Alt: two men walk into a building labeled vrchat and then they come out as kitsune anime girls.

Usually, different system members have different appearances. Sometimes, different system members may have different bodies to each other-- even as far as having different gender or species. But with only one physical body, it's hard to represent or tell every members with the same body in physical space. So, how does your system handle that?

How do you tell apart or represent different system members in physical space? Do you only differentiate in headspace-- each members' physical form exist in headspace while the real life self remains the same regardless of who's fronting. Maybe you use subtle cues like arm ring color or necklace. Or maybe you use different clothes for different headmates-- though that would be difficult if you switch front while being outside.

Perhaps it's the different behavior like walking style, gestures, or manners. Or, just through the different personality each system members may have while fronting.

For us at least, we don't differentiate that much physically-- we like to think our body is separate from our headspace identity so it doesn't need to match our headspace form. We're also closeted about being plural, so we don't try to cue the fact we are more than one person.

Most fursonas do wear clothes. But putting aside the aesthetics factor and focusing more on the practicality-- would a furry anthro in an anthro society wear clothes?

Focusing solely on mammalian anthros with fur. Well, they have fur, so temperature regulation and the elements aren't really reasons to wear clothes given that they have natural, furry clothes already. Wearing clothes on top of that might be too warm, especially in the summer.

The thing I'm wondering is, would anthros figure out to make clothings themselves? And if they do, how would they look? Having their body completely covered in fur might make shirts and pants irrelevant, which means they might never develop them in the first place. I suppose other articles of clothings like armbands, headbands, etc would still exist, and so would practical items like glasses or watches.

Of course, clothing serves more purpose than just covering bare skins. They serve aesthetic purposes and shows our identity. For example, police anthros might wear some sort of stuff to distinguish themselves. And much like humans, anthros would probably have a culture around clothing, but how their clothing would look and how much it'll cover is the question.

Would most anthros only wear head and armbands? Maybe just something to cover their bottoms and nothing else? Or would they wear clothes similar to us?

Furthermore, different animals have different fur with different thickness, length, shapes, forms, etc. These different furs require different clothing. Anthros with thicker fur may wear less clothing than ones with thinner fur. Even more, different anthros will have different body shape and size. Clothing for rabbit sonas may not fit bear sonas.

Anthros might have different size standards for different species to account their differences. Imagine how hard it'd be to manufacture all the different variations, though. Any clothes store would have to take into account multiple species and multiple sizes for that species.

Well, I think that's interesting to think about.

Content Warning: assumes reader likes MtF transformation.

Alt Text:

“For your grave mistake, I shall curse you to transform and live as a woman for the rest of your life!”

Me: [an image of Kenny Rossmore confused] Wait, that’s supposed to be a curse?

[TW: Mentions of sexual dimorphism in animals. TWed just in case]

Most animals are sexually dimorphic, which means male and female individuals are different from each other beyond their bottoms. But for some animals, the differences are even more starking than humans.

For example, the different feather colors between male and female mallards. Male mallards have green heads while female mallards are mostly brown.

Other animals takes it further. Such as how all workers of a eusocial insect (ants, bees, and wasps) colonies are female and the males are just drones. There are many other examples in the wild.

When we turn these animals into anthros, we tend to keep their dimorphism, at least most of the obvious ones like how anthro deers have antlers, male anthro lions have manes, etc.

Now imagine if these anthros were transgender, how would it work out? How would they transition?

For example, how would transgendeers deal with their antlers? Would they wear fake antlers (for FtM deers) or cut their antlers (for MtF deers)? And what about anthro animals where the male and the female individuals have different fur/feather patterns? Would they have to paint their fur?

I suppose hormone could play a part in dimorphism even for animals, so much like humans, HRT may exist for anthros. But how would they work and what's the effect for anthros, especially for non mammals like insects, avians, and fish sonas?

But aside from that. I think the biggest hurdle would be size differences. Many male animals are larger than their female counterparts, sometimes as far as being twice their size. That could be a problem even worse than height dysphoria.

