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Furries The best part is you not only get to hang out with lots of fluffy animal people (who often share your variety of not quite cis and straight), you get t

Furries The best part is you not only get to hang out with lots of fluffy animal people (who often share your variety of not quite cis and straight), you get to bring all your hobbies along. Lots of furry musicians, programmers, writers, etc.

xena 8y ago
Furries are basically the bulk of my usable professional network. It's great.
- mr_overalls 8y ago
  Now I'm curious about what you do professionally.
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jmcgough 8y ago
My furry friends throw awesome parties and are some of the most creative people I know. I've gotten a lot better at DJing thanks to them :)
SCUSKU 8y ago
Sometimes I wish I was one because it seems like in a tight knit community like that you can make some really good friends that will have your back and help you out.
- rainbowmverse 8y ago
  There's no entry fee or test. Sometimes furries will even adopt people! Go look up Boozy Badger for a recent example. You can just decide you're a furry and find an entry point into the community. There's even a furry making new ones with every match in the fighting game community.
- LeoPanthera 8y ago
  All you have to do to be a furry is... decide to be a furry. That's it! The culture is super welcoming.
amelius 8y ago
How do you deal with the unfavorable thermal properties of those suits?
- rainbowmverse 8y ago
  Fursuiters are a tiny part of the community. Most people can't afford the $1-17k they cost even if they want one. I don't know what they use to keep cool.
- LeoPanthera 8y ago
  It can be very difficult. Solutions range from wearing a cooling vest that contains gel packs (you freeze them before wearing them) to fursuits with integrated cooling fans. (Often they vent through the ears.)
LeoPanthera 8y ago
My favorite thing about the furry fandom is that, for most fandoms, the thing you share is that you're a fan of something, whether that's a TV show or an artist or whatever. The biggest thing that furries have in common is that they are fans of each other. There's no other central rallying point. It's a culture that encourages niceness.
fraudsyndrome 8y ago
This is interesting.. I've only ever heard bad (well odd) things about them mainly on reddit but I admit I'm quite ignorant on literally everything to do with that culture. Could you please shed some more light on this community? Maybe a link that describes it properly - I can google but could stumble upon maybe an unfactual website without knowing it. A community that encourages niceness is something I haven't really heard of before yet sounds super interesting - that's not to say that a community has to explicitly say they're nice to be nice. I know I've had my fair share of going out of my comfort zone meeting others and not knowing whether they are "that" person or not. Although maybe it's good for me to come to terms with knowing that not everyone is friendly and that that's okay.
- rainbowmverse 8y ago
  A lot of the niceness comes from furries being majority LGBTQ+, so they know what it's like to be shut out of things, talked down to, and generally treated poorly for no good reason. One good place to start is with the main furry wiki's own definitions: http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry and http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_fandom http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_fandom

xena 8y ago

Furries are basically the bulk of my usable professional network. It's great.

mr_overalls 8y ago
Now I'm curious about what you do professionally.
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jmcgough 8y ago

My furry friends throw awesome parties and are some of the most creative people I know. I've gotten a lot better at DJing thanks to them :)

SCUSKU 8y ago

Sometimes I wish I was one because it seems like in a tight knit community like that you can make some really good friends that will have your back and help you out.

rainbowmverse 8y ago
There's no entry fee or test. Sometimes furries will even adopt people! Go look up Boozy Badger for a recent example. You can just decide you're a furry and find an entry point into the community. There's even a furry making new ones with every match in the fighting game community.
LeoPanthera 8y ago
All you have to do to be a furry is... decide to be a furry. That's it! The culture is super welcoming.

amelius 8y ago

How do you deal with the unfavorable thermal properties of those suits?

rainbowmverse 8y ago
Fursuiters are a tiny part of the community. Most people can't afford the $1-17k they cost even if they want one. I don't know what they use to keep cool.
LeoPanthera 8y ago
It can be very difficult. Solutions range from wearing a cooling vest that contains gel packs (you freeze them before wearing them) to fursuits with integrated cooling fans. (Often they vent through the ears.)

LeoPanthera 8y ago

My favorite thing about the furry fandom is that, for most fandoms, the thing you share is that you're a fan of something, whether that's a TV show or an artist or whatever. The biggest thing that furries have in common is that they are fans of each other. There's no other central rallying point. It's a culture that encourages niceness.

fraudsyndrome 8y ago

This is interesting.. I've only ever heard bad (well odd) things about them mainly on reddit but I admit I'm quite ignorant on literally everything to do with that culture. Could you please shed some more light on this community? Maybe a link that describes it properly - I can google but could stumble upon maybe an unfactual website without knowing it. A community that encourages niceness is something I haven't really heard of before yet sounds super interesting - that's not to say that a community has to explicitly say they're nice to be nice. I know I've had my fair share of going out of my comfort zone meeting others and not knowing whether they are "that" person or not. Although maybe it's good for me to come to terms with knowing that not everyone is friendly and that that's okay.

rainbowmverse 8y ago
A lot of the niceness comes from furries being majority LGBTQ+, so they know what it's like to be shut out of things, talked down to, and generally treated poorly for no good reason. One good place to start is with the main furry wiki's own definitions: http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry and http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_fandom http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_fandom