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➺ Kali | 18 | Any pronouns.
➺ Alterhuman | Human or animal terms are fine.
Main blog centered around my theriotypes, primarily posting about being an orca. Other info below.
My monofin did in fact get here before I went to the pool!!
I enjoyed using it very much. Very few issues with it, though definitely took some getting used to and practice. I was at the pool for about 2 and a half hours, and was lucky enough to have the pool to myself, and the bigger one out of the two I can go to which I hadn’t been in since the pool reopened.
Was also fun to mess around with. I can hit the surface of the water with it and it makes a very nice loud noise.
All in all, definitely makes me feel a bit more like myself :)
Aughh my monofin was supposed to get here today but was delayed. Now it’s getting here tomorrow supposedly, and I’m going to the pool tomorrow. I really really hope it gets here before I go, but knowing how things tend to go that’s somewhat unlikely.
Afterwards I most likely won’t be able to go to the pool again until next week, as it’s going to rain for a few days and then it gets too busy for me on the weekends. Though there has been many times when it doesn’t end up raining, or it may not rain enough to not allow me to go, so It could be sooner than that, but we will see.
I bought a monofin yesterday!
I’m really hoping I’ll like it. I think it will be nice to see in the water, to look more like myself again. I’m a bit worried because the deepest part of the pool is only 4 ft and I’m not sure if that’s too shallow, but I’ll just try to be careful not to hit the bottom too much. I have a few other concerns about it but I’m hoping it will be fine.
I don’t buy nonhuman related things very often, so it is always nice when I do.
I went to the pool yesterday! I should be going today as well.
Generally I enjoyed it very much! I did feel a bit dysphoric the first hour or so because it felt very obvious that I can’t do the same things anymore, but I tried to ignore that. Regardless I am very happy to be able to swim, and I did have a better time in the later half.
I hope today goes a bit better. I was mostly just really excited yesterday, and it didn’t even cross my mind that I might feel anything negative, as I didn’t have that issue last time the pool was open. So I should be more “prepared” for that now or whatever.
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Hey everyone, I’m doing a banner for Pride Month. Submissions will be open for this entire month. In it, you must hold one pride flag or banner. Unlike last time, it will not be to scale.
Reblog with your reference sheet and any additional information. Submissions run from May 3, 2026 to May 31, 2026. As for when the banner is getting released, it may be in mid-June or July because of my final exams and many projects I am doing.
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I really wanted to make a better post today, but I just feel so exhausted I can’t really do that. I got a maximum of four hours of sleep last night, so.
I’m making some good progress on narrowing down my captive orca past life, as I’ve been focusing on that the past few days, though I’m not sure when or if I will talk about that here for a few reasons I don’t feel like getting into. Potentially willing to talk about it in private if someone’s that curious.
Other very exciting news, the pool should be open tomorrow! …though I don’t know when I’m actually going, as I don’t think I’m going tomorrow lolll. But still, having the option available for when I have the time is very very nice. It’s interesting because last time it was open I was just figuring out about my identity and had a lot of questions and everything, and now I know a lot more about it all and much more confident that I’m a killer whale in general.
Apologies if the wording on all this sucks, as I said I’m very tired.
Today’s post is just me rambling mostly, I’m trying to get used to posting things I normally wouldn’t want to post.
I’ve been thinking about things I would like to have or do sometimes that would make me feel more like myself (an orca). Honestly It’s hard for me to think of things, so most of this is gonna be things that are pretty obvious. I’m not sure what others of similar or the same species as me do.
My (finally) finished ref!
Ngl I am still very very unhappy with it. I’ve never drawn anything even close to an orca before this project, and a lot of things were giving me trouble (particularly the shape of my eye patches, which I still feel like aren’t quite right…) but I told myself that I have to finish it today because I’ve been working on it for way too long. And I really wanted to post what I look like.
So please ignore the copious issues with anatomy…and generally all of it lollll
I’m sure I’ll remake it at some point, probably sooner than I think. But before that though I want to finish the refs of my pod, as I’ve been working on those too.
I don’t have much to say today but I will post more soon!!! I just need to think of some ideas…which I know I say this often but I really really miss posting so I promise I will try harder! Most of it is my own overthinking that prevents me from posting most things
I haven’t even opened tumblr in honestly a few months…oops.
I guess in other news the pool should be open sometime next month! So so excited!! I haven’t been swimming since about September I think. It is the one thing that makes me feel more truly that I am still an orca, and that I’m able to kind of live the life I had and do the same things I enjoyed, in a way.
Also it was my birthday yesterday. Not much to say about that though lol
I originally had a much longer post made about this, but like I do with most of my drafts, I decided I’m not going to post it.
For the past two months or so I’ve been questioning if I was a orca in captivity before, honestly since I discovered I’m an orca I’ve always kind of wondered or had my suspicions, but lately I’ve been truly thinking it over.
There’s a lot of things that just generally don’t make sense if I had only ever been in the wild, such as feeling as if I should be/it’s familiar to be around humans as an orca, to put it very very simply and shortly.
