kitcorvvin | Opossum awakening (Reply)

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with rats. Now, there may have been other things at play there than what I’m about to say, but nevertheless, it’s possible. I pretended to be a rat. Apparently I told people that I was one. What I loved most about them were all features that opossums share, morphologically speaking, but I didn’t know much about opossums when I was six. I believe I was subconsciously drawn toward animals that looked like that and had never seen an opossum, so I latched onto rats. From childhood to adulthood I’d always been a defender of the “ugly” animals that nobody else liked.

So, you could say I’ve had these shifts my whole life. When I first entered the therian community I briefly entertained the idea of being opossumkin but threw it out in favor of being a fox, which was obviously so much cooler. But I couldn’t shake the opossum feelings, the shifts, the strong sense of “me” that I felt, and still feel, when seeing an image or video of an opossum. That last part was what did it for me; that feeling of “hey, that’s what I look like — wait, no it’s not” upon seeing a picture of an opossum. Just like I had with ravens.

The opossum story’s not quite as long as the first two.