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Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁

@aerys.me

Unapologetically quirky fox 🦊 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ He/she/they, pansexual, genderfluid, polyamorous, antifascist https://barq.app/@aerys SWE, engineering manager, hobbyist game dev From 🇧🇷, living in 🇳🇱 ❤️ @letsongakemi.bsky.social @foxlite.bsky.social

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FenGirl@foxlite.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I know things are hard for most all of us right now and many of you help Breezy through her streams. Please only help if you can but things are becoming quite scary for my girly and I. #mutualaid gofund.me/8070a0502

Donate to Help Ember and Leah find a stable home, organized by Leah Baasch

Hello, My name is Leah I am a 36 year old transgender Woman, Animator and Artist. I… Leah Baasch needs your support for Help Ember and Leah find a stable home

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Popular Science@popsci.com · 8mo ago

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition

Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.

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Levi@levi.land · 11mo ago

I'm happy to take this opportunity to share this awesome pamphlet made by @xerxes.gay If my memory serves these have been distributed since at least well over a decade ago. "Fandom" has always rubbed me the wrong way in relation to furries. The distinction does matter.

FURRY IS NOT A FANDOM How we became radicals, punk rockers, rebels, and a revolutionary subculture without even trying. FANS OF WHAT? We haven't been about Bugs Bunny since the 80's. Comic fandom, Star Trek fandom, video game fandom, they all revolve around the output of an industry. Furry grew out of the absence of corporate products catering to our needs. We weren't happy just watching Disney and Looney Tunes over and over again. So we made our own culture. Furry is not a fandom. It's a scene. We're old-school punk rock, not the Bieber Fan Club. We create our own characters, our own identities, our own images, our own stories. Fandoms have creativity, but it's all riffing off of a product dictated from above. Furry is bottom-up. Everything comes from our ideas, our roleplaying, our experiences, and our culture that we create. Any furry who rises up and attains some kind of celebrity status does just that: they rise up. From us. Those big-name authors and comic artists who sell books at cons are all writing fan fiction of our brains. In a fandom, the fans are there because of the big names. In furry, it's the other way around, and the big names know it. You can go up to almost any "celebrity" furry and make friends the same way you would with any other fur. We're a scene. A culture. A community. A big, global family. There's nothing wrong with fandom, but don't call furry one. Because it's so much more.ANTI-CONSUMERISM In the furry economy, mass-produced products aren't the star of the show. Most of our money isn't spent buying stuff, it's spent creating stuff. We commission artwork, but not to hide it in a bookcase. We put it online to share with the world. Every commission is one furry buying a gift for the whole community. The art gets produced, and now it's there for everyone to enjoy. Even conbadges and avatars - the most utilitarian, "fashion accessory" form of furry art - tend to end up contributed to the commons. Most economies are powered by the idea of replicating a product and selling it over and over again to different consumers. Furry art operates in a radically different way, through making individual contributions to the common wealth of our culture. Think about how subversive that is. Think about how threatening that idea could be to the elite 1% if we could make the whole world run that way. As furries, we're already living it. PACK MENTALITY As furries, we're not afraid to love each other. We'll cuddle no problem, sometimes without even needing to know each other. In public, no less. We can spend a good portion of our convention time just turning off our brains and enjoying the raw, primal feeling of companionship with relative strangers. We never shake hands when we meet new people. It's always a hug. This pervasive feeling of love is what helps us build such a strong community. Local furry groups often become close-knit extended families. We form bonds stronger than blood relation. We put the camraderie of church and religious groups to shame. By putting ourselves into an animal state of mind, we manage to shake off heaping layers of civilization and social conditioning weighing down on us, and connect with each other on a level that's almost unheard of in modern society.SEXUAL LIBERATION Furries aren't afraid to celebrate our sexuality. We're not ashamed of it, like so much of mainstream society. We don't think it's weird to be gay, bi, or straight; to be monogamous, open, or polyamourous; to be reserved about sex, or to be as open as a porn star. We're picking up where the free love hippies of the 60's left off. We challenge the traditional social order about sexuality, rejecting the idea that there's anything "unacceptable" about it. What society might normally condemn as debauchery or pornography, we celebrate as beauty. For some of us, our animal identities are a major part of exploring our own sexuality. For others, only the openness of our community is a factor. But as furries, we all tend to have a much more positive, healthy view of sexuality than the rest of the world. We know that sex is human, it's animal, it's human-animal. FURRY IS RADICAL. FURRY IS SUBVERSIVE. FURRY IS REVOLUTION. We have no audience, because we're all the creators. We have no idols, because we're all on the same level. We have no inhibitions, because love is beautiful. We have no consumerism, because we're all producers. LET'S EMBRACE OUR NATURE AS MISFITS AND REBELS. FURRY PRIDE. SMASH THE MUNDANE. SHARE THIS PAMPHLET WITH ANOTHER FURRY AT THIS CON WHO YOU HAVE NEVER MET. SPREAD THESE IDEAS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND DISCUSS THEM ONLINE. FEEL FREE TO MAKE COPIES OF THIS PAMPHLET AND DISTRIBUTE THEM AT YOUR NEXT CON.
HearthFox ΘΔ ➡️ Eufuria@hearthfox.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Furry is closer to a Punk counter culture society than a fandom which is why hating Furries is extremely conservative brained behavior

