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...or should I just go f*** myself?
Jul. 19th, 2012 12:21 amThursday marks 22 days until Rocky Mountain Fur Con! While watching a YouTube video of last year's fursuit parade (in which I participated,) a negative comment involving me and other suiters made me wonder about something.
For those who haven't met me in person or seen me at conventions, I don't have an actual fursuit yet, just a panda kigurumi. I've attended five conventions so far and marched in all of their fursuit parades wearing my kigurumi. As far as I know, the convention organizers and other attendees were cool with it, or some of them weren't but didn't want to bring it up. So far, I've only read two criticisms about my kigurumi in parades, both of them from people who didn't even attend the conventions.
Even if conventions allow it, is it still considered improper to wear something other than a fursuit in a fursuit parade? I've marched with people who wore ears, a tail and face make-up, as well as one person who merely had a paper cat mask taped to a balaclava. I know I shouldn't let two critiques out of dozens of positive comments affect whether I participate or not, but I was wondering what others honestly thought of this subject.
Keep in mind that I'm only talking about the fursuit parades, not the fursuit games or other competitions where a full/mostly-full field of vision presents an unfair advantage. I don't participate in those for that reason.
For those who haven't met me in person or seen me at conventions, I don't have an actual fursuit yet, just a panda kigurumi. I've attended five conventions so far and marched in all of their fursuit parades wearing my kigurumi. As far as I know, the convention organizers and other attendees were cool with it, or some of them weren't but didn't want to bring it up. So far, I've only read two criticisms about my kigurumi in parades, both of them from people who didn't even attend the conventions.
Even if conventions allow it, is it still considered improper to wear something other than a fursuit in a fursuit parade? I've marched with people who wore ears, a tail and face make-up, as well as one person who merely had a paper cat mask taped to a balaclava. I know I shouldn't let two critiques out of dozens of positive comments affect whether I participate or not, but I was wondering what others honestly thought of this subject.
Keep in mind that I'm only talking about the fursuit parades, not the fursuit games or other competitions where a full/mostly-full field of vision presents an unfair advantage. I don't participate in those for that reason.
