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[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 102 points 1 month ago

Similar energy

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 90 points 1 month ago

There are two wolves inside you.jpg

[-] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 month ago

the furry convention is going well

[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

George_Takei_-_Ohh_my.gif

[-] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 29 points 1 month ago

I mean with enough lube I suppose anything is possible

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Aww hell yeah.

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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 78 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: one of (if not the) oldest known piece of human figurative art is carving of a person with the head of a lion. AKA a furry.

Imagining furries is more innate to the human condition than farming.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago
[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 12 points 1 month ago
[-] captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago

"owo what's this?" - Caveman to his son, named owo.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

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 15 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

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

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month 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.

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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

It's a proxy for queerphobia.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

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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[-] eupraxia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month 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.

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[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 40 points 1 month ago

I know exactly how to feel about this...

Those are some quality fursuits, mfer must be hecking rich

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago

Everything for the cuddliness!

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'll take Uppies for ~$6,000 please.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 36 points 1 month ago
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[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago
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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

Those fursuiters are so cute!

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

listen, it's true, since the beginning of human history anthropomorphic creatures have existed in the human lore.

Now we just need to find a way to convince future historians that furries were some sort of high class god like figures, and our troll will be complete.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

While we're trolling future historians, let's rewrite the history books to say that the Great Depression was just a period where everyone was really sad for some reason. It was a mental health epidemic, not an economic crisis.

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[-] 30p87@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

Except one wears a dirty and stinky pelt of a real animal and the other is cuddly and cute <3

[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Also fursuits are made of synthetic materials, it's vegan

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

those are damn impressive costumes tho

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think we need to live sexually, morally, and politically repressed like in the good ol' times. It made it easier to control and indoctrinate people during the growth of empires designed to serve themselves and their pyramid scheme like structures. It's why we burned the satyr plays. I'm just going to say it, if we are going to shift as a subservient and servile class under our billionaire oligarchs, we need to be twice as repressed as we are now, not more "liberated". Who made the best servants? Eunuchs, that's who. Also, please make more babies, we need to feed the feedback loop we have going regarding population growth and our economy/wars. /swtf

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[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month 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.

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