Art gets lost for a variety of reasons, the artist purges their gallery, a site changes its rules, a site shuts down. Sometimes if you look hard enough you can find something, sometimes you find evidence it existed and sometimes everything is lost to the sands of time. Do you have anything you wished you saved? Do you have...
I fell this implies they’re still wearing a suit, Dogs seem like they do okay with their coats. But think of how much fur would get all over everything. How would you cook?
Random credit card facts: The first ~8 digits are related to the credit network and issuing bank. Visa cards all start with 4. The last digit is a checksum and it only is really useful to validate the rest of the digits were entered correctly.
In this edition of thoughts from l_b_i, I thought I would share some “shiny” artists. As my preference in art is generally of the NSFW variety and usually BDSM themes, you can expect the same from the links. This list is in no particular order....
As at least one person will see it, so here is the list I forgot in the initial post. ota kuwolf: wide array of themes, “trap runner” a bondage game-show, lots of bitchsuits, scifi,… helixjack If I had to give a theme, transformation. ravensflock Transformation and hypnosis. Works some with serathin who writes stories of the same theme. xenolugia150- deleted profile used to write a bunch of good stores for ravensflock too.
Other planned categories could be weird, rope, traditional, stories, comics.
Rhaenjarr is new to me I’ll have to check them out, I actually mentioned Helixjack in my followup. yiffit.net/comment/3977548.
I am familiar with Reflare500. I was thinking of doing another post with “weird” artists, and they were one I was going to feature along with jasentamiia and dombrus and some others. These were mainly going to be non traditional / inanimate TF because I couldn’t think of a better category.
yiffit is 1 shy of 800 users. After the post is old enough, if people here liked it, it would get some votes; it doesn’t. I don’t know enough about how the sorting works here to know what would cause it to pop back up in hot after being new. I do know that -2= never seen in hot/active again.
oh, I know. but stuff popular among those here still winds up net positive. I try to use the smaller communities to bring awareness that they exist. If no one posts, no one will post.
I think that is only users who comment/post. I don’t think it counts votes or logins. I know probably a majority of registered users aren’t active, but I think there are enough to at least keep things popular here at 0.
Without knowing the events surrounding your anxiety, I can’t really help you there.
I have a very privacy focused view online and would likely use VPNs or other methods to circumvent technical limitations. As for the payment processors, yea they have a history of being hostile to adult topics I think onlyfans was big enough to have negotiating power. Fetlife had to stop accepting credit cards (they might accept them again now) due to processor requirements that would have required them to remove many fetishes. At least with distributed platforms (mastodon, lemmy, matrix…) you don’t have to ever worry about identifying yourself, except maybe to the local admin.
I don’t know what the current general view towards sex is, but then again I watch mostly sex positive spaces where most people do have an AD or just post everything on main. Like everything sexual expression comes in waves. In the mid 1900 hollywood was fundamental in their enforcement of “decency”. It has been a fight for hundreds of years and no signs of it stopping.
Edit: Forgot to mention patreon, they just kicked another kink off their platform.
That lemmy instance is not known to be the most accepting of differing opinions. Its a shame its one of the bigger ones.
At least with the laws, for now they seem to only be local to states with others going the opposite way. From growing up in a not christian part of the US, to living in a fairly christian area now, its amazing how casually religion is thrown around. I don’t even think people realize they do it.
I don’t know how much is puritan vs how much is liability. you always have to think about the brand image and although sex sells, we don’t want our brand associated with it. Crypto was supposed to solve some of the payment stuff, but its just confusing, full of scams, and full or investors turning it into a commodity rather than a currency. There is still cash, and bank transfers, but that only goes so far. I’d be happy to see a more open credit network, but I don’t really think there is a big enough market for someone to try and fill that niche.
That way of thinking is so foreign to me I can’t quite figure out where it comes from. I know “The Church” has a history of pushing itself around, with many people bragging about their mission trips. To people where “the church” is their identity, it seems their worldview is anyone they don’t agree with is going to hell, and they want everyone but the sinners in heaven. If you try to look at it from that world view you can almost reason out its not hatred, its love. I want to save you. I mean, that’s wrong but its the only way I can see reason in that opinion.
To argue against someone first you have to try to understand where their beliefs come from. I don’t know how much of what I put above is trying to attach empathy to those who lack it, but its the most charitable way I can try to see how they got to their opinion.
For me I take an effort to recognize its out of my control. Once I do that and focus on the fact there is nothing I can do about it I can move on. Some things have a little staying power, but once I try and focus on the next thing it slowly fades away.
I can’t comment on fursuits, but I did wear my college mascot costume when I tried out. It was… freeing. Even though it was only a few minutes, and I cringe at the horrible skit I tried to do. While wearing it and performing, I was able to do things I would never have been able to do in front of others without wearing it.
Overall I would say it is a dissociation to a degree. A 'sona isn’t them, its someone else with different goals, fears, wants, and abilities.
