Clover Arizona

I’m gonna give you two.
1. countershaded digits. This is something I can trace back to one of my first furry crushes, and it’s especially good for art where a character’s mitts or paws are a focal point. Trent (shown above, cropped from art by floe) was built around “here’s a bunch of stuff Clover likes,” which is why they’re also like that.
2. forepaws-as-hands. Bernard Doove’s An Introduction To Chakats has a whole thing about chakat front paws and how they can be used as both feet and hands as needed and have a big clumsy grip. I just think they’re neat.

The question of “when did I start taking estrogen” has a much more concrete answer than “when did I start transitioning socially” versus “when did I become aware that I’d already been socially transitioning and just didn’t realize it,” so I really like the qualifier on this ask.

It was VRChat, for sure. By the time I got into it, Meelo had already put out a raccoon model that was free to download, and it was trivial enough to re-texture that model into Trent, my raccfox character. The Unity package included both a “male” and “female” version, and it was equally trivial to add some eyeliner and lip-line to the texture I’d already made. I can trace thoughts of “what if my fursona was a gal” back to college if not earlier, but embodying that avatar — seeing her move in the mirror when I moved, seeing her body when I looked down at myself — flipped a switch in my brain.

The screenshot above is dated October 29, 2020, five months before I made the call to Planned Parenthood and started down that path.

I've worked with Jade a bunch over the years and she's been phenomenal every time, both in terms of her professionalism and the quality of her art. I highly recommend doing the same! :3