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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 8h

This new Bubsy game feels SO good to play. Wtfff

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Poultrygeist @mainmandarin.bsky.social · 9h

OK TIME FOR THE SCARY SURPRISE:

IT'S BUBSY www.twitch.tv/duinoduck

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 9h

YOOOO THE DEMO IS OUT ALREADY??? I gotta play this asap

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Robin Hearts @robinhearts.bsky.social · 10h

Heyyyy furries who wants to hop on a vocal feature for meeee #furrymusic #furrymusician

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 2d

May I interest you in the best song my band has released to this day???
A song about self-isolation and self-destructive behavior, wrapped in an aggressive alt-rock bow.
"HURTS LIKE HELL!"
I'm so proud of this one and I want everyone to hear it
youtu.be/cMkdyZj--VA
(Art by @zacharieribbit.com 🔥)

The album art for HURTS LIKE HELL! by WereWING, featuring Kady covered in bandages and smoking a cigarette while eyes stare on from the background. This art was created by ZacharieRibbit.

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 2d

So excited to see your show!! We fly in and perform on the Friday but I'm really hoping we'll have the time to see your set!!

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 2d

IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR SO LONG
At the very least, call it community.
The word "fandom" does such a disservice to what furries have built as a scene and culture. Feels borderline derogatory anytime I hear it.

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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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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 2d

May I interest you in the best song my band has released to this day???
A song about self-isolation and self-destructive behavior, wrapped in an aggressive alt-rock bow.
"HURTS LIKE HELL!"
I'm so proud of this one and I want everyone to hear it
youtu.be/cMkdyZj--VA
(Art by @zacharieribbit.com 🔥)

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 3d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 3d

The monstercat undertale remix album is kinda incredible actually

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Robin Hearts @robinhearts.bsky.social · 3d

I need a couple other furry musicians to hope on some songs with meeee who’s in #furrymusic #furrymusician

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 4d

We're back with more Paper Mario TTYD randomizer!!! whoag! twitch.tv/kadywerewing

KadyWereWING - Twitch

TTYD RANDOMIZER - 1st Attempt! (Day 2) | 1 Sub = 10 Pushups 🐾🐾🐾

twitch.tv

Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 5d

We're live right now with my very first Paper Mario TTYD Randomizer!!! Super excited to try this one out!! aaa twitch.tv/kadywerewing

KadyWereWING - Twitch

TTYD RANDOMIZER - 1st Attempt! | 1 Sub = 10 Pushups 🐾🐾🐾

twitch.tv

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 5d

SETTING UP NOW
GET IN HERE 👀

Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 5d

Paper Mario TTYD Randomizer stream today 👀 we're doing it finally (in about half an hour)
twitch.tv/kadywerewing
Follow so you know when I go live!!!

KadyWereWING - Twitch

Hiya! I'm Kady! Your local punk rock gaymer dog! Lead vocalist of WereWING, founder of Cyber Soup ENT, and a huuuuge furry.

twitch.tv

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 5d

So basically I lied, went out for sushi instead lmao. Will stream when I'm back home!

Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 5d

Paper Mario TTYD Randomizer stream today 👀 we're doing it finally (in about half an hour)
twitch.tv/kadywerewing
Follow so you know when I go live!!!

KadyWereWING - Twitch

Hiya! I'm Kady! Your local punk rock gaymer dog! Lead vocalist of WereWING, founder of Cyber Soup ENT, and a huuuuge furry.

twitch.tv

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 5d

Paper Mario TTYD Randomizer stream today 👀 we're doing it finally (in about half an hour)
twitch.tv/kadywerewing
Follow so you know when I go live!!!

KadyWereWING - Twitch

Hiya! I'm Kady! Your local punk rock gaymer dog! Lead vocalist of WereWING, founder of Cyber Soup ENT, and a huuuuge furry.

twitch.tv

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Robin Hearts @robinhearts.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone go listen to my band and me <3

Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 6d

New playlist time!! I decided to make a YouTube Music playlist with every ORIGINAL WereWING song/feature! Similar to the discography playlist, but minus covers, remixes and live versions of songs. Just the original tracks written and performed by WereWING. Enjoy!
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

WereWING Originals

All original WereWING songs, all in one place.

music.youtube.com

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 6d

I really hope employment insurance comes through soon I really need to pay these bills

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 6d

Congrats!!!! 💛💛💛

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 6d

New playlist time!! I decided to make a YouTube Music playlist with every ORIGINAL WereWING song/feature! Similar to the discography playlist, but minus covers, remixes and live versions of songs. Just the original tracks written and performed by WereWING. Enjoy!
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

WereWING Originals

All original WereWING songs, all in one place.

music.youtube.com

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Kenastion HEAVY METAL IS RELIGION! 🐺✝️👿 @kenastion.bsky.social · 6d

kenastion is now live! Streaming Ninja Gaiden Σ2: +18 Minotaur SIGMA Saturday! twitch.tv/kenastion #vtuber #minotaur #ninjagaiden

kenastion - Twitch

+18 Minotaur SIGMA Saturday!

twitch.tv

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 7d

Apply at hot topic
They say they're hiring
They only take application over text
Text the number
It's an AI bot
I have to roleplay with an AI chat bot to submit my resume
It says nowhere is hiring
I ask if I can give my resume anyway
It says to email
I do
Days pass
Email just says to text to apply :)

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Kady 💛 WereWING 🐾 @kadywerewing.cybersoupent.com · 7d

HEY #bandcampfriday
Could I interest you in my albums???

THEMBO is an alt-pop album about being queer and figuring out who I am -
werewing.bandcamp.com/album/thembo

And THE DEVIL'S DEN is alt-rock about inner demons and insecurities
werewing.bandcamp.com/album/the-de...

#furrymusic

THEMBO, by WereWING

11 track album

werewing.bandcamp.com

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