My thought process is just so far from that, that I can’t remotely understand that point of view. The best I’ve heard is the 0 sum theory, that somehow they think if things get better for someone else it gets worse for them. Its just something I can’t understand.
Special thanks to @Wander for setting it up in the first place and keeping it going, and for the awesome new helper. And special thanks to to @yote_zip for his daily memeing....
Much of lemmy outside of memes, piracy, and linux is a bit dead. Take !formula1 It has 8k subscribers and the most recent race has 76 comments. /r/formula1 has 3.4M subscribers (500x) and the most recent race has 10.3k comments (135x). I like the little bit smaller feeling of lemmy, but probably a little too small right now.
As for mastodon, I don’t have an account over there, but finding people is hard unless you already know they are there. To start, you have the decision issue of which instance to join, then you have the discovery and de-federation issues present in the fediverse in general. Its super hard to browse twitter without an account now, but from what I can see, bluesky is the next destination and many have abandoned mastodon. I think that’s because bluesky fixes both of the main issues with the fediverse. There is only one of it, and everyone is on the same one. Unfortunately its closed to guests and will likely suffer the same fate as all VC supported social media.
I don’t even know if letting people know about lemmy would help much. There are already so many other places people are present, are the interested in yet another?
A little bit of the activity from me is also due to the emptiness here. I wanted more so I decided to be the change I want to see. Unfortunately for everyone else here, my favorites are niche of niche.
I’m certainly not part of any community, except I guess yiffit, but I’ve also never really given it a shot.
I don’t know that I have much to say, or even add to the conversation most times. I just type whatever pops into my head (within reason) and nobody has complained yet.
I don’t think I spent much time online probably until high school, I think that’s when my family got DSL. I never really participated in any boards or IRC channels, or any internet culture in general. It wasn’t until after I was well into college that I think I did any learning through internet osmosis. So in the having access to the internet sense, any online community is probably easier than when I was growing up. Also, If I’m reading the wiki correctly, I was familiar with the Swedish admin of VCL on FA as foople. I liked their writing. RIP
Its always interesting the different order things happen in. My “other” Reddit account (same name as this one here) is 6 years old, but my FA account is 10. Still no fursona for me, but I did make a cool moth my profile picture here.
Watchmaking is the kind of thing I can’t decide if I would like or despise. The way Marshall presents it, there is a lot of precision and focus needed, but after a while I would think a service is a service and just becomes routine.
I can see the appeal. It doesn’t hurt the internals are so cool looking too. I work with electronics and code. There is usually only correct operation, but often many different ways to get there; and many of the problems are self inflicted and usually fun to hunt down.
Candy Hoard (by chiakiro) (yiffit.net)
mmmm candy....
Lost art
Art gets lost for a variety of reasons, the artist purges their gallery, a site changes its rules, a site shuts down. Sometimes if you look hard enough you can find something, sometimes you find evidence it existed and sometimes everything is lost to the sands of time. Do you have anything you wished you saved? Do you have...
That time of year (yiffit.net)
Source: www.furaffinity.net/view/34392028 (tinydeerguy)
Blackstone oil engine startup (mechanical sounds) (www.youtube.com)
Startup and running of a hot bulb engine. Mechanical sounds only. The engine starts running at ~1:40
Species Stereotypes.
Do you believe in them? For those with a fursona, do they fit you? For those without what species would fit you?
Careful what you wish for (pawb.social)
Source: CanisFidelis - inkbunny.net/s/2803671
0% APY (pawb.social)
Source: @freckles_art - twitter.com/freckles_art/…/1563360115084111874
18+ Some Shiny artists
In this edition of thoughts from l_b_i, I thought I would share some “shiny” artists. As my preference in art is generally of the NSFW variety and usually BDSM themes, you can expect the same from the links. This list is in no particular order....
OwO's (by Tatujapa) (yiffit.net)
Source: www.furaffinity.net/view/47921683...
I think I'm going to stop posting images here outside of memes.
I’ll still comment, and I might have a discussion with links, but I don’t think I’m going to post images anymore....
18+ [vent] A rantvent about public attitudes to adult content
(Content warning: This is an anxiety driven vent post. I talk a bit about politics and payment processing. Not for the faint of heart)....
Monarch the fox grabbing a bag (animation by OstinLein) (d.furaffinity.net)
Source: www.furaffinity.net/view/52957088/
Thank you to those of you who interact here.
Special thanks to @Wander for setting it up in the first place and keeping it going, and for the awesome new helper. And special thanks to to @yote_zip for his daily memeing....
Culinary genius (pawb.social)
Source: GoldenEmotions - www.furaffinity.net/view/43366974/
How did you first find out about Furries?
I found out about fursuits when I was trying to come up with a skit for trying out to be my college mascot.
Exhale (by churrokat) (d.furaffinity.net)
Source...
H.. H... Hey everyone! (lemmy.moe)
Nice to meet yall.
With the number of memes about furries in tech, what field do you work in?