#cyberfurry

[agronian]

cyberindustrial daddy punk in elriel... ummmm O__O

[heya-raccoon]

I'm cooking something up...

[rjalker]

another public domain character who uses it/its pronouns.

Haven't decided on a name....drawn at 1AM.

It's trans in every way. All of them. At the same time. This character is designed to be much shorter than is the norm for its species, whether that's in a universe with talking animals or aliens, or as a cyberfurry.

[ID: A simple, symetrical digital drawing of an anthropomorphic bat character wearing black and white striped overalls over a pink and blue striped shirt. The bat has mostly yellow fur on its face and arms, with brown on top of its head and ears, and blue speckles where the short sleeves of its shirt are. Its simple flat feet are brown with yellow toes. It has its wings open, showing five fingers, one of which curves down and back, holding the membrane of the wing open, with smaller webs between the other fingers. The wing membrane is blue, with yellow along the bottom edge, and three yellow dots following each fold as decoration. Smaller drawings down the sides show that the longer finger can fold flat back against the arm to collapse the wing until it is almost invisible. Its eyes are large and brown, and its nose is pointed and light orange, as are part of the insides of its ears, which have a design of a half circle followed by two curved lines, like echoes. There are small white buttons on the tops of its sleeves. It smiles at the camera. End ID.]

before I forget: the shirt has buttons on the tops of the sleeves, and then the bottom part just hangs loose and follows gravity. The sides are open to accommodate the wing membrane, and just gets tucked into the pants or a belt or something, which in this case is overalls.

[neopronouns-in-action]

Neopronouns in Action #083: Alterhuman Advancements April 2124

Neopronouns: grey/greys/greyself which follow the same rules as it/its/itself

Replace it with grey Replace its with greys Replace itself with greyself

EX:

"It is going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as it gets a fence set up around its yard so the puppy can go outside without it having to walk it. Its uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he's letting it use, since it lost its. It's going to buy toys and train the puppy itself."

Becomes:

"Grey is going to adopt a new puppy soon, as soon as grey gets a fence set up around greys yard so the puppy can go outside without grey having to walk it. Greys uncle is going to help set up the fence, since he has a set of power tools he's letting grey use, since grey lost greys. Grey's going to buy toys and train the puppy greyself."

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Note: This is written in the style of an article, but there are no actual images present.

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(Archived read-more link)

A Day at the Fair, by Kat Jones.

It was a warm April day in Hayfield when I sat down with Lucifer Morningstar to talk about alterations, gender, and a little bit of romance.

Lucifer Morningstar, as you may have heard, was one of the first ‘Cyberfurries’, as they are commonly called, to be given wings.

Lucifer, who describes greyself as a nonbinary demiboy, uses the pronouns grey/greys/greyself, was the third Cyberfurry to get wings that could be moved and be controlled like a real muscle, rather than just being able to do a few pre-programmed motions with a switch. (See: Interview With an Alterist Vampire for more information on the earlier-released limited-motion wings)

Now before my readers get too excited, we do have to clarify that, while Lucifer’s wings are very impressive and state of the art, like the earlier models, they’re still not functional for flying, which is just how Lucifer likes it.

“I’m scared of heights,” grey told me, “Like, seriously terrified. I don’t even like going up on ladders to get things from high shelves. I didn’t want to get wings hoping to be able to actually fly with them, I just want wings because, well, I mean, look at them!” [Grey flared greys wings for emphasis, showing off the way the iridescent red feathers shone in the sunlight.

They stretch from tip to tip as far as grey’s outstretched hands, much too small for powered flight when you don’t have hollow bones and the wings aren’t designed to be functional in the first place.

“If they’re able to invent wings in the next few years that would enable you to fly, would you get the upgrade?” I asked.

Lucifer shrugged, folding greys wings back across greys back. Grey was only lightly clothed, leaving the red and black fur that now covered greys body to do most of the modesty work and temperature regulation. I was definitely jealous of greys built-in sunscreen and air conditioning, since the sun that day was ready to bake you if you didn’t sit in the shade when the breezes stopped.

