Becoming a Furry

As if Goreans didn't have enough issues with me....

IRL I've done a lot of introspection, made contact with my spirit-animal for lack of better term (I am Pagan), and decided to turn things around. I took on a different attitude about life, realized that Bush and his cronies will be dead and Nixonized in the history books and some other bullshit will replace them, realized that money is shit and sex should be earthshattering.

On the whole, a pre-mid-life-mid-life-crisis that led to reinvention.

As such, my representation in metaverses, my "soul projection", if you will, undergoes similar transformation.

Now all seriousness behind me, that led me to realize some other things:

1. Sex is, well, the sex.
2. I love being a member of communities.
3. I dig chicks with tails.
4. Violence isn't an option, it's a passtime
5. Everyone should be free to be whatever they feel they are inside
6. #5 should be expressed outwardly.
7. #1 is more fun in groups or with spectators.

So I was looking at avs today and saw a furry av, and it was like looking in a mirror. So I'm like, oh fuck, I'm a Furry. When did this happen?

So...erm...feed my ignorance...now what?

You'll do fine.

Every once in a while, I'm a happy bunny too.

A la Peter Rabbit.


Hey, it fits with Caledon's theme!

Now if you will excuse me, I've got to get a snack in McGregor's garden without getting caught...

Reading about shamanism and totem animals is one place to start.
Checking out Therianthropy another.

Neither might be what you are or feel you are, but they should give you a place to astart, and you might at least find out what you are not.

I'd suggest www.therianthropy.org for the later.
I don't have a good site for shamanism/totems, but Wiki and Google should give you some places to start looking at least.

I know exactly what you mean. I didn't want to believe it at first, but then I was in the forest and came upon the luskwood vendor and just as you described it, I saw a mirror. That big cat I purchased DEFINES me. I used to feel lost and confused, but now that I can identify as a furry it just feels like everything is going to be allright.

Just a question, have you been having any gay tendencies lately? Ever since I became furry, I've been feeling a strong pull towards other male furries (especially some of those cute foxes, wow). Anyway, enjoy! Furry life is a great life.

Now what?

Just be who you are and don't worry about it, although you should know that most psychologists consider the whole furry thing to be a type of mental illness.

Just thought you should know.

IRL I'm bisexual. I tend to lean toward women, but men are always an option.

But yes, the totem animal concept is how I know that was me I saw. A white wolf....all it's missing is the black, birdlike crest on the chest. Corvus is a part of the name I use in my particular religious system and is the root word for my actual name.

Incidentally, my life changes have encouraged me to try to sell my house, settle debts, and attend Full Sail Real World Education in Winter Park, FL. Wish me luck!

I'm dating one and already had avs Corvus.


The lion is my spirit animal, tiger is an animal my rl gf likes, and the squirrel..well..FOAMY!

I also have a mechmind raven (I feel a spiritual connection to corvids), and a mechmind wolf.

sent you soemthign you might like Corvus

That's because free thought is considered a mental illness in the united states. In fact, being a genious is considered a disability. I was considered "gifted" in early grade school and my family was notified they could get benefits for me as a disabled person.

How fucked is that.

Anyways, considering I fall in love with slutty women because they're slutty and encourage them to remain so while with me, Pyramid Head is one of my heroes, and I get aroused by tentacle-monster hentai, being a furry is the least of my psych troubles ;P.

You need to go and read Ghastly's Ghastly Comic!

Oh, and check out Nyarr, the cute tentacle monster of Strange Candy. She's hot!

Hmmmm... yes... www.therianthropy.org and also the collection of sites Yiffy has in her sig.

T.O. is closed for maintenance, everyone.

Go under 'Community' and click on the "Awereness forum". That works, though you have to register.
Oh, and be sure to ready the FAQ and rules.

Totem spirit animals and such makes you sound more like a furry lifestyler rather than just a plain-jane furry. Then again, walking around in an animal-human hybrid avatar doesn't necessarily make you a furry either. You have to like 'some things' furry like artwork, other furrys etc. In other words, you basically need to like the concept of the melding attributes of animals and humans into a single creature. Much like being pregnant, either you are or you are not and with furry, either you do or you don't. There really isn't a now what.

You can read a lot on the spirit animal side of things and you can look at other's interpretations of furrieness in art at VCL and you can look through the web pages on the FurNation website.

