Asexual Furry Shenanigans

Y'all can call me Avery! Asexual/Aromantic/Agender They/Them

[asexyotter]

I haven’t used this blog in uh... over a year? But guess who’s reworking their fursona

Drawing is hard, but since I’m still in the designing phase it mostly involves drawing them over and over and over again with different permutations in design so I think I’m going to get a lot of practice lol.

Literally, looking at my profile pic on this blog (which was drawn something like 6 years ago now) I just... don’t like it? Besides the fact that it was drawn so many years ago and I’ve obviously evolved as an artist, there’s literally no thought put into it at all.

I know that, because I actually remember that I just wanted a fursona for furry profile pic purposes, and so I drew the first thing I thought of with little to no character design thought put into it whatsoever.

(Not to mention, adult me looking at something teenage me designs will almost always feel uh... cringey, I guess, because of aforementioned growth in drawing and design ability.)

Anyway, I want to draw more. I know every time I make this resolution I fail spectacularly, but I’m trying once again to get back into drawing, and furry art has always been such a huge influence on my artistic career (not to mention, it’s inspiring me now to get back into it) that it feels both necessary and appropriate to redesign my fursona basically from scratch.

I do have some ideas, and currently they are still an otter, but I admit I’m still not really sure how to make them visually distinct. I’m literally a biologist, so it feels weird to go off of natural patterns and colors, but I might look at color morphs for domestic mustelids for inspiration and consider playing with elements of those.

I’ll probably keep teenage me’s only actual design idea, the fractal bandannas (esp. Sierpinski triangle/carpet, though the dragon curve is also one I’ve drawn them with) in some form, but otherwise it’s basically open season.

I’m kind of excited. I love doing character design. Since I’m primarily an author, I deal with a lot of character crafting. It’s always really nice to fall in love with a new character tbh, though admittedly they rarely ever are meant to be a persona for myself, so I am approaching this a little differently.

It’s an interesting challenge, which I am a little afraid of, and I’m positive I’ll change my mind about approximately a billion and a half elements of the design before I settle on anything, but it should be, if nothing else, fun.

[bounemr]

guys holy shit

okay so i’m a huge furry blah blah but i just found a furry mod for the sims 4 and it looks like it’s actually so cool???? like the work that must have taken???? unreal

it’s all a cartoon style to keep w the maxis style and it’s clearly still in the works but what this guy has managed to do is amazing. Literally he has digitigrade legs in there. He’s got muzzle sliders working so you can adjust the nose and muzzle. Like seriously look at his cover image.

I honestly didn’t know this was even possible in the sims 4???? But he did it anyway????

He got glasses to adjust to the muzzle instead of clipping through where the normal nose should be. He’s even currently working on a tutorial to make your own fur patterns.

It’s cats and dogs right now, and the range is limited, but what he has is so damn impressive and he’s working on more and after he gets that tutorial out we’ll basically be able to make our own species with custom fur patterns if we’re willing to go through the effort. In his videos he says he’s working on lizards and dragons next, and then he’ll be taking suggestions maybe? After he gets the video about custom patterns out.

The comments on the YouTube videos are basically just like “I’m not a furry but holy shit this is a quality-looking mod” and honestly? I am a furry but holy shit this is a quality-looking mod.

It’s downloadable here from his website. From what I can tell this guy, Tim Weeks is making this all on his own? He has a furry webcomic called “Savestate” at the same website. Literally I just found out about this and am kind of freaking out because holy shit.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

You have a fursona? Are you a furry??

Listen when I designed my fursona on deviantart/neopets when I was like 12 years old Everyone was a furry. You had to be or they wouldn’t let your dialup connect to the internet.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

To be real though I know “being a furry” is really controversial Still (???) but I wish everyone would relax.

IDK if you all remember but one time I made a post defending fursonas and someone made a disgusting post claiming I’m into bestiality based on that alone. It was really graphically worded and described sex acts with animals. It was extremely upsetting. People are Wild.

When I was younger everyone I knew on the internet had a fursona, in every community I joined. Whether we were designing ourselves as Neopets or Dragons or Wolves, it was just a thing kids did. And as we got older and better at art, it was fun to reimagine those designs!!

It’s STILL fun to say “this is me if I lived in the woods. I’m an otter who wears striped sweaters.”

Like I’m sorry if that bothers you or if you’ve been made to immediately assume there’s something sexual about that.

There’s not for me. I think fursonas are cute, and I think the work that goes into fur suits are impressive, and unless they’re actually individually harming another person, I think there’s nothing wrong with furries, but the same goes for every subculture.

There are bad people in any large community. They need to be stomped out, but unless the community is branding themselves at large using those bad people, you can’t exactly judge the whole community for it.

Last time I made a post like this, people anonymously sent me detailed descriptions of certain traumas they suffered by people into the furry community. The kind of people who ask for TW tags but who apparently don’t see me as a person and feel they can send me graphic content at will.

And let’s not forget when there was a gas attack at that furry convention, an attempt to kill people, and the SAME people who dress up and go to anime conventions and comic cons were reblogging the headline like it was a joke.

IDK. I figure I’ll be attacked similarly for this again, but I think it’s just sorta tired and weird how immediately and negatively people react to furries still in 2019?

Especially when they’re all also fans of stuff they’ve been bullied for. It’s sad and boring. Get a hobby other than being mean to randos on the internet who genuinely do not deserve your ire.

[realnuisancealligator]

you know what this has 100% reshaped my opinion on furries and i thank you

[bounemr]

i’m playing nekojishi and let me just say i am a wreck this game has hurt my very soul like… kulau… kulau please

[noviraine]

A white tiger focuses on his inner self!

Tools used: - Wacom Cintiq 12WX - Photoshop CC 2018

[angiewolf]

[maddogvii]

Inktober day 4~

[mothsprout]

Lonely but not with you 💫

[keilah87]

Johny - Koul

[furrypost-generator]

[angiewolf]

[anthro-heaven]

Pierce The Skies by KatieHofgard

[salanchu]

for The-sleeping-Fox

[muramurichan-blog]

SFW commission I finished for Eezo-the-Dragon (FA), but really wanted to share it here as well!  Made it SFW by putting random group of fishes on the foreground. :D

[nordyfox]

WUSFEN - by thanshuhai

[angiewolf]

[animal-shapes-old]

Sleepy head.

21 October 2017