Mine is actually a long story. 1st there were always the little things I was interested in like video games and tv shows but it truly started when I played a game known as Drawn to Life. It allowed you to make your own 2D character Pixel by Pixel. Whenever a holiday or a something to exciting came along I would make a character based on that creation. At one point Halloween came around and I looked up pictures for werewolves as examples to make it. I ended up finding all the artwork that people made and I looked into it more. Soon I made a Deviant art Transfur and Furafinity account to see what else there is.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/692712/ This is the link to my very first artwork I have ever seen. The one I mentioned above.

same here pinocchio

Something about that whole sequence just spoke to me

me too the tail pop was what caught my attention

It all started with a dream I had when I was around 12 years old where I was on some vacation in some village near a lake. In that dream I'd go to the lake and just swim and whatnot, but at one point near sunset I noticed strange things. Every so often, a single swimmer would disappear and a different person would emerge. I decided to investigate by doing the most logical thing ever: swimming.
So I did, and soon enough I saw a quite big, very long shadow under the surface. As soon as I noticed it, I got bit at the ankle and dragged down under the water. What dragged me down was a giant water snake of sorts. Like really big. at least 6 or 7 feet thick and hundreds long. Following the bite, I started changing into that beast over a period of a few seconds or so, while the other beast transformed into a human. And so that's how I "solved" the mystery. There was some kind of curse where one person would become the snake, and the only way to cure themselves would be to bite an other person. I spent the remainder of the dream swimming and that was it.

However, what's cool or strange depending on how you view it, is that I've dreamt this scenario multiple times throughout my teenage years. Though it's been a long time since it popped up. Each time had the same basic principle, but with some variant to it. One time, all the villagers got turned into vampires (including my parents who had been with me this time) and so I ran to the lake to save myself, and ended up becoming the snake. Sometimes, the transformation time varied. I particularly liked when it spanned over a period of a few in-dream days (which is why I love slow TFs). One time I even found a female snake/girlfriend (no sex though, I was pretty vanilla back then, and I still am albeit a bit less, I was just craving simple skinship). And one time, I even had this dream 2 nights in a row, but with the second night being a direct continuation of it. Pretty awesome.

That dream got me curious to find if other people were into similar stuff. I ended up finding videos on youtube which were slideshows of artworks by an artist called Gryf and a few others, then through those I found out about the website called TransFur back in '08 which was my door to the furry community, and a year or two later, FA and E621.

Since then i've kinda broadened my horizons. Mainly since 2015 where I was forced by a friend to watch some anime because he thought (right) that I would actually enjoy it. And so ever since then i've been into that and have kinda reduced my time spent looking for furry porn lol. Plus, I already follow a lot of artists that make things I can enjoy. With time, my "threshold" for artistic level and quality has become quite high (because i've seen so many amazing artworks) so i'm having more trouble finding appeal in inexperienced artists.

That's my story. I don't think i've ever shared this is such detail before heh. It's kind of embarrassing~

Nott at all that's wonderful. I had a dream as a kid where I was turning into a dolphin. Had gray skin. But the doctors cured me.

I'd say it was probably Pinocchio too. Watching Lampwick bend over the pool table and sprout a long tail through his pants was, and still is, fantastic to watch - especially slowed down!

I remember a TF dream I had as a youngster, which was definitely linked to puberty, I was riding a horse out in the country, when I started to grow a tail... It was exceedingly hot, and when I woke up I had to change my pyjamas.

Not long after that I started writing mini TF stories, featuring werefoxes and weredevils (I kid you not!). The rest is history.

When i was about ten, i started watching Dragonball, and I was really intrigued with the idea of having a monkey tail like Goku. It became a sort of obsession, especially when I was going through puberty. I had no intereset in girls or anything like that, i just constantly wished and longed for a tail. I suppose that alone is the cause of my tail fetish. I didnt have access to the internet until highschool, where I discovered other tailed characters, especially catgirls, so I spent my time in a quiet corner of the school library searching things like "cat girl tail" and the like, which eventually led me to artists like catmonkshiro and edmollife and their wonferful tf art, especially their pieces that involved tail growth.

For me, it began with the 1950 Cinderella (Disney), with the Coachman and Footman (Major Bruno). Though admittedly, the 2015 Remake did a better job in that regard.

I’ve always wanted to be a Golden Retriever. Just the thought of growing a tail and being able to wag it whenever I want really caught my interest