Wayne said
Exactly.Besides, I'm more interested in furry characters being CHARACTERS, not meaty fuckpuppets or lit up with more garish colors than the 1980s, like most furry characters are unfortunately.At this point, it's really not a matter of whether your characters are humans or elves or furries or ponies or hedgehogs. To me, it's about how the character's portrayed, not what they are.
^ I agree with this 100%.
Always bugged me the way that fandoms like the furry fandom are
always associated with smut. I mean, when I first discovered furries, I didn't even realize that was a thing. I just thought they looked cool and made interesting characters, and became very confused and slightly traumatized whenever I would look up certain Digimon on the Internet (which I now realize are very furry-like in design) and have Google Images bombard me with porn.
Kind of reminds me of this thing that happened a couple years back with this guy I knew. He accidentally ran into MLP for the first time on the Internet, but was afraid to admit how much he liked it. At first I kind of teased him about it, saying things like "Hey everyone look this guy's a
brony!", just cuz I mess with him all the time and we're cool about it. But then it went on for like a week and I realized how legitimately afraid he was of being called a brony or even being associated with the adult MLP fandom. While at first I thought he was just afraid of people knowing he liked a show for little girls, I eventually realized he was afraid because he assumed "brony" meant you enjoyed MLP Rule 34...
It took a while, but I managed to help him understand that this is not the case, and there are a lot of MLP fans out there who are perfectly decent human beings. Since then, he's come out of his shell about all of it, and now he's a very happy man with a Rainbow Dash backpack who makes remixes of MLP songs on Youtube. In fact, he's almost as obsessed as Nat, and people have a hard time believing me when I try telling them what he used to be like when he first found the show.