Anonymous asked:

You have a fursona? Are you a furry??

vampireapologist-archive-deacti answered:

Listen when I designed my fursona on deviantart/neopets when I was like 12 years old Everyone was a furry. You had to be or they wouldn’t let your dialup connect to the internet.

[vampireapologist]

To be real though I know “being a furry” is really controversial Still (???) but I wish everyone would relax.

IDK if you all remember but one time I made a post defending fursonas and someone made a disgusting post claiming I’m into bestiality based on that alone. It was really graphically worded and described sex acts with animals. It was extremely upsetting. People are Wild.

When I was younger everyone I knew on the internet had a fursona, in every community I joined. Whether we were designing ourselves as Neopets or Dragons or Wolves, it was just a thing kids did. And as we got older and better at art, it was fun to reimagine those designs!!

It’s STILL fun to say “this is me if I lived in the woods. I’m an otter who wears striped sweaters.”

Like I’m sorry if that bothers you or if you’ve been made to immediately assume there’s something sexual about that.

There’s not for me. I think fursonas are cute, and I think the work that goes into fur suits are impressive, and unless they’re actually individually harming another person, I think there’s nothing wrong with furries, but the same goes for every subculture.

There are bad people in any large community. They need to be stomped out, but unless the community is branding themselves at large using those bad people, you can’t exactly judge the whole community for it.

Last time I made a post like this, people anonymously sent me detailed descriptions of certain traumas they suffered by people into the furry community. The kind of people who ask for TW tags but who apparently don’t see me as a person and feel they can send me graphic content at will.

And let’s not forget when there was a gas attack at that furry convention, an attempt to kill people, and the SAME people who dress up and go to anime conventions and comic cons were reblogging the headline like it was a joke.

IDK. I figure I’ll be attacked similarly for this again, but I think it’s just sorta tired and weird how immediately and negatively people react to furries still in 2019?

Especially when they’re all also fans of stuff they’ve been bullied for. It’s sad and boring. Get a hobby other than being mean to randos on the internet who genuinely do not deserve your ire.

[nuisancealligator]

you know what this has 100% reshaped my opinion on furries and i thank you