Word of advice, the lifestyle side of furry is generally where the bad press stems from and there is a deep and bitter divide between furry fans and lifestylers. With good reason in my opinion. A fan of say, The Secret of NYMH, for example is likely to be uncomfortable around people who sell their thoroughly buggered and soiled raccoon plushie in an online auction or regale you with tales of how they have a loving sexual relationship with the family pet. Although very few in number, they are the ones making headlines and as a furry you will be forever lumped in with them. In other words, be prepared to be considered a 'freak' or a zeta-human among those who know about furry through the media only.

My advice would be to "stay in the closet" until you have a handle on how you want to express your furriness and test those around you to find their reaction to the new you.

My "Now What" was more regarding insertion into the SL Furry community. How Furry culture has found incarnation in SL, that sort of thing. The rest...I'm used to judgment, and simply don't care. Thanks though

Actually, no they don't. They consider parts of it to be, not the whole cloth. It's like saying all Star Trek fans are mentally ill. Furry started as a part of the Sci-Fi fandom in general as many felt they identified with the aliens rather than the standard human protagonists. Many furrys are just that, me included. Furry isn't a fetish or even a condition really, you either dig it or you don't. Liking the movie Chronicals of Narnia and enjoying the intelligent, talking animals, griffons and centaurs portrayed within does not make you mentally ill.

There really isn't much to do community-wise other than hang out with other people who like what you do. Or not. You can head to either Furnation or the Valleys (furry borg collective as it is often called) to commune with other furs but really, you are gonna find they are pretty much like everyone else.

I have heard that often from other furs, completely straight in RL but totally gay when playing a furry character. I think it has to do with repressed feelings and such that can surface when putting on a mask. The anonymity, the lack of social consequences and freedom may allow a repressed bisexuality to be expressed plus there are many gay furs out there.

Huh.

Spirituality never entered into the question of "Am I furry?" for me.

I don't worship animal gods, nor do I think I am a wolf/tiger/ferret/wombat in a human body.

Then again, I liked anthropomorphics even before I knew what "furry" was, so it's not something that I really consider that "core" to my day to day life. I have a fair number of furry friends, and I go to some of the cons, but really the furry fandom could cease to exist tomorrow and I'll just return to hitting up science fiction cons to meet like-minded people.

My robot avatars I sell in SL are technically furry, being animals in the shape of upright, two-legged robots, but I'm not catering specifically to the furry market. Of course, neither do the rest of the "traditional" furry vendors. I've seen people wear Lusk wolves or whatnot, just because they thought they were cool or cute.

There's no secret handshake, no special badge or instruction manual... Just do whatever comes naturally for you.

If you want to insert yourself into the furry community, just go to furry sims and start talking to people. I've found most of them are pretty friendly. Just don't expect any of them to tell you who you are.

So you want to become a furry RL and bring your virtual game habbits to RL?

I hope you like federal pound me under the tail prison!

Some psychologists consider transgenders to be mentally ill. Most transgenders I know would disagree.

Ha... one thing... just because you're animal spirit is a white wolf doesn't mean that's what you are. My spirit animal is also a white wolf (has been since I was VERY young and didn't know about such things... in fact, I only figured out why I always had these weird white wolf dreams a few years ago), but I find I feel most 'human' in SL while wearing a winged fox avatar. I've tried lots of different wolf/white wolf avs and just don't feel right in them. Go figure.

Of course, I'm also not a furry... in 'RL', though I've never felt like I fit in, I also have no interest in wearing a fursuit. I also don't like furry porn, though furry art is interesting. However, I always feel welcome in Luskwood, whether I'm in my fox av or human av... though from what it sounds like you like, you might like... what is it, furnation, a little better than a PG sim

Interesting point Spoony, but alas, I have yet to meet a furry influenced by shamanistic and pagan views. Most of the furries I've seen were influenced by pseudo japanese animorph-porn or similar yiffistic cultures.

I have seen non-furry wolves though and have a good friend who is one, but this is purely due to NA/shamnistic views, and he does not consider himself a furry, since his av is in the form of a wolf and not a humanoid wolf.

Some psychologists consider Charles Manson to be mentally ill. Charles Manson would disagree.

So what's your point?