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[aethwolf]

Yourself
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1.  What is your name?
Aeth Wolf...or Keith, either is good.

2.  What is your email address?
    [if you are concerned about spam, you can replace the @ with a %]
Aeth.Wolf@gmail.com

3.  Are you male or female?
Male

4.  How old are you? / What is your date of birth?
19, November 27, 1985

5.  Where do you live?
Elizabethton, TN

6.  What are your interests/hobbies?
Well...if my geek interests and rock 'n' roll interests aren't apparent by now, you've probably not been reading this journal for very long.

7.  What do you do for a living?
At the moment, steal all sorts of things from the family.  This may be changing very soon to "fast food slave".

8.  How would you describe your personality?
INTP, on the Myers-Briggs test.

9.  Do you believe in ESP? Do you consider yourself to be psychic?
ESP? Who knows?  And, no, I don't consider myself psychic.

10. Are you a meat eater?
I'm a wolf, aren't I?



Furry media
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[in this section, the term 'furry' refers to the depiction of anthropomorphic animals in media (artwork, stories, music etc); and/or, media which affects you on a personal / emotional / spiritual level.]

11. Who are your favourite furry characters?
    [e.g. Mickey Mouse, Chester Ringtail, Amy Squirrel, Sonic etc]
Tails, Scar, Robin Hood, Baloo (Tailspin), Don Carnage (sp?), Fnar, Jack, Ozy, Millie, Stephan, Ms. Mudd.

12. What type of furry artwork do you enjoy viewing/collecting?
    [erotic/romantic, manga, goth, cyber/sci-fi, violent, cutesy/toony, pin-up, photomorphs/realistic, mythological, action, humorous etc]
Pretty much anything, as long as it's good.
   
13. What type of furry literature do you enjoy reading?
    [erotic/romantic, adventure, cyber/sci-fi, violent, humorous/parody, etc]
See #12

14. What are your favourite furry films/cartoons?
The Lion King, Brother Bear, Robin Hood, Oliver and Company, Balto, Tiny Toons, Rocko's Modern Life, and a myriad of others.

15. What are your favourite furry computer games?
Hmm...there aren't that many furry computer games.  I did play Inherit the Earth and thought it okay.  If by "computer games," general video games are included, it would have to be the Sonic games...Fur Fighters...undoubtedly others.

16. What are your favourite furry comic books?
Associated Student Bodies would have to be one of them, as I've not read too many furry comic books.

17. What are your favourite furry comic strips?
Ozy and Millie, Faux Pas, Jack, Vinci and Arty, Sabrina Online, Catena Manor, and Get Fuzzy

18. What types of furry media do you create?
    [art, stories, music etc. Feel free to mention a URL here]
I've written some pretty bad stories and tried my paw at art.

19. Who are your favourite furry artists?
Megan Giles, Den/Karabiner, XianJaguar, and there are probably others that I'm forgetting about.

20. Who are your favourite furry writers?
    [mainstream authors like Colin Dann and Brian Jacques; furry fandom writers like Allen Kitchen and Will A. Sanborn; or anecdotal Homesteaders like Batty and Plonq]
Hmm...dunno.

21. Who are your favourite furry musicians?
Well, being the only furry musician that I've had any interest in his music, it'd have to be halioffirpine



Plushies
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22. What types of plushies do you own?
    [species, size, colour etc. If you have a menagerie of plush then you
    don't need to list them _all_]
None.  Though, I do wish to acquire some wolf plushies.

23. What are your favourite species of plushie?
...Wolf.

24. What attributes do you look for when buying a plushie?
Overall quality, softness, how it looks.

25. Describe your ideal plushie.
Dunno.



Fursuits & Accessories
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26. What type of fursuits do you own?
    [species, size, design etc]
None.  I might pick one up at some point.
 
27. Do you enjoy wearing furry accessories?
    [collars, tails, ears etc]
I do quite enjoy wearing my collar.  I should actually wear it more often.
 
28. Do you feel 'furrier' when wearing a fursuit/collar/tail etc?
Not really.  I just play with the collar a lot.

29. Do you wear your fursuits in public?
    [e.g. at conventions, parades]
Seeing as I don't own any, I'd have to say no.
 
30. Describe your favourite/ideal 'furry' appearance.
    [e.g. wearing animal-themed clothes, fursuits, tail, collars...]
Just a generally furrier look than what I already have at times, like my collar, wolf shirts, I'd like to have ears/tail to wear around, etc.


Furriness
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['furriness' - the feelings, emotions, thoughts and lifestyle that result from your attitude towards animals / relationship with your 'phenotype']

31. What are your phenotype(s)?
    ['phenotype' - the species of animal(s) with which you empathise, bond, spiritually connect etc]
Wolf, though at one time I was a cat.
   
32. Describe your ideal physical form.
    [e.g. would you most like to be a human, or a normal zoomorphic animal, an anthropomorphic animal, centaur...]
Wholly anthropomorphic wolf.
 
33. How much would you like to actually become an animal/furry?
Enough to where I'd look into reversable transformations.

34. Would you like to be transformed into an animal/furry, if you could _not_ change back?
Being the cautious one, no.
 
35. What kind of furry, non-sexual fantasies do you have?
Mainly just being furry.

36. What conditions help you to enjoy/express your furriness?
    [being around other furries, exploring the 'great outdoors' etc]
Being outdoors in the country (outdoors in the city just plain sucks), being out at Bays Mountain near the wolves definitely helped me enjoy it.
 
 

External furriness
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37. How and when was your furriness first evident?
Very early on.  I've always had proclivity to talking/acting very canine.
 
