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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 64
#Wss366 #Pat #ScribesAndMakers ~8 Gauge #TimeTravelAuthors Whatever

Indeed, there were lights ahead, blue flickering incandescence like gas flames.

Sumika stopped, watching. When the glow remained stationary, she spoke. “Sorry, I have a hard time #gauging what will offend you. I didn’t mean anything bad when I said you sounded more human. It’s as if your human and crow intellects have blended. You’re still very much a crow, but not so alien.”

She raised her hand, stopping a mealy worm’s width from my head.

“Sorry,” she repeated. “You told me not to touch you without permission. It’s a habit. My mother always patted me when I was upset.”

“You may scratch my head,” I cawed after a moment. I had been thinking about it ever since the mountain shaman petted me, and I’d decided to trust Sumiak. My Glitter Glinda could be insensitive, but except for shutting me in the car that one time, she’d done nothing threatening. “But I’ll bite your hand off if you’re too rough.”

“Okay.”

Her fingers moved the last bit of the way and ruffled my feathers with a slow, gentle motion.

“Pats, pats,” I crooned. “Pats, pats.”

“Friends?” she asked softly.

“Sure, friends,” I cawed. It was so unfair to ask that while she was scratching my head.

A minute passed, and then she stopped. “Ready to find out what those lights are?” she asked.

“Yeah, it’s time.”

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 63
#Wss366 Treble #TimeTravelAuthors 9/4 Whatever

Inside the passage hung a feline odor, strong enough to wilt feathers, and paw prints littered the dusty floor. We turned left in the direction most of them led.

“It’s walking on its hind feet,” Sumika said after a few meters and pointed to where the marks of the forepaws ceased, leaving only the rear ones.

“Indeed, that’s because it’s a nekomata. Be glad this passage is wood, not stone,” I replied.

“Why?”

“Because your ‘cute’ kitty can spit fireballs. I doubt it wants to burn its mistress’s home down.”

“Oh!”

“It could be worse. We might have run into a gotokuneko. They’re about #treble the strength.”

“Treble? What kind of word is that? Just say three times.”

“It’s a perfectly good word.”

“Whatever. And what about ‘gotokuneko?’ You’re not making that stuff up, are you?” Mistress asked.

“Moi? Me? Make stuff up? I’m wounded. No, I studied this kind of thing when I was a woman.”

“You know you’re a lot more human-like than when we first met. You almost talk normally, barring words like ‘treble.’”

“Awk, chicka, cawa! Pay attention, there are lights ahead,” I cawed, irratated.

“How could Glinda-chan say such a thing? Hmph! Just when I was thinking she had more than one brain cell, she says utter rubbish. But no, she’s nothing more than a three-toed sloth.”

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 62
#Wss366 Mole #TimeTravelAuthors 9/2 Whatever

More seriously, we rounded the screen in time to see the cat cross the space beyond and disappear behind a triptych. An image painted on the edge panel caught my eye. It depicted a woman summoning a giant skeleton, with a dog-sized frog at her feet. “Takiyasha-hime,” I thought.

The portrait’s most interesting detail was the large, yellow tear-#mole below one of her eyes. That was no coincidence. The mark was an inauspicious one, and I suspected the painter had intended the figure to be recognized as ill-fated before the viewer ever noticed the skeleton.

It was easy to see how a place like this might acquire a sinister reputation, even becoming considered cursed. That would make it an ideal location to hide a secret entrance.

My supposition proved correct. When we slipped around the partition, we found an alcove draped with drab, dusty wall hangings, and concealed behind one of them was an opening to a narrow passageway.

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

Oh, for a cat maid's life

••⋅☾ #俳句 ☽⋅••

Pretty in pink
Oh, for a cat maid's life ☽⋅••
Isakai dreaming

••⋅☾ #Haiku ☽⋅••

#Poetry #詩 #NM #ThingToWriteAbout #Pink #CatEars #OtherKin #Maid #Haiga #俳画

I think I need to start a howl in the Colorado area. Start otherkin meets. Because I feel like our spaces are actually shrinking, that we used to have a space in these conventions but the fandom spaces are all about farming aura and subs and generating content and monetizing identity and if you aren't popular, you're not going to matter.

