You've figured it out

I was impressed too.

I bought a fake Casio watch recently, you can tell because of (among other things) the quality of the smaller letters. It's hard to print small.

But these guys did it. This broken english is printed with impeccable quality.

Straight to jail

None of my family members know what a furry is and i'm keeping it that way.

Somebody spent time properly paving these covers so that they don't interrupt the pattern, then later someone didn't spent one second trying to put them back the way they were

I never knew that the stock drawing is based on an IRL stock photo

First thing i did, while my mouth was still salty from the first bite, is go get my sharpie.

Never again

There's a 1% chance that the weird cousin who never comes to family gatherings might be a furry. That's absolutely it.

The idea of having hobbies in common with family members seems alien to me - which i think, to quote the meme phrase, Says A Lot About Society.

Seeing this picture feels like getting a thorn out of your foot

I'm an artist, aka unemployed with a hobby.

Just like last time, i think there's basically no chance that this really is a furry hacker group. I don't have any educated guesses for why they're saying so.

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.

There were going to be communities dedicated to talking animals on the internet, that much is certain. Just about everything else was shaped by early founders. Aside from the furry fandom's very existence which may be inevitable, every part of its shape and characteristics were laid by people like Sysable.

This man needs to discover furries. Being walked on all fours is pretty weird even for furries, but he would definitely have some sympathy and less judgement than with normies.

My anthro awakening was Blacksad, but i circled around the furry fandom for years and years before joining last year.

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'

But even just that anecdote already hints at why i didn't join the fandom: there was less SFW furry content back then, and i was a lot more prudish. Both have changed since.

So, you know, on the list of things i could/should have done ten years ago, there's that.

Aegis does offer a function to back up what they call the "vault", and i really should have done that.

i want a turn in a femboy sounds good

Yeah, i looked really hard and my city of 300k has maybe three furries in it. The neighboring city of half the size has a small convention.

This negative space seems perfect to fill in with the environment, but i get a feeling OP doesn't like to draw environments. Relatable, but they're going to have to, especially if they want to sell a sci-fi setting.

Yeah, this is basically the therapy that my 20yo self needed.

I'm so glad anybody read it, it has been worth it :)