Another year and a half, another journal :P

So a couple things happened.
Let's start with the more positive stuff.
First off, the relocation back to Somerset happened! We moved in October, and that's gone well so far, so excellent stuff there.
Second: I got a second car :D. 2008 Ford Focus Estate in very good condition that I got for shockingly cheap, been meaning to get an estate for LARP transport for years so this is absolutely perfect for it :)
Otherwise generally carrying on as per expected. new job going OK with no complaints, generally in a good spot on most other areas, etc etc.

And now, the bad news. Singular at least, and probably not surprising to some folks.
On Jan 6th while at work, and for no clear reason I can see, my right shoulder dislocated again. Lord knows why, I was just walking out to see my boss on a catchup sorta meeting, taking off a coat and *Pop* there it went. Relocation and recovery has gone fine and I'm back to normal, but that was annoying as hell.

Unrelated news, that's sorta.... sad but good at the same time. LARP.
At the end of the 2nd LARP event of the year for the system I attend, I retired a character that I'd been playing for 13 years, since I started that system in 2012. I've changed a lot since leaving uni, as a person and whatnot, and I just haven't enjoyed playing the guy for like, the last 2 to 3 years. It was time for him to bow out. He got a good send off, and I'm glad I was able to finish his story on my terms.
And so, again to no surprise to anyone, Ferrun has now walked in as my new character. Mage build rather than frontline combat, and weapon and magical item smithing, so very different to force me into a different style of play. Will be great fun, and I've loved playing him at the event he was at. Will see about uploading some photos when I can find them, and other stuff in connection to it.

Welp, see folks in like another year for the next update I guess XD

Well, this year is off to a great start...

I came off my bike on a corner on the way home on the 9th of Jan already. Fractured both my elbows so am off work for a while. Having both arms in slings for recovery for over a week -sucked-. Recovery is going well, although doesn't feel very quick at times. Thankfully I can use them enough to be able to not feel completely helpless, which is something. Recovered by own dignity somewhat by not needing assistance for things like eating, drinking, going to the toilet, that sorta thing. Still a fair bit I can't do, can't carry anything with any weight to it at all. Everything is fixing itself on schedule, so that part's fine.

Past that, nothing "New" to really say. I know what plans I'm working towards, being to get Ferrun's shiny side finished, and get him some silicone feet. I've got my Succubus mask that I want to expand into full coverage body for her, but that's been delayed somewhat, and then more general fem stuff for my assorted fem faces, whether it's the human ones, succubus or animal ones. Hopefully I'll be able to make them happen, but we'll see.

Hope everyone else's year has started off better than mine, but hopefully that's the worst that's thrown at me :P

Yea olde life update time, ok, here we go.
So overall, as far as I'm concerned, nothing major, or at least nothing yet. My partner and I have some plans that'll involve a pretty big upheaval for us, moving house and changing jobs etc, that's been in the pipeline for a while. Some friends of ours are opening up some of the rooms in their house to rent, and we'll be moving in. This is near where I used to live, so I'll be able to see more of my friends on a regular basis again, which is going to do wonders for my mood since my social life sorta.... collapsed 3 years ago when the pandemic hit. And, now we have a (rough) timescale of about 4 months, possibly less if things go well, so it's a relief that it's finally getting moving.
Beyond that, my car still has issues, which will be getting fixed in just over a week, which is great. This said, I am looking a replacing the car. Given the age of the vehicle it's just at the point where it feels like I find a new problem every month or so, and I just would prefer not to have that headache anymore.
Right, other stuffs.
I said in my previous journal (not that anyone reads them, this is just braindump and getting thoughts in order) that my fursona had changed. I would not say that was wrong, just that it was misguided. This hits off entirely from Zariel arriving, my new fursuit. I've been waiting on this guy a while, and he's existed in my head for approaching half my life now, and honestly what happened I fully expected. Suit went on, Zariel steps front and centre into my brain and just stayed there, refusing to step away or back down. Again, this was fully expected to me, but it's a touch amusing that I give a sorta "big" statement of "I am Ferrun now, the snep!" and then barely a week later I go right back to being a Lion :P
Ok, a different lion, but a lion nonetheless. And y'know what? That's fine. I can be both, I'm happy bouncing between.
My characters are exactly that. Characters. People who I've used in TTRPGs or videogaming and have fleshed out fully in my head to all their faults, problems, hopes, fears, personality, the whole deal.
And that's also fine, it works for me, I personally don't like coming across as one-dimensioned.
Anyway, I am rambling, I think I'm done.
Take care everyone, next update whenever

