FurFriends

[Anonymous No.8898319]

Does anyone have a friend that's a furry? They can't ALL be anti-social non-gender weirdos, that only hang out with other furries, right?...Right? As heavy as I am into the cosplay fandom (as in I always cosplay when I go to conventions all the time), I don't know any furries. I know one lolita, and she's very down to earth. She doesn't want to be a doll, and dresses super fancy and nice and my fellow cosplay friends are cool with her too. Not like she pushes her Loli ways (whatever that would even be) onto them. Maybe I've grown up a little. I remember avoiding them like cancer at cons, as if I was some elite human being that didn't even want to touch one. Last Fanime, I was helping a friend watch her artist alley booth, and an awesome looking dragon furry was just looking about and when they came to us, we petted him and he had some cool wing contraption hooked up and they made them flap and up and down. It kinda left like being at Disneyland for a second.

One random youtube video lead to another and I somehow ended up watching fursuit unboxings, and though they were mostly girls and they all seemed normal. Just super happy to get something so cool and well made in the mail. I'm doing down that weird rabbit hole where I keep thinking to myself that I would like to go to a furcon in a full suit and just be anonymous cause it looks fun?

tldr; Anyone have any furry friends? Are you the furry in a group of non-furries?

[Anonymous No.8898335]

I dated a furry for two years, it really depends how deep into the community you go, as a general rule most of them the women are nice and normal enough, it's when you start taking to the guys, the ones that look like creeps probably are, the dudes that look normal are most likely gay and really nice, it's when you start to browse online especially furrafinity where you start seing the weird shit. The reputation they have is kind of uncalled for, at max like 35% of the community are like that but it is obvious who those people are.

[Anonymous No.8898341]

I have some furry friends. They're just regular people with a fetish that tends to have a social aspect to it. Finding anthropomorphic characters attractive doesn't turn your brain to mush, the mushbrains would be mushbrains regardless of kinks.

[Anonymous No.8898350]

I think furries are good people.

I've never ran into a bad one, but I'm not saying there isn't bad furries out there. There's bad apples in every group, furries, cosplayers, etc. I respect fursuiters a lot because a lot of work goes into making and even just wearing a suit. It honestly makes me cringe even more when people avoid furries like the plague. I understand people not being interesting in fursuits or furry culture, but I still respect them.

[Anonymous No.8898366]

>They're just regular people with a fetish that tends to have a social aspect to it.

Do they do the fetish thing, or they just like the animals? I also watched a lot of interview videos where people kept insisting that the whole sex thing is a totally different group, and they just want to pretend to be a wolf for a weekend. Some called it their Burning Man, and those people seemed like totally chill Joes. I'm wondering about that furry friend who (and maybe it differs with age? Middle school vs post college) go around squeeking? Or curling up in all ball? Or chewing things? You know, like those fucking weirdos on the NEWS that say they were really born a cat. Ugh.

[Anonymous No.8898373]

I've had a couple friends who were poor furries (ie. into the art, never got a fursuit or went to fur cons).
The absolute worst was one that drew porn of her and her boyfriend's fursonas fucking, which I kind of saw as the equivalent of posting your sextape publicly but.. whatever.

The constant cringe ones (ie. the foam video) seem to be a vocal minority. Most of the fur community at least knows that no one else wants to see their stuff.

About your interest in going to fur cons, it seems like you're more into the idea of temporarily being someone completely different (ie. no one sees your face, most people won't hear your voice).

[Anonymous No.8898384]

Furry culture has two levels/groups-

1- Awww, that's so cute I'm doing to die. My inner-child is screaming at me to hug you.

2- Oh God, if pouring bleach into my ear wouldn't kill me, I would do it to try and erase what I just saw. I'm scared and need my mother, someone please remove me from his awkward human interaction. Don't make eye contact, just go go go.

[Anonymous No.8898388]

You're lying to yourself if you see this type of craftsmanship and don't think it's awesome.

[Anonymous No.8898424]

I have two furry friends who are dating each other actually. They found each other through the community. The furry community is definitely heavily sexual, and there's really no way to navigate around that unless you stay really close to the edge. One of them who is my good friend, is a pretty well know artist in the community, and as much as she likes doing none-sexual commissions, the bulk of her income comes from doing sexual commissions.

Overall, most people I've met in the community just see it as another facet of themselves and doesn't get spergy about it-a lot of like how some people dress in lolita or do a large amount of cosplay, it's just fun to be within the community and have a good time with people with similar interests.

They went to a local furry convention recently and were generally really disgusted with how it was run though. They marketed the con as an all ages con but was not all age friendly and had a lot of fetish furries there. So I think it really just depends on which circles you run with and how heavily you involve your 'furry' side to a sexual side.

