(1) How long have you been in the furry fandom?
I found the furry fandom in 2003 aka 20 years now.

(2) How did you first discover the fandom?
A show on TLC showing odd life stiles and there was this guy who had made his own fursuit of a white tiger with rainbow colored stripes.

(2a) When did you first become furry if it was not for the furry fandom?
That would have been in 1989 and I really enjoyed dressing up as a war horse going to an adult Halloween party and every year after I would make a new animal costume for Halloween and then other holidays like a reindeer for Xmis and a bunny for Easter and so on.

(3) What are your favorite aspects of the community?
The fursuits.

(4) What was your first fursona?
Donkey a standard grey and white donkey.

(5) Describe your current fursona?
Same, it has never changed. I have many characters but I have always been Donkey.

(6) Why did you choose your fursona species?
I have always been quite the smart ass and hey go with what you know!
It was only after I found the furry fandom and became Donkey did I fall in love with bio donkeys.

(7) How much of your fursona is based on yourself?
All of him. Its more he is me than me being him.

(8) Post some of your favorite art of your fursona.
I don't really have that much art of Donkey as I am more into spending my money on fursuits than on art.

(9) If you had to change your sona species what would you pick?
I don't realty know. I have so many fursuit characters I could pick from.

(10) How do you feel about fursuits?
Since I have 89 fursuits, I guess favorably towards them? lol

(11) How do you feel about furry conventions.
I use to love going to them but over many years they just got old and stale. I do go to camping fur cons but not really into the hotel fur cons as it seems that cons at hotels furs are far more clicky and standoffish to anyone not in their circle of friends.

(12) Have you brought anyone into the fandom?
I totally doubt it but it could of happened.

(13) Paws or Maws
I really don't think about it. But if put on the spot like hooves and muzzles equity.

(14) Favorite anthro character from pop culture?
That is a hard one as there are so many wonderful pop culture anthro characters out there. Donkey from Shrek? He is a smart assed donkey named Donkey. And no he had no influence on why I am a smart assed donkey named Donkey. I would have been the same if the movie Shrek was never made.

(15) What is your biggest pet peeve?
How extremely political the fandom is. So many conservatives where forced out of the fandom just because they where conservatives and for no other reason. Furry should not have any political facing liberal or conservative.

(16) What is the origin of your online nickname?
I really suck at coming up with actual good names I only think of the more of lamest of names.

(17) How has your view of the furry fandom changed over time?
Socially nothing ever changes, clicky people are still clicky, jerks are still jerks. As for the fursuit technology keeps advancing and now and improved ways of doing things are found and adopted by the majority. Out side of the fandom things are really improving as furry is no where near the dirty word it was two decades ago.

(18) What can we do as a community?
Be nicer to each other and be more accepting of peoples differences expectantly political. You don't have to agree you can just agree to disagree and enjoy what we all have in common anthropomorphic characters.

(19) Happiest memory from your time in the fandom?
That is hands down to be Further Confusion 2004. That was my first furry con and it was the closes thing I have had to heaven on this rock flying thru space. It was like or maybe even better than my first Xmas as a child.

(20) What does the furry fandom mean to you?
Life its self. Its not that I try to work furry into my life when I have the time, its I try to work my life into being furry as much as I can.

If I actually had the balls to do it I would end my self as there are quite the number of furs that wish that I would and just get it over with so they won't have to put up with me anymore. Being autistic really sucks as it chases people away. But I should be very grateful that I am autistic and not be like a number of other furs who have worse mental issues. I know that I should be highly grateful but its hard to be when every time I turn around I get snide remarks on line or dirty looks in person. I really need to work on it better to suck it up and take it as how people treat me I have well deserved it by acting as I do even if I don't really mean to. If only I had the balls to go through with it, but I don't and that's to bad. ='(

Oh I am sure that if I actually wanted people to actually see this I would get the empty and shallow comments like "Oh you are worth something or other just because you just happen to have be born" kind of BS reaction as that is the "politically correct" things to say to pathetic people like me. But I know its just shallow comments that one is expected to say like when some piece of human garbage dies and everyone acts if they where the salt of the earth and not the piece trash they actually where.

