What is a furry?
 

Yeah, what is it? So I've read different things about it online but I still haven't grasped what it really is all about, besides from people dressing up in animal costumes and there being a lot of hentai of it. Is it just some sexual fetish, lifestyle or what is it? Do these people think of themselves as animals or what, and have the need of dressing up in furs or whatever? Is there some kind of ideology/belief behind all this? Are there different kinds of furries? There are some furries around here right, who can give me some answers on this?

In general, furries are people who fail at being human.

A miserable little pile of delusions.

Unlike a man, which is a miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk, HAVE AT YOU!!!

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This thread is off to a great start

I was kinda waiting for this post to segue into something else. Something... More.

Sometimes it's the "second skin", sometimes it's the "ideal" silhouet of the animal that arouses people. Not all of these people see themselves as an animal. It's rather, liking to be dominated by an animal or to dominate an animal themselves.

People who dress like an animal, I think, have the urge of "arousement" applicable to the "second skin" theory.

I laughed:

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This is pretty much how I think of most furries.

Awesomeness XD

Anyways I've pretty much heard that they fail at life etc. or whatever already a thousand times so I was thinking maybe someone could tell me what it is that all these people get get so irritated at all these furries. I mean, there are lots of more weird fetishes (or whatever it is) out there that people could be picking on instead?

Temari's RA is a furry... She made a journal entry with pics of him a few weeks ago. I don't know dick about them, but If I were to guess, they just love animals, and want to devolve and be them mentally. Some only do it during sex, but some have parties and social gatherings, and some literally spend the entirety of their days wearing the costume. I dunno, it's one of those unexplainable phenomena that you really can't probe the source about, since nine times out of ten they'll say "what costume?" when asked about it.

One who is unshaven, obviously.

From my experience and point of view, I see the furry fandom as something to be used as a means of escaping real life, and living in your own paradise. It's generally regarded that the Disney version of Robin Hood, made in the late seventies, is the first 'furry' movie and what might have started it all. Don't quote me on that though, I'm not entirely sure myself, especially since Disney made furry movies before that (ie Bambi and Lady and the Tramp).

I don't dress up in a costume, and I probably never will for that matter; that's just embarrassing. While I'm especially fond of furry artwork, I don't like the porn as much as the clean art, because one, the furries that draw porn aren't really good at it, since they likely haven't studied the human/animal anatomy enough, two, most furry porn just isn't satisfying enough for me (ARTISTICALLY. Not the other kind of satisfying) and three, the artists that CAN draw evidently don't focus on porno at all.

I don't necessarily have an "inner animal", nor do I have a "fursona" on the web. Hell, I don't even browse furry porn sites on a regular basis, I only do that maybe once or twice a month if I remember, since I'm almost always busy with other things. But I think the reason why non-furries hate the fandom so much is because of the fact that most of it focuses on the porno, and because most of the furries can't keep it to themselves (animal phrases like "marf", "woof", whatever, offensive avatars/signatures, publically announcing that something pleasured them, etc.).

I really can't speak for most of the fandom and what they do, because really, I don't know what they think and I haven't really researched that deep into it, hence why I'm only talking from my stance.

Somehow I can see this eventually being moved to the Sewers.

Marf!? What the fuck animal says fucking marf?

The thing that offends me most about furries is their bull-headed insistence on shoving "fur" into as many words as possible. Whenever I hear fursona or fursecution or anything else like that I just want to break faces.

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This image pretty much sums up the fandom as a whole. There are people that are in it because they think their inner spirit is an animal/were one in another life, people who are in it for the porn, people who are in it to find others like themselves, and various other reasons.

As a side note, most of the ones on GFF* (Kairyu, Miles, Basil, SS, SimDaddy, etc) are really, really tame compared to a lot of furries you'd find on the internet, and believe you me, I've seen some retarded ass furries.


*Sparkster and Foxy are excluded from this list because they're stupid. Also, I'm only in it for the art/porn.

Not true in a general way. And as far as furry porn only is concerned, I personally often find myself surprised at the quality of the art.

KalebG is also a fan of furry art, is he not? Perhaps he can shed some light on this matter?

a lurker also loves furry art, I'll see what she has to say.

I do love furry art. I call it atrocity tourism.

Pretty much what Tails said. Srsly though, I think all this bullshit about people picking on 'em is because... well, a lot of furries ARE mildly retarded and take the trollbait every single time. Hell, if somebody goes all "lol furfag" to me, I troll them right back and we go on our merry way (srsly, one time to fuck around with my friend who was helping me via remote desktop assistance, I pulled up this weird-ass Glenn pic. His surprised and dismayed scream was like a balm for the soul). Somebody goes "lol furfag" to... say, that hella creepy-ass idiot who got banned from SomethingAwful's forums a long while back (and thank GOD I can't remember his name), they bust into tears and drop a drama bomb.

Also, I'm surprised that this topic was neither made in the Sewers nor immediately moved into the Sewers. And WTF is with the COLORS on that pic, lurker? It's like somebody decided to draw an dog with bug-eyes and accidentally saved over it when they inverted the colors.

your avatar is strangely hypnotic the more you star at it.

What I dont understand is...why is it you need a character or rather a fursona to meet new people or like-minded folks? I've dabbled in the furry community recently, and I personally find it to be a dramafest. But I just dont get why people need to find others through a scene that deals with anthropomorphic beings. I mean, doesnt that mean you find it interesting or cool or dare I say arousing that you're into that? I dont ask that question with looking down at you, im merely curious.

In order to answer that question you'd have to find someone here who actually has a fursona, etc. I don't. And like I said, I'm not into it for any of the above reasons. I just look at the art/porn. That's about as far as my involvement goes.

As for the interesting/arousing part, sexual fetish, etc. As for the clean stuff, what can I say, I'm an animal lover. :(

Add aku to that as well.

As a person that has technically made one, it was mostly because of boredom and the want of making something original. But I can't really call it my persona or fursona since I'm not into the whole RP'ing aspect of the fandom. Like Tails said, I enjoy the art.

That said, you don't need your own fictional character to meet a person with similar interests. That's like saying you can't hop in a gaming forum without at least showing up with a videogame of some kind. Though, it won't hurt since that may be one the first things that are brought up.

I heard miles's fursona is a green Baloo the Bear with a thirty foot plaid cock, can anyone confirm?

Ahahahaha, MEGA BUSTER. Always makes me laugh.

Also noting that Kairyu draws gud. <3 Dragonite.

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