🦨 Wew. One thing that's been hitting us extra hard these last couple weeks is that creature mood. The sense of inhumanity. And it's not just Aster, it's all of us. All twelve of us currently here. The disconnect from our anchor is more pointed than it has been in a while.
[??] and what other fun has this lead to?
🦨 We've also felt more and more like being furry is something big to us.
Let's give the recap here: We're not sure exactly when we got into furry stuff, but we'll consider our first FA account in 2016 a decent point for when we "Officially" considered ourselves furry. Not that we'd talk about it or consider it publicly. It was something on the side for us, a thing but not A Thing. Not until like mid 2020-ish did we even mention it to anyone else, and even then we didn't talk much about it. Although, around then we also started dipping our toes deeper into it. We bought our first collar in early 2021 (Currently Splash's comfort item of choice), which was, in retrospect, probably just as much a growing furry thing as a looming nonhuman thing.
This last year or so has been way more "Yea I/we are furries after all!". Nevermind the on and off trying to make a fursona since like 2017-ish (The feminine design we went for there- Honestly in most characters we made back then!- Should probably have set gender alarm bells off earlier, but details), but it was the attempts through 2022 and 23 (Up to and after we realized our plurality too) that really got the ball rolling. And hey, we're finally at the point where all we really need is to sketch/write things out and they're things that are Out There in the world!
[?] as i and luna was gonna do today. before someone got too busy reading all day.
🦨 Details. Besides, you got an entire chapter of hyperfixation in that book too.
But with the community we've found here? This last year (Bloody hell we've been here a year!) has only made that sense of that being more prominent. We don't feel human. But that specific way of presenting found in the anthro form? Yea. We like that. We really like that.
So in short, despite being furries for at the very least over seven years we've just now hit the point where oh shit we're Furries. That we enjoy being a part of that community, that we like presenting ourselves through that lens. A single glance at our profile would probably result in a "Yea duh" response, but there's a world of difference between knowing and Knowing. And I think we finally Know.
