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Posted 5 months ago Hello everyone! I've decided to come back and make photography again in a much more relaxed style. I won't be pushing myself so hard this time, and I won't be monetizing anything this time. I also won't be focusing on making porn, tho I am sure it will be made from time to time.
Exiting Things Coming Soon!
Posted 3 years agoArt Prints! I got a really high quality photo printer that can print in poster sizes and I am working on a plan to couple my photos with real world mailers starting soon!
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See You Next Week
Posted 4 years agoThats it for photos from me for a week.
Anyone need a room for FC?
Posted 11 years agoHey Furries.
I have room in my room at FC. I'm looking for a drama free trip this time! No people drinking absinthe or transmission fluid!
It would be a big bonus if you had a car >.>
I'm moving to phoenix in January and the coming right back for FC. It would be cheaper to fly into Irvine and ride up with friends than it would be to fly all the way to Say Jose, but its not a requirement. I'll do some of the driving, gladly!
Let me know if you need a place to stay!
I have room in my room at FC. I'm looking for a drama free trip this time! No people drinking absinthe or transmission fluid!
It would be a big bonus if you had a car >.>
I'm moving to phoenix in January and the coming right back for FC. It would be cheaper to fly into Irvine and ride up with friends than it would be to fly all the way to Say Jose, but its not a requirement. I'll do some of the driving, gladly!
Let me know if you need a place to stay!
Moving Away
Posted 11 years agoI suppose its time to bring this up. It's been going through my mind for a while now.
I've lost so much here in Orange County and I get the feeling I was never intended to stay here. In my desperate attempt to stay here I've lost my family home, my grandmother's home, my income, my car, then my classes and finally when I started renting rooms I moved every 4 months because none of the homes were stable.
Now I'm living with my grandparents again. My mom has left my dad and is in much the same kind of room rental situation I was in. My father, depressed and just trying to get by lives here too and daily we witness my grandmother and grandfather go at it, both victims of PTSD they refuse to acknowledge.
Nothing is here for me anymore, and while this sounds to be a journal of "woe is me" it isn't.
Last year I went to the first Arizona Furcon on a whim. There a vision of prosperity emerged. A city of growth and renewal. One that was witnessing as much of a transformation as I was, and with a Furry community there on the verge of growing to meet its potential.
As I stood outside the con hotel and looked across the parking lot I asked a local Furry "How much are those apartments over there?" And he said "About 500$ a month." And since then that has stuck in my head.
I have returned to phoenix for a second time and seen nothing but promise. The convention is the best run convention I have ever seen, and the Furries there are so friendly.
Its hard to believe I am typing this... it almost doesn't feel real, but I'm getting an apartment out there and will be moving by January if it all works out.
This PS will by my last regular PS for a while. I intend to return to California every 4 to 6 months and of course will be going to Califur, but my new home will be Phoenix.
I love the desert. All good things start from the desert.
I've lost so much here in Orange County and I get the feeling I was never intended to stay here. In my desperate attempt to stay here I've lost my family home, my grandmother's home, my income, my car, then my classes and finally when I started renting rooms I moved every 4 months because none of the homes were stable.
Now I'm living with my grandparents again. My mom has left my dad and is in much the same kind of room rental situation I was in. My father, depressed and just trying to get by lives here too and daily we witness my grandmother and grandfather go at it, both victims of PTSD they refuse to acknowledge.
Nothing is here for me anymore, and while this sounds to be a journal of "woe is me" it isn't.
Last year I went to the first Arizona Furcon on a whim. There a vision of prosperity emerged. A city of growth and renewal. One that was witnessing as much of a transformation as I was, and with a Furry community there on the verge of growing to meet its potential.
As I stood outside the con hotel and looked across the parking lot I asked a local Furry "How much are those apartments over there?" And he said "About 500$ a month." And since then that has stuck in my head.
I have returned to phoenix for a second time and seen nothing but promise. The convention is the best run convention I have ever seen, and the Furries there are so friendly.
Its hard to believe I am typing this... it almost doesn't feel real, but I'm getting an apartment out there and will be moving by January if it all works out.
This PS will by my last regular PS for a while. I intend to return to California every 4 to 6 months and of course will be going to Califur, but my new home will be Phoenix.
I love the desert. All good things start from the desert.
In N Out Update #3 A Solution
Posted 11 years agoA few weeks ago negotiations with In N Out corporate fell through, but I didn't report it because I felt I didn't have anything good to report. My next step was obvious: Find a new place. I posted earlier about potential places, of which there were only two. I was hoping for community report as to what was preferred, but I got very little. regardless, Boba Local was the only sensible place. I played them a visit to discuss the possibility of us making it our new place, and just by chance happened to catch the owner of the place, a young guy named Steve who had recently bought the place from his uncle. He said business had slowed down since the change and openly welcomed us to come! I showed him pictures of In N Out to give him an idea of the size of our group and he was still excited and he loved the Fursuits!
I will of course be at the PS, and shall lead a trip to Boba Loca at 6PM and clear it by 8. Given how respectful we were at In N Out, I don't expect us to have any problems. I don't think he minds if we wears the heads inside either!
For those of you who don't know Boba is a brown ball of tapioca, and is put in drinks like iced teas and frappachinos. I've tried them here and I am very impressed.
I'm very happy to have done this for my Fandom. I hope this new relationship continues for a long time.
Please link and share this journal.
(Will add pictures when I am home.)
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update #2
Yesterday I made a trip up to the PS area and drove all over Trask, Brookhurst, Magnolia, and Garden Grove Blvd to look for a possible new venue for a mid-party trip. I'm sorry to say that the results were not very fruitful. The PS is in a heavily residential area, and In N Out is the only eatery within walking distance (or rather fursuited walking distance) that serves food, and is not a sit down restaurant, and ALSO has space to accommodate a large number of people and suiters. To get to a plaza with a plethera of choices we would have to walk a mile down Trask all the way to Brookhurst and then some, and still, with the exception of a Starbucks, there is no where with plenty of seating. That said Starbucks is all indoors.
Close to the corner of Trask and Brookhurst is a place called Rainbow Donuts . It's open 24 hours, and has SOME seating but not a lot. It is also a really far walk, and the person working the place did not seem too friendly.
Walking Distance
HOWEVER though I said there no restaurants I did find one place that is PERHAPS suitable. It is a place called Boba Loca , a smoothie place in the Korean part of town, and it is right at the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove. It is open till Midnight all days on the week, and has both indoor and outdoor seating. Though I did not see any food on its menu the Boba is VERY well priced, and its outdoor seating area might work for suiters. But it doesn't have that much of it. It's in a very quiet strip plaza though, so us spilling into the parking lot will probably not be a big deal. It's right across the street from the police station though, so Furries leave your stupid shit at home, or at least in your car. Its about the same distance from PS as In n Out is, and there are no turns. Just walk up Gilbert toward Garden Grove.
Walking Distance
These are the only two feasable places within distance of the PS. There are plenty of Vietnamese tea houses down Brookhurst, since I frequent those often, I can tell you they are ALWAYS packed to the brim.
Depending on how my conversation with Ms. Maurice Caruso goes next week, as I am sure she will call, and if not I will call her, I will go to Boba Loca and inquire about the possibility of us migrating there during the party.
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Update: Over the past week Growly, akhetnu akhetnu , and sysable sysable have made a series of emails and phone calls to the In n Out in question, and to headquarters, and gotten nowhere. :icon Akhetnu: Only got to talk to the same district manager who kicked us out. I felt it appropriate to take the next step, and today made myself real and present by driving down to their corporate office in Irvine. At the front reception desk I was asked why I was there. I gave all the information nessisary, and after a few calls up to the floor of the office building which In n Out occupies a woman named Maurice Caruso, the director for public outreach came down to the lobby to talk with me. It was very cordial, and quite honestly, was more genuine than I expected. She knew -of- us, but not about us, and I had to fill her in on how we had been going to that In n Out for at least 4 years, and told her exactly what happened. She seemed quite surprised to hear how it was handled by the manager, and that there had been no previous attempt to contact us or to talk to us to reduce our numbers, or express concern. This leads me to believe there was a much greater disconnect between the corporate office and this district manager than I previously thought, and he may not have been acting under direction from the office at all.
Ms. Caruso seemed warmly open to conversation, and though of course she could not solve the problem then and there, she certainly did take seriously how a group who had made the overhead of that location was treated so disrespectfully.
I got someone to come down and see me, and that was more than I was expecting. There was talk of working on a comprimise between us and the In n Out, talk of letting the decision stand but offering us some kind of apologetic compensation, but really the most important thing is that the lines of communication are open, as I have her phone number, and she has mine.
I will keep this journal updated as to what happens, but I want to say that no matter what the outcome I am happy and proud to work this problem for our Fandom.
tomorrow I will be heading up to the PS area to scout for possible new locations for a PS eating venue, and shall update again afterwards.
Below is my original journal.
---
It is not of my disposition to fan the flames of drama needlessly, but to incite discussion where the fruits of which may yeild significant progress. It is for this reason that I even discuss our abrupt and permanant removal from the In n Out at the corner of trask and magnolia by the district manager of the corporation upon his first visit in our -at least- 4 years of including a trip to In N Out in the Prancing Skiltaire furmeet.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
I will of course be at the PS, and shall lead a trip to Boba Loca at 6PM and clear it by 8. Given how respectful we were at In N Out, I don't expect us to have any problems. I don't think he minds if we wears the heads inside either!
For those of you who don't know Boba is a brown ball of tapioca, and is put in drinks like iced teas and frappachinos. I've tried them here and I am very impressed.
I'm very happy to have done this for my Fandom. I hope this new relationship continues for a long time.
Please link and share this journal.
(Will add pictures when I am home.)
_______________
update #2
Yesterday I made a trip up to the PS area and drove all over Trask, Brookhurst, Magnolia, and Garden Grove Blvd to look for a possible new venue for a mid-party trip. I'm sorry to say that the results were not very fruitful. The PS is in a heavily residential area, and In N Out is the only eatery within walking distance (or rather fursuited walking distance) that serves food, and is not a sit down restaurant, and ALSO has space to accommodate a large number of people and suiters. To get to a plaza with a plethera of choices we would have to walk a mile down Trask all the way to Brookhurst and then some, and still, with the exception of a Starbucks, there is no where with plenty of seating. That said Starbucks is all indoors.
Close to the corner of Trask and Brookhurst is a place called Rainbow Donuts . It's open 24 hours, and has SOME seating but not a lot. It is also a really far walk, and the person working the place did not seem too friendly.
Walking Distance
HOWEVER though I said there no restaurants I did find one place that is PERHAPS suitable. It is a place called Boba Loca , a smoothie place in the Korean part of town, and it is right at the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove. It is open till Midnight all days on the week, and has both indoor and outdoor seating. Though I did not see any food on its menu the Boba is VERY well priced, and its outdoor seating area might work for suiters. But it doesn't have that much of it. It's in a very quiet strip plaza though, so us spilling into the parking lot will probably not be a big deal. It's right across the street from the police station though, so Furries leave your stupid shit at home, or at least in your car. Its about the same distance from PS as In n Out is, and there are no turns. Just walk up Gilbert toward Garden Grove.
Walking Distance
These are the only two feasable places within distance of the PS. There are plenty of Vietnamese tea houses down Brookhurst, since I frequent those often, I can tell you they are ALWAYS packed to the brim.
Depending on how my conversation with Ms. Maurice Caruso goes next week, as I am sure she will call, and if not I will call her, I will go to Boba Loca and inquire about the possibility of us migrating there during the party.
---
Update: Over the past week Growly, akhetnu akhetnu , and sysable sysable have made a series of emails and phone calls to the In n Out in question, and to headquarters, and gotten nowhere. :icon Akhetnu: Only got to talk to the same district manager who kicked us out. I felt it appropriate to take the next step, and today made myself real and present by driving down to their corporate office in Irvine. At the front reception desk I was asked why I was there. I gave all the information nessisary, and after a few calls up to the floor of the office building which In n Out occupies a woman named Maurice Caruso, the director for public outreach came down to the lobby to talk with me. It was very cordial, and quite honestly, was more genuine than I expected. She knew -of- us, but not about us, and I had to fill her in on how we had been going to that In n Out for at least 4 years, and told her exactly what happened. She seemed quite surprised to hear how it was handled by the manager, and that there had been no previous attempt to contact us or to talk to us to reduce our numbers, or express concern. This leads me to believe there was a much greater disconnect between the corporate office and this district manager than I previously thought, and he may not have been acting under direction from the office at all.
Ms. Caruso seemed warmly open to conversation, and though of course she could not solve the problem then and there, she certainly did take seriously how a group who had made the overhead of that location was treated so disrespectfully.
I got someone to come down and see me, and that was more than I was expecting. There was talk of working on a comprimise between us and the In n Out, talk of letting the decision stand but offering us some kind of apologetic compensation, but really the most important thing is that the lines of communication are open, as I have her phone number, and she has mine.
I will keep this journal updated as to what happens, but I want to say that no matter what the outcome I am happy and proud to work this problem for our Fandom.
tomorrow I will be heading up to the PS area to scout for possible new locations for a PS eating venue, and shall update again afterwards.
Below is my original journal.
---
It is not of my disposition to fan the flames of drama needlessly, but to incite discussion where the fruits of which may yeild significant progress. It is for this reason that I even discuss our abrupt and permanant removal from the In n Out at the corner of trask and magnolia by the district manager of the corporation upon his first visit in our -at least- 4 years of including a trip to In N Out in the Prancing Skiltaire furmeet.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
In N Out Update #3 A Solution
Posted 11 years agoA few weeks ago negotiations with In N Out corporate fell through, but I didn't report it because I felt I didn't have anything good to report. My next step was obvious: Find a new place. I posted earlier about potential places, of which there were only two. I was hoping for community report as to what was preferred, but I got very little. regardless, Boba Local was the only sensible place. I played them a visit to discuss the possibility of us making it our new place, and just by chance happened to catch the owner of the place, a young guy named Steve who had recently bought the place from his uncle. He said business had slowed down since the change and openly welcomed us to come! I showed him pictures of In N Out to give him an idea of the size of our group and he was still excited and he loved the Fursuits!
I will of course be at the PS, and shall lead a trip to Boba Loca at 6PM and clear it by 8. Given how respectful we were at In N Out, I don't expect us to have any problems. I don't think he minds if we wears the heads inside either!
For those of you who don't know Boba is a brown ball of tapioca, and is put in drinks like iced teas and frappachinos. I've tried them here and I am very impressed.
I'm very happy to have done this for my Fandom. I hope this new relationship continues for a long time.
Please link and share this journal.
(Will add pictures when I am home.)
_______________
update #2
Yesterday I made a trip up to the PS area and drove all over Trask, Brookhurst, Magnolia, and Garden Grove Blvd to look for a possible new venue for a mid-party trip. I'm sorry to say that the results were not very fruitful. The PS is in a heavily residential area, and In N Out is the only eatery within walking distance (or rather fursuited walking distance) that serves food, and is not a sit down restaurant, and ALSO has space to accommodate a large number of people and suiters. To get to a plaza with a plethera of choices we would have to walk a mile down Trask all the way to Brookhurst and then some, and still, with the exception of a Starbucks, there is no where with plenty of seating. That said Starbucks is all indoors.
Close to the corner of Trask and Brookhurst is a place called Rainbow Donuts . It's open 24 hours, and has SOME seating but not a lot. It is also a really far walk, and the person working the place did not seem too friendly.
Walking Distance
HOWEVER though I said there no restaurants I did find one place that is PERHAPS suitable. It is a place called Boba Loca , a smoothie place in the Korean part of town, and it is right at the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove. It is open till Midnight all days on the week, and has both indoor and outdoor seating. Though I did not see any food on its menu the Boba is VERY well priced, and its outdoor seating area might work for suiters. But it doesn't have that much of it. It's in a very quiet strip plaza though, so us spilling into the parking lot will probably not be a big deal. It's right across the street from the police station though, so Furries leave your stupid shit at home, or at least in your car. Its about the same distance from PS as In n Out is, and there are no turns. Just walk up Gilbert toward Garden Grove.
Walking Distance
These are the only two feasable places within distance of the PS. There are plenty of Vietnamese tea houses down Brookhurst, since I frequent those often, I can tell you they are ALWAYS packed to the brim.
Depending on how my conversation with Ms. Maurice Caruso goes next week, as I am sure she will call, and if not I will call her, I will go to Boba Loca and inquire about the possibility of us migrating there during the party.
---
Update: Over the past week Growly, akhetnu akhetnu , and sysable sysable have made a series of emails and phone calls to the In n Out in question, and to headquarters, and gotten nowhere. :icon Akhetnu: Only got to talk to the same district manager who kicked us out. I felt it appropriate to take the next step, and today made myself real and present by driving down to their corporate office in Irvine. At the front reception desk I was asked why I was there. I gave all the information nessisary, and after a few calls up to the floor of the office building which In n Out occupies a woman named Maurice Caruso, the director for public outreach came down to the lobby to talk with me. It was very cordial, and quite honestly, was more genuine than I expected. She knew -of- us, but not about us, and I had to fill her in on how we had been going to that In n Out for at least 4 years, and told her exactly what happened. She seemed quite surprised to hear how it was handled by the manager, and that there had been no previous attempt to contact us or to talk to us to reduce our numbers, or express concern. This leads me to believe there was a much greater disconnect between the corporate office and this district manager than I previously thought, and he may not have been acting under direction from the office at all.
Ms. Caruso seemed warmly open to conversation, and though of course she could not solve the problem then and there, she certainly did take seriously how a group who had made the overhead of that location was treated so disrespectfully.
I got someone to come down and see me, and that was more than I was expecting. There was talk of working on a comprimise between us and the In n Out, talk of letting the decision stand but offering us some kind of apologetic compensation, but really the most important thing is that the lines of communication are open, as I have her phone number, and she has mine.
I will keep this journal updated as to what happens, but I want to say that no matter what the outcome I am happy and proud to work this problem for our Fandom.
tomorrow I will be heading up to the PS area to scout for possible new locations for a PS eating venue, and shall update again afterwards.
Below is my original journal.
---
It is not of my disposition to fan the flames of drama needlessly, but to incite discussion where the fruits of which may yeild significant progress. It is for this reason that I even discuss our abrupt and permanant removal from the In n Out at the corner of trask and magnolia by the district manager of the corporation upon his first visit in our -at least- 4 years of including a trip to In N Out in the Prancing Skiltaire furmeet.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
I will of course be at the PS, and shall lead a trip to Boba Loca at 6PM and clear it by 8. Given how respectful we were at In N Out, I don't expect us to have any problems. I don't think he minds if we wears the heads inside either!
For those of you who don't know Boba is a brown ball of tapioca, and is put in drinks like iced teas and frappachinos. I've tried them here and I am very impressed.
I'm very happy to have done this for my Fandom. I hope this new relationship continues for a long time.
Please link and share this journal.
(Will add pictures when I am home.)
_______________
update #2
Yesterday I made a trip up to the PS area and drove all over Trask, Brookhurst, Magnolia, and Garden Grove Blvd to look for a possible new venue for a mid-party trip. I'm sorry to say that the results were not very fruitful. The PS is in a heavily residential area, and In N Out is the only eatery within walking distance (or rather fursuited walking distance) that serves food, and is not a sit down restaurant, and ALSO has space to accommodate a large number of people and suiters. To get to a plaza with a plethera of choices we would have to walk a mile down Trask all the way to Brookhurst and then some, and still, with the exception of a Starbucks, there is no where with plenty of seating. That said Starbucks is all indoors.
Close to the corner of Trask and Brookhurst is a place called Rainbow Donuts . It's open 24 hours, and has SOME seating but not a lot. It is also a really far walk, and the person working the place did not seem too friendly.
Walking Distance
HOWEVER though I said there no restaurants I did find one place that is PERHAPS suitable. It is a place called Boba Loca , a smoothie place in the Korean part of town, and it is right at the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove. It is open till Midnight all days on the week, and has both indoor and outdoor seating. Though I did not see any food on its menu the Boba is VERY well priced, and its outdoor seating area might work for suiters. But it doesn't have that much of it. It's in a very quiet strip plaza though, so us spilling into the parking lot will probably not be a big deal. It's right across the street from the police station though, so Furries leave your stupid shit at home, or at least in your car. Its about the same distance from PS as In n Out is, and there are no turns. Just walk up Gilbert toward Garden Grove.
Walking Distance
These are the only two feasable places within distance of the PS. There are plenty of Vietnamese tea houses down Brookhurst, since I frequent those often, I can tell you they are ALWAYS packed to the brim.
Depending on how my conversation with Ms. Maurice Caruso goes next week, as I am sure she will call, and if not I will call her, I will go to Boba Loca and inquire about the possibility of us migrating there during the party.
---
Update: Over the past week Growly, akhetnu akhetnu , and sysable sysable have made a series of emails and phone calls to the In n Out in question, and to headquarters, and gotten nowhere. :icon Akhetnu: Only got to talk to the same district manager who kicked us out. I felt it appropriate to take the next step, and today made myself real and present by driving down to their corporate office in Irvine. At the front reception desk I was asked why I was there. I gave all the information nessisary, and after a few calls up to the floor of the office building which In n Out occupies a woman named Maurice Caruso, the director for public outreach came down to the lobby to talk with me. It was very cordial, and quite honestly, was more genuine than I expected. She knew -of- us, but not about us, and I had to fill her in on how we had been going to that In n Out for at least 4 years, and told her exactly what happened. She seemed quite surprised to hear how it was handled by the manager, and that there had been no previous attempt to contact us or to talk to us to reduce our numbers, or express concern. This leads me to believe there was a much greater disconnect between the corporate office and this district manager than I previously thought, and he may not have been acting under direction from the office at all.
Ms. Caruso seemed warmly open to conversation, and though of course she could not solve the problem then and there, she certainly did take seriously how a group who had made the overhead of that location was treated so disrespectfully.
I got someone to come down and see me, and that was more than I was expecting. There was talk of working on a comprimise between us and the In n Out, talk of letting the decision stand but offering us some kind of apologetic compensation, but really the most important thing is that the lines of communication are open, as I have her phone number, and she has mine.
I will keep this journal updated as to what happens, but I want to say that no matter what the outcome I am happy and proud to work this problem for our Fandom.
tomorrow I will be heading up to the PS area to scout for possible new locations for a PS eating venue, and shall update again afterwards.
Below is my original journal.
---
It is not of my disposition to fan the flames of drama needlessly, but to incite discussion where the fruits of which may yeild significant progress. It is for this reason that I even discuss our abrupt and permanant removal from the In n Out at the corner of trask and magnolia by the district manager of the corporation upon his first visit in our -at least- 4 years of including a trip to In N Out in the Prancing Skiltaire furmeet.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
Any Furry Have A Room To Rent Or Would Like To Get A Place?
Posted 11 years agoI don't really care where it is, and I know I can afford it. I am employed and have good credit. I've been renting rooms for a while now and it just isn't something that works. I keep having to move every 5 months. It's made me tank my grades, drop classes, and leave school, so that isn't really a worry anymore. I love education, I love college but it just can't be done right now. I'd be willing to get a place with someone if someone is looking to move out. I'll leave California even. So long as there are Furries I will go there. I've wanted to live with Furries for a long time now.
Update #2 On The Incident At Inn N Out
Posted 11 years agoupdate #2
Yesterday I made a trip up to the PS area and drove all over Trask, Brookhurst, Magnolia, and Garden Grove Blvd to look for a possible new venue for a mid-party trip. I'm sorry to say that the results were not very fruitful. The PS is in a heavily residential area, and In N Out is the only eatery within walking distance (or rather fursuited walking distance) that serves food, and is not a sit down restaurant, and ALSO has space to accommodate a large number of people and suiters. To get to a plaza with a plethera of choices we would have to walk a mile down Trask all the way to Brookhurst and then some, and still, with the exception of a Starbucks, there is no where with plenty of seating. That said Starbucks is all indoors.
Close to the corner of Trask and Brookhurst is a place called Rainbow Donuts . It's open 24 hours, and has SOME seating but not a lot. It is also a really far walk, and the person working the place did not seem too friendly.
Walking Distance
HOWEVER though I said there no restaurants I did find one place that is PERHAPS suitable. It is a place called Boba Loca , a smoothie place in the Korean part of town, and it is right at the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove. It is open till Midnight all days on the week, and has both indoor and outdoor seating. Though I did not see any food on its menu the Boba is VERY well priced, and its outdoor seating area might work for suiters. But it doesn't have that much of it. It's in a very quiet strip plaza though, so us spilling into the parking lot will probably not be a big deal. It's right across the street from the police station though, so Furries leave your stupid shit at home, or at least in your car. Its about the same distance from PS as In n Out is, and there are no turns. Just walk up Gilbert toward Garden Grove.
Walking Distance
These are the only two feasable places within distance of the PS. There are plenty of Vietnamese tea houses down Brookhurst, since I frequent those often, I can tell you they are ALWAYS packed to the brim.
Depending on how my conversation with Ms. Maurice Caruso goes next week, as I am sure she will call, and if not I will call her, I will go to Boba Loca and inquire about the possibility of us migrating there during the party.
---
Update: Over the past week Growly, akhetnu akhetnu , and sysable sysable have made a series of emails and phone calls to the In n Out in question, and to headquarters, and gotten nowhere. :icon Akhetnu: Only got to talk to the same district manager who kicked us out. I felt it appropriate to take the next step, and today made myself real and present by driving down to their corporate office in Irvine. At the front reception desk I was asked why I was there. I gave all the information nessisary, and after a few calls up to the floor of the office building which In n Out occupies a woman named Maurice Caruso, the director for public outreach came down to the lobby to talk with me. It was very cordial, and quite honestly, was more genuine than I expected. She knew -of- us, but not about us, and I had to fill her in on how we had been going to that In n Out for at least 4 years, and told her exactly what happened. She seemed quite surprised to hear how it was handled by the manager, and that there had been no previous attempt to contact us or to talk to us to reduce our numbers, or express concern. This leads me to believe there was a much greater disconnect between the corporate office and this district manager than I previously thought, and he may not have been acting under direction from the office at all.
Ms. Caruso seemed warmly open to conversation, and though of course she could not solve the problem then and there, she certainly did take seriously how a group who had made the overhead of that location was treated so disrespectfully.
I got someone to come down and see me, and that was more than I was expecting. There was talk of working on a comprimise between us and the In n Out, talk of letting the decision stand but offering us some kind of apologetic compensation, but really the most important thing is that the lines of communication are open, as I have her phone number, and she has mine.
I will keep this journal updated as to what happens, but I want to say that no matter what the outcome I am happy and proud to work this problem for our Fandom.
tomorrow I will be heading up to the PS area to scout for possible new locations for a PS eating venue, and shall update again afterwards.
Below is my original journal.
---
It is not of my disposition to fan the flames of drama needlessly, but to incite discussion where the fruits of which may yeild significant progress. It is for this reason that I even discuss our abrupt and permanant removal from the In n Out at the corner of trask and magnolia by the district manager of the corporation upon his first visit in our -at least- 4 years of including a trip to In N Out in the Prancing Skiltaire furmeet.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
Yesterday I made a trip up to the PS area and drove all over Trask, Brookhurst, Magnolia, and Garden Grove Blvd to look for a possible new venue for a mid-party trip. I'm sorry to say that the results were not very fruitful. The PS is in a heavily residential area, and In N Out is the only eatery within walking distance (or rather fursuited walking distance) that serves food, and is not a sit down restaurant, and ALSO has space to accommodate a large number of people and suiters. To get to a plaza with a plethera of choices we would have to walk a mile down Trask all the way to Brookhurst and then some, and still, with the exception of a Starbucks, there is no where with plenty of seating. That said Starbucks is all indoors.
Close to the corner of Trask and Brookhurst is a place called Rainbow Donuts . It's open 24 hours, and has SOME seating but not a lot. It is also a really far walk, and the person working the place did not seem too friendly.
Walking Distance
HOWEVER though I said there no restaurants I did find one place that is PERHAPS suitable. It is a place called Boba Loca , a smoothie place in the Korean part of town, and it is right at the corner of Gilbert and Garden Grove. It is open till Midnight all days on the week, and has both indoor and outdoor seating. Though I did not see any food on its menu the Boba is VERY well priced, and its outdoor seating area might work for suiters. But it doesn't have that much of it. It's in a very quiet strip plaza though, so us spilling into the parking lot will probably not be a big deal. It's right across the street from the police station though, so Furries leave your stupid shit at home, or at least in your car. Its about the same distance from PS as In n Out is, and there are no turns. Just walk up Gilbert toward Garden Grove.
Walking Distance
These are the only two feasable places within distance of the PS. There are plenty of Vietnamese tea houses down Brookhurst, since I frequent those often, I can tell you they are ALWAYS packed to the brim.
Depending on how my conversation with Ms. Maurice Caruso goes next week, as I am sure she will call, and if not I will call her, I will go to Boba Loca and inquire about the possibility of us migrating there during the party.
---
Update: Over the past week Growly, akhetnu akhetnu , and sysable sysable have made a series of emails and phone calls to the In n Out in question, and to headquarters, and gotten nowhere. :icon Akhetnu: Only got to talk to the same district manager who kicked us out. I felt it appropriate to take the next step, and today made myself real and present by driving down to their corporate office in Irvine. At the front reception desk I was asked why I was there. I gave all the information nessisary, and after a few calls up to the floor of the office building which In n Out occupies a woman named Maurice Caruso, the director for public outreach came down to the lobby to talk with me. It was very cordial, and quite honestly, was more genuine than I expected. She knew -of- us, but not about us, and I had to fill her in on how we had been going to that In n Out for at least 4 years, and told her exactly what happened. She seemed quite surprised to hear how it was handled by the manager, and that there had been no previous attempt to contact us or to talk to us to reduce our numbers, or express concern. This leads me to believe there was a much greater disconnect between the corporate office and this district manager than I previously thought, and he may not have been acting under direction from the office at all.
Ms. Caruso seemed warmly open to conversation, and though of course she could not solve the problem then and there, she certainly did take seriously how a group who had made the overhead of that location was treated so disrespectfully.
I got someone to come down and see me, and that was more than I was expecting. There was talk of working on a comprimise between us and the In n Out, talk of letting the decision stand but offering us some kind of apologetic compensation, but really the most important thing is that the lines of communication are open, as I have her phone number, and she has mine.
I will keep this journal updated as to what happens, but I want to say that no matter what the outcome I am happy and proud to work this problem for our Fandom.
tomorrow I will be heading up to the PS area to scout for possible new locations for a PS eating venue, and shall update again afterwards.
Below is my original journal.
---
It is not of my disposition to fan the flames of drama needlessly, but to incite discussion where the fruits of which may yeild significant progress. It is for this reason that I even discuss our abrupt and permanant removal from the In n Out at the corner of trask and magnolia by the district manager of the corporation upon his first visit in our -at least- 4 years of including a trip to In N Out in the Prancing Skiltaire furmeet.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
Update regarding the incident at In n Out
Posted 11 years agoUpdate: Over the past week Growly, 
Akhetnu , and 
sysable have made a series of emails and phone calls to the In n Out in question, and to headquarters, and gotten nowhere. :icon Akhetnu: Only got to talk to the same district manager who kicked us out. I felt it appropriate to take the next step, and today made myself real and present by driving down to their corporate office in Irvine. At the front reception desk I was asked why I was there. I gave all the information nessisary, and after a few calls up to the floor of the office building which In n Out occupies a woman named Maurice Caruso, the director for public outreach came down to the lobby to talk with me. It was very cordial, and quite honestly, was more genuine than I expected. She knew -of- us, but not about us, and I had to fill her in on how we had been going to that In n Out for at least 4 years, and told her exactly what happened. She seemed quite surprised to hear how it was handled by the manager, and that there had been no previous attempt to contact us or to talk to us to reduce our numbers, or express concern. This leads me to believe there was a much greater disconnect between the corporate office and this district manager than I previously thought, and he may not have been acting under direction from the office at all.
Ms. Caruso seemed warmly open to conversation, and though of course she could not solve the problem then and there, she certainly did take seriously how a group who had made the overhead of that location was treated so disrespectfully.
I got someone to come down and see me, and that was more than I was expecting. There was talk of working on a comprimise between us and the In n Out, talk of letting the decision stand but offering us some kind of apologetic compensation, but really the most important thing is that the lines of communication are open, as I have her phone number, and she has mine.
I will keep this journal updated as to what happens, but I want to say that no matter what the outcome I am happy and proud to work this problem for our Fandom.
tomorrow I will be heading up to the PS area to scout for possible new locations for a PS eating venue, and shall update again afterwards.
Below is my original journal.
___
It is not of my disposition to fan the flames of drama needlessly, but to incite discussion where the fruits of which may yeild significant progress. It is for this reason that I even discuss our abrupt and permanant removal from the In n Out at the corner of trask and magnolia by the district manager of the corporation upon his first visit in our -at least- 4 years of including a trip to In N Out in the Prancing Skiltaire furmeet.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
Akhetnu , and 
sysable have made a series of emails and phone calls to the In n Out in question, and to headquarters, and gotten nowhere. :icon Akhetnu: Only got to talk to the same district manager who kicked us out. I felt it appropriate to take the next step, and today made myself real and present by driving down to their corporate office in Irvine. At the front reception desk I was asked why I was there. I gave all the information nessisary, and after a few calls up to the floor of the office building which In n Out occupies a woman named Maurice Caruso, the director for public outreach came down to the lobby to talk with me. It was very cordial, and quite honestly, was more genuine than I expected. She knew -of- us, but not about us, and I had to fill her in on how we had been going to that In n Out for at least 4 years, and told her exactly what happened. She seemed quite surprised to hear how it was handled by the manager, and that there had been no previous attempt to contact us or to talk to us to reduce our numbers, or express concern. This leads me to believe there was a much greater disconnect between the corporate office and this district manager than I previously thought, and he may not have been acting under direction from the office at all.Ms. Caruso seemed warmly open to conversation, and though of course she could not solve the problem then and there, she certainly did take seriously how a group who had made the overhead of that location was treated so disrespectfully.
I got someone to come down and see me, and that was more than I was expecting. There was talk of working on a comprimise between us and the In n Out, talk of letting the decision stand but offering us some kind of apologetic compensation, but really the most important thing is that the lines of communication are open, as I have her phone number, and she has mine.
I will keep this journal updated as to what happens, but I want to say that no matter what the outcome I am happy and proud to work this problem for our Fandom.
tomorrow I will be heading up to the PS area to scout for possible new locations for a PS eating venue, and shall update again afterwards.
Below is my original journal.
___
It is not of my disposition to fan the flames of drama needlessly, but to incite discussion where the fruits of which may yeild significant progress. It is for this reason that I even discuss our abrupt and permanant removal from the In n Out at the corner of trask and magnolia by the district manager of the corporation upon his first visit in our -at least- 4 years of including a trip to In N Out in the Prancing Skiltaire furmeet.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
Regarding the incident at In N Out.
Posted 11 years agoIt is not of my disposition to fan the flames of drama needlessly, but to incite discussion where the fruits of which may yeild significant progress. It is for this reason that I even discuss our abrupt and permanant removal from the In n Out at the corner of trask and magnolia by the district manager of the corporation upon his first visit in our -at least- 4 years of including a trip to In N Out in the Prancing Skiltaire furmeet.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
This man, playing the part of the big kid on campus waving a compararively small stick, stood arms folded and assertive throughout his visit as he went person to person saying to us we are no longwr welcome, and even going so far as to insist we disclose the contents of our bags and coolers, which held nothing but water and gatorade for the fursuiters, but that he suspected might contain alchohol.
His reasons for our banishment, by which he insisted was a blanket banning of all "large groups" but whatever other large groups do patron this In n Out, I suspect this ban will not be enforced, are as lightweight as a feather and as flimsy as Styrofoam.
His reasons, not all of which I claim to have caught, center around the standard meaningless excuse common to any corporation: a halfhearted concern for public safety and full hearted concern for profits. He said to me of the fursuiters, that what if one were to fall from the brick foyer and injure himself? Less so his concern for our safety, and more for his budget for lawyers. I ask him, if this pathetic reason were the real reason then why wait 4 years onward to make it an issue, let alone show up to observe why this particular location made its overhead in one night.
His likely true motives he revealed, when commenting on our size, coupled with the usual blanket statements of fearing for accidents of other patrons, that his true worry was that we were driving away business, without so much as a thought given that we ARE the business. "What if a mother brought her children here and saw this. she would never want to bring her children here again!" he said, and it was in this statement that I thought I heard the air of accusation against us for our preceeding sexual reputation, but when questioned, of course denied was farthest from the truth with "Come on, do I seem like that kind of guy?"
Well you seem like a man who takes no interest in the goings on of his district, and upon your first visit to our visit proceed to deliver a command of bannishment, threatening police action if we are to return, and a man complacent in giving fake and thin reasons for our banishment when after -at least- four years of continued, timely, and reliable patronizing we are -at least- deserving of the real and full truth.
"I want people to come and eat their burgers and leave" And so I say let them. Let them shoot themselves in the foot, and see their profits drop. To fight to continue to go back there is a fight not worth having with a place so dissmissive of us after -at least- four years without so much as a "thank you for your service."
Rather I take Mark Merlino's stand on this. That no Furry ever go back to that In N Out again. But I ad a caveat that we should not roll over and let such disrespect be allowed, and that we flood the phones and emails on the corporation with complaints citing the points written here.
Our focus should be to find a new and more appreciative venue for our numbet, and I shall help to seem one out.
I have an appy 3g 4g 5g thingy.
Posted 11 years agoHuzzah I can now search FA FOR PORN FROM ANYWHERE!
In 1000 years Gandahar was destroyed...
Posted 11 years agoIn a 1000 years Gandahar was destroyed. 1000 years ago Gandahar will be saved, and what can't be avoided will be.
I watched this movie last night. The space woman tits get a bit rediculous, and the main enemy is a giant penis sticking out of the fucking ocean, but its still a freaking awesome movie! With a GREAT soundtrak!
Gandahar (Light Years)
I watched this movie last night. The space woman tits get a bit rediculous, and the main enemy is a giant penis sticking out of the fucking ocean, but its still a freaking awesome movie! With a GREAT soundtrak!
Gandahar (Light Years)
My Favorite Furry Phrases.
Posted 11 years ago1. Murry Purry Fresh n' Furry
2. Feeling Knotty
3. Fuck Bitches Get Scritches
2. Feeling Knotty
3. Fuck Bitches Get Scritches
Post Con Depression's
Posted 11 years agoPost Con Depression's touching my soul,
I know what I want,
but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
Con swag, sweet con swag
drops from my finger, fingers
Post Con Depression's captured my soul.
Califur so willing the sweet cause in vain,
you make love,
you break love,
it's-a all the same when it's...
when it's over.
Furries sweet Furries,
I wish I could caress, caress, caress.
Post Con Depression's a frustrating mess.
Well, I think I'll go de-suit an' go on down.
thanks Jimi.
I know what I want,
but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
Con swag, sweet con swag
drops from my finger, fingers
Post Con Depression's captured my soul.
Califur so willing the sweet cause in vain,
you make love,
you break love,
it's-a all the same when it's...
when it's over.
Furries sweet Furries,
I wish I could caress, caress, caress.
Post Con Depression's a frustrating mess.
Well, I think I'll go de-suit an' go on down.
thanks Jimi.
Califur!
Posted 11 years agoSpending today watching fursuiting videos and brushing my suit like a creeper smeagle.
If the beach is so expensive in california...
Posted 11 years agoThen how and why do all the craziest live there? This man just walked up to me, never looked at me, and proceeded to go through his whole life story infront of me, multiple versions, as if trying to remember how he got to where he was that day, then walked away.
Would All The People Who Support Me
Posted 11 years ago...And I mean TRUELY support me, not just watch to see what I do, kindly comment on this journal.
I could use some positivity right now. Most of you guys know where I have been the past 8 months, and how I have been living for the past two years. I've seen friends surpass me and succeed in their endeavors while I struggle to build a life before I should have to. Its hard to keep going and some mornings when I wake up I wonder why I should even bother getting out of bed. But I need this Fandom when I wake up. I wouldn't be able to keep going if it wasn't for watching the amazing things this Fandom has been able to accomplish in its short time. I'm struggling to live a life that most people will never have to lead, and no one should ever have to leave, and as I slowly remove my real family from my existence I hope it can be replaced with a Furrier one. But sometimes I need some encouragement. Someone to signal that I do have a reason to get up. Strangely I still feel like an outcast in this Fandom. I still feel very peripheral, like I'm talked to when its convenient. I've tried asking people to hang out, I've invited people to just show up at my door but it never happens. I don't listen to the music people listen too, I don't watch the movies, I don't have an encyclopedia of artists in my head... My Fursona still isn't set in stone after 7 years in this Fandom, and even living in OC its still hard to find someone who wants to just go do random stuff with.
