😺😽 furry thread 2: reminder the correct pronunciation of gif is "yiff"

[Madeline]

plus I’m a bad phone typist, BUT ANYWAY

Edit: worst page snipe ever

[Bigdog]

your fursona is awesome and I want to see her hang out with Mae

[Bigdog]

I just had an (unrelated) conversation with a friend in which she pronounced a couple pearls of wisdom

super tired of hearing '(insert thing) is garbage and here's why'

maybe let people enjoy things instead of trying to drag them down into whatever shit pit you live in, asshole

seemed relevant to the topic of defending against haters (though tbf they're pretty much timeless)

[Pocket]

Someone had a run-in with Hbomberguy I take it

[SlateSlabrock]

Could be those Youtube channels that are nothing but shitting on every new movie.

[Nautilee]

Someone had a run-in with Hbomberguy I take it

quite possibly not; as a reaction to the success of hbomberguy's sherlock is garbage video, a lot of *non* hbomberguy videos cropped up with the x is garbage and here's why name style.

including a two hour "steven universe is garbage and here's why" video that youtube won't stop rec'ing me despite me telling it I'm not interested.

[Pocket]

So there's a meme what's been going around. Decided to contribute for a change.

[Perrydotto]

Whoever they are, they are both adorable

[Mr. Big]

Commissioned a drawing of Felicia. I always enjoy seeing how other people draw my characters

[Durandal]

Buh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-dum TIME FOR A NOMAX DUMP

[Mr. Big]

Just found out that Fred Patten died today at age 77.

Fred was one of the old-school furries, and is even credited as being one of the founding members of the furry fandom. He was also an anime historian who pushed to help make Japanese animation more mainstream to the American culture.

I corresponded with him a few times; we both wrote about anime for the Cartoon Research website, and Fred even reviewed my comics on Dogpatch Press.

He will be dearly missed

[Madeline]

Just found out that Fred Patten died today at age 77.

Fred was one of the old-school furries, and is even credited as being one of the founding members of the furry fandom. He was also an anime historian who pushed to help make Japanese animation more mainstream to the American culture.

I corresponded with him a few times; we both wrote about anime for the Cartoon Research website, and Fred even reviewed my comics on Dogpatch Press.

He will be dearly missed

That’s too bad. I never met him or corresponded with him, but I always heard that he was a nice guy.

[Weird Autumn]

a me

(source)

[Mr. Big]

Aw, cute squirrelsona

[Weird Autumn]

(she's a chipmunk but everybody gets that wrong )

e: I went with a chipmunk because they're small and cute and fuzzy and chubby, which is what I'm about, but they feel a little more chill than squirrels and a little more independent than mice and it just seemed like the right fit for the cute soft punk girl vibe I'm going for. Plus as far as I can tell they're a weirdly uncommon choice considering how big Rescue Rangers was for a certain segment of the fandom, and in a way that novelty lets me feel a little more genuine and less like I'm trying to fit into some kind of mold. It does mean everybody will keep assuming "squirrel" at first glance but that's just kind of fun to me I don't mind it.

[Mr. Big]

Ah, my bad

That's a good reason for choosing a chipmunk fursona

Thinking back, yeah it does seem odd that chipmunk fursonas aren't as common. Although in terms of Rescue Rangers fandom, I noticed that Gadget Hackwrench gets a LOT of fanarts...

[Bigdog]

I probably would've gotten it wrong too but primarily because chipmunk tails are proportionally smaller than squirrel tails and that one reads more like squirrel-tail-size to me vis-a-vis the body

[Pocket]

EDIT: Yeah what Bigdog said.

[Weird Autumn]

I just like a big fluffy tail

[Bigdog]

also i hope this doesn't come across as me criticizing you for chipmunking wrong or whatever, just trying to help understand why people might have that misunderstanding

[Mr. Big]

I've had people mistake my cat characters as dogs, for what its worth

[Weird Autumn]

also i hope this doesn't come across as me criticizing you for chipmunking wrong or whatever, just trying to help understand why people might have that misunderstanding

It's definitely true that the way the tail curls back is characteristic of a squirrel rather than a chipmunk, that's just something that's been in the design from the beginning and I think it's cute so it's stuck.