So, life continues. Huzzah.
My partner and I have been living together a year now, and things are going well! No horrifying dramas or fallouts, if anything things are going well :)
So some minor stuffs to lead up to a slightly larger thing, for me. I'm bisexual polyamourous, my partner knows, as do my other partners, I keep that a completely open bit of info I inform anyone who I might be looking to have an enjoyable time with. They know each other, they're all good friends with each other and that's grand.
So about 4 days ago, I was able to actually have my first proper day with another guy being intimate and having fun with each other, and my god it felt like the most natural thing in the world, and it's just this giant weight of my shoulders that I fully accept a part of me and who I am. And yes, I want to do more, because god it was great <.<
So the followup to this is..... gonna take a little explaining, but it's regarding my Fursona. For some it's a small thing, for others it's a big thing, and while I don't overwhelming hardcore have my fursona as a big thing, it's been a quite large part of how I personally identify in myself.
I've been a lion for like, 14 years of my life. I started as a furry when I hit like 16 or so, a year or so later I settled on a lion, and that's been fine. But for the last few years (since a particular breakup) I've been in this sorta...... weird point where I haven't really known who to settle on as a fursona, whether that was out of the characters I've already made or whether I should make someone new. I've perpetuated as Uriel since that's how people know me in groups and so on, which is all fine, but he's not really me anymore.
So nearly 2 years ago, I got invited into a Tabletop RP with some friends playing a World of Darkness campaign as the Technocracy. Magic is Hyperscience, etc etc. Long story short I made a very gay guy (in the hope it'd help me figure things out in my head regarding sexuality) who made probably most of our dream fursuit, in that it just basically turned him into a proper furry. And I just clicked hardcore with him. And he was a snow leopard.
I've uploaded 2 photos of me in the silicone snow leopard head now, and quite frankly? He's me now. I've gone from Lion to Snep, but quite frankly this is a big breath of fresh air and exactly what I needed right now.
Uriel isn't gone, the character is still around, but he's not me anymore. People change, and that's entirely fine.
So I'm a snep now.
I'm a very happy snep.
You can still call me Uriel IRL, it's how people know me, but my name is Ferrun these days.
I look forward to seeing how things go from here :)

Wow, no multiple-year-gap this time, impressive.

So unsurprisingly, not exactly much to say here. Life has continued, I have somehow managed to dodge getting covid so far, all my other hobbies grinded to a halt until this month with 1 of my LARP systems starting up again.

So, onto new things and updates. First, myself and my partner are looking at getting a place together within the coming months, which is fantastic. We've been friends for about a decade, but we realised over the pandemic things were a lot closer between us than expected, and as we realised this it all just clicked. I honestly cannot wait to start my life with them, it's going to be a delight.

I've also started getting into different aspects of suiting more and more. Latex, as mentioned beforehand, and over the last few months getting into femsuiting as well. I think I'll be throwing photos up here as well, but they'll probably go into scraps since it's mostly human femsuiting rather than furry based. It's all silicone stuffs otherwise, which is different to some levels.

So yeah, stuff and things. I dunno <.<

No panicking here, it's only been 3 or so years since the last journal, although I've never known anyone to read these so I guess it's just me typing for posterity so hey. Life update. What's changed? Basically everything. Some good, some not so good, lots of stuff changing.
First off, currently world concern regarding Pandemic and so on: I'm fine, currently. Currently life circumstances has me in a pretty solid state at the moment to hopefully ride this all out, so even if one of the worse scenarios happen and I get hit by covid, I should be ok long term, assuming the utter worst doesn't happen and covid kills me. Morbid note there, but considering this year worldwide has been utterly insane, I can't deny the possibility that it could happen.

