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None of my family members know what a furry is and i'm keeping it that way.

i want a turn in a femboy sounds good

i would have never thought of this in 1000 years lol

I never knew that the stock drawing is based on an IRL stock photo

Yeah, i looked really hard and my city of 300k has maybe three furries in it. The neighboring city of half the size has a small convention.

You don't understand, this batter was a lot saltier than the batter you're thinking of

First thing i did, while my mouth was still salty from the first bite, is go get my sharpie.

Never again

There's a 1% chance that the weird cousin who never comes to family gatherings might be a furry. That's absolutely it.

The idea of having hobbies in common with family members seems alien to me - which i think, to quote the meme phrase, Says A Lot About Society.

They can be fun as you play with your fursona, you're connecting with them by performing their species' stereotypes. But nobody takes them too seriously and they're dropped as soon as they go against something you wanted to do. Or they should be.

There's also a lot of character traits that 'feel right' even if they're not stereotypical, and i'm not just talking about subverting expectations. Lions IRL can be goofy, we've all seen them do something stupid in a documentary or whatever, so a goofy lion character feels fresh and truthful at the same time.

Circa 2010 i was feverishly googling “tiger girl” looking for pictures of elvish girl in the forest with her pet tiger, you know, that kind of fantasy art; and i found some obscure forum where someone posted a furry drawing of a tiger girl, and someone commented ‘can someone please draw a furry that isn’t trying to be sexy’, and i’m like ‘what’s a furry’

And i've been circling around the fandom ever since. A couple things happened to make me join: more SFW spaces opened up in the fandom, i got less sex negative anyway, and i dropped out of concept art school so i had nothing to do with myself anymore.

Just like last time, i think there's basically no chance that this really is a furry hacker group. I don't have any educated guesses for why they're saying so.

I'm an artist, aka unemployed with a hobby.