The next phase of safe space to BE therian and otherkin has to come from ourselves. And I'mma need to make that space, or we're just not going to have that.

In any case, this does summarize why i'm pulling away from the fandom. I'm still a furry, sure, I still love fox and anthro content. But what I need to be part of, is something that fulfills that deep spirit need. I need to be amongst my own kind. I need therian and otherkin spaces more than I need furry ones, and I need to go outside more... #otherkin #therian #furry #faekin

The ultimate point here is that I didn't become part of the furry fandom because I was a fan of anthropomorphics. I joined it because I AM A FOX and it gave a safe space to fox out. And so it went for the next 25 years or so.

But a lot about the furry fandom has changed since those times.

I think it was around 2016 when it started changing, though it went into acceleration around 2020. I think its both the fact that the fandom has changed and I have not. Even as a fae spirit that can change form at will, even when that change is just to allow nature to experience itself through me subjectively... There is still a core me that needs something that the furry fandom stopped providing.

The furry fandom used to be a "safe space" for me to "be a fox in." For me to talk about being a fox, about fox mindsets and fox experience, to give me a few days out of the year where I can stop pretending to be human. For me it was a way to express a part of myself and part of my fundamental spirituality. Even if they called me a sparkledog (I was probably the one the term was coined for, tbh) at least I could own it. If fae nature offended them and they had to give it a label, so be it. At least no one stopped me from being.

But as I said, things have changed. And I think it has alot to do with the "attention economy". Identity has become monetizable. And when that happens, people stop doing things to get in touch with themselves, and start catering to what is popular. And conventions have moved towards catering to that crowd. I've seen a number of cons moving towards placing special interest and promotion of popufurs and furry content creators and the fandom itself becoming ...

I think we've moved into a phase of the furry fandom monetizing itself, and that some people are getting fursuits not because they identify with it but instead for how appealing the concept will be to others. And the furry fandom has only ever been a place for me for as long as I belonged in it. It feels like the fandom is for popufurs now and for the people who are going to use furry as a space to generate content for wherever they are going to post and monetize their videos.

I've spent so long just creating, and giving, whether its been MUCKs or sites or writings or code or whatever, and I never had any expectations of it. I did it for the love of being a fox, and for the love of the space furry gave me tp be a fox, but now I feel like I, and others like me are forgotten, and that space no longer exists, and no one really cares if I am part of it or not.

And when it comes right down to it, I have always been otherkin and therian first. Being furry was a side effect of it, an interest I had, a space I had, because of what I am.
#otherkin #therian #furry #faekin

I think i'm slipping away from being part of the furry fandom.
I think we as a system are. I'm not slipping away from being furry though. Let me explain.

Since we were around 7 was the first inkling of feelings that we were not human. By then we had three of us in here. But we would not discover there was anyone like us until around 1994 when we first got consistent access to an "internet" and were browsing newsgroups and discovered someone who said they were a dragon and described feelings like we had.

One exception was that while we were locked up at Charter Fairmount Institute (a mental hospital) in 1989, we met a unicorn there. I forget his name, we shared a room and he had white hair. I think I was 13 at the time. I'm not going to get into details about that but the doctors realized that we were getting close and were not good for whatever agenda of "wellness" they had for us and split us up roomwise, even though we still got to interact, but honestly, I thought that guy was a fluke... I had not realized there were communities out there...

Anyway, the point is, that it was around when I was 18-19 when I discovered the dragon community, which led me to the therian community... which eventually led me to the furry community.

During that time, the community was quite "identity focused". The therian community was elitist, insular, and the style of gatekeeping was narrow and openly hostile. You were expected to PROVE your therianthropy, to be able to explain the things that made you feel that way, but the furry community was more open and it was still a place where you could talk about your own animal feelings and experiences. The therian community openly hated the furry community in those days because of, what would now be described as "appropriating therian culture" even though those are the terms that would be used these days. (More ... this is gonna be a long one..)

