http://www.somethingpositive.net/
Yes, bottom of the page. That’s me who is getting the Golden Stalin.
I’m not blaming. If I would, I’d be a hypocrite - if an another person had sent that, I might have laughed and said “God, what a dweeb”. What I was kind of getting at was that it’s, you know, pretty silly to complain that furries and anti-furries are geeks when you do it with something as nerdy as a Cthulhu insertion, but oh well.
And I’m not even particularily into Lovecraft.
Sigh.
I knew what this thread was about as soon as I saw the title. Don’t worry about it. Something Positive is a pretty mediocre web comic.
Nice trophy! You’re keeping it, right?
Of course. Though I’m not exactly sure what’s the connection between Stalin and whining.
Sorry to have to ask, but, um… what’s a furry? Or an anti-furry, come to that. Google isn’t helping me any :-(.
The writer’s a pretty nice guy, honestly. (I know him outside of his webcomic work.) I think he just feels that considering that his normal daily fare contains such subject matter as midget sex slaves having nonconsentual sex with sleeping women’s feet, it’s kind of a weak rag. Specially since Great Cthulhu wasn’t even the point of the cartoon.
Furry: People who like anthromorphic animals.
No. Not like-like.
“You ever think Bugs Bunny was hot when he dressed up as a girl bunny?” (Wayne’s World)
No, several degrees up from that. Up to and possibly including having sex in bunny costumes.
Harmless, but kinda annoying.
Oh, eew. Think cute-stuffed-animal-fetish, Dead Badger.
Picture adults who wear full-body fur suits and masks with convienent holes in them.
Or click here for a recent SA take on them.
I think the term alludes to a usenet poster who’s handle is some sort of cute furry animal, and pretends to be that cute furry animal constantly, eventually carrying it over to the adult chat rooms. So somebody could be “CutieBunny” or “MagicBear” and carry the smarmy personality into the anal sex forum, and talk about how their poor little fluffy tail is getting mashed from all that ass pounding.
[sub]Mind you, I’ve never actually done the furry thing, this is just what I’ve read…[/sub]
Damn… took me too long to find the comic I was looking for in the Something Positive archive.
Many, many Dopers disagree.
(Which doesn’t prove anything, of course.)
Yes, I know, and it was my to an extent my fault for not phrasing myself correctly, but still, I come off as some sort of a angry Lovecraft geek aiming to avenge his God, though that pretty much wasn’t the case at all - I was just bored and feeling a bit stupid.
And yes, even with a bit more rephrasing it would be a pretty minor issue.
If it’s any consolation, I thought the whole thing was hilarious.
Oh, when Cthulhu awakes he’s going to eat all of us, faithful defenders of his mythos or not. I say, let’s dress him up in an apron while we still can.
Used to be a big fan, loved it back at the beginning. I think there are way too many serious strips now, though.
Wow, that was you? Small world.
That mostly sums up my attitude as well, cckerberos.
I realized t’other night that, instead of checking daily/every other day for updates, I hit the site maybe once a week at most, and catch up on “back issues” then. It’s definately slid down on my list of “gotta hit” web sites.
It does seem to have lost something.
Of course, I also usually find the lemon sour jokes in Twisted Kaiju Theater sidesplittingly funny, so what do I know?
There is only one way to redeem yourself: you must immediately send Mr. Milholland a tearful acceptance speech. Well, a tearfully-written acceptance speech – I’m not suggesting you actually cry into your keyboard, although the <tearfully></tearfully> HTML tags might be worth a shot.
Oh, and it’s spelled “ridiculous.”
Well, I thought it was quite funny! 
Though, he partially misrepresented your point - which was, I thought, that such references are lame and overdone.
But by using the term “rape”, you did indeed leave yourself open to his abuse.
I second the motion of writing an “acceptance speech” - he’d probably publish it, if you made it funny. (He’d publish it if you wrote back angrily, but only to heap further abuse on you).
I must admit to liking the comic. Though after a couple of years, it is gearing down somewhat.
The more-or-less official definition of a furry is someone with an interest in anthropomorphic animals. Just as the Star Wars fandom includes people who pretend to be jedi and own lightsaber-shaped sex toys, so does the furry fandom include the plushifiles and the aforementioned fur-suiters.
Also, Randy needs a lesson in reading comprehension. Saying that something is overdone and trite is not the same thing as saying that it’s offensive.