• fae/faer or they/them

fae otherkin in the streets, anthro red chocobo in the sheets


one of the biggest things I am taking away from Cohost is that I need to make my feeds match my own freak better on other social medias

like, part of why this site felt so god damn special is that it was the first place I was a regular at where "queer plural otherkin" felt like it was common enough that I didn't feel like a whole-ass weirdo whenever I talked about it. even in places that are welcoming and understanding sometimes, there is this feeling where I get to have the weird experience.

I need to find and focus on that elsewhere. part of why Twitter sucked, aside from all the racists and the robots, is that it was damn easy to get into a Dunk Cycle, where people, who I am in agreement with, who I like, are largely just putting negativity into everyone else's feed because they gotta earn clout ripping into people. rarely is it a reply, right? it's almost always a screencap or QRT. For the algorithm, they say, but it's just cowardice, you're keeping yourself out of direct perception to get your posse aimed in the same direction you are. the desire to remain somewhat connected to the news feed, at least for me, led to some real negative loops and some circles that honestly ain't the best for my mental health.

I noticed this with Bluesky, where I picked up some old follows and before long it was the same garbage as Twitter. People carrying screenshots from that hellhole over to the new site, going "hey this smells terrible SEE" and shoving cow shit directly under your nose.

gonna find more people who ain't that, from now on. gonna find more furries, more TTRPG people, more plural folks, more otherkin. less people looking for the hot dunk under the pretense of "being informed" (which it honestly isn't doing), looking for the fight, looking for the drama.


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