#also nothing wrong with being a furry or autistic

[ricky-yaps]

My punk ass little brother has been absolutely SLANDERING me because he decided to go through my sketchbook and he saw this

“You’re autistic AND a furry??” IM GENUINELY NEITHER BRO STOP STOP STOPIT STJOP

[piffany666]

What you favourite gba character says about you! (Based on the Eldena doubleca5t series on YouTube)

(This is a joke please do not take any of this personally)

Loyal: your probably either a black butler fan or an angle beats fan

Servos: you had a crush on Marshalllee from adventure time

Yargwin: at some point in your life you've probably been obsessed with either Jack sparrow or Captin hook from Once upon a time. That being said you do have good taste

Kalomos: you just wanted good things for kalomos and really....who wouldn't?

Lry: you need everyone in this series to just chill the f*k out for like 5 minutes

Vail: your favourite trope is a character being blissfully unaware of how powerful they are

Raspa: you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of a mad scientist

Mortals: you have some....complicated feelings about episode 3 of space pirates

Vision: your childhood crush was garnett from steven universe

Heartburn: you still don't know the answer to the mystery of 1. Why did yargwin tell him that "him and Arkov aren't married" and 2. Why heartburn is even here but the difference is that your not mad about the second one

Kaunda: your either a lesbian or a liar

Banar: you really like full metal alchemist

The butterfly king: your OTP is fizz x Ozzmodius from hellova boss

Albus: you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of "I can fix him" but you will inevitably realise that you can't and then promptly exept him as he is

Devlin: your probably autistic and the quickest way to your heart is somebody showing even the slitest amount of intrest In YOUR special interest

Odin: you really like God of war

Odysseus: you understand the significance of Odin calling him that...also you probably really like "epic the musical"

Tyr: you really like lore olympus

Fenrir: you are a furry that or your just a redacted fan

Okami: you were the f*kers who kept spaming "okami did nothing wrong" in that one live stream

Makkaro: you are a firm believer in the inherent eroticism of "a hero will sacrifice you to save the world but a villan will sacrifice the world to save you"

Zed: I want to use the joke used by the person this post was inspired by and say that you like "men👏 getting 👏pegged!" But honestly if your favourite character is zed you probably just really like the owl house

Mirrin: when zed asked the guardian if they used to be lovers you got your hopes up way to quickly

Frank: you had a crush on Billy butcherson from hocus pocus

Hipswich: you believe in the inherent eroticism of the song "good lookin"

Mahatma/atila: this is just the same joke as raspa but like even more so

Huginn: your favourite ship dynamic is "neurodivergent character rambling" x "could listen to them talk forever"

Muninn: your favourite asmr trope is reverse comfort

[genderqueerdykes]

okay this might sound a little brash but please stay with me, and im sorry if i say anything offensive, i honestly don't mean to harm anyone

what is the thing with furries? like why are they so hated? from where i stand it seems like they're (yall? sorry im not sure if you id as a furry, and if i check ill lose this ask) just a cosplaying community with kinky/fetish elements, is that right? is it that its a meme to hate on furries or like its just kinkshamers kinkshaming?

we've (system) had bad/uncomfy experiences with a furry in the past, ill call him tom and heres one example

at one point he asked to draw one of my ex (he asked me for permission not my ex who they also knew) and if its a kink thing that seems wrong to me, like to ask someone else for permission to do something sexual for another person? my ex and i had just broken up at the time and also we were minors (all about 16 i belive)

what have furries done? we see a lot of posts like "thank a furry for their services" etc what are those about?

sorry this is really rambly, one more thing, what is a fursona? i understand that its like, who you are as a furry, is it a cosplay thing? or like a representation of who you are as an animal?

anyway yeah im sorry if any of this is rude or harmful, please feel free not to answer if it is

hello! I'm late replying to this but i actually love this question!

hatred for furries has always been a thing, but what really made the hatred boil over was that people were noticing that most of furries were gay or some other type of queer, and a l o t of furries are autistic.

people caught on to this and associated furries with being queer and neurodivergent in a negative way. people also focused on the fact that many furries use their community and identity as a way to express sexuality, which again- many of these sexual relationships being depicted were gay, bisexual, lesbian, and very often transgender or intersex.

many furries use their identity to express kink as well, sexual and nonsexual kink, and this has been weaponized against us, despite there being nothing inherently harmful about consentual kink relationships, and having a safe avenue and vessel to express that is healthy. people look for anything they can to weaponize against us, anything "weird" or shocking

people got the wrong impression about furriness being tied to sexual expression and began assuming that all furries are attracted to real life animals which is a false equivalence, but it didnt matter, the hatred just kept piling on and people would go out of their way to find dangerous and toxic furries to "prove" we are all bad. people have also accused furries of dressing up as cute characters to harm children which is also ridiculous

at the end of the day, a lot of the hatred of furries boils down to queerphobia, hatred of kink, and ableism. many furries are autistic or nonhuman and identify more with animals than humans and have a complicated identity. some furries are roleplayers. being a furry is not inherently harmful but these are the reasons why the en masse hatred of furries is such a big deal

hope that clears things up! take care, have a great day!

