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mikebw
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22 Jan 2008, 1:36 am

As a kid I loved all the anthropomorphic animal cartoons. You know, all the Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons with Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse and their like.

Even now I like to watch the old Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and Gummi Bears toons and play video games with anthropomorphic animals like Sonic the Hedghog, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, Star Fox and such and I liked Mario's Tanuki suit. I'm a fan of Richard Adams' Watership Down and Robert C. O'Brien's Rats of NIMH, and like the movies as well, with the talking animals. I even liked Brian Jaques' Redwall.

So, you could say I'm a furry fan, or furry friendly.

The haters are hypocrites, unless they never played with teddy bears and hated WB/Disney cartoons. And Garfield, The Far Side, and other animal cartoon strips. :tongue:

I don't dress up or act like an animal, I don't think I'm an animal(like a wolf or cat), and I've never role played or dressed up as an animal in an intimate way with a woman. But I fail to see any reason for hating those that do.

I hate haters and abusers. They're the only people worth hating.



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22 Jan 2008, 4:27 am

You know, I actually act like a cat in many ways; I rub my head/body on people I like, I lounge around all day, I can spend eternity stalking something, and I like climbing things.

I wouldn't mind having claws and fur.



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22 Jan 2008, 4:30 am

And, yeah, forgot to add, the obsession with hating furries seems to me like little more than the obsession with cool kids hating uncool kids (only in the case of furries, it's usually the uncool people hating the even more uncool people). The "reasons" I've heard given are just excuses (at best).


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22 Jan 2008, 2:35 pm

Rynessa wrote:
Every time I hear about furries I think of a certain scene in "The Shining" where the boy gets a glimpse through an open hotel room door....
(I think it's the boy, maybe it was the dad. Doesn't really matter which one anyway)


It was the mom played by Shelly Duvall.
That was the scariest scene in the whole movie 8O


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22 Jan 2008, 3:33 pm

I know Sonic is looked down upon when it comes to furries but I'm a huge Sonic fan and don't mind STK and the crew being drawn as furries as long as the artist preserves their original colours.



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22 Jan 2008, 10:27 pm

I've run into them here and there; there's a character rendering program called Poser, and there's a Crystal character from some video game (a blue...cat person?), and a few others here and there. There's others as well, but that's the only one I loaded into the program.

It doesn't do anything for me, but they're mostly harmless...

I hate to say it, but the first thing that came to mind was a Monty Python sketch about people who dressed up as mice...;)



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23 Jan 2008, 4:35 am

pakled wrote:
I hate to say it, but the first thing that came to mind was a Monty Python sketch about people who dressed up as mice...;)


I love the Mouse Problem sketch! In fact, I myself dressed up as a mouse in the first school play I acted in in grade school. At the time I was obsessed with talking animals in children's books; later I became fascinated with "Watership Down", Olaf Stapledon's "Sirius" (a love story about a girl and a hyperintelligent dog), the Muppet Show, Bugs Bunny and the characters in "Ice Age". There's also an episode of "The Goodies" ("Animals", the final episode) where they have to dress up like animals because all the real animals have been exterminated. And in school, I kept envisioning my classmates as animals - one looked just like a turtle, one like a dalmatian, one like a bull etc. Oh, and I love Mickey Rooney's "animalistic" performance as Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and would like to emulate it.

I've always thought it all went back to the fact that when I was newly born, we reportedly had a German shepherd who seemed to think I was her puppy and hung about my cot licking my face, so that I in turn took a fixation on her. :o



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23 Jan 2008, 5:10 am

I would not say I am a furry by any means.
But I understand the fascination with it perfectly.
I understand the fascination perfectly with pretty
much any fandom out there.

I have looked at the art somewhat but I'm more a
fan of all art. So it's nothing particularly 'furry' that
seems to intrigue me.



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23 Jan 2008, 7:13 am

Oh my GOD you guys did you see that? Did you see I_F? He was all "I don't want to put words in your mouth, but you basically said this and so you can see what kind of logically fallacy this leads to" and such and then they were like "LOL WUT" and he's like "HA! HA! HA! You are my inferiors, you are beneath my notice" and then they realise how owned they are. :doh:


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24 Jul 2008, 12:52 pm

I'm sorta furry. To be frank the porn is nice, barring the aforementioned wierd ****. Plus I just really like foxes, and I've already concluded I'm not therian. So furry is where I'm at with it.



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08 Aug 2014, 12:21 am

I like Safe For Work furry art.



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08 Aug 2014, 12:55 am

I self-identify as a therian (short for therianthrope), which is related to being a furry in that both furries and therians identify with animal personalities; the key difference is that therianthopy implies a deeper connection with that animal (a true feeling of kinship; like feeling you were born in the wrong animal's body) and it doesn't imply anything sexually "deviant," although that exists among us. (How could it not? Animals are sexual beings! :geek:)

I discovered therianthropy in college, before I knew much about autism or realized that I'd been given that label in childhood; back then, the feeling of "not belonging here" was overwhelmingly strong and probably led directly to my self-identification as a therian. That, and I was dating one. :geek:

* Just to be clear: I'm not a member of the subset of therians who believe that they can (or can learn to) physically transform into their "wareform." I think that's just crazy.



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11 Dec 2017, 10:46 am

Mirel wrote:
Any of you out there?

Yes, I am autistic and I hope there is some justice in the world for other furries with autism!



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11 Dec 2017, 10:51 am

I am part of the furry fandom as well. Although, just like my autistic furry friend, we both fall under the line of the stereotypical furry, especially with me being a zoosexual which is such a hated thing in the fandom... so...I don't know what to make of some of the comments on this thread. Despite how old they are, they put me in a very odd and uncomfortable position. :/

I honestly don't know what else to say. I'm kind of dry with words at the moment. When I get around in discussing specifically on how I've gotten interested in the fandom and my experiences with the fandom as a whole then I'll make another post.


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