Just Watched Arrival With My Family I Think Im Insane Now (/pos)

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An orca breaching. From Ocean Souls (2020).

After chatting with @courtkossai for a bit I had to draw this. Our particular verbal/audio communication difficulties happen to meld together really well which gave me a rather funny image of us signing to each other. Also I found the idea of including the mobility aides in a way that they are sort of redundant really quite funny as I would have no way to use forearm crutches in the water nor need for them and so they would just float off uselessly.

I also have no idea what it is faeries do to be honest - I guess influencing with fish. Google says they can give blessings. It has been a pretty long time since I used any NGT and longer since learning any ASL but I tried to write it in ASL so maybe people could have some tiny hope to read it since there are something like 30x the ASL speakers as NGT and this site does have a lot of Americans.

It says, or tries to say "I bless you with fish"

i got bored in the mist of trying to sleep last night- finished coloring and shading this morning ehjdhjd i want waffles

I think a lot of therian discourse would go away if we all adopted the idea that It’s Not Up To You. how someone identifies is really not up to you. And i know that can really suck because yeah, sometimes people Do get it really Really wrong, and they might not be a therian at all but listen to me. It’s not up to you. You can yell at someone all you want for being a therian the “wrong” way, you can insult them, you can suggest other terms if you really think it would benefit, but if they reject all of that there’s nothing more you can do but ignore them. You won’t convince them of anything, and you 🫵 don’t know Someone Else’s identity more than they do. You just don’t. So it’s not up to you. All you can do is exist as yourself.

Maybe I am stupid to think this way, who knows.

Every once in a while, I have this fantasy where suddenly, magically, every single person in the world is made into their exact, idealized form.

For the majority of people, itd be small changes. Maybe thinner, maybe larger, taller, shorter, curvier, ect.

For some folks, it'd be as simple as an instant gender change.

But then, for probably a larger group than you'd expect, things would get wild. There would be giants and tinies, anthro animal folk, kaiju, slimes, robots, plushes, mythical creatures, ect.

And I specifically think about that point, where everyone in the world realizes that they're seeing each other's "true" forms, no matter how strange or subtle. And I think about the understanding between everyone, where they'd know that even if you've become a completely different creature, you're happy. And it's you.

I'd like to think that everyone would respect each other's new forms. That feels hopeful, but I'd want it to be true.

Then I imagine the feeling of being myself. A short, roundish, fluffy pigeon. I can probably still talk, but making coos is much more comfortable. Maybe I still have hands at the ends of my wings, maybe i use my feet for things.

But people would look at me, and no matter how strange i seem, they'd know it was truly, actually me.

hi, it's another different anon, wondering if we could get more black winged cats? Thanks!!

i have a nest :3 i love my nest :3

Monterey Bay, August 2020

Family of orcas in and around the kelp forest. 

orcas