Furry discussion thread

[Thuja 3,658]

3 minutes ago, flurry said:

I feel like there is a lot of pressure from the fandom to have such suit and the suiting dominates the in person fandom way too much. Yes online it is okay but when u go to conventions or meets it is so so different. I guess you could compare it to people who dress up at comic cons except it is not that much as it feels more dedicated and lifestyly to me. I just wanna enjoy anthroanimal art and yet there is so much on suits. And there are cases of furries who didn't have suits getting a suit and saying bye bye to the friends who don't have a suit. Or literally use the suit just to brag all the time. I don't see anything wrong with one and in a way they interest me to the point id consider but sometimes it does get a bit too much in ur face and even cringy. 

Tho ye there are plenty of furries who arent into it either.

I've never really been to any meetup for local furs because there really isn't any anymore.  The fur-con in the nearest city closed down due to funds or something.  The local facebook group for furs in my area is very small and hasn't been active in at least 8 years from what I see on there, sent one request to join a few years ago and never heard back from them nor has anyone posted anything in there which sucks.  So I don't really have much of an experience with irl fur groups unfortunately so my view is probably biased on that sort of thing.

[Splashee 28,538]

4 hours ago, flurry said:

And I guess one thing that really does urk a lot of furries is.. pedos.. because yeah dodgy people around.

I would say, everyone does urk for them

[Yakamaru 3,081]

Personally I find fursuits extremely overrated. They are too warm, too expensive and too rarely used to be any good. That and I am not going to mix my IRL and internet lives for the most part. The internet operates very differently than real life, and I intend to keep them separate as much as possible. Though that said, I have met a few local furs and had pizza with them which was nice.

Now, if you were also like the local sports team's mascot and went to events and games like once or twice a week? That would be a different story on the fursuit.

[Kamal900 30]

On 10/2/2020 at 10:45 PM, flurry said:

I feel like there is a lot of pressure from the fandom to have such suit and the suiting dominates the in person fandom way too much. Yes online it is okay but when u go to conventions or meets it is so so different. I guess you could compare it to people who dress up at comic cons except it is not that much as it feels more dedicated and lifestyly to me. I just wanna enjoy anthroanimal art and yet there is so much on suits. And there are cases of furries who didn't have suits getting a suit and saying bye bye to the friends who don't have a suit. Or literally use the suit just to brag all the time. I don't see anything wrong with one and in a way they interest me to the point id consider but sometimes it does get a bit too much in ur face and even cringy. 

Tho ye there are plenty of furries who arent into it either.

 

Yeah it is understandable. Honestly I don't see the need to claim furry but yea. Ngl some furries r disgusting oof 

I think actually the hate has died down a little on furries since a lot of it was based on the "gayness" of the fandom. 

 

 

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Edited October 9, 2020 by Kamal900
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[Stardust 640]

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[Kamal900 30]

4 minutes ago, flurry said:

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I was about to say something, but I though I didn't want to anymore. There is no delete button here, so..yeah.

[Jesse Terrence 2,966]

On 9/27/2020 at 9:49 PM, Splashee said:

What is the one thing you should NEVER post or show to a Furry?

 

If I were to draw something that could be offensive to a Furry, what would that be? (I am trying to avoid conflicts in the future). Also please don't post any visual stuff that is NSFW. Censor your words as well

Anything heterosexual :v xD

[Windseeker 546]

On 7/20/2020 at 12:49 PM, Jesse Terrence said:

I totally get you. I guess "species disphorya" should be an actual psychiatric condition

I myself grew bitter on furries because they were witch hunting bronies and I was target of such activities back in 2011-2014. The saddest part was that my very own friends from such a fandom started the harassment against me.

So, personally, I don't have too much trust on that fandom.

I'm actually wondering why 2 out of 3 poll options are pro-furry and there's none of disliking, instead just one of awkwardness.

Hey, that's fair and I empathize with you. I too know what it's like to have friends who mistreat you over such trivial nonsense and constantly pull double standards when it came to piss-poor behavior. 

Quite frankly, I do not like furries, I will never like furries, I don't even like other bronies. I don't care how many people give me the cold shoulder, throw whataboutisms at me, cry about "very vocal minorities" (an overused overly stupid surmise), and call me some sabre rattler. It changes nothing. Am I generalizing? Probably. Do I care? Does it matter? No and no. You are allowed to hold a conclusion based on your personal experiences and I always judged someone's character on an individual basis anyway.

