Some kind of cat.
Hello! A beautiful Friday to anyone and everyone.
There's always that internal struggle to pinpoint qualities that are of an [i]exact[/i] physio-typical nature versus generic attributes that could be applicable to any number of non-human species. "I like to hunt and stalk!" Well, great. So does everything else. "I prefer the night!" Awesome. Lots of creatures do. "I have flexible ears and can hear things outside of the range that most people do!" Okay, lots of animals have this trait.
I wish it was easier to describe the internal monologues that result in the insistent narrowing-down of all available external and internal stimuli that lead to the tiny developments and revelations regarding kintypes.
All I can say is:
1) I absolutely prefer the cold to the heat. I can shovel snow for hours and be in my element. The moment it gets above 65F, I'm just done.
2) Any instance of human "fight or flight" tends to descend into a state of flowing grace, situational awareness, and dire focus. The night life gets VERY interesting.
3) Caffeine brings it out. It provides fuel to it - as if there are two layers of existence that exist, and it helps show where the boundaries exist between being human and being otherkin, bringing a sense of color to a black and white photo, if that makes any sense.
4) ... which also helps differentiate between what is latently human by design and what is not. Somehow these are two separate points. Utterly ineffable, as usual.
I have no idea what my point here was. Just had to get that off my chest.
So I know felines are the far stronger sign for what my Theriotype is. I also know I'm inextricably drawn towards people with cat ears and tails. Always have been. They feel like "Home" rather than anything else. It's probably the strongest definition of home I've ever felt. I often wonder if this has anything to do with Lyrians - the cat people from space that are described by channelers.
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Feline solidarity! pawbumps You just sent us down a long rabbit-hole looking up the Lyran stuff, though it doesn't really overlap with my own experience. Still definitely interesting. Welcome! 😸
Aww thank you! <3 A pleasure. I figure, the more knowledge gathered, the more there is to sort through.
It's like unboxing a ten thousand piece jigsaw puzzle. Anything can be anywhere at any point until you've snapped together a whooole bunch of pieces somewhere, and assembled the borders to know where the constraints of knowledge would be.
You know what's been surprisingly helpful? Finding out what happens after we die. Amazingly, it's EASIER to discover verifiable consistent facts about that than about otherkin, and we're experiencing epistemological observations about being Otherkin often and constantly. Having an NDE was a useful key in a very large and elaborate door, and learning about the fabric of reality (And being allowed to bring certain facts back with me.) was additionally useful.
Most useful of all was the fact that all lives are simultaneous, rather than linear, and we draw lessons from one to supplement others. So it's not that there was a feline life in the past - it's that part of us is more feline than not, and we're just enjoying some of those tendencies while having a highly educational master class in humanity in the meantime.
It's so odd to know that I'm sounding weird in a place where I already feel weird for sounding weird. What's a little more, eh?
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