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Meme: How did you get here?
13 years ago
Meme taken from 
redacteur.
I'm always interested in hearing about how we found our way to this unusual interest. If you wish, feel free to answer here or in your own journal.
1. How did you discover this fandom?
2. Did you participate as soon as you could, or did you "lurk" for a while? If so, how long?
3. What was your first contact with another furry in person?
4. What is you level of involvement with the community? Do you do draw [edit: oops, unfinished question! I was supposed to ask "Do you draw, write, build costumes, participate in forums, etc.?]
5. Did you like anthropomorphic animals before you found out about the fandom?
6. Did you begin creative activity (drawing, painting, writing, music, etc.) or greatly increase your creative activity after finding the fandom?
7. Counting both online and offline interactions, do you spend more leisure time with furries, or with friends not involved in the fandom?
1. When I first got online circa 1996, one of the first searches I did (on AltaVista!) was "Wile E. Coyote." Among the results was anthro-animal-art.com, Joe Ekaitis' page, who drew the webcomic Thaddeus aka T.H.E. Fox. He's since left the fandom to become a children's author. Anyway, he had a very helpful links page - basically it linked to everyone that linked to him. I discovered VCL, FurNation, Werewolves In Suburbia, and my favorite artist to this day,
bd.
2. I lurked until 2005, when I joined LiveJournal so I could break the ice with
mutley, who I was interested in commissioning for cover art for an album I was working on. About that time he got super busy with his professional illustrating career, so except for some preliminary sketches, it didn't happen. (I ended up releasing it online without art, and added an image by 
nathalie, with her permission, after the fact.)
3. I guess my first contact was with a couple who became our roomies for awhile, Sean (who's known online as Bearznutz) and Bill, who saw and encouraged my appetite for furry art. They're not super active in the fandom, they don't have characters or anything - if you define furry as that, I guess my first contact was a
whoozfur meet where I met loads of people I'm still RL friends with.
4. I have written a little bit - I wouldn't say I write habitually; people are always after me to, and I'd like to, but... well fuck a "but," I need to get off my lazy ass and do it. ANYWAY... my main involvement in the fandom is hanging out on Twitter and being That Guy who makes all the facepalm-worthy innuendos.
5. Definitely. Before I even knew furry was a thing, I would tell people light-heartedly that I was a cartoon animal trapped in a human body. Then when I discovered furry, I was like, "holy shit, there are other people like this? I thought it was just me!"
6. I've been creative, off and on, all my life, but it definitely gave me something to aim it at.
7. I barely have any friends left who are not in the fandom. Not to be a snob, but we just don't have many common interests anymore.
redacteur.I'm always interested in hearing about how we found our way to this unusual interest. If you wish, feel free to answer here or in your own journal.
1. How did you discover this fandom?
2. Did you participate as soon as you could, or did you "lurk" for a while? If so, how long?
3. What was your first contact with another furry in person?
4. What is you level of involvement with the community? Do you do draw [edit: oops, unfinished question! I was supposed to ask "Do you draw, write, build costumes, participate in forums, etc.?]
5. Did you like anthropomorphic animals before you found out about the fandom?
6. Did you begin creative activity (drawing, painting, writing, music, etc.) or greatly increase your creative activity after finding the fandom?
7. Counting both online and offline interactions, do you spend more leisure time with furries, or with friends not involved in the fandom?
1. When I first got online circa 1996, one of the first searches I did (on AltaVista!) was "Wile E. Coyote." Among the results was anthro-animal-art.com, Joe Ekaitis' page, who drew the webcomic Thaddeus aka T.H.E. Fox. He's since left the fandom to become a children's author. Anyway, he had a very helpful links page - basically it linked to everyone that linked to him. I discovered VCL, FurNation, Werewolves In Suburbia, and my favorite artist to this day,
bd.2. I lurked until 2005, when I joined LiveJournal so I could break the ice with
mutley, who I was interested in commissioning for cover art for an album I was working on. About that time he got super busy with his professional illustrating career, so except for some preliminary sketches, it didn't happen. (I ended up releasing it online without art, and added an image by 
nathalie, with her permission, after the fact.)3. I guess my first contact was with a couple who became our roomies for awhile, Sean (who's known online as Bearznutz) and Bill, who saw and encouraged my appetite for furry art. They're not super active in the fandom, they don't have characters or anything - if you define furry as that, I guess my first contact was a
whoozfur meet where I met loads of people I'm still RL friends with.4. I have written a little bit - I wouldn't say I write habitually; people are always after me to, and I'd like to, but... well fuck a "but," I need to get off my lazy ass and do it. ANYWAY... my main involvement in the fandom is hanging out on Twitter and being That Guy who makes all the facepalm-worthy innuendos.
5. Definitely. Before I even knew furry was a thing, I would tell people light-heartedly that I was a cartoon animal trapped in a human body. Then when I discovered furry, I was like, "holy shit, there are other people like this? I thought it was just me!"
6. I've been creative, off and on, all my life, but it definitely gave me something to aim it at.
7. I barely have any friends left who are not in the fandom. Not to be a snob, but we just don't have many common interests anymore.
I stumbled across Bakensobek (Kaa's) old website, and Zeta Creations, of all things.
2. Did you participate as soon as you could, or did you "lurk" for a while? If so, how long?
I jumped right on in.
3. What was your first contact with another furry in person?
My mate,
4. What is you level of involvement with the community? Do you do draw [edit: oops, unfinished question! I was supposed to ask "Do you draw, write, build costumes, participate in forums, etc.?]
I draw, mainly. I try to do some other cons and such, but drawing is the big thing here.
5. Did you like anthropomorphic animals before you found out about the fandom?
Yesh :3
6. Did you begin creative activity (drawing, painting, writing, music, etc.) or greatly increase your creative activity after finding the fandom? I drew a tiny bit before furry, but it was moreso the same time I began to draw as furryize myself.
7. Counting both online and offline interactions, do you spend more leisure time with furries, or with friends not involved in the fandom? Pshh, most of my friends are furs already.