Teleidoscope

Wed, Jan 03, 2007

I Want a Tail

Posted at 7:52 pm MST to Miscellaneous

I think I want a proper tail. The prehensile kind that can grab things might be useful, but a nice long balancing tail like a cat's tail would be fine, and much more elegant than the current human butt design.

Tails might make clothing design a little trickier, of course. I was never quite happy with the ideas I came up with for the tailed characters in the Cherani world. But I have very little sense of fashion and the world's most boring wardrobe. Someone who actually pays attention to clothes design might come up with something interesting.

I slipped and fell on some ice while carrying some stuff in from the truck after shoveling snow on the day after Christmas. I don't think I would have fallen if humans had tails to balance with. Or maybe I would have fallen differently: at least I might not have cracked my tailbone, which is what I suspect happened.

As it is, I have spent the past ten days extremely aware of all of the muscles that are connected to the human tail bone. Standing up after sitting down for a while is... interesting. Standing up after kneeling down to do housework or add water to the Christmas tree requires something solid to hold on to, so that upper body muscles are used for the lifting instead of the tail muscles. And it is really surprising to discover how much the human tail is involved in carrying a full laundry basket.

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