![[Post-Self-20240217102929318.png]] ## What's your Cohost Link? [post-self](https://cohost.org/post-self) ## What's the thing? Post-Self is an open universe for exploring uploaded consciousnesses with the ability to create fully realized copies of themselves who are free to live their own lives or to merge back down to share their memories. While it has primarily attracted authors so far (with seven books out or coming soon), there is also a wiki, an upcoming tabletop RPG, some visual art in the setting, and a thriving and supportive community on Discord as well! It is a queer-normative setting with a focus on interpersonal relationships, emotions, mental health, and how one changes over time. While most works so far fall under the general umbrella of "soft sci-fi," there is room for all sorts, with stories exploring fandoms in the future, sword and sorcery fantasy settings created by uploaded individuals, metafurry stories (stories about members of the furry subculture), and so on. I am submitting this as one of the original authors and the current curator of canon, and I would say that I like creating in the setting because it allows me to explore identity in a way that is inaccessible to me. I can only do so much because I have to do everything serially, rather than in parallel, including trying to figure out just who I am. I think it would be great for people who are interested in queer, plural, disabled, furry, or other marginalized identities; folks who are interested in anti-capitalist, post-scarcity, and anarchic societies; and those with a taste for bittersweet moods. ## Link the thing! https://post-self.ink