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camwyn
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I don't mind the stupid-ass quiz only having five or six possible answers. Internet quzzes aren't what you'd call the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, not by any stretch of the imagination. But I'm officially completely tired of the goddamn attitude. 'Congratulations, Internet people! You who have every reason for the rest of the world to think you strange, there are people even stranger than you! Mock the living daylights out of them so that the mundanes have some kind of reason to think you might be redeemable! Or just mock the crap out of them because hey, you want someone around who's less acceptable than you, or because they're an easy target!'
Gods damn it, I like furry stuff. I don't go to cons and I don't have a fursuit- and I probably wouldn't ever get one. (I've done mascot work as Sparky the Fire Prevention Dog. The outfit is big, heavy, uncomfortable, and relies on a nine-volt battery to keep the head ventilated, which doesn't work very well in summer.) But I like furry art, and I like furry comic strips: Kevin and Kell, Nip and Tuck and others by the same author, Commander Kitty (though it hasn't updated in months), Ozy and Millie, and so on. I liked the damn Disney Robin Hood movie.
I also like playing at FurryMUCK- and yes, there is more that goes on there than just random shagging, although frankly I have trouble finding anybody who wants to RP because it seems like everywhere I go, the place is full of people screaming real world politics at each other. I have several characters there, and have considered getting a drawing of one commissioned, although after my last experience with a commission artist I'm a little leery.
Before I get into the yiff issue, I'd just like to say this. My friends list is populated by people who are bisexual, exclusively gay, exclusively heterosexual, polyamorous, into BDSM, and turned off by the prospect of physical touching. The monogamous / het people, so far as I can tell, appear to be in the minority on my friendslist- but given that people like them form such a big segment of real-world American society, one would like to think that the bi/gay/poly/etc. people would have at least enough sympathy for the Perceived Weird-Ass Minority to not go actively mocking them. I'm not talking about advocacy here, I'm talking about not talking about them as if they were a particularly pernicious form of gum disease, okay? 'Ooooh! Someone who thinks an anthropomorphic animal is more appealing than Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie! FILTH! HORROR! SHOCK! Excuse me, I have to go talk to someone I'm attracted to, but that if I admitted this in certain parts of the United States, would get me run out of town on a rail.' Yeah. That's real comforting. Thanks a lot, Internet community.
At any rate, the quiz set me off this morning. I'm going to go take an ibuprofen now; I woke up with a headache and it's not getting any better.
