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29, gay, they/them. Aspiring furry artist and writer, I like to draw men and anthros. Wolves are my favorite. Very socially anxious, I try to respond back but I may be hesitant to initiate. 18+, please. Support me here: https://ko-fi.com/flannoit

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Flannel @flannoit.bsky.social · Aug 24

I am disabled. I have no income. I can't work. I'm being discriminated against by the facility that's meant to help me. I need help, and I'm still fighting them to get it, but in the meantime I have nothing. Any support, big or small or even just sharing, means a lot to me and helps me stay afloat.

Flannel @flannoit.bsky.social · Jul 28

I hate to say it, but life is getting unreasonably expensive. I need help. Anything, big or small, or even just shares, will help greatly.

I am a queer, disabled adult who is being discriminated against by the things designed to help people like me. Anything would help greatly.

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Flannel @flannoit.bsky.social · 3h

have you tried asking politely, i hear that works

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Juggermelon @juggermelon.bsky.social · 4h

Quick Ronin sketch

#ronin #pokemon

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Lixxxxx kaynie @lixxxxxx.bsky.social · 3h

I love Howlaween #furry #macro #werewolf #bigboi #hyper ART by @shibyokami.bsky.social

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📼 @vhsrat.bsky.social · Sep 4

POLTERGIEST

A 90's style television set depicting a ghostly image of an anthropomorphic rat trying to escape. Their hands are pressed up against the glass, whilst the face is screaming and distorted. There is black slime oozing from the screen and VHS port.

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felipe 🐺 @macholobo.bsky.social · 6h

brent 4 da hubby

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 13h

Nice, they've hit the base funding goal. Two weeks to hit stretch goals, with the first being having Mortis Ghost (who made OFF) design a region.

Blanksword ⚔️ Kickstarter live NOW!! @blanksword.bsky.social · 1d

2 major news for Blanksword's Kickstarter campaign:

- WE'RE 90% FUNDED with only 4500€ left to meet our goal!

- We extended the campaign's duration by 1 week, meaning we have 14 DAYS LEFT to not only reach our funding goal but try to meet our first stretch goal!

GO GO GO GO!!!!

BLANKSWORD

An Angelic Roguelike RPG

www.kickstarter.com

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肉 rou @radcanine.bsky.social · 21h

he's so shy for someone so menacing...

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Flannel @flannoit.bsky.social · 1d

Dear navigation services:
If I have to sprint across a busy street because a sidewalk has never existed there, its not a safe route when walking.

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Squid @squidinu.bsky.social · Jul 6

silly notes on how the were-piñata thing works

step-by-step guide to a furry Lycañata's party transformation. It ends with a big sugar crash full of confetti and sparkles.

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Seato-Hao @seatohao.bsky.social · 1d

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Flannel @flannoit.bsky.social · 2d

Moving suuuucks

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

loom.ly

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and illegal occupation.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

The tide has turned and there must be no going back. Make no mistake, our people power is precisely what has brought us here.

Israel is more globally isolated than ever before.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

The BDS movement salutes the millions of global supporters who continue to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle to end the genocide and underlying apartheid.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

We must keep on going no matter what – struggling, reflecting, defending hope despite the pain, falling, standing up again, modifying the path, resuming the struggle, and ultimately winning our complete liberation, justice, and the right of return and reparations for our people!

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

Now is the time to escalate and peacefully disrupt complicity for Palestine, for humanity! Intensify BDS efforts now more than ever to isolate genocidal Israel and its complicit corporations and institutions on every front.

Our united efforts are bringing us closer to the dawn—let’s make it rise.

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kc @allaganeyes.bsky.social · 3d

happy international lesbian day

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3d

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 3d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Flannel @flannoit.bsky.social · 3d

I sadly can't watch this bc i don't have internet yet u_u

Flannel @flannoit.bsky.social · 3d

This bit is making think of bambi for the ps2

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · Sep 9

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

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Levi @levi.land · Sep 10

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.

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Flannel @flannoit.bsky.social · Jul 28

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PolarVL | OPEN COMMISSIONS @polarvl.bsky.social · 4d

Weretober | Day 7 : Whale Shark

He's a good boy 🦴🦈

#weretober2025 #art

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