#fursuiting in nyc

[catboyriot]

Happy Fursuit Friday 🚕 I had the pleasure of visiting New York last week and I had so much fun! It's an awesome city and I hope to go back soon!!!

[tumble-tv]

NYC Comic Con 2024!

This was my first time going on Saturday, as I've usually gone on Sundays due to work. I had an absolutely fantastic time, and can't wait until next year!

[turtle-loving-enby]

TMNT dashboard simulator

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🍞deliveryguy-5879 Follow

I just had to deliver a pizza to a fucking? Sewer??? And some weirdass green guy picked it up???? NYC is so fucking weird wtf

#he tipped tho so it was fine ig #adventures in delivery

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🌌 stellar-space-warrior Follow

Heads up if you're moving to/recently moved to New York:

If you see someone in what looks like a fursuit commiting crimes, slowly back away. Do not approach them. It's not a fursuit. Some weird green guys will show up and handle it. Ignore it and try to forget.

🖼 heck-yeah-jupiter-jim Follow

I know this sounds like a shitpost but trust me it is not. New York literally is just like that.

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🤖lou-jitsu-fanboy-deactivated

There is this super large glowing insect in my room. Should I be worried??

🐉literally-justsomeguy Follow

Hey, OP? OP???

🎹definitely-not-a-mutant Follow

I'm sure he's fine

☢doodle-master Follow

That insect fucking killed him

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🎁blue-dabadeedabadie Follow

Are you from New York, and have you seen the weird turtle guys?

🌳connecticut-clark-irl Follow

What the fuck is going on in New York????

🦁lesbian-red-fox Follow

There's turtle guys there, I sometimes see them on random rooftops

Don't worry about it, I think they're cool

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🎶bootyshaker9000 Follow

HOLY SHIT I FOUND URANIUM!!!

🎵shelllllllldon Follow

On tumblr in 2023? You're literally so lame dad

🔔bruh-man Follow

"Dad"? Isn't OP like 15???

🤠jj-fan-no-1 Follow

should I be worried donnie?

🎶bootyshaker9000 Follow

It's literally fine

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[marleemutt]

i was invited by a group of local furries to fursuit in the big nyc halloween parade with them and while i was excited at first!! i remembered that my coworker said she would be going to the parade and now im nervous about running into her around furries/with a fursuit *___*

[cutemeat]

i had a dream that catherine showed up to the nyc sunny liveshow fully in her bastet fursuit....some dreams cannot be

[panareczek]

I've been saying that for AGESSSS

Tbh it seems like the later the movie, the creators were more and more forgetful about a certain rule established in the first movie - we are watching the world through the animals' perspective!!

In the first Madagascar, the main four (plus the apes and the penguins) think they are equal to humans because the zoo was the only place they knew of. Because they were pampered there and just were surrounded by humans all the time they started copying some of their behaviors (for example the phone scene, or just the fact that Marty thought it would be normal for him to wander around NYC and take a subway - that's what humans do, right?)

BUT! They are still written to be animals - they have instincts, don't understand how tech works (ex. melman eating the toilet rim block), don't do any sci fi supernatural things - the biggest stunt alex can do is to climb on a rock and roar - and they are treated like animals by people, humans in the movie don't expect that alwx will understand what they are saying (despite the fact that he does understand) because we, in real life, don't expect a lion to understand us, right?

In the later movies, especially mada3 and penguin movie, the writers completely forgot about this and anthropomorphized the animals a little too much!!!! Now they suddenly have an idea on how to manage a circus (YES i know penguin randomness, but in the first movie they were digging a tunnel with a spoon and didn't have an idea that the antarctic is THAT cold), have some futuristic tech and seem more advanced than humans????

The sheer idea of the North wind breaks this rule on so many levels 😭😭😭 They are just humans in fursuits, none of the animal qualities are there!!! Where did they get this tech?? Are they with the government?? if yes, how can they communicate?? Why does this superadvanced organization exist along with regular zoo animals????? They eat human food, use human weapons and human vehicles -3-

And the Mada3 Firework scene.... I love it visually, but...... How come people treat it as a really good, but "regular" circus show (they treat it like it's kindaaa a reasonable thing for animals to do these type of stunts?? idk how to explain it, none of the people is horrified that someone has hung up those poor horses under the ceiling, but they are just amazed like "Whoa the horses are pretending to fly how amazing!!")

And it's funny that despite animals apparently being able to do stunts in nitro rollerblades and tnt cannons people STILL go nuts when Alex does a roar on a rock >w<""

I won't be talking about the shows because they go really on and off with that rule there - in the first TPOM season, penguins don't know how popcorn is made and think that the rooftop is the moon, season 3 comes and they're fighting world destroying demons with a magical sword :P

Ok, so I have a MASSIVE nitpick about the Madagascar universe that I want to fucking address and this seems to be the best way to do it.

In AHKJ and TPOM, it is shown that the humans cannot understand what the animals are saying. For example, that one AHKJ episode where KJ and the gang get “abducted” to a research station to find Hector’s mom.

