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RyuujinBlueZ
Oct 9, 2007

WHAT DID YOU DO?!

Mr. D Bewildering posted:

That invites all sorts of family trouble even if there is no death involved :stare:

Just think of the future E/N thread! Or hell, even an Ask/Tell.

"Ask me about naming my son Oedipus!"

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randombattle
Oct 16, 2008

This hand of mine shines and roars! It's bright cry tells me to grasp victory!

Pro tip: Don't name your son Oedipus. I don't even want to know what happens when that kid would look his name up on wikipedia.

Schwarzwald posted:

Denise is in no way "fully capable" of taking care of herself. Being crazy isn't an attitude problem.

Being lazy and lying to make excuses to be lazy is not a mental illness.

Devoyniche
Dec 21, 2008

Lance Streetman posted:

Oh boy! Now I have a new person I want to punch out!

Seriously, take a look at this:
http://kojioe.wordpress.com/

:downs: "I'm an American in Japan, I shouldn't have to follow Japanese customs or rules!"

It's great that this guy's entire blog is him hating Japan, the people, the culture, then loving its cartoons. It's really weird to me because it's "Hate this, hate that, hate hate hate hate anime is stupid hate hate hate -- but I LOVE LOLLIIIIIIEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!" What the gently caress? He has at least two separate entries that are "I hate Japan," yet he stays there.

This is from his twitter:

@Koji_Oe/Tonberryking posted:

You know that nail that stands up? That's me but I'm not letting Japanese scum nail me down.
5 hours ago via web

Lowen SoDium
Jun 5, 2003

Highen Fiber
Clapping Larry

uglynoodles posted:


Honestly? I don't know. Probably the same thing that's happening to Chris-chan now that his dad is dead.


I hadn't heard that his dad died till I read your post, so I went to read about that.

Then I found out that CWC and his mother were both arrested for trespassing and assault a day or two ago.

Sir Prancelot
Mar 7, 2008

:h:Knight of the
Rainbow Table.:h:

Lowen SoDium posted:

Then I found out that CWC and his mother were both arrested for trespassing and assault a day or two ago.
:staredog: Woah, wait, what?

RalAegidius
Nov 12, 2004

It's a crow. In a box.

Panzerschwein posted:

I'm planning on naming my son Oedipus, I just hope he doesn't try to kill me over it someday.

My husband's maternal grandfather was named Leonidas Hannibal Jones. Everybody called him "Heinie" for reasons unknown. This was a guy from an old school Iowa farming family, so I have no idea what the origin of that name was.

Lowen SoDium
Jun 5, 2003

Highen Fiber
Clapping Larry

Sir Prancelot posted:

:staredog: Woah, wait, what?

Not much out there about it, but here it is:

http://epwsgdp1.courts.state.va.us/gdcourts/nameSearch.do

Go to Charlottesville courts, search for Chandler


ED hasn't updated with any details beyond that.

Spiffo
Nov 24, 2005

Sir Prancelot posted:

:staredog: Woah, wait, what?

Here's some CWC talk in another more appropriate thread if you want to know more

RazorBunny
May 23, 2007

Sometimes I feel like this.

RalAegidius posted:

My husband's maternal grandfather was named Leonidas Hannibal Jones. Everybody called him "Heinie" for reasons unknown. This was a guy from an old school Iowa farming family, so I have no idea what the origin of that name was.

I had a great-uncle whose first name was Junius, which I didn't realize was a Roman name until years after he died. He married a woman named Alma. Both had several siblings with "normal" first names, so who knows.

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink

randombattle posted:

Being lazy and lying to make excuses to be lazy is not a mental illness.

If you tell a fib to get out of taking the garbage out, you're probably just lazy.
If you tell a fib to get out of participating in society for 10+ years, then there might be more to it than just laziness.

No one but a psychiatrist can say for sure, and I'm not a psychiatrist.
That said, I wouldn't bet money against it.

Saeku
Sep 22, 2010

Panzerschwein posted:

I'm planning on naming my son Oedipus, I just hope he doesn't try to kill me over it someday.

If your wife thinks this is a good idea, you probably don't want to have kids with her.

