Do You Consider Yourself a Furry?

Post by **Sleet** » Sat Nov 08, 2014 10:18 pm

Clearly it's not painful!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Nov 09, 2014 9:30 pm

Oh sure, you say that now...

RatHead · Post by **RatHead** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 5:58 pm

I know i havent posted on this NEW version of the furry topic since it's inception, but I wanted to tell everyone here (who didn't already know, a few do) that I recently went to my first con (WOOOOHOOOOOOO) and I took plenty of pics, which I will upload to my FA (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rathead/), some drawings I already upload there, and VIDEOS! pleas go watch them, and if you wanna like comment fav or subscribe that'd be AMAZING (really, i have just started getting some activity FIANLLY on the channel) My Youtube channel!!!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:22 pm

Wow that looks like it was really fun and the suits are really cool! So glad you got pictures!

Cesco · Post by **Cesco** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 10:27 pm

That's great, RatHead, very nice experience.

Maybe the participation hasn't been large, but the event looked pretty well organized.

There was even a pool, absolutely to use without the fursuit.

RatHead · Post by **RatHead** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:41 am

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Wow that looks like it was really fun and the suits are really cool! So glad you got pictures!

AYeah! and I got a bunch of selfies and pics of awesome suits... but they turned out to be bluurred beyond anything you would believe

Cesco wrote:That's great, RatHead, very nice experience. Maybe the participation hasn't been large, but the event looked pretty well organized. There was even a pool, absolutely to use without the fursuit.

Yeah it was! I had a TON of fun, have new contacts and friends, life expiriences, AND ARTS!
and actually it was pretty good, over 300 participants, 93 fursuiters!
and yeah, the pool was fun, even if i didn't jump in.

I don't know if there'll be a next year though, as apparently the organizer hasn't isn't takin good care of himself and is in the hospital after a heart attack...

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:14 pm

Wow that is sad. But at least you have your memories right?

RatHead · Post by **RatHead** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 6:57 pm

Yeah it is sad, and I do have my memories, and the friends I made there, and pics and art I got, but he's still alive, hopefully he'll change and there will be a next year

tychoaussie · Post by **tychoaussie** » Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:55 pm

What makes you think that the organizer hasn't been taking care of himself?

Post by **ArcWolf** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 2:16 am

I guess because a very common cause of heart attacks is a clogged artery.

To reiterate and steer this back on topic:
I do not consider myself a furry.

Woof.

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 8:08 am

Yeah, I'd say I'm a furry.

I have fursona...
I'ma sea urchin :3

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 4:14 pm

How can a sea urchin be a furry if it doesn't have any fur on it? xD

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 5:30 pm

Punchy wrote: I have fursona...
I'ma sea urchin :3

yummy <3

Amazee Dayzee wrote:How can a sea urchin be a furry if it doesn't have any fur on it? xD

well we could consider those spike thingy "fur" , I mean quite a few of us here have a dragon as their fursonas , but we don't call them "scalies"

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 5:44 pm

If anthromorphic animals can exist, so can fluffy dragons and sea creatures.

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:59 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:How can a sea urchin be a furry if it doesn't have any fur on it? xD

Well, there is no set definition.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:41 pm

I know that. I was just joking around when I asked that. xD

Please don't hurt me.

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 7:28 am

I may not be fluffy, but I am adorable :3

Post by **Sleet** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:43 pm

dtlux1 wrote:
Amazee Dayzee wrote:How can a sea urchin be a furry if it doesn't have any fur on it? xD
Well, there is no set definition.

Nah, but it's generally agreed upon that "furry" refers to all anthropomorphic animals. :3

Post by **ArcWolf** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:00 pm

Punchy wrote:I may not be fluffy, but I am adorable :3

Finally! I was beginning to think no one else saw how cuddly these things can be.

Bucky-Roo · Post by **Bucky-Roo** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:38 pm

Well...it's adorable
(I wouldn't suggest hugging it though)

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:51 pm

Somebody go hug it so we can see if it is huggable!

dtlux1 · Post by **dtlux1** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:20 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Somebody go hug it so we can see if it is huggable!

It seems to be huggable, but I think I got permanent scars all over my chest and arms...

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 4:38 pm

Yeah not gonna hug it.

Foxstar · Post by **Foxstar** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 2:28 pm

Back on topic guys.

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:19 am

Apparently being a furry is becoming dangerous! Some people were sent to hospital because someone intentionally released chlorine gas at a convention.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

This is actually kind of scary.

Edit: Now they are saying that it was bottle full of something that only smelled like chlorine but it made some people sick and they took them to the hospital as a precaution.

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:33 am

gosh , I really hope that those people are OK , but , though I know this will sound really pessimistic, from what I've seen , it's not being a furry that would make you a victim of these kinds of action , it's being different . Lots of people tend to attack anyone that's different from them , before now it's verbally , ridicule , and now it's this .
Still , very scary though

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:39 am

Scary stuff. My friend sent me a link of that last night. It made us worried about going to one of these this summer, but looking at past conventions, these things don't really happen as security is pretty tight.
Hopefully they find the people responsible.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 10:21 am

Radio Blue Heart wrote:Edit: Now they are saying that it was bottle full of something that only smelled like chlorine but it made some people sick and they took them to the hospital as a precaution.

