So You Really Liked Zootopia: A 5-Minute Guide to Furry
This article might clear some things up for you.
Anyway, I'm actually packing for a furry convention I'm attending this weekend.
Stay cool, NoFunAllowedGAF.
Syrian refugees in Canada got housed in same hotel as VancouFur furry convention
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So You Really Liked Zootopia: A 5-Minute Guide to Furry
This article might clear some things up for you.
Anyway, I'm actually packing for a furry convention I'm attending this weekend.
Stay cool, NoFunAllowedGAF.
So one is an employee who probably hates their job and the other is lively and likes doing what their doing?
Lucky Seven
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It's been a while since I had such a refreshing sigh of relief. Nice story.
I wonder how different the mainstream perception would be if most suits looked like this instead of like Balto with as many neon colors as possible.
That looks as horrible as any other furry suit I've ever seen.
What's with furries and having the worst possible aesthetic tastes?
Right you are. These people didn't do it for money, they did it out of passion for their hobby, as well as empathy and sympathy for children fleeing a war, to give them a bit of comfort and entertainment in the foreign land they arrived in.
Chie Satonaka
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I guess the only issue I have with fursuiting in general is that the suits seem to always look really, really bad.
I don't really have a problem with the furry fandom as a whole though. Unfortunately they're easy targets, and while some of the jokes here have been funny, it's kinda low hanging fruit, you know?
If the kids were into it though, it's a good thing. They look like they're having fun, so awesome.
I don't really have a problem with the furry fandom as a whole though. Unfortunately they're easy targets, and while some of the jokes here have been funny, it's kinda low hanging fruit, you know?
If the kids were into it though, it's a good thing. They look like they're having fun, so awesome.
I wonder how different the mainstream perception would be if most suits looked like this instead of like Balto with as many neon colors as possible.
I'd still think it was fucking stupid.
Seriously, look at it.
What the fuck is going on.
indeed, but I'd still like to make witty jokes. However, everyone is so super protective about their strange little subculture nowadays and everything is instantly perceived as a grave slight against them. Okay, back on topic, it's cool that the refugees and furries got along well
Bornstellar
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....I wonder how different the mainstream perception would be if most suits looked like this instead of like Balto with as many neon colors as possible.
Wait, this is supposed to be a non creepy looking suit?
Oh come on. I know the community carries a stigma but I'm not preying on that here. I was hardly laughing at furries anyway, more the expressions... two of which were the children's. If you don't want to perpetuate the negative treatment of a community then don't point it out where it's not present.
It's just a costume. Do you say the same about team mascots? Similar concept.
TheDrizzlerJ11
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Well dressing up as a cartoon for money is a lot more understandable than just doing it for fun. Youre free to be weird though. Its not hurting anyone, but it does seem like a great opportunity for those who do want to hurt others. No1 is liable for these people wearing masks while playing with children in a building with hundreds of bedrooms... A lot more creepy than something like Disney or Chuck E Cheese.
Well, I think it looks pretty detailed and cute compared to some of the other ones in the photos from the conventions. You can tell that suit is very well made.
But, personally, I don't find furries creepy. Just like I don't find other forms of cosplay creepy.
Morrigan Stark
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I think the thing that cracked me up the most is the "VancouFur" name. What can I say, I love stupid puns. xD
I don't get furries at all, but seriously, some of the mockery is a bit nasty and uncalled for. I find bronies to be way weirder tbh.
I don't get furries at all, but seriously, some of the mockery is a bit nasty and uncalled for. I find bronies to be way weirder tbh.
Yes. Yes it is.
Someone explain furries to me. If you don't do it because you're turned on by creepy animalhuman things then what's the point? Bronies are bronies because they like the show (and want to fuck ponies) but there's no show, movie, comic or anything else that would turn a person into a furry.
So at the end of the day those people are just into animal people because why? They look cool? If it's a fetish it at least makes sense but if it's not a fetish then I don't see why it's a thing.
So at the end of the day those people are just into animal people because why? They look cool? If it's a fetish it at least makes sense but if it's not a fetish then I don't see why it's a thing.
Demoskinos
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And this is the crux of why so many people misunderstand furries. Yes,there is erotic furry art and yes some furries do as they say "yiff" but the furry movement itself is NOT solely based around being a sexual thing. Which is why I think so many people mis-understand furries.
A lot of them probably just do it for fun. Like regular cosplay I guess.
Whats the point of doing anything if you're not turned on by it? That's a really weird way of looking at this. It's a hobby.
Also, as a side note - not all bronies want to fuck ponies just like not all furries want to fuck "creepy animalhuman things".
I mean, imagine dressing up as kids and having sex.
It's technically all fine, but very very weird.
Emperor_Uriel
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See, despite my earlier shitpost, I'm going to defend the furries on this one. I don't find them to be morally reprehensible or potentially dangerous, and I'm certain these kids are 10000% better off hanging around them than they were in their home country. Like most other groups of people, the vast majority of them are decent folks.
But they are kind of silly when they try to deny that their fetish is a fetish, that's all.
I understand cosplayers since it's people who like to make their own costumes and dress up as characters they like. However, someone here said that all furries aren't into the fursuit stuff. So if they don't like the suits and it's not their fetish, then what's left?
What is? That's what I don't get here, what exactly is the hobby?
Bravo!
Also, people, chill, this is just a bunch of people in costumes, stop adding connotations that are not present in that lobby, you wouldn't do this to an anime cosplay convention even tho all these things being applied to furries are as much true for anime cosplayers.
