Plus I Think Some Ppl Here Follow Me Bc Of My Main Witchy Account And Barely Know What Alterhumanity Is - Tumblr Posts
On one hand, I'm someone who participated in the "silly little guy" vibes at times. On the other hand... You're so right and I don't know how I didn't realize it sooner. Something I've noticed in the past few days after making my fictionkin sideblog is that I talk ENTIRELY different over there. Because there's no expectations to soften myself- in fact, the expectations lean towards being more serious due to my kintype. I plan on making a proper post about it over there but it made.
I'm realizing that, no, I am allowed to be more than a silly little creature and just a funny witch in my corner. I can take myself seriously and I should.
It's weird.
Also hi everyone I didn't die I just got lost in a cave and came out with a new kintype. /J
(edit: to be clear this isn't hating on ppl who joke around about their Alterhumanity. Part of the joy in it is being silly, for me. I just also am realizing there's more than that.)
Possibly really petty complaint, but is anyone else really annoyed by the way a lot of people seem to be talking about nonhumans in a very infantilizing way?
Like all the posts going around that sweepingly refer to all of us as "silly creatures", "little critters", "silly animals doing their silly tasks", "just a creechur", etc? I feel like I've been seeing a lot of posts in the vein of like, "How could anyone hate therians? You're all just silly little animals doing buppy things typing with your big silly paws!" or similar.
And more power to you if you like being referred to that way, but I don't. It leaves a similar taste in my mouth to those old posts about trans men that are like "sweet little angelic cinnamon roll soft uwu boy!!! Trans men are little innocent boyes and I will protecc them all :3". And I think everyone sees the problem with those now.
I am a grown man. An adult wild animal. And while I don't need to take myself seriously, or even be taken seriously, all of the time, I sure don't like being referred to like a dumb little animal that doesn't know what it's doing as a default.