I'm not sure it has the vibrancy of Soup's earlier work (i.e. mambagrl & HOOPS MALONE take the eclipse to Popalops), but I would definitely display it proudly upon my mantel.

3/4/2010 2:03:27 AM

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"best damn paint job TWW has seen in years."

o rly?

3/4/2010 2:12:41 AM

BEST DAMN SALESMAN ON THE FLOOR

3/4/2010 2:32:18 AM

hahaha I like the Monorail Cat.

3/4/2010 2:43:51 AM

who gives a fuck about this, honestly

3/4/2010 6:55:37 AM

I know that girl. I'm not going to give her name because you people are crazy. I'll ask her next time I see her whats up with the bare feet, because she normally has shoes.


but yeah, there are quite a few NCSU furries.

3/4/2010 7:06:39 AM

I can't think of anything lower than one of these fuckin' lowlifes running around pretending to be a fucking animal.

3/4/2010 10:34:10 AM

fundamentalist christians are worse pieces of trash than furries

3/4/2010 10:43:22 AM

YOU JUST BLEW MY MIND

What if it's a fundamentalist christian furry? OMG

3/4/2010 10:43:54 AM

if a shitload of my family were worse than gutter trash i'd try my best to criticize each and every subculture i could

so no worries, i can imagine where you're coming from

3/4/2010 10:46:03 AM

this reminded me of a pretty good depiction of how furries are viewed, even by other nerds:



[Edited on March 4, 2010 at 2:17 PM. Reason : ]

3/4/2010 2:16:46 PM

whoa by the time i typed that it was already the next page

[Edited on March 4, 2010 at 2:30 PM. Reason : fail]

3/4/2010 2:29:37 PM

I'm a furry, and I know this girl. I'm not telling you people her name. There are several furries at NC State.
Her motivation? Probably similar to my own, in that it's fun.

3/4/2010 7:03:53 PM

3/4/2010 7:07:59 PM

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"So what's the deal with the furries? I just don't get it. Can't people just have sex without having to dress up like a cartoon? Wtf happend to people..."

huh?
There is no sex in that picture. I think CeilingCat is a bit confused.

3/4/2010 7:25:52 PM

^ I can't be convinced that people do this "furry" crap without being associated with the fetish.

3/4/2010 7:31:15 PM

^ I disagree.
While a good portion of furries are into it as a fetish, there are some who have no interest in that, and even a few who claim to be asexual. Most of them don't even have fursuits, and if they do they don't want it dirtied that way. There are exceptions though, but its not a majority.

3/4/2010 7:39:49 PM

If you fantasize about literally being an animal while having sex, that counts. You don't need a "fursuit", whatever that is, it's about the fantasizing. At least that's what I remember from social deviance when we talked about S&M stuff

3/4/2010 7:46:12 PM

Wow, I have never heard of a furry before. Thank you TWW for opening my eyes once again to another group of strange fuckers in this world.

^ No offense puppy, but ya'll furries are some strange fucking people.

3/4/2010 7:47:59 PM

^^ Personally I don't pretend to be anything other than human while having sex. I can't speak for others though. My point was its not all about sex.

^ I know they are strange.

[Edited on March 4, 2010 at 7:53 PM. Reason : ^]

3/4/2010 7:52:22 PM

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"I can't be convinced that people do this "furry" crap without being associated with the fetish."

3/4/2010 7:53:45 PM

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"I can't be convinced that people do this "furry" crap without being associated with the fetish."

Those into things like cock and ball torture, anal dilation, and other D/S activites don't do that shit just cause...it's sexual in nature. We don't just walk around with 2" buttplugs all day because it's cute or something or [reason you fuckers do that stuff].

I'm not seeing any arguments or explanations as to how furryism can be separated from the sexual part.

3/4/2010 7:56:53 PM

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"Those into things like cock and ball torture, anal dilation, and other D/S activites don't do that shit just cause...it's sexual in nature. We don't just walk around with 2" buttplugs all day because it's cute or something"

Exactly. Those things are sexual. Wearing a tail, on the other hand, is not.

I wear a tail and a set of animal ears. Those items never enter the bedroom during sex, and never will. Again, I can't speak for other people, but its not completely sexual.

3/4/2010 8:24:45 PM

...At what point do 'furry fetishists' diverge from 'furry for fun only'?

3/4/2010 8:30:01 PM

^ You dress up for Halloween for fun. That doesn't mean you dress up for sex.



Though you definitely can

3/4/2010 8:32:21 PM

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"^ You dress up for Halloween for fun. That doesn't mean you dress up for sex."

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

clearly, we need to go to franklin st this year for halloween

3/4/2010 8:33:01 PM

I liken it to the anime crowd, you have some who enjoy the cartoons as they are. Not everybody who watches anime is a closet hentai fanatic. The sexual and nonsexual can be teased apart, just as the sexual and nonsexual parts to the furry fandom.

3/4/2010 8:33:43 PM

Having your girl dress up as a slutty nurse is NOT the same thing as dressing like animals and having sex.

3/4/2010 8:34:16 PM

dress up only for sex

dressing up for sex sometimes != only dressing up for sex





Furries may do it for sex sometimes, but that doesn't mean every time they do it is for sex.


^

[Edited on March 4, 2010 at 8:35 PM. Reason : ^]

3/4/2010 8:34:36 PM

Oh yeah

last night, my boss came to me asking if I knew what was up with her
1) He had previously been unaware of furry fetishists
2) I came faaaaaaaaaaar too close for comfort about telling him about TWW


(to be fair, most non-internet people would have a hard time understanding how on earth one could know enough about furries to answer such a question without actually being a member of that community. But my boss posts on somethingawful and peruses 4chan sometimes )

3/4/2010 8:36:31 PM

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"dressing up for sex sometimes != only dressing up for sex Furries may do it for sex sometimes, but that doesn't mean every time they do it is for sex."

