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inactivity

so the reason the blog has been so inactive is because all the mods have been busy

Mod Cetus🦑 will be gone for a while and idk if mod pins🧜‍♀️ is still on here. now because I can’t add more mods because mod Cetus is the only one with admin it may be a long time until the blog has more posts. now I am going to make a spinoff blog for land therians and maybe if the other mods don’t return to this one i will make a replacement.

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Hey I’m questioning where I am in the other kin world! I love the ocean and sea animals but I don’t know what I am and even where to start. Any suggestions or tips?

hello!!! welcome to the otherkin community :D

for me, i browsed LOTS of pictures of sea animals and old drawings and stuff. and i mean LOTS

and for my hearttypes, i've always really liked those animals. I don't necessarily identify as those animals but i often find myself wishing i could turn into them or be them.

and of course browsing otherkin tumblr always helps! this place has really helped me tons :3

i wish you luck!

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(🦭mod Zeph)

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Hey! Just here to spread a little bit of joy!

I don't EXACTLY know what my kintype is but I've categorized it as a seaserpent/river lindworm. During the summer I got to go swimming a lot and watched Ruby Gilmen; Teenage Kraken! My wife is supportive so I got to talk to her about making gear and the fastest way to swim. This year/summer has been difficult but this is a little bit of joy that at least to me is very accessible.

To all the ocean dwellers I just wanna say: You may not find anybody talking about your kintype, you may not be supported by anyone, and you may not be able to do things other otherkin/your kintype could do. But you are a creature of the sea. Your own special self 🌊

heyy, i love this! alterhuman positivity, especially uncommon alterhuman positivity is so so important, so this is awesome!

and hey, our kintypes sound kinda similar! resident sea monster speaking ^^

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About imposter syndrome

So I’ve seen lots of people say they feel like they are faking.

so I am gonna share something a friend told me.

if you think you are faking you are not.

just because you have a uncommon Kin/therotype doesn’t make you a faker.

anyway unrelated feel free to send asks for me and I’ll try to answer them (you can just ask things about my experience)

luv y’all (🦭Mod zeph)

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anon said: appearance tips for sirenkin/general oceankin species dysphoria?? i know a lot of therians wear tails but that doesnt seem like a super viable option … if it helps im more fem presenting

Thank you for the ask! As the resident Siren I'm happy to aid you :)

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For gear: swimming flippers and actual mermaid tails (with monofin inserts) can be the most euphoric thing ever!

For reference a monofin is like flippers but both your feet go into one large flipper designed to look like a merfolk's tail!

Wear something that flows! A sundress with white and blue to mimic how the ocean looks, something with tassles, or even ear your hair so that it flows in the wind :))

Along with this, use saltwater/ocean themed perfumes or incense/candles!

I hope this helps, we have another post with more SirenKin tips, so if this isn't enough looking there will help :))

Good luck, hope you feel better soon!

- 🧜‍♀️ Mod Pins

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Taboo urges from kintypes

Big big TW for eating and hunting humans!

ID: a text post divider with 5 blue waves varying in hue from light blue to dark blue. Several blue sparkles and emoticon shells line the bottom of the blue waves. Under the divider: Text in a large font saying "(in blue) big big (in red) trigger warning (in white) for (in red) eating (in white) and (in red) hunting (in blue) humans!" (Big big trigger warning for eating and hunting humans!). Under the large text: a text post divider with 5 blue waves varying in hue from light blue to dark blue. Several blue sparkles and emoticon shells line the bottom of the blue waves.

Many kintypes have urges or behaviours that are very socially frowned upon or even illegal, this is not a new or shameful subject!

For the safety and comfort of others the rest of this post will be under the cut :}

I am SirenKin, my people ate humans. I am also VampireKin, my people ate humans. These wants to fulfill my (what used to be) natural diet still persists in this lifetime.

Just like CanineKins/Canine Therians who feel they must bite or pee to mark their territory, these needs are taboo.

