I don’t even know what these things are! Forgotten, I guess? It’s the only one that isn’t an acronym.
I don’t because I don’t have a fursona. I just have characters.
I think that’s a little harsh. For starters, the FNAF fandom is much more centralized around the animatronics horror genre than it is the Furry community. There’s some overlap there, sure, but much in the same way bronies don’t have to be furries, five nighters don’t either.
And second, they aren’t all that bad. Sure, there’s porn but you’re going to get that with any fandom that blows up. At least they’re not harassing children at cons or wearing ridiculous costume pieces in public for no reason. They keep to themselves mostly so there’s no reason to ride ‘em. Let the five nighters be.
I think a great deal of this has to do with the fact that many people perceive furry itself to be taboo, including much of the porn industry. Since we’re already considered taboo, there’s no longer an obligation to uphold cultural norms and we’re kind of free to explore whatever we want. Additionally, since there is no major medium dictating the tone of the genre, it leaves the field completely open for expression. This became all the more apparent when furry began to embrace the themes of hyper and herms early on and persisted in further forms like diaperfurs and paw-fetishists.
In a way, being around all kinds of extreme perspectives in the furry community set the tone for a fandom that’s much more tolerant of different themes and ways of thinking. You didn’t have to like it yourself but it’s hard not to see it around. And who knows, you may personally see something you like that you never expected you’d like and begin to relate to those with what some would consider ‘outsider’ opinions.
Perhaps the reason this ideology is so prevalent in furs and less so among traditional porn artists is because of just that: they’re traditional. Your 'normal’ porn artists are in an industry that’s older than anyone working in it today and because of that, it’s mired in tradition. Outsider ideas and opinions will be subject to a long-standing set of cultural norms and social contracts. Homophobia is still alive and well in the straight porn industry. Some of these guys could not even begin to understand pansexual and trans without frothing at the mouth. On the other hand, the furry community is quite young and has the benefit of being filled with a mostly-younger crowd which is statistically more progressive than their predecessors.
I fail to see any major connections between Chahiro and Chris-chan. Chahiro is a transvestite at the cusp of adulthood, confused and trying to figure himself out amidst the struggles of a tumultuous home and school life. Living with his mostly-absent Uncle, Chahiro is desperate for some kind of role model; someone to look up to and inspire him, someone to love and support him, someone to tell him that he’s not going crazy and the things he’s feeling are normal.
So not at all like a web-comic-writing, sexuality-denying, drama-inciting youtube star.
Daily drawing must continue! This time, a little WIP of Judy Hopps. May or may not finish.
-TB
Draw erryday
Trying to keep up with that whole ‘draw every day’ thing. Today’s subject involves some of the mightiest hips that ever hipped. Drawn on my phone.
It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.
How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?
Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.
HOLY SHIT THEY EAT CAPSAICIN FOR FUN
YOU GUYS I HEARD A HUMAN ONCE ATE AN AIRPLANE.
A HUMAN CAN KEEP FIGHTING FOR HOURS EVEN AFTER YOU SHOOT IT
humans are a proud warrior race with a pantheon of bloody gods: Ram-Bo, Schwarzenegger, etc.
REMOVING A LIMB WILL NOT FATALLY INCAPACITATE HUMANS: ALWAYS DESTROY THE HEAD.
WARNING: HUMANS CAN DETECT YOU EVEN AT NIGHT BY TRACKING VIBRATIONS THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE
WARNING: HUMANS CAN REPRODUCE AT A RATE OF 1 PER SPACEYEAR. DESTROY INFESTATIONS IMMEDIATELY
THE HUMAN MOUTH HAS OVER THIRTY OUTCROPS OF BONE AND POWERFUL JAW MUSCLES.
HUMAN BITES CAN BE FATALLY INFECTIOUS EVEN TO OTHER HUMANS
WARNING: HUMANS CAN AND WILL USE IMPROVISED WEAPONS. SEE CLASSIFIED DATA LABELED J. CHAN.
HUMANS CAN PROJECT BIOWEAPONS FROM ALMOST EVERY ORIFICE ON THEIR BODY. DO NOT INHALE
OH GOD THE HUMANS FIGURED OUT DOOR HANDLES OH GOD OH GOD
More seriously, humans do have a number of advantages even among Terrestrial life. Our endurance, shock resistance, and ability to recover from injury is absurdly high compared to almost any other animal. We often use the phrase “healthy as a horse” to connote heartiness - but compared to a human, a horse is as fragile as spun glass. There’s mounting evidence that our primitive ancestors would hunt large prey simply by following it at a walking pace, without sleep or rest, until it died of exhaustion; it’s called pursuit predation. Basically, we’re the Terminator.
