So. I have this thing.
I've been referring to it as my fursona for a little over a year now. I love it very dearly, and it is, clearly, a cat. However, it is also clearly a robot with a pink G3 iMac as a head. No fur in sight. So I ask you, dear reader--does my fursona, HTTPS, actually count as a "furry", and if not, what do I call it?
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It MAY be closer to a protogen? But at the same time, not really the same design. For all I care, it's a ROBO-FURRY, which is still a FURRY, but also a ROBO.
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i do think that qualifies as a furry yeah. also responding to the previous message: protogens are a specific species in the furry fandom, not any furry that like has a screen or whatever is one.
- the guy who will die on the hill that spongebob is a furry
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it’s clearly some variety of furry, I don’t actually know what the rules on robots are. nice design though.
This is some straight up delirious biznasty, Dawg!!
Theres not really a super strict criteria you gotta fit so yeah if you want it to be robo furry I don't see why it wouldn’t count
That's it, I'm gonna do what I should have done a long time ago.
I'm going to beat him to death with this hammer.
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it is furry yeah, but if we want to split hairs it kinda leans more postfurry
https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Postfurry
(I still can’t get over how the example/first person listed is the woman running the masto instance I’m on lmao)
This is an awesome design. I think as long as it meets the criteria of "is represented as an animal" and "is bipedal" it can be a furry regardless on if it's a robot or not.
the real question is if a anti-fur would call you a slur if they saw it
@tokaliz
bipedalism is not a requirement for furry, only anthropomorphism. I tend to think of it as a scale, with with pure animal on one side, pure human on the other side, and the middle is like fully 50/50 creatures. Things closer to the animal side but still anthro are typically called “feral” but I never liked that term for it. I think it gives a poor impression. Characters in this range include: Simba Lion King, the critters in a Beatrix Potter book, early Garfield, any pokemon in a PMD setting. the core body plan is still primarily of the Creature but they speak, emote, potentially wear clothes, and/or have a society similar to ours.
On the flip side something that is more human but with slight animal features (ie kemonomimi) is actually Zoomorphic - applying animal features to things that aren’t animals.
Postfurry tends to exist outside the scale and involves multiple of these things, playing with the idea of what is a Furry and where the limits are.
Re: twistedtimeline
Asking the real questions, and raising a good point... Yeah probably.