Crush...Yiff...Destroy!

Wayd Wolf · Coadjutor Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 456

Good Idea: Using a camcorder to record your vacation to Hawaii for posterity and family amusement.

Bad Idea: Using a camcorder to record your vacation to a furry convention for posterity and family estrangement.

So what does anyone think of this? Should the raw multi-POV footage of a con be saved for posterity, MTV, collective amusement/derision, etc.? Where might a camcorder find itself at a con? Watching a con chair tell amusing stories, following a guy in hot pants dancing like a pixie, or maybe in some room showing... HOLY FREAKING S**TBALLS! Maybe? Maybe not?

DOES furry have something to hide? If so, should it remain hid? Would it be like exposing nudes of your grandmother that granddad drunkenly left out for you to see thus permanently ruining your appetite, or is it like an abcess that must be lanced and drained?

mouse · Coadjutor Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 662

Good Idea: Using a camcorder to record your vacation to Hawaii for posterity and family amusement.

Bad Idea: Using a camcorder to record your vacation to a furry convention for posterity and family estrangement.

i think shawn keller should write that into animaniacs-spoof cartoon on his website..

maybe you should email shawn

So what does anyone think of this? Should the raw multi-POV footage of a con be saved for posterity, MTV, collective amusement/derision, etc.? Where might a camcorder find itself at a con? Watching a con chair tell amusing stories, following a guy in hot pants dancing like a pixie, or maybe in some room showing... HOLY FREAKING S**TBALLS! Maybe? Maybe not?

DOES furry have something to hide? If so, should it remain hid? Would it be like exposing nudes of your grandmother that granddad drunkenly left out for you to see thus permanently ruining your appetite, or is it like an abcess that must be lanced and drained?

i dont see how to vote on the poll so ill just say
yeah, what the hell, why not?

on AFF they kept telling me that you have to be "on the ground" to see what its really like at the conventions
so who knows maybe ill go to one someday and see whats really up

i honestly wouldnt be shocked to find it totally fucked up
i wouldnt be shocked if it were really normal either

i really believe the fandom to made up of (for all intents and purposes) 2 factions (STILL)
i also think its almost impossible to quantify what percentage is what
there is a lot of overlap

in fact i think this dielectric has existed for a VERY long time in furry
i read refernce to a divide between "east coast" and "west coast" fans in the early days
west coast being the party thing, east coast being focused more on the SF/comic book thing
the geographical aspect faded (you can still see it in some stuff - compare confurence to anthrocon),
fans/lifestylers
burned furs freezing furs

even right now, i dont think alt.FAN.furry, is that fucked up ...i read it all the time its fannish but seems pretty normal to me
some of the crazy shit ive seen posted on ALF i think would be almost guaranteed to draw flames on AFF (or at least be a mostly ignored thread)

and there are these 2 levels all across the internet, depending on what bulletin board you are on / where you look

so ...who knows
im kind of surprised the fandom hasnt split into 2 seperate enitites by now
probably from the overlap i mentioned earlier