The "Furry fandom"

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Anyone here in it? I dont consider myself a furry but im interested in it. Can somebody shed light on what it is?

I am a furry occasionally in second life, not sexually mind you

I don't think of myself as that sort of person, but I have roleplayed as a woodland animal (humanoid of course) on a text game before. Those were some of my funnest times. I go back there occasionally, and I'm actually kind of popular (more so when I was playing a lot!). Only though because it was a game, and people enjoyed my characters roleplay.

I know somebody who exclusively plays a furry in second life. She has many AS traits, but no diagnosis!

I was a furry, for two and a half years. I used to identify with Sid from Flushed Away. I used to paint my nose black, for every baseball game, in the summer.

I've been called a furry lifestyler before because I incorporate feline traits and vocalizations into everyday life. I looked into it a bit and couldn't figure out what the big deal was. So I identify with cats, so what. My ex was a furry when a furry just meant someone with an interest in anthrpomorphic animal art and didn't have all these weird connotations. I don't really consider myself a furry, I just do my own thing and if someone calls me a furry, so what.

I am. I want to have a costume made and attend conventions but my parents won't let me because they think it's "weird". I was finnaly able to convince them that "yiffers" are just a negetive sterotype protrayed by the media but now they think people involved in it are just weird and have "mental problems" and that people are going to think I am some sort of freak if I go around in public wearing a meerkat tail. I don't plan to all the time and it's not as if I am not already a freak. But anyway, yes, I am a furry. I am dead serious when I say I feel as if I was born the wrong species.

I was a furry when I was a kid. I hated cartoons with human characters in them and only obsessed over animal characters. I drew pictures of myself as a wolf when I was into Balto and as a hamster when I was into Hamtaro.

Now I'm pretty much the opposite - I don't care much for animals at all.

I got very interested in furry culture when I was 19/20. I considered myself a furry, though without the sexual connotations that the media seems to attribute to them. I couldn't get involved socially with the group, though. I've also played anthropomorphic animals in text roleplaying games.

I like your avatar, Dots.

Thanks. It's from the movie Watership Down, based on the book by Richard Adams.

I've uh...associated with them, specifically baby-furs. There's an overlap in our interests, but I don't really consider myself part of the fandom. The forum I frequented also had many talented writers... I don't visit as often, now.

*raises paw*

Its pretty hard to just give one blanket explanation of what it is.

Some are suiters (I guess I would be one of those), some yiff as its a sexual thing, theres baby/lilfurs (I'm sometimes a lil'fur). some art more art furries, some just like the idea of half human/half animals thing.

I guess the main thing is to figure out if its sexual or not to you and then go from there.

Errrr... Ok I admit it, im a fox ^_^ *Waggles :3*

Yes, and I think its horrible that everyone thinks we all are into yiff, of course thats a very big misconception. Personally, I find yiff disgusting. And alot of the fandom does too. People stereotype groups like this all the time, for example like saying "all metalheads worship Satan."

We all get lumped together with a very small minority and get tarnished with he same brush *Growls*

^_<

I'm not a furry, I don't consider myself one and I don't feel obliged to obsess over anthros, but I kind of like anthros. I think it stems from me being raised around dogs. I have 5 right now and over the years, I think I've had 12 to 13 total. Some we didn't keep because of certain reasons(I gave my dog to a friend because her dog died. My dog was her dog's sister and had mental problems, and although I was reluctant, I gave it to her so she wouldn't be depressed.), some died of old age. I've even fostered a few. And I might work at the humane society over the summer. I like wolves too. My mom used to be a vet, and I wanted to for a long time, until I figured that I couldn't bear putting an animal down. Me and my mom love animals so much, that my mom will stop and risk a car wreck to save something crossing the road. I do so too.


Although I've always liked anthros, I was disgusted when I first heard about furries. I thought they were all a bunch of bestiality freaks or something. But, I did research and started to notice for the most part they're just a bunch of nerds similar to people in the Star Wars fandom(which I'm part of) or trekkies.

I always found anthropomorphic animals more interesting in cartoons when I was little, and in books and stuff, usually my favorite character is either an alien that resembles an anthro(In sci-fi) or an anthro proper(fantasy books). I like to look at anthro art if kept clean. I'm starting to draw anthro art as well. But like I said, I'm not too obsessed with them and I have no interest in joining the fandom. I'd have to be as obsessed with anthros as I am with Star Wars for me to define myself as a furry(considering I very of nostalgia while watching Star Wars movies, I'd have to be really obsessed)


And, it would be really stressful for me because despite yiffers and furverts being in the minority, they tend to be very loud and open about their interests, thus why the vast majority of the internet and the media percieves the fandom to be sick and messed up. I find yiff to be absolutely disgusting, but I don't judge others. I just wish yiffers weren't so open. I never plan on going on FA and/or other furry websites, because I'm sure I'll constantly be exposed to things that'll make me grab desperately for the eye bleach. Its perfectly fine for someone to have a fetish, but when someone has to tell the whole world... yeah, that's wrong.

Oh, and I find making animal noises to be a bit odd and I find fursuiting to be stupid because it makes people look like mascots rather than anthros. It's similar to how I like anime and manga yet despise cosplayers because they look ridiculous with fake-looking colorful wigs and makeup. It's my understanding that the definition of a furry changes from person to person. For me I don't think I am, but if anyone wants to call me that, I'm cool with it.


I'm okay with Therians and otherkin because I play an mmo chock full of them, but as I'm a very logical person I'd never want to be one. Although they don't have nearly as many yiff-type people in their ranks(or at least they don't seem to be as open), the downside of the otherkin/therians is that they are a bit deranged by my standards. I've told a person playing a dragon character in the mmo I play that I hate dragons. I actually really like dragons, but I was roleplaying a humanoid character and dragons tend to think of humanoids as inferior in that game. The dragon threatened to report me after giving up chasing me around town with two hatchlings. I also mentioned a game on psp called monster hunter in which you kill dragons at some ingame dragon gathering that I attended and got trampled by about ten of them.

my only knowledge of furry comes from that episode of Entourage

I like the characters but not in a sexual way. but I'm a huge fan of anthropomorphic characters.