how to be a furry:fursona

Gender, preference, and species

One's gender, in the furry fandom, need not match one's actual gender. In fact, it's completely normal to be a transgendered bisexual crossdressing woman who was born a man. In the fandom, one's gender and sexual preference determines one's species(see handy table below). One may attempt to create one's own species(see sidebar), but this is not reccomended and should only be attempted by trained professionals. However, crossing a standard species with demons or angels is technically okay.

Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you attempt to use any amphibian, bird, insect, or fish species, save as trait sources for a hybrid or original species. Strictly mammals and reptiles.

female	herm			male
all prefs.	dickgirl	butch	boi	gay(seme)/bi	gay(uke)/bi	straight
foxes, rabbits, small cats	same as females, but with dragons and unicorns	same as seme males	same as uke males	dragons, wolves, dogs, horses, large cats	small cats, rabbits, dragons	good luck, buddy

dickgirl

Essentially a female with a penis above her vagina. Usually without testicles.

butch herm

A heavily muscled male with feminine waist, hips, breast, and vagina. Less common than dickgirls.

boi herms

Effete males with vaginas. Almost never used.

Seme males

A term taken from anime; used to refer to the dominant male in a homosexual relationship. In this case, used to refer to fursonas that are dominant males, which are usually bristling with muscle and have genetalia large enough for small children to play on.(see below) Also know as the "top".

Uke males

The converse of the seme male. Also taken from anime, this term is used to describe the submissive, or "bottom" in a relationship. In furry fandom, usually somewhat effete, with standard-sized genetalia.

Straight male

An urban legend

One impotant thing to remember is that you can tack on features that are biologically impossible later, and no one will question it.

Colour scheme

Most furry color schemes involve a series of three colors; The main color, a secondary color used for details, and another color used for even finer details. Usually, but not necessarily, the design incorporates black or white somewhere. Generally, the design uses the primary color as the general fur/skin.scale color,
the secondary color for any large areas that are different from the primary color, including most of the hair,
and the tertiary color for any markings, differing hair color, and eye color.
Somefurs occasionally go with only two colors. for this to work, one of the colors hould be bright, and the other dark.
A good place to find color groups is in those types of candy advertised on Cartoon Networkespecially if it's shaped like a ribbon or string.A handy-dandy body types template you can use has also been provided.

Your "thing"

For one to have a fursona that everyone will remember, one's fursona needs to have a "thing"; a unique, visual statement identifying it as yours. Unique, that is, until the fanfurs copy it. But with furries, the rule of creative primacy is everything; no one remembers the horde of copycats, just the first few.

Your "thing" can be anything; a particular color scheme, marking pattern, piece of clothing, or accessory. Only one rule applies; it must be distinctive. Else one will disappear into the hordes of furry masses. And you wouldn't want that, would you? One of the most effective "things" one can make is a simple altering of a commonly found object into something else. Usually oversized pieces of jewelry. Weapons can't be "things" because one generally can't use them for sex, and everyfur has cool weapons automatically, usually given to them by their parents on their deathbed.

For example, imagine wearing a giant Prince Albert around one's neck. Imagine the inherent irony, a genital peircing being trivialised to something as mundane as jewelry. Even better; imagine it was the ring on a slave collar. Oh, the paradox! A symbol of submission with it's power sundered! Oh, the juxtaposition! The irony! The statement on man's inhumanity toward man!

Another good "thing" is a generally unregarded species. For example, Holly "Zer" Ramirez used a Lemur for her fursona. Within months, one couldn't move for lemur furs. And plenty of them copied her color scheme, too.

Here are some examples of "things".

biolumonescent lure thingies, like certain deap-sea fishes have	early 2000s	Kasai
breathplay	late 2005	among others, Micahfennec
lemur fursonas	early 2000s	Holly "Zeriara" Ramirez
seraphim-like headwings	2003	Aary Kitty
and I'm dry.	please help	eggrolljonn/gmail.com

As a convenience, I provide a list of heretofore unclaimed "things". First come, first-served.

• prince Albert around one's neck
• slave collar with loop on a long chain.
• any mutation of bondage stuff
• blind furry who sees by sound
• blindfolds
• slave collar on ankle
• anything medical that doesn't restrict movement
• non-pink tongue
• black trenchcoats
• insect furs
• please contribute

Remember, it is important to grumble as more and more fanfurs imitate your "thing", though that was the intention in the first place. Eventually, you'll have to leave the fandom because of all "the idea-stealing jerks in it".

