Anyways I was ruminating on why I feel like a living cartoon animal, the observation that a lot of animators and children's book illustrators were some flavor of queer, and the way you can grow up with a sense of what it means to be "human" instilled by your parents while also having characters who are not human but feel extremely real and relatable in the way that the people around you trying their best to be human do not
I get kind of sick and tired of people saying "instead of identifying as nonhuman you should just expand the borders of what it means to be human" because I never quite realized how limited my scope was until I started experimenting with nonhuman identity. You might as well be commanding me to build an expansion onto my house without setting foot outside.
