Furry-Within

They are weird.
Discus.

Depends. I'll just assume this is based on character. If they're a vampiric demon/angel wolf with glowing eyes, wings, a samurai sword and a vengeance story, then foe. If they're anything else, then potential hostile.

I made an effort to meet furries irl once.

It was...an experience.

Good people though I thought. I would've gotten in touch with them again had the experience not been ruined by a few furries that wouldn't take the hint I wasn't interested. All the same, I'd go to a Funcon. (Provided I'm allowed to take mace inside.)

In real life, I am not a fursuiter nor do I wear anything other than a small orange fox on my messenger bag to identify myself as a furry and even then I simply tell people I wear it just because I like the way it looks. Am I ashamed of being a furry? No, but I'd rather not make those around me uncomfortable with my lifestyle.

I've only really met one cool furry irl and he is well... a freak and lives out in the woods by himself and when I say in the woods, I mean so deep in there the only power he has is from a portable generator and boy does he hate everyone. He only seems to tolerate me being around but I still look up to him. rofl

My partner and most of my friends are furries and when I spend too much time with them I get drawn into a false sense of security that all furries are cool...then I go to a "furmeet" or some kind of a furry party and I just rofl at them all.

I basically treat furry as just a fetish of mine. It's something I like, that other peopl emight like ,but I'm not about to go around flaunting it. It's not like every person out there that likes BDSM walks around in the gear all day. There's just appropriate places and times to show your love for certain things, some more private and unnecessary than others.

Well...some people into BDSM do walk around in gear all day.  But I do agree with you regardless.

Quote from: Sthemio on October 28, 2011, 03:59:43 AM
Depends. I'll just assume this is based on character. If they're a vampiric demon/angel wolf with glowing eyes, wings, a samurai sword and a vengeance story, then foe. If they're anything else, then potential hostile.

Unless it's a Minakat®.  Then it's otay.

if you're nice to them, friend. if you piss them off, foe. I try to be nice to everyone!

I quite agree with Zerr. There are also certain times and places to talk about being a furry. I am still in pursuit of finding some RL ones myself, just to make friends with something in common. All ones I have met are former furries or... not really furries at all.

And I do not fursuit, despite how fun it looks. I do adore the effort put forth in the costumes though. But yeah, there are certain times, places, and forums to talk about being a furry. That is for sure.

Waiting in line at the back = Bad time to talk about being a furry.

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I lol'd

I've honestly thought long and hard on the topic of whether or not furry's are something that are socially acceptable to be.  When I initially joined the fandom years and years ago, it was new, exciting, taboo, it was something definitely different. The reason i joined which I think a lot of people can say this same thing was because at the time, I was a social outcast.  I had a lot of social anxiety problems that stemmed from being kind of sheltered in life by my -highly- overprotective mother. 

  I had a lot of anger issues in highschool because of family problems, personal weight problems, being socially unacceptable because I was 'different' than everyone else.  But there I found a 'place' to belong, there were people behind the keyboards and the like that seemed to have similar problems and I saw furry as an escapism from reality which in essence, any fandom truly can be marked as, we are just 'unique' in the sense that instead of donning Klingon forehead ridges, or Light sabers, we don personas that happen to have animal features. 

  Now, that's not to say we're all fur suiters, far from it.  Those that are? All the power to you, those that aren't? No big deal!  In recent years furry really has come out as something that is becoming the next 'fad' thing to do, like emo, or 'scene' kids were for the longest time (and in some places still are) Because a lot of people in the generation of social awkwardness thanks largely to technology enabling people to do it to themselves, furry is always got open arms for almost -everyone- out there. 

  As far as the reality of it though? Would I ever go to a fur convention? Sure, as long as I knew someone that I could meet there and hang out with.  Would I ever fur suit? Probably not, unless I was building the costume myself and it was mostly movie effects makeup style like latex prosthesis and the like applied directly to the skin, not the 'mascot' style stuff.   

   I've met a few furry's in real life before, and they seemed like genuinely neat people.  There were two that stand out as being...way inappropriate but those were just two, and out of the few others that I've met in person? That's a drop in the bucket; will I say that there won't be more awkwardness and inappropriate things that occur amongst furs that I meet in future? Nah, because that's an impossibility to predict. 

  I generally give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to these things that they are inherently 'good people', and until I meet them and get first hand experience? I don't pass judgement. So as far as I'm concerned, -most- furry's are alright people just looking for social acceptance amongst like minded people, just the same as Warhammer 40K 'nerds', Starcraft people, Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who, etc...We all have our niches, furry just happens to be 'ours'; and that's not a bad thing at all.  :3