So, speed update on the last few years. Roughly a year after my previous journal, I moved out of my ex's place due to a breakup for varying reasons and got my own place. Same job, that was ok, but didn't pay enough and I couldn't find much elsewhere in the region that wouldn't require relocation due to longer commuting times. Lower income and inability to save enough money month on month meant that when bigger one off bills kicked in, whatever I was able to save got wiped around October/November times when car service bills, MOT and insurance kicked in. Long story short but after nearly 2 years of having my own place, I have moved back in with my parents after quitting my job. For the record, I did not like that job. The attitude of management was far from helpful, and they showed no interest in improving their employees, so no loss there. Good news is that barely 2 weeks after moving back in with my folks I was able to start a new job. Similar area, nothing impressive, but the company feels like it has a better attitude to it with how it treats its' staff, so that's cool. I joined around mid October, so am approaching a full year with them at this point, and things are going well. Assorted bosses are impressed, want to help me move up to some degree, even if it's just having a lead without an actual supervisor role, so fingers crossed this sees growth. On the other side of things, going ok in terms of finances. Hell, right now I have more cash than I have in years, and am pumping close to half my monthly wages into savings, something I should've been doing for years but my dumbass never realised. Living alone was able to teach me some much needed life lessons the hard way, and I needed that. Now it's just figuring out how best to move forward with my life.

And a couple of notes on the furry side of things: New Fursuit's a comin', being my honest-to-god fave oc of mine of Zariel. Gotta love those angst characters you made as a teenager who've grown into their own entities XD
Beyond that? I got into latex earlier this year, and gods damn it feels good to wear. Photos on my twitter as I can't post to FA.

No idea when I'll post another journal here. 2023 maybe, who knows?
Goodnight all

You know how I dislocated a shoulder about 5 months back or so? This has been a repeat problem with both my shoulders since about 16 or so. I had an operation 2 weeks ago to re-secure my right shoulder, and am now in the recovery stages again. I've been planning and aiming for this for a while so while I'm glad it's happened at last I'm more than a little annoyed that I'm out of work again. No, I haven't lost another job, it's just on hiatus while I recover from the Op, which is the good news. Yep, that's prettymuch all I wanted to say.

Yyyyyyyep, I dislocated my shoulder. Again.
6th May, shoulder popped out over seemingly nothing, so now I've got roughly a month or so of not being able to work and being frustrated that I can't do a load of the things that I was hoping to. I know the drill and the rough things to expect, dislocated shoulders are unfortunately nothing new. My other half's been and is being wonderful while I recover and when the shoulder initially popped. And as you'd expect with this sorta thing, now is the time my mind gets the most motivation to try and do all of the stuff I've been wanting to, office-wise, hobby-wise and fursuit-wise doesn't help either :P

Sooner I can get back into work and my arm's back to strength the better, I hate feeling useless while my shoulder heals.
RIGHT, ENOUGH COMPLAINING, I have things to plan and stuffs to at least try to enjoy, and thus I shall! Not letting this crap get to me.

General life update!

I've been at this new job for approaching 2 solid months now, with no signs of stopping at the moment, so that's awesome. I've..... also finally moved out of my parents and in with my girlfriend in a surprisingly short period. That......... happened somewhat faster than expected, but far from complaining if honest. Beyond that, things generally looking up and improving, so all positives at the moment. Next step in the list of "big things happening in the house" is gonna be shelving units for the office and then for the living room, to replace the TV table and odd shelves we currently have to something more fitting with the rest of the room. Beyond that, we shall see...... I also need to nab my mum's old sewing machines, then I can work on assorted furry plans, but that'll be after the major house organisation and sorting stuff has been done and -mostly- finished..... mostly

in the meantime, regarding life,
ONWARD, TO GLORY and being an adult.... less glory there...