Of course, all of this can be hand-waived. Just like how anthro bears and anthro rabbits are often drawn the same size despite being a bear and a rabbit, we could also make male anthros and female anthros the same general size.

Besides, most animals don't have visible tops, yet most female anthros do.

But, I think this is an interesting topic to think about.

ALT TEXT:

B: There are so many things I wanted to do, but I'm scared... A: Bro, don't worry about your fear. Just bee yourself B: (turns into a literal bee) Ok, done A: Sorry, I'm meant to say be, not bee. You know that, right? B: It's okay I like this

[Content Warning: mentions of transphobia]

Long story short, our persecutor have been trying to repress our transfem host, to the point where she rarely fronted nowadays. Maybe it was internalized transphobia, which sometimes caused us quite a problem.

While she's not the only transfem in our system, I couldn't help but to feel bad that she might felt unwelcome here, in her only safe space. She's also pretty empty and unresponsive ever since she started to disappear.

A bit of a fun post, so no need to be serious.

Which fursona species do you think has heavy vibes with trans people? Which fursona species do you think many trans people would make or at least relate to?

Here are some of my suggestions:

• Cats: catgirls, enough said.
• Raccoons: maybe I'm slightly biased since it is my fursona, but I suppose they give a chaotic energy many trans people relate to, plus they're cute and unique.

What other species do you think would fit on this list?

ALT TEXT: A stickman with sunglasses offering another stickman two pills, "You can take the blue pill to transform into the opposite gender ...or you can take the red pill to transform into your fursona." The stickman took both pills, crushed them and mixed them together, then snorted the mixed and powdered pills.

ALT TEXT:

• Panel 1: A person with the text "Singular 'they'" written on them smiling with open arms.
• Panel 2: "Singular 'They'" beaten up by others who said, "Singular they is ungrammatical. It's too confusing," "How can anyone use plural pronouns for singular," and "Every pronoun should only have one purpose."
• Panel 3: "You" hiding from the mob who was beating "Singular 'They'"
• Panel 4: "German 'Sie'" hiding with even more fear next to "You"

This is a community for memes about transformation related tropes. Lemmings edition.

Communities similar to this one:

• ![email protected] - For transformation related art
• ![email protected] - For SFW transformation art

Rules

01. Follow pawb.social code of conducts

Their code of conducts can be found here. In summary:

1. No contents or conducts that are illegal in the United States.
2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other discrimination.
3. Don't stalk or harass other users.
4. No misinformation and deceptive content.
5. Content warning policy. For lemmy specifically: NSFW content must be tagged.
6. Do not pentest, spam, or advertise, and limit the scope of automated tools (see full code of conducts).
7. Use the report system
8. Account policies, see full code of conducts.

02. Be Civil

• Don't be a jerk or a troll
• No transphobia, homophobia, queerphobia, slurs, or kinkshaming.
• No overly political memes. We don't have the resources to moderate them (and I don't think there are many political contents that could fit within tf_irl's theme).
• Try to avoid debates. This is a meme community, not a debate one.

03. NSFW contents must be marked as such

NSFW memes are allowed, but please mark them properly.

04. No spam or excessive reposts

As for reposts, as a rule of thumb, wait at least two months before reposting and avoid reposting stuff in this community's Top All Time feed.

05. No IP grabbers or link shorteners

Embedded submissions and media should only link to trusted sites directly, so no bit.ly or other link shorteners.

06. Put content warning for potentially triggering contents

For example:

• [CW: Violence] Post Title
• [CW: Guns] Post Title
• [CW: Hypnosis] Post Title

Recommendations

01. Posts should be titled tf_irl

The underscore can be replaced with emojis. The word tf can also be replaced as long as it fits the general theme (though, this may not fit within the spirit of _irl community too well).

