Your opinions?

On my new site! :D
I kinda really like it ♥

It's for my fursonas and ocs ♥♥♥

http://lurksocs.weebly.com/

Last edited on 2016-03-10 at 19:32:07 by LURK

Looks gooood :D

I like it. Simple. Easy to navigate.

My only slight "criticism,", if you will, would be your statement about your boyfriend. Fursonas are not a furry thing, so that's a weird statement to make.

Vos, in my own opinion, and what I've been told, "fursonas" are a furry thing. It's a animal that represents your own personality....

*ded*

I think that Vos meant that "Furries" and "Fursonas" are different entities.
Furries are anthromorphically similar to humans (biped, thumbs, upright, etc) with similar personalities.
Fursonas are any furry animal with human personality traits.
That's all. :3
The site is cute, do you have any other images of the characters? I'd love to see what their full body references look like.

Last edited on 2016-03-11 at 09:52:21 by Amarathine

I literally just posted a reply as soon as we drove away from WiFi... Curses!

I meant that being a furry and having a fursona are not mutually exclusive. By all means a furry can have a fursona, but it isn't something specific to being a furry. The origins of fursona are unknown, so it's impossible to say whether it originated in the furry fandom or was adopted by it. I'd say, from experience with various people and observation, that the ratio of furries vs non-furries who have a fursona is roughly 50/50.

I myself am therian with a fursona as well as an image representation of my actual animal self, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish XD


I hate typos... Phones...

Last edited on 2016-03-11 at 10:05:30 by ｖｏｓ ♚

Tossing in my two cents on 'furries' and 'fursonas'.

It was my understanding, the last time I discussed these things which was probably at least in 2012, that there was some overlap.

A furry was someone who identified with a non-human creature in spirit. (Born wrong species, reincarnated, otherwise felt some deep connection as if they were in someway that creature.) It was also rarely used to mean a person who loved anthropomorphic art, but did not identify as a non-human creature 'in spirit'.

A fursona was the depiction of someone as a specific animal character that represented themselves. This usually overlapped with being a furry, because it was designed to look like the creature they identified with. But it wasn't uncommon for people to just have an "OC" (the term was not popularized yet with characters that were not non-canon additions to existing franchises etc.) of themselves as an animal, because they had friends with fursonas, thought having a character that represented themselves was fun, etc.

So to me, your boyfriend's description makes perfect sense. But perhaps I'm still under the impressions of 2012 and prior, and the words are no longer used in the same way.

Your given definition (species dysmorphia, spirit of an animal in a human body) is actually the definition of otherkin or therian. They can overlap with furries, but are essentially different entities.

I've had a fursona since the early 2000s ('01 or '02; canine), but in recent years I discovered that I was a therian. So basically I'm a deer spirit inside a human body with a dog fursona. It can get pretty confusing.

*sits in my silent corner*

@Amara: If you click on their name in the top right corner of the site, it takes you to their pages, and their other work is there c:

@The discussion: I've known Star's 'furry' description as a otherkin thing as well, but I'm not in that area, so I dunno.

There are various theories and some people lump everything together, but as time goes on we split further into different groups. I have known a lot of furries who get seriously offended when people use the therian/otherkin definition for them and vice versa. I guess grouping everything as one thing might make it easier for people who just would never get it otherwise...

I will admit that when I learned that definition for furry, the therian & otherkin community was not so well known. I didn't know it existed for a number of years after I figured out what fursonas and furries were. I definitely knew more people who associated their furry-ness with being more at home being represented as their animal sona, and perhaps if that stayed true for them, I like to think they'd of recognized their otherkin identities eventually! Anyway, just tossed in my memory. I never really moved in any of those communities for more than days at a time - just had friends who did so.

[this part edited in: I will say that my outsideish observations made it seem more to me like those using the word otherkin were more 'spiritual' about their connection in general, and in general, those using the word furry for that meaning were just more about outward presentation because that was appealing to them, if that makes sense. Furries seemed to be less intensely spiritually invested in their fursonas than the otherkin I have been around in recent years are in their animal spirit (or other non-human creature) identities are.]

Personally, I'm all for more specific vocabulary when everyone using the same generalized words for very different concepts causes misunderstandings & problems! But it definitely leads to 'teaching moments' like this were you sort of have to teach others what you mean, until the new vocabulary is done morphing from one meaning to another.

Last edited on 2016-03-12 at 17:14:59 by Starstuffi