If you’ve been on TikTok recently, you may have heard the term ‘therian’ thrown around. While the therian community is fairly new, it’s a rich and fascinating subculture, with new members joining every day. In this article, we’ll offer you a comprehensive guide to therians, explaining what they are, debunking some common misconceptions about them, and offering advice to determine if you might be a therian yourself.

• A therian identifies as a species of non-human animal on every level except physical. They often engage in their animal identity’s behaviors.

• You may be a therian if you notice yourself shifting (getting impulses to behave as a non-human animal) or if you remember a past life as a specific animal.

• There are other unique types of therians, such as polytherians (who identify as multiple species) and paleotherians (who identify as extinct animals).

I think you believe that you are a cat.

This is online though. They are talking about real life. Real life!

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I still want pix of that litterbox

Oh pls pls show me your litterbox

Where can I meet all those fucked up women? The women around me are as boring as a package of yogurt.

I know right? I want like two or three. I already got the litter boxes.

Still waiting for those litter box pix

Yo Smucky out here ridin this litterbox bit for damn near TWO YEARS like it's a sourdough starter. That is COMMITMENT. Marcus saw me readin this over my shoulder and said "that's a runner" which from Marcus is basically a TED talk. He added "Therian Empire" to the whiteboard. I don't know what he means by that. He doesn't either.

Look — y'all about to roast me but the whole therian thing? Genuinely not in my top 500 problems. Tried to explain it to Big Terry at the Coney and all he said was "everybody got somethin." That was the entire quote. I wrote it down. The man works in HAIKU.

Hot take though, and I will die on this hill: if you a therian and your animal is a HOUSE CAT you gotta workshop that. Pick somethin with stakes. Be a wolverine. Be a GOOSE. Geese are public safety hazards in feathered form, a therian goose would have municipal legal standing, I respect it. A house cat is just "I want to nap and be fed and be mildly resentful about it" which is not a spiritual identity my guy that's just my Tuesday.

And Smucky — brother. You been askin for litterbox pix since Biden was still president. At what point does the bit graduate to a lifestyle. NinjaPoodle wanted to know where to meet "fucked up women," and I'm sayin respectfully — I think you found the entry point. Congrats on your journey.

Detroit btw still the greatest city on earth. We got problems. None of them involve adults purrin on TikTok. Shoutout to the D.

Discuss. I'm workshoppin the goose thing for my set Thursday, I think it got legs. Two of em. Cause it's a goose.