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XLab ID ЯНТАР 2909СОБ. Chosen name is Skif, given name is Ellis. Do not refer to me as human.

18 years of age. I talk about NSFW topics sometimes. I won't follow back anyone younger than 17 / I'll unfollow you if I realize you are.

A fullfic/IRL and a selfshipper.

I'm also intersex, a village dog, and a system.

I am Ukrainian. I have suffered at the hands of Russia since I was very little. This isn't a safe space for tankies or Russians. Even if you are 'pro-Ukrainian' or 'anti-war'.

Tagging System

[ #🌻 ~ I want to go home. ] - Posts that are about Ukraine. Not always about war. Sometimes I like to talk about living there.

[ #🦴 ~ Throw a bone. ] - Posts about transspeciesism, furry lifestyling, etc. How I'm transitioning from human to canine. Discussions about the human and feline bodies too.

[ #💾 ~ In the pod. ] - Posts about fictionkin / fictfolk and 'past lives'. Or just anything that's about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. And also selfship content since we're of the same media.

[ #🫂 ~ Voices from within. ] - Posts about plurality. Mixed bag of DID-specific posts and posts that apply to plurality in general (Pro-endo DID system.)

[ #☀️ ~ All natural. ] - Posts about intersex(ism), exorsexism, gender + sex abolition. Is slowly becoming a tag about general queerdom.

[ #🪽 ~ Another day. ] - It's human to fight and its your God given right to resist. Information to help you live another day and fight for a better one.

[ #📔 ~ Good book / Good fight. ] - Literature recs, including my own writing!

[ #📀 ~ Playlist. ] - Song recs, recordings of me playing guitar (poorly).

[ #📔 ~ Artbook. ] - My art.

[ #📓 ~ Scrapbook. ] - Aesthetic posts, other's art.

[ #🎑 ~ Yapping. ] - I talk a lot.

No, we don't need to 'wake up to reality'

No, we don't need to 'grow up'

No, we don't need to 'disconnect from source'

No, it's not 'just feeling a close connection to a character.'

No, we don't 'make the community look like a joke.' It's probably you that's doing that.

And most of all, we don't need to tolerate other people roleplaying as us, pretending to be us, or pretending to be in relationships with us.

I don't understand why we need to reinvent the wheel of acceptance the second its not some abstract concept of a species you've never interacted with. I'll be real and say that I think most animal-based kinfolk only act as and identify as an idealized version of their kintype that exists in their head, and that idealized version borders on fantasy. They themselves aren't that different from fictionfolk in this way. And yet when someone embraces an identity that exists purely in fantasy, taking it anywhere beyond 'kin for fun' and 'otherpaw' behavior is seen as 'too much' and 'delusional.'

In our case, a metaphor is one thing (in this case, a kintype) that is an analogy for another, or something (again, in this case a kintype) that represents/symbolizes another thing.

For example, I've considered the possibility of a fish tank objectkintype being an analogy for the involuntary internal processes within me and my relationship to them, and the kintype itself existing as a way to conceptualize them easier. Its still a very real experience and I wouldn't say I "chose" it, it just stems from a different place than my other 'types, and so I would like to create language to separate the two identities as such.

Another example could be someone who experienced some kind of trauma relating to war, and thus identifies as/is a warplane as an analogy for their experiences/to conceptualize their experiences better.

You shouldn't need a cute fuzzy animal to say "hey maybe setting off bright and loud explosions in the night when people are resting and most vulnerable isn't a good idea because it could be harmful to living beings."