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Con

:novel:writing:furry:

Gonzo journalism piece about furry, maybe about FC?

• Mix in my history with furry
• Self-satire: me being head-over-heels for the fandom
• Social critique: furry and writing don't get along as well as they say they do; race to the top popularity wise (buying art, being artist/fursuit maker, having suit, etc); lauded as this bastion of sexual/kink liberation but dogged by purity culture; touted as get-rich-quick for artists, but way more complicated than that
• anagnorisis is me realizing maybe I need to stop writing furry for a bit
• Fiction is often the best fact: fictional friend met on the Uber to the hotel

Brief outline

(The con bits will perforce have to wait until FC)

• Con (chronological order):
  • Meeting Aya in the cab on the way to the con
• History (reorder as necessary):
  • Finding furry
  • The requisite artist phase
  • FFF
  • Sanefurs and falling out of love with furry
  • Sexuality and gender
  • Falling back in love with furry

  • a

  • Furry in professional life
  • Species changes at trauma points
  • Cons
  • Relationships good and bad
  • ...