And before someone takes this post as an attack on cosplayers, the point is you wouldn't shame cosplayers, so stop shaming furries.
We like anthropomorphic characters in the same way people like superheroes, they're interesting. Some are attracted to them, but that is not the beginning or the end of being a furry. Just as being a brony is not all about "fucking ponies" as you put it.
People like superheroes because they like their movies, comics, shows or whatever. I don't think people are just fans of the concept of superheroes.
Which, if Furries just aren't a fetish, I don't get what there is to be a fan of. Do you just like anthropomorphic creatures even if they aren't associated to anything?
And people like anthropomorphic animals because they... uh... like their movies (Zootopia, as a recent example), comics, art etc?
Same thing, really.TheRealTalker
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well people can just say it is a mascot convention 
NoblesseOblige
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It's not like furries are anything new. Ancient myths are full of anthropomorphic entities ranging from entire species, to gods. Just look at the Greek, Egyptians, Native Americans, etc. There's nothing new or unique about furries other than they've taken that interest into the modern digital age.
That's a fetish called ageplay. Also it's very common for people to enjoy women in schoolgirl uniforms that are remarkably adolescent in appearance.
You Are Viewtiful
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Bronies aren't that bad to me. It reminds me of how there were grown ass men obsessed with Powerpuff Girls, which was a decent show, although I don't think that show had any conventions.
killer rin
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Well, considering society's number one shoot the shit type question is "if you could have any super power, what would it be?", one would think its pretty up there
Yes, it is literally that simple.
Bornstellar
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Even if so, a cursory examination of furry communities, art, etc. shows pretty damn clearly that furries are heavily skewed to the sexual aspect, more so than just about any other fandom.
Also, this is a good fursuit which is still inherently creepy.
NoblesseOblige
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While partially true, is that an issue? Are you against examining or exploring sexuality in a more open manner?
After reading this thread it reminds me of the time Christopher Judge learned about furries at a con panel
His reaction is priceless.
Cute that the kids loved it so.
His reaction is priceless.
Cute that the kids loved it so.
The how do you explain people writing and making super hero fiction since as far back as we have records? I mean, do you think Beowulf, Heracles or Samson weren't superheroes?
We like their movies and comics and shows because we like the concept, otherwise, why would that very same media be popular in the first place?
Not true, PERCEPTION is skewed to the sexual side because people are morbid and want to look at something and say "that shit is gross", so people everywhere exagerate the sexual side to push their narrative.
I find that ten times more perplexing than it being a fetish.
DonMigs85
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So much hate and mockery in this thread, it's really sad. Not all furries are creepy autistic pedos, you know. We like to think of ourselves as open-minded individuals who don't discriminate against anybody, but here you have so many members painting furries negatively in broad strokes.
Bornstellar
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I'm not against people doing what they want, but to see people here try to downplay that as a tiny part of the fandom is disingenuous.
Demoskinos
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Do you have a favourite color? Can you explain why you like that color other than you find it visually appealing? Same thing really. Some people have specific aesthetics that they just find enjoyable.
SoRuffShoNuff
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It's pretty different. At Disney the costumed characters have to stay in character. They can't do or say anything that would contradict with the character they are playing. I'm not aware of any rules like that at furry conventions.
Bornstellar
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That's an awfully broad definition that includes a lot people who wouldn't self identify.
Don''t try and make it sound like a noble tradition. Nobody is writing future myths about Pat from Accounting who likes to dress up like Deputy Dog at weekends.
If you don't identify as a furry, then you don't identify as a furry. But it is the one thing that all furries have in common.
NoblesseOblige
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I'm sure there's tons of fan-fiction about Deputy Dog and Pat from Accounting. Is that somehow different because a religion isn't being based around it? And my point was that the concept was nothing new, and the people who act like it is are significantly lacking in human history.
You never know, archeologists from the future might misinterprete it as such!
Half kidding, who knows how much stuff we're currently misinterpreting from the past
In any case, the arguement is not "it's a noble tradition" but more like "guys, animal people have been a thing since forever, why are y'all still surprised?"
I don't have a favorite color but I'd find it equally perplexing if someone wore only red, called themselves a reddies, dressed up in red paint cans, went to conventions about the color red, drew erotic art based on a humanoid red paint cans and made part of their identity about the color red.
Like I said before, if it's a fetish then I get it. It's not something I'm into but everyone's fetishes are probably weird to other people.
But if, like people in this thread are claiming it to be, that it's not purely a fetish then it doesn't make much sense why people are so into just the idea of anthropomorphic animals.
Definitely. Surface level, they're the same. But at Disneyland Goofy is there because he is being paid to entertain people. It's for the amusement people receive in seeing Goofy, not the amusement that Goofy receives spending his free time dressed as a furry and interacting with other furries. It's an important difference for whether you're encountering Goofy or Hank.
I completely agree, however, that it simply doesn't matter to the kids and that's OK. I'm sure that the furries had a lot of fun with the kids too
Well, you're making my post something that it's not.
I was responding to the context of the article in the OP, specifically:
Bornstellar
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I'd argue having an identity as said anthro character is where the line is drawn. Non human characters are inherently interesting because they are less familiar in some aspects. Wanting to become that yourself (and not just occasionally via a vicarious experience like a game).
Yes. Fan fiction about fucking Deputy Dog is different from a religious text in intent at the least. I don't know of any religions who are based on badly written porno fan fic. It's not 'somehow' different it is completely fucking different.
Hot Coldman
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I'd get on the first flight back to Syria...
welp, guess I'm never using a Lucario in my Pokemon team ever again
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