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Fursuit thoughts... Dilema
10 years ago
For some time now i have really been thinking hard about whether to make Koneko into a fursuit, she would make an absolutely stunning suit, i know it! However... out here where i live in the UK, we dont have as many meet ups and cons and well... i've have bad experience fursuiting at both with my previous fursuits .-.
Its really put me off going to these meets, my local meet has furries that just dont respect that a fursuiter needs plenty of space and vision as well as the rule of no touchy- unless prior permission is given. The last fursuit i went to was 2 years ago.. while i was there, i wore my red bunny fursuit with huge ears. it was my first outting with the bunny out in public and i was really excited! Then 2 or 3 furries spoiled it. they pulled on my bunny ears, prodded me from behind and it ended in one of the ears needed to be reattached.
this as you can imagine has really left me untrustworthy of the furs in my area and i havent been to a furmeet since .-.
as for conventions.. I have been to Confuzzled 2014 and Eurofurence 2015. both i spent alot of money for to go and guess what.. more problems...
Confuzzled was fun, until friends, who i thought were friends, took advantage of my sewing skills- dragging me away from the con to fix THEIR broken fursuit that was THEIR fault! this lead to agruements and fallouts...
Eurofurence was worse... I went with yet another so-called-friend who was considerably older than me, at the time it really didnt matter, age means nothing to me. though it turned sour as he started getting perverted and making sick jokes about me. even in fursuit, he slapped my ass alot and it left me broken...
Though the past is the past, i know, and these people will never hurt me again, but its left me feeling upset and confused... I absolutely love making fursuits, i really do! and i love jumping around in them even more so! and im itching to make Koneko as a fursuit...
but heres the biggest problem.. if i do make Koneko, where can i trust to go fursuiting? do i really have to save thousands of pounds to make Koneko and THEN to fly around the world, just to be with people i MIGHT be able to trust?
;--; i honestly dont know what to do.. my real friends keep telling me to try again, find new places to suit in the UK, just a bit further away from home... but at the end of the day, i have a full time job and yet money gets tight, i cant afford to splash money out onto a new fursuit i may never find the heart to wear out into the world...
I'm sorry for the downer journal.. im just feeling a little alone with all this i guess :'<
Its really put me off going to these meets, my local meet has furries that just dont respect that a fursuiter needs plenty of space and vision as well as the rule of no touchy- unless prior permission is given. The last fursuit i went to was 2 years ago.. while i was there, i wore my red bunny fursuit with huge ears. it was my first outting with the bunny out in public and i was really excited! Then 2 or 3 furries spoiled it. they pulled on my bunny ears, prodded me from behind and it ended in one of the ears needed to be reattached.
this as you can imagine has really left me untrustworthy of the furs in my area and i havent been to a furmeet since .-.
as for conventions.. I have been to Confuzzled 2014 and Eurofurence 2015. both i spent alot of money for to go and guess what.. more problems...
Confuzzled was fun, until friends, who i thought were friends, took advantage of my sewing skills- dragging me away from the con to fix THEIR broken fursuit that was THEIR fault! this lead to agruements and fallouts...
Eurofurence was worse... I went with yet another so-called-friend who was considerably older than me, at the time it really didnt matter, age means nothing to me. though it turned sour as he started getting perverted and making sick jokes about me. even in fursuit, he slapped my ass alot and it left me broken...
Though the past is the past, i know, and these people will never hurt me again, but its left me feeling upset and confused... I absolutely love making fursuits, i really do! and i love jumping around in them even more so! and im itching to make Koneko as a fursuit...
but heres the biggest problem.. if i do make Koneko, where can i trust to go fursuiting? do i really have to save thousands of pounds to make Koneko and THEN to fly around the world, just to be with people i MIGHT be able to trust?
;--; i honestly dont know what to do.. my real friends keep telling me to try again, find new places to suit in the UK, just a bit further away from home... but at the end of the day, i have a full time job and yet money gets tight, i cant afford to splash money out onto a new fursuit i may never find the heart to wear out into the world...
I'm sorry for the downer journal.. im just feeling a little alone with all this i guess :'<
I am sorry you had such horrible experiences....I really am.
You could always make her and go around helping charities out. That is a way to suit and feel safe.....at least from pervy adults.
In my opinion....I don't think you should give up on cons altogether. They can be really fun.
I'm probably not helping, sorry.
Charity events would be a nice idea, i work for one so i could even intergrate it into work somehow :')
I dunno <\3
I'm pretty new here in the fandom and have not even met a fursuiter or any other furry yet irl.
I understand how these experiences would put you of from going to a convention ever again.
But still i wish to see you in the future and i hope that one day you'll find people that would never do that at conventions.
As i already said this has never happend to me, so i can't really help you.
May your koneko give you the best of all luck.
Hopefully i cna find a solution and Koneko may be my lucky break..! she is my lucky angel after all ^^ <3