Examples of titles:

• tf_irl
• tf🦝irl
• tf_raccoon_irl
• puro_irl

02. Keep everything in topic

This community is for memes and humors about transformation related tropes. If you have something related to transformation but it isn't memes nor humorous, you can upload it on ![email protected] or ![email protected]

So, would you?

• Hell yeah, there's no downsides!
• I would if it's what it takes to be my preferred gender.
• Maybe, I'm kinda torn...
• No! I don't want to be my fursona for real...

Some clarification:

• You would be the only one turned into an anthro, everyone else is still human.
• If you have multiple fursona, you'd have to choose one.
• The gender of the fursona you chose to turn to would match your preferred gender.
• You wouldn't receive the superpowers of your fursona if they had one. You wouldn't become extremely large, have superpowers (especially not omnipotence or shapeshifting), or anything else other than an ordinary anthro.

My response:

Personally, I'm kinda torn. Becoming both my fursona and my gender at the same time would be a dream come true. Being my fursona isn't just a downside, it's what I wanted.

But, in this scenario, I'd be the only anthro raccoon-- or anthro at all-- in the sea of humans. Thinking about it, if humans already discriminate against others just because of sexuality and gender (think of queerphobia and transphobia), imagine how they'd react to a completely different species, one that looks like an animal.

It'd be cool to be my girl fursona, but very hard with how humans behave to anything different from them (also, funnily enough, I imagine myself as my fursona commenting on humans when I wrote that sentence).

Hello to all furries, welcome to furrywriting.

This is a little community within pawb.social for the scribes among us. For the inks and quills of the fandom. For... you get the idea: this is the place to share and discuss stories relating to the furry fandom.

Whether a story about your real experiences in the fandom, a fictional story themed around anthrophomorphic animals, or a discussion about worldbuilding for anthrophomorphic animals and its worlds, all are welcome.

But before you dive in, heed well, as our community has so called rules to follow. Scroll further down and you will see what it says.

What to Expect

What sort of contents should you post and expect to find here?

Fictional Stories

Share stories here as long as they prominently feature anthrophomorphic animals. Whether short or long, uploaded/published here or elsewhere, filled with many or only one anthros, for as long as anthro animals had plenty of relevance to the story, it should fit here.

Try to make sure the story fit within the general furry/anthro theme of this community. Other contents beside stories have different rules as seen below.

Discussions About Writing

Ask questions about the writing craft. When it comes to the nitty gritty of writing, you are not limited to only ask or give advices for furry-related stuff. You can ask general questions about the writing craft, such as grammar rules, whether to use a comma or a period, how to write a good first chapter, or things to avoid in writing.

Real Life Experiences Within the Fandom

What impact did this community have in your life? How is your experience in the last anthro convention or your last fursuit outing? Do you have any other stories to share about your experiences with the fandom in real life? Share it here!

You are not limited to just fictional stories in this community. You can also post real life experiences and anecdotes if you want to.

Discussions About Anthro Worldbuilding

How would a society filled with anthro animals look? How different would it be to human societies? What details might we miss about anthro animals? What about being covered in fur, having paws, or having a tail entails?

Discuss about the intricacies of furry worldbuilding here! Talk about the design of a world filled with anthro animals and how it would look. Talk about how a single anthro would survive in a world full of humans. Or perhaps talk about your idea for an anthro races in your story.

You can post about character design or worldbuilding detail here even if the full story isn't primarily about anthros, as long as the design or detail have a bit of anthro elements. What matters here are the anthro elements of the story.

Poetry and Other Written Arts

Much like stories, you can share poetries and other written furry arts here. But much like stories, try to make sure the written arts fit within the general furry/anthro theme.

In summary:

You can expect the following contents in this community

• Fictional stories
• Discussions about writing
• Real life experiences within the fandom
• Discussions about worldbuilding
• Poetry and other written arts

Additional Notes:

Anthro/furry themed fanfictions, such as fanfics of Sonic the Hedgehog, Undertale, Pokemon, etc, are allowed in this community. Though, we recommend posting these fanfictions to its own fan community first if it exists.

