What made you a furry?
5 years ago
I'm just curious as after seeing BEASTARS I always wondered what made you love cartoon animals? I figure it was the 90's as most of you might have been 80's or 90's kids and that decade was over saturated with cartoons with anthro or quadruped animals.
Ca'mon I really want to hear your stories.
Ca'mon I really want to hear your stories.
#1: My parents told me the TRUTH about where babies come from right away. And for that, I thank them, because I definitely think it helped me keep my head on straight during my teen years. By the time the rest of my classmates were just learning about it, and obsessing over it, it was just an accepted fact to me -- something I thought absolutely nothing of and thought they were all a bunch of idiots for acting the way they did.
The downside to this was that, after hearing a million dirty jokes (mostly the same five or six over and over again), listening to all the disgusting (and obviously false) sex experiences they claimed to have had, and having to tell people I'm not gay every time I failed to answer a "Who would you rather fuck?" question, I got so fucking sick of hearing about fucking that the very idea of human-on-human repulses me even to this day.
#2: While anthro ladies are expected to be attractive to the other anthros, they are not expected to be sex symbols for the audience. They will be feminine, maybe elegant or sensual, but they are allowed to develop personalities during the time periods that an animated human might otherwise spend accentuating her curves or dealing with the running gag of one of the men trying to get her to kiss them (lookin' at you, Captain Planet).
Consequently, to me, anthro characters have always had more. . . Well, character. One of the first movies I ever got to watch, for example, was Disney's Robin Hood, and the first time we see Maid Marian, she's wearing a floor-length dress and a veil over a headdress -- she looks more like a nun than a sex symbol. As such, the first things we learn of her are that she is kind, playful and compassionate.
And yes, I know it's a bit of a conundrum to be attracted to characters because they are not attractive. . . But that's why I have a tendency to ship couples I see in artwork together, even when the artist clearly states that one of them is just horny. The less they have physically in common, the less likely they are to find each other sexually attractive, and by extension, the more likely it is that it is that they are a couple for good reasons.
Bloody Roar
Killer Instinct (That Riptor no mercy though)
Looney Tunes Chowhound
Charlotte's web Smorgasbord scene
Various big bad Wolves in cartoons and books.
the Spy vs Spy comics? (I always saw them as foxes anyway)
Digimon
there were a LOT of things that led me to this awful position I'm in.
1. Oliver and Company, made me fall in love with cool animal characters with attitude, very 80’s and cheesy and I luv it. It’s a small reason my fursona’s a greaser, I like thug types.
2. Robin Hood (obviously) had a lotta characters I kinda developed crushes on. The sheriff is ironically my biggest, i just love his sleazy attitude and design, I would sell my soul to be a big smug nottingham wolf sheriff who scams people. Also a bit of a thug type. X3
3. Brother Bear (Awakened my interest in TF, and the fun of becoming an anthro animal character) I just wanted to be in the characters shoes throughout the story, just love the idea of being unwillingly turned and having to adjust to a new life and personality) the songs are great too, underrated in my opinion.
4. Who framed Roger Rabbit really helped me emotionally mature as a person, the idea of these emotional cartoon animals that were as over expressive and passionate as I was existing in the same universe is a romantic and provocative idea to address issues on prejudice and social divides. It helped fuel my desire of being an anthro but also offered a sympathetic light to why I felt this way.
That’s bout it. Felt good to get that out.
A few years ago I noticed there were very few movies with all humans that I could care about. Then on 2017, discovering the Trio de dangers kinda acted as the trigger that made me create an account here and share art of them and other characters. That was when I declared myself a furry and I'm ok with it lol.