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canid shifter, image manipulator, space builder, therianarchist, solarpunk cyber-druid, anticapitalist slacker & professional party animal • https://linktr.ee/axylhalcyon • [she/any ΘΔ] handfasted to @ozmaracc.bsky.social! 🦊💕🦝 🔞 some lewd posting 🔞

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🦊🏳️‍⚧️🐺🌵🌖✨🎶🪐🌿 • óÓÒò @axylhalcyon.bsky.social · Apr 30

hai! i'm axyl :3
i've been a DJ & producer in the furry fandom since 2015 and a therian since at least 2008. recently i've been using my skills to engage in anarchist organizing & have incorporated neopagan spirituality into my life & art

anyways, now that i'm here i feel i should share my story...

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🦊🏳️‍⚧️🐺🌵🌖✨🎶🪐🌿 • óÓÒò @axylhalcyon.bsky.social · 11h

u aren't "born furry", u can choose to stop participating & leave the community if it doesn't interest or suit u anymore

if you stop engaging with ur therianthropy, u cut off key parts of urself & reduce ur experience of the world, making life feel more empty. it often reasserts itself later on

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p̶a̶n̶d̶a̶ hog @fatfuckpanda.bsky.social · 1d

I often encounter folks who say ‘I wish I *could* be therian’ which says more that it’s a mental block preventing them from embracing who they are rather than a term that doesn’t fit them.

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p̶a̶n̶d̶a̶ hog @fatfuckpanda.bsky.social · 1d

did you know you don’t have to believe you are literally a different animal, physically or mentally, to be therian?

if you feel like you’re more comfortable thinking of yourself as an animal, or wish you had animal features, or feel like expressing animalistic behaviors, you might be therian!

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🦊🏳️‍⚧️🐺🌵🌖✨🎶🪐🌿 • óÓÒò @axylhalcyon.bsky.social · 12h

to be more specific:

furry is something you do, a lifestyle & a community

therian is something you are, a lived experience

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🦊🏳️‍⚧️🐺🌵🌖✨🎶🪐🌿 • óÓÒò @axylhalcyon.bsky.social · 12h

some folks are confused or being really gatekeepy about this so as a longtime member of both communities lemme explain...

furry: i wanna be an animal (its not that serious)

therian: i wanna be an animal (it is that serious)

there is a lot of gray area & overlap here and that is ok & good actually

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❤️GOJII❤️ / wolfears @ Cantab Underground Nov 28th @gojiimusic.bsky.social · 13h

i feel cons should be able to be more accommodating to disabled and/or lower income DJs who cannot afford to play their events but still want to participate in their community. at least allow remote performances if you can’t pay your DJs/musicians.

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mintt 🏜️ drawin' my pictures and images @keymintt.bsky.social · 2d

a gambler's mentality to optimism
#oilpainting

an oil painting of a coyote amongst a flock of mourning doves. it's jumping to catch one just out of reach while others take flight around it. the background is an open blue sky.

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Aug 22

Let Them Hear You (2019?)

An ink drawing of a coyote howling agaibst a green graphic background.

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 4d

Inside looking out

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Beio, Werebeast of the Azaleas @heyoitsbeio.biiig.wang · 4d

Werewolves are monsters, you've been told. Cruel, ferocious killers, with claws made to rip through man and beast alike. Yet when you see her there, sleeping, curled up next to you, the plushie you gifted her gently held in her maw, you can't help but wonder if the stories were a bit... exaggerated.

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CorvidCreations.bsky.social @corvidcreations.bsky.social · 13d

A little under 3 days left on this toothy Werewolf Partial. Only 1 bid!
Get your paws on it in time for Halloween! 🎃🌕🐺
www.thedealersden.com/listing/toot...

#Fursuit #Costume #Halloween #Werewolf #Forsale

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🦊🏳️‍⚧️🐺🌵🌖✨🎶🪐🌿 • óÓÒò @axylhalcyon.bsky.social · 4d

doing a quote repost on this cause the original article it references has some very difficult language right on the preview, but this thread is definitely important in understanding why people fall into extremism and hatred

Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 4d

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Shimi ·⃝⃤ @shimi.bsky.social · 9d

Dear #Therians finding it hard to reach or reclaim your creaturely selves… this one is for you. Put it aside for when you struggle.

That Light Inside You…
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THAT LIGHT INSIDE YOU

That “hole” we sometimes feel in the center of us? It isn’t emptiness. It’s a light. A core. It’s what remains when every human costume forced upon us has been smashed off the floor — the pulse that refuses to die even when we forget how to listen for it. It’s a tiny space… that’s why it often feels: quiet, unreachable, hidden beneath trauma, scar tissue or silence. But it’s never truly gone.

