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hobbyist game developer, professional procrastinator, and kink trash goblin


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CyanSorcery
@CyanSorcery

🦊currently finding out that apparently most furries see their fursonas as like, a fun costume for roleplay and stuff because they think anthro characters are cute and not like, "I wish that was actually me I wish I had big pointy fox teeth and paws and claws and tail and pointy ears" like, do you guys NOT want to actually just be an animal??? I thought that was just an inherent part of being furry

EDIT TO ADD: people are saying "This is just being therian" and we're like, haha whoops yea that's why were asking, because I guess a lot of furries are fine being a human and just having the fursona as an avatar used to talk to other funny animal appreciators but uh, that's uh, not us


estrogen-and-spite
@estrogen-and-spite

Me: “I think I might be a furry”
This post: “ha ha I got news for you buddy!”

Can I finish processing being a system before this gets dumped in my lap what do you mean furries don’t want to be their ‘sona?



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in reply to @CyanSorcery's post:

oh yeah there’s a group that does actually real, academic research on this (they visit cons to survey real attendees and hang out and have some membership intersection with actual furries, afaict they seem legit)

i think this bit is interesting because like, it breaks through some confusion in the past polling about therians (a lot of people didn’t know what the term meant) and gets past “do you believe you aren’t human!” and “do you literally want to be an animal?” (which aren’t true for the majority of people as you said!) and hits “do you wish you could be something other than 100% human?” and they got a lot of hits with that one

https://furscience.com/research-findings/therians/7-1-prevalence/

🦊that whole thing about 80% wanting to be something besides 100% human really gets me yea, but it's also really interesting to see that a lot of them are just like "oh yea I'm not therian" but some of them apparently went "oh, actually I am therian" after finding out from the test

RIGHT??? its so strange... i really really can't relate to not wanting to be your sona, or even not having a fursona or animal picture as your profile pic

or even like, having a webcam on and showing your face, like, i don't want to acknowledge my human face! don't perceive me! i'm a doggy!