For the last couple Decembers, I kept forgetting to remind myself that December the 28th is my FurAffinity “anniversary”. Since this isn’t necessarily a “big one” like 15 or 20, I’ll not go too deeply in this journal, but it would still be fun to write at least something.

I remember I joined FA, not because I was necessarily really into furry art, but, because it was smaller and more intimate than DeviantArt, which at the time had grown rather large. My art was welcomed on here very quickly, and it wasn’t long before I was drawing furry art full time.

I still use and will continue to use, for as long as I’m allowed, FurAffinity's original, classic layout, the one I remember from the first day I signed up in 2008. While the future continues to change all around us and transform into something that's more and more frightening and unfamiliar, I’m glad at least FA is still just the way it was, at least for me.

In the last seventeen years, and especially the last five, FA has done really good by me, and I’m deeply grateful it’s still around.

I keep saying “maybe this will be the year I really get back into art.” I really want to, but I’m also still letting the deeper parts of my brain let me know when the time is right. It feels close, and when it happens, I’ll definitely be posting it on here.