I went to another furry convention.

[Emu]

Yeah. Some of you may remember my last "I went to a furry convention" thread. I just got back from Mephit Fur Meet, a medium-sized convention in Memphis. I got pictures.

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We're off to a good start!

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/ikrsez/mfm08/mfm08006.jpg

And this is only the parking lot!

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Interestingly enough, I had seen the skunk car once before in Illinois.

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Registration room!

And now, costumes!

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Somehow, the flash made his mask look better. If it weren't for the visible t-shirt it'd look a lot better :(

[Emu]

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[Emu]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/ikrsez/mfm08/mfm08021.jpg

He posed like this for me. It is not an accident

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Rainbows were kind of a theme.

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A black guy! :eek :eek

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random people

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The majority of people in suits had partial ones like this one. The full body suits cost hundreds+ dollars to make.

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again, kind of a theme

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I'm just posting them in the order I took them, so:

NOT WORK SAFE! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/ikrsez/mfm08/mfm08040.jpg

Sonic porn. Just sitting there. Like nothing.

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This guy was horrifying, but I think that's what he was going for. He carried a crop around and regularly whipped his man-bitch, who he kept on a leash. His man-bitch wore a wolf-shaped gimp mask.

Bondage was kind of another theme.

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OH HEY WHAT IS THAT

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Me and a friend fighting. You probably can't see it but she's holding scary guy's crop and is about to beat me with it.

The picture was his suggestion.

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:3

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furry parade

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This dude sold plushies. yep

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Hugs! :3

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You may remember this guy from my last thread. He was at the other con.

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Name the gayest thing in this picture!

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Another black guy! :eek

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Arts & crafts.

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Bondage Time Tigger was also at that table. The owner had reprogrammed the voicebox to say... disturbing things.

It sold.

[Jeanette X]

Did you pee on the cars to mark your territory?

[Emu]

I sat on top of it with a water pistol.

[Esuohlim]

I forgot your reasons for voluntarily going to one of these things.

[Emu]

Girlfriend.

edit: And $$$$

She and her art-partner made about 700 bux between the two of them.

[Guitar Woman]

:lol

[DevilWearsPrada]

Girlfriend.

edit: And $$$$

She and her art-partner made about 700 bux between the two of them.


Wait...so by that logic, I can buy a bunch of neopets memorabilia, sell it to creepy fetishes (at the risk of being raped probably) and make some kind of ill gotten profit?

[MarioRPG]

I have two questions:
1 (kinda)) Does your girlfriend paint furry-esque art? Animals? "Anthros"?

2) Do they play music at these things (during parade / background noise) & what kind? I want to know if these furries rock out or just relax to easy listening.

I'm pretty sure we don't have this kind of thing here, maybe in Toronto (burn?), but not here. I doubt I'd attend, although seeing that Sonic porn was funny.

[Chojin]

http://www.i-mockery.com/chojin/mw2k7/max_camerafury.jpg

[bigtimecow]

LOL! YOU THOUGHT YOU FOUND
A SECRET! STOOOOOOOPAD!

>:

[Emu]

I have two questions:
1 (kinda)) Does your girlfriend paint furry-esque art? Animals? "Anthros"?

She takes work on commission from private buyers (i.e. furries) so she draws (almost) whatever they ask her to.

2) Do they play music at these things (during parade / background noise) & what kind? I want to know if these furries rock out or just relax to easy listening.

Shitty techno, shitty techno and more shitty techno. And dance. Dance techno.

[MarioRPG]

Shitty techno, shitty techno and more shitty techno. And dance. Dance techno.

That's what I was realistically expecting. Thanks for answering :\

[McClain]

Wait a minute... I saw two TOTALLY DIFFERENT black people at this convention. Did one of them not get the "One Negro Per" quota memo?

[RaNkeri]

Any sight of Roxy the cat? :x

[Dimnos]

http://www.i-mockery.com/chojin/mw2k7/max_camerafury.jpg


ROFL!

[Guitar Woman]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/ikrsez/mfm08/mfm08028.jpg
I love the two background guys in this picture

[Qwarx]

I'm jw, but what were some examples of the disturbing things the BDSM Tigger say?

