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14 years ago
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First time I've ever been tagged (you son of a bitch 
redapeguy, you) and I've never really paid them mind, but honestly, who doesn't love an ego stroke every now and then?
RULES
01. You must post these rules (Very Important indeed).
02. Each person must post 11 things about themselves in their journal.
03. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create eleven new questions for the people you tag to answer.
04. You have to choose 11 people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
05. Go to their page and tell them you have tagged him/her.
06. No tag backs.
07. No stuff in the tagging section about "you are tagged if you are reading this." You legitimately (AKA, really, truly, with all honesty) have to tag 11 people.
ABOUT ME:
01. I went to Nigeria at age 8 to save lost souls.
02. I've been stabbed with a bull fighting spear.
03. I'm more sexually attracted to furry than humans (groan)
04. There's VERY few things I won't try once. It's scary where I draw the line.
05. I own and am good with a western .357 six shooter.
06. I've seriously discussed post-apocalypse rendezvous plans with my family.
07. One day I'll quit, sell everything, buy a sailboat, and spend my life exploring tropical islands.
08. I probably was a sailor in another life.
09. After 25 years of earnest religion, losing my faith was the closest I've felt to being born again.
10. I became a man the day I understood just how young a species we are.
11. Stereotypes aside, Burning Man was the most incredible experience of my life.
QUESTIONS FROM TAGGER:
01. If you are an artist, how did you get into doing art? What's the process that led you to learning how to do it? If not, why do you like the kind of art you like?
My brain's physiology made it overwhelmingly the path most pleasing to pursue. That and I had a voracious desire to watch TV/movies as a kid - but was never allowed thanks to my parents. Perhaps that unrequited need turned into the passion that drove me to film school and onward.
02. How did you come to be on this site? Do you consider yourself a furry and what does that mean to you?
Growing up a good Christian kid, sex wasn't till marriage - which, for a young teen in the heady throes of puberty - is an EXCRUCIATING long time! Homosexuality was right out, so I found myself in an asexual limbo of sorts. My body craving carnal satisfaction while my pious mind unleashed torrents of guilt. That is, until one innocent night I was downloading horsey wallpapers for my sister and stumbled across a giant photo of two horses mating. Boom. That triggered something in me I can still feel in my chest to this day. It was a sexual act that hadn't been drilled in my head as wrong or sinful. As weird as it was, my subconscious latched onto it as a guilt-free outlet for my pent-up pubescent sexual tension. From there, furry was an easy transition.
03. What kind of music do you like?
http://www.last.fm/user/SlyWeazal/charts?rangetype=year&subtype=artists
04. What was your favorite subject in school?
Haha, pottery. No joke.
05. What kind of games do you like the most? (doesn't have to be a video game)
I've never been able to give up Counter-Strike. L4D is a blast to LAN.
06. What kind of thing that people do on the internet annoys you the most?
The most? The ABSOLUTE most? That mother-fucking caramelldansen. It pretty much makes me want to burn down the entire world and destroy every living soul.
07. If any, what kind of clique where you in in high school, and if not, what kind of people did you hang out with?
80% nerd, 20% cool outsider
08. Do you have any pets? What are they like?
Fuck :( No...This makes me sad to think about. If I did they would be:
http://i.imgur.com/6bX2F.jpg or http://i.imgur.com/Y0cJc.jpg
09. What, if any kinds of alcohol do you like to drink? If not, what do you drink?
Belgium beers! Best in the world. Tiki drinks and fancy-schmancy mixology!
Just got Clase Azul Reposado as a nice Birthday gift. Smoothest liquor I've EVER tasted. It's actually kind of freaky.
10. What do you think of the internet?
Biggest/best invention since electricity. Bigger than the printing press. Completely revolutionized society, economy, and lots of other things.
11. What do you find beautiful?
Terrence Malick's films, Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel: http://youtu.be/luME1nOhcj4 , and Todd Hido's landscape photography: http://tinyurl.com/6wxg6hj
Really just art the exudes mood and atmosphere.
