Post AxZpmCmgbaVAInPDqi by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
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 (DIR) Post #AxZpm8KXAJbcUKCgPg by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
       2025-08-25T11:46:51Z
       
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       There's been this cottage genre of therian posting on social media as of late, all in some vein of "You have always been a creature~" and... it kinda all collectively misses the mark for me...? And keeps reinforcing my own mental picture of what it means to be therian which I clearly do not fit into, either.And yet there's this jarring vacuum of nothing that can reaffirm someone/something like me.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxZpm9e4HApEZCLnV2 by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
       2025-08-25T11:47:23Z
       
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       it just feels kind of hollow to have to accept that I'm something else on the fringes of otherkin/therian because I don't fit the apparent mould."You're still valid." doesn't convince me, either, when all of the depictions don't fit.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxZpmAnfyw6a9Hqz7A by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
       2025-08-25T12:05:50Z
       
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       I'm not a creature that belongs in the wild like therian cottage core depicts. That's just not me.I'm happiest when I'm making a thing, like in a workshop.I'm happiest when I'm at the wheel (or yoke of an aircraft) putting miles behind me.*I'm happiest when I'm snuggled up in the comforting arms of someone I trust.*I'm not really a nature creature.I'm *something else.*I'm an other to the collective otherkin/therian definition.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxZpmBhKe0cmvttQrg by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
       2025-08-25T12:34:07Z
       
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       "Don't worry about the labels" isn't as reassuring as it seems on the face either, because labels serve dual-purpose of finding community connections that are tenuous at best when there is no label to reinforce them.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxZpmCmgbaVAInPDqi by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
       2025-08-25T22:25:35Z
       
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       The identity meta practically writes itself lmfaohttps://rubber.social/@dragonarchitect/115091726213171701
       
 (DIR) Post #AxZpmDbNZ73Eq17hrc by dragonarchitect@rubber.social
       2025-08-26T23:28:54Z
       
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       yeahyouknowwhat?Fuck it.I'm an Eldritch Creature. I *already* break the rules and make my own. I'm something abnormal. Something that exists outside of the norm. Something that reaches out from a realm offset from our shared reality. I accept your reality only insofar as it makes me appear normal to you but I exist well within the bounds of my own reality.The identity meta practically writes itself.I'm an *Other*kin. 😈