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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 64
#Wss366 #Pat #ScribesAndMakers ~8 Gauge #TimeTravelAuthors WhateverIndeed, there were lights ahead, blue flickering incandescence like gas flames.
Sumika stopped, watching. When the glow remained stationary, she spoke. “Sorry, I have a hard time #gauging what will offend you. I didn’t mean anything bad when I said you sounded more human. It’s as if your human and crow intellects have blended. You’re still very much a crow, but not so alien.”
She raised her hand, stopping a mealy worm’s width from my head.
“Sorry,” she repeated. “You told me not to touch you without permission. It’s a habit. My mother always patted me when I was upset.”
“You may scratch my head,” I cawed after a moment. I had been thinking about it ever since the mountain shaman petted me, and I’d decided to trust Sumiak. My Glitter Glinda could be insensitive, but except for shutting me in the car that one time, she’d done nothing threatening. “But I’ll bite your hand off if you’re too rough.”
“Okay.”
Her fingers moved the last bit of the way and ruffled my feathers with a slow, gentle motion.
“Pats, pats,” I crooned. “Pats, pats.”
“Friends?” she asked softly.
“Sure, friends,” I cawed. It was so unfair to ask that while she was scratching my head.
A minute passed, and then she stopped. “Ready to find out what those lights are?” she asked.
“Yeah, it’s time.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 64
#Wss366 #Pat #ScribesAndMakers ~8 Gauge #TimeTravelAuthors WhateverIndeed, there were lights ahead, blue flickering incandescence like gas flames.
Sumika stopped, watching. When the glow remained stationary, she spoke. “Sorry, I have a hard time #gauging what will offend you. I didn’t mean anything bad when I said you sounded more human. It’s as if your human and crow intellects have blended. You’re still very much a crow, but not so alien.”
She raised her hand, stopping a mealy worm’s width from my head.
“Sorry,” she repeated. “You told me not to touch you without permission. It’s a habit. My mother always patted me when I was upset.”
“You may scratch my head,” I cawed after a moment. I had been thinking about it ever since the mountain shaman petted me, and I’d decided to trust Sumiak. My Glitter Glinda could be insensitive, but except for shutting me in the car that one time, she’d done nothing threatening. “But I’ll bite your hand off if you’re too rough.”
“Okay.”
Her fingers moved the last bit of the way and ruffled my feathers with a slow, gentle motion.
“Pats, pats,” I crooned. “Pats, pats.”
“Friends?” she asked softly.
“Sure, friends,” I cawed. It was so unfair to ask that while she was scratching my head.
A minute passed, and then she stopped. “Ready to find out what those lights are?” she asked.
“Yeah, it’s time.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 64
#Wss366 #Pat #ScribesAndMakers ~8 Gauge #TimeTravelAuthors WhateverIndeed, there were lights ahead, blue flickering incandescence like gas flames.
Sumika stopped, watching. When the glow remained stationary, she spoke. “Sorry, I have a hard time #gauging what will offend you. I didn’t mean anything bad when I said you sounded more human. It’s as if your human and crow intellects have blended. You’re still very much a crow, but not so alien.”
She raised her hand, stopping a mealy worm’s width from my head.
“Sorry,” she repeated. “You told me not to touch you without permission. It’s a habit. My mother always patted me when I was upset.”
“You may scratch my head,” I cawed after a moment. I had been thinking about it ever since the mountain shaman petted me, and I’d decided to trust Sumiak. My Glitter Glinda could be insensitive, but except for shutting me in the car that one time, she’d done nothing threatening. “But I’ll bite your hand off if you’re too rough.”
“Okay.”
Her fingers moved the last bit of the way and ruffled my feathers with a slow, gentle motion.
“Pats, pats,” I crooned. “Pats, pats.”
“Friends?” she asked softly.
“Sure, friends,” I cawed. It was so unfair to ask that while she was scratching my head.
A minute passed, and then she stopped. “Ready to find out what those lights are?” she asked.
“Yeah, it’s time.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 64
#Wss366 #Pat #ScribesAndMakers ~8 Gauge #TimeTravelAuthors WhateverIndeed, there were lights ahead, blue flickering incandescence like gas flames.
Sumika stopped, watching. When the glow remained stationary, she spoke. “Sorry, I have a hard time #gauging what will offend you. I didn’t mean anything bad when I said you sounded more human. It’s as if your human and crow intellects have blended. You’re still very much a crow, but not so alien.”
