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at 21 Sep 2008: 14:17

I'm throwing a furry themed party later this year.  However, I am at a total loss of ideas of how to entertain my guests.  To further complicate things, most of the people there are not furry, so any entertainment needs to be accessible to the average person but still retain a furry twist.  I'm trying to stay away from anything that requires significant physical activity or video games.  Furry drink mixes are also needed, preferably mixes that use vodka or rum.

Have any of you thrown similar parties and have some ideas that I could use?

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at 21 Sep 2008: 18:44

Heh. Hee hee! Ha ha ha! Aaaahahha! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA!!!! AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!

in b4 obvious yiff jokes

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at 22 Sep 2008: 00:40

I'm sorry, should have been more clear, does anyone have *useful* ideas that I could use?

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at 22 Sep 2008: 01:32

Must it go this far?...

Hmm umm... depending on your age group i might find it a little creepy T.T

But I'd come if you were around mississippi

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at 22 Sep 2008: 10:42

how about buying lots of food. theres no better way to a man's heart than through his stomach.

and I seriously doubt there will be any women there.

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at 22 Sep 2008: 12:05

I was on a furry birthday once in my life. It was creepy, besides my girlfirend the only other woman was uberfat and creepy and the other guests (9 or so) were all men. And almost all of them tried to hug and cuddle me. Then all sat in a circle and told them about how they miss their former lives (a few "dragons" were there) and told animal-jokes all the time (The "dogs" were constantly told to do tricks and stuff). The last thing I remember was that they talked about digimon and how cute and sexy it is (The guy whom birthday it was was around 35).

"Unfortunately" my friend and I had to leave after that.

What I am trying to say is: Never EVER visit a "furry party". Never EVER host a "furry party". For your own sake.

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at 22 Sep 2008: 15:44

>>6
Sounds like most furry meets to me.

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at 22 Sep 2008: 15:57

"Furry drink mixes?" And to think, usually finding a hair in your cocktail is a bad thing. Look, if you're inviting people to this who aren't into furry, don't inflict anything on them mandatorily. Why don't you just make sure everything's a nice, expected party experience, make it classy first and foremost, and then if you want to tack on any furry aspect just do it in the form of party favors and decor. Taking your request dead serious, here's some suggestions.

On the booze front, if you want to go vodka and rum, keep a supply of high-quality (non-shitty) orange juice, cranberry juice and grapefruit juice as well as Coke and some Coke Zero so people can mix up screwdrivers, greyhounds and rum and coke if they want. Keep those basics around so the sensible drinkers can make themselves something normal. If you're expecting any little fuckers who just want to get smashed, have some Kool Aid for them to mix with. Make sure you have a good supply of clean, fresh ice bought from a market so the drinks won't taste like freezer-stank. Keep the drinkers happy and you're halfway there.

Beyond that, infuse the furry theme through decorations or favors. For basics, if there will be a meal, you could print out your favorite artwork and make personalized place-settings by fashioning the printouts into napkin rings. If you want to go a little more cutesy, you could buy some hair bands and craft supplies and make little sets of ears for all the guests, like an animal version of party hats. You can also get sets of ears pre-made online if you don't want to do the work. Think of ways to decorate using images that represent the idea of furry you want the guests to walk away with. Hanging artwork is good, and if you think about it, you'll probably come up with many other ways to use printouts to replace or enhance parts of the environment. It depends on how much you want to spend and how much work you want to go to. Some more extreme examples, that are a bit spendy but totally do-able, could be to create a plush fabric slipcover for your couch with a stuffed tail attached to make it look like a giant fluffy animal that people can lounge on (lint roll it before party time to make sure people don't walk away with excess acrylic hair stuck to their clothes though) of if that's too much, just throwing some tiger-print or leopard-print blankets over the furniture can do a lot and also help deflect spills or, if the party is a success on the drinking front, vomit.

Music wise, though it's tempting to try and be niche-y, opt for a selection of standards with a wide range of appeal. Novelty music is out, because it requires too much attention. You need something that can be dance-able and also act as an ambient backdrop for conversations.

The main thing- And I cannot stress this enough- is make sure any strangeness at the party is optional to take part in, not mandatory. Nobody has to wear the ears if they don't want, nobody has to say or do anything they don't want to. Just make sure the food and drink are good, the environment is comfortable and accomodating, the music is unobtrusive, and then express your furryness through the decor and visuals. That way, there will be plenty to tickle the sensibilities of the furries who attend, and the worst any non-furry (who isn't a hater) will come away saying is "The decor was a bit odd, but what a nice party!"

