How did you get into the fandom and where it take you?

[lunar_prodigy]

A decade and a  half of being a furry! Whoot!.  Its about time to reflect back at all the bad and the good.  Here is my story of furry, what's yours?

HAPPY FUR YEARS!



Lets see I found the furry fandom through a combination of a childhood interest in drawing, being immersed in north island nature, and a healthy hobby in videogames and movies. This led me to an odd unexplainable fixation on cool animation and anthro characters, like jon talbain, which farther led me to the internet and jen sengs art from dark stalkers.


From there I was quite hooked only I had no clue what this thing called furry was. The more I learned the more I was intrigued though I was nearly scared away by a few of the aspects I discovered. The strange has always fascinated me but in the beginning it was mostly that id found a group of very talented artists who drew werewolves. My favourite I believe back then was Jamie Sidor.  To heck with all the cute stuff, I loved werewolves that could rip your face off, but may be so evil they might find better uses for you first.


Thus started a fixation on evil wolfies mwa ha ha ha. I guess we all love a good bad guy. I always loved the joker and kefka from ff6, and later some silly comic relief characters like tobe and a few crazy ones like sam neil in event horizon. Of course such things were highly unusual for my parents so for 3 years I covertly invaded the computer the second they left the house and used floppy disks to print cool looking werewolf arts on school computers. Te he.


Over the years I found it fun to collect various videogame werewolf art from magazines , videogame and  animation. This continued until I moved out to collage and bought my first computer at age 18. I am nearly 28 now.  Gosh was I bashful when I logged on, free of parent control and found that most of the furry fandom was into sex.  HA ha ha I was so timid and had many eye bleach moments when I was younger, ill tell you ^_^. Though im sure we all have. Lol.


At any rate. After meeting several gay men online, several kick as female artists, and several people who pretended to be the opposite sex or who you never knew what sex they were.... I was hooked. It took a few years and several people trying to turn me gay with furry art and rp to kind of just accept things the way they were. I was a straight guy who was as gay online as the best of us ~smile~.


I don't know when and how it  happened but one day I learned how to completely ignore my shock over porn for simple fact that the awesome wolfies were just to awesome to ignore. I guess this level of desensitization to naughty bits actually fuelled my asexual blindness to porn. These days I hardly notice there's even naughty bits in a picture cause im so focused on art quality and cuteness of the wuffies. It makes me laugh my ass off when my roommate constantly tries to freak me out with porn. I turn around and say " ive been on the net for many years and seen many strange things that I don't think anything could disturb me these days". Lol.


Art aside i have always drawn clean art, never porn spare 3 or so times when really close friends either dared me or begged me or I was drunk and they drew with me gah.. xD  Speaking of art this leads me to the next great thing about furry that happened tome.
I found a graphical chat named wolfhome within less than a year of being online. From there I met a bunch of amazing people, to which sadly only a handful I still keep in touch with. So many old friends of the past I miss, its like another lifetime; but a frew have been friends or mentors for over a decade now. Good times all around.


The best part of wolfhome besides the cute feral wolfy avatars drawn by goldenwolf; was the number of artists there. This was the first time I had been exposed to so many artists in one place O_O. it was terrifying. I hardly had the courage to draw and let people see it. And boy did I suck back then. Its amazing when 7 years of drawing will help you improve ^_^. Though im super humble and have a long way to go from here lol.


AT any rate you an pretty much guess what happened. I met furs who draw, I drew, they encouraged me to draw, and so I drew more and more, and started to post stuff, even though it was crap many people encouraged me. Soon I was drawing a lot even though it sucked, and after a huge social network on devintart art I had suddenly  found an entirely new side of me.


I was in military for a few years which didn't work out. The experience really had reprogrammed a lot of my personality and scared me a bit like id lost touch with who I was. Loosing your identity is a very scary experience.  When I came out of military I met a group of friends who quickly became my social circle. These were my best of friends. A few of them still are in great contact with me, others drifted due to changes in busy lives and else wise.


It is here that I encountered possibly the best and the worst furry experience. Or more the most influential for better or worse.  I fell in love with a girl... is not it how it all starts. Here I was totally smitten for someone that was half way across the world, in Australia.  I was such a traditionalist and a hopeless romantic that I could not see the impossibility of such a relationship. Though in some strange way it worked just fine.


She completed me, which was such a great feeling only that it kind of led credit to the fact military had left me incomplete and fractured. It was awesome when it was awesome though and because of her constant daily encouragement and being company to draw with. I suddenly found I was getting the practice I needed to excel. Such drive made me believe in myself greatly as an artist and when she was gone in my life I used this drive to push forward into a career.


Its safe to say I wouldn't be an artist today if not for furry or this single fur. Such am impact on my life even if it ended on a rather bad note.
This is a chapter of my life few know the details of but I will be honest about it here cause I have nothing to be shameful of and I have moved on with my life years ago. In short, everything was going well until tragedy struck my family. My cousin Brandon was in a nearly fatal car accident and in the same accident his girlfriend died.


I've always had such strength to cope with such things due to many deaths in my family and accidents. My own father and sister nearly got killed in a logging accident and car accident that took place two weeks apart from echoer. This was hard cause we didn't  know if he would survive a weak. For a month he was in a coma and when he finally awoke he was nearly mentally retarded. He started to come out of it completely changed until a freak miracle. He had accidently overdosed on some medicine at his bedside and when they pumped his stomach, something happened in his brain and he was back to his old self. By the grace of god.


At any rate the simple story that matters to the furry side of life is to say that; this was the precise reason that my relationship failed.  Watching my cousin loose his girlfriend he loved and was going to become engaged to. He didn't even remember he due to memory loss, and had to relive the loss a few times when the memory would come back and then fade. It was painful like an alzheimer's patient.


The experience left me terrified that I would loose holly some day in a similar way and this made me repel back from her. But the more distant I got the more I felt I couldn't survive without her so when I was around her I smothered her and overprotected her. This lead to a break up that at first seemed it needed to be done, but had many consequences.


For one my best friend on earth sided with her and the two dropped from my life entirely to go live happy ever after posting nothing but the best furry art reminding me I wasn't a part of their lives anymore. But to rub it in, I had many times suggested her coming to move over to Canada and she always made it seem impossible. Within a month she started to date her best friend in the world who was from prince George and hated my guts, but the two got married within a year. WOW. Only way I got over that fiscal was to label it as young love and move on.


If all that wasn't a insane thing to go through, the next few years would become some of the most mentally trying of my sanity ever lol.
And move on I did. I dove right back into the furry fandom lol. Only this time my best friend in my x girlfriend, was replaced by a friend I had met through her named fox. After a few months of this guy becoming my new best buddy, I had just started my new art school, and I just met the first fur in person I had ever met.


Life was good. And then wow... I never expected what happened next lol.
I was a straight man and suddenly out of nowhere, fox confessed his secret love for me. O_O. Um wow! I almost didn't know how to react but because I was so lost with rebound syndrome, I fell for it ha ha ha.  What an awkward time in my life. This permanently screwed with my self identity as I didn't know if I was gay or not and my dominant extroverted personality flipped in reverse and its taken years to return to normal lol.


Along the way though I've had a ton of awesome furry times. The two years I was in art school I had a blast and started to believe I could do art for a living. I practiced my ass off while making a number of furry projects and on the side drawing up a storm online.


There was never a more productive time in my life for random furry art uploads to furr affinity lol. I suddenly got the attention of over 300 people though many had followed me from devinartart. I was completely freaked out by it because I sucked compared to my x girlfriend and was so focused on how much I sucked and needed to improve to get into animation school that I forgot one simple thing. To the average joe I looked rather decent even if to this day I still cant see my own talent through the trees.


Actually this is really a simple way to explain what happened next. In short  I moved to Vancouver, and was completely chewed up by animation school but I stuck with it and graduated. Though I was a bit thrown into 2 years of post grad depression because I have a long way to go in my art skills still.


However the best three things to come out of any of the 7 years and $70,000 of art school was 1) a strong determination and passion for constantly working hard to improve myself 2) a variety of skills that even to this day I have greatly overlooked but which are very useful such as film, camera operation film and editing and how to operate small business , sell yourself an artist, or how the corporate art world works.  However the 3) and most important thing I got out of all that school was discovering my true passion in life, storytelling.


Its safe to say that without the furry fandom none of this would have happened at all. Even in the bad things comes the good. I owe my art skill to my x girlfriend who believed in me and got me to sit down and draw up a storm even when I sucked ass. If anything I owe fox my sense of humour in life cause he definitely tested that and expanded it.


SO what happened when I moved to Vancouver. Well.... I got to say... honestly I haven't had the best 6 years relating to furs irl. Its far easier to talk to people online. Sadly I was under a lot of duress because the more I tried to make friends offline, the more I lost touch with friends online.  When I met those first few furs two years before moving here, while jugging an odd gay relationship when I was originally straight. Well a lot of my free time went to my new friends in person, or my new boyfriend online. Unfortunately that introvert extrovert dominant submissive bull crap made me kind of fuck up socially a lot on both fronts.


When I moved here I was looking for a fresh start but when I got here school really stressed the living hell out of me and it didn't help much that my roommate who said he would be there for 2-3 years moved to china within a month after school started, and left me with an expensive apartment when I was living off student loans. It was down right embarrassing to need money from my parents to help me get by monthly just to make my dream of animation school possible.  


I got a warning for all of you furs who move around. AVOID CRAIGSLIST ROOMATES! Te he. I had those for a year and a half and the first lied to me about his job and finances to get free rent for a month. The next were foreigners who sold themselves as high grade collage students and turned out to have no jobs little money and stole from me broke my stuff and partied and had drugs all the time. By the end they were no greater than street junkies.  The next couple was at least a bit better, they came from another province. They apparently assumed when I said "I had a busy life in animation school", meant I lived there for 20 hours a day. So the fact I brought work home, had a social life with friends over or had a lot of animal art on my walls annoyed them. They actually told me " I should have told them I was a furry or they wouldn't have moved in" which is funny cause I never said a word of it and they figured it out by a convention I went to lol ..... wow. Lol XD so I guess even that had something furry in its story ha ha.


About that time I decided that I would move in with furs because " nothing could possibly go wrong with furs  ;)

Well for the most part, it was ok, and liveable, experience, but definitely not the tv show friends. Lasted just less than a year and the tension just grew and grew because I was handling all the finances with the landlord, asked no deposit at all from any fur who lived there cause I was very trustful. Well pretz was frigging amazing t live with I have to say. Im sure a few of you know her very well ^_^.


By the end the friendly atmosphere had turned a bit tense and I was getting my inner clean freak destroyed by the fact that pretz's cat " cluff" was a devil and was pissing on all my furniture, even in my running shoes!
Ha ha .


Well ... I won't go into the year that followed, out of lord voldemort is he who shall not be named lol.
But suficid to say I moved from one situation that seemed bad into a horrible one that I glorified into a safe haven it wasn't.
Nuf said.


But happy to report a happy ending. The last 6 months I have lived with my best friend on earth once again proving the value of furs everywhere ^_^. Freaking amazing.


And that's my entire story of the furry fandom.
15years  of furry

HAPPY FUR YEARS!


These days I'm quietly working on 2 novels and a mini comic promotional material for them I hope to have the writing done by the end of the year. Plus I have a how to film academic book I'm writing and I have a entire film project that I am going up island next month to film in my home town. Quite an exciting time in my life.  But plenty of work on top of a 40 hour full time job over night I work to pay all the bills ^_^.
I am so productive with work ventures, and even have time for some furry fun. Social time with my roommate and my four best friends is a delight. I have lived more in the last fifteen years, than I thought I would have. I have lived happier in 6 months than I have in all the time I've been in Vancouver. And I have never been so productive.


Someday I will be an author with multiple published fantasy works, several academic books, and many films. I just registered and trademarked my first business. I am now an entrepreneur, and I owe it all in some part to the furry fandom. In some strange way you can't ever look bad at the past because otherwise you wouldn't be where you are today.  Such glass is half full sentiment has helped me find a peace in my life I've possibly never had before.  


I have taken the time to tell you my story of furry fandom. Tell me yours. Im sure many of us here would delight in taking the time to read it and I know I will




PS:
On a personal note to local furs who may be confused or misunderstand some recent events.  On Christmas eve my grandmother had a stroke and its with gods good grace she is still here with us on her 89th birthday which was April 10th.  My prayers are with her as I am going up to visit her in may and have been deeply worried about her. With any luck she may live 90 but it seems as though she may not have very long left.  


In January my step father was diagnosed with diabetes and nearly died  chemical shock but was rushed to the hospital and saved with diabetic medicine. A few days after this my aunt passed away from cancer. She had been battling cancer for over a year, it is the same that my grandfather died of , and my other grandmother over 10 years ago. Both my grandmother and aunt have the exact same name and oddly look very familiar. This was quite hard on me as it brought up a lot of memories from 10 years ago. My grandmother I am going up to visit is a cancer survivor.


As a result I have decided to shave my head in her memory.  Since my grandfather died at four , I have always been such a passionate person about the effect cancer has on families. My entire childhood I one day wanted to grow up and cure cancer. Part of that drive is why I got into earth sciences biology and so forth in collage before I switched to art.  For the longest time I felt sad about a lot of things in the world, wars, pollution, and cancer. Always felt I was to small and I couldn't make much a difference.


This experience has given me a lot of new purpose in my life. Family really comes come first and its help me put behind me the past and sprint towards a bright future. One thing I would like to do within the next 5 years is start up a non profit organization in honour of all the family I have lost and my grandmothers triumph over cancer.  I am just one man but one idea can change the world so I hope I truly can make a difference some day.


Taking a glass is half full approach really is a good tactic in life and I only wish that I had been able to make such positive navigational changes in my life sooner. My sudden desire to film spawned out of a desire to video tape my grandmother before her passing and get as much of her life on film. Her stories and what I remember of her, and my home town growing up. If you had of told me months ago I would be filming a movie and investing $5000 and would have a business; I would have laughed.


Who knows what the future brings and I wish the best for what it brings to all of you
Furs really have added a lot of positive magic to my life and I wouldn't be where I am today without all of you. even though I had to suffer quite a few bad times along the way. My father once told me something that has stuck with me. "he has had to start his life over many times but has always found the strength to survive and rebuild" .  I don't know if I have ever been knocked back to zero but it made me realize that a man I nearly written off in life was able to prove himself stronger than many people ive met. Then I can try to be just as strong to. It is that strength that has stuck with me in the worst of times and gotten me through. Optimism that "anything that does not kill me makes me stronger". His spirit and determination that has helped me build something good for myself now but continually work hard to build something great for myself later.


I wish you and your family's good health warmth. Be good  to your family.  Family truly does come first.

[mediar]

Wow, nice novel. For me it was "the CSI" episode. Of course I am not a moron so  investigated it more then just what the show brought into the light. Found out furries are cool and something I was interested in, and blame-o I is here!

[lunar_prodigy]

Wow, nice novel. For me it was "the CSI" episode. Of course I am not a moron so  investigated it more then just what the show brought into the light. Found out furries are cool and something I was interested in, and blame-o I is here!

~ smiles~ well my mother once said "i am a passionate fellow filled with love for life. Most important a great sense of humor, and a voice loud enough to tell the world about it"
Its ironic i am now gearing my my life towards writing novels when clearly i write a mile a minute. of course this has gotten me into equally enough trouble over the years :) ~wink~

te e he if i saw the csi episode back in the day i likely wouldn't have become a furry xD. like shoving naughty stuff in a straight kids face would make him have nightmares. furry orgies and murder oh my! i would of thought as a teen furs were a bunch of homicidal maniacs or something if i had watched csi. thankfully for history's sake csi didn't exist until after i was a fur lol

[Zetta]

Dear god, wall of text D:

For me it was a combination of redwall and a Norwegian guy named kixt who played this old rp game with me and some of my friends, and lived in some town named Hell, (I'm not kidding) who was the only furry out of a server of spiteful and ignorant assholes.
Oh, and the fact I discovered 4chan at the age of 11, that was probably important.

[lunar_prodigy]

Dear god, wall of text D:

For me it was a combination of redwall and a Norwegian guy named kixt who played this old rp game with me and some of my friends, and lived in some town named Hell, (I'm not kidding) who was the only furry out of a server of spiteful and ignorant assholes.
Oh, and the fact I discovered 4chan at the age of 11, that was probably important.

oh gosh xD
that's quite some story. you from Norway? my grandmothers finish Canadian ^_^
isolation is a biotch when trying to meet like minded folks.
te he he 4 chan

[Tony Greyfox]

This nice lady right here was probably one of the big catalysts for me - or at least her creator's other works, along with her. I've always been an animal fan, but I stumbled across some Steve Gallacci comics looking through a price guide and something drew me to it, so I hunted it down and started collecting his material. Loved it, and discovered the newsgroup alt.fan.furry, and that was about it.
I was also a big fan of cartoons of various kinds, and roughly around the same time discovered another newsgroup, alt.tv.animaniacs, and started hanging out with the various mixed nuts who populated that group; most of them were also furries. That was about 16 years ago. I'm still hanging out with the same lot online.

[Zetta]

oh gosh xD
that's quite some story. you from Norway? my grandmothers finish Canadian ^_^
isolation is a biotch when trying to meet like minded folks.
te he he 4 chan

Nope, my family is 4th generation scottish-canadian.
i do have some netherlands-ish or something from there in me.
apparantly my family back in ww1 was up there before scotland, then came here in ww2

[lunar_prodigy]

Nope, my family is 4th generation scottish-canadian.
i do have some netherlands-ish or something from there in me.
apparantly my family back in ww1 was up there before scotland, then came here in ww2

awesome, i am even more Scottish than fin. both my grandparents on my moms side immigrated from Scotland as children and met in Ontario Canada.

[lunar_prodigy]

This nice lady right here was probably one of the big catalysts for me - or at least her creator's other works, along with her. I've always been an animal fan, but I stumbled across some Steve Gallacci comics looking through a price guide and something drew me to it, so I hunted it down and started collecting his material. Loved it, and discovered the newsgroup alt.fan.furry, and that was about it.
I was also a big fan of cartoons of various kinds, and roughly around the same time discovered another newsgroup, alt.tv.animaniacs, and started hanging out with the various mixed nuts who populated that group; most of them were also furries. That was about 16 years ago. I'm still hanging out with the same lot online.

wow you a long timer too then ^_^

[Lt ReiStark]

its 12:22 so
Too long, will read.

The way i got into the furry fandom is by helping N00bies on Writing.com get their story writing skills up to grade, i would just give hints and advice as well as reading through the stories.
i got about 102924802589062589769256890528902 furry storys along the way and i was all pissed off because i was a part time troll on YouTube, i read the stories and became surprised at what some of these young writers did at age 13, so i started to read other furry fiction made by better writers, it evolved until i began to think about the mindset of being half animal, after about 3 months i realised that all through the years i had a whole bunch of furry quirks like always comparing myself as "Sly/smart as a fox" or loving stuffed animals or furry characters in TV shows like Bdaman or movies.
i made a Russian Silver Fox fursona out of the emotions i feel but store up inside, like how i want to show myself being flamboyant more, or that i want to be more gentle. over the past year or so i've started saying im gay in public when asked with a little yay and rainbows, and i act more like a gentleman around who i date.

now i have a fursona of a black fox who dyes the tips of his fur and wears a long jacket with some long shorts. he is a DJ at an underground club that does Techno and Metal, so he fits right in to pump the best tracks. he is also a very good reader who spends all the time he can stand at the book cafe in the back where its darkly lit by a gas fireplace reading romance novels.

[lunar_prodigy]

its 12:22 so
Too long, will read.

The way i got into the furry fandom is by helping N00bies on Writing.com get their story writing skills up to grade, i would just give hints and advice as well as reading through the stories.
i got about 102924802589062589769256890528902 furry storys along the way and i was all pissed off because i was a part time troll on YouTube, i read the stories and became surprised at what some of these young writers did at age 13, so i started to read other furry fiction made by better writers, it evolved until i began to think about the mindset of being half animal, after about 3 months i realised that all through the years i had a whole bunch of furry quirks like always comparing myself as "Sly/smart as a fox" or loving stuffed animals or furry characters in TV shows like Bdaman or movies.
i made a Russian Silver Fox fursona out of the emotions i feel but store up inside, like how i want to show myself being flamboyant more, or that i want to be more gentle. over the past year or so i've started saying im gay in public when asked with a little yay and rainbows, and i act more like a gentleman around who i date.

now i have a fursona of a black fox who dyes the tips of his fur and wears a long jacket with some long shorts. he is a DJ at an underground club that does Techno and Metal, so he fits right in to pump the best tracks. he is also a very good reader who spends all the time he can stand at the book cafe in the back where its darkly lit by a gas fireplace reading romance novels.

ah cool ^_^
i gotta admit i probably owe a lot of my typing speed to chatting with furs but much of my creativity was grown through many roleplay sessions. these days i am lucky if i even get to do such things once a week or even once a month. i miss doing story based roleplay as a wolfy ^_^.

but these days i find it just as fun to write stories about ghost wolves fighting evil spirits. and hopefully getting paid for my works xD

[Brittany-shadowwolf]

My parents know, I started it off with costumes, and cosplay. Then told them about the art.
Told them how Furries are pretty unique there artists. They were just happy to see I had more friends.
Ive been a furry since grade 6. Of course I was a closet furry till grade 9. I found Huskie666's work on Neopets and It kinda led on from there and I fell in love with the fandom. Bla bla, I was such a kid. Grade 9 I met another furry, We were pretty cool. Yelling 'Yiff' down the hall ways. We are no longer friends. She thought furries were just too childish. Anyways I tell people who are curious about it. I don't go around telling people "HEY I'M A FURRY"

My manager knows I'm a furry. She saw that "My weird obsession" episode and she's like "Hey, you know you have the same hobbies as that girl on _____" I reply "yeeeeah. We sort of fall under the same category. Were both furry."

How I got more involved into the fandom:
It was a hot day, I didn't have much to do. So I went to Anime Evolution back in 2009 I believe.
My parents forced me to go. They wanted me to do something other than sit around by myself.
My best friend left me and told me we were no longer friends. Huge boot to the face since she told me on my 17th Birthday. So I was still pretty mopey that NO ONE would come with me to anime Evolution.
Anyways I went, I decided to go in suit. I was then asked by a guy and a girl  if I was a "Furry or a cosplayer".
I heard about the stories of furries getting beaten up. So I was very shy at first, but I soon replied with "I'm a furry" They took me back to there group and thats where I met the others. If It wasnt for Kaji, dragonmanmike, Temrin and Mysti I would have never known about Bcfurries.  I expected to have the worst summer, turned out to be lots of fun.

That's kind of my story. It's kind of badly written. I didn't know where to start.


~~shadowwolf

[Zen]

Anime conventions turn people in furries, I swear ... :X

I'd been looking at furry art for a few years, followed Sabrina Online since near it's start, just kind of perved around the net for a while. Classic "closet fur", and still am to some degree. A couple of years ago I made a friend (yes, just one, forever alone) and I'd notice hints of fandom interests. I had no reason to bring it up, so I didn't. I haven't really been active in the fandom for very long, but I ended up diving headlong into it.

I decided to attend Anime Evolution in 2010 after a two year hiatus, and I talked said suspect-fur-friend into attending. I was at AE all weekend, starting Thursday night, but my friend wasn't there until Saturday, so I decided to check out the "What is Furry" panel while no one was looking. I was one of the back-row people, but ended up talking to pretty much all of the presenters for about an hour after the panel.

The next day, I was with my friend when I ran into one of the furs from the panel. We made a little small talk, then carried on our merry ways for most of the day. In the evening, however, we ran into the same fur from earlier that day. After she left, my other friend turned to me and said "how do you know her?" "well ... see I was at this panel ..." and thus we discussed it to some length.  The two of us ended up hanging out with a few more furs on Sunday, wandering around in the blistering heat as the con slowly fizzled.

After that, I joined the boards here, and convinced that same friend to attend the Fursuit Bowling in September. Since then, I just won't seem to leave. :P

[lunar_prodigy]

My parents know, I started it off with costumes, and cosplay. Then told them about the art.
Told them how Furries are pretty unique there artists. They were just happy to see I had more friends.
Ive been a furry since grade 6. Of course I was a closet furry till grade 9. I found Huskie666's work on Neopets and It kinda led on from there and I fell in love with the fandom. Bla bla, I was such a kid. Grade 9 I met another furry, We were pretty cool. Yelling 'Yiff' down the hall ways. We are no longer friends. She thought furries were just too childish. Anyways I tell people who are curious about it. I don't go around telling people "HEY I'M A FURRY"

My manager knows I'm a furry. She saw that "My weird obsession" episode and she's like "Hey, you know you have the same hobbies as that girl on _____" I reply "yeeeeah. We sort of fall under the same category. Were both furry."

How I got more involved into the fandom:
It was a hot day, I didn't have much to do. So I went to Anime Evolution back in 2009 I believe.
My parents forced me to go. They wanted me to do something other than sit around by myself.
My best friend left me and told me we were no longer friends. Huge boot to the face since she told me on my 17th Birthday. So I was still pretty mopey that NO ONE would come with me to anime Evolution.
Anyways I went, I decided to go in suit. I was then asked by a guy and a girl  if I was a "Furry or a cosplayer".
I heard about the stories of furries getting beaten up. So I was very shy at first, but I soon replied with "I'm a furry" They took me back to there group and thats where I met the others. If It wasnt for Kaji, dragonmanmike, Temrin and Mysti I would have never known about Bcfurries.  I expected to have the worst summer, turned out to be lots of fun.

That's kind of my story. It's kind of badly written. I didn't know where to start.


~~shadowwolf

i remember a few occasions in highschool's where i would observe an artist or two who drew furry stuff but i never had the guts really to say anything. i think once or twice i did and it was cool but way to weird for me cause i didn't know them.

actually i remember there was this one girl who was always at the buss stop and drew furry porn and showed it around xD probably far before anyone knew what a fur was, these days a lot of people do lol.

I too remember seeing huskie's work ages ago, some of the first, cause she drew beastly style i tended to love. i like snarly mean looking wuffs ^_^te he. at any rate i got onto wolf home and i met her a few times but she was not my kinda person, very attuned to her friend or fan groups. but interesting experiences none the less. gosh i haven't even thought about her in ages, its funny you brought her up ^_^. i remember art she did almost 13 years back ^_^


as for ae, i think i was there as a semi-photographer and was only there for a few hours snapping photos but i had some fun of it, 2010 i went back and had a blast, even dressed up, duno if there is one this year but i hope there will be 2012 at least. i think i met you or herd of you or saw you in suit. i cant quite recall exactly? you may have been in the group i was around for a little bit during ae2010? i was in the madara cosplay

[Zen]

Yep! The panel did what it was intended to do! I was the only Bishop Hazel at AE in 2010, but most people don't read Sayuki.

As an aside, there is no AE this year. The UBC anime club is hosting an open "Cos & Effect" event though, which is slightly different.