Hey, everyone! I appreciate the warm welcome. I'm thrilled to be here helping out with the podcast and excited to take an active role in the community here moving forward. If anyone has questions or ideas, I'm around and always happy to chat.
Mr. Woodgrains, I hardly know you and already I think you're a legend. Congrats on the job! Sounds like you'll fit right in with Jesse and Katie's sense of humor.
Good question! I actually solved that awhile ago by learning to type with my feet. With a bit of practice, it's almost as fast, and it lets me wear the Chuck E. Cheese hands full-time. There's always a workaround for the determined.
Speech-to-text bro. It’s come a long way since that shitty dictation software from back when we all had those plastic desktop microphones that looked like an oversized Q tip.
tbh I don't know very much about furries but I'm pretty sure they don't have sex with animals. (Unless, of course, you're being pedantic and pointing out that humans are also animals. Then we're all guilty. Except for the virgins.)
Thank you for the informative process chart. It also explains why Bari Weiss is so successful - her highly-optimized, streamlined Substack operation has combined two of the steps!
As a fellow Ex-Mormon and someone who's rationalist adjacent you couldn't have made a better choice. He's really smart and a clear thinker and I've enjoyed interacting with him a few times online. He's really committed to philosophical charity.
Can you guys interview him for the pod? I'm dying to hear about the appeal of furry subculture from an actual furry, especially one that seems relatively normal!
I'm glad you found someone who is not a horse fursona. I don't think Jesse or his girlfriend could handle the sexual tension that would have come from such a choice.
Congratulations, Trace! I've enjoyed the segments you've already contributed to... actually, I've mostly enjoyed listening to Jesse squirm while being dragged through them, which is pretty much the same thing.
Awesome! Big fan of TracingWoodgrains. He's one of the few people I know of where, agree or disagree, I read his posts and think "Yes, this was a well-considered opinion, described eloquently and with sufficient empathy. The internet is better for it."
P.S. I'm still sad the motte/schism thing had to happen :(
Question I have always wanted to ask: do you think exposure to the talking animals in Disney movies as a child played a significant role in developing your furry identity? My pet theory has always been it’s a combination of Disney and divorce.
My mum actually wasn't keen on Disney. She preferred the original fairy tales, so I didn't really watch many Disney movies as a kid (though granted, I did enjoy Robin Hood and Brother Bear). Books and video games were more my thing. Redwall, Narnia, Animorphs, Pokemon, Eragon, and Star Fox were all probably part of the origin more than anything to do with Disney.
Badgers are cool and all, but if I were drawing from Redwall, let’s be clear: Taggerung is where it’s at. Otters were always the coolest Redwall heroes.
I accidentally ended up at a furry convention a few years ago that happened at an Embassy Suites in my hometown. The same hotel was simultaneously hosting several traveling girls’ soccer teams for a local tournament, which really seems like a scheduling mistake. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for some of the conversations between the girls and their parents upon seeing foxes, cats, and puppies waiting in line for the complimentary breakfast bar.
So a Jew, a lesbian, and a furry walk into a BAR(pod)...
Hey, everyone! I appreciate the warm welcome. I'm thrilled to be here helping out with the podcast and excited to take an active role in the community here moving forward. If anyone has questions or ideas, I'm around and always happy to chat.
Why are you gay?
Why aren't you? Dudes rock.
👬🎸
You're not welcome from me. I think you need fucking therapy. Get your shit together.
Hey I never intervene in this manner here but you really gotta chill. -Jesse
Hm, didn't realize being an ex-Mormon carried such a stigma. I'll look into it!
Mr. Woodgrains, I hardly know you and already I think you're a legend. Congrats on the job! Sounds like you'll fit right in with Jesse and Katie's sense of humor.
Don't care about that. Asshole.
Really? Not a fan of left-handers, then? I thought that controversy mostly blew over back in the sixties.
At least lefties have hands.
Quick question, do you have to take the Chuck E. Cheese hands off when you type? I bet that breaks the illusion. So depressing.
Good question! I actually solved that awhile ago by learning to type with my feet. With a bit of practice, it's almost as fast, and it lets me wear the Chuck E. Cheese hands full-time. There's always a workaround for the determined.
