Originally posted on
tumblr on Sep. 28, 2025.
Been getting a hog tail for a bit now and it's so fun. Tails are so rare for me, especially the more common types like canine/feline. And although I get fins, I am not merfolk so I don't really get any fun fishy appendages.
Went to go look at it to figure out how long it was and.... it wasn't there. But it goes down to about my knee when straight. Curves in a loop right at the end when relaxed, not up against my body like a lot of pigs have. It also feels more prehensile? I have a lot of really specific control over it.
I'm 99% sure this came from a Pathfinder character I play, Pan. I get cameos for my cow minotaur, Io, when I play her as well. They're one of the reasons why I keep debating over minotaurs and if there is any connection with me to them. It didn't start with Io, it started with reading Circe in 2019. The chapters with the minotaur always did me in. There is Something About Them that really resonates with me and I'm not sure what it is. Anyway it's no surprise that they trigger cameo shifts.
Both of them fall into my jersey devil pencorpus, which is always really interesting. My jersey devil is always changing, always shifting. It's a ton of fun. I've been having these very basic red dragon wings with it, but I'll often get bird or angel or (more accurate) bat wings. It's great it's wonderful. Hooves are so much fun.
I simply really enjoy my pencorpus and I'm very excited to finally have a word for it that feels right and that lets me talk about it properly. I've noted "plenanima" before on tumblr, and I'd like to explore it more when I have the time/energy. But it's really the opposite of pencorpus. My plenanima consists of being a gillman otherkin and alien satelle and all my mermaid/selkie/siren paratypes, and a few other things. That all sort of form this "gillman (expanded) experience". My gillman plenanima isn't just being a gillman otherkin, it's also every other identity that I feel Deep In My Bones. When I say I'm a gillman, I am including all of these other tangential feelings and experiences that may not always be gillman specific, but rather very important to my sense of self and overall nonhumanity.
Whereas pencorpus is the same gathering of identities and experiences that I may enjoy and love, but aren't necessarily crucial to how I as an individual feel or experience the world.
The name of the pencorpus or plenanima (jersey devil or gillman, respectively) aren't necessarily literal, but just the best interpretation of the picture both of these are making. I'm tracing the shadows of these identities out in chalk and looking for pictures in them the same way I look for pictures in clouds but like. A little deeper than that. If this makes any sense at all.
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