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File:Shiroulv.jpg

2013-09-09T12:55:20Z

Asimara: uploaded a new version of "File:Shiroulv.jpg": jarandhel says it doesn't cover fair use

A picture of [[User:Shiro]] with a wolf pup.

File:Shiroulv.jpg

2013-09-09T12:38:15Z

Asimara: uploaded a new version of "File:Shiroulv.jpg": Shiro posing as a wolf for Pacific Standard magazine.

A picture of [[User:Shiro]] with a wolf pup.

Transcats

2013-02-08T22:48:32Z

Asimara:

{{Infobox person
|name=Transcats
|profession=Troll (hobby)
|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com
}}
'''Transcats''' is a [[wikipedia:Troll (Internet)|troll]] in the [[otherkin]] community. She is active on [[wikipedia:tumblr|Tumblr]], and her style of trolling closely mimics the earlier troll [[Prince-Koyangi|Prince Koyangi]]<ref name="koyangi">{{website|url=http://betabeat.com/2012/07/prince-koyangi-tumblr-troll-otherkin-transethnic-eric-draven-07052012/|publisher=[http://betabeta.com BetaBeat]|first=Nitasha|Last=Tiku|year=2012|date=January 21, 2013|title=Teens Admit to Trolling Tumblr: JK, There’s No Such Thing as Transethnic Autistic Pangender Asexual Demiromantic Otherkin}}</ref>. She claims to be a twenty-year-old "Cis, vegan, multiracial, bisexual, demisexual, pagan, plural, transspecies, witch". Her more over-the-top claims include that she owns a cat who is the person who should have been born in her body<ref name="cat">{{website|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/32284729385/how-i-found-my-otherkin-a-cats-tale|title=How I Found My Otherkin: A Cat's Tale|first=Transcats|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|date=January 21, 2013|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/iJDKGvS.jpg}}</ref>, that her parents have had to force her to bathe<ref name="bath">{{website|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/40967222835/forced-to-bathe-a-cats-shame|title=Forced to Bathe: A Cat's Shame|first=Transcats|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|date=January 21, 2013|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/geBPVde.jpg}}</ref>, that the term "batshit" is based on oppression of bats by humans<ref name="batshit">{{website|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/HMM1R0u.png|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/37942310592/youre-bat-shit-crazy-and-need-serious-mental-help|title=You're bat shit crazy and need serious mental help.|first=Transcats|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|date=January 21, 2013}}</ref>, and that "I transcend the traditional human concept of gender since I am a cat. I am not just a ''her'', but a ''cher''."<ref name="cher">{{website|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/40064426232/how-did-you-decide-which-pronouns-didnt-offend-you|title=How did you decide which prounouns didn't offend you?|first=Transcats|date=January 21, 2013|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/Pil5vCs.jpg}}</ref>

== Specific Incidents ==

* On January 22, 2013, she posted a blog entry labeled "F That", vowing that she will continue to blog, but will never post in the otherkin tag again, and that users who post in it should "take a long walk off a short bridge."<ref name="fthat">{{website|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/41175357681/f-that|title=F That|first=Transcats|date=January 22, 2013|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/tlDsh7o.png}}</ref> Two days later she made another post indicating that her trolling of the otherkin tag on tumblr would, in fact, continue.<ref name="stilltrolling">{{website|archiveurl=http://imm.io/TVQv|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/41352687087/oops-sorry-you-didnt-win-after-all|title=Oops sorry, you didn't win after all|first=Transcats|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|date=January 24, 2013|year=2013}}</ref>

* On February 8, 2013, she posted another blog entry titled "I’m getting tired of playing nice cat all the time", indicating she intends to stop blogging. She also says "I’ve done nothing but give absolute losers a way to feel better about themselves."<ref name="givingupagain">{{website|url=http://transcats.me/post/42583885211/im-getting-tired-of-playing-nice-cat-all-the-time|archiveurl=http://imm.io/VBpg|title=I’m getting tired of playing nice cat all the time|date=February 8, 2013|publisher=transcats.me|first=Transcats}}</ref>

== External links ==
* [http://www.thegloss.com/2013/01/22/culture/otherkin-community-transcats/ "Honey, I think I'm a Cat"] by Jamie Peck on [http://www.thegloss.com The Gloss], January 22, 2013.

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Safety]]
[[Category:Trolls]]

Transcats

2013-02-08T22:47:01Z

Asimara: she threatens to quit again...

