Roxanne

(Earlier versions of this post appeared on Instagram May 3rd and May 8th)

I  watched A Goofy Movie from my pile of snotty tissues in my sickbed and then I immediately drew Roxanne, so I guess I’m a furry now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oops I drew Roxanne again??? Haha definitely not a furry, not me ::SWEATS::

Because we’ve featured furry comics on Oh Joy Sex Toy, I pretty regularly stumble over/am made aware of conversations debating whether I’m a Closet Furry or not and, like, I was raised on Disney Afternoon cartoons so of course I have an emotional connection to anthro character designs. 

If my childhood drawings still existed, they’d be full of rudimentary fanart of Gadget and Sunni Gummi and Princess Sally and Bunnie Rabbot and Rebecca Cunngham and those hot centaur bitches from Fantasia (...there may have been some early clues I was a little bit gay...). If all it takes to count as a furry is enjoying media that features them, then cool! I’d be happy to include myself as one, just as I'm a comics and animation fan as well. 

But my appreciation for those cartoons is as far as my interest goes. Y’all know I LOVE drawing myself, but I have no desire to make a fursona and, though I’ve enjoyed the novelty and artistic skill of it, I never felt a connection when folks have drawn their own interpretations of anthro me. Plus, I’ve never felt the need to seek out a furry community? I’ve got some individual furry friends and they are great! But the friendships started around other subjects first and when they talk about the dynamics and politics of their subculture, hoo boy, I don’t think I’d last a day. Man, I am just super boring! 

Anyway, long way of saying: IF I WERE A FURRY, I WOULDN’T BE HIDING IT. For Pete’s sake. I published a comic about wet farting during phone sex, I nearly was in a porn, and I make a living by reviewing sex toys. You think I’d be embarrassed of having an adorable anthro version of myself that I could be spamming across my social media and badgering other artists to draw for me? C’mon. C’moooooon.

My participation in the furry fandom remains the occasional fanart of pretty furry ladies. Should that change, you guys’ll be the first to know 😘

(My fursona would be a small, anxious, paranoid, scared animal that compulsively itches and bites itself [I’m a dermatillomaniac] and is constantly forcing itself into people's laps so it'll get pet and every time the person tries to take their hand away, I'd do that thing where an animal shoves its head under the hand so the human is petting them through no effort of their own. And if the person tried to stand up, I'd hook my claws into the lap area of their pants so I'd just be clinging and dangling and howling and they'd be like "LET GO, YOU'RE DOING THIS TO YOURSELF" and their pants would probably get wrecked and I'd look at them like "Y R U SO MEAN TO ME???" and it would just generally be a shitshow. And then when they sat down again later, I'd hope in their lap and we'd repeat the same process again.)