Furry worry

Jun 23, 2009 23:55

It occurred to me while driving home tonight that I didn't know what the word 'furry' meant five years ago. Today, I know too much. Far too much. But not long ago my mind was in a state of naive bliss concerning that entire subculture, so much so that when I worked at Arby's and had the idea of cartooning my co-workers, I considered drawing them ( Read more... )

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tripperfunster June 24 2009, 15:29:01 UTC
Oh shit, girl! This post really made me LOL a few times!

And personally, I would draw the line (if you'll pardon the pun) and human sex organs (including breasts) on animals. If you drew slughorn as a walrus, but stopped short of giving him a human penis (and had him pushing large breasted Minerva!cat over her desk) then I would not get the fuzzy-heebie-jeebies. Well, slughorn gives me the heebie-jeebies regardless, I think ...

edited for fat fingers

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beard5 June 24 2009, 17:13:26 UTC
You win the internets! Woot!

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linnet_melody June 24 2009, 21:25:22 UTC
I've always adored your writing. This? THIS IS CRACK. You are crack. Hello, Crack. Can I take you home with me?

...yes, Lucius can come too.

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rusalchka June 24 2009, 23:26:20 UTC
Ha! WIN.

I'm with you... I wish I didn't know what "yiff" means.

Actually, in high school, I used to be really into furry fandom because I was an aspiring cartoonist and grew up watching characters like Bugs Bunny and the Ninja Turtles, so all the cartoon characters I created were walking, talking animals.
When I got into "furry" fandom, my naive 16-year-old self thought "hey, how cool! A community for cartoonists who draw animal characters, just like me".. BOY. WAS I. WRONG.
I actually wound up changing the designs of all my anthropomorphic characters into strictly human characters, because I've been so scarred by furry fandom that I can't draw them anymore without visualizing them yiffing with oversized furry genitalia.

It's a shame what a few bad apples can do to what was once a classic form of animation character design. ):

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tieshla June 25 2009, 17:56:43 UTC
I just have horrible visions of what will happen when/if my characters ever become popular (I'm pretty sure you know which ones) and some fic writer or artist decides to take things to places I never intended.

It gives me chills, and nightmares - but the pills take care of that.

Well, not really. It's still a horifying thought.

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