I'll be there

What's this thing? Words go here?

Yeah, yeah, I'm still alive. Sorry to the people that have tried to chat with my lately. I've been pretty unresponsive, to say the least.

So, I just finished reading Summerhill by , and I figured I'd share my thoughts on it. I don't think I've written a book review since junior high, so forgive me if it's a bit ham-fisted.

The basic premise is a time traveling dog named Summerhill who is trying to find out who he is, and the adventure he has along the way. If you're not into science fiction, or time travel, or...dog people, then you may not like this story too much. However, if you're a normal person and like all those things, Summerhill may be just up your alley.

Despite the nature of the story and the inconsistent chapter length(more on that in a moment), I thought the book flowed extremely well. The pacing was right where it needed to be, which made the book very difficult for me to set down.

I mentioned the chapter lengths. Normally I'd strongly advocate for keeping your chapters at least fairly close in length to one another, but in this case the varying lengths actually aided the above mentioned flow and pacing. I only found one chapter-to-chapter transition to be jarring.

The book really shines in the characters. They're very believable and likable. I've always had a huge soft spot for Rikoshi's writing style, and one of the reasons is his ability to make his characters seem natural (even when they're a bit supernatural).

Rikoshi does a good job of setting up and delivering with plot points. He doesn't over explain things, or get bogged down in nuance, which can be a big trap for authors in this sort of story. He left questions, but not annoying ones. I feel the book is well set up for a sequel, and equally well set up as a stand alone.

If you can't tell, I really liked this one, and if I may address one major complaint...

Goddammit, now i want to go play Mass Effect after reading the last chapter. I was reminded of Eden Prime and the gas bags!

Fantastic book by a fantastic fellow. Go spend some money and get it!


On a side note:

Reading this smacked me out of my month long writer's block. I was actually starting a sort of time travel story on my own, and seeing someone who had finished one must have been the kick in the arse I needed ;3

Where are you staying?
Main Hotel

What day are you getting there?
Thursday about 4pm

Who will you be rooming with?
 sako223  rixam  vexser, and  damian_shadowpaw

Who will you hang out with during the convention?
My friends, duh!

Will you be suiting?
Nope

Do you do free art?
Sure, but let's not call it art.

What is your gender?
Male

How tall are you?
5'11

Are you taken? Are you looking for a 'mate'?
No, and maybe? but not some random con person xD

Can I talk to you?
Yep

Can I touch you?
If I know ya!

How can I find you?
I dunno, you could text me.

Can I visit your room?
If invited

Can I buy you drinks?
Yes

Can I hug or snuggle with you?
Hug, if you don't smell bad

Are you nice?
Usually

Do you have an artist table?
Your mom's an artist table

Will you be going to parties?
I might

Will you be performing?
Songs? Dances? Fellatio? I dunno what this is asking!

If I see you, how should I get your attention?
Try saying hello

What/where will you be eating?
Whatever I can

Can I come with you for food/fun/etc?
Maybe?

Can I draw in your sketchbook?
Sure, if I have one

Can I take your picture?
Sure

What's your goal(s) for the con this year?
Not die

My FCN room is all set up this year!

Will be myself  sako223  rixam and  vexser


Can't wait!

As of right now my room (main hotel) from Thursday-Monday consists only of myself and  sako223

We wouldn't mind another body or two! Hit me up if interested.

Ok since everyone is asking me the cost. It's the total cost of the room divided by the amount of people xD pretty basic. I believe it comes out to about 115 per night with tax? But am not 100% sure.

So, I think I'm going to be a bit bold and try and get something I wrote into a furry anthology. Never quite felt my work was up to par, and I honestly am still not at all sure, but I want to at least get my feet wet a bit.

It'd be nice to see something I did in print, and to know at least someone is out there reading.

Already started work on it. Is going to be probably the strangest story I've done, but it fits in the theme. Moreover, I bet it comes at the theme from a different angle than others will.

