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Coffee With The Princess!
Special FurAffinity's Special Edition!
**Giggles!**
Slowly enjoying my first cup of coffee, Black Rifle Coffee's "Blackbeard's Delight!"
According to my front page, this will mark the 200th journal for FurAffinity, though I cannot say how many journals I have done for Deviant Art. But, I will make this as a special edition for just this place.
Over the past decade and then some years of being here, I have had the ups and downs that most artists and writers get here. Most of the people are very nice and respectful when it comes to making comments, asking questions, and showing their appreciation for the artwork that I post, whether it be mine or commissioned work by other artists both here on FA and some on DA.
Although a furry themed place, I have noticed the acceptable too of the human characters here, which I was hesitant to post here over the years, seeing Deviant Art as more of my older and manga-like style and designs of Destiny's Daughters! which still has the story ongoing and fleshing out, especially after all of these years. Stretching Things!, the furry story that Israfel Vincent draws off and on during the downtimes of the adventures mentioned in her story, got posted more and more here, though I did post a lot of the furry work on Deviant Art since I did a lot of the mix back when I was first getting started back after failing out of SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), which was a mixed bag of cats of ups and downs, but mostly downs during those last days of the 1990s, thanks to my drinking. During those times of roleplaying on the various mucks and mushes I frequented, I managed to develop Kaitlynn Wildfire, the PlastiCat ... her name's spelling changed to have a C instead of the K, like my Kaitlynn in real life. I still mourned her passing in 1991, but the drinking and the nightmares that I went through due to guilt over what happened and my own bad decisions took their toll ... and I almost committed suicide. I'm not sure how I managed since I don't remember much of those days between when I hit bottom and started to rebound. My thought was something pulled me back ... though I think of it as me doing the heavy lifting, proving I was far stronger than I thought I could be.
However, getting a few better jobs and away from the liquor store started the healing process, it would be the solid job at The Firn that allowed me a good decade of getting my life straightened out, including the reforging of my relationship with my family. The sad part was it was all in my head, the realm where my personal demons still reigned supreme. Pop and I sat down before he passed and talked about this at length. He wanted to straighten a lot of this out before too long. He had felt that over the years that I had stepped back from both Mom and himself, but didn't really put the dots together until my Big Sister scolded him about what they did to me back in July of 2007. Both Mom and Pop were horrible to me, which was a series of sharp slaps in the face! I had disappointed them in the past, but we always worked it out and they even listened. That weekend, neither one wanted to listen! They had their opinions and they let me have it over the three days I was there, trying to spend time with them. Pop honestly said that neither he or Mom remembered this and I nodded, remembering the apology when I mentioned it to them in the following year back in 2008, where I snapped and blew up at them. I'm not entirely sure what happened during that phonemail, but I think both had their say and I just felt that was enough. But it cleared a lot of air with us. Pop came really close to an apology, something I had NEVER! heard him say before, but Mom did indeed apologize for both of them, which I was happy to accept. It was later through tears that I managed to deal with my Big Sister's phonemail. Mom had called her and asked what was going on and they had it out themselves. My Big Sister called me to check on me, figuring that was enough drama to send me back to drinking. But, surprisingly, it did not. The two of us, my Big Sister and I, have always been pretty close, so she knew more than I gave her credit for, but I was glad she stepped in.
During all of this family drama, which I make sound worse than it actually was since it was like flatulence ... a well-needed passing of gas ... to allow the stomach and heartache pass, I kept on drawing and writing, a lot of it through story ideas I either developed through online or tabletop roleplaying. There was also the friendship of
kecomaster who really helped make my characters even more popular to which I have my deepest thanks for the friendship over the almost a decade and a half! I probably would have had such the run on both sites if not for him! Keco helped design the PlastiCat's new costume and also helped me get the PlastiCat into some better clothing for a more normal life and even a lot of various outfits for Ricochet KaBoom! including adding the cartoon bomb to both girls's costumes and clothing. Keco used to laugh all the time when I would say that I'm not really an artist, but I'm more of a character designer with the ability to write pretty good. He gave me a smile and another laugh, saying that I was selling myself short. With art, its like most things in life: practice, practicer, practice! You have to do that every day to build up the discipline and to keep the dream alive!
