I've been fortunate to have already accepted this awhile ago, as someone
who tends to befriend folks a few years older or a few years younger,
you see it coming and how others have reacted. Some see it as the sun
setting on their time in fandoms though I personally feel like this is a
childish thing to believe coming from what I see as the last generation
of furs having a very narrow perception of time as if we're still in
high school and dating someone a year above is a big no-no, we're all
over 18 and aging so let's not divide folks even more.
I'd rather hang out with someone in their 60s like Shawn Keller, part of
the forever 38 club and has this fun youthful spirit than a fur in
their 30s those seemingly given up because their vision of going to MFF
in fullsuit getting high and wasted didn't happen yet, like cmon that
doesn't sound like the greatest time if you say it out loud.
Also, it seems like with age, I no longer genuinely care about
popularity. because I have had it and you know what, it's all just
numbers. I use to lie to myself, oh I don't care but secretly omg plz
notice me >3<. I took a few years out of the this fandom to focus
on being a big artist elsewhere, I got thousands of views and a discord
server of 100+ members and really, there's no difference so what is
being a creator really all about then if not for that sense of making a
mark? Well, it's actually about the kind of mark you want to make and I
wasn't making what I wanted to so when I did come back to Arting on
DeviantArt/FurAffinity etc, I made a character that speaks to me, I made
art for those who matter and I haven't stopped since, which is great
productivity wise.
I actually had this code cracked back in 2014 but the nature of reality
means nothing is ever this constant upward trend, we all have periods
where we dip back down inside ourselves like a wave.
