@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: 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.
@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.)
@typhlosion @shoofle It really is :/
This essay is a lot easier http://www.adjectivespecies.com/2015/06/17/on-postfurry/