📼 𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐌𝐒𝐅𝐎𝐗 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎𝐒 📼


Today I made my final move, and got  wildshot out of his abusive home situation. We were in and out. We went in, grabbed his stuff, loaded up my car, and left. He left his keys to the house, his car in his dad's name, and emptied his bank account. All while his father was at work. His father never met me, and has no way of finding where Wild went. His note detailed his reasons for leaving, and that he was going somewhere safe, and would contact them in the future. He is safe, living with me for the time being until he is fully enrolled in the county social services agencies. It has been a long three months of work, I have nearly exhausted myself, and I have put myself in potential danger, but to give him a chance at life anything is worth it for him, and for me.

When I was in my darkest place this Fandom came out of nowhere and picked me up and carried me for years on the promise that it would make my life better. In every abusive and discouraging moment I clutched my Fandom close like one would their cross in the faith that it would protect me. I have since seen the power of this culture and I have been touched by it. Since this Fandom rescued me I made a vow to do the same for any other Furry that petitioned my help. I went to the ends of the Earth for him, because he is a Furry, and he is my friend, and in my mind, my countryman. Today, more than any other day, I have made true on that promise.

I do not say this to gloat. I say this to make a proclamation that my words, the posts on Facebook, the journals here, the speeches in real life at Furmeets and Conventions, the conversation with Furries in passing hallways and crowded rooms, are not empty. They carry weight, for today I have proven them true, I have proven them capable of being brought to fruition, and I have proven this Fandom to be the saving grace I have always held it to be. Unity among the Fandom is not a lost cause. It is not an empty road to nowhere, and our ideals of personal liberty, of the breaking down of social barriers, and the power of our Fandom to lift itself up is not gone. On the statue of liberty it reads "Give me your hungry, your poor, your huddled masses." This Fandom echoes back "Give me your downtrodden, your outcast, your confined and chained" and together we will breath free. The ideals which I have preached I have practiced, and now they have weight. I have proven that we as a Fandom do not stand alone, so long as we stand with each other. Join hands and lift each other up. I hope that now, with my action, people may now listen and take some of it to heart.

Furries Aeterna