Furs

[Kaner]

I'm sure this thread is going to get flamed into oblivion, but I don't care.

Last weekend I got back from a furry con and I have to say......it rocked! I mean yes there are certain aspects of the fandom that are unsavory, but the people are pretty chill. I met tons of folks, got lots of pics of the fursuiters, and picked up lots of prints. The people I met were cool, the room parties were kickin', and I had a great time.

If you don't dig the whole furry thang, that's cool, it's not my place to judge.

-JerkBox

[Cartman]

I take it you're talking about furs as in fur coats. If so, I'm totally against it.
Here's a link to a site about fur farming.


http://www.infurmation.com/crimescene/furfarms.htm

[g_UnIt_GaNsTa]

I'm totally not against fur coats ok.

[Beguiled]

I'm totally not against fur coats because humans are better than animals in every way possible except in the idiocy department. So we get to do this because humans rule all.you're kidding right?

[g_UnIt_GaNsTa]

Sadly, I don't think I am.

[Kury Wagner]

Sadly, I don't think I am.

Unless it's the skin of a cat or dog. There I draw the line.
I'll have to agree with you. I don't mind fur. :shrug: Actually, I think it's nice. It's so soft.

[Chad Bonin]

Hey.

You don't think that a mink would pass up the oppurtunity to wear human skin if it could, do you?

Survival of the fittest, might makes right...

[Aquadementia]

I think JerkBox may be referring to people who like to dress as or in some other way like to pretend to be a furry animal, like a bunny or chipmunk.
The line between people dreesing as Klingons and Furries may become blurry for some.

[Lord Dalek]

Don't expect to see Jerk-box as a contestant on the Price is Right anytime soon :p .

[Czar Gato]

I have no problem with either furries or the wearing of furs, personally. I think it's great that you had a good time, JerkBox.

[zmanjz]

I think JerkBox may be referring to people who like to dress as or in some other way like to pretend to be a furry animal, like a bunny or chipmunk.
The line between people dreesing as Klingons and Furries may become blurry for some.
yeah, I think that jerk Box wasn't exactly clear.

I think that he was talking about a convention for Furries.

Now, while I'm a huge fan of anime catgirls in scanty clothes, Humans trying to be furries tend to just look goofy. (Especially male humans)

(Oh, and anime Bunny-girls are cute too.)

[Xada-Hgla]

yeah, I think that jerk Box wasn't exactly clear.

I think that he was talking about a convention for Furries.

Now, while I'm a huge fan of anime catgirls in scanty clothes, Humans trying to be furries tend to just look goofy. (Especially male humans)
No more goofier than cosplaying at an anime convention... :shrug:

[EinBebop]

You don't think that a mink would pass up the oppurtunity to wear human skin if it could, do you?Exactly. If they were bigger and a little smarter, they'd be doing the same thing to us.

[Shnay]

"Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!"

Sorry, couldn't resist. As far as the topic of furries goes...I can't say I really understand it, and I won't try to judge what I don't understand. I can't see the appeal in it, but if the people who do it really enjoy what they're doing, more power to 'em.

[Chime]

hmm...i dont have an opinion on this subject, so don't get me involved, but i just remembered this great bumper sticker...
i quote:


"people are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's easier to harass rich old lady ladies than motorcycle gangs."

sorry. i just think that's funny.

[Kaner]

Nebulous post ahoy!

Aquadementia is right, I was referring to the anthro animal enthusiast (furries)not furrers.

"Now, while I'm a huge fan of anime catgirls in scanty clothes, Humans trying to be furries tend to just look goofy. (Especially male humans)"

Ya, I have to say the guy I saw dressed up like a squirrel was chuckle worthy. Picture a large man wrapped in shag carpet wearing a plastic nose with his face painted. Some of the other suits I saw were pretty sweet. There was on guy dressed as Anubis with digitgrade legs (walking on toes like cats and dogs).

"I have no problem with either furries or the wearing of furs, personally. I think it's great that you had a good time, JerkBox."

Thanks Czar Gata! From what I had read on other sites, I wasn't expecting too much of a positive response, but thanks for proving me wrong.

