@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.

@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.

@typhlosion @shoofle Short version: furry + posthumanism + poststructuralism + cyberpunk.

Much longer answer: a kind of overwrought three-part essay: orrery.prismaticmedia.com/2016

@starkatt @shoofle this is really really hard to read and is not helping my comprehension very much ;-;

@typhlosion @shoofle Yeah like basically everything else written about postfurry it's intended for an internal audience, not an external one.

@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 for me it feels more like i am too... bland, in a lot of ways? to throw myself into these concepts, despite liking the sound of them. like my worldview is too straightforward for this stuff or something. it's hard to put my finger on

@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??

@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 >.<

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Awoo Space

Awoo.space is a Mastodon instance where members can rely on a team of moderators to help resolve conflict, and limits federation with other instances using a specific access list to minimize abuse.

While mature content is allowed here, we strongly believe in being able to choose to engage with content on your own terms, so please make sure to put mature and potentially sensitive content behind the CW feature with enough description that people know what it's about.

Before signing up, please read our community guidelines. While it's a very broad swath of topics it covers, please do your best! We believe that as long as you're putting forth genuine effort to limit harm you might cause – even if you haven't read the document – you'll be okay!