Furry

"I have run with the tigers and I know wild beasts better than the priests. Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man."

If you're looking for actual /tg/ races that are based on the principle of "humanoid animal", see .

A Furry (not to be confused with fury, which they tend to create) are people who are (often obsessive) fans of anthropomorphic animals. Some furries are merely keen on Disney, the Rats of NIMH, , or Usagi Yojimbo (these are the tolerable ones); at the other end of the spectrum lie the Otherkin, people who that they are animals or dragons trapped inside human bodies. Some furries make and wear fursuits in an attempt to resemble their avatars in real life, which tends to make the participants look ridiculous most of the time unless the costume is well made (which, credit where credit is due, happens extraordinarily often) or they're at a con full of them (and even then...).

The Furry community is based mostly in meritocratic elitism, with good in the upper levels of their social pyramid and the average Disney/Warner Brothers' animation fanboy in the lowest. Drama, misanthropy and other emo behaviors are very common in the hierarchy, often representing humankind as sociopathic or genocidal in their literary works or comics. Many furry comics have a homosexual or bisexual theme, not unlike anime. (NOTE: this has nothing to do with statistics involving LGBTQ+ individuals in the furry community. This is merely a byproduct of the fact that many that are host to furries often overlap with those accepting of gay communities). Many are avid supporters of the LGBTQ+ community, and they are always trying to become a part of it; for what it's worth, most of them don't care about furries, barring those involved in the fandom, but only consider them a problem when they go . There's also a vocal 'minority' of furries who are right wing, if not full-on themselves, though .

Furries get a lot of hate in a lot of places on the internet, which stems form several sources; a big one is the really insecure subtype of furry who posts their "fursona" on deviantart and proceeds to spew bile at anyone who doesn't kiss their ass about it. Another big part of it is the type of furry most commonly referred to by /tg/ and 4chan, which is the erotic furry, also known as the "furvert", which is a specific sexual fetish for anthropomorphic animals. Erotic furries are fond of , 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, depending on the furry in question. While sexual attraction to anthropomorphic animals *by itself* isn't too deviant or disturbing, the problem is that like many fetishes it has an odd tendency to occur in conjunction with other, more extreme ones (more on that in a bit). Because of these various factors, this type of furry is considered by 4chan, out of all possible factions, as the vilest and most nauseating form of in all of existence, with only the ultimate as the solution.

Antipathy toward furries on /tg/ and 4chan runs high principally due to 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. (Addendum: Since 40k has very little to do with the fandom, it's generally safe to just not refer to yourself as one, lest ye call down the collective nerd rage of the fa/tg/uys on you, as shown in fig. a.) Furry threads make for very effective experience, especially if erotic furry art is involved.

In a somewhat , /tg/'s burning hatred for furries is what allowed /tg/ to come into being; was created as a direct response to furries attempting to spam /b/ every day of the week. The popularity of this day caught Moot's attention, leading to the creation of the /tg/ board.

Furries have their own RPGs, most notably , and its Asian themed companion book Jadeclaw, as well as and .

/tg/, /v/, /x/ and other boards (not really /b/, because half of them are furfags anyways) have a profound hatred for all things furry and will the thread into the desolate wastelands of 404. (Any thread you may happen to see featuring monstergirls, centaurs, gnolls, or other sexualized sapient creatures is merely a figment of your imagination.)

Note: some furfags like to take it to the extreme and have recently tried to take /tg/ for themselves, only to have to resort to copious amounts of samefagging after the majority of fa/tg/uys got bored of saging their threads into oblivion. It is also theorized that furfags that invade /tg/ usually come from the bottomless pit of horror called tgchan.

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. They are not to be confused with (because they don't ask to be fucked and raped constantly).

Yiffing refers to sex between furries, and is most commonly used outside the fandom in the form of "Yiff in Hell", indicating to publicly erotic furries that they or their sexual practices are not welcome in a given locale. As mentioned before, it frequently ventures into For the most part, furries might have been tolerated had the fandom simply left it at "animal people fucking" and not become host to an array of utterly fucked up shit: watersports, adult babies, various forms of vore (most not even from natural orifices), actual bestiality, and scat are all just scratching the surface.

