I assume you're probably here because you want to know more about the elusive me. I've been part of the furry fandom since the late nineties but a lot of that history has been intentionally undone and obfuscated for personal reasons, some of which I'll slightly pull the curtain back on here. I will do my best to consolidate nearly three decades of my life into one post of reasonable length.

I "heard" about the furry fandom by way of being a frequent visitor to a number of early fansites for things like Tiny Toons Adventures and Rescue Rangers. Given my age, this was an extremely common vector of entry. Simply being in these circles was enough to eventually lead someone to the burgeoning furry community. Honestly, I just really enjoyed anthropormorphic characters and the media they were from in a general sense. Disney's Robin Hood had a huge presence in my childhood; I absolutely loved that movie and Maid Marian was probably my first childhood crush. I have fond memories of frequenting the comic book store in the city where I attended university checking out the latest issues of Furrlough, Critters, Albedo, and whatever other one-shot indie comics that the owner had picked up. I also was a reader of Genus, though to say I "read" that comic is something of a misnomer because that was definitely one where you were supposed to "pay more attention to the art" if you catch my drift. Things were simpler back then. There was an adult side to the community that I won't deny was there, I participated in it, but it was largely just things like pin-ups of male & female characters in various states of undress and slash fanfics.

The first furry website I can remember actually joining and not just browsing was Lava Dome Five. Their "interest" in dinosaur feet (and crushing...) did not really appeal to me but it was one of exceedingly few places that was scaly-centric in the early fandom. Even if I did not personally subscribe to the main kink of the website I still got along well with the community. I was also an avid follower of Gideon Hoss' and Duncan Roo's pages on Macrophile.com though, again, that particular kink wasn't my thing either. I just liked Gideon's art style and Duncan's character design. I was always into furry comics and literature, so it did not take long for me to dip my toes into the water myself. The first story I ever posted exists online today under the name "Glazed". It's a gay romance and coming out story between a couple of college students predominately inspired by a rumor that circulated about something that allegedly happened at the university I was taking classes at. The story was posted to the personal website I maintained at the time.

I guess you could call "Glazed" an early "hit" in the fandom. I received a lot of emails from people who read it and really enjoyed it. Most everyone I heard from appreciated the yiff, sure, but they also liked the "human" (for lack of a better term) element in the story. It was relatable. It was "real". The feedback was a surprise to me because I assumed maybe a dozen people would ever read it, but in actuality the link got passed around and I heard from lots of people! It lit a fire in me that still burns to this day. I became a furry writer and what ensued was a near two-decade run of, in my completely biased opinion that's somewhat backed up by 20 years of feedback, some of the best erotic fiction the fandom had ever seen.

Every creator has a niche they serve and for me I settled mostly into the realm of writing stories that featured sci-fi settings and heavily played into the kinds of kinks commonly associated with that subject. My first "big" project where I felt I started to define the type of stories I'd become known for was just after the turn of the millennium. I took a comic that hit a lot of beats I was into (tentacles, transformation, body horror, possession) and essentially rewrote it into an expanded edition in story form that kept the original plot intact but added in a few new characters and some new scenes featuring them that happened during the events of the comic. I also continued the story beyond the canonical end of the comic to incorporate some additional worldbuilding. For the sake of privacy I won't name the comic or its author, but they caught wind of what I was working on and were a big fan of what I'd written. I suppose that early plug from the comic artist was the seedling that declared "this is [Viscosisaurus], if you like the kinds of stuff in my comics then you will probably like what he writes too", and from there the rest is history. I had an audience, I had a niche, and all that was left to do was let my fingers do the talking.

By now you're probably saying "gee Viscosisaurus, where's all these stories you keep talking about?" Those stories have all been removed from the internet. It's... complicated. I met countless people in my time with the furry fandom. I formed what turned out to be lifelong friendships in many cases, people I've known since we were in our 20's and we are now all firmly in the back halves of our lives. Friendships and relationships that I deeply cherish to this day. A certain saying comes to mind, however. I think it was the marketing tagline to that biopic they made about Mark Zuckerberg a long time ago: "You can't make a million friends without making a few enemies too." The furry fandom is a complex beast to put it lightly. I don't think at any point I ever intentionally set out to be a bad person to anyone in particular, but there were certainly people out there who tried to do that to me. I never really understood their motives but I think it just had something to do with the immature high school "clique" mentality that began to foster in the community in the late 2000's. Dealing with the peanut galleries of sites like Portal of Evil and Something Awful was easy, they were just assholes on the internet taking pot shots at people they thought were easy targets. But the infighting from within the fandom? That was something else.