But I'm here to say that these needs should be honoured in safe, legal and humane ways.

For me, who feels it must feed on humans, I engage in Astral Feeding - where I meditate and engage in feeding in the astral plane, where I can legally and humanely get and consume life-force in the form of a body :)

For others this may look like eating beef tartar (raw beef and egg) to emulate the physical ritual of eating!

For others who feel they must bite this may look like finding a nice, clean stick and chewing on it - or if avaliable buying a chew toy!

I hope soon that these behaviours can be seen as normal or less taboo - prehaps like the practice of nesting or wearing gear!

Becuase: if it doesn't hurt anyone and makes you feel happier/better, then it is perfectly good!

Hopefully, this was helpful to someone! Thank you all for reading!

- 🧜‍♀️ Mod Pins

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heads up- if you send in an anon directed toward any mod but me a separate post will be made instead of answering the ask because they can't access this account's inbox

-🦑Mod Cetus

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if you are looking for therian/Otherkin forums

Therian guide.net is a good place

You do need to submit an intro and wait a while but it’s worth it.

Most people are very friendly and you might even find some of the popular alterhuman youtubers.

update: someone in the comments has brought this to my attention that someone did a beware on TG. It’s up to you if you read it and believe it.

I personally am staying on it because I don’t have anywhere else.

while I don’t support the choice to allow z00’s on TG you will sadly find them in almost all therian spaces.

you can make up your own mind.

link here:

https://invisibleotherkin.neocities.org/Resource-Masterlist/Therian-Guide-Beware

(I am taking a little break from social media so if you don’t see new posts dw)

(🦭mod Zeph)

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My journey so far

(Aka I am terrible at guessing kintypes)

So let’s start from the beginning

In November 2023 I awakened as a therian after a few months of research.

around February I discovered my coyote therotype.

During the period of late February - May

I started questioning a winged Kintype.

At first I thought crow then after I thought Demonkin.

After that I started exploring the possibility of Being selkiekin

and so far I believe I am correct about that.

I shelved the search for my winged Kintype for a while but I’m gonna look into it again now.

So pretty much it’s ok to be wrong about your Kintype I’ve been wrong and I will probably make incorrect assumptions about my winged one.

Bonus: my Kintype origin theory’s.

Coyote: spiritual (past life)

Selkie: I’m not 100% sure but I think spiritual .

(I’ll update this if I discover new kintypes)

(🦭mod Zeph)

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A SirenKin ask!

anon said: "i realized i was a sirenkin when i acted in something my friend wrote about them, and ive never felt more myself! any advice? anything helps, im new to the community and considered very basic and normal irl..."

(I apologise for the scuffed answering, I can't access the ask box lol)

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I'm SirenKin too and discovered my kin in a similar way! It feels weird to not just be a regular merfolk right?

But to feel more like yourself: when in the pool, do the dolphin stroke with your legs only! (Like move both your legs in unison to kick, feels like a tail)

Try and buy some fins! Like, flippers! You can get a good quality discreet (like divers gear) ones for about £20 if that's an accessible price for you

You can collect seashells and decorate yourself with seaweed (if comfortable)

Also!! Eat some more fish! If you can: a whole fish that you gotta actually eat around the bones for! Makes you feel like you caught it and like you're eating like you once did :)

Those are all the tips I've found, I hope they help you! :)

- 🧜‍♀️ Mod Pins

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Advice for younger alterhumans

(Focusing a lil more on therians)

(A bit of rambling )

Please repost

Pt.1 the biggest thing

So let’s start with the biggest thing and that is: some people just hate us.

Now that can be for a variety of reasons.

example: I know someone who hates alterhumans because she was stalked by one for months.

(More below the cut because this is a big post)

List of common reasons:

Some people hate us because those of us who have past lives go against their religion.

Some people just don’t like people who are different.

Some people think we are mentally ill.

Some people think we are zoos.

Some people think we are furries and because they hate furries they hate us.

