Lotsa questions

[altivo]

Borrowed from rigelkitty and cargoweasel


1. Fur name: Tivo or Altivo
2. RL name: Gary
3. Other names: Fuffle
4. When is calling your fur name allowed?: Any time, anywhere.
5. When is calling your RL name allowed?: Anytime, anywhere.

Art
6. From the scale of 1 (stick figures) to 10 (Michaelangelo) how well do you draw?: 4 or 5
7. Have you commissioned artwork before?: Once
8. Has anyone commissioned you for art before?: No.
9. Done an art trade?: No
10. Generally, is your art collection G-rated, XXX-rated or in between?: All sorts of stuff, though I favor things that are gently suggestive.
11. Prefer realistic or cartoons?: Realistic fantasy.
12. Fave furry artists: Many, but Johnny Marten and Chris Sawyer come to mind first.
13. Fave non-furry artists: See any art museum. I like art.

Furiends
14. First furry you met on-line: Ken_Cougar (on Furrymuck).
15. First furry you met IRL: Bear (from Tapestries).
16. Last furry you met IRL: See above. I don't get out much.
17. Most recent friend: Gyroe (from Furrymuck).

Cons/furmeets
18. Gone to a furmeet: No
19. First furmeet: n/a
20. Last furmeet: n/a
21. Been to a Furcon before?: No.
22. First Con?: n/a
23. Last Con?: n/a
24. Prefer large or small cons?: Probably smallish to medium. I don't like mobs.
25. Con you want to go to soon: Midwest Furfest 2004 (definitely planning on this)

Fursuiting
26. Would you wear a fursuit?: Perhaps
27. At a Furcon?: Yes
28. At a scifi, anime, or comic con?: Yes
29. At an in-house fur meet?: No
30. At other large fur meets (ie Fur-B-Que)?: No
31. During Halloween?: Yes
32. Elsewhere?: You mean to a shopping mall or on the street? Probably not.
33. Wear ears, tail or paws?: Yes
32. At a Furcon?: Yes
33. At a scifi, anime, or comic con?: Yes
34. At an in-house furmeet?: Perhaps
35. During Halloween?: Yes
36. Elsewhere?: Perhaps, it depends on where.

Sex Life
37. Gay, straight or bi?: Gay with a bi history.
38. Sexually active?: No
39. Willing to do it in a fursuit?: You can get two people into a fursuit at once?
40. Prefer monogamous relationship or lots of sex partners?: Monogamous
41. Like your pets that much?: Only as far as petting. (I'd say this is a tacky question, but since I keep horses, tack can be appropriate at times.)

Miscellaneous
42. Like DDR?: Please goddess, no.
43. Music you listen to: Acoustic folk, classical, Celtic.
44. Hate Bush?: The man is irrelevant, but I despise the things he stands for.
45. Like firearms?: No
46. Travel frequently?: No
47. Are there any question(s) you'd like to add to this survey?: Depends on who is gonna answer them.
48. How long have you been into the fandom?: Since about 1991.
50. What one thing would you change in the fandom if you could? Less media exposure, less paranoia.
51. In which of the following "spheres" are you most active as a furry--Mucks, IRC, instant messaging, VCL, RL or snailmail art trades, oekaki, blogs, cons, local friends, other?: Mucks and blogs.

Comments

Its interesting ...

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

... some of the things one finds out about others. I'm a bit ancy about doing the furvey myself, actually.

Re: Its interesting ...

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

... and just out of curiosity, is your partner also furry?

Re: Its interesting ...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

What did you find out that was a surprise? I'd have thought you could guess it all, just as Calydor did.

No, my partner is not a furry. Though he has more fur than I do, actually.

Re: Its interesting ...

[calydor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, I've known you a lot longer, and more personally.

Re: Its interesting ...

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

I haven't had the chance to know you quite so personally (its been rare I've seen you on FM) and as close of a friend as Calydor is, he and I both respect others' right to privacy and confidance. I don't believe I've heard you talk about your real life much outside of your journal.

I didn't know your sexuality, though I felt "hints" I didn't feel it prudent to ask. For some reason, I didn't think you had been in a relationship for some time.

I guess that's what these furveys are for, to find out things about our friends we didn't know. :)

Re: Its interesting ...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I was heterosexually married from 1973-1976. We parted on friendly terms, though my ex is so footloose that I'm not sure where she is right now. I last heard from her about two years ago.

My current partner and I have been together 22 years, 3 months and counting. We own our property jointly, get along like any married couple (better than many) and I don't anticipate any changes for the rest of this life. We have a lot of shared interests as well as differences. Furry fantasy is probably a bit too exotic for him, though he is well aware of my involvement. He is an active Morris dancer, which I find similarly "far out". It all works in the end.

Horsiest?

[(Anonymous)]

Horsiest of the Altivo Horsies.

Re: Its interesting ...

[drelonek.livejournal.com]

Furvey? :P

Re: Its interesting ...

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

Furry survey. Learn the furry lingo! We practically have our own dictionary. ;p

[animist.livejournal.com]

We are looking forward to seeing you at MFF! I think you'll find it an interesting place with interesting people. Regarding this quiz, or "furvey", I think any such thing reveals as much about the person who constructed it as it does about the person taking it. for example, I always think of East Germany when I hear the letters DDR!

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

Wish I could attend, I'd be thrilled for a chance to meet 'Tivo, but my budget is on a severe constraint and I'm trying to save up to visit a certain special friend of mine next year and possibly attend two furry cons -- Eurofurence and one local to me, Conifur (already Gofur'ed this year so I can get Conifur next year for free ... don't know if I'll be able to swing EFX just yet).

A lot depends on my being able to get a *fourth* job between now and early next year (I'm already a student, working part-time for Frito-Lay and trying to learn the financial services business along with my father at a company called Primerica ... Frito-lay is the only one giving me a paycheck and last week I only worked 12 hours, its hard to save up on that ...)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Certainly understandable. I suspect we'll get a chance to meet sometime. (Though I admit I'm not sure why I should inspire much interest or curiosity.)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Me too, both about MFF and DDR. Until about a month ago, my only referent for DDR was East Germany. I admit to being astonished at how much some people would spend just in order to play a computer-controlled dance game.

I've never been too excited about dancing, myself. And my overly sensitive ears keep me well out of range of most dance venues these days, even more than my taste in music would do. On the other hand, it's certainly a more innocuous form of entertainment than many.

Music and dance

[animist.livejournal.com]

Don't worry - it's entirely optional. It is kind of fun to watch DDR, but only if the people involved are really good. Mostly it's boring because most people aren't. The funniest is when people try to do it in costume!

My taste in music is open to new stuff, even though I may be currently listening to Karajan's 1962 recording of the Beethoven Symphony cycle in the car. But the new stuff I like is really kind of retro-punk stuff that remind me of my youth. The hop-hop rap stuff and a lot of other new stuff I have little use for. Some of the uglier hard rock new stuff, strangely enough I like because of my classical background. Bands like "Korn" are not that hard to follow once you start to understand the modern orchestral masterpieces and get past the disonnance of them. Most Serialist music leaves me cold, but some of the more dramatic and expressive 12-tone and post-modern stuff I do like.