Personal introduction

Hi there 🐾

Just realized I have never written an introduction here. I don't see a character limit, so bear with me ^^" TL;DR I'm a fox.

I used to be a rather ordinary IT person for the most of my life, until 1.5 years ago I left my home country, for the foreseeable future. The sudden and radical change of the environment, financial and legal status, the stress, uncertainty, and mental health challenges -- all that made me change, too... so, I became a furry.

In hindsight, that was a right thing to do, for it had brought me closer to my authentic self. For the first time in my life, I asked myself what I wanted to be, instead of following the common patterns of the society, or the vision of those close to me.

The more I asked, the more I discovered. I'm not a cisgender person (and what cis- means after all), someone who can find anyone attractive, and also a bit of a bottom.

When I commissioned a reference sheet for my fursona, I didn't see the depiction of a character, but rather a portrait of myself. On the day of my 32nd birthday, I let everyone on Twitter know that I'm actually a fox, and called myself a therian ever since.

 

Labels time! Now, I'm a non-binary pansexual aromantic fox therian, a Russian immigrant, and a husband. A software engineer by trade, I'm trying to expand from Vue.js frontend to full-stack PHP work. I enjoy film photography, though it's way more expensive in Canada than anywhere else I lived, and collect old records (thank the Universe for thrift stores), and I also draw stuff as a hobby. Productivity, minimalism, and Bullet Journal technique are surefire topics to get me started.

But after all, I'm just a silly bean on the Internet, who's happy to be around other beautiful critters, uwu.