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Shimi ·⃝⃤
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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.
Pinned
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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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
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
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
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
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
“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
Want to read an incredible #Memoir?

We sold out of the 1st press of Godbeast. The story of my growing up in the UK in the 1970s, #deaf, #therian, #trans. All initial backer copies are shipped — we’re about to go into a second pressing in hardback—arriving next week.

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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, ...
ko-fi.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Proud to be closing out a poetry & music night put on by @animalinstinctprod.bsky.social it’s free so be there in plenty of time. It’s at C&P coffee house, a good space for some pared-down intimate reading. I’ve wanted to be on the same billing as some of these critters. Grateful for the opportunity
January 19, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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“The humans asked me, once, if I had ever been a human woman.

And I laughed.

For what is a woman but a shape that desire wears?

So I remained beast but became what they dreamed of—and they loved me as I was.”

#trans #therian #elder
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 PM
I missed this as I was moving home. Grayson, one of the pack leaders of Ely, Minnesota’s most beloved ambassador wolves has died at the age of nine on the 9th Jan. I will howl for you tonight. #RIP
January 17, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Channeling Aristophanes in this from Lykaeon

This is how Therians were made.
Not from magic or curse
But from union
From the love of one world for another
You are the story I made
with the first humans
You are the breath that bridges beast and being
You are the howl that remembers how to speak…
8/7
January 9, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“The humans asked me, once, if I had ever been a human woman.

And I laughed.

For what is a woman but a shape that desire wears?

So I remained beast but became what they dreamed of—and they loved me as I was.”

#trans #therian #elder
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Some crossings happen without our blessing.
January 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
So And why do I side with Plato’s Aristophanes? Rather than Plato’s Diotima? Where Diotima says: ascend beyond bodies Lykaeon says: return to them. Where Diotima promises immortality through ideas, Lykaeon offers continuity through pack & where the Ladder teaches release, Lykaeon insists on bonding.
January 9, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Plato gives us two of the most beautiful accounts of love, and they couldn’t be more different — or more necessary. In Symposium, we get Aristophanes’ myth of the split humans and Diotima’s Ladder of Love. Both astonishing. Both unfinished on purpose. 0/7

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Texas A&M Bans Philosophy Prof. From Teaching Plato Because of "Gender Ideology"
“Silencing 2,500-year-old ideas from one of the world’s most influential thinkers betrays the mission of higher education.”
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January 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
My teensy based pedals used throughout Lykaeon approached completion. LED switches for Oct +/- Hold 5ths Chords. The rest for scene changes MIDI panic etc. Lighting is via I²C to PCA9685+ULN2803A & 4x Analog Expression Pedals using ADS1115. Legibility is poor when masked so no SPI OLED displays… yet
January 8, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Telos & Hexis: Maybe the most shocking & formal part of Lykaeon; a three way rut between lycanthrope & goddess. A posture not of invention but intention from ancient Greek vase imagery: hybrid figures in transitional stages, slipping humanity, a core therian state of being. Essay in alt txt
January 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Anaphora, kratos, rhēsis: The moment Mother Lykaeon decides to leave the forest in search of her lost children. Holding the symbolic candle of the murdered & missing, clenched fist holding anger & determination. I was raised on ancient greek stories, it’s an honour to perform to you. More in Alt txt
January 8, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The perfect woman doesn’t exi—
January 6, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I am glad I am not in my 30s anymore.
That being said I am looking forward to being in my 80s. Saggy tits. Smeared in gesso, impasto and dog hair and fluids chewing a real Cuban and spitting expletives.

Not long now.
January 6, 2026 at 10:45 PM