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 Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:18 pm
I have a lot of loyal friends in my life that I've known anywhere from two to fourteen years now. It's really strange though how the people I always magically come in contact with just "happen" to be furries as well. I don't really seek people out in my life, I just don't function like that. Most if not all of my friends in fact, are my friends because they sought me out and kept pushing me to talk to them.
Lately I've had about 4 of my really close friends come forward and either admit that they were part of the fandom, or start asking me about it because they wanted to be part of the fandom. It's gotten to the point where I've become furanoid (yes I just made that up). If I so much as see an animal picture in a friend's room or they tell me their favorite animal is some kind of canid other than a house pet I suspect them of being furry. But strangely throughout all of this I get the feeling that I'm not alone here.
I don't know, I could just be crazy, but anybody out there willing to admit to have gone through a phase like this? I would really prefer to stay out of the state asylum at least until I go postal sometime in the future...
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:46 pm
I can honestly say...no. I've only had one other furry friend. I kinda like it like that. I think your friends are just jumping on a bandwagon. Kinda like when I was openly Goth (before Emo was around), and suddenly Goth was "cool", like anything I liked couldn't be between a few close buds, like it just HAD to be tainted by becoming a fad. Grrrr.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:06 pm
I never thought I would see the day that furry became a fad.
In a way we could use the "manpower"
But at the same time it kind of defeats the purpose of free expression through the fandom.
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:17 pm
I don't blame you for being "furanoid," but I don't think my friends really accept my furriness completely yet....so I can't say that I have ever experienced this problem. I'm the only one I know of around my area (which is pretty small, so I don't expect much).
Whenever anything becomes a fad, it defeats the purpose the thing had to begin with. It loses all of its respect. I have been Wiccan for a good portion of my life, and then suddenly everyone was wearing pentacles without knowing what they were even called - and I got looped in with this fad somehow. I was wearing a pentacle, and therefore must have jumped on that bandwagon. But if the same thing happens with Fur, I will be kind of upset because it may destroy it. When "Wicca" became a fad I was able to deal because it was my faith. If Fur becomes a fad, I may have to withdraw from public forums that become overrun with "fakefurries."
And that will make me sad indeed.
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:39 pm
*agrees with Khleo* I didn't figure the furry fandom to explode into, well, this. *shrugs* A friend of mine was and is afraid of his furry art (well, he's not afraid of it fully, just of others googling up what furry might be and him being judged under the darker tones of the fandom). Another friend looks interested in it, as he likes my stuff kinda and was curious where anthro/furry stuff is at so he can look at it and learn to draw it better (I did warn him a little about it though, as even on a non-logged in page of FA can be traumatizing for newbs).
I was suprised. First, I learned of furry (and I was in the catagory), seen how it is, and seen how it's like, either something unheard of and gets people curious or they think it's evil as they aren't furs and only see/read/heard of the bad stuff. *shrugs* I try no to think of what it'll be next or what the future of the furry community will be though. I have to worry about remembering to eat =P (yay for bad memory!)
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:18 pm
I've have a same problem in school,one of my friends insists to be a furry all the time,and to be true,I've become annoyed by this,can anyone give advice for a friend of a all time furry?
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 3:03 pm
I am somewhat confused with the whole furry concept. I understand it, but there are some parts which are poking fun at the bit of my brain which understands things, which come to think of it, is all of it.
I've a friend who I talk about the fandom with, and I have my suspicions.
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:06 pm
There is one person I know through a few people that claims he is, but I think he's full of it.
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Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 3:49 am
I was one of those curious people...>.>
but I swear I didn't join because I thought it was a fad! >.< The art that I've seen was really nice...and I like the community, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:16 pm
i don't think anyone in my school or town is a furry (that i know of.....) im still in secret because most people don't know what a furry is and, like, the one girl that does kind of gives people the wrong impression. she knows this guy thats a cat furry and he pees in a litter box, and meows at everyone, and is perverted. so no thats never happened to me.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:41 pm
eek That sounds a tad much. Not the meowing at everyone, but the thing before that.
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:32 pm
Slightly. I've seen worse come out of the fandom though.
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Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:17 am
Khleo_The_Fox Slightly. I've seen worse come out of the fandom though. Do I dare ask?
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