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How much does furry fandom affect your life?

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at 6 Feb 2008: 23:13

Hi, i love furry anything a LOT....  I'm just wondering how other people feel about it.  I've started thinking about it almost constantly and taking it alot more seriously, obsessive =/.

  Anyone wanna tell me it can be normal?


Also, explain how much you adore furries?

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at 6 Feb 2008: 23:21

My suggestion : Keep it to yourself in RL if it's more than just a liking.

For me, I love my anthro films, and I draw them whenever possible during my class breaks, but that's pretty much where it ends.  No point in becoming obsessed with a non-existing entity.

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at 6 Feb 2008: 23:29

I only think about when I'm viewing furry websites, art, or porn online, which I do nearly every day. So, I'd say furry consumes about 30 minutes a day on average.

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(topic creator) Mirinu at 7 Feb 2008: 00:11

=/ I see... fumm, besides thje fact most o my friends call me their token furry, i'll try to tone it down when not around them...

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at 7 Feb 2008: 03:36

OMG LIEK IT AFFECTS EVERY ASPECT OF MY PATHETIC LIFE!!!1!

Seriously, though, my being a furry is on a need to know basis IRL, and let's face it: almost NOBODY really needs to now.  I love my yiff material, I find most every aspect of the fandom interesting in some fashion, but I sure as hell ain't gonna build my life around a young, unstable fandom.

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at 7 Feb 2008: 12:20

Furry affects my life when some brainless mouthbreather accuses me of being a furry for liking any number of things that isn't inherently furry by nature. A few examples;
-Stating my admiration for the wolf social structure
-Saying I love Disney movies
-Saying I love Bloody Roar
-Saying I enjoy collecting furry art
-Stating how I think Anubis is a badass God

Now just keep listing things in your own imagination until you come up with about 1000 different things and that's how furry affects my life. I'm not a furry, I don't call myself or believe myself to be a furry, I simply like the art and it's the only reason why i'm here. Furry only affects my life when furries and/or trolls constantly bitch about how this and that = furry

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Nadia#Admin Emeritae at 7 Feb 2008: 12:27

For me it is just something I do.

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at 7 Feb 2008: 13:11

"How much does furry fandom affect your life?"

I sometimes invest too much time in mocking furries, but except that, the furry fandom doesn't affect my life at all.

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morganbatness at 7 Feb 2008: 13:35

I collect the occasional bat item and put it in my room since I love bats  =)  I look at both porn and clean art.  I hang out with anyone whom I think has a good head on their shoulders, and even the occasional "unique" person whom can be quite interesting to converse with, all while keeping relationship with non-fur folk.

I talk.  Anything from politics, career stuff, computer stuff or even the latest silly furry gossip / drama from the crazies in the fandom.  Being that I'm pretty gregarious I look down on furs who think they have some untouchable royal status in the fandom because they're "popular" and honestly believe that you're not worth their time unless you draw them free art and brown-nose them to no end.

I'm in it for the art, love of animals and social thing since I'm not artsy-fartsy, I'm more of a technogoth / computer geek.  I get friends together when I can (typically non-fur) and do anything between walking around the city, or even hitting a bar or going to a goth club.

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at 7 Feb 2008: 15:25

I don't mind saying that i'm in it for the porns.

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lost souls at 7 Feb 2008: 17:15

>>1 >>5 >>7


Furry is just a fandom, like the Star Trek fandom, Dr.Who fandom, etc. So there's Goth furries, Catholic furries, German-American furries, straight furries, punk furries, whatever... ((Guess which one of those I am)

The problem is that half of all furries take this way, way, way, way too seriously in RL. They act like there's some kind of inherent "furry orienation": They decide to "out themselves" to people by, like, wearing a suit to their work. They make all of their obscure fetishes into a matter of pride.

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lost souls at 7 Feb 2008: 17:38

>>10

That's why we're here :-)

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guy who wrote #5EJ71eKlNQ at 7 Feb 2008: 21:12

>>11
"straight furries"

Or as I like to call them, "endangered species" (I know they aren't NEARLY as rare as people make them out to be, but it's funny to joke about it sometimes).

"They make all of their obscure fetishes into a matter of pride."

