Sylvan

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Sylvan is both the fursona of David J. Rust on FurryMUCK as well as his nickname within furry fandom. He discovered furry fandom in 1989 when loaned a copy of the fanzine The Centaur's Gatherum Newsletter edited by Ed Pegg Jr. He was already a member of the larger speculative fiction fandom at the time and found that his love of Greek myth, Warner Brothers cartoons, and anthropomorphic characters in general matched well with the sub-culture. He lives in Columbia Heights, Minnesota and is both an activist (in GLBT and Pagan religious issues) and essayist.

He remains a writer in the fandom, occasionally creating new short stories aimed at macrophiles or other sub-sets of the fandom. His only other work of note is The Sociology of Furry Fandom, a Subculture Study in 2000. A historian by training, he consulted with a doctoral candidate about his research and compiled the online paper to be a short examination of furry fandom's subculture at that time.