This is a bird house!
…why can’t a swan fit in a bird house? THIS COULD BE MY NEW HOME.
Whaddya mean, a swan can’t fit? BUILD A BIGGER ONE.
I have a book recommendation for your followers; I just finished reading Jean Craighead George’s memoir about raising wild animals with her children, and she has several really funny chapters about the crows her family raised, named New York and Crowbar. Crowbar in particular is a real character, and he even learns to mimic words, beginning with ‘hello’. An excerpt:
Crowbar did not rest on his laurels. He soon figured out how to make use of that word.
The neighbors on our wooded hillside come outside in summer to picnic and cook on their grills. Most have moved to the suburbs from New York City and know little about the country, much less its wild membership. Crowbar discovered that if he alit on a food-laden table and said, “Hello,” he terrified these people. A large black bird might be tolerated, but one that spoke English was too much. They ran into their houses and closed the doors. Crowbar then helped himself to the hamburgers, strawberry shortcake, cheese, and nuts. When he was stuffed, he flew back to his apple tree.
[My daughter] and I were walking under his tree one day as he was returning from one of these picnics. He alit, cocked his eye, and said, “Hiya, Babe.”
Why on earth would that terrify anyone? If a crow randomly landed next to me and said “Hiya babe” or even “Hello” that would be SO AWESOME.
“Tree Foregrounded in a Soap Bubble” by richard.heeks
Actual source on flickr added. Hrmph. (Frickin’ weheartit…)
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I hope I don’t offend anyone but if I do please smack me in the face because this isn’t a topic I am very knowledgable on.
To all otherkin, therans especially, I have a question in the name of fiction. If you were capable of a somewhat one-way transformation would you:
1) Change details about your current body (ie. adding wings, ears, extra limbs, maybe modifying your sense of smell, etc) but nothing drastic
or
2) Go through a complete transformation even though it might mean leaving behind your current life, society and possibly even your way of thinking?
I would definitely do 1), and I would strongly think about doing 2).
I’d like to be able to jump and say ooh ooh, me me, but really… there’s a lot of other things to consider with a question like this. On the surface having wings (for example) sounds very cool, but if the whole rest of my life doesn’t or can’t also change, that’s going to become a serious handicap. And the second question depends a lot on the whole situation: am I totally alone in this? Is it happening for lots of people? Where/what is the destination “society” and how will I survive there?
the best thing about the internet is that eye contact doesnt exist
Sometimes this is the best thing. Other times this is the worst, or at least a detrimental, thing.
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If I was more capable of providing transportation for myself to get places, I would probably try and set something up in Seattle myself… (I can’t drive at all; I’m extremely dependent on others when it comes to getting anywhere… where I live right now makes it really hard to catch buses, too. My extreme anxiety at the idea of organizing anything myself doesn’t really help at all.)
Maybe I will though- I know two therians in person, follow another cat near Seattle, and there’s another blogger who lives in Olympia. It would be really great to have a Washington-area ‘kin community meetup, even if just a few people were there.
Later I could send an ask or submit something about it to one of the bigger community blogs here.
You’ve got me all inspired now, haha!
:D
I don’t know about other therians as I am not connected with that community, but there’s a bunch of dragons up in that area. Look up goldkin on livejournal for a start. Also a pooka named Erelin last I knew, who’s on LJ under that name. Umm… the guy who used to run a vampire/energy-work type meetup down in San Francisco, name of Cole, went up there a while back… I think he might also be something feline, name of elegantblackcat on livejournal.
There’s a regional Yahoo list for that area, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norwes_kin, but it seems pretty dead. Still, might be something to try.
(If you remember tribe.net at all, there was a whole “tribe” called Cascadian Elves Awakening that had a fair amount of traffic at one point… but I don’t know if that’s still the case.)
(Source: chasingcaribou)
Quote from post:
Starting this Thursday, and running through the weekend, the Winnemem Wintu tribe in Northern California are holding a War Dance of civil disobedience, blocking off a 400-yard stretch of the McCloud River, an area central to their coming of age ceremonies. The reason for the blockade is due to the Forest Service’s refusal to grant mandatory closures for these ceremonies, resulting in teenage girls being heckled and abused by boating tourists.
(Tags are primarily for exposure… I don’t know which, if any, of these terms these people would prefer for themselves, besides the tribe name.)
- May 23
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Everything Tsu said!!
