I have a #Modders scene ideating itself in my head where Nuki ropes Marigold and maybe another character into painting each others' nails/claws, and at first it's like, why would we do this when we can just get them permenantly recolored or use some other sort of automation? But then they start to get the idea that the fun is in the act of doing it itself, not the result.
Also, Nuki has goat hooves, and I'm sure those are fun to paint.
After deciding it felt right to make a character in #Modders #Jewish, I wanted to do a little bit of digging, because I know #Tattoos and #Piercings aren't considered #kosher, and her whole family has some far more extreme #BodyModification going on. (Furries)
Came across an interesting article which points out that the specific line in the #Torah / #OldTestament, #Leviticus 19:28, is somewhat vague and seems to apply more to 1) not self-mutilating for the dead or an idol, and 2) that God is not asking anyone to self mutilate. Also, when we apply that to the context of things happening at the time, we see some pretty brutal practices, and some pretty severe infection risks. That's sort of vagueness and context is common for Leviticus.
So I wonder if, in a future where these #BodyMods are common, and "Image of God" is not as widely interpreted to be a statement of physical likeness, could the opinion of what is "kosher" in itself be different here?
https://lionstale.org/1025/features/exploring-body-modifications-through-the-lens-of-judaism/
Random Legalistic Stuff I've decided they have in #Modders, because it's about a future where things are better, and these make things better...
Some sort of national, multi-choice voting system which allowed them to break out of the old partisan system and elect candidates from a wide range of ideas. The 4 main parties of the North American Union are LuxComs (Luxury Communists, yes that's a reference), ConSoc (Conservative Socialists), Libertarians, and probably some right-leaning party that we'd consider Left for today, because that follows trends.
A constitutional amendment that effectively sets up that in order for a felony to have taken place there has to be a tangible harm to a real person or the realistic threat thereof, which was passed by a multipartisan coallition as part of the leadup to the events of 2069. (They reference this occasionally)
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Got some #FurryArt for y'all, a new #VectorArt ref of my #Fursona...
It's actually a very old image, going back to at the latest 2019, and you probably recognize it as my normal profile pic if you've been following me for a while (current was a gift). I just recently sat down and actually finished it, and I'm really happy to have it!
Remember that #Nuki is supposed to be me, and if she's in a story she's me in that story, so this is also the ref for the character in #Modders.
There's also an #animated #SVG version I uploaded at...
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/NukiRaccoon/b20bf691e6d3f28845dea7776f222fc9/raw/4e726b9e0be3c8c11ad1f4f4954213cae8d9a13b/Nuki_Author_CutDown.svg
Made in #Inkscape.
Interesting experience just now...
In #Modders, there's a part that I wrote like 6 years ago but still haven't published, where Marigold is first introduced. Basically, a 20-something male comes in wearing baggy clothes and a hoodie in summer, acts all shy and nervous with them, goes into the bug machine for a complete full-body makeover that only Nuki has seen. An hour later, out walks a beautiful Golden Retriever woman. She looks in the mirror and starts hyperventilating, collapsing and nearly fainting at her new appearance. Nuki says this is now rare, but a reaction when people get their perfect body in one go.
I've always worried that scene was a bit unrealistic.
Was idly poking at an AI Image Generator while stuck in bed just now, thinking it'd be nice to have some randon pictures of a golden retriever girl, and it gave me several images of exactly the character design I was thinking but better, and I realized, if I suddenly got that body I would have that reaction.
#FediPoll time!
Settle my argument that the subculture described in my #Scifi setting of #Modders is not unreasonable...
Imagine you lived in a future where #BodyModification technology was at the point that you could quickly and cheaply get pretty much a full rework of your body, and one of these was a potentially reversible procedure to make you an IRL #Furry by giving you #anthropomorphic #animals features, such as fur, tail, muzzle, etc. Imagine this is mature technology, and normalized enough, that there will be no medical or societal ramifications if you get such modifications.
Do you get the #BodyMods to make you a Furry?
(Please #boost this #poll and respond in the comments: I want to hear what kind of Body Mods you would get, and may use that in my #Writing!)
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Let's see if anyone else responds in the last 6 24 48 72 hours...
Recently decided to start working on creating my own #HideousDestructor weapon pack, and first on the list is a "grenade" you have to manually detonate. Still a bit of a work in progress, but not too bad for my first actual bit of content!
The past week I'm having the recurring image in my head of Reggie, the skateboarding Opossum from #Modders, grabbing the skateboard with her long prehensile toes or tail to do tricks. I have to figure out, 1) what sort of tricks an opossum could do using those prehensile feet and tail, and 2) what sort of protection they might wear.
I'm thinking of like, gloves for hands and feet which go all the way to the knees / elbows to have a pad there. They can also protect the shins and forearms that way, and she doesn't have to put on more than 4 things at once. She's probably got a few sets, maybe ones with pleather wrapping for winter, and fishnet-like wrapping for the summer.
She might also wear something to protect her tail, at least the end of it, and her crotch, seeing as she's one of the characters who states she doesn't own pants...