{{Infobox person
|name=Transcats
|profession=Troll (hobby)
|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com
}}
'''Transcats''' is a [[wikipedia:Troll (Internet)|troll]] in the [[otherkin]] community. She is active on [[wikipedia:tumblr|Tumblr]], and her style of trolling closely mimics the earlier troll [[Prince-Koyangi|Prince Koyangi]]<ref name="koyangi">{{website|url=http://betabeat.com/2012/07/prince-koyangi-tumblr-troll-otherkin-transethnic-eric-draven-07052012/|publisher=[http://betabeta.com BetaBeat]|first=Nitasha|Last=Tiku|year=2012|date=January 21, 2013|title=Teens Admit to Trolling Tumblr: JK, There’s No Such Thing as Transethnic Autistic Pangender Asexual Demiromantic Otherkin}}</ref>. She claims to be a twenty-year-old "Cis, vegan, multiracial, bisexual, demisexual, pagan, plural, transspecies, witch". Her more over-the-top claims include that she owns a cat who is the person who should have been born in her body<ref name="cat">{{website|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/32284729385/how-i-found-my-otherkin-a-cats-tale|title=How I Found My Otherkin: A Cat's Tale|first=Transcats|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|date=January 21, 2013|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/iJDKGvS.jpg}}</ref>, that her parents have had to force her to bathe<ref name="bath">{{website|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/40967222835/forced-to-bathe-a-cats-shame|title=Forced to Bathe: A Cat's Shame|first=Transcats|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|date=January 21, 2013|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/geBPVde.jpg}}</ref>, that the term "batshit" is based on oppression of bats by humans<ref name="batshit">{{website|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/HMM1R0u.png|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/37942310592/youre-bat-shit-crazy-and-need-serious-mental-help|title=You're bat shit crazy and need serious mental help.|first=Transcats|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|date=January 21, 2013}}</ref>, and that "I transcend the traditional human concept of gender since I am a cat. I am not just a ''her'', but a ''cher''."<ref name="cher">{{website|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/40064426232/how-did-you-decide-which-pronouns-didnt-offend-you|title=How did you decide which prounouns didn't offend you?|first=Transcats|date=January 21, 2013|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/Pil5vCs.jpg}}</ref>

== Specific Incidents ==

* On January 22, 2013, she posted a blog entry labeled "F That", vowing that she will continue to blog, but will never post in the otherkin tag again, and that users who post in it should "take a long walk off a short bridge."<ref name="fthat">{{website|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/41175357681/f-that|title=F That|first=Transcats|date=January 22, 2013|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|archiveurl=http://i.imgur.com/tlDsh7o.png}}</ref> Two days later she made another post indicating that her trolling of the otherkin tag on tumblr would, in fact, continue.<ref name="stilltrolling">{{website|archiveurl=http://imm.io/TVQv|url=http://transcats.tumblr.com/post/41352687087/oops-sorry-you-didnt-win-after-all|title=Oops sorry, you didn't win after all|first=Transcats|publisher=transcats.tumblr.com|date=January 24, 2013|year=2013}}</ref>

* On February 8, 2013, she posted another blog entry titled "I’m getting tired of playing nice cat all the time", indicating she intends to stop blogging. She also says "I’ve done nothing but give absolute losers a way to feel better about themselves."<ref name="givingupagain">{{website|url=http://transcats.me/post/42583885211/im-getting-tired-of-playing-nice-cat-all-the-time|archiveurl=http://imm.io/VBpg|title=I’m getting tired of playing nice cat all the time|date=February 8, 2013|publisher=transcats.me}}</ref>

== External links ==
* [http://www.thegloss.com/2013/01/22/culture/otherkin-community-transcats/ "Honey, I think I'm a Cat"] by Jamie Peck on [http://www.thegloss.com The Gloss], January 22, 2013.

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Safety]]
[[Category:Trolls]]

Category:Media

2012-11-06T05:13:09Z

Asimara: /* Newspapers */ more linky

This is a category for mentions of [[otherkin]], [[therians]], or [[vampires]] in the media.