Which brings me to the last rule: Don't invite haters. Haters get to party only with other haters.

Good luck with your party!

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Tylonfoxx at 22 Sep 2008: 18:28

In response to no. 8, i'd like to give a few more pointers.

For the drinks part, be sure to have a wide selection of booze and mixable ingredients, not everybody likes vodka and rum, some like whiskey and beer just as well. A beer or two would be nice for the poor soul that has to drive home, or at least walk straight.
As to not have the whole house swimming in puke, I would suggest having only a limited quantity of alcohol around. Having to clean puke up is never nice, and the smell just sticks to EVERYTHING

If possible, also try to have a small seperate room for those more silent types slash a snuggle room, that way, if ppl want to snuggle and furpile and whatnot, they can always go there without freaking out non-furry guests.

As for food, well, let's just say those furries I hang around with tend to eat A LOT, but still try to make something nice. Lots of cheap and tasty recipes are just a google search away. Also make sure to ask in good time about whether any people are vegtarian or have any allergies of some kind.
An even better idea would be to prepare a buffet of different tasty meat and veggie treats. Buffets can still be cheap, but are still more expensive than, say a simple 3-meal menu, since you have a lot to do.

The good part of buffets, is that you can live off of the leftovers for a few days as well.

as the golden rule number one, the host may get drunk, but never too drunk. Make sure to have people that you can trust, that can get the party ended if you go down.

If you (no. 1) by any chance live close to that little country called Denmark and you need a (furry) cook, give me a call... I usually specialise in Asian food, but as long as there is need for something else, everything's possible with a recipe at hand.

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at 22 Sep 2008: 19:48

>>6
>men
>hug and cuddle
>miss their former lives
>told animal-jokes all the time
>talked about digimon and how cute and sexy it is

This is why I find it hard to respect furries who let the fandom consume them to this point. Everything they do has to be "furry" and if it's not they RARELY talk about it.

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at 23 Sep 2008: 10:58

Thanks to posters 5, 8, and Tylonfoxx, will definitely be using these suggestions! :)

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at 23 Sep 2008: 12:01

Well shit, this thread actually turned out useful. :o

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Tylonfoxx at 23 Sep 2008: 17:52

>> 12

Incredible ain't it ?

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at 23 Sep 2008: 22:51

hmm i want to hang around furries... but i donnu how it would go, idk.... bleh

sounds fun

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at 24 Sep 2008: 00:20

I hung out with a bunch of furries tonight, they were pretty awesome. I have to say, they were much more grounded and "human" than most furries on the net seem to be.

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at 24 Sep 2008: 16:35

>>15

You're right, one shouldn't compare all "furries" out there with the "net furs" who don't live outside their computers. But on the other hand most of the people I met in person who called themselves furries acted just like they did on the internet, same with otherkin and people like that. It's just not possible, like >>10 pointed out, to discuss something NOT furry/otherkin with those people. They will rarely change the topic to something they can't cover up with their "furryness" and "otherkin" will most likely comment everything with "my race knew that long before humans did" or "puny humans, they lack our intellect and wisdom to reflect their own doings" and something like that - on politics, on sports, on movies, the topic doesn't matter.

And if you meet those kinds of people it's a waste of your time, seriously. I mean all those self-righteous, incredible deep characters they like to be are actually more shallow than a piece of paper because they will never ever talk about something different which would made them interesting persons. Sometimes I just wanted to shout "you won't melt if you talk about or do something not related to furry or "your kind", but I can't stand your stereotypical yadda-yadda anymore" but I realised that they are too simple-minded and uninteresting to me so there is no point in trying to convince them that there are other things to talk about, that's why I left the party and why I closed almost all connections to furries and otherkin I knew. My whole interaction with the majority of "those people" sounded like a broken record, the exact same thing over and over again.

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at 24 Sep 2008: 18:19

>>16
Oh man, that is funny! The part about "Puny humans, they lack our intellect and wisdom" or "My race knew that long before humans did." It would be tempting to try and lure those people into increasingly more ridiculous conversations, where those pronouncements would sound more and more stupid.

"So, how about flatscreen TVs and monitors? Aren't they great? Way more lightweight than the old type."

"Bah, my race had flat screen monitors and TVs long before humans did."

No wonder you got the hell out of there! I've met a few furries in person before and while a few of them were creepy, the majority were pretty much average to unremarkable. I guess I got lucky!

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at 24 Sep 2008: 19:00

>>16
There was actually surprisingly little of that. Mainly, they discussed things that they saw or did at furry cons, cars and planes, army stuff (several of them are in the forces), and lolcats. Not many of them subscribed to the idea of "I'm a fox in a human body" or any bullshit like that, rather they just had furry characters or liked anthro animals.