The early therian community rejected me because, to be quite blunt, I have always been fae. Its basically in my blood and soul. They believed that I was not really a therian because I was not fully and only an animal, even though as a fox, my experiences absolutely paralleled theirs. So I gravitated towards the furry community because at that time, it was more accepting. I could constrain my identity to "just a fox" to be accepted by the early therians, but that imho would have been a lie not only to them, but to myself. I never thought it could be healthy for me to constrain what I am for the sake of acceptance.

I did not know the term "kitsune" back in those days. In the late 90s, I went around with 5 tails and butterfly wings. Honestly I thought that's just what I was, it was some other furry who asked me if I was a kitsune and I had to ask what that was, and once I got to searching "altavista" for that I got enlightened...
(1/3) #otherkin #therian #furry #faekin

#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 61
#Wss366 Rock #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/30 Whatever

“Hush!” Sumika responded as my laugh echoed in the room.

“What a spoilsport!” I griped mentally. “And where was the groan? Didn’t my pun deserve one? Alas, punsters always get pun-ish—Ack, I was #rocking it!”

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

Warnung, Karaoke ^^
Pur - Abenteuerland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEHzZhdjMk

#karaoke #hackmas #dragon #otherkin

#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 60
#Wss366 slake #ScribesAndMakers Share a Pun #TimeTravelAuthors 8/28 Whatever

Some of the shaman’s advice was finally coming in handy. She had said, “From the fourth floor… Find your way into the walls as soon as you can.” With luck, the cat would reveal a secret passage.

I repeated, “Follow the cat, or we’ll lose it. No #slacking, girl! Mush!”

Sumika started after the pussy, and we were just in time to see it disappear behind a lacquered screen.

“Hurry, hurry!” I urged. “It’ll be a cat-o-strophe if we lose it! Ack, ack, ack.”

My laughter echoed, surely inspiring further ghost stories.

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

Was ich letzte Nacht gemacht habe:
#dragon #otherkin #lightshow #hackmas

Augen-Upgrade für meine Drachenprothese. ^^ #dragon #otherkin #fursuit #cosplay

#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 59
#Wss366 Sloth #TimeTravelAuthors 8/26 Whatever

“One of Osakabe-hime’s retainers,” I cooed softly, not wanting to scare any more maids with ghostly presences.

“Where?” Mistress asked.

“The cat. See its eyes and look closely at the tail. There are two of them, hidden by an illusion.”

“But it’s so cute!”

“Agh! #Slothful creatures! No doubt it will report us to the Lady,” I said.

“Quick, it’s moving! Follow it,” I said, as it slunk out of the room. “It’ll show us the way.”

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 58
#Wss366 Bun #ScribesAndMakers Salient #TimeTravelAuthors 23. Animals in your story

“What?” Sumika stopped in her tracks at the top of the stairs, panic written on her face as she scanned the room. Unlike the utilitarian expanses of the lower floors, the space before us was filled with fine-quality furniture, tapestries, screens, and accoutrema, items made by Japanese craftspeople and Chinese artisans. Even a Persian carpet adorned the area in front of us.

My cry couldn’t have been more ill-timed. A frightened servant carrying a tray of #buns looked for the source of my cry.

Sumika froze, waiting for the maid to scurry out of sight behind a fine screen showing a willow tree, and then presumably she fled as far from the ghostly voices as possible.

Rather than watching the woman, my gaze rested on a luxurious, sleek, gray cat lying on a Chinese bureau. The #salient feature from my point of view was not its pampered condition, but its violet eyes, which watched our every move.

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

Explaining to people that I'm fictokin is hard. Like, for some reason my mental image of myself is a cartoon pony and I can do nothing about it.

#fictokin #otherkin

#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 57
#Wss366 Tang #TimeTravelAuthors 8/22 Whatever

Armed with the map of the fortress and its grounds, we continued toward the citadel. The parade of passages, gates, and courtyards along the way was bewildering. I had forgotten just how bad it was to be a ground-hugger. If only I could take off and fly, I would be at the castle within minutes.

