kantucknadie
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Who am I?
To the Cherokee of Appalachia, I'm Atsilawesa (Firecat), to the Fur community, I'm Kantuck Nadie Nata-akon. A name given to me, by my grandmother a full blooded traditional cherokee. Hence how I wish to be known here.
I'm a simple soul; a wild deer doe running though the forested hills of her beloved Appalachian mountains. Raised under the watchful eye of the Mountain Momma. drank from her crystal waters, fed from her forests raised by Native Americans. Arrested away by corporate greed and jailed in urban settings for 30 years. But still hearing the Mountain Momma's voice
I will never let you go. Never. You are mine, and I am yours. Forever. She is right. I will return; remain ultimately in a burlap sack with a mountain laurel planted over me.
I am a writer. Taught by the greats of science fiction; Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Norton, Wells, Brin and many others. Taught myths and legends by some well known authors such as Bullfinch, but also Native American, and Appalachian storytellers. I listen closely to the mountains, and I hear many things as well until it began to become alive. Now I'm a simple transcriber of the voices in my head speaking to me of fantastic creatures both fantasy, science fiction, and possibly real from my beloved mountains.
I have fought my entire life with people who never could understand me, and with good reason I only found. But above the betrayals, and humiliation. Pain, and guilt I'm not bitter toward others. My saving grace has always been my fascination of physiology and sociology. To understand one, means to accept and forgive transgressions.
I am poor financially, but rich in what truly matters. I am a spiritualist not by birth as I rejected religion decades ago. But by incident, in a secluded stream-bed cut off from humanity and largely unknown. There I felt something I cannot explain, even by scientific means and my anthropology professor said that such places are extremely rare, for this is the Numinous effect, and it is a life changer.
I am unapologetic, in what I am. If Yowa (Cherokee for God) made me this way then I care little for anyone who hates me. I cannot change how I am nor will I. I am a proud Appalachian IE: a 'hillbilly' and no. We are nothing like what the media and Hollywood portrays us as. (Really, if you get your truth, and education by a bunch of people who care only for money and greed then start changing your ways.) I am a 'furry' and if that offends you, then please leave. For the community has been one of the greatest gifts ever granted to me; be it Yowa, or random chance of meeting a person at a SF convention.
Finally, I love both men and women equally. It doesn't matter to me, your gender, be birth or trans. Looks attract, only the mind endures.
Take me as I am.
To the Cherokee of Appalachia, I'm Atsilawesa (Firecat), to the Fur community, I'm Kantuck Nadie Nata-akon. A name given to me, by my grandmother a full blooded traditional cherokee. Hence how I wish to be known here.
I'm a simple soul; a wild deer doe running though the forested hills of her beloved Appalachian mountains. Raised under the watchful eye of the Mountain Momma. drank from her crystal waters, fed from her forests raised by Native Americans. Arrested away by corporate greed and jailed in urban settings for 30 years. But still hearing the Mountain Momma's voice
I will never let you go. Never. You are mine, and I am yours. Forever. She is right. I will return; remain ultimately in a burlap sack with a mountain laurel planted over me.
I am a writer. Taught by the greats of science fiction; Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov, Norton, Wells, Brin and many others. Taught myths and legends by some well known authors such as Bullfinch, but also Native American, and Appalachian storytellers. I listen closely to the mountains, and I hear many things as well until it began to become alive. Now I'm a simple transcriber of the voices in my head speaking to me of fantastic creatures both fantasy, science fiction, and possibly real from my beloved mountains.
I have fought my entire life with people who never could understand me, and with good reason I only found. But above the betrayals, and humiliation. Pain, and guilt I'm not bitter toward others. My saving grace has always been my fascination of physiology and sociology. To understand one, means to accept and forgive transgressions.
I am poor financially, but rich in what truly matters. I am a spiritualist not by birth as I rejected religion decades ago. But by incident, in a secluded stream-bed cut off from humanity and largely unknown. There I felt something I cannot explain, even by scientific means and my anthropology professor said that such places are extremely rare, for this is the Numinous effect, and it is a life changer.
I am unapologetic, in what I am. If Yowa (Cherokee for God) made me this way then I care little for anyone who hates me. I cannot change how I am nor will I. I am a proud Appalachian IE: a 'hillbilly' and no. We are nothing like what the media and Hollywood portrays us as. (Really, if you get your truth, and education by a bunch of people who care only for money and greed then start changing your ways.) I am a 'furry' and if that offends you, then please leave. For the community has been one of the greatest gifts ever granted to me; be it Yowa, or random chance of meeting a person at a SF convention.
Finally, I love both men and women equally. It doesn't matter to me, your gender, be birth or trans. Looks attract, only the mind endures.
Take me as I am.