Choosing sides was never really something that appealed to me. The entire time I'd been around I just enjoyed writing and sharing my stories and being able to meet and collaborate with other artists whom I looked up to and admired. Things were on a downward trend for a while, and then the 2016 U.S. presidential election happened and... everything just went to absolute hell. I can't really explain it; you just had to be there. All those "factions" and "cliques" and what-have-you that had been growing over the years? They all seemed to rip apart in an instant to separate corners separated by massive ideological chasms. I just write weird sci-fi furry smut. I don't care about any of this, but I felt like I was being "forced" to make up my mind and pledge an arbitary allegiance to things that I have no public investment in whatsoever. I tried to stick around, but the rot was too severe. Creating and sharing my work wasn't "fun" anymore because everyone I encountered had a very apparent ulterior motive. You were either on "their side" or you weren't, there was zero gray area. I felt that the fandom was unsalvageable and that I had nothing left to contribute, so I left and took everything with me in the process.

Nearly a decade passed. I never actually stopped writing stories, but rather than post them anywhere I just shared them among the small circle of likeminded disenfranchised furs I'd stayed in touch with. Over the years they did their best to try and encourage me to keep writing and to someday start sharing my work again because it was something I was good at, I enjoyed doing it, and people genuinely seemed to like it. I agreed with all of their points, but I just didn't want to come back. In 2024 however, I ultimately relented and decided perhaps I'd give things another shot after all. I rejoined SoFurry, a website that I've been a follower of since the days when it was called Yiffstar what feels like a lifetime ago, and posted a couple of rough pieces to fish for feedback. I'd decided to adopt an entirely new name (Viscosisaurus) and start over from scratch. Activity on SoFurry isn't what it used to be, but the community there did at least like what I had shared. Perhaps the most meaningful thing out of that decision was in the process I got to reconnect with Toumal, the owner of SoFurry.

So, I've made up my mind. The stories I write are going to be cataloged here of course, but if you want to follow me anywhere my work will be exclusive to SoFurry (where I have the gold-level Supporter status). The reason for this is because out of all the major furry art sites out there, I trust Toumal. In fact, I actually literally only trust him. I always thought Dragoneer was a scumbag who couldn't stop from getting into trouble and making a fool of himself. I had a FurAffinity account back in the day, we all did, but I'm never joining that platform again. Dragoneer is dead, but the person who replaced him is somehow an even shadier and more untrustworthy person than he was. Weasyl never got off the ground, and neither did Furry Network. Inkbunny seems fairly stable but it's kind of an open secret that you only go to that website if you're looking for a "very specific" kind of content and that's not a demographic I cater to so I have no business being there. GreenReaper gets a pass from me though, he was always very helpful and cordial when I needed help with Wikifur.

During my original tenure within the fandom I wrote a near-fathomless amount of work. If you count each separate chapter of everything as its own submission then I know I cleared 100 stories easily, and for every story that made it online there were one or two others that never made it beyond a scrawling of ideas or a loose outline. I do still have all those stories I wrote long ago. I've toyed with the idea of reissuing them carte blanche on this website, but I always keep reminding myself that they were pulled for a reason. It was time to move on, and all of those works belong to a person who technically isn't around anymore. Those stories had their time in the spotlight. While I more than likely won't ever just upload a straight archive of everything I've been revisiting some of these finished works and retooling them into newer stories, the aforementioned "Glazed" comes to mind here. I also have a giant back catalog of ideas for things that never made it off the ground. I will be busy for quite some time, and in that time there's plenty of room to make new memories as I turn over a new leaf as a writer.

I am not on any social media platforms. Both Twitter/X and Bluesky are repositories for the worst people on the internet, and Facebook just sucks in general. All that "you're either with us or against us" nonsense I mentioned that flared up in 2016 is still very much a thing and it's only gotten worse since. I really don't have the patience for political bullshit, there is no reason for me to make an account anywhere. I'm an aging Gen X asshole and all I want to do is just share my work and appreciate the work of others. Since day one that's all I've ever really aspired to. If you are unable to do this most basic of things without injecting your politics into it then you are not someone I ever want to interact with. I do have a Discord handle (viscosisaurus) that I check from time to time, but I don't really use it much. I do not have a public Telegram or messenger account. If you want to contact me, you can message me on SoFurry or send me an email (raptorgoo, provider is Outlook). I am not impossible to get ahold of, but I am most certainly one of those socially reserved older furs now.