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dunno if ur still doing kintype poems, but i’d love to out forward either wallace’s hawk-eagle, sicklefin lemon shark, or natural history museum? (not all three, i just can’t decide between them xD)

thanks for the chance ^v^

yes, I am still taking them! in fact, you are my first one!

Sicklefin lemon shark

What it is to run the length of cat hairs– I wear my denticles like a fine-spun coat Arrowed in the sea of reeds Avowed in great electric symphony In the cathedrals that paint me blue with light

I spin my fin flicks that must have been To some now long-closed eyes Like the blade that brings the harvest in– The grains that built a city

Some ancient, gleaming reaper I do my part– I shepherd life, I bear it Alive and not afraid–

I know how to bask In some kind of yellow-finned requiem– I echo back millennia My body the child of uncountable ecstasies– it must have been– my heartbeat is its evidence

My prayer is not the prayer of palaces Of humans hands or tangled gods– It is the blue, it is the churning movement Of shallow-water stillness broken In delicate pursuit–

I bring repose– That eigengrau wake that follows living It is not cruel, I am the shape of solace– To be a fish is to live life in circles Fate interred by chasing That sweeping sickle-curve that pulls the night in

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Kin moodboard with Sicklefin Lemon Sharks, Wallace’s Hawk-Eagles, and Natural History Museums!

Requested by; @nisaetus-nerd

Hope this works! This is also a perfectly timed request, since I'll hopefully be visiting London Natural History Museum soon myself!! Ofc let me know if you'd like any changes :D

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this user loves sharks / this user is a shark !

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i should have a big fuckass tail so i can hit people with it and be annoying

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Yeah, swimming pools are amazing. Love me swimming pools.

Me in the local pool.

There's just something about swimming in a pool, like mmmm water.

Literally me

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One of my greatest wishes in life is to bring someone the same level of comfort that my own blåhaj does.

Another wish is to have an unlimited supply of fish-shaped crackers /j.

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Gill shifts are so funky when you’re stationary because you can pretty much feel them pumping water (air?) through.

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Upon further research, I think I might be a Sicklefin Lemon Shark (N. acutidens) rather than N. brevirostris. The predominantly bony fish diet and their overall behaviour suits me a lot better than that of N. brevirostris.

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Lemshiveraffectis

/ˈɫɛmʃɪvɝəˈfɛktɪz/

Definition: A form of nonhuman tertiary attraction (alteraffectis) that describes how a Lemon Shark feels towards other sharks in its shiver (group).

Coined with alterhumans and adjacent identities in mind.

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My lemon shark self surrounded by my small collection of shark plushies.

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Had a fantastic time swimming today! I don’t often get the chance to, and this time round I was especially shift-y. Swimming in the shark-typical, side-to-side motion feels amazing. (Though I’m now questioning a potential crocodilian kintype now, since I noticed I often swim similarly to them. I also had a lot of fun jump-scaring the people with me by submerging all but my face in the murky water.)

I was also given the chance to jump in from a very tall boat, which satisfied both my bird therian needs for flight and aspects of my Luca-self.

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Waterproof boots and wet grass combo creates little splishy-splashies when I move! I dunno why, but it makes me feel so shark! /pos

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Finally realised I get two types of phantom shark tail — one is your typical lemon shark tail, while the other is a blåhaj tail that is a lot harder to move around and very floppy.

I’m not quite sure what this means, but I shall be investigating further.

There is a possibility my Natural History Museum and/or ghost kintypes are causing this, because I do occasionally feel like a taxidermy bird because of them.

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I strongly relate to this as a shark but also as a bird.

Does any other aquatics feel very constricted by gravity and always having to be on the ground? I want to float

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Something about the Luca (2021) soundtrack makes me feel so shark. It reminds me of swimming in the ocean a bit.

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userbox for being a shark?

Credit me if you use :)

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This! The amount of times I forget to chew my food because it makes sense in my head not to.

Avian culture is wanting to swallow food whole. What do you mean I cannot just swallow an entire sardine in one go. Dont tell me what to do.

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