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Volpeon: Bonus Content
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I was browsing fedi for some inspiration because I plan to add a post on my website about the things I posted on here so far. And then I found the attached image which exemplifies exactly what I meant.

This comic basically implies that being a creature is simply a matter of your mind, and I don't identify with this idea at all. To me, being a dragon (or whatever animal it may be in the future) means existing as one, in body and mind, with no difference from other members of the same species.
What exactly am I supposed to get from a condescending "oh, but you are, honey"? I'd still have my human body and human mind, thinking human thoughts and doing human things. I very much am not a dragon.

"But Volpeon, it's more about one's identity" — yeah, and my identity doesn't work this way. I don't get anything positive out of building abstractions just so I can say "I am a dragon". Those words and concepts don't change anything meaningful about my reality, where I clearly am not a dragon.
A three-panel comic. The first panel depics a human presenting being in front of a green background, drawing with a speech bubble saying "Sometimes... I just wish I was an animal, a critter, like... you know..." The second panel depicts a draconic being in half profile in front of a purple background with two speech bubbles saying "But you are..." and "A lot of people are." The third and last panel depicts the same human presenting being from behind, looking back at the viewer in front of a Therian/Otherkin flag consisting of a green stripe on top, white stripe in the middle and a purple stripe at the bottom with a white circle in the center in which a combination of a simplified Theta-Delta (a triangle and a circle intersectinh each other) and the seven-pointed star in black resides.