@roxy 🤨
@lyncia *time crisis announcer voice* there's been an accident! A man has fallen into a river in lego city
so @inherentlee 's thread asking people to define masculinity the other day had some uhh Interesting answers from (white, straight) cis men vs queer, trans, and nonbinary people. And I knew that cis people probably haven't really thought about this stuff before but some of these answers were kind of scary to be honest.
"The ability to suppress your own feelings is of course dangerous, but... embracing danger is itself masculine."
another one said "masculinity is being a danger to oneself and others"
uhh are you guys okay?
"Masculinity is conflict"
Also a lot of talk about the idea of how noble it is to push through discomfort.
Scientifically/historically dubious:
"Look to nature"
"evolution as hunter/gatherers"
And the cis answers included almost zero joy.
On the trans and queer side, beautiful, delightful answers about gay masculinity, trans masculinity, Black masculinity, an absolute universe of masculinities. And many people who couldn't define it if they looked at it too hard because many traits are shared by femininity, masculinity, and decent people. The divide is a vast chasm.
editing to add link to thread https://strangeobject.space/@inherentlee/112910367754708215
@deejvalen and a dose of yuri just for you <3 *kissies her lovely vappy*
@lyncia Caterpillar has joined the party!
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@lyncia [offer]. [pet], [hug]
@ivy Beauty and the Beast Girl by Neji is fantastic c:
hey, furry peeps. in the light of recent events it's not out of the realm of fantasy to assume that furaffinity might close down. so, if you can, try to archive as much as you can, so that we preserve as much art as we can. thank you
edit: i have been informed of furarchiver.net, a tool that makes archiving art from FA easier. please use it liberally.
us healthcare, recent event related
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
"When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet;
when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live
– forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence –
knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual;
disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission.
But murder it remains."
Friedrich Engels, 'The Condition of the Working-Class in England', 1845
Death of a Member of the Furry Fandom
Dragoneer, once known as Preyfar and best known as the owner of FurAffinity has passed away.
@jahtnamas yeah, I had to really go searching for a snippet of the full story since I'm far less connected with the furry community than I used to be, and I was livid when I found out
Death, Furry Fandom, uspol
@Emmy@furries.club Looking into what happened was absolutely crushing. People ask me why I don't move back to the US and I could just point to this now.
If someone of a significant position in their community can die of preventable disease like this and have their corpse squeezed of every last dollar in plain sight of the people, imagine how many in a country of 300 million are put through the wringer like that in a widely-crippling pandemic that has now taken a few million off that population.
It's beyond time to march on the homes of the profiteers and lobbyists of privatized healthcare, and write our message in blood. Ford had better take note up north too.
@stevelord Love to see it! You'd get along with my old school's tech admin; he turned a bunch of aging hardware into Ubuntu thin clients almost 20 years ago
bug picture past the link
oh jeez hello handsome https://bugguide.net/node/view/2374674/bgimage
bug picture past the link
@codl oh my gosh, what big cutie detectors O:
@electrocutie skeleton trying to escape its meaty prison
ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAY
You know what that means...
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY
And if on my birthday anybody wanted to give an instance admin a cool little treat you could always go to my Steam and buy me a little something: https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/id/Hellgnoll/
@mos_8502 Those are editors
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and
, and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
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