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TRAVELS with TALONOK
A speculative fiction zine about Talonok from Flight Rising by me (BatCrooks) and @deer-rising! You can see the whole thing for free here: FR Forum Thread: https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/3165773/1 and/or you can throw me a tip by buying a high-quality .pdf for $1+ PWYW here: https://batcrooks.gumroad.com/l/talonok Thanks for reblogging this/commenting on the thread! This has been a huge project and I’m very proud of how it turned out.
NO MEANS NO but so does: “i don’t feel like it” “not right now” “i’m not sure” “i’m not comfortable with this” “i don’t like that” “let’s just chill”
can you infodump to me? (i love you) is this overwhelming? (i love you) is this the right texture? (i love you) is it ok to touch you? (i love you) do you want the subtitles on? (i love you) do you want to go somewhere less noisy? (i love you)
dress codes that arent ppe are stupid as fuck. as an adult human being with a (relatively) functioning brain i have never walked into a place and given a fuck what an employee was wearing. “professional” okay bitch i can make up adjectives too. “grundlous” see easy
whats grundlous mean
of or pertaining to grundle
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grundle: the feeling of being exultant in a wet jumpsuit, quivering as you throw on another coat and pull up a zipper
I'm happy to see the idea of "you don't have to categorize yourself you can just be" growing in the therian/otherkin community.
When I first found out about otherkin spaces I always felt fake not being exactly like all the creatures I saw posting. So I'm glad that now young otherkin can see that it's OK to just be. You don't need to know the exact colors and size of your kintype or have past memories or shifts or anything.
And I feel like it opens up more understanding for otherkin/therians like me who just Are their type, all the time. I'm just a werewolf. I don't have anything really past memories or shifts I just am all the time, it's me. It's OK to just be. You don't have to explain yourself to anybody.
Your own experiences, not fitting into a type, can and should come first.
If you have shifts that you enjoy, or discover something about your mentally pictured size or shape that feels right, you'll probably want to gush about it! That's awesome! But just because you don't get them doesn't make you invalid. However you experience being a Creature, even if you have no words for it, is fine. Having no words or dimensions for it is a Creature thing too.
reblog to put a weighted blanket on the person u reblog this from
As a trans person in a country where being queer is illegal (syria) right now, my heart goes out to all trans people in the USA, you aren't alone and I promise you'll never be, no matter what they try to do to erase you you will never disappear, but I truly hope this can be stopped and reversed before it gets to that point, please never stop fighting, we believe in you.
HELLO MINERS AND CRAFTERS GOOD TIMES WITH SCAR HERE FOR HERMIT-A-DAY MAY DAY 11
This one has been a long time coming dslgkj. Scar is, well, a big Mutt! More specifically, I wanted him to be a choco Lab (for the sillies), Husky (for the drama), German Shepherd (for the strength) mix!
I feel like i will regret picking this wheelchair for his design but i have to admit it looks pretty cool dfljfdh
DISCLAIMER: pluto is not in this poll because there's too little space to be able to include all the other cool dwarf planets like ceres/eris/haumea/makemake/gonggong/senda/etc here too!! sorry! if you bother me about this I will block you!
anyway i think i'm animals. it's not delusional/clinical 'thropy because i experience myself as physically having a human body. but i am nonhuman in the same way that i am male: i am these things regardless of how i appear on the outside.
realising i've always been a bit confused by shifting discussions because it's like. how much/how often do you feel human vs animal. and like, i'm nonhuman all the time, but that doesn't mean i'm feral all the time. i'm a dragon because "solitary reptile" + "brain designed for complex language and socialisation" = dragon, to me. i'm not reptile + human, i'm reptile + social species. i'm reptile + opposable thumbs. i'm reptile + community. i'm reptile + ability to read stuff on the internet and respond. but i'm not human, never human.
oh goodness as a masc who also has leonine energies in there this awakens something in me
#my leonine is weird bc its not?#literal lion?#its symbolic heraldic guardian lion#its lion statues its lions on flags#and i Dislike that bc i dislike monarchies and monuments to righteousness#but i cant deny there is a part of me that is tied to that archetypal image#its a hearttype probably but it Feels Like Me sometimes#and yeah i would be happy to be a. trans masc lion with lots of fluff
I’d like to tell you a little story today about why a lot of problems need social workers, not cops.
a long long time ago…like 2010, I worked 2nd shift (2pm-10pm) in a homeless shelter. I worked on a floor specifically for men with addiction and mental health problems. For most of the shift, I was the only staff working. Most of the time, the job was chill to the point of being boring. My job was to do the little things that needed doing, and be always ready to respond if shit went down. Most of the time, nothing much happened.
So one day I’m sitting at my little desk, trying to get up the motivation to organize the food pantry a little bit, and I head SCREAMING.
By the time I’m on my feet, one of the residents was in view. Dude was 6ft 4, with a shaved head, and a SOLID build. He was screaming down the hall, and in his raised fist he had, I shit you not, a blood-covered meat cleaver. He was spattered in blood all over. I knew the man- I knew all the residents. He mostly kept to himself. Sometimes he’d talk to me about his hallucinations and paranoid delusions. (no question these ones were delusions, kids. Man eating pythons can not fit in a half inch radiator pipe.) He had a history of getting pretty worked up.
Switch the camera around 180 degrees. I was 120 lbs and 5ft 4 on a good day, and all by my self. Totally unarmed.
