...and a big ol' helping of WTF? sauce

[azurelunatic]

I just don't understand the whole "furry" thing. Which is to say, I get neither the kink/mental setup nor the strong counter-reaction to same. Nor do I understand the "Otherkin" thing, although I can wrap my mind a little more around the position "So you're different. Big whoop," though extreme versions of same leave me fairly boggled as well. I also don't understand some of the pondering and angsting over sexuality and bodily plumbing, nor the objections to the nonstandard arrangements of same.

I'm not sure whether I want people to explain these things to me or not. I seem to have had the great gift of having been born into an appropriate body, with the appropriate plumbing, in the correct species, without any memories of any other life or lifetime than this, with a fairly mainstream set of turn-ons and kinks. Would I trade off what I've got for something more interesting? No, probably not. I'm comfortable in my own skin, most of the time, and that goes fairly well for all of us in here, though Naomi (*sigh*) just said that she's supposed to be blond, and Marah is generally cranky. My natural hair color should still be a shimmering navy blue, though, and I need the metabolism of an angry teenager again.

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[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

*huge grin*

i knew there was a reason i liked having you around.

;)

yay happy wtf-ing.

and, no, you don't want people to try to explain it to you. not unless you happen to be swimming in a vat of excedrin at the time. heh.

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[azurelunatic]

It's not that bad -- I can turn on Counseling Mode, and Nod Wisely every now and then. In Counseling Mode, I can hear near-literally anything and have it not faze me.

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

I don't particularly do furry, but I can see the appeal. Though I don't want to assume that the appeal for other people is the same as it is for me. I mean, based on the art I've seen, the appeal that I "get" is a "this is exotic" thing. I mean, so, I like looking at furry art, but it's no more appealing than non-furry art of a style that I like, and it's not one of those things that grabs my attention and won't let go, like, say, pictures of mysterious mages of dubious ethics.

Um, I forget what point I was trying to make, so I'm going away now.

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[azurelunatic]

Hee, hee. *waves Mr. Hourglass Eyes at you*

But yeah. I mean, some of it is pretty, and it doesn't make me run screaming, but I see nothing particularly wonderful about it.

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[azurelunatic]

stupid memcache.

[boojum.livejournal.com]

pondering and angsting over sexuality and bodily plumbing

I am getting better at playing a variety of roles that strangers expect me to play, including "female", "customer making a polite request", "polite bus rider", and so on. People expect the first of these to not be a role. This leads to some misunderstanding and quite a lot of feeling like I'm from a different planet from everyone else. I suspect it would be less complicated, although probably harder, to feel "male" instead, but I don't. I occasionally feel one or the other, but mostly I feel like me, and am puzzled by all the insistence on gender stuff. ("Hi, (FEMALE) I'm (FEMALE) Jen." "Hi, (MALE) I'm (MALE) Tom." "Hi, I'm Kim.")

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[azurelunatic]

I suspect that a lot of the things that people-who-don't-think-about-this-stuff consider as Female and Male traits are partially personality and communication type issues, and the other part society-conditioned things, and as such are subject to mutation and mutiny.

Alas, too few people think of Who They Are as something interestingly fluid, with parameters to be poked and defaults to be examined, and think of it as something unchanging to be Discovered.