Furry America?
 "One of the several artists in the Freaks! Movement - that's what I am!" Location: Huntington Beach, California
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I know this may sound off the wall, but I've been imagining a cultural boom in America that takes place somewhere in the 2020's. It begins when mainstream Americans gradually become fascinated with anthropomorphics, like furries are, and that interest builds and builds. Authors may write more stories about anthropomorphic animals, publishers may publish works written by real furries as novels or collections of short stories by different authors, artists may draw anthros, directors may make movies with them in it, and American citizens may display the little bit of furry inside all of them. If more and more stuff about furries enters the mass media today, we may be headed toward this boom. I also know for a fact that the influx of anthropomorphics into the mass media has reached a prodigious height. |
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Location: Rochester,NY,United States
You know, I've had a kind of vision of something like this happening. When I emailed my furry friends for the new year, I told them that this was "The Year of the Furry". It seems that more people get involved with this each year and people raising their kids get involved also. Like where I live not too many people know about furries, but it seems like I'm opening whole new world to my co-workers and my friends. Who knows, maybe in the future one of these people or their kids will become a furry.
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permalinkLocation: Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Ah, I too have had dreams of a future furry utopia. Though my dream is a little different. I usually drift off to sleep and see me standing high atop a pedestal in front of my mighty citadel, clad in black armor. Before me, legions of millions of furries armed to the teeth with the finest military hardware, marching in formation, Strykers roaring past, and A-10's and F22's scream in the sky. All of them saluting me and loading up into C-130's to go forth and spread my furry empire. Mwahahahahaaaaa! I've got alot of work to do.
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permalinkI have dreams of chocolate dragons, in a pool of milk, in the land of Orange.
Go figure...
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permalinkLocation: NJ
Bah! Your technology is obsolete! I shall have Void Ships and quantum reversal bombs by then! The UNIVERSE will be furrified! >:3
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permalinkLocation: Huntington Beach, California
Doesn't sound very democratic, though.
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permalinkLocation: New Brighton, MN, USA
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Does anyone remember an episode of Batman Beyond, where geneticists found a way to temporarily alter someone's DNA to give their bodily features animal characteristics? Say, for instance, cat-like eyes, a tail, fur, scales, et cetera? Like a step ahead of that of a tattoo.
What if we actually did find a way to do this? Would you do it?
If America is getting more and more into anthropomorphics, maybe we're not far off from altering ourselves. Heck, a few of us are already wearing fursuits, animal-like tattoos, and a extreme few get into body alteration (Tiger Man and Lizard Man, to name a few.)
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permalinkLocation: NJ
Yes, I recall that episode. The technology has been salvaged from the lab in the episode where Catwoman was actually made into an anthro cat, which was quite an excellent episode, giving a very poignant warning about such hybridization with the purely artificial anthro being exploited by his creator and finally deciding he didn't belong anywhere.
But, other than surgery, there is no viable way to genetically alter yourself to such a massive degree. Right now they can't really even find a way to do single gene therapy effectively.
For the kind of alteration you're thinking of, it'd require hundreds of genes at least, not to mention some sort of physiological reversion back to a less differentiated state so your skeleton and other features would re-grow into the new form.
Essentially, it's impossible.
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permalinkLocation: Knoxville TN
yeah it is
and if it ever IS possible it would cost insane amounts of cash
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permalinkYou know though, if it were possible, I'd have some insane fun with it. With myself being a dragon, I'd play cat-and-mouse games with Soviet and American radar defense stations. Just fly high enough to come up on radar for a while, then fly nap-of-Earth for a while and see if they send any interceptors. I'd have NORAD on alert every day until they had a squad dedicated to intercepting me (hopefully some F-22s, I WOULD enjoy a challenge).
Maybe fly over to China and buzz some rural areas, where they might worship me as a bringer of luck.
Then I might spend a few days flying low and fast, just for the fun of it. But then I'd go back to pissing off radar installations. And...SAM sites. No day would ever be complete with at least one Wild Weasel mission.
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permalinkLocation: Huntington Beach, California
I'm not really dreaming of bioengineers actually creating anthropomorphic animals. I'm just dreaming of Americans becoming fascinated with them.
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Not only that, but you would probably spend a year or more in the hospital just with surgery. Surgery at that kind of level doesn't take just a few nights or even a few weeks.
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