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submitted by Foxes281
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Hi, I am posting here due to my mother pushing me to post somewhere in the community for help. She is my very supporting mother who has personally never been accepting of the fandom, but wants me to pursue what will finally bring happiness into my life and go for it with all my heart. I have been awake for over 24 hours doing nothing but panicking over this whole thing, so forgive me if I’m a little incoherent here and there. Anyway… okay… where to begin. I guess we can start with a little background. I am a 20 year old girl with a severe case of clinical depression and anxiety. I never leave home unless it’s for my many doctor appointments, I have never had the pleasure of having face-to-have friends, and I generally live my life in constant fear of anything and everything; even if it all doesn’t make any sense at all.

But, let’s go back to the main topic… I have always been interested in the furry fandom. I have researched it diligently for the past 8 or so years. And before I knew what it was, I was completely obsessed with things like Sonic, Pokemon, Klonoa, Disney, and collecting things like plushes. I’m still a huge collector, but more in the ball-jointed doll sense now. But anyway… ! I have especially always found fursuits fascinating and adorable, but have never had one ‘click’ with me, you know? But one day I stumbled upon this absolutely gorgeous Japanese kemono fursuit, I think the character’s name was Rufen? Anyway, it was the most adorable, beautiful thing I have ever seen. One day I stumbled upon the picture again, and got a click of inspiration to finally make my own ‘fursona’, too. I ended up making this cute little pastel kemono-styled goat character on a whim. I was happiest I have been in a long time. I was proud of myself for making such an adorable character with all the traits I adore all mixed together. I loved her so much, and I wanted to do everything I could to bring her character to life. I thought she could help me during this dark period in my life. So much so that I immediately went to go search and ask artists for art commissions and such of my character so I could properly get into the fandom. One of them even being a professional fursuit maker that specializes in the kemono style I love dearly. They even happened to open for a single commission on that exact same day. I got very, very lucky and snagged the slot. I thought it was meant to be, that this could be my calling to get me out of my shell and embrace a happier world than my pathetic everyday life and actually make friends… that is what I want more than anything. That being friends, and… even a husband! I think a furry husband would be the most fun thing in the world, too! Imagine all the convention hopping and silliness! I made new accounts on social media to interact with other furries and everything and, well… this is where I hit a brick wall. I don’t know how to properly explain everything that I’m afraid of, but one of the things is thinking about the social stigma behind it all. It’s really scary to me.

Anyway… I never ask for help and always try to manage it all internally. However, I think that I truly need help this time before I send myself completely over the edge. I could still get out of all of this, but I fear that I would be doing what I do with everything… and that is to run from everything. Run the moment that things get scary and real. But this could really, truly be the thing that brings me everything that I have ever wanted; the sense of a close-knit community that I have always yearned for. So, that brings the question… what do I do if I decide to go through with this? Do I dive head-first into the fandom as much as possible? If so, where do I begin? I’m lost on what websites to frequent for this. I’m not ready to post art or anything on websites and I’d need to regain the spirit to get back into drawing, so those are out for now. RP sites, too, as I’ve never been able to immerse myself in it like other people can so I’m pretty terrible at it. So are there any social media sites, forums, chats, etc. that would be good for me to meet people? I finished making my Twitter all pretty and ready to go, but I’m worried about being too shy to follow anyone… it would be most convenient for Twitter to be my main gateway into the community, but… yeah. Also Tumblr to an extent, too, but I still have a ways to go before I’m ready to use it.

Anyway, thank you so much for reading, and I am sorry that it was so long. I’m just so lost and had to ramble a little!

P.S. The conventions I would love to go to are Anthrocon, Midwest Furfest, and Furry Weekend Atlanta!

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submitted by Yiffing_Time
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Hello everyone!

I have been on a current wild goose chase recently looking for an old furry podcast i used to listen to called "Fursonapod". Does anyone have any information on where I could find the episodes again or anything like that?

Feel free to inbox me if you have any information!