Clothing & accessories

A fursona's clothes are one of the most important aspects of it, after their "thing" and their genitalia. Generally, a fur can wear whatever they want, and it will still "barely" contain some attribute or another, whether it's one's "threateningly large" penis, one's "wide, curvy" hips, or one's "full, lucious[sic]" breasts. Fur-clothing has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.

A good rule of thumb for male furs is to wear a black trenchcoat and a katana. Nevermind the actual practicality of such a thing; your fursona will have a katana, and it will be given to him by a relative or martial arts tutor on their deathbed. Both sexes can wear mysterious pendants, given to them by same. Female and herm furs always wear at least one item of really tight clothing, no matter how uncomfortable it would actually be. The only tight clothing male furs wear is pants.

Be sure to have your fursona wearing at least one item of clothing that matches their color scheme, and that they wear predominantly. Most fursonas wear jeans and t-shirts.

Genitalia

Your genitalia can be informally described as "what's in your pants". Since this, in the fandom, can range from a penis, to a vagina, to varying combinations of the two. In this fandom, genetalia includes dicknipples, tailcocks, pricktongues, and so on. Above all, it must be oversized, and it must be able to make objects of your affection fall at your crotch if you so desire. Logic, practicality, and the laws of space and time are no barrier to your almight humps. Your sexy little lumps. Your lovely furry lump.

Your clothes have no bearing on your genitalia. Fursonas, as mentioned earlier, have the miraculous ability to make any piece of clothing stretch to accomadate their junk. They can even make ordinarly loose clothing tight around the crotch and/or breasts. For the purposes of this tutorial, several non-reproductive areas are catagorized as genitalia.

Penis

One's penis must either be realistically sized, or stretching up to-or past-one's abs. Uke's are usually realistic. Semes are usually not. In fact, if you're a seme, being able to touch your nipples with your dick is known as "undersized". And don't worry that you'll be accused of "compensating". All furries have small dicks. Dickgirls are also expected to have large dicks. The better to buttpunch you with, my dear.

For no reason, a penis the size of a limb can be stored in a nearly-invisible sheath. Several herms' junks are actually effectively invisible unless they're aroused.

Vagina

Eyes are drawn to it, even through clothes. Always dripping and/or moist. Always. Even through pants. Then can also hold penises large enough to require an extra airline seat.

Breasts

Always D-cups or larger.

Waist/abs

On girls, dickgirls and Ukes, slim and girlish. In both herms and Semes, rippling with muscle.

Hair

For no real reason, the hair on furs head is often completely different from that on the rest of the body. Usually of differing colour and/or length, regarless of whether the given species even has hair on their body. Most common is Sephiroth-style hair or emo hair, to match one's t-shirt. It is entirely possible for one's hair to have biological-streaks, with no aid of dye.

Eyes

Either "soul-piercing", "smoking", "deep" and/or "mysterious", or "entrancing". Heck, try 'em all.

Once you've combined these into a suitable fur, it's time to determine one's fetishes.

Fetishes

Note: This section will be moved to another page, and is included here because said page hasn't been built yet and I'm lazy. The Furry Fandom has, arguably, the most tolerant view of fetishes I've ever seen. Got a Nazi fetish? Done. Think porings are kinky? Pics waiting for ya, even though you may have to venture onto Japanese sites for those. An oft quoted rule is that "no matter how horrible the image, someone, somewhere, is jerking off to it". There is undoubtedly an alt.sex.deadkittens newsgroup.

The reason I mention this is that you can become "furmous" from creating and exploiting a certain fetish, no matter what it is.

You mean like drawing art of said fetish, posting it in communities dedicated to said fetish, and "casually" mentioning that one does commissions?

Exactly.

Sounds good. So, how do I choose a fetish?

Watch VCL for a few days, and pick up on whatever's easy to draw. Then draw a lot of your fursona doing it.

Got it. Anything else.

If you draw a particular fetish well enough, you may actually become legitimately good at it. You'll also need to become irritated at the people stealing your work, and eventually leave the Fandom.

Name

As a general rule, your fursona should have a name that includes its biological class (EG: dog, cat). If your fursona is a dark and/or angsty male(go for both, just to be safe), make sure to include "dark", "raven", or "blood" in their name. More rarely, add "blade", "fang", or "death". If he's a vampire, add "Alucard". Females and tend to have adjectives or occupation names as the start of their furnames, combined with the name of their class. E.G.: PlayfulMonkey, ShiningKitty, DataentryDrake, SyphiliticWolfen.

Syphil-?

Tribal names are also hot. Use this namegen to come up with a perfectly good furry name. Try African, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Welsh, Theology, and Ancient Celtic. Got all of this done? Good, you're ready to move on.