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I think anyone would go through SHOCK, FEAR and OUTRAGE when you know a site is nailing your hide to the wall and you really can’t understand why. Then something hit me on my way home from work yesterday…how dumb this really is. Think about it, the 4 videos, the post and the 100+ comments over just 1 comment that I did not allow. I really found myself laughing out loud.

It is really the silliest thing I ever saw and I have seen some really dumb stuff in my life.

Let me answer his criticisms

Why do I limit comments?

One word SPAM originally, now include trolls. Honestly I get so few comments that aren’t done by bots. It makes more sense to me to approve everything. Besides they are just comments, not the bill of rights.

Why the limit on how long you can actually post a comment?
For the very same reason as above, for 2 years I opened my blog to anyone who wanted to make a comment. Everyday I would find myself deleting spam once I went beyond 50 in one day that is when I imposed the limit.

By limiting comments do I limit FREE SPEECH?
There is a fine line between free speech and hate and I do my best to weed out the hate. Over the years I have gotten some really insane comments. So basically I allow comments that are positive, have a valid counter view, or add to the discussion. Insulting me, this site or any author who I can beg to post something here will not be approved. In other words hate is a no, disagree post someone where on social media I could use the views.

So why was Perri Prinz’s article changed?
A question no one has asked me or Perri Prinz. I had permission of the author, and I got messages and I want to make this very clear (2) TWO people, 1+1=2. One was a friend of the author who didn’t not want their name mentioned, and later the author agreed. The other a mod, a person who actually ID’ed themselves as a mod for flayrah threatened me with a C&D if I didn’t take Flayrah’s name off of the article. What choice did I have.

Besides how many of you have posted a comment somewhere and frankly not even thought twice about it later. I would very much doubt if any of you can remember the 2nd to last comment you ever made. I can’t I doubt if anyone reading this can. It’s just something we throw at someone and hopes it sticks.

Not this Sonious it seems they never can let anything go. I found his YouTube channel yesterday, and checked out a couple of the vids. All I saw was someone who has a really difficult time letting things go. Meanwhile while watching these, I thought that this person must be a nightmare to be one of their neighbors. One of those neighbor’s from Hell.

I fully admit acting like a kid with all the troubles recently. But at least I have an excuse I am recovering from a concussion, unlike the other parties involved. It took Perri Prinz latest article before I even saw it myself. I want to openly apologize to my readers for my behaviour, and give a chance to explain certain factors. Also my reasons behind them, like how do I choose to which comments to actually post. I admit I don’t take criticism all that well. But not treating someone with respect is an even bigger issue with me. I don’t like being belittled or sworn at. In fact no one does, and someone constantly obsessing on something I said say on Facebook, Twitter or even YouTube has no place here…in other words Trolling is not allowed. I was also bullied as a child, and let me tell you that does effect you as an adult. Per the reason I will never return to certain sites. I am also a strong believer in the truth, as some of you might find that hard to believe. Unlike others I will admit my mistakes, and then move on. In fact this year alone I have corrected too many issues to mention here. But the truth is the truth, if someone is having legal issues they should say they are and move on. Not just hide it than play a game of denial afterwards.

In the interest of being unbiased, I think it is time I wrote something negative about the Furry Fandom, or just fandoms in general, since I don’t see anything real that sets the Furry Fandom apart from other fandoms I’ve been in.

The people who are actively involved in any particular fandom will, of course, look at it through rose colored glasses and think it’s just the most wonderful thing they’ve ever experienced, and if only the rest of the world could be like this, world peace could be achieved. This, even as bricks of the most incredible asinine drama are flying about their heads.

Yes, being in a fandom is a bit like being in a cult. It involves a good bit of brainwashing and screwing around with the logic of one’s core beliefs. This is why fans of anything tend to appear bats—t insane to anyone who is not in a fandom, or even someone who is in a different fandom operating under a different set of screwed up core beliefs.

Not that it’s always a bad thing to screw with your core beliefs. Reality doesn’t offer much to live for or get excited about. Indeed, even people who are obsessed by the idea of reality have to join cults to screw with their core beliefs. Else the constant dwelling on a reality that is never going anywhere good would depress them to death. And these more common cults of thought fall under the categories of politics, religions and philosophies – all of which are designed to make you see something that isn’t there in order that life might continue to seem worth living.

