furry! —w—

  • I like fur! it’s really pleasant to the touch.

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    • if I could, I would hug out all the cats in the world. unfortunately I’m allergic to cats, but at least I can imagine the enjoyment.

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      • actually, I do hug my parents’ cats somewhat regularly when I visit them. it’s just that I get a rash 5 minutes after hugging them to my face oh

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    • honestly, it makes me think life would be a lot more pleasant if at least some of us had fur irl. so why don’t we?

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      • biology, evolution, and all that boring stuff of course…

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      • thankfully on the Internet, anything goes. I can imagine. I can create. I can be whatever I want to be.

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  • this dance is like a weapon of self-defense against the present tense

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    • realising my love of fur has been a huge source of internal conflicts for some time.

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      • overcoming fear of the unknown isn’t exactly the most easy or pleasant mental exercise.

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    • but being able to imagine I’m a humanoid cat lets me not worry about actual deficiencies of my body.

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      • I was born with atopic dermatitis, and my skin has always been a source of problems.

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        • in early childhood I’d get horrible rashes, sometimes so painful and graphic I do not want to describe them here.

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          • especially before doctors recommended me good emollients to moisturise my skin with. my atopic dermatitis manifests itself as intense itching and skin dryness; moisturising is important in making it bearable

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          • some kids would ask me “what happened to you?” out of curiosity. I’d respond “nothing, it’s just my illness.”

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        • nowadays I take experimental meds which lower the symptoms to a manageable level. I actually started liking how I look after I started undergoing treatment. probably because my skin isn’t inflamed all the damn time, so I can shift my focus from my face feeling red hot to actually appreciating how it looks.

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  • I view being a furry not as a rejection of my body, but rather as an augmentation of it.

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    • this is more or less why my fursona is so mundane. it’s just me with cat features —w—

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      • I have an anime human-looking face rather than a snout. I think it’s cuter that way :3

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        • technically anime-style faces do resemble snouts slightly; they’re just very short. (how fitting for a cat.)

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    • there are lots of cool things about the human body. the motor skill of your hands is kind of insane. unless you have some disability of course.

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      • but the customisation options are just so boooring! everybody looks pretty much the same.

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        • you get to customise your shape and color of your hair, but not the size and placement of your ears, or the level and color of your floof?

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          • human floof so ugly and coarse —w—

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        • and you don’t even get a cute tail that constantly gets caught on closing doors OW FUCK

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        • all the other animals have those, so why not us?

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          • like I know they’re not practical from a hunter-gatherer sort of standpoint, but we live in a society.

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  • I’ll admit my first conscious exposure to furries was not the most normal thing in the world.

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    • we were playing Geometry Dash with a friend at school, and we encountered a level that had some furry porn in it oh

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      • I was a pretty non-assertive kid at the time, so I conformed to his reactions (basically disgust.)

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        • except… later I thought about it, and the more I let the idea of a furry sink in, the more I liked it. yet the more I thought about that thing (ugh) we encountered, the more I hated myself for thinking furries were cool.

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        • that’s probably what led to me being anti-furry for a good while.

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  • so wanting to be a furry built up in me for 5–6 years. (it started around 2017–2018)

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    • the tipping point was after I played Deltarune and really liked Ralsei. “is it wrong to like a furry character from a game?”

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      • still my favourite fluffy kindboy —w—

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    • a few months later… I stumbled upon this blog post from soatok and it made me realise just how fucking deep I was in my anti-furry Mariana trench.

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      • why of course furries are not harmful you dumbass! what even made you think that?

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      • maybe it’s time to swim out of there before the pressure crushes you?

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  • soon enough I thought, “hehehehe *mydli* *mydli* let’s have some fun with my online identity!”

    I started this website.

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    • at first I didn’t mention anything about being a furry. I started using Ralsei as my online avatar and persona, because he’s a pretty aesthetically pleasing character. not wanting to steal other people’s art, I also started drawing around that time.

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    • a few months later, I slowly started crawling out of my shell and hittin’ truth. I added a little branch to the treehouse mildly suggesting I was a furry to people who were curious enough to click around, and finally, over a year later, in September this year I came out with a fursona.

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      • as of writing this I’m still not displaying it very proudly on my website (my drawing skills are a constant work in progress!) but having it as my profile pic everywhere puts me at ease. —w—

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  • I feel a lot more comfortable saying this now:

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    • I am a furry, and I’m proud of it!

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      • I am doing
        no harm

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