#transcats

The End of Transhats

Really, this ended a few months ago when I stopped posting, but I'm officially ending this now. Full disclaimer: I'm not really a hat. I don't even identify with identity politics.

I started this blog as a spoof of cryptospoof Transcats. I even copied over her blog description and changed the word 'cat' to 'hat', and with a bit more humour injected. It all started when I said 'Hah! Transcats! What if there was a Transhats!' Thus this rather silly blog was born.

Most genuine otherkin I've seen online seem like nice, friendly people and I never intended to make fun of them. Ridiculing other people's beliefs isn't conducive to friendship and understanding.

Most of my funnier posts were funny because I was talking from a completely absurd and fictitious perspective with enough earnestness such that some people were mislead (much to my impish delight).

Obviously the name 'transhats' came from 'transcats' and was not meant in anyway to denigrate any trans* people.

I think we can all take ourselves too seriously. When you're coming of age it's easy to be gripped with doubts and it is tempting to latch on to certainties, to coat yourself in labels to pin down and make sense of your mutable essence. And so we then play-act the roles that we have been assigned or we have reassigned for ourselves. You may be play-acting the otherkin teen, the heterosexual playboy, or the misunderstood vagabond. But play-acting is still acting and our actions define what we really are. You are otherkin if you act otherkin, just as I am a disaffected intellectual if I disaffect and intellectualise.

This is the only explanation that makes sense guys.

anonymous said to transcats:

ANONYMOUS:

I'm sorry but unless you're native american you need to STOP using the words spirit animal and spirit sister. Their culture is NOT for your use or entertainment and appropriating sacared symbols is not only ignorant but fucking RACIST. Your just a privileged white girl who wants to take over a culture that your people already destroyed. Coming back for more? you havent ruined the world enough? You make me SICK. I hope you kill yourself

Response was:

There is really no need for this outrage. Just calm down. You are forgetting that I’m a cat. Cats are welcome visitors in all cultures. We just naturally connect with them. 

For example, I have a beautiful collection of authentic dreamcatchers that I decorate my room with. I listen to Anasazi flute music while I do the traditional fertility dance of the West African Landuma tribe as my morning workout. I love to practice the noble art of Chinese bamboo carving to create cat statues. I’m an expert at drawing henna tattoos and my Aborigine ritual shell necklace is probably my favorite piece of jewelry.

Warriorincarnate is most deffinately a troll. A literal social justice warrior? yeah total troll. Though actually quite clever.

As for TC, well after talking to her on a more personal level I'm more inclined to believe shes genuine than I did before.

Though some of her recent posts, the ones that were incrediably well thought out and intelligent,( not saying I thought she was unintelligent? But juxtaposed to other posts of hers)  lead me to believe shes might be a satire blog ( whether shes kin or not)

EDIT: OH I totally forgot to answer the second part of your question, I'm so sorry!