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-title: How to make Friends in the Fandom
+title: Friends in the Fandom
 pubDate: 2025-11-18
-description: "This is the first post of my new Astro blog."
+description: "Making friends, or finding partners, can be easier once you know how to go about it."
 author: "@lio@pounced-on.me"
 tags: ["furries", "making-friends"]
 # published: true
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+> **I know that what I write here won't work for \/every\/ Person, but it's advice that has helped and worked for me throughout the Years.**
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+Making friends is hard. I understand the feeling of loneliness some might be feeling seeing others in the fandom have "the time of their lives", hanging out with other furries IRL.
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+I was in a similar boat when I initially joined the fandom back in `2018`. I didn't know a single soul who also had an interest in this as much as I did. My then-existing circle weren't furries themselves, while all of them _were_ roleplayers, this only ever extended to original or existing humanoid characters. So I had nobody to really talk about this with.
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+What I did back then was join a Discord server called `Couch Furs`, to have some way of socializing with other furries. Through that, I got to know a lot of the other regulars of the server, eventually finding friends and even (ex-)partners through it eventually.