Yes, and I honestly think that they are encouraged to do this by watching some of the obnoxious behavior demonstrated by other groups of people who did it before them (you damn well KNOW who I'm talking about.  Great, you're gay, whoop-dee-fuckin'-doo, now get out of the goddamn street, would you?).  Oh fuck, I can see it now: furry pride parades down the main drag of town.  If that happens I'm disavowing any connection to the fandom I have.

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at 7 Feb 2008: 22:31

>>13

I saw a bit of a pride march on the news. Guess what one of those guys was wearing clipped to his pants...

Yes...

a tail.

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lost souls at 8 Feb 2008: 01:30

>>13
"furry pride parades down the main drag of town"

It's just a matter of time, man, it's just a matter of time.

And when that happens, the fandom won't "go downhill": it will implode in on itself like a neutron star.

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at 8 Feb 2008: 11:06

>>14
Tail != Furry

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FoxStar at 8 Feb 2008: 11:55

It's a hobby to me, nothing more. To those that turn it into a lifestyle, lol@them.

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Poptart at 8 Feb 2008: 15:48

I keep it a secret from my friends because I am not sure how they would react to me being a furry or if they would even know what a furry was...

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Mirinu at 9 Feb 2008: 06:19

oh wow, a furry pride parade... That's epic..xD

    I have a tail and nothing more to wear irl (for halloween im always a fox hehe), I draw some and show it to my friends, I love the fandom because it just gives me a sense of unity with people...  I feel at home =/. idk..  Furry is just a very interesting and fun thing to do if you know people like you to play with/talk with.

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at 9 Feb 2008: 07:51

>>17
The whole hobby/lifestyle debate is pointless, because the terms "hobby" and "lifestyle" aren't clearly defined. Anyone who wants to argue about it just wants attention.

And the furry fandom has to affect everybody's life here to at least some extent, otherwise they wouldn't be posting on fchan.

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Bizzle at 9 Feb 2008: 13:00

>>20  Well, as we know, Webster and Hoyle have their definitions available online, but I understand that, as it pertains to a fandom, the line between them can be a bit more obscure.  In the hope that it will help to illustrate the difference between hobby and lifestyle, I have imagined this parallel.

Warhammer 40K is a hobby of mine.  I buy numerous overpriced pewter and resin figurines in the shapes of space men and aliens.  Then I spend countless hours reshaping and painting them by hand to make them appear as life-like as possible.  When I feel that I have enough of them finished, I can take them to hobby centers or like-minded friends' houses to play an impossibly complicated chess-like game with them, selfishly hoping to hear the occasional, "That's a cool Mark IV Dreadnought."  Yeah, it's a nerdy hobby.

If there were such a thing as a lifestyler (thank god they don't seem to exist), they might do things like build a suit of power armour out of soft plastic and aluminum foil, worship at a homemade shrine to the Emperor of Mankind, claim fervently and sincerely that they are an ideal candidate to be recruited by the Blood Angels, or obsess about how close the science of genetic engineering is to being able to transform a normal human into a space marine.

The difference is readily apparent here; perhaps it is exaggerated.  However, I have found that, with lifestylers, it can be surprisingly difficult to over-exaggerate anything.  Alright I hope that helped, but I should really get back to studying High Gothic now.

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FurryFox at 9 Feb 2008: 15:15

the most furry i act to people is that i wear a tail...and soon ill have ears too..haha
i do think about furry a lot...but not too crazy like..well..i try not to.

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Mirinu at 9 Feb 2008: 15:48

If you do get ears, well built/looking ones, please let me in on where you found them! =3

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Hakar at 10 Feb 2008: 05:25

>>11

It's not just furries that take furries too seriously. I often look at people mocking furries and thing "FSM! It's just a bunch of people on the internet who like anthro animals."
A bit too many of them go beyond simple name-calling and ridicule, but pass on to the Dr Phill-fetish pseudo-psychoanalysis side.

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at 10 Feb 2008: 10:00

>>24
Yes, some people take "chan"-culture way too seriously too.

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at 14 Mar 2008: 03:27

Well I was a closet furry until my friends found some "artwork" on my computer. Now I get allot of fox and cat jokes.

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well adjusted at 14 Mar 2008: 19:33

I think it might be obsessive, I check out this site to add to a list of fapworthy material, i dugg sonic and similar titles since I was a kid, but I have a girlfriend and a career so its just a secret special fetish, thats all. Weird fetishes are NORMAL, but obsession and basing your life around something is not.

