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Kintarius🍉🐾

@kintarius.bsky.social

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Art & Game Design enthusiast!
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Kintarius🍉🐾 @kintarius.bsky.social · Sep 19

Sept 19th update - New pinned post.

Thought I had a job, but newp... So.

Good news: Streams will continue!

Bad news: I'm gonna have to be annoying about asking for donations again, with a monthly goal on ko-fi.

ko-fi.com/kintarius

Please only donate if you can and consider sharing. Thank you.

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Levi

@levi.land

I'm happy to take this opportunity to share this awesome pamphlet made by @xerxes.gay

If my memory serves these have been distributed since at least well over a decade ago.

"Fandom" has always rubbed me the wrong way in relation to furries. The distinction does matter.

FURRY IS NOT A FANDOM
How we became radicals, punk rockers, rebels, and a revolutionary subculture without even trying.

FANS OF WHAT?
We haven't been about Bugs Bunny since the 80's. Comic fandom, Star Trek fandom, video game fandom, they all revolve around the output of an industry. Furry grew out of the absence of corporate products catering to our needs. We weren't happy just watching Disney and Looney Tunes over and over again. So we made our own culture.

Furry is not a fandom. It's a scene. We're old-school punk rock, not the Bieber Fan Club. We create our own characters, our own identities, our own images, our own stories. Fandoms have creativity, but it's all riffing off of a product dictated from above. Furry is bottom-up. Everything comes from our ideas, our roleplaying, our experiences, and our culture that we create.

Any furry who rises up and attains some kind of celebrity status does just that: they rise up. From us. Those big-name authors and comic artists who sell books at cons are all writing fan fiction of our brains. In a fandom, the fans are there because of the big names. In furry, it's the other way around, and the big names know it. You can go up to almost any "celebrity" furry and make friends the same way you would with any other fur.

We're a scene. A culture. A community.
A big, global family. There's nothing wrong with fandom, but don't call furry one. Because it's so much more.

ANTI-CONSUMERISM
In the furry economy, mass-produced products aren't the star of the show. Most of our money isn't spent buying stuff, it's spent creating stuff. We commission artwork, but not to hide it in a bookcase.
We put it online to share with the world.
Every commission is one furry buying a gift for the whole community. The art gets produced, and now it's there for everyone to enjoy. Even conbadges and avatars - the most utilitarian, "fashion accessory" form of furry art - tend to end up contributed to the commons.

Most economies are powered by the idea of replicating a product and selling it over and over again to different consumers.
Furry art operates in a radically different way, through making individual contributions to the common wealth of our culture.

Think about how subversive that is. Think about how threatening that idea could be to the elite 1% if we could make the whole world run that way. As furries, we're already living it.

PACK MENTALITY
As furries, we're not afraid to love each other. We'll cuddle no problem, sometimes without even needing to know each other.
In public, no less. We can spend a good portion of our convention time just turning off our brains and enjoying the raw, primal feeling of companionship with relative strangers. We never shake hands when we meet new people. It's always a hug.

This pervasive feeling of love is what helps us build such a strong community. Local furry groups often become close-knit extended families. We form bonds stronger than blood relation. We put the camraderie of church and religious groups to shame.
By putting ourselves into an animal state of mind, we manage to shake off heaping layers of civilization and social conditioning weighing down on us, and connect with each other on a level that's almost unheard of in modern society.

SEXUAL LIBERATION
Furries aren't afraid to celebrate our sexuality.
We're not ashamed of it, like so much of mainstream society. We don't think it's weird to be gay, bi, or straight; to be monogamous, open, or polyamourous; to be reserved about sex, or to be as open as a porn star.

We're picking up where the free love hippies of the 60's left off. We challenge the traditional social order about sexuality, rejecting the idea that there's anything "unacceptable" about it. What society might normally condemn as debauchery or pornography, we celebrate as beauty.

For some of us, our animal identities are a major part of exploring our own sexuality. For others, only the openness of our community is a factor. But as furries, we all tend to have a much more positive, healthy view of sexuality than the rest of the world. We know that sex is human, it's animal, it's human-animal.

FURRY IS RADICAL.
FURRY IS SUBVERSIVE.
FURRY IS REVOLUTION.

We have no audience, because we're all the creators. We have no idols, because we're all on the same level. We have no inhibitions, because love is beautiful. We have no consumerism, because we're all producers.

