How do your furry interests make you feel?
Dan Skunk
If you like to fursuit or wear a tail and ears, etc. Does this make you feel
more furry? Make you feel closer to your fursona? Do you find that you see
the world and yourself differently when in costume, do you think or feel any
differently?
For example, a few fursuiters I've talk to feel that while they're in suit
they feel a sense of freedom to express themselves that they don't have
otherwise, that they're less inhibited and are able to have more fun. Some
feel that while they're in suit, it brings them closer to their fursona and
closer to who they feel they really are inside. I've even hears stories of
people being brought to tears the first time they were in suit, so happy to
finally be able to see themselves as they feel they are and have others see
them that way as well.
If you're an artist or writer, do you feel that helps you express yourself
more to work in the furry genera? Does it help you express who you are and
who other furries you're drawing are? Does it help you visualize what you
feel you'd like to look like or how others would like to look?
If you look at art others have done of yourself or others or different
costumes, do you find that gives a better expression of who you or others
are and who you see them to be?
naorhyreply
wrote:
>If you're an artist or writer, do you feel that helps you express yourself
>more to work in the furry genera? Does it help you express who you are and
>who other furries you're drawing are? Does it help you visualize what you
>feel you'd like to look like or how others would like to look?
Um... Nooo.... I simply write in the anthomorphic universde because I
have fun doing so. I write just as much, if not more in the human
universe.
Joe Strike
> How do your furry interests make you feel?
Wracked with bottomless guilt and intense self-loathing...
;-)
naorhyreply
SNORK... DAMN, there went my tea, and my monitor.
Dan Skunk
Mostly my expressions of furry come through poetry.
I see furries as and expression of both the animal nature of humans and as
an expression of our diversity of personalities.
I like to see furries, therefore, as more connected with what humans really
are, animals. That by seeing ourselves as animals we glimpse a little more
of what is real about ourselves and what makes us. That' we're more honest
with ourselves because we don't try to be better than animals, and are
therefore more free to express that animal part of us--or that part that
others might see as animal.
My poetry usually involves some ideas of understanding our connection with
the earth and with other species, and of being equal to them and helping to
preserve all living things rather than exploiting them. Of understanding who
and what we are and accepting it, and being more honest with ourselves and
others and more open to express who we are.
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Oliver
"The truth is often spoken in jest"..?
Jeff Jonas
Good questions. I'll try for reasonably short answers.
In general, my furry persona lets me be myself only moreso.
Less inhibited. Freer to be playful and silly.
>If you like to fursuit or wear a tail and ears, etc. Does this make you feel
>more furry? Make you feel closer to your fursona?
My personal totem is the ferret.
When performing in my ferret fursuit,
I can't say that it is a total immersion into my character.
First of all, I've received some fursuit performing training,
so I'm in the mindset of
"look good, stay active, someone's ALWAYS looking ...".
The fursuit has extremely limited vision,
and I cannot possibly smell things no matter how close
(ferrets are very scent oriented).
I keep all my public performances "G" rated because
I want to continue volunteering for charity events
via http://www.hi-4.org
>For example, a few fursuiters I've talk to feel that while they're in suit
>they feel a sense of freedom to express themselves that they don't have
>otherwise, that they're less inhibited and are able to have more fun.
Yes indeed! I'm still /very careful/ about what I do in light of
negative publicity such as a kid getting clocked by Tygger,
the MTV extortion-show and the Law & Order fursuit epidose.
>Some feel that while they're in suit, it brings them closer to their fursona
>and closer to who they feel they really are inside. I've even hears stories of
>people being brought to tears the first time they were in suit, so happy to
>finally be able to see themselves as they feel they are and have others see
>them that way as well.
Being a ferret, I'm more focused on what's happening NOW
than the past (short attention span, eh?).
I'm unsure how I first felt in fursuit.
Probably uncertain and under pressure since I've seen some GREAT performers.
Now, it's hard for me to remember how I attended
and participated at furcons WITHOUT the fursuit.
-- meJeep deMeep ferret!
Dan Skunk
"Jeff Jonas" <je...@panix.com> wrote in message
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> In article <g7pgdr$5uq$1...@corvus.critter.net>,
> Dan Skunk <dans...@rogers.com> wrote:
>>How do your furry interests make you feel?
>
> Good questions. I'll try for reasonably short answers.
> In general, my furry persona lets me be myself only moreso.
> Less inhibited. Freer to be playful and silly.
>
>>If you like to fursuit or wear a tail and ears, etc. Does this make you
>>feel
>>more furry? Make you feel closer to your fursona?
>
> My personal totem is the ferret.
> When performing in my ferret fursuit,
> I can't say that it is a total immersion into my character.
> First of all, I've received some fursuit performing training,
> so I'm in the mindset of
> "look good, stay active, someone's ALWAYS looking ...".
> The fursuit has extremely limited vision,
> and I cannot possibly smell things no matter how close
> (ferrets are very scent oriented).
>
> I keep all my public performances "G" rated because
> I want to continue volunteering for charity events
> via http://www.hi-4.org
>
That's really awesome that you're helping with charities. :D
>>For example, a few fursuiters I've talk to feel that while they're in suit
>>they feel a sense of freedom to express themselves that they don't have
>>otherwise, that they're less inhibited and are able to have more fun.
>
> Yes indeed! I'm still /very careful/ about what I do in light of
> negative publicity such as a kid getting clocked by Tygger,
> the MTV extortion-show and the Law & Order fursuit epidose.
>
I wouldn't worry so much. People can take even the most innocent things and
twist it if they want to.
>>Some feel that while they're in suit, it brings them closer to their
>>fursona
>>and closer to who they feel they really are inside. I've even hears
>>stories of
>>people being brought to tears the first time they were in suit, so happy
>>to
>>finally be able to see themselves as they feel they are and have others
>>see
>>them that way as well.
>
> Being a ferret, I'm more focused on what's happening NOW
> than the past (short attention span, eh?).
> I'm unsure how I first felt in fursuit.
> Probably uncertain and under pressure since I've seen some GREAT
> performers.
> Now, it's hard for me to remember how I attended
> and participated at furcons WITHOUT the fursuit.
>
That's actually a good thing to focus more on what's happening now. You're
less likely to be depressed all the time thinking about things you can't do
anything about. :)
> -- meJeep deMeep ferret!
Joe Strike
>
> Yes indeed! I'm still /very careful/ about what I do in light of
>
I assume you're actually referring to the 'CSI' episode
Oliver
> I assume you're actually referring to the 'CSI' episode
If 'CSI' had really wanted to smear furries it wouldn't have been hard
-- or hard to spot. That show can get unpleasantly vindictive at
times.
Kay Shapero
@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, oaco...@tiscali.co.uk says...
across an actual furry who explained a few things to them, shortly
before they actually shot the thing. You can tell by some of the
plotholes what they probably took out...
--
Kay Shapero
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