AC at work is out so it's 96°F here, and im melting

someone put me in a puppy mold and freeze me please

going over my history with furry fandom (which was mostly porn, the part I could easily find/had motivation to find anyway) and i'm amazed how i've avoided actually being like "hi i'm a furry here's my oc" for like. 20 years.

in 2004 (i think), I had discovered the VCL art archive (Doug Winger and VKyrie were names I remember distinctly), and made an OC of a genderswapped Miles "Tails" Prower, and two anthro bats whose names escape me. I wonder how things would be different if I kept going down that path rather than being ashamed of it and suppressing my creativity (and, let's be honest, latent queerness) for pretty much all of the 2010s.

I'm also kicking myself for being bad at data backups while in college, or else the few pieces of art I drew of the above characters would still be around, maybe. Then again, I probably would have shamed myself into "forgetting" to back them up so.