Most things I feel attached to don't feel unexpected (glitches, generation 1 Pokemon, static sounds, 8-bit games), but the one I can think of that might be more unusual is anatomical animal drawings. I'm not sure why exactly these resonate with my nonhumanity but they do. I also feel an attachment towards sea creatures and beaches, and science in particular biology and chemistry.
this is a Real weird one, but... harsh noise / ambient drone music. only look it up if youre ok with Very loud sounds + frequencies !! its not a genre many really like (which i super understand) but its very meaningful and special to me
it brings out not only abstraction-related feelings for me, since it is music in a very base, unusual sense.. its pure sound and texture, very in your face and unapologetic about what it is. but it Also makes me feel incredibly monster-like, just huge and lurking and ominous. its freeing, cathartic, and genuinely beautiful to me, hahaha.
I see, that's definitely interesting! I wouldn't have associated drone music/harsh noise with feeling monster-like, but it makes sense now that you explain it. Music seems to be specially productive when making associations, right? It's like all sorts of concepts, smells and feelings related to identity can come from music, and lead back to it in turn.
Thank you so much for your answer!
I am so feeling this! Drone noise and any sounds reminiscent of either places humans have left derelict or of the very fringes of human habitations. Some dark ambient really soothes my soul and I love industrial music and some noise. Check our RE:Noize Radio if you love your noise music.
Post by terrible lizard on Apr 2, 2022 1:16:26 GMT
weird thing 1) despite being definitely a 3 dinosaur ingredient cake, i find myself drawn more towards creatures of modern zoology than paleontology. one of those is birds which has precedent due to being direct lineage from my saurtypes (loving term i coined) but it seems to somehow also make me drawn to like small monkeys, or semi-bipedal tiny jumpy trouble makers with prehensile tails
weird thing 2) love of plants? running theory is that my saurbrain is "used" to being around much more foliage and organic matter than it's possible to be when you live in a human house
weird thing 3) definitely a carnivore then and now, but black bean burgers feel more organic to me than beef burgers specifically when i feel very saur-y. unsure why
Post by thelaughingred on May 16, 2022 12:48:42 GMT
As a red panda kin, I am sometimes drawn to mountainous settings. I could be drawn to climbing trees but it never latched to me as much as looking at the Smoky Mountains when I traveled out of state.
Just watching the fog roll in first thing in the morning was amazing, it felt like home to me.
Besides the mountainside, strangely exercise drawn me close to my kintype. If I done push ups, later on I have done more than I could imagine.
Probably the thing folks would least expect when I say I'm gryphonkin is for me to be drawn to water. Specifically, very large bodies of water. I was a coastal gryphon. My environment was actually pretty harsh. It was cold a lot of the time and the weather was unpredictable. Most of my and my community's lives revolved around the ocean, because we relied on fishing for most of our food. So it's not super surprising to me anymore that I'm drawn to the ocean and the great lakes, even when it's cold, but most folks don't expect that.
My kitsune actually explained something for me. I don't know how well known the connection between normal foxes, kitsune, and the goddess Inari is outside of Japan. Any fox can become a kitsune, and I think I started that lifetime as a normal fox. But kitsune are the messengers of Inari, who is the goddess of rice and foxes, among other things. For years, I had not been able to figure out the pull I had towards Inari. I've never been that drawn to a religious figure. But since realizing I'm a kitsune, that explains it. Like I said, though, I don't know how many folks outside of Japan would expect that connection. My kitsune also explained my strong draw to rivers. My gryphon is not drawn to rivers, really. Just the ocean or bodies of water large enough to simulate it. But as a kitsune, my element was river. I lived near a river as a normal fox and remained there when I became a kitsune. I remained there when the shrine to Inari was built nearby. And I remained even after I was no longer bound to the physical plane. I stayed and guarded my river and my shrine. So that's another one I doubt most people outside of Japan would expect.
Rowan Wolf Therian | Gryphonkin | Kitsunekin They/Them | Xe/Xir
Oh, this is going to sound horrible but: Fresh (animal) carcasses.
Even when I was young, when I watched nature documentaries, I’d always crave whatever freshkill the subject of the doc had. Now that I’m a taxidermist, skinning carcasses is part of my job. I’ve learned that I can’t do so on an empty stomach, or I’ll get some impulsive thoughts. For safety reasons, I’d never eat anything raw. But it still looks tasty lmao.
Either that, or rain. I’m from a rainforest environment, and rain always puts me at ease and makes me feel at home.
Homes in nature, like the ones that look like hobbit homes or even tree houses. Even though wolves don't live in dens all the time and certainly aren't arboreal.
Painting my (our) nails. The wrong colors give me a bit of gender dysphoria, but any color that sticks out against the skin reminds me of having claws. I probably never would have thought of it on my own, but one of my headmates decided to go for a bright teal one day, and now I have a small collection of nail lacquer.
On the other end of some spectrum of niceness, I find myself attracted by familiarity to jobs that are just...awful. I complain on occasion about having to pay extra attention to the wellbeing of the body for the sake of other people, but it might be the only thing that kept me from joining the US Army in our youth.
Collecting crystals, specifically putting them under my pillow. Though now that I say it, it does make sense since both rats and raccoons enjoy collecting and storing things.
Basils the reasoning for my love of plants, as well as the basis for my sunflower planttype. When I was first starting to gain proper memories of my past life as Foxy, and map everything out, I had a *huge* interest in guns. Most of my other kintypes I do share many interests and motives with, but I had them prior to my awakening and what not.
I picked up rock climbing and arboring a few years ago and that got me. I felt so at home while climbing, especially when climbing trees. I could find a comfy branch and spend hours just sitting in nature.
open fields on windy days, especially when there's a rainbow in the sky. dirty suburban alleyways in the middle of the night. victorian architecture and dress. graveyards on harvest moons. beige carpet and rabbit-ears tvs. the inside of my heart looks like a gritty tumblr moodboard lmaooo