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You, your fursona, and your genitals
14 years ago
Okay, maybe not your genitals so much...
I've always had a strange, nearly perverse, interest in one of the fandom's biggest component, the 'fursona.' When I first fell into the warm and awkwardly sticky puddle that is the furry fandom, I found myself enamored with the idea of fursonas.
"Something that represents you but isn't really you? That's kinda weird." thought the younger and much chubbier me, but like a train wreak, I couldn't pull myself away from the idea. A few weeks later I set to work scouring the furry websites both clean and not-so-clean....Mostly not-so-clean, for ideas I could run with. Soon after that my fursona, Darokko, was born, an average everyday crocodile. Even sooner after that I scraped the idea...Quickly and quietly changing him to a dragon.
A while later of lurking around the edges of the fandom I decided to actually start doing a little writing, (seeing as I can't draw to save a small Indian child from a painful death) and in doing my ...Lets call it "research" I learned another interesting facet of the fursona.
"Wait...They don't have to be exactly like their owner?...Hooooly and shit." This simple realization changed a lot for me, it gave understanding of the concept of one person having multiple fursona's and having a fursona that was entirely different from you.
So time to get to the real matter at hand, I wanted to ask how do my dear watchers view fursonae, do you think they are necessary for the fandom to run (fairly) smoothly, or perhaps you feel that we would be better off without them and the misleading image they can project, or maybe you think that they are something that sweaty nerds living in maternal basements invented so the can have some form of attention and everyone caught on. ((No I don't think all furries are sweaty nerds...Okay maybe a little...))
I've always had a strange, nearly perverse, interest in one of the fandom's biggest component, the 'fursona.' When I first fell into the warm and awkwardly sticky puddle that is the furry fandom, I found myself enamored with the idea of fursonas.
"Something that represents you but isn't really you? That's kinda weird." thought the younger and much chubbier me, but like a train wreak, I couldn't pull myself away from the idea. A few weeks later I set to work scouring the furry websites both clean and not-so-clean....Mostly not-so-clean, for ideas I could run with. Soon after that my fursona, Darokko, was born, an average everyday crocodile. Even sooner after that I scraped the idea...Quickly and quietly changing him to a dragon.
A while later of lurking around the edges of the fandom I decided to actually start doing a little writing, (seeing as I can't draw to save a small Indian child from a painful death) and in doing my ...Lets call it "research" I learned another interesting facet of the fursona.
"Wait...They don't have to be exactly like their owner?...Hooooly and shit." This simple realization changed a lot for me, it gave understanding of the concept of one person having multiple fursona's and having a fursona that was entirely different from you.
So time to get to the real matter at hand, I wanted to ask how do my dear watchers view fursonae, do you think they are necessary for the fandom to run (fairly) smoothly, or perhaps you feel that we would be better off without them and the misleading image they can project, or maybe you think that they are something that sweaty nerds living in maternal basements invented so the can have some form of attention and everyone caught on. ((No I don't think all furries are sweaty nerds...Okay maybe a little...))
Then there's also the fact that since your fursona isn't necessarily unable to do anything, it can be a way of living viscerally so to speak, just ask creepy people on SecondLife who do impossible stuff because they can. Your fursona is you, just another version of you, perhaps a very different version of you, yes, but still you, or at least a part of you at the core of it's existence.