I'm getting conflicting info on this. At first there was word of a powdered chloric compound, the same kind you clean pools with. Then there was talk about pure chlorine.

Anyway, both easily cross the line into domestic terrorism. After all, chlorine-based weapons were used to gas our great-grandparents around here in the trenches.

Whatever the case may be, so far everything points to a lone wolf carrying out the attack as it all looks very amateur hour.

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:09 am

Pure chlorine or no, you're right about domestic terrorism. This is almost certainly a targeted attack and a hate crime.

There is no pool located in said hotel, by the way.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 1:11 pm

An attendee wrote:Well, no matter who was behind it, or how poorly it was planned, the result is still the same. There were over 50 emergency vehicles, we got evac'd to four separate sites outside the hotel, 19 people were hospitalized and one of those was in a bad condition (but has since been released) due to previous exposure in Iraq/Afghanistan.

Whoever did this is going to get a nice long trip to jail, and probably have to pay some massive restitution. We had the DHS, FBI, Hazmat FBI, Hazmat DHS, O'Hare police, TSA (as there WERE pilots and operating crew in this hotel and it is close to ORD) and a wide variety of other people take an interest in this, within hours of it happening at 1AM on a sleepy sunday morning.

I'd wager this story's not going away.

Expect a manhunt and hell to pay for the perp.

ds-al-coda · Post by **ds-al-coda** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:17 pm

I do like furry art, but I don't have a fursona.

This is the only thing keeping me from considering myself a furry .-.

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Mon Dec 08, 2014 9:43 pm

ds-al-coda wrote:I do like furry art, but I don't have a fursona.

This is the only thing keeping me from considering myself a furry .-.

From what I've read in this thread, you don't need a fursona to consider yourself a furry. Personally, I've never been sure about whether or not I'm a furry, but I still like being a part of the fandom.
However, if you want a fursona, just think of your persona and your favorite animal. Or a completely different persona personified to any animal that's different from your own, as it's own independent character. It's fun!

Edit: I changed my vote to yes, so it's an even 3/4 now.

Liam wrote: Expect a manhunt and hell to pay for the perp.

Manhunt? *lights torch*

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:27 am

Oh goodie! Who are we hunting?

Post by **ArcWolf** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:06 am

I dunna.

Do you consider yourself a furry?

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:22 am

I'm definitely a furry, but under no circumstances would I ever consider myself to be a furry.

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 10:24 am

Kitela wrote:I'm definitely a furry, but under no circumstances would I ever consider myself a furry.

whaaaaaaaaaat ?

ds-al-coda · Post by **ds-al-coda** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 11:11 am

Kitela wrote:
ds-al-coda wrote:I do like furry art, but I don't have a fursona.

This is the only thing keeping me from considering myself a furry .-.
From what I've read in this thread, you don't need a fursona to consider yourself a furry. Personally, I've never been sure about whether or not I'm a furry, but I still like being a part of the fandom.
However, if you want a fursona, just think of your persona and your favorite animal. Or a completely different persona personified to any animal that's different from your own, as it's own independent character. It's fun!

Edit: I changed my vote to yes, so it's an even 3/4 now.

Well, I am in the process of creating a fursona, I guess I'll be considering myself a furry real soon.

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:13 pm

Liam wrote:
An attendee wrote:Well, no matter who was behind it, or how poorly it was planned, the result is still the same. There were over 50 emergency vehicles, we got evac'd to four separate sites outside the hotel, 19 people were hospitalized and one of those was in a bad condition (but has since been released) due to previous exposure in Iraq/Afghanistan.

Whoever did this is going to get a nice long trip to jail, and probably have to pay some massive restitution. We had the DHS, FBI, Hazmat FBI, Hazmat DHS, O'Hare police, TSA (as there WERE pilots and operating crew in this hotel and it is close to ORD) and a wide variety of other people take an interest in this, within hours of it happening at 1AM on a sleepy sunday morning.

I'd wager this story's not going away.
Expect a manhunt and hell to pay for the perp.

He'll have the authorities and bunch of very angry, vengeful furries after him. Looks like he will be living "5 Nights at Freddy's".

JeffCvt · Post by **JeffCvt** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:41 pm

And that's enough talk of that. Talk about the incident was fine, but you guys are starting to cross the line when you talk about the guy being hunted.

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 8:01 pm

JeffCvt wrote:And that's enough talk of that. Talk about the incident was fine, but you guys are starting to cross the line when you talk about the guy being hunted.

Sorry, Jeff. I tried to defuse it with a joke that was not worth making. Its just that talking about it helped us wrap our heads around it. I mean, who could hate a fandom so bad that they would attack it in such a way? A long time ago, I found a video on youtube of a guy in dark sunglasses and bandana tied around his face going on about how much furries disgusted him and how he was going to rid the world of them. And I wonder what could make someone hate furries that much. What did we ever do to him?