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Hi /r/furry
Just wanted to pop in and say hello to all the Reddit type Furry folks.
Kind of been lurking for quite some time, finally decided I might as well make an account and perhaps contribute...well I can't contribute much but hey.
I won't bother going into my life story here because...doubt anyone wants to read all that (That's not a "woe is me" statement). Needless to say, I am a what has been now termed (It only took 10 years to finally come up with a species name) a 'Equbarottah' (Best pronounciation I can come up with is Eq-BAR-otta).
submitted by PendoFur[link] [15 comments]
Love At Furst Sight - A Furry Animation Short
Who are the very best artists I should be watching on furaffinity?
It's pretty difficult to find out about the best artists. Who are the great ones? I've got Sugarboy and Gil panda, I'm looking for others.
Edit: I'm trying to find some cleaner, more realistic artists, besides stuff like those above. I want art meant to be interpreted, examined, tell a story or express an emotion.
Also, who are your favorite writers? Who tells the best stories?
submitted by CoolTom[link] [17 comments]
Why is there a "victim culture" within the furry community?
Furries act like a persecuted minority. I believe we are overacting a little bit.
There's never been a law that denied furries the right to mate, marry, or use a public restroom. Nobody ever said a furry can't go to college, ride a bus, or be a doctor. An angry mob has never beaten a furry.
As far as I know, nobody said a furry can't be part of the family they were born into. Nobody ever refused to give medicine or life saving treatment to a furry. Nobody ever pointed a gun at a fursuiter to run them out of town. Furries get to vote and own property, the police don't marginalize them, and they don't go to jail if they are found outside after dusk.
The things I've just mentioned have been reality for gays and blacks, who have faced such serious prejudice and persecution that they have been beaten, ran out of churches, shunned by family and friends, and sometimes even killed by family and friends who suddenly became hostile.
I grew up a furry before the fandom even existed. I drew sexy cartoons in highschool, and I wore a tail in college. Nobody ever said a disparaging word. I've never had a bad day as a furry. Life is great! I have never been persecuted even though I'm openly furry.
So here's where my question comes in. I see this behavior of people acting persecuted and hurt, why does it exist? I see posts like "Help me come out of the closet to my parents! I am so scared and lost." and "Is there a furry friendly landlord in Seattle?"
There's this assumption that few things are furry friendly, so we should act like Jews during the holocaust as if we need safe houses and need to know which businesses will deny or provide service.
How would anyone even know that they should kick you out of a restaurant unless you wore a suit right into it and then acted so poorly that other people complained about you? I.e. why would anyone even feel the need to ask? Are they in legitimate fear or rejection?
Has there been one report of a business that wasn't furry friendly and refused service? Has anyone seen a sign that prohibits wearing fur suits?
We can take our 'furry' off. Tell a black man how you suffered inescapable persecution as a furry who can't hide. We get to marry anyone we want. Tell a gay why we say "furry pride" when the only price we paid for stealing their slogan was the admission fee at a convention.
TLDR; I do not believe that furries are actually persecuted. Why are we acting like victims?
submitted by fasterfind[link] [81 comments]
FC-154 Homophobic Terminator
KnotCast: Episode 242 – More Triggers Than A Gun Show
New Furry Chatzy!
Hi! I’m representing the Pet, Master and Love Basement! We are always looking for more members to join in and keep this place alive. Scalies, furried, and even humies, come join our room and sit down for a chat over a nice cold (or warm) drink (among other things). Our room consists of a fair variation of male and female furries and the basement itself seems to constantly be in a state of change. However, to join our community there are a few things you need to be aware of!
Please be respectful to your fellow members. Hostility and generally douchy behaviour will be met with a warning and eventually a kick.
Do NOT cause drama. We will shut this down immediately.
Attention fishing is NOT allowed. Do not come here to complain about your problems or to drag the mood down in hopes people will pity comfort you. You will be removed immediately.
Please no trolling attempts.
Do not whine if people do not want to play with you. You are not entitled to have someone mount you and wreck whatever holes or sex organs you have just by standing there.
