Kyresti, Apprentice Coyote @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

An interesting realization I just had. If you're casting a hermetic seal on something leading up to a tube, and you do it right, if need be you can suck up the casting compound like you're using a straw.

If you're trying to balance things out it'll come right up.

One of the stranger little learning experiences.

Also holy heck that genre is good study music =^_^=

I feel kind of like the Lo-Fi Chillhop raccoon right now.

You know it's striking me right now how on the fediverse (at least the corners I inhabit), that even the critters you'd expect to be largely maintaining a personal brand/public face are generally real, honest, knowable people.

And that rocks. =^_^=

Fuck you Autodesk for your low-key passive aggression at non-paying non-pirating users.

Fuck you Fusion and your history-centric parametrics for making me have to dig instead of just showing me where my measurements are when I have to edit them.

And fuck you dayjob circumstances for leaving me just barely NOT enough time to do a test print before I have to head out.

I hope you're doing well out there. Whoever, whatever, and whenever you are now. I just wish you'd have been around to see what us therians and 'kin are doing with ourselves now.

Anyway, in spite of disappointment at consumer-grade engineering principles, I'm actually pretty bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morning.

Let's make today something magical, shall we? =^_^=

Also in case you're wondering, I'm already of the personality type who, if I can't find or get something I want, will try to build the fucking thing myself if I'm able and knowledgeable.

Feeling like I can't trust even society to give me a flashlight with a lifespan past maybe 6 months short of some sort of milspec certification isn't doing that any favors.

...Is it common, if you tinker even a little, to find something astoundingly badly designed (We're talking 'loose connection thinner than a human hair in a device whose externals are designed to be banged around') and wonder:

"Good grief what were these people thinking?!"

Ehh, fucked up as this tale ever gets, I got me a tail to chase, and some tales to make.

Got my friends and somehow, by some freak occurrence, I got me a regular fox squad.

Got a solid answer. Much love. 💚

...And a trip to the tool store on my to-do list tomorrow. For the *fourth* time in two weeks. XD

@jafx Did you read my profile before sending that follow request and just who... are you?

I'm also realizing that though my kit's becoming increasingly varied and useful, I lack some key tools and techniques, and I'm pretty certain I don't even know what many of those are.

What's a good way to make a big (like coin-sized) but *clean* round hole in, say, a piece of hard plastic? My drill maxes out at 1/4".

A little food for thought:

If a societal structure favors competition over collaboration to the point there HAS to be winners and losers, the losing side is going to include, by it's very nature, anyone who has a stake in it but isn't playing.

True hermetic seals are hard to make with hacks o.o

I suspect that for the forseeable future, printers are never not gonna be fussy, finnicky, utterly infuriating pieces of equipment

I wonder if anyone I know has tried to smoke green tea.

Does it make you feel zenlike?

Never once underestimate the tangled crossroads between trauma, desperate need, self-sufficience, curiosity, adventurousness, and a scavenger canid's ingenuity.

See also: Final Fantasy Protagonist

Current Gender: Japanese Pop Idol