Firstsona: a raccoon dude.

Replaced by: a dragon lady.

Twenty-five years and one gender transition later, she is still my fursona. In the past few years she’s gone from being pitch black to being a starry night sky with blue and purple accents (nsfw), also her tits have generally gotten bigger, her tail’s generally fatter, and she’s often a noodle-dragon.

Sometimes the raccoon still pops up. She’s transitioned too. But dragon’s what sticks.

damn, that’s a heck of a story. My own experiences with this sort of thing are much smaller. If there’s any kind of spirit-dragon contact going on behind me deciding to Be A Dragon, I suspect mine is rather younger than yours was.

I just spent more time than I would like to on managing to see all these replies, I had to manually cut and paste links into the search bar on the pawb.social Lemmy to get them to show up, because kbin demands I log in to see the main post, and trying to read all of that in a little column in the Mastodon interface is kind of awkward. I might say more later.

Thanks for your work running what was, for a while, the the best furry art site! :)

Nice hat.

Not at all, I am very happy to be able to preemptively keep Terf Fedi and 4Chan Forever Fedi and all those other Fediverse the fuck out of my little corner of Queer Furry Fedi. Throwing everyone into one giant discussion forum and pushing them to fight with each other because that’s what keeps the ad impressions coming is not an experience I care to return to.

Realistically though I can’t be bothered to engage in “fighting about which instance is better to be in” though, I know which one is better for me and if you think that one is a shitty place for you to be then I am pleased to have you stay in whatever place you like as long as you don’t try to make the place I like stop existing or change to fit your desires.

Ah cool, that’s good to know. It’ll be my reward for spending another day swearing at the remote site until I finally find whichever cache is serving up a bunch of old code/resources/something; this has been a long-ass upgrade for me.

(I would make a crack about ‘here be dragons’ given that my instance is dragon.style, but I am too tired to be clever. :) )

How much of a pain in the ass was moving to the Glitch fork? I’m currently in the middle of moving dragon.style from mainline 3.4.6 to mainline 4.1.2, so I can then update to 4.1.3 and get those new security holes closed, and am hoping to have energy left over to move to Glitch 4.1.3 once that’s done.

I was in college when they started coming out. I have never read any of them.

I have been running a Mastodon instance since like 2016/17 and this has been quietly happening for the entire time I’ve been on the fediverse. (I can’t check the exact date right now as I’m in the middle of upgrading it.)

Do you want to be in the Anime Girl Who Posts Nazi Memes Fediverse? How about the Queer Furry Fediverse? Or maybe you’d rather be in the Mocking Shitposts Fediverse? Perhaps you want the Everyone Has A Photo Of A Human And Thinks Federating With Facebook’s Activitypub Is Actually A Good Idea Fediverse? Or how about the TERF/Gender-Critical Fediverse? Or the “Standalone” Social Site That Is Actually A Fediverse Instance With Federation Disabled And The Credits Removed In Violation Of The Source License?

Some of these Fediverses will happily talk with others. Some of them will rapidly defederate from others as soon as they encounter a place that clearly belongs to a Fediverse they are incompatible with. Some of them quickly get defederated from the Fediverses they are incompatible with. Some of them look at the #fediblock tag, some to keep aware of places worth pre-emptively blocking to make a chill place to talk, some to look for fellow people who have been cast out of someone else’s chill zones.

I made it and I did not actually get a single bingo. :)

Really liking the ridges on those coppery crystals.

“I made him white and pink because I wanted him to look femmier” sure is one heck of a thing to look back at and wonder how on earth you managed to avoid saying “oh I’m trans!” for so long. It’s a big thing to come out with though, and has a lot of hard work following it, so it’s really surprisingly easy to avoid saying it until suddenly it is obvious.

We tell ourselves a lot of things without realizing it.

I started my transition back around 2003 and it is largely over. I seem to pass pretty well. I don’t introduce myself to the world as trans any more and neither do my fursonas. Really they never have, and neither have I. Perhaps in part because “a trans person” was not a social space that really existed as a possibility to inhabit for an extended period of time the way it does now; you were a guy, or a girl, and if you were transitioning, either you passed, or you didn’t, and in the latter case you were some kind of weirdo. People gave less of a shit about physical gender in the furry scene, which was nice.

My very first fursona was a guy, as I was at the time. I stopped playing him on Furrymuck shortly after experimenting with a female fursona around 1995. When I drew him after I’d started transition, she was a girl now too. With pink and blue fur. I never consciously decided on the color change, she just started having the transiest possible color scheme whenever I doodled her, which was kind of hilarious in retrospect once “my fursona is the colors of this queer identity flag” became A Thing. She’s clearly gone through a gender transition but I’ve never described her as “trans”.

The female fursona that replaced the first one has always been cisgender. Even if I draw her with a dick, or as a pan-gendered sex beast with every possible flavor of genitalia and two dozen pairs of boobs, she’s not trans. She’s just this lady dragon. A while back she started insisting on being drawn with a third eye, which maybe reflects some other stuff going on in my life.

This is definitely a GenX furry bingo. :)

User/community migration from one instance to another; I believe there is an open issue for this on the main Lemmy issue tracker. Dunno how far it’s gotten, I’m sure it’s a non-trivial thing to figure out.

I was going to say that Yar’s Revenge was the least shitty game on the VCS but then I remembered that I had a Fairchild Channel F before the VCS. It was the first home console with a cartridge slot. Everything about it was terrible and awkward, there were only moving dots in three colors and abstract boops. It had these supremely weird controllers that I can best describe as a Hitachi Magic Wand with a triangular head. I honestly cannot remember the name of a single game on it.

Oh good, that means I get to buy some Apple and Google stock and mine a dragon’s hoard or three worth of bitcoin well before it’s at the point where its energy usage becomes an environmental problem.

Probably like the eighties at the earliest. I don’t want to live before modern medicine and whatnot. Or is there an unspoken “before you were born” rule in play here?

The graphic novel that got cover blurbs by four people with something like seven Hugo nominations between them.

It took about four years. There is one spread near the end that took about six months; you will know it when you see it.

It is utterly impossible to get anyone to read now, as it is entirely designed around horizontally scrolling a screen the size of the tablet, and every single site/app trying to consolidate all comics readers into their own corporate silo is focused on vertically scrolling a phone screen, and there is no way in hell I am going to reformat all this very landscape-oriented multi-track stuff for that.

There is a community search site at https://browse.feddit.de; it seems to have a broader view of communities than the community search on this instance.