Mystic Wish

Ok so, like since high school when I first met NetKeeper.... even a little bit before that I've always been associating myself with penguins, and have always had at least one Penguin persona I RP with... this in mind some of my friends in the furry community have been referring to me as an aviary and brought me to some of the places where furries like to hang out on the internets, and brought me into the groups of furries on 3D chat programs they were in on Second Life and IMVU. Since then I've fallen in love with the idea of mythical furry types: Merfurs (part fish part non-human mammal: cat, monkey, etc), furtaurs (body of a horse, with non-human mammal top half in centaur fashion), Merviaries (part fish, part bird), Avicaiders (top of a bird, bottom of a goat), you get the idea.

I have over the years accumulated a plethora of avitars to use for RP or just hanging out in these furry groups as a mythical type or aviary for IMVU. However, most of my furry friends that introduced me to these groups have left, and now the people remaining in those groups argue if I should still be allowed to stay because some of them say mythical types and aviaries aren't really furries, and some of them say that they are still considered furries, but they're more like that one kid in the furry family that no one pays attention to and nobody likes.

What are all ya'lls oppinions on this?

Mystic Wish is a community on InsaneJournal, but since there's always going to be people that have never used sites like these before, I figure it's appropriate to give a bit of a guide.

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