Post Titles

Post titles should ideally include a short flair about its contents in bracket. For example, if you upload a story, the title should look like this: [Story] The Raccoon's Wish

The text in bracket should be based on the post's content. For reference, this is the brackets and contents pair we recommend:

• [Story] for fictional stories and worlds.
• [Writing] for discussions about writing.
• [Real Life] for sharing real life stories.
• [Worldbuilding] for posts about furry worldbuilding.
• [Poetry] for poetries.
• [Promotional] for promotional contents as mentioned in rule 2 of this community.
• [Meta] for posts about this community itself.
• [Other] for posts that doesn't fit the other categories.

Posts made before this post title change does not have to be retroactively edited with post titles.

Rules

01. Follow pawb.social code of conducts

Their code of conducts can be found here. In summary:

1. No contents or conducts that are illegal in the United States.
2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other discrimination.
3. Don't stalk or harass other users.
4. No misinformation and deceptive content.
5. Content warning policy. For this lemmy instance specifically: NSFW content must be tagged.
6. Do not perform pentesting without approval, do not spam or advertise, and limit the scope of automated tools (see the full code of conducts).
7. Use the report system.
8. Account policies, see the full code of conducts.

02. Limit the Amount of Promotional Contents

Do not spam or post too many promotional contents in a row here. Contents are considered promotional if one can't see the full contents without paying, such as novels (which must be purchased before it can be read), books, or patron-only story.

For a general rule of thumb, ensure that there are only one promotional content every few posts when sorting the community by new. We do not want this community to be flooded by posts which only promotes paid content, as these generally do not create much engagement.

Remember that spam and advertising are not allowed as per rule 6 of this instance

03. Tag NSFW Contents

NSFW contents are allowed here, but please tag them properly as NSFW.

Note: anything erotic counts as NSFW, even if it isn't inherently sexual. This means fatfur or hyperfur story counts as NSFW even if it isn't inherently NSFW, given that most people probably don't want to see it unmarked in the all feed.

04. Negative Conducts are Only Allowed in Fiction

This community allows stories that contain negative conducts, even if it explores topics such as transphobia, homophobia, discrimination, bullying, violence, et cetera, as long as:

• The negativity is kept completely fictional (don't do all of the above outside of fiction to another user).
• The story doesn't promote or encourage such conduct.
• The story doesn't paint such conduct with positivity.
• The moral value of the story doesn't support such conducts.

After all, stories are a great way to explore and express negative topics (think of stories such as Animal Farm by George Orwell).

But, when posting stories or ideas with negative conducts as mentioned above, please place content warning within the post title and body text. For example:

• [Story] [TW: Transphobia] Another Gender, Another Species
• [Story] [TW: Violence] The Lone Wolf

Fictional discrimination, such as discrimination against anthro by humans, doesn't require content warning.

05. Posting Stories Made by Other People

You are allowed to post stories, ideas, or worlds made by other writers aside from yourself, as long as:

• You don't repost the story directly here by copy pasting. Instead, link the story's page in your post.
• We encourage you to write a little summary or review in the post's body explaining the reason you recommend the story here.
• Make sure the artist wouldn't mind. Do not post stuff under a DNP or if the writer explicitly states not to repost their content. This includes content behind a paywall.
• Do not spam or overwhelm this community with stories made by other writers.

06. Avoid Posting Exteme Contents

The following things are not allowed in any stories, world, and ideas uploaded or mentioned here. They are not allowed even with content warning:

• Stories which spread misinformation or propaganda.
• Extreme violence, torture, sadism, and non-consensual stuff.

In Summary:

1. Follow pawb.social code of conducts.
2. Limit the amount of promotional contents
3. Tag NSFW contents properly
4. Negative conducts are only allowed in fiction and put content warnings on them
5. Read the full version of the rules for posting contents made by other people
6. Avoid posting misinformation and extreme contents

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Would you press the button? An image of money: 99% chance you receive a million dollar An image of a raccoon: 1% chance you turn into a trash panda (they're cute)

Not that I hated it. It's actually nostalgic seeing all the meme templates I grew up with once more.

