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a little bit about me: while i'm not new to the therian-otherkin community, as of writing this i'm still in the questioning and speculating phase of figuring out exactly what i am lol
on this account i also dabble in any interest or fandom that isn't Gumball (my main @atomicpirateperson is for that) including zoology and marine biology, lilo and stitch, steven universe, and monarchy/royalty
Me being against proship is not : "censor, take down, no one should be allowed to talk about this"
Me being against proship is: "people aren't going to like you if you romanticize pedophilia. I am allowed to not want to be around you, cut you out of my life, whatever, because you romanticize disgusting, serious, awful things that happen to real people. And I'm not the only one who will"
as always, this is subject to change as i learn more about myself, but this is a cartoon version of how i currently see myself :3
Is it kinmisia if I, a demon, am frightened of angelkins? I knew one irl and instantly avoided them once I found out. It feels wrong for me to do, but I don't know, angels seem so dangerous to my kind I guess, they're just scary to me.
This is kinmisia.
You should judge somebody based off their actions, not something about themselves that they can't control.
Angels and demons aren't inherently enemies or dangers to each other. You view all angelkin as inherent predators bound to hurt you if they find out that you're demonkin, that's absolutely messed up.
Would also like to say, as King Beleth and Archangel Chamuel devotee, angels and demons get along just fine.
Point of nuance: it's not bigotry to be afraid, on its own. You can't control your feelings. But you can control what you do about those feelings, and avoiding people based on that fear with no effort to work through it is at minimum unfair to those people. It's something to work on and process so you can move beyond it, and that might be a challenge or it might be easier than you think and just be a matter of proving to your brain that what it thinks is scary and dangerous isn't actually. People are just people, and people whose kintypes would be natural enemies or predator-prey can get along just fine because in all practicality, we are not in that situation at present, we're in one where we can laugh about the irony together because we're perfectly safe. Remind yourself of that when you start getting spooked.
I think it's time to get even weirder with my alterhumanity but I'm still trying to unlearn a lot of cringe culture and antikin sentiments I used to hold.. tell me about your "weirdest" kintype!!
ok I can't keep replying to everyone individually (this got WAY more engagement that I expected <3) but I am very much enjoying reading through all the replies- y'all sound so cool!! and it's definitely helping me work through my worries about being "too weird". Currently, I'm pretty sure I'm a church grim, and I'm kinsidering old dolls as a copinglink.
i'm fairly sure i have one theriotype, but it helps to just talk about my features rather than make sense of all of them at once, so i'll happily ramble for a bit!!
i'm covered in sharp, keeled scales much like that of a bush viper. i'm probably about the size of a bear, large enough to hunt a human on my own but small enough to be fast and light on my feet
i have six or eight limbs in total, all with curved claws, and two of them are the wings on my back. they're bat wings or something analogous and flexible enough to function like giant webbed hands
i think my body is front-heavy and narrow around the waist/pelvis despite how long my legs are. my middle limbs (the ones not corresponding to human legs or arms) are weirdly close together, not anchored to my sides like you would expect. and they're such a vague sensation that i'm not even sure what they are, but they exist and they can move
my legs are like a bird of prey for the most part, digitigrade but with five digits instead of four. they're also strong with a good deal of jumping power like a kangaroo. my tail seems to be about as long as my human legs from hip to heel, and i can use it to swim like a fish or reptile. i'm definitely a decent swimmer, but i no longer think i'm semi-aquatic, because the urges to swim don't come unless i'm actually looking at a body of water. like i would just hop in to eat some fish and whatnot
anyway, my head shape is vague and i would estimate it as the general profile of an orca, dolphin, or maybe a hognose snake? but pretty much everything else is different from those, because my eyes are more front-facing plus a third eye and i don't think i have a blowhole. my teeth are sharp and i seem to have fangs that swing forward like a venomous snake
there's also some weirdness about my ears, because i have phantom ears basically identical to an elf, but there seems to be another pair of ears, higher up on my head like a cat. these COULD be one pair and the tallness of the human head just makes it feel strange, but i'm pretty sure these two pairs move differently, so i don't know. oh, and there seems to be a small pair of horns right above my human forehead, because of course i have horns too T_T
when it comes to sprinting, i'm always on all fours and my head is relatively steady like a cheetah. sometimes i walk on all fours as well but when it comes to standing around, my posture is more like a theropod dinosaur
all together, i know these features sound like a dragon, and i've identified as a dragon before (even a Night Fury from HTTYD for a while) but that term doesn't feel like it captures the whole picture. you know, what's with all those extra parts and the lack of a breath attack or any clearly magical property? i know there's not much criteria for being a dragon but it still doesn't seem quite right
TLDR; i decided to dump all of that into a reblog of this post since i feel really weird. it's like i came from a child's imagination. you know, some little kid just stitched together every cool creature feature they could think of. it makes me feel fake, ridiculous, a bad example of the otherkin and therian community.
