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Wow.
I always kinda liked this time of year, even though there are so many reasons to hate it, the dreary weather, the entering into the doldrums of the year when there is a marked shortage of official holidays. I always kinda liked it for being the time of the year when every day is just slightly longer and brighter the last, even if they're still pretty dark, there's that promise. There's a subtle whisper of hopefulness in the dim cold days of January.
It was this time of year... in fact, this day exactly I think... that I discovered the furry fandom 20 years ago. I was in 11th grade... I'd been using my dad's computer and our dialup connection to sniff around the embryonic interwebs for fantasy art and discussions on wereism, when I discovered a website that talked about the 'furry lifestyle' and 'fursonas' and what not, and to make a long story short, a lightbulb went off. It felt like exactly what I'd been spending the last 6 years (an eternity for a kid) longing for.
At first I just kept going back to that one website every day after school to read more and more character profiles, and then going to school the next day feeling on cloud nine, daydreaming about how there are actually people with similar interests to me and what else might be in store for me in this newly discovered universe. By that weekend I had made up my mind to actually participate, start my own free email account and accompanying AIM account. That next week at school I doodled my first fursona, a generic grey wolf, on a light blue index card. I scanned it in my school computer lab and saved it to a floppy disk and brought it home to upload.
And by the Thursday of that following week, I was officially set and making connections.
I thought to myself, "I will never be bored again. What could possibly go wrong?"
I always kinda liked this time of year, even though there are so many reasons to hate it, the dreary weather, the entering into the doldrums of the year when there is a marked shortage of official holidays. I always kinda liked it for being the time of the year when every day is just slightly longer and brighter the last, even if they're still pretty dark, there's that promise. There's a subtle whisper of hopefulness in the dim cold days of January.
It was this time of year... in fact, this day exactly I think... that I discovered the furry fandom 20 years ago. I was in 11th grade... I'd been using my dad's computer and our dialup connection to sniff around the embryonic interwebs for fantasy art and discussions on wereism, when I discovered a website that talked about the 'furry lifestyle' and 'fursonas' and what not, and to make a long story short, a lightbulb went off. It felt like exactly what I'd been spending the last 6 years (an eternity for a kid) longing for.
At first I just kept going back to that one website every day after school to read more and more character profiles, and then going to school the next day feeling on cloud nine, daydreaming about how there are actually people with similar interests to me and what else might be in store for me in this newly discovered universe. By that weekend I had made up my mind to actually participate, start my own free email account and accompanying AIM account. That next week at school I doodled my first fursona, a generic grey wolf, on a light blue index card. I scanned it in my school computer lab and saved it to a floppy disk and brought it home to upload.
And by the Thursday of that following week, I was officially set and making connections.
I thought to myself, "I will never be bored again. What could possibly go wrong?"
I didn't discover the fandom till I was in my twenties and when you count from the day I created my FA profile, I'm just going to be 5 years old in April.
Also I think you're filling all criteria for a greymuzzle now. <3
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I went through a phase between about 2005-2008 where I dropped completely out of the fandom and tried to distance myself from it completely. Like I really hated it for some reason. I was really full of myself back then. Even after I came back, I still would occasionally ask myself "why do I put up with all this stuff?" I've always had problems with dealing with people in general, it kinda occurred to me that the problems I had with the fandom were just problems that I had with humanity, I don't get any more or any less of that within or without the fandom. The only factor that seemed to hold consistently true is that furriness is one of the very few things that is definitively an intrinsic part of who I am.
It kinda begs the question of, what defines a furry, as opposed to merely someone who likes anthro? My long-time answer has been, 'anyone who loves anthro enough to put up with the fandom and all its drama.' And that describes me pretty well.
That's wow man... I almost discovered the furry fandom at age 9-10 when I got hooked into the Star Fox franchise with Star Fox 64 which was my first game from the franchise as well as Super Smash Bros 64 and Melee.
I haven't discovered the fandom fully until I discovered Fur Affinity back in 2009. I was almost 16 at that time and I joined there and wow, I enjoyed alot of furry artwork.
I've drew my first fursona and it was a hippo walrus hybrid and then I went for tanuki for a year and then a wolfdog permanently which I am right now.