ALT TEXT: An image of a velociraptor contemplating with the caption: why are we posting old memes? Well, if Lemmy feels like old internet forums, then the memes must also match

Hello everyone, welcome to transfurs!

This is a community for transgender furries where we can come together and discuss more about the intersectionality between being transgender and furry. Of course, other queer furries and allies are welcome to join as long as things stay on topic.

Given the huge number of trans furries, we thought it might be a good idea to have a dedicated community. It would be nice to discuss the intersectionality between furry and trans experiences.

Keep in mind that despite the name association in other places, this community isn't about transformation related stuff (as in human turning into furries and the like). Rather, this community is about transgender furries.

We welcome transformation related contents if they are relevant to this community's purpose. But if you want to find and share purely transformation related stuff, there are other, more appropriate communities such as:

• !transformation for transformation related contents.
• !transformation_sfw for SFW transformation contents.
• !tf_irl for transformation related memes.

Rules

Please keep in mind that our community rules and guidelines will be updated every once in a while. Be sure to keep track of any edits to this pinned post so you won't get left behind on our community rules.

01. Follow pawb.social code of conducts

Their code of conducts can be found here.. In summary:

1. No contents or conducts that are illegal in the United States.
2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other discrimination.
3. Don't stalk or harass other users.
4. No misinformation and deceptive content.
5. Content warning policy. For pawb.social lemmy instance specifically: NSFW content must be tagged.
6. Do not perform pentesting without approval, do not spam or advertise, and limit the scope of automated tools (see the full code of conducts).
7. Use the report system
8. Account policies, see the full code of conducts for more info.

02. Keep this community as a safe space

Keep this place civil and don't cause issues or drama which may make others unwelcome. Avoid hostile behaviors such as gaslighting, harrasment, ad hominem, bullying, and other incivility. Hate speech against other groups are also not allowed, such as fatphobia, ableism, antitheism, etc.

Keep in mind that anything which may invalidate someone's gender identity is also not allowed. This includes erasure or gatekeeping of non-binary, genderfluid, and other alternative gender identities. Likewise, gatekeeping whether someone is trans enough, calling others trenders or fakers is also not allowed.

Basically, respect others' gender identity.

03. Put Content Warning on potentially negative post

When posting content which may trigger or affect many people negatively (such as negative experiences, transphobia, etc), try to place content warning within your post title. For example:
[TW: transphobia] Insert post title

Also, if your post assumes or reassures viewers as a certain gender (such as posts that affirms femininity, which can be euphoric for transfeminine people but dysphoric for transmasculine people, and anything else similar to that), place a trigger warning within your post title. For example:
[TW: assumes viewer as transfem] Insert post title

04. We are not professionals, don't ask for medical advice

This community is not created, maintained, or participated by a professional. We are mostly trans people and furries who wanted to share our own creation and ideas. This community is not a substitute for professional help if you need them. We also can't guarantee the quality of any users, posts, or comments made in this community, so please excercise caution to any advice or information here.

Because of that, we also couldn't allow medical advices which could be dangerous without professional help. These include advices about HRT dosages, DIY HRT, and other medical advices, official or alternative. We couldn't moderate such contents properly and we couldn't guarantee the safety of such advices. There are other communities better suited for such content.

Of course, general mentions of HRT and surgeries are allowed, just not medical discussions/advices which can be dangerous without professionals.

05. No adveritising or fundraising

Our moderation team are not well equipped to vet or verify that any particular fundraiser, crowdfunding, or organizations are legitimate, so we couldn't allow them within our community. This applies to both personal and organization fundraising, as well as non-fundraising organization.

