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xinjinmeng) wrote2020-11-03 12:15 am
xinjinmeng) wrote2020-11-03 12:15 am
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Furry Fandom 20 Questions
1. How long have you been in the furry fandom?
🧓 Over 30 years.
2. How did you first discover the fandom?
👫 The FurryMUCK online multiplayer game. Though I was collecting furry comics before that.
3. What are your favorite aspects of the community?
🌈 The common chord that links all aspects of furry together is the question of what it means to be a person. Body dysmorphia, genderqueer, neurodivergence, and all sorts of exploratory themes can be found there.
4. What was your first fursona?
🦎 A chameleon.
5. Describe your current fursona.
🐲 A dragon.
6. Why did you choose your fursona's species?
☯ I have 81 yang scales and 36 yin scales. If you brush against the wrong one, I will turn and bite you. Also I’m #majestic.
7. How much of your sona is based on yourself?
💃 I have purposely styled my sona to be very much into opera, a form of art that has lots of nuance and details, but that most people are wholly unfamiliar with. This choice was so that I could write stories that were about obsession without leaning on cultural signifiers familiar to the audience. (The humor must work on its own merits.)
8. Post some of your favorite art of your fursona
🖼 All art that depicts my fursona is my favorite.
9. If you had to change sona species, what'd you pick?
🐐 A bonnacon.
10. How do you feel about fursuits?
🧥 They’re expensive and difficult and I suspect that when I do get one, I’ll tire of it very quickly.
11. How do you feel about furry conventions?
🏨 I enjoy them when I’m working. Otherwise, I run out of things to do.
12. Have you brought anyone into the fandom?
🍞 Yes.
13. Paws or maws?
⮆ First one, then the other.
14. Favorite anthro character from pop culture?
🐉 The Space Dragon from the Iron Man.
15. What is your biggest furry pet peeve?
🤔 Until recently, it was the conceit that “something is not furry if it’s commercially successful.” This peeve might change to the conceit that "Something is not furry unless it’s endorsed by a corporate entity”.
16. What is the origin of your online nickname?
🌟💛💭 It’s a reference to two songs.
17. How has your view of the fandom changed over time?
⌛ It hasn’t. My belief is that fans are, at their heart, just people, and that’s both good and bad. Furry fandom has the same problems and progress as almost all other fandoms.
18. What can we do better as a community?
⭩⭩⭩ Nazi punks: fuck off.
19. Happiest memory from your time in the fandom?
💿 My furry boyfriend and I were on our way to the furmeet, and we stopped in a music store, and I was looking at CDs when I realized at this moment that we had stopped in a music store because I asked him if he would stop there for me, and I felt it was the first time that someone else was doing something that I wanted to do, just because it had meant something to me. It was such a quotidian moment, but just then I felt a wave of specialness and importance wash over me, that I felt giddy and romantic and understood.
20. What does the furry fandom mean to you?
🦟 Paradise is exactly like where I am right now, only much, much better.
🧓 Over 30 years.
2. How did you first discover the fandom?
👫 The FurryMUCK online multiplayer game. Though I was collecting furry comics before that.
3. What are your favorite aspects of the community?
🌈 The common chord that links all aspects of furry together is the question of what it means to be a person. Body dysmorphia, genderqueer, neurodivergence, and all sorts of exploratory themes can be found there.
4. What was your first fursona?
🦎 A chameleon.
5. Describe your current fursona.
🐲 A dragon.
6. Why did you choose your fursona's species?
☯ I have 81 yang scales and 36 yin scales. If you brush against the wrong one, I will turn and bite you. Also I’m #majestic.
7. How much of your sona is based on yourself?
💃 I have purposely styled my sona to be very much into opera, a form of art that has lots of nuance and details, but that most people are wholly unfamiliar with. This choice was so that I could write stories that were about obsession without leaning on cultural signifiers familiar to the audience. (The humor must work on its own merits.)
8. Post some of your favorite art of your fursona
🖼 All art that depicts my fursona is my favorite.
9. If you had to change sona species, what'd you pick?
🐐 A bonnacon.
10. How do you feel about fursuits?
🧥 They’re expensive and difficult and I suspect that when I do get one, I’ll tire of it very quickly.
11. How do you feel about furry conventions?
🏨 I enjoy them when I’m working. Otherwise, I run out of things to do.
12. Have you brought anyone into the fandom?
🍞 Yes.
13. Paws or maws?
⮆ First one, then the other.
14. Favorite anthro character from pop culture?
🐉 The Space Dragon from the Iron Man.
15. What is your biggest furry pet peeve?
🤔 Until recently, it was the conceit that “something is not furry if it’s commercially successful.” This peeve might change to the conceit that "Something is not furry unless it’s endorsed by a corporate entity”.
16. What is the origin of your online nickname?
🌟💛💭 It’s a reference to two songs.
17. How has your view of the fandom changed over time?
⌛ It hasn’t. My belief is that fans are, at their heart, just people, and that’s both good and bad. Furry fandom has the same problems and progress as almost all other fandoms.
18. What can we do better as a community?
⭩⭩⭩ Nazi punks: fuck off.
19. Happiest memory from your time in the fandom?
💿 My furry boyfriend and I were on our way to the furmeet, and we stopped in a music store, and I was looking at CDs when I realized at this moment that we had stopped in a music store because I asked him if he would stop there for me, and I felt it was the first time that someone else was doing something that I wanted to do, just because it had meant something to me. It was such a quotidian moment, but just then I felt a wave of specialness and importance wash over me, that I felt giddy and romantic and understood.
20. What does the furry fandom mean to you?
🦟 Paradise is exactly like where I am right now, only much, much better.