Aaronicon
Oct 2, 2010

A BLOO BLOO ANYONE I DISAGREE WITH IS A "BAD PERSON" WHO DESERVES TO DIE PLEEEASE DONT FALL ALL OVER YOURSELF WHITEWASHING THEM A BLOO BLOO

Devoyniche posted:

It's great that this guy's entire blog is him hating Japan, the people, the culture, then loving its cartoons. It's really weird to me because it's "Hate this, hate that, hate hate hate hate anime is stupid hate hate hate -- but I LOVE LOLLIIIIIIEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!" What the gently caress? He has at least two separate entries that are "I hate Japan," yet he stays there.

Woah pal, there's a world of difference between loving Lollies and loving Lolis.

ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004

Lowen SoDium posted:

Not much out there about it, but here it is:

http://epwsgdp1.courts.state.va.us/gdcourts/nameSearch.do

Go to Charlottesville courts, search for Chandler


ED hasn't updated with any details beyond that.

http://www.sonichu.com/cwcki/28_October_2011

Obligatory Toast
Mar 19, 2007

What am I reading here??

uglynoodles posted:

Not a huge post, just an illustration I didn't have the time to do yesterday:

"You know who else can't send letters? MY MOM" :haw:

paisleyfox
Feb 23, 2009

My dog thinks he's a pretty lady.


Obligatory Toast posted:

"You know who else can't send letters? MY MOM" :haw:

There is milk all over my iPad now. Thanks. :colbert:

vvvvv Denise = Muscle Man from Regular Show

paisleyfox fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Nov 7, 2011

sericks
Jul 19, 2006
Box Fulla' Orks: like a barrel of monkeys, but squarer and more deadly.

Obligatory Toast posted:

"You know who else can't send letters? MY MOM" :haw:

I don't get it :confused:

sericks fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Nov 7, 2011

Obligatory Toast
Mar 19, 2007

What am I reading here??

sericks posted:

I don't get it :confused:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uva8E1AK8a4

Look at the dude with the green skin and tell me he doesn't bear an uncanny resemblance to uglynoodle's drawings of Denise.

Absolute Lithops
Aug 28, 2011

After one long season
of waiting, after one
long season of wanting

Sir Prancelot posted:

It seems to me like she's still acting out for attention and validation in the same way a little kid would. She just hasn't progressed past that somehow.
I think that's part of what makes her sound mentally ill. That, and her extreme selfishness. Some mental illnesses involve a combination of selfishness and attention-seeking behavior. And then there's her refusal to clean herself and her room, the whole mythology about possession and astral babies, and her general problems with interacting with society and other people.

Of course, even if her behavior is caused by a mental illness, that doesn't make her any less of a pain to be around.

Absolute Lithops fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Nov 7, 2011

RalAegidius
Nov 12, 2004

It's a crow. In a box.

Absolute Lithops posted:

I think that's part of what makes it sound like she's mentally ill. That, and her extreme selfishness. Some mental illnesses involve a combination of selfishness and attention-seeking behavior. And her refusal to clean herself and her room doesn't make a good case for her mental health, either.

Of course, even if her behavior is caused by a mental illness, that doesn't make her any less of a pain to be around.

It also doesn't make the rage she generates any less legitimate, which I think is important to consider. It's easy to say "Oh it's not really her fault so we shouldn't be angry", but that's really only going to poison you emotionally.

Yes, she's obviously mentally ill. And yes, that mental illness is probably the root cause of her incredible narcissism, delusions, and other intolerable behavior.

But it's okay to be enraged by that.

Absolute Lithops
Aug 28, 2011

After one long season
of waiting, after one
long season of wanting

RalAegidius posted:

It also doesn't make the rage she generates any less legitimate, which I think is important to consider. It's easy to say "Oh it's not really her fault so we shouldn't be angry", but that's really only going to poison you emotionally.
Oh well yeah, absolutely. She treats people horribly, and any possible reason for her behavior doesn't change that fact.

I have a close relative who legitimately has a personality disorder, and she's driven away pretty much everyone--including me--with her cruel, abusive behavior. So I'm definitely not saying that people should ever tolerate that kind of behavior, or that it's wrong to feel angry at the person who does it. It's just that there's a lot of room between "why does she choose to be such a dumb lazy bitch" and "she's mentally ill so I have to put up with all the horrible poo poo she does."

Absolute Lithops fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Nov 7, 2011

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Mors Rattus posted:

Pity all the links there are dead.

Scroll down a bit, someone c/p'ed the whole thing to the forum in bits and pieces. It'll pop up with a "Not in the live forums" message but it redirects.

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

Vicas posted:

And those allusions have all been "she's really nice and it's sad that she's wrapped up in this, unlike Denise who's a total bitch" so I dunno how interesting it would be.

