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Please help one of my favorite furry writers
5 years ago
Don't do it first. Do it better.
UPDATE: Wow, only about 36 hours after I learned of the problem and it's already fixed, apparently. Guess it's all good now. Nicely done.
raydobbs
I’ve said it before, but it’s kind of impossible to know where “furry” started with me, considering I was an animal lover since before I could talk (and I have some cherished photos to prove it), so whenever that crossed into “furriness” as we know it has no real defined point, but there have been milestones. One of them came when my curiosity became too great to ignore and I did a fateful web search for “pregnant furry art,” which led me to good old Pregfur.org before long after that.
Some of the stories there really captured my attention and kept me coming back. One of the two I can remember that particularly impressed me was "Well, Hello Miss Powell" by one John Thornbush. It was never finished, even though a more updated version was posted to FA years later. I exaggerate very little when I say that's still one of the best pregfurry stories I've ever read, or certainly one of the most iconic in my mind. Some pretty nice pictures were associated with that story.
To my surprise, one of the regulars on Pregfur.org invited me to a biweekly IRL meeting of local furs, which I attended for a few years. Good times, even if I was kind of a wallflower who was just happy to be around people even if I wasn't always interacting with them. Also to my surprise (and what a coincidence this was), the author of that story was present for some of them and at least a few times showed me some more pictures he'd had done. I never forgot it.
Over the many years I've been interested in pregnancy-related stuff, I've read...lots. Lots and lots, both real and fictional, both "supposedly real but so out there I almost can't believe it" and "fictional but it's so well-done I could see this really happening." This artist's stories have definitely been in that latter category: This is someone who puts effort and realism into his writing, especially of things like pregnancy and birth, which I think by now even those of us who aren't interested in can say that believable fiction is hard to find. Overall, this person had a definite impact on me not just "as a furry" or "as a writer," but by extension, as a person.
To my dismay, though...life isn't fair, as they say, and not just with how seemingly little attention his work of this quality gets. Now he's at risk of losing everything, including intellectual property. I can't sit idly by and just let that fall into undeserving, ungrateful hands.
If you want to help, and get some art for it, check this out: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38874950/
If you want to ask him about it yourself, check this out: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9662377/
The importance of "supporting your favorite artists" has only gotten clearer to me over time. I don't want this one who gave me a lot to go out with a little.
raydobbsI’ve said it before, but it’s kind of impossible to know where “furry” started with me, considering I was an animal lover since before I could talk (and I have some cherished photos to prove it), so whenever that crossed into “furriness” as we know it has no real defined point, but there have been milestones. One of them came when my curiosity became too great to ignore and I did a fateful web search for “pregnant furry art,” which led me to good old Pregfur.org before long after that.
Some of the stories there really captured my attention and kept me coming back. One of the two I can remember that particularly impressed me was "Well, Hello Miss Powell" by one John Thornbush. It was never finished, even though a more updated version was posted to FA years later. I exaggerate very little when I say that's still one of the best pregfurry stories I've ever read, or certainly one of the most iconic in my mind. Some pretty nice pictures were associated with that story.
To my surprise, one of the regulars on Pregfur.org invited me to a biweekly IRL meeting of local furs, which I attended for a few years. Good times, even if I was kind of a wallflower who was just happy to be around people even if I wasn't always interacting with them. Also to my surprise (and what a coincidence this was), the author of that story was present for some of them and at least a few times showed me some more pictures he'd had done. I never forgot it.
Over the many years I've been interested in pregnancy-related stuff, I've read...lots. Lots and lots, both real and fictional, both "supposedly real but so out there I almost can't believe it" and "fictional but it's so well-done I could see this really happening." This artist's stories have definitely been in that latter category: This is someone who puts effort and realism into his writing, especially of things like pregnancy and birth, which I think by now even those of us who aren't interested in can say that believable fiction is hard to find. Overall, this person had a definite impact on me not just "as a furry" or "as a writer," but by extension, as a person.
To my dismay, though...life isn't fair, as they say, and not just with how seemingly little attention his work of this quality gets. Now he's at risk of losing everything, including intellectual property. I can't sit idly by and just let that fall into undeserving, ungrateful hands.
If you want to help, and get some art for it, check this out: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38874950/
If you want to ask him about it yourself, check this out: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9662377/
The importance of "supporting your favorite artists" has only gotten clearer to me over time. I don't want this one who gave me a lot to go out with a little.
