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"Geemo" is a friend of mine in furry fandom who's relatively local to where I am. He's in college now--which makes me feel old, of course. But the actual point of this is that he's taking some sociology-type class in which students are preparing reports on subcultures, and he picked furry fandom.

I find this kind of amusing--I'm not a big "furry fandom is a subculture" type, but in a sense any group that has its own economy qualifies as a subculture, from furries to goths to the leather scene to RVers. (The idea that he has anything in common with a retiree RV driver from New Jersey may be the one thing that scares a goth, but there you go.) Geemo asked me to do an e-mail interview with him about the "furry culture," and I thought I'd share my answers with journal readers here. For those who are furry fans (or who aren't but have morbid curiosity), it's a good insight into my history with the fandom and my take on things past and present.

And for the quick unrelated How Writing Is Going update: I think my muse only winters in Florida.( Read more... )