I want more opportunities to meetup irl with ‘kin of all kinds, but also special meetups for those of similar species/identities. I’d give anything to just hang out alone with a few fellow felines!
It’s really much easier to start a meetup or small event than many people seem to think. The main obstacle, beyond whether the radius you are trying to cover actually has enough ‘kin or therians in it to support a small thing (people are usually willing to travel a bit more for longer things - but don’t get me started; this has been a problem for me for ages) is getting people motivated to actually come. Where I am I have problems with people saying they do not/cannot afford to drive and can only get to places accessible by public transit (which is pretty crappy, so very limiting). But if you can surmount that problem, it’s very simple to pick a place and go there, even if you don’t want to cough up to Meetup.com (which, although it annoys me to have to do so, does make coordinating announcements and RSVPs simpler for anything more than about 5 potential attendees). A bigger gather is a bigger investment of money, and there is the issue of finding a good spot - but try, try, try. Don’t assume it’s impossible or that only someone else would be capable of doing it and therefore you just have to wait and hope. This is one thing where turning a wish into a reality is really a very small step, if you can get the bodies, and there’s little or no lasting consequence to failure.
I also wish there were sites dedicated to fictionkin/fictives specifically, forums for discussion regarding those identities
There are some already. For example, Jarandhel posted links to a number yesterday: http://jarandhel.tumblr.com/post/23522432026/nomadic-shayejou-i-agree-fun-fact-did-you
(Source: chasingcaribou)
Hello, fellow ‘kin and kind, if you’ve seen the discussions of late, we’re once more exploring the needs of otherkin folks and our community. And, I’d like to know those needs on a more widespread level, if folks are comfortable sharing! (:
In particular, things you feel would improve your quality of life, if only you had access to them.
shapeshifting machine y u no exist yet? D:
But more seriously, things that other people could do to make your life a little easier, or resources that could exist, small changes, big changes, all things under the sun or earth.
Because we’re so varied and diverse, I’d like to know, what would you like to see change?
And because it’s such a fiery topic with lots of feeling, feel welcome to send an anonymous ask or submit if you like.
“shapeshifting machine y u no exist yet? D:”
haha, inorite? Although even a full-body-immersive version of something like Second Life might do, although on the other hand I wonder if that would make “real life” even more depressing to have to come back to. I don’t think I really need or want anything that would feed into my periodic suicidal urges quite that much.
Homestar Bath Planetarium
The waterproof planetarium floats in water and contains a bright light that projects out into the room, or even into the tub itself when flipped over. It also includes Rose Bath and Deep Ocean graphic domes for changing to a different mood.
Oh my goodness, I need a job.
Ooh, this is neat. Not that I ever take baths anymore.
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don’t hate your body because it’s too fat or too thin hate it because it’s a prison of flesh and its existence is meaningless
This is actually why I do hate my body.
^Yep.
Or you could try appreciating it because it’s a tool by which the nonphysical can interact with the physical, and the meaning of its existence is what you make of it.
Well I guess I’ll just stick with hating it because it’s too fat then.
(Also, easy for a “solid” to say! It does feel imprisoning to me a lot of the time…)
I guess I think people should be able to hate anything they want to hate about themselves, without other people telling them why they think those feelings are invalid. hrmph.
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and for some reason, it’s not anything personal to people and i understand they have reasons for it but when people bring up the idea of abandoning the otherkin tag and making a new “secret” tag it really bothers me because
every other abused community reacts to this kind of thing by saying “we have a right to the tag”
and we just say “okay we’ll go somewhere else” and i understand why individual people might want to do that, because of stress triggers etc. but when the whole community does it, it seems like it reflects the attitude of our community on things like this
it feels like we as a community are not willing to fight back
we are not willing to stand up for words, for tags, if someone says “boo” to us we panic and fall over our own feet apologising - we have been using “phantom limbs” for so long and it’s the medical word for the experience and medical science has shown that supernumerary phantom limbs do exist and phantom penises have been recorded in trans* men and they are called phantom by doctors
it’s the medical term for feeling stuff on your body that isn’t there
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and i’m tired of it and i wish we could be like every other community and stand up for our selves
i feel like no one takes us seriously, including us
and i hate it
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I agree that otherkin on tumblr should not abandon the tag for a “secret” one just because some people out there use it as a way to find easy targets or otherwise be jerks. We should indeed take ourselves seriously enough to feel we’re worthy of a space.
