Bit of super-ancient furry-adjacent history. [Furries In Unusual Spacetime?]
One of the earlier manifestations of Furries was Otherkin. Wolves, dragons, all manner of beings, gathered in a huge online mailing list known as The Elfinkind Digest. I had two friends who were Elfin and they thought I’d find it interesting and it was. While I never went any deeper, I was glad to see this kind of congregating and identity creation in this alternative universe that at the time was just text on a green or amber screen but whose magic was the wires connecting beings from around the globe in what felt like an impossible way. You can find bits of this early history online still and you’ll see much mention of “Filking” which was folk singing using alternate lyrics.
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