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May 11, 2005 10:03 AM

Welcome to Otter's Plushie Forest.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies (37 comments total)

I do know, though, that he cost so much to stuff I didn't buy groceries that week.

Um...

*hides*
posted by C17H19NO3 at 10:09 AM on May 11, 2005

This is Limnis, the Venusian Ufek. I'm not entirely sure whether he's a plushie or a sofa. I do know, though, that he cost so much to stuff I didn't buy groceries that week.

Strange, he doesn't look like he's missed many meals.
posted by orthogonality at 10:09 AM on May 11, 2005

Beat me to it, C17. A glint of insanity amidst a whirling sea of unnerving misplaced sexual energy.
posted by bardic at 10:10 AM on May 11, 2005

Oh... my... goodness.
posted by debralee at 10:10 AM on May 11, 2005

There's definitely some hot plushie luvvin' going on in Otter's Plushie Forest.
posted by iconomy at 10:13 AM on May 11, 2005

I do know, though, that he cost so much to stuff I didn't buy groceries that week.

Huh. As creepy as this obsession is, the, er, plushies themselves are actually really well done. You'd think he could make a decent living if he sold a few.

Granted, he'd probably have to clean the white crust off first....
posted by gurple at 10:16 AM on May 11, 2005

I've had a few people ask me where I keep all of these plushies. Well, here's a partial answer. This is my "den", where half the plushies stay. It's a very nice place, complete with live plants, glow-in-the-dark stars on the cieling [sic], and a big brown blanket that can be pulled down to create that "burrow" effect.

And if the "burrow" is rocking -- uh, uh, I'm just stuffing my plushies. Ah, squeezing some more stuffing into my plushies, that is.
posted by orthogonality at 10:17 AM on May 11, 2005

One of the greatest things about the internet is that I get to see sites (and sights) like this, and laugh about them. There is no limit to how freakin' weird human beings can get.

One of the worst things about the internet is that kids get to see sites and sights like this, and might somehow thing that this is within the realm of "normal." There is no limit to how freakin' weird this next generation is gonna get.

I sometimes wonder if ignorance isn't bliss.
posted by five fresh fish at 10:47 AM on May 11, 2005

he should sell them--he's good.
posted by amberglow at 10:55 AM on May 11, 2005

Very organic looking toys. I don't think I would leave kids alone with this guy for too long; but for stuffed animals to appear so animated is a fantastic gift expressed.
posted by buzzman at 11:00 AM on May 11, 2005

I think that if any "normal" child sees bumps into that website, they'd know, or hopefully know, that something isn't right with the picture.

Hey, eureka, instead of teaching children the evils about same sex marriages, we should indoctrinate them to recognize the evils and perils of plushy madness.
posted by jsavimbi at 11:07 AM on May 11, 2005

I personally would like to own an amberglow plushie. !Woot!
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 11:11 AM on May 11, 2005

: >
posted by amberglow at 11:14 AM on May 11, 2005

Holy crap. The plushies are great enough, but check out his (many) stories, too. I guess this would be "plushie sci-fi" or something. A couple of lines:
"The truth is, most people still thought of plushies as toys. They simply weren't ready to accept the notion of plushies as people." Uh, well....
and
"I'm trapped in an otter suit, and you expect me to be an optimist?"
posted by zoinks at 11:16 AM on May 11, 2005

M'ro, the earthworm/squirrel. He's got little feelers on his tummy, just like a real worm, made out of fishing line.

Right. Because realism is so important for a stuffed earthworm/squirrel.

Actually, I also think he should sell them. They're actually pretty cute.
posted by Specklet at 11:17 AM on May 11, 2005

This is awesome. I just hate that whenever I see something cute and innocent like a man's hobby making homemade stuffed animals, all I can think of is the latent sexual deviance. Curse you, furries.
posted by Nelson at 11:30 AM on May 11, 2005

"Wolfenstein, the leftover lupine. He's got real bolts in his neck (padded, of course,) some plumbing tubes and a compartment for putting small things like a remote control."

Oh.
my.
God!

I'm going to go wash my retinas now.
posted by Mike D at 12:15 PM on May 11, 2005

When I happened upon this thread, I was watching a PBS documentary about cows (it was either this or soap operas). Millions of Hindu people in this world, from wherever you are to India, worship cows. I'd read about this before, but I always thought it was metaphorical, that they respect the cow because its their food and milk and clothing and whatever, but they literally worship them! They get down on their hands and knees and literally prostrate themselves before a mooing cow! I was creeped out at first, but then I saw this thread. I gotta admit, it puts the honorable Hindu people in perspective, when you see one creepy non Hindu weirdo dude worshipping plush toys.
posted by ZachsMind at 12:39 PM on May 11, 2005

Brings to mind: "Pleasures of the Fur" [Vanity Fair, March 2001] and "Plushies and Furries" [MTV Sex2K | January 3, 2002].
posted by ericb at 1:22 PM on May 11, 2005

Did no-one else get the wiggins when the one of the bottom photos shows him getting his furry on so he can 'hand out lollipops to kids'?

