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Post by Taz Mania on Mar 13, 2018 4:12:35 GMT
I've known two sorts of therians. There are therians who despise fursuits, and therians who love them. The therians who despise fursuits argue that fursuits are like a mockery of therianthropy, while therians who love fursuits explain that putting on a fursuit is like "stepping into your true skin".
What are everyone's thoughts here? Are fursuits a mockery and not something therians should wear? Or are fursuits perhaps a helpful coping mechanism to deal with being animal in a human body? Why or why not?
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kangee
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Theriotype:Coyote like. Kintype:shadow/fae. Gender:none
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Post by kangee on Mar 13, 2018 19:10:38 GMT
Very helpful coping mechanism in my opinion.
I’d love to own a fairly realistic fur suit , tho with the bits I currently got, it’s comforting and freeing. Same reason I love Halloween,
It’s honostly hard to discribe, but it’s like all the built up pressure from having to live a lie every day is released and I am free to be myself, couple that with Halloween and I can be myself and be accepted in public at the same time.
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Post by atlas of mossland on Mar 16, 2018 4:52:32 GMT
Well, I can't speak for any therians as I am not one myself. And I certainly can't tell anyone what they should or shouldn't wear. You do you.
As an animal-person I have a neutral opinion on fursuits overall. My opinion is based entirely on what I personally prefer... and that's mostly based on aesthetic value, haha. I prefer realistic fursuits to cartoonish ones, the more convincing the better, and the more likely I'd be to actually want to try it out. I actually lean more towards a mix of costuming and special effects makeup/prosthetics because that, to me, delivers the most realistic looking transformation. Basically, I'd rather look like a real monster than a giant stuffed animal.
However, with any sort of costuming I always wonder how limited you are physically. Even if I looked 100% like my animal-side via costuming, it doesn't mean much if I can't actually do any animal things. Like running and jumping and other athletic stuff. THAT would make me feel more like my animal-side than any amount of aesthetic fixes.
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Post by Velvet Wings on Mar 16, 2018 13:06:36 GMT
I've never really understood the desire to dress up like my theriotype. It'd never match up with my feline self, ears for example wouldn't move in time with my phantom ears, so it'd be like having a pair of fake ears stuck on over the top of my real (phantom) ears.
I think a lot of it has to do with my self perception and constant phantoms. I know I'm currently a human, but my default base self-perception is feline. I'm a cat. I don't need to dress up like one, I already am one. I can feel my ears and tail, feel the way my claws flex, I feel the wind ruffle through my fur and the way my canine teeth hug my lips. In my mind I always look feline, so I've never felt the need to make myself look more cat when I already am cat.
That said I don't have any issue with people who do like to dress up. I don't see it as a mockery or anything bad. If it helps some people then it's a good thing. Everyone's different.
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