I always found shifting in school to be the worst. I always felt too awkward and wrong and out of place. I couldn't focus on my math when all I wanted to do was run. I couldn't sit through my biology class without practically chewing through my pencil. I was always a nervous kid, and then on top of that I had to walk around and pretend like I couldn't feel my claws and fangs.
It got even worse as it got colder. I felt so vulnerable tucked into a classroom, like I never had enough to shield me away from the world. I'd never go to school without a jacket, and it still only helped so much. Sometimes, I'd wear fingerless gloves or bring little trinkets I could roll around in my hand. They helped.
Being an adult can suck, but I was a teenage werewolf (shapeshifter, but for the sake of the pun), and that shits rough.
I'm going to start barking at the next person who tries to make me sit down and do my work.
I’m so tired of emails. I’m a dog
I get this. Before I awakened and before I met my pack, I didn't realize the full extent of how touch starved I was. Now, touch is so normalized for me. I'm constantly hanging off someone's arm, leaning on their shoulders, just gently touching in some way. I love dog piling with all my friends in my living room. I love how easy it is to hug them and ruffle their hair. Aaaaaaa I love my pack. I hope you find some people you can do this with too. Promise they're out there.
Anyone else wish huddling/cuddling was more normalized with folk outside your partner? With it getting cold outside, I wish nothing more than to be close and huddle with all my loved ones. And not in a romantic sense, but more in a sense where a pack of animals keep close with one another to conserve body heat and make it through the winter.
It’s hard to bring this up to humans. Of course you can get hugs from family and snuggles with a significant other, but anyone outside of that will take it the wrong way. But I’m an animal! I yearn to be touched! I want to cuddle close to my companions and keep them warm! I want to feel connected!
AAAA Russ!!! :D
russel !!
I really needed to hear this
to you, it's a shitty sentence. to some random bitch 500 miles away, it's a fire line that'll haunt them for the next 17 years.
you don't know how impactful your writing is because it's been in your brain for far too long now. you've stared at it for hours and repeated "this sucks" over and over again to the point that you killed your capacity to feel anything about your work.
but trust me, once you get your shit out there, someone's gonna go over that paragraph you hate and go "jesus fucking christ" and put the book down to have an existential crisis.
The fact I can't eat hot food the second it comes out of the oven/microwave is ridiculous >:
Food tastes best fresh. Let me eat. I DONT CARE IF ITS TOO HOT LEMME EAT IT
I enjoyed this month. I lived by the rule of: my camera roll is just a bunch of work schedules and spreadsheets. How do I fix this?
Then I planned a bunch of fun shit to go do with friends. Now, my camera roll is full of smiling faces, pumpkins, and art.
Look at your camera roll and see what you can do or plan to make it more colorful and joyous to reflect upon.
Toxic relationship beams can't fuckin TOUCH ME! My girl is the light of my life! The fire in my soul! She has the compassion of a kid saving a baby bird that fell out of its nest. She's got laughter like the sound of spring rain. My lover!?! Her warmth turns winter to a PUDDLE.
She's super cool, guys, and deserves everything she wants and more.
Felt very creature this weekend for the first time in a while. Like full-on, I need to roll around in the grass and guard the yard from possible threats. I wore my tail out in public for the first time in a while, too. It was nice :]