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Ah! I found the one who made me go to the FF'dom!
2 years ago
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FIREFOXES ARE NOT LITERALLY, "FOXES ON FIRE", AND I'M NOT A BEAR!!
Remember- International Red Panda Day is the 3rd Saturday of September.
Visit: http://redpandanetwork.org/get-invo.....red-panda-day/ for more info.A note: I will be migrating to personal journaling on Weasyl. I will post on FA, news and references more often.
If interested on my thoughts, desires and plans, go to my account there: https://www.weasyl.com/~excelsior30
( Related Journal: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11212492/ )
...and you want to make your journal pop? go here:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55619625/ No, it is not former SF Bay localer, 
Excelsior-the-lion where I got the beginnings- this was WELL before him. Just some years before I got to seeing an independent lion fursuiter for the first time who likes the Tampa Bay Lightning ( https://www.nhl.com/lightning ), I did like the mascots, and it was a dream meeting one or even being one. Well, I do have similar interests, but life changes and there have been crazy things happening in my teen years and college years that made me stray away, but not entirely. Once life was more allowable, then the eventual fursuit of Cory happened, but I could not have entered the FF'dom if it weren't for Jinx Lynx.
You will see that this lady who likes mascoting has been having a passion for it. The RL person is also a suit maker who goes by the name of Erin Blank, who is part of Keystone Mascots ( https://www.keystonemascots.com/ ). She may know of the FF'dom, but I think that she is more human than furry and would like to represent a company mascot and make kids from 2 to 92 happy. It was that I got to see this video on YouTube that I get to see her in RL, and it did revisit memories of my past and it helped bloom to me being almost full-time furry as of now. Today is the first-ever time that I get to see her. Talk about devotion-since ten she wanted to be in suit?! I was deciding to be furry at 28, and got my first fursuit on January 13, 2018! We have talked a couple of times, but she then vanished all of a sudden. Despite that the video below from VOA is about a decade old, it is still significant. At 0:51, you will see her in the yellow shirt:
Although there is no camp to be a furry fursuiter, having to be one and a mascot are very similar-it is just that you aren't paid, you have your own personality, you have no perks on a job, and you have your own suit--but yes, you have the option to TALK in suit. Again, but yes, as a suiter--as you will see for Caren Simmons, a gov't worker who is part-time and REALLY stressed, being in suit is a relaxing thing! Additionally, the fact that Ms. Blank knows the oldest performer was 72 at the time... Well, we know that
Zarafa is in his late 60s, so he'll join that club that Blank knows, as yes, once you're in suit, it's hard to disconnect and quit-just like quitting the FF'dom! The website is STILL up after many years-have you heard of Geocities? Somehow it is not gone, and the original one is still around but not being maintained. As a good legacy to how my furriness had started, here is the website: http://www.geocities.ws/Colosseum/P.....ediv2and3.html (Note, the only website that is active is the Keystone Mascots link on that page.)
I'll never know if Erin is still performing, but HIGHLY LIKELY she is! If ever that I do see her, I would love to meet her outside of suit and even learn from her as you can't stop learning how to be a suiter either being a fursuiter or mascot. I'll be glad to shake her hand and thank her for leading me to where I am right now.
Excelsior-the-lion where I got the beginnings- this was WELL before him. Just some years before I got to seeing an independent lion fursuiter for the first time who likes the Tampa Bay Lightning ( https://www.nhl.com/lightning ), I did like the mascots, and it was a dream meeting one or even being one. Well, I do have similar interests, but life changes and there have been crazy things happening in my teen years and college years that made me stray away, but not entirely. Once life was more allowable, then the eventual fursuit of Cory happened, but I could not have entered the FF'dom if it weren't for Jinx Lynx.NO! I DO NOT MEAN JYNX THE CANADIAN LYNX, WHO GOES BY 
SammyPanther HERE! THIS JYNX IS MUCH OLDER THAN THIS FURRY AND IS FROM THE USA!!
SammyPantherYou will see that this lady who likes mascoting has been having a passion for it. The RL person is also a suit maker who goes by the name of Erin Blank, who is part of Keystone Mascots ( https://www.keystonemascots.com/ ). She may know of the FF'dom, but I think that she is more human than furry and would like to represent a company mascot and make kids from 2 to 92 happy. It was that I got to see this video on YouTube that I get to see her in RL, and it did revisit memories of my past and it helped bloom to me being almost full-time furry as of now. Today is the first-ever time that I get to see her. Talk about devotion-since ten she wanted to be in suit?! I was deciding to be furry at 28, and got my first fursuit on January 13, 2018! We have talked a couple of times, but she then vanished all of a sudden. Despite that the video below from VOA is about a decade old, it is still significant. At 0:51, you will see her in the yellow shirt:
Although there is no camp to be a furry fursuiter, having to be one and a mascot are very similar-it is just that you aren't paid, you have your own personality, you have no perks on a job, and you have your own suit--but yes, you have the option to TALK in suit. Again, but yes, as a suiter--as you will see for Caren Simmons, a gov't worker who is part-time and REALLY stressed, being in suit is a relaxing thing! Additionally, the fact that Ms. Blank knows the oldest performer was 72 at the time... Well, we know that
Zarafa is in his late 60s, so he'll join that club that Blank knows, as yes, once you're in suit, it's hard to disconnect and quit-just like quitting the FF'dom! The website is STILL up after many years-have you heard of Geocities? Somehow it is not gone, and the original one is still around but not being maintained. As a good legacy to how my furriness had started, here is the website: http://www.geocities.ws/Colosseum/P.....ediv2and3.html (Note, the only website that is active is the Keystone Mascots link on that page.)I'll never know if Erin is still performing, but HIGHLY LIKELY she is! If ever that I do see her, I would love to meet her outside of suit and even learn from her as you can't stop learning how to be a suiter either being a fursuiter or mascot. I'll be glad to shake her hand and thank her for leading me to where I am right now.
I do not know if Keystone Mascots will do furry suits, but it never hurts to try and ask them! If it is possible to hide the open areas of the head so the steam can exit while fursuiting, then that would be great to have for your head. Fursuit constructors, if it is cheaper to do this than to put a fan in the head,
try it and see if you like it!I am a member of these: 
Am also part of 
californiafurs, 
norcalfurs and 
bayfurs -PROUD!
Here is a list of draws I'm supposed to do: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5715571/
Note the age-YEAR: 1983; Birthday is March 3, 1/2 birthday is Sept. 2
IF YOU'RE 16-18, I MAY INTERACT. ANY YOUNGER, ONE WARNING TO NOT TALK TO ME-AFTER, YOU'RE BLOCKED FROM VIEWING MY PAGE. 
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