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What makes a furry?

Are all furries real animals or creatures from ancient mythology?

Do they ever come up'with their own species?

What's so special about their fursona?

I'm sorry, I would just like some clearing up on this. I chose to just try being tolerant, and finding a group I feel I belong with. I admit, I almost no longer feel like a brony, and am afraid to watch the latter part of season two - I lost hope at the episode where AJ refused to return home because she lost a competition.

So... yeah.

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Furry -- at least to me -- is a fandom that celebrates anthropomorphic animals (or animals that share human characteristics or traits) in culture and art.

Do you need to label yourself under one fandom or another? Wave your banner wherever you like, in both, or not at all. We have members on this forum that enjoy Pony but do not consider themselves Bronies, and that's just fine! The same could be said of people that might like watching movies with talking cartoon animals, and that doesn't necessarily make them furry, either.

Do what you like, and do as you please! Remember if it's not fun, interesting, or entertaining to you, maybe it's better to look toward other interests.

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Furry -- at least to me -- is a fandom that celebrates anthropomorphic animals (or animals that share human characteristics or traits) in culture and art.

Do you need to label yourself under one fandom or another? Wave your banner wherever you like, in both, or not at all. We have members on this forum that enjoy Pony but do not consider themselves Bronies, and that's just fine! The same could be said of people that might like watching movies with talking cartoon animals, and that doesn't necessarily make them furry, either.

Do what you like, and do as you please! Remember if it's not fun, interesting, or entertaining to you, maybe it's better to look toward other interests.

That answers a bit, I guess. So Furries enjoy humanized animals? Is it allowed to be up to a certain point, but no more? Some art styles and points of humanization stop being cute and fun, and get to the creepy and ugly side. And what about all the rest of those questions?
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There are many kinds of furries, the furries that enjoy anthromorphic art, and roleplay and like to dress up.

Then there are the furries I don't particularly care for...the ones that claim to be the soul of an animal trapped in a human body.. this kind tends to be obnoxious as all hay especially because their "Animal soul" tends to only be the cooler animals.. most typically a wolf/tiger/Cat/Dog

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I like anthro art, but I don't like the whole dress up thing or the whole claims to be a lost animal soul. If I was an animal, I'd be an owl. Obviously I don't have big enough hooters to make any real claims to that. Although, I look like one otherwise, heart shaped face and big eyes.

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What makes a furry?

Yeah, a "Furry" is a fan of anthropomorphic animals. Anthropomorphic just means that something has human characteristics. That can be as simple as an animal that can talk, or as complex as a cat that walks on two legs and bascially has a fur-covered human body. Some people use the term interchangeably with the characters, so you can see a humanized animal called a furry.

Are all furries real animals or creatures from ancient mythology?

Well, that depends. You can have an anthropomorphized gryphon, but you can also have an anthro fox. Doesn't rally matter.

Do they ever come up'with their own species?

Oh heck yes. Many furry fans create their own species for a character, others create crazy hybrids of many animals, like dragon / wolf / squirrel. The possibilities there are endless.

What's so special about their fursona?

A Fursona is just the character that a furry fan chooses to represent themself. Some people feel an attachment to a certain type of animal and use that as their own personal character.

As for the rest of season 2, just watch it. Yes, S2 was different from S1, but different doesn't mean bad. There are a lot of great episodes in Season 2.

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What makes a furry?

If you're talking about members of the fandom, the general rule seems to be that if the presence of anthro animals makes you like something at least a *tiny* bit more than you otherwise would, you're probably a furry.

If you're talking about anthro characters, basically anything with some level of anthropomorphization (feral body up to the anime-human-with-animal-ears) can be considered furry.

Are all furries real animals or creatures from ancient mythology?

Nope.

Do they ever come up'with their own species?

Yep. The most common example being sergals. (Just a little warning: doing a Google image search will get you sergal porn on the first page.)

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What's so special about their fursona?

It's supposed to be more or less a furry version of oneself, I think. You know how some bronies have "ponysonas"? Same idea.

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Admittedly I have written a lot of furry (as in an anthro animal) related fanfics but I myself am not a furry.

