What's Jesin's Guilty Secret? [Thread Split]

[murkrow]

What is it about furriness that you find intriguing?

It seems pretty ridiculous to me.

 

[Zero]

Furries? You mean the humanoid animals right? I've seen a lot of people interested in those... I don't care for them myself... at all, but I'm an anime, manga and gamer fan, so I've seen them and like their musk (catboy/catgirl) counterparts. I'm not sure what the whole hobby includes as in "being a furry" (will have to look it up).

 

[murkrow]

It means you want to have sex with people while you wear a big fuzzy costume.

 

[Jesin]

Now, see, that is the bad publicity I was talking about.

No, it doesn't. It just so happens that the media picked out the few people who do that, and only paid attention to them. It makes for a better story.

 

[Cabbo Pearimo]

Googlewhacking?
Type in "scullery wench" in google (quotes included) and you get one result. That is a googlewhack. Type in "metamorphic captian" and you get 1 result (albeit an undesirable one), and that's a googlewhack. Alway include quotes, and if the 1 result is a list of words, it doesn't count. Has to be on google. Has to be real words recognised by google (unfortunately that does not include octopodes, the correct plural for octopus), has to be two words.

 

[Jesin]

Cabbo, you sure this is in the right thread? By the way, guessing is closed here; ghost already got it.

 

[Cabbo Pearimo]

I know, I just wanted to post that. Sue me.


CSI showed me furries. And, hang on, now that I think about it, this has already been brought up and disposed of as terrible conversation. Shame that.

Yiffing is the sex thing, furries are the old men who dress up to hug children. Oooh.

 

[Jesin]

Ah, yes. CSI.

That CSI episode is one of the two most infamous misrepresentations of furriness, right up there with the Vanity Fair article. Don't believe everything you see on TV.

There has been some positive media coverage since then, for example:
http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=3873
However, many more people watched the CSI episode than read that article.

 

[murkrow]

Okay so furries dress up in fuzzy costumes and what? LARP?

This isn't getting any more bad ass.

 

[Jesin]

Most furries actually don't dress up in fuzzy costumes, and I don't know what LARP means. Furries aren't trying to be bad-ass from the point of view of outsiders any more than Trekkies are, possibly even less.

 

[murkrow]

Trekkies are bad ass.

If they don't dress up in fuzzy costumes then what defines them?

 

[CowSavior]

I hate guessing things.

It's so obnoxious.

Trekkies are bad ass.

If they don't dress up in fuzzy costumes then what defines them?

Spock's (idk how it's spelled. I'm not a trekkie.) gang sign.

 

[Jesin]

If they don't dress up in fuzzy costumes then what defines them?

As I said, they can't seem to agree on that. Seems to me that it's usually anyone who considers himself a furry and/or has a fursona.

As for why I'm interested in this, I don't really know. It's partly the psychology of it all, things like "Why would anyone be interested in this?" and "If an outsider saw this without any context for it, what would he think?". That's not the only reason, but I don't know what the other reasons are.

 

[Radioactive_Springtime]

Live Action RolePlay imagine dnd in costume.

 

[murkrow]

D&D in costume with no DM

 

[Linsejko]

I'm also most interested in trying to understand why this appeals to you. The only thing I can imagine is a sense of community- why this particular community uniquely appeals to you does not make sense to me, but... to each his own, I guess.

It really comes down to an intuitive like or dislike. You don't really decide what appeals to you, at best we can only influence ourselves.

.L

 

[Oblivious]

As I said, they can't seem to agree on that. Seems to me that it's usually anyone who considers himself a furry and/or has a fursona.

As for why I'm interested in this, I don't really know. It's partly the psychology of it all, things like "Why would anyone be interested in this?" and "If an outsider saw this without any context for it, what would he think?". That's not the only reason, but I don't know what the other reasons are.

Romantic association.

 

[Jesin]

To Radioactive_Springtime and murkrow: it appears that there is more online than face-to-face interaction.

Oblivious, what do you mean by "romantic association"?