== To Be Written ==

=== Newspapers ===
* Elven Like Me by Nick Mamatas in The Village Voice [http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-02-13/news/elven-like-me/]
* Forty-Foot Winged Reptiles Need Your Love, Too by Baxil in The Daily Nexus
* Entry Level: Otherkin by Karl McDonald in TotallyDublin [http://www.totallydublin.ie/more/entry-level-otherkin/]
* Furries Have Feelings Too by Eihleen Stahl in The Michigan Daily [http://www.michigandaily.com/content/columns/eileen-stahl-furries]
* “‘Ibland får jag lust att yla som en varg’ (‘Sometimes I get the urge to howl like a wolf’),” by Thomas Lerner in Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish) [http://www.dn.se/insidan/ibland-far-jag-lust-att-yla-som-en-varg-1.1073851]
* “My name is Isaac and Dragon: The people who only look like humans by Alma Gore in Israeli Maariv
* “Get furry: Aggies unleash their animalistic nature.” by Sonia Moghe in The Battallion [http://www.thebatt.com/2.8488/get-furry-1.1201304]
* “A Quest for Dragons." by Randy Salas in The Minneapolis Star Tribune

* Otherkin Remove Masks for Halloween by Sarah Fitzgerald in Metro Vancouver [http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/56474/otherkin-remove-masks-for-halloween/]

* Amanda Greene, “In the movies, elves—like rats—usually get the raw end of the deal.” Star-News. [http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20081211/ARTICLES/812110313]

=== Magazines ===

* The Internet Goes Mythic by Cara Destai in Fate Magazine
* “Otherkin – dziwactwo czy fantastyczny sposób na życie? (Otherkin – a quirk, or a fantastic way to live?),” by Ewelina Czarnecka in We-Dwoje.
* “Dragons & faeries & gnomes oh my! The fascinating world of otherkin,” by Michelle Belanger in PagaNet News
* “Elven Group Dynamics and Bonding Ritual.” by The Silver Elves in Circle News Network

* Kinships - magazine by and for otherkin - 1999 to 2002, Pentagram Comix/Angelic Press. Katrina Joyner, Rick Silva.

* The Forest Voice - Tsu - 2011-?

=== Journals ===

* “Ο Μαγικός Κόσμος των Otherkins (Οtherkins- Oι'Ανθρωποι Δίχως Ανθρώπινη Ψυχή!) (The magical world of the otherkin [Otherkin: the
people with a non-human soul!]),” by Βάγια Ψευτάκη in Mystery

=== New Media ===

* Teens Admit to Trolling Tumblr: JK, There’s No Such Thing as Transethnic Autistic Pangender Asexual Demiromantic Otherkin by Nitasha Tiku on BetaBeat
* From Otherkin to Transethnicity: Your Field Guide to the Weird World of Tumblr Identity Politics by Max Read on Gawker
* “Otherkin and the Pagan community,” by Lupa on WitchVox

=== Television ===
* Strange Creatures: Monsters' Ball: Werewolf Transformation on The Discovery Channel (http://science.discovery.com/video-topics/strange-creatures/monsters-ball-werewolf-transformation.htm)
* The Real Wolfman on The History Channel (http://www.history.com/videos/special-the-real-wolfman#special-the-real-wolfman)
* Animal Imitators on TLC (http://www.factualtv.com/videos/animal-imitators/1)
* Weird, True, and Freaky: Humanimals on Animal Planet (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1370125/)
* Mad Mad House on Sci-Fi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Mad_House)
* The Secret Life of Vampires (A&E, 2005)
* Vampire Secrets (History Channel, 2006)
* Hannity's America: "Night Neighbors" (Fox News, 2008)
* Paranormal State (A&E)
* Twilight Weekly:Spotlight (Reelz Channel, 2009) One episode.

* Outsiders on Sweden's Channel 5. One episode.

* Teenage vampires.” November 1, 2011. Channel 4 Press. (http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/teenage-vampires)

=== Film ===
* Vampyres (Avalanche Productions, 2007)

=== Books ===
* Vampyres: When Reality Goes Beyond Fiction by Laurent Courau
* A Field Guide to Otherkin by Lupa
* Vampire Nation by Arlene Russo
* Veil's Edge by Willow Poulson
* Not in Kansas Anymore by Christine Wicker
* "From Pulp Fiction to Revealed Text: A Study of the Role of the Text in the Otherkin Community" by Danielle Kirby in Exploring Religion And The Sacred in A Media Age
* "New Religions and The Internet: Recruiting in A New Public Space" by Lorne Dawson and Jenna Hennebry in Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet

Category:Media

2012-11-06T05:07:04Z

Asimara: /* Newspapers */ add links

This is a category for mentions of [[otherkin]], [[therians]], or [[vampires]] in the media.