Since it was a medieval fair where I met grey, grey was dressed for the occasion: Shining gold-like armour over one arm and half of greys chest, with a seemingly solid gold sickle-like sword to match (carefully dulled, not actually dangerous except as a blunt instrument), and knee length breeches meant to mimic the style that would have been worn by medieval nobles. Lucifer also had a full-sized metal shield with greys own heraldic design on it: four alternating black and red checkers separated by bands of gold, with a metallic gold sun in the center.

“You know, to fit my name, Morningstar.” grey said, when I asked how grey’d chosen the design. “And to match my fur colors. It’s pretty unmistakable.”

I asked if grey had signed up for any of the tournaments at the festival, but grey said no, the armour and weapon were just for fun, grey wasn’t actually interested in any fighting, artistically staged or not. What grey was interested in though were the costume contests, and the Cyberfurry showoffs.

Lucifer was far from the only Cyberfurry to show up to this festival, and I was fortunate enough to have a chance to talk with many of them throughout the day, and you’ll get to read some sections of their interviews in other sections in this edition.

I asked Lucifer what made grey choose to get alterations, and grey replied, “I mean, who wouldn’t want to when it’s free?” Grey threw out an arm and struck a pose for emphasis.

I reminded grey that there were a lot of people who didn’t want them, even though they were free. Some just because they didn’t want to, others because they thought it was a form of moral deprivation. I’m personally waiting until they’re advanced enough that I can change the colors at a whim rather than having to physically get new fur or feathers or scales each time. But a lot of people don’t want alterations at all.

“Well, they don’t count.” Lucifer laughed. “I got them because I’ve always been a fan of anthro characters, and getting the chance to look this awesome is just something I couldn’t pass up. Especially since I didn’t have to pay for any of it, and the research is going to a good cause.”

(Many of the techniques used for creating Cyberfurry alterations are being used in research to create brand new organs for people who need them rather than having to wait for a transplant from a compatible donor)

I asked Lucifer to describe to me greys final design in greys own words.

“I like to call myself a demiboy deminicat.” grey replied cheerfully. “I went with mostly black fur because I’ve always been a goth, you can see from my old pictures, here—” [Lucifer got out greys phone to show me an old pre-alteration photo] “I got red highlights, and gold for my eyes and accessories, like my armour. I think sticking to three main colors gives you a really clear recognizably, though of course I’ve seen a ton of sparkledogs that look absolutely amazing too. Have you spoken to Sophie yet?”

Sophie is Lucifer’s partner, and I had met her briefly, but she had been waiting for her turn in one of the tournaments, so we hadn’t been able to talk long. I told Lucifer this, and grey said, “Oh well then you know what she’s done with her feathers. She’s probably the most colorful Cyberfurry I’ve met, and she just looks fantastic.”

[Below is pictured Sophie and Lucifer posing for my camera together from later in the day. Lucifer is the black and red demonicat giving Sophie bunny ears, Sophie is the pastel rainbow harpy puffing up all her facial feathers to look funny]

“So what exactly is a demonicat?” I asked.

“Well, it’s a combination of a demon and cat. You can see I’ve got cat ears, eyes, and fur, with digitigrade legs and the paw pads to match” (gery held up one foot to show the pink toe beans on the bottom, and demonstrated sheathing and unsheathing the red claws on greys hands) “but I’ve also got the horns of a demon and wings, though I went with feathered rather than the leathery wings most other demon-themers pick. I like feathers better, they’re nice and soft.”

Standing upright, Lucifer is about six feet tall, with black fur on greys amrs and legs, with red on grey chest and belly, hands, and feet, sort of like the points on a Siamese cat. Greys eyes have slitted pupils like a cats, and are bright gold. Grey had large pointed cats ears, which can be swiveled and folded at will, just like a regular cat, and passively enhance greys directional hearing from their shape helping to funnel more sound into the ear.

In the center of greys forehead are two large horns that sweep back, with segmented rings sort of like a a spingbok antelope. Grey has a black tail that ends in a tuft of red fur like a lion, and greys shoulders, which I can see for myself, and thighs, as grey tells me, are speckled with more red against the black.

“Black and red have always been my favorite color combination” grey explained, “and with the gold added it just looks even cooler.”

“Is your design based on or inspired by any particular characters from your childhood?” I asked. [If you missed my interview with Zenaida Darwin, whose Cyberfurry design is based on Kalis from The Peacekeeper’s Logs, check out last month’s edition on our website]

“No, not really, unless my own original characters count.” Lucifer replied, “I was always drawing in school, even when I wasn’t supposed to be. For my final design you see here, I picked my favorite traits of every character I’d ever designed. Fur is a must, wings are a must, and the black and red is just too cool to go without.”

