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[teh_alk]

The problem with Livejournal is that we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. Hence, I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.

I don't have the friends-base

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[teh_alk]

Clichéd as it is, I wanted to be an astronaut or a firefighter. This is true. I had one of those big mural/wallpaper things in my bedroom of the shuttle, blown up to fill an entire wall. When I turned 18, the day I turned 18 too, I became a volunteer firefighter, so I guess at least half of my aspirations came to fruition, at least for a couple years.

I also recall wishing to be a paleontologist. My mother was active in the paleontology/archeology society at the Phoenix Museum of Natural History. We took trips, dug for trilobites, watched fossils uncover for the first time at the petrified forest. I even met the Bob Bakker at the museum one day. My little child self was starstruck. It's not hard to get a young boy to find dinosaurs appealing.

I'm still headed toward "grown up" and have plenty of room to adjust my trajectory (thankfully), and I feel I just want to make video games, have friends, and leave this world with a net positive effect.

[krinndnz]

When and what are your first memories of "huh, I guess I really like being a tiger-dude" ?

[teh_alk]

Young teen self, having recently discovered the furry fandom via random google meandering while looking into lycanthropy, set forth and aimed his old muck client at FurryMUCK.

Having spent all of an hour and twenty minutes as a snow leopard, I was enjoying my new fantasy world, where I could play with my fondness for all things feline. On the east end of the muck's central park, I flopped around happily in the pond, my first friend sitting aside and watching.

"Your mannerisms really seem much more fit to a tiger," he noted. I really do enjoy the water, as do tigers. Agreeing with my friend, I made a change that afternoon, into what persists to be the only form I have really associated with.

I never had any "huh, this is awkward, am I a freak?" kind of introspections as one might expect when adjusting to the furry fandom. I always felt like a weird boy, a social scratching post. I was aware of my alternative sexuality for a long time before too, so I guess it was a fairly gentle transition.

[krinndnz]

That, like so many other things about you, is quite endearing.

[teh_alk]

What is? My tendencies towards deviancy? :P