No one is coming to save us, it sucks. It does. But we aren’t powerless.

o man the furry fandom is SUCH a white dominated space it makes me a lil insane!! its hard to find other poc furries out there, and it makes me appreciate bipoc only spaces like the @bipocfurdiscord.bsky.social !!!

the erasure of who we are by silence and distancing from not just race but the depoliticizing that exists within furry makes it hard to feel like i am being truly seen and understood. the idea of no politics in furry is violent.

tbh my big thing is how it feels like the fandom doesn't make more of an effort to ostracize conservative and right wing furs
it feels unsafe when I see a fur with american flags adorning their profiles when my people are being rounded up by ice on the daily

we should be pushing these people out, furry is built on us being marginalized freaks. that doesn't mean that your white, cishet fur shouldn't be here, but it should be up to them to push their more dangerous brethren out of the space. is shouldn't fall on bipoc furs to do that, we want to feel safe

Like don't get me wrong, referencing is essential to learning and growing as an artist but, BUT LIKE- DONT JUST COMPLETELY RECREATE IT THATS NOT HOW YOU LEARN JFC. Or at least credit the original when you do, GODDAMN

The way people can get away with literally theft now-a-days is so fuckin weird to me 😭 like I remember all too well groups of rabid fucking 12 year olds ripping eachother to shreds because one of them "stole" the others OC and both the OCs in question are like, just a grey+white plain wolf

I fear social media culture has done irreparable damage to the online art community. OTL Shits never been the same ever since the art site giants fell/turned to shit

I've noticed since the pandemic the "I got mine" selfish attitude has really become prevalent. It's disappointing to see how fractured communities like furry and LGBTQ+ have become.