i love fursuits and costuming and animals and drawing animals and EVERYTHING so this place is perfect 4 me

duh animals. I forget the main definition of furries. animals animals animals animals. I also love you miss you.

weh <3<3

Lifestyle is a bad word. It's kind of hard to describe what it is really ): Like a characteristic or hobby? I don't really know. I definitely don't go through my whole day or even a whole hour daydreaming of furries or anything. What would you call it?

i just like to draw animal headed people

AN ELEPHANT SHREW?! NOOOOO BATYOTEEEEE.
but i love everything about the furry fandom, i fit in here perfectly. not every fetish is my fetish, but i do like some! and i like to draw them and my friends and everything and fursuit and do all the things and the cons the most and aaaaaaa FRIENDS LOVE

I LOVE DRAWING ANIMALS ive been exposed

It's really entertaining to me how everyone has a character to identify with online! I love feathers, so this is been my way having fun with it.

characters are seriously the only reason i love the fandom so much, MINE OR OTHERS i ust love the creativity in it and ugh ughhh

also i miss you man i never see you on skype anymore

characters

dude I know I suck. I never have the time anymore. Txt possible?

YA do you still got my numba

awks when my phone puts it on a new line

this is a wonderful journal, for real

I like thinking about this kind of thing a lot but it always seems to give me more questions than answers haha

I guess I should mention I never seem to feel comfortable representing myself as one thing for an extended period of time--maybe six months to a year at maximum. and I mean that to include fursonas as well as literal (human) representations of myself. I'm always changing as a person, so I guess that's just what happens. usually what I do is I cycle fursonas and use them for different purposes--one is more chill, like that's the one I draw my partner with and so on, one is horrible and has all the physical things I don't like about myself, etc.

anyway, I loooooove character design, and I think every fursona has a story, if not lots of stories! there's so much untapped psychology behind every personal character, right down to the colors picked. I make a lot of characters that I consider to be "close" to me, but there are only two or three characters I feel ssssort of comfortable using to represent myself (and in the case of my lizard dude, dexter, he's more like a furry version of S.W.I.M...haha). but I always notice interesting patterns about them, like that none of the characters I make have pupils, and most of them are completely or almost completely black and white. I always wonder what those things mean, haha

oh oh also I fucking love fursuits. when they're done right, of course haha (like anything else). oh my god fursuits ... are so cute ....... and I love it when these characters that were once such an abstract concept suddenly materialize into something that seems very much real and alive!! or at least very huggable!!! haha. and dang I have seen some incredible fursuit dancing, I tell you what

I should also mention I was ALWAYS hesitant to even CONSIDER calling myself a furry before I met you n everyone else at mff. furries to me seemed to be a big thing that was like 95% completely gross and 5% holy shit amazing. but after meeting all you lovely people I realized that even if that was the case, you and the other 5% of amazing people would make it worth it to call myself a furry. even now I'm kinda hesitant to do so but I guess I can't escape how much I love the characters and the psychology and the amazing things that come from everyone's brains and hands and manifest in front of our eyes as something we react to on a very deep emotional level. it's totally weird but it's also totally great. also thank you again for making me think on this again haha

Wow Clark ;; Thank your for this comment. I had forgotten about this journal, but you reminded me. AND you basically put down my exact feelings also. Always changing. Thought it was a bit gross at first.

ahh that makes me so happy! I'm glad to hear :) yeah I don't understand how people can just be more or less one thing forever, though that's not necessarily a bad thing, just a thing. I believe there's no shame in changing, and no shame in staying the same.

Sup, I just found you, but I will answer this old journal anywaaay!

Like you I've just always loved to draw myself and others as animal people! Maybe it's sort of a cop-out for not being able to draw humans, but also animals are awesome, so whatever!

My representation in the fandom changes all the time. More power to the people with a static character, but like Cisqur said, I'm constantly changing and growing and so my characters end up doing that, too. It's not really intentional, I just adore character design and I'm constantly coming up with new ideas. I have like 18 characters right now, it is pretty retarded... haha!

I didn't like fursuits at first, but after going to conventions and being around them and seeing their shenanigans I got more intrigued. It's basically just dress up and playing pretend. I'm not into the miming/mascotting aspect, I'm just myself wearing a bag of fur when I fursuit. I still talk and generally just fuck around idk. It's the people that take it super seriously that creep me out and made me shy away from doing it at first.

I dunno if the fandom will always be a part of my life- I'll probably outgrow conventions and shit, but I will always be drawing animal monsters until the day I die!

Very well said! It's so interesting to me how many different places people come to interpret the furry fandom. Sounds like we share a pretty similar view. Thanks so much for commenting<3