Wish me luck.

http://www.sofurry.com/view/493476

Seems I do! Always hard to get furries to read the stories without the bunga bunga fun time sex, though.

Well, I got a new laptop. Let me first give some backstory.

In 2009 when I bought my Macbook Pro it was significantly more expensive than its PC equivalent. This time around I decided I'd save that chunk of money and just get one of the cool new ultrabooks, or even a really nice normal laptop. Guess what... they got expensive in the last 3 years!

The past 3 weeks I have also played around a fair bit with Windows 8, and I'm going to be honest: I hate it.

Lo, I discover that since 2009, Apple prices are identical for their models (thought said models are better than they were in 09). So I'm sitting there, looking at this, and it's obvious. I preferred my mac for a laptop, and for the same specs I'm really NOT saving much money now a days going PC, and I really disliked Windows 8...

So yep, I bought a new Macbook Pro.

You know, for a guy who just 3.5 years ago was religiously anti-Mac.. I now have an iPod, iPhone 5, and 2 MacBooks. Yep, turned into an Applefag xD

But really, the pricegap has closed a lot, and based on experience the macbook pro will be more durable and reliable over the long run (assuming you don't put it in the sink with the dishes), and windows made a shit OS so the decision is quite simple; at least for me.

Well the MBP is toast, the issues to it are deeper than I hoped for, and it would cost a lot to get running. Thankfull I can access the data on it.

So..time for a new laptop. I might get another Mac, but I'm open to other suggestions. Only a few basic requirements:

14" or LESS
Durable
Long batter life
Acceptable specs for a modern system
NO WINDOWS 8

Honestly leaning to a new macbook.. I really liked the one I had

http://www.sofurry.com/view/484389

Very NSFW. Western Themed. M/M/M/M Sexings. xD

R.I.P. Raccoon Nightflurry: 1997-2013
Welcome Ethiopian Wolf Nightflurry: 2013-?

I think it's impressive my fursona(not a big fan of that word but I'll use it here to save time) has survived for so long without change. Sure there were a few crossbreed experiments but no serious threats.

Truth be told I had considered Ethiopian Wolf as far back as I had considered raccoon, so the idea of that is nothing new. Things change, and change is good. I've spent the last couple years changing a lot about how I go about life and treat others, and I've grown as a person tremendously. Still have plenty of work to do, but I'm getting there.

Just as old attitudes are changing, I think it's not a bad idea to put to rest the old self idealized image of myself with them.

So in the spirit of turning a new page in life and my time in the fandom, I present you with the new Nightflurry. I'm not gonna bother changing names as well, got to keep some part of the old furry me.

Change to Ethiopian Wolf as my primary character but keep the name Nightflurry <.< >.>

This is actually the SECOND time this has happened recently on twitter. I did not save the first for posterity. First was with some strange otter. This one was with  PKMotors

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Nightflurry:

Hey there bunny, called Vix: What a surprise. You lookin' for Trix? Ain't seen him with these eyes. Go back to your hole in the ground, cause this raccoon is takin' over your town.

Vix:

Hey Nightflurry, I think you're in a hurry to get smash out yo rhymes with some derpy coony crimes. Betta watch yo self before I take yo health. Somebunny's gonna come out and bash you out “Bang Bang”

Nightflurry:

You wanna bang bang but you say you're asexual. You wanna rhyme with a raccoon intellectual. You can't win when you're in such a hurry. You can't cope with the dope of this wicked Nightflurry

Vix:

You smoke so much dope yo brain just-a broke. It's affectin yo rhymes like that black 'round yo eyes. Get that checked before you get ass-wrecked. 'Cause bunnies don't play nice, just take my advice

Nightflurry:

What about ass-wrecking, my friend? Looks like someone wrecked their ass on your head. You're too slow to keep up with my rhymes. Just face it, bunny, you blow.

