Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

As I said before, I suppose that because the plot focuses more on down-to-earth drama and the consequences of transformation ability, I've never entirely considered things like... exactly how wide-spread the Daemon App is, how many would use it, and the consequences from so many furries becoming their fursonas, or the like.

One character arc deals in her using the Daemon App as an escape from body troubles and running into conflict with someone using it for terror and mischief, fearing bad actors will mean regulation of the app. Beyond that, I haven't really thought about it.

I mean, I live in the countryside, in a country with about five million people. I don't really think about the sheer numbers other places have~.

Regarding my previous post from r/tf_irl, here is how things are in said project... at the moment:

• On New Years Day 2018 at the stroke of midnight, a message appears to everyone on every service: "I am." This message comes through as a text, Twitter DM, social media PM, Discord message, etc. It's everywhere.
• Some people also receive a mysterious app on their smartphones called the Daemon App. If more people know you as a non-human being than your IRL self, this app allows you to become that non-human people know you as. (And change back.)
• This app will stop working should that proportion change.
• Meanwhile, the main protagonist is isekai'd away into a post-post-apocalyptic future of the year 12000, where humans are long extinct and non-human furries and mythical beings live in a twisted structure known as The Tower.
• The plot focuses around the protagonist switching consciousness between the Modern World dealing with mysteries/drama around the transformation app, and The Tower where the resident daemons are learning about the old world.

Actually the current plot has the transformation much more constrained, maybe a few thousand at best, and only in NZ.

But the fact remains there should probably be a strong media presence of the chaos that would ensue from people turning into their fursonas... it's just the plot is mostly focused on interpersonal drama, so I've not often considered the broader chaos to have that big an impact...

Wait a sec this is just the plot to my visual novel project.

(Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/tf_irl/comments/kq30ba/tfirl/)

bee boo ba bam
you are no longer
per-son hu-man

The end-user has a moral imperative to use an adblocker and avoid interacting with advertising and metrics.

The entire advertising industry (and those complicit in it, like social media) is either morally corrupt in its data collection, or delusional in the effectiveness of its own metrics.

Besides the fact that millions of people are getting gender/racial/economically profiled by corporations without their knowing on an international scale, it just sucks to be treated like you're purely eyeballs to sell things to.

If people don't fight against the capitalist structure, then the walls of billboards will continue to close in on us.

I wonder how many pear dragon appreciation awakenings Dragon Quest had on people...

Pear dragon is such a good shape. I wonder why that is...

dergn...

please stop, humidity

Sure, you don't have to make a fursona. In the past we had personas and OCs or fan characters and we RPed on IRC all the time. We at least had characters.

That stuff seems unheard of now because we all live on social media and services that don't have allowances for that sort of experience and interaction. But that's a whole other subject and point of frustration.

Point is though, is that I wanna see everyone's avatars be unique representations of themselves. Isn't it boring otherwise?

More people need to make fursonas.

Seriously.

I recognise people by their avatars, such that if I associate someone with... say, using an avatar of Madeline from Celeste, when I see someone else with the same avatar, I briefly think it's the same person.

Make your own fursonas. Get commissions. Use them as avatars. Be you, not just an ambiguous manifestation with an arbitrary name and face.

Reading "QAnon" as if it rhymed with Ganon.

These charts are hilarious for putting sigma after alpha or "outside the hierarchy" when Σ is closer to omega than to alpha in the greek alphabet.

Also why is sex and their relationship to Women As A Concept so important to these men?

is there nothing else to their personality

https://twitter.com/LilySimpson1312/status/1353674278722392066

For a universe that functions a lot on just the interaction of physics, the way massive celestial bodies work uncaring about the micro level, it sure is fascinating that consciousness is a thing that, exists.

... what am I even saying

I want to grip and squeeze into something soft with three-fingered hand-paws... to splay and knead three-fingered foot/hind-paws into the ground...

To stretch out and sway a broad dragon tail, body and belly smoothly one with my broad tail...

... and arch my long dragon neck, my back and wings following my motion...

Just sink into the "flow" a dragon form has, tensing the relaxing the muscles that are more distinctly nonhuman...

Other idle nonhuman shape thoughts today: three-fingered paws.

Sqrrkraaar.

If you're going to create worlds, you better be world sized.