38. How does your furriness influence your lifestyle, personality, appearance, emotions or thoughts?
My furriness and personality/etc. seem to be fused enough to where the two aren't seperable.

(Curiously, this was in the text of the furvey, so I'm keeping the ones that I actually do.)
                       
- Vocalization:        barking, meowing, howling, yipping etc

- Physical:            walking digitigrade, pouncing friends etc

- Online play:          acting out your phenotype within a virtual
                        world

- Imagination:          thinking about being an animal and/or furry
                        in real life

- Dreams:              dreams/nightmares relating to animals and/or
                        furries
  Shifting was mentioned, which is something I can semi-partake in.

39. How much control do you have over your furriness?;
    [does it have negative side effects; has it ever manifested itself involuntarily]
I can keep it in check most of the time, but it tends to slip out at odd times, like when I randomly barked on the way to lunch one day.

40. Do you act furry in public?
Yes.

41. How does your furriness influence the way you interact with people?
Offline, not really.  Online, of course.

42. Do you act more/less furry in the company of furry friends?
It's about the same, though when I have been in the company of furry friends, it hasn't been in situations that are all that furry.

43. What are other people's attitudes towards your furriness?
I haven't met anyone who's had a problem with it, other than necrojustice hates it when I use the phrase "on the other paw."

44. What types of furry themed decorations/accessories adorn your living space?
    [e.g. posters, drawing, calenders in your house/room]
It's easier if you just look here.



Internal furriness
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45. What factors influence your furriness?
(Again, I'm leaving in what I found to apply to me.)
- Observation:          being inspired by, learning from, and imitating
                        the behaviour and activities of animals (also
                        known as 'zoomancy')
                       
- Empathy:              an innate, possibly unexplainable affinity to a
                        particular species of animal(s)


46. How much of your furriness is 'instinct' vs 'learnt'?
It's a fusion of both.  Oft, I'll have the urge to do a particular action, but I'll have to learn how to do it.

47. The full moon: How does it affect you? Why do you think that it affects you? Do you think that it affects non-furries in the same way that it affects furries? Does the moon hold any spiritual significance for you?
I haven't charted any significant effect on me, other than I'm more prone to wandering on the full moon.
 


Animals
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48. What animals are you most/least comfortable with?
Most: Canids.
I don't think there's really a least.

49. What pets do you own?
Personally, none.  There is the family dog, but that's it.

50. Do you have the opportunity to watch animals in the wild?
Not without a special trip.

51. Do you have a greater-than-average empathy with animals?
I like to think so.

52. Do you believe that animals have ESP?
Why not?

53. Have you ever communicated with an animal via telepathy?
Telepathy? No.  I just have a natural understanding of dogs.

54. Do you think it is acceptable to hunt/raise animals for food?
Being a wolf, I'd have to say yes.

55. Do you think it is acceptable to hunt/raise animals for fur/leather?
If the meat is consumed as well, I don't see why not.

56. Do you think it is acceptable to hunt animals for sport?
Pure sport?  Hell no.  It's a waste of a life.




Internet
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57. What are your favourite animal/furry websites?
It's just as easy this way.

58. What are your favourite furry MUCKs/MUDs?
    [Multi User Chat Kingdoms / Multi User Dungeons - roleplaying worlds]
None.

59. What are your favourite animal/furry newsgroups/mailing lists?
I don't really belong to any.  I do belong to TNFur, but it's mostly a Nashville-area group, and I do look into alt.lifestyle.furry from time-to-time.

Questions 60-63 omitted because I barely frequent the newsgroup anymore.



Sexuality/Relationships
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[the questions in this category relate to sexual activities and fetishes; and/or emotional relationships. Remember: feel free to skip any questions which you do not want to answer. Definitions are listed at the end of this category.]

64. Are you straight, gay or bisexual?
    [if you want to be more precise you can specify your answer on a scale ranging from 0 (strictly heterosexual) to 9 (strictly homosexual).]
Gay, right around an 8 on the scale mentioned.

65. What are your favourite sexual activities, with other people?
    [TinySex, pony play, fursuit sex, roleplay, vanilla sex etc]
I don't have many sexual activities (with others, anyway).  In the past, I did enjoy TinySex, but I've since grown out of it...mostly (I can and have become rather frisky in IM, but it's rare).

66. What are your 'furry fetishes'?
    [Vorarephilia, macrophilia, microphilia, doraphilia, fat furries, transformation, plushophilia, inflatophilia etc]
I don't think I've picked up an furry fetishes.

67. Describe your ideal partner.
    [species, appearance, personality etc]
I really don't know.
   
68. What type of furry sexual fantasies do you have?
Hot, steamy ones that I can't think of any specifics of at the moment.

69. Has your gender preference changed since discovering the furry community?
Yes, but not really.  I'd been dealing with my homosexuality for several years before finding the community but didn't admit it until after being in furry for a year.


(optional categories, ignore if irrelevant)

Toonophilia
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70. What cartoon characters are/were you attracted to?
Quite a few, and some of them appear in the answer to #11.

71. Are/were you more attracted to furry cartoon characters than to human cartoon characters?
Yes.

Zoophilia
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72. What species of animal are you most attracted to?
Dogs, wolves, too, but I don't see myself getting any from a wolf.

73. Do you have a different gender preference towards animals than with humans?
Nope.

74. Do you have an (animal) partner?
I wish...

75. What part of an animal's body do you find the most attractive/sexy?
Hmm...dunno.  It's the whole package that matters.