QUESTIONS FOR THE TAGGED:
01. What do you miss most about your childhood?
02. If you had the money and time, where would you travel to first and why?
03. Most people aren't furry. Something special in our lives let us be ok with it. What specifically was it for you?
04. What's something you wish more people would do?
05. If you woke up as an honest-to-god anthro character, exactly how you'd want, but everything else in the world stayed the same. What do you do in the first 24 hours?
06. What is your biggest struggle?
07. If benevolent aliens came to Earth and said only you could come with them to see the wonders of the Universe, but you could never return, would you go?
08. What's the spookiest/most-unexplainable thing that's ever happened to you?
09. Favorite dessert?
10. Favorite Disney hand animated movie?
11. If you got $20 million dollars, what do you do with it and your life?
TAGGING:
kamui 
birds 
stigmata 
clup 
R-Mutt 
sperrysperry 
f27 
bradfordfox 
tann 
gatogato 
beezle
redapeguy, you) and I've never really paid them mind, but honestly, who doesn't love an ego stroke every now and then?RULES
01. You must post these rules (Very Important indeed).
02. Each person must post 11 things about themselves in their journal.
03. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create eleven new questions for the people you tag to answer.
04. You have to choose 11 people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
05. Go to their page and tell them you have tagged him/her.
06. No tag backs.
07. No stuff in the tagging section about "you are tagged if you are reading this." You legitimately (AKA, really, truly, with all honesty) have to tag 11 people.
ABOUT ME:
01. I went to Nigeria at age 8 to save lost souls.
02. I've been stabbed with a bull fighting spear.
03. I'm more sexually attracted to furry than humans (groan)
04. There's VERY few things I won't try once. It's scary where I draw the line.
05. I own and am good with a western .357 six shooter.
06. I've seriously discussed post-apocalypse rendezvous plans with my family.
07. One day I'll quit, sell everything, buy a sailboat, and spend my life exploring tropical islands.
08. I probably was a sailor in another life.
09. After 25 years of earnest religion, losing my faith was the closest I've felt to being born again.
10. I became a man the day I understood just how young a species we are.
11. Stereotypes aside, Burning Man was the most incredible experience of my life.
QUESTIONS FROM TAGGER:
01. If you are an artist, how did you get into doing art? What's the process that led you to learning how to do it? If not, why do you like the kind of art you like?
My brain's physiology made it overwhelmingly the path most pleasing to pursue. That and I had a voracious desire to watch TV/movies as a kid - but was never allowed thanks to my parents. Perhaps that unrequited need turned into the passion that drove me to film school and onward.
02. How did you come to be on this site? Do you consider yourself a furry and what does that mean to you?
Growing up a good Christian kid, sex wasn't till marriage - which, for a young teen in the heady throes of puberty - is an EXCRUCIATING long time! Homosexuality was right out, so I found myself in an asexual limbo of sorts. My body craving carnal satisfaction while my pious mind unleashed torrents of guilt. That is, until one innocent night I was downloading horsey wallpapers for my sister and stumbled across a giant photo of two horses mating. Boom. That triggered something in me I can still feel in my chest to this day. It was a sexual act that hadn't been drilled in my head as wrong or sinful. As weird as it was, my subconscious latched onto it as a guilt-free outlet for my pent-up pubescent sexual tension. From there, furry was an easy transition.
03. What kind of music do you like?
http://www.last.fm/user/SlyWeazal/charts?rangetype=year&subtype=artists
04. What was your favorite subject in school?
Haha, pottery. No joke.
05. What kind of games do you like the most? (doesn't have to be a video game)
I've never been able to give up Counter-Strike. L4D is a blast to LAN.
06. What kind of thing that people do on the internet annoys you the most?
The most? The ABSOLUTE most? That mother-fucking caramelldansen. It pretty much makes me want to burn down the entire world and destroy every living soul.
07. If any, what kind of clique where you in in high school, and if not, what kind of people did you hang out with?
80% nerd, 20% cool outsider
08. Do you have any pets? What are they like?
Fuck :( No...This makes me sad to think about. If I did they would be:
http://i.imgur.com/6bX2F.jpg or http://i.imgur.com/Y0cJc.jpg
09. What, if any kinds of alcohol do you like to drink? If not, what do you drink?
Belgium beers! Best in the world. Tiki drinks and fancy-schmancy mixology!