As far as furrers (coats, etc) goes, I'm personally uncomfortable with it. On the other hand, I grew up in Alaska and saw plenty of mounted heads and stuffed animals. I don't wear or buy fur, but I won't get in someone's face if they do.

-JerkBox

[guinaevere]

"people are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's easier to harass rich old lady ladies than motorcycle gangs."I like it, Moogle. :D

I disagree with it, simply because leather comes from cows, which also gives us food. (So it isn't as if the animals are raised simply to be killed for vanity. And somehow I see that as okay. So long as it isn't me who has to do it.)

But it is funny.

And if people ate mink, I'd have a coat in a second. :sweat:

[wrenchien]

hope you had fun..
and can share the pictures with us, jerkbox.

your avatar looks like someone revamped squidward as if he was in btas.. where does it come from?

[Chad Bonin]

There was on guy dressed as Anubis with digitgrade legs (walking on toes like cats and dogs).... took me a second to realize it wasn't Anubis from Power Rangers SPD (better known so far as Doggie Kreuger from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger.

While I have nothing against the people who do dress up, I am incredibly ticked that Disney chose to adapt the dog-man from Sentai. Power Rangers does so not need that stigma (furriness does have a negative stigma attached to it) of a dog Ranger.

[Aquadementia]

Nebulous post ahoy!

Aquadementia is right, I was referring to the anthro animal enthusiast (furries)not furrers.
Boo-yeah!
I knew if I kept at, didn't give up hope and kept posting, then someday I would get something right.


... took me a second to realize it wasn't Anubis from Power Rangers SPD (better known so far as Doggie Kreuger from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger.

While I have nothing against the people who do dress up, I am incredibly ticked that Disney chose to adapt the dog-man from Sentai. Power Rangers does so not need that stigma (furriness does have a negative stigma attached to it) of a dog Ranger.
Ahhh, what?
Fetishes or whatever I can understand, but this Power Ranger stuff is just too far out there.


All this gets me to thinking.
I'm betting that furries are more likely to be against wearing real fur, with the identifying with the animals and all, but then there's probably a set that finds the wearing the pelt of the animal their portraying to be the ultimate.

Is someone that dresses up as non-furbearing varments, like a frog or iguana, still a furry?

I wonder if there is a connection with cartoons since the most popular characters are anthropomorphized animals. Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse and Tom and Jerry for instance.

If people have a problem with Furries I'd blame Stanley Kubrick and his version of The Shining. It was spooky enough with the ghosts, river of blood, kid talking to his thumb even, but when they looked down the hall and, in a hotel that should be totally empty, you catch a glimpse of two men in what may be a compromising position, one of them in a dog costume, my mind was totally unprepared.

[Kaner]

I'm betting that furries are more likely to be against wearing real fur, with the identifying with the animals and all, but then there's probably a set that finds the wearing the pelt of the animal their portraying to be the ultimate.It's a mixed bag really. I've seen militant anti-fur furries (if that makes sense) and I've seen other furs wearing headbands with real coyote ears sewn on them. Before anyone freaks out, the ears were from an old taxidermied coyotes. Again, not my cup -o- tea, but interesting none the less.


Is someone that dresses up as non-furbearing varments, like a frog or iguana, still a furry?Furry or fur is really just a blanket term. I'm not sure about frogs, but an iguana fursona would be a scaly.


I wonder if there is a connection with cartoons since the most popular characters are anthropomorphized animals. Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse and Tom and Jerry for instance.It wouldn't suprise me. There are a lot of different theories on the subject.


your avatar looks like someone revamped squidward as if he was in btas.. where does it come from?That would be Cephalopod Pete, an unused character from my brother's (sadly now defunct) comic "Mojo Mechanics". Pete was to appear in issue 5 or 6 running an orbiting diner.

-JerkBox

[Aquadementia]

Thanks for the info JerkBox.
Now I know what a scaly is too.
I'm thinking Kermit the Frog looks like he's made of felt, and felt is fuzzy, and fuzzy is close enough to furry in my book.:anime:

Have yourself a furry New Year!