I'm still waiting for the bomb about how one of them didn't know how to masturbate. Could be some amusement from that.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



Ask me about studying law with a girl who thinks she's married to Sai Baba

Previously:
The Girl in the Sari
A Note on Henriette
Phantom in Honolulu
The Girl who Thinks She's Married to Sai Baba & Part 2
The Thespian Society

Interlude 1: Raja Discovers Blogging

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

One more interlude. I had planned to put this up after a Henriette entry, but I met up with one half of Lisa Lisa in the weekend, who told me something I wasn't aware about Henriette and Shini. Instead, let's have some Jake Long, American Dragon and everyone's favourite people, loving furries.

Interlude: Le Fursécution!

This is a story I have first brought up in the previous PYF Troper Tales thread. I have rewritten it because I discovered my old private journal had chatlogs and forum quotes (I was both a :spergin: gently caress and sharing it with online friends - yes I had a real life why do you ask?), with a little intro in respect of Jake Long, American Dragon.

When I first met Jake Long, American Dragon, I did not think much of him other than him being a little awkward. We chatted a little here and there when the Law Society had stuff to deal with the Thespian Society. Ultimately at one point I needed something from him on the Thespian Society, so I went to his dorm room.

There wasn’t anything weird about his place, but his laptop was a completely different story. Firstly, his internet browser was on, and the open tab I saw was a particular forum (detailed later in this post). Another tab seemed to be a fan forum of the cartoon Jake Long, American Dragon :stare:

Secondly, this was his desktop. Sorry about the size, I could not find a larger one:


Dude put up the drawing of his own furry character as his desktop background. Not much of a big deal for a… furry, I guess. But! Let me show you what was on the desktop. Here’s a lovely recreation done with a finger on the iPad:



A yiff folder.

A

YIFF

FOLDER.


I feigned ignorance, got the Thespian Society thing done, made an excuse and went out double quick. Other than the online friends I hung out with (who were not in Malaysia) I never told anyone. Not that it mattered, since everyone would find out eventually in the then near future.

One of my online friends did some Internet Detective poo poo on him, and found the forums he posted on. Apparently Jake Long, American Dragon (the furry) was into Jake Long, American Dragon (the cartoon character) in a rather… sexual way. :gonk:

She also found a post, which is as follows:

Jake Long, American Dragon posted:

What is Furry to you?

Erotic art? Personality? Hobby? Lifestyle? Passion? Soul? Reason? Rebellion? What? What is it to you?

Furry is part of my soul, lifestyle, personality. Without my Furry self, I feel like nothing. Before I knew about Furry, I thought I was a very wierd person, having just like the kinda of stuff since kintergarden. When I found out about AA, and others who supposedly are like me, I felt more happy. I was not alone. I have others to share.

What do I see now? Hypocrites? I don't know how to specify.

Just know this, my dear ?friends?, that having such a community locally, in my own homeland, is one of those happiest things in my life. Sometimes, I regret being what I am.

So, what's Furry to you?

Generally, to everyone and anyone, are you Furry?

From what I'm seeing here, most of you, are not. Just hypocrites. Yes, ouchies. Don't claim you have "met more kind of people and are more experienced".

I love this community. I want it to be the place I am very welcomed.
I want to know, if our community members have ever thought deeply, how much are they into this. [FORUM OWNER] might as well, CLOSE DOWN the ****ing forum if most of you can't even take off 15mins and write something here, or think of the community. Instead of ****ing around with your games, might as well social with each other, damnit.

Don't ask me why I'm so uptight. I think it's time I pose the questions that have went through my mind.

When I go hangout with other Furs, it's like "Hi! Bye!". I practically don't know why I spend all my effort and devotion to the community. To what I am.

My definition to what I'm asking may be quite contraint. Basically just provide an answer, don't bother the contraint.

Answer my question. ALL OF YOU. Are you seriously a Fur? or just an rear end in a top hat.

Being a furry is very important y’all :nyd:

Jake Long, American Dragon plays an interesting part later in the Bollywood film. For now, let’s talk about that forum he posted on.

This forum was started by a bunch of Malaysian college kids called, ha ha, Anthro Asia. Yes, it was a loving furry forum. Anthro Asia was an exclusive website which required invitations to join, but somehow, all posts were public.

