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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


wooper
@wooper

I'm glad people are starting to make a delineation between how much others are into anthro art or animals cause I got repeatedly made to feel gross and uncomfortable when random furries kept telling me I or my sona was hot when it was literally me as a dragon, which is why I haven't used it in a while.

I like dragons, I didn't like that I couldnt just like dragons while being queer and online without being assumed to be part of some wider connected community interested in making their chosen animal the focal point of their life and sexuality. Especially after seeing years and years of furries IN the community being like "lol dragon furry moment" over some of the more insane furry takes online, I felt like I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I had nothing to do with this community whatsoever as it wasn't any different than all the others.

My point is it's a sore spot and before you go randomly messaging some furry to tell them they're cute or say something lewd maybe make sure you fucking know them first


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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!