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The Furst 100 Days
8 years ago
100 days ago, cdrom made a decision. Down on his luck following a recent job loss and in the throes of a deep depressive episode, he took it upon himself to join furry_irl's Discord channel - the Internet's premier source of dank furry memes. He'd been on Discord for about a year, initially with his Minecraft crew after they migrated from Skype, but on March 22nd 2017, he added another circle to the Discord sidebar.
It's been just over three months since then, and cdrom became cdragom became Seadragom. I think it's fair to say I'm a pretty fucking different person to where I was back then. I've spent nearly £800 on furry media. I'm getting a fursuit. I'm following and speaking to people I've admired from afar for years. People I never thought in a million years I'd be interacting with, or even could interact with. Oh hey it's that guy from that e621 whose character I like what's he up to oh he's talking about his job on twitter.
In April, after much deliberation and psyching myself up, I attended a :leedsfurs: meet. I've got a limited history with furmeets - I chickened out at the last second from attending the York one in February, walking past the venue several times and giving up. I also once managed to see a main meet back in 2013 from the window of Café Nero, which was super-impressive and the first time I'd ever really seen a lot of furries out in the wild. I wanted to go say hi but I was with friends so it was more of a "haha furries, crazy, right?" situation. And I think we were about to take a boat ride down the river. But that's neither here nor there. Anyway, I've met a lot of really awesome people and feel absolutely at home, despite knowing these guys for just a couple of months.
I'm still getting my depressive episodes where I question what I'm doing with my life, or how I feel about furries, or consider professing my undying affection for someone who's happily in a committed relationship based purely on their character.
It's felt like longer than 100 days. I've packed a lot into the time period - three meets, many commissions, dozens of friends. Here's to 10,000 more like them.
It's been just over three months since then, and cdrom became cdragom became Seadragom. I think it's fair to say I'm a pretty fucking different person to where I was back then. I've spent nearly £800 on furry media. I'm getting a fursuit. I'm following and speaking to people I've admired from afar for years. People I never thought in a million years I'd be interacting with, or even could interact with. Oh hey it's that guy from that e621 whose character I like what's he up to oh he's talking about his job on twitter.
In April, after much deliberation and psyching myself up, I attended a :leedsfurs: meet. I've got a limited history with furmeets - I chickened out at the last second from attending the York one in February, walking past the venue several times and giving up. I also once managed to see a main meet back in 2013 from the window of Café Nero, which was super-impressive and the first time I'd ever really seen a lot of furries out in the wild. I wanted to go say hi but I was with friends so it was more of a "haha furries, crazy, right?" situation. And I think we were about to take a boat ride down the river. But that's neither here nor there. Anyway, I've met a lot of really awesome people and feel absolutely at home, despite knowing these guys for just a couple of months.
I'm still getting my depressive episodes where I question what I'm doing with my life, or how I feel about furries, or consider professing my undying affection for someone who's happily in a committed relationship based purely on their character.
It's felt like longer than 100 days. I've packed a lot into the time period - three meets, many commissions, dozens of friends. Here's to 10,000 more like them.
But here's to seeing you at many more meets in the future, I do hope to see you at the next leeds meet.