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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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I'd love some lemon shark facts 💛

Lemon Shark or Negaprion brevirostris

They get their name from their yellowish brown coloring. Lemon sharks, unlike the lone-shark stereotype, enjoy hanging out in groups! They even have preferred individuals to hang out with!

Lemon sharks are also one of the most well-understood shark species and this is because they do well in captivity. Additionally, most of our knowledge of shark physiology and biology stems from studies of lemon sharks!

Unfortunately, this species is nearly threatened; this is mostly due to overfishing. They're not only caught as bycatch, but are a target for some fisheries. Their meat, skin, and squalene are used for human consumption. It's estimated that between 70-90% of shark squalene harvested each year is used in cosmetics. (Make sure to do your research before buying makeup). To harvest the amount of squalene used for our consumption, almost 3 million sharks are killed every year. But there's a great new alternative source that's gaining traction: olives!

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Anyone find the position of their phantom shifts change between shifts?

As in, sometimes, my wings overlap my arms and other times they protrude from my back (typically when m they can not be arranged in a wing-like way [eg., if I’m holding something]), or more variably, my pectoral fins can come from my shoulders, the sides of my body, my elbows, and even over my hands on occasion. (Other notable ones include my talons, which can go over my entire foot or just the balls of them, and my [shark] tail either being behind me or over my legs.)

Their appearance remains constant, just not where they are.

I think this is a byproduct of how different my body’s anatomy is to what it’s supposed to be like? I’m not really sure.

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They see the sway of my hips as something feminine, but the real ones know I’m actually a shark. (Had a shark shift and moved around swishing my tail from side to side, except I doubt other people realised.)

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I realised a couple of days back that when I’m feeling stressed, I tend to walk in circles (when in a tight space) or pace. I feel like constantly moving brings me some comfort and generally feels better than staying still, and I’ve come to the conclusion that is partially rooted in my shark ‘type?

(Lemon Sharks are able to rest/stop swimming, but it takes more effort to do so as we need to pump water over our gills instead.)

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I’m no expert on sharks or shark behaviour, but I’ve found I tend to circle objects or people I am interested in/curious about. Is that a shark thing?

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hello! i’d like to request an ipad wallpaper based around a luca paguro (from pixar’s 2021 movie, luca) fiction-kintype, with themes of black-tipped reef sharks and the movie’s scenery perhaps? any colour palette works! it’d be great if you can do a version with and a version without the fictionkin symbol, but if not, just without would be perfect :>

thank you so much !!

here you go, we hope you enjoy! I may not like any disney movies past 2016, but luca wasn’t as bad as I expected