After 2010, I managed to get the character designs for the primary characters in both stories and last year, I even posted what I had stored on the internet computer. There are some changes and touch-ups that I need to do, especially with Taffy the Impossible Tigress and that's ok too. Both Israfel and Taffy, meta-human or mutant and transforming tigress, have really become very popular over the past decade, a lot of that due to the fantastic artists like
tragicfame , 
leonifa , 
pizhma, and 
adorableinall just to mention a few. Keco's also been adding artwork when he can and when we both have time to work together, but he's one of my longest-duration friends of all time and still near and dear to my expandable heart!
**Giggles!**
Sorry! I had to make another pot of coffee of Black Rifle Coffee's "Blackbeard's Delight!" And there was only a small bit left at the bottom of the bag after putting the scoops in, so this batch was going to be stronger!
Oh hell yeah!
Most of y'all know about the recent history of the fall from grace with the health and depression that followed the amputation, so I'll only mention it here for the moment, just because it's a defining moment for me, perhaps the largest one since Kaitlynn's passing.
There needs to be a special Thank You! to all of the friends and artists who have either gifted me artwork or done commissions and/or Your Character Here Commissions over the past three years with more still coming. There are so many of these wonderful people that it would break the buffer to mention them, so I will just encourage people to go through my gallery and check out what's there ... there is almost two decades of work to be checked out.
I'm still working on ideas, some of it thanks to returning to the online community like The List (f-list.net) which I did some this weekend and even used their newest chat program through the browser. Tapestries, my first muck, is still a main stay for me, having so many friends and even a ton of newer friends. Through at least three characters, I have been there since November of 1998, Caitlynn being the oldest and Israfel being the second. Most of the other characters have fallen by the wayside, though I still try to keep them active.
And, as most of y'all know, I have returned to the Saturday Night Tabletop Group at the Bearded Lantern's garage, especially as the Dungeon Master, thanks to the Bionic Forearm's request to pick up the robes again after the Security Officer announced that he had added FOUR more players! So, for the first time since 2015, we have a large group again ... I think we originally had about seven people with the gang from the 2014, though I know a few people left by 2015 and we were down to five consistently. The Security Officer loves to talk about his friends wanting to join ... and most often, they don't, which can be maddening. Now, with this new crew, I think we have more than enough!
All I need to do is get back to writing and drawing to make me whole again, to which I keep on taking hesitant steps towards. I actually turned on the Studio Dell two weekends ago for the first time since 2016 when the motherboard was shorted out due to a lightning strike. I had been doing less and less drawing, though I did a bit in 2018, which was fun. With me starting to get sick with the infection of damage to my left leg's ankle, I stopped and started focusing on work. The Firm was going through some serious cleaning up and archiving which was finished, for the moment, as of the last day of 2021! Whew!
So, my only excuses for not doing what needs to be done? The apartment needs a major overhaul to which I'm going to do slowly so I can keep from wearing myself out more. A storage rental is very possible too now that I have a car and much of my debit gone. With the apartment cleaned up and better managed should encourage me to get on with life and return to my artwork and writing ... at least I hope.
So, to those of you who have been watching, thanks for staying with me ... to you new fans/followers, you also have my thanks. People like y'all have made this place fun for me.
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
Special FurAffinity's Special Edition!
**Giggles!**
Slowly enjoying my first cup of coffee, Black Rifle Coffee's "Blackbeard's Delight!"
According to my front page, this will mark the 200th journal for FurAffinity, though I cannot say how many journals I have done for Deviant Art. But, I will make this as a special edition for just this place.
Over the past decade and then some years of being here, I have had the ups and downs that most artists and writers get here. Most of the people are very nice and respectful when it comes to making comments, asking questions, and showing their appreciation for the artwork that I post, whether it be mine or commissioned work by other artists both here on FA and some on DA.
