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Shimi ·⃝⃤
@shimi.bsky.social
Deaf arty faggit. Bitey lil trans critter. Lvl 61 Elder. Episcopal & knot deep holothere. Castus, non caelibis. Gramarteus & miniator. Pictor, Librorum illuminator, Scaenicus, Tibicen & Cantor. Psalmista & Vates. Amator animalium.
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Just a heads-up: a few copies remain from the original 100-copy hardback run of GODBEAST — my memoir of growing up #Therian in 1970s UK before even having a name for any of it. A story of wildness, faith & becoming the creature I was destined to be.

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GODBEAST — A Feral Memoir (Hardback + PDF) - Shimi & Critter's Ko-fi Shop
GODBEAST is my first full-length book. A feral memoir. A sacred howl. It’s 120 pages of memory, myth, and survival. I wrote it with my whole heart, ...
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Yes I am in a better situation after asking for help (its so hard!). Currently drinking Stash and Equal Exchange Double Bergamot Lady Grey. But very flighty and changeable. I like Peppermint, Chai, Decaf Green, Chamomile. Twig teas are nice as is a nice roasted oolong.
February 4, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Had the den to myself tonight. All creatures out at the bar & its rarely (blessedly) quiet. So I made tea, put the heated blanket on low & did a drawunder. A bit rusty after the move, the book, the show, the asking for & receiving help. A moment of rest.

Ilera of the cloth is unlocking a lot in me
February 4, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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February 2, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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My name is Isera, I will accompany you while you walk the path.

One of the many children of Lykaeon: A cloistered wolf of faith & stories, she doesn’t need to move much — the world rearranges itself quietly around her.

She tells tales of her mother & the early world. Would you like to hear them?
January 31, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Today we will see the full “Snow Moon” in the PNW tonight after sunset moonrise around ~5:08 PM — may your howls to her, shining her light upon us, reach each other.
February 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Isera is woven into the gaps where her other siblings: Hexæl, Velæth, Sura, Kora, Rua & Sef aren’t. If Lykæon is the wild mother & the others are ways of meeting a broken world, then Isera is what makes it possible to be in the world at all. She exists among the others—not as absence, but as care.
February 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
My name is Isera, I will accompany you while you walk the path.

One of the many children of Lykaeon: A cloistered wolf of faith & stories, she doesn’t need to move much — the world rearranges itself quietly around her.

She tells tales of her mother & the early world. Would you like to hear them?
January 31, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Plus it looks like I am deep throating a rod of bamboo
January 30, 2026 at 10:20 PM
We’re not out of needing half masks though! The jaw pressure of a full mask interfering with embouché of traditional flutes, woodwinds & shakuhachi needs to be solved. In rehearsals open frame is easier to mic-up. Costuming requires intentionality at the onset.

(Photos by @netsui-prime.bsky.social)
January 30, 2026 at 7:56 PM
It doesn’t make one better or more genuinely expressed than the other. But collapsing them into the same idea flattens both & usually erases the creatures for whom therianthropy isn’t play, aesthetic or hobby—but a form of survival & why I’m trying to make therian specific space in our communities.
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
It isn’t a fursona nor temporary. It shows up in my body, my nervous system, my ethics, my need for pack, territory, touch, & care that is animal, beastlyl, creaturely. It affects how I perceive the world as it’s lived, not costumed. Masks or tails are prosthesis to help with my grinding dysmorphia.
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
For me, furry is akin to drag: something folk get to try on. They’re playful, performative, expansive. We get to exaggerate, remix, explore. That doesn’t make them fake—because drag isn’t fake—but it is a different mode. Furry is something we can take off, Therianthropy is constant, gnawing, primal.
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I’ve been pushing for a therian identity that’s not just furry-adjacent & not reducible to other people’s frameworks of therianthropy either. As a Holothere, I sit in a space that makes it plain that furry, while fun, is not interchangeable with theianthropy. One is a layer, the other is a core.
Therian is not Furry+ can we please move on from this. Please I am begging critters to stop calling therians just "furries who are a bit extra". A lot of therians are furries but not all of us are and they are not the same 'community', our history is not the same.

I Am Not A Furry+
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
It came to me in a flash how to play my flutes and shakuhachi through the muzzle of a full mask… and early experiments show a way I can do this. I now no longer need to have half masks for performance. And flutes are a pivotal part of how I perform. Absolutely stoked.
January 29, 2026 at 6:17 PM
And now you got a new follower into feral NSFW. HI!
January 29, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Fuck as wolves
January 29, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Hail to the prince.
#hourly #yote https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/yotes/46113373865_8db2c76bb3_c.jpg
January 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Chomp
January 28, 2026 at 7:36 AM
A companion to my earlier poem “I remember”
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I need to be bitten — and then to return the favour.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
At Ravefurrest being creatures with @seerendipity.bsky.social. Last night was a blast and a much needed blowing off steam — thank you all for being you.
January 25, 2026 at 5:10 PM
That Tummy tho!
January 25, 2026 at 1:42 AM
I completely forgot in the rush to get everyone’s books out after the delay from being made houseless.
January 24, 2026 at 12:52 AM
“This is a poem about memory, embodiment, and a kind of love that doesn’t ask permission to exist.”

#Therian #Poem #Poetry
January 22, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Compare that with the rhythmic oration it became for Lykaeon.
January 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM