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Another plug; on fursonas and the lack thereof
16 years ago
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Feathertail has some really great transformation stories revolving around the theme of "becoming your fursona". A few of them are here on FA; there's a larger collection at the aptly-named http://www.becomeyourfursona.com .Feathertail does commissions, and they're wonderful (and probably underpriced), which, oddly enough, leaves me a little bit sad -- like someone who finds out about a simply wonderful fish restaurant, but who's allergic to fish.
WARNING: SELF-INDULGENT TRIPE FOLLOWS
Because in order to commission a "become your fursona" story, it really helps to have a fursona. And I don't have one... at least, not anymore.
The people who have actually read my writing (all four of you, and let me stop and apologize to you again) are probably laughing at this, considering that pretty much everything I write about is canine-related, and considering that I have a fox-coyote-thing as my avatar. But "fursona" means something more than "favorite animal". There's all sorts of different opinions on what it does mean, but at a minimum, I think it requires a sense of identity... of "This animal represents what I really am", or at a bare minimum, "This animal represents aspects of what I want to really be". And somewhere along the line in the last few years, I've lost that. When I think about Wolf or Fox or Coyote in that sort of context these days, it's like thinking about my best friend in the first grade, the one who moved away at the end of the year. There's still a sense of emotional attachment, but I just know that if I ever actually met him again, we probably wouldn't even have much of anything in common.
I've been through some of my own fursona-related introspection. If you'd like to talk about it, my contact information is listed on my page! murrquan[at]yahoo.com is the one to send email to if you'd like to talk that way.
It might be that you've either integrated what qualities you admired from the fox/wolf/coyote into your human personality, so the need for a distinct animal one seems less necessary. It might be that your personality has changed somewhat, and perhaps it might be time to start browsing for a new fursona. Or it might be that the connection's simply grown rusty or weak from inactivity; sure, you might not have much in common with an old friend who's been gone a long time, but the time apart makes it much easier to find new things to talk about (uhh... not sure where exactly that metaphor was going now...).
Anyway, if you really want to, then just make a "fursona": it's not exactly you, but you like it enough that you wouldn't turn away in disgust by being associated with it.