Moving on from the specifics of alteration design, we started talking about greys gender identity.

“What does being a demiboy mean to you?” I asked, “Could you explain it for our readers?”

Lucifer answered, “I’m not sure I’m really good at explaining it, but I’ll try. There are a lot of ways to be a demiboy, so my answer isn’t going to apply to everyone, it’s just how I define my own experience. Basically, growing up, I knew I wasn’t a girl or a woman, and I also definitely wasn’t a man, but I was sort of kind of a boy? Which if you think about it is a different gender from man – there’s a whole different set of expectations and rules around being a boy and being a man. So I’m partially a boy, and partially something else that’s nonbinary, but I’m not a man. Definitely never a man. I usually don’t like being called things like ‘guy’ or ‘dude’, but I’m fine with being called a boy, and some androgynous terms.”

“How did you figure out you were a demiboy?”

“Mostly I just needed to learn that the term existed. I’d already figured it out pretty much for myself, I just didn’t know there was already an actual word for it until I met some friends online who were talking about it. It really just clicked as soon as I heard their descripton, and I knew that’s what I was.”

“No moments of doubt? No questioning?”

“No, not really, not for this at least. But a lot of my friends will tell you openly that they really struggled to figure out their gender. Others knew it as soon as they remember thinking. It’s different for everyone, there’s no one true way to figure out your gender identity or whether you’re trans or not.”

“What made you choose the pronouns grey/greys/greyself?”

“I just think they sound really cool, and they kind of highlight the grey area my gender’s in,. Not a lot of people understand what I mean when I tell them I’m a demiboy, so sometimes it feels like a little bit of a mystery.”

“Did you use any other promnouns before settling on these ones? Besides the ones you were assigned at birth?”

“Oh boy did I. I went through at least a dozen before I decided to keep these ones. It was really fun just testing them all out with friends to see which ones I wanted. It took about two years after I decided to change my pronouns to finally setting on grey/greys, and now I’ve had them for five years , with no plans to change them any time soon.”

“What do you do if you meet someone who doesn’t use your pronouns?”

“Well, it depends on why they’re not using them. If they’re just not sure how to use them, I’ll teach them. If they refuse to use them because they’re just a bigot and don’t want to learn, I’ll just not talk to them.”

“Have you met anyone else who uses the same pronouns?”

“Online? A few. IRL? Not yet!”

“Ever see any fictional characters with your pronouns?”

“Not so far, unless I or a friend was the one who wrote it.”

“Would you say learning how to use neopronouns was difficult for you?”

“I mean, in the beginning I was pretty intimidated, but then a friend explained how they really wok, just following the same rules as other pronouns in English, and I started practicing, and it became really easy. I can pretty much learn any set immediately without too much trouble now. My only problem is figuring out how to pronounce people’s emoji pronouns if they don’t specify first. And sometimes people spell their pronouns the same, but pronounce them completely differently. I have two friends who spell their pronouns X E, but one pronounces it ze, and the other pronounces it “zhi”. That was a little confusing at first when we started meeting up IRL.”

We decided to walk around together a bit, and Lucifer led the way since grey was more familiar wit the festival’s layout than I was. Grey showed me the face painting booths, where I got the star pattern you can see below.

[Pictured: me, sticking my tongue out at the camera, with gold stars and sparkles painted on my cheeks, while Leeko the Clown poses next to me with two thumbs up. Lucifer took the picture for us.]

Lucifer took me on a tour of the festival grounds while grey explained why grey’d chosen such a distinctive, and many have said blasphemous, name.

“I’ve never been religious,” grey said, “I didn’t really get it. For the longest time after I found out the tooth fairy wasn’t real, I actually assumed that it was the same way with God and the Devil, people just told stories to keep kids in line. I assumed no one actually believed it, like how only kids believe in the tooth fairy. It took me a surprisingly long time to figure out that most people who talk about god actually believe in him. It pretty much blew my mind. Anyways, I picked the name Lucifer, because I mean, I went to Sunday school with everyone else in my neighborhood, and if I had to pick between being on the side of the guy who drowns everyone, or the guy who gives you knowledge, I’m going with the guy who lets you learn stuff. Plus, my teachers always said there was something of the devil about me, which they meant as an insult, but I’ve decided to take it as a compliment. Also, it’s just a cool sounding name, and it fits my theme of demon cat.”