The evening chill had set in by the time we passed through the last gate and entered the main building.

The Spartan interior took me by surprise. I’d been expecting opulence. The #tang of oil rather than incense flavored the air. Instead of tapestries and painted screens, stacks of supplies and siege equipment dominated the room. It was so cavernous I could have flown around unhindered.

On climbing to the next floor, we found the same thing. It was largely an open space with arrow slits in the walls. Guards were resting in small clumps, chatting. Their voices echoed eerily.

I imagined what the scene would have been like during wartime, with soldiers milling about. The air would have been filled with battle cries and the sound of flying arrows. Just the idea of their hectic motion made me want to seek shelter in the rafters.

Fortunately, the guards at the stairs and checkpoints were casual, and we reached the fourth floor without issue.

Of course, as the mountain shaman had warned, that’s where the problems began.

As we entered, I cawed, “We’ve been seen!”

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 56
#Wss366 Welcome #TimeTravelAuthors 8/16 Whatever

Beyond the archway stood a body of water, several paths, and a passage in the wall. One of my friends, a big bill, was enjoying the pool. I hoped he got leprosy.

Mistress looked around and said, “Hum?”

What did the mountain shaman mean by saying it would be easy to climb to the fourth floor of the fortress? It would be a major feat to even reach the castle, which loomed ahead, off to our right.

My opinion of Sumika’s prior incarnation plummeted. No wonder Glinda-chan was such a pigeon.

While I stewed, she moved into an alcove where no one would overhear us and reached into her robe.

“A map,” she said, pulling out a printed sheet and waving it in front of me. “And you thought I was a silly starling!”

“I’m impressed. My fledgling is growing up to be a wise crow like me. I knew joining your murder was a brilliant idea!”

“First, I am not yours! But thank you. That is the first nice thing you’ve said to me, even if you’re confused about who’s mistress here.”

“You’re #welcome, Mistress.” I suppressed my laugh as too noisy for our current situation.

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

Edit: raised $50 so far. Please help us get that other $700 covered ASAP? If you can't cover it all, any part of it you can cover is less still to raise.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but if we can't raise Atha and Inara the $750 to cover immigration bureaucracy within the next week, a cascade of problems will unfold that jeopardizes the future of not only Atha and Inara, but also the entire project of the Vulpibus. Problems including a $500 fine imposed in court, points on the license, more expensive insurance, inability to get paid work in the USA and probably inability to leave the USA for any chosen reason too. Problems also potentially including deportation of Atha back to the UK.

USCIS made a mistake and they are leaving it to us to pick up the pieces, and fast.

Can you help?

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Other payment options than these may need specific arrangements.

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#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 55
#Wss366 return #TimeTravelAuthors 8/14 What ever

I’d pictured that once we entered the castle’s gate, we would cross a yard and enter the main citadel, much like a European castle. There was indeed a large courtyard, but I already saw things would be more complicated than I’d assumed. Ahead rose buildings, walls, and sprawling paths. Above us, my nosy, big-billed cousins circled, so I couldn’t even scout.

Sumika unhesitantly followed one of the broad avenues that led around a vast green. I hoped it was the right way.

As if reading my mind, Mistress said, “I visited Himeji when I was a kid. This part’s easy, but it turns into a maze later. I got lost on the #return trip; what a nightmare! Someone found me crying in a dead-end courtyard. So embarrassing.”

I managed a soft coo. “Ohooo oh.” I could picture it. Even though I hated kids, it touched my heart.

“There’s another gate ahead,” she said after walking a good way and navigating two more intersections.

We slipped through this barrier as well, then stopped.

“This is where it starts getting complicated,” Sumika said.

“Starts,” I thought. “I’m already lost.”

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

Ooooohhhh. It's been a while since I've felt one of those.

Saw another derg posting about being a creature of the autumn and thought, "And I am a creature of the spring!"... And immediately got hit with the overwhelming feeling of moist earth and tender green grass between my claws, and the smell of petrichor carried along by the cool misty early springtime air.

