#embolomerous

[boobookittenartblog]

Diplovertebron by Zdeněk Burian

Diplovertebron is an extinct genus of embolomere that lived in the Late Carboniferous period (Moscovian), about 310 million years ago. Diplovertebron was a medium-sized animal, around 50 cm in length. Members of the genus inhabited European Carboniferous swamps in what is now the Czech Republic. They were closely related to larger swamp-dwelling tetrapods like Proterogyrinus and Anthracosaurus. However, Diplovertebron were much smaller than these large, crocodile-like creatures. Known from a single species, Diplovertebron punctatum, this genus has had a complicated history closely tied to Gephyrostegus, another genus of small, reptile-like amphibians. (via: Wikipedia)

[post-punk-revival]

Personal alterhuman things I want to get to the bottom of in 2024 + 2023 retrospective

1․ The thing I talked about here. TL;DR I have recurring shifts/strong feelings toward certain things -- fishlike dragons, movie monsters like kaijus, embolomeres, deep sea sharks, and "whiskered" fish like catfish -- that make me almost question them but more so nearly feel like they might all be connected to one kintype and are just separately reminiscent; something dragonlike, amphibious, from the ocean.

(Dragon artist here.)

2. Something very similar with a different set of species. It feels like these are connected. I don't have shifts of these species, yet they feel more like some of the animals from my ⎇ tag. Very definitely not me, but so strongly reminiscent of something that is me that I have felt tempted to question them just to work out my feeling surrounding them.

I also wonder if it's at all related to my stronger-than-usual feelings surrounding a recurring fictionflicker, the Knight/Shade Lord.

3. This... like, is it otherhearted? A hearthome? Could I be conceptkin? Or am I some kind of being or entity that is related to fall but not Literally Fall Itself?

4. And on that note, this too. I know I am an alien who is literally kind of a star, but it's kind of a thing where like, if I was the kind of person inclined toward a homebrew religious practice, I'd worship the stars. It feels alterhuman in nature to me. Or maybe even spiritual. Kind of space in general if I'm being honest. And time.

5. What is going on with the computer program kintype. The fuck

6. Could any of these possibly be related to each other. Could it be possible that the answer to, say, #2 is the same answer as #3 or 4. Or the same answer as to a question I already mistakenly think I know the answer to... like Link, or my alien kintype or my being a ghost

7. Figure out how to explain to everyone that I'm actually... not ghostkin.

8. I am still not 100% sure whether I'm a cinereous vulture or not. I'm leaning toward yes but I'd like to nail that down as a definite.

All that being said, I'm proud of how much progress I made on understanding my own identity in 2023. Since January I have:

1․ The big one -- I stopped trying to whittle my therianthropy down to just a socially acceptable 2-5 species. I accepted I am polytherian and that gave me so much space to breathe, and to question in existential freedom rather than a cramped box.

2. Determined that I am not a common pillbug. I am a sea slater! Armadillidium vulgare → Ligia exotica. This feels so much more right and I'm excited and happy to have that.

3. Determined that I am not a Harris's hawk. I am a red-tailed hawk. Parabuteo uncinctus → Buteo jamaicensis kriderii. Yeah I made a whole thing about this when it happened... I pretty much just came out as basic.

4. Right at the end of the year (like a week ago lol) I learned about Megapterygius and everything clicked. Mosasaurus lemonnieri → Megapterygius wakayamaensis.

5. So I never actually announced this -- I think I just started posting as if I had before realizing I hadn't -- but I figured out what opossum species I actually am (it's one I had confirmed before but chickened out of in favor of a "cooler" species smh). Didelphis virginiana → Caluromysiops irrupta.

6. Determined that I'm a Musteloidea cladotherian, but I'm not a skunk. It's taxonomically complicated.

7. I confirmed two hearthomes this year. O'Neill cylinders, and the Pleistocene. I had already known about the one (the ocean), but I was restricted by what I had assumed the definition of hearthome was. It's a relatively new label. The discussion hasn't kicked off yet.

8. Determined I'm not just a ghost, but specifically an ibbur. This isn't a big long post explaining this, it's literally just a post saying "I'm an ibbur." I'll explain that bridge when I come to it.

[albertonykus]

Are cryptobranchids good ecological analogues for stereospondyls, embolomeres, baphetids, etc.?

I don’t know.

[post-punk-revival]

So for the past few years I've had strong feelings toward a few things just to the brink of questioning them, but it was never cohesive enough for me to think yeah that IS me, rather than I wish that was me. But one of these instances recently made me wonder if these are all connected somehow and if there was something going on there that was more than just suspiciously similar cameo shifts.

Sea-dwelling movie monsters like those from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Godzilla

Deep sea sharks

Aquatic, fishlike dragons

Certain large, "whiskered" fish like koi and catfish

Embolomeres such as Anthracosaurus

Right now I'm thinking that this may be some "side effect" feelings of being a mosasaur, but I also want to look a little harder into than I have been (so, at all). I have been wondering if all these feelings that I thought were discrete are actually one single, weird species, regardless of whether it's a kintype.

I think I’ll stop writing out novel length posts justifying myself and detailing why exactly I’m not a kff and how my polytherianthropy is the genuine kind and adding disclaimers of how I can never know for sure…

And just posting out of context pictures of the thing I’m questioning.