[beevean]

Yeah, I'm not gonna deny that old ship wars did involve threats, telling other people to kill themselves, etc. But now they do all that and also make it a moral issue

There are many theories that attempt to explain why there's been a sudden shift in mentality on the internet, but for now, the easiest one IMO is that nowadays content is thrown in your face thanks to social media and algoritm.

When I was little, I had to look up ship material. I had to look up porn. I had to stumble upon specific pages like Kink Memes. The worst that could happen was that I browsed the gallery of an artist I liked, and found that they shipped Sonegg :P <- true story

Point is, "don't like don't read" (or see) was the motto for a reason, because it was possible.

Now? Now I see on Twitter how finely attuned the algoritm is to pushing on you the worst material. It's not uncommon that it recommends me posts of people QTing posts about how rapeable Tails and Cream are, and putting their own disgusted comments on them. Which, okay but maybe don't show me that, I'm not interested, I don't follow anyone here. You're making me see content I didn't ask for, and engage with people I want nothing with.

So, first of all, it has become harder to filter content you don't like. Then there is the whittling down of privacy (dash did a thing lol). Again, as a kid, I was more or less allowed to do what I wanted on the internet, including finding "problematic" content (helped also by the language barrier: I learned English very quickly, and my parents did not :P). I can't imagine how it would have been if my parents monitored every place I visited. Of course I'd feel ashamed if I had to restrain myself like that, knowing that my parents would deem me "abnormal" (more than it already happened).

But that's not even the biggest issue. There has been enough talk about how back then, fandom was niche, it was for the freaks, nerds were bullied, girls would be mocked to hell and back for shipping (they still are, as long as you put "straight" and/or "white" lol, but back then you didn't even need to pretend 🙃). Now, again thanks to social media, fandom has become normalized. Much more people are on the internet, and much more people engage in fandom content. And they find the weird shit. And they become the bullies themselves.

The Sonic fandom 20 years ago was a target of mockery for attracting autistic furries, you know, the typical jokes that we all wanted to fuck Big. The Sonic fandom didn't care, and between one discourse about Sonic's eyes and the other, they had fun shipping all the things and being cringe in their corner. Now it has become less socially acceptable to mock autistic furries :P but "normal" people have infiltrated the fandom, and they are demanding normalcy, which results in absurd things like wishing death on Shadria shippers because eww human and anthro or THEY'RE SIBLINGS YOUR HONOR

... now, if you ask me why people (sadly not just teens) nowadays have convinced themselves that fiction is reality, I don't fully know. I do believe in the theory that radical feminism has managed to seep into the fandom and leave some of its core tenets engrained into everyone, even the people who say "punch terfs" or that radfems would despise, such as "engaging in sexual content makes you a deviant", "kinks fetishize my trauma and you're retraumatizing yourself if you indulge in them", and the idea that half of the population is pure and can do no wrong while the other is inherently corrupted and not human...

[jinxed-sinner]

Came For the Grumpy Cat Demon, Staying For the Critique of Christianity™️

Hi, I'm Jinx. I'm a 20 year old autistic furry artist who ended up hyperfixated on Hazbin Hotel after it jabbed me in the religious trauma lol (basically I watched the scene for Loser, Baby, got emotionally attached to Husk's design, decided to watch the show, and decided "wow, this is a really good criticism of something that traumatized me! Also giving Lucifer autism was a big brain idea!!" My brain has been nothing but Hazbin Hotel because autism so I'm hoping having a designated blog for me to post random Hazbin related stuff will help me focus on non-Hazbin stuff because I swear to god I've never been this hyperfixated on ANYTHING

My main blog (where I post regular furry art) is @jinxedshapeshifter. My Hazbin themed furry art (such as Hazbin characters drawn as anthro animals) will be posted here.

I use the same personal tags on all my blogs, since they relate to the "jinxed" part of my username; those tags include:

#jinxed chatter - random discussion posts. This can be pretty much anything tbh

#jinxed fanart - any fanart I've done for Hazbin Hotel. Basically my art tag.

#jinxed headcanons - personal headcanons I have.

#jinxed analysis - any analysis posts I make. This can be anything from analyzing details in a specific episode to character analysis.

#jinxed overanalysis - anything I deem as overanalysis. Usually this basically comes down to "I noticed this tiny detail in this one scene, here are my thoughts on that detail" and it ends up being an obscenely long post for how tiny the detail is.

#biblically accurate radioapple - not necessarily a personal tag (I'm probably not even the only person who uses it), but a tag I like to use for posts that feel like could be canon Alastor and Lucifer interactions. It doesn't necessarily mean I view the post as a romantic Radioapple post, or even a platonic Radioapple post, it's just a tag I like to use for silly Alastor and Lucifer posts that feel canon.

#i will never shut up about how people treat alastors asexuality - A tag I use for posts venting about asexual people acting like there's one right way to be asexual and anyone who ships Alastor is either not doing asexuality right or actively aphobic. As the tag suggests, this is a topic I refuse to shut up about, because I myself am aroace and sick of dealing with other aroace people acting like there's a right or wrong way to be aroace. Aroace people can be in relationships, sex- and romance-repulsion is not a universal aroace experience and it's weird to act like aroace people using Alastor to explore their boundaries are experiencing being aroace wrong.