Considering how badly religious and political cults can screw you up, getting into a fandom cult might seem a pleasant and benign alternative. It basically sets you to believing you’ve got this big family of wonderful people who are all drawn together by a shared interest in one thing. But even that’s a lie, because interests, interpretations and resulting beliefs tend to vary widely within any given fandom, making the political landscape of a fandom just as diverse, divided and antagonistic as any other political or religious arena.

This reality, as it applies to Anime Fandom, is well reflected in the episode of “Martian Successor Nadesico” where the protagonist is confronted with the reality that not everyone believes the point of Anime is to inspire a deeply held belief in love, justice, honor and heroism. Rather, those in power, who also worship Anime, see it as inspiring an imperialistic right to conquest, the joy of blowing things up, and just in general being total murderous bastards.

A similar revelation fell upon me towards the end of my own stay in Anime Fandom. Not that people hadn’t been trying to tell me all along, in any nasty, unfriendly and otherwise hostile manner they could come up with, but it finally started to sink in that the core beliefs I had developed around Anime were not shared by a hell of a lot of Anime fans, and that wonderful, magical world of acceptance and tolerance I was always harping on existed exclusively in my head. While the reality that swarmed around me, propelled into my awareness by the advent of 4chan, revealed the cult breaking truth that I was in fact surrounded on all sides by intolerant idiots of nasty disposition who got off on violence and trolling people in other communities; particularly The Furry Community.

During my early days in The Furry Community I would encounter these people, trolling and putting down Furries as degenerates, and I was like, “I’ve been in your fandom. I know all about your shelf of Hentai child porn doujinshi and your rape simulation video games. Furry Yiff is tame compared to what you do.” And they would come back with statements to the effect of, “Yiff is unrighteous and unclean. How dare you compare such things to our pure and beautiful Japanese smut?”

This would be funny if they weren’t serious as all hell. They’re so screwed in the head they think they ought to be able to order child porn from Japan, through the mail, which is totally illegal, and not get arrested when the customs officer opens their package and totally freaks out. Yes, crap like that happens in that fandom, because they are under the influence of a cult that leaves them with no perspective on reality.

But are Furries any better off? Of course not. Furries do the same stuff in their own way. They get stoked on this totally false belief in a community that is tolerant and accepting to such an extent that they should be able to display their most private and off the wall fetishes in public with pride, and not expect to get any backlash for it. And even when they get boatloads of flack for it, the core belief is not shaken that the community not only supports what they do, but it also has some kind of obligation to share the stigma for it.

This, of course, has had Furries at each others throats practically from the beginning of the community. And still you get people like The Furry Raiders turning up speaking longingly of the good old days when the fandom was accepting and tolerant, and everyone was nice, and it was just this paradise where everything was perfect. I hate to burst anybody’s bubble, but that was never a reality. The history of this community is of non-stop drama, hatred, rebellion and mockery of off the scales insanity, as exemplified by such LOL Community stars as Crusader Cat and Insane Kangaroo.

It’s also a history where the people who go out of their way to do good for the community, like 2 Gryphon and Uncle Kage, end up being constantly vilified, probably because they are seen to be challenging some core beliefs about the fandom that are held by some, in complete disregard to the harm those beliefs do to others. Thus you have a fandom where you don’t dare try to be a hero, because people will automatically hate you for it.

At least if you’re a Crusader Cat you get laughs and are seen as part of the entertainment value of the community. But if you’re an Uncle Kage people just outright hate you, with no amusement factor at all. One person went to the trouble of making an entire movie, just to be a vehicle for spitting hate at Uncle Kage.

As for myself, from day one I’ve gotten hate from this community for being more into the entertainment aspect of anthropomorphics than the social aspect, for suggesting the development of programs that would help writers find illustrators, or to encourage Furry creators to consider the commercial potential of their talents, and to strive for higher goals.

Why are there furs who hate me for that? Because there are furs who have developed core beliefs to the effect that this is a cheap underground fandom that exists primarily to produce smut, that one can not be commercially successful and still be considered part of the fandom, that Furries are meant to be loathed by outsiders and therefore should embrace stigma rather than trying to rise above it, and above all, Furry is all about sex.

Such people hate folks like The Furry Raiders with a passion, because they hold to the idealistic acceptance and creative freedom core beliefs. And there-in is held the basic right and left of Furry politics. And when these two factions get together, the community becomes a virtual flame war zone. That’s how we got the Burned Fur situation. And it’s what’s fueling the current turmoil, with a little outside help from Anitfa, who know well that these political differences exist in all communities, and that all you need is a little drama to bring them together and get both sides going nuts with moral outrage as their core beliefs are threatened.

