katt, by her own design @starkatt@vulpine.club

I'm a fox. I don't know entirely what it means, but it's real.

What is postfurry? At the very core, it's a way of approaching what identity means.

Furry has been all about answering the question "what if people can also be animals?"

Postfurry says "okay, we can go even further than that. What if we claim authorial control over every aspect of identity? We're animal-people sure, but that's only a starting point. If the poststructuralists are right and all meaning is negotiable, let's go exploring and write some meanings of our own."

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[poll] When you're moving through a darkened space -- or feeling generally kind of spooked out -- is there some part of you that's irrationally afraid you'll run into a monster?

I wonder how hard it would be to replicate the Michelson-Morely experiment.

No seriously though, do mental health providers have any how much of a barrier to care "for new patients, call and leave a voicemail and I'll call you back maybe" can be?

Most of the time I'm pretty okay with my working level of math knowledge, but it does make me kind of sad that I'm not able to actually learn modern physics on any more than a popsci metaphorical level.

it's getting dark out.

one month until solstice :|

And yes, I very deliberately didn't say "liminal" here, for I fear the word becoming diluted by overuse.

Anyway part of what makes ritual space sacred to me is how it can simultaneously exist as part of both the mundane and the divine.

Like, yeah, there's the creation of the shared experience of engaging with the transcendental, while at exactly the same time it's a bunch of normal folks just being people and maybe doing some kinda goofy-seeming things and maybe someone messes up or laughs or something.

And having both of those is really important. We can touch the heavens, yes, but we're also these creatures of dirt and bone and we need to remember that.

I had been about to keep going in, until I realized they were feeling the exact same way I did.

Glad they were there with me, and willing to express their feelings.

Thinking about the time a partner and I were walking through the woods looking for a good spot to rest a minute, and came to a place that looked inviting...

except we both had a vague, inexplicable sense of unease and dread, and decided to just nope right out of there.

Frequently, I wonder if anything would've happened had we pressed on.