#the fandom is vastly different from tiktok to tumblr lol

[katnissandpeetamellark]

I saw someone say it was weird the fashion was so different from TBOSAS to THG

like it’s been 60 years do you really think they’d have stayed the same ?

[peoplegettingreallymadatfurries]

hi I've been denying that im a furry for years and im still denying it anyway how do I get more involved with the furry community, just of course without being a furry absolutely not nope

(genuine question cos I actually wanna get more involved with it lol)

One start I would suggest is making a furry sideblog. Really! This helps separate it for you rather than becoming vastly involved in creating a sona, making a fursuit, or anything else. This sideblog is your creation. You can use it to just reblog art you like. You can easily just delete it if you get overwhelmed, and it won't have a whole lot of repercussions. Maybe you could make it a gimmick blog of sorts, and just say "furries fascinate me, but I'm not interested in becoming one." Ultimately, this is one of the ways you can participate, and though I participated in this concept as a furry, that was the role my two furry accounts on tumblr started out as. This blog alone was going to be a parody of furry hate and isitfurbait was always meant to be pretentious and faux-academic.

Another way I could suggest you getting involved in fandom stuff is to join furry discord and telegram chats. There are a plethora of completely sfw ones that may be open to having a newcomer who just wants to see where the passion is and what follows. Sure you could join the nsfw servers, and some sfw servers have hidden channels for it, but you really don't have to be involved with the sexual stuff if you don't want to. These servers can help you establish connection. I found my current roommate from one of these. I also found my boyfriend of 3 years from these. You can just meet people who are very kind and well-meaning. They may be confused by someone who's choosing to remain an outsider, but you can still be there, as long as you show respect to your surroundings.

Other social media sites like twitter and tiktok (though the field is always changing) have very strong furry communities you can support. Just like before, if you want to just interact with people but not make characters of your own to exist as, that is fully fine. You get different flavors of people everywhere you go, and you get to learn how people live. Of course there's the joke of like "oh all furries are tech gurus and doctors in order to afford these things" when in reality, most furries are just service workers who budget differently.

You don't have to take any of the advice here from this post. If anything, you could just keep your likes page secret and hit like on every piece of furry art you enjoy. It's all up to you. Your life is partly what you make of it, and I hope you find a way to enjoy it