therian business, birdhell
Honestly, lowkey amazed that the thread in which I confess to feeling basically not at all like I'm an actual human being is the one thread I make in recent days that *doesn't* make me instantly lose followers.
I mean sure, I normally post -maybe- one thing in a given day that isn't a reply to friends/acquaintances overall and most of the people dropping off previously when I started yelling about how you should just go "fuck the cops and anyone like them" for your own sake were probably just random people I never knew well who only followed me on a content basis to begin with, but.
This sure is a -massive- fucking difference from when I came out as trans back in 2014 over something that, honestly, I'd always thought would be more controversial than that.
therian business, birdhell
@Thaminga Wow. Cool...I...think?
re: therian business, birdhell
@IceWolf It is! I'm just blown away by the contrast between this and how coming out as trans went back when that happened, is all.
re: therian business, birdhell
@Thaminga I'd guess people have less moral panic over "I'm a werewolf" than "I'm a woman". Somehow. :3
discussing bad shit from the olden days, re: therian business, birdhell
@IceWolf I mean I won't lie, I've seen people in the fandom and adjacent spaces be accepting of nonhuman folks while rejecting transness or even queerness in general in the same breath. Which... regardless of how much of a double standard that is in and of itself, I'd always seen nonhumanity as even more of a taboo subject than being trans, if only because I'd actually -heard- of trans people being a thing that exists growing up.
discussing bad shit from the olden days, re: therian business, birdhell
@Thaminga Yeah, definitely. I was totally not aware of nonhumanity being a thing at all until, like, a couple of months ago.
(Then I figure out, boom, huh. That...kind of fits me. :3)
re: therian business, birdhell
@Thaminga Niiice! 
re: therian business, birdhell
yeah, yeah, I know follower counts don't actually mean shit and those numbers are basically only there to make you feel anxious enough to (hopefully) only ever post content the Algorithm™ likes and all, but fuckin'.
It feels like acceptance about basically all this shit has improved pretty radically over the past decade? Or maybe I just shed all the shitty people back in '14, who knows. Either way, I'm honestly glad that all got a positive reception, ahaha.