Anyone know an artist open for commissions that captures the essence of Disco Elysium portraits?

Telegram woodside
Discord therealwoodside (I wanted woodside there but it appears taken by a username troll)
BlueSky woodside.bsky.social

If DMed, pls state purpose. Small talk frustrates me.

throw up on someone's shoes and then burn down a coal factory

Very quick journal because it's bugging me:

I've noticed some people seem to believe that having opt-in HTTPS for FurAffinity is acceptable. Though, as a software developer working full time let me put forth an analogy:

Imagine a hotel where you need to state your name and a secret phrase verbally at the door to enter as a paying guest. The hotel has the option to put this information on a secure key card so that you only have to swipe it to enter, but does not make this information abundantly clear. They also claim that their key card system is outdated and that it would put a strain on the staff to ensure all guests have key cards if they forced all guests to use them.

This is essentially where FurAffinity is at. It may be simple to call people who don't opt-in "idiots" as I have seen people accuse, but I am not sure why the responsibility would fall on the uninformed user.

The above analogy also demonstrates that it would only take a perpetrator to listen in on -one- guest verbally stating their name and secret phrase to gain entry to the hotel. You might then ask me "but then how is that any different than simply creating a new account?" To which I say "that's where the analogy breaks down," but it also has to do with intent. An individual with ill-intent rarely gets "access granted" right off the bat as you might see in TV. Hacking is quite often a game of incremental access, and even one user without a secure connection risks providing that first step.

TL;DR, another analogy: A tarp doesn't hold water if it has holes. This site desperately needs to update its infrastructure.

today is a day

12^2 is okay

I post werewolf art all year long.


I have a couple pieces in the backlog I need to write descriptions for, so I guess look forward to that.

This is a direct violation of human rights.

Bara sucks.

To those who understand what this means, let us rejoice plentifully.

Otherwise, carry on.

https://www.weasyl.com/~woodside

Weasyl instead. FurryNetwork is too social-media-esque for my taste.

I haven't used it in ages, but I'm trying to update it.

Enjoy.
https://beta.furrynetwork.com/woodside/

I am at 100 watchers.
How did that happen? I thought I was provocative and abrasive, which are two things furries seem to hate.

Oops.

Anyway, the winner of the raffle (of which only a few people entered), issss...

 mackarus

Yay.

Ohhh boy. Here we go. Second time in a single day I'm doing something I wouldn't normally do.

I'm hosting a raffle to give away a slot for this:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7966190/

I think people understand the basic drill here, but anyway:
- Comment to enter the raffle.
- Don't worry about "follow me to be eligible" BS; you do not have to since it would be in serious poor taste to demand such (but I won't complain if you do).
- Reply to my initial comment for questions/concerns/whatever.
- Your comment must contain the text "I will not whine for any reason about this raffle that costs me exactly zero dollars and zero cents and will obey Jasmae's TOS." in order to ensure you actually read this.
- If Jasmae decides to cancel this raffle for any reason, it will be done.
- You must agree to obey her terms of service
- Winner will be decided via random number generator.

Winner will be announced in the evening of Thursday, October 26th and will be given an available slot of their choice valued at 25 US dollars or less at time of said announcement.

EDIT: Winner is  Mackarus

...because frankly it almost always annoys me...

HOWEVER, I really want to see this finished:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7966190/

So, bump.

Welcome to Hell;
it was you who created it.

It literally means "boy girl", yet it refers to girly boys?
But "tomboy" literally means "boy boy", but refers to boyish girls?

Should "tomgirl" mean boyish girl and we all just use "femboy" to refer to girly boys?

I do not know, maybe I am just being pedantic.

(I re-read my previous journal whining about artists, and opted to delete it despite stating I would not. The reason prompted the following journal entry.)

There is this thought I finally found the words for (for the most part) today.

The fandom is not nearly as hated as it used to be. Sure, the furfag thing still goes around, it is not nearly as common. A lot of people are realizing that we're (mostly) a harmless bunch. Of course, it should be an obvious good thing to be more accepted by non-furries, right?

But it actually worries me.

Furries, from day one, were a group of outcasts come together not only by love of anthropomorphic animals, but also by the being an outcast. Members could feel a strong sense of community in the fact they all understood the pain of being thrown to the side. Thus (but not always) people in the fandom cared about each other a lot.

But now, since furries not longer have as much scrutiny put upon them, and thus the idea of being one becomes less stigmatic, more 'normal' people can join. When 'normal' people join, then the fandom just becomes another version of real life where people tend to defecate (metaphorically speaking) on each other on a daily basis.

This has happened with geek culture. The stigma of being a geek is basically gone these days so now, tentatively using a "No True Scotsman", the proportion of ""real"" (note my usage of quadruple quotes) geeks to people who just have a casual interest, or want to be 'cool'. So thus, there's not really much community in being a geek anymore. It is just another idle interest.

I see the beginnings of this happening with furries. Even if it does not become as severe as the case with being a more general geek, it would still significantly change the subculture.

I really, really do not want this. I remember when furries would call eachother their second (sometimes only) family. Now, that mentality is so much more uncommon. It is really disheartening.

I'm not even entirely sure what I am getting at, I suppose, but I can summarize the idea as follows (aka, tl;dr):
I kind of wish furries were still really hated by the general public, offline and online, so that the ingroup sensation was stronger and people cared more about fellow members.

FA got hacked, literally the end of the world I guess.

On the off chance every artist is ACTUALLY moving away from FA (I bet against this) I'll make a FurryNetwork account I guess.

Username is Woodside, as you might imagine.

I hate and love this fandom at the same time.

EDIT: Furrynetwork has stupid rules. I'm just sticking with FA.
EDIT EDIT: I suppose they had lifted strict rules banning almost every extreme fetish? Or the strict rules were a fabrication of someone's imagination. Still, I do not see the need to ban ANY extreme fetish. It's art; it is quite literally fantasy, not reality. I may use the website, since they ban no more than FA does at this point.