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

Cultural thot: The greater Seattle polycule kinda blurs all the lines between relationships, extended family and community, and kinda interweaves them all in such a way that affection is given freely.

Are we just the 21st century equivalent of flappers?

Also, yea yea Youtube boycott I know (If you want to make real change, try making alphabet soup), but uhh... I feel like I should spread this little piece of personal gospel. (Warning: Contains coyote. Probably Coyote too. :p)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXT91WQthww/watch?v=kXT91WQthww

Only... you blow something up on earth, and most of those particles and all of shrapnel (or VERY close to it) are going to come back down, at least eventually. You do it in low orbit, and most of that's going to fall... sideways. Indefinitely. That's literally what an orbit IS.

The more you throw away up there, and the more you fling and bash and blow apart, the more bullshit exists for anyone wanting something else to go up there to contend with.

Cleaning it up is, I suspect at bare minimum, like cleaning up plastic particulates in the world ocean.

And we're not an outlier. This is standard garden-variety physics, which means any species on any world that *doesn't* have to contend with this is going to be a freak occurrence by our knowledge.

Let's face it. If we go down a warlike or wasteful path we ain't getting more than a handful of probes out of the solar system, and there's a point where we aren't likely getting more than that out of the atmosphere either. Which means we're not gonna be able to pull this shit on anyone else.

I wonder if that's why we havn't been enslaved or vaporized by extraterrestrials. Anyone capable of making the trip wouldn't be the type, or so I'd hope.

You know, between the US trying to set aside some almost a trillion for this nebulous "space force", several corporations trying to pick up the night sky for profit by various means, and even our neighbors across the pond likely getting caught up in this whole pervasive tide of nationalist bullshit?

I feel like this universe might have something of an immune system for creatures like humans, lest we can *collectively* pull in another direction.

See, to actually get off Earth, we can do it but we need to go, well, really really fast. And the faster you go, the harder things hit. At even half of escape velocity a floating fleck of paint can punch a hole in your shuttle.

So far, from even not having outright researched this, I know there's desire to put up a network of synchronized advertising 'pixel' satellites, a mass of... should I just call them orbital cell towers?, and even if we don't wind up having some great space war, a military's going to want to deploy and test shit.

Say the US wants to blow up a satellite or three, just to see if they can. Anything that gets destroyed isn't going to poof. Conservation of mass, it only gets changed. Same with the warhead and whatever carried it.

I think if anyone ever said I was de-transitioning or had ever done so, they'd be vastly missing the whole point.

Signed, presently one of those weird he/him lesbians. :p

So, there's a certain vibe this foxyote wants to carry with him as of late, surprisingly good for focus and sharpness (though prolly not that tough to connect the dots if you know me well *wags*).

See I'm looking for folk/country music to splice into my workshop playlists. Specifically... queer, leftist, open-minded, uplifting folk/country music. ESPECIALLY that queer part.

I'm already aware of Kacey Musgraves and for something a bit older, Lavender Country. But what else is out there? I know it ain't all beer, trucks, tractors, Jayzus and republicans.

(Tagging @RobinHood because I feel like you might know this one)

Yea ok, I am riding the wave something fierce tonight!

Yap yap awoooooooooo~!

There really is no "Planet B".

Going to an arts n crafts store in December was a mistake -_-

Ya know, when I see someone mass-following and sporting trans or enby colors with a short profile, empty timeline and .ru site link?

I can't help but think "Oh, someone in the KGB's trying to spy on us." Only thing that makes sense for that hard of a lurker in my mind.

But even if that were the case... why? o.o The vaaaaaaaaaaaaast majority of us aren't even Russian or adjacent.

Unless, well... any of y'all have any other ideas what's with these randos?

About 5 years ago I think it was? A friend at the time had shared this with me as something of... pretty literally an anthem for queer sexuality in contrast to mainstream religion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0imaSCnSuA

It feels right to send that forward right about now. (As an additional note, this is a lyrics vid. DO NOT go looking for the original unless you're in a rock-solid place emotionally, the imagery there's pretty dark and unhappy)

(The really funny thing here is that because of how he wound up getting gray fox spliced in initially and what he carries from it, Kyresti makes it a major plot point NOT to be affiliated with any greater organization. He'll frequently contract for them like a shadowrunner, but damnit that's not the same thing.)

I generally keep personal details close to my chest, but if you see someone getting pissed that I wear rose-tinted glasses and carry myself like a mad scientist without some nebulous permission, feel free to point out that they never owned the concept of either.

And if they wanna pick a fight about it? Well, nothing like a little supervillain infighting drama to make for a good comic, right? :p

Some days, particularly when I get back into things, I wish I could make it as a full-time illustrator and not have it be late capitalist hell. I know what it takes, I have it in me, but you know what?

I make more money in fast food, and yes I'm serious about that. I've got commissions on my list from someone paying a legit living wage, but those come far and few between even for dealers' den veterans.

I'm still very much an artist regardless of the medium though (and when I skew that direction, believe me engineers count!), and it's likely for the better I'm not confining myself to just comics or for the same reasons game design.

Whipped this up tonight as the end result of a small internal shift, trying to get back into the groove, and as a basis of comparison as I start to study certain aspects I wanna get better at.

This is presently canonical. There's like 3 different iterations for the bottom parts but this one's his default and most common.

Look. Search engine, if I'm looking up canid muscle anatomy and the first thing you autosuggest me is the 'bulbus glandis', you've either got some really unfortunate coinkidinks doing on with your popularity weight or your shit's trying to stealth-track me and thinks it knows me better than it does.

Yes I'm intending on drawing that. No I'm not intending on drawing JUST that, give me more to work with >_>

Do no harm, take no shit.

By the way these people talk you'd think 'women' was the name of a species or something.

Feeling like you've no place in mainstream society means if you're in a place playing nature documentaries, the venue just feels like part of the episode o.o