I can recall furries, or people dressed up in the big-headed animal costumes that used to be reserved for theme parks, back about as far as 3 marcons ago.
I think I'm going to be disturbed this year. Deeply disturbed and emotionally scarred. Although, there's one way to look at it: no matter who else you are, the furries are lower than you on the geek hierarchy. I'm sure that, out of costume, some furries are great people ...
> I'm sure that, out of costume, some furries are great people
No. Furries are the kind of people who *would* be Jehovah's Witnesses if the Watchtower didn't demand baptism, which would require them to actually have water touch their body.
The best are *quietly* insane, maintaining an online "fursona" to avoid having to deal with who they really are. After all, if you're a skunk in a boy's body, then it's not YOUR fault that you're repellent - you can't change such fundamental things about yourself, so why bother showering, losing weight, or learning social graces?
I've dealt with evangelical furries before, Thor. It's just like dealing with evangelical Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses, or Amway salesmen.
Generally, if you're at the point of dressing up in a fursuit with a removable crotch *and you want to talk to me about it*, there's no hope for the conversation. I'm sure there are sane, well-adjusted, reasonable fursuiters out there - but they're the ones who don't try to tell me about the wonders of "yiff", and so I probably don't notice them any more than I notice the sane Christians or the non-fluffy pagans.
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Date: 2005-05-25 05:03 pm (UTC)I do, however, want to pluck out my eyes. I'd also like to show them how to properly apply costume-make up, utilizing a brillo-pad as an applicator.
more comes to mind, but I'll save that for Marcon loathing.
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Date: 2005-05-25 05:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-25 05:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-25 05:27 pm (UTC)I'm sure that, out of costume, some furries are great people ...
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Date: 2005-05-25 05:38 pm (UTC)No. Furries are the kind of people who *would* be Jehovah's Witnesses if the Watchtower didn't demand baptism, which would require them to actually have water touch their body.
The best are *quietly* insane, maintaining an online "fursona" to avoid having to deal with who they really are. After all, if you're a skunk in a boy's body, then it's not YOUR fault that you're repellent - you can't change such fundamental things about yourself, so why bother showering, losing weight, or learning social graces?
The worst are just like those, but aggressive.
Eeuuugh.
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Date: 2005-05-25 05:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-05-25 05:05 pm (UTC)Surely you mean "furverts"...
Date: 2005-05-26 03:56 am (UTC)But instead I'll be good and just let you imagine it instead of live it.
Re: Surely you mean "furverts"...
Date: 2005-05-26 05:59 am (UTC)Generally, if you're at the point of dressing up in a fursuit with a removable crotch *and you want to talk to me about it*, there's no hope for the conversation. I'm sure there are sane, well-adjusted, reasonable fursuiters out there - but they're the ones who don't try to tell me about the wonders of "yiff", and so I probably don't notice them any more than I notice the sane Christians or the non-fluffy pagans.