Anyway, for one reason or another I got invited to Anthro Asia by some college kid, Ross. I told Ross I was not a furry but he blanked that out and told me I would have a good time talking to “like-minded people”. Right.

They did not explicitly state that the forum was furry but instead, an “anthropomorphic community”. I was no furry, so I did the next best thing.

I signed up as Swamp Thing. :shroom:

When I did my first post, I wrote this:

Swamp Thing posted:

I'm using Opera because the stages in opera houses are made of wood

I'm totally into WOOD

I apparently nearly got banned for that awful joke. Furries :mad:

Some Malaysian furry, in a thread complaining about that CSI episode posted:

Swamp Thing posted:

Ok why do furries need hundreds of websites to display the true meaning of their fandom when the Star Trek, Video Game and Japanese Anime fans don't have to?
Apprently you've were under a rock all this while when the fandom underwent the renaissance battle from late 2000 to early 2002.

Furry has no base to begin with. Otakus had anime, Gamers had games, Trekkies had Star Trek, furry has no proper base that regular people connect to and no, Disney's Robin Hood was not a base to begin with. The fandom is said to branch off Trekkies, so an individual unique source is non-existent.

Plus, furry fandom started on a very very bad foot, 18 years ago furry was about Bondage Bob, leather, spanking and mass gay orgies that happen in so such furry cons. Confurence 1 was also publicly associated with unaccepted deviancy, the ad for the con appeared in an adult fetish magazine and that kickstarted the bad image. From then things took a nose-dive and the decent half of the fandom with enough sensibility wasn't gonna take it lying down.

Now, if you're constantly mistakenly referred to as a flamingly exxagerated hairy American homosexual who saunters around in nothing more than leather harness and various Cat-o-Nine-Tails tied to the belt, wouldn't YOU want to defend your image? Many of us decent folk who are in the fandom for the socialising, art and having a general good time mingling aren't going to simply lay back and spread our legs in the air.

The loudest people are the ones who give a fandom/association its stereotype, and it's time for the decent folk to shout back. We can't change the mistakes of the past, but the best we can do is equal it out with a good side.


Think a little bit more before opening your yap hole.

A private conversation between me and a mod, who IM’ed me in respect of the above posted:

:catstare: : I really suggest bringing in more seriousness into the forums. and lessen the humour though..
:420: : I was being serious when he told me to shut up
:catstare: : check the post again.. he's edited it..
:420: : He edited it to add "shut your yap hole"
:catstare: :and it's been edited again.. "Think a little bit more before opening your yap hole."
:420: : that's almost the same
:catstare: : heck no... yap hole = mouth.. not as in any other hole that you know..
:420: : what
:420: : I wasn't thinking of anything other than mouth
:420: : what are you saying

A Mod PM to me, after I wrote FISH ARE BOOTILICIOUS in a thread on “which animal do you think is hot” posted:

Swamp Thing,

Need to remind you that words all in Caps Lock means that you are rudely shouting on the internet. Your posting in the thread will ruffle some furs who will think of it as a flame war/insult. I've edited your post to normal text. Please keep this in mind in future postings.

Thank You!


I was questioned more than a few times why I decided not to become a furry anymore (I was NEVER one), so I just said I was more attuned to The Green and that I have come to believe that the bog is the source of all life on this earth. Sometimes I told them I was actually not human, but a plant who once believed he was human, and now have come to peace with it and would like to go online to find a Swamp Wife. These answers appeared to piss them off and they stopped bothering me.

Anyway, I was sharing dumb posts (including one on how hot Boxer of Animal Farm was :gonk:) with the same bunch of online friends, one of whom posted a quote in their livejournal. Ross and the other mods saw my friend’s post and panicked. They hid the forum from public view, then put me on skype for an online group interrogation :lol:. They asked me why I became a mole, why I betrayed the furry cause :laffo: and so on. They also combed through my friends list on livejournal, and asked me individually any person whose name they found suspicious. They banned me soon after, then wiped out every single one of my post and reference to Swamp Thing.

Anticlimatically, Jake Long, American Dragon was very quiet then on Anthro Asia and never knew who Swamp Thing was. I actually only found out he was a furry after being banned.

Years pass and earlier in April, I met up with a bunch of friends for movies, and it turned out that Ross and I had a mutual friend. She invited both of us, and Ross was loving furious when he saw me. He called me a troll the whole night and his behaviour was the only reason I recalled Anthro Asia.

