#the fursuit. i kinda get

[lover-of-skellies]

AliExpress,,, what are you trying to sell me and why

[fuckinart]

contemplating the logistics of eating nasty burger while stuck in a fursuit

[piosplayhouse]

Beef , of leaf

[snubbullls]

Bathroom light my detested, it makes the red accents on his face look brownish orange

[astralarias]

I have become BNUUY

[eelproficiency]

gettin clean

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than wheat

You're more amazing than job applications

[jonny-b-meowborn]

Okay I've been thinking about the lil cute therian fic I've been writing, and I think I know how I wanna end it and it's like. Very much self indulgent not really accurate to the mechanisms canon and way too cute but the thing is I can do whatever I want forever so I think Im gonna do it (I'm only like idk 1/3 done tho so don't get too excited fjdnfjndn)

[gemharvest]

Man it's never not funny to me when someone has *the* most textbook furry artstyle & interests and refuses to be called a furry. Like I respect if there's a distinction to you that makes you feel like you don't fit as a furry, but when you talk about wanting community things* like fursuits c'monnnnnnnnnn.....

*clarification: non-furries can be interested in fursuits, it's a cool craft, refer to my notes for why I worded it like this

[yourcomputerr]

tbh i kimda wish the brony fandom was still booming bc i would have made so much off custom mlp plushies

[trans-leek-cookie]

yknow I only ever really hear Abt furries wearing their own fursuits. Do ppl ever borrow their friends suits just to try on or is it like, not really smthn ppl do?

[justmewondering56]

[mochaclaws]

Terrarium holy moly (another photo of the premade I’m selling lol)

[yourfriendphoenix]

If I could I would literally do nothing but listen to a random assortment of MCYTers that I enjoy and 1 hour+ videos on inconsequential topics while working on projects fr

[directdogman]

Stupid question, but it's leaving me sleepless, for some reason.

Assuming furries exist in the dialtown universe, would they have the same head as animals in dialtown do? Or would they be based off animals head pre-dial-up? Antique style, I guess.

My assumption is that object heads would be the norm since they'd likely be easier to spoof (and could even double as a socially acceptable way to appear more like your fursona in daily life), but there'd almost certainly be a split in people's preference due to a cultural quirk caused by one of the Dialup's intended psychological effects.

Crown wanted to blur the visual boundary between humans and animals in order to hopefully incite humans to care more about the various species. While one way to do this was to give animals unique niches/functions (which many do not perform at all usefully, as reality isn't written like an episode of the Flintstones), another key aspect of the change was to make humans care more by making animals look more like people - and vice versa. People care about what they can intrinsically relate to (and of course, see themselves in.)

This idea didn't really pan out on any level.

Anyway, this is where we get into the psychological nuance caused by this shift and why either design might be preferable.

Wearing an object head that matches your fursona's species, assuming you want to be seen as an anthropomorphic animal in DT's universe is certainly one way of going about it. Hell, you could literally swap your original head's casing out for a reworked replacement outer layer of whatever your animal OC's head is, and it'd look exactly like the animal you're basing it off. Imagine if you could buy a blinking/hyperreactive fursuit head in our reality that looked 100% like an actual fox's face. I'm sure there's people out there who'd want one.

...However, that brings up a question: What if someone didn't want to look like an actual animal? Most fursuits don't aim to be truly photo-realistic of course and instead go for something more stylized. Flesh head designs could be the equivalent of this since it's something you can't encounter in the wild in any form.

Ironically, I could also imagine a small minority of people who want their designs to be more animalistic taking this approach too, since like I said, the Dialup made humans and animals look more similar. By creating something that appears fundamentally organic around a normally inorganic head, you would look less human in DT's world - and by proxy, more like an animal.

Finally, worth noting: I'd have to imagine that there's also a lot of zoology nerds who have an interest in pre-Dialup biology and would thus want it depicted in their designs. Y'know, kinda like how people make fursuits of extinct animals like saber-tooth tigers. A lot of furries are zoology enthusiasts and I have to imagine finding out at some point in your early life that EVERY animal had bizarrely different designs just a few generations ago would be something people would wanna get artistic millage out of.

Hope this helps!

[defectivegembrain]

For some reason you can kinda see the outline of Troy's character development with regards to being himself and being close to Abed particularly well in halloween episodes? Like first time he's very concerned with his appearance, but comforted by Abed. They go with separate costumes for the first and only time, but gravitate towards each other immediately.

Second season, well Epidemiology is huge for him, he's the star. He starts out doing a nerdy themed costume with Abed, but goes through some insecurity and starts listening to Jeff about image (always a grave mistake). Then in the crisis he realises how little that matters and how much he cares about people, especially Abed. He forgets what happened but the lesson seems to stick, this is kind of the last time we see him get this concerned about seeming cool.

Third season he's literally just. Showing up in costume with Abed but it's not even something they put on especially, they were just dressed like that, and they're proud of it. Going along with Abed humming Daybreak. Making his story all about them. They're just vibing the whole time.

Fourth season, another deliberate joint costume, the dorkiest thing ever and something he mentioned liking in season one. And not a hint of shame about what is essentially a fursuit. Going round being ridiculously sweet and not listening to Jeff's cynicism (even though he's kinda right I still admire the kindness). The only times he seems insecure are when his relationship with Britta is brought up. He seems like inches from coming out tbh, if the writers weren't cowards- *gets dragged away*