OH...OK... Yea, I am drifting away but only a little, but I can't get away from what I still like and the friends and associations I have made.
Right before I got into the "furry" fandom, I had just found the internet and was looking for bigger and better ways to make my werewolf costume for haunted houses. My first hits were the tried and true big name costume retailers out there and then I started finding other stuff fandom related. I was in paradise with the really amazing anthro. art and the fun loving costuming that was going on. I lucked up and made contact with some fairly respectable individuals there were artist and costume makers. I never really saw the dark side of things when I first got here about 6 years ago.
Time has passed and I have gradually acclimated myself to the "NORM" in the fandom. Just in the past couple of years though, things have seemed to just gotten really crazy. Maybe my eyes are open more. *Shrugs* I don't really know for sure. Since I stay away from most politics and don't get aggravated by the "I'm better than you are" people, I haven't been nearly annoyed. But these young (and sometimes older) head cases that come in here out of curiosity and find they are accepted by the majority of the friendly people in the fandom, they mess with me. "They" seem to be interested in being in the group for reason's other than what I had ever understood this unique fandom to be about. They also seem to be the ones that would make the biggest perverted show in public only to give others a bad name. I tend to shy away from associations like that.
I have to be honest with myself though. I'll never drop this fandom off completely. I can find the good in most of the bad at any point. I'll be weird like that for as long as I live and there are just too many people I would miss.
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Yea, I am drifting away but only a little, but I can't get away from what I still like and the friends and associations I have made.
Right before I got into the "furry" fandom, I had just found the internet and was looking for bigger and better ways to make my werewolf costume for haunted houses. My first hits were the tried and true big name costume retailers out there and then I started finding other stuff fandom related. I was in paradise with the really amazing anthro. art and the fun loving costuming that was going on. I lucked up and made contact with some fairly respectable individuals there were artist and costume makers. I never really saw the dark side of things when I first got here about 6 years ago.
Time has passed and I have gradually acclimated myself to the "NORM" in the fandom. Just in the past couple of years though, things have seemed to just gotten really crazy. Maybe my eyes are open more. *Shrugs* I don't really know for sure. Since I stay away from most politics and don't get aggravated by the "I'm better than you are" people, I haven't been nearly annoyed. But these young (and sometimes older) head cases that come in here out of curiosity and find they are accepted by the majority of the friendly people in the fandom, they mess with me. "They" seem to be interested in being in the group for reason's other than what I had ever understood this unique fandom to be about. They also seem to be the ones that would make the biggest perverted show in public only to give others a bad name. I tend to shy away from associations like that.
I have to be honest with myself though. I'll never drop this fandom off completely. I can find the good in most of the bad at any point. I'll be weird like that for as long as I live and there are just too many people I would miss.