Please do not use asterisks or hyphens for your RP. It looks clunky and it detracts from it whatever you are trying to do. Use the /me command like it was made for. (Ex. /me waves “Hello!” = [insert name here] waves “Hello” instead of [insert name here]: waves hello)
And here is the link!: http://us12.chatzy.com/56545240282895 If you are using a mobile device, use this link: http://us12.chatzy.com/m/56545240282895
submitted by shissachan[link] [3 comments]
The Creator of Samurai Cat — RIP
Word came out recently that one of the originals of Furry Fandom, Mark E. Rogers, passed away this past weekend while out hiking with his family. Some might even call him a patron spirit of anthropomorphics. In 1984 (back when a certain group of Ninja Turtles were making their very first appearance) mark published his first book chronicling the adventures of Miaowara Tomokato, the Samurai Cat. Almost every other page of Rogers’ Samurai Cat books featured a black and white or full-color illustration by the author, connected with the action on the previous page. Through a series of five such books of historical satire, Mark was one of the first to take anthropomorphics away from “funny animal” silliness and into something completely new, in a big way. Ron Miller has a detailed obituary of Rogers which he posted up on I09. Sayonara, Mark-san.
image c. 2014 by Mark E. Rogers
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looking for furry friendly room!
my mate and i are looking for a furry friendly room to move into! anyone looking for roommates in California please reply :3 email me at erinharrisxyxy at gmail.com
-kirimi dragoness
submitted by kirimi295[link] [3 comments]
Ep 14 – What Makes a Writer - What makes a person a writer? What makes a writer an author? How does one make the transition from small-fry hobbiest, to big-fry professional? The answer may shock you… Or not.
What makes a person a writer? What makes a writer an author? How does one make the transition from small-fry hobbiest, to big-fry professional? The answer may shock you… Or not.
Ep 14 – What Makes a Writer - What makes a person a writer? What makes a writer an author? How does one make the transition from small-fry hobbiest, to big-fry professional? The answer may shock you… Or not.SecondLife?
I've put a lot of time and money into my Avi. I know probably not as much as some. But I'm proud of it. X3 I'd like o get back into SL but all of my old friends left. No one is ever on anymore. So if anyone is looking for a friend, I'd be more than happy to meet up :3
submitted by GeeAnson[link] [4 comments]
Fuzzy Notes 57 - Raduga Basketbol - The music made by furs! For this 'rainbowy basketbally' episode we have piano, we have synth, we ...
For those who felt Shooks was Uncompleted
Overcoming Prejudice Against Furries
This question is not for me specifically, but for potentially all furries. How would one best describe furries to someone who all they know about furries is the "bad stuff"? EG: That one CSI episode. I feel like if all that a person knows is the bad stuff, it would be hard to try and convince them otherwise. I'm just curious to see what you think is the best way to go about doing this.
Kumori Urufu
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Dear Kumori,
To understand the nature of this question, one must first understand prejudice and how prejudices come about. It’s a result, really, of how the human mind works—what I call “The Triple Threat.” 1) Human beings like to categorize everything in order to make the world easier to understand. They like things to be black and white, not 50 shades of grey. 2) The other thing about the human mind is that first impressions are extremely important. That’s when we gather our initial information about someone or something and draw conclusions. Once drawn, it is very hard to erase and redefine those conceptions, which sometimes go so far as to be preconceptions with little or no information. And 3) the third factor is that people tend to hate (or at least avoid) those things that they do not understand or that are different from them because things that are different challenge their concepts of what the world is and how it works, so, therefore, these things seem threatening to them.
Therefore, if someone unfamiliar with furries gets his or her first impression from something like the infamous CSI episode, they will quickly conclude that furry is about people dressing up as animals and having sex. Or, if they first come across it via furporn on the Internet, they will think that’s what we’re all about. The Triple Threat is why you get people who think that lesbians all wear tool belts, gay men all like to dress as women and talk with a lisp and call each other “girlfriend,” Asians are all smart and enjoy solving math equations, and Muslims are all terrorists. Utter nonsense.
This sort of thinking developed because back in our “caveman days” evaluating a situation and coming to a quick conclusion was a helpful survival skill (“Ugh! Me never see big cat with six-inch fangs before! It eat friend Trog! Must be dangerous! Me Run Away!”) Things are much less clear-cut in our modern world, although we still get things like (“Ugh! Me watch Fox News. All Fox News people say Democrats destroy ’Merica! Me hate Democrats!”)
So, how do you overcome the Triple Threat? It depends on the person who has these prejudices. If the person is particularly dense and thick-headed and has been ingesting stupidity all his life, then you likely won’t change his mind. The quicker you can get to the person after he has been exposed to something inane like CSI’s episode about furries, the easier it is to correct their thinking. The key to that is education. Charlotte Brontë said, “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” And Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn similarly said, “It's an universal law—intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
Educate them! Take them to a furry convention so they can see what goes on. Have them watch some informative videos (I’ve posted some here http://www.americanfurryassociation.org/videos.html). Show them all the many many many examples of the fandom that are completely G-rated. Show them the diversity of the fandom, from artists and fursuiters to writers and performers. Introduce them to actual, real-life furries because, once you get to know us you realize we are, in many ways, just like human beings! Gosh! Whodathunkit?
And, by the way, furries did not invent animal kink. That's been going on since the days of ancient Greece and Egypt.
Thanks for your question :-3
Papabear