Ari Schaffer (born Arianna Fowler) is basically a teenager trapped in a 25-year-olds body. I'll just let her explain:
That first quote was her BTW. That's her pseudonym. Oh, and she's fat so the 'fit enthusiast' part is laughable.
She is a furry. Her 'fursona' is a gryphon named Misti. She even created a Facebook profile for her so that her Furry friends could add her there, presumably with their fursonas. She also is very anti-yiff and even 'created' 'Not All Furries are Yiff' month. She says if someone tries to send her porn or sex RP with her she'll delete them.
She writes on Wattpad and has about five profiles on there, all for different things. She calls herself an 'authoress'. She met a friend on there who she grew obsessed with. They no longer speak, and here's why:
In June of 2018, she 'came out' as genderqueer/genderfluid, pansexual, and two-spirit. She claims she can say she's two-spirit because she's part Native American. She doesn't know this; never got a DNA test because she says she doesn't need that to know. Anyway, she got destroyed because of this (she's a Fundie so pretty much everyone she knows is anti-LGBT) and later retracted it because she'd rather live her life for God. She still claims to be a 'genderqueer female' because she's a tomboy. She was at one point considering buying a cheap binder off of Wish for when she hated her boobs. At the same time she is openly Anti-LGBT herself and as recently as January 24th she said transgenders had a mental illness. I don't disagree, but that is something that's interesting to note.
On a related note, she claims to be a centrist, but everything I've ever seen her say about her political beliefs are VERY conservative. She opposes abortion, she's fine with gay marriage but thinks being gay is a sin, again. She thinks trans people are mentally ill (again, I don't disagree). She's anti-feminist. Pro-gun. Only two genders (I'm not sure she actually believes this considering her 'genderqueer' label but she doesn't want to admit she thinks she's nonbinary). Freedom of speech includes hate speech. Other than being okay with gay marriage (but not gays, because that makes sense) and weed, she's not a centrist like she claims.
She is a huge Celtophile, more specifically she's absolutely OBSESSED with Scotland. She's posted before that she thinks she has a mixed Scottish/British/American accent (she doesn't), claims to follow 'Celtic Christianity' (along with her 6 other religious views) and at one point tried to claim she knew Gaelic in her Facebook languages (there is a Gaelic greeting on her bio and that's about all I've ever seen of her knowledge). She even has a weird way of speaking. She'll say 'aye' 'ye' instead of 'you' a LOT. For example 'do ye got a pencil?' Her adoptive father has some Scottish ancestry/ so that may have played a role but if she has any it's very far back (or so I'm told).
She is very open on her Facebook about her self-harming urges. She even has the milestones marked as life events. She hasn't recently but in the past she would post every day with how long she'd gone without doing certain things. For example, she'd make a post like this one (with a picture of something random): cut free-3 days, binge free-2 days, no erotica-1 day (LOL she never made it more than a week without erotica either). She talks about it A LOT and apparently she has bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, and anxiety. I don't know what she's been diagnosed with officially, if anything (I also suspect Asperger's) but that's what she had admitted to having.
Note that she used pawprints as markers.
She posted this on Halloween:
She also has done multiple stints in a mental hospital. It looks like at least 3, all in 2014. She now gets chips for milestones, like AA.
After the first year she stopped. No idea where she got those. At first I assumed she had a support group but then she mentioned erotica. I can't really see a support group giving out buttons for that, so she probably ordered them online.
She also has boundaries for adding her. I feel like 5 and 6 kinda contradict each other but okay.
She acts like someone who never left their middle school cringey phase behind. I'm pretty sure everything she says is unironic too.
Links:
Her Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegryphonwing Archive link: https://archive.md/FO5SO
Here's the fursona profile: https://www.facebook.com/dunnahehexD Archive link: https://archive.md/Ml1ye
One of her blogs: http://gaelicinklingsncosplays.blogspot.com/ Archive link: http://archive.md/L06fs
Another blog: https://spartanbugsaint.blogspot.com/ Archive link: http://archive.md/JXxHa
This is her main Wattpad (I think) that offer links to the other ones: https://www.wattpad.com/user/bohemianragamuffin Archive link: https://archive.md/eF77G
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegryphonwing/ (private, but she may add you, especially if you're a furry or at least say you are) Archive link: https://archive.md/fyxRE (blank, because Insta I guess)
'Misti's' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mistyaarinarts/ (not private) Archive Link: https://archive.md/VSsr6 (also blank)
deviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/thegryphonwing Archive link: https://archive.md/HatXR
Profile on 'Facebook for Furries'; https://www.furgather.net/profile/thegryphonwing (locked, but if anyone wants to take one for the team and make a sock account you can do that; or just use your regular account; we don't need to know you have one for real) Archive Link: https://archive.md/9q3A7
Her mental illness advocacy page: https://www.facebook.com/LIGHTforMI/ Archive Link: https://archive.md/tylSE
And the Insta for it: https://www.instagram.com/lightformi/ Archive link: https://archive.md/BdeX3
This is the website: https://lightformi.com/ Archive link: http://archive.md/FNCtV
She has a lot of pages/sites but not many of them are active (probably stretched too thin). Those are the only one she's posted on in the past year that I could find in her Facebook bio.
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