User:Switchercat

I'm Switcher, Quil, or Adam. Call me any of the three.

This page is best in Firefox, so if it (when it) looks a bit off in IE, don't be worried. The only way to fix it would be to hack Wikipedia, and I don't really want to do that.

Things to keep in mind when talking to me: I'm a "he" (ftm transsexual, actually), teenager, interested in fiction writing, linguistics, indoor rock climbing, theology, paganism, and queer studies. In terms of weirder/more esoteric beliefs, I'm a leopard therianthrope and a Kemetic reconstructionist. Those enough links for you?

At the moment, my signature looks like this:

Switchercat ^talk_cont 00:00, 0 Month 0000 (UTC)

I've been using Wikipedia under this username since, I believe, March '06; I'd been doing small edits anonymously for a few months before that.

I use the name Switchercat on the Simple English Wikipedia (here) and on the Wikimedia Commons (here), as well as on this Wikipedia. Incidentally, I'm also "Switchercat" on PaganWiki ([1]) and LiveJournal (here). My personal website is absurdism.org.

I own an actual barnstar, and have had it before I even knew they existed on Wikipedia. It's hung up on my wall next to my shrine.

• Regarding religion: I am a polytheist, though I have a fairly abstract/confusing definition of "god." I disapprove of pagans who don't research their religions seriously, and I'm skeptical—though not against—eclecticism. I'm not anti-Abrahamic religions. I came from a Reconstructionist Jewish background, learned enough about Wicca to know it wasn't for me (and enough to rewrite the Simple English Wikipedia article!) and am currently (as I wrote before) a Kemetic recon.
• Regarding LGBT issues and gender: I believe that gender exists and is real, but that it isn't binary, and transgenderism of any kind (or agenderism) is legitimate and normal. I strongly support equal rights for LGBT people, both sexual and social. I am personally leery of whether polyamory "works" or not, but I do not believe it's morally wrong.
• Regarding therianthropy and otherkin (this gets into the weird territory...): I identify as partly leopard, making me a therian and otherkin. I'm generally skeptical about most people in both communities, but I believe that it's quite possible to be of another species (though not physically).
• Regarding linguistics: I am a descriptivist regarding spoken and written language, but (hypocritically) I'm biased against a lot of internet slang, especially the parts of it that are not transferable to everyday speech. I don't like certain spelling changes, like using the wrong "it's/its," because they aren't standardized among the error-makers—suggesting that they're more a problem of laziness than an evolutionary change in the language.
• Miscellanea:
  • I support (and have three times won) NaNoWriMo. I don't think it necessarily produces bad writing, and even when it does, it's just for fun. No harm done.
  • I tend to call the ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) deities by their Egyptian names, instead of their Greco-Roman ones, and follow the Kemetic Orthodox renaming standards: Wesir instead of Osiris, Yinepu instead of Anubis, so on.
  • I am pro-choice.
  • I'm a smell-touch synesthete.
  • I think body art is cool, even when people sport lots of it, and particularly like stretched piercings.

Current important projects are bolded.

• Edit Kemetic Reconstructionism. A lot. (Nobody's using the talk page!)
• Work on more stuff regarding transsexuality.
• Contribute to therianthropy, clean it up.
• Make Kemetic Wicca much longer, add sources. Same with Kemetic Orthodoxy.
• Edit Stretching (body piercing) and lengthen.
• Lengthen and wikify all of the body piercing jewelry articles, and clean up body piercing materials.
• Create Zie (pronoun) article.
• Create Plug (body jewelry) article.
• Create Aidan Kelly.
• OMG FIX Ancient Egyptian religion PLS.
• Clean up Hebrew Roots.

Record the following:

• Therianthropy
• Otherkin
• Cats in ancient Egypt
• Singular they

• Bay Windows (newspaper)
• Template:Homicide
• Foro Ermua
• Jon Juaristi

• Icelandic Phallological Museum
• Bird anatomy, bird intelligence, bird skeleton
• Larynx and syrinx (biology)
• Prehensile tail
• Dewclaw
• Conworld
• Cephalic index
• Ceremonial use of lights
• Early college entrance program
• Nadezhda Durova
• Cargo cult
• Latin profanity
• Solar letters
• Norbert Wiener (what a name)
• Animacy
• Grammatical gender, grammatical aspect, grammatical number
• Analytic language
• Relative pronoun
• Interrogative word
• Demonstrative
• Measure word
• Underwater panther and jaguar warrior
• Shelta
• Minnie the Moocher
• Category:Culture-specific syndromes
• Parthenogenesis
• Happy number

There are a lot, so I've moved them off this page. To see my userboxen, click here. :)

Only a couple now; might change with time.

• User:Switchercat/Sandbox
• User:Switchercat/Userboxen

My current wikistress is 2: a bit tense.