually taken as an Otherkin phenomenon, and how to deal with it
Indigo Otherkin- The phenomenon of Otherkin who are also Indigo children
Reincarnation- My reincarnation essay I wrote during my senior year of high school

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