And on a tangentially related note - are people who wear chip'n'dale costumes at Disneyland considered furries?
posted by Sparx at 1:30 PM on May 11, 2005

Heck I think the girl who wears the Daffy Duck outfit at Six Flags is a furry. Nice legs, though.
posted by ZachsMind at 1:32 PM on May 11, 2005

This is the scariest thing I've ever seen (from the MTV link).
posted by doctor_negative at 2:07 PM on May 11, 2005

Oh, come on.

It isn't that strange. He likes to make pretend stuffed animals. So did Jim Henson.

YOU probably play dungeons and dragons.

LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!
posted by Baby_Balrog at 2:10 PM on May 11, 2005

ericb, I've been trying to get that MTV furry show Tivo'ed for ages! (None of my friends believe me when I tell them about it. Like I could make that shit up.) I thought it was True Life episode, though. Thanks for putting me back on the track!
posted by Cyrano at 2:21 PM on May 11, 2005

Sparx, that was my first thought—well, almost my first thought—too: Someone encouraged him to give candy to little kids??
posted by ancientgower at 2:29 PM on May 11, 2005

"There is no limit to how freakin' weird this next generation is gonna get."

The next generation? I knew someone that had a thing for fire hydrants. He desperately wanted to take one home, but knew very well that he shouldn't.

Weird is good, and when the going gets weird the weird turn pro. Things aren't even weird enough yet.

Even though furries and plushies personally freak me out, it'd be so much more amusing to see two (or more!) folks in fursuits simulating totally improbable sexual acts on a street corner then yet another fuckin' Starbucks, Blockbuster, whatever. Seriously. I'd much rather see somone getting all humpy with a stuffed earthworm-squirrel than YAFSB. And I like coffee. A lot. (No, I don't want to move to NYC.)
posted by loquacious at 4:30 PM on May 11, 2005

with everything going on in the world, some of you want to worry about this guy...??

hell... bush is still in the white house, think about that for a while...!
posted by HuronBob at 4:38 PM on May 11, 2005

somehow this feels appropriate:
Kidz Bop - Since U Been Gone (QT, kids, plushies, furries)
posted by mr.marx at 5:14 PM on May 11, 2005

So where's the forest? No plushie trees?
posted by sellout at 5:45 PM on May 11, 2005

Well, k, you gotta point there, loq. Furries burning down *bucks would be a good start.

I just hope exposure doesn't normalize this sort of thing. Pushing the boundaries of weirdness is just fine when it's furriness. If furry is normal... what then?
posted by five fresh fish at 5:50 PM on May 11, 2005

but furries and plushies are like the sweetest, most innocuous kink around--it's adorable, actually.
posted by amberglow at 5:53 PM on May 11, 2005

Good old-fashioned nightmare fuel.
posted by Faint of Butt at 8:02 PM on May 11, 2005

But it has such a high "creepiness" quotient to it, amberglow. It's kind of infantile, never growing out of your childhood teddybear... and then stoking the stuffing outta it. And there's the furrotica, where almost every animal has enormous human-shaped in-yer-face boobs or a dripping, drenching cock the size of my left leg. The furry bodies attached to these zones are inconsequential in comparison, which seems kind of topsy-turvy given the viewer will be wearing a fantastically obsessive hand-stitched furrysuit, yet possesses merely an ordinary human-sized cock. And, finally, that the fantasy is to fuck the hell out of a furry animal-creature instead of a person.

And, besides, they covet my teddybear!

But, yeah, I suppose if my kids were gonna stumble across hard-core porn on the net, I'd rather it were furries than sadism.
posted by five fresh fish at 11:37 PM on May 11, 2005

"WHEN I COME TO CONVENTIONS, I'M HERE REALLY TO MEET PEOPLE AND TO BE SOCIAL AND TO HUG AND SCRATCH AND BOUNCE AROUND AND HAVE A GOOD TIME"

Yeah, like, it's the same with Star Trek conventions. Hugging. Scratching. Bouncing around. You know, having a good time.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 1:38 AM on May 12, 2005

Seems innocent enough. I mean, he could be into guns and denigrating women instead. What would you prefer?

Guess it makes people feel good to point out the weirdos.

NO, I don't like "plushies" or whatever the fuck. I just think the spectacle-ness of pointing out other people's supposed weirdness is itself sick.
posted by melt away at 3:47 AM on May 12, 2005

Yanno, people who are into humans like some pretty weird stuff too.
posted by Drexen at 6:49 AM on May 12, 2005

Yeah, humans are gross.

Me? I'm cultivating an ungodly, unwholesome lust for cactus. Mmm. Succulents.
posted by loquacious at 7:58 PM on May 12, 2005