If y’all could go back to your past self, would you attempt to stop yourself from being a furry? How many of y’all hated furries then became one? Lastly, how many of you would say you’re actually a furry instead of just into their art?

If y’all could go back to your past self, would you attempt to stop yourself from being a furry?

I not so much "became" a furry... I evolved into one. I was a furry before even knowing that "furry" existed, or would exists.

Furry movies were for me the entrance to another Universe, pretty much appart of my life of hopelessness and despair. I became stronger, willing and able to fight against my enemies and my destiny.

How many of y’all hated furries then became one?

Not apply to me... in any case, could be the reversed case? Maybe, when I knew furries existed, for me was a celebration... but as Furries were close to me, I was a little disapointed about them. Not that I was better than them, but...

But the furry Universe, in past, present and (maybe) future, is immense. If I search, I still find wonder... wonderful art, wonderful ideas and people.

Lastly, how many of you would say you’re actually a furry instead of just into their art?

I am a furry because furry kept me alive... or at least, made me what I am. I know that now, most people became furry because they saw fursuiters doing pranks in a YouTube video, or stumbled with an erotic images that pushed some buttoms on them... or had friends that were furries. I don't blame them, off course.

I am furry.

nope, I've always loved anthropomorphic characters, didn't even know that the term furry was even a thing until after 2006 when google bought up youtube then people started using it to talk about the furry community, I mean sure I never had a fur suit or been to a single convention, but do you really need those things to consider yourself a furry.

Never really hated furries, didn't even know it was a thing until I saw dragon porn and already liked the dragon porn.

No, I wouldn't.
No, I didn't.
And lastly, hard to say.

Lemme explain further:

Don't much care for fursuits, or anything that's associated with what people outside of furry think is 'typical furry'.
I just like the art and designs and potential for variety.
But then, I'm not into like, regular cartoon human art/porn, or the anime variant, though bara kinda counts I suppose.

But yeah, for the most part, the porn's great, so, that helps.

hairylarry said:
If y’all could go back to your past self, would you attempt to stop yourself from being a furry?

Believe me, if I ever got the chance to go back in time and talk to my past self, there'd be such a long list of things I'd tell him to do/not do, anything furry-related would be pretty low priority. Hell, if anything, I'd tell him to be more furry. Take art as a subject in high school so I could learn to draw my own smut. Go to a convention on the rare times they happen in my part of the world and meet people before the [current world event] makes it impossible. Save as much art as possible before The Great Tumblr Purge.

What's a furry?

hexen said:
What's a furry?

I think it is an interesting question. My answer will be that has to do with a subjective feeling of "affiliation", and that there is no hard and clear cut rules for that.

Nobody could tell you "you are not a furry" if you feel as one. On the other hand, you coud perfectly stop being a furry simply by stating the wish of not being one. I knew a number people that were ashamed of being furry in the past, or being associated with them. Then they simply shifted their attention to other things, like politics, or simply another "fandom". I coincide very much with @neepokra.

But following that, there is a difference of how deeply a particular person is or need “furry”, even if that concept is different in everyone.

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jockjamdoorslam said:
Believe me, if I ever got the chance to go back in time and talk to my past self, there'd be such a long list of things I'd tell him to do/not do, anything furry-related would be pretty low priority. Hell, if anything, I'd tell him to be more furry. Take art as a subject in high school so I could learn to draw my own smut. Go to a convention on the rare times they happen in my part of the world and meet people before the [current world event] makes it impossible. Save as much art as possible before The Great Tumblr Purge.

For me it would be the same.

I wish that I would have been more furry, earlier, and participated more back then, when Furry was even more afine to my tastes. Now, I swear that I feel like the most starved furry of these times. Surviving of reading again and again old comics like "Albedo" or the adventures of Jack Salem... plus some carcass that I could find every few years.

Yes, there is a lot of Art in e6 ... but I found something that I really like only weeks appart. Over the years, the accumulation is substancial... but anyway.

