As I continue to seek out a streamlined method of describing postfurry, I can sum my perspective in one single paragraph.

While "core furry" is materialistic, Postfurry is existential. We collectively share the struggle of existing as nonhuman beings inhabiting a human vessel. Not only is it a gender struggle, it's the added effect of not even feeling human to begin with.

@Roady_Dragonfae I don't know if I'd say I got that vibe from postfurry in general (although it is more accommodating of it than the average), and I don't know if I can pin down exactly what defines "core furry" (I think its lack of cohesive core or definition is part of what makes it so hard to find connection within the community), but I've definitely found that "regular" furry, despite having an understandably high number of therians/otherkin in it, isn't as much of a space for Actual Nonhuman Feels as I'd hoped