Was looking at spicy flash games, found that one about seducing a fox girl on the beach, got confusing feelings and now here I am, many years later.

I don’t remember exactly. I read a lot of books about dragons and werewolves as a kid, and I eventually found the VCL board through internet osmosis. I imagine nowadays it’s a lot less confusing to get started.

Circa 2010 i was feverishly googling “tiger girl” looking for pictures of elvish girl in the forest with her pet tiger, you know, that kind of fantasy art; and i found some obscure forum where someone posted a furry drawing of a tiger girl, and someone commented ‘can someone please draw a furry that isn’t trying to be sexy’, and i’m like ‘what’s a furry’

And i’ve been circling around the fandom ever since. A couple things happened to make me join: more SFW spaces opened up in the fandom, i got less sex negative anyway, and i dropped out of concept art school so i had nothing to do with myself anymore.

I guess I passively knew about furries ever since I attended an anime con that had a few attending. 2013, I think? Five years later I joined a furry community on Discord with a friend as a joke, made friends, was peer pressured into designing and drawing myself a fursona because those friends wanted to draw art for me, and now I’m a proud degenerate. 😁👍