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Ed Swanson and his wife Nitha Swanson are crafters from Southern California who specialize in making various cloth items for sale at street fairs and conventions. Items including: Life-sized dachshunds and not-life-sized dragons (well, unless your dragons are very small!) in various colors. Including some rather psychedelic-colored leopard prints. Head on over to their web site and see what else The Dragon Flame Shop has to offer.

image c. 2015 The Dragon Flame Shop

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I want to say I'm a wolf, but I'm not sure. How do I tell what my fursona is?

submitted by BrandoCalrission
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So in this area I have realized than I, yes me, am the odd one out. Romance is something that most people can feel, but I can safely say that I have never one felt romantic urges towards someone, or something, in my entire life. Now, don't get romantic urges confused with sexual ones, because there are plenty of those. To me all romance seems like a waste of time; I get friendship, and I find that romance would just ruin what you have and make it something different. I was wondering what your guys' thoughts on the subject are. I, personally, do not see any appeal in it.

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submitted by amigay547
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Hello! So, here goes my introduction.

I've been into furries for as long as I can remember. For whatever reason, I always much preferred the movies with animal characters over the human movies when I was younger... Heck, I still do :P Even my imaginary friends (we all had those, right?) were dogs and wolves. That one might be a little weird, but w/e. However, it was always something that I kept hidden. No one else around seemed to be the same as me, and then the two times I was the new kid at school, the last thing I wanted was to be different. I couldn't ever leave furries, though, because there's just something about them that draws me to them. Also, since I struggled with depression (and still do a little bit), this fuzzier world was always something I could surround my mind with, and that brought comfort.

As I grew older and went through middle and high school, things kinda just remained the same. I eventually found out that this fandom existed, but I honestly had those common misconceptions about the people here, so I never had any desire to actively participate, even online.

Through the latter part of high school, I had a couple experiences that pushed me further into the closet about furries, for lack of a better term. I can’t remember what I said, but something led my friend to make fun of me for being a furry one day. He was joking and finished with saying “Nah, it’s cool, I know you’re not a furry. You’re better than that.” Ouch. Then, I started dating someone. I told her, and she hated it. Freaked her out. Granted, it came up in probably the worst way possible (talking about fetishes), but it made me hide it even deeper. Alright, now I can’t even talk about it with people I love.

Fast forward to this summer, when I’m about to start my second year of college. I’m living away from home, feeling more independent, and starting to find and accept who I really am. I’m still together with my high school girlfriend in an amazing (albeit now 1000 mile long distance) relationship. Not wanting to hide anything anymore, I brought it up with her again. For whatever reason, there was a lack in communication between us, and she thought the conversation was just about the fetish again, which wasn’t what I intended, and I only realized this after we were done talking about it. That wasn’t rectified until last week when I told her I was going to a Halloween party and she asked who was hosting it… a group of local furs. After convincing her it was just a normal party with no weird, perverted, adult pastimes going on, she agreed to let me go, and she genuinely seemed ok with the whole thing.

I’m still in the process of opening up about it, but it’s moving pretty fast relative to how long I’ve hidden this. For the time being, I feel the happiest that I have in a long time, since I’m not hiding anything anymore. I had always said, “Ya IDGAF what other people think about me…” But now it’s actually true.

(My roommate is now the second person to know, since by no mistake did I leave a Skype chat open full screen with “Furry Lobby” written across the top on my second monitor while doing other things. After talking about it and convincing him that I was just in that chat for no reason and that I’m actually a furry, he seems ok with it, too. I royally messed up that conversation, too, but in the end I think it turned out all right.)

Anyways, thank you if you made it all the way through reading this, and hopefully I’ll get to know you!

TL;DR Long time closet fur now opening the door

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Link: http://www.picarto.tv/essjayc

Streaming some uh... yiff I'm drawing for a friend. Not my thing really, but it was good anatomy practice. I'm going to be colouring that and shading it quickly, then going to concept design for my comic, Project Blackhammer!

Come hang out in chat! :)

Edit: Can you not downvote? I can't repost this, I'll get spam filtered. :( If you don't like it, just don't click please.

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