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Has It Really Been Five Years?
11 years ago
No, but it will be seven weeks until the five-year anniversary of my induction into FurAffinity and on that day I will be in Oklahoma with my Furry friends, God willing. But I figure this is close enough to start marking my five-year anniversary because I've always been the one to jump the gun. In 2009, I had been watching the Furballs with a desire to be on their massive site for years. I had just attended Furry Fiesta I and wanted to join in the fun. I set up my FA site and began uploading art in April 2009, a process that will probably continue until my dying day. Hundreds of conbadges and more than a dozen conventions later, I have had more than my fair share of negatives- friends I've fallen out with, drama I should never have started, even a tournament I probably never should have entered. I've said and done things I know I shouldn't have done. And yet each of the bumps and bruises I took have made me a stronger and more mature person and I am still standing.
And it would be unfair to look at the negatives without talking about the positives, as well. I have consummated dozens of business deals through this site, gained a few friends totally worth the courage of asking, talked a friend out of committing suicide, gotten my fursuit head through this site, and even made an ethnic transition that only someone with balls the size of grapefruits could possibly do. In five short years, I have gone from a largely disinterested outsider to a full citizen in the fandom. For those who have been with me since day one or had the fortune (or misfortune, I can't tell which) of running into me these past five years, thanks for being there or I'm sorry for what I did or maybe a mixture of both. On April 25, I will celebrate five years on FA by being in a place with no Internet access at all, 200 miles away from home in the wilds of Oklahoma, just because I think my friendship with the Furries is worth that much. This fandom changed me, and without FurAffinity, none of this would have ever happened. Now, I don't have cake but I'll have Rush sing me out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFGrWjOX0E
And it would be unfair to look at the negatives without talking about the positives, as well. I have consummated dozens of business deals through this site, gained a few friends totally worth the courage of asking, talked a friend out of committing suicide, gotten my fursuit head through this site, and even made an ethnic transition that only someone with balls the size of grapefruits could possibly do. In five short years, I have gone from a largely disinterested outsider to a full citizen in the fandom. For those who have been with me since day one or had the fortune (or misfortune, I can't tell which) of running into me these past five years, thanks for being there or I'm sorry for what I did or maybe a mixture of both. On April 25, I will celebrate five years on FA by being in a place with no Internet access at all, 200 miles away from home in the wilds of Oklahoma, just because I think my friendship with the Furries is worth that much. This fandom changed me, and without FurAffinity, none of this would have ever happened. Now, I don't have cake but I'll have Rush sing me out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFGrWjOX0E