Every hotel room should be supplied with a fox or husky so when a furry hotel guest drops the soap in the shower there is someone there to help pick it up.

If a fox or husky was in every hotel room to help pick up the soap in the shower there would never be another complaint of unshowered furs at a furry convention ever again. Of course, there may be more complaints of furs not being able to get their roommates out of the shower so they can use the husky, I MEAN, the shower.

Guy sees girl on edge of high bridge, "Are you thinking of jumping?"

Girl, "Yes my life is really horrible, and I don't want to live"

Guy, "In that case have sex with me."

Girl, "Hell no you creep!"

Guy, "OK, I will just wait for your body to wash up on the shore then."

Girl runs away from the guy off of bridge screaming.

Guy watches looking sad as he lost his chance of getting safe sex.

From 23:18 to 24:00 watch to the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbq9xYQ6hE4

I could not stop laughing.

I once again saw another furry coming out story on youtube and thought of posting mine here.

I had no intention of coming out to my family as they were extremally religious, but I was outed.

Here is the short verson.

I was in Los Angeles from San Diego visiting my boyfriend when my father came to my house looking for me for some reason that I had never learned of why do to the bombshell of me being outed.

One of the furs that I rented a room to answered the door seeing my father.

He asked if I was home and the little cunt told him "Oh no he is not here, he went to Los Angeles so he can visit with his boyfriend."

The little cunt told my Catholic father that I was traveled to another city to see a guy so I can have gay sex!!!! God I so wanted to kill the little cunt for outing me!!!!

If you have or know another's story without naming names of a coming out story I would not mind hearing it.

There are two reasons that thorium salt nuclear power plants are not being planned on being built any time soon.

The first reason is that they are not capable of producing nuclear weapon grade material, so the military and the industries that support the military has no interest in paying for its development and those two groups are who pays for the vast majority of large scale advancement of technology.

Then there is the enviromist anti nuclear crowd who is against anything to do with nuclear technology because they wrongly think that anything to do with nuclear technology whatsoever can be and more importantly will be weaponized.

Because of these two groups of people, we are pumping nearly 40 billion tons of CO2 into the earth's atmosphere each year.

Because of how thorium salt nuclear power works reactor meltdowns are not physically possible because when the liquid fuel overheats the nuclear reaction actuality slows down and can actually stop without human or technology involvement. With safeguards in place if the fuel does overheat the fuel can automatically be drained from the reactor without any human involvement. This works because there is a plug in the reactor that when it is heated up to a set temperature it will melt, and with the plug gone the liquid fuel will drain from the reactor into storage tanks.

Wind and solar technolagy can not solve the world energy problem as they are just way to limited. To even be viable we need to produce massive battery systems that create far more environmental problems than they solve. Of course, then there is that solar cells don't work without sunlight and wind turbines don't work without the wind blowing.

If we would just invest into thorium salt nuclear energy, we can solve not only our world energy problems but also our CO2 environmental problems. Also, with limitless energy a lot of the worlds water problems can be solved with desalination planets. Another benefit with an endless source of electrical power we can build plants that pull-out CO2 from the atmosphere liquefy it and pump it into permit undergrown storage like maybe the caverns that have been created where oil was removed. Or even separate the oxygen and carbon. The oxygen can be released into the atmosphere and the carbon made into carbon fiber and make things out of it.

But because people are just so politely politicized and out right refuse to even consider some other persons ideas, we will just continue to be poisoning the planet.

So, once again its time to sing the burffday song

Sung to, "It's My Party" from Lesley Gore.

If's my burffday. I will cry if I want to. Cry if I want to. Cry if I want to. You would cry to if it happened to you.