She raised her hand, stopping a mealy worm’s width from my head.
“Sorry,” she repeated. “You told me not to touch you without permission. It’s a habit. My mother always patted me when I was upset.”
“You may scratch my head,” I cawed after a moment. I had been thinking about it ever since the mountain shaman petted me, and I’d decided to trust Sumiak. My Glitter Glinda could be insensitive, but except for shutting me in the car that one time, she’d done nothing threatening. “But I’ll bite your hand off if you’re too rough.”
“Okay.”
Her fingers moved the last bit of the way and ruffled my feathers with a slow, gentle motion.
“Pats, pats,” I crooned. “Pats, pats.”
“Friends?” she asked softly.
“Sure, friends,” I cawed. It was so unfair to ask that while she was scratching my head.
A minute passed, and then she stopped. “Ready to find out what those lights are?” she asked.
“Yeah, it’s time.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 64
#Wss366 #Pat #ScribesAndMakers ~8 Gauge #TimeTravelAuthors WhateverIndeed, there were lights ahead, blue flickering incandescence like gas flames.
Sumika stopped, watching. When the glow remained stationary, she spoke. “Sorry, I have a hard time #gauging what will offend you. I didn’t mean anything bad when I said you sounded more human. It’s as if your human and crow intellects have blended. You’re still very much a crow, but not so alien.”
She raised her hand, stopping a mealy worm’s width from my head.
“Sorry,” she repeated. “You told me not to touch you without permission. It’s a habit. My mother always patted me when I was upset.”
“You may scratch my head,” I cawed after a moment. I had been thinking about it ever since the mountain shaman petted me, and I’d decided to trust Sumiak. My Glitter Glinda could be insensitive, but except for shutting me in the car that one time, she’d done nothing threatening. “But I’ll bite your hand off if you’re too rough.”
“Okay.”
Her fingers moved the last bit of the way and ruffled my feathers with a slow, gentle motion.
“Pats, pats,” I crooned. “Pats, pats.”
“Friends?” she asked softly.
“Sure, friends,” I cawed. It was so unfair to ask that while she was scratching my head.
A minute passed, and then she stopped. “Ready to find out what those lights are?” she asked.
“Yeah, it’s time.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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got my university to get me a copy of " Animal Drag: Power, politics and the performance of animality " for #otherkin reasons and i'm very excited to have a read >:)
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got my university to get me a copy of " Animal Drag: Power, politics and the performance of animality " for #otherkin reasons and i'm very excited to have a read >:)
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got my university to get me a copy of " Animal Drag: Power, politics and the performance of animality " for #otherkin reasons and i'm very excited to have a read >:)
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got my university to get me a copy of " Animal Drag: Power, politics and the performance of animality " for #otherkin reasons and i'm very excited to have a read >:)
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 63
#Wss366 Treble #TimeTravelAuthors 9/4 WhateverInside the passage hung a feline odor, strong enough to wilt feathers, and paw prints littered the dusty floor. We turned left in the direction most of them led.
“It’s walking on its hind feet,” Sumika said after a few meters and pointed to where the marks of the forepaws ceased, leaving only the rear ones.
“Indeed, that’s because it’s a nekomata. Be glad this passage is wood, not stone,” I replied.
“Why?”
“Because your ‘cute’ kitty can spit fireballs. I doubt it wants to burn its mistress’s home down.”
“Oh!”
“It could be worse. We might have run into a gotokuneko. They’re about #treble the strength.”
“Treble? What kind of word is that? Just say three times.”
“It’s a perfectly good word.”
“Whatever. And what about ‘gotokuneko?’ You’re not making that stuff up, are you?” Mistress asked.
“Moi? Me? Make stuff up? I’m wounded. No, I studied this kind of thing when I was a woman.”
“You know you’re a lot more human-like than when we first met. You almost talk normally, barring words like ‘treble.’”
“Awk, chicka, cawa! Pay attention, there are lights ahead,” I cawed, irratated.
“How could Glinda-chan say such a thing? Hmph! Just when I was thinking she had more than one brain cell, she says utter rubbish. But no, she’s nothing more than a three-toed sloth.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 63
#Wss366 Treble #TimeTravelAuthors 9/4 WhateverInside the passage hung a feline odor, strong enough to wilt feathers, and paw prints littered the dusty floor. We turned left in the direction most of them led.