No need for black outfits and curb stomping. Just get one side calling the other Nazis, then sit back and watch the fun as we beat each other to death with words, until the entire community lies in ruins. All because we’re such a loving, accepting, tolerant, open-minded fandom. In a pig’s eye.

Fortunately, all this is easily avoided, as I eventually took to doing, by hanging out in closed environments like Second Life, where it is easy to join a small isolated island of furs who mostly agree with your core beliefs. But even in that situation I find my life is non-stop drama.

If it’s not forces from the degenerate left seeking to force their vices on the creative right (see Perri’s Xanadu vs. Peach Fuzz) it’s conspiracy theorists in the group coming to blows with the Relay For Life organizers, or something equally beyond the scope of rationality. Basically we’re all but family in my Second Life group, and we still can’t get along without the group moderators fielding a boatload of drama, assuming the mods themselves are not the instigators.

Which brings me to another bloody awful thing that tends to happen in fandoms, namely the biggest left wing nutcase ending up in charge of one of the key sites that influences core beliefs in the fandom. Yes, that is what has happened at Dogpatch Press. But there’s nothing at all unusual about this. That is pretty much what happened at Progressive Ears, which ended up ruining the entire Progressive Rock revival, because the moderates who didn’t want ungodly depressing music to dominate the scene weren’t allowed a voice. Neither were those who sought to set up some relatively sensible genre terminology, resulting in nobody being able to find the music they’re actually looking for because any genre term used in a review can mean literally anything.

But this is not new in Furry Fandom either. For years the fandom was overshadowed by sites like Crush, Yiff, Destroy and it’s still existing legacy site Vivisector, where you may expect to find a large congregation of the leftists in Furry politics, spitting ire at those of us who are actually out here trying to create good stuff for the benefit of the community, because they don’t think the community deserves good stuff. They think the fandom is a dirty joke that exists for nothing but fueling they’re contempt and their LOLs.

This is the reality of the fandom I’ve been dealing with for the last decade and a half. It can be beautiful. You can avoid message boards, you can handpick your friends, you can block the sourpusses who never have a nice word to say to you, and you can end up having such a good time with your friends that you end up thinking this fandom must be God’s paradise established on Earth. But that’s only happening in your little bubble of experience. It’s not the reality of the fandom as a whole. The reality is that there are, and always have been, some seriously nasty people here. Why do you think we need all these “Beware” sites? And these nasty people don’t care how they hurt you. They get off on it. They go on TV and cheerfully portray us all as sexual deviants who have sex in fursuits, never mind that most of us don’t even have fursuits.

We’ve got one right now who’s working to sensationalize us as a fandom of extremists who physically attack and murder each other. While yet another is planning to get another convention shut down by sending false accusations to the hotel and stirring up another storm of drama. Like Twitter isn’t already ablaze with hateful, intolerant Furries spitting out poison towards one group or another. And that’s the reality check everyone in the fandom is having to come to terms with at this moment.

Now, I should end this by saying what’s good about the fandom in spite of all this negativity. But, seriously, I’ve done a 10 page essay on what’s so great about anthropomorphic animals and the fandom there of, which a lot of people in this fandom have rejected and denounced. For every compliment I get on it I get five comments to the effect of “How dare you portray this fandom in such a positive light?”

I will just say that, in spite of all I have said above and all the negative experiences I neglected to include for space, I still love the anthropomorphic arts, I believe in its potential to express socially significant ideas, and I would not want to be creative in any other field.

I love all the friends I’ve made in the community. And I love experiencing the creativity of my fellow furs. In that sense, Furry Fandom is a wonderful thing to be a part of. It’s just not the ideal utopia we sometimes like to imagine. And part of the reason it isn’t is because so many of us get this idea in our heads that the fandom is how we dream it to be, and anyone who seems to be threatening or defacing that dream must be destroyed.

But in reality, there’s no paradise here to be lost. It’s just another fandom community that is only as good as the people within it can be bothered to make it. And if you’re busy hating somebody or trying to tear down a group of furs you’ve got some unreasoning prejudice against; if you go calling the police telling them this con is a Nazi con or that con is a pedo con, you’re not really helping to make it a better place.

