[–]▶ No.85388>>85433 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]
I noticed that 90 percent of the threads made here are either on some controversial theme, or porn. So i decided to make this, non-chaotic, and positive only thread. And why is that you might ask yourself? Because positivity is nice. I mean come on people, atleast have some nice thoughts, share what good things related to our fandom you saw, or how your day went, some sfw art (dont forget to give credit), etc. Being happy is a nice thing.
▶ No.85397>>85407
>digging through shit to find gold
You want positivity go join a discord and delude yourself into thinking that most of them aren't the worst degenerates you'll encounter.
▶ No.85407
Seeing artist getting better over a period a thing is always something that makes me happy, as well as seeing an artist general happiness increase as byproduct of them doing art.
>>85397
Calm down edge lord.
▶ No.85425>>85484
I've had a very successful experience "being a furry" as it were, without spending a lot of money on commissions to enable myself a social status. I find that many of my hobbies has some amount of cross-over with furries, and having a shared interest has led to several close friends.
I've also enjoyed the experience of seeing, over time, furries becoming culturally more acceptable. Although I'm a bit of an elitist prick and like my exclusive status (for better or worse) I find it hilarious that many of my non-furry friends unironically enjoy furry content, even if they haven't gone so far as create a fursona or actively seek out speaking with others that enjoy that content.
▶ No.85433
>>85388 (OP)
I'm really looking forward to Reagan Lodge's Empire of the New Sun. It's going to be a day one buy for me. He rebooted it so it's going to be good:
http://empireofthenewsun.tumblr.com/
▶ No.85477>>85576
>>85438
Or, perhaps, it's that I'm not an asshole that blames other people for my own shortcomings.
I'm extremely reclusive and very selective about my friendships. To wit, I've effectively had three RL friends throughout my entire life that I've actually trusted in any manner. People have a great tendency to totally fucking suck ass. Online, however, I've not only maintained many friendships over more than a decade, I have found many individuals that I mostly trust.
The point of my post was that a lot of users on /fur/ are extremely negative and act like friendship doesn't exist among furries, and if they do you must have spent money to do so because furry is a consumerism-driven model with no other merit, or something along those lines. Turns out if you're not deflecting bullshit all the time, or projecting your apparent victim complex, then finding like-minded people that are decent isn't an impossible task.
Also, get your radfem intersectionality out of here. The point of intersectionality is that the whole of an individual must be considered to be able to put an arbitrarily quantified value of how marginalized a person is, which is itself a pretty stupid concept. It's just a dick-waving contest of how much the deck was stacked against you when you were born.
▶ No.85484>>85485 >>85497
>>85425
>furries becoming culturally more acceptable
I don't think that's a good thing, simply because people on the inside (and as a result on the outside) can't differentiate between furries as an subject matter and furries as a fetish.
The more "acceptable" furries become, the more open socially retarded fetishists will become about their fetishes, and thus the more likely your interests are to be seen by onlookers as "one of those inflated animal scat adult piss diaper people" as opposed to "someone into weird animal people".
▶ No.85485>>85510 >>85524
>>85484
Thing is, to most people, what they enjoy "isn't furry." I have a friend that went to art school to learn animation and aspires to work at Disney. He does storyboards and character designs and animation tests mostly involving anthropomorphic characters, and he evolved from thinking furries were gross to enjoying (SFW) furry content. There's an entire second world of primarily SFW "furries" that gets ignored because it's considered shallow, as if the people who wank to the porn are in any way in depth for the fandom.
▶ No.85497>>85510 >>86249
>>85484
I don't think it's good because casual- and normalfags ruin everything! And this is the one thing I don't wanna see ruined.
They should keep wanna fuck K-Pop bands or stick fidget spinners up their asses or whatever.
▶ No.85509>>85510 >>85526
>Look at that cis, he doesn't have a fursona!.. What a homo!
-average 2050s school kids
▶ No.85510
>>85485
>There's an entire second world of primarily SFW "furries"
wish they'd establish a fandom under a new name and disavow any association with furry.
unfortunately furries would just flood into the new fandom anyway, but whatever.
>>85497
honestly i look forward to it. imagine cliqueish fursuit builders having to find another job because china is pumping out $200 suits that you can customise yourself. if they could get prices down to that kind of level, you might even force the fandom into becoming a DIY kind of thing with genuine creative elements rather than a "pay a member of a small, talented elite!" thing, since you could buy a basic suit from China and add stuff yourself, rather than not wanting to risk your $3000 investment. (or not being able to afford a suit like most people.)
made me think a lot about how the industrial revolution did a similar thing to the artisan class way back when. imagine being a normal person and finding out you could get a chair for a dollar rather than giving some smug artisan $500 because the factory is turning out a thousand chairs a day rather than one every 6 months.
