Furries!

[Blackshirt Brony 415]

I'm very much not fond of "furryism", but a lot of people would consider mlp a "furry thing" and I respect that.

[Looking Glass 197]

i used to be a member on several furry boards, but i dont go as much as I used to.  

[ASGARDIANBRONY 128]

is a furry this guy? i don't know what a furry is.

[redshell 195]

I'll be honest...I don't mind the kinky sexual side of the furry fandom...so I guess I don't really have a problem with them.

nether do I, But I am part of the Fandom

[EpicEnergy 23,255]

I think furries are decent. I acknowledge that there are some bad furries, but there always some bad parts to fandoms.

[Jesse Terrence 2,971]

Furries... eeeeeeeewww.

It seems newbloods ignore the darker times.

[Stardust 647]

Well I am involved in that stuff yea lol that's where a lot of my friends are.

Sometimes I feel like there is too much focus on fursuiting at events though when I care more about the art stuff. I also prefer having many ocs over fursonas as idk I can't get attached to one character. I don't always consider my art furry though it's whatever I want to draw. 

[Here No Longer 5,287]

I am, to an extent, a furry. So of course I don't necessarily have a negative opinion of them. In general I'd say my opinion of them is quite positive and I find that most of the problems people have with the entirety of the fandom just are results of getting offended by people that are different than them.

 

Though I will say, there's definitely a few bad apples in the fandom as there are in any. But honestly, I don't think they're really all that bad compared to what I've seen elsewhere.

Edited June 26, 2020 by Furret ᐡ꒳ᐡ

[The Historian 518]

I am most definitely a furry. My nickname in another community for years has been "furry queen." It's not really a secret that I get down with the fuzz.

Edited June 26, 2020 by The Historian

[Pixel Stick 927]

38 minutes ago, The Historian said:

I am most definitely a furry. My nickname in another community for years has been "furry queen." It's not really a secret that I get down with the fuzz.

You'll have to forgive me if I don't believe you. No self-respecting furry I've ever met - even the ones for whom it's all about the fetish stuff - would ever say that.

[Pastel Heart 6,473]

Furry for a long time now! My non pony fursona is a pink kitten~ I haven't really been active in any purely furry communities though, it's just been a passive thing I've floated with through communities. I think I'm weird even by furry standards so I've been shy about being in the dedicated fandom 

[The Historian 518]

On 6/26/2020 at 9:57 AM, Pixel Stick said:

You'll have to forgive me if I don't believe you. No self-respecting furry I've ever met - even the ones for whom it's all about the fetish stuff - would ever say that.

Believe me or don't. I care little what others think. But I am quite the furry.

Edited June 30, 2020 by The Historian

[Esoteric 142]

I've been an open furry for about 3 years now, starting when I was still watching MLP (got out of MLP during 2018) and I feel a lot more confident about being a furry than brony. My boyfriend and a lot of my friends are furries as well, I love being part of the community.

[Pixel Stick 927]

1 hour ago, The Historian said:

Believe me or don't. I care little what others think. But I am quite the furry.

I suppose I could say I'm "quite the furry" too. Depends on what you mean by that. I just find myself skeptical when someone says things like "I get down in the fuzz", because it sounds a lot more like someone who wants to troll the furry community. There's kind of an unspoken rule among furries that you keep your private life to yourself.

[Ixrec 86]

Anthropomorphized animal characters do come up frequently in the media I enjoy, but that's probably mostly because I've always strongly preferred fantasy/sci-fi settings to realistic settings, and there's obviously a lot of overlap there.

I've never identified as or considered myself a "furry" because a) everyone uses that word differently, so it's more confusing than helpful, and b) if I had to guess, one of the less wrong definitions might be "actively participates in the furry fandom/community" which is not something I've ever done. If the MLP fandom keeps my interest for long enough I could see myself with a ponysona someday, but that'd be a ways off.