I'm currently writing a multi-chapter Radioapple slowburn fanfic. You can read it here:

I'm also working on a Hazbin fancomic loosely based on how I headcanon Vox and Alastor's relationship and centered on how I think Lucifer would react to it if he ever got attached to Alastor. You can read it from the start here:

I really like designing characters! Here's a design I made for Juno, a character I created as basically a self-insert (don't yell at me about mistakes in art style, I'm not used to mimicking other artists' art styles lol):

I've also had people ask me what hypoxemia is after showing them this goober so here's the Wikipedia page on hypoxemia

[growling]

for the ask game, what about ranpo or chuuya (whichever one you want to do) with these:

☾ - sleep headcanon

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon

ൠ - random headcanon

(for this ask game guys i didn't stop or forget about it its jsut that whenever you send an ask be prepared for the reality of me answering it like 2 years later i need to be in a veryyyy specific mood to actually write something anything...... anyway im still doing it if anybody wants to send something djfhgdfhdsg)

☾ - sleep headcanon

chuuya is a snork mimimimimi kind of guy to me. he's got a very cool comfy expensive bed she's bought with her mafia money as soon as she could afford it they loveeee luxury and living like a princess. once i fucking GET him though he's gonna sleep in the dog crate sorry not sorry that is a hard rule

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon

idk to which degree is the wan! series semi-canon, but I'm running with the bit they had where Chuuya really liked dogs. That's just true to me. Caught slacking on the job watching Funny Puppies Compilation Wholesome Moments Best Of July 2017 on that ipad baby grind. you can't find dirt on her via hacking her computer or anything cause all her search history is just dog dog dog dog dog dog dog

i don't think she's like, that knowledgable on actual dog information and husbandry and whatnot (and I'm a firm believer of absolute cat nerd Fukuzawa who's memorized literally EVERYTHING about cats from behavior to coat genetics, literally ask him about the wide band gene and you're gonna be able to hear the autism switch go off in his mind), she just really likes them. Not a single dog he dislikes. you can find him on every single dog show in yokohama if he ever misses one then something is clearly wrong and Mori sends a man to his house to check if he's doing ok

(also him and atsushi made momentary eye contact at the furry convention and none of them have been able to quite recover from that. sigma was there too but he avoided being spotted or perhaps the 100000000 dollar wolf fursuit completely concealed his face)

ൠ - random headcanon

ranpo bsd is such a narcissist it's not even funny. Can't believe they gave the anime boy-ified famous author insert NPD... Anyway aroaplnarc (coined by vaporwavevox on here) ace Ranpo. Plus he legitimately does not feel love, he cares about the people he chooses in his own way, but him and the societal concept of love are not on speaking terms currently. him and poe's (fellow aroapl narcissist. he also has such fucking npd vibes can't you see it guys) relationship is mainly built on narc attachment, they own each other they're ride or die ranpo calls poe his little pogchamp they put their minecraft beds next to each other the egotypical world cannot grasp the sheer complexity of their superior bond. they're living a wattpad romance

people who headcanon ranpo as just being autistic and nothing else are WEAK this man is as npd as you can get. he can be both of course, i do think he also has major autism + adhd too, but like, guys. Is autism the only form of neurodivergence you know or is it cause...... you knowwww.........

but yeah. npd ranpo <3333

[dracothefoxdragon]

A recounting of my personal experiences with autism as a furry, feelings of being non human, and a thank-you letter to @patricia-taxxon (which is hopefully not weird and parasocial, but rather inspiring).

This is a long one, so full story under the cut:

I have never been truly dehumanized by people on purpose, most people i've talked to probably wouldn't know i'm autistic unless i told them. Yet i still don't really fit in with what's considered "normal", exactly. I regularly tap the side of my head as a stim, confusing friends and parents really hard. I barely talk to people i don't care for, but to the few people i do hold dearly, i'm a chatterbox. I do a sort of running and jumping jog whenever i go get some water. Nothing i do really feels human, despite my human body showing everyone otherwise. My fursona is a fox dragon hybrid, like if you grabbed a fox and made it huge, gave them some wings and horns and fire breath. Typical furry thing, but i really clinged to it. Being a fox and a dragon at once just fits with me. Hoarding things that matter to me, having a den where i feel safe, that sense of strength being kept hidden by shadow unless provoked makes me feel like a dragon. Yet the soft fur of a fox, the joyful frolicking with friends, a playful but ultimately good natured mischievousness makes me feel like a fox. Being a hybrid makes sense to me. I never made a backstory for this character, since that would imply he has parents, and i don't have a healthy relationship with my own parents to think about that. I never experienced things that people in the otherkin community have like phantom limbs, and i don't really considered myself to be otherkin, i look in the mirror and see the flesh and skin that makes me look human, and accepted that as undying proof of what i am. I never got to think much about not being human because it seemed... wrong. Like i'm escaping myself, despite not really knowing what i am. Things changed when i watched Patricia Taxxon's video "On the Ethics of Boinking Animal People" (A strange title to those who haven't seen it, but please watch it if you haven't). That's how i really noticed what the appeal of being a furry really is. That mix of human and animal is inherent, always played with and aknowledged with the highest sincerity. That's how i noticed that not feeling human is inherent to being autistic. I feel more secure about this now. I am a fox dragon. I am not truly human, rather a creature of warmth, who loves and protects a select few people who matter to me. I am power, yet also comfort. I feel like there's something inherently queer about being a furry: being alienated by society at large, forming a tight knit group of people who care for eachother and exploring themselves despite what a "normal" person would think. I suppose what i'm trying to say is: Thanks Patricia. You helped a fox dragon guy feel better about himself. Your art means more to people than what you may think. I'd offer a part of my hoard to you as thanks if capitalism didn't exist and the postal service was nicer. I'll keep being myself from now on and let my fur comfort those who need the help that i did.