“It’s walking on its hind feet,” Sumika said after a few meters and pointed to where the marks of the forepaws ceased, leaving only the rear ones.
“Indeed, that’s because it’s a nekomata. Be glad this passage is wood, not stone,” I replied.
“Why?”
“Because your ‘cute’ kitty can spit fireballs. I doubt it wants to burn its mistress’s home down.”
“Oh!”
“It could be worse. We might have run into a gotokuneko. They’re about #treble the strength.”
“Treble? What kind of word is that? Just say three times.”
“It’s a perfectly good word.”
“Whatever. And what about ‘gotokuneko?’ You’re not making that stuff up, are you?” Mistress asked.
“Moi? Me? Make stuff up? I’m wounded. No, I studied this kind of thing when I was a woman.”
“You know you’re a lot more human-like than when we first met. You almost talk normally, barring words like ‘treble.’”
“Awk, chicka, cawa! Pay attention, there are lights ahead,” I cawed, irratated.
“How could Glinda-chan say such a thing? Hmph! Just when I was thinking she had more than one brain cell, she says utter rubbish. But no, she’s nothing more than a three-toed sloth.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 63
#Wss366 Treble #TimeTravelAuthors 9/4 WhateverInside the passage hung a feline odor, strong enough to wilt feathers, and paw prints littered the dusty floor. We turned left in the direction most of them led.
“It’s walking on its hind feet,” Sumika said after a few meters and pointed to where the marks of the forepaws ceased, leaving only the rear ones.
“Indeed, that’s because it’s a nekomata. Be glad this passage is wood, not stone,” I replied.
“Why?”
“Because your ‘cute’ kitty can spit fireballs. I doubt it wants to burn its mistress’s home down.”
“Oh!”
“It could be worse. We might have run into a gotokuneko. They’re about #treble the strength.”
“Treble? What kind of word is that? Just say three times.”
“It’s a perfectly good word.”
“Whatever. And what about ‘gotokuneko?’ You’re not making that stuff up, are you?” Mistress asked.
“Moi? Me? Make stuff up? I’m wounded. No, I studied this kind of thing when I was a woman.”
“You know you’re a lot more human-like than when we first met. You almost talk normally, barring words like ‘treble.’”
“Awk, chicka, cawa! Pay attention, there are lights ahead,” I cawed, irratated.
“How could Glinda-chan say such a thing? Hmph! Just when I was thinking she had more than one brain cell, she says utter rubbish. But no, she’s nothing more than a three-toed sloth.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 63
#Wss366 Treble #TimeTravelAuthors 9/4 WhateverInside the passage hung a feline odor, strong enough to wilt feathers, and paw prints littered the dusty floor. We turned left in the direction most of them led.
“It’s walking on its hind feet,” Sumika said after a few meters and pointed to where the marks of the forepaws ceased, leaving only the rear ones.
“Indeed, that’s because it’s a nekomata. Be glad this passage is wood, not stone,” I replied.
“Why?”
“Because your ‘cute’ kitty can spit fireballs. I doubt it wants to burn its mistress’s home down.”
“Oh!”
“It could be worse. We might have run into a gotokuneko. They’re about #treble the strength.”
“Treble? What kind of word is that? Just say three times.”
“It’s a perfectly good word.”
“Whatever. And what about ‘gotokuneko?’ You’re not making that stuff up, are you?” Mistress asked.
“Moi? Me? Make stuff up? I’m wounded. No, I studied this kind of thing when I was a woman.”
“You know you’re a lot more human-like than when we first met. You almost talk normally, barring words like ‘treble.’”
“Awk, chicka, cawa! Pay attention, there are lights ahead,” I cawed, irratated.
“How could Glinda-chan say such a thing? Hmph! Just when I was thinking she had more than one brain cell, she says utter rubbish. But no, she’s nothing more than a three-toed sloth.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 63
#Wss366 Treble #TimeTravelAuthors 9/4 WhateverInside the passage hung a feline odor, strong enough to wilt feathers, and paw prints littered the dusty floor. We turned left in the direction most of them led.
“It’s walking on its hind feet,” Sumika said after a few meters and pointed to where the marks of the forepaws ceased, leaving only the rear ones.
“Indeed, that’s because it’s a nekomata. Be glad this passage is wood, not stone,” I replied.
“Why?”
