Now I kind of understand why people
think furries are creepy...
People who have been following this
blog and/or the things I write for That
Guy With The Glasses have probably known, or at least had some
idea, for awhile that I'm something of a furry. For the moment, I'll
leave anyone who's curious about what that means to look it up for
themselves. For the most part, I'm a fairly normal guy, all things
considered.
Now, when I say normal, I mean that I
generally like to stick to anthropomorphic characters that are
created and/or already established as such. Since I also consider
myself to be straight, this also means female characters along the
lines of, just to state a few stereotypical favorites here, Minerva
Mink from Animaniacs; Rouge
the Bat from the recent Sonic the Hedgehog games, comics, and
anime; Krystal of Star Fox fame;
and Digimon favorite Renamon.
Since these characters were already
designed as they are and have at least become fairly well established
over the years, I never saw much reason to say that guys like me are
creepy. After all, at least part of the intent of the characters
I've mentioned above was to play to shy, nerdy guys like myself, and
they've done their jobs outstandingly.
But something unusual happened today.
See, I was watching a blog by a guy called Spoony on
his site while I had my lunch. The subject, in
this case, was one of the weirdest role-playing arcs he'd ever
been a game master for, but that's only tangential to this story.
As most of Spoony's followers probably
already know, last week, he got himself a dog that he named Oreo
because of a big round patch of black or brown fur on her back.
For those of you who might have been
wondering, yes, this is where it gets creepy, but not for the reasons
you might think. All the same, though, I'd recommend that those of
you who can see where this is going and are prone to not handling
ideas like this well stop reading now.
It didn't occur to me as I watched
Spoony play with Oreo as he told his story. It was quite interesting
to listen to the man talk about one of the most unique role-playing
scenarios I'll probably ever get to hear about. The weird idea
didn't start to turn up until I was off doing things with the rest of
the day.
While I was out running errands and on
my way over to visit my parents for awhile, my mind began to wander,
and I started thinking that it would be kind of cool if there was an
anthropomorphised version of Oreo. She strikes me as the kind of dog
that would make a great furry character. Not quite sure why that is,
but there you go.
And, no, just in case anyone's
wondering, I'm not going to attempt fan art to that effect. Even if
it is a creepy idea, it deserves to be done by someone with more
artistic talent than me.
I find the idea a bit creepy because
this is actually the first time I've looked at a real live animal and
wondered what it would look like anthropomorphised. It seems a
little weird to me to be having this sort of idea about somebody
else's pet. Hell, it seems messed up to think about any pet in that
way.
In the end, I have to wonder if this is
the sort of thing Weird Al was thinking of when he wrote and
performed Do I Creep You Out?
In a lot of cases, I'm sure I do, and
I'm sure I'll be hearing about it soon, and for a good long time.
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