Seems hard to find where we want to put our energy into online.
I can't really talk to people over text like I used to be able to. :P Just really can't figure out how to like... express myself over text. Even if I'm trying to talk to someone else who's plural and a deer therian! So, I end up feeling pretty isolated when it comes to being a therian and being plural.
I don't know. Feeling pretty estranged from the furry scene, as much as I do still like anthro art. I crave a connection that goes deeper than online-only interaction, but we live in a small town.
tired. Seems like most furries online are more interested in learning programming and digial audio-visual work than what I want, which is to learn esoteric magic and kindle animistic relationships with the land around me.
Sort of. I also want to make art. asldkjflsdjflksdjf can't get shit stragiht.
BUT we are taking a fast soon. We'll let you know how it goes.
--fronstuck deer
We've said this on the commentary track for A Myth of the Doe, but our thinking and feeling and intention with our art and writing is ever and seemingly always centered around the idea of rebirthing healthy spirituality from the ashes. The queer community, like many others, has been razed to the ground over the past hundreds of years of christian colonization and we're finally regrowing and healing. But so much of it is secular, putting aside any connection with spirituality. Obviously this is a wide-sweeping generalization on many, many accounts but it's certainly been our experience that the queer community is more atheist-aligned than anything, and noticing how many memes about nihilism come out of our community is certainly... something that makes us feel distant from it. The universe is not cold and uncaring, it is alive and living and waiting for us to reconnect with it.
I could go on here but I suppose I'll cut this short. Just to say, basically, the absence of spirituality does nothing but leave a gap that goes filled by christianity, in the culture of the US. We end up with people grasping for scientific justifications for social conservatism that are an energetic hold-over from a religion they actively despise (e.g. kink at pride discourse). At least for our own experience growing up christian and noticing these patterns. To fully decolonize and de-christianize ourselves as a community, we need to embrace spiritual diversity, like biodiversity, that goes far beyond the binary of atheist or christian. To embrace life beyond worshiping science.
Talking to myself of course.
Thoughts from white horse
Not to disparage atheism in it's entirety, and not to imply it is never life-giving. Nor to promote finding another cult to replace christianity. Nor to say that science is inherently not worth anything; of course it's worth a lot in it's own way. And of course speaking on our own experiences of these things.
--a (pagan) angel headmate