Of course /tg/, being /tg/, knows everyone gets off to something that would be considered fucked up by at least a significant amount of people - after all, we have to let loose somehow and not all of us are the same. Plus, there's no fetish amongst furries that isn't already expressed in plenty amongst non-furries - has an entire fucking board dedicated to non-furry vore, for example, and that's not counting the fetishes ranging from bondage to guro in the 'non-furry' world . Furries are simply the poster child for people who take it to completely unfathomable heights, due to the frequent overlap between furries and other /d/-tier fetishes, such that one may feel an insatiable urge to drink bleach afterward. It's not uncommon to see even other furries giving a wide berth, although many onlookers .

Some people like to joke that the influx of furries into hell drove the immortal Prince of Darkness into attempting suicide (and succeeding), and he was replaced with the , because it turns out Chaos accepts pretty much anyone.

As the only attribute consistently required to be considered a furry is an interest in anthropomorphic animals (def: having human characteristics, such as human speech, clothes, etc) you might be a furry if you identify with and/or are a devoted fan of:

• Some subspecies of

(Clarification: Just because you are interested in any of these does NOT force you to become a furry. It's a fandom like anime is. You can like something without associating with the ravening horde of crazy fanboys/girls.)

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 (without masturbating).


• Discussing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness (without masturbating).


• Watching Disney movies and other movies with anthropomorphic characters (again, without masturbating). Disney movies may cause anthropomorphic animals to pique your interest, but does not, by default, MAKE you a furry.


• . Suggesting they count as furry to any stray weeaboo on /tg/ will result in them .


• Playing , , , and in some extreme cases (without masturbating).


• Discussing something such as Ruby Quest (without masturbating), which primarily has given the characters animal features in order to easily differentiate between them within its simple style.


• Discussing , playing or (without masturbating) as, despite the frequent overlap, they are not furry by themselves.


• Playing (without masturbating).


• Playing (without masturbating).


• Playing in general (without masturbating).

Dispute rages over what exactly constitutes furry. As a general guideline "If it has a snout, it's out" works well-enough; however (and especially on /tg/) fantasy races complicate that particular equation a bit. , , and their ilk are a well-established part of many a RPG/Wargame setting and have been there long before the furry craze. It's important to note the difference however: Beastmen, Wulfen and the like are clearly set out in the lore as monsters-they aren't sexualised and aren't really tolerated. There's no Beastman-Human relationships in Warhammer, because the lore is quite clear on them being hated and reviled, with every interaction starting and ending at the tip of a sword.

There are two major schools of thought on the subject. (such as ears, minute resemblance of claws/fur on the body or a tail) such as an altered skeletal structure, a face that resembles an actual animal and full-body-fur (this does not stop trolls from calling furry, however). On the other hand, the second school of thought maintains that nobody fucking cares. There are hints of a still forming third school developing around the idea of all of them and let sort it out.

Monstergirls vs. Furries[]

One will note that the above doesn't constitute a strong defense of as not being Furry (as, unlike the other non-furry fur-adjacent-fandoms mentioned above, the two do share a rather *ahem* one-handed approach to things). This is because, sadly, Monstergirls has some overlap with furrydom. There are a few distinctions that may be worth making between the two, though:

• Monstergirls are usually an attempt to make monsters more human, usually due to a desire for something "exotic" and/or the fa/tg/uy or fa/tg/irl in question having poor luck with actual humans; Furries are frequently driven by a desire to make people less human, at least in appearance (with the target of dehumanization usually being the furry fan him/herself).


• Monstergirl settings usually make a point of having humans be present. Furry works are frequently describable as "ordinary (if perhaps porny) life, but everybody is an animal".