Pt.2 keeping yourself safe

So this is extremely important if you are a minor Because most likely you live with a parent/guardian.

So how do you ensure you are safe?

Well it’s not that hard

1. Only tell people you trust. if you want to check if it’s safe to tell someone mention therians in conversations and see how they react.

2. Remember that there are community’s online that you can make friends on if you can’t tell anyone irl about your identity. (Therian guide.net is one)

3. If your parents/guardians are supportive you can find fellow therians on international therian day just draw the therian delta in your hand.

Pt.3 what if I don’t have shifts?

So lets make one thing clear not all therians have shifts a good chunk do but they are not what make you a therian/Otherkin.

Also it’s perfectly fine and quite common not to know you therotype/Kintype right away.

It’s also perfectly fine to be mistaken on your therotype/Kintype for example: I went through a period of thinking I was a crow therian

(I do think I have a winged thero/Kintype but that’s a story for another day)

So pretty much it’s ok to be mistaken infact most alterhumans are at first .

Pt.4 The pros and cons of packs

So I was actually a head mod on hiddenwhispers discord server until my aunt discovered I had discord. (as i am a minor I have tak obey her wishes)

So now I am gonna give a overview of my experiences with therian packs

So the first one I joined (foxx_kit on yts one)

There was lots of dark stuff in the heavy vent channel but Everyone was really nice and all in all it was a great experience.

The second one what I helped create

It was good a lot of dark stuff in the vents but still good.

Now for hiddenwhispers one.

So most people were nice and respected me as a mod but we got frequently raided by antis who sent gore and other stuff.

Lots of dark stuff in the vents.

Whisper was really nice and always treated me as a close friend.

So one thing you will notice is lots of them have vents that contain images of sh so that’s a downside.

On the otherhand I made many friends so at the end of the day it’s good unless you look in the vents.

End of post.

So I hope you have learned something from this post.

Remember to eat and drink

luv ya❤️❤️❤️

(🦭mod Zeph)

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My JellyfishKin to SirenKin re-Kinfirming saga!

ID: My JellyfishKin to SirenKin re-Kinfirming saga! In a large font size

The first thing to know: It's okay to question your kins and re-classify or drop labels that don't fit!

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My story:

Personally, my Kins and 'Types being confirmed is reliant on memories and shifts!

So when underwater memories of vaguely glowing limbs (mine) being under me and then further a deep and inky void below, I assumed I was a deep sea jellyfish!

However, no more memories came to me, and no shifts, due to my misguided kinfirmation!

I was able to re-kinsider my kinfirmation of my jellyfish 'type and explore my kin further by analysing my past ocean behaviour and labels that fit me!

That's how I landed on my SirenKin identity! After I took on the label I had more memories come to me and have been able to experence more shifts!

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What can be taken from this:

Of course, whatever you take from this little read is valid!

However, I hope you are able to see from this that using a label and then deciding that it doesn't fit later - and taking up a new one is okay!

Even more, if something doesn't feel like it fits, please explore that feeling - You may find more fulfillment!

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Salty recipes

For a taste of the ocean.

Vegetarian recipes

1. Salted caramel popcorn

I’ve personally had this and it’s delicious

2. Chocolate covered potato chips

Yet another one I have had. it’s a bit of a acquired taste

3. mozzarella sticks

Yet another one I have had. they are best freshly cooked

4. Pasta with garlic and oil

For this if you don’t have/want spinach

Just add some salt.

Meat recipes

1. Sausage, kale and chilli pasta

Add some salt and it should be delicious.

2. Salt cod with root vegetables, cream and bacon.

I haven’t tried this but it sounds good

3. Steak and ale pie

It tastes good. But Personally I’m not fond of meat

Hope you find something you like.

