hi, are you still doing those species things? i saw the one you did for bonobosoul and wow it was lovely. I'm an orangutan therian, and uh, i guess the biggest thing im struggling with now is my body dysphoria, my feet are all wrong and my arms are all wrong, my hairs the wrong color and im too tall and my torsos all sorts of wrong. Thx (im orangutanskin, if you could reply to that blog id prefer that)
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Dear orangutan, body dysphoria can be a hard struggle for anyone, and I completely sympathise. When your body doesn't move like it should, when your limbs are the wrong shape and size, when you can't look in the mirror and see anything you can recognise as you looking back - no one should have to go through that.
But know that you are there, deep inside. If you feel trapped, remember that your mind is a world as vast as the forests, as open as the blue skies, as powerful as the pound of your fists on the dirt as you run. Climb through the dense, leafy layers of your mind, above the earth that threatens to ground you, above the vines that would tangle and trap you, above your cares, above your concerns. Climb high above the canopy of your thoughts and dangle from the tallest tree, and holler and bellow and cry your triumph: for you are mighty, a true great ape, and nothing can hold you down.