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The Magic of Furry has Died for Me
14 years ago
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This morning, the magic of the furry fandom died in me.
I have been trying to get furries and others interested in this rally in Washington DC for over a month. I could have easily used the same methods that people are used to - propaganda, lies, etc. but I chose instead to use honesty, because this rally is the start of a movement, and requires awareness, not blind allegiance.
But so intent on distracting yourselves from the problems that plague you, that you actually prevent yourself from being part of the only possible solution, which requires your participation because it is your own life and future.
And this morning, yet another convention completely disregarded what I had to say, without even taking the time to listen. I would have been successful had I used a sales pitch - lead them with false promises of significant returns on their investment, etc. And the worst of it is, they rejected my inquiry on the basis that I was forced to contact multiple email accounts because the primary one had failed to get back to me after 36 hours - a week before the convention. Sorry, but a professional organization that has an event in one week better damn well answer their emails and not give me an excuse only after I am forced to contact them through other email accounts.
Does it piss me off? Yes, but I guarantee most of you would imagine the absolute wrong reasons. It pisses me off because it makes the convention poorly run, and thus ruins it for furries. Professionalism is necessary for events like a large furry convention because you cater to a variety of people, you provide a service to your customers, in this case, the furry fandom. By failing to be professional you don't give the fandom what they deserve and want, they stop attending, and the event fails for everyone. It doesn't piss me off because I perceive it as a personal matter, it pisses me off because it hurts others.
The rally will fail, as I knew it would. I continued to pursue it as an exercise, to prove to myself that I know what is wrong with American society - apathy brought on by ignorance brought on by laziness which was given to you by your television viewing habits more than anything else.
If you support wolves, and support what I have tried to do to help make life better for all of us, please show your support by turning off your television permanently. Read the news through online sources (multiple sources is ideal). Get your entertainment through books or independent movies that enrich you, rather than just entertaining you. And learn how to think for yourself. If you do these things, you will become aware of what is wrong, and see the truth in what is necessary to fix things: taking personal responsibility.
As for me, I don't know. My plan to start a business can still succeed without the cooperation of conventions, so I can still provide a service to furries even if the established leadership is awash with the same kind of corruption that you find in highly conservative small towns like the one I moved from this past June. Being on the side of truth means I will prevail, but that the good ol' boy network rules the furry fandom means that it will take a lot of time to win everyone over. In the meantime, I will run my furry business out of my motorhome, down the block from the convention if necessary.
Please, keep in mind how the way furries treat their own affects you. Conventions are reacting to rumors about me and depriving you of my knowledge, wisdom, and experience as well as my generosity in the future (related to my fursuit business.) If they do this to me, who else do they do it to, what other opportunities are furries deprived of because convention staff play favorites and give favors to those who behave how they want them to behave. Think about it. It's called corruption for a reason - because it spreads until it fully destroys. Your fandom is being destroyed because you turn a blind eye to favoritism and its antithesis.
Edit:
I've decided to add the details as to what triggered this, what killed the magic of the fandom for me.
A couple days ago, I contacted FurFright after finally deciding that I wanted to go ahead and make the trek there, as a last ditch effort to convince some fursuiters to come with me to Washington DC. I know the chair of FurFright personally, and contacted him through the website's email address for him: coninfo. I figured that since it was a week before the convention, and the convention hadn't yet filled up (this convention has a maximum number of attendees for some reason) that they would be eager to answer question from someone wanting to attend.
But a day and a half passed, and I had not heard back. So I did the only logical thing: I resent the email to three other email addresses on the staff page, which went to people I knew, plus registration. That was yesterday morning. I got a response this morning, bitching at me for "spamming the staff" and telling me they aren't a political convention (as if I'm fucking stupid and don't know that.) They obviously were more concerned about my emailing 3 email addresses at the same time than the content of my message; as if my attempt to contact them after not hearing back from the main email was an attack against them or something, rather than what it was, an effort to ensure my email went through and was read so it could be responded to in a timely manner. They even went so far as to tell me they were "saving" the emails to answer today (what, for an entire week? Or just two days?). Why then didn't this professional organization put a vacation message on the ONLY means by which people could contact the convention, to let those who emailed know why their questions or other inquiries weren't immediately responded to? Well the answer is clear, because its not a professional organization.
And thus the magic died: FurFright was the convention I most wanted to attend. But things have degraded, and people have gotten so much more lazy-brained and just plain lazy that it has spread to people I would have once liked to have called friend. If the people have all become mindless American drones, what then, I ask you, does the fandom have for me?
I have the material to make 10 or so costumes. I am going to do that, attempt the other aspect of my business, and see what happens. But I really think that the furry fandom is dead, along with America. Given the problems I'm having with my health and getting someone to actually fucking do something to help my health, I think I'll be landing in Canada quite soon. Perhaps the fandom will be better in Canada, where people seem less concerned with the stupid, shallow fucking bullshit you fucking asshole Americans are. Fuck your fucking iPhones and iPods and satellite TV and game consoles and fursona costumes and all your other selfish, greedy, pathetic, shallow crap. I don't need pathetic creations of corporation to enrich my life, and I don't need people who think otherwise in my life because they simply have no means by which to enrich my life and obviously can't be enriched by me.
Go ahead, flame away, prove my fucking point. I doubt more than three of you reading this has any clue what I'm so fucking upset about.
I have been trying to get furries and others interested in this rally in Washington DC for over a month. I could have easily used the same methods that people are used to - propaganda, lies, etc. but I chose instead to use honesty, because this rally is the start of a movement, and requires awareness, not blind allegiance.
But so intent on distracting yourselves from the problems that plague you, that you actually prevent yourself from being part of the only possible solution, which requires your participation because it is your own life and future.
