You know, this fight between "werewolves are too doggified and we've lost touch with what animals are actually like and they're a symbol of the dark feral side of mankind blah blah blah" and "BIG PUBBY OUPPY BOOFER PET IT BOOP THE SNOOT" is kinda missing the point.
Did not the original wolf fear and hate the fire, and those who tended it, but ultimately yearn for its warmth anyway? Does not the feral, deranged part of us only wish to be understood and safe? Y'all have forgotten that the light contains the dark and the dark contains the light. A werewolf could yearn for acceptance and actually find it, and grow, and change, but a werewolf has to start out as a feral, misunderstood, feared and rejected beast. Or a werewolf can be tamed, almost domesticated, only for those around it to find out exactly how wrong they were. And don't forget, a werewolf that has changed can fall once again, or work to be gentle once more...
The war people wage for acceptance is the voice of the werewolf and vice versa. We are the outcast, but we wish to be warmed and known. We yearn for safety yet we contain the feral rage of the rejected. The werewolf is versatile, vagaries of a friend, the potential of the known but gently frightening dog, or the bared fangs of the rejected, the outcast, the cursed and hated wolf.
The werewolf is nothing less than the Samsara of our pain, our potential, our rage, our ability to love, our oppression, and the need to heal from it.
Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"
Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.
sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)