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also: #furries, #furry, ##furry
ketra
@ketra

i was gonna sleep on this a bit but it's edited enough

sucks that this site is shutting down. despite any flaws this is more or less where my "posting" ended up, apart from discord, after moving off of twitter. i liked the people here and the place itself and the animating ideas. but yeah, this has me thinking about space and place on the internet again.

i'm in a position where i don't tend to hang out in many specifically furry places. i used to in the 00s, but i just kind of haven't since then. instead it's looked more like:

  1. direct + indirect interactions on twitter (original posts, mentions, replies, retweets)
  2. as above, on discord
  3. as above, on cohost
  4. as above, on twitch?
  5. occasional browsing of specifically furry art sites (FA, 621, etc.)

i'd say this excludes offline but, well, i haven't done anything offline in over a decade -- no meetups, no cons. i live in texas, so the travel is partly to blame for this, but also i haven't felt motivated to do so. do i want to? yeah, sorta. not enough to make it happen, yet.

this is all to say that i guess i'm in crisis a little bit: what does it mean to me to be "a furry", to do "furry"? what are my places "as a furry", given that i haven't usually stuck to furry places for long in a long time? what's my future? how do i want to relate to it? is it identity, hobby, spirituality?

i think i'm also worried because, well, it's been a couple of times now that a place that means a lot to me is closing (or driving me out). and this was a place with which i had a much healthier relationship than, say, twitter. i think i just fear that places are closing or falling apart more than they're being built. but i think maybe they're just shifting in a way i am not keeping track of.

for me i think a solution to both of these is to just... go fucking find some furry places, see what's out there, and to what extent it is for me. it's not like i ever was excluded from or felt excluded from furry places. i think i just never clicked well with the ones that i tried, when i tried them. (if you have suggestions feel free to let me know!)

there's also the issue of losing touch with specific people i want to keep up with... but also i'm hardly in touch with those people in the first place, and i don't know that i necessarily want to chat with all of them 1 on 1 all that frequently (this is more a me thing than a them thing). i think i need to make peace with the idea that people simply are going to drift out of my life. but maybe i'll see them again.

i'm scratchingway on discord. even if you do not intend to talk to me at all, go and add me if you want. it'll be nice to see you, even if for a moment.

BladeBreecada
@BladeBreecada