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Levi

@levi.land

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🐉 they/he ❤️🐰 @asterbun.bsky.social Hobby illustrator, graphic designer, web dev. 🔞 This account is not for minors. 🥴 I post weird fetish content. I may repost art here without content warning! 🖼️ @mousenoises.art 🖼️🖼️🖼️ @kygen.bsky.social

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Levi @levi.land · 1d

"get exit row tickets" guess where i was sitting

also sometimes i am relocated because the flight attendant thinks my height can hinder my ability to act during an emergency 🫠

Levi @levi.land · 1d

sometimes if I'm lucky the seat next to mine is free so i can rotate 20 degrees and enjoy the luxury of at least one of my legs having circulation, except of course if the person in front of me decides to recline their seat fully for the entire 10 hour flight 😀

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Levi @levi.land · 8d

NO. FUCKING. WAY....!!!!

The FPE (First Pressing Edition) of twenty one pilot's new album "Breach" on Vinyl. It has the serial number "No. 00010"

Closeup of the serial number from the previous picture.

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Arkson @arkson10.bsky.social · 12d

The creature is sleeping

Arkson art by @greekceltic.bsky.social <3

A toony and round corgi dragon laying on his back, most likely asleep while his tail curls and his paws rest on his middle

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Levi @levi.land · 12d

Arkson literally gives me life 🥺

Levi @levi.land · 12d

Reading a bit online I gathered the courage to try powering this because I cannot configure this in a better way unfortunately. No magic smoke tho! I don't feel super confident running it like this so when I have the time I'm gonna get some kapton tape for peace of mind.

Levi @levi.land · 12d

Broke the mounting clips on the stock intel cooler for my server while reapplying thermal paste, so not only did I have to go out and spend money on a new cooler... Installing it now and

forgive me while I fucking scream

New CPU cooler installed, but basically touching the PCB of the graphics card by a hair.

Close-up showing how the surface-mounted components on the graphics card are just barely touching the cooler. Way too close for comfort.

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Levi @levi.land · 16d

actually me

Levi @levi.land · 18d

I'm speaking broadly about this but even in this specific instance, we will circle back to the same thing later. Yes, do make noise. But discouraging migrations only tells them that you can take the abuse.

Levi @levi.land · 18d

The issue is /precisely/ the platforms. More specifically, it is the playbook that big tech follows. If we want this to stop, yelling and resisting while staying on the same platform will at best be a bandaid fix. We had this conversation in 2022 and look at where it got us.

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Levi @levi.land · 18d

You can keep enjoying your death by a thousand cuts or we can rethink the way we interact online. The fact is we're posting to a platform that isn't funded by us users. Our needs are not the top priority.

This song and dance has been happening for decades now.

🍂 deli 🍂 @deliciest.bsky.social · 18d

The solution right now is not saying “move to Mastodon, to Pillowfort, use Picarto galleries” etc, bc that won't stop this silent escalation of censorship and sexual repression on the internet. The issue is not which platform we choose, but rather raising our voices against what is happening.

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Levi @levi.land · 18d

I'm not moving away from bsky at this point because I've always seen it as Yet Another VC Social Media, and the discourse did not come as a surprise to me. But I will take the opportunity to remind you that all my things can be found at link.levi.land!

As usual, don't just stick to one place ❤️

@LeviSnoot | Links

Links to places.

link.levi.land

Levi @levi.land · 21d

"gotta watch my figure"

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ToothyDino @toothydino.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah, I’m kind of a big deal at restaurants~ ✨🥤😎🍔✨

(🎨 by @bluescale.bsky.social)

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chickensnpies @chickensnpies.bsky.social · 21d

drakulard my beloved

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Levi @levi.land · 26d

This guy simply does not miss ❤️

Levi @levi.land · 26d

I've upgraded my Hi-Fi with an amp and a new belt for my record player.

Thought I'd share the titular track from Fox Stevenson's latest record "Sunk Cost Fallacy". It's my first time listening through the whole album and I was not ready for this oh my god 😭

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Levi @levi.land · 27d

I'm with you for the most part, I'm not going to make any claims on whether this is a generational issue or something broader because I haven't exactly paid attention to any patterns there.

The only thing in the document I hold firm to is that calling furry a fandom is inaccurate.

Levi @levi.land · 28d

This is the most rational critical response I've seen yet and I don't disagree. The point of sharing the pamphlet wasn't to say I agree with everything that was stated, but that it makes a good point for why we shouldn't call furry a fandom.

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Levi @levi.land · 28d

FINAL GIRL 🔪 @obliviousally.bsky.social · 28d

here y'go!
drive.google.com/file/d/1pFe7...

8.5x11 furry is not a fandom zine.pdf

drive.google.com

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Levi @levi.land · 28d

Oh yoo you did the one on the second page? When I put this post together it really caught my eye!

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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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Levi @levi.land · 29d

I feel like I'm at the point where I would only be upgrading to a fresh battery.

Levi @levi.land · 29d

another year, another mid af iphone keynote

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chickensnpies @chickensnpies.bsky.social · Sep 1

look at this dragon.. truly the face of a ruthless warrior

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