Arclight, Vulpine Aesthetician @Kyresti@vulpine.club

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

Howdy. Nice to a see an influx of friends. I've been depressed so let's break it into pieces this time

Furry since 2000, otherkin since 2002, known dragon since 2015, former attempted pro artist, still dabble when I feel like it.

Androgynous, genderfucky as all getup, AMAB, devout transhumanist, technophile, science lover, caucasian ashamed of whiteness.

Post-GRS, complications, difficult healing physically and especially emotionally, genuinely not sure if regret, anti-gatekeeping, Andrea Long Chu is a douchebag, ask me anything.

Spiritually pandeist/pantheist, childe of Coyote and Tiamat (yes that's as scary as it sounds), takes 'not taking it too seriously' WAY too seriously :p

Occasionally lewd, occasionally kink, aro/pan, nipples take he/him pronouns.

Tries to be sass, usually a bit more upbeat, friendly, lovey little cuddlebug

So yea. Howdy. 💙

Bit of context for LB, it describes the birth of what I'd describe as Kenya's equivalent of a 'payday loan' industry, while also introducing a term for systemic abuse I wish I'd known sooner; "Slow Violence"

Even being far more online than I really should be, I'm realizing here that there's periodic blow-ups and hostility often with an origin that's impossible to even find without some serious digging.

Just saying, if you're going to do callouts, maybe at least link to or reference what the original cause is.

This whole thing about racism and tone policing kinda threw a callout-culture trigger at me for reasons almost entirely unrelated to anything witches.town (of which I STILL don't know what's going on) OR racism, and honestly a blanket "Racism BAD, you should feel BAD!" without context really isn't any more useful than "Fetish porn BAD!".

And it gets worse when you see dozens of boosts in your feed all doing exactly this bullshit.

TFW you want an AR headset not because of cool bleeding-edge tech toys, but because your day job falls between doing nothing and "busywork" during slow periods and it would be a good time to study.

Wow I just had a freaky idea, and one us more hardhack-affine types might actively put into practice once the tech is there.

Bioengineered fursuit/costume gear. If there's a way to use collagen, lab-grown fur, etc. and be able to preserve whatever amalgam form that takes, the realism factor on some of these designs is going to blow through the roof. I'm not even talking about bodymods here, just wearables.

In the hands of someone sufficiently eccentric, it could even go Eldritch-tier, and I could see indie movie makers giving AAA CGI studios a run for their money with, well... maybe even literal meat puppets.

We're already pulling industrial-end innovations this way, what with 3D printers and PLA/ABS cores for fursuit heads, cooling system designs, etc.

Just sayin'. I don't know when, but shit's going to get A LOT weirder one of these days.

AI brains are gonna have entirely their own mess of fuck-ups, risks and weaknesses on the distant someday we get them. And yet, I wonder how many of us would jump at the chance to switch out at least parts of the meat version anyway.

Speaking of which... anyone got a source on affordable PrEP in the greater Seattle area if you're uninsured?

I've got an adequate supply -for now-, but this is the kind of shit I really don't want to cycle off of given the choice

I'm refuse to link the source here because honestly they're being *really* shitty towards a single person and witchhunty, but I'm seeing discourse on Twitter that there's an HIV outbreak in the fandom happening right about now.

Consider this a 'be extra careful', y'all. Amp up protection if you havn't already, get tested regularly, and use your PrEP if you got it.

@shadow8t4 Howdy stranger. Did you read my profile before sending that follow request?

For all you therians, otherkin, and phantom mappers out there, I want you to stop, take a moment.

And think.

About your tail.

Where is it? What is it doing? Hanging by your side perhaps, swishing to and fro, wagging vigorously, maybe even smacking against the furniture making a satisfying thud.

What about your ears? Do you have them? What do they hear? How do they stand? Do they hang down, heavy from the day, or stand on end, perked up and alert to the world? Do they swivel? Do they twitch?

Go on and let this same line of thinking grace your paws, perhaps your wings if you have them, your muzzle. What are you, really?

Hold onto that for a bit, feel yourself as you're meant to be, as you wish to be, as you are in mind and spirit.

what idiot called it "orgasming from pain play" and not "whipped cream"

( @CoronaCoreanici came up with this, not me )

By some amazing upset Myspace still exists to this day, and they seem to be doing... not too bad. o.o

*watches as the sun comes up over the horizon*

*fox screams at it*

*yaaaaaaaawn*

Good fuckin' morning, world.

Oh what trouble can a grey fox hybrid get into today

In spite of capitalism, corruption, bureaucracy and artificial scarcity, the urge to create, explore and empower hold true.

The Work continues.

I feel like there's a discourse stirring out of my immediate view.

Anyway my pronouns are "Just don't call me sir, or I'm going to shout you down like a Queen's Guard"

Once again I wind up feeling like my pronouns are an aesthetic. The vibe I give is the one I felt like pulling out of my closet today. *soft smile*

And thank the stars I had the sense to divorce that from anatomical or neurochemical restraints. :3

Ya know, one of the good things about being a furry is that you at least have a way of getting around gendered bullshit titles at least among friends.

Instead of calling myself, say, a frontman (which gets less accurate by the day), I can just say frontfox. :3

It's not just that we only recently know how far away the stars are.

It's also that we know they're fucking HUGE. And the biggest ones go BOOM in ways a human mind couldn't even begin to comprehend without a numeric system to pare down the measurements.

And that we know those explosions, that can blow out an entire solar system in mere minutes... are largely responsible for our existence in the first place.

If the creation story of ancient religions is weird, the truth is far, FAR stranger and far more intense.

*yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawnwhine*

Fuck. Ok world, ok, I get it. I'm awake.

Heck...

Arf-awooooooooooooo