Who's a furry here?

[Gyaradoskiller]

I know it's me, Haruka, ..................... who else?

[Dark Desire]

excuse my ignorance but what is a furry exactly? <<

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

^ yea I really don't know either lol.

[Amethyst]

A furry is someone who adopts an anthropomorphic persona, usually for art, character, identity, roleplay, or some other purpose.

For those who don't know what anthropomorphism is:

"the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object"

When dealing with furries, however, we are of course, referring to the animal option there. A furry is someone who identifies with an animal, for instance, as a cat person, so adopts cat like characteristics in their behaviour.

There are a lot of instance of furry in media. For instance, one might argue that the characters of the old children's TV show, Arthur, were furry. Another recent example is the Steam RPG, Dust: An Elysian Tale (as a side note, the flying creature in the top left, Fidget, would not necessarily be considered a furry character because she isn't all that human-like (although she is adorable)- but she's not the point; every other character in the game down to the NPCs is furry)

As a side note, the usual cat-girl paradigm from anime stuff is not typically considered 'furry'. For instance, Katt from the Breath of Fire RPG series is an example of a character who crosses over from normal nekomimi into furry territory, because as you can see, she actually has fur aside from ears and a tail- however Ahri, from League of Legends, would probably not be considered furry because she only has ears/tail as her animalistic traits

Anyway, furries tend to get a lot of undeserved hate on the internet because a few years ago someone, probably from 4chan, popularized the notion that furriness was strictly a fetishistic thing (possibly crossing over into bestiality) and a lot of people got riled up against it without really understanding what it was. There is nothing inherently sexual about being a furry, and they are not actually sexually attracted to animals. So let's just be clear about that before anyone gets too concerned.

[Gyaradoskiller]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

Here, a good article on it.

[Greed_Demon]

No but I DO have my interests as you can see below my picture

[Raindrop Valkyrie]

I see thanks for the clarification lol. and I knew what anthropomorphic was etc... but didn't know how it related.

[Shanco]

I guess...? I'm kind of on the fence in that regard. Not a genuine interest but not a turn-off either.

[Aaron]

ew

[Amethyst]

@ Erick, Aaron, anyone else who feels it necessary to voice their dislike for furries:

What, after I just said in my post that there is no significant merit to the hate against furries, makes you think that it's okay to come in with disrespectful comments and images to a topic meant for people to connect to others with similar interests? Especially in the face of our first rule, which I know both of you are well acquainted with.

[Aaron]

i love it when you get all stern ame-kun <3 :Kappa:

Edited December 31, 2013 by Aaron

[Godot]

A lot of people label me a furry... Which is odd but understandable I guess =/

i always thought of my Wolf persona as an alias...