BoneheadBruin

OP sounds like some kind of Homer simp, or perhaps a Homer simp’s son

My first job required a bachelor’s degree because AND I QUOTE “So we know you can read and write in English”

My 2024 Santa Fe is also up there on annoyingly bright headlights list. So many people flashing their brights at me before I’m forced to unleash Ark of the Covenant by flashing my actual brights back. Even the emergency flashers are so darn bright I feel like I can’t use them at night when I’m unloading groceries because it fully illuminates the entire apartment building in front of me a block away. This can’t be a necessary amount of lumens.

“It drives up the quality by a mile”. That’s the point, you idiot. It drives every single manga good and bad’s quality the exact same mile up the exact same road.

We want unique, creative visuals brought on by human touch and error, not generic generative slop that all promises to be a D+ to C- quality story because you let the damn slopbot drive your creative process for you instead of actually engaging with your own work and skills.

I think something a lot of people miss is the actual scale of the US as a country. My state is pure blue. My local government is mostly tolerable although not as far left as I’d prefer. Rioting here accomplishes nothing because democrats aren’t in control of the government so we’re just trapped along for the ride.

For me to join a protest with a meaningful impact I would need to travel to Washington D.C… For a west-coast American to actually protest at the capitol of America it would be a similar travel scale to an Irishman traveling to Moscow to protest the EU. That trip alone would cost me ~450 euros before fees and before the cost of any food/shelter. It would require that I leave my job if I stayed for more than a week and because I have no job I can’t pay rent so I must surrender my belongings and uproot my family.

This just isn’t achievable for the average person without your life already having entirely collapsed in the first place. The most any of us out here can realistically do is try to throw money and other forms of support at the problem and hope other states can get their shit together.

Invisible anime serial killer spirit with the personality of a school shooter.

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Be the Fat Bear Week you want to see in the world. Make your Fat Bear Weakness your strength.

One other small addition that I didn’t know where to fit is that, as a non-neurotypical gay man, wrapping my life around furries makes it more comfortable to unmask around people. People literally do not bat an eye if I want to gush about Fat Bear Week, or throw out a hear-me-out about that one undead werewolf monster that “kisses” the priest in Castlevania.

I’m a furry because I think anthropomorphic animals are neat. It’s kind of just that simple. Participation as a furry to me is just a minimum of making an avatar (a fursona) and talking to or hanging out with other furries. Honestly, it’s hardly different than modern VTuber obsession – our community just happened to start with early western animation rather than more recent eastern animation.

Furry is a “lifestyle” and can be taken as far as you want it to take it. We are a community you can chill in, a hobby you can participate in as any kind of creative person from artist, to musician, to 3D modeling, to the person developing the extremely complicated sex stuff going on in VRChat, or a kink you can dress up and fuck in. You can either make everything yourself, buy your way in, or it’s honestly totally normal to just hang around artists enough that they end up making things for you when they’re bored – although it’s good manners to actually participate in that person’s area of the community rather than begging for art.

Furry being more of a lifestyle than a hobby means it’s very easy to just include it in your daily rituals. There are hundreds, if not over a thousand furries in the greater Seattle area. I can go to dinner with other furries, I participate in a furry Twitch community, I game online with furries, and I’m currently about to go on a camping trip out in the woods of Washington for an event called Furwood that takes place at an exclusively queer campsite called Triangle Recreation Camp with nearly a hundred people (though many are dropping out due to the expected rainy weather this weekend).

What furries are NOT is:

1. A collective of pedophiles/groomers/zoophiles. They do exist in the community (and basically every online community) but almost every site/app explicitly blacklists this content and good Lord you should see the anti-zoophile witchhunts on Twitter. The natural anonymity of furries and sheer scale of the fandom does result in these things coming up frequently though, and furries could definitely do a better job moderating their spaces.
2. Exclusively people dressing up in fursuits to bang. This is a minority of furries that shit costs thousands of dollars. There is, however, a lot of overlap with puppy play, a bdsm kink involving pups and handlers roleplaying as various animals, usually dogs. I know many people who own a partial fursuit (they wear a head and hands but the rest is normal clothes) and also a leather/neoprene pup mask that they switch to for the actual sex stuff.
3. People who believe they are actually animals. These are called “Therians” and many Therians are also furries but most furries are not Therians. It is pretty normal to ROLEPLAY your sona, but the depth of that roleplay is up to the individual. For example, I refer to myself as a polar bear on the internet but that’s about it. I do however know people in our community who have 10+ pages of lore, use the dreaded creepy asterisks, commissioned custom multi-hundred dollar VRC avatars, and never break character.

The darkness is thicker on earth than in space.