• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    1 month ago

    I am sorry if this comes off as offensive to anyone, I’m not trying to be.

    I don’t get furries.

    I also don’t have to completely understand their ins and outs and complexities to know they’re people who are worthy of respect for being other living people. (or non-people if they identify as non-people? Again I don’t understand them as much as I probably should).

    Regardless, shout out to all the furries out there who struggle with things I can’t even imagine.

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      1 month ago

      I’m cool with roleplaying as an animal person, wearing a costume, the fetish aspect, whatever. Live your life.

      I just don’t understand why they’ve all standardized to using the same terrible art style. It doesn’t look like a human, an animal, or even a sonic character (which I assume is the root), but a fourth thing. You can tell a furry by how they draw a normal human because of how deep set the habits are. Is there any other group as exclusively committed to an art style?

      If I spent that kind of money on a wolf costume I’d at least want it to vaguely look like a wolf.

      Edit: If you think these don’t heavily share a style (as compared to anthropomorphic characters from non-furry animated series, for example) then I don’t know what to tell you.