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flamecoil

Birthday: Quarter-Century Acquired!

Yep, April 3rd, '92 is my birthday!

It's been a long, challenging, but fun 25 years getting to this point. From my perspective life has pretty much dragged me along for its ride, for the better or worse -- some thorny patches but nothin' much to really complain about since I've always been able to resolve my issues. As I look back on my 25 years, I find it quite surprising that places like this have remained pretty relevant

I was pretty used to moving between communities in the past when I slowly started edging towards the Furry community via frequent part-taking in Pokémon RP forums, and as one closed I'd find another one or two to join in order to keep up a constant flow of contacts to play, chat and brainstorm with. Once the well ran a little dry for those RP experiences and I found myself entering more of the general range of RP forums I eventually found my way to Furry sites and slowly took root, lurking for a long while before reaching out and making friends -- something I was a little nervous about with the whole fact that it marked more of a transition from cleaner RP to a focus on more sexual aspects. The nervousness was compounded by the fact that my initial interests and knowledge were quite narrow compared to the expanded set of kinks that I quickly began to learn about just by rubbing shoulder with other furs.

I've gotten a fair bit more comfortable in my own skin due to the connections I've made, be it kink-wise or just reconciling the fact that my main character, Charkol, has become a solid part of my day-to-day life whether I initially intended him to or not. Although I'm not exactly loud and proud of Charkol offline, the friends I've made and others in the community I've observed have taught me how to at least exist with a few of my non-furry, offline friends knowing my secret and them being quite okay with it, which has been a huge stress-relief to be able to talk to some of 'em about some internal conflicts when regarding the presence I have here online versus the various levels of myself that i have to present to the real world.

To cap my rambling, throughout the years I've been here quietly lurking or saying hello to a few of you, I want to thank all of you guys for being a friendly bunch! Although I'm not overly social, I've really enjoyed the connections I've built with those whom I know I can tap on the shoulder after months of silence to chat up the whole afternoon like good old friends. Sometimes life gets me to tunnel-vision to a very narrow set of behaviors, and I at times forget, so again to those mentioned earlier, thank you!

All-in-all I'll never know how long I'll be around here, but I've had quite a bit of fun and I aim to continue doing so!

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tl;dr: I'm 25! I've learned a bunch about myself from the community, and I really dig the friends I've made here!
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charizard79
6 years, 12 months ago
I was 25 in 1992
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