Furries. Yes. No. Indifferent.
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Friday, April 2, 2010 11:45
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yak, byte, i hella hate you. thanks. i now totally understand why mal/inara will never, ever work.
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I warned you! Although, in retrospect, warning you was actually probably taken as a challenge to the machismo, I have to be more careful about that.
Come on, it's not a little funny? Beauty and the Beast, tail as old as time. Imagine Inara's reaction!
Actually, all of them locked up in that ship with cabin fever, I bet they ALL have kinks. Except Book, because it's explicitly said he doesn't.
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dear byte, 
if i was told not to throw salt in my eyes, i would probably throw salt in my eyes, just to prove a point. and then i'd have salt in my eyes, and pride.
granted, its funny. i'm scrapping my current fic and writing one where mal and inara are about to conusmmate their tragic relationship, and mal stops and puts on his tigger costume and explains that it is the only way he can get arosued. it will be rad, because it will be super angsty and absurd at the same time, and total deflate the conventions of the ship. also, jayne will be a furry too, with space clap, and he wants simon to examine him and his space clap, who is also a furry.
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I dunno, Mal and Inara have always been a little absurd in their own way. This, though, I'm dying thinking about it.
Hey, you know with all the companion-y stuff, she's probably got to cater to some unusual interests. Who knows what she's into?
I bet Atherton Wing was a furry! In fact, I bet he has some kind of bird suit!
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What? Mal and Inara are not absurd, but tragic. Unless you think that being madly in love with someone you can't stand, and do not accept, is absurd. Mal in his Tigger suit declaring his undying love to Inara while she rolls her eyes, well, that is super absurd.
I betcha Atheron Wing dresses up like Big Bird.
Anyway, one of us has to write the Mal/Inara furry-ship now, and it should probably be you, because you obviously have a stronger stomach than I, and are more open to nuance. If I wrote it, Mal would confess his furrydom, fearing rejection, and then Inara would try to accept it and point out that she's seen some weird kinks, which would make Mal freak out and withdraw from her, and call her a slut.
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I betcha Atheron Wing dresses up like Big Bird.
We have exposed his secrets. He will challenge us to a duel now.
I dunno, being that I don't see it as weird as you do, I imagine Atherton Wing dressing up as something pretentious. Like maybe a crane, what with his Sihonese sensibilities. Something that Inara would think is elegant and attractive, so she'd feel okay going to see him multiple times. Their interplay would involve him comparing her to Leda, and himself to Zeus.
I'm imagining a curious Inara, experimenting in her youth and going to Sihonese masquerades...
And Mal, who as ever finds his own tastes shameful.
While there's no way I'd make an in-universe conversation so all the characters are anthropomorphs, I'd try to be respectful to the furry fandom. They get a lot of crap, I think, I wouldn't want to pile on. Besides, that lady, who drew those Mal Wolf pics? She's a browncoat. I'm not going to troll a fellow browncoat.
So, anyway. Back to the topic at hand?
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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Well, consent and intelligence in anthropomorphic renditions is vital for the furry fandom, because it sets it apart from beastality. They're pretty careful to say they're not into beastality, probably because what they're into could be so easily misunderstood. Maybe there's a reason for them being a little defensive. It's not for me to say, really. I don't care so long as there's no animal abuse.
See, animal "abuse" wasn't even remotely on my radar. And now that opens up a whole new level of uncomfortableness for me.
I really am on the far outside of this phenomenon, and that's where I'll stay. Mimes, clowns and furries..... all creep the hell out of me, to be honest. Same goes w/ the BK 'King'... no thank you!
But team mascots, I got no problem with...go figure.
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As for the above, I can't say it has much interest for me. I try to be tolerant though, especially since does seem harmless. It's just being a bit creative with the original medium.
What if you think of it like a crossover? You know that Disney Robin Hood movie with all the foxes? It'd be pretty easy to imagine Mal as a more surly Robin Hood, and Jayne as a more surly Little John, and etc. I bet someone's done that already. This is like, the next step after that, where it's wolves instead of foxes, because archetypically in storytelling wolves are thought to be more rebellious and dangerous than foxes.
I guess I just see the animals portraying characters like Robin Hood as being cartoon animals. Like Mickey Mouse ( wearing pants ) or Pluto,a dog, having another dog for a pet. They're cartoons, it doesn't have to makes sense.
I think I just paraphrased Homer Simpson on that last part.
Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor
Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."
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Sure, just cartoons.
I doubt if a cartoon were ever produced of Firefly it'd be the characters anthropomorphized, but you never know. Robin Hood, he was possibly a real person sometime in the medieval times, that a legend grew up around. And when Disney made their movie, they chose to represent Robin Hood not as a person (and it's not like Disney can't do it, look at Snow White and etc.), but as a fox. Likely because of the folk tales about Reynard the Fox... Still. Why'd they do that?
Only thing I can come up with, is for the fun of it. And so look at Furry-fly here. Furries do have a kind of overly sexualized stigma in internet circles, which isn't to say it's not earned, or that this Furry-fly isn't meant to appeal to that on some level (Mal licking his gun? Um, okay, sure). But the way I see it, the mostly likely reason the artist did it was to have fun with it. That's why us browncoats are here, isn't it? Maybe the furry doesn't appeal to you, and that's fine (it doesn't actually appeal that much to me, either), but I don't see anything wrong with what's been done.
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I don't really care one way or another, though I've grown up surrounded by science fiction, and currently write sci-fi for a(n attempted) living. Interspecies relationships aren't all that unusual to me, so long as both parties are actually sapient beings.
My definition of "normal" is probably a little off.
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Byte, I appreciate how thoughtful and restrained you are, but please note that 1) furries have earned their reputation for sexualizing everything and putting fur on it. If it were just cartoon characters, like Donald Duck, nobody would bat an eye. Also, 2) they are evil. I recognize that I am falling into the trap of blaming the victims for their "fursecution", but i do not care.
Moreover, I'm convinced that Rappy is a furry. There is a proven correllation between furrydom, conservative politics, christianity, and repression. No joke!
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