Othercon 2024

This is my first time attending Othercon, and while I mostly lurked, I did enjoy reading about different experiences, as well as enjoyed the one panel that I was actually able to attend. The others that I wanted to see, I'll be watching on YouTube throughout the week.

Seeing many others sharing their Dreamwidth blogs is what inspired me to make this one, along with my soulbond focused blog. Hopefully I can get back into the swing of blogging again, and getting thoughts and such written down somewhere.

Once the Centarus Festival announcement was made for next year, it gave me something else to look forward to. Chances are, I'll lurk for that one as well, but it's nice being in a place, or gathering, with others that have somewhat similar experiences.

Who Am I?

A brief introduction of who I am.

Essentially, I'm a coyote therian, that simply goes by Coyote.

My jounrey started off in the furry fandom back when I was in my mid- to late- teens, and my first fursona was a jaguar by the name of Aztec. It wasn't until I was in my early 20s that I discovered the therian community through a good friend. During that time, I had a lot of conflicting thoughts regarding my own identity since many people associated me with cats in general, and I forced myself into a feline identity even thought it never felt right to me. It wasn't until my late 20s/early 30s that I started coming to terms with being a canine therian, even though my primary fursona had changed to a feline hybrid at the time. In my early- to mid- 30s, I decided to make a new fursona based on my theriotpye, the coyote. I went by the name of Kassidy during that time up until about a year ago when I had an identity crisis out of the blue and dropped the name for myself personally. However, I did keep my fursona's name as Kassidy.

Aside from being a therian, I'm also fictionkin, otherkin, and otherhearted!

Over the recent years, I learned that some of the experiences I had since childhood was known as soulbonding, and there for a while, I identified strictly as a soulbond system.Within the past few months, I've decided that while that part of who I am is not as accurate anymore, it's still probably the best term to describe my experiences with having headmates. I have also made a secondary blog over at the_grove  where I,and my headmates that want to participate, will be posting.

Please note: I'll be aiming to keep this journal as public as possible, but there will be some posts that will be made friends only!!