rollcall: how many furries do we have on Beehaw at this point
i'm sure my icon speaks for itself here, but i've definitely seen a few of you skittering about in some of our threads. show yourselves at once! maybe post your fursona even (if it's safe for work)
... Do I still get to claim I'm merely "fandom adjacent" if I've crafted several 'sonas and have actively played as them in various media? Asking for a friend. :P
Think I joined and made a fursona around 2018 but I'd thought they were pretty neat ages before. I think I took the plunge since the community appeared to be very friendly as was quite LGBT positive and I was looking for somewhere to make some friends. Went to a meet at the city closest to me and then boom, here I be :D
have furries been thriving on the fediverse all this time?! eg, mastodon. i legitimately feel like I've noticed a furry "void" in my usual internet spaces for a few years...
there does seem to be a dearth of them around here and a lot of that probably has to do with the explosion of the mastodon instance snouts.online a few years back and a generally bad experience with mastodon many furries (at least in my circles) had back around 2019-2020
mmmmm that does ring some bells. i hadn't really delved into it at the time, and i'd heard tales of drama... (which might be the reason for the former!)
I've moved in and out of the spaces for a while but never fully immersed, in part because I didn't feel strongly about any potential fursonas, and have a disinterest in the most popular art styles used. I've used a rat as an avatar in the past but I don't consider the rat to be representative of me so much as my artist's signature. And it's always been drawn as a cartoon rat, not an anthro rat.
I did used to draw a lot of aliens, monsters, and dragon-people though, and identify with those. It helped me feel stronger or more capable to imagine myself that way. If I ever do settle on an animal to present me online and join the furry community 'properly', it will probably end up being either a fantasy fusion, a scalie, or both.
+1 here, funnily. But only kind of? Kinda associated with the community when I was younger, grew a little away from it but still consider myself one? Just happy to be a dog on the internet I suppose haha
Hi! I'm not super deep into the furry community but I do know a lot of furries and I'm in the process of getting my fursona some better-developed art, so I guess I count?
hello, i'm a relatively new furry haha. my main sona is a bat, though i also have a goat and a snow leopard that i often switch between. currently they just exist as different avatars on secondlife, since i can't draw to save my life.
Me kinda? I'm adjacent. I think. I've been in and out as a lurker in the fandom for the past decade or so. I still don't have a sona... mostly because I can't decide what species.
It really comes down to having a "place" to engage in. I don't think beehaw/lemmy has a furry community yet. This is further complicated with "art" (which I understand, hosting+moderation). One of the things I'll miss from reddit is those communities. Granted, I was lurking more for the "art".