Raaaaawrrrrrrwwwrrr I've missed this... *purrs contentedly* :dragnhappy: :dragnmeltlove:

#Creaturefeels #Dragonthoughts #Dragonposting #otherkin #therian

Ich lebe ja jetzt schon seit 20 Jahren in einer Bubble aus #otherkin s, Therians, Furrys und anderen menschlich-tierischen Mischwesen.
Und ich geh damit seit 10-20 Jahren sehr, bis komplett, öffentlich um, treffe oft Neue in der Offline Welt, aber seh auch viel davon auf Social Media.
Umso überraschter bin ich, wieviele von all dem bisher unberührt geblieben sind. Mit welchen Scheuklappen gehen die durchs Leben?
Ich beginne ein bisschen Freude darin zu verspüren, deren Weltbild zu zerstören. ^^'

Wiedermal Live im Pool gewesen und die typischen Fragen beantworten :) #otherkin #pool #tiktoklive

Rubbing faces with someone is the most feral-feeling form of affection; it's so euphoric!!

:drgn_cute_heart: :drgn_tail:

Editing to add: It has been reported that doing this with a plushie feels really good too!! :3

#Dragon #DragonPosting #Feral #Therian #Otherkin

Nachts am Balkon, Fragen im Live beantwortet und mit dem Zirpen der Grillen entspannt #otherkin #tiktok

Es gibt Tage, da steh ich echt neben mir ^^
#otherkin #dragon #fursuit #cosplay

I can't be the only elf in the Fediverse, right?

Please help me find some others.

#Elfkin #Otherkin

Current hills I'm dying on w language.

- Normalizing using "they/them" until I know someone's identity. I'm actually good at this one, so I'm trying to explain why I use it to others.

(It's respectful and avoids mistakes)

- Convincing hetero ppl to drop "my gf / my bf / my wife / my husband" for "my partner."

(Good allyship! Less gender divisions!)

- Swapping the super common "u guys" for "u" or "u all".

(Guys is superfluous, u know? I didn't make the joke abt men lol chill I'm trying to be serious)

- Dropping all ingrained "Christian as default" and "Christan as normal" language.

(This is a whole ass blog entry tbh. It's SO ingrained and limits us so much. Ex: Being "religious" doesnt mean only Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.)

- Using "mind" instead of "brain" or "head" when I mean my personality or quirks or thoughts.

(I'm maybe running on a fat and snot goop computer but thats not ME.)

- Using "people" instead of "humans."

(Human as default annoys me. I'm not human. A lot of u aren't either.)

#language #LGBTQ #Religion #Otherkin

How about a non-spicy poll today?

The fedi is full of ppl (me included) who aren't human. Sometimes I wonder, tho. Are ppl just having fun, or are they truly something other than human?

So, in today's poll...

#Poll #Otherkin #Human

RE: https://meow.social/@Bwee/116955585763245980

This is more true now than ever!!!

Rise up, my furry, feathered, scaled and other marvelous brethren of beasts! Claim the headpats and scritchies that are rightfully yours!!!

#otherkin #therian #furry

#Airisu: The Crow and the Witch

Himeji Castle (Airisu POV): Post 54
#Wss366 Steer #TimeTravelAuthors 7/24 What ever

The servants we were tailing gossiped about events in the castle. One woman was talking about something that happened by the well, and the others tried to #steer her away from the subject, especially as we drew near the guards at the gate.

Sumika edged closer to them, trying to eavesdrop, but all we could make out was, “Well, I wouldn’t have turned the Lord down! What did she expect?” This may or may not have had anything to do with Okiku, but it sounded ominous.

One good thing came of the discussion, though. The other ladies looked at the young gossip with distaste and tried to draw away from her. However, she was oblivious and followed them, so they ended up milling just outside the gates.

The guards seemed more interested in watching the show than doing their duty, and we slipped into the fortress.