Speech-to-text bro. It’s come a long way since that shitty dictation software from back when we all had those plastic desktop microphones that looked like an oversized Q tip.
I can understand people not "getting" the furry thing (I don't either tbh) but what's there to be mad about here?
If a furry getting a job at a substack you like makes you this angry then maybe you need to get your shit together.
They're animal fuckers, Lucas.
They're good dogs, Jordan.
Watch out, Jesse! Trace is going to steal your girl.
That's.... no?
tbh I don't know very much about furries but I'm pretty sure they don't have sex with animals. (Unless, of course, you're being pedantic and pointing out that humans are also animals. Then we're all guilty. Except for the virgins.)
what about the masturbating virgins? WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CUBS?
Thank you for the informative process chart. It also explains why Bari Weiss is so successful - her highly-optimized, streamlined Substack operation has combined two of the steps!
I don't have problems with Jews or dykes or furries or gays, but I draw the line at g*mers
What a pyle
…diversity hire. *smh*
Left-handed? Yikes. This ain't it chief
The left-handers and their sinister influence have spread far enough!
As a fellow Ex-Mormon and someone who's rationalist adjacent you couldn't have made a better choice. He's really smart and a clear thinker and I've enjoyed interacting with him a few times online. He's really committed to philosophical charity.
Still-Mormon here, and I agree!
Awesome! Kudos to you for your open mindedness. And I'm not being sarcastic or condescending, I mean it and just don't know how to word it better.
It's all coming together now...
Hope you’ve got a great med plan with the job that covers worming and flea treatment. Welcome!
You can get ivermectin off-label from your PCP
Can you guys interview him for the pod? I'm dying to hear about the appeal of furry subculture from an actual furry, especially one that seems relatively normal!
Seriously! I was thinking the same thing!
Dan savage interviewed Matt baume on his podcast and they did basically this (I think the interview is paywalled though) https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/05/25/57677576/new-savage-lovecast-enter-the-world-of-furries-with-matt-baume
I'm glad you found someone who is not a horse fursona. I don't think Jesse or his girlfriend could handle the sexual tension that would have come from such a choice.
In all seriousness: welcome dude and congrats!!!
Congrats Trace! And props to K&J for hiring a member of a historically underrepresented group. Very inspirational.
Congratulations, Trace! I've enjoyed the segments you've already contributed to... actually, I've mostly enjoyed listening to Jesse squirm while being dragged through them, which is pretty much the same thing.
Awesome! Big fan of TracingWoodgrains. He's one of the few people I know of where, agree or disagree, I read his posts and think "Yes, this was a well-considered opinion, described eloquently and with sufficient empathy. The internet is better for it."
P.S. I'm still sad the motte/schism thing had to happen :(
Question I have always wanted to ask: do you think exposure to the talking animals in Disney movies as a child played a significant role in developing your furry identity? My pet theory has always been it’s a combination of Disney and divorce.
My mum actually wasn't keen on Disney. She preferred the original fairy tales, so I didn't really watch many Disney movies as a kid (though granted, I did enjoy Robin Hood and Brother Bear). Books and video games were more my thing. Redwall, Narnia, Animorphs, Pokemon, Eragon, and Star Fox were all probably part of the origin more than anything to do with Disney.
Is your Fursona a Badger Lord of Salamandastron and do you shout Eulalia whenever you enter a convention?
I mean I know you said golden jackal but this is better, right?
Badgers are cool and all, but if I were drawing from Redwall, let’s be clear: Taggerung is where it’s at. Otters were always the coolest Redwall heroes.
The email above this in my inbox said "Furry and Bright" from our local zoo. I suspect collusion. Obviously
Hm... I played a character named Bright in D&D for awhile. Suspicious.
I accidentally ended up at a furry convention a few years ago that happened at an Embassy Suites in my hometown. The same hotel was simultaneously hosting several traveling girls’ soccer teams for a local tournament, which really seems like a scheduling mistake. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for some of the conversations between the girls and their parents upon seeing foxes, cats, and puppies waiting in line for the complimentary breakfast bar.
Anyway, welcome, Trace!
“Accidentally”.
Only god can judge me