[Tadao]

You're a Jehovah Witness?

[RaNkeri]

I believie he misspelled "jew" :x

[Tadao]

Maybe he means just wanking and he wants Emu to describe BDSM Tigers to him so he can get off.

[bigtimecow]

you guys ever seen videos from furry conventions of their little like, "dance parties" or whatever? they hold hands and dance in circles and its just really...

well yeah you know

[mburbank]

I am not a furry.


I am a furry voyeur.

[Evil Robot]

They should have lots of latex ballons at these things and hold them in rooms with ungrounded outlets.

[AChimp]

Words can't really describe how distrurbing some of those pictures are. :(

And most of the people there are fat guys.

[Qwarx]

Maybe he means just wanking and he wants Emu to describe BDSM Tigers to him so he can get off.

maybe... maybe it's you I'm getting off to:orgasm.

But yeah, furries likely wouldn't be hated so much if they weren't so obnoxious about their fetish.

[executioneer]

and if they weren't creepy as the day is long

[McClain]

Okay, I have some legitimate questions that need answered. I'm kinda' green to this whole "Furries / Anthro" thing.

I just read the wiki because I had no clue that there were people so enamored with anthropomorphic animals that they would actually pay to go to a convention to see other grown men dressed up like grown animals that look like grown men.

And there appears to be a subculture of this molester-esque subculture that consists of Furry fans that prefer to illustrate (and act out?) homo erotic acts between animals, i.e. furry wolf men embracing eachother and sucking faces. Is this a small demographic of furry fans, or is the reality that everyone who likes furries likes the gay dog thing, too, but some just choose not to advertise their appreciation? Don't ask how/why, but I recall seeing an "art" website dedicated to pictures of anthros performing sexual acts with other like-gendered anthropomorphics. I wasn't as disgusted as I was confused. I kept asking myself, "people get off on this stuff?"

I have to be honest when I say I find the entire ordeal quite disturbing - I refuse to believe that an intelligent human being could have such an absolute interest in something so callow. What's the big deal? They're effin' cartoon dogs, man.

Another concern I have; why do the majority of furries appear to be canine? I can't find any references that give a definitive answer. What would happen if I arrived at the next Furry convention dressed up like a cartoon frog with a banana hammock for a thong and roller skates? Would I get thrown out or fellated? Magnified or mounted? Would the dogs socialize with me or would I be in shunned? Is there a anthro caste? And more importantly, would the Furry dogs want to smell my ass?

Why do people who illustrate Furries always (and I mean ALWAYS) draw them with Fuck Me eyes? Do you people want to fuck furries? It's obvious that some fans do, otherwise they wouldn't be drawing them with fishnet tank tops, rainbow hair, pinching each others nipples with alligator clips. And what's with depicting them with that veil of sexual tension? Is there sexual tension between Furries?

If I were to show up at the convention two minutes before closing time, hide under a table, then emerge after it was closed, would I find a huge furry orgy of men dressed up like dogs humping each others legs and the tables, gang banging the two black guys (wait, aren't black guys afraid of dogs?) and generally trying to rub their pink things on any thing?

Just be honest with me. I can handle the truth.

Not like it would really matter because I've already come to my own conclusions.

[Emu]

Okay, I have some legitimate questions that need answered. I'm kinda' green to this whole "Furries / Anthro" thing.

I just read the wiki because I had no clue that there were people so enamored with anthropomorphic animals that they would actually pay to go to a convention to see other grown men dressed up like grown animals that look like grown men.

And there appears to be a subculture of this molester-esque subculture that consists of Furry fans that prefer to illustrate (and act out?) homo erotic acts between animals, i.e. furry wolf men embracing eachother and sucking faces. Is this a small demographic of furry fans, or is the reality that everyone who likes furries likes the gay dog thing, too, but some just choose not to advertise their appreciation? Don't ask how/why, but I recall seeing an "art" website dedicated to pictures of anthros performing sexual acts with other like-gendered anthropomorphics. I wasn't as disgusted as I was confused. I kept asking myself, "people get off on this stuff?"

