back when I first heard of first
shooting I brought it up with my grandma
so on their heard of helped me so I was
like hey can you help me so a body - I'm
making like basically a mascot costume
and she freaked out because she didn't
thought I was joining this community of
like weird people that would get
together at meats and all just like get
to a group hug pile hi babe
hey mama hey doing I'm good are you good
good looking at all these pictures never
imagined it would be a furry you look so
young there I still look young yes you
do yeah hey thank you I kind of lone
wolfed it as a kid the skateboarding was
always there for me art was there I
think it kind of broadened into
fanfiction and they all had animal
characters in them just I had all kinds
of ways to escape I feel like a lot of
people find the fandom because they feel
different there's got to be somewhere
out there on the internet just like me
and that they find exactly that you
never actually came out and said on the
furry no I don't remember making a big
deal of it
drawing pictures of it at first and then
eventually you started saving I'm
younger you desperately waiting for your
suit to come I slowly got more into the
the scene so to say just cuz of the
people and I eventually just went fine I
give up I'm a furry I'm one of these
guys you know they all seemed really
really cool so I kind of just blend it
in I promise not to wing it so I can see
the board I'm not gonna lie but partying
it's the number one thing that most furs
like to do
the furry population here was black last
night there are not many furs I thought
I'm gonna try I've seen YouTube videos
of a lot of furs going bowling let's try
to go to our local bowling alley you got
big hands join I'm bullying English cut
a homerun coming in here mannequin
stuffy in here
sure is hey this is RK and welcome to
culturally effed we are rolling right Oh
a lot of people feel furry has to be a
certain thing but in my experience furry
is animation it's comics its cosplay
it's all of these other weird aspects
all sort of knotted into a big messy
ball it's just got to have talking
animals in it want to know what I'm
drawing oh I thought it was just a sex
thing yeah is that a sex thing you guys
just have sex from those things right
this is like in 2000 significance
appointment for a history is when the
CSI episode fur and loathing comes out
and sort of taints the fandom as this
like crazy sex fetish cult which really
really diminishes the reputation of the
fandom because obviously CSI is the
documentary oh people are so strange
they think that these furries are having
sex with one another dig deep enough
yeah you can find that but that's not
the case for Eric or any witch friends
that I've ever met
another day huh I really would actually
prefer if people didn't know in my first
and life that I do this not that there's
anything wrong with it but there are
certain social connotations that kind of
come with it it just keeps things a lot
simpler people are way more excited
about cartoons and cosplaying as their
characters than they are necessarily to
do sexual things within furry there are
I think eight animal heads in my room
right now other masks that I can wear
that's weird you can not like it that's
one thing but actually being outwardly
cruel to somebody you're being like oh
you're a freak because it's just like
back off I'm not hurting you I had two
separate incidents where people have hit
me in suit and like non furries and I
don't want to deal with that again I had
a cheerleader at a parade beat me over
the head with a stick because I make
them I just really love them a lot I put
a lot into my work Byzantium version -
I've got a work in progress here this is
going to be the same character as
Byzantium here Byzantium being my goals
character personalities basically what I
want myself to be so we'd be less
anxious just more of a chill laid-back
kind of character versus being like high
anxiety like I am
we're going to howl tonight it's full of
people that have that common Christopher
e and be able to just hang out in a more
casual setting than a convention how is
I was expecting it to be a lot of race
here than it is it's like people dancing
getting drunk just a regular party scene
with some Persinger's and other weird
for everything sprinkle on top there's
like a bit of kink here but they don't
get into anything explicit how is
somewhere where I can see me where I can
just dress up on my first suit and just
hang out with a bunch of her friends and
just be happy my first thing actually
created itself and the mom my nickname
is fluffy lot of love there we go
mother fluff I believe I was a cat the
past in the past life yeah oh I know I'm
human I know I'm 100% human as just I
wish I was a cat yeah that is your nose
hold on I'm more in it for the social
than for the art they're just positive
energy to be around normal people would
think why would somebody want to be a
different animal you're human but they
just don't understand like the
connections that people have with
animals can be very very deep and very
powerful to be life-saving
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something about very anthropomorphize