I bought him a drink and he didn’t even say thanks. Furries :mad:

The Saddest Rhino fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Nov 7, 2011

Rei_
May 16, 2004

The difference between confinement and rest is a shift in perspective

Threads like this always make me so sad. I remember being this lonely as a kid in high school, when I reached college I hit this breaking point where I was like 'god damnit, I want to be as social a person in real life as I am on the god drat internet!' I spent months and months breaking out of my shell and being dragged out of the house and trying as hard as humanly possible to become socially well-adjusted.

And it worked! I have a lot of friends now, I go out a lot.. Sometimes I still ramble about videogames but at least it's only with friends who also play videogames.

I always felt it was one of those things that could be explained with Goffman or Durkheim's analyses of how people fit into social roles. Goffman would speak about the performance being distorted, caught up in the past-tense reconcilliation of the self how one constantly reinterprets their own actions after they are being performed to justify them. Durkheim I would say has similar roots in the notion of anomie where feelings of alienation of dissatisfaction with the given social enviornment detaches one from the standard sets of rules and behaviours that are innovative in that they are new ways of thinking of oneself to give ones life a sense of meaning. I'm playing very loosely with these terms but there's not a whole hell of a lot written in sociology about being a loving otherkin okay.

Rei_ fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Nov 7, 2011

That Damn Satyr
Nov 4, 2008

A connoisseur of fine junk

uglynoodles posted:

NO THIS IS MY THREAD AND I DEMAND ALL THE GLORY of course other people can share stories! I certainly am interested in people with similar experiences, what they went through, why they stuck around, similarities, differences, and what they learned.

Since this was OK'd a while back, I thought I'd jump in with one of my own.

A Little Back story
Back in the early days of the internet - around 1998 or so - I was in the 8th grade and just starting to get into 'making friends' online. I was into art, and joined 'Elfwood' to post my little doodles. Through there, I met a bunch of other people and we were sort of an online clique. One of them, I'll call her Jane, lived only two hours away from me, and was just a few years older than myself (I was 16, she was 18 or 19). We became very good friends - we were both very creative, loved to draw and make little characters and were both into games and such.

Jane was very into anime, and at the time she was writing a story/novel that seemed to have a lot of anime-ish and otherkin/furry themes. And, of course, She (as an anthropomorphic horse) was the starring character! I had read quite a lot of it before I ever met her face to face, and didn't really think too much about it - I knew most her 'characters' by name from the story though, just from having read it.


You were raped by what?
So, anyway, cue our first time meeting. I had a marching band contest, and Jane came to it and we went to dinner after. She was hard to miss - she wore her hair up in that silly Japanese double-bun style with a silly Asian top - they quintessential otaku. In the car, she kept muttering and talking to herself, saying things like 'Oh, I didn't sleep last night, Janus wouldn't let me sleep.' and so on... Janus being the villain character in her story - he's also a vampire AND a werewolf, but I'll get to that in a later story. At that I was sort of 'Eh, whatever, maybe she just was thinking a lot about something for her story.' and put it out of my mind.

But then we get to talking, and Jane starts telling me about how sometimes at night her characters come to her and won't leave her alone. And how sometimes they molest and rape her. Little 16-year-old me was completely stunned at this, I had no idea what to say. I remember asking her if she meant for real, like... her characters and she wasn't just imagining it was them when it was someone real-real, like she and I were real. But no, she insisted that her characters - her character's spirits - would come to her at night for sex. That they would keep her up all night, in fact, for it.


As a bonus, here's an artwork of hers that I found, of her 'character' in the novels that she was writing.
modedit: removed pic & changed name at weirdo request

For the record, I don't want to hijack this thread but I feel like these stories fit the theme well enough. I have loads and loads more - I was friends with this person for over 10 years before after a final confrontation I decided to cease all contact with her. I'll add more anecdotes as I can - but for now, I hope this little one is enjoyable. :)

Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Nov 11, 2011

Hormones
May 9, 2009
That drat Satyr, definitely post more!

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



That drat Satyr posted:

modedit: removed pic

Oh god post more. When she was being spirit-raped was she also in that form of magnificent beauty?

Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Nov 11, 2011

Fascinator
Jan 2, 2011

The four stages of E/N posting.
I am so sad that I don't know anybody as crazy as these motherfuckers. All I have is a Facebook friend who named her daughter Lee-lu.

