i actually know very little about the korps deal, but am lazily interested. what's the elevator pitch?
I'll admit I've been punting this one down the line a little. I do end up fielding a lot of korps questions, but I did not create the Korps, and I would say these days do not have a huge voice in the scene. The korps as a community is centered around the writing and (mostly NSFW) art of our good friend Karen. In the early days of my involvement with the Korps, my role was definitely that of "Propagandist," and largely my contributions have been through KDARC, an in-universe division focused around anomalies and paracausality, influenced by the likes of CONTROL, Warehouse 13, Welcome To Night Vale, and the Southern Reach trilogy. These days my involvement is much smaller, and I will admit I'm not the most up to date.
That said, here's a tight summary of the concept: some 7000 years ago or so, an event changed earth and humanity and left the human race entirely anthropomorphic, with a few notable exceptions. Along with this change, over the millenia, "Supers" manifested, people with powers like the comic book superheroes we're all so familiar with. In the modern day, an underground organization known as the korps operates from a secret headquarters underneath Toronto's Downsview airport, rumored to be plotting world domination. The korps spends most of its time fighting the Canadian government at the provincial and federal levels, particularly against the Provincial Heroes League, (PHL) a state-backed group of superhero cops who are a mirror of Ontario's actual cops and how rotten to the core they are. The korps is well known (and reviled) for openly supporting queer liberation and freedom of bodily expression. They are also quietly known for the RCGs, the iconic pink visors so many of them wear, rumored to be mind controlling, brainwashing devices.
The korps began with a very militant focus, and in some ways still has that, but over the years Karen has steered the group more towards being a safe haven for queer people and a critique and rejection of fascism, police states, capitalism, and the concept of a "superhero." Aesthetics lean towards cyberpunk and solarpunk, with a great deal of "supervillain" flair and sometimes gray morality.
Given that Karen herself is kinky as hell, the korps is too, appealing to people with interests in latex, bondage, hypno, hyper, twinning, tf, and what has become known lately as "Cape Kink", based around leaning all the way into Supervillain/superhero chic. There's plenty of art and content in the korps universe that isn't NSFW, including much of mine, but that is a central part of the community and a lot of the driving force.
A lot of people have done some amazing work in the writing neck of the woods, such as @VisorVixens, @Syntax-takes, and @mabelGreysmoke, and fantastic artists like @distressedegg, @roxannarachnid, and @Lexithecow continue to take the korps aesthetic above and beyond, just to name a few of the active members on this site. If any of this catches your fancy, go check them out! There is a vast number of folks involved from top to bottom, be it through art, community, or just watching from the sidelines and cheering folks on, and I wish there was more than one of me, so I could keep up with it all. Even I'm still mentioned now and again as someone of note, since KDARC has apparently inspired a lot of people. I'm honored, even though my output for it is so low as of late I'm not sure I deserve the praise.
Even quicker Tl;dr: horny kinky queer leftist furries fantasize about a world where we can fight back against the violence and bigotry of the US and Canadian Police states, while also wearing a lot of latex and fishnets.
