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Just some idle time... and idle thoughts.
11 years ago
You know, it's funny. I've been along the fringes of various fandoms for years and years, and yet I've managed to hold a low profile for the most part. I've been a part of Star Trek fandom, Pern fandom, Dr. Who fandom, Beauty and the Beast fandom, Furry fandom, Elfquest fandom... and yet I've never really have gotten so tightly wound up in any one particular fandom.
And as I've gotten older (and yes, I've gotten old, when you've been on FurryMUCK for 20+ years), I find myself actually enjoying staying on the edges. I've watched Furry Fandom go from just an amusing offshoot from comics into its own sub-genre, then watched as sub-groups form within Furry. Most of which I've watched developed with either an amused or horrified personal opinion of. Fursuiters, 'Furry as a Lifestyle', Bronies, it's like 'really, folks?' Then again, I've seen variations of all that in other fandoms as well, the folks who take Star Trek or Star Wars as a religion, almost.
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As for me, well, I've moved out of the Florida panhandle (Southern Alabama in more ways than one) and over to Houston. Where I get to work with former astronauts, engineers, rocket scientists, NASA officials and the occasional government official. My official title is "Executive Services Technician", which means I'm supposed to fix the senior management's systems... but most of them are so technically savvy on their own that they usually come to me only when it's a problem they can't figure out. So I also end up dealing with other jobs and other issues, usually since no one else wants to deal with. Like Blackberry phones and VMWare images. Fun.
Hey, but I like it.
And as I've gotten older (and yes, I've gotten old, when you've been on FurryMUCK for 20+ years), I find myself actually enjoying staying on the edges. I've watched Furry Fandom go from just an amusing offshoot from comics into its own sub-genre, then watched as sub-groups form within Furry. Most of which I've watched developed with either an amused or horrified personal opinion of. Fursuiters, 'Furry as a Lifestyle', Bronies, it's like 'really, folks?' Then again, I've seen variations of all that in other fandoms as well, the folks who take Star Trek or Star Wars as a religion, almost.
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As for me, well, I've moved out of the Florida panhandle (Southern Alabama in more ways than one) and over to Houston. Where I get to work with former astronauts, engineers, rocket scientists, NASA officials and the occasional government official. My official title is "Executive Services Technician", which means I'm supposed to fix the senior management's systems... but most of them are so technically savvy on their own that they usually come to me only when it's a problem they can't figure out. So I also end up dealing with other jobs and other issues, usually since no one else wants to deal with. Like Blackberry phones and VMWare images. Fun.
Hey, but I like it.