so i tend to force myself into a label of something relatively simple, like a dragon or a shapeshifter or even a fictional species from a particular source, so i don't feel so silly.
but like i said, i still don't have a label that can capture the full picture, and i have looked very, VERY hard over the years. it's safe to say that i just shouldn't label myself for the time being and that's okay. and i mean, there's still a ton of things i left out in my description that complicate my anatomy further. it's hard.
This is so so incredibly important
Once you stop defining your therianthropy in measures of dysphoria and focus on what brings you fulfillment as an animal, you start caring a lot less about where other people fall on the chosen kintype vs involuntary kintype axis. It opens you up to instead start caring about how people engage with their kintype, and what experiences it brings, which I think are far more valuable.
I know everyone has been stressed recently about the therianthropy community as a whole with everything that’s been happening, but I just wanted to take the time to appreciate alterhuman tumblr. I’ve been on here for so long, and honestly I’ve seen more of a community be created over time. Everyone is so incredibly sweet and looks out for each other. Everyone I’ve talked to in the comments feel like friends. So yea, alterhuman tumblr, you guys are awesome.
nonhumanity isn't my coping mechanism, it's the opposite.
when i'm at rock bottom, i'm human. my phantom limbs, if i can feel them at all, just sit there like parts of a costume. i have little desire to roar or stalk my prey or anything of the like. in times like that, i want to fall back on my theriotype for comfort, to regress to a more primal state, but i can't.
that's because the creature doesn't embody sadness. it doesn't run on all fours to chase its enemies, nor does it sharpen its claws to tear them apart. it runs on all fours and sharpens its claws because it loves itself. it's the best version of me. it embodies happiness. does that make sense?
The therian and otherkin communities really do harbour a lot of unexamined racism.
And I understand why. For many of us, our identities are inherently based in wanting to be seen, treated, as something other than human. We're often eager to disavow humanity, having spent so long being forced into that role, and so we embrace ideas of dehumanisation. But we don't often consider that alterhumans of colour, who have long histories of being treated as subhuman and having their humanity denied, might have more complex relationships with these narratives.
As a community in the internet age, we have the myths and legends of the whole world at our fingertips. But we often give very little care to the meanings of those myths and the cultures they come from. (Are you actually a human possessed by an Algonquin spirit of starvation, after falling prey to greed and the exploitation of other people? Or are you a woods monster with a skull-deer head? Because the former is not the latter, and if you actually are the former, a lot of Native Americans are going to be rightfully upset by you, as that spirit represents immense amounts of cruelty that was done to them and is still being done to them.)
And then there are the myths and legends that are explicitly tied to racism. The New Age narrative of starseeds and ancient alien ancestors originates in white supremacy (we never see Black alien progenitors, but we do see explicitly "Nordic" ones), antisemitism (anything to do with the world being secretly run by alien lizardfolk, which have widely been understood by Jewish scholars as code for the Jews), and literal Nazi occult practices. While some starseeds disavow racism, disavowing it personally is not enough- not when the community continues to circulate white supremacist beliefs.
And then of course there's the police dog thing. No, it doesn't make you evil to have been a police dog, or to have enjoyed having been one. No one can expect you to have understood racism as a dog. But you have this body and mind now, you are aware of racism now, and you are aware of the baseless cruelty of the police, the countless Black and Brown communities that have been terrorised by the police and K9 units. You have the choice to keep condoning this system, or to learn about it and the harm it does. Perhaps that's what you're meant to do as a dog in this life- perhaps that's why you're here, why you've been given this mind and this awareness in this current time. To become a better, more compassionate being than you were in the past.
