are you gonna share with the class?

Whitefonted for the delicate flowers amongst all y'all:

Furries are, you know, furries. Some of them like to dress up as animals (sometimes giant stuffed animals, sometimes more realistic dress-up). Some of them like to have sex (with other humans) while so dressed. It's primal, transgressive, connected to some deep lower-mammal or high idealized self they can't access at other times.

Plushies like to have sex with their stuffed animals. Not people dressed like stuffed animals (not that they're ruling that out; they like teh sex with teh humans, too, but the particular plushie who wrote these FAQs made pro-human-sex noises without specifying any garb), but the actual stuffed animals. FAQ Guy asks, "What could be more natural? Everything about stuffed animals, their softness, cuddliness, cuteness, is designed to be loved." Also, you should be sure to wash them and comb out their fur after sex, unless you like them all messy, and if you're out shopping and see an animal you can't live without you may want to stock up on extras for that inevitable time when you need to retire the first.

Any questions, class?

What would you classify someone who likes to dress up as one of the Teletubbies as? The former, right?

What would you classify someone who likes to dress up as one of the Teletubbies as? The former, right?

I think so. The latter don't seem that interested in dressing up themselves (or, at least, the one representative of the latter who wrote those FAQs), just in the plush state of their beloveds.

What would you classify someone who likes to dress up as one of the Teletubbies as?

(There's a reason why I got PETE WENTZ IS A FURRY, TRUFAX up on the text message screen at my last FOB concert, dude.)

Wouldn't dressing up as a Teletubbie be considered cosplay?

I love that Minearverse is hosting a furries v. plushies debate.

(There's a reason why I got PETE WENTZ IS A FURRY, TRUFAX up on the text message screen at my last FOB concert, dude.)

I wasn't naming names!

(But, yeah, painfully obvious who I was talking about! Teletubbies? PETE. GIANT FREAKING RABBITS? Patrick. Such. Enormous. DORKS.)

I think it depends why you're dressing up as a Teletubbie.

Considering that it's Pete Wentz, I'm not sure I really want to know, you know? That road leads to exploding heads and hysterical giggling.

At this point, I feel compelled to share this highly amusing chart: [link]

(no pictures, though the content isn't exactly something I would want my boss seeing over my shoulder)