(By the 2120s, it will be normal to not own pants)
Imagining characters in the #Modders setting saying that they "aren't attracted to humans", which is a really interesting concept considering these characters technically ARE humans who've had animal features added... But I can imagine someone like an opossum character who grew up in a family of anthro-opossums looking at humans like "they don't have fur or tails or snouts and that's weird because everyone in my family has that."
I wonder what the criteria are for that, psychologically / neurologically. Like at what point of normalization would a non-human body type have to be for you to no longer be attracted to the human one?
TODO: have a human who doesn't have any furry mods show up in #Modders who's like, only a meter tall as a matter of genetics, if only to subtly remind people that yes, humans do come in that size...
...the question is fitting that in with all the sex scenes...
......unless they meet this character at the sex club, in which case it is a sex scene......
.........now that's an interesting idea, a human who is the size of a short-species furry having sex with one.........
............this is where my mind goes before 10:00 in the morning............
This is the #Modders #microfiction going through my head this morning, and it addresses something I keep thinking of, so I figured I'd write it down. For those who somehow haven't seen these, this is a hard #Scifi setting, set in 2120s North America, where humans use surgical machines and chemicals for extreme #BodyModification, which includes #furries turning themselves into #anthro animals...
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A pair of adult opossums sat on one of the benches on their wide second-story balcony, overlooking the little backyard gardens nestled between the group of old townhomes, the style giving away that they'd been built way back in the 2040s, when the city was less dense, before either of them were born really.
The ocean breeze was making it this far inland this morning, rustling cooly through their bare fur as they sat in the warm rays of the rising midday sun, which had made its way over was shining down on the rooftops.
So, something I'm trying to do with #Modders is write something that is both #Erotica and #SocialCommentary at the same time. There's a point I'm trying to make here that is difficult to make without the characters explicitly having detailed sex.
Part of that point is that there's nothing wrong with characters who have sex, acknowledging their sexuality, and portraying it as part of the narrative, and that this is how it would be portrayed in the 2120s I'm envisioning.
Another part of that point is that consensual sex is healthy and wholesome, and doesn't need to be swept under: the characters are smiling at each other as they do it, enjoying themselves deeply, doing something that, to them, is just a thing you can enjoy with others.
( Also, it cannot be left unstated that writing sex is fun, and reading sex is hot, and so I want to write sex and you want to read sex. Sex is good, and a normal thing to want. )
Just wanted to show y'all I'm doing my #human #biology #research before I write things, and since I'm going into #micro / #macro #TF stuff with the #HardScifi of #Modders, I need to know what natural biology is actually capable of in order to build a plausible explanation...
...so I'm finding out how short or tall a human can be without issues.
The height for "Dwarfism" is under 1.5 meters (5 ft), though I don't think that's very short. Simone Biles is well under that. Poking around, I'm seeing people saying 1.25 m (4 ft), so let's say that's a good start.
The record holder for shortest woman is Jyoti Amge, a 31 year old indian actress who is 62.8 cm (2 ft) tall, and the record holder for shortest man was Chandra Dangi, a Nepalese weaver who lived to 75, at 54.6 cm (1 ft 9in) tall. He could walk and survived 75 years, so I assume there was no life-threatening complication, which would mean a human only needs to be about half a meter tall to be "healthy"...
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Thinking more on this "#Philosophy of #Modders" thing...
One way to sum it up might be "In order to achieve peace and happiness, both internally and societally, one must actively learn to accept the unusual, and especially the unnervingly weird." Still workshopping that...
Saw a bilboard ad for clothes...
Random idea...
Clothes ads with bottomless furries, with exposed genitals, perhaps partially topless (exposed nipples).
Casual nudity is the future.
Continuing my #Scifi #Microfiction about #BodyModification used for #Transformation into #Furries in my 2120s setting, #Modders.
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Before this process had begun, as Nuki had been walking her through the process, Jack, her big wolf associate with visible cybernetic implants, had gotten up from his reading and walked over to the waiting area.
"Alright, any of you still need to fill out the consent forms, or did you all fill them out together?" he asked, holding up some tablets.
They all shook their heads. One raising his hand, "We did them a couple days ago, when we planned the trip!"
"Ah, ok, any of you want to go next?"
The one who raised his hand jumped up excitedly, "Me!"
Jack nodded, taking his reference sheet from him, looking at it and immediately grinning, "Ahh, I see what got you so excited for me! Let's get you started..." he took a picture of the sheet, and started leading the soon-to-be-former-human towards the machines...
You know, suddenly, this implies to me that there is a structured #philosophy in the future of #Modders, a combination of #stoicism, #hedonism, and #science, call it #StoicHedonism if you will, in which practitioners aim to break down inhibitions and the judgmental side of them, and achieve "total acceptance" of the world around them...
In a sense, they've made a whole school of thought out of "don't kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part of you that cringes."
Perhaps I should be writing that down on top of the other stuff.
Also, thinking about how I've never fully written out the idea of a "#deviancy scale" or a test with it outside of this thing, and I know that's actually a really important metric for a lot of things in applied #psychology, so that might be interesting to write about too...
