Not gonna lie, I love to UwU OwO and all that Jazz, but I can understand your view. Meme culture ruins a lot of things.
Note: It feels great to have honest furry discussion without shitposting everywhere
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Note: It feels great to have honest furry discussion without shitposting everywhere
I don't participate or identify with furry """""culture"""""
No
It's really not that different from any other fandom, the main differences being a) there's no franchise tied to it, and b) it's very old
Just a nice story about Furries I thought I'd share.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/...TfOBwxOW3sh2lgMI0oVsY17P7dMhLmDTfTVzOgXb8IAkU
For the record I am indifferent to the Furry Fandom, I am of the mindset that if you're not hurting anyone I couldn't care less what you do in your own time.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/...TfOBwxOW3sh2lgMI0oVsY17P7dMhLmDTfTVzOgXb8IAkU
For the record I am indifferent to the Furry Fandom, I am of the mindset that if you're not hurting anyone I couldn't care less what you do in your own time.
1. Well I have been drawing dinosaur characters since I was little, and I saw furries and their animal characters and I was like "yeah that's me"
2. No, I don't think so, lots of my crushes from when I was younger were female human characters in pokemon, and not furries.
Personally I'd become my Fursona without question.
Don't worry me too lol
How would you change your clothes?
you take off your clothes, and wash them... Then you put them back on.
woah
(yes I have fingers)
Most furries keep their stuff to the internet and conventions made for furries. If furries do go out in public wearing costumes, they are usually in a group and often at public events (Like fairs, parties, etc...)
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Do you have to have a fursona to fall under the furry descriptor? Or can one simply be sexually interested in such creatures/characters with anthropomorphically animalistic features and be a furry?
Not asking for a friend, I'm genuinely curious if I meet the qualifications
Not asking for a friend, I'm genuinely curious if I meet the qualifications
Um....no, fursonas are a pretty common thing among furries and having one is what many of them want, but it's not necessary. About the second question, the answer is no as well. The interest doesn't need to go that way, it's just like with many fandoms that just so happen to have an adult side to it, but you don't need to be a fan of such content.
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Lots of furries have fursonas, majority do actually. Fursona doesn’t have to be you as an animal, it can just be your most used character.
Like my “Fursona” wasn’t even meant to be my fursona when it was first created. Started off as a gag between my high school friends, made it onto the internet, people started associating me with the raptor rather than a person which caused it to be my fursona
It depends on the person if being a furry is sexual are not. Some people may be there just for the sexual part but it’s not as common. Usually they casually like NSFW of anthro characters, like how anime fans sometimes are into Hentai, because it relates to their interest. Some furries aren’t sexual at all.
You definitely don't need a fursona, they're pretty much exclusively a thing only on the western part of the fandom. In the kemono/eastern side of things, they're much rarer, with artists opting to just make original characters instead, and fans not having any.
It's kinda interesting since western culture in general places much more emphasis on individualism, which is my guess for why this happens. Not requiring a fursona in kemono also means you don't get nearly as many characters invented by people who have zero art or character design skill, avoiding the problem of endless sparkledogs made with the MS paint fill bucket tool
Western furries also have way more emphasis on sexual fetishes, most likely because it started that way in the very beginning. Furries (especially conventions) trying to rebrand to be more clean and kid-friendly is very much a recent development within the past decade or so.
It's kinda interesting since western culture in general places much more emphasis on individualism, which is my guess for why this happens. Not requiring a fursona in kemono also means you don't get nearly as many characters invented by people who have zero art or character design skill, avoiding the problem of endless sparkledogs made with the MS paint fill bucket tool
Western furries also have way more emphasis on sexual fetishes, most likely because it started that way in the very beginning. Furries (especially conventions) trying to rebrand to be more clean and kid-friendly is very much a recent development within the past decade or so.
Furry pride!
While I do not identify myself in the category, I do certainly approve of what you are trying to do in this thread. Back in the day, I did watch several tv shows that could have some relation to this hobby. Like Rescue Rangers, Talespin, Mew mew power and Swat kats, to name a few.
While I do not identify myself in the category, I do certainly approve of what you are trying to do in this thread. Back in the day, I did watch several tv shows that could have some relation to this hobby. Like Rescue Rangers, Talespin, Mew mew power and Swat kats, to name a few.
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Thank you! I am proud to be a furry.
Furries really changed my life for the better and helped me when I was in a dark place.
do they actually spam uwu and owo and such
iam sorry for any harm caused
Some do, I very much do.
I wouldn’t call it spam though as it’s not in literally every sentence like the memes. We still know how to speak in an acceptable manner, most furries only do that with other furries or do it ironically
I agree! I’ve made 11 fursuits and I’m still not up to that level. Amazing work.
That sounds great! I wanted to go MFF but I ended up backing out due to some threats that were made, causing some of my possible roomates to back out. However I will be going to Anthro northwest this year as Viscor Crimera, my one other OC.
I plan to wear this new fursuit at cons rather than falkneraptor, because I wouldn't get to wear it as often as I don't want to scare the kids at my smaller furmeets (usually around 5-7 fursuiters going to parks, or furry bowling)
Just finished the head/arms/handclaws this week, working on the tail and feetclaws.
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tl;dr--Furries are not as bad as people like to make them out to be. Seriously, it's a giant case of a vocal minority "representing" the community to the common person. Generalization is not only inherently a blugh thing, but when it comes to something as serious as pedophilia and zoophilia and it being associated with furries, it's not only super dangerous, but it's extremely, blatantly incorrect. I'm really done with seeing people assume all furries are pedophiles and zoophiles, tbh.
Yeah its pretty sad, knowing a lot of the community sees being "furry" as a hobby. I mean yeah, NSFW stuff exists but that's a thing for literally every large fanbase.
I don't understand why people see me like this and immediately go to "Yeah this is a sex thing"
like let me dress as a silly blue velociraptor in peace
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Shufflebotham Singh LLP
Banned deucer.
For a long time, the idea of a "furry" was something that I did not understand and therefore did not approve of. But recently my family went through something of a difficult time when I discovered my oldest son has been living a double life as a furry on the internet. At first we responded harshly, restricting his internet access and looking through his room for material we did not approve of. After all, we did not understand. Why did our son turn out this way? We took him to Church every Sunday. He should know better than this, should he not?
But this only created resentment, and in the end we had a length, frank conversation that allowed his mother and I to accept him for what he is. I admit that it still causes me some deal of confusion, but I still love him. I have decided to, from now on, spend some time each week trying to discuss this further with him and attempt to understand his point of view. Maybe, in time, even I will understand furry culture. Stranger things have happened.
But this only created resentment, and in the end we had a length, frank conversation that allowed his mother and I to accept him for what he is. I admit that it still causes me some deal of confusion, but I still love him. I have decided to, from now on, spend some time each week trying to discuss this further with him and attempt to understand his point of view. Maybe, in time, even I will understand furry culture. Stranger things have happened.
