Asking someone to stop using a convenient, universally understood term because it's "appropriation" and incorrectly applied -- and replace it with a term appropriated from ANOTHER culture and incorrectly applied AND nobody has ever heard of it -- is just about the most White Leftist goddamn thing I've ever heard.

I'm not saying "patronus," fuck you. I'm also definitely not saying "fylgja," because NOBODY BUT YOU knows what the fuck that is.

But I'm not saying "spirit animal" either, even though it seems absolutely daft to complain about the ENGLISH (mis)translation of a concept that's ALREADY totally removed from the First Nations languages that coined it, because my friends will mess themselves over it.

But it seems goddamn silly, since both "spirit" and "animal" are pre-existing western concepts, concepts that perfectly describe that concept without requiring ANY genetic fallacies about when, where, and how the phrase was coined. And it was OUR own cultural shoehorning that applied that incredibly non-specific phrase to Native American traditions in the first place. (If you used these peoples' actual, original terms for "spirit animal" to describe your fursona or whatever, then yeah, I would accuse you of appropriation...)

Instead, I'm gonna SHOW you my inner animal nature by chewing directly on your skull if I ever hear you nitpicking this kind of shit. You'll know whether I like you or not by whether you walk away with a missing head and/or a fatal disease. <3