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My parents finally 'researched' what I was drawing. Unbelievable.
So, as some people may know, I have been trying to become commission worthy this year, and started drawing almost every day since January 1st, 2014.
Of course my drawings were bad at first, but eventually I got better. My mom and younger sister (I have 4 sisters) are both artists and helped me along.
My mom thought it was very strange to 'have an animal head on a human body' but she didn't pay too much attention to it. Until yesterday.
I sketched a fox based off of a picture uploaded the day before. My mom, instead of critiquing it, asked me 'Why is it a fox?' I said that its because that was the picture I drew it from. Later she comes upstairs and decides she needs a talk with me (I'm a 20 year old male BTW) She asks me to sit and she says that she is worried about me. I took a peek over her shoulder and saw the wikifur article on what a furry is. She took particular interest to the section about 'sexuality.'
One of my older sisters was a furry dragon (I didn't know it at the time since I was young, but I remember she DID draw a lot of dragons) She had recently made the decision to become a man, which appalled my extremely religious and homophobic parents. When they saw that I was drawing anthros, they automatically assumed the worst.
The thing is, I am actually bisexual, but I have kept it hidden BECAUSE I know how they treated my bisexual sister, and my transgender sister.
So after a heated discussion I asked her 'What is it that you want me to do, stop drawing?' and she didn't reply. That's when I knew that she wanted me to stop drawing furries, simply because there are members of the community that are sexually attracted to furries. Oh, and homosexuality as well.
I kinda got angry (Read: I blew the fuck up) and drove to my bisexual sisters house. I explain all my trouble to her, and she reveals that SHE IS ALSO A FURRY! She has 3 fursuits locked away in her trunk, and my mom walks past it all the time. This made me happy to know I really wasn't alone in my family.
But I still have my parents, both extremely homophobic, and now know I am a furry and hate me for it. I don't know what to do. I've never been hated for a lifestyle choice, especially something as small as being a furry.
What do, furry friends?
EDIT.:.
Here are some answers to popular questions/statements being made:
Q. Why do you keep calling your transgender sibling a she if they are a he? how rood!
A. I just got the news the other day, and I haven't seen them in years, so i'm still not used to calling him a he. He started the hormone therapy just last week or so, and he vanished off the face of the earth and no one has had contact with him since then.
"You should ignore the topic and move out ASAP"
Yes, I know. I have kept my feelings about a lot of things a secret for quite a while (since I was 16) and I am planning on moving out this spring or summer.
"You should hide all your stuff and lock it away"
The sad thing is, I don't own the laptop or car, but I still pay car insurance with my rudimentary business transactions I make (barely make monthly payments).
"You should get your SIN card ASAP"
YES! Yes I should, and I am working on getting it as we speak. I was up till 4AM last night studying up on it, writing a resume, and making this post.
"You are an adult, they can't tell you what to do"
Yea, try telling them that. I believe you fully, and I am with you, but they have kept me behind in so many areas of development (work experience in the real world, home-schooled, bible-thumping) that its hard for me to 'just leave'. I am taking steps (at a more rapid pace than before) to ensure financial stability so I can move out ASAP.
Anyways, that's all I have for now. Sorry I would like to write individual responses, but this post blew up bigger than I can manage, especially when I am juggling other things like SIN card applications and such.
Thank you all for being such a caring community! I will answer questions, just not at the frequency I was earlier.
submitted by maxrazor[link] [113 comments]
Kagemono: The Shadow Folk [short animation]
Very impressed with this short animated story. I do not know if it is based on some folklore tale, but it feels original and imaginative. The fox is adorable.
This is my fourth year film at Calarts! It is the story of Beopup, a little fox who goes hunting in the woods and uncovers something rather unpleasant. Animated in TVPaint with backgrounds painted in photoshop.
Hoard of rabbits
That’s a lotta bunnies.
Japanese rabbit attack Japanese rabbit attack Japanese, rabbit ,attack
Cat shaped candle with a morbid secret
The Furnpike
Extensive crowdsource weblink directory.
RatingDirectory contains links to a wide spectrum of websites, some appropriate for all audiences and some adult in nature.
The Realm of Dreyrull
An imaginative fantasy world that people can role play over on the forum.
