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Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
lmao ahh yes i see so you gotta have two fursuits one for business and the other for pleasure

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Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH

Nooner posted:

lmao ahh yes i see so you gotta have two fursuits one for business and the other for pleasure

:hmmyes:

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k

Nooner posted:

lmao ahh yes i see so you gotta have two fursuits one for business and the other for pleasure

It's like sailor moon or batman, they get a big suit up scene and everything but it's stinky

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

No truce with furries

laserghost
Feb 12, 2014

trust me, I'm a cat.

Actually mocking furries and running them down from communities is the one thing that shouldn't change. gently caress off freaks

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

Was bugfurs ever a thing
Could I be like a big rear end termite

Archonet
Mar 12, 2022

it is time to boogie

Smugworth posted:

Was bugfurs ever a thing
Could I be like a big rear end termite

I dunno about bugs but at one point someone showed me porn featuring a, quote, "living airplane"

which was... I'm not sure how to feel about fetishizing inanimate objects. I guess that's better than animals? Still loving weird.

This also means it's almost a certainty that someone out there unironically wants to be/wants to gently caress an attack helicopter, which is actually hilarious.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

Archonet posted:

I dunno about bugs but at one point someone showed me porn featuring a, quote, "living airplane"

which was... I'm not sure how to feel about fetishizing inanimate objects. I guess that's better than animals? Still loving weird.

Oh that's from here! Oh man she really wanted to gently caress that plane.

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

[snarky comment]
many furries are in tech so uhhh, lol if you thought it would just disappear


humans have made fursonas since we wiped out the neanderthals

Stink Billyums
Jul 7, 2006

MAGNUM

Archonet posted:

personally my grievance with them is the whole "fetishizing animals" thing, it's the same reason I judge people into ABDL -- yeah okay maybe you don't want to gently caress babies (I have my doubts), but why tf does someone acting like one/dressed like one turn you on? The gently caress?

Why you gotta fetishize things that can't consent? Why you gotta fetishize things you absolutely should not want to gently caress? Why you gotta be like this?

you can argue "well, but, they don't actually want to gently caress animals" or whatever other mental gymnastics you want to use to justify it, but they're still fetishizing a living thing that can't consent, and that's not okay to me no matter how you slice it.

you just reminded me of

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

OMFG FURRY posted:

humans have made fursonas since we wiped out the neanderthals

Please tell me this isn't something you actually believe.

NoiseAnnoys
May 17, 2010

we didn't wipe out the neanderthals, we just hosed them into submission, but i wouldn't expect op to understand what loving is.

Archonet
Mar 12, 2022

it is time to boogie

Stink Billyums posted:

you just reminded me of


What is that awful creature, should I know of them?

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
That's the OP

it's shmorky

Archonet
Mar 12, 2022

it is time to boogie

Funky See Funky Do posted:

That's the OP

it's shmorky

Google has answered my questions

my deepest apologies for reminding anyone about that thing, let us never speak of it again.

NoiseAnnoys
May 17, 2010

Stink Billyums posted:

you just reminded me of


Remember me, Eddie? When I pooped my diaper, I talked... just... like... THIS!

Stink Billyums
Jul 7, 2006

MAGNUM

NoiseAnnoys posted:

Remember me, Eddie? When I pooped my diaper, I talked... just... like... THIS!

this is a fitting reference as shmorky adopted a ridiculous cartoon character voice that I shudder at the memory of

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

[snarky comment]

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Please tell me this isn't something you actually believe.

there are some reports of the Cursed Humans still amougus, but i don't pay attention to such baseless gossip

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

OMFG FURRY posted:

many furries are in tech so uhhh, lol if you thought it would just disappear


humans have made fursonas since we wiped out the neanderthals

the internet has a backbone of like 4 servers scattered around the midwest being maintained by a couple furries in their 60s