My life over the past two years has not left much opportunity to do much else but survive. Most of the time was spent trying to desperately put out the fires that comes with poverty, and thank god the worst I ever encountered was some drug addict room mates and some lazy ones. I had to throw a lot of friendship opportunities away because of this poverty, and while all of my friends still live at home, have the car their parents gave them, and get to work a part time job and be happy I am out here moving every three months, living with drug addicts because I have no other place to go, the inability to make money because of the lack of permanence, until recently no motorized transportation, and no family that could or cared to do anything about it except for my wonderful aunt who is sacrificing her happiness and comfort for me. While friends of mine get to go out and have fun every night, and come home and play video games I get to spend my day figuring out how to get from point A to point B to some some crisis, while juggling 5 others, with no insurance, no income but my aunt, no work, no stability, and no time. I don't blame anyone for not having my problems...but it makes me easily passed by because I can not keep up.
So please, it's getting really hard to keep on going without someone to throw some support my way, even if that is just a phone call. I try and try and try to put myself out there, to keep up, to stay afloat with the dream that some day I will be satisfied and CAN just go out every night and have the life that all the rest of the 21 year olds I know have, instead of trying to figure out how to live off 20 bucks a week and live in terror of the knowledge that I could wake up tomorrow and the floor could crumble out from under me and I would be back to square one. My father doesn't care, my mom doesn't grasp the situation and is too busy enjoying life being liberated from my father, my grandparents are aged an just think I made the wrong choices, my other grandparents are dead, my aunt cares and helps all she can but she has her own life and her own fires to put out....so all I have is you guys. This is my final call for help. I'm not really sure that I mean all that much, or that me trying to climb into some kind of normal life really has much of a point anymore if Furries aren't in it.
____
Also, please understand this:
I'm not tech savy because poverty does not afford the luxury of free time to learn such things.
I'm not video game savy because poverty does not afford the luxury of free time to play such things endlessly.
I'm not music savy because I find the music of today to lack in being able to relate to my struggles in poverty. Older music has a lot of anger, rage, and desire to fix things that todays "dance dance yeah yeah yeah" pop doesn't have.
I'm not savy on films or TV because poverty does not afford the time to watch such things as a following.
I don't have many possesions because, well, self explanitory. I can't afford the games, and movies, and shows, and music, ect ect.
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to healthy friendships. I think I really only ever had one.
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to how to have healthy romantic relationships, or even how to flirt with someone. I had no model growing up. Love was equated with violence and control, and so thus I am overly flirty because I am eager to experience something else, yet extremely naive. I know people have had trouble with this from me in the past. It is really because I am only trying to be loved, or even appreciated, in a way that is not violent and controlling.. I just don't know how to ask properly.
I'm politically savy because you need politics to beat Poverty
I'm responsible because you need to be able to manage yourself to escape poverty.
I'm serious, because there has not been much joy in my life.
I'm suspicious because most people who I was told I should trust hurt me, and those outside the family circle assumed that family doesn't hurt.
I'm cynical because my life has not afforded optimism
I'm probably suffering from some form of shock or PTSD type something or another as a result of my abuse
I'm bookish, because poverty and abuse does not afford life experiences.
I'm more knowledgeable about places across the world than my own back yard because I was never allowed to explore it.
I tear up easily, because it was instilled in me that I should feel immense shame for my existence, and so I take things personally and much stronger than they are intended.
Please don't chide me for being/not being/not having all these things. Doing so belittles my experience, and suggests that I am deficient, which is a feeling that my parents made sure to beat into me. When I react with wonder to small things you take for granted it is because I literally have never seen it or it has never been within my reach. (i.e. being amazed someone can have more than one of something.)
When I react with chiding derision to things you take for granted, or, especially, like and are a fan of, own, wear, ect, it is not that I really hate it. It is because I am trying to internally justify my lack of it, or ability to access it, own it, ect. By making it something that is flawed, I hate, not cool, bad, ect... It makes it hurt less that I grew up not being able to have or do or wear or own this thing that everyone else I know was able to have.
When I inquire about your finances or question your use of it, please, do not take it personally. It is some quirk of middle-classness I have yet to understand, but when I do such I am not invading your privacy or intending to judge you, I am just literally amazed that someone has such amounts to their possession and amazed that they are able to make and control it. It comes from my amazement that such things exist, not from my prying into your affairs. If I pipe up when you talk about how you are going to use it, it is not out of passing judgement, but out of an instinct to protect it and you, as growing up, I had very little, and no protection.
I think that about covers it....I need hugs from time to time, and to be told that the old painful part of my life is over now...or at least that I have the power, and the support, to end it.
I could use some positivity right now. Most of you guys know where I have been the past 8 months, and how I have been living for the past two years. I've seen friends surpass me and succeed in their endeavors while I struggle to build a life before I should have to. Its hard to keep going and some mornings when I wake up I wonder why I should even bother getting out of bed. But I need this Fandom when I wake up. I wouldn't be able to keep going if it wasn't for watching the amazing things this Fandom has been able to accomplish in its short time. I'm struggling to live a life that most people will never have to lead, and no one should ever have to leave, and as I slowly remove my real family from my existence I hope it can be replaced with a Furrier one. But sometimes I need some encouragement. Someone to signal that I do have a reason to get up. Strangely I still feel like an outcast in this Fandom. I still feel very peripheral, like I'm talked to when its convenient. I've tried asking people to hang out, I've invited people to just show up at my door but it never happens. I don't listen to the music people listen too, I don't watch the movies, I don't have an encyclopedia of artists in my head... My Fursona still isn't set in stone after 7 years in this Fandom, and even living in OC its still hard to find someone who wants to just go do random stuff with.
My life over the past two years has not left much opportunity to do much else but survive. Most of the time was spent trying to desperately put out the fires that comes with poverty, and thank god the worst I ever encountered was some drug addict room mates and some lazy ones. I had to throw a lot of friendship opportunities away because of this poverty, and while all of my friends still live at home, have the car their parents gave them, and get to work a part time job and be happy I am out here moving every three months, living with drug addicts because I have no other place to go, the inability to make money because of the lack of permanence, until recently no motorized transportation, and no family that could or cared to do anything about it except for my wonderful aunt who is sacrificing her happiness and comfort for me. While friends of mine get to go out and have fun every night, and come home and play video games I get to spend my day figuring out how to get from point A to point B to some some crisis, while juggling 5 others, with no insurance, no income but my aunt, no work, no stability, and no time. I don't blame anyone for not having my problems...but it makes me easily passed by because I can not keep up.
So please, it's getting really hard to keep on going without someone to throw some support my way, even if that is just a phone call. I try and try and try to put myself out there, to keep up, to stay afloat with the dream that some day I will be satisfied and CAN just go out every night and have the life that all the rest of the 21 year olds I know have, instead of trying to figure out how to live off 20 bucks a week and live in terror of the knowledge that I could wake up tomorrow and the floor could crumble out from under me and I would be back to square one. My father doesn't care, my mom doesn't grasp the situation and is too busy enjoying life being liberated from my father, my grandparents are aged an just think I made the wrong choices, my other grandparents are dead, my aunt cares and helps all she can but she has her own life and her own fires to put out....so all I have is you guys. This is my final call for help. I'm not really sure that I mean all that much, or that me trying to climb into some kind of normal life really has much of a point anymore if Furries aren't in it.
____
Also, please understand this:
I'm not tech savy because poverty does not afford the luxury of free time to learn such things.
I'm not video game savy because poverty does not afford the luxury of free time to play such things endlessly.
I'm not music savy because I find the music of today to lack in being able to relate to my struggles in poverty. Older music has a lot of anger, rage, and desire to fix things that todays "dance dance yeah yeah yeah" pop doesn't have.
I'm not savy on films or TV because poverty does not afford the time to watch such things as a following.
I don't have many possesions because, well, self explanitory. I can't afford the games, and movies, and shows, and music, ect ect.
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to healthy friendships. I think I really only ever had one.
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to how to have healthy romantic relationships, or even how to flirt with someone. I had no model growing up. Love was equated with violence and control, and so thus I am overly flirty because I am eager to experience something else, yet extremely naive. I know people have had trouble with this from me in the past. It is really because I am only trying to be loved, or even appreciated, in a way that is not violent and controlling.. I just don't know how to ask properly.
I'm politically savy because you need politics to beat Poverty
I'm responsible because you need to be able to manage yourself to escape poverty.
I'm serious, because there has not been much joy in my life.
I'm suspicious because most people who I was told I should trust hurt me, and those outside the family circle assumed that family doesn't hurt.
I'm cynical because my life has not afforded optimism
I'm probably suffering from some form of shock or PTSD type something or another as a result of my abuse
I'm bookish, because poverty and abuse does not afford life experiences.
