Furry

Fig. a: This furry is not making any friends here.

Furries are anthropomorphic animals and people who are fans of the same. Some furries are merely keen on Disney, the Rats of NIMH, or Usagi Yojimbo; at the other end of the spectrum lie the Otherkin, which are people who genuinely believe that they are animals or dragons trapped inside human bodies. Another type of furry is the erotic furry, which is a specific sexual fetish for anthropomorphic animals. Erotic furries are fond of cybersex, which they refer to as "yiffing", supposedly for the sound a fox makes while copulating. There are fewer erotic furries in the furry community than the average fa/tg/uy believes, but by the same token there are more of them than the average furry will admit to. Regardless, they all do nothing but create drama.

Some furries make and wear fursuits in an attempt to resemble their avatars in real life; such efforts nearly always fail miserably and make the participants look ridiculous. Antipathy toward furries on /tg/ and 4chan in general already runs high and is rooted partly in cultural conservatism, but principally in a profound weariness with thin-skinned furries complaining of persecution. If you are a furry and feel the need to talk about it, the best way to survive on /tg/ is to admit from the outset that you are a sick bastard and that you don't expect anyone to praise you for it. (See fig. a.) Furry threads make for very effective trolls, especially if erotic furry art is involved.

Furries have their own RPGs, most notably Ironclaw, and its Asian companion book Jadeclaw, as well as Furry Pirates and Albedo.

Scalies

Typical scalie fantasy.

Scalies are anthropomorphic creatures of the reptile and amphibian variety. As furries are nicknamed such for their humanoid shape covered in fur, scalies tend to have a coating of scales much like the animals they represent. However, some scalies, including draconids, have very light or no true scales, but flesh more like a human's.

Scalies are also furry fans with a preference for lizard, reptile, dragon and dinosaur characters and themes. It is also a self-moniker for the users of alt.fan.dragons, a Usenet discussion group for all things drakōn.

Yiffing

Sex between furries. Most commonly used in the form of "Yiff in Hell", indicating to furries that they or their sexual practices are not welcome in a given locale.

Good places to yiff include: HELL, HELL, and, HELL. Bad places to yiff include: everywhere else.

Things That are Not Furry

100% is fine too.

DANGEROUSLY CHEESY

Distaste for furries often backfires on /tg/, when overly zealous anons cannot find any furries to abuse and turn their attention to people involved in innocuous practices. In particular, you should check yourself if you find you are calling someone a furry for any of the following:

• Playing Bunnies and Burrows (without masturbating.)
• Discussing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness.
• Watching Disney movies, or other movies with anthropomorphic characters.
• Playing gnolls, minotaurs, orcs, and in some extreme cases elves.
• Discussing something such as Ruby Quest, which primarily has given the characters animal features in order to easily differentiate between them within its simple style.

Dispute rages over what exactly constitutes furry. There are two major schools of thought on the subject. One holds that catgirls and other essentially human characters with only one or two animal features (such as ears or a tail) are not furry, and the boundary of furry is only breached when you start sighting other obviously animal characteristics such as an altered skeletal structure and full-body-hair (this does not stop trolls from calling Horo furry, however). On the other hand the second school of thought maintains that nobody fucking cares.

Furries on /tg/

Flare

Originally introduced to /tg/ by some creepy furfag that would spam her picture in drawfag threads constantly, Flare was since kidnapped from her creator to receive an extreme makeover in the hands of /tg/: Hated by absolutely everyone, she had to endure constant abuse and fighting ever since childhood, turning her into a sociopathic badass. Posting an image of old Flare with or without text used to be the easiest form of trolling on all of /tg/ - Not even 4e could have elicited as much blind rage from the board - but the new Flare has since cut the worst edge out of it. More importantly, what /tg/ did to her is bugging the shit out of the original flarefag, which is awesome.

There is no art of her anywhere except the original image and the ones that Drawfags have made. Trolls sometimes refer to Flare as a mascot of /tg/, but this is so unthinkably wrong and horrifying that you are advised to stop thinking about the possibility.

Gallery

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  Furry LARPers.

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  http://yourgamer.net/2007/11/19/aiglos-reaches-a-new-low-adventures-in-furcadia/ - Furcadia, an infamous furry graphical MUD.

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  A suspiciously furry D&D creature.

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  This is what /tg/ actually believes.

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  Flare before

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  Flare after

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  No mods on /tg/ you say?

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See Also

• Confrontation
• Furry Pirates
• Iron Claw