[bandtrees]

hello o//

i heard you had a fursona and i was curious to know about them if you’re willing to share :]

(/nf of course)

oh of course!!! :]] here he is!

i <3 robot furries so he's a robot dog! i based him most obviously off of transformers (specifically idw tailgate and ironfist) (named kibble both cuz dog and cuz that's the term in transformers fandom for extraneous robot-parts that don't serve much purpose on a 'human' body ie wheels etc) but i also wanted to, in 2024 redesigning him for this ref sheet, make him a bit easier to follow as an anthro dog design and able to be worked into furry stuff, while still being visibly mechanical ^_^

in the ways of lore i really don't have much for him - honestly he's just a standin for myself - but i have the concept that he was made to be a sort of living computer. genius database, future of technology, etc... but his storage capacity's small and his scope of interests even smaller, so he doesn't really have much actually technically helpful knowledge... he does, however, have encyclopedic levels of knowledge about nonsense things like tvtropes and trivia for whatever show he's into now.

(^really this is just a way (FOR ME PERSONALLY i should say as i know 'autistic robot' is a bad stereotype for a reason) to express autism as that's what it feels like for me a lot of the time. having a lot of passion and drive to learn but only in the few things your brain's latched onto - and of course the social hurdles that will come with being a robot in 'human'(furry?) society)

he's very inexpressive - doesn't have pupils, doesn't blink, has no mouth (the robotic muzzle isn't a mask, it's just what his face looks like), and i imagine he speaks mechanically too (i waffle between making him mute, giving him a text-to-speech type thing, or limiting his communication to pulling up webpages haha)

he's also one of those fursonas that has a few different designs and such depending on the 'verse, i've drawn him in the context of transformers designs for selfshipping a few times (specifically w/ mtmte first aid, and moreso idw/es tarantulas) and i should do that again :] depending on the situation his design falls in many different places along the furry-mech scale lolol

to get real: i've been a furry and had fursonas since. like. im gonna say as far as 2008, since i was very small :]c but kibble's the first one in a long time i feel actually suits me in both a "feels like me" sense and a "fun character to draw with some degree of fun fantasy" - cuz for a long stretch of time, when i stopped being into sparklecats and the like as a teenager, i fell hard into the "truesona" type of furry designs...

...which, nothing wrong with those, but as someone with crummy self esteem, just kind of led to me hyperfocusing on myself as a kind of "boring slob" type of character. not interesting enough to be anything but a plainly colored realistic animal, and too self-conscious about my appearance to feel too comfortable straying from "fat, depressed, tired and messy slob", as to portray myself as anything but that felt dishonest.

until one day, and this was at the height of my transformers hyperfixation so i'd grown attached to very inhuman robot-y designs, i just kind of realized, "hey, if i wanted, i could make my sona anything i want, right? i like robots and my friends compare me to dogs, i could make a robot dog! i could have fun designing a mech anthro dog!" and. i did lol. and it's the happiest i've been with a fursona, both from a design standpoint and a 'me' standpoint :]]

thank you for the ask! sorry for suddenly getting so real, i don't think you expected me to, kibble as an oc just means a lot to me :'D

(i also have other, non-sona, furry ocs if you ever wanna hear about furry boy band drama lol. i only recently reopened asks again so i'm trying to get more comfortable with em despite my constant Inbox Paranoia. ty again!!)

[ancient-reverie]

I really just had to Google "can you platonically cuddle with family members"

the answer if you didn't know is yes. yes you can. in fact thinking about it I think it's actually very important.

my mom ruined my ability to be comfortable with people in one single moment of my childhood and it only occurred to me now that said moment has shaped all my later relationships.

My dad's sister, her husband, and my two cousins were visiting. I was like 10? There wasn't a lot of couch room so I shared a seat with my autistic-furry-queer cousin. I don't think we really cuddled even, there wasn't like hugging and I don't remind I was sitting next to him or on him. But we had our fingertips together and were stimming while watching the movie or whatever.

Nothing interesting was happening besides my touch-starved self getting some oxytocin from being accepted by a family member without words.

Also... I said queer before but he's gay. He's very gay. I was very girl and very underage and it was NOT like that.

