So, not sure if this is something that's happening to anyone else but gender has seemingly been removed from images and as a search criteria. Anyone know what's up with that or if it's just something on my end?

Has anyone else felt like this holiday has run it's course? With how little we already trust each other, plus how assholish people can be normally, on top of how many of us already expect the "pranks" before they even happen, it just doesn't have the impact it used to have.

May you find love and contentment with your significant others, comfort in yourself and them, and enough chocolate to burst your belt with!

Another birthday. 33 years old, and so much has changed. And yet.. so much that should have has not. It's a weird feeling, being where I've been for over half a decade, except somehow worse. Honestly? Not a fan of the way things have been. Lost contact with so many people. And others who have drifted away other time. I miss the friends I've lost, but that's not going to turn back the clock.

Only thing I can do, is keep going forward. Not a matter of choice.

After going around town, a lot of other issues cropping up, and help form good friends, power has been restored. However, I cannot say for how long it'll stay like that. Getting so sick of always having to plug holes in this sinking ship...
What I'd do to get out of this money pit.

Sending this from cellphone.
Long and short of things.
The shitty place I've been staying at has given up the ghost. Something went bang and we have no power. Everything we tried has made things worse. Temp is going down to single digits. No family left outside of who is here, no friends around here, and none abroad that can help me. No job, no car, was never even taught how to drive. It's the worst it's ever been for me, and I don't expect to make it to next month without a miracle. Every effort, every plan, has failed. I do not know what will happen to me now.
And I am scared.


Update: If I can scrounge enough $$ I might be able to get an electrician out here. Not sure if they'll come today even if I can get the dosh. But it might be my only shot at getting power back on.

Update 2: Thanks to some friends, I got enough money for electricians to come out here. Here's to hoping.

I hope you all have a wonderful time, get plenty of gifts, enjoy time with those closest to you, and don't over do it on the eggnog.. or do, I'm not your dad.
So yeah, have a merry/happy [insert festivity here] and a Happy New Year!

Well, the election is over. Hopefully now people will have to find literally anything else to talk about. At least for the next 4 years.

Happy Howl-o-ween everyone! May you all have many spoops and enough candy to put you into a sugar coma!

It's hard to believe the guy's gone after so many years. Not sure what to expect going forward for the site.
Wishing the best to his family, loosing someone is never easy.

Yup, level up time. I'm now 32 years old. Yaaaaay...

2023 to 2024, can't get too much worse.. right?

Yup, it's that time again. Today's my birthday, make of that what you will.

Saying goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023 I am left to wonder what the new year will bring? I've always just seen it as just another day but with a number ticking over. Regardless, here is to hoping that things will be, if not better, less bad than it was this year. Anyone looking forward to anything in the incoming year?

I hope all those that do, have enjoyed the spoopy holiday celebrations of scares and excessive amounts of candy.

It's that time again. I have reached the big 3-0 and soon I will turn to dust and blow away. After all, we all know 30 is the new 50.. for some reason.

Does anyone but me think FA could use a search feature for people who are open for commissions, their price range, and generally the stuff they draw?

In my ever-present need to use science on things I don't really need to, I have come upon a question I don't think anyone has asked before.

Would the ubiquitous magical power source known as "mana" be a particle or a wave?

Don't exercise, supersize!


...That is all

Another year gone by on this Earth, and another tick on my life gone by. Today's my birthday, and I'm now 29. Practically ancient in internet time.

Kitsune tails are just fluffy tentacles.

Someone please help me, Azur Lane is consuming my LIFE!

Okay, this has been a long time coming, but it has to be said. I'm not calling anyone out in particular, as this has happened more than once, and frankly I'm just not that kind of person. But we need to have a talk about raccoons. Or, more specifically, about shortening "raccoon" down to just "coon" as that seems to be some major issue for some furs.
Let me just state now, that I will never stop using the term "coon" when referring to raccoons, as that is what they are but a couple of letters short. Apparently, "coon" is a derogatory/racial slur used against people of colour. But let me just ask you something. Does that actually matter in this context? Because, unless this anthropomorphic animal is, somehow, related in some major way to that ethnic group, I do not believe it does.
And, on that same vein, can we please just collectively calm our tits on this sort of thing? Getting offended FOR a person/group of people/whatever-else-could-possibly-offended-by-whatever is just plain abnormal to me. In all likelihood, said group either does not know about, or care about, one random furry on the internet looking at an anthropomorphic raccoon and typing "coon" instead of "raccoon" when referring to them, let alone any other similar situation. If they get offended, that's one thing. But you getting offended because you think they should be offended by someone/thing/whatever ties my brain into a knot.

Seriously, have I just totally lost the plot here, or something? Or has context well and truly died in this day and age?

Time for another random thought from the wuff.

The Great War, WWI, the War to End All Wars (at least until the sequel came out) is something that's been on my mind for a bit now.
Mainly since I don't really see much being done with that as a setting for.. anything. Not so much for creating things out of what actually happened, but that this time period itself isn't really used as often, or as effectively, as I think it perhaps could be. You know, take the state of the world, the technology, things like that, and really see what you can make out of it. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places? *shrugs*
Ah well. The thing that's been bugging me the most, and something that I figured I'd put out there for discussion is: Would WWI be considered more Steampunk or Dieselpunk?

Hey, does anyone remember that old OLD Battletech cartoon? The one with the really bad CGI? I'm curious, because it's been on my mind recently, and I'm not too sure why. Hopefully someone out there knows that I'm talking about.

For those of you who don't, here's the intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-_-8D8R4CU