i’m sure my icon speaks for itself here, but i’ve definitely seen a few of you skittering about in some of our threads. show yourselves at once! maybe post your fursona even (if it’s safe for work)

  • mtset
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    22 years ago

    Hi! I’m not super deep into the furry community but I do know a lot of furries and I’m in the process of getting my fursona some better-developed art, so I guess I count?

    • Pixel
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      12 years ago

      Love the red avatar by the way, transistor absolutely rules :)

      • mtset
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        12 years ago

        Thanks!! I love her, very powerful vibes :)

    • alyaza [they/she]OPM
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      122 years ago

      as i’ve noted before furries are the vanguard of any successful online community so any niche you can find them in is probably a stable one

      • Moneymunkie
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        82 years ago

        Plus if all those furries working in tech just went poof, then the internet would probably collapse!

      • @winterstillness@beehaw.org
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        42 years ago

        It really comes down to having a “place” to engage in. I don’t think beehaw/lemmy has a furry community yet. This is further complicated with “art” (which I understand, hosting+moderation). One of the things I’ll miss from reddit is those communities. Granted, I was lurking more for the “art”.

  • @rainbowsylveon@beehaw.org
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    22 years ago

    hello, i’m a relatively new furry haha. my main sona is a bat, though i also have a goat and a snow leopard that i often switch between. currently they just exist as different avatars on secondlife, since i can’t draw to save my life.

  • @wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org
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    52 years ago

    Entry level furry. If it’s a character I like, I might do the deed to them but I don’t seek it out outside of that

  • The Doctor
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    22 years ago

    I’m not active in the community anymore, so I guess that makes me furry-adjacent but, yeah.

  • @Manticore@beehaw.org
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    32 years ago

    I’ve moved in and out of the spaces for a while but never fully immersed, in part because I didn’t feel strongly about any potential fursonas, and have a disinterest in the most popular art styles used. I’ve used a rat as an avatar in the past but I don’t consider the rat to be representative of me so much as my artist’s signature. And it’s always been drawn as a cartoon rat, not an anthro rat.

    I did used to draw a lot of aliens, monsters, and dragon-people though, and identify with those. It helped me feel stronger or more capable to imagine myself that way. If I ever do settle on an animal to present me online and join the furry community ‘properly’, it will probably end up being either a fantasy fusion, a scalie, or both.

  • @eleanorOpossum@beehaw.org
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    22 years ago

    Me kinda? I’m adjacent. I think. I’ve been in and out as a lurker in the fandom for the past decade or so. I still don’t have a sona… mostly because I can’t decide what species.

  • Pixel
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    22 years ago

    +1 here, funnily. But only kind of? Kinda associated with the community when I was younger, grew a little away from it but still consider myself one? Just happy to be a dog on the internet I suppose haha

    • alyaza [they/she]OPM
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      12 years ago

      probably half of the coolest people i know are also dogs on the internet so this may be an intrinsic property of being one

      • Pixel
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        22 years ago

        That’s a high bar to clear I hope I can be that cool one day

  • @pridefulofbeing@beehaw.org
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    22 years ago

    I’m not. I’ve always been curious about how people learn about it, realize they’re a furry, etc.

    What’s your story of how you became a furry? What does it mean to you?

    • Moneymunkie
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      12 years ago

      Think I joined and made a fursona around 2018 but I’d thought they were pretty neat ages before. I think I took the plunge since the community appeared to be very friendly as was quite LGBT positive and I was looking for somewhere to make some friends. Went to a meet at the city closest to me and then boom, here I be :D