“Because your ‘cute’ kitty can spit fireballs. I doubt it wants to burn its mistress’s home down.”
“Oh!”
“It could be worse. We might have run into a gotokuneko. They’re about #treble the strength.”
“Treble? What kind of word is that? Just say three times.”
“It’s a perfectly good word.”
“Whatever. And what about ‘gotokuneko?’ You’re not making that stuff up, are you?” Mistress asked.
“Moi? Me? Make stuff up? I’m wounded. No, I studied this kind of thing when I was a woman.”
“You know you’re a lot more human-like than when we first met. You almost talk normally, barring words like ‘treble.’”
“Awk, chicka, cawa! Pay attention, there are lights ahead,” I cawed, irratated.
“How could Glinda-chan say such a thing? Hmph! Just when I was thinking she had more than one brain cell, she says utter rubbish. But no, she’s nothing more than a three-toed sloth.”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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Misanthropic not as in: all humans are a virus
Misanthropic as in: humans keep hurting themselves in a system that was imposed on them by other humans repeating the cycle of abuse and trauma and it hurts to watch and they need help with things like freedom of form and getting rid of capitalism as well as improving tech for nature, beings, and without enshittifacation or profit but the humans where they are aren't the best in this shitty realm
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Misanthropic not as in: all humans are a virus
Misanthropic as in: humans keep hurting themselves in a system that was imposed on them by other humans repeating the cycle of abuse and trauma and it hurts to watch and they need help with things like freedom of form and getting rid of capitalism as well as improving tech for nature, beings, and without enshittifacation or profit but the humans where they are aren't the best in this shitty realm
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Misanthropic not as in: all humans are a virus
Misanthropic as in: humans keep hurting themselves in a system that was imposed on them by other humans repeating the cycle of abuse and trauma and it hurts to watch and they need help with things like freedom of form and getting rid of capitalism as well as improving tech for nature, beings, and without enshittifacation or profit but the humans where they are aren't the best in this shitty realm
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Misanthropic not as in: all humans are a virus
Misanthropic as in: humans keep hurting themselves in a system that was imposed on them by other humans repeating the cycle of abuse and trauma and it hurts to watch and they need help with things like freedom of form and getting rid of capitalism as well as improving tech for nature, beings, and without enshittifacation or profit but the humans where they are aren't the best in this shitty realm
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 62
#Wss366 Mole #TimeTravelAuthors 9/2 WhateverMore seriously, we rounded the screen in time to see the cat cross the space beyond and disappear behind a triptych. An image painted on the edge panel caught my eye. It depicted a woman summoning a giant skeleton, with a dog-sized frog at her feet. “Takiyasha-hime,” I thought.
The portrait’s most interesting detail was the large, yellow tear-#mole below one of her eyes. That was no coincidence. The mark was an inauspicious one, and I suspected the painter had intended the figure to be recognized as ill-fated before the viewer ever noticed the skeleton.
It was easy to see how a place like this might acquire a sinister reputation, even becoming considered cursed. That would make it an ideal location to hide a secret entrance.
My supposition proved correct. When we slipped around the partition, we found an alcove draped with drab, dusty wall hangings, and concealed behind one of them was an opening to a narrow passageway.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 62
#Wss366 Mole #TimeTravelAuthors 9/2 WhateverMore seriously, we rounded the screen in time to see the cat cross the space beyond and disappear behind a triptych. An image painted on the edge panel caught my eye. It depicted a woman summoning a giant skeleton, with a dog-sized frog at her feet. “Takiyasha-hime,” I thought.
The portrait’s most interesting detail was the large, yellow tear-#mole below one of her eyes. That was no coincidence. The mark was an inauspicious one, and I suspected the painter had intended the figure to be recognized as ill-fated before the viewer ever noticed the skeleton.
It was easy to see how a place like this might acquire a sinister reputation, even becoming considered cursed. That would make it an ideal location to hide a secret entrance.
My supposition proved correct. When we slipped around the partition, we found an alcove draped with drab, dusty wall hangings, and concealed behind one of them was an opening to a narrow passageway.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 62
#Wss366 Mole #TimeTravelAuthors 9/2 WhateverMore seriously, we rounded the screen in time to see the cat cross the space beyond and disappear behind a triptych. An image painted on the edge panel caught my eye. It depicted a woman summoning a giant skeleton, with a dog-sized frog at her feet. “Takiyasha-hime,” I thought.