Vix:

I ain't slow, that's gotta go. You're just trippin' balls from those trashcan falls. I was gonna stop but then this bunny dropped. *drops mic* Bunny Out. ;)

Nightflurry:

I see that you're out but I'll raise you one more. Your puny bunny ass better stay on the floor! This battle left you in stitches. I be trippin balls? Balls be Trippin Vix's.

http://www.sofurry.com/view/478155

Just some real quick and dirty smut. VERY NSFW.

I'd upload it here but FA is completely shit when it comes to supporting written stuff.

I orignally was going to submit an Op-Ed to some local publications, but I decided against it, as it was getting long, and even as long as it is I cut short. I don't mean to spark a debate but here are my opinions and feelings on recent events:



There are monsters in the world. Not in your closet late at night, or under your bed, or hiding in the attic. They’re much more terrifying. They’re around us, amongst us, and they look just like us. Why do they exist, and more importantly, why do they seem to be more and more common?

I’m speaking of course of the mass murderers that we see more and more of in these times. While overall violent crime has been steadily decreasing, such horrific displays of carnage seem to happen with alarming and increasing regularity.

In a world where only black and white exist, where there is no room between polarized sides for a single shard of reasonable debate it is difficult to discuss this without each side going back to their old and stale fallbacks: Knuckledragers, simpletons, communists, gungrabbers, etc.

Before we get to the part everyone is waiting for, the gun part, let’s at least take a stab at the core problem. For if one thinks either more or less guns is a solution they’re not thinking very clearly. Those are bandaid on a gaping wound type fixes.

There have been a great many cliché slogans and phrases and “facts” that are not at all based in fact going around in conversation an twitter lately. I will grant one sides statement that it’s strange we live in a place where access to a firearm is easier than access to mental health. This is true. Even were guns to be banned tomorrow outright, one would have a much easier time attaining one than trying to get psychological help. Even with insurance and referrals it’s not an easy task, and without insurance (which usually means you can’t afford it to begin with) you might as well not bother. Even if you were to be taken into the system, as it were, you wouldn’t really find any treatment.


If our culture around firearms is “uniquely American” then I submit that our callous attitude towards those of us who are ill is also uniquely American. I know I am sticking my toes in fire by bringing up universal healthcare in the same bit as guns, but we are our brother’s keeper. Whether we like or hate each other, our country and community is in all of this together. A man who is sick and cannot get help can kill you and your family and your community. Whether bearing some plague that could spread to you or bearing a mental anguish that he cannot understand or control. A fire that’s ignored will eventually find it’s way to something you hold dear.

Let’s talk also about our communities. What is yours? Are they found in an app or a chat client or your contact list? It’s OK, I’m just as guilty as you are. We don’t have community anymore, we barely know our neighbors, or if our village has an idiot who it even is. There’s something to be said for the disconnecting of ourselves from our surroundings, and the change in society. Were we so cold and dark and polarized before? When we couldn’t find likeminded friends so easily? Now we shut ourselves in inside of our echo chambers of agreerers. We don’t HAVE to get along with anyone physically near anymore.

It is equally offensive for someone to tell me what I can and cannot do in my bedroom as it is for someone to tell me what I can and cannot have in my gun safe. And here’s where we go down the slide to Hellsville.

I’m a gun owner, and it’s a rather big hobby of mine. I’m not a “conservative” so this creates issues for many. I don’t belong to the NRA (nether do around 90% of gun owners either BTW). When the caricatures of gun owners as slobbering morons come springing out of mouths and twitters it offends me. It offends many people. When it’s said that what I own must be taken because I don’t “need” it it’s hard to perceive such a statement as not a direct attack on my character. By saying such things, and stooping to low levels, you associate a massive group of people with mass murderers. You’re saying to me that I’m a crazy man, and bad.

“So you think arming everyone would help.” Will come the reply from someone who thinks that anyone on my side of this actually believes that. That’s an absurd retort, I doubt even Ted Nugent would espouse that viewpoint. Let me iterate what people who carry concealed are trying to say, but who’s words get twisted for effect by the pundits.