== To Be Written ==

=== Newspapers ===
* Elven Like Me by Nick Mamatas in The Village Voice [http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-02-13/news/elven-like-me/]
* Forty-Foot Winged Reptiles Need Your Love, Too by Baxil in The Daily Nexus
* Entry Level: Otherkin by Karl McDonald in TotallyDublin [http://www.totallydublin.ie/more/entry-level-otherkin/]
* Furries Have Feelings Too by Eihleen Stahl in The Michigan Daily [http://www.michigandaily.com/content/columns/eileen-stahl-furries]
* “‘Ibland får jag lust att yla som en varg’ (‘Sometimes I get the urge to howl like a wolf’),” by Thomas Lerner in Dagens Nyheter
* “My name is Isaac and Dragon: The people who only look like humans by Alma Gore in Israeli Maariv
* “Get furry: Aggies unleash their animalistic nature.” by Sonia Moghe in The Battallion [http://www.thebatt.com/2.8488/get-furry-1.1201304]
* “A Quest for Dragons." by Randy Salas in The Minneapolis Star Tribune

* Otherkin Remove Masks for Halloween by Sarah Fitzgerald in Metro Vancouver [http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/56474/otherkin-remove-masks-for-halloween/]

* Amanda Greene, “In the movies, elves—like rats—usually get the raw end of the deal.” Star-News. [http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20081211/ARTICLES/812110313]

=== Magazines ===

* The Internet Goes Mythic by Cara Destai in Fate Magazine
* “Otherkin – dziwactwo czy fantastyczny sposób na życie? (Otherkin – a quirk, or a fantastic way to live?),” by Ewelina Czarnecka in We-Dwoje.
* “Dragons & faeries & gnomes oh my! The fascinating world of otherkin,” by Michelle Belanger in PagaNet News
* “Elven Group Dynamics and Bonding Ritual.” by The Silver Elves in Circle News Network

* Kinships - magazine by and for otherkin - 1999 to 2002, Pentagram Comix/Angelic Press. Katrina Joyner, Rick Silva.

* The Forest Voice - Tsu - 2011-?

=== Journals ===

* “Ο Μαγικός Κόσμος των Otherkins (Οtherkins- Oι'Ανθρωποι Δίχως Ανθρώπινη Ψυχή!) (The magical world of the otherkin [Otherkin: the
people with a non-human soul!]),” by Βάγια Ψευτάκη in Mystery

=== New Media ===

* Teens Admit to Trolling Tumblr: JK, There’s No Such Thing as Transethnic Autistic Pangender Asexual Demiromantic Otherkin by Nitasha Tiku on BetaBeat
* From Otherkin to Transethnicity: Your Field Guide to the Weird World of Tumblr Identity Politics by Max Read on Gawker
* “Otherkin and the Pagan community,” by Lupa on WitchVox

=== Television ===
* Strange Creatures: Monsters' Ball: Werewolf Transformation on The Discovery Channel (http://science.discovery.com/video-topics/strange-creatures/monsters-ball-werewolf-transformation.htm)
* The Real Wolfman on The History Channel (http://www.history.com/videos/special-the-real-wolfman#special-the-real-wolfman)
* Animal Imitators on TLC (http://www.factualtv.com/videos/animal-imitators/1)
* Weird, True, and Freaky: Humanimals on Animal Planet (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1370125/)
* Mad Mad House on Sci-Fi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Mad_House)
* The Secret Life of Vampires (A&E, 2005)
* Vampire Secrets (History Channel, 2006)
* Hannity's America: "Night Neighbors" (Fox News, 2008)
* Paranormal State (A&E)
* Twilight Weekly:Spotlight (Reelz Channel, 2009) One episode.

* Outsiders on Sweden's Channel 5. One episode.

* Teenage vampires.” November 1, 2011. Channel 4 Press. (http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/teenage-vampires)

=== Film ===
* Vampyres (Avalanche Productions, 2007)

=== Books ===
* Vampyres: When Reality Goes Beyond Fiction by Laurent Courau
* A Field Guide to Otherkin by Lupa
* Vampire Nation by Arlene Russo
* Veil's Edge by Willow Poulson
* Not in Kansas Anymore by Christine Wicker
* "From Pulp Fiction to Revealed Text: A Study of the Role of the Text in the Otherkin Community" by Danielle Kirby in Exploring Religion And The Sacred in A Media Age
* "New Religions and The Internet: Recruiting in A New Public Space" by Lorne Dawson and Jenna Hennebry in Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet