Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

I *do* think it's a little too easy to use a great looking suit as substitute for being an okay person and I definitely think they're an overemphasized part of fandom simply because they're that visible - a little like assuming all SCAdians are fighters with their own elaborate armors.

10) my opinion of fursuits have changed over time. Initially because ears and tails were static I didn't want a suit, but thought they were technically neat (very much the "magic of special effects!" nerves). Now though I'm a lot more interested in performing as a character, and how fursuits are their own thing, part of furry's festival atmosphere and potentially a nice augment to weed (I of course would never want a fursuit for the purpose of stoned lying on the floor listening to Kyuss).

9) I will probably change fursona species at some point. I've thought about fennec fox, manul, black-footed cat, fisher, river otter, but I might go right back to being a border collie, idk.

Okay here are two drawings of fursonas rather than “stuff I thought looked pretty”; a borzoi by Diana Harlan Stein, and a Percheron with hyenas by Kaiven. The second is NSFW though I’ve covered up horse bits.

oh yeah steamed pea shoots as basically an excuse for hoisin sauce!

That and I'm having hot barley tea, always a favorite.

Curtis Mayfield’s “Pusherman” on KEXP. Thanks, now i have this strange urge to throw crescent kicks in slo-motion.

Has anyone done a wargaming miniatures take on the “dude looking at another woman” meme where both women (labeled as STACK OF NEW MINIS and STACK OF MINIS IN MY CLOSET) have been photoshopped to pewter or resin gray?

8) Let me dig through my stuff when I get home for art by Kaiven. She was REALLY good. If you’re out there somewhere, I love you, I miss you, and fuck cancer.

7) all fursonas are something like who I am or want to be. F’rex I wanted to join Frank’s hyena study group in grad school, the wolf character is very much who I was in high school without the “practically under house arrest” part, and the unicorn is very much “I am an untamed creature of the forest also tell me I’m pretty and pet my hair.”

6) okay the unicorn is a shapechanger, but I thought it’d be nice to have a way more forest/somewhat fey creature with the heraldic traits and I empathize with horses (strong competent smart creature suddenly irrationally panicked). I like the eat-anything nap-anywhere water loving nature of hyenas, and I chose wolf intentionally to make that character somewhat generic.

5) I uh don’t have one fursona but several, and none of them are actually a coyote or an otter. Current roster is a heraldic unicorn of sorts of sorts who is sometimes also a fennec or a dolphin, and a very naive wolf.

4) my first fursona was a wolf (I’d been told foxes had a rep of putting out, remember i was a total prude) with one differently colored paw (reflecting my nearly missing hand).

3) the best things about the fandom are; it’s not tied to any one show or movie, it’s a space for a lot of small artists/artisans and really committed hobbyists, and it’s always changing! This is as true now as back in the 90s.

2) at the time I was really nuts about fox anything and searched for fox pictures which got a fair amount of furry stuff. But I was also real prudish at the time, and nearly all clean art of anthro foxes was by my buddy Robin - and that mentioned FurryMUCK so I explored that!

1) I’ve been in furry since 1995. (promptly ages centuries in seconds screaming “what have you done to me” like at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The kids love that movie right?)

OHHH YEAH let’s start the year with providing possibly TMI to Internet folks, here’s a meme about furry fandom swiped from online friends!

Callout for the dramatic “Burning Homestead” sequence from Ep IV; “we get it, you vape!”

Ooorgh okay the pills work pretty good but they are not quite “Jon ate wings, a couple mozzarella sticks, and six slices of pizza” good. This is not the pills’ fault.

Achievement unlocked, greeting the new year in (partial) fursuit!