MarciMcAdam drew this shortly after my 18th birthday, making it my first ever piece of furry art! This is initial version of my first OC August. At first he was a folf (foxwolf) back then, which was the only time I was depicted as anything wolf-related until Blum many years later.
On top of being rubbery and a babyfur, he was also a shapeshiftey goo creature that was only just getting the hang of holding a form, hence the melty bits. This aspect didn't carry over into the raccoon/tanuki version of August that became more prominent. I asked for hazel eyes here because of that "Behind These Hazel Eyes" one Kelly Clarkson song because of course I did. :3
"SW" is a reference to "Silver Wolf", a guy who was my "master" when I was 16 and encouraged me to indulge all sorts of kink stuff. In retrospect this was grooming, but this was also the first time I had received something resembling love or kindness from another person. Furries were, for better or worse, the first time I received any kind of kinship from other humans. It's also worth noting that there was no social media back then, and the social standards within furry were very different then from what they are today.