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15 years ago
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Hi everyone!
Quoting a very cool unit from Starcraft - "I have returned".
And... This is it. As i promised. The big one. If You don't want to get bored to death, stop reading at this point. It's the...
The trip
I departured on thursday, at 4pm. As usual during summer time i bought tickets for something called "The Sunny Train". It is a special train line that works only during summer vacations and travels from the seaside (read: the place where i live) to the capitol of my small and sad country. It started out some years ago as a "renewed" regional train (with no compartments, just plain seats in a cart). Why people wanted to travel with something like that for 6h? Simple: The price... It was 4-5 times cheaper than a normal train. Of course there are some downsides... For example: tons of people. Another one is: tons of people... Usually the whole platform was covered in people - and i mean the WHOLE platform. Dozens of sweating, annoying, laughing, complaining and not understanding the idea of taking the most important stuff for vacation trip (of course i can be wrong and taking the entire house with you is absolutely normal). And once the door opened... "survival the fittest". I've seen horrible things back those day - people stampeding eachother, old women swinging their bags like fails, pushing each other out of the way. Later it only got worse. Those lucky and fast enough, who managed to get a seat had to suffer from the "guilt of sitting" - every person around, who was forced to stand or sit on the floor letting You know about it - by standing or sitting there even more. Or complaining. But still, money saved - money earned. Nowadays it's better. They actuall use a new, double decked train, which somehow solves the problem with free seats. But back to the story...
We (my Mom and i) managed to get a nice seat - upper level, 4 seat place. After a while a couple sat with us, and althought they were a bit annoying, i was suppose to find out, that they weren't so bad. One row behind us a mother was sitting with her daughters. And one of them... i swear was the incarnation of childish annoyance. 6h of non-stop talking... Her voice was like a thousand needles pinned into my brain. Apart from that everyone on the train had to talk very loud. Because You can't talk normally and have to SHOUT EVERYTHING VERY LOUD, RIIIIGHHT?!
Once we reached the captiol it was downhill. A nice 1,5h night ride, and then my grandmom's house. I will sum up the city near the place i stayed quickly: boring grey tomb of religious fanatics... During my stay i was doing 3 major things: eating, sleeping and doing minor "works" like chopping wood (+1 to Axe skill) and other things.
The return trip was a bit easier. Of course there were some SHOUTING students on board, but i somehow coped with it :3. During the trip i played my favourite travel game "Spot the animal" with a score: 11 deers and 2 birds of prey there, and 2 deers and 7 birds of prey back (which is actually a lame score comparing to previous years). Oh, and horses, cows, other farm animals, storks and cranes don't count (too common and easy to spot). Especiall on the boring landscape - most of the time i was watching an endless field with some trees. Got back on tuesday at 2pm. Sorry i didn't write the journal then or tomorrow, but i was a bit... tired.
Life and Art
Not much to say here... I still have about 1,5 month of vacation (the bright side of being a student). Although i'm getting a bit blue because the tru vacation time is ending. Anyways i didn't draw as much as i wanted at my grandmom. Although... maybe i'll find something to post soon :3. Apart from that enjoying my free time. And i try my best, because the coming uni year will be hard - both because i'll have to write my licence essay (big work) and i'll have to do my student practice (4 weeks of non-profit work). Bummer, but hey - that's life :). Of course i won't let my drawing being disturbed by some minor nuisance ^^.
Starcraft
(Sorry, the games awesomeness made me speachless). But i managed to get a large Starcraft II poster *HECK YEAH!*.
The Question
There is something i wanted to ask You all furs reading this. It may sound really silly, but i still would love to know Your opinion on this. The question is:
- Are furries born, or do they "become" furry?
Do we choose to be furries during our life, as a sum of expierience and stuff, or we born with some "furryness" inside? Please share Your thoughts :).
Well, that's all for now. I got a lot of comments to reply (when i checked my account messages i had: 76 submissions, 42 comments, 40 journals, 65 favourites, 17 watches and 2 notes :3). I'll be posting my 8 truth meme (for which i've been tagged by
jpa2blue :>) once i find 8 things about me, that are worth writing.
Thank You for reading and take care!
-Maciej
Thanks for reading
Quoting a very cool unit from Starcraft - "I have returned".
And... This is it. As i promised. The big one. If You don't want to get bored to death, stop reading at this point. It's the...
BIG BAD BEEFY JOURNAL!The trip
I departured on thursday, at 4pm. As usual during summer time i bought tickets for something called "The Sunny Train". It is a special train line that works only during summer vacations and travels from the seaside (read: the place where i live) to the capitol of my small and sad country. It started out some years ago as a "renewed" regional train (with no compartments, just plain seats in a cart). Why people wanted to travel with something like that for 6h? Simple: The price... It was 4-5 times cheaper than a normal train. Of course there are some downsides... For example: tons of people. Another one is: tons of people... Usually the whole platform was covered in people - and i mean the WHOLE platform. Dozens of sweating, annoying, laughing, complaining and not understanding the idea of taking the most important stuff for vacation trip (of course i can be wrong and taking the entire house with you is absolutely normal). And once the door opened... "survival the fittest". I've seen horrible things back those day - people stampeding eachother, old women swinging their bags like fails, pushing each other out of the way. Later it only got worse. Those lucky and fast enough, who managed to get a seat had to suffer from the "guilt of sitting" - every person around, who was forced to stand or sit on the floor letting You know about it - by standing or sitting there even more. Or complaining. But still, money saved - money earned. Nowadays it's better. They actuall use a new, double decked train, which somehow solves the problem with free seats. But back to the story...