everything you start to sort of see
everything is having a little life I
know that I've always just said it free
is somebody that feels a connection to
cartoon animal hey how's it going
I use my persona as an avatar on online
interactions and go that's about all it
is to me mostly and then there are the
people who like identify very strongly
spiritually with the the type of
creature they have made their avatar to
be it's more than just roleplay if
you're telling a story or you're
describing a character or personality or
a trait then it for some reason has more
potency when you put it in the context
of not a human shape but an
anthropomorphic animal shape Disney
figured that out years and years ago
fries are all over the place Dino CEOs I
know people that run banks to know their
people is now I'm leaving Hamish there's
a lot of baggage involved with being a
furry the fear that somehow it will all
not somehow there's been proof footage
happens you'll lose your job just
because you're now associated with being
a furry yeah
so this footage was just sent to us and
features Hilda the Bambi ID so yeah I
haven't seen this before either
this is furry archeology you can't show
this and suddenly say oh no no it was
all very very well-to-do no obviously
there was a some sexiness added to it
like really early on is to be honest I
have had sex with my tail and my head
but it's uncomfortable getting away
you're like huffing and puffing you um I
just called Giffen what we do we tried
it we're not really that into it but
we're still new into the fandom so you
never know it can be done it's not my
cup of tea
I'm not that kind of furry and I know a
lot of people that are that kind of
furry
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yes sure access a lot of questions yeah
some people may disagree but if you
don't adapt and do character then you're
doing it wrong you're just you're just
standing there with something on your
face yeah you're not a character I've
just covered in this disgusting skin
there's a lot of personas based off of
the individuals super-ego it emphasizes
the good aspects of people's
personalities the aspects that they want
to build on and improve on and outwardly
express more or how little they care
about their bad one or look yes I always
knew something was different about me
I felt really wrong saying I'm a girl I
had started being furry before I even
thought about transition so I had a very
masculine character so that kind of
it helped me realize more of the
TransLink with with the first you you
can pat it out to have breasts or abs or
whatever
meanwhile you have the opposite so it it
gives people a way to anonymously
express their gender identity which is a
huge thing especially if you're stealth
and you don't want people knowing that
kind of thing or you're not able to come
out yet having something like this where
people can have fun but also be
understanding of what you're going
through is really important I do see
mother floss as an extension of myself
she's angry
the cat is angry come on show shelter
was the only place that I can actually
pet cats and see cats and no boom-boom
you taking up my tail I like to talk to
cats because I talked to cats like I
talk to my kids very softly whenever I'm
with my kids my daughter is attached to
my head it sucks not having custody of
them because uh makes me feel like I
didn't try hard enough
I'm a dating Rosanna I don't have my
kids right what kind of what kind of mom
would be happy with Africa I've been
depressed since I was about 12 and it's
always try this medication and it
doesn't work try this medication and I
don't feel right when I take a side stop
it but when I put on my first like just
when I put on my first life so so much
happier it's like
a medicine that you just put on I
haven't cut since I've been away I think
I am winning but yeah is a higher number
generally win now you've won I'm so far
behind now I fell off the back end of
the game so I wanted to create sort of a
safe haven where people wouldn't have to
feel alone I grew up alone it was flying
for me but not everybody has that
strength so I thought the best way to
kind of rectify that was to get as many
people with things in common
together as possible as quickly as
possible and and it worked
metaphor meet maybe about five years ago
we've been engaged for just under two
years now that's the thing that furry
offers you do that yeah success if you
don't fit the mold you were born into
well you know you'll fit ours silly
costume life-changing
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if you look back in fandom history
people were calling checking's mere
Chucky's were the weird thing being huge
in a Star Trek or huge in a Star Wars
was freaky now that's like casually
it's like it's an initiation process for
every different fandom or different
lifestyle or hobby it's going to go
through a period where it's just made
fun of for quite a while or beat this
and then it's going to be basically
accepted
right now enjoying YouTube people so
that gentleman you had in here a moment
ago you know yeah
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