Seriously, the audacity of these people!

Fun fact: the Fandom was made a long long while back by old timey comic artists who had anthro animals as characters in their comic books.

According to fandom historian Fred Patten, the concept of furry originated at a science fiction convention in 1980, when a character drawing from Steve Gallacci's Albedo Anthropomorphics started a discussion of anthropomorphic characters in science fiction novels. - Wikipedia

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We can give credit to the Aztecs, who wore animal costumes in war; and to the Egyptians, who worshiped literal anthropomorphic animals

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