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The Writhing Madness
4 months ago
'w'! Hello! I'd like to explain a few things about certain behaviors! And explain some things about me!
I study psychology, sociology, government, political sciences, geology, astronomy, and biology! All required for world building and creating entire cultures, continents, planets, and so on. It's helped me understand a lot in this world. That's not all I study, I also study sexual desires, fetishes, kinks, or whatever you'd like to call them; part of my psychology studies! So I have a coherent grasp on how peoples' desires work, as well as the darker side of those desires. I've dealt with many people in my life, both positive and negative.
When I see so many people claiming they know something that they've never researched, but have had a cursory glance at and formed their opinion based off their own morals or the influences of others around them, I try to educate; it's the teacher blood that runs in my family.
I'll give some examples of my studies of the furry fandom in the past 25 years.
The furry fandom is not a fetish, but many people in the fandom consider it so... Thus they conclude that anything in it is considered a fetish. The same goes for pride, thinking that being queer in any way is a 'fetish', and sexualized, when it's more than that. Pride was a riot for self expression and the ability to be oneself. It was about 'let me sex who I want, when I want', even though that'd be nice, it was about being true to oneself. The furry fandom is similar, it allows you to be something else, or be something you believe you are, or something connected to you; it's a sense of self. People who cannot separate a fandom from a fetish usually end up being unable to differentiate between reality and fiction. They also tend to be chronically online, whether they realize it or not, they obsess about things online more than in the real world.
Moving on... I'll explain in the next part something important. I work with psychiatric and therapy resources frequently. I work with individuals who are broken and desire change and to be better. I work with a lot of people who were abused, groomed, or otherwise hurt in their childhood. We work through a framework that helps them cope with these problems. There are many coping mechanisms one can do, and it can help them understand and finally overcome their trauma. These tactics are not only healthy, but proven to work by professionals and their patients.
I've met a plethora of people who needed help, who were abused. I was one of them, my coping is different. I won't go into too much detail on what my abuse was, it's personal, but I will say that everyone's coping style is different.
I've met babyfurs who were abused as children. They cope by trying to recover that lost innocence. Sometimes it's nsfw, but MOST of the time they keep it sfw coping. Sometimes reliving your abuse through roleplaying can help you figure out why it happened or why you or others let it happen (See hypnotherapy results for that), but most of the time, it's to show that you're in control of what happened to you. It isn't pushing it on others. These people don't want children abused, and will fight to death anyone who would dare do that to a child... But there are horrible people out there who would say they're just like their abusers... People who don't have any idea what is going on, because they'd rather judge and harm things they don't want to understand than try to figure things out. These angry people are abusing people in their own way...
I've seen horrible people in my time who would love to abuse children, actual MAPs that are still in the fandom, and I'll tell you this... Almost every single one? Does not have a babyfur/cubfur persona... They typically have adult personas that abuse cubs in artwork. There are outliers, there will always be outliers, so you should never blanket an entire group based on the outliers too; I have seen at least two of them with cub personae, but they also seem to enjoy the whole rape scene...
Almost every single cub fur I have met would gladly punch a pedophile because it attacks their own vulnerabilities, it hurts -THEM- because they see themselves as children too. They don't want to molest kids, they want to protect them from what they went through, or protect them in general! It's even worse when I see all these SFW cub artists who get attacked and called pedophile when they don't even have a single piece of NSFW art in their galleries, not even adult related stuff. This is because some delusional people cannot tell that the fandom is not a fetish. Furaffinity is not a 'porn site', it's an art site. These same people think people like me, an asexual person, who enjoy the aspect of artwork, porn or not, are sexual deviants. Fucking wild projecting... -w-... Anyways... They cannot think like me, like you, like anyone else but themselves. They cannot put themselves in the shoes of others, because they'd rather judge others.
Why am I writing this? Someone tried to call me out as a MAP for explaining psychology, all because I didn't 100% agree with them, or tell them the words they wanted to hear. Ironic, because I have no attraction to kids, no attraction to people at all, I'm asexual, I have NO ATTRACTION at all in real life. I will not name them, because call out journals are not only immature as fuck, but they're against FA's Terms of Service... But I hope they can better themselves and learn that they can understand the world instead of slinging accusations just because you disagree with someone... Because defamation is an actual thing. Screenshots and evidence can be gathered, and there are furries who have lawyers. One day, you will make a mistake, and you will regret it.
I study psychology, sociology, government, political sciences, geology, astronomy, and biology! All required for world building and creating entire cultures, continents, planets, and so on. It's helped me understand a lot in this world. That's not all I study, I also study sexual desires, fetishes, kinks, or whatever you'd like to call them; part of my psychology studies! So I have a coherent grasp on how peoples' desires work, as well as the darker side of those desires. I've dealt with many people in my life, both positive and negative.
When I see so many people claiming they know something that they've never researched, but have had a cursory glance at and formed their opinion based off their own morals or the influences of others around them, I try to educate; it's the teacher blood that runs in my family.
I'll give some examples of my studies of the furry fandom in the past 25 years.
The furry fandom is not a fetish, but many people in the fandom consider it so... Thus they conclude that anything in it is considered a fetish. The same goes for pride, thinking that being queer in any way is a 'fetish', and sexualized, when it's more than that. Pride was a riot for self expression and the ability to be oneself. It was about 'let me sex who I want, when I want', even though that'd be nice, it was about being true to oneself. The furry fandom is similar, it allows you to be something else, or be something you believe you are, or something connected to you; it's a sense of self. People who cannot separate a fandom from a fetish usually end up being unable to differentiate between reality and fiction. They also tend to be chronically online, whether they realize it or not, they obsess about things online more than in the real world.