I have no idea where the years have gone. My youth had gone at the same time. Why did it go when it was suppose to be mine?

If's my burffday. I will cry if I want to. Cry if I want to. Cry if I want to.

I'm playing my radio and trucking all night. Being alone all the time. I'm just trucking all night, I have no reason to smile.

If's my burffday. I will cry if I want to. Cry if I want to. Cry if I want to. You would cray to if it happened to you.

If's my burffday. I will cry if I want to. Cry if I want to. Cry if I want to. You would cray to if it happened to you.

If's my buiffday. I will cry if I want to. Cry if I want to. Cry if I want to. You would cray to if it happened to you.

I was just thinking of what my ideal life would have been instead of the one it was.

As a new freshman in high-school I would have met a sophomore who took me under his wings. We would have many wonderful weekends playing Dungans and Dragons until he graduated and moved to collage to get a degree in computer science. A year later I would join him but quickly I would quit collage and get a job as a pizza driver. I would learn I love being a driver and advance to driving trucks. During the time there he would have found furry MUCKs and we both would join being furs. When he finished his degree he would be offered a job at Boing in Seattle WA and we would move there with me getting a driving job with Boing soon after. Within a few years whe would buy our own starter house and we would spend out weekends playing D&D for many years until furry expanded out of California. After a decade we would buy a larger house with a few acres and buy some horses where we would be living there thinking of our retirment on our Boing pentions together in a few years.

Right now we would have been planing our 40th anniversary of our first meeting in high-school that would would have been next year.

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house
Everyone was busy even the mouse.

The tree was all decked with shinnies galore,
And even the phoenix added a few more.

The canines all waited with a sack and some rope
To capture St. Nick the big red dope.

The furies all primed, smiles ear to ear
What they wanted was Santa's sack gear!

With a clatter and curse came a noise on the roof
And everyone held their breath with paw or hoof.

They dimmed down the lights and hid behind things
And only waited to pounce the jolly red king.

" Now damn it you guys!" came the bellow above
" you know I hate giving this house my love"

He spoke to his reindeer each one in turn
A worrisome tone to that jolly red bum.

"Every year I come the tie me up so.
" And raid my sack for the bones and the bows"

" No cookies or milk, or nice little gifts.
Just furies and macros they pounced right swift."

" Oh come on you guys, Don't give me that look.
You don't have to go down there. Damn, I'm hooked."

So with a bellowing laugh, he leaped down the pipe
And at the bottom was given such a fright.

The growls and the hiss of a dozen charging furs
Would make even the most steadfast eyes a blur.

They tied him up nice, like a cute little box
And looted his sack like a hyper fox.

Things went flying, the old man only looked
And the presents where passed around and shook.

What happened next, well that's not for our eyes
You little children will just have to think of some lies.

When they tossed him out naked into the snow
His reindeer fell off the roof laughing at the great show.

The swooped down to grab him, un-gag him and smile,
And the old man cursed mile after mile

" Merry Christmas to all, including you damn furs!
This is the last time you guys ride me with spurs!"

It seems that accounts as old as mine are seem to come in two groups. Either they are long dead or they seem to be real popular aka multiple thousands of followers. It does make sense that real old accounts would have thousands of followers. Now I would not be all that shocked if one looked into a great many of the followers you would find many of them just may be dead accounts them selves. In other words someone created an account was part of the fandom for a time then lost interest and left the account active but had not logged on for many of years and in all likelihood will never will again.

That I have so few followers is not all that socking as do to my autism I do and say things that make others quite uncomeatable and they unsubscribe from my account quite quickly. That is why I may not have great many of dead accounts that follow me. Oh I would not be all that shocked if I learned that a good many accounts that follow me may be dead accounts. I would say many of them may have followed me then soon after the people just stopped paying attention to FA for what ever reason. I don't hold this against anyone. If they are made to feel uncomfortable by someone no matter the reason they should unsubscribe form that persons account.