Sex Farm
Nov 17, 2017

This may confuse our younger readers, who are used to a world where no one would ever shame anyone for their sexual proclivities, but for the first two decades of the Internet's existence, basically the only joke you were allowed to make was at the expense of Furries.
Now, in defense of us proto-trolls, there were no women online for us to hate, so Furries were an easy target. With their bright, colorful fursonas, and their cultlike devotion to Disney's frost-chapped rear end, there was a lot going on. Plus, the fursonas of yesteryear were way more embarrassing than the Sonic OCs and thoroughly extinct jungle cats modern furries jack off to.
Used to be every Livejournal circle was comprised of, at a minimum, a celestial thunder-husky, an ultra-ripped carfucker dragon, and a rainbow thylacine with three dicks. Also, everyone was a Super Saiya-jin with a halo AND devil horns. Does that justify how much time we here at Something Awful spent mocking them?
Oh, of course. Every single second. Furries are silly, and to be fair, Furries are the first ones who will tell you how silly Furries are. No one hates Bad Furries more than Furries, and stalker-trolls who are all closet Furries. Every furry community has ended exactly like the Island of Dr. Moreau, which is probably intentional. A furry porn trading card game somehow failed to earn enough money to print their last expansion. That's tragicomic on a Grecian scale.
Porn is the aetheric medium through which the community economy transacts. The financial failure of a porn business in the furry community requires a sort of anti-acumen which borders on a deliberate if self-destructive malfeasance. If you walk into any furry convention's Artists' Alley with a sketch pad and set of Coptic markers, you will stumble out the far end bereft of paper and ink, your pockets stuffed with bitcoin, your brain awash in a rainbow of impossible dicks.
Essentially, the furry community is the single largest distributed arts patronage program in history. The existence and codification of the fursuit belies a profoundly nuanced group dynamic. The consistency of fursuit pattern across makers speaks to an institutionalized approach to not only design, but fabric sourcing and construction.
It's something more than cosplay, a sort of tin-penny spirituality born from the scriptures at the bottom of a Michaels receipt. Furries are no sillier than any other terminally online community. They are better organizers than most of the theory-preaching culture warriors on social media, better at doxxing and deplatforming nazis than half the #OSINT community, and third good thing too.
Babyfurs are still an ongoing problem. Age play as a whole is hosed up, the various & sundry kink communities gotta sort that out, but whatever I'm talking about positive things right now.
A huge, huge motivation for early furry hate was homophobia. That remained the one axis on which we (non-furry dweebs) could punch down, no matter the stated justification. Furries helped mainstream majority-queer online spaces. That made them easy to mock, because they were unashamed enough to be public with their weird art and their dragon wings and their rejection of all the suffocating norms that still make mainstream geek culture an unrelenting hell.
That invited scorn. It hurt to see others free of the shames that wracked us so. Disgust was the immediate response, a kind of unbodying rejection which would seek to purge any otherness from ourselves. Some of us knew it to be queerphobia, and I'm sure that was the motivation for a lot of the early trolling. Others just wanted to be part of the in-group, and there was no easier way to do that than take a swing at a designated punching bag.
Something Awful had a particular response to furries. After creating a subforum specifically for furries to post in, everyone who used it was marked with a custom yellow star avatar, then banned.
I don't know if something so deliberate can rightly be called a Holocaust joke. A tin-penny re-enactment, a perfect internet microcosm reflecting utterly mainstream prejudices. It is indefensible.
I'm sorry. It was wrong then, and it remains wrong now. I do not know what will happen with the site, but it cannot die with this unsaid: We were wrong.

Archonet
Mar 12, 2022

it is time to boogie

Sex Farm posted:

lots and lots of words

imagine whiteknighting for furries, lol

furthermore, lmao

Sex Farm
Nov 17, 2017

Archonet posted:

imagine whiteknighting for furries, lol

furthermore, lmao

I would even go as far as to say it is "tragicomic on a Grecian scale"

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag
Look, whatever two consenting adults choose to do in the privacy of their own crate is none of my business

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

Found my new bugsona

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019

FreeRangeHexagon posted:

it is kind of wild that hating furries was such a big thing on the 2006 internet, also that the last actual front page article this site published gut defaced by Lowtax because he didn't want to apologise to furries

The furry community still has never really come to terms with or made a clean break from the beastiality poo poo back in the 90s and 2000s

NoiseAnnoys
May 17, 2010

my revolutionary stance is anyone who makes their kinks part of their public persona sucks and is loving lame.

GundamHealer
Jul 23, 2022

NoiseAnnoys posted:

my revolutionary stance is anyone who makes their kinks part of their public persona sucks and is loving lame.

Yeah I don’t care about anything else, but like, don’t engage in fetish/kink stuff in public because you are roping bystanders in your weird thing without their consent to do so.

Otherwise? As long as it’s two consenting adults in private, have fun.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

NoiseAnnoys posted:

my revolutionary stance is anyone who makes their kinks part of their public persona sucks and is loving lame.

Yeah. i agree with this. like i am cool with furies and poo poo but if your wearing your suit to college classes or the only thing you talk about is your kinks. then i will lol. you do you as long as everyone is concenting. but if your gonna make it your key personality then lol.

