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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 10m

Wait um what the what does he what what was that what I what did he just what hold on I what

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · Jul 23

Oh, thank you so much @distortiondevil.bsky.social for voicing Hank to make this happen. You're a champ.

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 6h

Okay, but that's a small section of very particular furries.

Most furries support other artists and actively try to lift up each other than brand and companies.

And even our brands are grass roots, steeped in artistic freedom.

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Levi @levi.land · 28d

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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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 6h

These people are the most braindead, anti-social types of leftists.

Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 6h

Going to cons =/= wealthy, tbh.

And the idea that people with enough money to go have fun with other people aren't also dealing with a corrupt, abusive, oppressive system is crazy talk.

Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 7h

What a fucking joke. What a ridiculous fucking joke.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 7h

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 7h

Nono, he's being inclusive! He's sating they're ALSO for women and gay men! Straight men shouldn't be the only ones to have access to therapists!

Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 7h

I understand it, which is why I hate it.

Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 20h

I love how Broly gives Goku uppies here

Dragon Ball Stills @dbstills.bsky.social · 20h

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 21h

FUCK

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 21h

God, I wish I could've been loud and convincing enough people to realize how utterly fucked things were getting.

But some folks gotta see the fucked for themselves. And even then? Some people won't admit it.

Good on you for recognizing the fucked, to be frankly honest.

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Paleo @paleomario66.bsky.social · 22h

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 1d

DAMN IT YOU'RE RIGHT

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 1d

Not enough time.

Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 1d

YOU BIIIITCH

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 1d

THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN WASN'T IT

Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 1d

"Reconsidering A.I."

No thanks.

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 1d

It's time to talk about the enshittification of Crunchyroll
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The Enshittification of Crunchyroll

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 1d

I am poly!

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 1d

Still looking for voice actresses to audition!

Please hit me up if you're interested! The project is another X Minutes!

Reference: youtu.be/iczLwdwgr_s?...

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 6d

Voice actress mutuals!

Please hit me up in DMs! I've got a project CHOCK FULL OF WOMENS and I lost a lot of y'all's Discord info with the hack!

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