We may meet creatures who tell us they’ve felt distant from their creaturely and animal selves; that their connection used to burn brighter, but now it flickers. I want to remind you — as the elder wolf at the table, (tending her own light) — in the midst of everything terrible and wonderful — flickering is still fire.

The disconnection isn’t a failure; it’s a season. The creature self can go underground like hibernation. The light doesn’t vanish; it waits. You can’t force it open with willpower or rationalise it into the open. You reach it by remembering softness — the warmth of breath, the weight of fur — imagined or real — the rhythm that existed before words before human thought before guilt and shame.

There were times I thought I’d lost my light too — when the world grew so impossibly loud in my head and the human masks became too heavy to lift. But every time I’ve fallen quiet enough, the light has stirred, and I’ve known she was still there: the creaturely ember that endures even when the rest of me forgets how to howl.

If you feel nothing right now, that’s OK! The light doesn’t demand anything; it simply is. Touch the earth. Breathe. Feel the wind move across your skin. Cry, bark, purr, shout, weep. Creature will feel it. It always does.

That light was never a hole to fill — it is the part of us that remembers what we truly are: whole, creatures of light and love, wild, beautiful and free — waiting to be met again.

And if it flickers and splutters? Fear not. That light inside you will come back. It never went away.

— Shimi & Critter

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 4d

Fruiting Bodies

#art #mushroom

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🦊🏳️‍⚧️🐺🌵🌖✨🎶🪐🌿 • óÓÒò @axylhalcyon.bsky.social · 4d

coyote drink! :o

🦊🏳️‍⚧️🐺🌵🌖✨🎶🪐🌿 • óÓÒò @axylhalcyon.bsky.social · 8d

see what's really impactful about this stuff is that it makes a mockery of fascism. the real power fascism holds over people is this idea of all encompassing power, if they can't crush some silly clowns then it breaks that illusion

HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 8d

The Portland protesters are starting to wear inflatable animal costumes to help block mace and pepper balls and it's honestly exactly what I needed to see.

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dangle test initiate ☉∇ ☣ 🏜️ 🔜 BLFC @coyote.tel · 10d

PROJECT: NUZ ZINEZERO.5

Howdy!! I updated our nonhuman information zine for more information about physical nonhumanity and some change in grammar, plus a couple new pieces of my writing! This is made in the hopes of helping others better understand nonhumanity!

RTs appreciated!!

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Erin the Wolf Kitsune ΔΘ @erinkitsune.bsky.social · 10d

#wolfsjourney

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So... this page, was born from when @urbanvixen.bsky.social and I did this:

bsky.app/profile/urba...

FA: www.furaffinity.net/view/62559707/

Website: wolfsjourney.com/238.html

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🦊🏳️‍⚧️🐺🌵🌖✨🎶🪐🌿 • óÓÒò @axylhalcyon.bsky.social · 11d

i need it

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Ash Coyote @ashcoyote.bsky.social · 11d

Been fiddling with these design a bit more to see if I can push it some. What do you all think?

#keepfurryweird

www.keepfurryweird.com

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🦊🏳️‍⚧️🐺🌵🌖✨🎶🪐🌿 • óÓÒò @axylhalcyon.bsky.social · 12d

explain, it's been a while since i've seen it

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𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖞 𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖆𝖒 🎃 @teradiamart.bsky.social · 28d

I don't think motivating people to move to other platforms to avoid the stupid censorship rules is a good solution. Quite the opposite. There is NO SAFE space for artists nowadays, if we don't fight back this will only get worse and worse

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fox noises (red means recording) @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 14d

I was asked for comment on this article. A good read.

www.theverge.com/report/79159...

Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify

Artists aren’t rushing back to Spotify just because Daniel Ek changed his title.

www.theverge.com

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Tess "The Egg Prime Directive" Tanenbaum @drtanenbaum.bsky.social · 15d

This is such an important point about HRT that gets lost in the noise: you will feel whether or not it is right for you long before any "permanent changes" set in.

This is one of those areas of medicine where letting people experiment freely and without judgement is the single best path forward.
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Tamsin the Reanimated Girl™ @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 15d

That said, if you're considering HRT, my advice is simple: DO IT.

HRT is one of the safest medical treatments there is, and you'll likely know if it's working for you pretty quickly. Within a few weeks, my quality of life had improved to the point where my wife noticed and commented on it.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 16d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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