transcription: be me, closeted transfem, have computer science degree, family constantly bothering me with tech problems, always dumb shit like not restarting computer or googling error messages, lightbulb.jpeg, come out to family, get disowned as expected, they never contact me again, dont have to deal with their dumb it problems anymore, mfw, should have done this years ago.

  • edinbruh@feddit.it
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    Fun fact: a suspiciously sizeable amount of the people working on mesa, freedesktop, and the linux graphics stack in general, are trans or at least queer.

    Is it graphics that makes people trans, or are the trans people who make graphics? We might never know

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          I mean, furries are mostly just a fandom of people, maybe therians can be included as queers(?) I do not know enoigh about therians to be 100% sure

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            I was making a wordplay joke using the “older” meaning for queer where it meant “strange” rather than what it’s come to mean today. Not necessarily putting furries under the queer umbrella.

            That said if I didn’t literally know a cis straight furry I’d think they didn’t actually exist because every one of the like dozen others that I know is gay or trans.

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              Ooh i see, makes sense

              That said if I didn’t literally know a cis straight furry I’d think they didn’t actually exist because every one of the like dozen others that I know is gay or trans.

              I think it’s either due to both communities being more open minded and so prone to try new stuff which leads to many to discover their sexuality/furry interests or the fact that both are very marginalized and so it became pratically a bonding thing that lead culture in-breeding

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                I’m sure in addition it probably helps that there’s probably a fairly large group of people that come into the furry community specifically _ to _ explore their gender or sexuality right? I imagine all of that has a lot to do with why there seems to be so much overlap yeah.

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      That’s just great, as a transfem I now feel I have to drop my current plans, to stop and contemplate if I enjoy making 3d game art because I’m trans, or if 3D game art somehow made me trans. It’s not the programming side, but is still the visuals and graphics…

      I am 99% sure, if it had to be one of those options, it would be the former. I doubt it’s either of the two… And yet, how will we know.

      So now I am cursed to I sit and ponder the possibilities