My disdain towards both communities were not about what they are into but the kinds of insufferable personalities they tend to attract.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Jesse Terrence 2,966]

30 minutes ago, Windseeker said:

Hey, that's fair and I empathize with you. I too know what it's like to have friends who mistreat you over such trivial nonsense and constantly pull double standards when it came to piss-poor behavior. 

Quite frankly, I do not like furries, I will never like furries, I don't even like other bronies. I don't care how many people give me the cold shoulder, throw whataboutisms at me, cry about "very vocal minorities" (an overused overly stupid surmise), and call me some sabre rattler. It changes nothing. Am I generalizing? Probably. Do I care? Does it matter? No and no. You are allowed to hold a conclusion based on your personal experiences and I always judged someone's character on an individual basis anyway.

My disdain towards both communities were not about what they are into but the kinds of insufferable personalities they tend to attract.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah. No wonder we avoid the term brony over 4chan and use horsef***er instead. The fandom was better back in the day.

[Windseeker 546]

43 minutes ago, Jesse Terrence said:

Yeah. No wonder we avoid the term brony over 4chan and use horsef***er instead. The fandom was better back in the day.

I can't remember much of what the fandom was like in 2012, I know I made a good friend who was pretty much my guide during that time, boy do I miss her.

Anyway, just don't single anybody out, make assumptions about people, nor advocate violence against them for who they are, then you're welcome to dislike any group for what you went through. I myself was never able to successfully fit in with furries and bronies, even if I was a hugely into both communities. The circumstances surrounding it were pretty awful tbh

Not gonna lie, I am surprised you made it this far with a negative opinion of furries without getting dogpiled lol

[Jesse Terrence 2,966]

31 minutes ago, Windseeker said:

Not gonna lie, I am surprised you made it this far with a negative opinion of furries without getting dogpiled lol

Oh but they did for the most part. And you'd be even nore surprised to hear I still have 2 close friends who happen to be furries. The world is insane 

[Stardust 640]

On 1/2/2021 at 12:37 AM, Jesse Terrence said:

Anything heterosexual :v xD

I'm pretty sure even some of the supposedly gay furries look at the hetero furry (especially porn). It's only when it turns to human. Then they run far far. 

[ded acc 317]

I am neutral about furries. Anthro art can be nice, but it shouldn't be exclusive to a subculture/fandom. 
Also:
 

Spoiler

 

[Stardust 640]

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[honk friend 1,972]

mlp fans are just diet furries

[Tao 6,811]

On 2021-03-04 at 9:08 AM, Annie said:

mlp fans are just diet furries

Maybe? 

 

I was a furry in my late teens to 20's and it just seemed the fandom took a bad turn for the sex and also how it was shown to the mass media sadly.   So a lot of ppl got the wrong idea and sadly I have been always in a area where I had to keep in the basement.   I've mostly left the community minus now and then a nice web comic I still read.  

[Venomous 18,819]

I got my partial fursuit commissioned last week! 

[Yakamaru 3,081]

20 hours ago, The Wife of Hawks said:

I got my partial fursuit commissioned last week! 

Ooooooo. What maker did you commission from?

[Paleopony 690]

I'm not a huge fan of furry stuff but whatever floats your boat.

[Gun Metal Zebra 1,854]

I have recently started getting involved with real world furry activities. I  hoping to attend my first furry convention later this year, and I have made new some friends at furry meetups. Getting to know other furries in the real world is a great way to get hugs, by the way. 

[Autumn Ink 35]

I'm on the fringes of the fandom, but I'm a casual fan. I've been aware of the fandom and I've been in and out of it since the mid-1990s. It's way different from how it was back then. There were all kinds of artists with varying styles, nearly everyone was in the tech industry, and hardly anyone got offended when the media ran with a senationalist BS story.

Nowadays, nearly everyone has the same art style, a lot of artists are trying to make a living off cheap commissions and adoptables, and a lot of furries feel that they have to "come out of the furry closet" and find "furry-friendly landlords and employers." Having an interest in anthropomorphic animals shouldn't be a crisis or an orientation. At least I don't think it has to be.

I don't find a lot of fursonas original these days. It seems that hardly anybody experiments with the species they have. It's all furry or scaly eye candy with absolutely no traces of animal traits or quirks. You might as well just draw humans. (But the 1990s furry fandom wasn't too original in this regard, either; there were tons of foxes all over the place. Now it's wolves and huskies.)

