i’m sure my icon speaks for itself here, but i’ve definitely seen a few of you skittering about in some of our threads. show yourselves at once! maybe post your fursona even (if it’s safe for work)
- Sparkko ( @Sparkko@beehaw.org ) English8•10 months ago
Just your average horse boy here. Don’t mind me.
hello!
- Tordoc ( @Tordoc@beehaw.org ) English8•10 months ago
Squawk!
i can’t believe they let birds on the internet
- Tordoc ( @Tordoc@beehaw.org ) English9•10 months ago
If they banned us you’d have to get rid of your top half, and you don’t want to make an ass of yourself :3
- Capydeev ( @Capydeev@pawb.social ) English7•10 months ago
Hello! Just exploring other instances from pawb.social! Edit: Larger version of my avatar, by Animal_shapes.
- Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) English7•10 months ago
Hi! :)
My fursona is also my username ^^
- Moneymunkie ( @Moneymunkie@beehaw.org ) English5•10 months ago
Thats a pretty nice piece of art there!
- Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) English3•10 months ago
Thanks :D
very cute!
- Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) English3•10 months ago
Thank you! I like how Jerboa/lemmy auto embeds the image. Refreshing, coming from reddit!
- Null ( @Null@pawb.social ) English6•10 months ago
Not on Beehaw but I am a subscriber over here. My account is on Pawb
- Pixel ( @pixel@beehaw.org ) English6•10 months ago
+1 here, funnily. But only kind of? Kinda associated with the community when I was younger, grew a little away from it but still consider myself one? Just happy to be a dog on the internet I suppose haha
probably half of the coolest people i know are also dogs on the internet so this may be an intrinsic property of being one
- Pixel ( @pixel@beehaw.org ) English2•10 months ago
That’s a high bar to clear I hope I can be that cool one day
- AleGex ( @StrawberryCake@beehaw.org ) English6•10 months ago
HI!! I’m doggogirl
- Pixel ( @pixel@beehaw.org ) English4•10 months ago
more dogs on beehaw you lvoe to see it
- AleGex ( @StrawberryCake@beehaw.org ) English3•10 months ago
I go woof 😎
- Pixel ( @pixel@beehaw.org ) English2•10 months ago
Holy shit no way me too
- AleGex ( @StrawberryCake@beehaw.org ) English3•10 months ago
Woof woof~ 🥺
very good icon, no notes
- woteorin ( @woteorin@beehaw.org ) English6•10 months ago
… Do I still get to claim I’m merely “fandom adjacent” if I’ve crafted several 'sonas and have actively played as them in various media? Asking for a friend. :P
- Moneymunkie ( @Moneymunkie@beehaw.org ) English5•10 months ago
Yeah think ya got a terminal case of the pathOwOgen there bud :p
- woteorin ( @woteorin@beehaw.org ) English3•10 months ago
YoUwU can’t be seriOwOus!
- Moneymunkie ( @Moneymunkie@beehaw.org ) English4•10 months ago
Owh NowoH DoCtOw ItS SpwEadIng ;w;
- woteorin ( @woteorin@beehaw.org ) English5•10 months ago
… I think I may have to stop the escalation there before it infects my internal dialogue.
- Moneymunkie ( @Moneymunkie@beehaw.org ) English6•10 months ago
You may stop for now but the seed has already been planted mwhahahaha evil thunder sounds
- woteorin ( @woteorin@beehaw.org ) English3•10 months ago
You monster. Even if the gods forgive you I…
Okay, I’ll probably also forgive you. Eventually.
- Moneymunkie ( @Moneymunkie@beehaw.org ) English3•10 months ago
Would it help if I pulled out the finger guns as a hail mary attempt to distract from the weight of my sins?
I dunno if it would actually do anything but it feels rad to do regardless :p
probably not, sorry 😔
- woteorin ( @woteorin@beehaw.org ) English2•10 months ago
Darn. Ah well, wouldn’t be the first time I’ve realized I’m something well after crossing the threshold. Won’t be the last.