And yet..... across the room my mom gets my attention (and probably the attention of the entire room) and shakes her head at me and says like "don't do that that's not right" or something. She said SOMETHING that implied to my child brain what I was doing was Disgusting™ and Wrong™ and like... verging on incest.

I defiantly glared at her and kept stimming with my cousin until I guess I got scared of getting in more "trouble" and left the room.

So yeah, that shaped the way I see every relationship now.

I can't be flirty for risk of being inappropriate and being upset with myself about it as if I just sexually assaulted someone.

And I don't know how to balance physical touch to keep it platonic bc just touching has been labeled potentially sexual in my brain now.

I feel disgusting and I didn't do anything wrong. My mom just never had a good family life so she didn't know that cuddling with family is normal. And because of how my brain is, it literally shaped all my future relationships with touch.

I was too scared to touch anyone after that, I still am.

[chimerahazard]

zeph 𖦹 he/it/any 𖦹 22 𖦹 PLUR

heres my basic intro post that I edit from time to time

hi!!! you can call me Zephyr, Zeph, or Xeno. I really like splatoon, web graphics + old web (basically anything pre-2013 honestly), biology, invertibrates, stuffed animals, rave culture, kink subculture + more. im a proud autist, boydyke girlman, and snail enthusiast.

BYF: im a furry + otherkin (goat/sheep, cat, bug + more) and often refer to myself as a chimera :3 being fictionkin/otherkin is so fun without a bitch in your ear telling u youre cringe. this blog has (both sfw and nsfw) kink content and empty spaces writing. You are not immune to littlespace/middlespace posting and if you find that weird or gross you're in the wrong place.

DNI if under 18, anti-kink, proana. cp/zoos and terfs will be reported and dropped into the tiger pit.

I won't follow if you don't tag incest/fauxcest/rape please and thank you.

I block content that disturbs/triggers me, 99% of the time its nothing personal.

Tags:

zeph txt ⇾ original text posts

journal ⇾ will probably overlap w zeph txt, basically any time i make any kind of update/post about my life. will likely decorate entries with lots of blinkies

ae ⇾ aesthetics!! i love images and pictures and gifs.

my art ⇾ I have a sideblog for art @xenofly ! my old art acct was @xenoflyarts but ive stop using the acct that its attached to. I'm also considering posting photography and poetry as well. basically whatever art I do end up posting will be tagged as such

that's all for now. thanks for stopping by!

[r4cs0]

Trans people's first mistake is thinking they get to choose their social identity. Getting to pick whatever you're identified as is not how identity works. You can't pick your gender any more than you can pick your status or class. It's why friends mock each other when they try act all cooler and tougher than they really are. Identity has to be reciprocated by society, otherwise it's just playing pretend. Putting yourself in a safe little social circle where others will just humor you and flatter you no matter what you pretend you are, doesn't make it real, it just builds you up to crash even harder when that bubble is finally popped and your fake identity fails the test of reality. Also, there are multiple, multiple studies showing the cause of transgenderism is having a dysfunctional vmPFC. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Which is responsible for many things, including the perception of self and self ownership. Having a dysfunctional vmPFC is also common among people with eating disorders and people with autism. They even have the same personality disorders in common like narcissism, borderline personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder. There is nothing, in any trans person, that shows transgender men or women, have the mind of the opposite gender. What they DO show, is a comorbidity with autism and people with eating disorders. That's it. Being trans is less like being a "man trapped in a woman's body", and is more like an autistic furry dressing up and claiming they're an actual, literal wolf trapped in a human's body. The philosophical infrastructure gender theory is based on, completely lacks any belief in objective reality whatsoever. "Trans women are woman" has the same exact logical basis as otherkin being an "alien star seed fairy dragon trapped in a human's body". You can't say they're wrong without also abandoning the very core of gender theory. And it also doesn't "devalue the legitimacy of trans people". It's the very anti-logic used to trick trans people into thinking they had any legitimacy in the first place.

I ain't even read this. I just wanted to post it

[dynocation]

🌈⭐️The DTL Mods scared of being called out so they make a callout post about me in secret.

Get ready for a juicy story newcomers. This is a fun one.

Granted there are people in the dtl amino that still like me, so the word got back to me. These people literally are incapable of understanding, that yeah people can lie (ChibiTacoLord) and be toxic behind the scenes. There’s a reason why Taco doesn’t have many friends and I do. Not trying to diss or anything.

⭐️Addressing The People Making Testimonies⭐️

Ark - Person in the dtl community that would bully multiple people calling their art trash and making fun of people’s mental disabilities. I sent screenshot evidence to Bregee. She dismissed it saying “He’s my friend. That’s just how he is.”

It wasn’t him just attacking me either, I could careless about random nobodies reeing at me, but he was attacking some of the nicest people in dtl community. Calling their art terrible and hoping they’d die, and because of him multiple people left the dtl community. I was contacting Bregee as a voice for these people because they were scared to say anything, and she brushed it aside. “He’s a friend.” Despite me giving her fair warning that Ark is a douchebag she allowed him to stick around and what does he do? He goes on FurryAmino calling people “faggots” and their art “cringe”. Am I suppose to go “Poor Ark”? I legit feel no sympathy for him. He sabotaged the DTL Discord all on his own, yet I get blamed for it apparently. No thank you. I do not claim Ark as my responsibility. You made it clear he’s your two year old to handle. I’m also not banned from Furry Amino as Bregee has said. I’m still using it and have been for years, being featured, and making friends there, and will be a curator on it here soon.