This isn't to say you're not a dog who served the police, or a kitsune, or an alien from the Pleiades, or an animal who enjoys dehumanisation. (I'm that last one myself!) But we have to understand that when we talk about these things uncritically, when we're wilfully ignorant and don't do the research or care about how these ideas might make people of colour feel, we are driving said people away from the community and making it a very, very white space.
"But what am I supposed to do about it? I'm not responsible for racism; I'm just talking about how I feel!"
Indeed, it can feel unfair to be accused of racist beliefs when you're just trying to express yourself. Your frustrations are understandable. But do remember that it's much, much worse for people of colour to be subjected to constant reminders that others don't notice their pain, or care about reducing it.
The number one thing is to do your research. Look into the thing you are and get accurate information about it (not just from Tumblr) before deciding you are it. If you fit a visual image such as skull-deer or many-tailed fox, but you don't resonate with the actual legend you are drawing on, try describing yourself as just "skull-deer" or "many-tailed fox". It'll be more helpful to you, too, to not try to squish yourself into an image that doesn't really fit.
(I could describe myself as an "Eastern dragon", and have in the past: I'm wingless, associated with water rather than fire, and aspire to be a benevolent force and a guardian of nature. But I'm also white and my dragon form has strong connections to European regions and myths, so I feel it's better to describe myself as a wingless dragon or drake. And acknowledging that allows me to connect more authentically with my Slavic heritage, as a half-Pole.)
The second thing is to be respectful, humble and open to correction. It's easy to say, "well, I didn't mean to do harm, so you shouldn't be mad at me!" But do you think that's going to make anyone feel less hurt? Would it make you feel less hurt if someone said it to you? If someone says a thing you're saying is racist, take the time to listen to them without getting defensive. Accept that you have hurt them, even if unwillingly, and be open to their suggestions of how you could express things better.
The third thing is to point out racism when you see it in the community. That doesn't mean making callout posts or sending hate, but just calmly stating why the thing they said is an issue. e.g. "I'm not criticising you personally, but be aware that X myth has roots in white supremacy." Or, "this creature represents Algonquin stories about the dangers of greed and selfishness and how it can turn you into a monster. Are you actually saying that you embody that myth, or are you saying that you relate to modern depictions of the creature? If the latter, it's kinder to call yourself a skull-deer or such."
When white people stay silent on these matters, we allow racism to spread unchecked. It's uncomfortable to stand up against racism and draw attention to yourself, but to the people constantly being bombarded by hurtful narratives, it could mean everything.
You can't fake something unintentionally or unconsciously.
Faking an experience is done with full knowledge and conscious intent on your part of what you are doing.
If something is happening to you unintentionally, if you are doing something and unconsciously, you are having a legitimate experience of some kind.
If you're faking something, you're doing it deliberately. Faking something isn't something that just happens to you. An experience is something that just happens to you.
do you consider yourself human?
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[hate to be that guy but if you would consider reblogging for reach i would love to have a larger pool of data here]
Journaling Prompts for Nonhumans, Therians, Otherkin, etc.
These are purposefully non-specific, make them more specific as needed.
What led you toward identifying as other than human? Is it a voluntary or involuntary expression for you? Explain why?
What about you, your personality, and mannerisms naturally feel nonhuman compared to others? Do other people notice the difference?
What do you identify as and how did you come to that conclusion? Describe your kintype(s) in detail.
How does your identity play into your everyday life? Do you make an effort to include it in your daily life?
How do you affirm your nonhumanity mentally, how do you do it physically?
Do you still feel a connection with humanity? If so, when do you most feel it? Is it a positive or negative experience?
Where would be the most ideal environment to live in where you could express your non-humanity? If you have a hearthome, describe it in detail.
What do you think society would look like if nonhumanity was a widely accepted expression of self?
If you've identified as something other than human for a long time, how has your expression of that identity changed over time?
If you've only recently begun identifying as nonhuman, how do you predict your expression of your identity will change over the years?
