@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.

@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)

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@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.

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