I am an incredibly furry specimen. Does that mean you love me?? Yayyyyy!!...i wasn't even trying! XD
Why I Love Furries
- Thread starter Liana Kerzner
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Just like any large clearly identifiable subset of humans, it's always going to be easiest for the onlooker to fixate on the loudest and most striking facet.
This is why MLP fans tend to be by and large tarred as bizarre manchildren who marry their bodypillows, Furries equate giant hyperdick porn, Sonic enthusiasts have inane 'donut steel' OCs generated ad nauseum, anime/manga people are pedophiles looking for futanaari and loli all day, DnD players live in their parents basement and spring their repressed fantasies on their friends, and any number of other extreme minority stereotypes.
Identifying something to rally against is an easy way to create unity within YOUR community after all.
This is why MLP fans tend to be by and large tarred as bizarre manchildren who marry their bodypillows, Furries equate giant hyperdick porn, Sonic enthusiasts have inane 'donut steel' OCs generated ad nauseum, anime/manga people are pedophiles looking for futanaari and loli all day, DnD players live in their parents basement and spring their repressed fantasies on their friends, and any number of other extreme minority stereotypes.
Identifying something to rally against is an easy way to create unity within YOUR community after all.
The problem with considering one's self a "furry" is the definition is a bit... conflicted. Is it for the people who wear animal costumes? Or lusty for anthro animals? Or just the people who like anthros?
I myself fall into the latter camp, as I just find the notion and design of humanoid animals fascinating.
Of course, there are the nutters who have to ruin it for everyone else... makes it REALLY hard to be a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog and make your own OCs with certain assholes (who will go unnamed) out there...
I myself fall into the latter camp, as I just find the notion and design of humanoid animals fascinating.
Of course, there are the nutters who have to ruin it for everyone else... makes it REALLY hard to be a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog and make your own OCs with certain assholes (who will go unnamed) out there...
Hear hear, nice article! Most of the furries I've encountered in my days have been some of the kindest, lovable and "fluffy" people I've ever met, and earlier this spring there was another happening that reinforced that image.
http://www.vice.com/read/syrian-refugees-welcomed-to-canada-with-furry-convention
No matter what you may think about the immigration issue, this right here is just undeniably heartwarming.
http://www.vice.com/read/syrian-refugees-welcomed-to-canada-with-furry-convention
No matter what you may think about the immigration issue, this right here is just undeniably heartwarming.
The CSI episode is a work of fiction.CrazyGirl17 said:
Many other furs also say it's a myth at best. Even Uncle Kage,the Chairman of Anthrocon.
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/feb/04/furry-fandom-subculture-animal-costumes < article about furry and how it is not a fetish.
And there is nothing sexual about furries,that would be yiff,personally i find yiff makes a mockery of the fandom. Saying furry is a fetish is like saying that anime is only about tentacle porn. Many furries,myself included hate the adult stuff.
Also found another article that lists many myths about the fandom. http://www.highlevelgames.ca/blog/5-common-misconceptions-people-have-about-furries?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
The problem with furries is the problem with bronies and the problem with atheists (and I say this as a casual brony myself). The community might be fine, but the internet evangelical branch is so very very cancer. It's always some of the most self-absorbed and annoying parts of the fandom that go and try to push it on others, which gives it a bad rep. Furries have the disadvantage of being around longer than a lot of other such groups, and so their rep has been building for longer.
As an adult, I find the adult stuff very entertaining. Now that I think about it, though... I think that the Furry Culture sort of is like cosplay culture, in that it's about displacement/replacement of reality with a 'better self'. Except most of our costumes are made of ink or just digital art files, worn only on the internet.axelthefox said:
But... back to the adult stuff. I think a big part of the reason it's so prominent in furry culture is because of the general "Express yourself" ideology. We don't draw the adult stuff for you - we draw it for ourselves, as an expression of fun and close intimacy, with no desire to obscure it with obtuse symbology or implied insinuations. Sex is fun, and our Superior Selves enjoy it just as much (if not more) than our boring stupid hairless ape selves.
Good article and fairly made points.
Despite this, I have to admit the suits still creep me out.
Not the people inside them (unless they happen to be a creepy person too. every group of every kind has them).
Just the suits.
As skilled as you have to be to make them I just can't leap that hurdle.
Some of the work is very impressive, especially in regard to those who try manage to replicate the appearance of a digitigrade leg and retain a natural looking proportion.
Perhaps it's the bright, cartoonyness of them.
Or the eyes.
Or the fixed smiles.
Yeah, it's probably the expressions.
Despite this, I have to admit the suits still creep me out.
Not the people inside them (unless they happen to be a creepy person too. every group of every kind has them).
Just the suits.
As skilled as you have to be to make them I just can't leap that hurdle.
