furry trainwrecks

Who: Fuzzworks Fursuits/Darby Deer

Where: Facebook. You can view there very packed trello here: https://trello.com/b/c0ua8utY/fursuits

What: a pair of fursuit feet

When: First payment was September 30th, 2016 and I am still experiencing issues to this day.

Explanation: I ordered a pair of feet from Fuzzworks. Its been damn near impossible to get a hold of them. They also jam pack their schedule and do a lot of trades with others and constantly travel to cons. After poking Darby a few times I made a beware on Facebook, which turned into a storm of white knights and Darby asking me to remove the post. I did, hoping I would finally get some process on my feet and nothing.

I then asked Darby to make the feet for Furnal Equinox and then I can just pick them up there from her to make things easier on her part. I also ordered a Bandana from her, which she never shipped and I had to pick up from FE as well. I’m still currently waiting on a refund and it’s been over 2 weeks since she said she would refund me. Fuzzworks has a history of bad customer service and not giving their clients updates. People were telling me its normal to wait almost a year for products from them or no communication. Do not commission these people. They are constantly asking for trades too, which they don’t even have time to do with how stacked they are with commissions. They also made a post once they offered the refund that I “canceled” my slot.

Proof: here you will find my conversation, transactions from paypal, and posts from others regarding Fuzzworks >>> https://imgur.com/a/0Fces

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This is 0% surprising, tbh. Blix has always been awful with customer service and I think it’s rubbing off on Darby.

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While I wouldn’t classify the maskimals as a fursuit piece (because i define fursuit stuff as something custom made, exclusive to the furry fandom), they don’t exactly break any fursuit parade rules!

TBH, I don’t care either way. People were wearing the horse masks when they were popular with sentai bodysuits and no one cared. They’ll probably do the same with the maskimals. 

Okay, so, here’s the thing.

This blog showcases a portion of what the furry fandom is like. It’s not indicative of the fandom as a whole. At least, not these days. 15-20 years ago, yeah, you might’ve shown up at a furry meet as the only person who’s bathed in a week and doesn’t have cheeto stains smeared across their cargo shorts. 

(listen i say this as i shove cheetos into my maw, okay. cheetos are great. cheeto stains are not.)

But here, in the year of our Lord, 2017? You’re more likely to find a bunch of normal looking folks, some people who definitely are a little weird and socially awkward but still chill, and a few grease-stained maladjusted Furries™.

As someone who’s been going to cons off and on for, like, ten years now, the scenery has changed and, as a whole, furries tend to be either better looking these days and/or better well kept and more sociable and friendly.

(imo, at least. there’s still a plethora of your stereotypical looking furry, but tbh, also tend to look like your stereotypical nerd kid just with the addition of ears and a tail)

If you’re worried about your local fandom members, do some research! If you live in an area that has meets, there’s probably some kind of web presence like a Telegram or a Facebook group. See if you’d want to interact with them and, tbh, if you don’t, that’s okay! There’s a lot of local people where I live that I don’t want to interact with. But, chances are, you’ll find a few cool folks who are easy to talk to and aren’t full force furry.

Most furries also skew younger these days! I know, locally, most of the furries where I live are all in their early twenties and I met them at meets, like, right out of high school. There’s a few older folks (late twenties, early thirties), as well, that are significantly Not Creepy and pretty cool. They’ve just got jobs and lives and shit, is all.

And, personally, I’ve had pretty good experiences with meeting other furries iRL. Have there been people I’ve nope’d out on? Yeah, cause we’re all human and personalities and opinions clash hard sometimes. But I’ve really only met, like, maybe five people so far that fall firmly within the stereotypical furry form and I’ve been in the fandom for, well, a long fucking time.