King Of The Bush 🪶

Yeah there's just folks who appear human and come from families of humans but aren't human themselves. A character from a show could pass you on the street and you wouldn't even know it. Your local librarian could literally be a water snake. Your classmate could be a divine being and you would still know them like any other person there.

"Fall From Grace", a poem by @raventhewolf9, is now live on Substack 🪶

"So congratulate yourself Because by shunning me You have freed me"

they do something similar with s1's heavy and s3's que sera sera. heavy's message is supposed to be that jessica is unfairly bullied due to her weight; chase is meant to come off badly, we're meant to be on the patient's side, but... chase's fatphobia is irrelevant (he's never mean to the patient's face, and it doesn't prevent him from treating her), and, well, it turns out her weight actually was a medical issue and as soon as she's cured she's skinny. que sera sera feels like a very conscious attempt at a do-over: cameron and house's fatphobia in the episode actually does harm the patient directly and indirectly, and in the end his weight has absolutely nothing to do with his lung cancer: it is his doctor's insistence that it must be weight-related that delays the diagnosis.

Its not a "we're better than you", its we are quite literally not the same community, we have different experiences. please for the love of god stop trying to use our terms in contexts that don't fit them. Zoanthrope is not a broad-spectrum label like nonhuman or alterhuman is, Zoanthropy has very specific meanings.

please for the love of god just let us keep our spaces, our communities. we've been fighting for so long to have a space where we can exist, now we can barely find eachother due to how mis-used our tags and terms are.

Hi there horse moot! So it really starts way back in like… maybe early or late 2025 (perhaps August? Idk), August I think. I had made a joke with my best friend about “ I wonder what it would be like to experience the intelligence level of an animal. Like, what would it feel like to just only have those instincts or those emotions? To not have to think! That would be fun!”

They turn to me in my car and go “you can do that you know. That’s a thing.” And I forget the rest of that conversation but we had a great big talk about what petplay is. Both in the sexual and nonsexual way. I discovered from them that petplay DOES NOT have to be just a cat, dog, horse, or even the rare cow. It can be any animal. So I took it upon myself to be a bird, because those are my favorite category of animal.

If you're still lost, unsure of your kintypes, lost in that mire - take a step back. Don't think about the animal or being for a second. Think about the longing in your heart. Think about what hurts the most. Think about what you want the most. For me, it was the videogame series Kingdom Hearts. I was obsessed for a long, long time. It was the battle between light and darkness. It was the little island isolated from the world... it was in this pain - a pain that never really went away - that I was able to find myself.

where are my wings?