Ask yourself- what would an armed cop do in that situation- alone, with a huge man running at them with a huge bloody knife?
I’m not gonna pretend for one second that my fight and flight instincts didn’t kick in. The ancient parts of my brain that exist to protect me from danger by fleeing or killing something saw this and screamed a great big NOPE.
But by this point I had like 8 years of other training, to. De-escalation training. Training on keeping a cool head in a scary situation. Training that reminded me that I was responsible for the safety of the other 17 men who called this floor their home.
Training that told me that this man was my responsibility, not my enemy.
In short, the opposite of what many police departments train their officers in. They are trained to view people as hostile, to treat their beat like a war zone. To act immediately. I wont say none of them have de-escalation training, but I will say it’s a bit of a useless add-on when they’re taught to go with their gut feeling of whether or not a situation is dangerous.
Because my gut sure as hell perceived a danger.
Anyways, I didn’t run, and I didn’t attack. I rooted my feet and I asked him what was going on.
That was when I saw that he was weeping. He was terrified.
He had bought a new cooking knife off the tv- he liked cooking, and had been looking at it. But one of the side effects of his meds made him clumsy, and he’d dropped it. He’d sliced open the back of his knee, where there’s a huge vein or artery or something- and was bleeding a LOT.
He was understandably alarmed at the river-like quantity of blood gushing out of him, and had run to the nearest help- me.
In his rush and his fear, he’d just forgotten to put the damn knife down.
The other residents had, thankfully, all stayed in their rooms, because a month before I’d got on several people’s cases for coming out to defend me- with the very best of intentions- during a previous incident. Their motives were good, but de-escalating a situation when other people are ready to throw hands is WAY harder. I’d told them to keep their buts in their rooms unless I actually called for help, and God bless them, every single one of them had done it.
This is the point when I called for help. One of the residents got the first aid kit. One called an ambulance. One gave me the literal shirt off his back because our damn first aid kit didn’t have a tourniquet so we ripped the shirt up to make one.
We helped calm the poor injured guy down, and he got a few stitches, and everybody was proud of how we’d come together to help each other out.
Nobody was hurt beyond that one initial injury. Nobody was traumatized. If anything, the guy who’d been hurt was happier, more engaged with the rest of us, having seen that everyone here would take care of him when he was in need. He hadn’t had much care given to him in his life.
So when you see meme’s of “lol what are those social workers gonna do NOW huh?” please remember that 1) we’ve been out here doing this work ANYWAYS and 2) We’ve been doing it unarmed and level headed, which is better than the cops.
Now, does social work ALSO need reform? Does social work ALSO contain racism and ableism and every other social evil? You bet! Just look at…like anything to do with CPS to look at how these systems break down.
But do not use social workers de-escalation training as some kind of “gotcha” to prove we need armed and militant enforcers on every damn corner. And please don’t let others do it, either.
A better way is possible.
"Training that told me that this man was my responsibility, not my enemy."
anyway i think i'm animals. it's not delusional/clinical 'thropy because i experience myself as physically having a human body. but i am nonhuman in the same way that i am male: i am these things regardless of how i appear on the outside.
realising i've always been a bit confused by shifting discussions because it's like. how much/how often do you feel human vs animal. and like, i'm nonhuman all the time, but that doesn't mean i'm feral all the time. i'm a dragon because "solitary reptile" + "brain designed for complex language and socialisation" = dragon, to me. i'm not reptile + human, i'm reptile + social species. i'm reptile + opposable thumbs. i'm reptile + community. i'm reptile + ability to read stuff on the internet and respond. but i'm not human, never human.
anyway i think i'm animals. it's not delusional/clinical 'thropy because i experience myself as physically having a human body. but i am nonhuman in the same way that i am male: i am these things regardless of how i appear on the outside.
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I love how you draw surprised eyes, it's like, yeah! You are surprised!
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... she’s gonna need a bigger scallop o-o;
Cinder doing as an otter do is adorable!
Good news! It's canon! o3o
'Coatls with access to mussels will spend a leisurely day harvesting and cracking the spoils on their tummies. It's adorable- ...unless you're a mollusc.' (link)
Ok I want to say something controversial
But you are responsible for your own safe spaces. You can block tags, block words, block people.
“But i thought fandom was supposed to be a safe space” —yeah you have to curate it.
Unfortunately one persons’s safe space may be another persons’ trigger. That’s ok. Simply block them, block the tag, block the word etc. They can do the same for you.
Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’ve been around since the days of “don’t like, don’t read” and that’s a good philosophy. If it squicks you, scroll past. If it causes you anxiety or upset, block! Plenty of people are responsive if you ask them to tag an upsetting trigger. And if they’re dicks about it, block em.
Since different people have different needs, one person’s safe space will be another’s Trauma Central.
I don’t know who said it first, but “I need to be able to express my anger without shame” and “I need to be away from yelling and loud noises” are both valid needs people can have for a safe space that really aren’t compatible with each other.
So are “I need to process my trauma” and “I need to not meet any trauma.”
Or “I want a safe space to tell/read the stories that speak to me” and “those stories are distressing to me.”
Insisting that your needs are the only needs anyone should have is not a safe space, it’s its own act of violence.
You don’t get to make others homeless to make the universe your personal safe space.
“Insisting that your needs are the only needs anyone should have is not a safe space, it’s its own act of violence.”