Luisf

About time they actually spoke.

Plushie furries

is the plushie the outer layer

or the polyfill

what is the animated part

unstuffed living plushies, still sentient? Waiting to be filled up?

stitchy

I don't know how anyone could spend any amount of time with non-human animals and not think of them as a type of person. They have thoughts, emotions, and needs just like everyone else. They're just as alive as you are.

Look into a cat's eyes, and you can see it. That thing they claim is "humanity". The thing that's supposed separate "us" from "them". The thing that makes "us" "higher", and "them" "lower". There's no separation, it was always a lie.

But I guess I shouldn't expect better from a society that doesn't even treat other humans like they have "humanity"

this is not unhinged, it is simply true. our dog was a fucking clown. he literally did stuff to make us laugh, and he would do stuff that he thought was funny simply because it was funny.

his favorite trick was to go under a blanket, and then when we'd call him he wouldn't come, and we'd have to go find him. and then once we got in the room he'd start wagging his tail under the blanket but he still wouldn't move. it was a game to him!! he loved it!!

one of our two cats likes to sic the other one on us. if J is hungry, she'll go harass her brother W because she knows he'll start bugging us if he's annoyed, and he's much more persistent than she is. so she just sits on her tower and watches him annoy us until they get fed. it's so "human" that it hurts.

like, there are two completely compatible ideas about animals: animals have alien intelligences, and what makes us "human" is not special to humans. animals can be mysterious creatures that we don't always understand, but our "spark" is not at all unique.

the idea that we are "above" animals can (probably (i'm not a historian)) be traced to the same ideas that create eugenicists. making a hierarchy of creatures based on "intelligence" and "humanity" is not a useful metric and only leads to very stupid ideas.

anyway long post to say "YES, YES A THOUSAND TIMES"

edit: censored my pet names, realized that is sort of identifiable info lol