@shoofle it's built out of a very specific cultural context (postfurry) so if it doesn't resonate that's okay? It's not about you being right for a deck, it's about the deck being right for you, yeah?
@shoofle It's... bah. I'm "a member of that community" and have a lot of complicated feelings. It definitely is filtered through five layers of performance and post-structuralism and post-irony but the core social spaces are also hella gated and elitist; you're not imagining things.
@typhlosion @shoofle Short version: furry + posthumanism + poststructuralism + cyberpunk.
Much longer answer: a kind of overwrought three-part essay: http://orrery.prismaticmedia.com/2016/12/24/postfurry-101-the-pledge/
@typhlosion @shoofle Yeah like basically everything else written about postfurry it's intended for an internal audience, not an external one.
@typhlosion @shoofle It really is :/
This essay is a lot easier http://www.adjectivespecies.com/2015/06/17/on-postfurry/
@shoofle @typhlosion Reasonable. I think framing it as a Defined Community in the first place was a mistake but somehow that's what happened :/
(The trends that lead to that were long before my time, to be clear.)
@starkatt @shoofle @literorrery oh shit uhh hi! i didn't mean to insinuate you did poorly with your writing; if i had the mental energy to focus hard on the essay i could probably get a lot more out of it. it just wasn't a very easily penetrable read, if that makes sense. it's definitely going in my bookmarks so i can pore over it later.
@starkatt @shoofle @literorrery another essay from elsewhere helped me understand the idea of postfurry a little more, but i'll revisit your essay later to see if i can glean anything else of it
other than that i suppose i just have to hang out around neat people who know stuff about it and maybe i'll figure it out that way??
@literorrery @shoofle @typhlosion The big think I'd suggest is fewer allusions.
@typhlosion @literorrery @shoofle @starkatt I've read it twice and I talk to that buni all the time and both times I was like "lol I am a ditzy dog!"
But I like feeling that way so it was great >.<
@starkatt @shoofle @starkatt TBH I think it's a little more complicated than this even: I'm not sure anyone in those spaces intended them to be quite as 'core' as they are and the elitism/gatedness I usually read as an attempt at safe-space-by-another-name (partially because some of these groups were founded before "safe space" was part of the discourse the way it is now)
@literorrery @indi @starkatt @shoofle we thought technology could save us from all problems when it could save us from none of the important problems :(
@literorrery @starkatt @shoofle Still and all, the very specific things you're referencing here pertain to a "group of folks doing postfurry things", NOT to "postfurry as a whole." Unless I missed the meeting where folks decided that one single chatroom was going to be that. ;)
@literorrery And I'm gonna keep poking you about it every time you do it, because this shit is too important for us to fall into that hole a THIRD time.
@shoofle It's like, there's an internal cultural conceit that the ideals of postfurry are somehow niche, which becomes self-fulfilling when evangelizing is only directed inwards.