I'm more knowledgeable about places across the world than my own back yard because I was never allowed to explore it.
I tear up easily, because it was instilled in me that I should feel immense shame for my existence, and so I take things personally and much stronger than they are intended.
Please don't chide me for being/not being/not having all these things. Doing so belittles my experience, and suggests that I am deficient, which is a feeling that my parents made sure to beat into me. When I react with wonder to small things you take for granted it is because I literally have never seen it or it has never been within my reach. (i.e. being amazed someone can have more than one of something.)
When I react with chiding derision to things you take for granted, or, especially, like and are a fan of, own, wear, ect, it is not that I really hate it. It is because I am trying to internally justify my lack of it, or ability to access it, own it, ect. By making it something that is flawed, I hate, not cool, bad, ect... It makes it hurt less that I grew up not being able to have or do or wear or own this thing that everyone else I know was able to have.
When I inquire about your finances or question your use of it, please, do not take it personally. It is some quirk of middle-classness I have yet to understand, but when I do such I am not invading your privacy or intending to judge you, I am just literally amazed that someone has such amounts to their possession and amazed that they are able to make and control it. It comes from my amazement that such things exist, not from my prying into your affairs. If I pipe up when you talk about how you are going to use it, it is not out of passing judgement, but out of an instinct to protect it and you, as growing up, I had very little, and no protection.
I think that about covers it....I need hugs from time to time, and to be told that the old painful part of my life is over now...or at least that I have the power, and the support, to end it.
Would All The People Who Support Me
Posted 11 years ago...And I mean TRUELY support me, not just watch to see what I do, kindly comment on this journal.
I could use some positivity right now. Most of you guys know where I have been the past 8 months, and how I have been living for the past two years. I've seen friends surpass me and succeed in their endeavors while I struggle to build a life before I should have to. Its hard to keep going and some mornings when I wake up I wonder why I should even bother getting out of bed. But I need this Fandom when I wake up. I wouldn't be able to keep going if it wasn't for watching the amazing things this Fandom has been able to accomplish in its short time. I'm struggling to live a life that most people will never have to lead, and no one should ever have to leave, and as I slowly remove my real family from my existence I hope it can be replaced with a Furrier one. But sometimes I need some encouragement. Someone to signal that I do have a reason to get up. Strangely I still feel like an outcast in this Fandom. I still feel very peripheral, like I'm talked to when its convenient. I've tried asking people to hang out, I've invited people to just show up at my door but it never happens. I don't listen to the music people listen too, I don't watch the movies, I don't have an encyclopedia of artists in my head... My Fursona still isn't set in stone after 7 years in this Fandom, and even living in OC its still hard to find someone who wants to just go do random stuff with.
My life over the past two years has not left much opportunity to do much else but survive. Most of the time was spent trying to desperately put out the fires that comes with poverty, and thank god the worst I ever encountered was some drug addict room mates and some lazy ones. I had to throw a lot of friendship opportunities away because of this poverty, and while all of my friends still live at home, have the car their parents gave them, and get to work a part time job and be happy I am out here moving every three months, living with drug addicts because I have no other place to go, the inability to make money because of the lack of permanence, until recently no motorized transportation, and no family that could or cared to do anything about it except for my wonderful aunt who is sacrificing her happiness and comfort for me. While friends of mine get to go out and have fun every night, and come home and play video games I get to spend my day figuring out how to get from point A to point B to some some crisis, while juggling 5 others, with no insurance, no income but my aunt, no work, no stability, and no time. I don't blame anyone for not having my problems...but it makes me easily passed by because I can not keep up.
So please, it's getting really hard to keep on going without someone to throw some support my way, even if that is just a phone call. I try and try and try to put myself out there, to keep up, to stay afloat with the dream that some day I will be satisfied and CAN just go out every night and have the life that all the rest of the 21 year olds I know have, instead of trying to figure out how to live off 20 bucks a week and live in terror of the knowledge that I could wake up tomorrow and the floor could crumble out from under me and I would be back to square one. My father doesn't care, my mom doesn't grasp the situation and is too busy enjoying life being liberated from my father, my grandparents are aged an just think I made the wrong choices, my other grandparents are dead, my aunt cares and helps all she can but she has her own life and her own fires to put out....so all I have is you guys. This is my final call for help. I'm not really sure that I mean all that much, or that me trying to climb into some kind of normal life really has much of a point anymore if Furries aren't in it.
I could use some positivity right now. Most of you guys know where I have been the past 8 months, and how I have been living for the past two years. I've seen friends surpass me and succeed in their endeavors while I struggle to build a life before I should have to. Its hard to keep going and some mornings when I wake up I wonder why I should even bother getting out of bed. But I need this Fandom when I wake up. I wouldn't be able to keep going if it wasn't for watching the amazing things this Fandom has been able to accomplish in its short time. I'm struggling to live a life that most people will never have to lead, and no one should ever have to leave, and as I slowly remove my real family from my existence I hope it can be replaced with a Furrier one. But sometimes I need some encouragement. Someone to signal that I do have a reason to get up. Strangely I still feel like an outcast in this Fandom. I still feel very peripheral, like I'm talked to when its convenient. I've tried asking people to hang out, I've invited people to just show up at my door but it never happens. I don't listen to the music people listen too, I don't watch the movies, I don't have an encyclopedia of artists in my head... My Fursona still isn't set in stone after 7 years in this Fandom, and even living in OC its still hard to find someone who wants to just go do random stuff with.
My life over the past two years has not left much opportunity to do much else but survive. Most of the time was spent trying to desperately put out the fires that comes with poverty, and thank god the worst I ever encountered was some drug addict room mates and some lazy ones. I had to throw a lot of friendship opportunities away because of this poverty, and while all of my friends still live at home, have the car their parents gave them, and get to work a part time job and be happy I am out here moving every three months, living with drug addicts because I have no other place to go, the inability to make money because of the lack of permanence, until recently no motorized transportation, and no family that could or cared to do anything about it except for my wonderful aunt who is sacrificing her happiness and comfort for me. While friends of mine get to go out and have fun every night, and come home and play video games I get to spend my day figuring out how to get from point A to point B to some some crisis, while juggling 5 others, with no insurance, no income but my aunt, no work, no stability, and no time. I don't blame anyone for not having my problems...but it makes me easily passed by because I can not keep up.
So please, it's getting really hard to keep on going without someone to throw some support my way, even if that is just a phone call. I try and try and try to put myself out there, to keep up, to stay afloat with the dream that some day I will be satisfied and CAN just go out every night and have the life that all the rest of the 21 year olds I know have, instead of trying to figure out how to live off 20 bucks a week and live in terror of the knowledge that I could wake up tomorrow and the floor could crumble out from under me and I would be back to square one. My father doesn't care, my mom doesn't grasp the situation and is too busy enjoying life being liberated from my father, my grandparents are aged an just think I made the wrong choices, my other grandparents are dead, my aunt cares and helps all she can but she has her own life and her own fires to put out....so all I have is you guys. This is my final call for help. I'm not really sure that I mean all that much, or that me trying to climb into some kind of normal life really has much of a point anymore if Furries aren't in it.
Why Do We Still Use This Drama Filled Admin System?
Posted 11 years agoWhy has no one come up with a better system for internet administration than "The biggest douche who sucks dick the best gets to be king of the playground till everyone gets tired of his shit and go finds a new one?"
I Wanna do somethng fantasticaly Furry and productive!
Posted 11 years agoAnd then FA porn says "NOPE!"
My life story, by HemmsFox
My life story, by HemmsFox
So Many New Watchers!
Posted 11 years agoWow! I got people watching me all of a sudden! People I watched first but hey its something right? <3 Thanks!
Now for watching me I'll give you guys this. Would you care for some tea?:
Now for watching me I'll give you guys this. Would you care for some tea?:
My Eleven Ideals
Posted 11 years ago1. A Furry should not harm another Furry for any reason or.through any means intentional.
2. All Furries are kin. We are of the same culture no matter where we are, who we are, or what we are. One Fandom, always.
3. A Furry has a duty to defend the Fandom and our way of living against those forces which do not put the future in our favor.
4. A Furry has a duty to uphold the virtues our Fandom stands upon in their own personal life, according to their interpretation.
5. A Furry should put Furries and the Fandom first in friends, fame, and fortune.
6. A Furry should treat our cultural works of art and institutions with incredible respect and reverence.
7. A Furry should never pass up an opportunity to experiment or explore themselves and the world around them.
8. Every Furry should create in some fashion, weather that be in art, society, or character.
9. A Furry should embrace difference and diversity in their life and the lives of others, holding for themselves their limits, and not press them upon the lives of others.
