Cosmos-slideout - Cosmo

love sitting with my back to the heater, really helps me feel my wings and alleviate the uncomfy feeling of phantom wings

Happy wet beast Wednesday

its really warm where i live, so i think im going to eat ice

does this count as a wet beast wednesday? I dunno

CWR Encounter 07: Bigg’s Transients 

Photos by Mark Malleson

so i recently found out / realised that i’m also a bird or something? Not quite sure yet what, but i’m trying to figure it out rn. The first thing that made me realise was that i randomly had phantom wings, completely unprompted. anyway, so far into today i’ve been phantom shifted basically the entire time and here are some things i’ve noticed.

first, when i close my eyes my "arms" become my wings and i’m just like a normal bird. When i open them my wings are attached to my back and i’m generally more like the typical avian-hybrid humanoid.

My feathers are brown with some pattern but i cant exactly pinpoint what pattern.

also, i can look into the mirror shifted without feeling really uncomfortable / disphoric and i can almost see my wings. Like, not actually but i know exactly where they should be in my mirror image and it doesnt make me feel weird.

and i dont like being touched on my back. It just feels very wrong.

i’m still pretty new to phantom shifts and everything cause i only really accepted and started embracing me being not being human like two or so months ago (even though i knew for far longer) so all of this is still mostly very exciting.

made some paper claws today, absolutely love it. Theyre the correct size and everything. They are a bit stiff and fall off quite easily, but they were only ever meant to be temporary anyway. Got really strong phantom claws now, even though i took them off and am currently in my nest. Very lovely, overall :3

Orca hunting herring. Filmed in Norway. From The Norwegian Fjords: Life in the Twilights (2018).

Orca. Filmed in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. From Planet Earth III - Ocean (2023).

orcas

Monterey Bay, August 2020

Family of orcas in and around the kelp forest.