[The Historian 518]

On 6/30/2020 at 1:17 PM, Pixel Stick said:

I suppose I could say I'm "quite the furry" too. Depends on what you mean by that. I just find myself skeptical when someone says things like "I get down in the fuzz", because it sounds a lot more like someone who wants to troll the furry community. There's kind of an unspoken rule among furries that you keep your private life to yourself.

I do as I please. I'm already deep in the shit. What's a little more on top with being a furry?

[Magpie 624]

Nope definitely not one of those...*glances nervously at my goat fursona profile pic*.

[Savystarscout 5,252]

I am a furry, and proud of it. I actually have some good friends who are also furries!

[Thuja 3,667]

Since it's been a while since I last posted, might as well update!!  

I have my own fursona now and I'm more certain of what species he should be.  For a while, I couldn't decide on his species, first he was a rabbit, jackalope, bear, deer, bear/deer hybrid and now he's a predatory elk.  What I mean by that is, an elk with sharp teeth and claws.  I was inspired by the idea from seeing one of my now favourite furry artists on tumblr have predatory deer fursonas and I figured I could do the same thing with an elk instead since I think elk are really cool and I love all the calls and bugles they make.

[Early Sunsets 2,112]

I was a furry years before becoming a brony. I found the fandom by looking up pokemon fanart on google in middle school, which led me to a furry art website. I saw furry art, thought, "hey, that's pretty cool," and I was converted. I always liked cartoons (the stereotypical Robin Hood was and still is one of my favorites, despite being almost thirty years older than I am), so it didn't take much convincing, if any. By contrast, it took four years and three attempts for me to become a brony. That's a little ironic, considering the MLP community has become more special to me than the furry fandom ever was. That might change now that I'm trying to work at least part-time in the furry fandom, but still.

As for fursonas, I guess I technically have two. Booker (my avatar) is more of a MLP OC, but I still think of him the same way I would a fursona. He's kind of supposed to be what I wish I could be. Our personalities are almost identical, but he's better than me in every way, some of which I can't change about myself. I've also given him scars to match the ones I have (except for the chunk missing from my left middle finger. Not sure how to translate that into hooves), though I don't have any art of his updated design yet.

Then there's my very first fursona (Karou is the name I've settled on. It's weeb-ey, but whatever). I made him when I was eleven or twelve, and somebody from a Facebook group I was in very kindly drew a ref sheet of him for free. He's gone through a few design iterations since then so it's not actually him anymore, but I'll still post the image. 

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I still haven't actually settled on his design, and I'm considering remaking him entirely. Younger me couldn't pick color combinations for shit (honestly, he's kind of sad to look at), I want to change his species slightly (he's a hybrid, so the sky is the limit there), and overall he's just poorly designed.

At first he was sort of the silent, cool, edgy sona that every teen furry makes, but when I became more active in the fandom recently, I reworked him a bit. I wanted to keep his personality somewhat close to his original, so he now represents the hermit side of me. He's a bit colder than I am, but I dropped all the edgy stuff, so he's really just a slightly more irritable and reclusive version of myself. I might end up changing that when I revamp him, but I don't know.

Edited July 18, 2020 by Booker

[ponygirl2020 58]

I relate to the sentiment a few people have that I feel weird just openly calling myself a furry, due to the sheer amount of connotations that label has in everyone's brain, but I'm most definitely a furry.

My only wish is that furries would start choosing some weirder animals to use as their fursonas. My fursona (if that label really fits) is a sea cucumber girl that can't talk and doesn't really move. She just lays on the couch and has food shoved into the mouth tentacles on her head and if she gets stressed out, she vomits up all her organs.

[Ittoni 539]

I had a furry phase. Had a skunk fursona. It was nice but I started to get bored with the general drawing style. Also I could never really get into it for anything else, just liked the drawings and pretend I could have an animal form. 

Mlp came later and let find myself participating more on it.

Edited July 31, 2020 by Ittoni

[Cash In 23,407]

I'm not a furry, but I don't mind them. I have friends who are furries and they are some of the most genuine people I know.

Edited January 11, 2021 by Cash_In