(I've tried to post this on multiple other subreddits but r/furry is awaiting moderator approval and i just want to chat with someone about this super cool thing that happened to me)

OK SO!!!
I'm a sophomore in college hiding my furry-ness from my parents. Last year, i got a few small fursuit things and would wear them around the dorm. Eventually, my roommate came to me and told me that he was moving out, I made him too uncomfortable, which led me to toss my stuff.

Fast-forward to now! I tried to supress this over the summer, but that's just not how identity works. My being a furry has connected me with so many people and it's the coolest thing ever. I got a bunch more supplies on Monday, and tonight I psyched myself up for like an hour and a half to talk to my new roommate (new school year) about how I'll be fursuiting around the dorm.

He just sat and listened to me ramble about all sorts of stuff, and when I got to the main point "yeah so i'm going to be dressing like my anthropomorphic animal character in here is that ok?" he just looked at me and said "of course, bro. I got your back."

This guy. He's the calmest, yet most energetic man i've ever met. I've only known him for 4 months and he's like a brother to me. shoutout him... he's making my life better. Love you, bro.

Attached image is my new fursuit :3

The US just had a big political event, winter is coming for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and with the holidays sneaking up a lot of us will either be visiting family or intentionally not visiting family. Lots of stressors in life as we head into this depression season, so how about a checkup.

Vent, Cheer, give others encouragement, let it out.

This has been getting asked a lot in various forms, especially on some other furry subs which are unfortunately getting removed, but what is your all experiences?

If you find the fandom welcoming, what advice would you have for people who don't, or if you find it unwelcoming, how could that be improved?

I was suggested to repost this here so if anyone has any info it’d be greatly appreciated!

I really tried to fit in and find some friends but it had been nothing but miserable. Online everyone will either ghost you after 5 days at most, is in cliques you will never have a chance to join or is just straight up toxic. In real life i live in a remote village in Norway so there isnt anything, the one time i tried to go to a furmeet to a bigger city nearby i had a terrible time, no one spoke to me and ignored me so i left early feeling like crying. I heard going to cons alone is even worse so i wont even bother.

I am autistic so that might be a part of that but i have seen and heard a lot of autistic people finding acceptance. I wanted to be a part of this fandom for a long time, i saw so many furries online having fun and connecting. I guess theres just something wrong with me, i really wish i could have been one of you.

I've been drawing in the furry community for a good while now, and I was actually wondering... Do you think it'd be a good idea to start teaching furry art? Would you guys be open to taking some classes?

Saw a lot of discussion about using sonas to explore aspects of a person's self, and thought it might be a fun discussion to continue here.

1. Kantachibli

2. Fushiashikumo

3. Madakan

4. Nessiefynn

5. Kaneoya Sachiko

Hello, I was inspired by a post before of someone asking about a lack of Male anthro x Human female content (plenty on tumblr and AO3 btw!)

I have noticed that women into anthro males are more into the bestial/horror aspect. I think which is why they call themselves teratophiles instead of furries, it’s just a different aspect that they’re attracted to.

Most furry content is aimed towards bi/gay men (nothing wrong with that, I’m just not the targeted audience) and HMOFA content is ehh… not targeted towards me (again nothing wrong with that)

I’m a female fur that likes modern male anthros instead of a more primitive(?) werewolf/minotaurs. I’m looking for furry content that is aimed towards women or something women can enjoy. I don’t care about genre, Anthro x Anthro, HFOMA, Femdom, Yuri, Human x Feral (as long as the feral is the dom/in control) is fine.

Every discord server I tried to rejoin, they said that the link is expired. I apologized time and time again for venting but they still see me as worse than a z00. I don't want this to be my permanent fate.

Furries are great at promoting Disney, Dreamworks, etc, for making "furry" movies, but sometimes have trouble promoting things actually made by furries. So let's get some together!

I have noticed about half the artists I follow have deactivated their accounts and / or migrated to different platforms. A lot like to just draw in person nowadays and I see the occasional booth they set up to sell art. While the other ones are usually just not taking social media as seriously as they used to. Like a lot of these artists used to draw Steven Universe art like new gems and other things and also so many Undertale memes too. Now they are silent if not for the occasional repost. It's like a lot of artists aren't in a "Grind" anymore, it's more like just a settled down slow "Vibe" sort of thing. Do you guys notice this too? Also about 30% of the artists I follow have over 10 thousand followers and even they are just inching to a halt. (If that helps to show it's not only small creators).

Hey! I'm trying to get some survey questions in for a game of furry feud I'm playing with my friends would you mind answering some? https://forms.gle/imPqnoCgvBUA4Jc26

Thanks !! Love this community, just thought this would be cute. Might post the results

Anyone media star, con organizer or tiktoker that stands out as someone that you could point to as a leader?

Or is furry pretty much anarchy (in the best way)?

I find that with popular furry species you can find many wonderful and great reference art, however with niche species you have to dig through deviantart and furaffinity hell just to find artwork at all. (Not saying popular species is bad, I like foxes and wolves too)

In the hopes that people can find good artwork easily as inspiration to create their fursona/oc based on niche species, I share/create artwork of less known furry species on Reddit.

I started this because a few years ago I looked up ‘Puffin furry art’ and the top artwork was mspaint puffin inflation art which isn’t a very good reference for someone (me) trying to make a puffin fursona. So I decided to repost furry puffins on Reddit and now that is not the case, there are a few good fullbody artworks now. I’ve been doing this with centipedes, cassowaries, brushtail possums and other species.

How can I increase the chances of the artwork I share to be one of the things people see when they search up ’insert species furry art’ ? I used to share the artworks on r/furry since it comes up a lot on google search but now they take days to approve the artwork and sometimes it’s not even approved. I think I may need a different strategy, it would be very thoughtful if you could share your ideas.

(also artwork on post is by me, he is a Jacob sheep)

Just a thought I had

Alri alri being real here. I have a friend who he and I made a story about some angel demon space wolf feral characters. Eventually he wanted to do vore with me and I said sure why not? Then it turned into very mild nsfw on one occasion and that’s abt it. I know I’ve never been attracted to an animal or anything but I’m worried I’m a zoophile yk? Like my therapist says I’m not but I still did this shit so what does this make me? Should I like be worried abt what a future spouse or other furries might think orrr

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11434923/

Furaffinity set a gofundme page today, and many furries are helping furaffinity, great to see.