Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2016 15:30:03 GMT
Hey everyone!
Lion here. I have been roleplaying for a good four years now, and I've slowed down over the years because I got busy-- but RPing improves my writing, and, why not admit it, my social skills, so it's not something I'm going to give up super fast. I mostly play on animal forums, largely because I just don't feel comfortable playing humans. I've been Clan leader here, held a staff position there-- I've stuck around.
A little about me: I'm a rising junior as of 2016-17, and I reside in the United States. I play two instruments; the cello and the piano. Personally, I find playing the piano painful, but I've finally tested out of level 10 and I've stopped playing, which makes me a little sad and a little happy at the same time. As for the cello, I enjoy it on a more casual basis. The driving force behind that is mostly my own need to move myself upwards in status in my school orchestra, but occasionally I will find that energy and spirit to practice hard with a personal motivation.
My hobbies include writing and thinking. I love writing stories, especially short stories and memoirs; I can’t find the time nor muse to sit down and write a novel. I’d rather condense things into a succinct, five-to-ten-page story. Thus, although I take pleasure in writing, I don’t like reading. I guess I used to, somewhat, until things got busier and I became more of an impatient person. I typically read only when there’s assigned books in school, and those ones I actually find interesting. It’s hard to get me to like an arbitrary novel, unless it’s by an author I already like. As for the thinking part, I like philosophical theories, and I have an enormous respect for Confucianism and Daoism (Taoism).
I am a strong believer in fate, but for I now I register as an Atheist. I believe in the flow, and things happen because it’s just the way things are. There could be an omnipresence (or multiple ones) behind all this– who knows? Until I see solid proof for that, I will keep pointing fingers at Nature. Natural selection may not be completely random. There may be a reason for gravity. There may be a reason that opposite poles of a magnet attract, and the same poles repel. However, our limits prevent us from knowing that (for now). It may just be how the universe was created.
My favorite subjects in school are chemistry (or just science in general), and history. Both courses tell such interesting stories I find it hard to get bored. And science and history is still expanding, and both will never end. I find that pretty amazing.
I’ll probably be updating this five to ten years later, but for now my dream job is to be a doctor. As stated earlier, I have an affinity for science, and I wish to pursue medical school. Plus, I had cancer when I was 2-4, and I want to help those who have gone through the same experiences as me (i.e. visiting the hospital so many times I thought it was a second home for a while).
However, as a child, I wanted to be a paleontologist for ten years. Ten years! I’ve been fascinated with dinosaurs and ancient creatures for a long time, even up until now. My favorite science courses are chemistry, geology, and paleontology. Deep down, I know that that desire is still there. I’m really still debating, but doctoring and paleontology are so different that it’s almost laughable. I do feel like being a doctor would be better for me in the long run, but if I go down the path of paleontology I’ll be more satisfied.
Well, I’m still growing. I’ll see in two years, when I go to college. Until then.
Okay, so what I'm about to say next is probably seems like quite a fantasy to most people. Sometimes, it still is to me, but it's best explanation of what I experience in my life. People *spit* on us all the time, but it's only because there are air-headed people in the community that make the rest of us look bad. If you don't buy it, then please keep it to yourself. I don't accept Christianity, but you don't see me ranting on YouTube about it.
I am a therian. A "therian" is someone who identifies as partially/wholly non-animal, and I am a Mosasaurus. Therianthropy, for me, is something spiritual, and just part of who I am. I have been fascinated with spirituality, and I've made it a goal to discover more about myself as I grow.
I came to acknowledge that I was a Mosausaurus through dreams and shifts. Those have been more frequent, but have occurred all my life. It was less occasional in my younger years, so I disregarded them as insignificant weird feelings. I would sometimes dream that I was swimming in the waters, through the eyes of something big and powerful. What sucks about dreaming like that is that Mosasauruses have bad binocular vision, meaning that they have bad depth perception. Plus I have a giant snout in front of my face. During the day, I would experience phantom shifts from time to time, and I would feel extremely awkward all of a sudden. Mosasauruses have four flippers, two in the front and two in the back, with the frontal pair being larger. Sometimes I wouldn’t exactly know how to pick up a pencil, because I just felt like I couldn’t, since I literally felt like arms, up to my hands, were flippers. Other times I would suddenly experience a shark/dolphin-like tail, and even feel a change in my body shape. I felt uncomfortable and awkward on land at times, and even standing up . Mosasaurs were built for swimming in oceans, not walking vertically on the surface.
