About Akhila
I am a 20-something short guy. Brown hair, green-grey eyes. I live in Paris and grew up near the Mediterranean sea. French is my native language and I learned English at school (Spanish as well, though I forgot most of it). You'll find a bunch of misspells and errors in my grammar, even though I do my best to avoid this.
Here are some stuff to know if you want to try and understand me. I'm a nice and quiet person until one steps on my toes. I am honest and sometimes pretty blunt. I am will-powered, very territorial and proud. I also am more of a loner but I enjoy sane and mature discussions with interesting individuals. I'm into (a non-exhaustive list in no particular order) linguistics, mythology, non-fluffy spirituality, sociology and anthropology, webdesign, books, travelling, dream exploration and art (anthropomorphic, non-anthro illustration, photogaphy, calligraphy). In my spare time I like writing, drawing and hanging out with the heart-family that I've met and got to know over the past years.
I am pansexual: I love regardless of sex, I have no gender boundaries. I'm also a trans (-gender/-sexual/-gressor) and I don't care about your standards. I'm androgynous and use male pronouns. I take testosterone on a regular basis and generally pass as a guy. I can easily talk about my transition; I can just as easily send you packing as you don't have to know about my private life just because you want to hear about trans stuff. If you say sexist, homophobic, transphobic and other stupid comments, I'll be merciless.
I am both skeptical and spiritual. I incorporate in my beliefs system what seems rational or what I must admit by experience. I don't believe in gods the way people do. I hold strong ties with Jaguar and Raven. I identify as a Mediterranean person and I relate the most to the Greek pantheon. My beliefs are quite distinct from my identity as a trans and animal person, and they're intimate enough that I don't mention much of them here. Don't spew bollocks out to me because a lack of critical thinking annoys me as much as a lack of tolerance.
I'm an animal-person. I believe that my identity is other than only human. My inner self is a combination of clouded leopard and raven. Every side is an integrated part of me, they are not distinct entities living in my head. If you're here you probably already know what a therianthrope is, but if it's not the case you'll find more information about my personal therianthropy and therianthropy in general in this section. Animal people aren't all the same. Chances are that we think differently - deal with it.
You don't have to ask me if you want to link to Thébaïde from another website, and it's perfectly legal to quote my writings. Just give the source and be reasonable; I've had someone using in one of their writings whole paragraphs from my work as their introduction, conclusion and bits of content - with no quotation marks and refusing to take that down. The best I could obtain was quotations marks, my name at the bottom, and last time I checked it didn't link appropriately to my URL. The sad thing is that this person did ask permission "to use my work", it just wasn't proper use.
Quote to show a point, as an example or something, but do not quote instead of writing your own thing, that's not appropriate use (and also fucking rude regarding the efforts the author put into this). And don't pretend you wrote something you didn't. One last thing: if you want to mention my stuff in your research paper or such, please contact me first, I've never said "no" to anyone but I want to know in which context it appears. :) And try to send your work to me afterwards! That's nice and professional.
~Akhila
August 2004