>>85509
you jest but this is genuinely the future. far too many social influences are in this fandom, either openly or as an open secret. in now deprecated computing terminology, we are all slaved to california.
▶ No.85524>>85527
>>85485
>as if the people who wank to the porn are in any way in depth for the fandom.
in depth?
From what I can tell it mostly comes from the idea that liking SFW and NSFW furshit is so commonly paired that admitting you like the SFW stuff is basically admitting to the other, so there's no easy way to enjoy completely innocent furry related things without effectively being "that guy" that flaunts their fetishes publicly.
▶ No.85526
>>85509
I have a feeling it may end being something related gene editing or mind uploading instead by that point, eg being the fursona, assuming things change as much as it seems they might. That's going to bring societal upheaval for sure.
▶ No.85527>>85528
>>85524
I was struggling with my words, anon, please be patient. I meant... the opposite of shallow. People wanking to the porn or laughing at popufurs aren't intrinsically more attuned to the fandom than those only in it for SFW works.
And that sort of is the thing. There's still a stigma attached to "being a furry," so a lot of people that would otherwise totally call themselves a furry shy away from the term just because of that stigma. Ultimately it's just an arbitrary label, but socially speaking the idea of appreciating content featuring anthropomorphic creatures is something that's breaking its way into the adult space without necessarily being a sexual thing.
I wonder if it's a byproduct of how the West largely went through a puritan phase with the suggestion that anything adult must intrinsically be sexual and therefore can not be shown to children, and we seem to be coming out at the other end of this phase now where things can be adult-oriented but not necessarily sexual.
▶ No.85528>>85530
>>85527
liking anthro animals is a thing that normal people don't really feel the need to label. it's like liking elves, you might say you're into fantasy, but most people wouldn't even go that far. as a label 'furry' has the greatest utility for marking out a fetish, and a community inseperable from that fetish. everyone else just sends birthday cards with photos of fat dogs watching television like human beings without thinking it needs a label, which is why normal people aren't furries.
even with something like fritz the cat, you get the impression the sexual stuff to say "this is for adults!" was being played for laughs rather than something people actually got off to, or at least officially recognised they got off to like furries openly admit. the convergence will probably be that normal people get weirder and more openly sexual rather than furry maturing, though.
▶ No.85530>>85532
>>85528
>it's like liking elves
there's a stark difference between enjoying the aesthetic of elves when it presents itself and actively seeking it out as something in particular that makes something more appealing.
▶ No.85532>>85536 >>85538
>>85530
There has to be someone out there that has made an elfsona.
I need to see it.
▶ No.85536
>>85532
>eflsona
There are literally tons, just search "elf" on any site
Better yet, drow. See thousands of Drizzt knockoffs
▶ No.85538>>85539 >>85540
>>85532
that's actually pretty common, although they don't refer to it that way. The fursona label is sort of dumb honestly. It implies a level of attachment o your characters that seems a bit unhealthy.
what's the rarest type of 'sona anyway? aeromorphs? underpants?
▶ No.85539>>85544 >>86369
▶ No.85540>>85541
>>85538
Personally I think all "furry" words are pure cancer.
>Yiff
>Fursona
>Murr
etc. It's not cute it's stupid.
▶ No.85541>>85542 >>85543 >>85549
>>85540
At this point, it feels like those terms are more being used out of pure apathy on the matter. The only real redeeming factor is the "yiff in hell furfags" meme. if you don't like 40k space marines, you have no soul
I guess fursona is a lot easier than saying "self-insert character of me as x animal" though.
▶ No.85542
>>85541
Self-Insert OC is still a bit long I suppose.
▶ No.85543
>>85541
going back to OC, and then to "Character" would probably be the mature thing to do.
▶ No.85549
>>85541
Yeah, I like yiff in hell because it's a blatant insult to those types of furfags.
As for online personas, you can just use OC.
Plus you can interchange it easily if you've got multiple characters so you can just do OC's instead of going on the cringe train of fursona.
**40k space marines are awesome, the over-design just works.
▶ No.85576>>85581
>>85477
the fact you typed this underscored your egotism, which is why you can fit into furry even if you don't spend money. for normal people who don't just talk and talk and talk into the void until given attention (at least not with a username attached) you're fucked.
▶ No.85581
>>85580
>Let's just summarize the conversation:
you invented this conversation whole cloth because you don't know how to use imageboards.
>>85576
is me.
>>85550
is not.
suffice to say this is a much more educational experience than you intend it to be.
▶ No.85583
>>85582
for surprisingly little effort you're doing a good job of illustrating the kind of insufferable person you have to be to get friends in this fandom. good job.
interlude for dogs and snacks.
▶ No.85619>>85657 >>85853
There's a lot of really heartwarming SFW stuff out there.
