I was wondering if satan is okay with me worshipping him
Satan accepts and is pleased that you follow him, and precisely because he is a father and you his child he wants what is best for you. This includes knowing well what is really best for you in a much more conscious way than your immediate family member might understand.
You are not a Therian. To be a Therian would be to actually be one. One example is transsexuals. A transsexual man is not a woman for real. He certainly feels like a woman (it is due to unbalanced situations in his soul, but that is another matter). But in practical facts when he was born he was not a woman; he had a penis and in general the male physical structure.
Now, he may as well mutilate his penis and take drugs to make it feminine. But he will not be a woman just because he artificially changes his physical appearance by destroying his body. He will continue to be a ruined male.
I don't think you feel like a therian either. Because unlike women and men who are real creatures and we know scientifically how they feel about being themselves, a therian is a fictional character. So he has no real feelings about him (do I feel Chtullu? What does it feel like to be a huge monstrous octopus? Everyone could say something different about that, because it doesn't exist). Your situation is more like "I like therians, I wish I was a therian." Of course it's deeper, but that's basically it.
Identifying as therian means that a person identifies as a non-human
But identifying is not being. When you play an RPG video game, you can choose the character you most identify with. Maybe the Thief or Knight Wanderer class because you are a romantic and a melancholic. But being like that does not mean you are really a knight errant in real life.
Even without entering the game world. Think of the Internet tests of "which TV series character are you?" When you take the quiz, you'll come up with the character who looks most like you, and with whom you identify IN RELATION WITH THE SERIES. But if you come up with Batman/Bruce Wayne, it doesn't mean you are actually the main character in Detective Comics created by Bob Kane. It only resembles you with respect to how the comic book was written.
typically an animal, which might be a wolf, bear, cat, or maybe even a worm
Yet believe me. If you were at your full consciousness, you wouldn't even want to be a therian. This is because as a Satanist you have the free chance to become something REALLY much better than a therian. As a human being you have the potential to do so, and as a Satanist the chance to succeed.
Let me give you a practical example. You can identify yourself as a cat. Or you could think of Bastet. Bastet might identify herself as a cat, but what she does is to be the Goddess of the most powerful connection with the Divine Spiritual with which she protects her people (just as cats protected people's food from rats). This is MUCH better than being a worm, a cat, a moose or a generic therian.
community of people who may identify with fantasy characters
Yet I tell you that reality far exceeds fantasy. What you can find in real life and become through Satanism is priceless. I would, for example, love to be a druid. A druid is a real character. He would be a sorcerer of Celtic affiliation who bases his power on nature.
Of course I am not a Celtic from millennia ago. But really in my life I can love nature and respect it instead of polluting like social parasites, connect to the energies of the Earth that I honor (there are meditations for this), etc. I have always felt connected to the Earth, which is why I really liked the American Indians on a cultural level, literally a people who embodied the spirituality of nature.
Reality is much better than fantasy. Of course today the outside world is made up of pornographic site trappers who spend their time doing drugs. But you are your inner world and you can literally be a person of spiritual power and material success.
elves, dragons, faeries, wizards, and so on
These things exist in a really better and more advanced form than in a fantasy book. Take me for example. Even advanced spells work for me and I have Kundalini symptoms. I'm not dressed as a Magician from Lord of the Rings and I don't have a fire-breathing dragon in my room.
But having the developed Divine and Witchcraft powers, along with the manifestation of Kundalini energy (Kundalini is energy that is associated with a typically Oriental snake-like dragon, which breathes fire in reference to the searing heat of this Divine energy). I am basically the purest version there is of a Wizard riding his fire-breathing Dragon. You don't need to hope that fantasy books exist, you already have reality which is much better.
