Hello there, welcome to my personal blog!
After spending some time in the Christian Furry community, I wanted to start a blog to outline my experiences and thoughts. I’ve been ranting quite a bit on the #CFF IRC channel lately, and I wanted to capture some of the more interesting thoughts in a more permanent place.
A little bit about my own background, and how I got here… I’ve always had an interest in technology growing up, and spent quite a bit of my time tinkering with various computers. I read a lot of books on computer repair and programming, and eventually became a rather adept programmer (for the politically correct, “Software Engineer”). I started doing volunteer development when I was 12/13, and starting doing it professionally when I was 14. I was home schooled, which allowed me more flexibility to have the time to learn and enhance those skills.
On the same token, I was also very involved at my local Church, and was beginning to develop a ministry there. I did audio/video editing, handled IT, things like that. As time progressed various events transpired there that prevented me from being able to do any more work there (I might go into that sometime later).
I found #CFF through the Untitled!, and later Sandusky web comics, and joined in to see what all the fuss was about; and ended up sticking around. This was sometime back in early February. A little while after joining the community I went to work trying to use the skills I hadn’t been able use any more at more home Church for CCF’s benefit. This quickly developed into WagzTail, the podcast, and helping with some hosting and such around the community.
When I first heard of #cff, I was more than a little suspicious that there could be a true and genuine online Christian group within the furry fandom. It, to be quite honest boggled my mind then and still boggles my mind now. After a little while in the channel, I began to realize that most of the other people in the channel were in a similar age group to myself (15-25), and all really very sincere.
Up until that point in time I actually had been feeling very alone as a young(er) person who was trying to be all I could be for Christ. It seemed as tho there was no one else in my generation who shared my passion (I was probably being more than a bit conceited..). Being at #cff really opened my eyes to see that wasn’t the case; and I’m so thankful for that.