I stumbled upon otherkin and therianthropy through just a random browse of the internet. Honestly, I can’t remember exactly where I first learned about this. But I read about shifts and dreams and such, and I thought that it could help me with my own experiences. Upon analyzing, I thought at first that I was a dolphin, because seriously, there’s no way that I would think that I was some sort of ancient reptile that lived 70-66 million years ago. I’d been experiencing phantom shifts of dolphin-like tails and flippers. I thought, at that time, that I would also experience shifts of a dolphin’s dorsal fin, but never happened.
Then, one day, I went swimming at the pool. I hadn’t gone swimming for a long time (I quit my swim team after seventh grade), so I was just free-swimming in the pool for a while. Despite gap between my swim career and my time in the pool then, I was still able to slide smoothly
And that’s when I experienced more phantom shifts. This time, in addition to my I felt that my legs had become flippers, too. Plus, for some reason, my arm-flippers felt larger than my leg-flippers. I felt powerful in the water, and I had urges to bare my teeth– my two sets of teeth that I had connected to a snout (I remember this clearly because it was an extremely weird feeling). I concluded that I was definitely not a dolphin. A dolphin would not have four flippers. And razor-sharp teeth with a rounded conical snout.
For a while I was stuck. I still held onto the idea that I was some sort of otherkin, because that seemed to best explain everything that was happening. I just couldn’t pinpoint on what kintype I could be. It was possible that it was some otherworldly creature, I reminded myself. But what otherworldly creature would feel so powerful in the water? To me, water only existed on the Earth.
When I was flipping through my old childhood books of paleontology, I stumbled upon the ancient sea reptiles. Suddenly, I came upon the page of the Mosasaurus, and I was stuck. It fit! Yes, thank you Nature. Everything seemed to fall into place. The last piece of the puzzle was there!
This was actually quite recent, about three months ago. To be honest, it was an extremely fun ride, learning new things, fitting missing parts together. I hope to gain even more information through joining this forum. Again, I love, love, love to solve puzzles
Except jigsaw puzzles.Those are a pain.
Thanks for reading (congrats if you made it all the way through), and I look forward to meeting each and every one of you. c:
Cheers!
Lion
Lion here. I have been roleplaying for a good four years now, and I've slowed down over the years because I got busy-- but RPing improves my writing, and, why not admit it, my social skills, so it's not something I'm going to give up super fast. I mostly play on animal forums, largely because I just don't feel comfortable playing humans. I've been Clan leader here, held a staff position there-- I've stuck around.
A little about me: I'm a rising junior as of 2016-17, and I reside in the United States. I play two instruments; the cello and the piano. Personally, I find playing the piano painful, but I've finally tested out of level 10 and I've stopped playing, which makes me a little sad and a little happy at the same time. As for the cello, I enjoy it on a more casual basis. The driving force behind that is mostly my own need to move myself upwards in status in my school orchestra, but occasionally I will find that energy and spirit to practice hard with a personal motivation.
My hobbies include writing and thinking. I love writing stories, especially short stories and memoirs; I can’t find the time nor muse to sit down and write a novel. I’d rather condense things into a succinct, five-to-ten-page story. Thus, although I take pleasure in writing, I don’t like reading. I guess I used to, somewhat, until things got busier and I became more of an impatient person. I typically read only when there’s assigned books in school, and those ones I actually find interesting. It’s hard to get me to like an arbitrary novel, unless it’s by an author I already like. As for the thinking part, I like philosophical theories, and I have an enormous respect for Confucianism and Daoism (Taoism).
I am a strong believer in fate, but for I now I register as an Atheist. I believe in the flow, and things happen because it’s just the way things are. There could be an omnipresence (or multiple ones) behind all this– who knows? Until I see solid proof for that, I will keep pointing fingers at Nature. Natural selection may not be completely random. There may be a reason for gravity. There may be a reason that opposite poles of a magnet attract, and the same poles repel. However, our limits prevent us from knowing that (for now). It may just be how the universe was created.
My favorite subjects in school are chemistry (or just science in general), and history. Both courses tell such interesting stories I find it hard to get bored. And science and history is still expanding, and both will never end. I find that pretty amazing.
I’ll probably be updating this five to ten years later, but for now my dream job is to be a doctor. As stated earlier, I have an affinity for science, and I wish to pursue medical school. Plus, I had cancer when I was 2-4, and I want to help those who have gone through the same experiences as me (i.e. visiting the hospital so many times I thought it was a second home for a while).