You could probably draw her with a shorter tail and have it be pretty cute but I feel like the longer squirrel-y tail is established by now so

[Pocket]

Hi, Mr. Onstad.

[Mr. Big]

It's definitely true that the way the tail curls back is characteristic of a squirrel rather than a chipmunk, that's just something that's been in the design from the beginning and I think it's cute so it's stuck.

Fluffy tails are cute as heck. It's lovely

[Jill]

i drew you a little comic

( using my mouse )

[Jill]

i imagine hares get much of the same

[Madeline]

i imagine hares get much of the same

they’ve had it up to hare with being confused with buns

I’ll... I’ll see myself out

[Madeline]

a me

(source)

also, she is super rad

Re: Rescue Rangers, the furs who latched onto that probably did so via Gadget, rather than Chip or Dale Call it a hunch

[Mr. Big]

Re: Rescue Rangers, the furs who latched onto that probably did so via Gadget, rather than Chip or Dale Call it a hunch

Definitely Gadget, I've seen first hand

Similarily, furries who watched "Animaniacs" latched on to Minerva Mink

[Venusy]

I can only imagine that the reason they're so uncommon is a combination of most people avoiding the smaller species (mice tend to be pretty uncommon as well, for example), and Alvin poisoning the well

[Mr. Big]

I'm interested in knowing what species are the most commonly used for furry OCs in the fandom.

The two particular types I see a lot are cat girls and wolf girls. Furries are REALLY into them. Rabbits might be the 3rd most common.

[Weird Autumn]

I can only imagine that the reason they're so uncommon is a combination of most people avoiding the smaller species (mice tend to be pretty uncommon as well, for example), and Alvin poisoning the well

Tbh when I was picking my sona I remembered Chip & Dale and I was like "okay I can live with that" (I have this long-running vague idea that if I wanted to give her like A Thing beyond just being me I'd make her some kind of P.I. cuz that's an old old indulgence of mine, so the Rescue Rangers thing is sort of apropos). Then a few months later we had an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie in the theater and I was like "oh right fuck."

[Venusy]

I'm interested in knowing what species are the most commonly used for furry OCs in the fandom.

The two particular types I see a lot are cat girls and wolf girls. Furries are REALLY into them. Rabbits might be the 3rd most common.

From here, which is pulling data from the 2016 Furry Survey.



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Compare against data from 2008:


I'm surprised rabbits didn't get a bit more of a bump from Zootopia.

[Mr. Big]

That's interesting! Wolves and foxes are definitely popular. I'll admit that I kinda lump domesticated cats, tigers, lions under the umbrella "cat" when it comes to furry characters.

Interesting to see that dragons gain more traction as years go by. Is there anything in particular that contributed to that?

[Pocket]

Granted, this is just fursonas. Anyone who draws probably has several original characters, to say nothing of how some of them would probably feature way more than others; I'm not sure how you'd even poll for that.

[Madeline]

On one hand, I really like cats. On the other hand, those charts make me think I should’ve come up with something more unique

[Perrydotto]

On one hand, I really like cats. On the other hand, those charts make me think I should’ve come up with something more unique

On the third hand, it shows you have a lot of people who agree with your good taste.

[Perrydotto]

also hey, it means more people who'd be willing/able to draw your character, most likely; I have a hard time sometimes finding folks who like drawing birds

[Fizzbuzz]

(mice tend to be pretty uncommon as well, for example)

I doubt this has as much to do with their size as it does with their cultural connotation. Mice and rats are typically seen as vermin first and foremost. If you're trying to figure out a cartoon animal that'd best represent you, are you going to choose (what you'll likely see as) a pest that gets in your house, eats your food, and leaves poop in your cabinets and closets?

They really do get a bad rap; I know from experience that rats are both very cute and very smart, but the fancy rat isn't exactly the best-known pet even among rodents.

[Fizzbuzz]

Chipmunks are also incredibly small but Autumn's still human-sized. Since Zootopia got mentioned earlier, unless you subscribe to its idea on how much animal-people should vary in size, then I wouldn't expect the normal size of the animal to matter much.