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Well, my knee-jerk reaction to the first post was, "Are you kiddin'? This is the internet! People embrace all kinds of stuff on here!" But then again, I do have a tendency to be naive AND clueless.

er...anyway, there's been at least one or two furries in my group of friends ever since high school. For some reason almost all the ones I've ever known or talked to have been foxes. Given my own online identity, you'd think they be cats, but nope. I don't know a single cat one. :p

So obviously I don't have a problem with them (even though I don't fully understand the attraction either). Maybe it's because 90% of my drawings are cartoon animals. Or something. In any case, glad you had a great time, JerkBox. :)

[Kaner]

Just checked the gallery Singin' Stray Cat. Quite nice work I must say.


er...anyway, there's been at least one or two furries in my group of friends ever since high school. For some reason almost all the ones I've ever known or talked to have been foxes. Given my own online identity, you'd think they be cats, but nope. I don't know a single cat one. :p
Ya, the most prevalent species are foxes and wolves. This is why my character is a weasel (insert lawyer joke here). Here's a rendition of him by one of my favorite artists.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/Kaner/Kaner.bmp

So if you were an anthropomorphic animal, what would you be? Oh, and that is a question to all of you.

-JerkBox

[Evil Dr. Reef]

So if you were an anthropomorphic animal, what would you be? Oh, and that is a question to all of you.

-JerkBoxI'd be a Guinea Worm. They live in ponds and lakes in Africa, and when people go to bathe or get water, they're ingested into the body. They grow up to three feet long inside your intestines, and after mating, burrow their way up under your skin and lay their eggs. Once the eggs are laid, they make your skin burn and blister horribly. People usually then go back to the water to help ease the burning, where the worms burst through the skin, and release their eggs into the water, starting the cycle all over again. Once the worms burst through the skin, the only way to remove them from your body is to wrap it around a stick, and over a few weeks or months, slowly pull the worm out of your body.

Isn't that hot?

[Fone Bone]

This is odd and sounds slightly sexual in nature (from what I've seen on TV). To each their own.

[Xada-Hgla]

This is odd and sounds slightly sexual in nature (from what I've seen on TV). To each their own.
Yeah, MTV killed a lot of it by focusing solely on "Furverts"... :shrug:

[Fone Bone]

Yeah, MTV killed a lot of it by focusing solely on "Furverts"... :shrug:Why would someone dress up like an animal anyways? What is the reason? I'm hearing jerkbox talking about a convention and that's nice and all but what would one get out of it?

[armerelhaV]

Why would someone dress up like an animal anyways? What is the reason? I'm hearing jerkbox talking about a convention and that's nice and all but what would one get out of it?
Well, a girl I used to go to school with was a furry fan. According to her, each person had their own inner animal, and hers was the wolf (sometimes the fox). She loved drawing pictures of anthro wolves and were wolves. I never knew it she went to any conventions, though. But I'm sure most people go to conventions because the whole idea of animals acting like humans seems kinda cool.:)

[Psycho Fox]

Why would someone dress up like an animal anyways? What is the reason? I'm hearing jerkbox talking about a convention and that's nice and all but what would one get out of it?It is not just about dressing up live an animal, most at furry convetions don't. A large number are there for other reasons for example the TTA-Fanfic community meets at a furry con (the furry con they meet at escapes me at the moment). Another reason for furry cons is furry artists get to sell their art and gets their egos stroked :rolleyes:

[Xada-Hgla]

Another reason for furry cons is furry artists get to sell their art and gets their egos stroked :rolleyes:
What's wrong with a little ego-stroking, Furry Con or no? It's not like that same type of ego-stroking doesn't happen at other conventions... :shrug:

[Czar Gato]

Another reason for furry cons is furry artists get to sell their art and gets their egos stroked :rolleyes:Um, that's typical of lots of different fanbases, not just the furry/therian community. Plus, some of them are pretty damn good (Goldenwolf and Khyot come to mind)- and do it without any sort of "yiff" whatsoever.

To answer JerkBox's question, I'm personally not a fur (though I do draw non-sexual anthro art sometimes), I consider myself a therian (someone who has a close spiritual/psychological connection to an animal). My phenotype is some sor of large felid- either a cougar or leopard- and possibly some sort of deer. If this sounds weird, I know. :p