We paused the interview for a little so that Lucifer could join in with the costume contest. I waited in the bleachers with the rest of the spectators while grey and dozens of other contestants were called out one at a time to show off their outfits.

[You can watch the official video of the competition for free on Hayfield Hayday’s website, and there’s a lot of personal uploads available elsewhere on the web too.]

A lot of people had their own fake swords and heraldic shields, some professionally made like Lucifer’s, others made by hand out of cardboard or painted foam. There were three main categories: one for everyone altogether, then one for unaltered people, and one for Cyberfurries. Then these were broken up into smaller themes: Knights, dragons, royalty, jesters, and more.

The youngest contestant was 6, the oldest was in hir 80s.

The overall winner was two teenagers who’d hand-swen an entire two-person dragon costume with posable wings, head, and tail, with each different scale made up of every pattern fabric you can imagine. They even had their own theme song they played on one of their phones as they ran a practiced circuit around the field showing off their teamwork. The six year old, who was dressed up like a hellhound, came in 2nd.

Lucifer came in 5th place for the cyberfurry knights, and was grinning war to ear and cheering for everyone else the whole time.

The posable wings, which were still considered a novelty, were a huge hit.

After the contest, we met up with Sophie, as you saw in the photo above, and the two shared fun stories of their dating history with me.

They’d originally become friends at this same festival ten years ago, before any cybernetic alterations had been released, but they’d already both been part of the furry fandom already, and met when they were dressed as their original characters, back then made out of carefully crafted foam, plaster, and fake fur. Today, they grow their own fur and feathers.

Unlike Lucifer, Sophie is excited by the prospect of being able to upgrade her wings in the future for ones that will allow her to fly by herself.

I asked them each what it was like dating a Cyberfurry, and they both said it wasn’t really that much different from dating anyone else, except sometimes you got your Cyberfurry datemate new sets of grooming tools for feathers or fur, or a digital upgrade pack as gifts rather than roses or boxes of chocolate, though those were involved too.

It wasn’t long before Sophie had to leave to join in for the next tournament, so Lucifer and I walked together until we came to the petting zoo.

“Did you struggle with finding a dating pool after you got alterations?” I asked while a baby goat literally climbed on top of greys shoulders. Lucifer had explained that while grey and Sophie had been friends for years, they hadn’t started romantically dating until fairly recently, and that they’d both gone through multiple partners until now.

“Not really” grey said, “Anyone I’d be interested in dating in the first place had to be okay with me being a cyberfurry and a demiboy, so getting such blatant alterations actually made dating easier. Now I don’t have to worry as much about people skipping out once I explain my gender to them. If they’re cool with fur and wings, they’re usually cool with demiboys too. And if they're not, that’s their loss, and my gain.”

“What do you see yourself doing in the future? You told me right now you’re an apprentice blacksmith, right? Do you plan on continuing that?”

“Oh, definitely. I love being able to make such cool stuff myself. I do want to try and get better at drawing, though, I think it’d be pretty fun to draw drawing a graphic novel some day.”

“What would the plot be?”

“”I’ll let you know when I figure that out.”

[Pictured: Lucifer crouching in the animal pen, with two brown and white baby goats balanced on greys back, and other attempting to eat greys pant leg. Lucifer is shrugging comically in a ‘what can you do?’ kind of way.]

The sun was starting to set by the time we left the petting zoo, so Lucifer and I said our goodbyes, and made plans to try and meet again if I ever came to the festival again next year, which I’m certainly looking forward to.

To read Lucifer’s version of our adventure together at the fair, you can follow the link at the top of the article to go to grey’s V-log!

[felyas-stuff]

art market halloween and mouthwashing hyperfixation hit me so hard that i completely forgot to post these oops

cyberfurries? furryfarm?? idk i just wanna have fun

[timetravelstudies]

When chia said “ok so do those ear thingies they wear with the plugsuit serve a purpose or are they just there to further the cyberfurry aesthetic” i think about that every time i see them

[2af-afterdark]

The more I play Nu: Carnival, the more I'm convinced that my phone is sentient enough to despise Dante. Everytime a banner includes him, I usually get nobody, and if i do get someone, its never Dante. Meanwhile, its the opposite for Garu. I don't get him for every banner, but it really seems like whenever a Garu banner happens, I only end up getting him and if i get the other person, its only after Garu. I guess my phone is a cyberfurry?