Do you believe individuals belonging to certain demographics (poc, neurodiverse, younger generations, etc) are more likely to identify with nonhumanity over others? Why or why not?
Does your nonhumanity influence how you interact with others? If so, how, and do you make an attempt to manage it?
Do you view yourself equal to, above, or below humans in any regard? Why?
What is the oddest thing that brings you euphoria related to your identity?
What is your most favorite item or activity that brings you euphoria?
If you had the ability to change into your kintype (or alternate nonhuman form), would you do so permanently, or would you want the ability to shift between your human and nonhuman form? Explain your choice?
If you had the choice to live entirely separate from humanity, would you take it? Where would you want to go? Is there anything you would miss about humanity?
What do you believe the origin of your nonhumanity is? Do you believe it's different for everyone?
Are you a social or solitary species? How does this affect you in your day to day life?
Do you have nonhuman friends? What are they like, how did you meet, and how does interacting with other nonhumans affect you?
If you don't have other nonhuman friends, do you want them? Why or why not? Would you want to make friends with those of a specific type?
Do you have dreams, visions, memories, etc. Of yourself in your nonhuman form? Explain them in detail?
Where is your favorite place or safe space to express your identity openly?
Do you have a den/nest/burrow etc. If so, describe its appearance in detail along with what about it makes you feel safe and comfortable.
once again gracing the alterhuman community with this reminder; calling phantom appendages 'phantom limbs' is outdated & taking unrelated terminology from amputees !
There is more than one category of phantoms, namely Supernumerary Phantom Limbs (and other phantom sensations) which is what phantom shifts are referring to and is also a scientifically recognized phenomenon. Phantom sensations also commonly occur for transgender people. It is by no means an exclusive phenomenon and can have multiple causes outside of losing a body part and can manifest in ways outside of phantom limb (or organ) pain. It is also recognized that phantom sensations can even be induced, IE: the very famous Rubber Hand Illusion experiments.
Do we really have to dredge up this argument every 5 years
Also the biggest survey in the alterhuman community (with over 1200 responses) found that alterhuman phantom experiences mirror transgender, amputee, and organ loss/removal phantom experiences in obstacle shunning and similar facets. People in the community who have more commonly understood human phantom experiences also didn't typically find the use of the phantom medical language offensive or inaccurate by alterhumans, and several people said they found their experiences of human and non-human phantoms identical. See here for the lecture related to it, and you can direct further questions to @frameacloud who was the dragon behind the survey.
okay I know this might sound silly, but I feel like I need to ask someone abt this. phys shifting, fully or slightly is not possible in objective reality right?? I see p shifters post picture proof like fur and fangs.. or say that “cameras don’t capture the transformations well that’s why there aren’t many good pictures.” say that pshifting is objectively real even if u personally deny it and that there are SO many that feel this way and have history and proof. it messes with my head because if SO many people say it’s real, what if it really is? what if the pictures are real? what if there is more to the world than i know? but I also know that it isn’t scientifically possible right? are they experiencing a mental health issue that is causing them to see this in their subjective, personal reality? but it’s not literally, physically real?…
(While writing this answer I remembered this page on @obligatorycoffee 's site, which probably sums it up better than me tbh.)
It's not silly, and I'm sorry you're dealing with this - I know how you feel! I went through it as a teenager and for an embarrassing amount into my 20s.
Step 1: block people who make these claims. That might seem harsh, since some of them are absolutely dealing with mental health issues and that isn't their fault, but exposing yourself to content that makes you feel psychologically unwell isn't helping them, you, or anyone else.
There IS more to the world, and the universe, than we know. That's exciting, and we should always keep an open mind to new information, but not so open that our brains fall out and we start accepting every goofball idea as fact. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and photos online don't cut it. Especially not today in an age where we have AI and photo editing software. Unless you're literally on a live stream or in person, you can't trust the "proof" these people give you.
Remind yourself that this has always been the game. We've always dealt with claims of shapeshifting, and there's always been excuses as to why the claims can't be proven. This is the history that they have, years of glorifyed RP, scams, drama, and wishful thinking that at times really hurts people like yourself.
