why's I the only one here w/ a fursona

Obā-san

it's 2017 get with the times

Section42L

I would make a crabsona, but I don't know how to draw or design one.

Viani

I need help trying to figure out mine

Klinotaxis

i don't even have a self-image for my actual body, let alone another one

DYRE

okay

Bee

Section42L said:

I would make a crabsona, but I don't know how to draw or design one.

Give it lots of knives and rocket launchers.

Imipolex G

I've thought of drawing my fursona, but the fact that I can't draw gets in the way.

Bee

Bee said:

Section42L said:

I would make a crabsona, but I don't know how to draw or design one.

Give it lots of knives and rocket launchers.

Here I'll get you started

Section42L

No Thanks.

Imipolex G

that is pretty cool, you should be that.

DYRE

So actually.

I skimmed the WikiFur article about fursonas but maybe getting opinion from an individual is better: what's general consensus about how much your fursona should line up with your actual personality and/or self-image. Like, is it more typical for it to be just like "This is a character I like RPing as" or is it usually more like "Literally me but as a sexy foxdragon", or somewhere in between, or does it vary enough to not matter?

Anonus

I'm pretty sure mine is some sort of feisty prey animal like a deer

Tatterhood

I  should make a seal fursona to protest this forum's disturbing lack of respect for seals

Viani

It's purely aesthetic.

Be whatever you want to be, not what is logical or makes the most sense.

Unless its humankin. Literally doesn't make sense.

Odradek

You could be a turtle

Or Kiefer Sutherland

Bee

Odradek said:

Or Kiefer Sutherland

So, Apatosaurus?

Viani

I really like the Liopleurodon, the Giganotosaurus and the Spinosaurus but none of them can be properly anthropomorphized

Odradek

Bee said:

Odradek said:

Or Kiefer Sutherland

So, Apatosaurus?

You know what I do sometimes, something that's fun

Is draw Kiefer Sutherland as an Apatosaurus, as a turtle

That's called using your imagination kids

Sredni Vashtar

DYRE said:

So actually.

I skimmed the WikiFur article about fursonas but maybe getting opinion from an individual is better: what's general consensus about how much your fursona should line up with your actual personality and/or self-image. Like, is it more typical for it to be just like "This is a character I like RPing as" or is it usually more like "Literally me but as a sexy foxdragon", or somewhere in between, or does it vary enough to not matter?

An idealised version of oneself, usually. Whatever projects "you" to you.

Obā-san

yeah, it's a kinda mental extension of the self that means different things to different people