#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

[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 💙

[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

[theladyfae]

,, oh hell no

[amieblogs]

[kuzapanda]

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

[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

[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]

💖 💻 💭 🍰

💖 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

[zelkwin]

I learned that NYC garbagemen call maggots Disco rice and was immediately struck with an inescapable urge to make a garbage boy possum fursuit going by Disco Rice. He's wearing a crop leather vest and cargo chaps.

I don't usually do backgrounds and I played with the color in response to light, something I need to practice, and I'm quite pleased with how this came out. I haven't been drawing much lately and while I haven't improved much, I also haven't backslid like I feared I would. It just felt so good to finish something and feel proud of it for the first time in a long time and I've been on a dopamine high all day.

Enjoy my trash fursoña!

[birdghost]

This year was good for me actually let me try to remember anything that happened uhhh i’ll look in my google calendar to help me

started a job that effectively doubled the salary i had 2 years prior

had a great year living with my jeb and we’ve learned how to cook a lot more stuff together!

stayed relatively consistent with gym attendance

Successfully completed a pin kickstarter with my friends

bought a cool owl fursuit and attended 4 furry cons

Did artist alley for the first time at 2 cons and paid for my entire trip to chicago with money I made at MFF

Met a lot of cool new friends

visited friends all over, in NYC a few times, in DC a few times, and even went to Canada for the first time ever

Got 2 acrylic paintings in an art show, did an art class

Updated my address and got my passport

Saw MBMBAM 3 times, Iron & Wine with Calexico, David Sedaris, Philly Flower Show, Carbon Leaf, and Hozier

Goals for 2020? hmm im kinda spitballin here but:

Art Stuff:

Go to more conventions, take more commissions

improve art of all types especially both my anthro style and realism in watercolor and acrylics, get more art into shows.

Do another pin kickstarter

Do an art show with my mom

Get in better shape (signed up for the transformation challenge at my gym!!)

Get better about food waste, use all the veggies i get from the farm and volunteer on the farm more

volunteer at more tree plantings 

Travel somewhere i’ve never gone before

Use my camera more

Save x amount of money for a future house downpayment

yeah!!!