What you need to do is just take a step back and realize that you’re dreaming. You’re in a cult, and your sense of reason is not subject to reality. So that bunch of furs whose Facebook group you can’t be bothered to join, or whose con panel you can’t be bothered to attend, might just possibly not be as bad as you’re thinking they are. And maybe it’s actually not worth causing an embarrassment that will reflect badly on every single member of the community just to get rid of them. Maybe, in a reality that exists beyond the scope of your rose colored glasses, you actually do owe it to those in the community that support and care for you to not be a hateful, thoughtless idiot.

This RMFC nonsense is making what use to be good sites down to the National Enquirer level. I admit I use to admire and sometimes borrow off pieces from other so-called furry news sites when I thought the piece was fair, and I did link to the original material. I mean original post not crediting a link to a link. Mine you this is despite being called “View Concuss” by some of them. Who never told me, despite me asking them countless times what numbers are YOU getting? The only reason I mention this, is the mess that is going on in the furry fandom and that is RMFC, 2 The Ranting Gryphon and let’s not forget the Furry Raiders…supposed killers of RMFC.

Normally all of these are important but they have been brought to a point beyond what even I could not imagine. Enough so it is turning what are good sites down to the level of tabloid journalism. Hey I got an excuse for the mistakes I make, and that is I am only 1 man. But these sites have actual staff who can check things out. I fully believe all of these sites and anything that has been said…is made up as they go on. I personally believe they are doing this so they can get the views. I actually invite anyone check out this site and see what I have been posting. Oh sure I made some mistakes but at least I am big enough to apologize for them, and not compound them. And at least I did ask, was anyone really there, and what really happened. Not like any of those sites. I have also not made post after post essentially saying the same thing over and over.

I have no respect for any of them.

Editor’s Note: The reason I don’t mention any of those sites by name, are because some have threatened legal action against me for ruining their reputation. Which to me is a laugh, considering their sites have been taken over by those who only want to make a name for themselves and nothing more. Without naming names just ask yourself 1 question, “Had you heard of any of these players before all of this started?” My guess the answer would be no and therefore you already answered my question.

This is the story of how I discovered something truly horrible had happened to Furry Fandom. It all started one day when I noticed a video on YouTube from 2 Gryphon making a statement about Anthrocon. And my mind instantly jumped to thoughts of some kind of terrorist attack having occurred at the con. Well, it did turn out to be a terrorist attack, but not of the nature I was imagining. So I looked at the video with dropped jaw. Here was the unflappable 2 Gryphon, all but in tears, saying goodbye to a convention he had become a regular feature of for over a decade. And I was thinking, “How can this be? Is he ill? Is he dying? He certainly doesn’t look well.” And then he revealed that he had been banned from the Anthrocon stage after having been accused of being a Nazi by Social Justice Warriors. And I was thinking, “This is some kind of joke. It’s an April Fool’s gag. This can’t possibly be real.” But apparently it was real.

So I did some Googling around and came up with an article called “Even Furries Are Fighting Fascists,” which basically states that a political organization called “Antifa” was setting up a branch in Furry Fandom in order to teach Furries how to react to Nazis with physical violence. And my reaction was at first to laugh. “Nazis flourishing in the most tolerant fandom Geekdom has yet produced? This has got to be a parody news article.”

But then came a second video from 2 Gryphon verifying that a group of Social Justice Warriors, stoked on this idea that Nazi’s existed in the fandom and they were justified in treating them as if they had no human rights, had indeed trolled one of the most successful performers in the fandom out of a job. So I looked around for some discussion on the subject and quickly learned that 2 had an enemy on the Anthrocon staff; an enemy named Xydexx. And Xydexx is someone I know from the past as a Burned Fur zealot and a troll. And I wondered, “What was Uncle Kage thinking putting that kind of power in the hands of such a historically notorious nutcase?”

But that couldn’t be all there was to it. Even a nut like Xydexx can’t troll somebody without ammunition. So I started looking for the videos that supposedly contained the unforgivable transgressions that had rendered 2 “Less than human.”

The main video being sited involved a group called “The Furry Raiders,” who were also being accused of being Nazis and being regarded as having no human rights. But the gist of 2’s video was that he couldn’t find any evidence to justify these accusations. And I wasn’t inclined to believe real Neo-Nazis in Furry Fandom was even a possibility. So I decided to do my own investigation.

Finding info on The Furry Raiders was not difficult. Finding anything connecting them to Nazis was. Evidence being used against them basically boiled down to a hand full of screen caps that seem shocking at first glance, until you realize that they contain no context for the statements. And if one has been dealing with trolls for any length of time one knows not to buy anything that is offered without context.