▶ No.85657
>>85619
>gay dick stroking
>heartwarming SFW
The absolute state of this fandom
▶ No.85682>>85709 >>86243
There are many good SFW art I love, but, sometimes made by no furry artists.
I've looked for the Werewolf Calendar's pictures, does somebody have any?
▶ No.85723>>86370
Hyena's are the niggers of the fandom! I'm proud to be one!
▶ No.85853
>>85619
>fuck invitation
>heartwarming
But hey it at least hits all the fetishes.
▶ No.86112>>86135
There will never be positive sfw furry shit, esp not here. This is literally where all the antipopufurs who hate themselves and everyone else come to wallow and fap in their own self misery and honestly I wouldn’t want it any other way
▶ No.86133
Makes me want to snuggle up in a blanket andzzzzz...
▶ No.86135
>>86112
I think that's just you projecting your own negativity, anon.
▶ No.86140
Well, I'm 30+ and over the last 5 years I've come to the conclusion I am so fucked in the head and need so many drugs just to live, that furry is one of the most innocent things in my life. So it's a nice thing.
Someone in my city started a successful full-fledged furry convention. I don't think I'm going to go, but I never thought anyone here had the balls or mindset to pull it off, they were kind of losers and collapsed under the slightest drama. I always chuckled at them from a distance, but now I'm kind of impressed and joke's on me.
I never, ever browse this board, decided to try it due to drinking for 3 days straight, and I can say it looks slightly less channer memetastic than last time (6 months ago?). You still have a ways to go, but I cringed a little less, so that's nice. Pat yourself on the back (not really... I'm trying to be nice here).
I got some new monitors after 15 years of shitty screens (I made that thread on /furi/), and I've never appreciated the vibrant colors in furry porn this much. I was perfectly content with pure linework before, and everything was blueish-grey with a hint of redshift. Now I need colors, and they're all there. Colors are nice. Would never have appreciated this pic before.
▶ No.86142
Oh, this was a SFW thread, my brain skips that word if it's not capitalized.
Just browse rascheln gallery, all your problems are solved.
▶ No.86249
>>85497
K-pop was always second rate to Japanese Idol groups
▶ No.86306>>86485
Life is more enjoyable when I isolate myself from others. That can't be good in the long run, but I'm willing to pay the price if it means I get to enjoy life a bit more.
▶ No.86369
>>85539
Dont be silly. You know those dont exist.
▶ No.86370>>86379
>>85723
>niggers
I dont want to be a yeen anymore :/
▶ No.86379>>86393 >>86400
>>86370
I'm having second thoughts about being a fox, they're adorable as fuck but they're so overused ;_;
▶ No.86393>>86400 >>86424
>>86379
Being a fox is like being white. People only hate you because they're jealous about being inferior.
▶ No.86400>>86405 >>86445
>>86379
Are you me? I just want to be a goofy lil red fox without seeming like an unoriginal hack.
Hyena was my second choice, but apparently they are niggers now.
>>86393
I sure hope so
▶ No.86405>>86454
>>86400
>yeens are nigs
I blame tacklebox's bizarre obsession with black 'culture' for that. Before then I always imagined them as dead-end job working class white or white trash
People always viewed them as the 'low-lifes', which is probably why the nig stereotype stuck
▶ No.86424>>86445
>>86393
>Being a fox is like being white
More like being "generic nondescript canine" is like being white. If you expand the definition to enough races, you can pretend as if canines are still the majority!
▶ No.86445>>86448
>>86400
The worst part of fursonas/ocs us deciding what species it's going to be. Ending up with 16+ self insert characters isn't something you want. I guess it might be neat once you finally settle on something I guess.
>>86424
And if you keep bringing it up in every conversation, you can pretend like other people care.
▶ No.86448>>86505
>>86445
It's such a drag. I keep asking myself do I want a fursona that represents who i am, or who I'm not? The goofy little red fox I wish I was, or the chubby yeen I more closely resemble. /cringe
▶ No.86454>>86456
>>86405
There was an old famous furry comic, which I can't recall the name of, that had hyenas portrayed as nigs and that's when the fandom labeled them as such. I think it was Eric Schwartz as the artist maybe.
▶ No.86456
>>86454
I found it. "Better days" by Jay Naylor.
▶ No.86485>>86511
>>86306
>Tall-floored buildings with lots of glass to let natural light in.
Sign me up
Also, Have a classy Vixen
▶ No.86505>>86508 >>86518 >>86555
>>86448
>do I want a fursona that represents who i am
That's impossible. No animal species can "represent" you, because you're a human. Also it's a virtual guarantee that you're of mixed-race unless you are a recent immigrant from an insular country. So in that case about all you have that makes sense is a junkyard mutt. For all the rest, you can't ascribe human personality traits to animals. It's all myth and metaphor, like foxes being tricksters, wolves being loners (which always confused me because they're social animals...), raccoons being thieves, and whatever else. You're not picking an animal; you're picking a label based on what others have ascribed to the animal. In the fandom you get more labels, too, like foxes and rabbits being sluts, dragons being pretentious, and otters having a universe up their ass.
