(NOTE: This journal was carried over from the previous iteration of SoFurry as the updated version of the website no longer offers support for user journals. As such, some verbiage may seem out of place.)

Earlier this year I ended a years long hiatus from the furry fandom and returned to the community as "Viscosisaurus", a brand new identity with no real ties to my nearly two decade long prior history in the fandom. This is my "Second Time Around", as my user title on SoFurry X so succinctly states. I would like to take a look back on this pivotal year for me and what it all means, and perhaps what I hope to achieve in the future. I'm breaking this up into little mini-segments to better organize my thoughts.

"Who the fuck even are you?"

I promise you this is not a million dollar question. I think I made a significant misstep when I decided to create this account by introducing myself as someone who was once "notable" in the furry fandom who had wiped their entire history clean to "start over" and it inadvertently cultivated this air of mystery around me. It is both more complicated and less complicated than that. The straight answer is I am genuinely nobody important, I was not a "popufur" or what-have-you but if you were into furry writing 10+ years ago you'd probably recognize my name if I told it to you. I wasn't famous but I had a generous amount of name recognition by having been an active contributor in the fandom since the late nineties; back when there weren't a lot of channels for furry content I just so happened to be among the few creators whose writing was available to read so I kind of just stumbled into noteworthiness by default. Because I continued posting stories for years I was always "in the conversation" so to speak.

My reasons for leaving the fandom are what's complicated and I don't think there's a way I can articulate it that's respectful and nonpartisan. It's not one single issue that led me to call it quits, there were a multitude of things that just added up to something I felt was unsalvageable. I really only "returned" to the fandom in a superficial sense to post stories again; I have zero interest in participating in the wider community surrounding the fandom. I will never attend another convention. I will never throw my hat into the social media sphere and try to build an audience there. The two main things killing the fandom are the rampant over-politicization of literally every aspect of the community and the abundance of legitimate sex predators who have had free reign to integrate into the fandom without any sort of pushback or self-moderation by the community as a whole. I find it all "very disagreeable" to put it politely and the fact that pointing it out as a bad thing instantly brands you as a "bad guy" because these disgusting people now make up a significant part of the fandom and are able to swing opinions and call the shots themselves is what led me to cast everything aside and move on.

If that troubles you well, then, that's just like, your opinion, man.

The Stories of 2024

I really had little in the way of direction when I came back to SoFurry so the first thing I posted was Kink Crew, a parasite/infestation story centered around what's known as "fencehopping". I think this may very well be the worst possible opening move I could've made as posting something that falls into the "contentious content" category as your first submission has the effect of instantly painting you in a certain light. I have literal dozens of projects and things from the past 26 years that I could've tapped for a first post and I went with that. It's a fine story with an interesting perspective for the reader but I think it would've looked better as a sophomore post. It is the first (and currently only) submission in the "Viscosisaurus: Rising" collection that catalogs stories written in 2023 and later, when I adopted this penname.

The second story I completed and posted was The Stacks whose lead-in summary incorrectly estimates the original authoring as 1998/1999. In hindsight I think it's probably closer to 2001, it's just that the backups and things I have of all these old writings have been transferred, copied, and converted many times and this has basically erased their original creation dates. The Stacks is another parasite story with corruption elements, the focus of which is genuinely one of the first real kinks/fantasies I can remember having. As such, I initially wrote the two lead characters as 16 years old and put it in a high school setting, not because I intended for it to be some Inkbunny-tier jailbait fodder or anything but because that's literally how old I was when I cooked up the scenes in the story. It was more of an indirect self-insert sort of thing from that era of my life but someone was kind enough to point out how that was not kosher here so I unlisted the story and revised it to take place in a university instead. Whoops. Anyways, the actual story itself did not change at all so the fantasy is still intact.

Glazed was next in line and this is probably the story I should've used as my lead-in. To this best of my knowledge this is literally the very first furry story I ever wrote, dating back to 1998. It's so old that it predated every major furry art & story aggregate and was hosted on my own personal website for writing. The plot of Glazed is based in something that allegedly happened at the university I attended and from it I spun up this whole little romance story that I couldn't get out of my head so I decided to write it down and make a page for it on my website. The link to that page slowly made the rounds and people seemed to really like it. It's also responsible for the generalized assumption that I'm gay myself, something that followed me throughout my entire time in the fandom. The journal "The Rumor Come Out" goes into further detail about that. Of all the stories posted to SoFurry under this name, this is the one that popped up on the list of submissions that are currently popular on the site. That's a page that in another lifetime I was no stranger to and it was a nice bit of nostalgia to see something I wrote appear in the ranks again, if only for a fleeting few days.