BUT in the Penguin’s movie, Dave is shown to be able to communicate with humans perfectly fine. Yes, I know he has a “human disguise” but it’s really just camouflage with some extra bits like clothing and a wig to make him look more human. Meaning by the universe logic, the humans should not be able to understand him.

Now, I know the shows and the movies take place in a separate canon, but even looking back to the first Madagascar movie, Alex made an attempt to call 911 only for the human on the other end to hear a lion roaring. Mind you, same timeline as the POM movie.

Cutting back to AHKJ for a moment here, the mutant mango episode had Timo desperately trying to get on the phone with the fertilizer company. And while it did take him a bit, he did get in contact with someone WHO HEARD HIM LOUD AND CLEAR. A presumably human owned company, heard a tenrec being able to speak perfect English. The same canon where lemurs can’t be heard talking.

Soooo…which is it? Can the humans understand them? Or can’t they? Can they only understand certain animals but not others? Are Dave and Timo just gifted or something? I got to know.

[windsail]

so last night on the bus home from nyc there was someone wearing a Howl Out shirt and mask and then today there were several fursuits at NJ pride. I'm always like :o when I see other furries out in the wild, it's a fun surprise.

[likeadog]

this one commissioner hasnt responded to my 5 day old dm saying he hasnt paid the part one payment and asking if he wants to put it on reserve...who fucking raised you dude i SEE you active in the server we’re both in

[ales-ttv-faleures]

Animal-American - animals with human-level consciousness who walk on two legs and wear clothes and are essentially photorealistic fursuiters without another person inside. lots of prejudice toward them

feral - animal without human-level consciousness who walk on four legs, who either live in the wilderness or in a person’s home. Occasionally used as a slur toward Animal-Americans, typically angry ones. some people arent offended by it some are

Non-Pet - Animal-Americans who aren’t animal types you could justifiably have in your home

Pet - Animal-Americans who are animal types you could justifiably have in your home

NYC’s Dog-Run Branch of Underground Mafia - isn’t actually as big as Biggie says it is it’s just Taps & Riff in their gang under their tree

Zoos - “Animal-specific jails.”

Cabbage - Underdog’s ringtone

Ringside - an “alringsidesdes” bar

Ringside (2: Electric Stickaloo) - the event wherein Scotty got shot and Tubby got his arm broke

stick-up - an act of chaos with guns without intent to cause major harm

shooting - an act of chaos with gun with intent to cause major harm

Megapolis & Capitol - two zoos in NYC and Brooklyn

TTV (Total TeleVision) - Polly’s news studio

Megapolis Stick-Up - the event where Megapolis Zoo got raided, freeing the inhabitants. Was a stick-up until police got involved.

FREE MEGAPOLiS - commonly graffiti’d thing by angry pet animal-americans

Animal Control - either a service meant for keeping rabid/angry/feral feral animals, or a specific police force meant for tracking and kidnapping innocent non-pet animal americans for zoos. sometimes they kill people rather than putting them in zoos.

can you talk abt some of the Underdog2018 terms and what they mean?

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[theladyfae]

,, oh hell no

[amieblogs]

[tumble-tv]

When I was at comic con a few weeks ago a lot of people asked for my Instagram, as I was in my fursuit and they wanted to follow me. I didn't want to give out my personal Instagram, which is my only one besides my Etsy shop's account, so I was giving out my Tumblr. The amount of people who said, word for word, "I guess I need to log back into my Tumblr to follow you" is insane

[kuzapanda]

New York City was a beautiful place to visit while I was on tour. Have a picture of when I visited Times Square!

[nicksfurry]

Hi there! I’m Atlas, a starry sparkledog from NYC! I’m a fursuiter, an artist, and occasionally a tiktoker. Hope you have a great day 💙

[bread-tab]

i saw The Batman (2022) in theaters last week. went in with low expectations. loved it. had an existential crisis afterward :)

(putting a read more here because spoilers, megalomaniacal ranting, etc.)

it's a very pretty movie with a lot of cinematic artistry (that scene with the flare? omg). they unapologetically made Gotham a parody of dark 20th century NYC where it's constantly raining while somehow making 21st century culture and technology fit seamlessly into the picture and i want to live there please (the city of my dreams). they explored some deep, relevant themes without getting anvilicious. the character writing and acting were great; lots of chemistry, arcs and conflicts that made sense. fun. ridiculous. took itself seriously despite the absurdity, but not *too* seriously.

the pacing of the movie was a little funky (third act was all over the place, idk if the whole thing even *fits* a traditional 3-act structure) but i don't care because they've created a Batman who is enough of an insane, badass weirdo that for the first time, i can almost believe the whole "i am vengeance, i am the night, i beat up criminals in my armored fursuit" shtick could work in real life and be taken seriously. and at the same time they made Bruce Wayne a scrunkly emo disaster nerd who was raised by an ex-spy butler and it shows. peak interpretation of the character. and Jim Gordon in this movie is my favorite person in the universe and their friendship is perfection incarnate.

this was a good movie. i loved it. and i DEEPLY regret having seen it.

i have been thinking about it and reading a ton of Batman, Batfam, and Justice League fanfiction all week and getting sucked into batblorbo hell. this is how i consume media. but in the midst of that process i realized...

