The Archive

Essays -- Academic:

• A Laycat's Review of 'We are Spirits of Another Sort' -- My thoughts on an academic article talking about therians.

Essays -- Speculative Evolution:

• Plant-etoids -- Plants. In. SPAAAAAAAAACE!

Essays -- Spirituality:

• Judaism and Me -- Just because you're are a member of a religion doesn't mean you're not deeply ambivalent about it.

Essays -- Therianthropic:

• A Skeptic's Guide to Therianthropy -- Oriented towards those that have just heard of us, and think we're full of shit.
• Choice, Instinct, and Therianthropy
• In the Midst of Lions
• Kin -- How I relate to domestic cats.
• Motionless Claws -- My experiences as a cheetah.
• Therianthropy as a Result -- Therianthropy as a product of many causes, rather than being a root cause itself.
• What Brings Out the Beast -- Instincts wax and wane. If you look, you can sometimes find the reasons why.

Poetry:

• Awakening
• Burning Lands
• Decay
• Dirge of the Silvanshee
• Everest
• Glass
• Outcast
• Runners
• Society
• Spirits of the Wind
• We Are Forgotten

Short Stories -- Extinction Chronicles:

• The Dodo
• Fall From Glory

Short Stories -- Peristrixalo:

• And I Was Present at the Death of a God -- Even the gods can't escape extinction.
• Voyage to the Deep -- Peristrixalo explores a Way, sees interesting fish, and is nearly eaten by a sea monster.

Short Stories -- The Wanderer's Library:

• A Day in the Life of Dr. Griffon
• Blackeyes
• Ethiopian Lava Cat Profile
• Elemental Typology
• Flying Primate Theory -- The creation of humans, as told by bats.
• On Elemental Fire
• Ropen Overview
• To Hide So Well, You Can't Find Yourself
• Vultures
• You Cannot Kill Me in Any Way that Matters

Speculative Evolution -- Eclek

• Overview
• Geologic History
  • The Afaguzddavenuv: The Time of Fire Life
  • The Afaguzdsuverudnuv: The Time of Storm Life (aka The Time When Not Much Happened)
  • The Afatshe: The Time of Water
  • The Afafâu: The Rising Time
  • The Afaguzoedodru: The Time of Forests

Worldbuilding -- Rix:

• Overview
• Terraphyta
• Chromoflora
• Eoterraphyta
• Air Coral