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Damn, my friend got me that for secret santa but I didn't get round to reading it yet.

Seems like the intended audience of the book is non-furries, given how much it goes over the fundamentals of the fandom that all of us are familiar with. But how many non-furries would read a 250-page book about a fandom they're not a part of?

>>75812 (OP)

I downloaded it but never got around to reading it. Might do it now that you've given a .pdf copy, the one I had was epub and I never bothered to get a reader.

>>75820

>how many non-furries would read a 250-page book about a fandom they're not a part of?

I might since the fandom, especially the pre-2000s history interests me. Mostly because it appeals to my sense of a future lost, a possible timeline where furry was more creative than commercial and more about content characters and settings than about individual human beings. As it stands when I finally start posting my anthro-worldbuilding stuff online, I'm probably going to play dumb and pretend I have no idea furries exist. As a community, it just seems redundant to get into despite occupying the space where the perfect place for what I want to do should be, and from a hard-headed standpoint something safe for work, boring and without any "me, the character" is more likely to appeal to non-furries than to the modern fandom.

>>75834

>the one I had was epub and I never bothered to get a reader

I use Sumatra PDF as my displayer, and it can also read .epub

>>75812 (OP)

Well, this is a disappointing sign already. Here's a few paragraphs from the preface, emphasis mine:

>Preface

>Furry Nation's original title was ANTHROPOMORPHISM: Furries, Funny Animals and Dogs Playing Poker. While my original goal was to explain furry fandom to the world at large (and to my fellow furs curious about our history), I was planning to downplay Furry itself and focus on anthropomorphism as a primal form of self-expression, with Furry as its modern manifestation.

>But times change, I've changed and Furry has grown from a fandom into a community. It's bigger than ever before, attracting more people every day and--thanks to occasionally accurate media coverage--beginning to seep into public consciousness. That consciousness has changed as well, as people (especially millennials) embrace ideas and lifestyles previously shunned or scorned.

>Furry Nation isn't really about the costumes, the conventions or even the kinks. Furry Nation is about the people: the people who birthed the community, wear the costumes, create art, attend the conventions--and maybe enjoy a furry kink or two.

On one hand, I can understand the desire to change the focus of the book and focus on furry in the present, but I think anthropomorphism and its role in Furry pursuits and in general is a much more interesting topic than the microcosm of the furry fandom, (or community, for what it's worth). Skimming through, this seems like it might be a fun read at least.

Also:

>Chapter Eleven: I Read the News Today, Oy Vey

>>75834

Good on you. It's a shame furry turned out like it did. I'm glad there are people like you out there with the sense to distance themselves from modern furries. It's the balancing force to the stigma the fandom's gathered up in the past couple decades.

A genuine ell-all book about the fandom would cause a massive shitstorm and probably get more than a few people arrested from all the info it would leak about the fandom's true nature. Look at the massive over-reaction when Chewfox was on Tyra Banks, she did nothing at all to make furries look bad but furries acted like she sold the fandom out and tried to destroy it. That fucking asshole Dragoneer banned her and told her "get out of MY fandom". You can imagine what the fuck would happen if someone went to the public and told some actual bad stuff, I bet the author would have ot go into hiding because furries would be threatening their life. The irony of course would be that it wouldn't be the author to blame, it would be the furries who don't want the secrets out.

>>75834

the fandom today has become little more than a bunch of porn fan art of major franchise characters, and only the popular stuff because obscure characters don't get the high view counts, selling said porn art of characters they don't have permission to draw let alone profit from, popufurs raging whenever someone doesn't kiss their ass in the right way, and a lot of pedo shit.

It seems utterly ridiculous to try to paint the furry fandom as some cohesive singular unit with a defined history and progression over time. As if you couldn't be a furry unless you were some kind of list from back in the 80's up until now. It's just a bunch of people with an EXTREMELY loose affiliation through KINDA liking the same shit. Except when they don't. Okay, most of the time they don't. There's no governing authority over furry; there's no furry Pope making decrees about what should or shouldn't be. For fuck's sake there isn't even a single FRANCHISE around which the whole thing is centered, like there is with fans of Star Wars or Harry Potter or whatever else. All you can follow through a few decades of history is some popufurs and whatever happened at the big cons. It's retarded.

The only definition that really sticks, even now, is a "fan of anthropomorphs". Well, Christ on a Cracker; that would be like trying to lump together a billion people into one "community" simply based on the fact that they all say their favorite color is blue.

THERE. IS. NO. FURRY. FANDOM.