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Anime Boston '15, Epiphany, and Updates
10 years ago
So hey, I was at Anime Boston this past weekend and I met up with a few of you other furs there. Sorry I was very shy and awkward x_x It was my first time interacting with other fursuiters and I get overwhelmed by new things easily. It was a pleasure to meet everyone, though. I really hope to see you guys again, perhaps even at my first trip to AC this summer.
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After doing some thinking, I really think that the place I would fit in most with and be most comfortable in is in the Furry fandom, so I am going to try to be a bit more social with the community. I spend most of my time lurking about on Furry sites, because I am too shy and nervous to talk usually. But I would really love to make some friends. I don't have many besides my boyfriend, and he's also one of my only real Furry friends too. He is the same way as me, though, and has never really interacted with other furs, though for a while he was active in the Brony community.
I would also like to try to figure out a Furry Meetup group that I could maybe join and will fit in with. Like I said, I am very shy and nervous, and I get overwhelmed quite easily. Though I do warm up to new people once I get to know them a bit and am able to settle down my anxiety.
I guess maybe I should take this as a chance to introduce myself.
Hello, I go by Fern, Fern the Deer, Fern the Deerthing, or Deerferns online. You guys can just call me Fern, though. I identify as being genderfluid, though I am a biological female, and don't really have pronoun preferences, so any and all are fine with me. I am 23 years old, living in Massachusetts, and I am a Deer creature. My fursona has been revised quite a bit over the years, and for a while I felt a bit lost and unable to decide on a Fursona that I really felt represented me, because I wanted to fit in and also be able to make a suit and nice art of it. My current suit is just a regular deer I made of my previous incarnation of my fursona. I still love that suit very much, but she is not updated to how my current fursona looks. And yes,m she is an antlered doe, even though doe's do not typically grow antlers. Hopefully I will get a reference up of my current fursona ASAP.
I do have a lot of insecurities I have had to fight to feel comfortable with the fandom, but something I have realized recently is that, I don't have to be anything to be a "real furry" but my own self. So it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about my fursona, or how my fursuits looks, or if my characters/art "fit in". Because if I let what other people might think govern me, I will not create, I will not produce, I will not move forward, and I will not have fun. And that's the most important thing I think any fur should remember, the fandom is about having fun!
So here I am, I'm gonna throw myself out there and hope that some other furs out there will appreciate me, my work, and my views. Furry Fandom has meant so much to me over the past decade, even though I have spent it on the sidelines watching quietly by myself for the greater part of that time period. The Fandom is also about the community, and I think I am ready to be a part of it.
I look up to and appreciate so many of you, and I am familiar with many a fur through vicarious visits to conventions through video blogs and through other adventures through the internet. It is very intimidating for me to approach many of the furs I look up to, so it would be incredibly appreciated if any of you wouldn't mind just dropping me a message or a comment or anything at all. Communicating with any of you would be an honor and a pleasure. I am just awful at building up the courage to initiate such things.
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Anyway, I am also gonna try actually uploading stuff onto here. I do mostly writing and traditional art, though I am usually afraid to post traditional art because I feel like if its not digital art, people won't appreciate it :( I can draw digitally, but I do so much better with traditional and it is much more comfortable for me.
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After doing some thinking, I really think that the place I would fit in most with and be most comfortable in is in the Furry fandom, so I am going to try to be a bit more social with the community. I spend most of my time lurking about on Furry sites, because I am too shy and nervous to talk usually. But I would really love to make some friends. I don't have many besides my boyfriend, and he's also one of my only real Furry friends too. He is the same way as me, though, and has never really interacted with other furs, though for a while he was active in the Brony community.
I would also like to try to figure out a Furry Meetup group that I could maybe join and will fit in with. Like I said, I am very shy and nervous, and I get overwhelmed quite easily. Though I do warm up to new people once I get to know them a bit and am able to settle down my anxiety.
I guess maybe I should take this as a chance to introduce myself.
Hello, I go by Fern, Fern the Deer, Fern the Deerthing, or Deerferns online. You guys can just call me Fern, though. I identify as being genderfluid, though I am a biological female, and don't really have pronoun preferences, so any and all are fine with me. I am 23 years old, living in Massachusetts, and I am a Deer creature. My fursona has been revised quite a bit over the years, and for a while I felt a bit lost and unable to decide on a Fursona that I really felt represented me, because I wanted to fit in and also be able to make a suit and nice art of it. My current suit is just a regular deer I made of my previous incarnation of my fursona. I still love that suit very much, but she is not updated to how my current fursona looks. And yes,m she is an antlered doe, even though doe's do not typically grow antlers. Hopefully I will get a reference up of my current fursona ASAP.
I do have a lot of insecurities I have had to fight to feel comfortable with the fandom, but something I have realized recently is that, I don't have to be anything to be a "real furry" but my own self. So it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about my fursona, or how my fursuits looks, or if my characters/art "fit in". Because if I let what other people might think govern me, I will not create, I will not produce, I will not move forward, and I will not have fun. And that's the most important thing I think any fur should remember, the fandom is about having fun!
So here I am, I'm gonna throw myself out there and hope that some other furs out there will appreciate me, my work, and my views. Furry Fandom has meant so much to me over the past decade, even though I have spent it on the sidelines watching quietly by myself for the greater part of that time period. The Fandom is also about the community, and I think I am ready to be a part of it.
I look up to and appreciate so many of you, and I am familiar with many a fur through vicarious visits to conventions through video blogs and through other adventures through the internet. It is very intimidating for me to approach many of the furs I look up to, so it would be incredibly appreciated if any of you wouldn't mind just dropping me a message or a comment or anything at all. Communicating with any of you would be an honor and a pleasure. I am just awful at building up the courage to initiate such things.
~~~
Anyway, I am also gonna try actually uploading stuff onto here. I do mostly writing and traditional art, though I am usually afraid to post traditional art because I feel like if its not digital art, people won't appreciate it :( I can draw digitally, but I do so much better with traditional and it is much more comfortable for me.
