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Furry Fandom is Eternal!
17 years ago
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Can you imagine the furry fandom one day disappearing? That everyone just forgets about it and nobody is interested in furry art or stories anymore? I don't see that happening. Humans are too primal and almost have the things furry represents hard wired into their brains.
Lets make up a scenario: There has been a nuclear armageddon, mankind is but a shadow of itself. The world lies in ruins and mankind must rebuild. Centuries pass and archeology starts to flourish in an attempt to recover all the lost knowledge and technology. Eventually a piece of furry art is uncovered, given how prolific it is these days. It may be examined and eventually written about and even displayed. I guarantee you that someone that sees that art is going to be turned on by it. Thus from the ashes of the end of the world furry will rise again.
Lets compare that to another fandom, star trek for example. Same scenario, world ends, archeologists find a video or piece of art. This no longer has any cultural relevance anymore. If someone were to see an episode of star trek in a museum of the future what do you think their chances are of being so enamored by it that they'd become fans of it?
This is why we don't have egyptian pottery fandoms or amazon folk tale fandoms. They don't toy with our most basic instincts, they rely on cultural relevance or influence to persist. Furry is different, its something we can imagine naturally and something that makes us feel funny in the pants.
That is why I believe furry is eternal.
Unless our planet explodes and no humans survive X3
Lets make up a scenario: There has been a nuclear armageddon, mankind is but a shadow of itself. The world lies in ruins and mankind must rebuild. Centuries pass and archeology starts to flourish in an attempt to recover all the lost knowledge and technology. Eventually a piece of furry art is uncovered, given how prolific it is these days. It may be examined and eventually written about and even displayed. I guarantee you that someone that sees that art is going to be turned on by it. Thus from the ashes of the end of the world furry will rise again.
Lets compare that to another fandom, star trek for example. Same scenario, world ends, archeologists find a video or piece of art. This no longer has any cultural relevance anymore. If someone were to see an episode of star trek in a museum of the future what do you think their chances are of being so enamored by it that they'd become fans of it?
This is why we don't have egyptian pottery fandoms or amazon folk tale fandoms. They don't toy with our most basic instincts, they rely on cultural relevance or influence to persist. Furry is different, its something we can imagine naturally and something that makes us feel funny in the pants.
That is why I believe furry is eternal.
Unless our planet explodes and no humans survive X3
...That wasn't a suggestion. >_>
Fuck.
You really, really shouldn't have said that.
Thanks for dooming us all, fucker.
:D
What if the world we know now, might never be that way... ever again?
Seriously, if they don't find the art, that kind of stuff WILL vanish.
Many cultures died. Romans died. Greek was slain. Egypt ring a bell?
Cultures will die by the black hole ass that is Christianity and Western culture. And screw you to say the Furry Fandom is officially part of the Western culture. Because it needs a politician before that's true. Or a president... or Bill Gates.
If the world is destroyed, it depends one who survive on how the new world would look like.
Be your typical American, the world would become a pile of poo.
Be your typical Muslim, the world will be... sexist.
Be your typical Dutch man, the world would be... way too free.
Be your typical Christian, you get the picture.
Survivors determine the future, nobody can say shit about it. If you survive, keep this alive! If only people that hate this survive, this will die. But remember this:
When the world is destroyed, your last problem is culture. Your first is survival.
Many of us were furries before we found the fandom. :V
Unlike now.
Because every body's wasting time now.
As for Star Trek, well I think that fandom will never be vanquished as there are far too many fans in that fandom and multitudes of art, literature and artifacts from it that would supersede time. Who wouldn't be interested in antiquities from the ST era? C'mon, even if the technology were to be outdated it would still be considered a relic of time long gone.
In this sense I don't believe that "fur fandom" is eternal. It only has value to those operating inside it.
I personally don't think it's much of a shame if the fandom should disappear. In the end everything disappears. I suppose that the point of all big and small human achievements is not to make things that last forever. From this mortal perspective it's not the ruins that matter, but the illusion of meaningfulness that goes into the making of the building. Like sand castles on a beach, you know?
Essentially the sexualization of anthros has released a genie from its bottle and its unlikely to ever go back inside.
As you stated its the illusion of meaningfulness in a temporary construct. However the sexual depiction of the anthro is devoid of cultural meaning and thus can exist long after its initial purpose is forgotten.
But the sexualization of anthros is not a modern idea. It was widely explored back in antiquity. The Greek mythology alone is filled with many arousing tales. We have characters like satyrs or Zeus taking the form of different animals so he could seduce women incognito. There are also plenty of animal-headed fertility gods such as Bast and Renenet. As far as I know, in Celtic mythology and in some shamanic eastern religions animals are also strongly tied in with fertility because they are constantly moving and growing.
I dare to believe that the popularization of sexy anthros happened already way back in the past. There's plenty of historical evidence suggesting that people around the globe have been very daring and inventive as well as fascinated by animals or animal-like beings - sexually even. This trend has certainly resurfaced in a new form, but I don't think that the content in itself is very original.
Man, I wanna copy+paste this on /b/ like forty million times. ;)
(Woops; replied to myself the first time)
Just look at werewolves and Egyptian gods. They were the first depictions of anthropomorphic charters. Heck they've even found anthropomorphic charters drawn on cave walls.
It's in our nature to humanize every thing we come in contact with.
Nicely said!
=^.^=
Every culture on earth, since the dawn of time, has had access to both the concept of humanoid shapes (simply by looking at themselves and each other) and the concept of animals (simply by looking at the world around them). Even cavemen can put 1 and 1 together.
Ancient Egyptians, Greek, Chinese, Aztecs... they all have furry elements in their lore and history.
They would be confused about all the Sexual aspects of it. They might think of this as Pure sex and not get the OTHER aspects of Furry culture..
Thats what we need to do now. that is our mission
If you are captured we will deny any connection to you (Sorry .. old Mission Impossible episode opening
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1478260/
And it's too cute to be offensive!
I'm afraid and confused now!
That makes me strangely aroused.
I'm okay with this.
I think it's funny that some people equate the majority furry art with Bestiality Lite, because I always viewed them as still being more human than animal despite all the changed facial features, tails, ears, etc.
Maybe I don't really follow the whole "It's just bestiality in a funny hat" philosophy by some detractors (and maybe some supporters, too) because I don't look at stuff with realistic animal faces and lovingly drawn dog cock in lieu of the more cartoonish stuff with human anatomy otherwise. :p
Lol, tentacle creature alien thingers.
And despite what drama stricken furs think you may leave the fandom but you'll always be a fan, something kind of like herpes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
So much for a fandom; furries might become a reality.
'This is why we don't have egyptian pottery fandoms or amazon folk tale fandoms.'
Sure we do. Except they both get expressed in different ways... and both within the fandom. ^^