I think I'm about due for a species change. The last year has been the most intense period of change-- and willfully trying to shed old personality traits-- that I've been through since I was that damned lavavixen.

Also, I drifted back to feline mostly as a way of dealing with close-quarters living with Anthracite. A little mooncat is unobtrusive and easy to live with (except when she's looking over your shoulders trying to do your paperwork for you). Hell, even a Martian tiger can be housetrained. And neither is especially _needy_, which feels like a big thing that got me into trouble at Transliminal.

But Anthy and I have settled into each other a lot easier than I expected, and well... a lot of the things the cats were dreamt up for no longer exist for me. And I don't need to feel like the cozy feline center of my world in order to matter, anymore.

Honestly... after the past year... I don't feel like I need to matter much at all. I withdrew almost completely and survived. And now I'm heading into a new environment, one where I'll have no contacts, no support but Anthy... and a ton of opportunity.

So, no more social animals for me. Maybe I'm not cut out for them. I'm something of an exile, for reasons I largely deserved, and you know... self-sufficiency sounds pretty good.

So what now? Crow? Coyote? Rat? I love all those scrappy little urban creatures, the ones that aren't *dangerous* exactly, but put a little bit of pressure back on human expansion. The ones that are clearly in the wings, waiting for the humans to fuck up so they can take over. It's all a bit fraught, since I feel like I'm intruding on @acetone_kitten's territory -- is it weird to copy your ex's species? -- but hey, if anything anywhere is open-source, it's a coyote. :)