It's a medium-sized but very loud minority of people. The "fandom" seems to be (from my limited observations of them in their natural habitat) divided into a few semi-distinct subcategories, namely these: 1) Animation enthusiasts (people who genuinely enjoy animated features; this includes professional animators who attend conventions. These are by far the least geeky and are often actually pretty interesting people, but they get the least attention) 2) Artists who have found a niche market in which they can thrive; and 3) Fetishists. I say semi-distinct because these lines often blur, most often between categories 1 and 2 and 2 and 3, but not so much 1 and 3.

I have to be honest when I say I find the entire ordeal quite disturbing - I refuse to believe that an intelligent human being could have such an absolute interest in something so callow. What's the big deal? They're effin' cartoon dogs, man.

It's definitely awkward. I made a concious attempt to spend most of that weekend stoned in order to come to grips with exactly what the hell I was seeing. At one point I had an epiphany: These conventions can be summed up in a simple prospect, that being that it's really just like any other big stupid party, except with more dressup and nerd paraphanalia. Really, the great majority of the con was just awkward people socializing with other awkward people, an excuse to get out of the basement and just have some fun for a weekend. The conventions don't explicitly endorse the admittedly off-putting sexual aspect of the ordeal and generally tend to downplay that part as much as possible. Most of the people you talk to will express distaste at the amount of sexuality present.

Another concern I have; why do the majority of furries appear to be canine? I can't find any references that give a definitive answer. What would happen if I arrived at the next Furry convention dressed up like a cartoon frog with a banana hammock for a thong and roller skates? Would I get thrown out or fellated? Magnified or mounted? Would the dogs socialize with me or would I be in shunned? Is there a anthro caste? And more importantly, would the Furry dogs want to smell my ass?

You'd actually be very popular. The more ridiculous the suit, the more popular the person is. The Grim Reaper guy got a lot of attention, for example.

As for the preference for canines, I have no idea. If I had to make an honest guess I'd say it's because dogs have been around people so long that they take on some human characteristics, like love and companionship and all of that, so they translate more easily into a humanoid form. That, or people just really like the shape of dogcock, which seems a lot more likely.

Why do people who illustrate Furries always (and I mean ALWAYS) draw them with Fuck Me eyes? Do you people want to fuck furries? It's obvious that some fans do, otherwise they wouldn't be drawing them with fishnet tank tops, rainbow hair, pinching each others nipples with alligator clips. And what's with depicting them with that veil of sexual tension? Is there sexual tension between Furries?

It's a group of sexually frustrated people who have constructed elaborate fantasies about their characters, who just happen to be everything that that particular person is attracted to in a partner. Ask any random person at this con their character's life story, and, trust me, they will be more than willing to tell you every detail about their character's life from their mysterious birth to the mysterious amulet/katana/crystal given to them by their estranged/dead father to their mysterious involvement in a mysterious organization that hunts vampires, or is made of vampires, or is made of vampires who hunt other vampires who are also werewolves.

If I were to show up at the convention two minutes before closing time, hide under a table, then emerge after it was closed, would I find a huge furry orgy of men dressed up like dogs humping each others legs and the tables, gang banging the two black guys (wait, aren't black guys afraid of dogs?) and generally trying to rub their pink things on any thing?

Just be honest with me. I can handle the truth.

Not like it would really matter because I've already come to my own conclusions.

I'm not sure on this one, we left as soon as possible.

[RaNkeri]

Ask any random person at this con their character's life story, and, trust me, they will be more than willing to tell you every detail about their character's life from their mysterious birth to the mysterious amulet/katana/crystal given to them by their estranged/dead father to their mysterious involvement in a mysterious organization that hunts vampires, or is made of vampires, or is made of vampires who hunt other vampires who are also werewolves.

:lol

[Grislygus]

The Scion is just precious

[Dixie]

Wasn't Chojin's title "Gay Alien Bondage Dog" for some time?

[Emu]

I actually thought about that over the weekend. I saw plenty of gay bondage dogs, but no alien ones :\

[McClain]

Yeah, Eric... get your ass in here and give some insight.