Well I guess that's enough rambling on pointlessly until next time.

Why does everyone find attacking a sergal with a knife so offensive?

Because you are trying to cut the cheese.

One should never expect a donkey not to act like an Ass.

I made a bad decision that might have done a really extreme amount of damage to my long term future. At the time it seemed like a good idea but because of bad timing and bad habits things went down hill real hard real fast.

If I am forced to suffer my mistake for the rest of my life or if I will be given an opportunity to redeem my self I have to hope on others that I am worth giving the chance to redeem my self.

I really don't want to go into details of what all happened but my bad habits are things you might see a lot of people do all the time. I just did them at the worst possible time and was caught doing them. I do admit that they are bad habits that should not be done but people do them thinking, "oh its not like any one is around to be harmed". In all reality if no one was around when I did them no one could have been harmed. But even saying that they are bad habits none the less that if one has them they really should brake them. Since it happened I have been trying hard to brake these bad habits. I have failed a few times but I am working on fixing them because if I am ever caught doing them one more time any hope of being given a chance to redeem my self will go out the window and I will have to pay for my mistake for the rest of my life as it will never go away no matter where I go or who I might of might not be around. Yes its that serious and why I really don't want to go into details because of shame and embarrassed of it all.

It's mind blowing the massive amounts of money us furs spend on this furry thing.

I am far from being innocent since I have blown something like $40,000 of maybe even more in the last 20 years on furry related stuff. Maybe around a thousand on art work, another thousand or two on plushies, I have spent multiple of unknown thousands going to dozens of furry conventions and the rest on my 60+ fursuits. I know of one fursuiter who spent $24,000 just on one fursuit. Then there are the furs who are more than willing to dump a few grand on one piece of artwork. The biggest surprise for an outsider is that not one corporation has anything to do with this. It's just us furs promoting our own selfs to spend this massive amounts of money.

I really wonder at times if furry was a country what the GNP of furry would be and where it would fall among other countries.

For most furs retirement is something their grandparents are ether planing for or just starting their retirement. It's not something that will be on their radar for many decades.

For me retirement age is not all that far off if I live long enough to make it. Both of my parents died before they could retire. Not that they did not have a great many plans to spend together in retirement. They just did not live to do all that things they talked about doing.

Baring some great disaster I would have plenty of enough money to retire so money is not my issue. My issue is that I have nothing to do and no one to spend my retirement time with. I have been thinking lately that I may just keep working just so I have something to occupy my time until my death when ever that may be. It's just so depressing that I will be so alone that many times I have thought of speeding up the process of my death but that is a cowerds way out. I have never had any respect for anyone that used that escape even if I can really see the draw people have of such an easy out from all of ones problems. Many decades ago a coworker who was 18 hanged her self. I looked at it back then and saw it as the cowerds way out and have never changed my mind on the subject. I never put any great effort in ending my own life dispite thinking about doing it a great many times. So as things stand since in all likelihood that I will be alone do to me chasing off any prospective partners by my extreme social awkwardness retirement is just something others do and is not for me.

I am probably getting exactly what I deserve. A friend is being extremely frustrating to deal with. He has been unemployed for better than a year and it's really affecting him badly. When I visit it's really hard to get him to even get out of bed to hang out with him. He has even out right egnored me and leaving me to fend for my self at his house. Every time I tried to get him to get out of bed he would just bite my head off Him treating me badly is not the issue considering I am extremely hard to deal with my self do to my autism. A great many furs want nothing to do with me as I am seen as rude and as annoying as all hell. The real issue is that it's really affecting his ability to find work and to get his life going in the right direction. Once I can get him engaged in some activity he seems to do fine the problem is getting him to get out of bed to get him to do the activity. Now what is actually going through his mind wale he is doing the activity that I do not actualy know as I can't read minds and I am as perspective as a blind man at a laser show. He keeps saying he would love to have a Mistress but in his current condition I doubt any woman would want him. If I did find him one she would just walk out on him not wanting to have to deal with his current depression issues. All I can do is to put up with it and hope that something better than I am capable of braking the cycle brakes him out of it soon before he does something drastic as every time I come over I am afraid that I will find him hanging from a tree in his back yard.