i did *not* need to see Batman as a depressed autistic millennial with a bizarre, idealistic life mission he hyperfixates on at night instead of sleeping

do you know how much effort i have to put in daily to *not do that*???

ffs

i did not need those tendencies validated

BATMAN IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE RELATABLE

and the deeper into the rabbit hole (batcave) of Bat-content i go the more i realize that he's been like this all along and i've been narrowly dodging this fate for a solid decade. i only escaped this when i got into superhero stories in 2011 because i imprinted on Martian Manhunter instead. (my underappreciated green son <3)

unfortunately, i too am the sort of person who, under the right circumstances, would try to solve the world's problems by dressing up in a ridiculous costume and fighting crime at 3 a.m. while having a dramatic inner monologue about justice. (especially if i had kept up with my martial arts lessons when i was 19. good grief. i guess there's a bright side to failing at that.) i, too, would be physically unable to stop myself from adopting half a dozen orphans, hiding them under my cape, and allowing them to live out their incredibly weird aspirations. (heck i would do that right now if i actually had money and my own house and wasn't quite so depressed)

one time i was discussing my struggles with mental illness with my dad and mentioned that i have no idea what my life would be like now if i hadn't had his and mom's support growing up. i have no idea where i'd be. i might be dead. but on the other hand—what i have not told my dad is—i'm also extremely stubborn, have a very strong will to survive, and spent my entire childhood really wanting to get into a righteous fistfight with someone who deserved it and being disappointed when the opportunity never presented itself. i could...genuinely...have decided to become some sort of ridiculous costumed vigilante, given the means. (so this being real life that's two points toward ending up dead.)

and um. even though i do have parents and am aware that this is real life. i refuse to admit how many times (and until what age) i still put *real consideration* into what it would take to be some sort of freelance private eye/vigilante/inventor/actual magician in real life. (physically and, you know, *legally.*)

so...with that context...

there is a part of me that is very grounded and realistic and cynical. does anything i do really make a difference? if i push myself to my limits, get better, and try to make the world a better place, will it mean anything? there's a lot of shame, despair, and self-loathing in there. this is the part of me that is depressed.

there is also a part of me which is stubborn, brazenly honest and weird and unyieldingly hopeful. if there is light in the darkness, i will find it. if there is none, i will make it. i will *become* it. creativity, determination, empowerment. that is the core of who i really am.

demon on my left shoulder. angel on my right.

there are two wolves inside you and the one thing they agree on is BOTH OF THEM REALLY WANT TO BE THE FUCKING BATMAN

*head in hands*

boy. you are broke. you have the upper-body strength of dry spaghetti. you *know* there is no one you can punch to solve crime, poverty, or world hunger. you know the dramatic angsty way of doing things is, above all other considerations, inefficient. you KNOW that your best shot at making the kind of difference you want is to drag yourself back to college and become a social worker, run for some form of public office or other leadership position, and/or get involved in one or more mutual aid/activist/charity movements. All of which require leaving the house IN THE DAYTIME and developing fucking social skills!

...god it would be so much easier to be batman.

(and that's why bruce wayne is relatable, thank you for coming to my TED talk)

so yeah i have no idea to explain all that nonsense to my therapist, but on the bright side, i have a great new way to motivate myself.

"what would Batman do in this situation?"

"..." *sigh* "he'd get up and fold the goddamn laundry."

(except when it backfires)

"in this situation Batman would stay up all night and investigate!"

"NO."

[shield-sheafson]

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💖 What do you like most about your own writing?

For my current writing, I think I'm good at showing characters as multidimensional.

💻 Do you do research for your fics? What’s the deepest dive you’ve done?

Do I ever research! I mapped out a route from NYC to Deschutes National Forest, complete with driving time and time spent resting. That's why the the times are always stated before the sections in A Bone to Pick! I was just trying to keep the timeline straight and remember who was where.

💭 What is a headcanon you have about your own work?

I'm not totally sure what this means, but I believe: Dog Suit Jenny, who appeared briefly in Stories With Missing Pages, eventually climbed to the top of NY's organized crime world, wearing her fursuit the entire time. Shannon, who appeared in Kiss Me Like Your Boyfriend as the student whose crush Terry indulged to a very inappropriate extent, eventually got a PhD in history, despite her papers being doozies. In my abandoned post-apocalyptic AU, the members of mercenary armies tattoo each other, partially for unity and partially so they can easily identify and kill deserters.

🍰 Name one of your fave comfort fics (doesn’t have to be your all time fave).

Iron, Fire, Mirror Glass by PurpleSoot is a Batman fic where Robin is a creepy little fairy entity that Bruce makes a deal with. I've reread it a few times, and it cheered me up when I was in the hospital.

Also, as a guilty pleasure I like to read cliche Batfam fluff, complete with BatCat and kid versions (I don't like Bruce to be too understanding, though. Giving him the ability to process emotions feels TOO ooc even for cutesy stuff). Just the most embarrassing stuff. I'm looking through my bookmarks from like 2016 and yes I'm embarrassed but what can I say. Don't read as much now as then, but I'll defend my past self's bad decisions