[Emu]

for the record, memphis is a shitpile

[Evil Robot]

Wasn't Chojin's title "Gay Alien Bondage Dog" for some time?
Yes, it was. In fact, I remember a few years ago Chojin dressed up in a bikini and had a freind take pictures of him running around in a hurricane. This was back in the EZBoard day.
Chojin also bought a pair of "My Little Pony" pants off ebay.
He also made a pictorial thread about a young Philipino boy who went to a college laboatory and ate a medical sample of some disease. He did this before September 11th, 2001.

[Evil Robot]

My point beng is that Chojin has seen this thread and has chosen not to post in it since the subject is embarrassing.

[Evil Robot]

BTW I should mention he is most likely responsible for my avatar. Before this it was a photo of African figurehead Desmond Tutu.

[Emu]

I think you actually got that for shitting out on a secret santa event.

[Fathom Zero]

No, it wasn't that.

I got one of 'em too. I think it was either a fat panda or a zebra.

[Evil Robot]

No, he did it because I skipped out on the mock wars. I realized how lame they are and eventually forgot about them.

[Chojin]

My point beng is that Chojin has seen this thread and has chosen not to post in it since the subject is embarrassing.

This. :<

[Qwarx]

It's a group of sexually frustrated people who have constructed elaborate fantasies about their characters, who just happen to be everything that that particular person is attracted to in a partner. Ask any random person at this con their character's life story, and, trust me, they will be more than willing to tell you every detail about their character's life from their mysterious birth to the mysterious amulet/katana/crystal given to them by their estranged/dead father to their mysterious involvement in a mysterious organization that hunts vampires, or is made of vampires, or is made of vampires who hunt other vampires who are also werewolves.


This is funny.

[Chojin]

Okay, to elaborate:

I got into some of the artwork as a chillun, eventually met some of the other people interested in it, and then promptly ran away.

There are so many niches in the already-niche society they've built that it's ridiculous. You have 'babyfurs', which are people who do all the furry crap, but also wear diapers and piss themselves. You have 'guro', who are the people into mutilation. You have 'vore', who are the people who get sexually excited by the prospect of being eaten whole. Yoshi is their patron saint.

Furry fandom people will tell you that it started in print magazines in the 80s, but that's a lie. Like most things the internet unintentionally does, people with horrible personal fetishes found each other and slowly aligned their yearnings to make some sort of perverted deviant megazord.

Like FatSatan once famously wrote:
"The pretense of subculture helps to alleviate the stigma of being socially dysfunctional."

[MetalMilitia]

Isn't the "artwork" primary focussed around giant muscle-bound horses drowning whole cities in jizz?

[DevilWearsPrada]

slightly off topic, but yoshi's whole existance irl would be hell, I mean it's goddamn digestive system and reproductive organs are a single entity

[RaNkeri]

You have 'vore', who are the people who get sexually excited by the prospect of being eaten whole. Yoshi is their patron saint.

This reminds me, didn't somebody find a forum where people talked about their sexual fantasies towards videogame characters(Sonic, Mario, Kirby etc.)? Robotnik fetish was fucking sick.

[Guitar Woman]

MY OWN CLONE

NOW NEITHER OF US WILL BE VIRGINS

[MetalMilitia]

This reminds me, didn't somebody find a forum where people talked about their sexual fantasies towards videogame characters(Sonic, Mario, Kirby etc.)? Robotnik fetish was fucking sick.

There was a fantastic section of the GFW podcast were one of the presenters would read forum posts of "heroes of the web" many of which were erotic video game fanfics. They're all HERE (http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8478085&publicUserId=5850317). Listen if you get a chance, some are hilarious.

ADDED: 17 July is my favourite.

[RaNkeri]

Thanks, I'll listen few of them immediatly, sounds promising.

I was also able find the thread I mentioned. http://i-mockery.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-22755.html

[Tadao]

MY OWN CLONE

NOW NEITHER OF US WILL BE VIRGINS

I bet your clone would still turn you down :(

[Guitar Woman]

You have to go on the internet with relative frequency to have gotten that joke, sorry

[Emu]

who is that a reference to