The portrait’s most interesting detail was the large, yellow tear-#mole below one of her eyes. That was no coincidence. The mark was an inauspicious one, and I suspected the painter had intended the figure to be recognized as ill-fated before the viewer ever noticed the skeleton.
It was easy to see how a place like this might acquire a sinister reputation, even becoming considered cursed. That would make it an ideal location to hide a secret entrance.
My supposition proved correct. When we slipped around the partition, we found an alcove draped with drab, dusty wall hangings, and concealed behind one of them was an opening to a narrow passageway.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 62
#Wss366 Mole #TimeTravelAuthors 9/2 WhateverMore seriously, we rounded the screen in time to see the cat cross the space beyond and disappear behind a triptych. An image painted on the edge panel caught my eye. It depicted a woman summoning a giant skeleton, with a dog-sized frog at her feet. “Takiyasha-hime,” I thought.
The portrait’s most interesting detail was the large, yellow tear-#mole below one of her eyes. That was no coincidence. The mark was an inauspicious one, and I suspected the painter had intended the figure to be recognized as ill-fated before the viewer ever noticed the skeleton.
It was easy to see how a place like this might acquire a sinister reputation, even becoming considered cursed. That would make it an ideal location to hide a secret entrance.
My supposition proved correct. When we slipped around the partition, we found an alcove draped with drab, dusty wall hangings, and concealed behind one of them was an opening to a narrow passageway.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 62
#Wss366 Mole #TimeTravelAuthors 9/2 WhateverMore seriously, we rounded the screen in time to see the cat cross the space beyond and disappear behind a triptych. An image painted on the edge panel caught my eye. It depicted a woman summoning a giant skeleton, with a dog-sized frog at her feet. “Takiyasha-hime,” I thought.
The portrait’s most interesting detail was the large, yellow tear-#mole below one of her eyes. That was no coincidence. The mark was an inauspicious one, and I suspected the painter had intended the figure to be recognized as ill-fated before the viewer ever noticed the skeleton.
It was easy to see how a place like this might acquire a sinister reputation, even becoming considered cursed. That would make it an ideal location to hide a secret entrance.
My supposition proved correct. When we slipped around the partition, we found an alcove draped with drab, dusty wall hangings, and concealed behind one of them was an opening to a narrow passageway.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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I think I need to start a howl in the Colorado area. Start otherkin meets. Because I feel like our spaces are actually shrinking, that we used to have a space in these conventions but the fandom spaces are all about farming aura and subs and generating content and monetizing identity and if you aren't popular, you're not going to matter.
The next phase of safe space to BE therian and otherkin has to come from ourselves. And I'mma need to make that space, or we're just not going to have that.
In any case, this does summarize why i'm pulling away from the fandom. I'm still a furry, sure, I still love fox and anthro content. But what I need to be part of, is something that fulfills that deep spirit need. I need to be amongst my own kind. I need therian and otherkin spaces more than I need furry ones, and I need to go outside more... #otherkin #therian #furry #faekin -
The ultimate point here is that I didn't become part of the furry fandom because I was a fan of anthropomorphics. I joined it because I AM A FOX and it gave a safe space to fox out. And so it went for the next 25 years or so.
But a lot about the furry fandom has changed since those times.
I think it was around 2016 when it started changing, though it went into acceleration around 2020. I think its both the fact that the fandom has changed and I have not. Even as a fae spirit that can change form at will, even when that change is just to allow nature to experience itself through me subjectively... There is still a core me that needs something that the furry fandom stopped providing.
The furry fandom used to be a "safe space" for me to "be a fox in." For me to talk about being a fox, about fox mindsets and fox experience, to give me a few days out of the year where I can stop pretending to be human. For me it was a way to express a part of myself and part of my fundamental spirituality. Even if they called me a sparkledog (I was probably the one the term was coined for, tbh) at least I could own it. If fae nature offended them and they had to give it a label, so be it. At least no one stopped me from being.
But as I said, things have changed. And I think it has alot to do with the "attention economy". Identity has become monetizable. And when that happens, people stop doing things to get in touch with themselves, and start catering to what is popular. And conventions have moved towards catering to that crowd. I've seen a number of cons moving towards placing special interest and promotion of popufurs and furry content creators and the fandom itself becoming ...