(🦭mod Zeph)

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about the kintype

hello! so, since otherkinity (is that the correct term?) is such a broad label, i'm here to describe one of my most prominent kins, a sea monster! below the cut cuz this is kinda long

pardon how awkward this may seem, i find it hard to describe my different identities sometimes 😭 i switch back and forth between present and past tense because this identity is both spiritual and psychological.

the way i perceive myself in the sea monster sense changes based on a few factors, so by that assumption i can assume i've got 2(ish) forms.

quadruped (mostly)

one form is much like a lindworm, which is a creature in folklore often seen to be like a dragon-like snake without wings and hind legs. now, you might wonder, i did say quadruped. that's because it changes between being more like a lindworm and being more like a dragon without wings, except with a more serpentine body, much like Eastern dragons. in this form, no matter if it's more lindworm-esque or Eastern dragon-esque, i was about the size of humpback whale. during shifts in this form i more strongly desire bodies of water, leading me to believe i mostly stayed underwater while in this form.

2. biped

the bipedal form is much like how the sea monsters look in the movie 'Luca', but obviously without that Pixar style. I also have a longer snout and my legs are more digitigrade. In this form i am about 6'5. while in shifts in this form (which is uncommon, mostly happens when i'm in the shower or getting out of the pool 😅) i have no preference for land nor water, so i believe when I walked upon land this is what i looked like.

The coloration stays the same between the two forms. here's a color palette i very quickly whipped up that seems most accurate

now for diet and mannerisms!

i mainly operated on a pescatarian diet, but occasionally ate marine plants and such.

i lived on my own, traveling by myself. i lived in a small cave-like cove with a small amount of surface-level land that i could walk upon. i had a small collection of treasures and trinkets that i stole from a small human town not far from my den. i either slept in a nest made up of kelp, rocks, and sticks or in the water in my den, cozied into the sand.

hope you enjoyed reading about my kintype! let us know if you'd like more content like this :D

-🦑Mod Cetus

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Signs you may be Otherkin

(Full credit to eristic.net)

(Disclaimer: This list is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, a kind of "ha ha only serious ". It should not be taken really really seriously -- that is, you MUST have these traits or you're not otherkin, and/or if you have these traits, then you MUST be otherkin -- because many of these can also apply to humans of a general magical or pagan persuasion and amassing ticks on a list of characteristics does not make a otherkin. However, neither is it exactly a joke list on the order of "You might be a redneck/liberal/geek if..." You might say 's funny 'cause 's true. In any case, caveat lector .

Also, please keep in mind that this list really belongs to another time in the community.)

You might be Otherkin if...

Physical Characteristics and Remnants of Former Bodies/Lives

1. You feel a lot older than your grandmother and cannot explain why.

2. You miss a place, yet cannot explain where it is.

3. You find it very frustrating that you can't breathe under water or fly.

4. You have "phantom" body parts (such as wings or a tail) that you can feel move, and that sometimes become really annoying with clothes, or cause pain when "slept on". 

5. You modify (or wear special) clothing or sit/stand/walk differently to accomodate physical characteristics your waking body doesn't have - or you don't even realize you're making such accomodations until someone else points out that you are.

6. Your doctor can't figure out how you damaged your back to start with, but you don't really want to tell hir it's a battle injury from a previous life.

7. Trans people often want gender-affirmation surgery. You want SPECIES-affirmation surgery.

8. You are always the first one to hear something in the distance (ie: approaching car, person, storm...).

9. You have either more allergies than normal folks, possibly including odd ones like metals (iron and alloys, silver, gold, copper); stones (hematite, malachite, pyrite); certain herbs; or other substances not commonly considered allergenic, or you have a dragon's constitution and have less allergies than normal folks, and are not prone to disease (you never had the flu, etc.).

10. You have naturally dilated pupils, or see very well in the dark.

11. You have bright green or violet eyes, or eyes with multiple colours in them, or that change color.

13. Some part of your body changes shape and/or color.

14. The "you" you see in the mirror and the physical shell experienced by other people are entirely different entities.

15. You find yourself unable to develop an addiction - after a certain point, certain substances stop affecting you entirely. This is most bothersome when it's much-needed prescription medication.