Ok, generally mixed sorta bag here of ups and downs, mostly downs followed by ups though, so that's a plus.
At the end of Febuary, I was informed that my contract at the school I was acting as supply for had not be renewed after the xmas holidays due to assorted reasons. The fact that they decided to tell me that after 2 months of not being called into work there despite my impression that I was still employed there got on my nerves a fair whack. So, kicking things into gear, I am now doing temp work for one of the agencies in Somerset, where I plan on relocating to be with my other half and eventually move in fully once I have permanent work in the area.
The upside is, I've been getting far more work now from this than working at the school, and it's doing wonders for my mood and positivity. The house itelf is also looking increasingly nice due to redecorating with some much nicer colour choices for the rooms. I'm also getting my own office, which is an awesome surprise :P

THINGS!

I have aquired a new webcam, so expect some new uploads of stuff soonish. Beyond that, not a lot. Am looking at getting a second job, so hopefully that'll go well.
Also my birthday at the end of the month. Wooooo 26.......

Life update!

Job's going well, friendly co-workers, comfortable work, some challenging situations daily but nothing that can't be managed. I work at a school for Special Needs kids and young adults, so it can be tough but I have plenty of experience with that. Current plan is still to move in with my girlfriend somepoint, although aim is to try and stick out a full academic year since it'll be important when transferring from place to place. Will be trying to visit her as often as I can, and slowly moving some of my stuff over to her place.

In terms of furry things, I am done for a long while on that front. The 3 heads that I have are all I really want for a while, and that'll only change a few years down the line when it's time to replace them, and at that point I might be having a go at trying to make my own for all I know. Equally, won't be making or getting any other furry stuff until after I've moved out, there's no need to.
Things are progressing, slowly, but things are progressing.

Things happening in the positiveness!

I gots a job! So am working now and actually getting money, so that I can hopefully get my life together and eventually move out and in with my girlfriend, so huzzah there.

Sadly the LARP thingie at which there were gonna be many many photos didn't end up happening due to time constraints, added factor that my second head (which was meant to arrive by the event) didn't arrive until a month after makes it all a bit annoying. Ah well, can work on that.

Next on the list of things to do is make myself some paws and tails for the two fluffinesses, when I have enough cash spare to not worry about anything sneaking up behind me. When I get round to that I'll take photos of construction and so on, but that probably won't be for a few months at least, due to new job, free time and locational problems.

Tally Ho and all that malarky :P

With luck there should be an influx of photos coming somepoint soon. Am heading away for a bit to do hopefully a lot of larping with mates, and will be making sure that plenty of photos are taken. Expect some within the coming weeks (yay)

As a related note, this will be a good opportunity to test what it's like to actually fight in the mask I have. I have a feeling that I might end up making some changes (if i can) to the mask after testing it, probably to try and increase the field of view, which isn't as wide as I'd like.

Here's hoping for some good photos

ONWARDS!!!

I'm alive D:
Yeah, there's been nothing happening in my life that can be considered "art" in my book. I can't draw for toffee, create music and I don't consider myself able to write aspects of fiction and so on.
However.....
I'm reaching a point where I can start using my profile as an image dump and so on. I've got fursuit stuffs now, and plan to get more, so it'll likely turn into photos of myself, either fluffy or not, probably in aspects relating to LARP. Because, LARP and all that stuff
SO, yeah. I will be posting mostly photos. I will try to actually get into a reasonably consistant pattern of actually posting on here, rather than leaving my account totally unaltered for 4 years after promising to transfer stuff over from dA....

ONWARDS, HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I'm going to start shifting stuff across from my dA account onto here, as my gallery is just so empty at the moment, so yeah

soooooooo yeah

also, I'm only really someone who colours stuff, instead of drawing my own stuff (I can't draw for toffee :P), so just a heads up, and expect different art styles to be involved.

Hope you enjoy the stuff I put up here, and yes, they all gave me permission to post this stuff up here :P