Furry animals

For any furries out there, I'm a common raven. I'm also barely active in any community, so my ‘furriness’ (or avianness, as it were) is extremely casual at best. Unfortunately, given the nature of the community, I'm also not very creative. I do enjoy movies, stories and other things with talking animals, though, so I guess that makes me ‘one of us’.

Back in the day, I used to be on the FurNet IRC, but as the Norwegian community moved away from IRC, so did I. In the physical world, I've attended NFC – but only in 2015 and 2025.

For the absolute nerds (and I suppose on Gemini, that's at least some of you), my furcode is something like:

FAR4a A-- C H+ P- R W-> a+ cl++ d--- e+++ f-- iwf++ j p sm#

(Did you know they last updated the specs for this in 1998? There's a specific option for liking Windows 3.x!)

There's a convenient web decoder at winterwolf.co.uk.

Furry sci-fi

My perhaps one furry project, which I haven't done any work on for a couple of years now, is a sci-fi worldbuilding effort. I've tried to create a ‘reasonably’ sane hard-enough sci-fi setting, attempting to include enough interesting political and technological details to be able to carry some kind of story eventually. It just so happens that instead of humans or elves, I've used anthropomorphic animals to represent various peoples and tell the stories. I think it could work well, pulling issues like national politics, xenophobia, exploitation and so on to the fore, while providing a pretense of distance, avoiding the too-close-for-comfort feeling of looking at our own mirror images. Storytellers have done the same since the fables were first told, after all.

Although I haven't done much with it (yet), I have (more or less) successfully run two Starfinder one-shots with my normie D&D group using my furry conworld as a home-brew setting. Perhaps one day I'll give it a go with a furry group as well.