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My opinion on fursuits and the discussions about them....
8 years ago
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Hello fellow furs...I am not posting stuff here frequently. And this time I have to give a little heads up that this is going to be a bit of a ranting. I hope this is going to put a few fursuit discussions tor est that have been spinning out of control.
In my last four years as suiter I was confronted with furries who seemed not to be able to accept other people's opinions. Only recently, in a german furry telegram group, a canine fur joined and kind of apologized for not having a suit yet. So I was giving my usual bit of advice to take time and get something well thought through and gave examples of what I find boring about 80% of all suiters...namely unidientifiable canines/vulpines with yet another combination of "fashionable" (or eye-cancer) colors that I will surely have forgotten the next day. Or other mascot suits where I seriously have to wonder what the species is. The repetitiveness gets bloody obvious in group shots of certain suit makers.
Over the time of the discussion I was blamed to have called most fursonas to be "sh*t"...which I never did. Apparently Instant messengers (not only them tho) are the totally wrong medium to try and discuss properly, because some douches and usual suspects tend to get enraged before they know what it is about and not scroll up to read the rest....
Makes you wonder, right? WHY do those people act like their happiness about their suit depends on ME? Love your suit, PERIOD. It does not matter what I am thinking of it. I am still suiting with those people. I am even helping them with their suits, so what's the freaking point?
To sum it up: If YOUR reasoning boils down to "You are entitled to your opinion but SHUT UP ABOUT IT!", you'll get my clear response to it. Grow up and realize that 95% of the passers-by are just ignoring you because they don't care...they just don't say it!
And if you think I insulted your fursona... most likely NOT. YOU are responsible for YOUR fursona. If it is so precious to you, then you owe your own fursona to do your damnedest to do it justice, i.e. background story, suit, acting. NOT I! And get REAL. I am still suitwalking with you and a lot of others that I am not exactly enthralled about, and I am having a good time.
It is just really, REALLY SAD and a SHAME that I have to clarify here that it is my red line when I cannot tell my opinion anymore without pissing somebody off.
Live and let Live...And make the best of yourself.
In my last four years as suiter I was confronted with furries who seemed not to be able to accept other people's opinions. Only recently, in a german furry telegram group, a canine fur joined and kind of apologized for not having a suit yet. So I was giving my usual bit of advice to take time and get something well thought through and gave examples of what I find boring about 80% of all suiters...namely unidientifiable canines/vulpines with yet another combination of "fashionable" (or eye-cancer) colors that I will surely have forgotten the next day. Or other mascot suits where I seriously have to wonder what the species is. The repetitiveness gets bloody obvious in group shots of certain suit makers.
Over the time of the discussion I was blamed to have called most fursonas to be "sh*t"...which I never did. Apparently Instant messengers (not only them tho) are the totally wrong medium to try and discuss properly, because some douches and usual suspects tend to get enraged before they know what it is about and not scroll up to read the rest....
Makes you wonder, right? WHY do those people act like their happiness about their suit depends on ME? Love your suit, PERIOD. It does not matter what I am thinking of it. I am still suiting with those people. I am even helping them with their suits, so what's the freaking point?
To sum it up: If YOUR reasoning boils down to "You are entitled to your opinion but SHUT UP ABOUT IT!", you'll get my clear response to it. Grow up and realize that 95% of the passers-by are just ignoring you because they don't care...they just don't say it!
And if you think I insulted your fursona... most likely NOT. YOU are responsible for YOUR fursona. If it is so precious to you, then you owe your own fursona to do your damnedest to do it justice, i.e. background story, suit, acting. NOT I! And get REAL. I am still suitwalking with you and a lot of others that I am not exactly enthralled about, and I am having a good time.
It is just really, REALLY SAD and a SHAME that I have to clarify here that it is my red line when I cannot tell my opinion anymore without pissing somebody off.
Live and let Live...And make the best of yourself.
Bunners