From fae1d685a36014570e83c64389c7048ec9b6797d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Volpeon Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 20:41:28 +0100 Subject: Update --- content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md | 23 +++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md b/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md index b9d6566..d279c3d 100644 --- a/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md +++ b/content/9thPK7O3xn/posts/i-am-not-a-fox.md @@ -3,27 +3,18 @@ title: I Am Not a Fox unlisted: true --- -As a child, I spent a lot of time imagining what being a bird would be like. +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. How would it feel to experience and interact with the world through such a completely different body? -To have the ability to fly and feel my feathers bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? -To be treated and perceived by other creatures not as a human but as a bird? +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. -This fascination was sparked when I was 6 years old. -I was watching "The Sword in the Stone" by Disney, an animated film about a boy called Arthur who is transformed into various animals by Merlin the wizard in order to teach him different things about life. -One of these transformation involves Arthur being turned into a yellow sparrow. +When I was 13 years old, dragons took over the role of birds after I got introduced to fantasy novels. - - -The idea of possessing a nonhuman body fascinated me immediately, especially that of a bird. -What would it feel like to experience and interact with the world, to be covered in feathers that are bristling in the wind as I'm flying through the sky? -As I imagined myself in this situation, something inside of my mind awakened; something that rejected my humanity and longed for the life I was supposed to have. -I didn't lose sight of the fact that I was a human, but I started to imagine what being a bird would be like frequently. - -Nothing exciting happened for a while, until I got introduced to fantasy novels 7 years later and felt I was supposed to be a dragon. - - 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2