hot (?) take, but voluntary alterhumans and otherpaws might just be more punk than involuntary ones
please hear me out
expressing nonhumanity is (or at the very least can be) a very alternative, counter culture move. normative society limits people's self-expression, and one of the many things it prohibits is being animalistic. normative society puts humans on a pedestal and does everything it can to separate them from nature. being alterhuman is fundamentally going against that system by blurring those very lines it constructed
now, for involuntary alterhumans, expressing oneself is often a need, not a want
but there really are just mfs out there who choose to be unapologetically feral, not because they feel it in their core, necessarily, but because they want to
they actively aid the broader alterhuman community in propagating nonhuman self-expression and help us challenge the system, not because it's their only option, but because they saw it as an option and thought it was interesting enough to dedicate themselves to it
and that's so fucking punk!!!
we should be more thankful for our otherlinker, otherpaw, furry, and all our siblings in adjacent communities for popularizing our way of living, not because they needed to, but because they wanted to
they are so incredibly important, and we can't just forget that for the sake of "validity". they don't make us "look silly", they make us fucking stronger as a movement
