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Comic #169:It may come as a surprise to some of you but I don't actually identify as a furry. I like to say I'm 'furry adjacent' having so many friends and supporters in the fandom. Animals are just my favorite thing in the world & the more human elements added to them just make them less interesting to me.Β
Furrys are some of the most genuine and giving people I know and don't deserve even half the hate they get as a community. I'd be a part of it but I just feel like a square peg in a round hole every time I try.
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Hmm... I don't like that much generic furry style,but I'm a big fan of were style and natural anthro .
Feral is good too,but mostly because Lion King fandom on DA made me love it ^^
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This comic speaks to me, especially as someone that can't decide whether to consider themself a furry or not. The first anthro image doesn't do it for me either, but all three of the ones after that are the kind of thing I really like. I do think there is also a happy medium anthro between the first and second image too though, just with more carry-over of the animalistic features.Β
I agree 100% the community doesn't deserve the hate it gets. I love a lot about it, like the fursuits and the talented artists, but when I think about really calling myself one or delving into the fandom as an actual member, I tend to have sort of the same feeling you do, like I'm missing something. I tend to refer to myself as either a fringe furry (just hanging out happily on the edges of the fandom and supporting/appreciating what they do). Either way I'm a furry supporter.
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I like all styles, but in recent years so have I decided that my characters will have both an anthro and a feral form, because I believe they will look good in both.
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I like all of it, to be honest. I consider myself as a furry, purely because of that. Everyone has what they like, and I even have points it is just too far away from being the animal its supposed to be. Like I love charrs, werewolves, actual animals, but also zootopia and such.Β
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I've also gradually moved away from anthropomorphic characters, although if you look at my gallery, I never had many to begin with. My original OC that was to represent me was my maned wolf/cheetah hybrid, Vapor, but I've grown out of her as representative of myself.
My "me" character, I've figured, is Iris, of whom I only have one high school drawing of in my entire gallery. Mostly because I'm best at drawing animals and can't even draw an anime/manga style character as well as that aforementioned image these days. XD
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I feel this. I kinda feel like I'm getting out of the fandom because a lot of the characters are too human for me. Zootopia is cool but I've always loved Balto and Brother Bear. Over the years the bipedal and brightly-colored characters just lost their appeal for me. Maybe it's the escapism for me, but weres and animals have always seemed cooler than anthros and furries.
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werewolves and bears are my thing
sorry to the community, but i just hate furrys for their sexual hentai crap and also human animals are you kidding, why is that normal :/
why not just shave it and call it a mutated human experiment
Now all new people remember or know are "oh you mean those people who wear weird animal suits and do dirty stuff?" kind of things.
If it bother anyone from the furry community or support, nothing i can do about it, but that's what I see happening nowadays, just saying. some suit designs are damn cool, I'm not into the whole "oh my animal has so many human element it's great."
Anthros are ok in my opinion, given that i loved zootopia, but werewolf type of legends or histories and natural wolves and bears are totally my zone to be in
they seem so graceful so damn majestic, sure they'd kill a person but i can't help but be enticed
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YES! I relate to this a lot! The more animalistic the better!
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Naturalistic anthro and snarly werewolf are definitely my top fave styles of 'furries'
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I love that the regular wolf is a jpg image. Do why, but I do.
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One of my friends actually said I was a furry or at least part of a niche side of furries because all I draw is animals and not wanting to draw human type art. Needless to say I didn't really take that very well internally lol (and this was years ago)
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I feel the same way! I have tried to fit in with furry communities before because people said I was one so I figured I might as well? And then I felt really out of place and like I had nothing in common with them. I adore seeing people's fursonas, and I love my own, but I love them more as a four legged cat that I collect and draw art of. Not a roleplaying thing or anything. Suiting, conventions etc. just aren't my thing, and I find I never really relate strongly to people who are active in the community. They're great people sometimes, just different interests, I suppose!
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Well, at least the bear version of you also has some anthropomorphic traits. 
I personally am a big fan of naturalistic anthros, not sure if I'd call myself a furry though.Β I don't care much for most 'modern' anthros myself, but I'm glad for people who have an easier time expressing themselves through them, and I've had many positive experiences with people who identify as furries. Wholeheartedly agree that the hate is not deserved.
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Picture 1: every time I try to draw picture two.