Treecko
Apr 23, 2008

The Official Demon Girl
Boss of 2022!
I unironically think some of the suits are cool from a technical perspective and if I had more space and motivation I would absolutely make fursuits to grift horny weirdos

Mr.Acula
May 10, 2009

Billions and billions of fat clouds

BeefThief posted:

lowtax is dead and furry culture is ALIVE AWOOO

Makes u think

Mr.Acula
May 10, 2009

Billions and billions of fat clouds

laserghost posted:

Actually mocking furries and running them down from communities is the one thing that shouldn't change. gently caress off freaks

Sry theres literally no difference between a furry and any other lgbqtpie get with the times you monster

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



If you see someone in a fursuit in public and immediately think about them having sex in it, chances are you're the pervert

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


my fursona would be something cool like a red panda and not something lame like another freakin wolf.

Good Sphere
Jun 16, 2018

If your fur suit gets dirty, you clean it with your tongue like any good dog or cat would. Duh!

LimaBiker
Dec 9, 2020




Toxic Mental posted:

The furry community still has never really come to terms with or made a clean break from the beastiality poo poo back in the 90s and 2000s

Oh they definitely have. Zoophiles are very much shunned. Check out the drama around Hypnotist Sappho. There are many reports by furries on her, against her - here's just one out of a dozen or so :nms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQSQye0CSI


poo poo's taken very seriously. Just like the getting rid of those weird nazi furs. That was a real thing around 2008, and completely wiped out a couple years later. Now they're just normal nazis but hey, at least you're not allowing nazis to walk around your conference, and you now have a separate group of people that you can easily single out and poo poo on.

Since the big BLM protests in the trump era, police dog fursonas on conventions are even kinda frowned upon. I know of some guy who decided to get rid of his 3000 dollar german shepherd fursuit because it didn't feel right anymore.

poverty goat posted:

If you see someone in a fursuit in public and immediately think about them having sex in it, chances are you're the pervert
This. It's just another cosplay. It's weird to wear it on the street (i've literally never seen a fursuit in real life) in the same way it's weird to see sailor moon cosplayers walk around all dressed up out of the context of a convention. In contrary to furries, i've actually seen a bunch of sailor moon (or similar) cosplayers somewhere near my local train station, when there was some kind of comic convention in the country. loving nerds (but actually i'm just jealous they are able to do such magic with their looks)

There's a lot of straight guys who like to cosplay christian grey and wear tailored business suits at work for that reason. But i'm definitely not assuming that everyone who has a nice, expensive suit to be loving in it.

Treecko posted:

I unironically think some of the suits are cool from a technical perspective and if I had more space and motivation I would absolutely make fursuits to grift horny weirdos
The cheapest suits are about 1000 bucks. The average about 3000 for a full suit with paws/head/tail, and they go up all the way to 20.000 if you're really loving good at your job, though that's definitely an exception.
If you have the skills, go for it.


Someone asked about bug furries. They exist but are rare. Here's a headpiece from Garuda Workshop, a maker who specializes in 3d printed and heavily polished cyberpunk stuff:


More cyberpunk/futuristic stuff here: https://www.tumblr.com/garudaworkshop
I think they're awesome and if they were safe to wear on my motorcycle i'd totally get one.

LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Feb 15, 2023

naem
May 29, 2011

OMFG FURRY posted:

many furries are in tech so uhhh, lol if you thought it would just disappear


humans have made fursonas since we wiped out the neanderthals

humans didn’t wipe out neanderthals as much as we diluted their genes by breeding with them repeatedly

Deki
May 12, 2008

It's Hammer Time!

OMFG FURRY posted:

many furries are in tech so uhhh, lol if you thought it would just disappear


humans have made fursonas since we wiped out the neanderthals

Yeah, as a computer toucher, I work with 3 furries and 2 of the friends I graduated with are furries. And that's just the ones open about it or who had furry stuff on their car/laptop.

Its not really my thing, but post 2016 I just can't will myself to care about harmless weird subcultures. Though I know there's furry subcultures that are pretty loving vile and gross.

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


hosed them into oblivion. owned neanderthals

Unclean
Jun 28, 2002
This summer there's going to be a big Furry convention in my small Kansas town and apparently the locals are all freaking out on Facebook. I hope they come every year. It might be odd to me, but I can accept it as long as actual Nazi/fash/assholes stay the gently caress away.

Also their money will please the businesses and should shout out the whining Facebook mom's.

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No. 6
Jun 30, 2002

Furtsuits are a dumb. Furries are dumb. HTH

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