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Honestly not even bad life advice...
You might not get somebody's POV, you might think it's weird or bizarre, hell you might have no fucking clue how they got there, but the end of the day, as long as they're not harming other people in the process, does it matter how they view the world?
Being exposed to all different walks of life is a good thing, no matter whether it's Tumblr fetishes or real-world diversity. There's a reason that higher education leads people to be less bigoted, and this is a big part of it.
Edit: Just adding on. I know myself I used to be a lot more close-minded than I am now, and I credit going to university with that - as said above, it opened my mind to different POVs and walks of life. Albeit I'm still not quite ready for whatever fetish pooltoys involves haha
- This. I keep following many kinks in the fediverse, but I'm just a quite normie gay cis man myself. It's important to understand how different people are, and be ok with that.
  
  It’s important to understand how different people are, and be ok with that.
  You don't even need to understand, just respect.
- Weird opinion of mine; of the major varieties of porn, furry porn is significantly less objectionable.
  Live Action: major sex trafficking issues, "revenge porn"
  Hentai: its drawn and actual people arent harmed, but what the actual fuck is with Japans r@pe and child fetishes?!
  Furry porn: it's drawn; you get some of the same awful stuff as hentai but it's heavily frowned upon by the community and much easier to filter out.
  
  Yeah, it’s just a little too close to beastiality.

Degeneracy is the lifeblood of a healthy online space, and furries are the canaries of enshittification. If the furries are gone or too well behaved, it's a sign of a dying platform.
- As a wise Tumblrite once said:
  The rats are fleeing the sinking ship
  The wolves are fleeing the sinking ship
  The dragons are fleeing th

Every time I hear about a kink I don't know, I am compelled to look it up. I have to know, I'm hungry for this knowledge
- Here, the pool toy furs are kinda cute. I'm personally not into it as a kink, but they're cute
  Edit: ~~add "order:score" or "order:favcount" to the search terms (for an example, "pool_toy rating:safe order:score") if you want to sort by total score or number of times favorited.~~ replaced e621 link with e926 so you can't accidentally disable the SFW filter (just replace e926 with e621 in the URL if you want the naughty pics). Also added "animate_inanimate" and "order:favcount". The latter can be replaced with "order:score" if you'd prefer to filter by user score.
  
  few words of advice:
  e621 has a sister site called e926.net that's basically just e621 with a hardcoded rating:safe filter,
  and you should always add either order:score or order:favcount at the end of the search because by default it's sorted from newest post to last and new posts can have mistakes including missing solely needed tags or having the wrong rating.
  
  Mossy, don't take this the wrong day, but I'm laughing at the idea of you first looking at this post and thinking "I know someone is going to have questions about this and goddamnit I have the answers"
  Thank you for your service
  
  Cheers, appreciate the dedication :)

My reaction to Sounding was "this is just like a different flavour of pegging, this makes sense to exist"
- My first reaction was "Ouch". My second reaction was "yeah of course that's a thing"
- My reaction was "this is deeply unsettling and probably a good way to get a UTI, but whatever"
  
  My reaction was "not my dick, not my problem".
  
  20 years of sounding, never had a UTI.
  
  As long as you sterilize your equipment and use proper sterile medical lubricant, not much risk for UTIs actually
- I don't remember what my first reaction was. I think I was around 7 or 8 and bored... now I have a life-long kink of stuffing rods in my penis... 🤷🏼‍♂️

Apologies to any furries, or other kin who might be reading and feel hurt, but I genuinely don't get how you feel the way you do. BUT
I also don't HAVE to "get it" to know it's who you are, it's part of your identity, and even if I wanted to change it I couldn't.
Be as "weird" or "normal" or "kinky" or "reserved" as you want to be. It's none of my business. It's none of anyone's business except yours.
All the bullshit fear mongering hatred is so fucking stupid. "oh look they are wearing something that helps them feel closer to who they are, that makes me angry!" like Bruh.... There are much more important things to worry about. Like how the country is going to implode in the next 4 years because half the US is bigoted pieces of shit who want a bigoted piece of shit in charge, and they LITERALLY want to wipe out people like this.....
Fuck outta here with bullshit divisive hatred over something as trivial as "they're a furry/something not cishetero/whatever"
Be a furry. Be ungovernable. Be whatever you are. To hell with republican hangups.
- I'm a big fan of the maxim that how people talk about furries tells you a LOT about how deep their progressive ideals actually run.
  There are way too many self proclaimed leftists who either want to or feel compelled to reflexively shit on furries, because they're the designated punching bags that it's OK to mock. This, despite the fact that furries aren't harming anyone.
  I don't get furry kinks. I don't get spending thousands of dollars on a fursuit. I don't get the fursona thing. I do know enough to know that for most furries it's not a kink, furry porn is only consumed by a very small subset of the community, and a lot of self-identified furries probably can't afford a fursuit.
  But most of all, I know they're not hurting anyone. So who the fuck cares what they do with their time and money, or how they get off, or fucking whatever? It's none of my god damn business.
  I hope every furry is having a good time, and I hope you all get an abundance of head pats.
  And I wish that the so-called leftists who keep punching down on them would find someone actually worth shitting on to be mean to instead.
  Like Nazis. It's always good to be mean to Nazis.
  
