Well the way things are going, I find myself spending less and less time on deviantArt and more time really wanting to be here. I did not expect myself to fall in love with this place.

To tell you the honest truth, I used to be one of the of the furry-haters. The kind spawned by 4chan, and extremely critical of anything furry. I avoided the furry community like a plague and made fun of it at every opportunity. And then.. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but there was a sudden switch in my habits. Part of it might be my exile from what was my most beloved online home, the TaBB forums, which have since devolved into a cesspool of cruelty and cynicism but was once a place to find the most beautiful and intelligent people on the internet. I floundered about from website to website, from Gaia to LiveJournal and everywhere in between. I just couldn't find a place to fit in.

It was around this time that I found  savannahhorrocks and, of course, fell immediately madly in love with her artwork. She linked once to her FurAffinity site and in a fit of art-lust I made an account here so I could see her gallery. The combination of my online homelessness and an admiration of Savannah and the other artists she associated with, in addition to an influential blog post (which I can't find the link to) written by my favorite artist in the whole world, Ursula Vernon, shuffled me to FurAffinity more and more often until I started posting art here.

My views, needless to say, have taken a complete turn-around. In a very short time I have made a number of valuable friends. It may not be a big deal to most of you, but I have been very lonely on the internet for a while, and while deviantArt has an immense number of extremely talented artists, it is not very conducive for friendship unless you have a good amount of said talent (and so I'm pretty much out of the game in that department). Here, on the other hand, more emphasis is placed on creativity and the energy of creating characters and storylines. I have been more creatively inspired in the last few months since I've been here than in the past year. And I love you guys. You're all so affectionate and supportive, it's so strange to me, and I really appreciate it.

There's plenty of drama on this site, of course. Being a part of the FA snark Livejournal group, I've been quite privy to some of the more ridiculous events of emo drama shit that go on here. But it honestly doesn't bother me or speak to me against the site as a whole. I'm finding more and more often that the furries I used to avoid are really far more intelligent and funny and creative than I ever gave credit for.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that it's taken a while to get here, but now that I'm here.. I feel like I can finally say, I'm home.