Oh boy. Where do I even start with this one?
Like many others in the furry community, I got my first exposure to anthropomorphic animals through video games and old cartoons. I was an avid watcher of Looney Tunes and player of Sonic and Crash Bandicoot, and I was the only kid in my school who read all fifteen books of Guardians of Ga’hoole, so I suppose it was only natural that I’d eventually wind up a furry with an owl fursona, huh? (I got my scalie inclinations much later, presumably through either my own writing or through Star Fox. Sigh…)
Up to a certain age, for whatever reason, it’s completely acceptable to focus mostly on anthropomorphic animals. Nobody batted an eye when I first came up with Linda Sukaalii way back when, and very few people questioned me (and my friends’) constant writing of crappy Mappy, Crash, or Sonic-inspired fanfics. I do distinctly remember a few people finding my inclinations for wanting to roleplay owls a bit odd though.
But at some point, I suddenly found out about the existence of furries, probably from TV Tropes ’cause that was my first exposure to “fandoms” as we know them today. (Hell, the very first TV Tropes page I ever read was the one for Sonic Colors, as it was my favourite video game at the time.)
And it was great! There was a term for people like myself who always preferred the looks and explorations of animal characters over humans!
What’s this about the sex?
I obviously had no interest in furry porn or anything of the like—I knew I was on the asexual spectrum even then—and found it mildly concerning that most denizens of the Internet believed that all furries wanted to do was yiff around in fursuits.
Thankfully, there were many many other things out there that assured me that being a furry wasn’t all NSFW stuff—things like reading a guide to if you thought you were a furry, and watching The Click (honourary furry icon), and learning of the existence of the entire “safe fur work” tag.
So now, here I am, providing to you my hopefully above average furry fiction, and I hope that maybe someday this fandom will be seen as less of the laughingstock of the Internet it tends to be now.
As I said before, the article “It’s Not Just Yiffing And Fursuiting” by Softer Star is a good place to learn about the origins of furries, so if you want to learn more about that, go take a look! It's on WordPress, but eh.
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