My avatar is a headshot I commissioned last September.  I feel like it does a good job of summing up my personality.  Worn, weary, seen a lot, done a lot, beem through a lot...But still managing to remain content with a keen eye.

I've been involved in the furry fandom for...Dang.

15 years.

I started way back in 2007, and it's the most commitment I've had to any fandom to date.  Despite all of the off-the-wall drama that seems to erupt out of nowhere.

Whoaaa Tanner! You're one of the few people I tried to reach out to a year or two ago to see how things were going. I see you've kept a similar color style for Roady, very cool. Hope life has treated you well, and good to see you back here

I'm certainly doing better than I was five or six years ago.  Rough patches and bouts of drama haven't stopped, but I at least have the stability to weather the storms.  So to speak.

The shift towards being a dragon happened in 2017.  Symbolic of my ability to pull myself out of harrowing situations after struggling/surviving subject matters that aren't appropriate for a Land Before Time forum.  Homelessness, addiction, C-PTSD, and the like.

However, I can look back now and truly appreciate how far I've come.  In 2016 I was living in a van on a dirty industrial road in Seattle.

Currently?  I own a small house in Springfield, Oregon, I'm an organizer for a regional furry meetup group, and I've been hustling to succeed as an independent filmmaker.

So yeah...All things considered?  It seems life is treating me much, much better.

I'm no longer Tanner the lizard anymore.  No longer crawling on my belly at the bottom of a pit.

I'm Roady the Wayward Dragon, and all I have to do now is spread my wings and fly.