[Anonymous No.8898433]

I have an artist friend that recently tapped into the good ol' furries, cause she has bills to pay. It's kinda a gold/oil field if you're really talented and don't charge anything crazy. She started a cute little Ask Blog on Tumblr, and she's not a furry what-so-ever, but she picked a goat fortune teller. She got like 500 followers over the weekend. Problem is, she wants to keep it kid friendly, like Disneyisqu, but she'll snapchat me some of the messages she gets and it's like whooooa ok. She does a Hail Mary, but takes the requests cause these people are willing to dish out the cash.

[Anonymous No.8898472]

>>8898319
I used to be best friends with a girl who was a furry. She was normal (for the most part) and she was never embarrassing. I met a few other furries through her and they were fine for the most part. I'm a lolita and I've probably met much worse people in our community than I have in the furry one. Just depends who you meet.

[Anonymous No.8898486]

>>8898472
Used to?

[Anonymous No.8898488]

>>8898486
Yeah, she moved away so we don't hang out much/talk much anymore!

[Anonymous No.8898498]

I wish I had a furry friend...

[Anonymous No.8898499]

>>8898366
The furry fandom isn't a fetish, any more than the whole of anime/cosplay/comic/etc fandoms are a fetish. There is always that small subsection of everything that will create or revel in porn, but again it isn't what the whole fandom is about. The only thing you need to have to be a furry is an interest in anthropomorphic animals.

I don't know if I really consider myself a furry personally, but I've always liked to draw anthros as well as humans, among other art mediums. I'm not super into the core of the fandom besides some online friends, and I find the types who truly believe they are/act like an animal(or be intimate with 'em...) a little silly. It's an artistic outlet for me. However, I would love to try making a fursuit someday, though something realistic like the ones posted above, or the Japanese/kemono style ones.

[Anonymous No.8898504]

I had a furry roommate for a bit. She was a little odd but in an endearing way.

For the most part she didn't share that part of her life with anyone outside of the furry community.

[Anonymous No.8898526]

At first I didn't knew what a furry was, I didn't mind at all.
I mean, I saw these giant plushes and seemed cute to me (except for the cartoon faces). Then I discovered all the fetish they have.
It's not like lolita, some idiots thinks the book and the fashion is the same thing and fetishize us (*vomits*). Furries have that weird animal fetish, everyone, I can't handle it. I knew a lot of furries. Everyone can't stop talking about furry-hentai/sex/lewd fantasies. E-v-e-r-y-o-n-e. They're all nasty. Plus being giant weaboos: in this case, not all of them were giant freaks, some of them at an...acceptable level.
But they can't stop fetishizing and rub it onto your face every second.
And how they see the animals... ugh. I don't want someone rape my cat, you know.
Years ago I tought they were adorable innocent plushies.
Now I know they're plushy zoophilic perverts.

[Anonymous No.8898533]

>>8898319
zoophilia is a mental illness
case closed

[Anonymous No.8898540]

>>8898526
The vast majority of furries I've known are pretty normal, maybe a little socially awkward, some with a little drama. But I've known many non-furries like that as well. Again, it's not a fetish.

[Anonymous No.8898547]

>>8898319
i find it strange how we judge furries because they're weird and different, yet we don't bat an eye when it comes to cosplayers or lolitas. I mean they're all a little weird. Furries are probably just like any cosplayer, they like the escapism and craftmanship of the subculture.

[Anonymous No.8898551]

>>8898547
It's like when the pimply band geeks make fun of the color guard only instead of spinning flags around they yiff on the football field.

[Anonymous No.8898552]

>>8898547
I don't doubt there are people who judge cosplayers or fashion subcultures too. Some people just seem to like going out of their way to hate on things, often taking the worst(or weirdest) of a group and extrapolating it to everyone else regardless of what they are actually like.

[Anonymous No.8898560]

Last month my little brother conffessed me he likes furry

I didn't know what to say, I thought he was gay and I was totally fine with that, is normal, but not this.
It was a bomb.

Now I don't know what to do. Our "family" is the worst, we defend each other and I want t be supportive. But he doesn't stop to show me Amy Rose porn images. I don't want to see that shit but even if I say no he just rub them onto my face.

Now I hate all the sonic franchise

Also I'm noticing he's a total creep. I'm trying to help him to make friends but he scare away all possible friends with his crappy furry stuff. I thought maybe some online friends woud be a nice beggining. But I don't want him to make friends on those furry webpages because they're total perverts and I don't know what they will do with my brother. I saw those sites and it's beyond nasty.

Help.

[Anonymous No.8898566]

>>8898547
They're (we're) all a little weird, but furries have a different reputation because the community is much more heavily and much more openly sexualized. They have a bigger bad apples problem that's related to gross furries giving them all a bad name, whereas you don't tend to run into cosplayers or lolitas with serious boundary issues. There are definitely furries who just like the escapism and childlike Disney/cartoony aspects, but there's a lot of weird porn and furries with social issues that are coloring those people by association. (And that said, I don't think having weird taste in porn is a big deal, it's not hurting anyone, but the lack of social skills is a problem.)