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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 71 points 8 months ago (21 children)

I am sorry if this comes off as offensive to anyone, I'm not trying to be.

I don't get furries.

I also don't have to completely understand their ins and outs and complexities to know they're people who are worthy of respect for being other living people. (or non-people if they identify as non-people? Again I don't understand them as much as I probably should).

Regardless, shout out to all the furries out there who struggle with things I can't even imagine.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

Simply put: It's a fetish.

It's pretty common to not understand why some people like the things they do in fetishes. Most people don't find feet attractive, but some people become just as aroused seeing feet as others do seeing breasts.

(Some furries will insist up and down that it's not a fetish, and those people are lying. They'll claim it's about a ton of different things, but it's pretty easy to tell. Because the ones who deny it are the ones who like to push their fetish onto others.)

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

As a response to you

Would you say that someone "thinking cats are cute and liking them" is just a fetish?

There's more dimensions of liking something and wanting to engage with it than just sexual

[–] REDACTED 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The definition of fetish includes non-sexual things, which is why officially we also have "sexual fetish" and "kinks".

There's also fetishism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetishism

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

..do you really think the other commenter meant it in that way, though? And is that how fetish is used in common parlance?

[–] REDACTED 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, I hope so, because I do

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 8 months ago

Fursuits have magic powers? No wonder they're so fucking expensive!

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