I try watch in YouTube videos of furries. But they don't talk about ANYTHING I could relate to or like. I could be a lot of things: Geology, Biology, Cars, Music, Military History,... whatever... save seeing people talking about how proud of their Fursuits and how to move their tails in yet another way, or furry gossip, et cetera.

But still, I feel my self not only "furry", but overloaded 150% of Furryness. And waiting for my time... if it comes ... in years or decades.

hexen said:
What's a furry?

Someone with more than one drop of interest in anthro, feral, scalie, or related content. Catgirls, monster girls, and other nonhumans may be exempt, depending on the cultural context.

Fursuits are only being worn by a small portion of the overall group. They will remain more or less as popular as they are now until gene modding or Something More replaces it.

It all started with art, but they want it to be real. Fursonas and fursuits are just pit stops on the way to the promised land.

What I told you.... ?!!!

=). =). =).

My furry creator did heard my need and sent me some much needed nourishment... that I looked after for more than 5 years now,... at least... !!!

"Escape to New York".
https://jacksalem.thecomicseries.com/comics/27

=).

There are a lot of things that I would try to stop my younger self from doing.

Liking furry isn't one of them. Yeah, some people will give you odd looks for it, but that's their problem, not mine.

(...though maybe I will tell younger me to diversify their portfolio more because it does make it awkward when people find out you're an artist and all you have is niche subculture stuff.)

lonelylupine said:
(...though maybe I will tell younger me to diversify their portfolio more because it does make it awkward when people find out you're an artist and all you have is niche subculture stuff.)

Who knows if that would have worked, I know in my case I was too bullheaded to care about making anything else.

I’m not too invested into communities, so I’m quite shocked by the stark differences here to just loose furries on the internet I’ve met. Most of them think of themselves as degenerates that regret being one but just are while y’all don’t mind/even encourage your past self to be more of one.

lance_armstrong said:
Fursuits are only being worn by a small portion of the overall group. They will remain more or less as popular as they are now until gene modding or Something More replaces it.

It all started with art, but they want it to be real. Fursonas and fursuits are just pit stops on the way to the promised land.

Probably yes... but when (if?) the techonology for that arrives... will still furry would be an issue? Some people believe that the technological progress of mankind will explode in the following years, and that in some way or another, we will "transcend" our human nature... and even reach some sort of immortality...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UYA3ELzkJU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXrkRuL3fA

Surely, I do not harbor the optimism of Mr. Kurzweil... much will be gain, in my opinion, if even some societies remain just CIVILIZED in the following decades. But that will be a digression I don't want to make.

To be honest, right NOW we could do a lot with our bodies, in terms of modifiing, being in the sense associated with plastic surgery, transplants, prostetics, bionics, and the like... much has been advanced, and more will happen in the near future, being in heath ... or other applications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0nAI5buVKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7v-qbFPGbw

... off course, it is difficult to keep pace with all these advances, and know what of these, may be more fake than reality, or feasible.

The advance in Biochemistry, Cell Physiology and Molecular Biology, which is the base of all that, continues to advance, although I believe in a slower rate than before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_zD3NxSsD8

In any case, if I indulge myself in thechnological fantasies regarding the furry, my orientation will be more not to the modification of the human, but in the direction of "Uplifting". Say, much like in the novels of David Brin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zM8bPhRyj8

If we pair the humanity advances in things like Supercomputing and Biological Sciencies, I guess it could be feasible to begin to move in that direction. Informatics and supercomputers will be necesary to compute and manage the complexities of such and endevour. Certainly, thanks to them, currently it is possible to do such feats, like was the calculation of the trayectory and Celestial Mechanics, of a difficult mission like was the "Rosseta" few years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xciO5YihkdI

However, the basic Biological science, is still insufficient. But, in time, it will be enough.

Even now, anyway, animals are much more intelligent that most humans suspect.

Anyway.

mexicanfurry said:
In any case, if I indulge myself in thechnological fantasies regarding the furry, my orientation will be more not to the modification of the human, but in the direction of "Uplifting". Say, much like in the novels of David Brin...

