In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.
In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.
Furry Fandom:
How we represent ourselves as a fandom.
Some groups want the fandom to be more clean and family friendly. Some want it to remain weird and not always as family friendly as it currently is.
Some are more okay with using things like cheap plastic animal masks as bases for fursuit heads. Some people don’t want that type of stuff and would rather see bases be either hand made or use something like a sports helmet or mask to build the base around.
Some are okay with us becoming more mainstream and companies like Netflix taking a little more interest in us. Others want corporations to stay away from us.
As for me, you can guess my stance just by the fact of me being here on Lemmy. I’d rather see a base use something not quite as corporate as a cheap plastic junk mask as a base. I would also rather keep our fandom a little less sanitized and more weird to keep the corpos from coming in and turning our fandom into a heavily censored industry.
You need to chlroinate those who want it to be “family friendly”
Its sex and fetishes, leave the fuckin’ kids out of it.
Someone I went to school with came out as a furry and got heavily involved in the fandom, to the point of helping to organize one of the biggest furry conventions in Europe, but he insisted it wasn’t a sexual or fetish thing.
About five years later, he’s founded a company that makes high quality dragon, werewolf and other bestial dildos.
Lol. Doesn’t surprise me going from “it’s not sexual” to making those products. I’ve gone down a similar rabbit hole, but instead I just consume pretty vanilla yiff art. Major departure from who I was even a few years back.
Yea don’t try be family friendly you know those peoples real intentions.
Yea, fuck the corpos. The fandom is perfectly good the way it is. I’d prefer more interest (and suiting) for therians tbh. The realistic side of fursuits that is. SUITS THAT DON’T LOOK UNCANNY.
I was going to say, weird and family friendly please. Acceptable for families but not advertisers sounds wonderful. It’s why we keep our local perverts around.
Would be nice to not represent furries as just a kink. That is missing the point.