From dd438ad025017c4b10b634e6ec66765c925193fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Volpeon Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 21:46:10 +0100 Subject: Update --- content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md b/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md index d279c3d..750932a 100644 --- a/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md +++ b/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md @@ -3,21 +3,20 @@ title: I Am Not a Fox unlisted: true --- -As a child, I frequently imagined I was a bird. -I had watched Disney's "The Sword in the Stone", an animated film about a boy called Arthur who is transformed into various animals by Merlin the wizard in order to educate him. -The idea of being an animal, but especially a bird, resonated with me. +As a child, I wanted to be a bird. +I had watched Disney's *The Sword in the Stone*, an animated film set in medieval England about an orphan called Arthur who meets Merlin, a wizard. +Merlin decides to become Arthur's tutor and teaches him various lessons in a quite unconventional way -- by turning him into a fish, a squirrel, and eventually a sparrow. +The idea of being an animal, and specially a bird, was incredibly fascinating to me. How would it feel to experience and interact with the world through such a completely different body? To feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? To be perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird? -As I grew up, I explored this concept further and further and my fantasies became increasingly detailed and immersive. -When I was 13 years old, dragons took over the role of birds after I got introduced to fantasy novels. +Nowadays, I don't want to be a bird anymore, of course. +I want to be a fox. +I can't explain why I'm feeling this way -By then, I had -I had realized by then that my experience was far from normal and I finally decided to do research on the internet, where I stumbled across the furry fandom and found therians. - Therians are individuals who believe they are an animal on some level, either spiritually -- such as past lives or souls -- or psychologically. It sounds like the perfect answer to my question, but after looking into them it didn't resonate with me. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2