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Hey there floofballs. I've been hanging around here for a bit now and thought I might go ahead and actually introduce myself. Gale the fluid ferret here. How's it going.

I just have to say that you guys have to be the most amazing people I have ever met. No matter what is going on in my day or in my mind (and trust me from day to day that can be a whole lot of sadness and depression) I know I can always come here and read someone's kind words. Without condition you all seem to accept and understand anyone who opens up to you. Not to get all corny but you guys have helped give me a reason to keep going. A reason to believe there is still good and unconditional love in this messed up, dark world we inhabit.

Thank you so much guys and please, stay floofy.

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...everything /u/fa_mirror does for this sub. I think he deserves a big thank you! Can we get a round of internet applause?

EDIT: I hereby declare May 25 to be /u/fa_mirror day!

EDIT 2: and on that day, he was gilded by Dragoneer

EDIT 3: but seriously Dragoneer commented on my post holy crap

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It resembled your worst traits instead of your best? In a "metaphorical" sense :P.

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Long time lurker here. I noticed something rather interesting. It seems as though a lot of furries are depressed. Why is that? I think that some of them even became furries because being part of the fandom makes them feel better - which is a good thing, of course. BTW, hi!

Edit: Yeah, people in this fandom are generally happy and energetic, but I saw, like, three or four depressed posts in a row and that's why I assumed a lot of furries are depressed. But now that I think if it - three or four post out of, say, 4000... Yeah, sorry.

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Meaning what little things do you have (if you have) in you everyday life that somehow relate to the furry fandom? Or has the fandom changed your habits in any way? Anything from clothing to eating habits to making noises to younameit qualifies!

While not originally because of the furry fandom, I've been 'digitigrade' for a bit over six months now. No-one but my mother's said anything (she doesn't really approve :P ), I don't even know if any others beside her and my sister even know of it, lol. I also sometimes think about changing my eating habits, but haven't done anything so far.

PS. I caught up (on the sub) again \o/

EDIT: This turned out a lot more popular than I anticipated! Thanks to everyone, keep it up!

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Mine are singing, guitar and video games :P

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(NSFW – nude paintings below!) In “Furry Good Ideas“, Scale commented on my suggestion about starting a Furry art gallery:  Not sure if the times are ripe for a dedicated furry art gallery, but for what it’s worth I’m having some success entering furry paintings in local art shows… I’m also making a bet that a market […]

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Did you get a really good commission of your 'sona? Finally get a fursuit? Or something not related to furryness whatsoever? Anything!

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1. Tell us about your most recent project (written or published). What inspired it?

It’s not published as yet, but my most recently accepted piece is an as-yet-unnamed (well, to-be-renamed) story that will appear in the upcoming noir-themed anthology from FurPlanet. It was actually my second try on that particular project – I’d started a piece and had a few thousand words down before I realized I had a start, a finish, and no way of connecting them, so I scrapped it. Brandon Sanderson’s podcast “Writing Excuses” helped me get the next one started: it advised that you should feel free to drop a project if it’s not working, and try something new. So I did – kicked around ideas for freshening up the genre and wound up combining noir with dieselpunk for a very cool style. And, as I often do, I had some help from music – in this case, the slightly obscure Canadian band Hemingway Corner. Their song “Annabelle” caught in my head during a lunchtime walk at work and propelled me into creating several characters, some plot points, etc. I love it when that happens.

2. What’s your writing process like? Are you a “pantser,” an outliner, or something in between?

Rarely do I have more than a rough idea of plot points when I sit down to write. I find that to be liberating, actually: it means that the story is written organically, rather than being pushed to this bullet point or that twist. One of my favorite exercises is to write something from random prompts. Occasionally I go to Twitter and ask my followers for three things, which I then write a story around. Two pieces published this year started from those random prompts, so it works well! I’m also often a first-draft writer, which comes from ten years of writing for newspapers on tight deadlines. Larger projects get multiple editing sessions and test reads, of course!

3. What’s your favorite kind of story to write?

The kind that draws me in emotionally – when my characters start “talking” to me about where they should be going and what they should be doing, or when they share their emotions with me. If I make myself tear up, it usually guarantees that story’s going to be excellent.

4. Which character from your work do you most identify with, and why?

Oh boy. Most of my characters have a piece or two of me included in them, but probably the closest would be from some of my earliest works. Back in the Usenet days I started posting stories based around a skunk named Erik and his partner, Colin, a raccoon. Erik’s a journalist, kind of laid back, not super self-confident, not sure about where he fits in life but determined enough to make his way forward with the help of his friends. I think that’s kind of where I’m at.

5. Which authors or books have most influenced your work?

I’ve been reading anything and everything since I was 3 or so, vast amounts of fantasy and SF along with some mainstream fiction, comics, and so forth. Along the way I stumbled across a collection of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novels and fell in love with his work – it was one of the first times I realized that a good ending doesn’t necessarily have to be a happy ending. John Varley’s Titan series made that point as well, as did a relatively obscure series of military SF novels by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch (the Sten series – highly recommended).

6. What’s the last book you read that you really loved?

Book is hard to pick, so series: Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory’s Obsidian Trilogy is one of my favorites. I recently reread it because I really enjoy it. Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series is pretty awesome too.

7. Besides writing, how do you like to spend your free time?

Photography’s a big one; I’m an avid shooter, with a penchant for birds and airplanes among other things. I also play a fair blues guitar and enjoy various video games. Con running is a big part of my free time lately; I’ve been working with VancouFur since it started, and am currently the President of the (soon to be officially registered as a non-profit society) BC Anthropomorphic Events Association.

8. Advice for other writers?

Write. Just write. Don’t have ideas? Ask for a prompt. Writer’s block? Change to something else and start again. Paint pictures with your words, whether they’re a stick figure or a Renoir – because every word painting you produce is valuable in some way, whether it’s just to you or to your readers.

9. Where can readers find your work?

This year, everywhere! I’ve got stories in, or scheduled to be in, The Furry Future, the noir anthology, Heat #12, and the Rainfurrest charity anthology – so far. If that’s not enough, most of my web-posted pieces (which are largely adult-themed, so be advised) over the years are on FurAffinity (tgreyfox) and Sofurry (Tony Greyfox).

10. What’s your favorite thing about the furry fandom?

This fandom is friendly, pretty chill, and allows me to write stories about two-legged animals boinking. What else could you ask for?

 

Check out Tony Greyfox’s member bio here!

I've only started using Reddit about 3 days ago and I came across this subreddit and I thought that nice of me to introduce myself to everyone and to see how everyone's getting on in the furry world.

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