My fourth story, and the final one of the year, is An HR Problem and it's too new for me to reflect upon because I literally posted it earlier tonight. This story is based on one that I wrote as a private gift for a friend in 2011 and features their hermaphrodite dragon character using her "executive powers" to handle a sexual harassment situation in the office she works at. The whole "power dynamic with a female boss and male subordinate in an office setting" was an extremely specific turn on for the person this story was originally written for, which explains the setup of the entire piece. Like I said it's too new to look back on so I just hope you all enjoy it.

Looking Ahead to 2025

I'm hesitant to post anything that I'd previously published online in a public manner, that's why out of the four stories I posted this year we had one that was 100% new (Kink Crew), one that I don't think was ever posted at all (The Stacks), one that's so old that I'm banking on nobody remembering it (Glazed), and one that was only ever distributed privately (An HR Problem). I think out of all of them I'm taking the biggest risk with Glazed because while it has a new name and new characters and whatnot the story and setting itself are kind of memorable so there's always the chance that someone will read that and a light bulb will flicker on inside their head. Really, I almost kind of don't care if someone connects the dots. I just adopted a new name and all that because like I've said elsewhere despite leaving the fandom I never stopped creating, ever. I stayed in the tight friend circles I'd made long ago and shared my more recent writings with old friends even though all of my profiles on sites like SoFurry and FurAffinity were long gone. I mostly just wanted to have my work out there for a wider audience again with "no strings attached". The reason you don't know who I used to be is because I feel like having that information out there would just make people set expectations and I don't want to fuck with any of that. I'm old now. I'm done with "being somebody". I just want to post my smut.

I have a tremendous amount of works that fall into the category of "never released publicly" so I can revisit old projects until I am blue (pun intended) in the face. There's also a ton of new ideas that I've yet to do anything with so I can just keep plucking ideas from either side of this argument and keep things rolling so long as I feel it's worth my while. Right now my current projects have been cycling between five different things. The first is a multi-chapter story about a Pokemon breeder who has the ability to be a "universal donor" for lack of a better term so, you know, he does the whole "breeding" thing himself. It was the plot of an old fanfic that once exited on a long deleted Fanfiction.net account. I would like to just redo the entire thing and continue it proper since it never made it off the ground back in the day. I also have another alien parasite story similar to The Stacks except the infected person develops an ovipositor instead of tainted semen. Following in the footsteps of Kink Crew I have another horse story, though this one dabbles in things like transformation and light corruption that the protagonist takes a liking toward. Earlier this month I uploaded a commissioned piece of art of Viscosisaurus where he's lunging at the viewer in a toxic waste dump and that scene inspired me to put together this whole story about a voracious slime creature that developed as a result of radioactive pollution. Rather than fully consume prey the creature slowly developed sentience as it grew larger and became something of a manipulative predator that in order to feed from males in the way slime monsters usually do in works of erotic fiction evolved a way to ensure its prey keeps returning back to it. And then finally the fifth story is a human/orca tale that is grounded in another very old personal fantasy for me similar to The Stacks.

I have a lot of plates to spin, and I don't know which one will be next. It'll be a surprise for both of us.

That's really about all I have to say as a recap I suppose. I kick around a little bit in the Discord communities for SoFurry proper as well as the server that belongs to the writer Mirvanna Sunari, someone whose work I've always been a big fan of. If you're there feel free to poke me and say hello. Maybe I'll pop up in other nooks of the community, who knows. I am looking forward to the launch of SoFurry X, currently at www.sofurrybeta.com. You should join if you haven't and transfer all of your submissions over. I'm one of (if not the only) the few people who have a gold supporter badge there because I genuinely believe in this platform and I want to see it succeed. Toumal is a good guy and I trust him. I've seen a lot of depravity and horrible things in my quarter of a century in this fandom so for me to be able to single out Toumal and say "he's one of the good ones" says a lot.

I love you all, thank you for having me back. See you next time.