MissFleece 1124 Posted June 1 Is everyone alive in here? yall doin ok? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrishaCat 1758 Posted June 1 I'm okay! Ish, work is lame and stressful but I'm getting on just fine! Been playing on my new Steam Deck and watching TV with friends. Thanks for coming by and saying hi! It's quiet around here >.< 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MissFleece 1124 Posted June 1 Fr, came by for some nostalgia and I see everybody's gone. Interesting stuff. This community was definitely a whirlwind lol but hopefully we all got some therapy and it wasn't just me :V Remembering days of old like the sylox piss thread and how I used to date dudes. I like torturing myself with embarrassment I guess. I imagine everybody's on discord now, they were navigating that way when the internal drama started. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WALFTEAM 27 Posted June 1 i should have posted here more when it was alive 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MissFleece 1124 Posted June 1 Don't feel bad, not many of us were good for each other. Tbh I came to see updates on people to see how they are doing but I don't think I'll get that. If anyone lurking sees this I hope you're doing well unless you're an ex of mine. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WALFTEAM 27 Posted June 3 Honestly if you take one look at Twitter the subculture has basically been ruined by it. It's so bad now that it's not really challenging or productive or even fun to point it out. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zaraphayx 5434 Posted June 3 He says on a forum that was the offshoot of a forum that was renown for its disdain for the mainstream furry fandom. Furry as a subculture was always garbage the revisionism needs to stop, Twitter didn't "ruin" anything it just put everyone's inner thoughts out in the open and now you can't delude yourselves about what monsters you surround yourself with. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MissFleece 1124 Posted June 3 I forgot about twitter, I completely abandoned it as a platform, it never seemed like my cup of tea and I'm glad. Zara is right though, furries have been the same on whatever platform they are on. You got some cool ones and you got the funky people and the even funkier ones that tend to do crime or social bullshittery. I think I was a little bit of everything lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WALFTEAM 27 Posted June 3 I watched people literally become more neurotic and depressed within months of setting up shop on Twitter back in 2010-2012. By the same token around 2016-2018 I saw forums just get completely taken over by their craziest posters, because the less unstable people got drawn out to like-button-dopamine-land. Very bleak times! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zaraphayx 5434 Posted June 3 2 minutes ago, WALFTEAM said: I watched people literally become more neurotic and depressed within months of setting up shop on Twitter back in 2010-2012. By the same token around 2016-2018 I saw forums just get completely taken over by their craziest posters, because the less unstable people got drawn out to like-button-dopamine-land. Very bleak times! I'm the most sane person you'll ever know - the "less unstable" ones are all gone because my refusal to collapse my stability into groveling apologetics triggered histrionic episodes of hilarious proportions. You think it's 'like-button-dopamine-land" because like everyone else who contritely laments the passing of forums you don't understand people as well as you think you do, and like everyone else you will keep making assertions instead of asking questions because it's the feeling of 'knowing' that drives all of it. You tell on yourself when you purport to understand these things, because you yourself chase likes, affirmation, the notion of being understood to be more correct than the next guy. You are on Twitter for those things, not me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zaraphayx 5434 Posted June 3 10 hours ago, MissFleece said: I forgot about twitter, I completely abandoned it as a platform, it never seemed like my cup of tea and I'm glad. Zara is right though, furries have been the same on whatever platform they are on. You got some cool ones and you got the funky people and the even funkier ones that tend to do crime or social bullshittery. I think I was a little bit of everything lol. You're better off. I'm glad to hear you're doing well, I kind of always wondered what happened to you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MissFleece 1124 Posted June 4 2 hours ago, Zaraphayx said: I'm glad to hear you're doing well, I kind of always wondered what happened to you. I've been going super slow but I'm almost done with college now. I put a lot of effort into the family farm and I plan on moving to my own farm using money from selling my house. Shit's not wrapped up but it's getting better. I got off the internet for a full year and got myself some fuckin hobbies lol. Now I can make cheese, carve wood, do some super beginner level stained glass, and I got way better at art. I'm on the Dean's list again, which I know isnt a big deal for a lot of people but I'm the first person in my family with a four year degree. I hope to use it to work remotely so I can focus on my animals and projects at home. I got real into gardening and food preservation. I had to kinda go off the face of the earth because there was no telling exactly who was getting info back to people that affected my safety, so I thought the best course of action was to just cut contact with everyone. On top of that there was just a lot of bad blood in the water. Then I had lots of money issues related to that entire situation, so I lost electricity and internet. It left me with a lot of time to realize how much of an addiction the electronic stuff had become for me. I used it as a coping mechanism and an escape when my grandpa was murdered and I needed to find healthy coping mechanisms instead, so it was a lucky happenstance that I was cut off cold turkey. I was not doing well for a while, emotionally, financially, health wise I had a tumor the size of a baby's head which lead to a bunch of hormone imbalances, it ate one of my ovaries and I am now sterile after surgery. I think that was a cause of a lot of my mental issues as well, because afterwards I feel a shit ton more stable. Also I figured out I was gluten intolerant lol. Either way a lot has changed, I feel like a completely different person now visiting the ghost of who I used to be. It's a weird feeling, it's not all good. But I hope to learn from the mistakes I made here and face any accountability I have to. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sidewalk Surfboard 3487 Posted June 4 I MISSED YOU 🥺 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MissFleece 1124 Posted June 4 5 hours ago, Sidewalk Surfboard said: I MISSED YOU 🥺 you're one of the people I worried about the most, so it's good to see you around still. Hope you're doing well. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sidewalk Surfboard 3487 Posted June 4 Just now, MissFleece said: you're one of the people I worried about the most, so it's good to see you around still. Hope you're doing well. That means a lot to me, actually. And yeah, things are good, lots better than they were back then. I'm glad things are going better for you too 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MissFleece 1124 Posted June 5 12 hours ago, Sidewalk Surfboard said: That means a lot to me, actually. And yeah, things are good, lots better than they were back then. I'm glad things are going better for you too Glad to hear that, if anybody fucks w u I'd still beat them up for ya sidewalk. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sidewalk Surfboard 3487 Posted June 5 4 hours ago, MissFleece said: Glad to hear that, if anybody fucks w u I'd still beat them up for ya sidewalk. I'll do the same for you 😤 Do you have discord still? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MissFleece 1124 Posted June 5 1 hour ago, Sidewalk Surfboard said: I'll do the same for you 😤 Do you have discord still? Ye I'll dm u my discord 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
