I am a lion with a human face, and this is where I hoard my writings on that visceral paradox. My territory is a sparse and strange place, full of logical explanation and queer musings on the nature of my species, my mind, and my spirit. If you're curious, step in and start reading, but keep in mind that this is my life, not a game or a piece of fiction.

Stranger In A Strange Land?

If you're new to the concept of animality, which is also called therianthropy, please read this quick introduction. In essence, animality is having the primal core of an animal within the body of a human. For me, animality is being innately transspecies and learning to live with it, compromising between learned human behaviors and inborn animal instincts to cultivate the best life possible. No animal-person is quite like another; we create our own paths.

Everything you read within the pages of this site, barring the Barbary Information page, is completely subjective. I am one person, and this is my life - my experiences, my opinions, and my emotions. Everything I do and perceive is filtered through the lens of my own paradigm, and none of it is universally true. Understand that what you read is true for me and may not be applicable to anyone else, including yourself, and take them as nothing more than the stories of my existence. That's what they are, after all.

Updates

Wednesday, December 18th, 2013.

I am not dead! New essay: Still Not Human, a reminder to myself and a comparison of now-and-a-while-ago.

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011.

Still writing. Another essay: Being Water, about my elemental identity and how deeply it affects me.

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011.

Prolific! New essay: Cat As Gender, about how being a cat ties into my gender identity.

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011.

My God, I actually wrote something. Check it: The Trouble With Cat, about dysmorphia and a solitary animal in human society.

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