The body odor must be intense.
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Oh, there's a fairly established market of fursuit cleaner/fragrances that are a mixture of alcohol and scent. Some of them smell really nice (think Bath & Body Works, not high class perfume). There's also been a lot more attention given in the past decade or so to making washable suits. You'll definitely get people who smell like an anime convention, but at this point it's by choice and not because suits are uncleanable. But if someone is taking normal care of their fursuit you should only be able to smell it if you're actually wearing the head, which is a pain to clean.
Well I learn something new every day. I never considered that that fursuits had an ancillary fragrance industry. Huh.
There is also the ancillary cooling vest industry, that actually got successful enough to spin off into its own thing outside furry.
For real, fursuits are basically heat traps and the air in airplanes isn't exactly the best. Not to mention no access to showers in the plane (frequent showers are a must if you wear a costume) makes it even worse
REALLY SEALS IN THE FLAVOR!
Opened the thread just to say "can you imagine the smell on that plane?"
Not a subculture I have even the slightest understanding of, but hey..you do you.
My wife's good friend came out recently as a furry, and while she's a really cool person, I cringe over some of her social media posts involving the fur suit. I'm just astonished that she'd post that where her poor grandma is going go see it. They're certainly a proud people.
It’s my understanding it’s not inherently sexual, is it? I mean I know that’s what we see a lot of online but I didn’t think they were all horny about it. So for some portion is just kinda like LARPing?
I know there is sexual elements to some of it, but not all of it. I have no idea how to tell the difference.
As far as I have heard, if someone is making social posts about a fursuit, it is almost certainly just a normal costume.
The fandom is not based in any way on NSFW, all that content is just a consequence of rule 34 and the fact that the fandom is one of the largest fandoms online and exists mainly thanks to the internet and art. Also any irl sexual activity rarely involves a mursuit (sexual fursuit) because there's no desire and they're expensive (even a normal fursuit can reach $10000 pretty quickly).
Also it's generally agreed on that "coming out as a furry" is not really a thing, being a furry is just a hobby (or a job for some) not a sexuality, not a gender, just a hobby
Thinkpad stock prices after plane crash
It never occurred to me that packing for a furry con with those giant costume heads must be interesting. Imagine going through customs with that.
Most people pack an extra suitcase just for the fursuit. Some people have fancy custom foam cutouts to hold them in place to make sure they aren't damaged during travel, but chucking it in there with some padding will usually do the job.
I imagine it's not that different than,say, a drag queen packing.
Back when I used to party I knew a guy that would take a school bus converted into a ball pit across the Canada-US border to Burning Man. Imagine that search. He said it usually took 24 hours to get across. I don't know why they let him through tbh, I'd just nope him right back to Canada.
The smell must be tremendous.
Thanks, Keith!
boards plane
Nope.
unboards plane
I don't quite understand this point of view. I'd be much more likely to nope out of a plane if I saw a Dixie flag and a group of guys like me muttering to themselves..
May it cause nightmares? Perhaps, but I'd feel safe and cozy in this plane..
TIL the treason rag is sometimes referred to as the Dixie Flag
I'd leave mainly because smell: That would be super gross.
Maybe that's what that lady saw.
Honestly I'd prefer it to be a skinwalker
I know a lot of tech people in my area and a lot of them are furries.
It's weird how sharply split they are between (potential) comrades 
and some extreme chuds, though. 
It's collectively safer than if these furries were all individually driving to their convention
If I was a fur suit maker, I'd be integrating positive ventilation or liquid cooling.
Some do, but that increases the thousands that go into a suit to begin with.
Designated furry survivor
Forgot which community this was and thought the title was implying that there was some kind of rule for IT professionals to be furries
Indeed there isn't such a rule the other option is trans/nonbinary/femboy, heck even cishetnormie but you have to wear the socks.
So that's why all my programming has been such pos lately, i wasn't wearing the socks!
You were correct the first time.
Hey, they all wore a mask. Good on them.
They're all gonna be burnin up when the air in that cabin starts to heat up, no thank you.
God I can only imagine the smell of 100s of unwashed fursuits and basement nerds crammed into the plane.
IT is already a smelly career. IT and furry? That's a biological weapon.
Thems fighting words.. put up yet paws!