(As always, my words are my own and do not represent the opinions of others).
Furries, creatures of unknown origin. Where they born as humans and somehow morphed into animal-like beings over the years? Or did they just suddenly decide to put on a fur suit to hide from their own insecurities as a human? Who knows.
I personally, have absolutely no problem with furries (being a scalie myself). But what I do have a problem with, is they rarely (if ever) act like who their dressed as. They tend to act like a normal human, which just gets under my scales for some odd reason.
This mainly brings me to what’s been happening on the MRT. Since this isn’t game-related, I found it fitting for it to be in here. But this also isn’t just the MRT. It’s also what I’ve seen of Youtube.
Take Vulpicula for example. He says his name is German or something for ‘Fox’, yet he isn’t going around trying to dig holes or run from the sound of a horn(or ‘Yiffing’). Instead, he’s a game developer and an overall great guy to talk with. He uses nearly the same kind of capital letter and pronunciation that I use (if not better).
Yet again, he refuses to act like the suit he’s wearing. And one time I swear he seemed like he didn’t even want to be a furry (yet he still logs in with the same emotionless fox suit). Quite an odd fellow.
And of course I can’t forget someone who has been slightly bugging me that their animal status is better than mine. It’s bad enough when you have an animal as your skin(and not act like it), but then have the animal’s name as your last name. Aka, CortesiRaccoon. He has even gone past that to show a rather (in my opinion) disturbing avatar on Discord of being in a Raccoon suit who is in a ‘welcoming’ pose.
And he, like Vul, completely ignores being in a suit and acts like a normal human. Lately he’s changed his avatar to look something like a blue dog in heat, leaning on a fence post.
That’s just..ugh. But what bugs me very much of his ‘status’ as a Mod when I’m a lonely Mayor (when dragons are much more powerful than a raccoon), is in the past, this is the same guy who drove me insane with WorldEdit requests when I was a Mod. Though back then, he was just known as “Cortesi” (he’s also no longer a Mod).
Don’t get me wrong, Cortesi’s a nice guy to talk to. Though I just wish he’d drop the “Raccoon” in his name.
But the biggest (and I have to say my words very carefully here) ‘insult’ to dragon-kind has to go to Aavak (who as I mentioned several times has a Youtube channel). But this isn’t just Aavak, but several other Youtubers who use furry or dragon avatars (one of them being IGP’s friend, WeaselZone). Hardly any one of them want to act like the avatar they have picked for their channel. And I’m really curious as to know why.
Why pick that avatar if you don’t wish to be like that avatar?
Now I know what you guys must be saying “Dude, grow up! Ever thought that they don’t want to act like the animal they picked is because it’s embarrassing?!” And you would be right. But why even be in a suit at all if they don’t wish to be embarrassed?
And of course your response would be “Because they like that animal? There’s nothing wrong with that.”
Well tell that to my 10 year old brain who thinks it is something wrong with that. I mean I get the whole want to be ‘born’ as a chosen animal, but there’s really no need to be embarrassed by it! If you want to be a fox, go ahead! If you want to be a dragon, go ahead! But I expect you to act like the animal you choose!
And I guess this is what furries are actually.. against? But actually I think I know, and Zootopia has probably given the answer to me. And it’s wasn’t the “Try Everything” song (which still makes me bust out laughing when CinemaSins got ahold of it).
The moral of that movie was mainly not to discriminate predator from prey (aka what’s currently going on IRL with whites discriminating against blacks).
But this isn’t exactly the point. The point, is even though you’re a fox, you’re not expected to be digging holes and stuff like that. You can act just like a normal human would, but as an animal. You’ve moved on from your animalistic ways and adopted the human life.
So really, that’s why furries don’t act like their animal counterparts. They have evolved from it. Not because it’s ’embarrassing’, but because it’s just not worth going back to those ‘dark’ days.
And that pretty much puts the blame on me and others that feel like they do need to act like their animal counterparts. As that’s mainly because how mainstream media has portrayed animals who speak human words in the past. This is how we were grown up into, that animal-like humans (capable of human speech) actually do act like their primitive brothers and sisters. And all the sudden, they aren’t.
It’s a shock to the system, and hard to comprehend.. especially for me.