Picture 2: Werewolf, Hybrid Form (Human-like)
Picture 3: Werewolf, Hybrid Form (Wolf-like)
Picture 4: Wolf or Werewolf in Full-Wolf Form
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Same TBH. I have some furry friends and they're honestly great people. I just feel I don't fit into that whole "human body-animal head" theme XD
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To be fair, even as a self-identified furry I am less interested in full anthros most of the time. LOL And definitely in RP I prefer ferals.
Thankfully they are usually a pretty accepting buncha nerds but I get that some folks may not feel as much of a fit.
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Wow this is a big mood.
When I joined Kotar, a fantasy roleplay with no restrictions on species and a community reliant on artwork to show their characters, I told the admins that I really wanted to make a gnoll, because I've always loved them in DnD, but in real life I have no friends to play with, so a roleplay forum was the best I could do and I just really didn't want them to say 'no you can't'. And they didn't, they just laughed and said my artwork was cool. So I made a few characters, I made a wemic and talked about adding a tiger character who was cursed. They noticed my character species patterns and asked if I was a furry. And I just said yes, but it's easier to just accept that normal people will always see anyone who even just likes animals as being a furry, but I insisted that I was not a Hollywood furry- I didn't yiff or do porn or anything like that, I even told them that I was not going to bring my fursona over as a character. Obviously, upon hearing that I had a fursona they really cemented the idea that I was a furry in place. But I insisted that I would not use my fursona because people tend to be sensitive about what happens to their sona in roleplay, they tend to be ultra Mary Sue-ish and I was not about that.
But then I made Nefarious and I was just like...
oops.
Thankfully they didn't mind. x3 In fact, everyone else seems to really like him and his design but they definitely think of me as a furry and I'm just like 'whatever' about it. x3 But I feel you, I really don't identify as a furry. I'm just an animal artist and creature designer, so animals are par for the course, you know?
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Yep, sometimes a character just sets up shop in your brain and tells you that they are now your fursona.Β That's how I got both of my current ones:
Chakat Firepaw started out as a Champions character concept and shi is in many ways what way I would go to become my ideal self.
Chakat Marquis came about from a discussion of how to make an evil chakat and shi is a manifestation of my darker thoughts and urges.
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The werewolf looks awesome, I love him. 
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furry adjacent,so thats whatΒ it's called,i never knew.
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Not sure if anyone else uses
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The term is good.
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Would this be a kin problem or a person preference?
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mebby a little bit of both?Β
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XD Both is good.
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I get so confused with the term "furry". A wikipedia page said that if an animal is given any human traits, like the ability to think or talk, it already counts as a furry. The lion king is already a furry tale according to that (no pun intended 
That makes all the hate only more obscure to me - not that hate would be right on any level.
Also, yeah, really thought the bears are your fursonas.
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Wikipedia has anthropomorphic and 'furry' mixed up then. A furry is the person behind the computer who has chosen to be a part of a fandom of anthropomorphic creatures
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"Furry" is one of those terms that has multiple contextually determined meanings.
You can have a "furry" that is a fan of anthropomorphic animals. (Furry fan)
A "furry" that is a creator of works containing anthropomorphic animals. (Furry artist)
A "furry" that is an anthropomorphic animal. (Furry character)
It also gets used as an adjective to describe something as being related to anthropomorphic animals, such as in the examples above or for things like a setting with anthropomorphic animals as a major feature, (a furry setting).
And yes, you can have furry characters with what are termed feral bodyforms, not just humanoid and centauroid.
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But they are only βfurryβ if you yourself created them and are a furry. Not all anthropomorphic things are furry specifically. That would be like saying everyone who worked on zootopia and enjoyed it is a furry without choice
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One can be a furry artist without also being a furry fan.
There is also, as with any kind of creative work, the issue of how commonly you do something and how well known for it you are.Β For example, you wouldn't call someone a woodturner for knocking out some basic table legs on a lathe.
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Ah I see. Ok, thanks.
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This is so me XD I mean, I enjoy anthros/furries and I identify as a furry. However, I believe that the point of anthro characters is to personify/humanize animals, not "beast-ify/animal-ize" humans which is what the top panel's style makes me think of. The more animal-like the anthro is the more I like it.Β
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Even I'm a furry and I am not a fan of the whole "just an animal head and tail on a human body" kind of style haha
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