![]() ![]() Of all the subsets of Sonic kink out there, one of the most well-represented is illustrations and videos wherein Sonic and his friends gain impossible amounts of weight in an undeniably sexual way. This extends to Sonic fans, both with their Sonic OCs and through fan art and ships of their favorite characters. Embodying an animal, alternate identity allows furries to engage in creative sexual fantasy and roleplay, and enact it online in cartoon pornography. There are servers for Discord (a Slack-like chat app) devoted to “Diaperfur” and “Babyfur” kinks. And they’re not going to have sexual awakenings with their new selves.” Elements of furry overlap with the pup play subsection of leather and BDSM kink, where people adopt puppy and master personas, act as dogs, and wear leather canine masks. Because celebrities, you know, they’ve got to play safe. Regarding The Masked Singer, he told me: “One thing I was thinking is, this show is kind of tamed down from what could be if you gave it to a bunch of furries. As Patch explained, crushes and sexual fantasies are often key to adopting furry affinity. While furries have grown more mainstream and welcoming to kids and families over the past few years, sexuality is still a core component of furrydom. Stemming from the hyper-personal nature of both furry culture and the Sonic fandom is a current of extreme (and often extremely creative) horniness. Google your name + the hedgehog and show me what u get □ /UAJ8lPPs8x- cake October 24, 2019 The fursona-ish idea of embodying one’s own hedgehog variant is so central to Sonic fandom that it is widely parodied with ironic creations like Coldsteel the Hedgeheg and in 2017, a character creator element was introduced in the official game Sonic Forces. In contrast, one of the more amusing features of Sonic OCs (“original characters”) is in just how many earnest, scribbly self-made attempts can be found with a simple Google search of your own name. Furries often commission artwork of their fursonas and elaborate custom fursuits from artists in the community, and their fursonas are treated as projections of their innermost or idealized selves. One key feature of both the furry and Sonic fandoms is the creation and cultivation of an anthropomorphic cartoon animal alter ego. As furry blogger Patch O’Furr said to me for Vulture in 2019, “having crushes on cartoons is where all furries come from.” For a subset of millennial furries, the Sonic universe was the same sort of gateway that Disney’s animated film Robin Hood was to others: the basis of childhood affinities and crushes that led to more active online participation. The Sonic franchise also benefited from its adjacency to furry culture - he and his pals are anthropomorphic animals with big, cartoony expressive features. Also, and this is key, the Sonic style is fairly easy to draw, automatically lowering the barrier to entry for creating strange, illustrated erotica. Sonic was already positioned as the counterculture option to Nintendo’s roster of goody two-shoes, so it made sense that he’d become the character to corrupt and debase. The Sonic franchise is patient zero for this. Then came DeviantArt in 2000, the amateur art-sharing website on which different fandoms could develop and share in deeply specific kinks and proclivities, using trademarked characters as the building blocks for their own budding interests. Sonic was the next generation, with the made-up cyber-job of ring collection, a spiky-haired rude dude with attitude. Mario was an everyman, holding down the good, sturdy job of plumber. ![]() Sonic arrived on the Sega Genesis in 1991, in time to lead ’90s kids into the new millennium, where things moved faster and farther than what we could have possibly imagined in our wee 16-bit brains. Sonic has friends, who are also sometimes hedgehogs (cute!) but not blue (lame!) And above all: Sonic. Here is what I know to be true as a lifelong internet user and only occasional watcher of boys playing Sonic games on Segas in basements: Sonic is a hedgehog, which is cute. A screenshot from the fan-made video game Sonic Inflation Adventure.
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