Moving on... I'll explain in the next part something important. I work with psychiatric and therapy resources frequently. I work with individuals who are broken and desire change and to be better. I work with a lot of people who were abused, groomed, or otherwise hurt in their childhood. We work through a framework that helps them cope with these problems. There are many coping mechanisms one can do, and it can help them understand and finally overcome their trauma. These tactics are not only healthy, but proven to work by professionals and their patients.
I've met a plethora of people who needed help, who were abused. I was one of them, my coping is different. I won't go into too much detail on what my abuse was, it's personal, but I will say that everyone's coping style is different.
I've met babyfurs who were abused as children. They cope by trying to recover that lost innocence. Sometimes it's nsfw, but MOST of the time they keep it sfw coping. Sometimes reliving your abuse through roleplaying can help you figure out why it happened or why you or others let it happen (See hypnotherapy results for that), but most of the time, it's to show that you're in control of what happened to you. It isn't pushing it on others. These people don't want children abused, and will fight to death anyone who would dare do that to a child... But there are horrible people out there who would say they're just like their abusers... People who don't have any idea what is going on, because they'd rather judge and harm things they don't want to understand than try to figure things out. These angry people are abusing people in their own way...
I've seen horrible people in my time who would love to abuse children, actual MAPs that are still in the fandom, and I'll tell you this... Almost every single one? Does not have a babyfur/cubfur persona... They typically have adult personas that abuse cubs in artwork. There are outliers, there will always be outliers, so you should never blanket an entire group based on the outliers too; I have seen at least two of them with cub personae, but they also seem to enjoy the whole rape scene...
Almost every single cub fur I have met would gladly punch a pedophile because it attacks their own vulnerabilities, it hurts -THEM- because they see themselves as children too. They don't want to molest kids, they want to protect them from what they went through, or protect them in general! It's even worse when I see all these SFW cub artists who get attacked and called pedophile when they don't even have a single piece of NSFW art in their galleries, not even adult related stuff. This is because some delusional people cannot tell that the fandom is not a fetish. Furaffinity is not a 'porn site', it's an art site. These same people think people like me, an asexual person, who enjoy the aspect of artwork, porn or not, are sexual deviants. Fucking wild projecting... -w-... Anyways... They cannot think like me, like you, like anyone else but themselves. They cannot put themselves in the shoes of others, because they'd rather judge others.
Why am I writing this? Someone tried to call me out as a MAP for explaining psychology, all because I didn't 100% agree with them, or tell them the words they wanted to hear. Ironic, because I have no attraction to kids, no attraction to people at all, I'm asexual, I have NO ATTRACTION at all in real life. I will not name them, because call out journals are not only immature as fuck, but they're against FA's Terms of Service... But I hope they can better themselves and learn that they can understand the world instead of slinging accusations just because you disagree with someone... Because defamation is an actual thing. Screenshots and evidence can be gathered, and there are furries who have lawyers. One day, you will make a mistake, and you will regret it.
It should always remain that way. Puritans and bullies and those who would seek to "fix the freaks" have no place here. They are intruding on our space. People who see this as nothing more than a vehicle for porn have no place here. They are intruding on our space.
I don't think that's quite what youn meant to say.
There’s a paradox in modern society: the more you learn, the less ignorant you become—but also, the more aware you are of how much there is still left to learn. It’s almost Socratic in nature. Reaching that point, though, requires a willingness to explore uncomfortable topics, even those that don’t neatly align with prevailing values. Many people would rather avoid that discomfort entirely, choosing instead to stay within their comfort zones, unchallenged. But that’s not how anyone grows—right?
It’s a terrible shame that, despite the countless inequalities and forms of suffering in the world, some people choose the path most antithetical to progress. There are children laboring in sweatshops, animals subjected to cruel testing, civilians caught in senseless violence, chemicals leaching into our water supply, and widespread famine. And yet, for some, yelling at strangers over cartoons somehow feels like a radical force for good. I’m sure you feel the same way I do—there are far better ways to spend one’s energy.
The hard truth is that many of these individuals have made little effort to understand how the human psyche actually works. They assume fiction mirrors reality on a 1:1 scale, rather than recognizing it as metaphor—an emotional journey meant to challenge, reflect, and provoke. As all good fiction does.
I often think of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal and wonder how it would be received today. Would an increasingly media-illiterate audience take it at face value? Would they read Nabokov’s Lolita and miss that it’s a study in the unreliable narrator? Would Flowers for Algernon be mistaken for a nonfiction memoir? I digress.
No matter how carefully something is written, there will always be those who interpret it in bad faith. Is it the result of unresolved moral OCD? Perhaps. But someone like you—who clearly holds strong, grounded values in the real world—needn’t concern yourself with the projections of those who are simply trying to meet unmet emotional needs. With any luck, they’ll one day channel that energy into real-world change.
I hope you’re spared the heartache of dealing with such people in the future. You owe no explanations or justifications to anyone worth engaging with. Those with a clear mind can distinguish fiction from reality—and recognize the often ugly truth of the world as it is. But it doesn’t have to stay that way. We’re all capable of meaningful change—so long as we commit ourselves to making it happen in the world that actually exists. ;)
In the interest of exposing a personal vulnerability for the sake of adding credence to my words: my first memory on this Earth was in a CSA therapist's office. Professionals almost always encourage expression as a form of coping and re-contextualizing trauma—so long as the patient can benefit. It isn't for everyone. But it certainly shouldn't be taken away from those who need it most.
And yes! 'w'! That is also what I have gone through with my own experts when I was younger.
I hope that you can continue to explore fiction however it services your needs. And I hope you have a lovely day! :)
This is always a sign of immaturity and/or inexperience with the real world.