Ark went on there screaming how he hates me and people tore him apart for it. (He basically just called my art cringe and the people who like it are cringe too).

In furry culture, you do not attack an artist without evidence, and Ark didn’t have any. (In regards for me being bad at commissions)

In shame he left the amino and deleted his account/hid it from me(one of the possibilities, he could’ve been banned due to breaking numerous rules) blaming me for people yelling at him. I didn’t say anything other than telling people to leave him alone and let staff deal with him. People were not kind to him, granted he was personally attacking people. People were pulling apart his arguments and pushed him off the amino. I wasn’t made aware of it till later when people were gloating about it to me, sharing me images of him getting spammed with clown emojis. That’s a funny lie for him to tell though in an attempt to save face. If he goes around saying I’m banned there, because I’m one of the biggest community members and still to this day. People on there message me everyday telling me it’s becuase of me they pursue art and love to animate. Maybe Ark is just an idiot though and just learned how to use the block button? And thought block was the same as a ban? Wouldn’t be the first a DTL Amino/Discord person learned that.

BakiDance - I worked with them to solve the raid issue. I said nothing nazi related except when I was @ by Ark and I made a joke in response to him.

Alli - Would ask me to do sexual Roleplay when I was 11-12. WOULD ASK ME, and I would do them becuase I didn’t understand at the time. It was like incest/rape/gore shit. She then would call my art shit and call me homophobic. When called out for it, she went to the excuse “oh we sexual rp’d”, as if that doesn’t also look bad back on her.

Bregee- She invited me back to the DTL discord and I told her no becuase she doesn’t curate it. She got offended. Then showing me like a 10 page document of new rules for her discord which made me cringe. (It was massive and full of inconsistencies) She then messaged me again, asking me about the New Years. I gave her a short stiff response, because of the Ark situation I had a distrust of her. She was doubly offended. She then randomly accused me of befriending nazis/pedofiles, which I found funny because, number one, she doesn’t know my friends, number two, she doesn’t know me. She’s like a hate Stan. Literally, she looks at my art and obsesses over it to a negative degree. She’s joined my discord, follows me, dms me. I know she hangs out with Taco/Alli some of the most toxic people in the dtl fandom, so hh. Unless she wants to say otherwise.

Chibi Taco Lord - Would ask me to do sexual rps, and I would decline, because of the bad experience I had with Alli, she promised me she woulnt be like Alli so I agreed once and it was okay. I’m an adult, Taco is an adult. I sexual rp to this day if both parties are adults and consent to it.

When it comes to abuse art. It’s the Pot calling the Kettle black. Taco made a whole story about her Drew getting raped and beaten by Wilfre and shared it with me. Abuse art of her Drew that she drew still exists to this day too btw on the dtl amino. So if you banned me due to my depressed Wilfre comics. Guess you gotta purge a whole lot more people, becuase sad comics are banned. Edgy art is banned. I think it’s stupid, but come on, don’t be hypocritical.

This isn’t an accussation out of nowhere either. I have screenshots of her doing this, drawings she’s made, and testimonies of “bystanders” who witnessed her asking for sexual abuse roleplay, Roxy nonetheless (a curator on the amino has witnessed this). I only share this info becuase she moved goal posts from “I hate how Baki’s posts has a lot of likes on it”, to “Baki only hates me becuase im autistic”, to now “Baki is a sexual deviant”. I will remove this embarrassing incriminating evidence of ChibiTacoLord, if the DTL Amino staff remove their slanderous take on me. Otherwise, I don’t care, becuase I’m open about my fetishes and I see nothing wrong with them. You can’t say I’m wrong for having the fetish and the DTL Amino staff is okay to have that fetish and post it frequently. Hyprocrites.

My character Cope: Hes literally not a nazi lol! You either have to be a conspiracy theorist, liar, or delusional to think so.

He’s a raposa from Lavasteam, wears a red camo outfit, with golden medals. He’s politically a dictator. Runs a military state. He’s the villain in my stories.

So I don’t see why that’s a problem? What? Are villains just no longer allowed in stories.

Cope is adored by a lot of people. I get requested often to make a comic of him/make a game with him in it. Only a few crazies dislike him and go spouting ‘nazi’.

My friends: I have several friends and none of them are nazis. Absolutely delusional to think I would be friends with someone who hates me. I am friends with Roxy though who ended up having to leave the Drawn To Life Amino staff due to the toxicity of the members. A painful reminder for those people.

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🌈⭐️Conclusion🌈⭐️

These people are mentally broken and delusional with hate. I find it funny though. They make these little hate spaces, think they’re private, but the word always gets out.

You know what we call people who gather together to hate on one person for superficial reasons?

Get ready to scream. It’s called people a HATE GROUP. Take that to your political obsessed brains.

