Fisting Sooty

[lupestripe]

It's the Leeds Meet on Saturday, my first meet in four months. I won't be at the Manchester one next month so this weekend's offering will be my only meet in half a year. Wow, I used to go to all of these.

In all honesty I feel I am distancing myself from the Fandom. I just don't have the enthusiasm for furry that I once did. The LJ diaspora has clearly highlighted who my true friends are and I rarely have the time or inclination to be online any more. This is largely because IMs are too much like my professional life and I struggle to make small talk. Finding common interests is also extremely tough in all honesty and, well, I am
approaching my Thirties when it starts to look a little weird if you hang around with teenagers.

My inability to go to EF next year isn't phasing me either, I am not too fussed. I see all the enthusiasm other people have for the community and wish I could share in it. But I can't. It doesn't feel right. It hasn't for a while.

Despite my fall in popularity, thankfully I do have some excellent friends, mainly you guys reading this. So thanks for being most excellent and I hope to see you soon. My social life has shifted to more intimate meets with closer friends and this is no bad thing. No, things have changed but they have also got better. Perhaps a smaller furry presence is the next step to take. Popularity is shit without true friends.

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Comments

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

My social life has shifted to more intimate meets with closer friends and this is no bad thing. No, things have changed but they have also got better. Perhaps a smaller furry presence is the next step to take. Popularity is shit without true friends.

This is pretty much the path I have taken in recent years. I go to meets now on a semi rare basis. I prefer it smaller, and quieter.

[silent-o.livejournal.com]

The "popufur" crowd seems to consist of a select few vain individuals and the ones with their mouths clamped to those individuals' backsides.

I have to vent all the time to keep the retardation levels from causing a dangerous meltdown in my brain.

[silent-o.livejournal.com]

I was hanging aroud 30-somethings even when I was in my teens because I had more in common with them than my age group.

You were one of my earliest furiends Lupe, I'll stick with you to the end.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I can't be done with meets any more. Nowadays, I prefer to spend time with my real friends in the fandom, either one to one or in small groups.

[snowtiger-uk.livejournal.com]

I kinda know how you feel, a few very good furiends are better than a large meet where just a pawfull regognise you.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

[rustyfox.livejournal.com]

I really don't think it's healthy to be measuring ones own popularity.

I've preferred socialising with friends than groups of [often very immature] strangers for years. That these friends consider themselves furry is not surprising, but pretty much irrelevant. It isn't ever something I think about.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Despite my fall in popularity



*grin* Had to be done.

Personally, I've never really been one for meets. No.. no, that's not entirely true, but I gave up the Yateley meets a long time ago. Did go along to some of the San Jose meets, around the time it left that nifty gothic coffee house, but I'm more interested in simply spending a bit of good time with friends, without the hectic element of a meet, or even a con.

Still, things change. And life'd be awfully dull if they didn't.

[fen-ra.livejournal.com]

Dude, as far as I'm concerned you're still popular, at least in your more intimate circle of friends. Pretty much exactly what you said here but meh, that's my meaning. You're a great guy and we all love a bit of Lupe.

Have fun tomorrow! :D

[enteirah]

I don't recall you ever making it to Liverpool or Chester, so you *never* used to go to all of them. :P

As for popularity 'falling', I think that all depends on how you measure it. You could act like a dick and jump on all the retarded internet jokes, as is seen to be the cool thing to do now. Such behaviour would gain you a endless circle of arsekissers too... but would you ever want that sort of popularity? Honestly, just sticking to those people you know and care about has always been the best way forward.