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[altivo]

Swiped from doco:

What Kind Of Furry Are You?

You are a stereotypical furry!Congratulations! You're like, one of the popular kids! Among the furry outcasts anyway. You are into parkour/free-running and your drawers are probably chocked full of glowsticks and poi. You are always the first to spout new internet memes, and you were into Weebls Stuff and Homestar Runner waaaay before they were popular. You are nearly always the centre of attention at furmeets, [I am?] whether it's your cool Strong Bad tshirt, showing off your awesome DDR skills, or just bringing over some Happy Tree Friends or Drawn Together for everyone to watch. You're the kind of furry that everyone else wishes they were.
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Kinda dumb, really. I may be a somewhat stereotypical furry, but not in those ways. In fact, there were questions about all that and I answered them all in the negative. Oh well, it's a cute foxie anyway.

Comments

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

Kind of odd... particularly considering that the quiz specifically asked about half the things you ended up crossing out. I tried... it called me a "geek furry", which I kind of guess makes sense. (Though it only asked one or two relevant questions. Whatever.)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I looked at all the possible answers, and of those available, geek might be closer to the truth for me. But there was no result for "fursuiter" which is quite a surprise. No result for "furry artist" or "furry writer" either. Just another half-baked quiz, I guess. ;p

[corelog.livejournal.com]

Peh-chaw! :D

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I got the same result, with about the same batch of errors.

[hgryphon.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

I think the writer's idea of a "typical furry" is overly tempered by what they and their friends are like - for example, parkour and poi-spinning don't seem that characteristic of the fandom to me.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, the parkour seems over the top (no pun intended) though glowsticks and poi juggling are apparently very popular among the trance-dance set. I suspect that's a cultural artifact though, that has more to do with the age group than the furry fandom. We really should make an improved version of that quiz, one that doesn't suffer from the tunnel vision of a coastal-based late teenager.

[octatonic.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, since I came to furry through books and
most furries, as I've asked over the years, have
come to it either through say Disney's "Robin Hood"
or from the hard porn of things like "Zig Zag", I'd
have to say your a rather atypical furry.

Unless you have a secret stash of Zig Zag Hentai
and Soap Puppy that led you to furry.

XD

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Nope, I never even heard of Zig Zag or Soap Puppy. It was books and Disney and dates to the 50s, long before furry fandom was even awakened as a social entity. The quiz author, however, is so wet behind the ears that he doesn't understand such things.

I don't like anime, trance music, glowsticks, or video-computer gaming. I do like furry art, but prefer the non-pornographic kind. I do like furry books and stories. I do like and even collect plush toys. I love real live animals and have had a menagerie for most of my life. I came to fursuiting late and want to make up for lost time, in a sense.

I discovered that there actually was a furry fandom when I found FurryMUCK in about 1991 or 92.

[octatonic.livejournal.com]

MY GOD! 91 or 92?

I didn't find out that there was furry
until at least ten years later.

I typed, into Yahoo, "Anthromorphic Fox"

And...@.@...a /subculture/?

It was fun, still is, though now I look at
it as a part of life and not the toto.

Zig Zag is a more popular manifistation
of the genre. I think because she is
portraid as a powerful female that has
insatiable appetites. *she peers at the
pony* "Your a...pony?"

That sort of thing. I encountered that
sort in "My Secret Garden" once, and
learned that many men have this fetish
for powerful women that "make" them
do what they already want to.

Soap Puppy is kind of the gay version
of that.

While thats all wild and fun, I tend to
like the long slow roleplays, not much
in style online these days. Its either
GUNS GUNS GUNS! Or "Can you tie me up
now?"

Guns I like in straight up shooter games,
but furry isn't about straight up
shooting, at least I don't think so. As
for "tie me up" thats part of what made
furry infamous. Fun? Okay, sure, in a
"lets add spice to the rp" but not as
a steady diet.

Fursuiting I could never do, I have a problem
even wearing underwear, let alone putting on
a full costume. @.@

Plushies? I have a few. Instead of a bazillion
of them I have just the right amount and they
adorn the bookshelf.

Furry has become entwined with sex/yiff.

But it wasn't always so.

c.c

Furry in the Reagan era?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yep. FurryMUCK was still fairly new. I think the chief wiz back then was called Sa'alis or something like that. Before Tugrik's time, I think, though certainly he has been a wonderfully supportive guy for us to have and I don't know where we'd be without him.

I dunno where the yiff thing came from or how it grew to overtake so much of the fandom. I never have understood.

Disney's Robin Hood is a good animated film, but doesn't measure up to Bambi or the Beethoven segment of Fantasia in my opinion. I'm not sure why the later film is considered so important. Nor, among the more recent films, why The Lion King is so important while Brother Bear (which is really about furry transformation) is so neglected.

Plushies? I don't know how many I have, they're all over the place. It's a vice that started when I was 3 or 4 years old and never ended. The current faves are all equines, especially a soft, pillow sized horse (Oreo Pony) I got a year ago, and a donkey (Jake) about the same size that goldenstallion gave me at MFF last fall. And yes, some of them are in my bed as snuggle pals, but nothing more than that.

Fursuiting

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You might be surprised. I'm claustrophobic and generally prefer light and loose clothing. I said for a long time that I'd never be caught dead wearing a fursuit. But in spite of that, I've done a fair stint as a community theatre actor, and the connection finally clicked after I went to MFF 2004. I wanted to try it. I found it to be like potato chips: you can't do it just once. Now I'm thinking about additional suits for different characters.

Last week they featured a delightful story book called Library Lion in story hour here, and as much as I have abhorred the notion of working with the little kids, I found that I wished for a lion suit. It would have worked beautifully and been a lot of fun.

Re: Furry in the Reagan era?

[octatonic.livejournal.com]

The thing with plushies is that you can
find a million bears, even dogs, and a
few wolves.

Ponies? (not horses), maaaaybe.

Foxes? Raaare.

Its a collecter thing for me, no
snuggles, well sometimes, but mostly
I just like the thrill of saying,
"hey! A fox!" or something.

Re: Furry in the Reagan era?

[octatonic.livejournal.com]

Plushies are for collecting, at
least for me.

Anyway *grrs but calms as he
loses a post*

I can see it now;

"Would you dress in this wolf
costume and read The Wolves of
Willoughby Chase" to the children?

*whimpers and agrees*

The kids are scarred for life when
he suddenly goes berzerk and starts
ripping the head off.

http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/space/sounds/breathe.wav

XD

Re: Furry in the Reagan era?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I've seen some very good foxes. I don't have one, though. I have a nice wuff but he's been loved nearly to death. Horses, especially realistic ones, are scarce.