a thousand lives I cannot live

♪ The bows and arrows in your words / The words behind your broken teeth The broken glass that’s under foot and paw and hoof / and high and low, whatever nonsense you believe The vast unknown laid out ahead / The tears and anger, good and bad The big adventure still at hand and paw and whiskers / Grey, blue, red, whatever—I will understand ♪

[windswept-shapeshifter]

Who am I? What am I?

Hm. Good question.

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Hello, you can call me Windswept. This is my speciesqueer sideblog (my main blog is @/galaxicalphoenix).

I’m a lot of things, but the ones I know for sure are: cat, American crow, dog, horse, wolf, fishfolk / sea monster, merfolk / mermaid, night fury, and uh… Eridan Ampora. and also an OC that I’m not rly able to talk about

Questioning: ant, bee, deer, orca, some unidentified other bird/s, some mammalian prey animal/s, Equestrian (MLP) siren, Vaporeon, some bird-winged humanoid, fuckigf. Genericheart, Homura Akemi, Shadow the Hedgehog, Twilight Sparkle, Wolf/TP Link

I’m also in love with the wind / moon / sea / evening star, don’t worry about it

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Original intro

Tags Directory

OC assignment game cuz why not

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Aerial views. The ocean, the wind in the trees. Beaches, sea cliffs, forests. Grasslands, mountains. A hundred different feet, paws, claws, hooves, fins, feathers. A thousand lives I could have lived

but I only know this one.

[kavohh707]

Flying Black-headed gull.

[windswept-shapeshifter]

weird shit going on in my brain

(please don’t repost)

bonus isolated fishsona fish

[symurgist]

the “kin for fun” post from a “kffer” : v2

to make a long story short, the old post was very flawed and i’d like to make a better one now that i have more information on alterhumans and am a member of both communities. once again, please correct me if i have anything wrong.

kin for fun folks: we need to change our vocabulary. to be kin is to identify as a certain being, concept, or character; we are not kin with what we call our kins. using the terminology of an already-existing group to mean something entirely different is disrespectful. not all kin say that kff is insulting, but the way i see it, we should be respectful of the ones who do and change what we’re doing. 

however, what i used to call kinning is meaningful and important to me, and i doubt most of you want to let go of it either. as a result, i propose the term “cir,” meaning “character i relate (to),” as a replacement(and “cirrie” in place of “kinnie”). this comes from a place within our community, and i hope that will make some of you more willing to use it. if you don’t like this term in particular, i encourage you to come up with your own!

in the old post, i suggested words like otherhearted, fictionhearted, and synpath as replacements, so i want to make it clear that these terms are not synonymous with kff. they represent a deep and strong connection with something nonhuman and/or fictional, not just relating to a character.

tldr: we should move toward using our own terminology rather than taking terms from a community the majority of us are not a part of.

Keep reading

[windswept-shapeshifter]

If any of you resonate with the idea of being a fish princess with two sisters and war trauma please hmu

[windswept-shapeshifter]

one of the weirdest and most annoying parts of being Alternian/Eridan (especially as I was too dense and also too busy Going Through It to be very critical of Alternian society when I actually lived there) is that to me, children learning how to fight (particularly using individualized weapons and techniques) is fine and normal. Intellectually, I know that it’s probably not? Like learning self-defense is one thing but I think my personal propensity towards it is different somehow. And everyone around me treats me like it is not fine and normal, which again, I know intellectually that it isn’t, but it still frustrates me because it feels fine and normal and I don’t know why it can’t be treated as such.

… again. Even though I intellectually know that it’s not normal.

???????????

[weepingwidar]

Mia Bergeron (American, 1979) - Loner (2025)   

[windswept-shapeshifter]

just a headshot. tryna solidify my head shape

(please don’t repost)

[galaxicalsart]

Weep not, poor children, for life is this way

Murdering beauty and passions

[art/character by me]

[ominous-signs]

Telling me to go into the water, well who am I to refuse?

[tarotdaddy3-deactivated20230913]

I don't want to make ““doctor’s appointments””and ““schedule a follow up.”” I want to be coaxed gently into a crate and taken to the vet.

[snailspng]

Deep sea oddity PNGs, part 2.

(1. Larval lionfish, 2. Undescribed jellyfish, 3. Sea cucumber, 4. Larval football octopus, 5. Larval of Mollusca Gastropoda, 6. Paralarval Leachia squid, 7. Veliger larva, 8. Bloody belly comb jellyfish, 9. Discoverichthys praecox)

[windswept-shapeshifter]

hunger

(please don’t repost)

[mermaidmuriel]

"Ohhh, mermaids don't eat fish because that's cannibalism!!1! Fish are friends not food 💕💕💕 All mermaids are vegetarian ✨🩵✨🩵"

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[mod2amaryllis]

this is the Phoenix zoo, she's got plenty of outdoor space 👍

I'll also say she looks super healthy and happy in that video so she probably loves her cool concrete room #myconkrete

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

[naamahdarling]

She's backstage getting high leave her alone.

[livias]

waiting for the storm

[darkxwolf17]

People who say "species dysphoria isn't real/is making a mockery of trans people" are crazy to me bc like. You DO realize that dysphoria isnt exclusively tied to gender right. You can be dysphoric about so many things.

It's a feeling of discomfort that tends to particularly be about one's self image. Of course there's gonna be individuals out there uncomfortable with the human body. I'm confident there's people who feel that way even outside of nonhuman/alterhuman spaces.