I think we've moved into a phase of the furry fandom monetizing itself, and that some people are getting fursuits not because they identify with it but instead for how appealing the concept will be to others. And the furry fandom has only ever been a place for me for as long as I belonged in it. It feels like the fandom is for popufurs now and for the people who are going to use furry as a space to generate content for wherever they are going to post and monetize their videos.
I've spent so long just creating, and giving, whether its been MUCKs or sites or writings or code or whatever, and I never had any expectations of it. I did it for the love of being a fox, and for the love of the space furry gave me tp be a fox, but now I feel like I, and others like me are forgotten, and that space no longer exists, and no one really cares if I am part of it or not.
And when it comes right down to it, I have always been otherkin and therian first. Being furry was a side effect of it, an interest I had, a space I had, because of what I am.
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I think i'm slipping away from being part of the furry fandom.
I think we as a system are. I'm not slipping away from being furry though. Let me explain.
Since we were around 7 was the first inkling of feelings that we were not human. By then we had three of us in here. But we would not discover there was anyone like us until around 1994 when we first got consistent access to an "internet" and were browsing newsgroups and discovered someone who said they were a dragon and described feelings like we had.
One exception was that while we were locked up at Charter Fairmount Institute (a mental hospital) in 1989, we met a unicorn there. I forget his name, we shared a room and he had white hair. I think I was 13 at the time. I'm not going to get into details about that but the doctors realized that we were getting close and were not good for whatever agenda of "wellness" they had for us and split us up roomwise, even though we still got to interact, but honestly, I thought that guy was a fluke... I had not realized there were communities out there...
Anyway, the point is, that it was around when I was 18-19 when I discovered the dragon community, which led me to the therian community... which eventually led me to the furry community.
During that time, the community was quite "identity focused". The therian community was elitist, insular, and the style of gatekeeping was narrow and openly hostile. You were expected to PROVE your therianthropy, to be able to explain the things that made you feel that way, but the furry community was more open and it was still a place where you could talk about your own animal feelings and experiences. The therian community openly hated the furry community in those days because of, what would now be described as "appropriating therian culture" even though those are the terms that would be used these days. (More ... this is gonna be a long one..)
The early therian community rejected me because, to be quite blunt, I have always been fae. Its basically in my blood and soul. They believed that I was not really a therian because I was not fully and only an animal, even though as a fox, my experiences absolutely paralleled theirs. So I gravitated towards the furry community because at that time, it was more accepting. I could constrain my identity to "just a fox" to be accepted by the early therians, but that imho would have been a lie not only to them, but to myself. I never thought it could be healthy for me to constrain what I am for the sake of acceptance.
I did not know the term "kitsune" back in those days. In the late 90s, I went around with 5 tails and butterfly wings. Honestly I thought that's just what I was, it was some other furry who asked me if I was a kitsune and I had to ask what that was, and once I got to searching "altavista" for that I got enlightened...
(1/3) #otherkin #therian #furry #faekin -
#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 61
#Wss366 Rock #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/30 Whatever“Hush!” Sumika responded as my laugh echoed in the room.
“What a spoilsport!” I griped mentally. “And where was the groan? Didn’t my pun deserve one? Alas, punsters always get pun-ish—Ack, I was #rocking it!”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 61
#Wss366 Rock #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/30 Whatever“Hush!” Sumika responded as my laugh echoed in the room.
“What a spoilsport!” I griped mentally. “And where was the groan? Didn’t my pun deserve one? Alas, punsters always get pun-ish—Ack, I was #rocking it!”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 61
#Wss366 Rock #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/30 Whatever“Hush!” Sumika responded as my laugh echoed in the room.
“What a spoilsport!” I griped mentally. “And where was the groan? Didn’t my pun deserve one? Alas, punsters always get pun-ish—Ack, I was #rocking it!”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 61
#Wss366 Rock #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/30 Whatever“Hush!” Sumika responded as my laugh echoed in the room.
“What a spoilsport!” I griped mentally. “And where was the groan? Didn’t my pun deserve one? Alas, punsters always get pun-ish—Ack, I was #rocking it!”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 61
#Wss366 Rock #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/30 Whatever“Hush!” Sumika responded as my laugh echoed in the room.
“What a spoilsport!” I griped mentally. “And where was the groan? Didn’t my pun deserve one? Alas, punsters always get pun-ish—Ack, I was #rocking it!”