And if you're wondering why it's become known for a lot of "gay stuff": the furry fandom has always been open to LGBT issues. Well, back in the 90s and early 2000s, it was more LGB; this was before transgender, asexual, and intersex issues came to the forefront of society and pop culture. (To illustrate further, having a flamboyant, lisping gay man in a TV series was considered daring and progressive.) Same-sex issues were becoming a fierce battleground, and a lot of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals found comfort and support in the furry fandom. It was probably one of the few safe places in the world where they could speak freely and be themselves.

It's been interesting to watch the furry fandom change the way it has, but time will tell if I keep hanging out in the fringes. There's a lot of drama, especially among the younger ones who think the world is out to make it illegal to be a furry. While it's more sane in the greymuzzle groups (furries who are 30+ years old), I keep seeing younger ones trying to join them. (And spare me the "you should be inclusive" argument; people in certain age groups deserve to have their own spaces. Not everything needs to include or cater to teens and twentysomethings.)

[TokyoRose 84]

I would consider myself a furry, albeit a casual one. It’s not a huge part of my identity or anything like that. I just think furries are neat.
 

I don’t really have a fursona per se, but I do have a furry OC who is quickly becoming a sort of “mascot”-type character for me. He’s part of an open hybrid species called Kittydogs, originally created by Kittydog Crystal, who is a well-known animator. 

here’s a picture of my “mascot” that I quickly whipped up in IbisPaint X using a base I found on DeviantArt: 

 

[EpicEnergy 22,527]

I think furries are cool, I have no problems with them.

[Gun Metal Zebra 1,854]

On 2022-07-08 at 4:27 PM, Autumn Ink said:

I'm on the fringes of the fandom, but I'm a casual fan. I've been aware of the fandom and I've been in and out of it since the mid-1990s. It's way different from how it was back then. There were all kinds of artists with varying styles, nearly everyone was in the tech industry, and hardly anyone got offended when the media ran with a senationalist BS story.

Nowadays, nearly everyone has the same art style, a lot of artists are trying to make a living off cheap commissions and adoptables, and a lot of furries feel that they have to "come out of the furry closet" and find "furry-friendly landlords and employers." Having an interest in anthropomorphic animals shouldn't be a crisis or an orientation. At least I don't think it has to be.

I don't find a lot of fursonas original these days. It seems that hardly anybody experiments with the species they have. It's all furry or scaly eye candy with absolutely no traces of animal traits or quirks. You might as well just draw humans. (But the 1990s furry fandom wasn't too original in this regard, either; there were tons of foxes all over the place. Now it's wolves and huskies.)

And if you're wondering why it's become known for a lot of "gay stuff": the furry fandom has always been open to LGBT issues. Well, back in the 90s and early 2000s, it was more LGB; this was before transgender, asexual, and intersex issues came to the forefront of society and pop culture. (To illustrate further, having a flamboyant, lisping gay man in a TV series was considered daring and progressive.) Same-sex issues were becoming a fierce battleground, and a lot of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals found comfort and support in the furry fandom. It was probably one of the few safe places in the world where they could speak freely and be themselves.

It's been interesting to watch the furry fandom change the way it has, but time will tell if I keep hanging out in the fringes. There's a lot of drama, especially among the younger ones who think the world is out to make it illegal to be a furry. While it's more sane in the greymuzzle groups (furries who are 30+ years old), I keep seeing younger ones trying to join them. (And spare me the "you should be inclusive" argument; people in certain age groups deserve to have their own spaces. Not everything needs to include or cater to teens and twentysomethings.)

I don't doubt that there is still plenty of drama in the fandom, and I have always found the notion of "fursecution" endlessly irritating (this trivializes genuine discrimination on the basis of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, etc.). The nice thing about finding a real world meetup organization is that the Online Disinhibition Effect is not a factor; there are meaningful consequences for one's actions in the real world (a couple of younger trolls I blocked in the Discord channel don't dare to start trouble at these events).  It is a little odd seeing some young middle school furs that are young enough to be my children at meetups (the organization is technically a non-profit that runs a furry convention every year, so apparently it needs to have such an approach), but I have found other adults furs (and even some fellow "greymuzzles). They do occasionally have some 18+ and 21+ events (strictly non-NSFW), and I may try to check out some of those if my schedule permits. 

 

 

 

[Savygriffs 5,031]

I think furries are cool, I don't have any problem with them. I kinda have a "fursona" of sorts of my own.