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at 25 Sep 2008: 07:03

>>18

Like I said, it's a question of being lucky I guess. I want to point out one more time that not all people I met related to furry or otherkin circles are plain lunatics, actually one of my best friends belives that he's an "elf". We talked about that only once and only out of my curiosity. He, for example, never ever comes up with this topic, it's just his own personal believe which he doesn't want to tell everybody anyway. I got my personal belives, he got his.

I met other interesting an resonable people through furries as well, but in the end it's fact that out of all the furries I ever knew and the numerous ones I met in person I just maintained contact to six or seven people, I consider two of them friends. All the other people were just plain lunatics (And some of them actually were literally obsessed with that stuff in a way I personally considered them kind of... dangerous) or simply to boring to hang around with (You wouldn't want to talk to a catholic who constantly talks about his religion either, would you?).

I really like to meet people who are into star trek for example, because I'm a fan of ST as well and it's a common interested we can talk about. I like to talk about PC and videogames for example, I can have a nice chat about anime or music, I don't have a problem with all those fan groups. But, although I like anthro animals and animals in general I really wouldn't want to interact with a group of people calling themselves furries any more. Maybe it's interesting to mention that none of those people I met in furry circles I still hold contact to calls him or herself a "furry/therian" or "otherkin". Maybe it's an issue with people labeling themselves think that they have to act in a certain way or else will lose their label or personal believes and values or anything like that.

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at 25 Sep 2008: 10:17

>>19
"Maybe it's an issue with people labeling themselves think that they have to act in a certain way or else will lose their label or personal believes and values or anything like that."

That. That is the problem. People assume that because they have labeled themselves a certain way they must always be on that subject OR ELSE(or else what? I don't know). Other people are just obsessive in personality. I know a guy who is literally obsessed with the MMORPG genre and 99% of the stuff out of his mouth will have to do with MMORPG's which obviously gets VERY BORING and ANNOYING since I dislike that genre.

For some people they are afraid talking about other subjects will hurt their social standing in the group. There was a MTV episode about this anime fan who wanted to become a beauty queen or something like that. The first words out of the anime clubs mouth was "so, how do you think this will impact your relationship with anime?" WTF. Like really, it SHOCKS me people would even say that.

Point is...long story short...people are either unhealthily obsessed with certain things and thus have no interest in anything else OR they are submitting to peer pressure. Those are the people to avoid like the plague. Most furries(and people in general regarding all hobbies) have this problem and it's rare to find a good friend with varying interest, hobbies, thoughts, etc.

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Samhuinn at 25 Sep 2008: 13:39

I might implore you to not call it a "furry" party, but instead, a "costume party where you have to dress up like an animal". Emphasize the humor and fun aspect over the fursona aspect, and you'll do just fine. I would say there's a significant difference between a "drag" party and a party where you say "everybody has to come dressed up as the opposite gender". The first has certain connotations that might make people uncomfortable or creeped out, while the second places an emphasis on the silly fun aspect of it. As long as you make it clear that you plan on just having some big laughs and seeing who goes over the top the most, it could end up being a wonderful time.

If you have it on Halloween, you'll be golden. ;)

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at 25 Sep 2008: 19:29

Samhuinn has an excellent approach there, and it's what I was touching on in post 8, to make sure to have a great *party* first and foremost, as in a great social gathering, and not worry about the theme until 2nd place. This has turned into a neat thread by the way, so grats to the original poster.

>>20 Ugh, there's something I have had experience with. I started avoiding 2 people I knew online, who I used to be fairly chatty with, because they got obsessed with MMORPGs and wouldn't get off the damned topic.

Maybe obsessed people are, in this way, the opposite of a good listener?

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at 26 Sep 2008: 01:17

>>22
What's worse is when you finally get the guts to straight up tell them "look, I like talking to you but talking about one topic 24/7 is boring, can we talk about something else?" then they continue to bring up MMORPGS(or whatever else) on a daily basis....it's like...'WOW, fuck you. I don't need this shit.'

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Kantir at 27 Sep 2008: 01:45

dear >>11
this is post >>5
you're welcome. I know this board isn't the best to find what you're looking for, but I personally do my best.

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at 10 Nov 2008: 09:56

Pin the tail on the vixen?

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Hellfire at 10 Nov 2008: 10:21

Hey, here's an idea! Necroposting!

I daresay the party is probably over by now.

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at 10 Nov 2008: 10:44

It's been 2 months. He said the party was "later in the year" so it's quite possible that it hasn't happened yet.

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