My Message to the Fury Fandom on 20 Jan 2025.

As a furry I am writing this on the inauguration day. Many Furries are being told by political activist the fandom is doom because Trump won. I disagree, if anything Trump inviting the Village People is a hint on his feeling.  In addition, the hoax and entrapment of litterboxes in schools is dead. I heard nothing about the issue of this election cycle from Trump supporters or Republican in my news feeds, compared to 2022 election cycle. There is no call for Gay concentration camps.  

The real issue to me is the LGBTQAS (whatever) went too far to the point of absurdity, or even better observations from Democratic pundits politics from the ivory tower of sexual identity movement, CRT, and DEI, caused a backlash and even drove many typical Democrat working class voters, including Blacks, Latinos, constituents to Trump.  Good luck blocking a working-class voter non furry from your social group or fur cons. See if the non-furry working-class care.

Let me give my solution, be a furry. The furry fandom is about fans of anthropomorphic animals in art, literature and fursuiting. Furry transcends age, sexual orientation, religion, and even politics. That how it was in 2006 when I was a Republican and biblically orthodox Christian who joined the fandom. I talk to many furs that were Gay and not like me because we focused on the furry things we had in common than our political differences. Yes, one can be active in one political cause and be a furry. Just do not push it as a standard and definition to be a furry.

  Let me be blunt to the young whippersnappers. It is way above your pay grade to tell a person who is older than you, younger than you, straight, CIS they cannot be a furry. That wall you want to talk about is outside the room you isolate yourself and see if I notice.    

Just be a Furry.

My Choice trumps Anti AI

I left another anti AI Furry group. They had a Fursona / Fursuit vs real-life going on. They have rules against using AI images, but for me AI did a better job helping to express my idea of my fursona than any artist could or willing to do. So, I am unwilling to recant and left. My self-expression outweighs any false idea that an “artist” an artist is entitled to my business. No entitlement exists in a free market.

Can a Christian Be Furry

Note: Ask Papa Bear, a furry Advice columnist, contacted the moderators on Christian Furry Fellowship Discord server asking for letters on how Christians explain its ok to be a Christian. Regrettably, I could not make the deadline due to work and commuting schedule. Still, I thought it would be a great exercise.

The question How do you, as Christians, explain that it is okay to be a furry?

I would like to answer this question in two parts: As a Christian who believes we all are created in the image of God to be creative and things indifferent that we have liberty in were the bible does not specifically speak.

Now for the case of being created by God to be creative, I will refer to an argument first brough up by Frank Schaeffer the son of Francis Schaeffer, the theologian and philosopher, that we are created in the image of God.

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Furlandia Tosses Writer GOH over AI usage.

Furlandia gives in to Neo Luddite entitled artist.

Furlandia gives in to Neo Luddite entitled artist.

May E Lowd a furry, award-winning writer, and regular fixture at Rainfurest and Furlandia received a rude awaking when she was giving notice she was removed as Writing Guest of Honor. Was her crime, was speaking ill of the LGBTQ in the fandom? Was she a clandestine member of the Furry Raiders, or a MAGA hat touting Trump supporter? No, her only crime was the use of AI for her covers and illustrations. Furlandia act shows the escalation of Cancel Culture.

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AI Art a Gamechanger

AI is a game changer. At work, marketing is switching over from stock photos to AI images. In the furry fandom It allows individuals a way to create their own Fursona without the limitation of gate keeping artist. I have use AI to reimagine Acton.  My reason is I am dissatisfied with the mediocre state of art in the furry fandom. I have grown tired of the quick buck chucks who have not gone pass pushing mass produced twentysomething looking, toony eyed, grinning, badge, YCH, and adopts. AI is going shake up or as in the Artist need to be better than AI (take an art class or an apprenticeship) or give a needed shake out easy money illustrators with a drawing tablet.

One fallacious argument that bothers me is that AI Art steals art. Tell me has any artist one day without seeing a furry, take pen to paper or digital pad and out pops a furry drawing. For most artists, the drawing of furries doesn’t not come without observing the art of others and nature. AI duplicates the Artist leaning and producing art process.

Finally, there is something artists cannot deny, the concept of Creative Destruction a market system. This is the concept as we Innovate, obsolete methods and job will go away or evolve. For example, an entire photo-film industry has disappeared, as society went from photo film cameras to digital cameras to smart phones.