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On this episode we discuss relationship terminology: what are the different types of relationship structures found commonly in the fandom? Also, how do you handle jealousy in a relationship?

For more information, including a list of topics by timestamp, see our Show Notes for this episode.

Thanks and, as always, be well!

FA 001 Relationship Structures - Relationship Styles and Definitions

Happy Sunday, furries! Today's question:

Does your ‘sona engage in any kind of worship or spiritualism?

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I've told my mom I wanna build a costume. I didn't say a furry costume because she sometimes doesn't agree with my likes. So I bought materials to make the head except for eyes so I asked her to order 3 things for me then she forced me to confess why I'm making this. If I told her, she probably took the materials. She always told me to be myself and being a furry is being myself. How do I tell her I'm a furry in the nicest way possible?

Layla (age 15)
 
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Hi, Layla,
 
Sigh, the typical hypocrisy of mundane adults. I had another letter sometime back when a young girl was told by her school that the students should come to class dressed as a character that expresses themselves. Well, she wore her furry outfit and they promptly marched her to the counselor’s office. Adults are such schmoes. They say “be yourself” but only if “yourself” is something they approve of.
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You know, just because you’re making an animal costume doesn’t mean you are necessarily a furry. Does she have to know this? It could be a Halloween costume, it could be a mascot, etc. etc. That’s one strategy. They other is to educate her. She, like so many others, obviously has the wrong idea about furries. She, like so many others, tends to lump people in the same category; she likely thinks of them all as shiftless, weird, unemployed, game-obsessed sex addicts, or some such thing, and then concludes “No daughter of mine is going to be like that!”

Many furries actually have great jobs and are well educated. Uncle Kage, for example (you may have heard of him), has a doctorate in pharmacy; others are computer programmers, engineers, businesspeople, or, like me, writers.

So, if you don’t want to pretend you’re making a mascot or other non-furry outfit, you can discuss it in a mature way and hope for the best. First, ask your mother what she thinks a furry is; likely, she will say some things you don’t agree with. Next, tell her that she taught you not to judge people so quickly or to stereotype people. Explain that furries are a very diverse group. There are even Christian furries! It’s wrong to try to put all the square, star-shaped, triangular, and oblong people into the same round hole. Remind her that she told you that you could be yourself. Ask her if she really meant that, or if she was not sincere. Tell her that if she is nervous in any way for any reason, you are happy to let her supervise everything you do to reassure her.

That’s about all you can do, really. Usually, the more people know, the less likely they are to judge. Also, the more openly you communicate, the more likely they are to trust. Be transparent.
 
Good Luck! Stay Furry!
 
Papabear

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[Update: January 11]

Well she doesn't really care about it but she doesn't help me buy materials for it.

Layla

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I see. So much of what I wrote above was unnecessary because your mother doesn't actually oppose your being a furry? Well, no problem then. She's not preventing you from building the fursuit, so that's good. As for buying materials, your mother is under no obligation to buy something for you, other than food, clothes, shelter, etc. The necessities. Many children are under the mistaken impression that their parents owe them something and should buy them everything they wish for. If you need money to buy materials for a fursuit, I suggest you find a part time job and purchase them with your own money. Check out Hire a Teen for some ideas.

Cheers,
Papabear
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I've been lurking around on the subreddit for a few months, and decided to make my own account. Some of the topics over here are pretty cool, so I finally wanted to participate in topics whenever they spawn about. I'm usually notified with posts from /r/furry from the FurFeed app, and this app is how I got my start to Reddit. Anyways, now that I am here, what is up?

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I'm trying to get better at simple figure and gesture pose work, as well as speed up my process in general because I tend to be a very slow artist

And the best way to do all that is of course to speed sketch figure and gesture poses to time constraints :V

So for the next couple of hours or so I'm going to take the time to do exactly that. And as motivation to get them done I'll be taking Fursona requests

Ideally I'll be trying to complete each character sketch within half an hour, so I cannot attest to the quality of each 'finished' product as they will be done speedily. But still, I'll try to at least clean them up once the entire session is finished.

Again, ideally, finished products will look something like -->THIS<-- A recent half-hour-to-an-hour sketch I did as practice a few days ago.

I'll be picking characters at my own leisure and prefer full Anthro characters, rather than ferals. I'll likely dump all completed sketches at once when I'm done!

EDIT: No time restraints on this, the more the merrier! I'll upload them all at once, make a new post and tag all the people whose characters I picked out when I'm done!

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