I'm sure that I don't have plenty of wasting time, but I feel like talking about my (recent) past, why I found this community and make this account and Twitter and others.

I have been... a furry for years. I guess it is at least 8 years. I have been enjoying furry arts and novels in pixiv, the largest art social media in Japan. I also have known some Japanese furries, but I didn't involve in furry community so much. So I was a guy who just enjoys furry-related artworks and novels made in Japan. Also, my biggest interest was (and maybe is, too) programming contests, including some participation as a Japan's delegation team.

It is often said that competitive programmers with 97~99% percentile performance are really easy to get jobs or internships. I believed the comment, especially when I was qualified for Facebook Hacker Cup 2015 championship and I went to the headquarter of the company. It turned out, that my tech skills were enough to get in those companies. Tech skills were, yeah.

Actually, I wasn't offered by any companies outside Japan, and then I unwillingly worked as an internship in Tokyo (they offered me all at once). No doubt it was because I couldn't speak English well that I wasn't hired in the US. So I decided to work hard on improving language skills to get jobs overseas (because I don't want to remain in Japan forever) (*).

I'm not that bad, or good at reading or listening to the language. I know grammar, I can read well, and I can understand what people are talking about well. Most of the college students who passed the entrance exams are like that. But here I came upon the problem: how could I practice speaking English while none of my friends could? and I'm sure I couldn't keep conversation with those who don't share favorite topics, so how should I do? Then I remembered my furryness. I made a Twitter account just for furry life, started some furry medias and joined in some conversations. I bought several Kyell Gold's novels (which I love the most!) and start memorizing SAT/GRE level vocabulary for reading novels comfortably.

And I got another bad result on speaking exam.

looooooooool.

(*) I tried another time after participating in Distributed Code Jam 2016 Finals, held by Google. The result was not quite different. I couldn't get an offer overseas, I could get an offer in Japan, and it was really unsatisfying for me.