My love of anthro animals comes from classic cartoons like Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse rather then wanting to be like them (though I did have a dream where I was a Bugs Bunny like rabbit, nothing sexual mind you just having a wild imagination as a kid)

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I'm probably going to be echoing what was said above, bus since I've been in the furry fandom since 2004, I'll take a shot at it.

What makes a furry?

A furry is one of tow things. 1. It's a creature that shares both human and animal qualities. This can range anywhere between a catgirl (neko) from Anime to a talking dog. Most people agree a furry is close to a 50/50 split of human and animal. 2. A furry is a person who is a part of the furry fandom. Many express their enjoyment of anthro creatures by dwaring, writing, music, going to conventions, dressing up in costumes, etc.

I draw furries and have attended furry conventions.

Are all furries real animals or creatures from ancient mythology?

Furries can be real or mythological creatures. I've seen dragon, unicorn, gryphon, and phoenix furries myself.

Do they ever come up'with their own species?

There are species that are blends of different animals. There are also entirely unique species as well.

What's so special about their fursona?

A fursona is basically you, just as a furry. It's like creating a RP app. If you were a furry, what species would you be? How would you look? Where would you live? What would you like to do?

My fursona is Art Vulpine, a purple fox who likes expressing his creativity through art, writing, and music.

To note that the brony fandom borrows shares alot with furries in the expression of their love for ponies, the creation of ponysonas, and conventions centered around ponies rather than fantasy in general.

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I'm probably going to be echoing what was said above, bus since I've been in the furry fandom since 2004, I'll take a shot at it.

What makes a furry?

A furry is one of tow things. 1. It's a creature that shares both human and animal qualities. This can range anywhere between a catgirl (neko) from Anime to a talking dog. Most people agree a furry is close to a 50/50 split of human and animal. 2. A furry is a person who is a part of the furry fandom. Many express their enjoyment of anthro creatures by dwaring, writing, music, going to conventions, dressing up in costumes, etc.

I draw furries and have attended furry conventions.

Are all furries real animals or creatures from ancient mythology?

Furries can be real or mythological creatures. I've seen dragon, unicorn, gryphon, and phoenix furries myself.

Do they ever come up'with their own species?

There are species that are blends of different animals. There are also entirely unique species as well.

What's so special about their fursona?

A fursona is basically you, just as a furry. It's like creating a RP app. If you were a furry, what species would you be? How would you look? Where would you live? What would you like to do?

My fursona is Art Vulpine, a purple fox who likes expressing his creativity through art, writing, and music.

To note that the brony fandom borrows shares alot with furries in the expression of their love for ponies, the creation of ponysonas, and conventions centered around ponies rather than fantasy in general.

I appreciate the wisdom you have dropped upon this thread.

I had a fursona ages ago. It was a rat. I forget everything else about him.

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Then there are the furries I don't particularly care for...the ones that claim to be the soul of an animal trapped in a human body.. this kind tends to be obnoxious as all hay especially because their "Animal soul" tends to only be the cooler animals.. most typically a wolf/tiger/Cat/Dog

Those furries are called "otherkin" and yes they're cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

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All I have to say about furries is that they're insane, and I'm not talking about their liking anthropomorphic animals. No, I'm talking about the ones who dress up in those fur suits when it's 100 degrees outside! Anthros are cool, dressing up as stuff is cool, dressing up as animals is also kinda cool (although I wouldn't do it myself), but in 100 degree heat? That's just not right. Seriously, if it's that hot out just wear some ear, a tail, and some makeup! Don't wear a suit that can cause you to pass out (it happens).

This rant was brought on by a convention I just went to, where it was very hot and some of the furries were wearing some super heavy fur suits. I got dehydrated just looking at them.

And I agree, the ones who claim to actually be animals just plain nuts.

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I agree it takes alot of stamina to be in a suit that gets upwards of 120 degrees. Most full body suits, however, have an internal cooling system.

There are in conventions what are called Headless Lounges. These are where a suiter can go and cool off by a fan or have some water. Also, suiters usually have what are called "handlers." These people make sure the person in the suit is able to get around (a suit's head basically is like tunnel vision) and to get somewhere cool if necessary.

