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For once, I have an actual update for this blog. I've been looking over other people's personal essays about otherheartedness and what it feels like and the spectrum that it encompasses, and have realized that I am otherhearted to turkey vultures.
This discovery was very different. Where I always knew I was horsekith, before I even had the term for it, and wolves were obviously going to be kith or kin based on my experiences with them, and both of those encompass a variety of subspecies, vultures are an animal I've had on the backburner because I wasn't sure if it was me simply liking them because they're "alternative" and because I didn't feel the same way with multiple kinds. It being turkey vultures specifically threw me off until I really looked into it.
I also have had bats in the background for awhile now, which is what I'm going to look into next. I really like bats, a lot of their species, but not all, and I even have in-person hands-on experiences with them on top of the societal expectation as an emo to like them anyway, so deciphering them will probably be a bit more complicated. I'll update whenever I have something to say on it, but I am genuinely excited to be able to describe myself as turkey vulturekith. To be able to say the species means so much to me just feels right.