Comments | kitsovereign: ASK-A-FURRY

kitsovereign

ASK-A-FURRY

May 27, 2011 15:03

Oh hey LJ, I still have this thing.

So, my LJ community is mostly non-furry! Which is cool, god knows that furries can get irritating. To most of you, I'm sure I'm just "that weird furry guy." Or at least "that weird guy who actually admits to being a furry".

The furry fandom can get pretty WACKY sometimes! And this, basically is why I'm here.

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kraigose May 27 2011, 19:13:03 UTC

I know we rarely speak but I want to know an honest question as it bugs me alot, as someone involved in internet parody and satire:

Are furries really sexually deviant? Or is it like everything else - a few sour grapes ruin the community? I mean, for example, while you can talk about some subjects, you don't seem to be someone who forces sexual conversation on people. It's a common misconception I hope that furries are deeply disturbed sexual deviants.

kitsovereign May 27 2011, 19:44:42 UTC

Furries, like many internet communities, are a gang of misfits (which here is a nice way of saying "too retarded to successfully interact with human beings face-to-face").

(I say this as somebody who joined an internet community on account of being too retarded to successfully interact with human beings face-to-face. There's precedent.)

I imagine at some point that some fat neckbeard got up and shouted out a list of fetishes, at which point the rest of the fandom rolled with it.

The furry fandom has a definite sexually charged air, and it's somewhat in shocking contrast to the "real world", where if you think about sex at any time other than when you are in the missionary position with your heterosexual life partner, you are a pervy pervo. In the furry culture, sex is hardly taboo - and this winds up being a very good thing! It's cathartic; a furry can go to his friend and say "Heyyy, boners, boners boners?" and his friend will reply "Why yes! Boners boners, boners boners", without shrieking and calling the police. This is pretty ( ... )

kitsovereign May 27 2011, 19:47:46 UTC

kraigose May 27 2011, 20:04:31 UTC

I thought I mentioned it above, but I must have gotten completely sidetracked by thoughts of boners - It is, of course, entirely possible to exist in the furry community without a sexual presence. If you don't run around talking about what gets you hot, then anybody with a hint of subtlety or ounce of taste won't harass you with their own sexual stuff. It's certainly not a prerequisite.The reason I asked is I've found furries in some odd communities. One in particular is a fellow ZDoom modder who actually talked nothing but sex. I was hoping to talk to him as he was kind of an interesting game mod developer, who had various tricks ( ... )

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cyber_chaos May 28 2011, 04:30:53 UTC

What's the most off-putting thing about the furry fandom for you, personally? Any specific instance/experience that exemplifies it?

And then counter question! What's the most enjoyable thing about being part of the fandom? Any specific instance/experience?

kitsovereign May 28 2011, 14:16:47 UTC

NO ES BUENO: The bad rep. I wish I could say "Hello I am a furry", and the other person processes that word to mean "I draw pictures of anthropomorphic animals", which is what the word means. Instead I'm horribly afraid to show my work to anybody because then I'll have to spend half an hour explaining that no, I don't fuck my dog.

Also, stumbling upon terrible things on FA that fail to cross the border into hilarious-terrible and are merely horrendous-terrible. MSPaint inflation on the front page is always fun. Once I clicked on somebody's profile to thank them for a watch, and their profile was five pages of "Hewwo! You'we pwobabwy on my page because you wike cute wittwe diapew-fuws, wike me! ^_^;; <3" I don't thank people for watches anymore.

ME GUSTA: SMUT SMUT SMUT wait hold on let me rephrase that. No, it's gotta be fandom-related humor. I think that Blow Me Up, Willy! should be mandatory viewing.