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Bidge Door (They/He) Hatched in 1995.🥚 Under 18? DNI/DNF My Suits: Bidge the Badger/Gator (They/He) 🦡🐊 🪡: @w_r_a_m_mell CHAWN the Star Nosed Mole (He/Him) ⭐️💞 🪡: @hazeyhoundstudios Bidge the Badger 🦡 (They/He/She) 🪡:droc_crafts

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Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 24d

🦡 Bidge Door 🐊

Focused on providing tangible aid and action to my communities offline instead of feeding algorithms my fear. Community Fridges, Mask Blocs, Local Support Groups, Death Cafes, and DIY. 🤝

🔞 18+ Account! 🔞
Please ask before DMing me! I prefer to not interact privately with folks <21+

No I am not a graphic designer but at least a human being made this card instead of a shitty genAI.

A vivid green and black info card that reads:
"Bidge Door 🦡💚🐊
Local Metal Head 🤘🏻, Clothing Customize-er 🪡, and Avid Mix CD Maker. 💿
Earnestly Laid Back Like If a Cartoon Villain Just Hung Out With You

He/They

Dead Eyed Resting Face"

There are three images at the bottom of the card from left to right:
A photo of Bidge (fursuit), a sticker of Bidge (Sticker), and a photo of Bidge (person). The latter two have dead eyed resting faces with 3/4 scleras showing. They're not mad, they just look that way.

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Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #FursuitFriday from the smoker's canopy!!

Being out in the woods on a chill October night is trvly where I feel most like myself!

All we need now is a crate of beer!!

📸: @stellar-salad.bsky.social

Bidge the Badgergator stands with their hands on their hips amongst the leaves and sticks of the forest. They are in a black and white kigurumi and unlaced boots. They squint in a cheeky smile and stick out their tongue towards an unseen light source.

Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 1d

Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for having shared your thoughts in the meantime!

Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly difficult to get out of bed these days but I MUST persevere or I won't be able to eat more hot pot today.

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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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Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 5d

In before sunset for #NationalBadgerDay!!!!

🦡🐊🪡: w_r_a_m_mell
📸: @stellar-salad.bsky.social

Bidge the Badger(uuuuhhh /gator) leans against a large propane canister. They lean back and look down at the viewer. A stone building looms behind them.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

You Can Just Push Shit In Back Seat Out Of Way

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Daily Kyo @dailykyo.bsky.social · 5d

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#DIRENGREY #Kyo #Sukekiyo

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 5d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 8d

D batteries my coveted beloved....

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Furries of Maryland @furriesofmaryland.bsky.social · 8d

🍂✏️Did you know we are hosting our own Sketchtober on the FoMD Discord?

Every day this October, we will have a simple prompt for members to doodle, write, or do whatever tickles their creative fancy!

Today's prompt was: Spooky Susie (our calico cat mascot).

Sketch by @cheesesodaart.bsky.social .

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this guy STINKS @sparkledogcore.bsky.social · 11d

Got a place lined up to go to that opens up in the middle of October which is PERFECT for me- now I just need to make sure I have the funds to get there and stay there!

Any help means the world to me and will go directly to keeping me housed this winter so I can finally return to making ART!!

this guy STINKS @sparkledogcore.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am in a scary position. despite doing all I can, including applying for every job I could find, and being hired on for part time work, I am still unable to meet the financial requirements to secure housing. I need to find housing before the end of October.

I cant do this without assistance,

text that says "I need help affording a place to live, work, and recover" is written over a photo of my last work desk space at my old apartment. you can see my bead supplies and other things like paint on my shelves.

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GlacierClear @glacierclear.bsky.social · 10d

if your standard sense of humor is the sort where you routinely heckle and roast your friends I need you to understand you can't just automatically do that to strangers on the internet and expect them to be chill about it. it really just comes off like you are being mean to someone for no reason.

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Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 9d

THANK YOU!!!!

I had a lot of fun figuring out the shape and getting it to fit the medium!!

Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 9d

Idk who did the sound mixing at that show but they did such an awesome job and made an indie pop group sound so powerful. Trvly haunted by how much fun I had at that show.

Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 9d

Praying that BC tours with their new album drop and plays Oh Theo! again bc it has such a soft little nest in my heart. Trvly went from a casual fan to a hardcore devotee when I heard the screamed sections live.

Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 9d

Blood Cultures - Oh Theo!

YouTube video by Blood Cultures

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Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 9d

Made some Hell Mouth inspired Bidge patches!!

A set of six patches of Bidge the Badgergator with a vacant mouth open wide showing several sharp teeth. Their eyes are blank and ghostly. The patches are printed with white fabric ink on scraps of black cotton.

A zoomed out shot showing more of the patches alongside the carved stamp and the parchment paper sketch.

A Hell Mouth (Miniature from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.945, f. 107r)

It appears as a strange wailing creature with bright red eyelids and ears and a mouth full of flames and people.

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gozi @lightskintiger.bsky.social · 12d

I promised and y’all delivered, it’s time for the 2K FOLLOWERS GOZI GOODS RAFFLE

all you gotta do is:
1. follow my account
2. like and repost this post

winner will be picked at noon est on monday october 6th, appreciate y’all!

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🪲 jules z @ furpocalypse 🌀 @juleshroom.bsky.social · 10d

@furpocalypse.org is coming up and I am open for badge pickup slots!

would love to do some traditional & botan badges!

submit a form to request a slot! -> forms.gle/zhmiTq75tMAM...

a bunch of botan rice candy sticker inspired badges

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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 9d

I've been hearing of a lot of people with bad dreams, seeing bad omens, stuff like that. Haven't you?

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Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 10d

Stromae - L'enfer (Audio Officiel)

YouTube video by ODYSEA

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Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 10d

Trvly a shit cold take but I don't think people should carry anything that even LOOKS like a gun at social events or any place where people gather.

I don't care if it's a prop or a cosplay item. Stop doing it.

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Daily Kyo @dailykyo.bsky.social · 10d

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#DIRENGREY #Kyo #Sukekiyo

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Bidge Door @ 👁️👁️ @badgeratordoor.bsky.social · 11d

I set it up a day early bc a mom and her kid have been walking by every day asking when the skeleton was gonna be raised. Hopefully they walk by this afternoon and get hyped.