Just got Clase Azul Reposado as a nice Birthday gift. Smoothest liquor I've EVER tasted. It's actually kind of freaky.
10. What do you think of the internet?
Biggest/best invention since electricity. Bigger than the printing press. Completely revolutionized society, economy, and lots of other things.
11. What do you find beautiful?
Terrence Malick's films, Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel: http://youtu.be/luME1nOhcj4 , and Todd Hido's landscape photography: http://tinyurl.com/6wxg6hj
Really just art the exudes mood and atmosphere.
QUESTIONS FOR THE TAGGED:
01. What do you miss most about your childhood?
02. If you had the money and time, where would you travel to first and why?
03. Most people aren't furry. Something special in our lives let us be ok with it. What specifically was it for you?
04. What's something you wish more people would do?
05. If you woke up as an honest-to-god anthro character, exactly how you'd want, but everything else in the world stayed the same. What do you do in the first 24 hours?
06. What is your biggest struggle?
07. If benevolent aliens came to Earth and said only you could come with them to see the wonders of the Universe, but you could never return, would you go?
08. What's the spookiest/most-unexplainable thing that's ever happened to you?
09. Favorite dessert?
10. Favorite Disney hand animated movie?
11. If you got $20 million dollars, what do you do with it and your life?
TAGGING:
kamui 
birds 
stigmata 
clup 
R-Mutt 
sperrysperry 
f27 
bradfordfox 
tann 
gatogato 
beezle
And finally your Last F.M., I will check out some of your favs, alright?
I won't do this in my journal but I'll answer these question here, hope that's good enought C:
1. Miss about childhood:
The ability to truly play and built complicated, episodical and unique stories within a complex society of plastic dinosaurs. I am not able to do this anymore, a recent test with a friend showed that we just either slip in sex and murder stories or do parodies all the time when we try to play with dinosaurs again.
2. What was the desert where Jesus went to chill out a bit while the devil sneaked himself up on him, disguised as lion? Other than that, a long time goal: Tschernobyl, not the ghost town but the power plant itself. Iceland maybe. Or Siberia.
3. Embracing the awkwardness of having a really bad taste and being very naive
4. Trying to learn being attentive to everything, especially oneself. Everyone would benefit from it.
5. What if I absolutley don't want to be an anthro character? Get medical help and cosmetic surgery asap?
6. Patience
7. No! Of course not. Why should I?
8. How did I get here? How did this happen?
9. peanutbutter on a spoon eaten out of the glass.
10. Dunno lol, no connection to Disney. My fav as a child was Dumbo.
11. 20 million seems like a magnet for misery. 200.000 is something else, that's a reasonable ammount of money to set up a small art agency or to draw a comic for a year in a luxury hotel in Thailand or to help out my parents.
But with 20.000.0000 it would take quite some time, probably months or years to plan what to do with the money, it would set me under the responsibility to properly use it and to understand business and investment a lot better while at the same time keeping my mouth shut about what I have (because you know how people are) and poisoning the relationships with people. I think I would go full reverse and chill at a monastery for some time if I had that responsibility.
2. Fascinating! You watch the survival shows about Siberia? Like Survivor Man or Man vs. Wild? I could definitely understand Iceland!
7. Because this is your one and only chance to actually see what mysteries the stars hold, what kind of developed alien races exist in the Universe. If you think Earth is beautiful, imagine how beautiful things are on countless other planets, solar systems, and galaxies? It's just too rare an opportunity. If I am honest about what I'd contribute to the world if I stayed, it'd probably be no great loss.
9. You're so European!
11. Interesting perspective and good replies overall! These are actually pretty neat to do/read :)
I wonder, if the ability to play didn't just went of to different regions or showed itself in other forms...
The brother-sister conflict that was played out between the Tyrannosaurus and Barbie could be nowadays be a playful storytelling hour between my friend telling anecdotes of different sibling conflicts we've encoutered. Is it still play if a friends acts out the crazy situations before the group?