Personality Characteristics, Perceptions and Habits

1. You don't consider yourself really human.

2. Your creativity (of whatever persuasion) consumes you to the point of eccentricity. Dance, music, art, and beauty in general are not luxuries, peripheral experiences or mere entertainment, but physical needs.

3. You know, see, and feel a deeper existence than the visible world around us.

4. The woods, glens, etc. speak to you and call you to come join them.

5. You have a deeper understanding of the cycle of life and death than many people do.

6. Most people find their inner children. You found your inner puppy or hatchling.

7. You remember your dreams with more detail, clarity and relevance than your waking moments.

8. Linear thought is a problem, and linear time an even greater one.

9. The books that speak the greatest Truths to you are found in the Fantasy/SF section.

10. Your best friends are nymphs, pixies, and fairies.

11. You think trees or holes in the ground are a great places to live.

12. You catch yourself referring to David Bowie as "cousin."

13. You find it hard to explain to mundanes that there really IS a dragon sitting on your pencil case and she�s been talking to you all through math and English.

14. You can sleep on the floor, ground or a wood bed, but not a metal frame bed.

15. You collect little 'oddities' that don't match anything else you own. Going to an antique store is like going to an adoption agency. You actually own more knick-knacks and stuff than the antique store down the street.

16. No religion seems to fit you, no matter which one you try.

17. You are the definition of "weird".

18. You love to hide in natural places when emotionally or otherwise upset.

19. You can actually speak Tolkien Elvish, and it feels like your mother tongue.

20. You don't match your "real" age in looks, thoughts, words, wisdom, etc.

21. The weather and your moods have more than a coincidental link.

22. You write such good stories 'cause they aren't stories... it's all real.

23. You feel you'd have done much better a few hundred years back. Living History not only describes your favorite activity, it describes you.

24. You have an obesession with honor most people just don't understand.

25. You've been in or almost caused a car accident because you were distracted by the sunset, sunrise, rainbow, moon, stars, lightning, and/or interesting cloud formations.

26. You bore very easily.

27. You get downright pissed when people harm animals or plants or destroy the environment.

28. As a child you always knew where to find the berries in the woods.

29. You are fascinated with language, linguistics, theology, anthropology, slang, subculture and the madness of crowds.

30. You see through spiritual charlatans like they were made of glass.

31.Your personality changes outright depending on the clothing you wear. That includes a mixed personality if you mix two kinds of clothing.

32. You prefer silver rather to gold, bronze, etc.

Interactions With "the Mundanes"

1. Human language just isn't enough to FULLY convey what you are trying to say. You feel telepathy, empathy, and visual sendings make up most of your languge and you often tend to use these more than spoken words, much to the dismay of those around you.

2. Your friends and family have always thought of you as, shall we say, "different."

3. You never quite see things from the same point of view as your mundane friends. They never get your sense of humour.

4. Mundanes think you are eccentric, very intelligent or crazy, but you think that you are normal and they are the ones who are odd.

5. You have actually answered "elf", "dragon", "fae", "werewolf", etc. under the "Race" section of surveys or when asked by telemarketers.

6. Your friend's cat, who hates EVERYONE including your friend, loves you.

7. People either love you or hate you and you cannot figure out why.

8. Animals and trees are better friends to you than most mundanes.

9. You feel horrible if you have to act human, and weird things happen to you when you try.

10. When you haven't slept for a few nights running, haven't eaten, don't feel pain, etc., the standard explanation from your friends is "but we all know you're not human..."...before you've even told them what you really are.

11. You attract the strangest people. They seem to congregate around you as if attracted by some pheremone only they can perceive.

12. You almost never play a human character in role-playing games. (Bonus points if you refuse to play a human in the SCA or at Ren Faires, but rather play a vampire, elf or faerie.)

13. People's professed personalities and beliefs cause you to break out in peals of laughter at socially inappropriate times.

