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)
Hello! I don't get involved in the community much (because shy), but I would consider myself as some kind of wolf.
... 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
I’m not. I’ve always been curious about how people learn about it, realize they’re a furry, etc.
What’s your story of how you became a furry? What does it mean to you?
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
Not on Beehaw but I am a subscriber over here. My account is on Pawb
Hi! :)
My fursona is also my username ^^
Thats a pretty nice piece of art there!
Thanks :D
very cute!
Thank you! I like how Jerboa/lemmy auto embeds the image. Refreshing, coming from reddit!
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's also pawbs.social and furry technologists on here :)
thanks :3
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
Entry level furry. If it's a character I like, I might do the deed to them but I don't seek it out outside of that
Hello! Just exploring other instances from pawb.social!
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.
Squawk!
i can't believe they let birds on the internet
If they banned us you'd have to get rid of your top half, and you don't want to make an ass of yourself :3
+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
probably half of the coolest people i know are also dogs on the internet so this may be an intrinsic property of being one
That's a high bar to clear I hope I can be that cool one day
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?
Love the red avatar by the way, transistor absolutely rules :)
Thanks!! I love her, very powerful vibes :)
I guess I'm a furry? I have a furaffinity account but I'm not really active
I'm not active in the community anymore, so I guess that makes me furry-adjacent but, yeah.
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.
I'm dangerously furry, though I keep on the down-low.
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.
Suppppppppppp :p
hello!
Not enough
as i've noted before furries are the vanguard of any successful online community so any niche you can find them in is probably a stable one
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".
Plus if all those furries working in tech just went poof, then the internet would probably collapse!
Has a furry community on Beehaw been considered? I don’t know enough to decide if it is necessary or not based on the number of people here. I think Creative would suffice so long as those browsing there aren’t bothered by it. But I wonder if furries are already hesitant to post to general art places in case it isn’t received as well. I want to see all the furry OC’s and artwork people have to share here, but I also understand that turning half the posts on Creative into furry content could get annoying to those who don’t want to go there for that.
not immediately; if things started to get crowded in serious a community would probably get created. for what it's worth my post was received pretty well earlier this week, so i don't think people mind too much, lol
Just your average horse boy here. Don't mind me.
hello!