In their wordsImagine yourself. You are an aershaa; a sentient, magic-wielding creature of power and beauty. Around you is mankind, threatening your freedom with chains, collars, and the ability to make you forget the call of the wild, the feel of freedom, and the wind in your wings. Beside you is furrkind, like you in their furred hides and respect for nature, unlike you in their use of tools, their mingling in villages, and their different gods. In the shadows are the Lekkir, a race that is almost a legend, whose ancient words echo in the whisper of the wind and the boughs of the trees. Healers and mages, but mankind's fear and tainted ways have driven them to near extinction.
This is Dreyrull, an original world where you can become an aershaa, human, furr, or Lekkir through interactive roleplaying and battling with other players. Win art of your character and build their story, or begin with a story and earn your art through creative expression!
Rating
This site contains little or mild offensive materials.
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Bubble Dook
UK-based furry themed fragrant soap business.
In their wordsBubble Dook is a new soap company based in the South West of the United Kingdom offering wonderfully fragrant soaps designed to be suitable for use on sensitive skin. All our soaps are handmade in Devon and feature artwork from talented UK artists of anthropomorphic characters.Rating
Suitable for all ages. This site has no offensive content.
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Ninety Nines
Comic featuring adult humour and innuendos by Aquanite and Serge Stiles.
Rating
This site contains slightly offensive material such as adult themed humour and mild swearing.
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Arend Studios
Californian based fursuit and mascot costume building business. Vast experience comes from having done over 300 costume heads.
In their wordsWe are just two people, but our work has brought joy to thousands. We're Steven and Lesa, the heads behind Arend Studios.
Rating
Suitable for all ages. This site has no offensive content.
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‘Animation Breakdown Roundup!’ comes to LA on March 8
How do you make a custom Pattern on a fur suit?
I heard you could use air brush, but i don't have one and its expensive to get one. I plan on doing this guy right here http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130822192527/dreamworks/images/1/18/Macawnivore.png which some of you many know. I would like some other ideas i have been thinking hair dye but i still don't know yet
submitted by Nekowuzhere[link] [2 comments]
Should I be supportive of a friend/crush who is a furry, even if Im creeped out by the fandom
Im not a furry, I have not done anything in connection with the furry community but I would like to ask your opinion on this, and maybe change my view of my friend/crush.
We will call her A, A is a cute girl I met late last year who easily became on of my closest friends who I also developed feelings for. We are both 18 and upperclassmen in highschool. I never knew she had a thing for furries until a couple of days ago.
As me and A were getting ready to leave school and head to A's house to study, A told me we are going to pick up her best friend who I have not met until that day to go study with us. We will call her H.
We arrive at H's house after some time walking and we were immediately invited inside. We head towards H's room and I immediately noticed a fur suit. It was a homemade one from what H told me, and from the way H and A were talking. I had the idea, that A was interested in trying the fursuit and even keeping the fursuit after H gotten a new one in the near future.
A decided to try on the fursuit who from H's commentary on how to put it on A never had done this before. I was horrified at this, I thought it was weird, I thought it was creepy, I thought it was unnatural to dress up as an animal. But from the look's of A's excited face and smile I decided to let it slide and I put on a poker face.
After donning on the fursuit, A and H left the room to go look in the mirror leaving me in H's room by myself. I was panicking, I refused to believe what had happened. It felt like what I was experiencing was not real.
After some time A and H returned to the room and removed said fur suit and we left to go to A's house to go study. The topic of furries never came back after the entire walk to A's house, and when we studied for a good hour.
Im still bothered by this experience even after a couple of days have passed. Should I talk to A about this or should I just let it slide.
submitted by throwaway2321432[link] [17 comments]
Calling all great (and not so great) minds of /r/Furry! We need a discussion!
Hello fellow fuzzbutts! I have noticed that recently there have not been many large-scale discussions on here recently. I want to change that. I have been trying to think of interesting ideas to talk about, but I am drawing blanks repeatedly. That is where you come in! Please, if you can, try to think up a topic for discussion, anything even mildly interesting will do! I want to see how deeply you all can think, and I want to get into some intelligent discourse!
submitted by Cookster997[link] [28 comments]
Greymuzzle furry artist Ted Sheppard arrested, suspected of uploading child pornography
Wearing a tail to the side?
I saw this video a couple years back, I can't seem to find it. (Joshua Yee, does that name ring a bell to you guys?), and he had his tail attached to the belt loop on the side of his pants instead of it being behind him. Have any of you guys seen anything similar? I don't know why he preferred it to be this way, but maybe it's something I'm missing here. I'm still pretty new to this.
submitted by VinegarEel[link] [7 comments]
