[ SECRET POST #2540 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2540 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i.imgur.com/KSPwQWS.jpg?1?3971

[funyarinpainahat]

Oh man, I loved Warriors as a kid. And just stories about animals in general. I don't think preferring animals to people makes you a furry, OP. I think it just means that there's something more comforting about non-human characters. I know even now that just being around people stresses me out, so I still sometimes enjoy stories about cats, dogs, bears, whatever. (Unfortunately, there aren't many for adults.)

[hands4healing]

There are, though; they're murder mysteries, and the cats (or dogs) help their humans solve the mysteries. It's a serious genre in the mystery line. The Mrs. Murphy series by Rita Mae Brown is the only cat series I've read, though there a lot of others out there (Brown also has a series with a foxhunting group, where the dogs, horses and foxes come together to help with the mysteries; the Chet and Bernie mysteries are all told from the POV of Chet the dog; there're the "Cat Who" mysteries, etc.).

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure Watership Down is actually meant for adults, but don't quote me on that. It's pretty grim and harsh though and fairly modern, so it wouldn't surprise me.

[(Anonymous)]

Also Blacksad comes to mind, and I know there's a couple other graphic novels that are meant for adults (or general audience rather than just kids) and feature animals. Beasts of Burden is definitely for adults.

[(Anonymous)]

inb4 insanenoodlyguy spewing unfunny overused jokes about "furfags yiffing in hell"

random advice for dealing with that

[(Anonymous)]

if he does it would be smart either to not respond or respond with "*yawn* boring" or something. because reacting with anger or offense will give him the message that he's effective.

[caerbannog]

I don't think liking stories about animals would make you a furry. I think mot kids go through some kind of animal obsession phase. Especially since so many kids movies are animals. ;P

Secret 6 - Warriors (novel series), The Underneath (book), Treasure Planet; furries

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[Picture is a colored illustration from the book series "Warriors", by a group of people under the pseudonym "Erin Hunter", which shows a bunch of different cats, then the cover of the book "The Underneath" by Kathi Appelt, which shows a hound dog and a cat lying close together, and then a screen-capture from the animated film "Treasure Planet", showing Dr. Delbert Doppler (an anthropomorphic dog) and Captain Amelia (an anthropomorphic cat) hugging each other happily.]

Considering my extended 'obsession' with animal (especially cat) related media as a child, looking back, I am genuinely surprised I didn't turn out to be a furry. [Treasure Planet image] I shipped them before I even knew what shipping was.

(Note: I understand that not all furries are raging perverts and I can appreciate well done anthro art now and again. I would just be REALLY WEIRD explaining it to people).

[(Anonymous)]

awwwww, warriors! <3

[(Anonymous)]

i can relate, i even did what could be considered furry art as a pre-teen and visited what were, in retrospect, furry-inhabited forums

i just never noticed that there was something odd with everyone's 'ORIGINAL CHARACTER' all being cute anthropomorphic animals

(i'm cool with furry fandom in general, too, though)

[hands4healing]

I'm always surprised when I see secrets like this that Andre Norton's Breed to Come isn't mentioned.

[thistlechaser]

And the winner of Book Title Most Likely to be Used as a Porn Title goes to...

[(Anonymous)]

Or her Beast Master books, or Zero Stone, or Fur Magic, or... Ms Norton liked intelligent animals. :)

[lentils]

lmao omg Warriors. I wish I could quit that series.

but anyway, it's okay, OP, like everybody else is saying that's just a thing a lot of kids go through. For me, it was horses for the longest time, and wolves and cats to a lesser extent.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man even as an adult (29) I still love stuff with anthropomorphized (mentally, not physically) animals. Particularly the Disney movies (The Jungle Book is my favorite, and I had such a crush on Shere Khan as a kid it's really miracle I'M not a furry, though I have friends who are and I respect them!) and stuff like Redwall (though it got repetitive after the first few books, and the fact that foxes and rats are always evil pissed me off as a kid and still does) and Watership Down (Which is one of my favorite books ever and I'm pretty sure meant to be an adult book). The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is probably my favorite Discworld book and I love Gaspoode in Discworld in general.

I would be ALL over the Warriors series but they just don't look very good and I prefer canids (anything related to dogs, even as distantly as foxes). I know the same people ARE writing about dogs and I'm tempted by those.

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[(Anonymous)]

Some days I feel this way too. And I even had a lot of online friends who were furries when I was growing up.

[(Anonymous)]

I think most people wanted to be animals/imagined themselves as animals as kids

it's just that most of us grow out of it, and some uh... don't

[(Anonymous)]

I totally know what you mean. I loved animal-based fiction as a kid and I was part of a few play-by-post wolf RP boards as a teenager. Now that I know what being a furry is, I'm pretty surprised I'm not one.

[(Anonymous)]

What if I told you that you can be furry and you don't have to tell a single soul?

I also love anything and everything with anthro characters so I read and watch as much as I can. The biggest problem is being older and admitting you read Warriors just as avidly as a kid would.

[(Anonymous)]

It really wouldn't be that hard to explain to people, though. Furries have a bad rap online, but there are very few people irl and even online to a lesser extent that would care or mind if you like talking animals and cartoon anthro art. People don't (or shouldn't) get shit for liking Disney animal films and Looney Tunes and Redwall and normal people don't call them furries.