Crush...Yiff...Destroy!

Michael Hirtes · Coadjutor Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 519

I now fully understand why this planet just happens to be located all the way out on the far end of one of the galaxy's arms. Earth is the Milky Way's Insane Asylum!

http://www.thestranger.com/2004-03-18/savage.html

(Read this, and your soul will bear the scars forever. You have been warned!)

Tailgunner · Coadjutor Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 161

I give it a 5.3 / 10.

I was expecting worse when I read how grandma was going to give some loving with that bird.

Shmeckopolis · Coadjutor Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 103

Probably just some immature doosh taking the term "give some lovin'" the wrong way, and writing into some really creepy Q&A guy about it. The Answerman seemed a bit TOO thrilled to get that letter....

ZenZhu · Coadjutor Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 475

Not to mention the fact that most birds aren't equipped like mammals. The only bird I know of that has a "penis" is a duck... and I'm not sure where I picked that tidbit of info up. :shock:

Michael Hirtes · Coadjutor Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 519

The only bird I know of that has a "penis" is a duck... and I'm not sure where I picked that tidbit of info up. :shock:

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ZenZhu · Coadjutor Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 475

Never been to a furry con.. so HAH! Actually, I think it was when I was researching ducks for my earliest character. My very first MUCK character ever was a duck.

Amazing what you find on the net when you don't want to.

Paul · Coadjutor Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 138

Amazing what you find on the net when you don't want to.

That sentence perfectly sums up my experiences with "furry". I was looking for funny animal comics and found skunk herm-taur tentacle rape extravaganzas. Erk.

If, by some fluke, I ever dropped in on a furry con, I'd propably go into a panic and flee from the premises.

ZenZhu · Coadjutor Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 475

One thing that's a testament to how furry will forever be tainted unless the furry community as an entity decides to change its approach is how easy it is to find furry fetish stuff. If you do a Google search for "furry," the second page you come to is PeterCat's Furry Info Page. Not even halfway down the page, you get links to Happy Jackal Graphics and Rabbit Valley. Following Rabbit Valley, if you click "What's Hot," you get a pretty good list of furry shopping favorites, including Genus, FoxxFire portfolios, Falstaff's X-rated portfolio, and this little gem:

http://store.rabbitvalley.org/item_4693_-20___The-Unfunnies-Issue-Number-2-Offensive-Cover.html

DO NOT CLICK IF YOU ARE EATING. The image is censor-blurred, but you still get enough of the idea that it might unsettle more sensitive stomachs.

There's also a link to alt.lifestyle.furry.

So, if this is what the uneducated newbie is going to come across in their first foray into furrydom, is it any wonder what kind of reputation they create for themselves?

A lot of us here have the benefit that we took an interest in anthropomorphics before the net, so we were more familiar with folks that just liked it as an art style. If I were a newbie looking to see what furry was about these days, though, and doing a net search, I'd quickly get the impression that it was folks that liked to cavort around in unbathed groups, fondle each other through fake fur, and obsess on almost every nonhuman cartoon character an animation studio puts out.

Out of curiosity, I did a Google image search for "yiff" to see what it would come up with.

What kind of childhood trauma do you suppose inspired this?

http://www.prismfx.com/pixel/images/yiff-card1.jpg

mouse · Coadjutor Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 662

and this little gem:

http://store.rabbitvalley.org/item_4693_-20___The-Unfunnies-Issue-Number-2-Offensive-Cover.html

DO NOT CLICK IF YOU ARE EATING. The image is censor-blurred, but you still get enough of the idea that it might unsettle more sensitive stomachs.

The thing is though , the comic is probably actually very good. Its not a 'furry' comic. In fact you should probably take that description rabbit valley offers a little more literally.

The author Mark Millar :

"MARK MILLAR has written Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates and, together with Brian Bendis, Ultimate Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics in New York, the highest-selling launches of 2001, 2002 and 2003 respectively. His previous work includes the sell-out Superman: Red Son for DC Comics and the revolutionary superhero title The Authority with artist Frank Quitely which launched his name as a major mainstream writer. In December 2003, he created his Millarworld imprint in partnership with Top Cow, Image, Dark Horse and Avatar Comics to produce Wanted, Run, Chosen and The Unfunnies. Wanted has since become the highest-selling independent comic of the last three years. "

This guy isn't exactly uploading shitty scribbles and/or bad fanfiction to the VCL, you know ?
One thing I like about Rabbit Valley is that since they focus on anthropomorphic comics they carry a lot of items that have nothing to do with furry fandom.

ZenZhu · Coadjutor Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 475

The point, however elusive it may be, is that it doesn't take much work at all to find this kind of stuff when searching "furry." Granted, my results can be considered skewed, as I know where to go. But, for someone trying to learn more, either because of personal interest or for something sensationalistic, it still is pretty easy to go walking through the cow pasture of furrydom and inadvertently step in something. So, it's no wonder furry has the image it does, since they don't seem to care to make the effort to put their best foot forward.