I am... tired.
Lately we've been dealing with so much drama and feeling less and less connected to others. We're in that weird space where we 100% support kink and art, no ifs, ands, or buts, but we're also pretty dang close to 100% aroace. The problem is that in more cutesy-cuddly babyfur communities, it's basically a toss-up whether or not someone's going to say that one of our friends deserves to die, but in kink-positive communities, we often feel like a huge outlier who has little in common with the others. Most of the time, explicitly aroace spaces are just puriteen spaces, so I definitely don't want anything to do with them either.
Nuance and compassion are entirely gone from the internet. I want a place where I can just be me. I want a place where people don't say awful things about those who have different life experiences than them, or who choose to express themselves in ways that don't align with the other person's preferences or boundaries. I want a place where I can be a cuddly little kitten but also a place where I'm not gonna get told to kill myself because on rare occasions I participate in kink despite being a cuddly little kitten. I want a place where I don't randomly get jumpscared with someone wanting to reinforce systems that are designed to kill people like me.
More than anything, I just want fellow queers to realize that we're in the middle of another Holocaust, and we're all targets; the last time this went down, they kept us in the camps after they freed everyone else. That doesn't mean that we're powerless or that the world is ending. It just means we need to take care of each other.
I want people to be willing to engage in solidarity, not petty drama and punching down. I want people to care about things outside of themselves, especially regarding systemic issues and oppression. I want a place where authenticity is the most important thing, and where people can actually put aside the outrage politics and dogpiling of Twitter-adjacent spaces, the stuff intentionally engineered to sow division and hate. I want a community that engages in good faith, for once in my life.
I dunno. If any of that resonates with you, maybe we can be friends. Maybe we can build a space. I don't care if you're a babyfur, or even furry at all. I'm happy to make friends with pony fans, furs of all shapes and sizes, and even humans. I just wanna find a place that's actually safe for people who exist at the intersection of a ton of marginalizations, that's actively accepting of kink and sexuality but not exclusively sexual nor enabling of abuse, and that's filled with people who want to care.
I'd like to make friends who are aware of systemic racism, misogyny/patriarchy, transphobia, transmisogyny, homophobia, ableism, and sanism, among other societal pressures. Sanism in particular is the barrier I often run into; almost everyone likes to think that people are "born bad" or that being "insane" or "mentally unwell" makes you dangerous or deserving of incarceration. Valuing capitalism or authoritarian dynamics almost universally puts you at odds with addressing these issues.
If that sounds like something you'd like too, boop me. Maybe we can make a little Discord server or Signal group or webring or something.
(that's probably gonna be a punk/anarchist space just because of the people who're likely to agree to those stipulations, but we'll see)