If you need resources or professional help, we highly recommend checking [email protected] sidebar/about page as there are quite a few helpful links. You could also ask or find more resources there.

TLDR for Rules

1. Follow pawb.social code of conducts.
2. Keep this community as a safe space and don't make others unwelcome or invalidate their gender
3. Put Content Warning on potentially negative posts and posts that assumes the viewers' genders.
4. We are not professionals, don't ask for medical advice
5. No adveritising or fundraising

We will continue to revise the rules as time went by and our community grows. We hope you have a great time within our community.

Keep awooing your gender!

Hi, I'm Jasmine.

This post is a bit of a vent, but I also genuinely need help and comfort. I hope this is appropriate to talk about here and that I don't ruin the vibe of this community too much.

I'm tired with myself repressing my gender. I'm tired with me telling myself maybe I can live happily as a boy, maybe I can convince myself, or maybe this is all fake somehow. I feel like I'm not meant to be a girl, that I am meant to be a boy, and that I shouldn't transition because it's against my cultures. And my internalized transphobia sometimes made me think like a bigot when given the chance.

I've done my best to avoid lashing my internalized transphobia to anyone, even online, and I'll continue to do my best. I'll continue to do my best to support trans people, but ironically it's hard for me to support myself.

I know this all sounds so negative, but it's been eating away at my mental health. I need help.

I just wanted someone to reassure me that it's okay for me to transition and that there is nothing wrong with being transgender. I would also greatly appreciate sites and resources for trans people to reassure me that it's okay to be trans.

When it comes to designing a fursona, most people focus on appearances, which makes sense. But, as with any character design, fursonas can have a surprisingly deep world behind them. Afterall, your fursona has to live in a world somewhere and their life would tell a story. But how was their story?

A story does not have to be written. A picture can tell a thousand words, after all. If you have made or commisioned multiple arts of your fursona, how did each of them relate? Were all the arts of your sona related to each other? Did they overall tell a continous story?

Your fursona may have a well-developed story overall, just a simple backstory, or not at all. That's fine, but even then, there are still a lot more things to consider with the world your fursona live in. The world your fursona live in should theoretically have a rule; some elements of worldbuilding.

And every fursona have a different world behind them: some people make every species in their sona's universe match the size of their wild counterpart, meaning that bear anthros are much larger there than rabbit anthros, while others make every species much more similar. So while a rabbit is smaller than a bear, the difference isn't as big (perhaps the size differences are closer to human vs another human, instead of irl bear vs rabbit). Another element is smell: some give their sona, especially dog fursonas, better sense of smell, while others never mention about this detail.

So what about your fursona? What other notable worldbuilding details did you put in your fursona's world?

For me at least, my raccoon fursona doesn't really have a rich backstory or a story in general. She is a transgender raccoon girl who is socially awkward, always curious but also anxious. She is mostly left alone by everyone around her as nobody understands her and she doesn't understand anyone.

Aside from that, she also lives in a wold where everyone is plantigrade. There are no digitigrade anthros even for digitigrade species like dogs, mainly out of preferences and a lack of drawing skill. Everyone also has similar sizes. While bears are bigger than rabbits, the differences aren't significant.

One interesting thing is that regular, feral animals are also present in my sona's universe. They are indistinguishable from real life animals and mostly coexist with anthros. Anthros and ferals are completely different species, even if they're based on the same species.

Overall, I think my worldbuilding looks generically similar to your average anthro universe worldbuilding. What do you think?

ALT: Drake disagree-agree meme with drake disagreeing to "Using Duolingo to learn a new language" and him agreeing to "Using Duolingo for gender euphoria" while showing a screenshot of Duolingo asking its user to translate "I am a woman" to French.

I can't believe that after weeks of dysphoria and me trying to repress who I am, this is the one thing that broke me into gender euphoria. Strange how that happens.

ALT: The boykisser meme but with the boykisser replaced by Puro, a black latex wolf-like creature, along with the caption "You want to turn into latex wolf don't you"