Teknevra

By: u/endzeitpfeadl

This may sound a bit dumb but I genuinely have an issue here.

I've been a furry for about 10 years, and it matters a lot to me. I love to portray myself as my fursona, I love to make furry art and I love making/wearing fursuits. I guess I am very passionate about it and it is sort of a lifestyle thing for me, not JUST a hobby.

However I struggle finding a balance between "i am furry" and "i am just some person". For most people being a furry is just a normal hobby but I just can't find the balance between this and the other stuff I enjoy. I either go full-in on the fandom or I don't at all, because I feel like it doesn't mix with my other interests. (mainly punk subculture and such, where furries don't really seem to be very represented.) Also I just love being myself without identifying myself with my sona. I'm so conflicted.

I'm currently in a process of figuring myself out, which is why I ask this. On one hand I love being dog person, but I don't really want to present myself as that all the time... but at the same time I want to meet like-minded people. Agh.

I hope this doesn't sound ridiculous and someone could share their opinion!

By: u/Choco_Cat777

This is how I'm imagining this.

With the fandom growing and furries becoming more normalized in pop culture, I'm concerned without some sort of control or authority within the fandom will only spell disaster if we grow to a point where we hit a political wall.

We already have some states in the U.S. restricting how conventions are healed, we have states trying to pass laws in an attempt to restrict "anthro behavior", and at the same time I fear the fandom will become over sexualized if there isn't anything to control erratic behavior.

I have suggested coalitions so furs have the opportunity to change something in the fandom they do not like or be an alternative to convention spaces, but this is just a young idea I'd probably advocate for.

This is just my thoughts coming from a 20 yo in California.

Probably different abroad.

By: u/According-Strike2298

“Kemono” is pretty much the Japanese version of “furry,” but the characters tend to be drawn a bit differently.

Kemono characters tend to have shorter muzzles, larger anime-style eyes, and more human-like hands and feet.

I guess you could say kemono is more cutesy and stylized compared to western furry stuff?

By: u/Living-Vast-5250

Haven’t been for about six years. All humans look ugly to me. I pretty much never judge someone’s appearance in real life as to me all humans look roughly the same and I don’t really know why people find other people beautiful or ugly. I sometimes forget that most people are attracted to other people. It’s kind of jarring to hear someone call somebody else beautiful/ugly and it’s just someone who sort of looks like them.

I’m not sure why I don’t find humans attractive but I suspect it might have something to do with lack for variety? Like I said before most humans look very similar to one another in my eyes. Just a few days ago i confused my aunt for my neighbor. I don’t think I have a problem with facial recognition, I’m usually able to tell one person from another but i seem to have a lot of trouble assigning names to faces or being able to recognize someone without directly looking at their face.

The thing about furries is that they are always immediately recognizable and cute. They don’t look weird like humans do. This also applies to a lot of animals. I don’t find animals to be ugly. Something about humans specifically feel uncanny to me, i can’t really picture humans in my head nearly as well as i can animals.