So I ended up watching hours and hours of Furry Raider videos, putting together the context of the screen caps, as well as the history of the group. I learned that the leader’s name, Foxler, is a mixture of Fox and Miller, rather than Fox and Hitler as detractors would have us believe, the Furry Raiders name is a Fallout reference, the focus of the group is tolerance and inclusion, and most significantly that the group is not only multiracial, the leader is a gay half Asian in a relationship with a black man. Thus the very idea that anyone could see something Nazi-like in all this is truly laughable. It’s pretty much the joke of the century.

But there-in lies the problem. The leader, Foxler, is not a great writer, and has serious problems explaining himself in print; particularly when constrained to the limits of a tweet. So his tweets come out reading “I hate blacks” when what he’s really trying to say is he hates the idea of human color distinctions. He sees everyone in the context of Furry, where all color distinctions cease to have meaning.

Not a complicated or at all uncommon sentiment in the fandom. But just because “I hate blacks” is part of his lead in to the concept, trolls insist that line is incontrovertible proof the man’s a racist, when the concept itself indicates he’s the exact opposite of a racist. Race means absolutely nothing to him. However, if you watch Foxler’s videos, you quickly come to understand that the inarticulate and seemingly shy impression his text based communications give off belies a bubbly and fun loving fur with an impish sense of humor. He knows all this Nazi stuff is a big joke, and he takes delight in leaving what he calls “Easter Eggs” for his trolls. But the humor is lost on the trolls, and they just become more insistent in their condemnation.

People watching from the outside world, including actual Neo-Nazis, have chimed in to say that they get the joke and are laughing their asses off. As the former Funny Animal Fandom, we’ve never been funnier. But, of course, on the Furry Fandom level, all drama is serious business. At the point where the actual Neo-Nazis wrote into Flayrah to praise our hilarious comedy show and explain in no uncertain terms why Foxler was not a Nazi, I thought the matter pretty well settled. After all, the joke was exposed. The thing should promptly die after that. Unfortunately, Foxler, The Furry Raiders and even 2 Gryphon had become the favored kick toys of too many mean spirited people who were not just going to let it go.

Then something even more unthinkable happened. The Antifa Furs killed RMFC through threats of violence, resulting in unmanageable security costs. This could well be regarded as the most successful troll attack in internet history, accomplished because of the air of legitimacy the Antifa Furs enjoyed as Nazi hunters, while wielding the suspiciously Nazi-like power to condemn and black-list anyone through guilt by association.

And then the inevitable coup de gras that completed this sinister Burned Fur war parody; the controversy made the mainstream press, and it was lights out for all the progress the Furry Community had made in recovering from the damage of the original Burned Fur war. And the community stood vulnerable to becoming a divided battleground again.

However, something happened that exposed who was playing the role of the Burned Furs in the new conflict. It was a riot that occurred in Berkeley, which abruptly focused the attention of the world on Antifa. And suddenly YouTube was a buzz with videos explaining the significance of Antifa’s flags, the majority of them being Anarcho-Communist in nature, while others were just straight up Communist. When this was brought up on A “Certain Site”, a prominent poster revealed that, yes, most of the people there who had been trying to brand me as a Nazi for refusing to condemn The Furry Raiders without believable evidence were indeed Communists. And the first name on her list of Communist furs was the infamous Deo, who had fired the shot that eventually killed RMFC.

So it would seem that an organization which is rapidly becoming vilified as a Communist terrorist group, set up shop in The Furry Community and deliberately singled out innocent people for persecution in order to instigate another Burned Fur style conflict. The object being to divide and conquer The Furry Community in the same way the Gaming and Atheist communities were invaded and devastated by Social Justice Warriors. And this was apparently accomplished with the support of old Burned Fur veterans like Xydexx who once again find themselves the subject of controversy. The unbelievable irony of the situation only adds to Foxler’s joke. He conclusively proved that The
Furry Community is so unworthy of its reputation for tolerance and inclusiveness that it actually sold itself into the hands of Communists over a totally fabricated Nazi scare.

Yes, we should all enjoy a good laugh over this, as the whole business is pretty much the result of the community lacking a sense of humor. But then we can enjoy a good cry, because the Antifa Communists are still here, poisoning the minds of young furs with lies and stoking them for violence. 2 Gryphon remains banned from the Anthrocon stage, and The Furry Raiders remain targets. But on top of all that, all the improvements in the fandom’s reputation and increased attendance at events that were hoped for due to the almost universal acceptance of Zootopia now lie in ruins. And the fandom may now look forward to another decade or so of being the mainstream media’s favorite ratings fodder.

