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Whiplash Hyena

@whiplashhyena.bsky.social

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Hyena. M:tG/D&D nerd. Pizza enthusiast. White, 34, cisgender, he/him, LGBT Pan AF. Occasionally NSFW, so 18+ only please. Warning: May Contain Bites FA gallery: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/kingnothing1013/

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Whiplash Hyena @whiplashhyena.bsky.social · 21h

At least you know it wasn't me :P

Whiplash Hyena @whiplashhyena.bsky.social · 22h

I would really love to stop fucking coughing any time now

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Levi @levi.land · 29d

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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Whiplash Hyena @whiplashhyena.bsky.social · 1d

No goal like gnoll goals

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Sal 👑🐰🌕🐺 @spelunkersal.bsky.social · 1d

Hanging out while writing. Gotta keep easy access for "breaks" hence the -extremely- casual clothing ;)

commissioned by my patron Whiplash

Cool tier+ patrons may ask for discounted comms. ALL patrons saw this last month!
https://www.patreon.com/SpelunkerSal Thx

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Ziggy, Tabletop Taurus @ziggybull.bsky.social · 4d

Up in Easton today for Garlic Fest.

Thinking some skunk furs had something to do with the marketing.

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Hourly Yeen @hourlyyeen.bsky.social · 4d

#hourly #yeen https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/Yeens/DVMzc2GXUAIUuXw.jpg

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Whiplash Hyena @whiplashhyena.bsky.social · 4d

"Sorry, I'm gonna be busy with The Great Work tonight. Honestly, could use some help if you're free."

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Chips @flatfuck.bsky.social · 5d

Party Plush 🧸🎶

🪡: @creepcattoyco.bsky.social
📹: @hoofurs.bsky.social
#FursuitFriday

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · Jun 10

Hmm time to draw a woman [draws a big masc butch] nice cool ok time to draw a man [draws a disheveled long twink] nice. I’m so mysterious and unpredictable

Sketches of an anthropomorphic spotted hyena and brown hyena

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fishttp:// @fishttp.website · 7d

all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd

Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 7d

let the gourd times roll

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Whiplash Hyena @whiplashhyena.bsky.social · 5d

Been sleeping on and off since yesterday afternoon and waking up from fever and muscle aches. Finally ate something and took some acetaminophen this morning to hopefully make me functional.

Double vax hitting real hard this year. Hoping it ends soon.

Whiplash Hyena @whiplashhyena.bsky.social · 5d

FA link: www.furaffinity.net/view/62499498/

Fur Affinity | For all things fluff, scaled, and feathered!

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Whiplash Hyena @whiplashhyena.bsky.social · 5d

How does @ruddertail.bsky.social write such amazing stories? Well, you know what they say: behind every great woman, there's a hyena.

Enjoy a little sneak peak behind the scenes of your next favorite story being written. :P

Art: @spelunkersal.bsky.social

Cinos the otter is reclining back in a comfy beanbag chair and is typing on her laptop, wearing just a hoodie and some stockings, while Whiplash the hyena, in a jock and tank top, is leaning over her shoulder to look at what she's written so far.

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Hourly Yeen @hourlyyeen.bsky.social · 6d

#hourly #yeen https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/Yeens/28257811633_928b70ee93_c.jpg

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Koffie Kobold - Yip Yap Crew @bemusedbehemoth.bsky.social · 6d

*wraps your gnoll baby*

Screenshot of a digital art program. It shows a little striped gnoll cub in the lap of an elder, wrapped up in a little blanket

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Hash @hasherino.bsky.social · 7d

Weretober Day 2: Gnoll 🛑

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Possum @steampossum.bsky.social · 7d

Spooky season BEGINS

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Dreamer Hallowyeen @dreamerhyena.bsky.social · 7d

Time to switch to my Hallowyeen icon!
Lovely pic from @carvarior.bsky.social !

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Whiplash Hyena @whiplashhyena.bsky.social · 8d

Disclaimer: I acknowledge she is utter bullshit levels of broken

Pros: got Adept 1st try, which is lucky cause her perks do NOTHING with her kit, and also because I have no practice with her yet
Cons: Double flashlights, & Dwight refusing to leave the scaffolding/stairs room in Hawkins. Not fun :P