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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Warnung, Karaoke ^^
Pur - Abenteuerland -
#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 60
#Wss366 slake #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/28 WhateverSome of the shaman’s advice was finally coming in handy. She had said, “From the fourth floor… Find your way into the walls as soon as you can.” With luck, the cat would reveal a secret passage.
I repeated, “Follow the cat, or we’ll lose it. No #slacking, girl! Mush!”
Sumika started after the pussy, and we were just in time to see it disappear behind a lacquered screen.
“Hurry, hurry!” I urged. “It’ll be a cat-o-strophe if we lose it! Ack, ack, ack.”
My laughter echoed, surely inspiring further ghost stories.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 60
#Wss366 slake #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/28 WhateverSome of the shaman’s advice was finally coming in handy. She had said, “From the fourth floor… Find your way into the walls as soon as you can.” With luck, the cat would reveal a secret passage.
I repeated, “Follow the cat, or we’ll lose it. No #slacking, girl! Mush!”
Sumika started after the pussy, and we were just in time to see it disappear behind a lacquered screen.
“Hurry, hurry!” I urged. “It’ll be a cat-o-strophe if we lose it! Ack, ack, ack.”
My laughter echoed, surely inspiring further ghost stories.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 60
#Wss366 slake #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/28 WhateverSome of the shaman’s advice was finally coming in handy. She had said, “From the fourth floor… Find your way into the walls as soon as you can.” With luck, the cat would reveal a secret passage.
I repeated, “Follow the cat, or we’ll lose it. No #slacking, girl! Mush!”
Sumika started after the pussy, and we were just in time to see it disappear behind a lacquered screen.
“Hurry, hurry!” I urged. “It’ll be a cat-o-strophe if we lose it! Ack, ack, ack.”
My laughter echoed, surely inspiring further ghost stories.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 60
#Wss366 slake #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/28 WhateverSome of the shaman’s advice was finally coming in handy. She had said, “From the fourth floor… Find your way into the walls as soon as you can.” With luck, the cat would reveal a secret passage.
I repeated, “Follow the cat, or we’ll lose it. No #slacking, girl! Mush!”
Sumika started after the pussy, and we were just in time to see it disappear behind a lacquered screen.
“Hurry, hurry!” I urged. “It’ll be a cat-o-strophe if we lose it! Ack, ack, ack.”
My laughter echoed, surely inspiring further ghost stories.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch
Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 60
#Wss366 slake #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/28 WhateverSome of the shaman’s advice was finally coming in handy. She had said, “From the fourth floor… Find your way into the walls as soon as you can.” With luck, the cat would reveal a secret passage.
I repeated, “Follow the cat, or we’ll lose it. No #slacking, girl! Mush!”
Sumika started after the pussy, and we were just in time to see it disappear behind a lacquered screen.
“Hurry, hurry!” I urged. “It’ll be a cat-o-strophe if we lose it! Ack, ack, ack.”
My laughter echoed, surely inspiring further ghost stories.
#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore
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Was ich letzte Nacht gemacht habe:
#dragon #otherkin #lightshow #hackmas -
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Hi all! I'm going to reopen comms soon, my wrists are fully healed and I am feeling a lot better recently in lots of ways, and not as burnt out! I am working on updating my prices atm, but in the meantime here is a fun little YCH I am offering! will take 2 slots :3
$35 USD
Any species! All the accessories can be removed or customized, the soda/drink can be any of your choice or removed/replaced with something else :3
(2/2 slots available)PM me if you are interested! and check out my examples on https://snowystripes.com/commissions.html
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Hi all! I'm going to reopen comms soon, my wrists are fully healed and I am feeling a lot better recently in lots of ways, and not as burnt out! I am working on updating my prices atm, but in the meantime here is a fun little YCH I am offering! will take 2 slots :3
$35 USD
Any species! All the accessories can be removed or customized, the soda/drink can be any of your choice or removed/replaced with something else :3
(2/2 slots available)PM me if you are interested! and check out my examples on https://snowystripes.com/commissions.html
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Hi all! I'm going to reopen comms soon, my wrists are fully healed and I am feeling a lot better recently in lots of ways, and not as burnt out! I am working on updating my prices atm, but in the meantime here is a fun little YCH I am offering! will take 2 slots :3
$35 USD
Any species! All the accessories can be removed or customized, the soda/drink can be any of your choice or removed/replaced with something else :3
(2/2 slots available)PM me if you are interested! and check out my examples on https://snowystripes.com/commissions.html