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I was born on February 11, 1994 to a Jewish family. As a kid, I was always different. Because of my Judaism, I celebrated biblical Old Testament holidays as opposed to Christmas and Easter. But also at the age of 3 I was diagnosed with high functioning autism, which impaired my social skills and I also had to be put in special education since I learned differently from other kids. With it however came special gifts, such as the ability to write proficiently. And I learned to read when I was only three.
Among my favorite things as a kid were video games and animated films with anthropomorphic animals (such as Disney, Don Bluth, etc). Sonic 1 on Sega Genesis was my first video game. Then we got GameCube for Sonic Mega Collection and Mario games. Both franchises contained some animal stuff. When I hit adolescence, I became fascinated with dragons, which began with Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle. And I have loved dragons ever since.
When I was 16 I discovered the furry fandom, a fandom of people that are all interested in anthropomorphic animals. With it came ups and downs. I made some friends, but during this time I also felt really depressed and got caught up in pornography with no remorse.
My first exposure to the Gospel was in 2012, when Christian friends online preached the Gospel to me. At this time however, I didn't feel ready. It felt like too much pressure. So I rejected it at the time.
I would keep resisting until I got a job at a Goodwill warehouse in 2014. At the same time, a Christian bookstore opened across the street. I found myself wandering in there time to time, and the owner and employees of the store witnessed to me with love and compassion. I got to see that there were loving Christians out there. Over time, I finally opened my eyes and saw there was something to Christianity. In July of 2014, I got down on my knees and accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and allowed him to change me from the inside out. Since then, my life was never the same. I started following Jesus and I went to church every Sunday and participated in church activities like Bible studies.
In January of 2016, inspiration struck me. I had the idea to create a unique Christian YouTube channel. And so, I created Godly Dragon Reviews and Apologetics, a Christian preaching and teaching channel with a dragon as a mascot. I wanted to use my skills and favorite things to preach the Gospel and change the world. It hit some rough roads and snags along the way due to disapproval from peers, but now it is the big ministry that it is today. In 2019, the ministry has been renamed to The Godly Dragon.
This profile is where I post art I've commissioned. I'm also writing a story called The Dragonboy Prophecy, which is a fantasy story about dragons with subtle Christian elements!
That's my testimony, and how The Godly Dragon came to be. God bless, everyone!
Christian-Furs
This artist is proudly affiliated with The Character Consultancy
I was born on February 11, 1994 to a Jewish family. As a kid, I was always different. Because of my Judaism, I celebrated biblical Old Testament holidays as opposed to Christmas and Easter. But also at the age of 3 I was diagnosed with high functioning autism, which impaired my social skills and I also had to be put in special education since I learned differently from other kids. With it however came special gifts, such as the ability to write proficiently. And I learned to read when I was only three.
Among my favorite things as a kid were video games and animated films with anthropomorphic animals (such as Disney, Don Bluth, etc). Sonic 1 on Sega Genesis was my first video game. Then we got GameCube for Sonic Mega Collection and Mario games. Both franchises contained some animal stuff. When I hit adolescence, I became fascinated with dragons, which began with Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle. And I have loved dragons ever since.
When I was 16 I discovered the furry fandom, a fandom of people that are all interested in anthropomorphic animals. With it came ups and downs. I made some friends, but during this time I also felt really depressed and got caught up in pornography with no remorse.
My first exposure to the Gospel was in 2012, when Christian friends online preached the Gospel to me. At this time however, I didn't feel ready. It felt like too much pressure. So I rejected it at the time.
I would keep resisting until I got a job at a Goodwill warehouse in 2014. At the same time, a Christian bookstore opened across the street. I found myself wandering in there time to time, and the owner and employees of the store witnessed to me with love and compassion. I got to see that there were loving Christians out there. Over time, I finally opened my eyes and saw there was something to Christianity. In July of 2014, I got down on my knees and accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and allowed him to change me from the inside out. Since then, my life was never the same. I started following Jesus and I went to church every Sunday and participated in church activities like Bible studies.
In January of 2016, inspiration struck me. I had the idea to create a unique Christian YouTube channel. And so, I created Godly Dragon Reviews and Apologetics, a Christian preaching and teaching channel with a dragon as a mascot. I wanted to use my skills and favorite things to preach the Gospel and change the world. It hit some rough roads and snags along the way due to disapproval from peers, but now it is the big ministry that it is today. In 2019, the ministry has been renamed to The Godly Dragon.
This profile is where I post art I've commissioned. I'm also writing a story called The Dragonboy Prophecy, which is a fantasy story about dragons with subtle Christian elements!
That's my testimony, and how The Godly Dragon came to be. God bless, everyone!
Christian-Furs
This artist is proudly affiliated with The Character Consultancy
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Counter rant on a backstabbing ex-friend (G)
a year ago
Hello everyone. In case you didn't notice, I've been extra moody lately and there's a reason for that, the reason being that I lost an internet friend that I had known for close to 14 years, back in spring 2011 or so. I will not mention any names in this though. This person knows who he is, and feel free to send me a private note if you know who it might be.
A month ago I was told that a mutual friend of me and him tattled to him about how I said that he was emotional and sensitive and how he hates the Spyro x Cynder fanbase. As a result, this person betrayed me by blocking me on Discord and DA and then making journals against me behind my back. I may have said that this person was emotional and sensitive to our mutual, and I did not anticipate that the mutual would tell on me. However, I wish that this person had confronted me about being called emotional and asked me what I meant instead of posting negative journals about me behind my back.
After I investigated this, I discovered something strange. First he wrote one journal against me in the beginning of November, saying he was going to remove my dragon sona from his Dragon Heroes fanfiction and start over from scratch because he discovered something about me he didn't like, yet he didn't block me on social media then. He still talked to me once on Discord. Then I found out that he posted yet another journal against me on New Year's Eve, stating explicitly that the mutual of ours told him that I called him emotional, and from there assumed that the reason I called him that is because I like Donald Trump and just assumed that I would betray him first and that I was outright mocking him for being sensitive like the Spyro x Cynder and Silver x Blaze "fanbrats" he complains so much about. Whatever my reasons might have been, it was not because of Donald Trump. I don't really care for shippings that much and I just don't think it's that big a deal, and I would have just ignored those trolls. Whether he likes it or not, I have thicker skin than I used to, and if he's right about anything, it's that I am not the same person he knew years ago.
I was willing to apologize to him for inadvertently calling him emotional and giving him the wrong idea about me. I was also willing to apologize to him for being dishonest with him about what I think about Spyro x Cynder and about religion and politics. I am a reasonable person that is willing to talk things out, and it is also okay that he doesn't like Donald Trump or conservative ideas. I am willing to agree to disagree. But the fact that he made two journals against me, one before he blocked me and one after he blocked me, makes me think that he premeditated a plan to get rid of me all because I sneezed out something he didn't like. He's done this to other people too, who I won't divulge the names of.
Looking back, I then realized that this person is an adult man child. He is almost 38 years old yet mooches off his mother and grandmother to stay alive and doesn't make any effort to get a job or pursue higher education to get a better job. I also learned that this whole time he has been an exploitative user for personal gain by trying to get art for free, such as asking others to buy commissions for him without paying them back. Also, he tries to make his fanfiction stuff canon and official, despite the fact that it is literally fanfiction, therefore it cannot be canon and official, such as the characters' zodiac signs and such and their personalities.
If this person is reading this, here is my advice to him: Find a real job, and perhaps do art and story commissions for some cash instead of mooching off others for free stuff, and don't you dare throw more friends of yours, whether old or new, under the bus or in the trash just because they have different opinions and views than you. Also, do not drag the friends you still have into this conflict and make them take sides, because that is not fair to them. Otherwise you will end up being all alone with nobody to blame but yourself.
My final words will be told in song, one made by Simple Plan and one song that I made myself. God bless everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMLx5eN_3UU
https://denofdragons.bandcamp.com/t.....less-worthless
A month ago I was told that a mutual friend of me and him tattled to him about how I said that he was emotional and sensitive and how he hates the Spyro x Cynder fanbase. As a result, this person betrayed me by blocking me on Discord and DA and then making journals against me behind my back. I may have said that this person was emotional and sensitive to our mutual, and I did not anticipate that the mutual would tell on me. However, I wish that this person had confronted me about being called emotional and asked me what I meant instead of posting negative journals about me behind my back.
After I investigated this, I discovered something strange. First he wrote one journal against me in the beginning of November, saying he was going to remove my dragon sona from his Dragon Heroes fanfiction and start over from scratch because he discovered something about me he didn't like, yet he didn't block me on social media then. He still talked to me once on Discord. Then I found out that he posted yet another journal against me on New Year's Eve, stating explicitly that the mutual of ours told him that I called him emotional, and from there assumed that the reason I called him that is because I like Donald Trump and just assumed that I would betray him first and that I was outright mocking him for being sensitive like the Spyro x Cynder and Silver x Blaze "fanbrats" he complains so much about. Whatever my reasons might have been, it was not because of Donald Trump. I don't really care for shippings that much and I just don't think it's that big a deal, and I would have just ignored those trolls. Whether he likes it or not, I have thicker skin than I used to, and if he's right about anything, it's that I am not the same person he knew years ago.
I was willing to apologize to him for inadvertently calling him emotional and giving him the wrong idea about me. I was also willing to apologize to him for being dishonest with him about what I think about Spyro x Cynder and about religion and politics. I am a reasonable person that is willing to talk things out, and it is also okay that he doesn't like Donald Trump or conservative ideas. I am willing to agree to disagree. But the fact that he made two journals against me, one before he blocked me and one after he blocked me, makes me think that he premeditated a plan to get rid of me all because I sneezed out something he didn't like. He's done this to other people too, who I won't divulge the names of.
Looking back, I then realized that this person is an adult man child. He is almost 38 years old yet mooches off his mother and grandmother to stay alive and doesn't make any effort to get a job or pursue higher education to get a better job. I also learned that this whole time he has been an exploitative user for personal gain by trying to get art for free, such as asking others to buy commissions for him without paying them back. Also, he tries to make his fanfiction stuff canon and official, despite the fact that it is literally fanfiction, therefore it cannot be canon and official, such as the characters' zodiac signs and such and their personalities.
If this person is reading this, here is my advice to him: Find a real job, and perhaps do art and story commissions for some cash instead of mooching off others for free stuff, and don't you dare throw more friends of yours, whether old or new, under the bus or in the trash just because they have different opinions and views than you. Also, do not drag the friends you still have into this conflict and make them take sides, because that is not fair to them. Otherwise you will end up being all alone with nobody to blame but yourself.
My final words will be told in song, one made by Simple Plan and one song that I made myself. God bless everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMLx5eN_3UU
https://denofdragons.bandcamp.com/t.....less-worthless
User Profile
Accepting Trades
No Accepting Commissions
Yes Character Species
Golden Dragon
Favorite Music
Contemporary Christian, Rock, Alternative, Heavy Metal
Favorite TV Shows & Movies
Dragon movies, Marvel movies, Jurassic World, Godzilla movies, War Room, Disney movies
Favorite Games
Mario, Pokemon, Sonic, Soul Calibur, Destiny 2, Halo, Spyro, Monster Hunter
Favorite Gaming Platforms
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC
Favorite Animals
Dragon (of course), T-Rex, Velociraptor, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Alligator, Lizard, Iguana, Gryphon, Turtle/Tortoise, Tiger
Favorite Site
Facebook, Youtube, Furaffinity, Wattpad
Favorite Foods & Drinks
Italian food
Favorite Quote
If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first-Jesus
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