Good morning, rdrama!
I'm told @MarKong has a fun writeup of drama in the works, and I'm as eager as anyone here to see what he has to say. It does end up connected to me, though, so I figure I should lay the important details out in case he forgets any of them. This is all going to be tedious metadrama, I'm afraid; I'm sorry, but it was going to come out one way or another.
The tl;dr if you find this sort of thing dull: I ran a blatant furry alt here for the past 6 months, started the furry megathreads, and helped launch a Groomercord server to hang out with the local furries; Marco declined an invitation so he could infiltrate instead; now he has a fun spy story to tell everyone 
tl;dr of tl;dr: neurodivergence
August 2021: I come to rdrama as @Jackal because the point of this space is drama and leaning into furry nonsense while sharing horrifying furry drama on a site that hates furries seems like a fun bit.
September 2021: I write my first article about you guys; you're all kind enough about it that I feel I ought to create a proper account here and say hi 
October 2021-January 2022: @Jackal goes mostly dormant; I notice a few furries popping up around rdrama; I keep poking around here mostly on main.
December 2021: I publicly out myself as a disgusting furtwink for professional reasons, news to those who chose not to hang onto every word of my self-indulgent 30-minute self-introduction essay elsewhere.
~January 2022: After weighing my options, I elect to increase my participation here on @Jackal so that I can keep
@TracingWoodgrains around for substantive articles or other meaningful commentary and participate in a less obtrusive way overall.
29 January 2022: I decide it would be fun to formalize the furry infestation of rdrama and start a megathread. It's a roaring success in terms of both effort-to-drama ratio and chatting with random furries on rdrama.
11 February 2022: @AltAccountOkapi creates s/furry so we can properly dance on the corpse of Ruqqus; I join in the dancing. We quickly become the most-successful and most-blocked hole on newruqqus. Good work, lads!
21 February 2022: I misinterpret ambiguous messages from @geese_suck and
@MarKong to
@Jackal as indications that they know it's an alt of mine, so I confirm that the two accounts are connected. I don't care much for secrecy and anyone who expects alts to stay unknown on a site with Alt-Seeing Eye as an explicit feature is a fool, so I expected this to happen at some point. Once I increased activity on
@Jackal, I figured "local fake journo has furry rubbishposting alt" would be a fun easter egg for regulars to discover; I didn't mind telling them and am grateful they didn't make a big deal of it.
28 February 2022: I work with a couple of friends here to set up an experimental Groomercord server for some of the rdrama furries, starting with personal friends and expanding slowly to encompass a wider group. On my part, this was for purely self-interested reasons: I've never liked the furry fandom writ large but I like a lot of the local furries and wanted to assemble a solid circle of friends based on the peculiar intersection between furries and rdrama (more on that below).
3 March 2022: Since he is, after all, one of rdrama's most prominent furries, we elect to send Marco an invitation to join our Groomercord. He rudely declines 
4 March 2022: I accidentally furpost from main; because of the way rdrama deletion works my followers can still see it. Sorry about that 
7 March 2022: Marco positively ruins our weekly thread by ghost-awarding it and announces plans to keep doing so; I whinge to the chadmins as @Jackal and Carp takes vengeance for House Furry by ghosting the whole front page.
Also 7 March 2022: Marco reveals that he's been secretly infiltrating the server from an unknown alt after declining our invitation to join; shell account @SneedCityUSA starts spamming "concerned user" messages and grass awards while quoting lines from server chat; drama ensues. It's all very exciting and I'm sure you'll hear all about it in Marco's roundup, so I'll just provide the lovely gift messages
@SneedCityUSA wrote up for our shiny new grass badges:
)
(Presumably) 8 March 2022: Marco writes an epic about his infiltration.
A few thoughts on the matter:
I like hanging out with the local furries b/c a lot of the things I dislike about the furry fandom are mostly cancelled out by rdrama's effect. In particular, the site neatly avoids overly woke, tiptoeing-around-landmines environments while not leaning all the way into .win-style rightoid silliness and has a strict no-tolerance policy for libertarian or zoo rubbish, all of which combine to chase off most of the worst furries. More broadly, it's important, when you have an absurd hobby, to be able to make fun of yourself and not take things too seriously, so the relentless mockery of furries on rdrama is a public service that makes those who stick around here a pretty fun lot. I've been spending more time posting on @Jackal because I've been having a better time than I anticipated with it all.
I also hold that a furry infestation is healthy for rdrama as part of the initiative to blow everything out of proportion and make things as dramatic as possible, and to help spook .win-tier rightoids who freak out about funny stuff, but to be honest that's mostly just an excuse b/c infesting rdrama is fun.
I have no intention of shutting down either @Jackal or the Dramafur groomercord, or of furposting further on
@TracingWoodgrains. I joke about it, but I do get that most of you guys are (understandably) weirded out by furry rubbish at best and I don't want it to distract too much from my writing or other projects here for those of you who are uneasy about furries but enjoy what I have to say on other topics. Sorry to those (particularly
@Yall) who follow me in spite of furry rubbish and now get a whole bloviating metapost on it because of all this; all I can say is that I'd rather tell my own story than have others tell it. I'm a bit disappointed to be so visibly connecting the two accounts because I really do think it's more fun as an easter egg where most don't recognize me as me, but I stand by my words and actions on both and intend to carry on in much the same vein until I get bored.