Think about it this way, too. If you could shapeshift, would you waste your time bragging about it online? Personally, if I could change form at will I would be way too busy living my best goddamn life out there.
And if I so DESPERATELY needed people to believe me, I wouldn't waste time making up reasons as to why cameras don't work, I'd do literally everything possible to prove it another way. But there's always an excuse, every single time, and it just doesn't make any sense.
They're in one of two camps. 1) They're mentally ill. 2) They're lying on purpose for attention. The 2nd one can include people who are just so dysphoric and sad that they're trying to convince themselves that it's true. In any circumstance, exposing yourself to it is just a bad move and you'll feel better once you get away from it.
Mmmh AI is gonna make this a real tricky problem. It was bad enough when people would pull edited / low quality clips from movies as "proof". Blech.
When I was young I did have a reasonably sceptical head on my shoulders, but I was also dysphoric as fuck and wistful and I wanted it to be real. So much that I'd find myself subconsciously biased towards giving "p-shifters" the benefit of the doubt, hoping against impossibility that maybe it was true.
But a lot of people, when they throw around claims like this, will treat it like some secret the world is keeping from you that only they know. If you see someone like that? Run the fuck away. Doesn't take much for that to morph into, "Only we know the secret. If you want it, you have to join us. You have to be loyal to us, and do what we say, to prove yourself worthy." And that's where you get p-shifter cults. Creepy as fuck. (And yes, they were real, and probably still are).
Now: if you ever do find yourself really wondering, or just... hoping against all reason that maybe, any of it is true: I'll tell you what I did. Maybe it'll serve you as well as it did me.
Just. Try.
Like. Try to physically shift. You'll feel stupid and ridiculous, but give it an honest go anyway. It's a pretty straightforward way satisfy the curiosity. If we really did have some shapeshifting ability hidden in us, you wouldn't need some creep online to activate it, right?
So y'know. Try.
It won't work, and that sucks! But you got that answer for yourself, y'know? Close the case on your own evidence.
I had some of my most vivid mental and phantom shifts when I said fuck it and tried to physically shift. And that was a valuable experience in itself! But in the mirror: no fur, no paws, just the stark reality that we live in a world which is bound to logic and physical laws, and it's only in our minds that we're free from that.
But the closure helps, I think. And sometimes the best way to get that is from yourself.
Beyond that? Logic will snuff out any lingering doubts if you let it. Not just in physical law, but in how people are. There's no way something like that, if possible, would remain secret. And even if someone was trying to hide it: bureaucracy is inefficent and clumsy, people are loose-lipped and crave attention, and a trait like that scattered across random people would not be easy to suppress. The more people you're trying to organise, the harder it is! Like any conspiracy theory, one of the biggest plot holes is always going to be that people are just evidentially shit at keeping secrets.
Finding a way to cope with the longing is the harder work, though. The idea of p-shifting is an easy out, but a poisonous one (and false, completely and utterly false). When you rule that one out, you're stuck with the reality of things and that can feel pretty miserable.
It does get easier, though. You'd be surprised how much healing you can find just in accepting that you're stuck like this and deciding to make the best of it anyway.
You have your mind, and that's a really solid resource! If you want to "really" experience shapeshifting, you can try teaching yourself to lucid dream, for one! (It worked for me. I think it'd work for most people, though maybe not folks with aphantasia). Meditative visualisation is also surprisingly good for this, it just takes a lot of practice.
And there's way to find comfort in the physical world too. Sometimes it's just little things... integrating a bit of your species' body language, or focusing more on a sense you associate with it. Or if you wanted to get adventurous, there's fursuiting and furry lifestyling and LARPing and so on!
I guess, when I closed the door on the idea of fantastical magic existing in this world, I started to be able to notice the subtle, mundane magic of humanity and increasingly, I appreciate it. Even if it does feel weird, too. There's so much potential in the lives we have as human-bodied creatures. It might not make the pain go away deep down, but it can soothe it, and (given the impossibility of the ideal option), I think that's something worth chasing.
I'm really starting to notice the similarities between pshifters and conspiracy theorist rightwingers, which at least adds some morbid humor to the whole thing.
Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11
You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.
HELL YEAH DESHITTIFICATION!
