Fenris Lorsrai @FenrisLorsrai@awoo.space

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Writers are taught not to write wish-fulfillment—it's too easy, boring, or low stakes. But that reasoning is wrong. It only seems that way because we've all already read thousands of wish-fulfillment stories about cis het able-bodied white males, so they're very... predictable.

For every other demographic?

Readers actively, desperately crave wish-fulfillment stories about themselves, because they rarely if ever see them.

#writing #craft

A few more #introduction-type posts...the project that resulted in my suddenly having an art career (!) was the reconstruction of a trilobite, a Ceraurus species, from fossil evidence, in bronze and silver. Nerdist somehow found my progress posts on FossilForum and wrote a lovely article...
https://archive.nerdist.com/scientist-resurrects-ancient-creatures-by-3d-printing-them-in-metal/

#trilobite #fossil #paleoart #palaeoart #bronze #sculpture #metal #sciart

Enjoy this short clip of the raccoon that is currently trying to catch snowflakes on my deck. 🦝 ❄️

Disaster! Our holiday performance of Cats With Bat'leths has been cancelled after rumors of a "Butthole" version spread and parents complained! I refuse to sacrifice my artistic vision, let alone anatomical accuracy.

Due to high server load, we have decided to close registrations and invites for the time being. For your friends who want to join the fediverse, please direct them to https://furryfediverse.org where they can find other furry servers!

We currently have no estimation for when registrations will reopen, as we need to first ensure the stability of the server.

Since I just found out about #BlackMastodon, allow me to #introduce myself!

My name is Ashton, I’m an #ActuallyAutistic Jamaican-British Audio-Engineer, Pro-Hobbyist Photographer (I shoot #Fujifilm) and Podcaster! I’m obsessed with all things #Gundam and #Anime in general, #Tokusatsu, #Linux and #Photography!

I also run https://blackanimepodcasts.com, the internet’s premier destination for Anime and Manga #podcasts, by Black Creators!

That’s enough about me now haha

A female Malaysian blue-banded kingfisher (Alcedo peninsulae). At first glance, she could easily be mistaken for a common kingfisher, with her rufous underparts and conspicuous white neck-flash. Unlike the male, she lacks the broad blue-green breast-band. The Malaysian blue-banded kingfisher is considered #nearthreatened Taken in Malaysia, September 2022.

#birds #birdphotography #birding #NaturePhotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #birdsofmastodon #kingfisher #BirdsSeenIn2022

H- he just vanished! #fox #dailyfox

In 2019 I spent a month in SE Asia, during which I spent a week in Vietnam, at Cuc Phuong National Park to be exact. We were hiking a trail up in the hills one night when one of my friends spotted this Mossy Frog (Theloderma corticale) in a small tree, one of those species you hope to see but don’t harbor any expectations. It turned out to be one of five species of anurans encountered in maybe a ten meter stretch of trail. An unforgettable experience. #frogs #amphibians #herps #herpetology

shoutouts to xe/xem mascs

Since meow.social seems a bit uh, busy... if you're looking for other furry instances, there's a huge list on WikiFur:

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Mastodon

And don't worry! You can always follow people across instances - the main difference is the local timeline, where you'll only see posts from your own instance.

One thing I wish my more fragile fellow white people in the fediverse would at least try to understand is that Black people aren't calling out racism for fun. They call it out because it hurts them, but also because they think it might change something. It's literally an act of trust and vulnerability.

When someone asks you to be better, it's because they think you have it in you to be better. Try to live up to that.

Someone on Twitter pointed out that the SyFy “Dune” adaptation was technically a Hallmark movie, so I said “Dune IS the touching story of a kid new in town who meets his true love locally. It’s a Christmas story! There’s a jolly fat man in it!”

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass, “Southern Barbarism (1886)”

the only AI art i will respect:

Holy shit so instead of denouncing using their tech to further the surveillance state, Raspberry Pi hired a fucking surveillance cop?? And they’re proud of it??? What a bunch of bootlicking shitheels. #ACAB

When we are at our lowest, it is natural to withdraw, to wait for the darkness to lift. There is no shame in this, but a true warrior knows that sometimes you must kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight, as a poet once said. There is fight in you, so fight for you.