It looks like uplifting and everything else will get banned once Republicans take control of Congress. This is a bill that was introduced in 2016, reintroduced as an amendment to the Endless Frontier Act earlier this year, and is being pushed as its own bill again. Someone really wants it passed.

S. 1800: Human-Animal Chimera Prohibition Act of 2021

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1800/summary
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1800/text

(2) Prohibited human-animal chimera
The term prohibited human-animal chimera means—

(A) a human embryo into which a nonhuman cell or cells (or the component parts thereof) have been introduced to render the embryo’s membership in the species Homo sapiens uncertain;
(B) a human-animal embryo produced by fertilizing a human egg with nonhuman sperm;
(C) a human-animal embryo produced by fertilizing a nonhuman egg with human sperm;
(D) an embryo produced by introducing a nonhuman nucleus into a human egg;
(E) an embryo produced by introducing a human nucleus into a nonhuman egg;
(F) an embryo containing at least haploid sets of chromosomes from both a human and a nonhuman life form;
(G) a nonhuman life form engineered such that human gametes develop within the body of a nonhuman life form;
(H) a nonhuman life form engineered such that it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues;
(I) nonhuman life form engineered such that it exhibits human facial features or other bodily morphologies to resemble human features; or
(J) an embryo produced by mixing human and nonhuman cells, such that—
　(i) human gametes develop within the body of the resultant organism;
　(ii) it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues; or
　(iii) it exhibits human facial features or other bodily morphologies to resemble human features.

H/J2 could ban uplift. A lone wolf researcher might be able to argue in court about the meaning of "wholly or predominantly". A/I/J3 bans anthros. In subsection A I'm thinking broadly of "the component parts thereof". I think subsection F could apply to either anthros or uplift.

I will be following this more closely since I just found about the recent developments on accident.

I would definitely not change a thing. A friend of mine showed me MLP years ago like in 2012 and got intrested in the Fandom, and once I found that I fell into a lot of other furry oriented stuff. I mostly like the art, but my living conditions make it a little hard for me to be a hard-core furry even if I really wanted to. On top of that the furry community helped me recognize that I'm (at least a little) bi... and that'd something that's usually hard to accept, but the furry community helped a lot

lance_armstrong said:
It looks like uplifting and everything else will get banned once Republicans take control of Congress. This is a bill that was introduced in 2016, reintroduced as an amendment to the Endless Frontier Act earlier this year, and is being pushed as its own bill again. Someone really wants it passed.

S. 1800: Human-Animal Chimera Prohibition Act of 2021

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1800/summary
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1800/text

H/J2 could ban uplift. A lone wolf researcher might be able to argue in court about the meaning of "wholly or predominantly". A/I/J3 bans anthros. In subsection A I'm thinking broadly of "the component parts thereof". I think subsection F could apply to either anthros or uplift.

I will be following this more closely since I just found about the recent developments on accident.

Very interesting.

Thanks.

lonelylupine said:
There are a lot of things that I would try to stop my younger self from doing. ...

(...though maybe I will tell younger me to diversify their portfolio more because it does make it awkward when people find out you're an artist and all you have is niche subculture stuff.)

I dunno about everyone else, but to me, this is the perfect summary of the matter.

I probably wouldn't have changed anything in that regard. I've loved anthropomorphic animals from a very young age, so there was never an "awakening" for me.

lonelylupine said:
(...though maybe I will tell younger me to diversify their portfolio more because it does make it awkward when people find out you're an artist and all you have is niche subculture stuff.)

I am speaking from merely the point of view of "consumer of furry art" and not a creator of it.

(Save if you consider my Furry musical videos, in which I "invested" an average of 3, 4 hours on each, as "art"... but that of course, is not required =P. )

I think that dedicating yourself to be a professional artist, requires a lot of guts... a lot of courage. I suppose that the satisfaction of creating something has to be something heavenly / divine... but still.

I cannot even imagine what a person that dedicated days or weeks to passionate work (because that SHOWS in a piece of art) would feel, when uploading an image here in E6, and not even receiving a comment.

(*Gulp*).

Big balls, man... big balls...

=(.