Although a furry themed place, I have noticed the acceptable too of the human characters here, which I was hesitant to post here over the years, seeing Deviant Art as more of my older and manga-like style and designs of Destiny's Daughters! which still has the story ongoing and fleshing out, especially after all of these years. Stretching Things!, the furry story that Israfel Vincent draws off and on during the downtimes of the adventures mentioned in her story, got posted more and more here, though I did post a lot of the furry work on Deviant Art since I did a lot of the mix back when I was first getting started back after failing out of SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), which was a mixed bag of cats of ups and downs, but mostly downs during those last days of the 1990s, thanks to my drinking. During those times of roleplaying on the various mucks and mushes I frequented, I managed to develop Kaitlynn Wildfire, the PlastiCat ... her name's spelling changed to have a C instead of the K, like my Kaitlynn in real life. I still mourned her passing in 1991, but the drinking and the nightmares that I went through due to guilt over what happened and my own bad decisions took their toll ... and I almost committed suicide. I'm not sure how I managed since I don't remember much of those days between when I hit bottom and started to rebound. My thought was something pulled me back ... though I think of it as me doing the heavy lifting, proving I was far stronger than I thought I could be.
However, getting a few better jobs and away from the liquor store started the healing process, it would be the solid job at The Firn that allowed me a good decade of getting my life straightened out, including the reforging of my relationship with my family. The sad part was it was all in my head, the realm where my personal demons still reigned supreme. Pop and I sat down before he passed and talked about this at length. He wanted to straighten a lot of this out before too long. He had felt that over the years that I had stepped back from both Mom and himself, but didn't really put the dots together until my Big Sister scolded him about what they did to me back in July of 2007. Both Mom and Pop were horrible to me, which was a series of sharp slaps in the face! I had disappointed them in the past, but we always worked it out and they even listened. That weekend, neither one wanted to listen! They had their opinions and they let me have it over the three days I was there, trying to spend time with them. Pop honestly said that neither he or Mom remembered this and I nodded, remembering the apology when I mentioned it to them in the following year back in 2008, where I snapped and blew up at them. I'm not entirely sure what happened during that phonemail, but I think both had their say and I just felt that was enough. But it cleared a lot of air with us. Pop came really close to an apology, something I had NEVER! heard him say before, but Mom did indeed apologize for both of them, which I was happy to accept. It was later through tears that I managed to deal with my Big Sister's phonemail. Mom had called her and asked what was going on and they had it out themselves. My Big Sister called me to check on me, figuring that was enough drama to send me back to drinking. But, surprisingly, it did not. The two of us, my Big Sister and I, have always been pretty close, so she knew more than I gave her credit for, but I was glad she stepped in.
During all of this family drama, which I make sound worse than it actually was since it was like flatulence ... a well-needed passing of gas ... to allow the stomach and heartache pass, I kept on drawing and writing, a lot of it through story ideas I either developed through online or tabletop roleplaying. There was also the friendship of
kecomaster who really helped make my characters even more popular to which I have my deepest thanks for the friendship over the almost a decade and a half! I probably would have had such the run on both sites if not for him! Keco helped design the PlastiCat's new costume and also helped me get the PlastiCat into some better clothing for a more normal life and even a lot of various outfits for Ricochet KaBoom! including adding the cartoon bomb to both girls's costumes and clothing. Keco used to laugh all the time when I would say that I'm not really an artist, but I'm more of a character designer with the ability to write pretty good. He gave me a smile and another laugh, saying that I was selling myself short. With art, its like most things in life: practice, practicer, practice! You have to do that every day to build up the discipline and to keep the dream alive! After 2010, I managed to get the character designs for the primary characters in both stories and last year, I even posted what I had stored on the internet computer. There are some changes and touch-ups that I need to do, especially with Taffy the Impossible Tigress and that's ok too. Both Israfel and Taffy, meta-human or mutant and transforming tigress, have really become very popular over the past decade, a lot of that due to the fantastic artists like
tragicfame , 
leonifa , 
pizhma, and 
adorableinall just to mention a few. Keco's also been adding artwork when he can and when we both have time to work together, but he's one of my longest-duration friends of all time and still near and dear to my expandable heart! **Giggles!**
Sorry! I had to make another pot of coffee of Black Rifle Coffee's "Blackbeard's Delight!" And there was only a small bit left at the bottom of the bag after putting the scoops in, so this batch was going to be stronger!
