Teknevra

I’m a furry and i am weirdly interested by the furry fandom from like a philosophical standpoint.

Fetishes in particular interest me a fair amount.

Some fetishes borderline on surrealist horror once you think about them too much.

I kind of wanted to write a story set in a furry world where common furry fetishes are like a phenomenon that are taken completely seriously.

I think a good example is the concept of inflation.

It’s quite horrific once you start thinking about it in a non-sexual context.

Someone expanding until they explode in a mass of bloated gore.

I feel like I only realized how weird furries really are once I started thinking from an outsider’s point of view.

All of this is strange, very strange, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I think furries have great potential for satire and surrealist horror/comedy that I don’t feel has been properly exploited.

The furry fandom feels “alienated” in my opinion. Anthropomorphic animals are a widespread concept yet the furry fandom feels like it is focused on specific attributes.

For example, femboys. Go on pretty much any furry group and you are likely to encounter a femboy character somewhere.

The fact that femboys are so common in the furry fandom intrigues me as at first glance effeminate men and anthropomorphic animals have absolutely no correlation whatsoever.

I badly want to write a story that is somewhat a satire of the furry fandom.

Not coming from a standpoint of hate but curiosity and just sort of poking a bit of fun at a lot of “tropes” within the fandom.

I imagine it would likely be intentionally chaotic and probably not very good story-wise, but I’d want to put it out there anyway even if it wasn’t so good. The furry fandom itself is just something im weirdly fixated on at the moment.

Hey everyone, I'm a little new to being involved in the community, so I don't really know if I should do anything about this.

A fursuit maker I follow just posted a wip of a premade they plan to sell at a con.

It looks great so far, but the thing is it looks almost identical to my sona: same colors, same patterns, potentially same species (they didn't mention the species).

The only difference is they might have added white eyebrows? But that could also be the base underneath.

I assume its a coincidence, as I'm a very small?

Essentially no-name artist, but it feels really weird.

Should I say anything?

Can I ask them to make a change to it?

I don't know what is allowed here.

I don't think they posted a ref for the suit idea so I don't know what their plan for the entire premade is.

They're also a big suit maker and I do NOT want to start drama, especially if its nothing.

If I'm being stupid please feel free to call me out I guess.

Been wanting to make a new sona lately, putting more thought on the design and colors because my current one was rushed and I didn't add literally anything, most design choices were made by the artist herself, and I didn't really question it.

But what would be a good way to design one if you lack skills to draw/model?

I thought maybe finding artists who are willing to help you with it but ig it'll be hard to find one since they have other clients.

I suppose my other option would be to just grab a pencil and learn to draw lmao.

Seriously.

Before really getting into the fandom ~5 years ago I could count on one hand the number of times I had been ghosted or otherwise actively ignored by a close friend, online or in real life.

With other furs, though, I constantly get ghosted, randomly blocked, or otherwise ignored.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why.

I try my best to be nice to everyone. I give people a safe space to vent when they need it and a friend to talk to and chill with when they don't.

Still, the majority of my furry best friends over the years have eventually just randomly fallen out with me and gone silent.

I have AuDHD and I really struggle with social skills and context clues, so when I get ghosted it creates a huge lack of closure and makes me dwell on things, wondering what I did wrong and why they won't tell me. I get that they're "not real friends" or "not worth my time" and that whole rhyme and dance. I don't really care. It still hurts like hell.

I know some people dont like furries but this never really made sense.

To me it just feels like people are taking the furry community way too seriously.

People act like dating outside of the fandom is like dating interracially back during segergation. Furries where never slaves or discriminated against .

You guys are just people who like animals and wear costumes (if you can afford it).

I know some people online and real life have been mean but its really not that bad.

Also with alot of people complaining dating is terriable now you dont really have much a choice to be too pickly lol.

Also also I feel some people are a bit too picky. I know alot of people want to choose a partner thats like them (or that their attracted to) but everyone isnt going to be exactly like you.

Thats ok relationships aren't about liking the same things. It may help start some but not all.

I feel most people outside of the community IN REAL LIFE dont really care as long as your a nice person and dont make furry their whole life.

I know the title sounds stupid but hear me out, during covid a lot of people didn’t have much to do as everyone was inside. Some chose to learn to draw causing them to create that content, existing artists had a lot more time on their hands if they worked as it all went remote except for some jobs and a lot of people kinda just stopped caring as Covid and its potential lethality was constantly looming and started making what they liked usually already established sfw artists starting to pump out NSFW content

Am I being stupid, or do I kinda have a point?

Talking about feral dragons here.

For example: walking in the grocery store, (assuming it has doors big enough for them to enter by) haven't worked out how they're going to hold a basket yet, but let's say they pick up some parsley, or a head of lettuce, and it's wilty, or has those slimy decaying parts, and they put it back with the same hand they were just touching the floor with.

I know it's pretty normal to do that with humans and most people wash (hopefully) their produce before eating it anyway but our hands also aren't touching the filthy floor all the time.

Would this be acceptable or shameful behavior?

Not defending it or nothing, just curiosity into what the appeal is for feral NSFW.

I’ll be honest,

I see so many well drawn/well animated furry memes all over Reddit, but the punchlines are always „haha sex!!!“ or „haha im lonely!“ or something.

95% of furry memes I see make no sense at all or are just horny.

Am I the only one here?

There seems to be no actual thought behind most of them?

I'm into:

pop/ska-punk,

industrial,

alt-rock,

EDM,

post-punk,

synthpop,

rap,

and

darkwave.

Do you folks have any artist, album or song recommendations from the "furry music" space that fit in any of these genres?

The FBI has raided the leader of the since-disbanded group of gay furry hackers who released data on the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, the Daily Dot and Computing report.

A former member of the group SiegedSec, mewmrrpmeow, broke the news of the raid in a post to X.

"I regret to inform you that vio's location was raided earlier today," user mewmrrpmeow warned in the post. "She is no longer accessible, contactable, or reliable."

[...]

While the hack of Project 2025 gained the most attention for SiegedSec, the hack of the Idaho National Laboratory could be the focus of the FBI raid with the most serious of potential charges. If the Department of Homeland Security determined the hack was an act of terrorism or espionage, vio could be facing up to life in prison.