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Silverclaw wrote:
Not really. You just have to pick a species to represent yourself as basicaly

I am furry! *scratches fleas*

Or if you're therian, you can just draw you as yourself.

True that

good point, pariahpoet. good point.

but yeah, i have a fursona. it doesn't really require much dedication or work. i mean, i jus draw pictures of how i wanna look or how i think i would look as an animal or anthropomorphic animal (usually very similar). pretty simple, really. plus, you can look at pics of my fursona on my da page. jus click the link below.

I have no problem with furries. As long as they don't shed fur on the sofa.

Oh good! I guess that means I can use your sofa as a scratching post so long as I don't shed on it!

*scratch, scratch, rip...*

Whoa... am i out of the loop...

I must've missed some serious fireworks while i was gone. Oops.

I'm friends with plent of furries. Like I said though... I just can't really get into the culture its developed into. Not my thing.

I have to admit, some furries have extremely bizzare imaginations. Sometimes even creepy. I typically don't say anything about it.

Kaebora wrote:I'm friends with plent of furries. Like I said though... I just can't really get into the culture its developed into. Not my thing.

I have to admit, some furries have extremely bizzare imaginations. Sometimes even creepy. I typically don't say anything about it.

Yeah, I'm with Kaebora on that. Furries, rock on and do your thing. It just ain't my thing.

Just keep in mind, most of us are not pervs. Kaebora- you met me, I'm not depraved....

I went from were, to furry, to were, to furry, to having no damn time...

S'the only reason I can't get on this place more often, school really does eat up all mah time.

Aside from that, I don't see a vast gap between the genres that are "Furry" and "Were". They're... Essentially the same thing?

However, I might just be a tad naive.

No, they aren't the same. There is overlap among the therian and furry communities(such as myself), but they are entirely seperate groups.
For me, the furry is a way to express my wereside.
To be a were/therian, you must have a wereside. Not just human attributes associated with a particular animal(I'm a sly fox), but instincts, thought patterns that are not human in nature.
Furry is just a way of expressing yourself(your human personality, or if you have one, your wereside), a way to play as something other than yourself, or as an art form. At the end of the day a furry can decide to stop being a character. A were is what he or she is no matter what.

In short, IMHO, were is what you are, furry is how you express yourself.

Syzygy wrote:I have no problem with furries. As long as they don't shed fur on the sofa.

Not only do they shed fur....they can remove their heads!!


And they don't feel a thing if you accidentally step on their tail!!

PariahPoet wrote:No, they aren't the same. There is overlap among the therian and furry communities(such as myself), but they are entirely seperate groups.
For me, the furry is a way to express my wereside.
To be a were/therian, you must have a wereside. Not just human attributes associated with a particular animal(I'm a sly fox), but instincts, thought patterns that are not human in nature.
Furry is just a way of expressing yourself(your human personality, or if you have one, your wereside), a way to play as something other than yourself, or as an art form. At the end of the day a furry can decide to stop being a character. A were is what he or she is no matter what.

In short, IMHO, were is what you are, furry is how you express yourself.

see...thats wierd..because ive talked to a lot of furies and a lot of therians and they get irate over the fact that others say that being a therian and being a furrie are two different things...they will swear all over that its the same thing....i dont think it is because....they will do there fur suiting they compleatly deny having any therian traits in them...i gues i just dont get others...

i mean im a therian.....but i dont fur sut....though i do consider myself somewhat of a furry also......but im primarily a therian...

Most furries will swear up and down that they are the same. Most therians will swear they're different. ^_^
I have seen some major flame wars on therianthropy.org just because someone said they were "Very similar", let alone the same thing.

PariahPoet wrote:No, they aren't the same. There is overlap among the therian and furry communities(such as myself), but they are entirely seperate groups.
For me, the furry is a way to express my wereside.
To be a were/therian, you must have a wereside. Not just human attributes associated with a particular animal(I'm a sly fox), but instincts, thought patterns that are not human in nature.
Furry is just a way of expressing yourself(your human personality, or if you have one, your wereside), a way to play as something other than yourself, or as an art form. At the end of the day a furry can decide to stop being a character. A were is what he or she is no matter what.

In short, IMHO, were is what you are, furry is how you express yourself.

