Kyresti, Ponderosa Pupper @Kyresti@vulpine.club

So, a little background about me:

There's a few things that don't change.
-I'm on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum.
-I've been a furry since 2000, otherkin since 2002, though the minor details went through a laundry list of changes.
-I'm pansexual and a devout relationship anarchist. In more confining/conventional structures I lean almost entirely aromantic.
-I'm post-traumatic on multiple fronts and coping in strange but effective ways. The species stuff is at least partly connected, and yes I'm open about that. 💚
-I'm demifluid with my resting state trending towards androgyny.
-Collectively we're a median system with expression thereof varying markedly (think Garnet from SU but somewhat less stable as a fusion). As Kyresti I'm the hypervisor, permanent observer, and near-permanent body controller.

And here's the more contemporary quirks-mode aspects.

-As of last year? I am post-GRS, outie to innie but with complicated feelings on the outcome and a frequent desire for 'mixed characteristics' (Yes it IS possible, I think for all but at least for pre-op AMAB types. Message me and I can refer you to surgeons who know that technique.)
-As of about the beginning of this 2019? I'm half gray fox, half coyote, therian partly by choice.
-Devoutly transhumanist and a vocal proponent of morphological freedom. Your body, your wants, your business, and fuck the haters!
-Actively trying to self-teach from a wide swath of science and engineering disciplines to help make that real (It's gonna be a while though, this is kind of a lot.)
-Lover of academia as a haven for progress and research, sworn enemy of academia as an institution of gatekeeping, debt-slavery and corporate cronyism.
-Semi-solitary eclectic pagan, moderate intensity chaos mage, childe (in the Vampire sense) of Coyote. And yes I DO mean that clever yet often careless, no-shits-given oversexed asshole of a trickster god.
-Student of Fox (predominantly Red) for his light-heart and razor wit, and yes there IS a spiritual component to my therian crap why do you ask. XD

Fox here should be mostly benign, a lot of those traits come from the British Isles.

My experience with Coyote, on the other hand, comes from a convoluted mixture of First Nations stories, contemporary media (in particular Gunnerkrigg Court), some intense and frankly terrifying spiritual experiences with him over the past two years, and most importantly my own personal interpretation.

I'll make all the effort I can, to the best of my ability, to not be disrespectful about it (for instance eschewing the obvious shit like calling them 'spirit animals' as someone born with the whiteness infection). If there's something I CAN do better to balance this, I'm open to hearing. However, I'm not willing to give up my spirituality for it, and in particular, I have no patience for whiny Twitter-style callout cultists and social rent-a-cops with nothing better to do.

If I end a toot in :p, it means I'm speaking in jest, whether it be sarcastic or just plain silly.

I feel like I should pin this, I've had people miss it and mistake me for angry before. :x

Brandishing a DIY forge... somewhere. I think maybe even in the kitchen, melting down a bunch of aluminum because the temperature for it's relatively low, and making a 'sheet' of ingots for later use and showing off.

And being amused as just how much water 'freaks out' when filled with a bunch of barely-solidified glowing metal.

...I kinda wanna do this in meatspace now, not gonna lie.

(And let's be real, if you're doing this I'm REALLY not shaking salt at you personally. But if that just got you to stop and double-take and wonder a little... maybe that's praxis to me. ;3 )

Am I the only one a little disturbed and uncomfortable (and honestly disappointed) with just how much attention a megacorp mascot's backstory is getting in what's normally a hard anti-cap community?

She is also the kind of girl who will gladly wear her own baculum as a necklace as she pounds the sense out of a lover from behind and floods their insides with warm, thick fluid.

Because there's just something radically self-fulfilling about having a faulty piece of heirloom equipment removed and replaced with something that works a little better.

Kyrestifox is the kind of girl who will gaze into your soul with that almond-eyed trickster grin... then lick your face. It's a fox thing. 💚

Confined to a bedroom lab, lemme tell you, proper space management is a BENCH!

Damn. Someone *really* must have pissed off the coyotes today.

I usually don't hear THOSE howls through the aether. Not that loud and strong at least.

Of all the things I expect from a personal project, having IKEA assembly be the easiest part BY FAR usually isn't among them.

Damn.

I resent how my body developed. I do, however, well and truly love how I've been able to change it so far, from awkward glitch-addled junk machine to eccentric fae prince, but I still have some major grievances for the trade-offs and limitations I've run into on the journey.

Do you want transhumanist cyborgs? Because this is how you get transhumanist cyborgs.

I sexually identify as a canid fusion.

Honestly thankful to have several partners who, when seeing someone on good-faith terms make a daft and awkward social blunder, even a big one, are willing to politely and firmly stand and teach, rather than cutting them off right then and there.

Chaos really likes her repeating fractal patterns and complicated structures that stretch on well beyond what any of us can readily imagine.

You are one, among billions of your own embodied species, among millions of others on one world. One of many.

If you have a soulmate, what makes you think you have only one? :3

I think I'm fast approaching what I could consider my first _serious_ test on this path.

I need a case for my printer, mostly for soundproofing. See this thing lives in my bedroom, and my next major project with it entails a good 30+ hour build cycle.

...I can hear the fucking stepper motors through earplugs. See the problem?

Now Prusa/Reprap culture is such that anything you CAN make yourself, you're encouraged to. And that's what I want. Thing is... I've never taken anything resembling a shop class in my life. I'm lucky to even know where to start to be honest.

How do you go from square one to furniture in a single project? Suppose we're about to find out. :3

So one of my partners says uncured silicone feels unpleasant in this combination of wetting and sticky. And I can second, it's uniquely unnerving. Kind of like a cross between rubber snot and the world's worst intimate lube.

So there's this additive I'm experimenting with that makes it softer, more gel-like and purportedly more realistic-feeling for skinlike application.

In high enough concentrations it somehow manages to fully cure (or close to it) while *retaining* that odd slimy texture.

Guess what I'm having to clean off my worktable right now...

​ Do not eschew this responsibility, not doing (thing) is illegal!

​ If you leave this unattended it's going to hurt people. Don't be the asshole putting them at risk.

I REALLY hope the ratio has a wide tolerance range to it, because I'm really just kinda saying fuck it and fudging right now.

Oh wait that's right. Uncured silicone is also _absurdly viscous_ and getting any sort of measurement precision with handtools is an exercise in futility. This is gonna make things... interesting.

I want nothing to do what passes for 'normal' in this society.

Stick that shit on a T-shirt but the emotion is real.

Aaaand I just stuck my paw in uncured silicone like a doofus.

Ya know if I put some white coloring in I could probably pass this shit off as Vasoline. :3

Real talk, I wish you could save OG Metroid. Such a sweet monster parasite 💚