#TootFic #NMFic #Crows #Otherkin #Fantasy #UrbanFantasy #TimeTravel #Serial #SlowBurn #Sapphic #Folklore

Here is a self portrait of myself as a goblin
Created with procreate
-Yari
#did #didsystem #otherkin #goblin #art #painting #digitalpainting

Can we send some help for the #Vulpibus folks today please?

Food, water, EV charging, laundry.
Basic costs. Somehow these days they need hundreds of dollars because currency is imaginary numbers that keep increasing for the same damn things.

What a "wonderful" world...

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Your BlueSky Feed Is Porn You Didn’t Ask For Because Your Friends Are Gooners With a Severe Porn Addiction

A common complaint I see people make on Bluesky is: why am I being served so much porn or things I am not interested in? They will incorrectly believe that the algorithm is broken. It’s not broken. You didn’t know the people you knew as well as you thought you did. Porn addiction is a thing, and porn addiction is especially common with weebs. You’re seeing deranged shit because people you follow have porn addictions and are into deranged shit. So, though you may not be consuming porn, people in your network are. That activity kicks into your feeds.

The issue I have with that is that it essentially normalizes being sex pests in a space on the Internet. That sets the expectation that it is good—attractive, even—to act like that elsewhere. That expectation alienates relationships. Bluesky creates a cultural space that offers an unrealistic, bizarre representation of social relationships, which isolates and alienates the users who stay on there consuming erotica and porn like they do.

So, user repos in Bluesky have a property for likes. Bluesky’s underlying AT Protocol stores likes as first-class structured records in each user’s AT Protocol repository. In the AT Protocol lexicon, a like is an app.bsky.feed.like record type. Unlike a simple boolean flag on a post, it is its own record with a creation timestamp and a subject field that holds a strong reference to the liked record.

That strong reference is composed of an AT-URI and a CID. The AT-URI identifies the exact record in the network by DID, collection, and record key. The CID is a cryptographic content identifier that uniquely identifies the exact content of that liked record.

These like records exist under the app.bsky.feed.like namespace in the user’s repo. Bluesky’s repo model is built so that these repos are hosted on a user’s Personal Data Server and are publicly readable through the AT Protocol APIs. Because of that, the like record and its fields can be fetched, indexed, and used by any client or service that can query the protocol.

The protocol exposes operations like getLikes. This returns all of the like records tied to a particular subject’s AT-URI and CID. It also exposes getActorLikes. This returns all of the subject references a given actor has liked. Those API calls return structured like objects with timestamps and subject references directly from the public repository data.

Various feeds hosted by different PDSs use the likes property to construct the feeds that you see. Since the likes of people you follow are included in your social graph, along with your own likes, you’re going to get served the porn they are consuming. Because likes are public and anyone can write an algorithm to see everyone’s likes, you can clearly see just how much porn people are consuming.

Honestly, what started to turn my stomach about the people on Bluesky is how they behave across different contexts. If you look through the records of the posts they interact with, you’ll see them engaging with political posts in the replies like a normal person. Then, when you look through their AT Protocol records, you see hours and hours of them interacting with every kind of porn imaginable. I am not exaggerating. Hours of likes for porn posts within 1–10 minutes of each other. Am I sex-negative? A prude? No, this site is filled with furry, gay bara porn, lol. You can have a drink without being an alcoholic. The problem with these people is like people who can’t have one drink without drinking the whole fucking day; they can’t consume porn in healthy ways.

I think people assume that their feed is customized for them and based on their likes. No—feeds are generalized based on what everyone likes and then served to your subgraph. It’s not just about who you follow; it’s about who they follow. So if you follow someone who follows a lot of people with porn addictions, you will see porn. Bluesky isn’t weighting the algorithm to do this. Basically, it’s the people in your social network with furry, hentai, or trans porn addictions who are driving it.

#MUTUALAID $0/450 #URGENT #EMERGENCYMUTUALAID #URGENTMUTUALAID #PASTDUE

Help a #trans #nonbinary #pansexual #salmacian #otherkin #kitsune to deal with life in this bullshit society a little longer.
Athamanatha is struggling to cover past-due #urgent car loan, credit card, car insurance and overdraft payments. These debts need to be caught up with to reduce the burden of fees and make it possible to afford food and #vulpibus fuel.

