r/RealFurryHours

Hanging out with friends in the hallway clogging traffic? "Those" kind of room parties? Stocking your favorite suiter with a camera you don't know how to use?

Or if you have never been, what do you hope to experience?

Let's dive in.

I noticed that other furry subs often ban discussions for various reasons, and it's a bigger number of removed posts that I realized until I started paying more attention.

It seems like there is a clear demand for more engagement and talking. What kinds of things would you like to see more of in general in the fandom, or even just this sub?

Genuine question, I see it all the time (especially on e621) but could someone please explain to me how it is not zoophilic to be attracted to a dog's reproductive organ? This is an animal's genitalia you're attracted to, how can this not be zoophilic?

I am willing to listen to an explanation, please, but don't make it something like "oh well it's just fantasy"

EDIT: ^^^^ and people somehow still made it into a "well it's just fiction"

AI is pretty much in the constant discourse cycle these days (and for very good reason) and it has proliferated into furry spaces.

There are furries who believe that AI art is fine - the arguments don't work on them, they don't care about the ecological or copyright issues, and they don't value the labor of the artist. The end result is all they care about and for them slop is good enough.

I'm guessing they are pretty rare, but that's the extreme opinion.

Some furries claim to use AI as a drawing tool. Sometimes to generate reference material, generate patterns, sometimes generate assets for the drawing like a background.

I have heard from some furries that they have used AI for drawing studies or to learn processes, or use it for temporary assets in games or animations. Most programmers I know use AI in some capacity (usually as a requirement of the company they work for).

At what point does using AI tools become problematic in your opinion?

I'm fairly against AI in principal - but my opinion has changed somewhat. I know that a big part of the pro-ai as a tool argument is that it's doing something that isn't taking away from someone's job (i.e. using AI to create a static reference doesn't hurt any other artists, those artists using those assets would otherwise just not have them) and using AI trained on ethical sets eliminates the whole "stealing art" argument, and though the ecological issue still worries me I'm sure many people would argue that simply using the internet at all is pretty much the same.

A lil vent but also a discussion starter that still burns my brain to this day, I really really hate anti-furries a lot, especially the ones who are total weirdos who see "furries" in even the most innocuous of content. Notice how they don't call animal crossing or sonic furbait? Because they're designed to be chibis or mascots meant to not make you uncomfortable, while even a fucking werewolf would set off their alarm bells. This is especially notable in female spaces which are teeming with fun hating terfs and swerfs who think morning glory milking farm is legalized beastliaty. The fuck do you mean? He's humanoid, he doesn't look like a family friendly mascot? And he probably doesn't have a bull dick as far as I'm aware? It just gets to a point where no amount of counterarguments can pierce through them thick skulls of there's.

How do you cope especially as an artist who'd be happy to draw sexy anthros but doesn't wanna be called a zoophilie for drawing said content?

Sure many of you might say: 'but wait politics are pervasive throughout every social gathering' and that could be the case but let's not be bad faith about it. Yes underlying politics can exist, but do the overt ones belong in the fandom?

If you ask me I would say no, they stifle creativity by subjecting works to right or wrong think. Beyond that it also subtracts form the hobby itself, through dividing us and removing the overall focus on cartoonize animals and henceforth a focus on meta political causes.

I'll to be as active here as I can, any suggestions will be appreciated as well.

I've been on and off the fandom since middle school and I took some time to remake my original idea from a manuscript I wrote back in middle school Initially called "The Warfighters" it revolved around a continent of Arquentris which I replaced Africa with for some reason :/ lol.

I never ended up finishing it and since it was written in a notebook it was cringy and full of grammatical and spelling mistakes. but that's not the topic of today.

I want to share the new version of the setting and I want the fandom's opinion on it

After We're Gone:
the Setting as a whole takes place on the reformed super continent of Pangea Proxima.
In 2007, a company named GeneDyne Bioengineering successfully brought back the woolly mammoth and dire wolf from extinction, showcasing to the world their advanced Gene editing technologies. Riding off of this success GeneDyne would invest into a top secret initiative Code named "Work Horse" with the goal of creating a intelligent work force of anthropomorphic animals amid the rising resistance to robotic automation. By 2011 the project was formalized and underway. By 2036, The project had successfully created the preposed Anthro Sapiens (Anthros) as well as intelligent avian species and a unintentional offshoot into bio warfare. And on the fateful early morning of November 27, the Bioweapons broke free and within 3 years humanity was brought to extinction. Roughly 3516 years later the anthros have taken humanities place as the dominant species on the planet, they have formed their own languages and nations, but all is not well.

Pangea Proxima now called Ferran by its inhabitants is plagued by nihilism and depravity.

Murder, Interspecies cannibalism, slavery, abuse, slavery and Sexual Violence are facets of everyday life. Yet hope remains, an ancient presence lies in wait in the ruins of ancient cathedrals left by humanity, and those who seek it shall be Found...