- SavvyWolf ( @SavvyWolf@beehaw.org ) English6•10 months ago
Hello! I don’t get involved in the community much (because shy), but I would consider myself as some kind of wolf.
- wintrparkgrl ( @wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org ) English5•10 months ago
Entry level furry. If it’s a character I like, I might do the deed to them but I don’t seek it out outside of that
- Griseowulfin ( @Griseowulfin@beehaw.org ) English5•10 months ago
I’m dangerously furry, though I keep on the down-low.
- pridefulofbeing ( @pridefulofbeing@beehaw.org ) English5•10 months ago
I’m not. I’ve always been curious about how people learn about it, realize they’re a furry, etc.
What’s your story of how you became a furry? What does it mean to you?
- Moneymunkie ( @Moneymunkie@beehaw.org ) English3•10 months ago
Think I joined and made a fursona around 2018 but I’d thought they were pretty neat ages before. I think I took the plunge since the community appeared to be very friendly as was quite LGBT positive and I was looking for somewhere to make some friends. Went to a meet at the city closest to me and then boom, here I be :D
adjacent to the community since 2011; i created my fursona in 2017 because most of the people i am friends with are also furries. that remains the case. this is just kind of an intrinsic part of my personality and if i’m honest it makes talking with more normally oriented people kind of boring 😅
- eleanorOpossum ( @eleanorOpossum@beehaw.org ) English5•10 months ago
Me kinda? I’m adjacent. I think. I’ve been in and out as a lurker in the fandom for the past decade or so. I still don’t have a sona… mostly because I can’t decide what species.
- wispikat ( @wispi@beehaw.org ) English5•10 months ago
have furries been thriving on the fediverse all this time?! eg, mastodon. i legitimately feel like I’ve noticed a furry “void” in my usual internet spaces for a few years…
- Wahots ( @Wahots@pawb.social ) English5•10 months ago
There’s also pawbs.social and furry technologists on here :)
- wispikat ( @wispi@beehaw.org ) English4•10 months ago
thanks :3
there does seem to be a dearth of them around here and a lot of that probably has to do with the explosion of the mastodon instance snouts.online a few years back and a generally bad experience with mastodon many furries (at least in my circles) had back around 2019-2020
- CrimsonOnoscopy ( @CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org ) English4•10 months ago
What experiences?
it’s been years now but just the generally, for lack of better term, “wokescold”-y or “shitlib”-y vibe of mastodon did a lot of that. the community felt extremely overbearing at times with content warnings and social norms, in a way that especially didn’t vibe with groups that are repressed and want to talk about those experiences. a lot of it was of course just technically confusing for some people, as was trying to leverage network effects to stick with your friends. some people–artists especially–had specific needs that were hard to meet with migration. and the whole process in general was haphazard and over time as people settled inevitably mastodon politics also got in the way of it, what with defederation being an option and all.
eventually i think it just burned a lot of people out on the platform in a way that has really precluded swathes of the furry community from setting up shop on another federated place, to avoid something like that happening again.
- CrimsonOnoscopy ( @CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org ) English2•10 months ago
Gotcha. I remember the content warnings being a bit odd on there. Perhaps on a future platform or platform iteration, CW’s can be a built-in feature perhaps by tag. Then users could opt or in to those contents, or cover it with warnings before display.
- Pixel ( @pixel@beehaw.org ) English2•10 months ago
The moral high ground some mastodon users seem to hold over people that have been slower to migrate for any number of completely justifiable reasons has been a definite sticking point in my attempts to switch over to the fediverse as my primary way of keeping up with the internet. Its frustrating but I hope the influx of new users will change the tone a little bit – hopefully not too terribly much, but one that’s a bit more… patient would be nice
- wispikat ( @wispi@beehaw.org ) English2•10 months ago
mmmmm that does ring some bells. i hadn’t really delved into it at the time, and i’d heard tales of drama… (which might be the reason for the former!)
- Moneymunkie ( @Moneymunkie@beehaw.org ) English4•10 months ago
Suppppppppppp :p
hello!