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I know 'bout most of that stuff. (I didn't know about the cooldown lounges 'cause I've never really bothered to check for anything like that)

I'm just sayin' that those suits look like some of the most uncomfortable things I've ever seen, and whether there's a water cooler or not, you shouldn't put on that much stuff in the summer. As someone who has suffered from heat exhaustion in the past, I can tell you that by the time you're about to collapse, you aren't exactly thinking straight, and it can be hard to tell ahead of time.

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Someone I know told me that He worked in a dry cleaners or in a laundry and had to wash fursuits. He said it was one of the most disgusting things he ever had to do... You can probably guess why. He doesn't have anything against furries, just cleaning the suits when they get dirty

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Those furries are called "otherkin" and yes they're cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

As I recall, there's kind of a crowbar separation between furries and otherkin. Otherkin see therianthropy as a religion/spirituality thingy, whereas furries just think it would be fun to draw themselves as/dress up as a fox or something. Otherkin thus don't care for being lumped in with the furry crowd. At least, that's how it was back when I was into the furry community, I don't know if the tides have changed lately.

I used to be pretty into it! Talking animals made me like cartoons way more than cartoons that just had people in 'em as a kid, and that kinda stuck. Combine that love with a general inability to draw humans as a middle schooler, and the furry community was a godsend for me. Gave me a place to draw stuff I liked to draw and was okay at without having people go, "why does that man have a dog head?" I've since expanded my artistic horizons, and my friends who were into it moved on, so I haven't had much of a reason to stick around over the past several years. Still have a soft spot in my heart for it, though.

The furry community is a little different than, say, the Brony community, since most of the content is fan-generated. There's some media that they latch onto (like Disney's Robin Hood, or Tale Spin, and stuff like that) but there's no one single franchise that brings them together. It's more the concept of talking animals/talking animal-people that brings them together, so there's a lot of variation in what gets produced.

And, yes, fursonas are basically ponysonas, but furries instead of ponies. Sometimes they ended up being a character unto themselves, other times they were just, well... fuzzy versions of the artist. I always thought it was amusing when they ended up having basically the same personality as the artist, but with animalistic quirks.

I may or may not have had one.

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Yes, that is a tiger/dog with a mohawk. I was fourteen when I came up with it, so sue me. (Ahaaha definitely wasn't fourteen when I drew that, though.)

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The vast majority of furries I've met personally have been pretty cool with really diverse interests. As much as people like to mess with fursuiters, it's really a fascinating exercise in artistic costume design.

As far as I can tell the people who are furries because they actually identify with the animal or what not are usually pretty chill. The people who get into it because they have body issues and want to be in a group that allows them to create their own idealized body or those who totally fetishise it are the ones who cause drama

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Someone I know told me that He worked in a dry cleaners or in a laundry and had to wash fursuits. He said it was one of the most disgusting things he ever had to do... You can probably guess why. He doesn't have anything against furries, just cleaning the suits when they get dirty

Now I just want to clear something up here...

As soon as 99.9% of people read this they gonna think of a different kind of "mess" thanks to certain shows like CSI:, But in reality, I'm betting that Silver's friend meant just the stench from swet and dirt and grime which got trapped in the fur, cloth, seams, etc (and how hard it is to clean a lot of fur without damaging it) Most Furs do NOT do... the stuff implied by the media...

Really there's not much more to say though, the basics have already been covered here. If anyone is seriously interested in learning more, let me know, I have some resources that are good, informative, and easy to follow (not I never said "Clean" like it or not, while not "covered with filth" the furry fandom is open and because of this is not 100% squeaky clean)

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From what I heard of my friend who does fursuit, the costumes are notoriously hard to clean. Most aren't able to be dry cleaned or machine washed. This is why people in fursuits tend to avoid the kid with her fingers covered in ice cream, or the guy holding the bag of Doritos.

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From what I heard of my friend who does fursuit, the costumes are notoriously hard to clean. Most aren't able to be dry cleaned or machine washed. This is why people in fursuits tend to avoid the kid with her fingers covered in ice cream, or the guy holding the bag of Doritos.

It's true, many are surface-clean only, though it's possible if you pay attention to your materials (provided they are available and hot way too expensive) where they can be very carefully hand-washed.

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I apologize, that was not the message I wanted to convey. I 100% support furries and I am into the anthro and furry artwork myself. To me he was implying that was what went down, but I have no evidence from him to confirm or deny that assumption or implication.

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