Cameron Lauder@unarmedoracle.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m not here to generate shareholder value. I am a sensing and thinking organ of the universe and I will speak the universe’s truth until it is time for me to be something else. A boil of burrowing insects. An apple tree. A raincloud. An altered word in the mouth of whoever comes next.

Cameron Lauder@unarmedoracle.bsky.social · last yr.

We don’t give ground on who is protected because they might come for us next, we don’t cede ground because we all deserve to be here. There’s no prerequisite of value to being human. Why are you here if you’re not going to protect your vast and vivid human family? What is this for?

Shadow Nightclaw@shadownightclaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

One strong thing I'd say is that kinks/fetishes don't equal morality. We're all into different things, some more kinky than others. For some folks, even something more than vanilla stuff is overly kinky. So I apply this particular saying I'd come across: >

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Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cosigned. Your followers are ghosts. Your big number means nothing. Any art you're posting is being fed directly to Grok. It throttles outgoing links to the point of uselessness. You mere presence empowers one of the worst men alive. Like, seriously: why are you still there? Where is the line?

Dane will return at Planet Anime #531!@monkeyminion.com · 2y ago

I was on Twitter in 2009. The first time my art ever went viral was bc Wil Wheaton rt’d it. I made a lot of friends, fans and contacts on Twitter. Twitter. Is. Dead. It’s “x” now. It’s not the place we all loved to hang out, anymore. It was killed and now Nazis are infesting the corpse. Leave it.

no brain, only alison@alisonborealis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now is when trans people need support most of all. You could be helping folks build up HRT stockpiles. You can be EMPLOYING trans people so they have job security and money and the ability to pay rent. You can be calling your representatives and calling out their bullshit discriminatory actions.

@tappytoeclaws.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you're a "doer" like me and actions (even small ones) make you feel a little less helpless, here's some broad, easy (or easy to start) ideas 🧵 General and obvious? Maybe, but it never hurts to repeat and some folks may be hearing this for the first time/reminded for the first time in a while.

Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁@aerys.me · 2y ago

@gojiimusic.bsky.social is an incredible artist and a cornerstone of the furry community 💜 They are going through a very, very hard time and deserve our support! Let's show that we care for each other. If you can afford it, throw them a couple bucks on Ko-Fi, or buy their music on Bandcamp!

GOJII @ Megaplex@gojiimusic.bsky.social · 2y ago

trauma therapist quoting me $400 per week for effective treatment for my CPTSD. i need to raise 5k bcs my health insurance wont cover it. i have tried everything i could to recover and heal. i nearly ended my life this month and financially suffering. please help me. ko-fi.com/gojiimusic

JoCat is slow at making videos@jocat.net · 2y ago

not just the movies, but just going out by yourself in general can be so freeing and you learn about yourself too. self love is important, self love is treating yourself like a friend, and treating yourself like a friend includes going out to events, activities, places, and having fun.

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 2y ago

Going to the movies by yourself is one of life’s hidden pleasures. Just you and a large popcorn and some sour patch kids and all of your big goblin energy alone in the dark where nobody can see your shame. Priceless.

Jamie McKelvie@mckelvie.bsky.social · 2y ago

@safety.bsky.app It's astounding that you'd rather set fire to everything you've built over the last year to protect one guy who broke both the letter and the spirit of your T&Cs, than protect a vulnerable group that you owe a huge part of your success to.