So, where do we go from here? What does The Furry Community need to do to get back the peaceful and accepting atmosphere that was stolen from it. First of all we must acknowledge that actual Nazis in The Furry Community is an impossibility. We have the word of actual Neo-Nazis that Furries are one of the groups of people Nazis would do away with if they could.

So, we can’t have Nazis, but we do have Communists, and these Communists are here specifically to promote intolerance and violence. That’s a big deal breaker for most groups, sites and events in The Furry Community. So we’d be perfectly justified in banning anyone who continues to go around accusing furs of being Nazis.

We also need to recognize that there have been, almost from the very beginning of the community, furs and groups of furs who make WW2 the focus of their creativity. We can not be allowing intolerance to be focused on such people just because images of Nazi characters can be found on their sites. And finally, we must, as a community, reaffirm our stance against censorship. We must be more protective of freedom of speech and freedom of expression than we’ve ever been before, as it is those things that are under attack. We must never fall into the trap of believing a comedian deserves to have his career destroyed just because he said something we didn’t like.

And need I even say that condemning others for association with people we want destroyed for having said something we didn’t like is not going to create a world anyone but a Communist would want to live in?

Fortunately, after the fallout from what happened at Berkeley, you can’t throw a stone in The Furry Community without hitting someone with a negative feeling towards Antifa. Thus I suggest that all the hate and condemnation that was misdirected on 2 Gryphon and The Furry Raiders should be refocused on The Antifa Furs and their supporters. They who have cost this community a convention with their threats of violence, and who continue to run around the community trolling and threatening harm to anyone who dares not agree with them.

The Furry Community always was looked on as a kind of safe space. We don’t need SJW’s running around trying to make it unsafe for the people who came here for the sense of security we used to provide. We just need to remember who we are as a community, and stop giving disreputable people the power to destroy us.

Editor’s Commentary

It has always been a policy of mine no matter who you are, and if you have something to say and I would say Perri Rhoades, (who did an excellent job). That you should be allowed to speak, that no one has the right to shut you down…period. Like some tried to do on Flayrah.

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Dale Earnhardt jr sites one of the reasons for his announced retirement was a the concussion he received several months ago. Having suffered one myself I know what he is going through, memory issues, emotions all over the place, and sometimes you wonder about your own judgement. But the one thing I have taken away from all of this I think life is more precious than ever.

Call this just an observation, but given recent events namely RMFC. Why is it no one will ever talk about what happened at the last Rainfurrest. I finally found someone who admits they were there, as they have photos. But barely say a word about it, and their photos are just crowd shots. Other than I missed all the problems, is really all they had to say. I just don’t get it, is what happened there was far worse than what happened at RMFC? I don’t know no one will even admit they were there. Like the 5 who gave me info for an article I did on my blog. None of them wanted their names even mentioned…ever. I know all the chatter of RMFC and that statement that was made. But I can not help but wonder what happened at Rainfurrest was far worse? I don’t know, nobody wants to talk about it.

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If there ever was a furry site that totally pissed me off Fursuit Review is one of them, and for the following reason. Not everyone can afford the best quality, and that isn’t the reason why furries have them made. It’s just that they want to be their fursona if only for a little while…due to how hot you can get inside one. Cost is really an issue for all of us, and I include myself. For example this one maker changes $2500 for a digitigrade fursuit, $2100 for a plantigrade fursuit, $1600 for a partial, and $300 min for a head (by another maker) and I mean that is the cheapest I seen, is really beyond what I can afford atm. I know I am not the only one in that same position. Quite a few make what they can themselves, and look like DIY projects and I am not going to criticize any one of them. As I often thought of doing that myself, due to few the very few makers that will sell everything separately.

I maybe going on about the cost, but that is a real issue for all of us. It’s a matter of paying our bills or buying a fursuit. Which even if you have one commissioned would take months to come. Really it isn’t like we can go down to the local costume shop and buy one. Even though some do, admit it yourself, I seen them at the furcons myself. But does anyone laugh or make fun of them. No, because we know it might be the only way of showing their fursona that they can actually afford.

My personal view on the subject is this, if you’re happy with what you got. Who the fuck cares about what others think.

Sites like Fursuit Review doesn’t need to exist.