(The only other animal that can sort of keep up with us? Dogs. That’s why we use them for hunting. And even then, it’s only “sort of”.)
Now extrapolate that to a galaxy in which most sapient life did not evolve from hyper-specialised pursuit predators:
In essence, we’d be Space Orcs.
Our jaws have too many TEETH in them, so we developed a way to WELD METAL TO OUR TEETH and FORCE THE BONES IN OUR JAW to restructure over the course of years to fit them back into shape, and then we continue to wear metal in out mouths to keep them in place.
We formed cohabitative relationships with tiny mammals and insects we keep at bay from bothering us by death, often using little analouge traps.
And by god, we will eat anything.
Klingons and Krogan and Orcs ain’t got shit on us
We drink ethanol (in concentrations high enough to be used as an effective as microbicide or a solvent!) for the express purpose of achieving blood toxicity and disrupting normal brain function… AS A RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY!
On the same subject, we also deliberately incinerate assorted substances and then inhale the particulate-heavy smoke and vapor resulting for the same effect. EVEN IN THE FACE OF SAID SUBSTANCES BEING CARCINOGENIC, BECAUSE WE JUST DON’T GIVE A FUCK.
Humans do not have biological castes. Kill their commander and another will take its place. Soldiers left alone on a planet will start farming and manufacturing to survive. Farmers and manufacturers will take up arms and kill you if pressed. Just because two humans look different doesn’t mean they cannot do each other’s jobs.
Breeding does not kill them. A single human can mate dozens or hundreds of times in a lifetime. They often do so as recreation. Xenobiology team six believes they do not have a mating season but this is too strange to be true.
Their appendages are not designed for hitting, so they developed special training to make them very good at hitting anyhow.
The proteins making up their bodies are toxic and cause prion disease. Do not touch anything humans have touched. Do not consume earth foods. Fire does not adequately remove this contamination.
Humans perceive sixteen times the colors we do. Do not hide in bushes or vines from humans. They can distinguish your pelt from the foliage with ease.
We tried venting waste gas into the tunnels to kill the humans when they attacked. Turns out they breathe it.
Everything on their planet came from a single biological strain. They developed comprehensive genetics BEFORE they developed space travel.
They lack radio receptors and cannot be brought into compliance with right-thought simply by broadcasting to them. Even after we learned how to translate it into sound-waves one of their hatchlings drove the Great Authority mad by responding to every demand with a single question: “Why?”
#an individual human being is actually a microbiome in its own right—you are dealing with a legion each time you approach them #they carry pathological agents inside their deep tissues and this is advantageous to their health #one of the most widespread and resilient viruses on their planet is treated as mildly hazardous—even though it causes #massive disruption to the body’s homeostasis #(their young offspring endure multiple rhinovirus infections EACH YEAR yet they seem unperturbed by this) #they have developed such long lifespans that now their primary threat is their own body’s degeneration #humanity has literally figured out how to survive so long that their body gives out under them #and they are not satisfied with that #stupid willful vengeful survivalists who treat mortality like a challenge
I am speechless
The human gut is incredibly small and weak for a creature it’s size. To compensate for this, humans regularly expose their foods to extreme temperatures until it is denaturalized at a molecular level. They even go so far as to bathe several foods in flame until it is outwardly seared. Many considering these foods to have the most pleasing taste.
They literally externally digest their food by burning it.
Furthermore, their upright, bipedal posture minimizes the amount of energy required to travel and the tuft of fur on the top of their head shields them from over-exposure to the mid-day starlight. All of these factors make the human fiendishly efficient. Even with that in mind, humans have already populated so much of their planet that they threaten to exhaust the entirety of their natural resources.
Human populations are not limited to any one habitat either. They have devised ways to populate nearly every conceivable environment from scorching deserts to frozen wastelands. A human will kill and don the skin of other animals, weave together fibrous plants for personal insulation and even erect structures wherein they can control the interior temperature and survive places that would normally be lethal to them. Even as their global environment is shifting in temperature, causing incredible distress to life forms all around them, the humans carry on unaffected.