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OMG it's refreshing to have a day off from Super K-Mart. I've been working 9am-3pm at Super K-Mart nearly every day and then having to fly out of there to make it home for a short half hour meal with Cindy and then run to NTI (40 min-1 hour drive away) from 5pm-1:30am. Then I get home 'bout 2:30am to wake up for work at Super K the next morning. It's freakin' killing me. 9am-1:30am work shifts are NOT fun. Yes, I put in for a change of hours at Super K, but it doesn't take effect till this coming Sunday. I'll be working NTI on the weekdays and K-Mart on teh weekends. It leaves little time to spend with Cindy, draw, or play games... BUT... you gotta do what you gotta do to make ends meat, y'know? Life seems very unforgiving to newly weds straight out of college.
I really miss seeing Cindy. I only get to see her (awake) about half an hour to an hour a day. That's possibly my only complaint with my current situation. I've only worked at NTI 2 weeks now, though I have no real complaints with the job or most the people there. Because I work at night, the supervisors and managers are only in the building long enough to give me my tasks for the night and then leave. I tote around my NintendoDS and GBA Movie Player to listen to music while I'm there. Without it I'd go mad from boredom.
You know... I have a question, thinking about an encounter I had at work last night. Does anyone else feel ashamed to be a furre sometimes? Especially around non-furres? Last night I was drawing on a random piece of paper I found laying on the ground. As usual, some random equine mare in a pose, naked (I might add) as I hadn't gotten to drawing clothes yet. One of my co-workers comes over and looks at me, sees I'm doing something and comes to see what. He looks at my drawing and asks me, "What's that you're drawing?" I reply, "An equine furre." I expected the next question, but always hate answering it, "What's a furre?" I tried to hide my agitation (because I only had 10 minutes left on my lunch and wanted to finish the sketch up as it was my intent to scan it when I got home) and gave an answer to the best of my knowledge, "Well, it's the art of giving animals huamn characteristics. For instance, I draw myself as a pegasus." and as I finished that statement and looked at the expression he game me, my mind went "TMI"
"Oh... I think I heard something 'bout that. Furres are those weird people who dress up in costumes and rape animals or something like that, right?" and he had himself a good laugh. Sense of shame and self-disgust fell over me. "Nice drawing, by the way" he noted as he walked away. Feeling rather depressed I crumbled up the drawing and threw it away and clocked back into work early to get back to working, turn my music back on, and try and just finish out the night.
Don't get me wrong, I love being a furre. I love being to express my inner equine and interact with some of the greatest people I've ever met in the fandom. But why is it furres have to have such a weird rep to the "normal people" of the world? Maybe I'm just to sensitive or something. It just upsets me, because this isn't the first time it's happened. I stopped going to Borders (my local book/music store/cafe) to draw because I was getting similar responses. Sometimes the responses aren't vocal. People look at my art in passing and scoff. Is it because I'm that bad an artist or you people just hate furres? It's like being in school again where you're the kid who's picked on solely because the popular kids do it and the lesser popular kids wanna fit it at your expense. Fuck y'all! >.<
Well... ... my little babble is over now. You can all get back to living your lives and having fun whilst I sulk. L8rs.
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But thats my peice of advice :3 And you shouldn't have crumbled up your drawing because you draw pretty things.
Aha...I'm gonna be working at Target >>
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Anthropomorph fanatics have a bad reputation because of those who are doing things they either shouldn't be doing or shouldn't be doing publicly. They get the front page while every other aspect is unheard of simply because it doesn't grab idiots' attention spans.
Think about it...and be disgusted by those who define your fandom.
Very few persons in Jamaica understand the 'furre' world and personas or fursonas and I don't try to enlighten them because I know they won't understand nor do I quite honestly want them to understand.
Anyhow, you shouldn't have crumpled your art for the sake of some asshole who your probably won't even interact with again. (also I wouldn't have given him the time of day in the first place but that's just me). Treasure all of your drawings please.
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Where do they come from? And where are they going? These things...I'm going to destroy!
Mord's been working way too long days for weeks now too.
It's very annoying. He leaves at 8 and sometimes I don't see him again 'till 10 in the evening so yeah, hope that'll change soon for both you guys and us.
As for the drawing thing, people above me have prettymuch said it.
The nasty stereotype does exist but unfortunately they're the only ones people hear about. So I wouldn't be ashamed of your art be proud of it. I'm sure people 'll understand if you tell em you don't agree with that kind of behavior and that that's not your typical furre. Because hiding away and not wanting to bother explaining what it's really like will leave people thinking the same way forever.
I don't know why I find it so hard to find the time to educate him as opposed to hating him. It's a part of my anti-social self that still exists from back before I met Cindy. Just kinda want to be left to do my thing. You don't like it, f-u... y'know? Though it would probably help my work situation to educate him next time (if there is such) it occurs as opposed to getting depressed and throwing away art.
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There's a whole world, outside your door, waiting to be discovered. But... why bother, when you can create your own world with nothign more than a pencil, paper, and your imagination? =^-^=
I probably should've just ignored him and kept drawing... but I've been a lot more open with my hobbies since I met Cindy. I shouldn't have to be ashamed of what I do, and if they don't like it,well, fuck 'em. Or at least that's what I like to tell myself. Weren't for me being so overly emotional all the time perhaps I could be such.
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There's a whole world, outside your door, waiting to be discovered. But... why bother, when you can create your own world with nothign more than a pencil, paper, and your imagination? =^-^=
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