Is it still play if we watch a movie and think how the ending could've been different and imagine different situations? A kind of play that doesn't need to be played out with plastic dolls but is all in the head? Maybe the interests of play shifted too so that it isn't obvious anymore, from the deep interest to play out what happens if two dinosaurs go on an adventure in the garden (where all flowers are giant trees) to the deep interest to go out for oneself and get a RL life adventure by going to town and doing stuffs, instead of pretending to be a Disney character, pretending to be someone else in front of strangers?
2. ... How.. well.. uh.. No nonono, this is not my pee in this mug, how did you get the idea?
*sip*
3. I get the idea, a complete freedom of responsibility together with a sense of adventure and a new beginning.
But then there is endless interesting things just on the street, just in this appartment, humans are endlessly fascinating and it never get boring, things develop and flow and finally there are people here who would miss me. I don't want to think about the first time I have to tell my parents that I'll go away forever.
Seeing other galaxies would be nice for a vacation trip, but the thought that there probably won't be a lot of interaction with the things that I see, that there will be time to built something or to contribute something, the fear that there is no possibility of a mission and a purpose behind the pretty landscapes and the exotic societies.. that's just too much of a risk. Dunno, I'm more the type who enjoys working than the type who enjoys pleasures.
9. Peanutbutter is sold in a glass with an American flag on it over here, it just makes that stuff feel so American.
11. Shoobiedoobiedoo, money needs a strong character.
Hey I'm curious what the others will write, I find the questions interesting.. no journal up yet. Hmm.. gotta keep an eye out.
This is me when people start quoting internet memes IRL.
But yes, let's be sure to stay in touch for the possibility that some decades from now we'll give everything up and sail to all sorts of interesting places! After all, photographer weasel guys who have lived in the same city who are more sexually attracted to furries than humans and find music under the influence a spectacular experience and both found pottery to be their favourite school subject and will try nearly anything once should stay in touch regardless!
Dude, your second paragraph got me unseemly excited! There's something in our weasely genes, I guess!
well
I'll get my answer up on my next journal. I'm finishing typing it now.
Yeah, man, I feel your background. I was born/raised Christian, church every Sunday, Bible studies, youth groups, worked at a Christian camp for 2 years, and graduated from a Bible college. So, we definitely have a similar perspective.
While you don't consider yourself a Christian now, it sounds like we're pretty much parallel, so I don't care about specifics like I used to. That drove some door-to-door Christians crazy a few weeks ago, especially when they asked me if I knew where I was going when I died, and I inferred that neither of us knew for certain. And then I turned the verses in their pamphlets against their notions. But that's a conversation for another day. I just want you to take away the point that I like you and we're meant to be friends.
I love The Real Tuesday Weld too!
I think I am finally prompted to join Last.fm.
What's the deal with The Real Tuesday Weld? I feel like NOBODY'S heard of them. Did he just never break out of Europe or something?
As for The Real Tuesday Weld, the first place I heard them was in a short animated feature that my friends brought back from an animation convention on a DVD that we all watched together. I liked the song so much I decided to go check them out further. I think at least two of their songs have been used in commercials on American television, but other than that, I've never talked to anyone who's even heard of them.
grandma & grandpa
02. If you had the money and time, where would you travel to first and why?
europe, for the art. I want to see vienna, I want to see a place with history
03. Most people aren't furry. Something special in our lives let us be ok with it. What specifically was it for you?
it's about embracing the fact that people are animals too, embracing a certain wildness
04. What's something you wish more people would do?
take alice d, look up at the sky, live in the moment instead of the past and the future, not drink bottled water, think about consumption & their impact on the world
05. If you woke up as an honest-to-god anthro character, exactly how you'd want, but everything else in the world stayed the same. What do you do in the first 24 hours?
i'd probably go say hi to r-mutt and be like YO check this out
06. What is your biggest struggle?
my past
07. If benevolent aliens came to Earth and said only you could come with them to see the wonders of the Universe, but you could never return, would you go?
no, there are enough wonders to explore here
08. What's the spookiest/most-unexplainable thing that's ever happened to you?
I can't think of anything
09. Favorite dessert?
cinnamon rolls, mmmmm
10. Favorite Disney hand animated movie?
robin hood, oh yes
11. If you got $20 million dollars, what do you do with it and your life?
keep a little for some land, give the rest away, life is more interesting when you work for yr living and build things out of scratch
4. Amen about bottled water. I'm far from being a militant conversationalist, but it honestly rankles my ire whenever I see people buying it >_< Also, thumbs up on the druges. The more I do, the more I realize how silly the vicious criminalization of it is.
