I mean, this is the year I actually made a gallery on here so I think it's kind of a big deal for myself - this is a crosspost with my Bluesky though so if you're going "no duh you're a furry you're on Fur Affinity" I mean you're not wrong but c'mon

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Well, let's get the big one out of the way...

I'm a furry~

While I think I started identifying as one at the tail-end of 2024, this year was really the big year for my "furry awakening," so to speak.

With that came actually using the furry tag and setting up a Fur Affinity gallery, and trying to get more into the community... as well as learning a lot of new, uh, terminology! Still, despite my blocklist of terms doubling in size, I am generally happier and more comfortable in my sense of self.

If that wasn't enough, I changed Celeste - a character I've been drawing for over a decade - into a bird. The world of Celectrique had always been me "excuse to draw furries without being a furry" anyway, so once I dropped that pretense, making her an anthro crow made sense. And genuinely, my favourite character design I've ever done. After a few more iterations and refinements, I couldn't be happier.