I'm not a therian either, so where does this put me? Indeed I have a shapeshifting character that I use the name and avitar of, but it isn't me. It's just the main character of my short film. (In progress.) I don't say I have a "wereside". Its not like me to pretend that I'm something else. Costumes... sure, thats all in good fun. But an entirely different persona... no.

Scared off? HA!! I ain't going nowhere..Well minus if something comes up an I need to take a break or can't get to a compy I here to stay!! I mean everyplace needs a Joker

Kaebora wrote:

PariahPoet wrote:No, they aren't the same. There is overlap among the therian and furry communities(such as myself), but they are entirely seperate groups.
For me, the furry is a way to express my wereside.
To be a were/therian, you must have a wereside. Not just human attributes associated with a particular animal(I'm a sly fox), but instincts, thought patterns that are not human in nature.
Furry is just a way of expressing yourself(your human personality, or if you have one, your wereside), a way to play as something other than yourself, or as an art form. At the end of the day a furry can decide to stop being a character. A were is what he or she is no matter what.

In short, IMHO, were is what you are, furry is how you express yourself.

I'm not a therian either, so where does this put me? Indeed I have a shapeshifting character that I use the name and avitar of, but it isn't me. It's just the main character of my short film. (In progress.) I don't say I have a "wereside". Its not like me to pretend that I'm something else. Costumes... sure, thats all in good fun. But an entirely different persona... no.

Then that makes you a person with a were character. Like Fig.
You don't have to fit neatly into any category, you just are what you are.

PariahPoet wrote:

Kaebora wrote:

PariahPoet wrote:No, they aren't the same. There is overlap among the therian and furry communities(such as myself), but they are entirely seperate groups.
For me, the furry is a way to express my wereside.
To be a were/therian, you must have a wereside. Not just human attributes associated with a particular animal(I'm a sly fox), but instincts, thought patterns that are not human in nature.
Furry is just a way of expressing yourself(your human personality, or if you have one, your wereside), a way to play as something other than yourself, or as an art form. At the end of the day a furry can decide to stop being a character. A were is what he or she is no matter what.

In short, IMHO, were is what you are, furry is how you express yourself.

I'm not a therian either, so where does this put me? Indeed I have a shapeshifting character that I use the name and avitar of, but it isn't me. It's just the main character of my short film. (In progress.) I don't say I have a "wereside". Its not like me to pretend that I'm something else. Costumes... sure, thats all in good fun. But an entirely different persona... no.

Then that makes you a person with a were character. Like Fig.
You don't have to fit neatly into any category, you just are what you are.

yup.....you are just like me, Kaebora. We both have characters...but don't consider ourselves a furry.

I'm not a furry and I don't really like it or anything. Although I can see why people do enjoy it; its silly, yiffy, and different... But its just not my cup of thee personally.

Figarou wrote:

PariahPoet wrote:

Kaebora wrote:

PariahPoet wrote:No, they aren't the same. There is overlap among the therian and furry communities(such as myself), but they are entirely seperate groups.
For me, the furry is a way to express my wereside.
To be a were/therian, you must have a wereside. Not just human attributes associated with a particular animal(I'm a sly fox), but instincts, thought patterns that are not human in nature.
Furry is just a way of expressing yourself(your human personality, or if you have one, your wereside), a way to play as something other than yourself, or as an art form. At the end of the day a furry can decide to stop being a character. A were is what he or she is no matter what.

In short, IMHO, were is what you are, furry is how you express yourself.

I'm not a therian either, so where does this put me? Indeed I have a shapeshifting character that I use the name and avitar of, but it isn't me. It's just the main character of my short film. (In progress.) I don't say I have a "wereside". Its not like me to pretend that I'm something else. Costumes... sure, thats all in good fun. But an entirely different persona... no.

Then that makes you a person with a were character. Like Fig.
You don't have to fit neatly into any category, you just are what you are.

yup.....you are just like me, Kaebora. We both have characters...but don't consider ourselves a furry.

I feel special now, and have absolutly no idea why.

Boy. These quote boxes sure are an eyesore when they get this big, eh?

wow.. a quote of a quote of a quote of a quote.

thats nothing
we did this on my gaming clan site where the guys went to have like a 20 boxes within boxes quote

Ok kind of off topic. (My fault though.) Now... where were we?

Quote-piramide!

there was a game about the quote pyramid, it was huge last time it was used, like a year ago