Anyways, if you see these people. Don’t spam or hate on them. It just fuels their hate for me.

[traegorn]

Innocently asking, why are Germanics so plagued with furries? In America, the most furries are found in like the Midwest which is filled with Germanic immigrants. You don't really see many Italian or Slavic furries for instance. Meanwhile in Europe you see curries the most densely in like Germany and Sweden. Is this related to autism? I am not trying to be offensive I promise, I'm just baffled what causes this. Surely there's a genetic factor? Did Neanderthals like wolves too much? :s

1. I'm not a furry.

So I'm not really sure why you are asking me in particular. I have quite a few friends who are though, and if mockery is your intention, take it elsewhere. There is nothing wrong with being a furry.

2. Literally your entire premise is wrong.

So you claim furries are concentrated in the US in the Midwest. This is verifiably incorrect based on available data. FurryMap is down, but when it was up it clearly showed furries were pretty evenly spread across the United States' more populated areas.

That data also showed similar numbers in other parts of Europe. The only reason Germany "appeared" to have more furries at one point in time is because they were the ones who started self reporting first. The UK has similar concentrations. So no, it's not genetics. Areas of concentration are far more likely to be cultural, especially since the community is spread worldwide.

3. Implying genetics lead to specific interests feels like borderline eugenics talk, and makes me deeply uncomfortable.

Seriously, knock it off.

4. Why are you bringing up autism?

What was even the point of that? I'm allistic (and otherwise neurotypical if not for my GAD), and while I know some furries who are on the spectrum, the vast majority of furries I know are allistic as well. It's super weird with your "germanic" people proposal -- since statistically Germans aren't any more likely to be autistic than anyone else. Hell, Portugal has a higher number of diagnoses per capita than Germany does last I checked.

5. Your ask is full of red flags.

If this really was asked in good faith, please re-examine why you're asking this question to begin with. You're making assumptions without questioning them, and you need to learn to verify your facts before drawing conclusions.

If this was NOT asked in good faith, please don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[cuntwrap--supreme]

I'm not a furry myself, but I've never run into a furry who was overall gross, as you'd think they'd be by the stereotype. From what I've heard from furries, a majority of them just like to dress up and there's no sexual anything behind it. Sure, some people do shit in costume, but it seems to be an overall pretty small percentage of them.

And there is also the fact that many of them are children and/or neurodivergent. I knew a girl in high school who was nonverbal autistic, but she would actually speak a little in her fursuit (or so said her friends) because it made her feel safe. Even for those who are adults and neurotypical, there's nothing wrong with being a furry. It seems like a great way to express your creative side, and I can definitely see it helping people to overcome things like social awkwardness (at least in costume) or fear of other people.

Tldr, don't mock people for their interests. Furries may seem like a weird sex cult from what non-furries tend to hear about them, but a majority of them are chill people who want to put on a costume.

omggg wait we gotta stop being mean to furries, im sick of it, ive met them and theyre nice people

[cctinsleybaxter]

Every year I put together a list of the 10 best books I read, ordered by when I read them. 2017 was... truly something... and I only liked 3 of the 26 on my list. BUT this was evened out by this year’s books now being my all-time favorites (and you all get to enjoy a very long list of dishonourable mentions.)

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: I was lucky to find a really good translation of this with footnotes (thank you Richard Pevear) and I’m going to be obsessed with it until I die. Romance, religion, absurdism, and oppression feat the devil, hotboy, a bottle of sunflower oil, a succubus, an ugly twink, and his dramatic as hell boyfriend who’s a furry with a gun. And that list doesn’t even include The Master or Margarita. 

Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders: Life-changingly beautiful. Which I know is a dramatic claim but it honestly kind of made me want to cry and never stop.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson: This is one of the most popular books in the US for a reason. My two cents are that I would never have read a book just about H.H Holmes, or a book just about the architecture of the world’s fair, but somehow combining the two is one of the best stories ever told. I also love the little details like dinner menus and street addresses.

Honourable Mentions

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith: I will spend the rest of my life trying to figure out why this woman hated gay men so much, but I don’t think there’s really an answer. Either way it’s impossible for me not to get wrapped up in stories of intrigue, insanity, and murder.

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut:  ‘Can a person be defined by their actions and nothing else?’ is a pretty heavy question, so it deserves a pretty heavy answer (this was a rough one to read but still quality KVJ.)

Strange Weather by Joe Hill: I’m always wary of putting in short story/novella collections as a single work since they tend to vary in quality, but cor Joe Hill is a good writer. I absolutely loved one of these (I’ll leave it to you to find out which), and one of them really freaked me out because it’s set exactly where I grew up and where I commuted all summer (I’ve never experienced that in a story before so every time he would mention a specific street name I was just... ‘BLUHAHE.’)

Dishonourable Mentions

Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs: I really liked Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children when I was fourteen and wanted to finish the series for nostalgia’s sake. If there’s one thing I learned this past year it’s never revisit anything for nostalgia’s sake this man cannot write.

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater: I read all four books over the course of the year because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out the hype and was just waiting for them to get good. Or maybe I’m just a masochist. Either way, not terrible but very, very, underwhelming.

