AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Other cats won't accept you even if you're bodaciously a cat. Cats aren't exactly known for getting along smoothly or with any degree of real efficiency. Feral cat prides are like the most laughably shitty pseudo-social thing ever. We're talking housecats here but even lions will murder each other's babies for an excuse to fuck and it's not that weird for them to just straight up murder each other over a squabble. Or their own babies for being vaguely in the way.

Basically, shocking as it is, cats actually aren't sensually romantic wise mysterious superanimals.

Shh Wry don't flaunt your Human privileged logic at them. It might offend them

Any information that contradicts my belief that my beloved Tiger does not in fact love me is going to get filtered right the fuck out of my brain sink.

Excyooz me but ur oppressing my rights as a catbread what is even with u humanz and ur arrogance

gonna go leaven in a window now peace out



Also I'm not arguing that animals aren't capable of loving stuff it's just a different kind of love. Buddy quite plainly adores me, but it's really not unfair to say that his love for me is different in flavor or quality from the brand of love I feel for him. It's not worse, it's just not the same.

That there is exactly what bothers me about 'otherkin' and a lot of upstanding members of society.

They don't act anything like actual animals! The whole thing is just to shield their inadequacies as humans.

Sometimes I want to grab their heads, shake them and yell, 'YOU'RE NOT A WOLF, YOU'RE JUST INSECURE!'

Okay, here's how I feel about this "otherkin" deal. I don't see a tangible problem. Yes, they're oddballs. Yes, the whole thing might be irrational. But they're not hurting anything, are they?

I'm pretty sure it was on the forum that someone posted the story of this upstanding member of society who was sexually abusing his dog.

Okay, see, that's bestiality and that's fucked up, but the lone fact that he was an otherkin wasn't... I don't know how to word this properly and my laptop's about to die. My point I guess is that the group of identities as a whole aren't necessarily harmful, and there's always going to be those real psychos hanging out on the fringes of the bell curve.

Okay, I concede that's a bad example. To be honest I don't hate all upstanding members of society. But I have been witness to how the flawed logic some of them have can be dangerous and hurtful IRL. (I was a guest at a upstanding member of society con teaching an art class)

Depends. Some take it too far and attack, bite, or sexually harass others (the dog/wolf otherkins that have to sniff butts and crotches because "that's what dogs do"), and that behavior isn't nor should be tolerated just because they're otherkin.

And that's not getting into bestiality or the fact that some of them are actually mentally disturbed individuals.

I know a few self-professed otherkins and they're fine to be around. I acknowledge them and treat them with respect, but if, one day, they, or any other otherkin, decided to do something that threatened me or made me uncomfortable, I would not put up with that shit.

I think people generally are okay with otherkins (even if many think they're full of shit), but find it really odd and a bit unsettling to deal with, especially with how far some of them are willing to take it.

And Wry, do you get along with other cat loaves? I have a tabby sourdough I'd like you to meet, but I'm not sure how you'd react.

I'm just thinking that if otherkins are truly as miserable with human life as they say they are, then they need to get off the internet and try to live off the land like a true ~majestic creature of the wild~

I wonder how long they'd be outside before they decided they didn't want to use sand as a toilet anymore.
without toilet paper, of course.

I think the problem with that is that they view their own human bodies as wrong, and that any failure to "live off the land" would be attributable to their terrible flawed human bodies. Also I'm using the last little bits of laptop battery to say that there is a difference between upstanding members of society and otherkin.

Yeah I'm not saying all upstanding members of society are bad. But I don't really understand otherkin logic because even excusing a human body's necessities, they still use modern day conveniences and I really don't think they complain about them all too much. I mean, they had to get on the internet, on a HUMAN COMPUTER, to write that post, right?

It's really not even a matter of "suppressing instincts" or "defying mother Gaia," either. Why would anyone logically think that a human's natural urges and any other creature's are identical? I'm not saying we aren't similar or that I don't enjoy the differences, or think animals don't have their own feelings, but we're as different mentally and emotionally as we are physically. Actually, that's a great comparison in my opinion. You can plainly see the similarities, and there are a lot of them, but when you get right down to it, we're just not the same. I can communicate with buddy in the purest sense of the word, and I fucking love his company, but darnit, he just can't leaven the same. If even at all.

That said, if someone wants to adore and identify with a particular species, go for it. It's just a mistake to think that it's a matter of "oh no I wore clothes and stopped pissing in the sink, that's the thing that made me different from cats. If only I hadn't pants."

I dunno Kamak, a sourdough did steal my biscuitmouse once. It's shameful but I just don't know if I can ever get over that.

Less meaningful discussion and more dumb pics we can get angry over.