5. And then... O_O
8. REALLY? NOTHING? You've lived deep in creepy dark forests your whole life and nothing has freaked you out? But, but...aliens!
10. Ditto. Such a teddy bear for me. And even non-furries fully admit Robin's voice is dead sexy
1) Having a dog
2) Barcelona because it is looks lovely.
3) "he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" - Dr. Johnson
4) ummm be more considerate when they are driving
5) Go to the hospital
6) getting over my arrested development
7) No I love my family too much plus I haven't been to Barcelona yet so barf that.
8)I got really sick for a month I was lethargic I had miserable headaches, diarrhea and got these really bad sores on the inside of my mouth that where so painful I had to use a numbing medicine just to eat soup and I took a ton of tests to see what it was but the doctors had no idea what was wrong with me . Then it just went away and till this day I still have no idea what was wrong with my body.
9) I don't like dessert
10) Great Mouse Detective
11) I'd give most of it away to friends,family and charity's. I'm a simple person with simple needs I'd feel weird spending it on lavish luxuries
2. Nice call on Barcelona! Beautiful city, good food, nice people...props for such a specific answer!
8. Bird/swine flu! Sounds like your immune system shut the fuck down
10. Woa! There's a unique one. Shit, I need to see that again apparently. Thoughts on The Rescuers Down Under?
10. Yeah GMD, Robin Hood and 101 Dalmatians are my top 3 animated Disney films you should definitely check out GMD again. And I loved both Rescuers films and I think Down Under is one of the few films that I enjoyed the sequel over the original plus I was living in Australia when it came out.
Taiwan! And fitting in there completely w/o people telling me I have a snooty American accent
02. If you had the money and time, where would you travel to first and why?
Somewhere tropical. Grew up in the tropics, miss it rill bad.
03. Most people aren't furry. Something special in our lives let us be ok with it. What specifically was it for you?
The PEOPLE, esp at a time of life when i'm coming out, finding to my amazement that this site is clogged with AWESOME smart arty-geek queers, like just the right proportion of arty and geek and queer that can only be found here
04. What's something you wish more people would do?
Think about conflicts with "critical distance." Love more than insist on being loved. There are more people who want to be loved than those willing to give it. Corny?
05. If you woke up as an honest-to-god anthro character, exactly how you'd want, but everything else in the world stayed the same. What do you do in the first 24 hours?
Call a lawyer because science would want a piece of me, my body would be an affront of every structure of life science known since the Enlightenment. Then don a giant trench coat, visit friends, tell them "it's me! i'm a giant walf, let's cuddle :3," etc. Which no one will refuse, I don't think.
06. What is your biggest struggle?
Getting some talent of mine recognized in the wider world. Writing, mostly.
07. If benevolent aliens came to Earth and said only you could come with them to see the wonders of the Universe, but you could never return, would you go?
No. That would be hella lonely.
08. What's the spookiest/most-unexplainable thing that's ever happened to you?
I was born :0
09. Favorite dessert?
gin
10. Favorite Disney hand animated movie?
Lion King
11. If you got $20 million dollars, what do you do with it and your life
Yeah I would hide it real nice.
03. What a nice, encapsulating description :)
04. Amazingly true. The world would be so incredible if people were much more modest/less entitled.
09. Give me ALL your thoughts on ALL the gins you've tried/remember
01. What do you miss most about your childhood?
Honestly, I mostly find myself missing a childhood I never had. I enjoyed most all of my childhood save for middle/high school, for sure, but whenever I see or read some high school romance or idealized account of youth, I kind of mourn the fact that that was not and now will never be my experience. It's sad that we only get to experience one version of each moment.
