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First furmeet
10 years ago
This was a few weeks ago now, but I've been too busy to update. (Too quickly, my furry blog updates are going the way of my regular blog's updates.) It was to me a resounding success. We met at a pub in the local metropolitan area (that college town I mentioned earlier) for beers in a local pub.
I was a little nervous at first because they were all older than me by [2,...,12] years, but I actually think that may be a positive thing. I guess my mental age may be a little older than my chronological age because we hit it off anyway conversation wise. I joked, they laughed. Vice Versa. Coming off of college, I'm not used to having friends of varying ages. But the upsides of having more mature friends is obvious. Everyone's on their own two feet and established. No creepy red badges or freeloading teenagers.
There was a moment halfway through that just floored me, too. When some NSFW kink topics came up, I said, "Dude... Rule #2."
"Actually, that's Rule #4." said another fur, correcting me.
WOW. A Knotcast reference. Yeah, it's a popular (popufur?) podcast, but so much of my furry experience has been marked with isolation that this just had me mouth agape for several seconds. For context, my history has always been the guy who dropped inside jokes and pop culture references without missing a beat into normal conversation. (I have been compared to Abed on more than one occasion.) And so for someone to get something I say for the first time in what feels like months is a breath of fresh air.
So yeah, this may be a regular thing for me now. Another chance to reinvent myself in front of a new group of people. Maybe that's what I needed.
I was a little nervous at first because they were all older than me by [2,...,12] years, but I actually think that may be a positive thing. I guess my mental age may be a little older than my chronological age because we hit it off anyway conversation wise. I joked, they laughed. Vice Versa. Coming off of college, I'm not used to having friends of varying ages. But the upsides of having more mature friends is obvious. Everyone's on their own two feet and established. No creepy red badges or freeloading teenagers.
There was a moment halfway through that just floored me, too. When some NSFW kink topics came up, I said, "Dude... Rule #2."
"Actually, that's Rule #4." said another fur, correcting me.
WOW. A Knotcast reference. Yeah, it's a popular (popufur?) podcast, but so much of my furry experience has been marked with isolation that this just had me mouth agape for several seconds. For context, my history has always been the guy who dropped inside jokes and pop culture references without missing a beat into normal conversation. (I have been compared to Abed on more than one occasion.) And so for someone to get something I say for the first time in what feels like months is a breath of fresh air.
So yeah, this may be a regular thing for me now. Another chance to reinvent myself in front of a new group of people. Maybe that's what I needed.
