@starryblush@witches.town @typhlosion @shoofle ...you just said what I was trying to compose, but better <3
@starkatt @shoofle @starryblush@witches.town well it's not paralyzing to the point that it's keeping me from even learning, because learning is very important to me! it's just tough to feel like i'm properly "getting into" it, i suppose - tough to know where to start, because jumping right in headfirst feels like it'd both be overwhelming and make me feel like i'm just pretending most of the time
@Fuego @typhlosion Seconded. ^.^
@typhlosion @Fuego Well, which build do you want to aim for, 'shiny service-bot', 'betentacled ocean-friend', or 'glowy rave-toy'?
@typhlosion @Fuego Well, that's okay, arguably pokefurs are postfurry BY DEFAULT, see part 3 of my seven-part medium thinkpiece on the subject.
i think i'll just do my usual thing and maybe not treat these kinds of ideas as a full creed so much as take what interests me and hack on it til it feels more like me
will probably keep you all posted if any of the resulting changes in my self-identification and behavior are actually things i recognize
@typhlosion @Fuego Hmm, that sounds like "doing postfurry" to me. ^.^
@typhlosion @indi I identify as "ditzy bitch that hates technology" so there's a big range.
@typhlosion @indi you are so on my wavelength. I write kernel exploits for a living. It's like invoking horrors.
@typhlosion @indi I... also have all of those things...
@Fuego @typhlosion Yeah I think @Fuego hates computers like a miner hates rocks: "There's too fucking much of it all around me and it could collapse and kill us all" ;)
@typhlosion @Fuego "...And I have to work on it all day ANYWAY"
@indi @typhlosion cantankerous-miner-sona
@indi @typhlosion and yet I still trek into he mines every day :/
@typhlosion @starryblush@witches.town @shoofle As far as identity stuff goes the best advice I have is to surround yourself with people who share the things that you feel might be resonant but you're not Enough of. Having possibility models --seeing that these things are actually things people can be -- is crucial.
@shoofle @starryblush@witches.town @typhlosion Seeing how people live those things is also important for seeing the diversity in what being That can mean in practice. The dominant narratives make it seem like it's 100% That Thing in all ways all the time, but nobody ever is.
@typhlosion @starryblush@witches.town @shoofle @starkatt congrats :) you're a postfurry!