Person who sucked me into this:  hero
Guess I should finally play along and do one of these things.
Who the hell starts these and how do they get out? x3

1. Post these rules.

2. Each person tagged must post 8 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves.

3. Tags should write a journal of these facts.

4. At the end of the post 8 more bloggers are tagged and named.

5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them that they're tagged.

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1. Graedius. It's pronounced Gray-dee-uss -- and the name has absolutely nothing to do with Gradius, the video game, as a lot of people seem to imagine (understandably). It actually stems from a sacred dagger item found in Final Fantasy VI by the name of Graedus, just tweaked for various reasons over time.

2. I started looking at furry stuff (smut and not) back when I was about 12 or 13 -- and was more surprised than anything to find out that there was a huge group of people who shared my similar interests! However at the time sites like FA and Fchan didn't exist (As far as I know?) and so I had to rely on stupid Yahoo Groups, personal pages and other such unreliable sources until I found VCL and later, FA/Fchan/AGNPH.

3. I've got a thing for old games (Primarily Nintendo, I'll admit.), often mucking about on the internet and in some pawn shops for classic games in their original cartridge form -- I'm slowly completing my collection. However, it doesn't end there, as I'm such a whore that I bought a few of the Virtual Console versions of particular games, as well (Wireless Wii Remote works dandilly as a NES controller.) I suppose this is a result of a childhood filled with playing such games. <3

4. In some variety of sick twisted irony, I'm actually allergic to a fair amount of animal dander, a large variety of cats and dogs that I know of for sure. However, I'm led to believe it doesn't end with just those -- it's just that I don't have contact with many other varieties of animals. If I wasn't, I'd totally have a cute meowy kitten at my side. ;~; I might bite the bullet and find a way to do it anyways -- I've come across select dogs and cats whom've had no effect upon me, so it might just take careful research.

5. My character's had a few significant changes over the years. (However until my first 'furry' incarnation of myself, I did not engage in role play of almost any sort.) Before I acknowledged myself as a furry, my very first incarnation was that of a (yellow) Yoshi (a transition I've known a lot of people to make, much to the chagrin of a particular individual.) After a good long while, I suppose I wanted something new and took on a human Red Mage avatar, one that lasted for some time -- eventually changing to a raccoon Red Mage, then simply the raccoon-morph I am today, (which has thus far lasted longest and shall'nt change) plain and simple. :3~

6. The big event that sealed my fursona as a Raccoon was actually the game Pocky and Rocky on the Super NES. Rocky was this insanely cute little Raccoon (rather Tanuki) with the cutest happiest sprites and poses ever. A, uh.... friend of mine, as a result of my appreciation for both Rocky and the Red Mage job class from Final Fantasy, drew me a picture of the two combined: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a.....FirstStyle.jpg -- It was made of cute and win so I used that as my avatar for sometime, until a certain lizardly lady drew me as a plain old anthro-'coon sometime later: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a.....us/028copy.png -- with lasting influence. With a significant measure of time, I found Yuki-chi on Y!Gallery back in the day and commissioned him -- and gained the final appearance I have now. :3~ *Wags*

7. The number 333 haunts my life in an almost unreal way. It stemmed from the game "Eternal Darkness" where the main character has to set a clock to 3:33am to progress through a certain point -- and since then I've seen it everywhere, almost at least once every single day. Clocks. Phone numbers. Pixel counts. File sizes. Sticker counts. Prices. Special deal prices. Scrawled onto vehicle wrecks left in industrial lots. Stats. Ranomizers. Addresses. Time (Elapsed). Countless other things -- two weeks in a row, my credit balance, from totally random spending that I was not monitoring in any way, both ended with $333.00-even remaining. If I was to believe in anything supernatural, I believe this number would be that thing. I recently got involved in a lottery ticket thing at work and of the six numbers I picked, the first two were 3 and 33. If I won even ten dollars I would swear to believe in MAGIC.

8. ...Secretly deep down, I hope somebody somewhere has masturbated to my artwork. x3

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Do you know how much I just typed?!
I don't have the effort to find eight people and tag them with this silly nonsense -- anyone significant would ignore me, and most people I know who are taggable have been tagged already. D:

I'll tag the following people who can participate if they feel like it:

 shippomaru
 crusatyr
 menos
 unth
 lorethian
 stormdragonblue
 raeth
 momiji-kun

...Oh look, I did find eight people.
Well I hope you're happy!