The Fandoms of the Earth

 Hello. C J here. Okay, so the furry fandom are amazing people. Everyone knows this, right? Like, we run the internet and are all unusually polite. We support animal charities and have an entrenched knowledge of art and software. Everyone likes us. I’m the only person in the furry fandom who makes it part of my job to interact with the rest of the world equally. To people in that other half of our planet the furries don’t know you like them.

Why? We’re kind of shy. Speaking as one of the currently oldest and longest standing art providers in the fandom, furries really take criticism way too seriously. Like that’s not cool we have any but really we need to forget it. And to everyone else, furries often like buying food and clothing and non-technology goods from other people. My point is that I’ve learned strongly over the last decade of market research that there are two halves to this world we live in.

The furry fandom are mostly a decentralized internet-based community. We meet up for business and sales events in person sometimes and always online at all times. Everyone else is based out of their city they live in and has a job involving a location. Often instead of browsing furry content in their off time they play Minecraft and read cookbooks. Everyone needs what the other fandom has.

Furries, Minecraft and recipe books are for humans. We often don’t think or act like humans so I’ll rephrase that for the dragon folk and handsome humanoid wolves out there. We have thumbs, therefore those things are for us as well. I meant humans on the inside. We do have fur in some real spiritual sense. Did you all not know that in the other fandom? Are you a fandom or just nice people who can sew things that aren’t made of faux fur?

Wait, people can sew actual clothing? Right. Half my family can. And we here, switching hats here right now, in the other half of the world could really use some more inclusive gender based art, story and game content. We really would like more depictions of totem animals acting like themselves, fantasy gender identities that are affirming to everyone and nature being incarnate in a person’s physiology.

I play both sides. Both sides love each other more than they love themselves. The one thing here is that I’d love to give some examples of nice furry art I’ve done of genders being enjoyable. That’s one of the genres of furry art I do. It’s a specific expression of a genre inside a genre inside one of the art mediums we work with. All of this I do here is built on other people’s work and knowledge of art software. I can’t show the image because it’s a nude pinup and this is an all ages blog.

Here lies the point of confusion. The furries have extensive internal language about art and content ratings for art being shared among other furries. Movies, video games and novels for general consumption have other incompatible content ratings and terms for their intended audience. They are wholly not compatible. None of us know a way around it. The pinup by the way is of the character smiling. I only draw happy people who want to be in a pinup because they want to feel attractive.

C J Mcpherson