Some of the work is very impressive, especially in regard to those who try manage to replicate the appearance of a digitigrade leg and retain a natural looking proportion.
Perhaps it's the bright, cartoonyness of them.
Or the eyes.
Or the fixed smiles.
Yeah, it's probably the expressions.
I might not be a furry myself, but some of my closest friends are, and this article is spot-on. Especially about the warm and fuzzy part: every one I met has been as warm and fuzzy personality-wise as their costumes. Heh, funny thing is I went to a furry con recently to help a friend with her booth, and I realized, I was probably the most screwed-up person there; because at the end of the day, furries are just normal people, even if they might be viewed as weird.
That is really cool. I went to a furry con with my mom and i think she got freaked out by the sexy art. I wonder how i should explain the fact that every fandom,like MLP:FIM,Star Trek,Star Wars,,furry fandom and such have rule 34 and how rule 34 isn't the basis of any fandom. Cause my mom seems to think all furs only draw rule 34,when the fandom is much more than that. I know of some artists in the fandom who won't draw adult stuff.an annoyed writer said:
I can explain why I don't. It's because I've seen the kind of porn members of that group come up with. It may not be the fairest reason but there you go.
As if furry fandom is the only fandom with people who create rule 34,there are some bronies who create rule 34,but does that mean all bronies do that? No it doesn't. There are people who create kirk/picard romances,but does that mean all trekkies do that? No it doesn't. There are some furs who create rule 34,but does that mean all furs do that? No it doesn't. Rule 34,if it exists, there is porn of it, no exceptions. Just try looking for Lord of the rings pics on google without porn by typing lord of the rings porn. Well good luck. Every fandom has people who create rule 34,but it isn't the basis of any fandom.SecondPrize said:
I know the horrors I've seen and their not being the only ones don't make them any better. It isn't the existence of r34, it's the nature of it.axelthefox said:
I think for people not in the fandom when the boyfriend of a friend lights up facebook at night because he was at a con (including pictures taken in public area where this was done) with "They just unfurled 8 feet of Shrek dick!" not exactly things you or your family might be expecting to show up.axelthefox said:
I assume this was all because people were drunk and it was after 10:00 PM but I have to say of all the other fandoms I have seen or been part of I have never experienced something like that. I'm not saying adult stuff does not go on after hours at cons, just that it tends not to be as out in the open and broadcast.
You know what I hate about furries? The lack of imagination.
All these furries and all their combined fursuit crafting and deviantart knowledge and yet they always create neon wolves.
I hate neon wolves.
Do a fursuit of a Bobbit worm or a water flea or a goblin shark.
All these furries and all their combined fursuit crafting and deviantart knowledge and yet they always create neon wolves.
I hate neon wolves.
Do a fursuit of a Bobbit worm or a water flea or a goblin shark.
Well, those wouldn't be fursuits. They would be.... uhrm, chitinsuits for the flea and worm, I suppose?Piecewise said:
Wiki informs me the dermis of sharks is composed of "collagenous fibres". Collagenousfibresuits! Rolls off the tongue.
Yeah Seems many who are into anime call anime characters waifus and sometimes have dinner with their waifu and sometimes have a body pillow,yet it's us furries who are the freaks. Makes sense.Worgen said:
Something about dinner with waifu. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/dinner-with-waifu-otaku-dates
Pot kettle black
These "suits" still creep me the Eff out... and this is coming from an artist who's been in that dumb online fandom since `97.
I'd like to compare them to Second Life infact. Is there tons of creativity? Yes. Is there also tons of Uncanny Valley? OH GOD YES.
IOW: the sheer amount of skill it would take, to make these things "Non-Squicking" to most adults ... is beyond that of 99% of the people who do build them
Also the Hyper-Genitals she mentioned.... STOP FREAKING DOING THAT. You're not honoring Doug Winger's memory. It's not even Creative, it's a Freudian cry for help! But other than that, it's a relief most artists in it are so effervescent and aren't nearly as cynical as me I guess otherwise it'd have a completely different PR problem and there wouldn't be ANY advocates like Liana for "all the cuddly people" in it
I'd like to compare them to Second Life infact. Is there tons of creativity? Yes. Is there also tons of Uncanny Valley? OH GOD YES.
IOW: the sheer amount of skill it would take, to make these things "Non-Squicking" to most adults ... is beyond that of 99% of the people who do build them
Also the Hyper-Genitals she mentioned.... STOP FREAKING DOING THAT. You're not honoring Doug Winger's memory. It's not even Creative, it's a Freudian cry for help! But other than that, it's a relief most artists in it are so effervescent and aren't nearly as cynical as me I guess otherwise it'd have a completely different PR problem and there wouldn't be ANY advocates like Liana for "all the cuddly people" in it
OMG, this, SO MUCH THISPiecewise said: