Keeble

"the bird"

left wing bird, online and trying this " alternative social media" thing again. recently unionized barista. Weekly wikipedia streamer. ❤ @proxy ❤30. Avi: me!

last.fm listening


running back and forth between furry and non furry / normie and non normie circles, something that keeps jumping out at me is how homestuck is still symbollically important in describing how you use the internet and what communities you seek out. i dont mean having read homestuck, much less liking or not liking homestuck. i mean merely knowing what it is at all, being able to do a description of it about as detailed as "seinfeld was a popular absurdist sitcom set in new york city centered around four friends in their thirties"*. its one of the things that i think neatly describes a lot of the sorts of people who seek out / get latched onto alternative social media: people who know what homestuck is, broadly. the sorts of people who dont latch on to spaces like this, or even something much closer to conventional social media like bluesky, broadly fall into the category of people who dont know what homestuck is

when i say that in many ways furry culture still has more similarities to cishet gamer culture than queer non furry culture, this is one of those important tells of that: something that shows that from a pure "getting information" basis there can be media that's foundationally important to the way things are to one group that is barely a blip in another seemingly related subculture.

has anyone else noticed this? are there other media tells like that, where something ubiquitous to one group is virtually unknown to the other, that are important distinguishing factors?

*inb4 a homestuck fan is like "lmao ive spent hundreds of hours on this and buddy i cant even give you a neat explanation of that"


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