i’m sure my icon speaks for itself here, but i’ve definitely seen a few of you skittering about in some of our threads. show yourselves at once! maybe post your fursona even (if it’s safe for work)

  • @woteorin@beehaw.org
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    610 months ago

    … Do I still get to claim I’m merely “fandom adjacent” if I’ve crafted several 'sonas and have actively played as them in various media? Asking for a friend. :P

      • @woteorin@beehaw.org
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        210 months ago

        Darn. Ah well, wouldn’t be the first time I’ve realized I’m something well after crossing the threshold. Won’t be the last.

    • Moneymunkie
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      410 months ago

      Yeah think ya got a terminal case of the pathOwOgen there bud :p

            • Moneymunkie
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              610 months ago

              You may stop for now but the seed has already been planted mwhahahaha evil thunder sounds

              • @woteorin@beehaw.org
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                310 months ago

                You monster. Even if the gods forgive you I…

                Okay, I’ll probably also forgive you. Eventually.

                • Moneymunkie
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                  310 months ago

                  Would it help if I pulled out the finger guns as a hail mary attempt to distract from the weight of my sins?

                  I dunno if it would actually do anything but it feels rad to do regardless :p

  • @wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org
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    510 months ago

    Entry level furry. If it’s a character I like, I might do the deed to them but I don’t seek it out outside of that

  • SavvyWolf
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    510 months ago

    Hello! I don’t get involved in the community much (because shy), but I would consider myself as some kind of wolf.

  • @pridefulofbeing@beehaw.org
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    510 months ago

    I’m not. I’ve always been curious about how people learn about it, realize they’re a furry, etc.

    What’s your story of how you became a furry? What does it mean to you?

    • Moneymunkie
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      210 months ago

      Think I joined and made a fursona around 2018 but I’d thought they were pretty neat ages before. I think I took the plunge since the community appeared to be very friendly as was quite LGBT positive and I was looking for somewhere to make some friends. Went to a meet at the city closest to me and then boom, here I be :D

    • alyaza [they/she]OPM
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      adjacent to the community since 2011; i created my fursona in 2017 because most of the people i am friends with are also furries. that remains the case. this is just kind of an intrinsic part of my personality and if i’m honest it makes talking with more normally oriented people kind of boring 😅

  • wispikat
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    410 months ago

    have furries been thriving on the fediverse all this time?! eg, mastodon. i legitimately feel like I’ve noticed a furry “void” in my usual internet spaces for a few years…

    • alyaza [they/she]OPM
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      there does seem to be a dearth of them around here and a lot of that probably has to do with the explosion of the mastodon instance snouts.online a few years back and a generally bad experience with mastodon many furries (at least in my circles) had back around 2019-2020

        • alyaza [they/she]OPM
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          it’s been years now but just the generally, for lack of better term, “wokescold”-y or “shitlib”-y vibe of mastodon did a lot of that. the community felt extremely overbearing at times with content warnings and social norms, in a way that especially didn’t vibe with groups that are repressed and want to talk about those experiences. a lot of it was of course just technically confusing for some people, as was trying to leverage network effects to stick with your friends. some people–artists especially–had specific needs that were hard to meet with migration. and the whole process in general was haphazard and over time as people settled inevitably mastodon politics also got in the way of it, what with defederation being an option and all.

          eventually i think it just burned a lot of people out on the platform in a way that has really precluded swathes of the furry community from setting up shop on another federated place, to avoid something like that happening again.

          • Pixel
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            110 months ago

            The moral high ground some mastodon users seem to hold over people that have been slower to migrate for any number of completely justifiable reasons has been a definite sticking point in my attempts to switch over to the fediverse as my primary way of keeping up with the internet. Its frustrating but I hope the influx of new users will change the tone a little bit – hopefully not too terribly much, but one that’s a bit more… patient would be nice

          • ATGM 🚀
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            Gotcha. I remember the content warnings being a bit odd on there. Perhaps on a future platform or platform iteration, CW’s can be a built-in feature perhaps by tag. Then users could opt or in to those contents, or cover it with warnings before display.

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        210 months ago

        mmmmm that does ring some bells. i hadn’t really delved into it at the time, and i’d heard tales of drama… (which might be the reason for the former!)

  • @Manticore@beehaw.org
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    410 months ago

    I’ve moved in and out of the spaces for a while but never fully immersed, in part because I didn’t feel strongly about any potential fursonas, and have a disinterest in the most popular art styles used. I’ve used a rat as an avatar in the past but I don’t consider the rat to be representative of me so much as my artist’s signature. And it’s always been drawn as a cartoon rat, not an anthro rat.

    I did used to draw a lot of aliens, monsters, and dragon-people though, and identify with those. It helped me feel stronger or more capable to imagine myself that way. If I ever do settle on an animal to present me online and join the furry community ‘properly’, it will probably end up being either a fantasy fusion, a scalie, or both.

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      Has a furry community on Beehaw been considered? I don’t know enough to decide if it is necessary or not based on the number of people here. I think Creative would suffice so long as those browsing there aren’t bothered by it. But I wonder if furries are already hesitant to post to general art places in case it isn’t received as well. I want to see all the furry OC’s and artwork people have to share here, but I also understand that turning half the posts on Creative into furry content could get annoying to those who don’t want to go there for that.

      not immediately; if things started to get crowded in Creative a community would probably get created. for what it’s worth also my post was received pretty well earlier this week, so i don’t think people mind too much, lol

  • Pixel
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    +1 here, funnily. But only kind of? Kinda associated with the community when I was younger, grew a little away from it but still consider myself one? Just happy to be a dog on the internet I suppose haha

    • alyaza [they/she]OPM
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      210 months ago

      probably half of the coolest people i know are also dogs on the internet so this may be an intrinsic property of being one

      • Pixel
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        110 months ago

        That’s a high bar to clear I hope I can be that cool one day

    • alyaza [they/she]OPM
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      as i’ve noted before furries are the vanguard of any successful online community so any niche you can find them in is probably a stable one

      • Moneymunkie
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        810 months ago

        Plus if all those furries working in tech just went poof, then the internet would probably collapse!

      • @winterstillness@beehaw.org
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        410 months ago

        It really comes down to having a “place” to engage in. I don’t think beehaw/lemmy has a furry community yet. This is further complicated with “art” (which I understand, hosting+moderation). One of the things I’ll miss from reddit is those communities. Granted, I was lurking more for the “art”.