Oh gosh, ten years. An incredibly long time. I remember well how I was in school back then. And soo shy to share my first NSFW story with the public ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/4733508/ ) >w<
Then, later, my self drawn art which hurts my eyes to see now.. I won't even link any of that for that reason xD

Eventually I needed over a year until I opened up enough to have some PM conversations with people, including about NSFW topics. But soon after that, a certain someone taught me how RP works and that's when I truly became a furry, I'd say ~

Without doubt no other decision had such a huge impact on my life.
I do sometimes wonder what would be if I never had dug deeper and never found the furry community.
No matter what, I certainly don't regret it.
After all it resulted in a lot of great times - here, at the 3 furcons I visited and last but not least on Discord, like in the co-founded community of fellow water lovers, the Breeze Apartments: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37882180/

Anyways, now a whole decade later I have an entire student life behind me and a solid job; have comissioned probably several hundred artworks in total, resulting together with my stories and few own drawings, in 503 submissions with 11256 total faves. Comments and notes also go into the thousands, not to mention the skype (in the past) and discord + f-list conversations...
What an intense internet life >w<'

After all, the best part without doubt are all the people I've met along the way <3 Not many stuck forever, but a few have and even after such a long time, it is still exciting to meet new floofs and scalies ^-^

Thank you everybody for being so supportive and an awesome community for so long! On to another decade like that~
Have big things planned for some point next year <:

Also huge thanks to  Feerone who drew this astounding piece with quite a deadline!