Oh, and male hyenas are NEVER chubby. Because of how their social hierarchy is structured, they're all mangy, scarred, and starving; most die young and few get to mate before dying. Maybe that's what you want to be? I don't know.
▶ No.86508
>>86505
>male hyenas are never chubby
>you're picking a label
Fuck labels, I tear those things off. I want to see more variety instead of a generic twink faggot fox. I wanna see the poster with a goofy, chubby hyena.
▶ No.86511>>86535
>>86485
Not enough buildings like that. Just don't get what architects have against natural light, apart from the increase in heating cost in winter.
▶ No.86518>>86535
>>86505
I'm white as the driven snow.
And im not talking about the animal's real life attributes, im talking about the labels others in the fandom have ascribed to them...like you just said.
▶ No.86535>>86556
>>86511
>Just don't get what architects have against natural light
It's not the architects; it's the engineers. You can't build a skyscraper where the walls are mostly windows without severely compromising structural integrity. Your only option is to put the strength of the building in the core instead of the walls, and that limits interior space, which is the most important attribute for maximizing profit.
>>86518
>I'm white as the driven snow
Sure thing, buddy. And I'm sure you have a solid and notarized genealogy going back ten generations and including all 1024 of your ancestors who were of course all Northern or Western Europeans, with not so much as a single Spaniard or Italian or Hungarian that somehow slipped through the cracks to taint that bloodline.
▶ No.86555
>>86505
Anger.... the post.
Stop being autistic, faggot.
▶ No.86556
>>86535
>BeN ShaPiRo DoeS iT aGAiN!
▶ No.86560>>86581
Does anyone else try to keep their "furry life" separate from their normie life? One of my most irrational fears is having my friends and family discover that I'm into this weird kink subculture, even though I'm an adult in my 20's. Getting doxxed is also a very real fear of mines, not that I'm doing anything lolcow worthy.
What do you do when you want to hang out with both your furry friends and normie friends irl? Like say there's an event that you all want to go to (like Twitchcon), but you'd have to choose which friends to hang out with. Obviously furry friends won't care either way, but normie friends might be like," Who are you and what have you done with (insert name here)". I really don't want to have to tell my furry friends to keep it on the down low, and I don't want to have to explain to my normie friends why I took up such a weird fucking hobby AND kept it hidden from all of them for well over a decade.
Will I just drive myself insane by trying to keep my furfaggotry a secret? Or is it plausible to live a moderately normal life and enjoy furry on the side without my friends and family finding out (unless I explicitly tell them). I absolutely do not want to end up like a lifestyle furry. However, one of the only ways to truly enjoy the furry fandom is to participate within the community. Also, if I happen to have any friends over at my apartment and one piece of art slips, it's all over. I'm sure it's really no big deal, but I'm self conscious like that. As much as I love my normie friends, I don't want to give them any fuel to roast me with, I would probably never hear the end of it.
▶ No.86561
>>85438
normalfag was a meme until the crazies got a hold of it.
▶ No.86581
>>86560
It's a very easy thing to do, just select your furry friends carefully. It's obviously impossible to pretend you're not a furry around a friend who's in a fursuit and OwOpounces you every minute, but if a friend is a reasonable person (like you) and keeps his furry side private, there's nothing to fear. And "how do you met each other?" - you played games, duh.
And why would anyone dox you? Don't do any nasty shit, make friends, not enemies and you're safe.
▶ No.86632
>>86578
>I also wish imageboard users could stop being edgi bois for two seconds and just use "Blacks" instead of "Niggers" once in a while.
I understand that you have never met inner city niggers, too bad they're white ones as well as nigger is an action not a color.
I won't charge you for that information. You can just say "did I hear a bell ring? Cause I just got schooled."
▶ No.86634
>>86578
>I also wish imageboard users could stop being edgi bois for two seconds and just use "Blacks" instead of "Niggers" once in a while.
>He thinks black and nigger are interchangeable
▶ No.86651>>86655 >>86662
I like hyenas. They are cute, very intelligent, extremely social, have interesting morphology and who wouldn't want to caress those big floofy ears.
▶ No.86655
>>86651
Yea, they're cute. There are not enough hyena furries.
▶ No.86686
>>86662
Not complaining, b-b-but this is a 'clean' thread, right?
▶ No.86873>>86896
>>86870
Oh, 3b I know it's you cupcake! Take a look in the mirror and you'll see that nigger.
▶ No.86896>>86952
>>86873
I don't know who that is mang.
▶ No.86952
>>86896
Probably some lolcow