  I don’t disagree with the sentiment. BUT, being economic left doesn’t have anything to do with accepting furries..
  Lib left, lib right ~ those are the political ideologies who should be in favor and support of liberal ideals (such as “be whoever and whatever you want to be as long as it’s not hurting someone else”).. It has nothing to do with the economic left

The most pragmatic view is “how does this affect me? It doesn’t? Who cares.”
- Something doesn't have to affect you personally for it to be evil and need to be stopped, that's how allyship works.
  A better way to look at it would be "is this harming anyone? It isn't? Who cares." (with the clear understanding that fighting back against oppression is self defence, not initiating harm)
  
  100% agree. My comment was more about how much easier it would be for someone who isn’t moved by compassion to just not be a gaping asshole by going “not my issue.”
  My personal feelings are that there are people I care about who have aspects to them I don’t understand and that doesn’t keep me from caring about them or believing they have the same rights as anyone else to live their lives in a way that expresses their complete selves. Attempts to harm them because of who they are are wrong and I will always fight against those who want to keep people from being their true selves.

Or you can just BE the weird horny furry. Everyone else will feel so normal and tame compared to the degen shit you beat your meat too!
- I think the weird ones with the horns are usually called Scalies. Wait no I suppose goats exist... Carry on.
  Jokes aside this comment made me laugh so hard because before I figured out I was ace and was still forcing myself to keep up a "normal" sex drive for my ex the only porn that did it for me was the super degenerate kind. So for the longest time I thought I had just a bunch of weird fetishes but in reality I was just so asexual that it was indistinguishable from a severe porn addiction like some Degenerate Horseshoe Theory.
  So I guess the point is just: Become Ungovernable. Beat your meat to Furry Porn

Should I Google otherkin? I don't mind learning about other people's kinks, but I recently saw the pictures of the dude who finished in a shoe box every time, and now I'm more careful with what I search all willy nilly.
- Otherkin, or therians, are not a kink. They're folks that believe themselves on a spiritual level to have the spirit of something else (animal spirits).
  
  Therian here: It's like dysphoria about your species.
- otherkins and therians aren't a kink, they're people who like to think of themselves as non-human, usually animals but it's possible for them to be robots or AIs too.
  also safe search is pretty good nowdays, save for some unpredictable algorithmic fuckup the days of looking up blue waffles and getting hit with diseased vaginas are over
  Some may object over being called people but i can't think of any other word that wouldn't have me repeating myself

Pooltoys?
- specifically characters that are pooltoys, as in made of air-filled smooth squeaky plastics
- Pool toy transformation is a whole thing. I don't quite see the appeal either, although I can see it as a hybrid between latex kink (via the shiny and smooth "skin") and doll kink (which in turn is related to D/s). It seems to be mostly a furry thing.
  
  Why pool toys in particular? Is it just because they're human sized? Is Helen Parr once again responsible?

Pool toys, like inflatables? I guess that's one way to practice safe sex
- no no the character is themselves a pool toy
  
  But they float in a pool, right? That's safety, baby
  
  Standard furniture kink, just in water? Sounds like fun. I'm curious about buoyancy though.

Not a furry, but I do have a TF fetish. Using furry websites exposed me to the good and bad sides of furries and ultimately has, I believe, led me to more critically think about the nature of online rhetoric when it comes to repressed identities and over-expressed identities.
I'm given to believe that a big draw of fursuiting, for example, is that they can be whoever they want in public. They can bear the whips and arrows of scorn because they're in a silly badger costume and don't give a single fuck about anyone else's opinion about what they do with their time and money and bodies legally in public.
I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some kernel of resentment against the ability to be who you want to be without fear of societal pressure that can cause a kind of overcorrection on other end that just pushes people into blind rage.
"Ha'ak! How can you even look at it! You let her," and Vimes had seldom heard a word sprayed with so much venom, "her flaunt herself, here! And it's happening everywhere because people have not been firm, not obeyed, have let the old ways slide! Everywhere there are reports. They're eating away at everything dwarfish with their... their soft clothes and paint and beastly ways. How can you be King and allow this? Everywhere they are doing it and you do nothing! Why should they be allowed to do this?" Now [they were] sobbing. "I can't!"
Terry Pratchett, slightly modified to prevent spoilers, The Fifth Elephant.

Yeah, you gotta look at a few whitekitten posts from time to time, just to keep yourself grounded