By day I'm this apprentice electrician just keeping my head down and trying to survive the environment of toxic masculinity. Here in the real world I'm enthusiastically lesbian, poly, and have more love than I know what to do with. I'm also theoretically a polytheist, but that's under development. And I'm the fluffiest fox I know how to be.
BASICALLY we have a chance to create a culture here and I want to do what I can to make sure it's one I and we can thrive in.
My goal here is to make awoo.space as gay as possible. more gay than your body has room for. Double secret trans nonbinary gay. Also furry as fuck and kinda lewd behind CWs. Socialism and social justice is a plus.
Anyway I'm this nerd wearing rainbow socks, a purple striped hoodie, and a shirt with a fox on it. And right now I'm loading up old Steven Universe eps :)
@LouseDog I think it's fine if you put it behind a cw.
@MinUmbra There's several more where that came from but I think I'll post them here as a drip feed :D
Mental health discourse
I kind of don't like the phrase "mental illness" to be applied to myself. (If you find it helpful, that's great and I don't want to take it away.) In my mind, illnesses are something that /happens/ to a person. They're also something you can get better from, at least ideally.
My issues are baked into who I am. They're not something I'll ever get better from, though they can often be managed. I'm not looking out for a cure. "Illness" just doesn't fit.
@Ramona I super relate to this. I call myself a lesbian too. The thing that made me feel okay with that was seeing someone say "I don't mean lesbian in the sense that I'm only attracted to women, I mean that my sexuality decenters men."
I've figured out that for me, the way it works is I'm only attracted to men who have first deconstructed what masculinity means.
@Ramona I super relate to this. I call myself a lesbian too. The thing that made me feel okay with that was seeing someone say "I don't mean lesbian in the sense that I'm only attracted to women, I mean that my sexuality decenters men."
I've figured out that for me, the way it works is I'm only attracted to men who have first deconstructed what masculinity means.
Bless Mastodon for letting me export/import follow lists, especially in these early days before I really settle on an instance.
Based on a quick skim of the local timeline I might actually be okay talking about dissociation and shit here. My brain is a mess and I don't enjoy feeling like that fact is something I have to leave buried.
Moving to @starkatt
I'm a leftist trans gay fox girl. More than one thing can be true at a time. I believe in agency, subjectivity, and beauty.
In my day job, I'm an apprentice electrician.
Please introduce yourself when sending a follow request if we haven't recently chatted. Interacting with me is encouraged even if I don't follow back. I'm here to get to know people, not be a fountain of Content.
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