I think my wondering about why I'm interested in this is partially responsible for my attitude that if you've heard anything good about a thing, it's worth looking into at least a little bit.

Now that I'm trying to explain my interest in this to other people, why I chose this and not something else is making less and less sense.

Let's see if I can't drag something and someone else into this. Oblivious, Tenseiken, what is it that you like so much about anime?

 

[Oblivious]

Romantic association is probably why we do anything impractical, a very general iconcept that beautiful and unique ideas can be associated with certain subjects. These ideas vary from person to person and might come more easily to different people than others because of certain barriers or lack of certain tendencies.

I think we romantically associate primarily to explore what we find beautiful or intriguing since to do so is fun or exciting.

In a case when it is morality or what one views as conventional knowledge that holds a person back from romantically associating an idea or a concept, it is easy for that person to view those who are able to do this as disturbed, wrong or sick.

Personally, I would rather forget about subjective and skewed standpoints and view matters as they are, objectively. I think this is one of the reasons people find intp weird, since we do not living in the same dimension or are bound by the same rules.

I like anime because of its wonderful diversity and its creative and intellectual richness. Of course there are certain shows that cater to different tastes, but the well done series are always worth a watch.

It also grants me insight into the interesting mentality and culture of the japanese people. Of course what we mainly see is its subculture and at times, underbelly, but I am a person who would rather see things holistically and so I would not have it any other way.

There are those who would argue that anime only shows a very selective glimpse and is quite unrealistic. However I will say in reply that while that is true in certain cases, it is hardly in all. I can learn about the japanese psyche simply because anime was written by a japanese person and the fact that the imagination that fuels anime is not as bound by societal conventions means I can glean a more intimate and deeper look into the japanese psyche.

Well thats why I like anime, its a ride.

 

[Zero]

Live action role playing and air guitar I would have to say.... I would find the worst...

I read on Urban Dictionary that Furries is just the name given to people who like Furries... And furries are just those humanoid animals and I guess character animals themselves?

Did I see something about the dreaded CSI on here? Ugh...

 

[loveofreason]

Now that I've read about it I'd like to say that I what I find weird is that this interest is considered weird and that a furtive subculture has developed.

What's not to like about anthropomorphic art? Who doesn't have an animal persona?

I'd like to imagine that the Furry culture is a shadow response to the puritanical separation of humanity from the rest of nature. Some portion of our collective psyche erupting to remind us of our proper place within the rest of the animal kingdom; of our belonging to the family of life.

That most identifications seem to be centred around canine and feline morphs is probably due to the antiquity of our shared cultural development. Both ancestral dogs and cats overcame their fear of fire to join us in those earliest tribal camps. They are an integral part of our 'memory' and for most of human history the bond was exalted in custom, story, myth and present in daily awareness. We once were not afraid to show our 'animal' natures.

 

[Linsejko]

What's not to like about anthropomorphic art? Who doesn't have an animal persona?

Not to put a damper on such a cheery post, but I do not find myself a fan. Just, doesn't entice me.

And I certainly don't feel like I have an 'animal persona'.

Perhaps you also are soon to be a furry, lor?

.L

 

[Jesin]

I think persona was probably the wrong word there.

Linsejko, I understand what you mean when you say you don't find yourself a fan, but...

I don't know, I was sort of expecting very little, but not nothing. When someone posts about an experience they've had, I can almost always think of some time when I've felt the same way to at least some degree. Your posts (and those of several others here) show no indication of that, which surprises me. Do you really not get it at all, not even a little bit?

I wouldn't say that LOR is "soon to be a" furry, more like "capable of appreciating". That would really be her call, though.

 

[loveofreason]

Just deleted the off-topic chatter...

to respond to above, well it may be that "she's a furry-empathiser" more than a "soon to be furry".

Time for my walk. Must trot off now.

 

[Oblivious]

Well one of my team members compared me to a wolf before. Cold, merciless, calculating, cunning, patient, yet part of a team.

At least when I am working. When I am working only the job matters really.

 

[Privateer]

Wild Boar, all the way. That's more of a totem-thing, though.