I've spent the vast majority of my life existing on the fringe end of the furry community, simply partaking in reading comics and appreciating the art while keeping my distance and my metaphorical head down. While I cannot lie that even existing on the basis of an outside looking in, I could tell that this community is a fun, and interesting place to meet and interact with people.

At the same time though, from just interacting with a few people on the furry subreddit or here and etc, it's just bizarre to me to have people actually interested in talking and chatting and hugging and snuggling. It is even more surprising that somehow I am a commodity of sorts having a panda fursona (and here I thought they were actually very common...how wrong I was). Plus people find the look of my fursona to be cute as well...i'm, honestly not really used to those kind of responses from people. Now I understand that even speaking like this can be seen as showing narcissistic tendencies but I use this as a point of reference to just how open and accepting this community is.

I'm not sure if i'll ever go to a con, or wear a fursuit out and about, but I just want to write this to say hello to all of you. To those who I've met, and to those I will meet in the future. Thanks for keeping this place, kind, kinky, and welcoming for place for a more reserved person like me.

~Weixiao