Look at your mass shootings. It’s difficult, but look at them. Where do they happen?: Schools, movie theaters, churches, army bases, malls. To my friends who are not clued into the gun culture they so look at with suspicion. These are all places where one is legally prohibited from carrying a concealed weapon. You may shout for glee that so few mass shootings have been stopped, but then fail to notice that all the mass shootings occur in areas where people who potentially could stop them are not allowed to. They’re not allowed to because people said “Oh, well who would EVER need a gun at a school, or a theatre, or a mall.” Not everyone, not anyone, but someone like me, who knows how to use one (to fairly good effect if I might add), and who often carries one, should not be prohibited from that privilege in the places where it is most likely to be needed. I’m not a violent person, I don’t ever want to kill anyone. The world would be a better place if no weapons at all were needed, but we don’t live in that world, we live in this one.

“But why would you carry a gun around, are you paranoid?” I dunno, are you? It may come as a surprise to many, including many friends but I HAVE used a firearm in self defense. That impossible scenario that many outlay occurred. I don’t often speak of it, and I might not even if you ask me, but it has occurred, and thankfully no life was lossed. Yet many would tell me that when I cross the invisible plane from where I am at into say, a theatre, that I am suddenly a criminal, a bad man, who must only mean harm, for who would EVER want to carry a gun in such a place? I don’t. No really, I don’t. I don’t want to have to carry a lump of uncomfortable steel around when I am out having fun, but I normally do.

You walk by a murderer in waiting every day, it’s a hard fact to face, but you must. You don’t have to take action, you don’t have to do anything. If I were you, I’d work to get these people help. To help society so that not only mass killers but petty thieves and murderers see no need for their dark designs. But if you won’t, if you won’t do these things, then please with all respect do not prevent me from facing the reality of a cruel world, and if you’re near me when that cruelness springs forth I’ll do my best to protect you from it.

As I opened with, there are monsters out there. I’d prefer there weren’t, or that their numbers were so few as to not matter, but what I want and what actually exists are rarely the same.

I hope that helps explain where many gun owners and carriers come from, to someone who may not understand. My only wish right now is that I didn’t have to write something like this. That there were neither dead innocents nor people screaming threats to me in response.

If you think yourself capable of a civil discourse feel free to contact me about it.

I'm gonna get a fursuit. I'm over the many year long attempt at fighting it. Gonna stuff some cash away. Should be in fairly good position early next year to start seriously getting quotes and such.

Not quite sure if I wanna do Tana Wolf or Nightflurry. Leaning to full over partial, but not decided on that yet either. Basically I am not decided on anything yet xD It feels like buying a car. Lot of stuff to figure out.

Anyway, just figured I'd mention this.

You may all commece with the giving of shit in 3...2...1 GO

One of my favorite winter recipes! It's such a fantastic one for winter. Me and my ex JP came up with this one about 5 or 6 years ago, and I've made it many a time since.

1.5# Venison. Neck meat, trimmed from bone and diced approx 1 cubic inch. (Can use diced beef as well)

2 large yams. Peeled and diced in same fashion as meat.

1 large (or 2 smaller) green bell peppers, diced.

6 cups beef stock

1 yellow onion, finely chopped.

3 cloves of garlic very finely chopped

3 table spoons of oil (I used extra virgin olive. Canola is fine)

3 table spoons of flour

6oz Tomato paste

1 tablespoon of El Yucateco red hot sauce

1 bay leaf

1 tablespoon: Thyme

1 teaspoons: Basil, cilantro,

1/2 teaspoon: black pepper, fennel, cayenne pepper.

4 strips of bacon, fried and broken into smaller bits. (OPTIONAL. Sometimes comes out wonky for some reason)

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Heat the oil in a large pot on medium, then add the onions, garlic, and green peppers in. Cook until soft, should take about 10 minutes. Add in the venison and bacon and turn up the heat to medium-high: stir until browned on all sides.