Oh hell yeah!
Most of y'all know about the recent history of the fall from grace with the health and depression that followed the amputation, so I'll only mention it here for the moment, just because it's a defining moment for me, perhaps the largest one since Kaitlynn's passing.
There needs to be a special Thank You! to all of the friends and artists who have either gifted me artwork or done commissions and/or Your Character Here Commissions over the past three years with more still coming. There are so many of these wonderful people that it would break the buffer to mention them, so I will just encourage people to go through my gallery and check out what's there ... there is almost two decades of work to be checked out.
I'm still working on ideas, some of it thanks to returning to the online community like The List (f-list.net) which I did some this weekend and even used their newest chat program through the browser. Tapestries, my first muck, is still a main stay for me, having so many friends and even a ton of newer friends. Through at least three characters, I have been there since November of 1998, Caitlynn being the oldest and Israfel being the second. Most of the other characters have fallen by the wayside, though I still try to keep them active.
And, as most of y'all know, I have returned to the Saturday Night Tabletop Group at the Bearded Lantern's garage, especially as the Dungeon Master, thanks to the Bionic Forearm's request to pick up the robes again after the Security Officer announced that he had added FOUR more players! So, for the first time since 2015, we have a large group again ... I think we originally had about seven people with the gang from the 2014, though I know a few people left by 2015 and we were down to five consistently. The Security Officer loves to talk about his friends wanting to join ... and most often, they don't, which can be maddening. Now, with this new crew, I think we have more than enough!
All I need to do is get back to writing and drawing to make me whole again, to which I keep on taking hesitant steps towards. I actually turned on the Studio Dell two weekends ago for the first time since 2016 when the motherboard was shorted out due to a lightning strike. I had been doing less and less drawing, though I did a bit in 2018, which was fun. With me starting to get sick with the infection of damage to my left leg's ankle, I stopped and started focusing on work. The Firm was going through some serious cleaning up and archiving which was finished, for the moment, as of the last day of 2021! Whew!
So, my only excuses for not doing what needs to be done? The apartment needs a major overhaul to which I'm going to do slowly so I can keep from wearing myself out more. A storage rental is very possible too now that I have a car and much of my debit gone. With the apartment cleaned up and better managed should encourage me to get on with life and return to my artwork and writing ... at least I hope.
So, to those of you who have been watching, thanks for staying with me ... to you new fans/followers, you also have my thanks. People like y'all have made this place fun for me.
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
Thanks for that, honey! Like I have been telling friends of mine, I have just been trying to enjoy my life as much as possible.
Mind, I had no allusions of any sort, but I figured knowing another friend in the Anthro-Fandom was a good thing. Especially seeing all of your characters, through the eyes of the artists you commissioned over the years, was a treat in of itself. Also reading your journals has become a habit, and from the adventures, slice-of-life stories and little witticisms you've shared, it's made for some smiles that have lifted me from many a doldrums, believe you me.
I hope I can continue to read your words for many more years, and I hope you and I can be if not friends in the "bosom" sense (... that's somewhat ironic to say that, considering what some of your characters can do, in that regard. Hah!), at least we can be friends in the "Oh, let me share this story with you! You'll love it!" sense?
Keep 'em smiling, and never stop giggling, Princess!
-- Stephen, a fan for as long as Life lets me.
Thanks for that, honey! I have been seriously blessed with good and groovy artistic friends who have graced me with either gifts or commissions over the years. Some of my more treasured pieces are the hard copies of originals by people like Youmei and The Dark One, who did a lot of establishing works for all three of the characters you know now. People like Gnome-00 and Keco have been fantastic long-time friends too who have helped me keep the PlastiCat alive when I thought about shelving her. And then there are the inflation artists like Doug Winger and Lou Frank and even the infamous writers Helia Melonwiski and Luther V Kane who really gave me some serious direction.
Stories are some of my best works, truth be told. My Big Sister, who does watch both pages but don't comment, often says that she enjoys sitting down with a drink and reading the stories, getting my perspective on sone of the stories too. She's probably my biggest fan!
I will always try, honey!
BE Happy!