10. Every Furry should love, and love deeply and passionately.
11. A Furry should forgive the tresspasses done to them, and forgive themselves for the tresspasses done to others.
2. All Furries are kin. We are of the same culture no matter where we are, who we are, or what we are. One Fandom, always.
3. A Furry has a duty to defend the Fandom and our way of living against those forces which do not put the future in our favor.
4. A Furry has a duty to uphold the virtues our Fandom stands upon in their own personal life, according to their interpretation.
5. A Furry should put Furries and the Fandom first in friends, fame, and fortune.
6. A Furry should treat our cultural works of art and institutions with incredible respect and reverence.
7. A Furry should never pass up an opportunity to experiment or explore themselves and the world around them.
8. Every Furry should create in some fashion, weather that be in art, society, or character.
9. A Furry should embrace difference and diversity in their life and the lives of others, holding for themselves their limits, and not press them upon the lives of others.
10. Every Furry should love, and love deeply and passionately.
11. A Furry should forgive the tresspasses done to them, and forgive themselves for the tresspasses done to others.
I was just given 30 days notice.
Posted 11 years agoWell... here we are again. Forced to move again to a place I don't really know with people I don't really know, from people I don't really know.
For those of you who don't know, two years ago me and my parents were evicted from our house because my father's paranoia, unwillingness to work, and side effects from past drug use caught up with him and my school grants could no longer pay our rent. We lived with my grandparents for a year, then when I had enough and realized I didn't have to stick with my fathers abuse I lived with my aunt for a year after my other grandmother died. Then that got too expensive and I rented a room, with a drug addict and her son, and after I couldn't take her behavior anymore I moved again into the place I am now with three people who are nice, friendly, but we have nothing in common. Now one of their family members lost their house, and I was just given 30 days notice. I have no family I can go live with. My mom left my dad and is renting a room too. As is my aunt. My Family has been obliterated by my fathers behavior, and I am just being shuffled from place to place.
Here's the thing... I don't want to move again. I don't want to just go rent another room because it isn't permanent. It's unstable, you don't know the situation you are in until it is too late, and it doesn't seem to last long. At this point I have so few things that I could live anywhere, but I just...I'm tired. I want a family. It doesn't even have to be MY family I just want to live with people I know. I want to live with my mother, or my aunt, or my own but that's completely unaffordable. I am considering moving to a place like Seattle, or the outskirts of it, but I am in the middle of my last semester of community college. No way in hell am I transferring in this mess.of a situation I am in. So... if I can't live with my mother, or my aunt again, I want to live with Furries. Please, dear god, that is all I want. I could live in a broom closet for all I care if I lived with Furries. Someone who understands what I do, what I say, how I think, and what I am into. I don't want to just shift rooms about again just to leave in another three months. Idealy I want to finish the semester and move on.
SO PLEASE if there are any Furries in the orange county area that could let me rent a room, please, please, let me rent it from you. Preferably near Costa Mesa but I don't care anymore. I can pay the rent. I just need the familiarity and security.
For those of you who don't know, two years ago me and my parents were evicted from our house because my father's paranoia, unwillingness to work, and side effects from past drug use caught up with him and my school grants could no longer pay our rent. We lived with my grandparents for a year, then when I had enough and realized I didn't have to stick with my fathers abuse I lived with my aunt for a year after my other grandmother died. Then that got too expensive and I rented a room, with a drug addict and her son, and after I couldn't take her behavior anymore I moved again into the place I am now with three people who are nice, friendly, but we have nothing in common. Now one of their family members lost their house, and I was just given 30 days notice. I have no family I can go live with. My mom left my dad and is renting a room too. As is my aunt. My Family has been obliterated by my fathers behavior, and I am just being shuffled from place to place.
Here's the thing... I don't want to move again. I don't want to just go rent another room because it isn't permanent. It's unstable, you don't know the situation you are in until it is too late, and it doesn't seem to last long. At this point I have so few things that I could live anywhere, but I just...I'm tired. I want a family. It doesn't even have to be MY family I just want to live with people I know. I want to live with my mother, or my aunt, or my own but that's completely unaffordable. I am considering moving to a place like Seattle, or the outskirts of it, but I am in the middle of my last semester of community college. No way in hell am I transferring in this mess.of a situation I am in. So... if I can't live with my mother, or my aunt again, I want to live with Furries. Please, dear god, that is all I want. I could live in a broom closet for all I care if I lived with Furries. Someone who understands what I do, what I say, how I think, and what I am into. I don't want to just shift rooms about again just to leave in another three months. Idealy I want to finish the semester and move on.
SO PLEASE if there are any Furries in the orange county area that could let me rent a room, please, please, let me rent it from you. Preferably near Costa Mesa but I don't care anymore. I can pay the rent. I just need the familiarity and security.
BLFC Meme Question MySpace Type Thing
Posted 11 years agoI uh.... I've never done this before! Stolen from 
swaggyaces
Convention Name:
Biggest Little Fur Con
Website:
http://www.biggestlittlefurcon.org/
Transportation type:
I will be riding in
hotrodwolf1989 's Wasteland Truck through the Mojave Wasteland.
Hotel you're staying at:
Grand Sierra Resort and Casino
Dates:
I will be getting in Thursday afternoon and will be back whenever the wolf and coyote want to go.
Rooming with:
greaseyote hotrodwolf1989
Gender:
Male
How tall are you:
5'5
Description (out of suit):
Suave
Fursuit(s):
HemmsFox!
Who you will be with a majority of the time:
EVERYONE
Are you cliquey:
Nope Nope Nope! We are all Furries.
Main purpose for attending:
Because it is an amazing and successful con that holds a ton of promise! Its the cheapest con EVER!
Where you usually eat:
Ummm....
Parties:
The con IS the party!
Fursuiting:
YUPYUPYUP!
Panels and Events:
I'm so excited to see what kinds of things they have there!
Daily activities:
Flirting
Nightly Activities:
Oh, you know, ....Stuff...... <3
What time I usually go to bed and get up:
What is sleep?
Do you talk out of suit:
Well duh.
Do you talk in suit:
Moving jaw and everything!
Rules of engagement out of suit:
I'll probably engage you first~
Rules of engagements in suit:
HUG ME!
How far is too far:
The Moon.
Can I talk to you:
Sing to me.
Can I tag along with you:
Let me know you are tagging along.
Can I give you hugs or snuggles?
Duh!
Can I dance with you:
Oh my...
Can I buy you a drink:
I don't really drink.
Can I buy you things:
ALL THE THINGS!
Best communication medium to reach you:
949 205 3554 <3
swaggyacesConvention Name:
Biggest Little Fur Con
Website:
http://www.biggestlittlefurcon.org/
Transportation type:
I will be riding in
hotrodwolf1989 's Wasteland Truck through the Mojave Wasteland.Hotel you're staying at:
Grand Sierra Resort and Casino
Dates:
I will be getting in Thursday afternoon and will be back whenever the wolf and coyote want to go.
Rooming with:
greaseyote hotrodwolf1989Gender:
Male
How tall are you:
5'5
Description (out of suit):
Suave
Fursuit(s):
HemmsFox!
Who you will be with a majority of the time:
EVERYONE
Are you cliquey:
Nope Nope Nope! We are all Furries.
Main purpose for attending:
Because it is an amazing and successful con that holds a ton of promise! Its the cheapest con EVER!
Where you usually eat:
Ummm....
Parties:
The con IS the party!
Fursuiting:
YUPYUPYUP!
Panels and Events:
I'm so excited to see what kinds of things they have there!
Daily activities:
Flirting
Nightly Activities:
Oh, you know, ....Stuff...... <3
What time I usually go to bed and get up:
What is sleep?
Do you talk out of suit:
Well duh.
Do you talk in suit:
Moving jaw and everything!
Rules of engagement out of suit:
I'll probably engage you first~
Rules of engagements in suit:
HUG ME!
How far is too far:
The Moon.
Can I talk to you:
Sing to me.
Can I tag along with you:
Let me know you are tagging along.
Can I give you hugs or snuggles?
Duh!
Can I dance with you:
Oh my...
Can I buy you a drink:
I don't really drink.
Can I buy you things:
ALL THE THINGS!
Best communication medium to reach you:
949 205 3554 <3