We (my Mom and i) managed to get a nice seat - upper level, 4 seat place. After a while a couple sat with us, and althought they were a bit annoying, i was suppose to find out, that they weren't so bad. One row behind us a mother was sitting with her daughters. And one of them... i swear was the incarnation of childish annoyance. 6h of non-stop talking... Her voice was like a thousand needles pinned into my brain. Apart from that everyone on the train had to talk very loud. Because You can't talk normally and have to SHOUT EVERYTHING VERY LOUD, RIIIIGHHT?!
Once we reached the captiol it was downhill. A nice 1,5h night ride, and then my grandmom's house. I will sum up the city near the place i stayed quickly: boring grey tomb of religious fanatics... During my stay i was doing 3 major things: eating, sleeping and doing minor "works" like chopping wood (+1 to Axe skill) and other things.
The return trip was a bit easier. Of course there were some SHOUTING students on board, but i somehow coped with it :3. During the trip i played my favourite travel game "Spot the animal" with a score: 11 deers and 2 birds of prey there, and 2 deers and 7 birds of prey back (which is actually a lame score comparing to previous years). Oh, and horses, cows, other farm animals, storks and cranes don't count (too common and easy to spot). Especiall on the boring landscape - most of the time i was watching an endless field with some trees. Got back on tuesday at 2pm. Sorry i didn't write the journal then or tomorrow, but i was a bit... tired.
Life and Art
Not much to say here... I still have about 1,5 month of vacation (the bright side of being a student). Although i'm getting a bit blue because the tru vacation time is ending. Anyways i didn't draw as much as i wanted at my grandmom. Although... maybe i'll find something to post soon :3. Apart from that enjoying my free time. And i try my best, because the coming uni year will be hard - both because i'll have to write my licence essay (big work) and i'll have to do my student practice (4 weeks of non-profit work). Bummer, but hey - that's life :). Of course i won't let my drawing being disturbed by some minor nuisance ^^.
Starcraft
(Sorry, the games awesomeness made me speachless). But i managed to get a large Starcraft II poster *HECK YEAH!*.
The Question
There is something i wanted to ask You all furs reading this. It may sound really silly, but i still would love to know Your opinion on this. The question is:
- Are furries born, or do they "become" furry?
Do we choose to be furries during our life, as a sum of expierience and stuff, or we born with some "furryness" inside? Please share Your thoughts :).
Well, that's all for now. I got a lot of comments to reply (when i checked my account messages i had: 76 submissions, 42 comments, 40 journals, 65 favourites, 17 watches and 2 notes :3). I'll be posting my 8 truth meme (for which i've been tagged by
jpa2blue :>) once i find 8 things about me, that are worth writing.Thank You for reading and take care!
-Maciej
Thanks for reading
In question its a good one as its our personalities determin what we will like so in ways we could be born ferries just because we would undoubted grow up too appreciate the art form and such. So in a way we are born as a furry.
I mean, I'd love to say furries are born that way, or furries are by mindset only...
But I lack proof. So, I say it's a mix between the two.
And as for the running low on vacation time? Chin up Agent! Smile and embrace the little bit you have left.
So from then on, whether the little kiddy-wink grows up into a furry depends on what he or she sees around them growing up. Provide them with non-animal-oriented things to watch and play with and chances are they'll grow up non-furry. Give them things like Mickey Mouse, Sonic the Hedgehog, Beatrix Potter and maybe a family pet cat during their formative years and come adulthood they'll probably be prancing about in ears and a tail (or better yet, a fursuit!) before you can say "anthropomorphism".
This is only a theory, mind you, and one concocted by someone with very little learned material in his own head, but I think it makes sense.
Just like I know I'm super interested in computers and video games because I watched my father on them all the time while growing up. When you see a parent interested in something and enjoying it as a kid, you like it too. Then the games just brought me into more interests because of similarities.
I don't think you're born as said things, but I think you can be born INTO said things because of parental influences and such.
In essence you are born one as you are born, White, Black, gay, Straight, etc... hence the reason we are a community not a fandom :P
Sounds like it was quite the crowded experience >.o . My solution to dealing with loud crowds is just listening to my MP3 player and pulling out a sketchpad to draw. Though likely not to pull out a sketchbook in a train like that being that everyone around me would likely be nosey and want to see what im drawing X3
You didnt see any foxes while on your train trip? <O-o>
I hope that when college starts that all turns out well...remember, focus on the hard stuff. Get the hard subjects out of the way so that in the end, you can enjoy the fun stuff .
I think I was born a furry. Because when I was little, I was always fond of claws, paws, and tails. I used to draw paw patterns on the bottoms of my white socks. Once I took a giant rabbit doll from our garage (storage shed) that was sort of forgotten about, and I cut the head off along with the tail and paws. I made to eye holes in the head, and wore it along with the paws and tail like a partial fursuit. I got in trouble by my mom when she found out eventually . I also had the most time during Halloween whenever I had some sort of costume that had a tail.......I just loved wearing tails <^U^>. I did all this before I found out what a furry was.
So yeah, I think I was born a furry