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Principal investigator at an undeserving midwestern university. I am ill-tempered and well-endowed. Beware.


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Whenever someone uses the word 'yiff' I have to remind myself I was friends with the two people whose private sex joke eventually mutated into standard fandom terminology... like staring into a fireplace and realizing you were there when humans discovered fire


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in reply to @doctorwednesday's post:

I mean, there's not a lot to it? There was this somewhat influential group of northern California furries that I was on the periphery of. Cinnamon played a wolf and was a top; Centaur played a fox and was a bottom; 'yiff' was this fox noise that Centaur the character would make in anxious anticipation of being topped. It got to be an inside joke in the local scene, and 'yiff' came to be used as a synonym of 'fuck'. Later, some time after it had escaped into the fandom at large, it took on a noun form as well, 'yiff' = sex. And that's it!

knowing full well that "yiff" is horny made-up nonsense that foxes do not actually do, i have nonetheless adopted it for my foxgirl OC to scream when she cums

knowing that somebody i know was there when it was borne upon the world just makes it all that extra special

twelve years ago, at a local bar, i was being introduced to someone sitting on the back of an armchair, feet upon the armrests. i whispered to my now partner "do not say yiff to that man". we can only wonder what would have happened if i'd said yiff a little louder.