It's Just Like How I Had Imagined He Would Respond

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

Constant Reminder

rb to explode a terf ^_^ nonrefundable ^_^

Feeling rough lately.

A message to the younger members of the community, and those who doubt there place in it:

Beings don't care.

I went to a therian meet up over anthro northwest. And it was NOTHING like the current online spaces, especially all the discourse.

There was no fighting. It was beautiful. Beings were freely using whatever labels they wanted, no one cared "why" someone identified as something, mental, spiritual, physical. Everyone was like "Hey, cool!".

Older folks talked about their time in the community while the younger ones did quads. People howled, played with squeak toys. No one cared. And most importantly, everyone agreed the infighting was pointless.

You WILL be accepted irl. This discourse doesn't matter. You are going to find your beings, and none of these online pissing contests mean anything once you meet others off the screen.

It's a beautiful place out there.

my turn

edit: i got hershey's kisses. good enough

today i forced a beetle to listen to lemon demon

do people still like ihnmaims?! AM ihmaims?! idk BUT!!!! HIII TUMBLR HIII HIII guys who wanna see AM 😍😍😍‼️‼️ (do ppl post cropped art on tumblr idfk....)

that's my self-insert (aka literally js me) BUUT u can imagine that's 🫵YOU🫵 in the picture do u romance him do u kill him it's up to you!! tge possibilities are endlwss! hashtag meetcute!! 🥰