Arnold of Soissons
Mar 4, 2011

by XyloJW

The Saddest Rhino posted:

I was questioned more than a few times why I decided not to become a furry anymore (I was NEVER one), so I just said I was more attuned to The Green and that I have come to believe that the bog is the source of all life on this earth. Sometimes I told them I was actually not human, but a plant who once believed he was human, and now have come to peace with it and would like to go online to find a Swamp Wife. These answers appeared to piss them off and they stopped bothering me.

This thread just keeps getting better, I can't even believe it. Thanks to everyone for sharing and thanks even more to every crazy person who believes poo poo like this for never ever confiding it to me.

John Liver
May 4, 2009

Fascinator posted:

I am so sad that I don't know anybody as crazy as these motherfuckers. All I have is a Facebook friend who named her daughter Lee-lu.

They must have a hell of a time at the airport. But that's cake compared to a man I used to work with, he had just found out his wife was pregnant. He was passing around a list of names he was thinking of and asking us what we thought of each. The first name on his list? Drizzt.

To my knowledge his wife did not object, but he eventually had to change his decision because the baby was a girl. Never did find out what her name turned out to be.

Vicas
Dec 9, 2009

Sweet tricks, mom.
I find it kind of hard to fathom that there are that many people who would consider saddling their child with an obscure name from something they're a fan of. Like I'm sure a lot of people are kidding/not seriously considering having a kid but then you get the ones considering naming these kids these things while the couple is pregnant.

poo poo, if you really have to be a nerd name your kid Harry and tell them you named them after a wizard. Then wait until they're like 14 to explain it was Harry Dresden.

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


Vicas posted:

I find it kind of hard to fathom that there are that many people who would consider saddling their child with an obscure name from something they're a fan of. Like I'm sure a lot of people are kidding/not seriously considering having a kid but then you get the ones considering naming these kids these things while the couple is pregnant.

poo poo, if you really have to be a nerd name your kid Harry and tell them you named them after a wizard. Then wait until they're like 14 to explain it was Harry Dresden.

Name them Hari, tell them they are named for Vishnu. When they're older, tell them they're named for Hari Seldon. When they're older yet, tell them it's actually for Hari Michaelson.

Morzox
Oct 29, 2011

FEAR FOR YOUR SOUL

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Do not bring your evil here

Oh god, this sort of thing runs rampant among the furry community; it's definitely not helped by the way they tend to encourage it. YOU'RE NOT JUST SOME LAME HUMAN, YOU'RE ACTUALLY A BEAUTIFUL SHE-WOLF oh wait sorry, I'm yelling on the internet. I'm sorry, you guys.

Konstantin
Jun 20, 2005
And the Lord said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

Morzox posted:

Oh god, this sort of thing runs rampant among the furry community; it's definitely not helped by the way they tend to encourage it. YOU'RE NOT JUST SOME LAME HUMAN, YOU'RE ACTUALLY A BEAUTIFUL SHE-WOLF oh wait sorry, I'm yelling on the internet. I'm sorry, you guys.

If they actually thought they were a she-wolf it would be better. I remember when I first heard about furries I viewed it in the context of spirituality. I knew that a lot of pagan beliefs were about things like "totem animals" and that it was perfectly okay for someone to believe that they had a wolf spirit guiding them, or that they may have been a wolf in a previous life. That, and there was nothing wrong with encouraging greater kinship with the natural world. Imagine my disappointment when I found out that they meant they felt bonded to cartoon wolves, probably had no desire to see a real one outside of a zoo, and would do nothing but complain about the bugs and the weather if they were out in 'nature'. They really do misrepresent themselves even if you leave out the whole "yiff" thing.

froglet
Nov 12, 2009

You see, the best way to Stop the Boats is a massive swarm of autonomous armed dogs. Strafing a few boats will stop the rest and save many lives in the long term.

You can't make an Omelet without breaking a few eggs. Vote Greens.

Vicas posted:

I find it kind of hard to fathom that there are that many people who would consider saddling their child with an obscure name from something they're a fan of. Like I'm sure a lot of people are kidding/not seriously considering having a kid but then you get the ones considering naming these kids these things while the couple is pregnant.

poo poo, if you really have to be a nerd name your kid Harry and tell them you named them after a wizard. Then wait until they're like 14 to explain it was Harry Dresden.

You have to remember that the types of people who think Astral-Skye-Moondance Smith is a great name for a child also think of a child as an extension of themselves with which they can make a statement by, not as somebody who has to grow up and ultimately live in a society whereby deviations like 'unique' names mark them as being 'strange'.

thevoiceofdog
Jul 19, 2009

Terminally ambivalent.

