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Furry-GAF

I'll post the same thing I posted in another thread a couple hours ago: I generally embrace weirdos and their weird hang-ups and obsessions. I do wonder what it is about furries that attracts so many people to such a...specific fetish.. I mean, that's a seriously huge community it seems like. Is it unique to our generation, or were there people in the Roman empire secretly drawing sketches of cat ladies and then rubbing one out? If the former, then why is that?

EDIT: It would be cool if in like 20 years, after everyone is basically cool with gay people, you guys would start a big brouhaha about furry rights. I want to watch the squares squirm.

DOUBLE EDIT: I guess something would have to be illegal first though. Maybe some net neutrality law will make amateur depictions of licensed characters illegal to even exist. So you couldn't have pony porn anymore. The internet would probably collapse from the mass exodus.
 

Uchip

Banned
Is it unique to our generation, or were there people in the Roman empire secretly drawing sketches of cat ladies and then rubbing one out? If the former, then why is that?

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CHEEZMO™

Obsidian fan
I'll post the same thing I posted in another thread a couple hours ago: I generally embrace weirdos and their weird hang-ups and obsessions. I do wonder what it is about furries that attracts so many people to such a...specific fetish.. I mean, that's a seriously huge community it seems like.

Many of the people who fall under the Furry umbrella have nothing to do with the sexual/porn side of it at all.
 

Kraftwerk

Member
I had a dream last night. My knight in shining armor came, and took me away. I rode him through vast deserts and jungles. Rode him all the way.

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Bisnic

Really Really Exciting Member!
I don't want to look at naked furries, but my curiosity is killing me because of cheezmo avatar and everyone's comments about this. I wish i had google skills to find something when the only hint is an avatar and some "obsidian" word that doesnt mean anything.

Damn you guys with your comments, why do i gotta do this now? Stupid goddamn curiosity. And about furries on top of that.
 

CHEEZMO™

Obsidian fan
I don't want to look at naked furries, but my curiosity is killing me because of cheezmo avatar and everyone's comments about this. I wish i had google skills to find something when the only hint is an avatar and some "obsidian" word that doesnt mean anything.

Damn you guys with your comments, why do i gotta do this now? Stupid goddamn curiosity. And about furries on top of that.

Just google image search that part I cropped out.
 

Uchip

Banned
Its ok bro

She's promiscuious

the characters creator just pays a bunch of artists to draw her
actually thats what most of them do
the ammount of talented people that draw for the love of art can be counted on one hand
 

DrForester

Kills Photobucket
Furries are blasted everywhere.

Just look at the movies. In one of the most popular film and book series of the last 10 years, the main character chose necrophilia over being a furry.
 

akira28

Member
Coolio, same question still applies though.

...to a particularly small portion of the fandom. For most people it isn't a fetish.

I just see the animal-people as people. Got a wolf head? Cognitive abilities of a human? Ok, I'll consider you as like a human. Some people actually have a furry "fetish" in that it references or enhances their sexuality in some way. Me, I just grew up on Looney Tunes and DuckTales, and so am used to talking animals. Like most of us, I should add. People have an idea of what a furry is, I suppose, something to do with fursuits and frottage, but they're so far off the mark as to almost not be worth correcting until they get annoying or offensive.
 

Acerac

Banned
Wow, this may have been the most respectful GAF has ever been about this subject.

Very surprising. Not as entertaining as I expected, but I won't complain.
 

G-Fex

Member
I'm in thid thought, that its unfair that we haven't had non-human scaley/furry protagonist (in a NON ANIMATED MOVIE) and its time we did, lousy humans.
 
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Deleted member 10571

Unconfirmed Member
lol, I just noticed the Ace/Fira avatars :D
 
I like DRAWING anthro animals... does that count? >___>
I also really like anthro art in general.. just not the erotica-level stuff.

EXAMPLE:
Badlands_Generation_n_x_t_by_Meibatsu.jpg


Obviously inspired by Star Fox! This picture is 3 years old though.. and I actually really miss drawing furries.

I just think animals are cool. Plus easier to make differentiated characters based on different animal species than it is with just humans.
The whole sexual gratification with animal-based things though.. not my cup of tea. Though I can obviously tell what is supposed to be a sexy/attractive/cute anthro character just through relating it with human body language and aesthetic preferences.

Hey, furry lovers, commission me to draw you stuff! LOL
(no porn though. That would require too much "research", and that is a sink hole I would rather not venture into)

Yeah, it counts lol!

There seems to be some kind of conflict when people think "furry". Some people, be them "furry" or not, think the term means you adhere to the sexual side of the fandom as well. Some think it just means you "really like anthro characters". I have seen people who call themselves furries and are asexual.

I would be in the non-sexual camp. I love anthros and I love drawing them ... but I'm not sexually attracted to them.

I also draw them! My pics are always pretty damn huge but you can see them on my site :]



I also do commissions to anyone who likes what they see on my site!
Been a while since I did any commissions ... gotta start back looking for work.
 

Tarazet

Member
...to a particularly small portion of the fandom. For most people it isn't a fetish.

I just see the animal-people as people. Got a wolf head? Cognitive abilities of a human? Ok, I'll consider you as like a human. Some people actually have a furry "fetish" in that it references or enhances their sexuality in some way. Me, I just grew up on Looney Tunes and DuckTales, and so am used to talking animals. Like most of us, I should add. People have an idea of what a furry is, I suppose, something to do with fursuits and frottage, but they're so far off the mark as to almost not be worth correcting until they get annoying or offensive.

Some of my best experiences are actually when I can ignore the fact that I have those cognitive abilities. I mean, I'm still using them, because I'm at a computer typing to someone else I know in the English language, but my character doesn't have to know or care about any of that.

Being a furry for me has nothing to do with the fetishising of cartoon characters. The fact is, furries take different forms. You'll never catch me wearing a dragon mask or tail. You will find me on IRC acting out what I will never experience in real life.
 
so who is sylvia, tell us about her.

edit: you changed the pic. i want to know about SYLVIA!

Haha, I changed the pic because I noticed it was the older version where the "Retro Disney" styled one wasn't colored and I didn't have the full one uploaded on imgur :p

There's a lot more pics of her on my site (click the Tracey pic).

She started out as my "invent a race of alien creatures and given one member a story" project in one of my character design classes and I just kept going with her over the years until she just kinda became my main character.
 

coldvein

Banned
Haha, I changed the pic because I noticed it was the older version where the "Retro Disney" styled one wasn't colored and I didn't have the full one uploaded on imgur :p

There's a lot more pics of her on my site (click the Tracey pic).

She started out as my "invent a race of alien creatures and given one member a story" project in one of my character design classes and I just kept going with her over the years until she just kinda became my main character.

my favorite one is the lady with boobs.
 

mollipen

Member
it's not the same as the furry genre, it's like related but not super related.

I dunno lol

Actually, I do think there's a difference. Like, I find the concept of human + furry interesting, but in the same way that I find, say, human + alien, or human + robot, or whatever interesting.

It's kind of like the unique storyline qualities that come up from interracial relationships, but on a much higher level.
 

G-Fex

Member
Not super related? I wonder if even half the furry art with more than one subject is same species.

Better than the turtle.gif I suppose.

True, so very very true.

Actually, I do think there's a difference. Like, I find the concept of human + furry interesting, but in the same way that I find, say, human + alien, or human + robot, or whatever interesting.

It's kind of like the unique storyline qualities that come up from interracial relationships, but on a much higher level.

Yeah see you get it. It's just not done very often/at all.
 
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