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I did WHAT???
Dec. 5th, 2012 10:04 pmSo I was clicking around the Internet and happened upon this website, which purports to be the "real" history of what eventually became the FurnalEquinox conventions in Toronto. You probably cannot imagine my surprise to find my own name mentioned in the history. I did WHAT??? I "designed the logo" for CanFURence? But I'm not a graphic artist! There must be some mistake.
So I looked through the "Pyesetz" folder of my email. Unlike for my IRL name, I actually have a nearly-complete record of every email I have ever exchanged as "Pyesetz". And there it was: a logo for a furry conference, sent without comment from me to the TorFur mailing list. WTF??? Did I have an m-trans moment and some other personality in my head did that? And there were a bunch of other emails around that time, between me and Dan Skunk, in which I sound like I'm actually thinking about paying to attend a Furry convention — which I've never done in my life. Where's the Twilight Zone music?
The real explanation is probably much simpler. I was a newcomer in Canada and had noticed that government logos tended to have a flag over the 'a'. When Dan Skunk suggested "CanFURence" as the name for a project he was working on, I thought the logo was "obvious" so I fired up GIMP and made it, as a throwaway post to a mailing list. I thought nothing further of it — but Dan did. As to why I was considering attending, it was probably something like: "I'm in a new country, should meet people, how about a FurCon?" But I didn't go.
I like to think that I have a præternatural ability to not be there when drama happens. At university I heard several times that bad things occurred (e.g., police action) shortly after I left a keg party. So I was not there when the shit hit the fan regarding CanFURence/FurnalEquinox. Perhaps I thought it best to forget that I had ever paid any attention to that project.
It's too bad that the write-up linked above does such a piss-poor job of explaining what actually happened. People got mad at other people, but why? The world may never know.
So I looked through the "Pyesetz" folder of my email. Unlike for my IRL name, I actually have a nearly-complete record of every email I have ever exchanged as "Pyesetz". And there it was: a logo for a furry conference, sent without comment from me to the TorFur mailing list. WTF??? Did I have an m-trans moment and some other personality in my head did that? And there were a bunch of other emails around that time, between me and Dan Skunk, in which I sound like I'm actually thinking about paying to attend a Furry convention — which I've never done in my life. Where's the Twilight Zone music?The real explanation is probably much simpler. I was a newcomer in Canada and had noticed that government logos tended to have a flag over the 'a'. When Dan Skunk suggested "CanFURence" as the name for a project he was working on, I thought the logo was "obvious" so I fired up GIMP and made it, as a throwaway post to a mailing list. I thought nothing further of it — but Dan did. As to why I was considering attending, it was probably something like: "I'm in a new country, should meet people, how about a FurCon?" But I didn't go.
I like to think that I have a præternatural ability to not be there when drama happens. At university I heard several times that bad things occurred (e.g., police action) shortly after I left a keg party. So I was not there when the shit hit the fan regarding CanFURence/FurnalEquinox. Perhaps I thought it best to forget that I had ever paid any attention to that project.
It's too bad that the write-up linked above does such a piss-poor job of explaining what actually happened. People got mad at other people, but why? The world may never know.
