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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Go look up painted Greek statutes, it's a nightmare of garish bullshit that makes the entire work look like utter dog shit. That's how they're ''supposed'' to look. All I'm saying is, people from the past seeing this might be down.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

those are damn impressive costumes tho

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (7 children)

As someone who hangs out with a lot of furries, and also only ever gets furries as art customers:

Yes, I understand the discomfort around furries. I can blame people for going out of their way to troll furries, but I can't blame people to want nothing to do with furries.

The furry fandom is by and large filled with people who have massive insecurities. This doesn't count for everyone, but you're more likely to find an emotionally unstable furry than not. It's the ultimate escapism; where people with personal issues create a character with none of those personal issues, and pretend to be said character in an environment where consequences don't exist. It is not for nothing there is such a massive amount (compared to Earth's overall average) of gay, bi, and trans people in the fandom.

Yes, it's also a sex thing. I've seen someone in the comments say "sex positive", but I wouldn't call it that. The furry fandom is a place where a gay or a bisexual person can express their sexuality without persecution, like often happens in places like the United States or Poland, but... It's not really sex positivity, rather it's debauchery. So much debauchery. Which harkens back to escaping into the ideal world without consequences; you can have copious amount of sex and/or sexualise as much as you want without any of the usual responsibilities or consequences that comes with sex.

It is fun to occasionally partake in such debauchery. I'm no prude and I'm not afraid to admit I'm also a bit of a horny guy. So partaking in the occasional kinky, sexy fiction can be fun. Except for a furry it isn't really fiction, which is where a lot of weirdness and unease comes from. And for those who can afford going to conventions or meetups regularly, this level of debauchery occasionally happens in real life... With real life consequences.

A furry lives in a fictional comfort zone where they can pretend to be a character in a world without consequences. But even in exclusively online communities real life tends to catch up with people, so members inside of communities will get pushed outside of this comfort bubble and be reminded about reality. This is the cause for a lot of infamous furry drama.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, do you have any art portfolio or website or anything (I assume no FA)? I checked your bio but it's blank.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I don't have anything on my profile because... Dunno really what to put on it. Didn't really cross my mind to put anything on it either.

But yeah, I got FA. All my customers are furries, so the majority of my art is furry. Wouldn't make sense not to have an FA account. Anyway, here it is:

https://www.furaffinity.net/user/tattorack

What I am at my core, though, is a science fiction and Bionicle fan. Here's one of the things I made on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/JzFZr2V0SnM

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

It is fun to occasionally partake in such debauchery. I’m no prude and I’m not afraid to admit I’m also a bit of a horny guy. So partaking in the occasional kinky, sexy fiction can be fun. Except for a furry it isn’t really fiction, which is where a lot of weirdness and unease comes from.

I'm a furry and I'm unsure what you mean by this

members inside of communities will get pushed outside of this comfort bubble and be reminded about reality. This is the cause for a lot of infamous furry drama.

and I'm really not sure what you're talking about here

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

We know you know about rainfurrest. We know you know.

[–] kshade@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Funny how one event where the actions of a few fucked everything up must imply something for the whole group, especially since there's bigger, long-running conventions like Anthrocon that have become part of the city's event culture like any other festival. But you don't hear about that because it's not scandalous.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

And I know you know that Rainfurrest happened in 2015 and nothing even remotely like it has been seen at the hundreds of much larger furry conventions that have happened since.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 27 points 12 hours ago

Meme: 😃

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 39 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (38 children)

I've never understood the furry hate. People treat it as a kink akin to someone being into taking a shit on your stomach. Except somehow worse.

It's not my thing, but I've known people who are into it and they've all been nice people. I hung out with a bunch of them one of the times I was working at a con and they were fun people to hang around when they were out of their fursuits. And yeah, I didn't quite know how to react to them when they were in the fursuit, but I just stayed friendly. That seemed to be fine with them.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Also, being a "furry" is remarkably easy. Are you a fan of anthropomorphic animals? Congrats, you're a furry. It doesn't require you to wear a fursuit or anything else. That means that if you're in the fandom of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc. You. Are. A. Furry.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

It might be different for others but I've been around furries, have had furry friends, and it still on some deep level that I can't control makes me a bit uncomfortable. Like I do not judge, and I fully support consenting adults doing whatever they want, but if someone in a fur suit sat next to me on a train, I would be a tad bit uneasy. For me, I think it's the sexualizing animals that gets me. I'm not saying furries do anything bad to real animals, just that the way I view animals is something incompatible with any form of sexualization.

That being said, I fully support furries doing whatever they want as long as it isn't forced on me. All the furry friends I've had over the years have been wonderful and creative people, and have never made me feel uncomfortable.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

One of the most consistent themes with furries I have noticed is unapologetic sex positivity.

That burns a lot of folks who insist sex is shameful and something to apologize for.

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There's a loud subculture of furries who insist sex is shameful and something to apologize for.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Huh... I've been here a smidge under 20 years, and I've never met a fur who shares that sentiment. Awkward and quiet about it, sure, but nobody who is like "bad grrrr gross grrrr". Almost exclusively in my circles it's on the range of "I don't mind at all, be weird with me" to (where I sit) "literally get freaky with me whenever and however, here are my kinks on f-list with all my sona details, also here is my 4K webcam and we can become content creators if you want too" levels of casual/open/positivity.

'we are here for a good time, not a long time'. So, literally, fuck it. Do what/who makes you feel good.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Furries are odd fellows, but I would never say anything against them ~~for fear of all IT infrastructure spontaneously trying to kill for the rest of my life~~ because it's just odd, not harmful. De gustibus non disputandum est.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Right. They're just into something weird. No big deal, lots of us are into weird things. The weird stuff I'm into doesn't involve spending lots of money or wearing a costume that must be very hot after a short period of time, but if that's what does it for you, cool. I'll be over here watching hours of old public domain movies and industrial films.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 2 points 4 hours ago

I remember a story about the US Military taking notes for the cooling solution of a certain fursuit.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 15 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

It's a proxy for queerphobia.

[–] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

phobia of neurodivergent people as well, I think. A lot of the things people find weird and offputting are just like... autism or something.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It certainly feels that way sometimes. "I can't say the other F-word, so I'll call you a furry."

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[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
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