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Any Furries here?

I moved this thread to general discussions as there seems to be little prog to be found in the subject
I love fur myself but preferably on a cat or hounddog prepared for snuggling. I did own a Garfield costume as a teen but sadly stopped fitting when I discovered beer.

I'm a furry creature and I like Super Furry Animals, so I suppose I qualify.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: LilithFC wrote: Any Furries here? I don't understand the question and I don't understand the reference to ":33", but I do like the Super Furry Animals.

Perhaps you don't have furry conventions near where you live. A few months ago someone gave my a brochure advertising the Vancouver Furry Convention -- VancouFur as it's called. I had thought that I might like to dress up as a zombie furry last Halloween, but then that might be insensitive to furkin, not to mention to zombies (a type of dead fur cultural appropriation - PETA does say "fur is murder").

Here's the wikipedia page on furry fandom culture: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

wikipedia wrote: The furry fandom is a subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics.[1][2][3] Examples of anthropomorphic attributes include exhibiting human intelligence and facial expressions, speaking, walking on two legs, and wearing clothes. The term "furry fandom" is also used to refer to the community of people who gather on the internet and at furry conventions.....

I too don't have a fursona, or furkin, but I'm open to trying new things.

I'd seen this before:



And ":33" would be some sort of text emoticon, I would guess, perhaps pertaining to furry culture -- perhaps a fox? Yeah, it looks foxy to me. Dog is often written as :o3

Compare :33 to




EDIT: I'm not bringing politics into this, but I thought this was quite something or other. It's a petition to get Donald Trump to become a furry.

https://www.change.org/p/donald-trump-get-donald-trump-to-become-a-furry

I appreciate the diversity of the Prog community, be they furries, fluffies, baldies, smoothies...

EDIT: Even worse with typos and things today than usual -- I'm typing like a Staffordshire Bull Terrier with a stutter.

Edited by Logan - March 17 2020 at 14:18

Logan wrote: Unless by being a "furrie" one means a fan of Super Furry Animals, , which actually is in Prog Related http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1794 One might say that it's proggish in a rather furry way.

The band I have seen live more than any other I think - maybe seven times?  Each one a killer performance.

^^ Thanks for enlightening me on what a furry is, Logan. I was a fan of the Banana Splits too.

Oh! I use :33 as an emoticon! The double 33s are based on the periodic number of Arsenic (which is 33?), which is found in Catnip. So, with usually the cat emoticon within the community being ':3', I used the catnip 33 as the mouth???