But was this show actually in any way furry-approved? To find out, I called up Joe Strike, the author of Furry Nation: The True Story of America’s Most Misunderstood Subculture and a certified greymuzzle, i.e.
I was already reading the comments under the under the trailer, and there are still a lot of furry haters out there, and they let their feelings be known in those comments.
I think that even if they don’t come out and use the F word, they are hoping that people, critics and viewers, will throw that in there just as some of those comments did on YouTube.
If somebody can’t afford a full fursuit, they commission a maker to make a partial, which is just the head, paws, tail, and then from that, they can add a full body suit as their finances improve.
I do have to say some of these animal heads are pretty cute.
I’m starting to see a few insect fursuiters, which is something you didn’t originally see way back when, so it is starting to broaden out somewhat.
Things like this show and The Masked Singer and also Sweet Tooth are signs that the zeitgeist is moving toward an appreciation of anthropomorphism that we haven’t had in the past.
Are you familiar with an animated show called We Bare Bears? It’s about these three anthro bears that live in San Francisco, and they’re more or less accepted in human society.
I have a partner who is a walrus in the furry world and, you know, it’s funny, ’cause when I saw him outside of his suit—you know, the walrus is big and bulky, he wears a padded thing—I went, “You’re Furio?” He’s a skinny guy.
And once I get the idea, I think that would be enough of the show for me.