And yes, most people will give you shit for it, like this one guy who I am slightly acquainted with, EVERYBODY knows and hes ostracized and had very few friends. Dont be that guy.

RL sex is better then any masturbatory fantasy.

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Some Random Cheetah at 14 Mar 2008: 23:17

how does furryness affect my life?

i unno...
i'll just list my observations instead :
all of my friends know about it and don't give me shit, one likes Nekos too. (i keep my circle of real world friends very very small on purpose though, so this is only about 3 people)
i wouldn't ever wear a fursuit or anything like that though (can you say attention whore?)
i'd consider body paint, but i don't really have a body that's too nice to look at XD
wouldn't go to a fur-con
mother knows (she walked into my room while i was gettin down with a cute lil skunkette on secondlife, seemed pretty interested in it too) and doesn't think there's anything wrong with it, not that we really talk about it at all though.
i daydream about furry ladies sometimes, not even daily though really.
i wish i could be one, but i know that's a chance i'll probably never get and fursuits or even ears and tails are way too fake for me.
if it was possible i would love to have a real life furry cheetah lady mate, but again possibility of it...
don't really collect art or anything (unless someone happens to post that really good oil crayon or possibly charcoal picture of the two feline women lol)
a friend is drawing me my first ever fursona pic for my secondlife profile which should be done late this month or early next month i think ^_^
well... that's basically all of what i can think of for now, make of it what you will.

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at 15 Mar 2008: 01:22

I'd wear ears and a tail to work if I had them, but not necessarily to "out myself" -- I just think ears and tail look awesome :3

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lost souls at 15 Mar 2008: 17:42

>>29
"outing"-- that's the problem right there. Around half of all furries (I'm not singling you out, i'm just talking about generalities) treat the fandom as if it's some kind of inborn orientation. They supposedly 'knew' that they're furry at some point in their childhood, or whatever.

Like >>27 said, I treat it as a hobby (art, comics, collectible items) and as a fetish (tails, ears) and nothing more than that. Furry is not a part of my "life" or "life experience" in any sense compared to, say, my being raised by a single mother.

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Tylonfoxx at 15 Mar 2008: 21:44

i'd say that furry is kinda both a fandom and a lifestyle because it kinda varies from person to person. pretty much all the furries I've met percieve the point of being furry differently.

Trust me on this. I've learned a lot from the furries i've been with, both by writing on local furry forums and while being with other furs (ie. a furmeet or something like that.)

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Applebottom Jeans at 15 Mar 2008: 23:42

I'd say that being furry is kinda retarded and pointless. Just make porn and fap to it okay? Let's leave it at that. Nobody here is a wolf or a tiger or a dragon or a griffon or a phoenix or any legendary symbolic creature.

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Some Random Cheetah at 16 Mar 2008: 09:17

>>32
no, but we'd like to be :P

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at 16 Mar 2008: 09:23

I'd agree with the point that "Furry" is more like a hobby to me than a lifestyle. Even my "Fursona," as much as I use him, exists mainly to form a barrier between the fandom and my RL.

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..:: EricWolF ::.. at 18 Mar 2008: 11:54

I prefer calling it a lifestyle than a hobby, or worse, a fetish. I'm just looking at some furporn occasionally but I could live without. what i mean is we're not all furverts, there's alot of so-called furvert artists who doesn't get anything about the furry culture: spiritual connection with the other animals and nature, social aspect and interaction with other furries,but all the time furry is associated with furry porn, that's why people think we're weird, but in fact, we aren't.

It's funny that I'm talking about this on Fchan, I hope you understand my point of view.

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Bizzle at 18 Mar 2008: 14:15

>>35
I greatly prefer being called a "furvert" to being labeled a "furry."  Contrary to popular belief, it's not the porn that bothers regular people.  That only really puts off those who would be put off by fetish porn in general anyway.  Most people online, from what I've seen, tend to share Applebottom Jeans' view.  The silly spiritualism, the atrocious shag carpet costumes, and the hilariously sincere insistence that we're some kind of minority sexual preference are what really make people think that we're batshit.  Our fursecution complex doesn't help either.

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