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#31 Lüt

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Posted 26 February 2016 - 01:49 AM

I grew up on animated Disney(-ish) films, so I already had my favorite animal characters probably before I had any favorite "real" characters. Squirrels and owls and chipmunks and foxes and rats were just a regular part of life, mine and most everybody else's I knew, for a very long time. Even if we moved past a lot of those films over time, a fandom for things like that would be one of the most expected things to find if I went looking for popular fandoms... which is why I was surprised to find out about it by coming across a group of people giving it an excessively bad rap. I wondered if they were just teens trying too hard to be grownups and saying they hated things they still liked but wished they didn't.

 

But then I saw all the kinky sex stuff.

 

Well, again, speaking of expected things, I'd been around the internet enough to know I should have expected a sexual twist on anything, and especially something with that level of popularity. Still, it was a twist I could have done without, and it can be a little hard disassociating the two when it involved art of classic characters I'd been familiar with for 10 or even 15 years.

 

Anyway, I know it's all individual preference in the end. For every one I've met who's into the explicit stuff, I know more who keep it on the everyday-ordinary-character side of things... which is where I'd like to keep it. I don't actually do the roleplay stuff, at least not like that, but as somebody who wants to write different characters for proper stories eventually, I find that some kind of quasi-roleplay can help challenge character development in a way I could never do if it were only me coming up with my own challenges for everybody. So I can see the fun in it, even if that's the only end goal.

 

But for now, I'm going to stick with revisiting my old favorite talking-animal flicks. Anybody seen the Fox and the Hound lately? It's so much truer now than it ever was when I was a kid. So depressingly much.


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#32 Fabbrizio

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Posted 13 March 2016 - 05:21 PM

I'm furious.
 

No, not angry. I'm fur-curious.

Puns aside, I've never been a fan of the status quo, so furries are A-Ok by me, though I would not call myself one. Though that's more just due to my dislike of fandoms in general. Groupthink is scary and drives some pretty unsettling behavior.


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Posted 14 March 2016 - 07:42 AM

Amen to that, Fabbrizio. I'd call myself a furry in the fact that I like funny little animal people doing people things, and would even go so far as to say I have a -sona. 

 

Some of the shit that the collective (at least the loudest, porniest section of the collective) does freaks me out a little, though. This movie hasn't come out yet. Why is there porn of the characters?



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Posted 14 March 2016 - 11:28 AM

There is definitely something very appealing about certain animal traits. I usually try to pin down an appeal to find the root trait, but I think in this case, it's thousands of little things compounded. 

 

Pets for example. I think the word "pet" does no justice to how much of a family member they become, and why it is that people enjoy having critters running around their house. The presence of small animals tends to be very comforting. It always has been.

 

So then when you take that comforting imagery and put it to a semi-human form, it becomes relatable. There's a thrill to the alien element, but you also feel somewhat safe.

That's the appeal that stands out to me, but I know there are countless more.

 

In the end, people view furries as weird because they really want to misunderstand. We're kind of biased to assume the creepiest extreme of something unfamiliar. And sadly, with the scary extremities of the furry fandom, people have the fodder to back up that bias.


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#35 Koh

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Posted 14 March 2016 - 06:53 PM

I personally don't identify as a furry, though I like characters that are, what I consider toons.  Basically bipedal animals or humanoid creatures that are used for comedy, over-the-top expressionism, or just for some racial variety in a universe, besides everything just being us boring humans.

 

In our games, that's what our crafted universe is to be like.  Toons and humans coexisting, though our toons are different from toons seen on TV, in that they are ultimately mortal.  You can't drop an anvil on them and expect them to survive that, as an example, lol.  But it's nice to have some variety in universes, besides just skin color and gender, you know?


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Posted 28 August 2017 - 05:16 PM

 

 

BTW, I know the episode of csi mentioned at the start and if I remember right there is also a show of a total jerk in a dog-costum. Even if these are only tiny parts of american media swapping over to europe, it makes it easy to understand how anti-furry the american media must be.

what show about a jerk in a dog costume? I never watched it, but I think with Wilfred the man dog sitting, is visualizing the dog, as a man in a dog costume.



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Posted 20 September 2017 - 08:50 AM

Like many who have posted here, I'm not sure I properly identify as furry, but I fully support those who do (assuming generally decent standards of civility and kindness).

 

But I say properly because I definitely have some sort of nonhuman bent to my physical preferences, both for myself and for what I like.

 

A lot of people like anime artwork, and I suspect a lot of people like it more than fully realistic people. Particularly a certain exaggerated style with the large eyes, simplified/tiny facial features, often the large hair, and so on. I definitely feel that way, but I take it super literally. I don't like real human teeth, nails, or even noses (though noses are easier to accept). Every rare once in a while, you might see pictures floating around the internet of people in anime girl-styled masks. Something about that concept appeals to me, and if it were possible and safe to do so, I would literally be interested in having a cybernetic body based on that kind of concept, rather than looking like an ordinary human.

