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9 years ago
Yesterday I went to Tyne Furs meet with a new friend. First time I've been. Bar stank like a teenage boys bedroom but was otherwise a thoroughly pleasant meet.
After the meet, my friend told me that someone asked if I was Scampy and they had heard various things about me. These were :
1) That I hadn't paid for my suit.
2) That the suit had been sold on.
3) That I used my suit for murr.
Despite this being my very first time at this meet there was the cosy familiarity of walking into a place full of furs who I didn't know and who didn't know me and yet still having a reputation preceed me.
I have come to expect this now. Nothing is new. Not even the weariness of having to just experience it. I'm not even bothered by the questions. The rumours. The stories. From all the things I've ever heard I've never heard anything which is true, rooted in fact or personal experience or which bothers me. What *does* bother me is that people can so easily talk *about* you but not *to* you. If you have a question or a problem or have heard something that you want to know more about. .. ASK ME. If it's an accusation or you don't like something you've heard. .. SAY IT TO MY FACE. I'm there in the room. Have the maturity or the balls to engage me with. Because if you don't you are simply a gossip monger. A drama llama. A twat. Murrsuiters are supposed to be the scourge of the fandom. Not true. The scourge of the fandom are people who spread gossip, rumours, bullshit without having the decency, front or respect to talk to someone face to face, preferring instead to talk about them a few yards away. You folk are, quite simply, silly people.
To answer the questions :
1. If I hadn't paid for my suit, how could I be in possession of it and wearing it ?
2. I designed the suit and had it made for and then delivered to me. It has not been sold on (though he may be in furbuy soon as what this fandom actually looks like says nothing to me about my life)
3. Scampy is not a murrsuit. He has never been used as a murrsuit. Even if I wanted to I couldn't use him as a murrsuit. ... anyone giving him even the most cursory of glances will see that the sheer mass of padding would make that physically impossible. The dropped crotch would require me to have an erection that came out of my groin at a vertical angle downwards around 7 inches and then exit the suit at right angles, with still enough length to penetrate someone / something else. As wonderful as my penis is I'm afraid it's not quite *that* lengthy and versatile. I feel like I need to hire Oliver Stone here to remake a version of JFK and explain the magic penis scenario.
Even if all these things were true ... even though I do like girls and find (some) suits hot (*Shock ! Horror! Outrage !* Who would have thought that ?!? Is it only ok for gay guys to be 'murry' or do we have a furry culture of institutionalised heterophobia ?) ... I'd still rather be that person and honest about it than being a silly little ball-lacking twit who listens to and spreads drama even when the person they're talking about is a bullshit busting bar width away.
After the meet, my friend told me that someone asked if I was Scampy and they had heard various things about me. These were :
1) That I hadn't paid for my suit.
2) That the suit had been sold on.
3) That I used my suit for murr.
Despite this being my very first time at this meet there was the cosy familiarity of walking into a place full of furs who I didn't know and who didn't know me and yet still having a reputation preceed me.
I have come to expect this now. Nothing is new. Not even the weariness of having to just experience it. I'm not even bothered by the questions. The rumours. The stories. From all the things I've ever heard I've never heard anything which is true, rooted in fact or personal experience or which bothers me. What *does* bother me is that people can so easily talk *about* you but not *to* you. If you have a question or a problem or have heard something that you want to know more about. .. ASK ME. If it's an accusation or you don't like something you've heard. .. SAY IT TO MY FACE. I'm there in the room. Have the maturity or the balls to engage me with. Because if you don't you are simply a gossip monger. A drama llama. A twat. Murrsuiters are supposed to be the scourge of the fandom. Not true. The scourge of the fandom are people who spread gossip, rumours, bullshit without having the decency, front or respect to talk to someone face to face, preferring instead to talk about them a few yards away. You folk are, quite simply, silly people.
To answer the questions :
1. If I hadn't paid for my suit, how could I be in possession of it and wearing it ?
2. I designed the suit and had it made for and then delivered to me. It has not been sold on (though he may be in furbuy soon as what this fandom actually looks like says nothing to me about my life)
3. Scampy is not a murrsuit. He has never been used as a murrsuit. Even if I wanted to I couldn't use him as a murrsuit. ... anyone giving him even the most cursory of glances will see that the sheer mass of padding would make that physically impossible. The dropped crotch would require me to have an erection that came out of my groin at a vertical angle downwards around 7 inches and then exit the suit at right angles, with still enough length to penetrate someone / something else. As wonderful as my penis is I'm afraid it's not quite *that* lengthy and versatile. I feel like I need to hire Oliver Stone here to remake a version of JFK and explain the magic penis scenario.
Even if all these things were true ... even though I do like girls and find (some) suits hot (*Shock ! Horror! Outrage !* Who would have thought that ?!? Is it only ok for gay guys to be 'murry' or do we have a furry culture of institutionalised heterophobia ?) ... I'd still rather be that person and honest about it than being a silly little ball-lacking twit who listens to and spreads drama even when the person they're talking about is a bullshit busting bar width away.
I've too have had some very untrue rumours spread about me on other sites off FA, but at the end of the day I appreciate honesty and if somebody did have an issue with me, I'd prefer they say it to my face and not to spread it around.
Good to see you x
I can't believe people would say such rude things though!
I won't be going to the TF meet again but to be honest I say I won't go to a meet again after every single one I go to. It's just not me.
The things people say ... you just have to shrug your shoulders about it I think. I've come to realise that this is what furry is, it's the type of person that furry attracts. The anthro seems secondary to me and just the culture and bubble that a certain type of person find some meaning within. Which is fine .... it's just not me.
I totally understand though, but it's such a shame.
What will happen to Scampy if you don't mind me asking?
you are right about everything mentioned here. if you have nothing nice to say then don't say it at all but it's always gossip & rumors through here. so very sad.
but, you really plan on putting him in furbuy?
also best venue description 10/10