Take a seat. Make yourself comfortable. I just have some thoughts (or if you want to be frank, "bitches") I need to share with the general public. Like you care. But at the same time, I feel a lot of you will agree with what I have to say on two matters that just occurred to me whilst browsing DeviantART.

Epiphany #1: The furry fandom is extremely laughable.

Now this is an odd claim for me to make. I haven't exactly advertised it, but I do have a fursona that I frequently use and so I can claim to be a 'furry' perhaps. Right. Even I recognize this as being a little odd, but there's nothing wrong with it. Its just like someone drawing a cartoon version of themself. We never draw ourselves 100% accurately (Unless we're talking realism here), so fantasy comes into play. No big deal.

I have no issues against furries, but some of the furry culture is laughable. About 75% of it is made up of self-conscious nymphomaniacs.

I'm sure you're all familiar with Jessica Elwood: [link] . Her deviations commonly occur in the 'opular' and 'rints' section on Deviantart's front page. First off, she's a brilliant artist. She has excellent technique and I wholeheartedly support the body image she's promoting, with images of buxom and healthily-bodied women, as opposed to tiny twigs with monolithic, gravity-defying breasts (I also enjoy the fact that her breasts tend to obey gravity too.)

At the same time, and I hate to use her as an example since I admire her ability... Have you noticed something in her gallery? A trend, perhaps? I'll tell you. She has 180 Deviations according to her front page. From a rough count, about 30 of these are pictures of herself (her own fursona). This seems quite a small number compared to the 180 total (even if I didn't look through them all). But bear in mind that more than half of these feature her either naked or barely clothed. I know I'm going to get flamed to hell for this, but come on. A 22 year old woman posting multiple suggestive pictures of her cat/dog/fox alter ego on the internet for the world to see. It's like being a weak porn star. People who do that are often looking for attention (since people identify her with her fursona even though in reality, its a freaking drawing. She's a woman sitting at a computer, not a wolf/cat/dog/fox/penguin thing). If she wants the world to think she's a hot sex beast, why restrict it to fantastical images? Why not post pictures of yourself spreading on the internet? I know that's an ambitious comment, granted that her art is neither extremely pornographic nor drawn for the purpose to seduce/stroke her ego. She's just doing art, the end. I'm just raising a point here. There are people much, much worse out there, and I'm about to show you the breaking point of this.

Allow me to introduce to you: [link]

ALL but ONE of the pictures in her gallery are pictures of her fursona/alter ego either making out with some random dude or naked somewhere. And she doesn't have the talent to back it up with either. She came out and said it: she traces hentai to make these drawings. Frequently. And she actually took the next step and posted photographs of herself. What can I say though? At least the breast size is accurate.

And on a final note, when I see these erotic furry drawings. And I NEVER see this on nude photography or erotic realism... Furry erotica... I always have a quick scroll through the comments. Always, there is at least one person that is really unsubtle, like "OH GOD. *ERECTION*" (actual quote from one of Chalo's works) or "THAT MAKES ME SO HORNY!!!!" and I have a quick look at their profile. Some of these kids are boys as young as 13. Jesus christ. I know it's normal for them to be looking up pr0n and etc etc, but when you're that young, animals fucking usually isn't a turn on. It takes many years of jading to prefer a fox and a bird yiffing to actual human porn.

All in all, as much as I enjoy the fandom, it has many, many laughable points. I'm almost reluctant to call myself a furry and identify myself with this population.