For everything we do here, please be sure to be careful with what you edit, and restart your computer to lock things in. If you don't have access to the Group editor, (likely to happen if you're on base windows) you can do this as well by opening your Registry Editor app, then inputting this after your 'computer' or whatever the initial segment is. (Mine is computer. If I just try and paste the below string it gets SO mad at me)
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot
Navigating to your "turnoffwindowscopilot", hit modify, and set the value data to 1.
If done correctly, it'll look like this.
While we're at it, you can also get rid of the integrated search, (or that thing where it searches the web when you search anything, whether or not you want it to) and such through regedit as well.
Integrated search will have you going to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Navigate to your "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" bit, if you don't see it, you can make it by right clicking and creating a new registry D-Word key of that exact name. Edit the key, set it to 1. It'll look like this if you do it right!
To get rid of Windows Spotlight, (The thing where it pulls up ten billion pages on windows start page, shoving ads in your face and cluttering everything) we go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DesktopSpotlight\Settings
And set "Enabled State" To 0. If you do it right, it'll look like this!
Disabling edge on startup will also help a fair deal with processing speed and the like. This you can do in all sorts of ways, the easiest being turning it off entirely on startup through settings in the like.
If you want to kill it *entirely*, though? :)
In regedit, run along to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
Navigate to your MicrosoftEdge key subcategory. If you don't see it, you can make one! Note, this is a KEY, not a d-word. *inside* that subcategory, we want to either make or find the D-Word key of PreventLaunchEdge and set that to 1 in the same way as all the others. It'll look like this.
Aaaand while we're here, I'd HIGHLY recommend shanking Killer Networking Services. It's just bloatware. (Ostensibly it's supposed to monitor your network bandwidth and even things out, but that really means it's constantly monitoring and pinging things, which eats up the bandwidth you DO get, and also chunks your computer's processing power.) Getting rid of it entirely is borderline impossible, since it's set to redownload on regular updates and intel is very pushy with its updates.
This you can do by opening your Services.msc, which basically shows you all the background stuff that Windows does. Find Anything with Killer in the name, right click it, go to properties, and disable startup. It should look like this, if done successfully. It will probably reenable itself in time/in later updates for windows, but it's a quick fix. I'd also check your TaskScheduler app to make sure that nothing's scheduled to open up there, either.
If you CAN completely kill Killer services through uninstalling and the like, I would warn that at very least for my computer, the only ethernet/lan support applications that are available ARE Killer's. When you download updates, you really do have to do it manually and ONLY download the ethernet services, or just be cool with not having Lan functionality.
One last thing, not a shit application but is a shit service. If your computer's constantly overheating or just warm, you likely have Turboboost enabled. (Default setting that you can't change) If you want to be able to turn it off and drop your temps by like 40 degrees, in Regedit go to
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7
(Note- This isn't the string copy paste from the reddit thread, this is mine that does the same thing. If my string doesn't work for you, check the reddit thread string. If that doesn't work either, you can follow the path and find it pretty easily. Probably has like, one letter of difference somewhere. The bits all start the same, though, so it's easy to find.)
and go to "attributes". Set the value from 1 to 2, and now in your advanced Power Plan settings in control panel, you'll be able to *see* turbo boost and turn it off.
It'll look like this, and in power options, a successful disabling of boost should look like this.
Turning off quick startup's also a good call, since that basically stops your restarts from actually shutting things down properly.
GOOD LUCK OUT THERE YALL. MAKE SURE TO CLEAN YOUR PC!
does anyone else feel like they're almost an existing creature (in science or mythology) but not quite?
as i understand it right now, i'm a scaly creature with four leathery wings, two legs, a tail, and sharp teeth.
but not a dragon. i have bat-like ears instead of horns, i have either one eye or three eyes, i'm semi-aquatic but also great at jumping and climbing, and i don't breathe fire, inject venom, speak, hoard items, or have any magical property, as far as i know.
i know that "dragon" is a broad and near-limitless term; i could call myself a dragon and it wouldn't be incorrect. but it doesn't feel right to say that. it always feels like i'm missing something crucial but i don't think i am. i'm just a weird unnamed thing and it's hard to come to terms with that i guess
