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people should have mascots
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Furries view their fursonas like mascots? 🤨 TI...L?
It’s actually a pretty neat way of conceptualizing it. I’m sure many use it as an alter-ego, but I know there are others that feel it is more of a roleplay instead.
A 'mascot' is really not that far off for some. A lot of furries use fursonas as an idealized version of themselves or who they'd like to be. In my probably biased opinion I think it does a lot more for mental health than you might think. Others use them as OCs and play with them like dolls which I guess doesn't really apply here.
Good news, my mental health is about to improve.
Warning there is a whole ass iceberg and not everyone is on the same level.
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I personally never have thought of it like that, but I might just have to start calling my fursona Ace my mascot.
I'm guessing, it's rather the other way around here. People saw OOP potentially portraying their persona onto a dog, by giving it sunglasses and a beer, so it's not just a mascot, it's more of a fursona...