• Monstergirls are, well, monsters who happen to be conventionally attractive. Most Monstergirl works make a point of discussing and showing differences in thinking (whether cultural or biological) between the Monstergirls and normal humans. Again, Furry works are frequently describable as "ordinary (if perhaps porny) life, but everybody is an animal".


• Furry erotica has an especially bad habit of going into too many weird (and/or sickening) fetishes; Monstergirl-related porn tends to be more "mass market" in their erotic goals, with a good chunk of written fiction being completely romance-oriented (although admittedly there are a few high-profile ).


• Monstergirl fans seem to be an 'ordinary' (if also porn-heavy) fandom, with all the perks and pitfalls of any other. Furrydom overlaps more with being a "lifestyle", with all the bullshit that the phrase "alternative lifestyles" usually involves.


• Perhaps most importantly, sanity. Erotic Furries are well-known for their blurring of fantasy and reality in their minds and fan-conventions; Monstergirl fans seem to be more clear on the distinction between the two.

A close reading of some furry webcomics crying about can be highly enlightening on several of these points, if you're of strong enough stomach to do so.

Besides the usual angst over furry porn getting spammed, if furries are brought up at all, this is mostly in the context of fantasy roleplaying games that feature anthropomorphic species like Gnolls and Kobolds, etc. As mentioned above, this is a gray area where playing one of these characters does not necessarily mean one is a furry; even so, accusations can still be made, since genuine furries can use playing a canon furry species as a smokescreen for creating their . The key is to figure out ahead of time whether the player in question cares about roleplaying an adventurer and not roleplaying a sexual fetish. Actually, that's a good general rule to go by, furry or not.

With regards to WH40k, there's less ambiguity. The Imperium's stance on non-humans is . Yes, do technically straddle the line into anthro territory, but the fluff makes it clear that they're barely tolerated as it is, and the is too busy dealing with daemonic shit to get into another fight with the . Yet despite all this, you do have the occasional furry try to slip something in that, by all rights, should ordinarily result in right from the get-go. Because of this, furries have been classified as . See the for one such example.

Flare[]

Originally introduced to /tg/ by some creepy furfag that would spam her picture in threads constantly, Flare was since kidnapped from her creator to receive an extreme makeover in the hands of /tg/: Her backstory is that, hated by absolutely everyone, she had to endure constant abuse and fighting ever since childhood, turning her into a sociopathic fuckup. Posting an image of old Flare with or without text used to be the easiest form of trolling on all of /tg/ (Not even 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 before we make you.

Chakat[]

Like Flare, this is an imported concept that /tg/ rapidly grew to hate. The short story is that are a race of hermaphroditic furry centaurs , and engage in . And if you're not sexually attracted to them, then you're a horrible person and . In short, they're everything wrong with furries in one package. Originally a fanfic race, they've since attempted to every other sci-fi franchise, despite being hated even by other furries. So if one of your players attempts to play a Chakat character, you'll know what to expect. On the other hand, with a few tweaks, they'd make for a great villain...

Also, their inventor is a . Make of that what you will.

The Furry Test[]

If you are developing a character or race, or are looking at someone else’s, and are wondering if they are technically furry or not, take this simple test. Just go through the list of traits and add the indicated points for each one that applies.
Note: a lot of these traits are also synonymous with and indeed the two have a tendency to occur together, so this test probably isn't that valid. The worst furries most worthy of purging (read: most of them), are almost without exception blatant and shameless Mary Sues in addition to their other .

• Add 3 if they resemble an anthropomorphic animal.


• Add 4 if they are specifically an anthropomorphic animal (fox, wolf, etc.).


• Add 4 if they are a Sonic fan character.


• Add 5 if they are a fan character.


• Add 2 if their sexual characteristics are gone into with any detail.


• Add 1 if they have a vibrant and unnatural coloration (often a lazy attempt at ).


• Add 2 if they are the subject of fetish material.


• Add 3 if they are are the subject of fetish material in universe.


• Add 2 if they are always depicted on the side of good.


• Add 3 if Humans are the real monsters.