02. If you had the money and time, where would you travel to first and why?
Maybe back to Scotland? It's freaking gorgeous, and the accent makes me happy (in bed).
03. Most people aren't furry. Something special in our lives let us be ok with it. What specifically was it for you?
I'll have to second(/third/fourth) the "it was a group of accepting gay folks when I needed that." The cute manimals were/are kind of secondary to the community.
04. What's something you wish more people would do?
Live abroad for a year, especially somewhere they speak a different language. I think it really helps a person grow and become independent, and gives them a sense of perspective that they'll never have if they've never left the little spot where they grew up.
05. If you woke up as an honest-to-god anthro character, exactly how you'd want, but everything else in the world stayed the same. What do you do in the first 24 hours?
Hide from the military scientists. Also probably beat off (I mean, so long as I'm in hiding...).
06. What is your biggest struggle?
Living without shame, I guess? Staying in the moment?
07. If benevolent aliens came to Earth and said only you could come with them to see the wonders of the Universe, but you could never return, would you go?
No, but you knew that. The mysteries of the Earth are all the sweeter both because we have a context to frame them in and a stake in them as residents, and because we have other people to share in them with. Seeing crazy things on distant planets would probably be less surprising because we'd have no metric of what is normal versus mysterious for that planet, etc. And the mystery on Earth most ripe for exploration as far as I'm concerned has to be the rest of the human population -- it would be a shame to give all of them up.
08. What's the spookiest/most-unexplainable thing that's ever happened to you?
A couple of weeks back I asked my roommate what kind of ice cream we had, thinking that we had none, and that this would be a jerk way of saying, "Ben, let's go buy ice cream." But then he started naming flavors and it turned out we really did have ice cream. Because I guess he bought some that day. SPOOKY!!!
09. Favorite dessert?
Does masturbation count as a dessert? Because if not, then cheesecake.
10. Favorite Disney hand animated movie?
Yeah, okay, probably Robin Hood. I like the Great Mouse Detective a lot, though. Plus it has the gayest Disney villain ever (which is saying a lot, considering every Disney villain is gay.)
11. If you got $20 million dollars, what do you do with it and your life?
Eh, I like my life now. I'd keep working, because I'd go nuts if I didn't. Might take some time off, though. Go to school for painting. Maybe try to do like a graphic novel or something. But nothing lavish. Donate a big chunk of it. Enjoy the security. Maybe take a nice little vacation with friends.
02. Woa, my folks just got back from their first trip abroad and they chose Scotland. It was funny because they were only there for 2 weeks and already noticed the repetition of food. Like, every restaurant has the same 7-10 items. It's all yummy and good, but...the SAME dishes everywhere.
04. A-fucking-men. I liked hearing politicians talking about a year or two of community service in exchange for higher education or something. We all could definitely use some modesty and perspective :)
05. Thank you for being the only one to actually answer this question O_o I think it's important to come out to the media as much as possible before the military/gov gets wind. There's very careful planning you have to put into it...
08. :| (happy endings aren't spooky. hmph.)
09. Flavored cheesecake or plain? Where's the best you've ever had?
10. Holy mole, that's TWICE GMD has come up. I HAVE TO SEE THAT SHIT HIGH AND WITH SEXY FURREHS.
11. Sigh. Everyone's so modest. I spend my whole life dreaming of seeing the wonders of the world and it's hard to believe, when given the opportunity, everyone's chosen to just hunker down in their routine.
11. Not to sound like a dick, but I've been super lucky with all the traveling I've already gotten to do. There are absolutely still places I'd love to see and things I'd love to do, hell, even some things I'd love to buy, but the conspicuous consumerist sort of I'MA BUY A SWEET CAR AND A HUGE MANSION AND MAKE IT RAAAAAIN thing just isn't my speed. It's not so much a matter of being stuck in my routine as not wanting to retire at 29 and just idle away my days. I'm like a border collie -- if I don't have a job to do, I'd probably wreck the furniture.