However, as a child, I wanted to be a paleontologist for ten years. Ten years! I’ve been fascinated with dinosaurs and ancient creatures for a long time, even up until now. My favorite science courses are chemistry, geology, and paleontology. Deep down, I know that that desire is still there. I’m really still debating, but doctoring and paleontology are so different that it’s almost laughable. I do feel like being a doctor would be better for me in the long run, but if I go down the path of paleontology I’ll be more satisfied.
Well, I’m still growing. I’ll see in two years, when I go to college. Until then.
Okay, so what I'm about to say next is probably seems like quite a fantasy to most people. Sometimes, it still is to me, but it's best explanation of what I experience in my life. People *spit* on us all the time, but it's only because there are air-headed people in the community that make the rest of us look bad. If you don't buy it, then please keep it to yourself. I don't accept Christianity, but you don't see me ranting on YouTube about it.
I am a therian. A "therian" is someone who identifies as partially/wholly non-animal, and I am a Mosasaurus. Therianthropy, for me, is something spiritual, and just part of who I am. I have been fascinated with spirituality, and I've made it a goal to discover more about myself as I grow.
I came to acknowledge that I was a Mosausaurus through dreams and shifts. Those have been more frequent, but have occurred all my life. It was less occasional in my younger years, so I disregarded them as insignificant weird feelings. I would sometimes dream that I was swimming in the waters, through the eyes of something big and powerful. What sucks about dreaming like that is that Mosasauruses have bad binocular vision, meaning that they have bad depth perception. Plus I have a giant snout in front of my face. During the day, I would experience phantom shifts from time to time, and I would feel extremely awkward all of a sudden. Mosasauruses have four flippers, two in the front and two in the back, with the frontal pair being larger. Sometimes I wouldn’t exactly know how to pick up a pencil, because I just felt like I couldn’t, since I literally felt like arms, up to my hands, were flippers. Other times I would suddenly experience a shark/dolphin-like tail, and even feel a change in my body shape. I felt uncomfortable and awkward on land at times, and even standing up . Mosasaurs were built for swimming in oceans, not walking vertically on the surface.
I stumbled upon otherkin and therianthropy through just a random browse of the internet. Honestly, I can’t remember exactly where I first learned about this. But I read about shifts and dreams and such, and I thought that it could help me with my own experiences. Upon analyzing, I thought at first that I was a dolphin, because seriously, there’s no way that I would think that I was some sort of ancient reptile that lived 70-66 million years ago. I’d been experiencing phantom shifts of dolphin-like tails and flippers. I thought, at that time, that I would also experience shifts of a dolphin’s dorsal fin, but never happened.
Then, one day, I went swimming at the pool. I hadn’t gone swimming for a long time (I quit my swim team after seventh grade), so I was just free-swimming in the pool for a while. Despite gap between my swim career and my time in the pool then, I was still able to slide smoothly
And that’s when I experienced more phantom shifts. This time, in addition to my I felt that my legs had become flippers, too. Plus, for some reason, my arm-flippers felt larger than my leg-flippers. I felt powerful in the water, and I had urges to bare my teeth– my two sets of teeth that I had connected to a snout (I remember this clearly because it was an extremely weird feeling). I concluded that I was definitely not a dolphin. A dolphin would not have four flippers. And razor-sharp teeth with a rounded conical snout.
For a while I was stuck. I still held onto the idea that I was some sort of otherkin, because that seemed to best explain everything that was happening. I just couldn’t pinpoint on what kintype I could be. It was possible that it was some otherworldly creature, I reminded myself. But what otherworldly creature would feel so powerful in the water? To me, water only existed on the Earth.
When I was flipping through my old childhood books of paleontology, I stumbled upon the ancient sea reptiles. Suddenly, I came upon the page of the Mosasaurus, and I was stuck. It fit! Yes, thank you Nature. Everything seemed to fall into place. The last piece of the puzzle was there!
This was actually quite recent, about three months ago. To be honest, it was an extremely fun ride, learning new things, fitting missing parts together. I hope to gain even more information through joining this forum. Again, I love, love, love to solve puzzles
Except jigsaw puzzles.Those are a pain.
Thanks for reading (congrats if you made it all the way through), and I look forward to meeting each and every one of you. c:
Cheers!
Lion