RNGesus is a cruel god. There is always that one cgaracter who you will seemingly never get, and that one character who will never stop coming home. For you, that has his Dante (never coming home) and Garu (won't leave you alone).

You must accept RNGesus' ruling, or else it will curse you with always having to hit pity.

[texeoghea]

more of monsterfucker and cyberfurry with @oatchi

[walks-the-ages]

I want cyberfurry Soundwave now.

Sound attack via howling. His pack/cassettes are his family :3

[chipped-chimera]

*unexpectedly kicks down the door and storms back in several hours later*

AND ANOTHER THING. I know how we all laugh and joke about furries being in top tier tech jobs and science and shit - because we know it's true. You know what this means? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? IT IS VERY LIKELY, YOUR TIP TOP OF THE LINE IMPLANTS WERE MADE BY FURRIES. HECK THEY PROBABLY LEAD THE WAY FOR LARGE PARTS OF THE INDUSTRY.

WHERE ARE CANON CYBERFURRIES, PUT THEM IN THE GAME YOU COWARDS.

they are doing things on the fallout 4 nexusmods page God doesnt even know about

[heya-raccoon]

Furry Silverhand

[rjalker]

[ID: A simple digital drawing of an original character labeled "Public Domain, Tuhnellej, it/its/itself". Tuhnellej is a dragon with six legs, an upright torso with two points arms, and a long tail that ends in a thick club-shape covered in round knobs. It has a ridge of rounded plates running down its spine in brick red, and has a large compound eye visible on its simplified round face, with feathery antenne pointing backward from its head. The frontmost part of its body is mostly pale brick colored, with darker burnt umber on its spike and under its arms. Its tail and each leg has a section in the middle of orange with loose spots on the outer edges, and then paler yellow for the feet and the large club shape on the tail, with the knobs burnt orange. End ID.]

Another public domain character who uses it/its. Named after Jellenhut from Venusian Lullaby by spelling her name backwards.

Lives in or near volcanos or deserts, I haven't decided. Or could be a cyberfurry once they really get good at the alterations.

Public domain = anyone can use this character and species design for anything you want! Anything! Literally anything!

[neopronouns-in-action]

This is a poll

Question: "What kinds of stories would you most like to see more of on this blog?"

Options:

1: Romances

2: Different planets / worlds

3: Science fiction - space ships and robots

4: Xenofiction (told from the perspective of a nonhuman of some kind)

5: Cyberfurries

6: Kill the rich

7: Aliens

8: People being nerds about plants

9: Werewolves

10: Vampires

11: Superheroes vs Supercops

12: Wolf Quest gameplay novelizations

[eddathegreat]

Y'know, I didn't even think of it like that, but yeah I guess that is an important takeaway from this chapter: we've got cyberfurries

[alterhuman-advancements]

How do I make my posts more inclusive of people who think they’re not human? /gen

Thank you for the question!

The first step is not to think of us as people who /think/ they're not human, it's to think of us as people who /aren't/ human.

I'm not human /because I don't identify as human/

The same exact way I'm not a man or a woman /because I don't identify as being a man or a woman./

It's not "I don't think I'm human" "I don't think I'm or a man or a woman",

it's

"I'm not human." and "I'm not a man or woman."

Other than that, it would depend on what kinds of posts you're making, so you'd have to be more specific.

[decepti-thots]

hffsjhg THEY MEET ONLINE ACTUALLY. THAT'S IT. THEY'RE MUTUALS AND DON'T TELL EACH OTHER THEIR REAL NAMES. they met on a cyberfurry discord channel prove me wrong

headcanon: optimus and tailgate would get along very well if they somehow managed to carve through all the hero worship

hah, that's. really cute and funny honestly. rewind canonically knows OP, he could introduce them! i think you'd really have to carve through the hero worship, but 10/10 once they did, can you imagine everyone's reaction. au where OP lives post-canon purely so he gets invited to the cygate wedding and it's super awkward for everyone else probably.