Moxie, the TH4F mascot, celebrating a weird furry prototype with friends.

TH4F · LOCAL FIRST · PSEUDONYMS WELCOME

TOO HOT
FOR FURRIES.

Find one trusted friend. Make one weird thing together.

That is enough to start. AI is welcome, never required.

Start a cell

Do this now: text one person and pick one small thing to make.

Make the thing. Keep the room yours.

The internet is good at finding people. It is less good at helping us trust them.

TH4F uses small local cells, pseudonymous coordination, voluntary visibility, and mutual care. In plain words: make with people you trust, use an alias if you want, and choose what the wider world gets to see.

AI is part of the workshop. It is not the whole identity. Use AI, a pencil, a sewing machine, a model, a laptop, or nothing new at all.

The point is making with people you trust.

Tiny on purpose.

Moxie closes her webcam shutter while a friendly dragon avatar appears on screen.01

Find one person.

Two people who know each other and can meet in person are already a cell.

A fox creator hands a game controller to a delighted collaborator.02

Make a thing.

An image, character, prototype, song, tool, or meal around one laptop. Finished is optional.

Moxie works at a desk while two remote furry teammates celebrate on a large monitor.03

Invite carefully.

Cells grow through trust, not reach.

One person can bridge the cell to the wider network.They can use an alias. Everyone else can stay local, public, private, or somewhere in between.

Download the starter guide (PDF) →

A room, a screen, a weird idea.

There is no single TH4F aesthetic or way to participate. Draw together, build a game, close the camera, or bring the character that helps you feel most like yourself.

A fox creator hands a game controller to a delighted collaborator as their fox character jumps across a game screen.
Make something playful together.
Moxie works at a desk while two remote furry teammates celebrate on a large monitor.
Remote builders still share the room.
Moxie closes her webcam shutter while a friendly dragon avatar appears on the screen behind her.
Visibility is always your choice.

You do not owe the internet your identity.

Moxie holds one paw to her lips in a playful shushing gesture at the doorway to a neon workshop.

Use a handle, fursona, avatar, mask, or ordinary name. Camera off is fine. Share work without turning yourself into content.

The cell is the unit of participation, not a profile or personal brand.

Local relationships.Pseudonymous coordination.Visibility by choice.

“Do you like building weird things?”

That’s the whole signal.

It is an opener, not a password. If someone recognizes it, they can answer however they like. The signal never proves identity or trust; it only opens the door to a conversation.

01Ask with curiosity.02Recognize the yes.03Make one small thing.

Make things. Be kind. Keep going.

People before platforms. Consent before access. Strange attempts over spectatorship.

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People before platforms.

Start with the people in the room. Use the network only when it helps them.

02

Consent before access.

Ask before using or sharing characters, photos, identities, private work, or personal information.

03

Try the strange thing.

A curious attempt matters more than standing back and judging.

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Use the tool that opens the door.

AI is welcome, never required. Pencils, models, laptops, sewing machines, and crayons count too.

05

Teach freely.

If you figured something out, help the next person.

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Meet in the real world.

Discord can bridge cells to the network. It does not replace local trust.

WHAT COMES BACK

Make locally. Let the good stuff travel.

Movement building is its own reward. We also help your work find an audience. When hubs share demos with the wider network, we’ll blast them out to the TH4F mailing list. Big or small. Clean or scribbly. We celebrate the attempt, not just the polish.

Join the Discord

The waitlist is the bridge to the wider network. One person may join for the whole cell, using an alias if they choose. The first larger TH4F event is planned for Q1 2027; date and format TBD.