In this, I presume that your consciousness is presently housed in a human body. (You have my sympathies.)

If you were magically transported into time and place where bodies can be nearly anything and you could choose to inhabit practically anything you wanted, would you be:

@ElectricKeet See, now, 'elemental clay' is maybe technically organic but I feel like it's not what is meant by the term here.

@Austin_Dern I strongly considered an option for "Organic, but not 'life as we know it'." I definitely don't want to exclude treefolk, clay golems, living gummy candy, crystals, coherent liquids, or other fascinating sorts.

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@ElectricKeet Oh, I know you didn't figure on excluding the strange-texture folks. It's just really hard to think of a good term covering that set. ... Trust my FurAffinity searches, we can't even get 'vitrifaction' to be a reliable thing.

@Austin_Dern My head coughs up "bioqueer" as an ad-hoc solution for those who want to or have already changed their substrate, but now I'm interested in what others have come up with.

@ElectricKeet Oh, I like how 'bioqueer' sounds, but I'll see if I can't think of anything worthwhile.

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