Sprinkle flower over the mix and pour in 5 of the 6 cups of stock. Reduce heat to low and add the tomato paste, all the spices, and the hot sauce. Stir thoroughly. Cover and simmer for an hour, stirring every 20 minutes.

Add the sweet potatoes and the last cup of stock and bring to boil. Reduce back to low and let it simmer for an additional 30 minutes. Check and make sure potatoes are tender, if they are it's done.

Voila. Enjoy. It should be just spicy enough to get your nose running and blood flowing, but not enough to burn. A terrific and hearty winter dish.

https://www.weasyl.com/profile/nightflurry

Yeah, so there's that. Looks like a decent site. We'll see how it goes over :3

I noticed i don't have any sexy/suggestive art of my character really. Some clean stuff, some porn, but not much in-between. Let's fix that!

Looking for various ideas, and artist suggestions!

COME AT ME!

Hoping to meet some peeps. Sadly I'll be driving in Friday, driving out Sunday, so that part blows.

Otherwise, hope to have a good time :3

I'm getting really into Bob Seger.


..... and old rifles.

So, I came up with this randomly while working. It's fucking stupid and fucking awesome at the same time. It's set to "Lady Red Light" by Great White, which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD7GU3XNTSQ




After some work,I go to the fridge,
I get a need for food.
And my eyes droop down, I can't find that souffle,
What am I gonna do?
Too long without a meal,
Should not have skipped out on lunch.
My lady of snacks,
I'm going right for you.

I like fruit salad,
I'll eat a pear,
But when I need swiss cake rolls,
She's got a pack,
A pack to spare.

Little Debbie, stuff me tonight,
Lady's got a way to make that belt tight.
Little Debbie, stuff me tonight,
She really knows how to feed me.
Little Debbie.

An empty tummy, growls and grinds
Really need to go eat,
Oh corner cupboard.
I've made up my mind,
Who I need to see.

I like fruit salad,
I'll eat a pear,
But when I need swiss cake rolls,
She's got a pack,
A pack to spare.

Little Debbie, stuff me tonight,
Lady's got a way to make that belt tight.
Little Debbie, stuff me tonight,
She really knows how to feed me.
Little Debbie.

Little Debbie,
She knows how to feed me.

Yes. I have one. Forgot to tell a ton of people though. Is nightflurry as you might expect.


....... JCofNZ if you like blasphemy

Please don't mistake this for being emo or a depressed journal. It's actually somewhat positive I think :P

As some of you may know, a month ago my grandmother passed away. It was a little surprising since she was in very good health for her age, but hey, that is what it is.

As a few other of you know, at the time she passed my grandpa was still alive. He essentially expressed his desire to die at that time, and it's had me thinking for the past month about that.

You see, he wasn't saying that out of depression. Wasn't suicidal, or anything at all like that. Even at the time, it struck me in a very positive way. He had a very long, and very good life. His children were all grown, his grandchildren were all grown, he had been with his life a very long time. He was just over it, and the only thing keeping him going was his longtime companion.

Well, he did die, just a month after she did. I'll miss my grandpa a lot, he was one of the funniest people I've ever known. If you want to know where I got my strange sense of humor from, that's the source. I haven't found many people who could make me laugh that easily.

I find myself oddly not grieving him much though, because I know damn well he really did want to die. Whether I believe he's in heaven with his wife or not, he certainly believed he would be.

But the real meat of this is the fact that people can actually really be that in love for so long. That without one, the other physically cannot live. To me, that's one of the most beautiful things I've ever come to understand. It also really scares me, because I'm afraid I won't ever experience that. To be fair, most people don't. And most people that do were together at an age younger than I am now till the end. And that's what really scares me. I fear that even though I'm young, I've passed the point of finding someone that could develop into THAT deep a lifelong relationship.

Let's hope not.

Sorry to spill, I'm really not bummed out at all ,just wanted to share some thoughts.