Fuzzles

Same issue with me. I included my youtube and AIM information as I generally do. Right after I finished making this sweet text art of a fox welcoming them to my profile, I get a notification that my profile has been restricted. Also, the notifications on replies are strange. They often don't tell you when you get replies but then often alert you to replies on another person's post that you replied too as well. I see no notifications, I click on it, there are like 2 or 3 new comments. Y U NO TELL ME?!

The few times I decide to venture into that site, I'm always accosted with images of horribly mutilated people, crushed people, people being murdered and dead people. That happens often, people requesting gore threads, death threads, GIF's of people getting their heads cut off. The place is beyond trash and I don't go there anymore hoping for funny pictures.

I saw this in a gamestop a few days ago. When I saw it I was like..."Is this a porn?" Because afterall, the art style is identical to "Another Lady Innocent", a hentai porno as it is the same artist.

@Oldirtybearon said:

@Fuzzles: the difference between beasts of myth and furries is that the beasts of myth were allegory and visual short-hand for psychological behaviour.

Furries... I'll put it as simply as I can. I've never met a furry who was comfortable in his/her own skin. I've found that the attraction to these fantasy depictions of anthropomorphic beasts is an extension of their own wish to disconnect from reality and embrace an idealized, fantastic version of themselves. For most people, this is normal. Every person has an idealized version of themselves kicking around the noggin' somewhere. What is strange, I think, is that furries think of themselves as animals first, and a person second. It's not a simple power fantasy, like say a young boy dreams of being a superhero. This is something with much deeper roots.

I find the idea of furry psychology to be a fascinating topic. I wish real studies would be done in this area, because I am curious to know just what makes someone wish to stop being a person and start being an animal. To the extent that they dress up as animals and indulge in animal or 'pack' behaviour in specific furry-themed parties also warrants investigation. Maybe you could shed some light on this?

Well this isn't true. I spend a lot of time in the Furry arena and the animal aspect is always a supplemental depiction of who they are as a person. The animal is emphasized to express their personality. Like a ferret is really hyper and bouncy or a lion is really strong and fierce. It's those general personality quirks that are summed up perfectly in a little box they can adopt and call their own. It's probably true there is a great deal of social dysfunction or the odd man out back stories that contribute to allure of the Furry culture...I mean you will undoubtedly find it is largely homosexual so that itself shows you that it's spiderweb seems selective. Now I don't dress up in suits, I don't draw porn, I am quite literally the total opposite of the furry culture majority and I like who I am. What furry persona's serve as are simply the expression of ourselves. Sure the artistic depictions are idealized, you will probably find their "fursonas" are far more physically fit than themselves, but I think that has a great deal to do with art in general as people don't often like to depict unpleasant charactaristics...like being overweight. Then again, there is a TON of furry art centered around the idea of being fat. Lets say that the fetishes run deep in the sub categories of Furry pornography.

Furries are pretty much presented on the pleasant qualities we associate with animals. We take all the things we think are cute, cool, expressive, aesthetically pleasing and adorn the human body with them effectively making the ultimate creature. I think this is partially a feeling from artists who feel that human anatomy is beautiful but it's also kind of plain...and boring. People get this idea that its all about the animal, but it's not, it's what that animal represents and how the combination of human and animal just looks so friggen awesome. I wont stand here and tell you the culture that adopted furries is normal, I think there is plenty of weird and much to common deviancy throughout...but that's not the definition of a furry or any person within. It's not a sex thing, it's not a crazy thing, it's barely an off shoot from being an anime fan. It is just a bit tiresome of people simply seeing a furry character and being instantly sickened by what is nothing more than their inappropriate relation of the image to an act.

Also this right here created more furries than starfox ever did...

@Nugget:

Those are fursuiters, its a convention thing in every way like an anime convention only centered around the attending persons creative works and not other peoples works that people are fans of. When did My Little Pony become synonymous or standard viewing material to be a fan of anthropomorphic animals? I hope you don't like Disney movies you sick bastard. Your lamest attempt at driving the hate bus is your belief its inherently a sex thing. What on earth about furries could be construed as a childhood fantasy? Were you raised in Old McDonalds freaked up barn? How is the Otaku not stuck in a perverted fantasy and "the furry" is? I think anime/hentai is far more the parallel to kids looking up a girls skirt than furries are to a kids getting "confused feelings" while watching The Lion King. I have more respect for the Furries and the Otaku than the guy who shamelessly takes up the cause of hitting the internets punching bag simply because he believes it wont punch back.

@artgarcrunkle:

I'm not familiar with your hip young person lingo.

@artgarcrunkle:

Did you count how many words? Because that's quite the effort itself.

Oh you and your references of cheap day time TV parody photoshopped into an image to zing me with it's relevance in response.

As someone you could actually call a Furry, I think I'm a much better person to consult on this topic than people who learned its definition from a youtube comment. Starfox is popular with furries for obvious reasons, you want a time period for when it was invented? Hell, you could look at Ancient Egypt and find human/animal depictions. The content of Furry interest has always been there as imagination has always been there. Peoples issue, in fact, almost everyone's issue with Furries is the culture based around it which attracts sexual deviancy for reasons I don't know how to explain, but that's the way it is. But that is a criticism you can only level at some of the people involved, you can't proxy guilt onto the imaginary concept of human/animals. You might find that Furries exist in its popularity as they are an advanced take on the expression of individual personality. Everyone at some point has considered the animal they would be if they could be one and that questions is asked because it defines you in a way you like. We adopt animal imagery because it's the artistic interpretation of who we really are. Like a badge. It's that expressive quality that makes the Furry culture art driven. If a Furry isn't an artist then for damn sure they are getting art made for them. As this is a representation of ourselves, sexuality seeps in and takes form in the art as sex is also emphasized by relation to animals. Horses anyone? Shags like a minx? Rabbits? As porn is very popular and adds an additional level of interest, that has taken off and pretty much stolen the show.

It's also a superficiality that has reduced the integrity of the subject matter to a fetish. Myself? I am an artist, I take a long time to paint a picture but every time I do so with the intent to legitimize and humanize the fictional fantasy characters in a way that is relateable, real and based off a very "human" connection. Things like Starfox, Disney movies, they are simply adopted by Furries because they relate to them in such a way that alleviates the frustration in only being "so close" to something they can't ever realize. It's this reason that the art is so instrumental in the fanbase, because it's the only window into that world they have.

Is this a bit off topic? ...Little bit. But I need something to say other than "No Starfox didn't invent furries."