LET'S EMBRACE OUR NATURE AS MISFITS AND REBELS.
FURRY PRIDE.
SMASH THE MUNDANE.
SHARE THIS PAMPHLET WITH ANOTHER FURRY AT THIS CON
WHO YOU HAVE NEVER MET.
SPREAD THESE IDEAS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND DISCUSS THEM ONLINE.
FEEL FREE TO MAKE COPIES OF THIS PAMPHLET AND DISTRIBUTE THEM AT YOUR NEXT CON.

September 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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racc ⚢

@raccoattack.bsky.social

✂️✂️

January 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM

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Siggi

@siggimagenta.bsky.social

Bird chibi ko-fi commission ✌️

January 20, 2026 at 4:41 PM

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Mat!

@mat-draws.bsky.social

found this in my twitter archive

January 21, 2026 at 7:48 PM

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Trav Guy

@thattravguy.bsky.social

Yes hi, Good Morning Zippers.

January 21, 2026 at 8:48 PM

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Coozy

@coozybird.bsky.social

I caved and made a chainchomp oc
#furry #art #artshare #nsfw #nsfwart

January 11, 2026 at 11:30 AM

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Corro

@corromon.bsky.social

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#corrosart #art #oc #angel #conceptart

January 21, 2026 at 7:55 PM

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Matt Caulder

@mattcaulder.com

I think it's very important to be aware of what seems weird, or what feels off but also we've ALREADY drifted into "this looks bad *to me* and thus IS AI generated" which we literally cannot entertain

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 21h

Something I said on stream a couple of weeks ago when I was talking about generative AI in gaming, is that something I'm worried we'll see more of this year, are more false accusations of AI asset usage against games and developers who did not use them, like what happened with that Escapist article.

January 21, 2026 at 1:01 PM

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Apes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ScotiaCon 26

@apeslion.bsky.social

Large pangolin girls will be the ruin of you.

(mad men inspired office. )

Flat colour for englishweasel

#FurryArt #Digital

January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM

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ℳatt

@matttomic.bsky.social

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM

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Jess O'Thomson

@jessothomson.co.uk

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM

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MysticWaffle

@mysticwaffle.bsky.social

Mods are asleep post Waffle 🍰

January 21, 2026 at 7:13 AM

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ev 💫🍭 (>w< >

@evrclover.bsky.social

wanted to draw this for months.. based on something my wife actually misheard when i was talking about it lmao 🐟😭 #animalcrossing #acnh #punchy #cj

CJ & punchy from animal crossing standing on a grassy patch + dirt path with a golden arowana model sitting between them.

Punchy: heh yooo check it out.. a GOLD MARIJUANA !! niiiice
CJ: (thinking bubble) not what it's called . . .

January 18, 2026 at 3:04 AM

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TheTiedTigress

@thetiedtigress.bsky.social

YES!YES!YES!

Erin In The Morning @erininthemorn.skystack.xyz · 1d

Democrats Successfully Strip All Anti-Trans Riders From Final Appropriations Bills • The HHS and Education bills once contained the most sweeping anti-trans provisions in congressional history. Now they contain none.

Democrats Successfully Strip All Anti-Trans Riders From Final Appropriations Bills

The HHS and Education bills once contained the most sweeping anti-trans provisions in congressional history. Now they contain none.

www.erininthemorning.com

January 21, 2026 at 3:04 PM

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earses @ ANE

@howlitzer.art

good morning #art

anubian jackal lady covered in gold kintsugi cracks, pulling a sword from her chest. her face is split vertically, with one half looking up and the other one looking down. extra sets of arms extend behind her in a circle. on one side the hands are holding feathers, on the other they are holding hearts. Her tail extends in a circle framing this. The text "fix your hearts or die" is overlayed.

December 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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✦ Sister Eva

@evabeesmith.bsky.social

some bits of wisdom from tunglr

January 21, 2026 at 10:29 AM

Kintarius🍉🐾

@kintarius.bsky.social

www.twitch.tv/Kintarius

no real fanfare today, playing RE2make from memory. Come watch me die.

Kintarius - Twitch

Hi, I'm Kintarius, let's play some games! I'll sometimes entertain game requests, but normally I'm chipping away at the immense backlog of

www.twitch.tv

January 20, 2026 at 11:27 PM

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Possum Every Hour

@possumeveryhour.io

January 20, 2026 at 7:00 AM

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Corro

@corromon.bsky.social

Warmup doodle of that one alien oc I drafted up the other day c:

#alien #scalie #furry #furryart #anthro #corrosart #Ayliz

January 20, 2026 at 11:15 AM

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🔞 Bug 🐌

@snailerpark.bsky.social

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!! 😋

I don’t like to ask for stuff usually, ESPECIALLY money without giving in return, but if you wanna give a gift that will really help me out this month … yknow!!

www.paypal.me/Lupipup