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Greetings.

My name is Citrakāyaḥ--or, as I usually go by on most websites, Citrakayah, since you can type that more easily with the average keyboard. On the Werelist I'm known by cheetah, and on Wikidot I go by Plilt. You won't find my real name here, not yet and, probably, not ever. I am a somewhat secretive person, at least when it comes to personally identifying information. I will say I've lived all over, that I adore the Southwest with all my soul, have adopted a great many cats over the years, enjoy gardening and reading, and generally consider myself a fairly placid, analytic individual with a distaste for hierarchy. You can refer to me with male pronouns.

I've been involved in the online therian community (I'm a cheetah therian, naturally enough) since 2008, and speculative evolution since the mid-2010s. For about that long, I've been a writer, an occasional poet, and even more occasional artist. Most of my writing focuses on nonhuman beings... occasionally, beings that are very different from the human species. My art, for a while, has been mostly glass; I am a competent lampworker, though regrettably I rarely get the opportunity to practice.

For as long as I can remember, I've been a firm empiricist. This is less out of ideological commitment and more out of the simple inability to believe much I cannot see. I have never seen a soul, a god, a spirit, the astral plane, or magic. I've never seen anything that even had a touch of the supernatural. So I do not believe they exist, because I cannot. Despite this, I was raised a Jew and remain a Jew; my lack of belief is immaterial. Also, while a Jewish atheist, I've had a keen interest in various neopagan and reconstructionist religions since I joined the therian community. The two often seem to go together, and I have felt a certain affinity for those faiths for a long time, even though I didn't (even though I couldn't) believe in them.

I created the Savannah back in 2012, as a page to host my writings on therianthropy. If you will forgive the nostalgia, such things were more common then; it seems these days social media like Tumblr has replaced the personal webpage (and I must admit the world seems poorer for it). This website has, quite honestly, been somewhat neglected since then, but it persists, and will continue to.

-- Citrakayah, March 2020