Konstantin posted:

If they actually thought they were a she-wolf it would be better. I remember when I first heard about furries I viewed it in the context of spirituality. I knew that a lot of pagan beliefs were about things like "totem animals" and that it was perfectly okay for someone to believe that they had a wolf spirit guiding them, or that they may have been a wolf in a previous life. That, and there was nothing wrong with encouraging greater kinship with the natural world. Imagine my disappointment when I found out that they meant they felt bonded to cartoon wolves, probably had no desire to see a real one outside of a zoo, and would do nothing but complain about the bugs and the weather if they were out in 'nature'. They really do misrepresent themselves even if you leave out the whole "yiff" thing.

I've got a pretty good feeling they don't want to really be out in nature--they just want to be something other than themselves.

GidgetNomates
May 6, 2010

I love this hobby:
stealing your mother's diary
What is it with these people and being raped by ghosts? I lived in a dorm with this girl (not my roommate, just on my hall thank god) who didn't really know me that well but would stand in my doorway as I went into my room and would tell me about her roleplay characters. You know, their family histories, what they did last night, etc. She would talk without breathing for a solid 40 minutes and I am one of those people who is really bad at telling people that I would like for them to stop talking so I can go in my dang room. Even if I tried to say that I had something to do she'd keep talking about her Naruto-ripoff RP characters so I just sort of let it happen to see how crazy it would get.

This was pretty much our only interaction at all, and she did this maybe 3 or 4 times. Then, suddenly one day in the stairwell, she mentioned something about how she missed her morning class. She proceeded to tell me that she missed it because there is this (male) ghost that haunts her and he sometimes forces her down and keeps her in her bed. She didn't say that he raped her but I'm pretty sure that's what she was implying. A normal person would say "it's probably sleep paralysis and she just doesn't know that". Well, she had accounted for that. She insisted that it was different from sleep paralysis and that it was this male ghost and he would talk to her and hold her down in her bed for hours. I barely know her and yet she stops me in the stairwell to tell me about her ghost experiences, with that tone of voice that makes it sound like "oh, it's no big deal, there's just this ghost, that's not a weird thing to tell someone we all understand and acknowledge that ghosts do this all the time right???"

Why is this the thing that they go for? Why is it always raped by ghosts?

edit: I don't have any other stories about this girl, but thinking back I remembered another story similar to this topic. When I was in maybe 4th grade I rode the bus to school. There was an older girl (I believe she was in about 6th grade) who convinced my friend and I that she could go to a different, magical universe. This basically amounted to her closing her eyes and ignoring us for a few minutes, then opening them when she was "back". She'd tell us all about the people that lived there and whatnot, and we always begged for her to take us with her. She'd always explain reasons why we couldn't go, but maybe one day she'd be able to take us. I don't remember any of the details, but it was similar to the "all the fictional stuff in our world exists there but it's real" idea. I always looked back on it as her just entertaining a couple of kids on the bus, but after this topic I wonder if she actually believed all this herself. She might have actually been nuts and I just never thought of it that way.

GidgetNomates fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Nov 7, 2011

Zedd
Jul 6, 2009

I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here?



That blog is something else...:stare:

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

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Konstantin posted:

Imagine my disappointment when I found out that they meant they felt bonded to cartoon wolves, probably had no desire to see a real one outside of a zoo, and would do nothing but complain about the bugs and the weather if they were out in 'nature'. They really do misrepresent themselves even if you leave out the whole "yiff" thing.

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Transmogrifier
Dec 10, 2004


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Konstantin posted:

If they actually thought they were a she-wolf it would be better. I remember when I first heard about furries I viewed it in the context of spirituality. I knew that a lot of pagan beliefs were about things like "totem animals" and that it was perfectly okay for someone to believe that they had a wolf spirit guiding them, or that they may have been a wolf in a previous life. That, and there was nothing wrong with encouraging greater kinship with the natural world. Imagine my disappointment when I found out that they meant they felt bonded to cartoon wolves, probably had no desire to see a real one outside of a zoo, and would do nothing but complain about the bugs and the weather if they were out in 'nature'. They really do misrepresent themselves even if you leave out the whole "yiff" thing.

I thought the exact same thing when I first heard about it. I'm really into mythology and totem animals was something I remember reading about. That's what I thought. :sigh:

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