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor: Like reading a philosophy textbook written by Hot Topic itself.

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel In Letters by Mark Dunn: Literally losing the alphabet is a great and interesting concept, but when it’s this flowery and romantic with a ‘mysterious solution’ that’s far too easy notice? No thanks.

The Gunslinger by Stephen King: I’ve been told by multiple people that the Dark Tower series gets really good if you can just make it through the first two books. I made it through and lost any and all desire to continue. He wrote the first book in college, so maybe the sheer number of boobs and bullets is easier to dismiss but THEN we come to...

The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King: Racism!!!!!!!! Disguised as anti-racism!!!! My favorite!!!! (Botched a much more interesting concept with this one too, yikes Stephen.)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer: Has this man ever actually talked to a child or an autistic person or an autistic child? Also I’m a pretentious bastard but this was a bit much even for me.

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhh why are you so obsessed with underage sex and weird kinks and ghost rape and dream incest and classical music and also acting like there’s a venn diagram between all of these things? How and why are you doing this? 

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai: This was one of those books that was all the worse because I absolutely loved the first 100 pages of it. And then it wasn’t fun anymore and just a garbage fire. Respect Women Juice.

[thegeminisage]

papyrus and sans (2 for 1)

PAPYRUS:

Why I like them: my favorite thing about papyrus is his enduring belief in the best of people he believes in me more than i do

Why I don’t: there is literally nothing not to like he is perfect in every way

Favorite episode (scene if movie): the part where he jumps out of the garbage to train alphys in loving herself no entrance could ever be more perfect

Favorite line: EVERY time he makes a pun, which is actually even more frequently than sans. also “papyrus! he smells like the moon”

Favorite outfit: COOL DUDE THREADS

OTP: papyrus/being aroace

Brotp: papyrus and flowey :’)

Head Canon: autistic papyrus! i love this one a whole lot i wish i saw more of it

Unpopular opinion: i don’t really like stuff where papyrus is secretly--anything. secretly hiding a dark and mysterious past or secretly in the know about more shit than--no, i’m saying this wrong, i read handplates AND underline, that’s not correct. like. okay. the stuff where his happiness and faith in humanity and upbeatness is ~all a lie!~ that kinda stuff. bc my favorite things about him are his confidence and his faith in people and his refusal to be worn down by life’s awfulness. i like to think that’s genuine and anything that portrays it as just an act never really sits right with me.

A wish: i think it would be cool to see him really use the full force of the strength available to him because even though he wouldn’t cheat like sans if he actually used all his strength + his blasters he’d probably be OP as fuck?? where’s the animation with badass papyrus give it to me

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: literally the concept art is my worst nightmare so glad all that was avoided

5 words to best describe them: brave, loving, kind, strong, great

My nickname for them: paps, because pap and pappy both sound weird to me.

sans:

Why I like them: i like how relatable he is i too care little for my appearance and never want to get out of bed. also i’m fat and asexual and sans is also asexual (shut the fuck up @ anybody who wants to fight about it), so like we’re #twinning pretty hard 

Why I don’t: he’s become onceler and i see too much accidental porn of him which needs to stop IMMEDIATELY and never, ever happen again. didn’t you guys get the memo he’s asexual?? (i know asexual people can have relationships leave me alone)

Favorite episode (scene if movie): i have 3. the first one is where he asks papyrus if he wants to look at the conveniently shaped lamp, because he’s fucking with the player, frisk, AND his brother ALL at the same time purely for his own amusement and no one else’s. that was when i fell in love with him as character. the second one is when he tells you the story at the mtt resort. and the THIRD one, is, obviously, his entire fight. holy shit. he’s so COOL

Favorite line: basically every time he taunts you when you’re fighting him. “how bout we make it a third” and “we’ll start from twelve” and “heh heh heh did i getcha” jesus christ he’s fucking SAVAGE dude

Favorite outfit: he just has the one but i prefer the variation with the plain hoodie, not the furry one, no mittens, and no socks.

OTP: sans/himself, as toby fox once said. i can tolerate veeeeery lowkey soriel or like, queerplatonic soriel, i guess. i’ve read a few comics and fics with them as a bg pairing and that was all right. i just prefer him as aro/ace and with no one.

Brotp: HIGH KEY sans and toriel like literally the the point where like i said i can tolerate shippy stuff of them if it’s very lowkey

Head Canon: haha i already mentioned the asexuality i guess whoops

Unpopular opinion: DON’T FUCKING SHIP HIM WITH FRISK (or chara) like idc if it’s ~aged up~ that’s...pedophilia, dudes. consensual adults fine okay whatever not my bag but go knock yourselves out but please stop drawing and writing him in child porn, please, please, i’m begging you

A wish: s...stop drawing him in child porn?? 

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: i hope he never gets with toriel canonically like the q&a gave us great ship fodder and i’m fine w/ that but should toby fox ever make another game with these guys (and i am certain he will not, but IF) i just want no official sans ship.

5 words to best describe them: garbage garbage meme pun garbage

My nickname for them: OH SHIT IT’S SNAS UNDERTALE