Furry. As for how controversial this is, I couldn’t give a definitive answer, but if you are fursuiting, do your best within your limits to always keep your head on, regardless of the situation. At the very least keep that head on when in a furry con and don’t ever take it off unless it’s an emergency, you are in the headless lounge, or are somewhere where it doesn’t matter if you ruin the magic, like a hotel room or somewhere outside the con. The head is the bare minimum you should be wearing of a suit. And I don’t see a fursuit as a status symbol but more of a fandom obligation to adhere to that type of usage.

Otherwise, it’s either that, or that people need to stop buying things like those cheap Halloween animal masks and sprucing them up because that signals to greedy corporations that they can waltz in here and start stealing the jobs of fursuit creators. How? By eventually just cutting the middle man and stealing their designs and printing cheap copies that the younglings will have their parents buy instead of originals, pushing creators to charge more. It’s a vicious cycle I don’t wanna see happen, like we have been seeing for regular fursuits.