And this morning, yet another convention completely disregarded what I had to say, without even taking the time to listen. I would have been successful had I used a sales pitch - lead them with false promises of significant returns on their investment, etc. And the worst of it is, they rejected my inquiry on the basis that I was forced to contact multiple email accounts because the primary one had failed to get back to me after 36 hours - a week before the convention. Sorry, but a professional organization that has an event in one week better damn well answer their emails and not give me an excuse only after I am forced to contact them through other email accounts.
Does it piss me off? Yes, but I guarantee most of you would imagine the absolute wrong reasons. It pisses me off because it makes the convention poorly run, and thus ruins it for furries. Professionalism is necessary for events like a large furry convention because you cater to a variety of people, you provide a service to your customers, in this case, the furry fandom. By failing to be professional you don't give the fandom what they deserve and want, they stop attending, and the event fails for everyone. It doesn't piss me off because I perceive it as a personal matter, it pisses me off because it hurts others.
The rally will fail, as I knew it would. I continued to pursue it as an exercise, to prove to myself that I know what is wrong with American society - apathy brought on by ignorance brought on by laziness which was given to you by your television viewing habits more than anything else.
If you support wolves, and support what I have tried to do to help make life better for all of us, please show your support by turning off your television permanently. Read the news through online sources (multiple sources is ideal). Get your entertainment through books or independent movies that enrich you, rather than just entertaining you. And learn how to think for yourself. If you do these things, you will become aware of what is wrong, and see the truth in what is necessary to fix things: taking personal responsibility.
As for me, I don't know. My plan to start a business can still succeed without the cooperation of conventions, so I can still provide a service to furries even if the established leadership is awash with the same kind of corruption that you find in highly conservative small towns like the one I moved from this past June. Being on the side of truth means I will prevail, but that the good ol' boy network rules the furry fandom means that it will take a lot of time to win everyone over. In the meantime, I will run my furry business out of my motorhome, down the block from the convention if necessary.
Please, keep in mind how the way furries treat their own affects you. Conventions are reacting to rumors about me and depriving you of my knowledge, wisdom, and experience as well as my generosity in the future (related to my fursuit business.) If they do this to me, who else do they do it to, what other opportunities are furries deprived of because convention staff play favorites and give favors to those who behave how they want them to behave. Think about it. It's called corruption for a reason - because it spreads until it fully destroys. Your fandom is being destroyed because you turn a blind eye to favoritism and its antithesis.
Edit:
I've decided to add the details as to what triggered this, what killed the magic of the fandom for me.
A couple days ago, I contacted FurFright after finally deciding that I wanted to go ahead and make the trek there, as a last ditch effort to convince some fursuiters to come with me to Washington DC. I know the chair of FurFright personally, and contacted him through the website's email address for him: coninfo. I figured that since it was a week before the convention, and the convention hadn't yet filled up (this convention has a maximum number of attendees for some reason) that they would be eager to answer question from someone wanting to attend.
But a day and a half passed, and I had not heard back. So I did the only logical thing: I resent the email to three other email addresses on the staff page, which went to people I knew, plus registration. That was yesterday morning. I got a response this morning, bitching at me for "spamming the staff" and telling me they aren't a political convention (as if I'm fucking stupid and don't know that.) They obviously were more concerned about my emailing 3 email addresses at the same time than the content of my message; as if my attempt to contact them after not hearing back from the main email was an attack against them or something, rather than what it was, an effort to ensure my email went through and was read so it could be responded to in a timely manner. They even went so far as to tell me they were "saving" the emails to answer today (what, for an entire week? Or just two days?). Why then didn't this professional organization put a vacation message on the ONLY means by which people could contact the convention, to let those who emailed know why their questions or other inquiries weren't immediately responded to? Well the answer is clear, because its not a professional organization.
And thus the magic died: FurFright was the convention I most wanted to attend. But things have degraded, and people have gotten so much more lazy-brained and just plain lazy that it has spread to people I would have once liked to have called friend. If the people have all become mindless American drones, what then, I ask you, does the fandom have for me?
I have the material to make 10 or so costumes. I am going to do that, attempt the other aspect of my business, and see what happens. But I really think that the furry fandom is dead, along with America. Given the problems I'm having with my health and getting someone to actually fucking do something to help my health, I think I'll be landing in Canada quite soon. Perhaps the fandom will be better in Canada, where people seem less concerned with the stupid, shallow fucking bullshit you fucking asshole Americans are. Fuck your fucking iPhones and iPods and satellite TV and game consoles and fursona costumes and all your other selfish, greedy, pathetic, shallow crap. I don't need pathetic creations of corporation to enrich my life, and I don't need people who think otherwise in my life because they simply have no means by which to enrich my life and obviously can't be enriched by me.
Go ahead, flame away, prove my fucking point. I doubt more than three of you reading this has any clue what I'm so fucking upset about.
I didn't reply to this comment for your benefit, let me make that clear right now. That also means you can't take offense for my comments. This isn't an attack, I am pointing this out to others so that they can see what its like when someone thinks for themselves who is quite capable of doing so better than most. I predicted your response, anticipated it, wanted to block it, but changed my mind to allow you to prove my point. Thank you, in that regard. I know you will be offended, but I can hope that you would instead think it through and realize the truth in what I say.
Finally, I will not apologize for being who and what I am. I am a thinker. I didn't come to the fandom to provide you with entertainment. I am a teacher and if you are in my presence, you are going to learn, and you won't be able to simply turn off your brain and be entertained by me. That's not how I operate, nor is it how the fandom should operate. I will not participate in helping make people more ignorant.
Obviously you aren't aware of my IQ, which is 137, which is above average just slightly - and above 99.28% of people.
I really love when people make fools of themselves as you have. Trolling only shows the world what a shallow, empty fool you are. I hope you one day realize that your life is shit because you make it that way.