So all in all I’m like 99% sure I was a captive orca before. However I have not been able to figure out in which life. Was I as in one of my already discovered lives, or did I have a third past life as a killer whale?
Unfortunately, I don’t really know anything that proves or disproves either. I’ve been trying to think about it, which is most of the reason I’m posting this so late, but everything I feel like is a sign that it was or wasn’t in whichever life, I then later am not so confident that it means anything or is even correct.
So basically as of right now I have no idea lol
Sorry this is such a short and vague post, I just don’t feel like getting into all the details, reasons, etc.
Also I have a few other posts that I need to make in regards to things I’ve been questioning, but I’m unsure how long that will be because I take a million years before I pick the draft I want to go through with.
I will say I am ready to stop posting about changes in my identity though lol, I feel like it’s definitely getting repetitive.
Today has been a bit rough for me, I’ve been missing my pod a lot and having some species dysphoria. I decided I want to write about my calves, which I hope will help.
My first calf was about 15-17 or so years old, at least this is the time I remember most. She was very..mature(?) and independent in a lot of ways, I guess I would say. We did spend a lot of time together, but she also liked to do her own thing, so to speak. She was very skilled, I think, and very smart.
Her eye patches were bigger (especially in the front) and more pointed forwards than mine, and had a very round/smooth shape. Her subocular notches were not pointed at all, and much more shallow. And unlike everyone else that I remember, she had no freckles. Her dorsal fin was also much straighter than mine, and a bit bigger. I think she may have also had a notch on the right side of her flukes but I could be wrong.
My second calf was about 10 years old, so somewhere around 5-8 years younger than his sister I would guess. I spent most of my time with him, much more than I think I did with my first calf. He was a lot more…reserved(??) Than his sister, and didn’t really want to leave my side ever, while she had a lot less issue with doing so.
He also had bigger eye patches than I did, and they had a sort of triangular shape to them. He had a lot of freckles like me, though the exact placements allude me. Definitely some on one of his eye patches and some on his belly or sides somewhere.
I find it hard to express truly what their personalities were. I can remember certain things they would do, but it is difficult to put anything into words. So I may be saying things kind of wrong or weird because of this, so I’m sorry if things sound strange.
I miss them both so very much, and it pains me greatly to know that I left them behind. What I would do to see them again… even if in a human shape like me.
Hm. Kind of wonder if I could be a canine cladotherian..
I was researching African wild dogs a bit, considering questioning them again, and had a kind of realization that several different canine species have behaviors/traits/etc that seemingly fit my own. Though, not necessarily everything about them does, which makes me doubt it.
A major one I do notice is the type of sounds I feel I should make, there is a lot of range as I feel like I should be able to bark, howl, make fox like sounds, as well as the sort of sounds a maned wolf makes, to name a few. I mean, I have no idea what sounds tritemnodon’s made, so there is always the possibility that’s some of what’s going on?
I’m not really sure, I still primarily see myself as a Belgian malinois too, so.
I’ll have to look into it more.
Sorry that this is kind of ramble-y and not detailed, I’m literally about to go to bed lol
I really want to get more orca plushies. I only have one that I got many years ago.
Problem is that I don’t really like any of the ones I’ve seen because they just look so unrealistic to me, with the patterning on a lot of them being just completely wrong and all wonky looking.
I’ll keep looking around when I feel like it, but I’m not really sure if anywhere makes/has made the kind of style I want.
In general I really want more orca related things of any kind as I literally only have the one plush and like….black clothes or something.
Kind of trying to think of a different name that feels more…orca to me, and I’m also trying to come up with an ID though I’m having some difficulty with that for several reasons. But hopefully I can figure it out because I think it’ll help me feel more “normal” and like an orca, and personally I always find it cool when I see other orcas here that have one!!
Also, I’ve been working on some references of me and some of my pod! So expect that at some point.
(Once again) I apologize for the lack of posts. I’ve been somewhat busy, but mostly just haven’t been able to think of anything I want to post. I will try to post more, but I only have so many ideas so I can’t promise too much.
This is basically just an update on what I’ve been up to in relation to my kintypes, as been doing a lot of reevaluation. I will say that most of it has been “behind the scenes” so to speak, or just things I didn’t feel like talking about, so I’ve thought about a lot more than what’s in this post lol
I’ve been thinking about it and I’ve come to the conclusion that I am also a type C orca. I do still feel 100% sure that I am a northern resident, and I do kind of see that as my “primary” ecotype so to speak, where for example when I think of what I should look like, I think of northern residents first. However I have a very strong connection to type C’s, and I just cannot say I only was/am a resident.
I would say I find it similar to how I feel about my other kintypes vs dog kintype, though much less extreme, where I feel more presently a northern resident but more spiritually a type C.
I don’t really have much else to say about this so sorry this is a bit short lol
I also have suspicions of being a captive orca, but I’m not really looking into it at the moment.