I don't get out much, but I've been to a few of these parties.
My favorite bits are all the little creative touches. Like, lots of furries have custom stickers rather than business cards, so some furry parties will have a guestboard that gets crowded with stickers and sketches as the guest count climbs. =D
I like the furry community because they respect artists. I'm neither furry nor artist, but I have multiple friends who have a home because commissions from furries gave them a more stable income than their day job
Picking a favourite is tough! Dergs are definitely very cute, and there is such a large variety of them. They can be fluffy or scaly, wings or no wings, big or smol. My sona is a canine, and they are very fluffy, cuddly, and have pretty beans. But felines are cute, too! And avians are so elegant, and protogens are super cool. If I really had to pick a favourite, I think I'd choose canines because I like them in art and "in person" (fursuits). Protogens are a close second, though. Do you have a particular kind of derg that's your favourite?
Don't think I know any furries, though I think I've met a few. I'm probably too old, but that's alright. Never been to a furry party, but if I knew any I would invite them to my parties. I don't get the stigma, seems like other people are too insecure in their own identity to accept people experimenting, or settling on an unconventional one. Even when I first heard about it that there were people supposedly having sex while wearing cartoonish animal costumes (which yeah I'm sure it happens, people will at least try to sexualize anything that they like) I realized that the media always sexualizes "new" lifestyles -- its one of the most tried and true ways to make people decide that a lifestyle is weird is to make of seem like it is only a sexual fetish.
90% of CEOs identify with wolves and sharks and lions, when they do it you're supposed to buy their book called "The Lion's Share," and kiss their ass about it. But if some non neuro typical queer kid does it, its some kind of cultural nightmare scenario. Really reveals the root of the stigma IMO.
They seem nice and I bet their fursonas are soft and comfy, if maybe a little hot inside the suit. Sorry if any of this seems insensitive, I don't mean it that way. Except toward CEOs, I mean that to be insensitive, if anything I should be more insensitive toward them.
I accidentally walked into a Juggalo show once. There were topless girls in clown makeup dancing to a band, and I punched a door cuz one of the juggalos told me to.
None of that seemed insensitive to me, you're cool~
Can confirm the soft and comfy, fursuit hugs are great~. It does get toasty in them, though. Some engineer furries developed cooling vests that help a lot, but wintertime suiting is great!
Isn't one of the newer mutants just ...an actual furry? I think their name is Good Boy and their power is to turn into their blue and white wolf fursona?
Just to say, this isn't even the most furbait thing Marvel has done, the rabbit hole goes deeper.
Sure, that's how it starts. The obligatory game console with either Smash Bros or Mario Kart.
Then you get in the aspiring furry DJ who insists on bringing a mixdeck and playing the wildest stuff you've ever heard, the amateur mixologist starts making drinks, another fur takes it on themselves to start grilling, and the stoner furries settle into a blunt rotation on the patio.
Before you know it, you're having to get a second table for all your visitors' fursuit heads and every whiteboard in the house has lost half of its surface to sketches you never want to erase.