 

I know that's not really 'furry', but I think there are some related underlying things about dissociation from human traits or fondness for the idea of some major variant on humanity that doesn't quite exist.

 

But besides for that, I do actually like some furry artwork I've seen and have saved some of it now and then. Furthermore, I really like the idea of having a tail (personally, I would go for a thick-at-the-base, tapering kind of tail, more like a lizard or a tyrannosaur, but smooth and human flesh-y). I'd also like to have pointy ears, though I'd be going more for the stick-way-out-to-the-sides anime elf ears. Again, not very animal anthropomorphising, but I lean very strongly towards something that isn't quite a natural human.

 

(I also wish glasses stores sold giant circular glasses. For serious, that's what I want to wear. Why do all glasses need to be little ovals or little rectangles? I'm so badly nearsighted that it gives me tunnel vision, even aside from my aeshtetic preferences.)

 

Additionally, I consider turtles something of a totem animal for me, as I relate to lying around quietly in a shell, meandering around slowly, and hiding when threatened. And carrying around my home on my back, these days, too. Hence the avatar (I drew it myself years ago).

 

As far as NSFW stuff... I feel like NSFW stuff is very legitimate and fine and I support and encourage it (and, though not furry-oriented, I have made some myself). But that's not the end-all of how people relate to physical forms or identity, not by a longshot. There are plenty of people who think sex is gross, or don't want it applied to certain things, or even for people who are comfortable with it, they simply think of identity and anatomy (furry or otherwise) in a way that isn't inherently sexual. So furriness need not be a sex thing, but there's also nothing wrong with sex things in my opinion... you just can't generalize the whole thing like that.

 

And on a related note, CSI is dumb and awful about trying to comprehend internet/modern culture. They had this awful episode about the sorta 3D builder/chat program hybrid social thingy called Second Life, too, and that one was just ridiculous. And I remember some bit I saw where they were speaking about IRC as this alien thing used by Hackers (capital H), comparing it to "ships passing in the night" and characterizing it as something people do solely to cover their tracks for shady activity. Fooey on CSI's hamfisted misrepresentations.

 

Also, just a minor random thing that took me years to notice: did you ever realize that Sonic shares pretty much the exact same anatomical style as 1920s/1930s-era Mickey Mouse, with the 'rubber hose' noodle-thin limbs and the spherical torso, and the same kind of mouth/nose/facial structure? (40s-00s Mickey not so much, they redesigned him to have thicker limbs and be a little more humanoid and stuff.) I always thought that kind of design (the older/Sonic-esque style) was cute.


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Posted 20 September 2017 - 01:16 PM

I think my problem with furries is that there doesn't seem to be a defined, agreed upon meaning to what being furry actually means.

If it was just about liking anthropomorphic animals, they probably wouldn't get as much hate I imagine as many people, even those who don't identify as furry like that kind of character.

In my experience I've heard people say it's just about liking anthropomorphic characters, and some say it's about relating in some way to a specific animals which are both fine in my book, but the extreme side is what most people are probably familiar with, and that's where I think not having a clear, defined meaning to what being a furry is hurts.

It's not like other fandoms don't get similar sort of hate for their extreme side, but when that extreme side can go into illegal territory it's just easy to assume all of that fandom are like that if that's all that "haters" focus on.
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#39 Shane

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Posted 17 July 2021 - 03:54 AM

Furries are REAL.  :omg:

 

im a furry
 
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#40 Rambly

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Posted 04 August 2021 - 04:26 AM

i don't have a sona or anything like that but i really like cute adorable little animals and i find a lot of anthro art cute

 

as far as there being horny furries out there, yes. welcome to online



#41 Ghost

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Posted 04 August 2021 - 03:33 PM

The fetishization of Disney animals strikes me as weird, more so than feet or other human kinks, but not harmful in of itself so ya'll do you.

 

Outside of any individual, it does suck how wildly visible the fetish furries are, to the point where you can hardly search any concept art site without seeing rock hard dogs.

 

Do wonder how much of it is just people looking for an adult community and finding open arms in those groups at a young adult age.



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Posted 05 August 2021 - 03:34 PM

The fetishization of Disney animals strikes me as weird, more so than feet or other human kinks, but not harmful in of itself so ya'll do you.

What is so weird about it? .....
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Posted 05 August 2021 - 04:07 PM

we really out here just posting mice with they nipples poppin' out


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#44 Valerie

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Posted 05 August 2021 - 07:43 PM

we really out here just posting mice with they nipples poppin' out

Real mice have like ten nipples and they don't wear clothes, at least I could never get them to wear clothes, they would always squirm around too much when I would try to dress them... Those dirty nudist mice.



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