Thank you! That's what I was saying. It isn't all about sex, but just like everything else, sex becomes a part of it.

3/4/2010 8:37:01 PM

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"but just like everything else, sex becomes a part of it"

No.
No.
No.

The mere presence of interaction, camaraderie, or shared interests does not automatically mean that sex will be integrated.

3/4/2010 8:38:28 PM

sex can become a part of it




the absolutes in this thread are messing with people

3/4/2010 8:39:46 PM

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"Having your girl dress up as a slutty nurse is NOT the same thing as dressing like animals and having sex."

but what about dressed as an animal who is in turn wearing a slutty nurse costume??

3/4/2010 8:41:10 PM

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"sex can become a part of it "

yes, Can. That's what I meant. Like I said earlier there are some furries who aren't into anything sexual at all (or at least claim not to be).

3/4/2010 8:44:32 PM

Frog: A rock and roll story.

3/4/2010 8:52:50 PM

3/4/2010 8:54:08 PM

aw, that lil pig looks happy

3/4/2010 8:56:55 PM

I went barefoot for 9 months while I was in college at NCSU. The only bad thing that happened was the stupid ass dining hall tried to kick me out for not wearing shoes (which they can't, by the way).

Campus is clean as hell, if you watch where you're walking (and aren't high on E like bottombaby) there's no problem whatsoever.

Also, furries are fucking retarded.

3/4/2010 9:13:43 PM

puppy's bottom lip makes me happy

3/4/2010 10:54:54 PM

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"puppy's bottom lip makes me happy "

3/4/2010 11:46:51 PM

Pretty sure people can't control their sexual fetishes, doesn't do a lot of good blaming them for it

3/5/2010 12:46:44 AM

^furry

3/5/2010 1:01:06 AM

I don't understand it. So being a furry means you like to dress up as an animal or just pretendyou are an animal. It's not always sexual? It's just a community of people who enjoy it?

So isit similar to people who like to dress as pirates or vampires or whatever other things they can think of.

3/5/2010 1:03:40 AM

I think the only thing that qualifies someone as a furry is dressing or acting like an animal or some shit I dunno

it seems pretty harmless to me at least they're not getting off on being ignorant bigots like the majorty of tdub

3/5/2010 1:07:39 AM

These people are basically 5 year olds that never grew up. Remember how you used to play cops and robbers? Yeah. These people are immature.

3/5/2010 1:13:46 AM

And some people develop a relationship with their internal monologue and become convinced they have a personal relationship with god

so what, people say and believe silly things

3/5/2010 1:17:46 AM

So people who like to walk around with various fake animals parts are causing a problem in our society? Are they raping our young children or something? I don't get the big deal...

3/5/2010 1:18:04 AM

^^^^^It's more about their mindset and approach to cultural ideas (yea, they have a "culture" with various "subcultures") than hallucinating they're animals. They associate with anthromorphic concepts, with the closeness of animals and how that might somehow reflect a personality or "fursona" as it's called. They have a main culture, which is predominantly identifying with different animal hybrids, their perceived traits as you would, and the basics of an established culture--they have literature and art, et cetera. This is a "furry".

Some people take it further into various subcultures and fetishes. "Sexual furries" may desire the sexual attributes of an animal, or just find attraction to these imagined beings. Just like any other sex practice, this devolves into fetishes I don't want to describe partly for our sanity and also for my reputation (I wasn't lying when I said I did research into furry culture for future Communication research). Other subcultures include what they call "fursuiters"--who are the people with the ridiculous amount of money or resources to take up the hobby of "fursuiting". This particular subculture is more public than others and is viewed as bizarre--it's also often the most viewed type of furry in the media, which often skews the subculture into being entirely about sex in a suit--which it's not. Some fursuiters do it just as a sort of expression of their adopted fursona. Others are attached so intimately to this (what they feel is a ) transformative process that they will have sex in a fursuit, to become closer to their perceived state of being and personality. Most furries are not like this, aren't that deep into the rabbit hole.




I.E. it has as much to do with an expression of marginalized culture. No research suggests that the core culture existed before easy access to the internet--which popularized anthromorphic art (subsequently pornography) and literature, which is still the basis for much furry interaction on the internet and in person. Furries are basically a formula culture with a weird concept that many of us see as foreign, and some see with hostility because of cultural misunderstandings predominantly informed by the mass media.

And I know I pretty much sunk any cool-factor I had going on by knowing all this. I am certainly not a furry but I know many of them, have talked with many, and interviewed a number of them on the basis of preliminary research for a Communication project, which I hope to turn into a sort of informative look into this undocumented culture. Furries in context are also interesting when studying the effect of internet are marginalized individuals and cultures. No furry should deny that the internet is a critical medium for their expression.

Yea, so, that's how it is from a scientific viewpoint. I think they're interesting, albeit weird. I'll probably be talking to puppy and others in the future if I continue my planned research. I'm amused no one has pointed out that puppy is an animal sciences major. It has nothing to do with bestiality folks.

[Edited on March 5, 2010 at 1:21 AM. Reason : ^^^^^]

[Edited on March 5, 2010 at 1:23 AM. Reason : ^^^^^^]

3/5/2010 1:21:11 AM

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"than hallucinating they're animals"

Do they actually hallucinate things?

I mean I could see delusional...but not hallucinating

3/5/2010 1:22:30 AM