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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Shimi ·⃝⃤
@shimi.bsky.social
· Nov 11
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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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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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
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.
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
Ilera of the cloth is unlocking a lot in me
February 4, 2026 at 4:53 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
Ilera of the cloth is unlocking a lot in me
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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?
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
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?
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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?
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
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?
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?
Plus it looks like I am deep throating a rod of bamboo
January 30, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Plus it looks like I am deep throating a rod of bamboo
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)
(Photos by @netsui-prime.bsky.social)
January 30, 2026 at 7:56 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)
(Photos by @netsui-prime.bsky.social)
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 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.
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
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.
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
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.
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+
I Am Not A Furry+
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.
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
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.
And now you got a new follower into feral NSFW. HI!
January 29, 2026 at 6:06 PM
And now you got a new follower into feral NSFW. HI!
Fuck as wolves
wolves as FUCK
January 29, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Fuck as wolves
Hail to the prince.
#hourly #yote https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/yotes/46113373865_8db2c76bb3_c.jpg
January 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Hail to the prince.
A companion to my earlier poem “I remember”
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 PM
A companion to my earlier poem “I remember”
I need to be bitten — and then to return the favour.
January 26, 2026 at 7:53 AM
I need to be bitten — and then to return the favour.
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
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.
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
I completely forgot in the rush to get everyone’s books out after the delay from being made houseless.
Compare that with the rhythmic oration it became for Lykaeon.
January 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Compare that with the rhythmic oration it became for Lykaeon.