Marco's good at what he does and he did indeed manage to cause havoc and panic some of our members early on in the life of our server. It's a clever work of drama and about what I expected from this space, successfully turning a comfortable conversation into a game of Among Us. Ah, well, that's what we get for setting up shop next to rdrama. Sorry to those of you who shared semi-personal info and are/were stressed about leaks; that's on me. I knew drama was a predictable risk, but I wanted at least a bit longer of comfortable, open conversation before something like this let all of rdrama find out about the space.
It's a good server tho 
If you feel like you ought to have gotten an invitation to the Groomercord but didn'tβyou're probably right and I'm sorry to have missed you 
I tried to limit things at first to mostly the people I've had substantive conversations with, but feel free to shoot me a message either here or on @Jackal if you're interested in the server. No promises on timing or definite entranceβwe're, uh, trying to tighten security up a bit, for some reasonβbut I'm always happy to chat. As a general reminder, keep in mind both that Groomercord servers are inherently public spaces and that we have no interest in allowing anything close to any ethical gray areas in the server. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
Anyway, nice work, Marco. You win this round, even if you're still a furtwink just like the rest of us in the eyes of most people here 
Next round's on me.
p.s. you should be sure to share the MTG cards story if you noticed it in the server. it's a fun one
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I believe I saw you posting furry porn very early on with your Journo account, so I figured you were a furstrag right at that moment. I never figured you were
@Jackal's alt though.
I remember when you told me that my posts "stood out" to you, I appreciated that comment but after reading your timeline I hope to fricking God you didn't think I was a furry too.
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I had no idea whether you were but thought you might be; I just thought your gimmick was clever and well-executed whether or not you considered yourself one.
it's still a great bit, for what it's worth
sorry furries keep making unsettling pictures of ribbon dog and the other eeveelutions
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I thought my gimmick was childish and r-slurred. It was an idea I had while drunk and I never imagined this shit gimmick would last longer than a week or have any positive reception. I didn't really plan anything or think it through.
I don't consider myself a furry, I don't know what is considered one though. I don't participate in any furry groups(I actively avoid them) and I don't really like most furry artworks, porn or otherwise they usually creep me out. But I do LARP as the Ribbon dog, which to many that's probably enough.
Lastly, I don't actually mind the "unsettling pictures" of Eeveelutions as much as I mind the cute twinks overexposing fetish images of them in inappropriate places or using them to push their degenerate agenda. The fall of Tumblr and its consequences I guess.
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honestly I'm just a sucker for the eeveelutions
I have a pretty expansive definition and I don't consider you a furry. LARPing as ribbon dog is adjacent but without any interest in furry art or porn you're safe from that sphere in my book.
and yeah, can't really argue with that. probably, uh, not the firmest ground for me to stand on after just revealing my degenerate furry alt here, but people are really bad about keeping that stuff contained and it's a real problem
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I'm a sucker for the eeveelutions too, but probably not in the same way.
I thought you were required to be a part of their community to be considered a furry, to have an "OC", "Fursona" or whatever and to be into anthropomorphic animals(I learned the hard way that's not a requirement). As far as my LARPing goes I'm pretty inconsistent with it and I don't take it too far. I do it because I think its funny.
If you keep those things to yourself or in the right place then I don't mind. I don't necessary enjoy or agree with it but I don't mind it lol. Blowing those things out of proportion is part of my gimmick/LARP. Except that time... Which I'm still very much ashamed and sorry for that.
I'm also ashamed of my
right now. Jesus. 
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eh, like many furries, I'm only a part-time degen. most of the time I expect it's basically the same way tbh; nsfw stuff has a time and a place but it's hardly the most central reason to like the eeveelutions.
and I'm the last person to be able to rag on people for
ing; making an alt here is actually the first time in ages I've been able to do anything other than terminally longpost online. always good chatting 
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I was joking about the Eeveelution thing but that's reassuring to hear lmao. It's not just the nsfw stuff that irks me though. It's the overall degeneracy around them. Especially on Twitter
(formerly Tumblr 
) As I said before, coomers that keep to themselves are honestly fine by me. I can't be annoyed by something I would have to go out of my way to find.
And I do get carried away when I'm talking about my r-slurred gimmick, this shit is stuck to me now and I can't get rid of it. This is what I am now.
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yeah I guess I feel like rdrama is sort of an exception for purposes of drama, but I've retained enough of my Mormon instincts to be bugged by public degeneracy. it belongs in containment zones
man that's how they get you
I spent my whole life successfully suppressing the urge to furpost, then I create a larp account here and before you know it I'm hanging out in a dramafur groomercord server and commissioning art of a fursona
obviously not quite analogous but turns out rdrama larping is dangerous
this place changes people
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Don't scare me like that! I don't feel compelled to join any furry community yet. Even if most of the dramatard furstrags are actually quite nice, I feel aversion to the very idea.
Since I like telling my life story; I got some experience with LARPing, I done that a lot during the days of online chat rooms. I stopped doing that as much when other social media platforms became available(I also got a life). 20 years later we are here. I got drunk, I was browsing my old Sylveon image folder and since this site allows me to upload my own images I thought that would make for a funny gimmick. I experimented for a bit, edited some of my images to be used like "stickers". and decided to act nothing like the average dramatard.
I would say one of the reasons I stuck with this gimmick is that it makes me nostalgic. I loved "playing" the weird characters in the old chat rooms and I can emulate that experience here. Also this is my last longpost for now because this is getting ridiculous lol.
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