I still don't understand this thing about buying a shit load of toilet paper. What the fuck do people need a ten years stock of toilet paper for!?! I can understand buying "one" extra large package of toilet paper or paper towels on sale that would last you a really long time. I did so better than a year ago and that same extra large package of toilet paper may last me a year to go. But what the hell does a family of three or four need ten large packages of toilet paper for!?! I have literally seen stores have signs that say people are limited to one package of toilet paper and I would see what is clearly a couple buying two extra large packages of toilet paper and paying separately to get around the limitation of only one. I mean really if you for some extremely bazaar reason go through one roll of toilet paper a day one package of toilet paper will last you nearly a month. I can't say what "normal" people's use of toilet paper is as one roll may last me months as I use as little as I need to get the job done. But if one roll would last say a week one package of 24 rolls would last nearly half a year.

I have been really surprised how much money furs have been spending in the last month. I have talked with a few furs about doing some commission work and I have been told that they can't take any commissions at this time as they have become fully booked during the virus out brake. It's nice to see that furs that still have an income have been more than happy to spend it on buying things from fellow furs so the furs that don't have jobs but still can make furry stuff can also have an income.

When I am forced to go to places to get supplies I have started to wear my ears and donkey leggings. When asked why am I dressed as I am I tell them that in such a serious times people need to be reminded that there are happies things to think about. I am just trying to my part to bring a little joy to a few peoples lives in such a bad time.

I had thought when a fur is forced to go outside that owns ears and or a tail that they would wear them and if asked say that they too are just trying to bring a little joy to people in such a bad time. Now fursuit heads are still out of the question in most places because your faces are still covered and that may attract the wrong kind of attention.

In the USA 2018 - 2019 flu season over 34,000 people died from the flu but no one even considered shuting down the country.

On average 35,000 people die on the US roads every year and are we shutting down the US highway system?

Corona deaths have been 260 so far and the entire country has been shuting down.

Can we stop over reacting?

[God inventing horses]
God: you can run real fast
Horse: nice
God: a little human will sit on you and hit you with a stick
Horse: uh?
God: he gets the trophy and cash if you win
Horse: dude what?
God: if you break a leg you get shot
Horse: yo WTF!
God: you got a 4 foot dick
Horse: OK I’m in!

And us donkeys have it even better. We get to be total Asses!

On YouTube Shadow Raccoon did a 7 predictions for the next decade.

Here is mine.

I predict that there will be a for profit 365 day a year furry convention them park before 2030.
With MFF having an attendance going from 2,000 in 2009 to 11,000 in 2019 can see that there just may be a market as the numbers just keep climing and one weekend conventions can't handle the numbers of people that want to go.

I predict that there will be multable furry convention that will go from one weekend a year to four weekends a year and the conventions will go from not for profit to going to for profit so as to encourage people to run and staff it and after a few years the number of furrs complaining will drop to only a few hard case holdouts that no one will lisson to that someone is making a profit off of the furry conventions.

Fabulous Areal Recital Torpedo or F.A.R.T. for short.

I just saw some comments about some fursuit going for higher than normal prices. What I found interesting was that the prices that they where talking about was quite low compared to what I have heard of in the past. The most that I have heard of someone paying for a fursuit was $24,000 and I believe that was in the very late 2000s. The reason for the high cost was for the syfi armor that was worn over the fursuit.i The most I have heard being quoted for a fursuit for sale was for an Anubis and the asking price was $100,000 and I believe that was in 2006. To my knowlage there where no takers. After the convention it was debut at I had never seen that fursuit ever again. The reason given for the high price was that the builder was a special affects artist in Hollywood and that was what he could get from a movie studio for such a costume.