-  goliathcpg goliathcpg wants drugs, NOW! Seriously though, while he has since met his original goal in the time since my first journal on the topic, he is expanding the commission sale to build up a buffer for his next big medical bill. Prices are still the same but the theme has been changed to "Breeding for the future."
-  genniidrominda genniidrominda is still open for commissions, she's selling awesome sketch commissions like the half-dozen I bought from her already.
-  maikeru maikeru still has room for commission work even though his job status has improved. Prices are pretty cheap for line art and monochromatic color jobs. Come on people, $15 gets you a monochromatic color job like one I have of Syrniki.
-  longcriercat About to go back to school and having a bit of sticker shock about the price of college these days. Has since expanded his original offerings to include sketches and line art, prices range from 10 to 50 dollars and may do some YCH character auctions. You've likely seen some examples of his work based on what I got from him in trade so go on, buy something already.
-  arjuna Raising money for his pet ferret's medical bills so he's hosting a sale/raffle. Tickets are two dollars and everyone is guaranteed to get something for their troubles. Details can be found here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14356640/
-  sonitweek Is currently having an out of work experience, open for commissions and freelance work of a more professional grade as well.

In the words of Marcus the gun merchant, go buy something already.

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So, after having "We're furries, of course we're going to hell" as a personal quote to sum up my general cynicism since... FA first went live I think, I decided to change it. I've been thinking off and on about things like one of the directions my writing has gone in lately and what prompted me to go that route and tonight after talking with a friend, I decided a new mission statement was in order: "The day I lay down my arms as a satirist will be the day fools stop celebrating the flaws in their writing as virtues."
That is all on that matter, now for more of our regularly scheduled announcements

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So, I started dipping into writing Hearth Star more often, partially because Scientific Curiosity and another story I believe I still have to post titled Supply Lines (a short story following the Star Corps marines as they waddle about the ship seeing how the humans get food, the ship's nonsapient ecosystem, and start securing their own supplies of food) were on my to-do list for unfinished projects that had been sitting for ever and partially because I wanted to develop the setting a little more to unwind. Anyway, to make a long story short, I sometimes play Facebook games (which explains why I get as little work done as I do) with worse writing then an FA fanfic (as difficult as that may seem at times) but sometimes they give me ideas for projects I don't take too seriously like Hearth Star.
Anyway, to summarize quickly for people just tuning in, Hearth Star is a silly project that started as an idea for a one-off anime parody before mutating into a fatfur space opera parody that basically embraces cliches or silly subplots I normally would try to ignore. There is an element of seriousness buried beneath it all, humans are trying to survive the destruction of Earth and eek out an existence in the lower depths of a world-ship about the size of our moon called the Hearth Star. But the guys that rule the Star and ravaged Earth, the Wuffs, are a parody of anime space pirates and the furries that worship them to the point of zealous fanboyism. And things only get sillier from there, there are the portly space cops of the Intergalactic Police Agency and the rotund space marines of the Star Corps. Anyway, I recently started to wonder, even though the setting barely mentions the supernatural except for one blurb in the IPA write up, does anyone think there is room for Je-space wizards in the overstuffed line up I already have?