Hiya! Nos Hyena here,
and for today's video,
I'm gonna be talking about why I love to fursuit! Yay!
Now you might be wondering why would anyone want to wear
one of these hot, sweaty, stuffy, oversized, bulky, (fake) fur, cute, animal costumes?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'll explain why in my own words!
For anyone who doesn't know, a fursuit is an animal costume that you wear on your body to
be a furry character. The most well-known type of fursuit is a full fursuit!
Basically, you completely change from being a human being, into being a
full-body animal. Now luckily it's 2018, and there's so many different makers you
can choose from in the furry fandom who can make you a custom fursuit of your
character. But you don't have to have a full suit, you can also wear a partial,
which is just usually: head, paws, and a tail.
Some people also just wear a head or
they might have ears, and a tail, and a kigu, or some combination of any of the
things that I just said.
Basically if it looks like an animal costume,
and you want to call it a fursuit, it probably is a fursuit.
Now how did I get into fursuiting?
Well since a very young age, I always wanted to dress up as an animal,
and be an animal character, like you see in the cartoons. And whenever I
saw mascot costumes or animal costumes on TV, I always thought,
"I want to be one of those characters."
And I thought I was the only person to think that way
until I was like 11 or 12 years old when I found out what mascots were.
Because I didn't know what the name for mascots were,
and then did some digging and then
found out that there's actually a community of people who love to dress up
as animals, so I didn't feel so alone in having this very niche interest of
wanting to be an animal. Now the reasons why I wanted to fursuit and the reasons
why I love fursuiting right now are pretty much exactly the same.
So I'm-a just list some of these to you
and tell you why I love fursuiting so much!
First one is the transformation.
You can go from looking like a very normal looking human,
to a larger-than-life character with
any of the characteristics you want when you put on a fursuit!
And this is a really cool thing about getting a fursuit of your character.
You can embody absolutely anything you want to, so if you want to be a species that
doesn't even exist in the real world, well guess what, you can do it as a
fursuiter! Which is super fun. And really, it's just super super fun to be able to
embody a character in real life that came from your imagination.
It's like bringing that creativity in your head into the real world.
So that's one really appealing reason about fursuiting for me.
It's also pretty surreal and awesome
to look in the mirror and see your reflection,
and you're not a human but you're an animal.
so that's really super super cool. The second reason I love
fursuiting is because you get to perform as a character.
Now when you put on a fursuit
you can have completely different characteristics than what you do in your
normal day-to-day life.
So you can go from Joe Schmoe in the office to being an
angry doggo, or a cheeky cat, or a super hyperactive Dutch Angel dragon.
Now isn't that pretty cool?
The ability to be someone that you're not is also a really
freeing and liberating thing about being in a fursuit. Now if you're a little shy
or you find it hard to talk to people, well having a fursuit is actually a
really good icebreaker when you get to wear it around, and go to furry
conventions, because instead of having to say hi to people, more often than not
people are coming up to say hi to you!
Also having a mask over your head can be
really appealing because you can be completely anonymous, especially if no
one knows who you are underneath.
So you can be as silly or as goofy as you want
and no one knows who the human is underneath. And that's a really freeing
and fun thing about being in a fursuit.
And I can personally say I've seen it myself.
I've seen people who are very shy and reserved out of suit, that put on
their fursuit and then they just are like the most energetic and animated
people I've ever seen, it's really a sight to behold, it's so much fun to see
it, oh my gosh. (hyena noise)
And that brings me to another reason why I love fursuiting so much,
getting to interact with other fursuiters. Now if you're at a con or a
meet, or in a furry house, or there's other fursuiters, it's really cool to be
an animal, and interact with other animals.
It's like this play pretend make-believe happy awesome world
where you can just forget about being a human for a while
and just have fun being your character! Think of fursuiting as this
really fun freeform improvised role-playing game where you
get to be your character, and interact with all these other people in this whole
alternate universe called earth. And in these moments your character's
personality can really come out, so if your character is cheeky they might tap
on other suiters' backs when they're not looking, or steal other suiters' scarves or
if your character's a grump you might look at that and go, "nah, I'm not into
that". Getting to interact with other fursuiters is just another awesome form
of free expression that you get when you are wearing a fursuit, so it's so
absolutely awesomely fun. So yay!
Now another reason why I absolutely,
absolutely, absolutely, love fursuiting is getting to brighten other people's days.
Now I have to say as a furry who's been active for a couple of years in
the fandom, I'm actually pretty used to seeing fursuits at conventions and at meets,
but even when you're at a con, you're going to encounter people who've
never seen a fursuit before, who've never seen this larger-than-life cute, or
awesome or snarly animal costume before, and they're gonna be so happy to see it
for the first time! So when you put on a fursuit and you go out somewhere or
even if you put out videos on the internet, you have the opportunity to
really brighten people's days, and make a positive impact, just by being yourself,
or your character, which is sometimes very very similar, but also sometimes complete opposite.
Some of my most fun suiting moments at cons have been interacting
with the public who come up and say: "oh my gosh"
"these animals are so cool, how do I become a furry?" and it's a really nice
feeling because outsiders, non-furries see what you're doing and they're
digging what you're doing as well, so I think that's just so much fun. And the
last reason why I love fursuiting is it's actually a really awesome way to be
able to make new friends. Now a lot of you might be sitting at home thinking, "oh
I'm an animal person but I'm not sure if there's gonna be other people who
understand me." Well guess what? In the furry fandom
there's so many people who also wanna be animals just like you,
and honestly that's a really awesome starting place for common ground that
can build really amazing friendships with other people, I can definitely say
myself, after joining this fandom in 2015, I've made so many awesome friends that I
know are gonna be friends for life just from the starting point of both
being a silly animal, it's just the powerful and amazing impact that this
fandom can have on so many individual lives, and before furry I can't say
that I had that many close friends, but I can say after becoming a furry,
I just have met so many amazing people from all around the world, and I'm just
so lucky to be part of this community. And it all came back to when I was a kid
and I really wanted to be an animal, so...
So it just gave me a really happy feeling knowing that I can be an
animal now, and I have lots of animal friends, rawr. Yay!
So yeah that's just a couple of the reasons why
I love fursuiting. Fursuiting is amazing and I just
really wanted to express to you all how I got started being a fursuiter, it's
a bit more of a free-form video but I thought it was an important topic that I
wanted to share with you all.
Okay so it sounds kind of a little cheesy and a
little corny, but I'm really really glad that when I was really young I just
wanted to dress up like an animal, because in a way it led me on this path
that I made some really amazing and awesome friends, and I'm gonna be a
furry for life, you know, I have that feeling inside of me, so I think that was
supposed to be a quick video, but I'm sure now it's a lot longer like eight
minutes or something, but that's just a little taste of why I love fursuiting
so much, it's just so much fun to do, it really is, and yeah! That's really all I
have to say on the matter, so thank you so much everyone for watching, I'm Nos
Hyena, big shout out to my super-secret patrons, thank you so much
for your support, you help me continue to make videos,
all of you, so I appreciate every single one of you,
thank you so much for your support, thank you everyone's watching, ow! No it didn't really
hurt, I'm fine I swear! And I will catch you next time!
Yay! Stay tuned for-
Hi I'm Artemis, and I'm a big angry British dog. Now in
today's video, I'm gonna be talking about my 10 least favorite types of furries.
First, cats! I don't like cats, I'm a dog. Two, chickens! Chickens can't fly,
so they suck. Number three, cats! Again, cos I'm Artemis, and I'm an angry doggo.
(laughs) How many packets of cigarettes do you have to smoke a day to get that voice Artemis?
I'm done!
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