Please help hir to get on top of the problem! It is hard to think properly when under constant stress and fear of losing your #schoolie #skoolie vehicle which is also your home and/or losing your only runabout car to something as banal and bullshit as debt collectors or the cops spotting a lapse in insurance.

$450 would be a great start to take care of some of the immediate needs. Can we raise that today?

Cashapp $athamanatha
Venmo @Athamanatha
Visa+ +athamanatha.paypal
https://liberapay.com/athamanatha
https://paypal.me/athamanatha
https://patreon.com/vulpinedesigns
https://ko-fi.com/athakitsune
Zelle, Wise, ACH, IBAN, Throne and more available on request! Just DM so we can sort it out.

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I'm helping the #Vulpibus folks get their shit together by raising awareness and (while capitalism is still ruling the roost and we are not ready to take it down) funds, so they can get on with surviving and building and travelling.

Today they are working on aerodynamic cowls for the solar panels and trying to raise funds for fuel and a tyre.

Can we do it?

$30/$400 for the tyre
$60/$1600 for fuel to cross the country
$0/$150/week for food

And there is a need to get an engine diagnostic device too, we will talk more about that soon.

https://Paypal.me/athamanatha or https://PayPal.me/inaraclocks (for the fuel budget)
https://ko-fi.com/athakitsune
https://patreon.com/vulpinedesigns
https://liberapay.com/athamanatha
Cashapp $Athamanatha
Venmo, IBAN, ACH, Wise, Zelle and more available if you drop a DM and let me get you in touch with them.

If anyone has any remote jobs available online which are agnostic to nationality and living situation, please let me know and I will pass the info on.

#buslife #queermutualaid #mutualaid #solidarity #helpplease #moneyhelp #lgbtqia #tuckfrump #financialhelp #thoughtpunk #solarpunk #solarpanels #schoolie #skoolie #mechanical #maintenance #labsonwheels #communesandconvoys #DIY #resistance #endhomelessness #ohmsweetohm #lgbtq #queer #trans #transinneed #genderqueer #polymutualaid #polyamory #plural #pluralmutualaid #otherkin #otherkinmutualaid #furry #furrymutualaid #transmutualaid #transrescue #sos #survival #helpfolkslive2025 #helpfolkssurvive2025 #helpfolkssurvive #helpfolkslive #lendahand #food #roadtrip #fuel #travel #homeless #fedihelp #getfedihired

I will make a free sketch for anyone who donates $10 or more or becomes a member!!

Colored for anyone who buys a commission or base ⤵️

🔗 https://ko-fi.com/tenebris_terrorem

[art from Vesper's Kofi, not mine]

#art #digitalart #artist #digitalartist #furryart #furryartist #anthro #anthroart #anthroartist #therian #therianart #therianartist #otherkin #otherkinartist #cryptid #cryptidart #lineart #base #ptubase #wolfbase #werewolf #werewolfart #monsterart #charity #donation

FREE ART - IM ON A SECRET MISSION TO SUPPORT AN ARTIST ‼️🎉

If you commission Vargr’s Kofi at https://ko-fi.com/tenebris_terrorem then I will draw you a FREE SKETCH -> if you add a TIP to the comm I will color the sketch!!

He’s crazy talented, and also SUPER fast, I once watched him finish a shaded halfbody with 2 chars in ONE day

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⏬ VARGR’S ART EXAMPLES ⏬

• Zack the Goblin (Husband)
• Roofie the Goblin (Son w/ Zack)
• Knife the Bisharp (Boyfriend)
• Blade the Bisharp (Brother-in-Law)
• Guntō the Kingambit (Father-in-Law)
• Clouse the Slime Cat (Adopted Brother)
• Claudeous the Slime Cat (Adopted Brother)
• Kain the Slime Cat (Adopted Brother)
• Colton the Slime Cat (Son w/ Kain)
• Victor the Slime Cat (Husband)
• Jack the Radiaution (Boyfriend)
• 10+ More Not Listed...