Chrysi Cat <
chry...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:PCnZG.146426$hQ4....@fx39.iad:
> On 8/9/2020 10:06 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 22:05:13 -0700, Kavus Kazian
>> <
kavus...@dont-email.me> declaimed the following:
>>
>>> At least, I think I'm a furry! If turians count that is. Is this
>>> place still active? :)
>>
>> There are some grey-muzzles monitoring, but one can't say it is
>> active
>> -- I show about five threads a year, and some of those are SPAM.
>>
>> Mostly we get announcements like yours, a few responses, and
>> then
>> silence for a few months. Nothing like 15 years ago when we'd have
>> more traffic in a single day.
>>
>>
>
> Hi! Sorta-grey-muzzle here who started with a teranews account and
> moved to UsenetServer.com when teranews lost posting privileges most
> places, but has never posted in THIS group. My first email program was
> Pine at U of Denver, but I never bothered to access Usenet until just
> AFTER the standard ISPs stopped running complimentary server access (I
> was distracted enough with surfing the Web instead of doing my
> homework at DU; after I flunked out the family finally had home
> access, but since it was AOL I thought that their walled-garden
> discussion groups were sufficient. So I had the opportunities to be
> here in '97 but wouldn't have known it existed.
>
> That said, I'm a kit(ten) compared to most of the semi-active members;
> only 20 years UNDERSTANDING that I identify furry (which means it
> started sometime between when I was 20 and 23), no active interaction
> with the RL fandom (I TRIED to patronise Cafe Fur in Denver, but it
> had closed a month prior; but I've had no money for a con appearance
> and the only way I want to have fur in public is via genmod, not
> suit), and my only montary support has been to Romeo Rabbit the past
> two years during his pledge drive, and a standing donation to ND.Net
> so that I have access to Terence and Isabel's commentary archive.
>
> I'm also a kit in the other sense, in part because it was obvious even
> 18 years ago that I wasn't going to be able to keep wearing big-girl
> panties anyway, and it's slightly less depressing to act like you need
> them because you're too immature than that you're likely gonna fade
> from the scene way too soon.
>
> First furry webcomic was probably Doemain, though the one that was the
> gateway to the majority of what else I followed was K&K (The exception
> is that Doemain either led to Vinci and Arty, which led to Jack, or I
> found Jack first, followed Arty to his home comic and then saw the
> link to his appearance IN Jack), which in turn I found via a "Catgirl
> Sighting!" posting on the TWC version of the forum for El Goonish
> Shive. Always THOUGHT about ordering Shanda Fanstasy Arts products
> before I lost the income to do so (so between 2000-2003,) but wasn't
> sure my LCS had the proper understanding of how to check THAT box with
> Diamond Previews.
>
> Am I the only one who would be willing to grow fur and a tail and fix
> my ear shape but couldn't be convinced to suit for ANYTHING? Though
> admittedly if I had to give up my ability to taste sweet, let alone
> accept chocolate being able to poison me, I wouldn't even grow the
> furry parts.
>
Ahh, Teranews. Best $3.95 I'd ever spent. Got started on Usenet back in
98 when I got my first dial-up account. (prior to that was all dial-up
BBS'es on an old 386sx... Ever spent a couple hours downloading a 200kb
jpeg just to find out your comp is too old and slow to actually view it?
I have! lol) Think I started with Mail & News on Win95, and my isp's
news server. It was like night and day when I switched to Xnews and
Teranews. With Hamster in the middle so I could just dial-up, yoink, and
disconnect, and not tie up the phone constantly.
And Furrynet. Was a sad day when its last server finally died. Every now
and then I'll fire up my ancient Hamster install and reminisce through
the bits I have saved. (most of fur.* from 98-99 to the end, started
with everything
news.fur.com had when I redid Hamster one time and
decided to yoink the whole thing)
Tried to get myself to MFM several times back in the early 00's... Every
time I'd get serious about going, my truck would die expensively
anywhere from a few weeks to the day before, and I finally gave up.
(Seriously now. Two transmission swaps and multiple clutches in less
than a decade? I don't drive the thing /that/ hard...)
Modern furry is just too scattered to really keep up with, and most
websites are pretty much impossible to find new interesting things
hidden among the piles and piles and piles of generic latex-skinned
furry that everything seems to be nowadays. (Remember back when people
would talk about their favorite brush for making fur in whichever art
program? Actually drawing the floof seems to really not be much of a
thing any more...)
Most of my internet time nowadays is spent keeping up with a small pile
of webcomics, reading random fanfiction, lurking a few discords, and
half an eye kept on twitter. Much less so with twitter anymore. It's a
mess.
And yes, real functional changes would be most excellent (given that
I could keep my over-sugared coffee with a nip of cocoa, of course), but
suits... Ehh, might convince me to put on a headband with fuzzy ears for
the lols, but that'd be about it and even that would take some pretty
good effort on someone's part. I'd rather have the real thing. XD
--
Mechasquirrel
(and now, back to lurking all the lurks)