• Add 1 if they are .


• Add 7 if their nonhuman traits grants them any powers,

Now add up your final score.
Anything over 10 is definitely furry.
Anything over 20 is firmly in "you sick bastard" territory. Your synthetic abominations will be converted into a cybernetic slaves of the Auric Bara'ki empire, or else Age backwards into their infancy and mind-wiped, so as to free them from your lingering horror, you sick bastard.
Anything over 30 is indescribably fucked up.

If you've read this far then you've seen several references to "thin-skinned furries complaining of 'fursecution'". The problem is that, like with any largely hated group of people, such persecution does indeed exist (stop laughing), and the net is often widened to include 'sane' furries (e.g. simple fans of the style), who may be nonsexual and might potentially share that disdain for their more depraved "brethren". Furries who do have the pertinent fetish but lack any other fetishes may display that they know where to draw the line; hell, even some of the sexual ones have their limits. In the cases where someone manages to check off most or (somehow) all of the more objectively despicable traits on the list, there's a point where the a constant stream of rage wouldn't do much good... but then, we don't come to 4chan to make healthy life choices, do we?

Another complication is that humans are like other animals in at least one notable way: we tend to act the way we're treated. Thus if you consistently act like an asshole to someone, they'll often eventually act like an asshole back. In this way furries are somewhat like other skubby subcultures, such as LBGTQ folks, vegans, theists AND atheists, and anyone with either an ethnicity or political viewpoint - obviously not in terms of honest-to-god oppression, but in terms of the common narrative where the insecure and/or arrogant vocal minorities within the larger group get so annoying in their bitching about persecution (be it 'imaginary' or otherwise), that they "enable" actual persecution against the whole group. By that token, recognizing that furries are too easy a target is not mutually exclusive of the fact that more than quite a few of them legitimately deserve the shit they get.

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  Why any sane person should hate furries.
  

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  Furcadia, an infamous furry graphical MUD.
  

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  This is what /tg/ actually believes.
  

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  do not like any more than do.
  

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  No mods on /tg/, you say?
  

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  Five years later - the war is still going strong.
  

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  /m/ supports /tg/ in its quest against the Fur-Tide.
  

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  Another awesome fantasy race is consumed by the fur-tide.
  

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  That's what happens when you do drugs draw furry porn for years. It screws up your mind.
  

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  Congrats, fuckwit, you just made Khornate Guardsmen look reasonable
  

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  Example of an erotic scalie fantasy.
  

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  A suspiciously furry D&D creature. (For the record: That's a "Simurgh", actual real life bird...only the artist has somehow made it 500,000 times more furry, LGBT-pridey, and just plain stupid looking for some reason.)
  

• - A hard sci-fi furry setting that manages to earn /tg/'s grudging respect by being both old school and surprisingly well thought out.


• - When furries become violent worshipers.


• - When furries become violent Worshipers.










• , something most furries prefer, understandably, to not be associated with.
  


• , like Chakats, a homebrewed race that is still based on humanoid animals (in this case a sort of wolf/shark/lizard mix).


• , a race of furry alien cyborgs who rival sergals in popularity. I don't know why we even have a page for them though.


• , although people argue if they are furries or .


• , which like centaurs get claimed by both sides.


• , who despite being furries are somehow more /tg/-acceptable than .


• , an actual D&D race of anthro wolves who went from Renaissance French swashbucklers in to pseudo-Native American werewolf hunters who ride around on giant wolves.


• , another race marginalized for "official furriness!"


• , anthro hyenas who mostly manage to avoid the furry connections


• , because some furries prefer scales.


• , who really appeal to furries, though some furries complain that they don't have tails.


• , an anthro lizard race who manage to be popular on /tg/ despite being anthro.


• , a furry tabletop game for furfags players who enjoy exploring the most perverse of .


• do what they can to save us from the utter that is furries. AVENGE ME, BROTHER!




• , a fan created setting for where half of the playable races are different kinds of bird people and the other half are various other animal people.