14. People often ask you if you are on drugs.

15. Hospitals, most schools, government buildings, and large, impersonal corporations either depress you to the point of tears or trigger panic attacks.

16. Small children come up to you and hug you for no apparent reason.

Magic, Psi and Strange Occurrences

1. You think nothing of adjusting your energy to a "peace" signature to calm down someone who's agitated. (Fun with glamour, folks!)

2. When you don't want to be noticed, you can be wearing three-inch spikes and a mohawk, and people walk past you, oblivious.

3. Your dreams bleed over into mundane reality.

4. You catch glimpses of an alternate reality superimposed or side-by-side with mundane reality. When you're half asleep and half awake, the worlds tend to blur and you can see numerous realities existing at once.

5. Your wishes affect mundane reality in a tangible way.

6. Too many synchronicities happen to you to pass them all off as coincidence.

7. Small children run up to you and point out the nice lady with pointy ears or the big furry man or the dragon.

8. Grown people nervously ask you if you've ever thought of yourself as "elf-like" or "dragon-like," or just get positively freaked out being near you.

9. You "bleed over" in pictures (characteristics visible in your "other form" show up on the film).

10. You dream prophetically.

11. When really stressed/relaxed/magickal you speak in a foreign unknown language or make animal noises.

12. People are spooked when you walked up behind them and they never heard you coming. You move so silently that you can even sneak up on a police dog without it noticing you.

13. Energy work seems so natural for you that even as a beginner you baffle most veteran magic users. You can't understand why people need all those props to do anything magical, when it's so much simpler to just reach and change something. You're unable to grasp that there are people who can't feel magical flows, no matter how often you hear otherwise.

14. You've met someone you instantly knew from dreams you've been having since you were five.

15. From time to time really strange things happen, like you get cut and your blood falls on a white rose and it turns red, and within a month the entire rose bush has deep red flowers.

16. You sense spirits residing within rocks, trees, waters, buildings, mechanical objects, etc., and you converse with them regularly.

17. You didn't know that not everyone did lucid dreaming (astral projection, hands-on healing, aura sight, telepathy, precognition...) until you read about it.

18. You "smell" what kind of mood the people around you are in.

19. Computers often malfunction, act up, and do lots of unusual things in your presence, causing your coworkers to ask you to "stand over there, please" and causing your company's resident computer tech many hours of heartache.

20. Sometimes when you see or meet a stranger you see a flash of their True Nature without even trying.

21. You can alter time, manipulate the weather, conjure things or teleport by accident, etc. without ever having learned how, nor in fact understanding how these are possible.

22. When they unearth an ancient earth artifact that "no one" knows about you not only find that you recognize it, but also that you had been telling your friends about it for the last few years.

23. You don't just dream, you go planet-hopping.

24. Time always does weird things around you.

25. Your friends use you as the resident antenna for the radio, for it always receives better sound when you stand in front of it.

26. You cannot wear watches or other timepieces on your person. If you do, they are rendered completely useless within days and become blithering idiots that have no idea what time it really is anymore.

27. You can hear the stars singing.

28. All of your best friends/lovers/etc. awaken to otherkin natures within a few months of meeting you.

29. You can't ever remember the color of someone's eyes, but you can describe their aura/astral form in detail.

I kinda only posted this because some people can’t get on the website for many different reasons and this is what I used to discover that I was Otherkin.

Have a good day/night and Look after yourself.

(🦭mod Zeph)

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Tips for selkiekin

(may work for merkin/sirenkin)

Take relaxing baths

Find a soft blanket/robe that can be your sealskin

Eat seafood or salty food

Listen to ocean/whale sounds

Sing (If you are comfortable with your voice)

Swim if you are near somewhere you can

If you have a past life try to meditate to remember more about it

Collect shells if you can

Collect sea glass

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Tips for aquatic kin who practice witchcraft

Incorporate water into your practice/spells

Collect shells to use in your practice

Practice water magick

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Have a lovely day/night and make sure to eat and drink.

(🦭mod Zeph)