🦊 Furry Furry Convention Drama - Because you can't have a couple thousand dog fucking enthusiasts under the same roof without shit hitting the fan

Ultra Ping said:
This is far too much discussion than a furry parade deserves. Just lead them off a cliff and be done with it.
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No convenient cliffs, but the river is right there. Those carpets are going to get SO heavy.
 
Law said:
I think that furry was always about breaking down boundaries. The boundaries between human and animal, the boundary between a cartoon for kids and one for adults, the boundaries between what's allowed and what's not. So now they've broken down so many boundaries that you end up with a dude dressed as a green neon husky-fox-wolf-robot hybrid wearing a diaper at a Hilton shouting "Free Palestine" while his polyamourous transgender girlfriend explains communism to his headmates, one of whom is literally Hitler.
It's like the whole fandom up and gave itself schizophrenia.
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This made my brain hurt and I hate that I could picture this with exact clarity.
 
Ultra Ping said:
This is far too much discussion than a furry parade deserves. Just lead them off a cliff and be done with it.
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Dress them all like Lemmings first.
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Since I've seen people post several times in the last few pages, "what's poodling and how is that different from fursuiting?" let me take a moment to explain it to the non-furries here with some visual examples I grabbed off Google. There are generally four accepted tiers of fursuiting: Fullsuit, (Semi)Partial, Poodling, and Fetish.

Fullsuits are what most people assume of when they think furry: A head-to-toe outfit covered in fur.
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Partials consist of a head, tail, coverings for the hands and feet, but no bodysuit. Since this doesn't cover the whole body, most suiters in this tier cover up their skin with long sleeves and pants.
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There's also Semipartial (sometimes referred to as Minipartial), which is the same thing as a partial, just without any furry shoes/paws for the feet.
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Poodling is a Partial Suiter, but they're intentionally not covering up their arms or legs. It's not an issue of their sleeves being a little too short and accidentally letting a little bit of skin show, but a more blatant attempt to not even pretend they're committing to the character. It's not uncommon to see people in this tier admit to intentionally not covering up because they want to show off their bodies.
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Fetish is a suiter in any of the three mentioned tiers who is ALSO wearing anything that would automatically be inappropriate fetish gear in a general setting. Things like pup hoods, latex bdsm gear, diaper stuff, etc. It automatically classifies as fetish tier even if you're wearing other fursuit gear (or wearing too little, like only wearing skimpy shorts and no shirt). While fursuiting in itself is a fetish, not every fursuit is automatically a Fetish suit, though there are extremely obvious sexualized suits.
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(I'll save my fellow Kiwis' eyes. Look that shit up for yourself if you really must see it for some reason)


So basically, with Anthrocon's new policy, they're telling furries "If you want to participate in this year's fursuit parade, you need to be in the Semipartial tier or better, because we're explicitly going to refuse to let Poodle or Fetish Tier suits into the parade. We want a bare minimum on what's acceptable for a parade open to the general public." And again, this policy ONLY affects the parade, you're free to wear your suit however you want the rest of the convention. But because this is furries we're talking about, being told to cover up for the general public is RACIST and ABLEIST and PHOBIC and the Anthrocon staff want to murder immunocompromised indigenous transgender people of color or whatever the fuck it is they're screaming about today.
 
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phattie said:
It doesn't, though.

The con is July 3rd.

Imagine my surprise, though, when a bunch of furries seem incapable of growth and change.
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Thank you for the correction. I had read several comments complaining about the flag rule in relation to pride month. Silly me for taking those Twitter/Bluesky posters at their word. The fact that they're extra upset about no flags because pride month, when the con doesn't even happen during pride month, is just amazing.

Of course this could easily just be because the people complaining don't know when the con is because they were never going to attend in the first place.
 
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Pinball 2000 said:
A head-to-toe outfit covered in fur.
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Not quite covered in fur, but made from fun fur. No clue why people think it's made of rug shag, seeing as they sell the same material for doing trim on jackets, making stuffed animals, ect.

Cheap fun fur is shit to work with and often falls apart, which is why you only see it on cheap, poor quality suits. It's only good for like, Christmas decor trim and stuff otherwise.
 
Regarding Anthrocon, especially since it's geared to older anthros and by older anthros, and since it pertains to this question regarding the sweltering summer:
I find their "issue" quite simple. Why not organise their parade and, essentially, their conventions 6 months later/earlier? Late November/Early December. You could say "Thanksgiving and Christmas, too crowded and difficult to manage", well, fine, how about January? The "anthrosuits" or whatever seem like the perfect excuse to cover yourself with in the colder air of somewhere of the East Coast, or even the fresh and damp air of West Coast.

Seems like a nothingburger to me, and an excuse to get retards to parade around and sweat like dumbshits.
 
Let us not forget that “poodleing” allows furfags to hide their age… and all the porn online i think this was brought up but you don’t know If it’s a minor underneath that head…
 
Outer Space Traveller said:
Regarding Anthrocon, especially since it's geared to older anthros and by older anthros, and since it pertains to this question regarding the sweltering summer:
I find their "issue" quite simple. Why not organise their parade and, essentially, their conventions 6 months later/earlier? Late November/Early December. You could say "Thanksgiving and Christmas, too crowded and difficult to manage", well, fine, how about January? The "anthrosuits" or whatever seem like the perfect excuse to cover yourself with in the colder air of somewhere of the East Coast, or even the fresh and damp air of West Coast.

Seems like a nothingburger to me, and an excuse to get retards to parade around and sweat like dumbshits.
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Historically January was (and is) Further Confusion's domain, MLK day weekend in San Jose. While they're no longer the 'Big Two' of furry cons it still wouldn't be a great idea to go head to head.

And unlike FC there's always the chance you'll get a foot of snow and then you're metaphorically fucked.
 
bigjohnclickclack said:
Let us not forget that “poodleing” allows furfags to hide their age… and all the porn online i think this was brought up but you don’t know If it’s a minor underneath that head…
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Yeah I don't follow haha
Unless you mean, "poodleing" is the cheapest way to be a furry IRL?
But even then, long sleeves and pants don't cost that much
 
The Purple Ghost said:
Yeah I don't follow haha
Unless you mean, "poodleing" is the cheapest way to be a furry IRL?
But even then, long sleeves and pants don't cost that much
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It's probably most popular with the young set - but I think it's for cost reasons, not trying to fool anyone.
 
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