Hmmm. Top 5 furry “waifus”?

Oh my god, it's so hard to choooooose. D:

Uhhhhh, okay, this is by no means a definitive top 5, but rather the top 5 as I can think of them right now. I'm sure there are some I adore that I'm forgetting, but I don't want to spend literally hours on this question which I could if I wanted to do a more complete personal ranking. XDD


5. My OC Cara. I adore that shameless mousterbator and I'm very grateful that you give me so many opportunities to include her in stories. :3
4. Renee (pink Rhino lady from AC:NH, not to be confused with Reneigh, the horse lady). She was my first villager on my original ACNH island (Carrot Bay), and was there right up until I did my reset and re-started on Bunny Bay. I always like the sisterly (uchi) archetype villagers, but Renee was my paradise island waifu without a doubt. :D
3. The Mane Six. Look, I know that's six waifus, but they're in a polycule in my head SO... :P If I have to pick one... uhh... Applejack? Pinkie Pie?? THEY'RE ALL SO SWEET AND LOVELY DON'T MAKE ME CHOOOOSE.
2. Judy Hopps. This bnuny made me change my fursona with her optimism, and even if I enjoy AU/fanfic of her more than the canon these days, she's still a very special bunny. :3
1. Della Duck. Yup, she's actually knocked Judy off the number one spot in my head. I just... gah, I adore her! What a character, what a mom, what a lady! <3

Top 5 favorite cheeses

Fffffffff this is almost as challenging as the top 5 above. :o I missed out on my chance to go to a conveyor belt cheese restaurant last month thanks to my vacation being cut short, and I feel like I would have gotten a couple of great options from that. Buuut for what I know of cheeses right now:

5. Marscapone. Not a specific brand or type, just in general. I know its used in a lot of delicious sweet dishes but I also adore putting it in a baked zitti I make (a really luxuriously cheesy, meat ragu based pasta bake) for extra creaminess.
4. Ubriaco rosso. A red wine soaked cheese I've gotten a couple of times from the Borough Market in London. Sharp, fruity, delicious.
3. The Damn Fine Cheese Company's black pepper cheddar. I loooove black pepper, and this company balances just the right amount of it in their cheddar. <3
2. Snowdonia Cheese Company's Black Bomber. The cheddar cheese that let me know how good cheddar cheese can be. I know I'm kinda boring for just putting two cheddars in my top three, but seriously that's the majority of cheese I eat, and there's a good reason for that. :D
1. "Supernatural cheese". One time a long looong time ago, me and a friend (my partner at the time actually, still a current friend now) went to a pub/restaurant in Edinburgh and had cheeseburgers. The burgers were good, but the cheese?!? We never actually asked what kind of cheese it was, and to this day I can only guess that it was something sharp/mature cheddar-like, but perhaps not actually cheddar because of how over the top the flavour was, but hooooly crap, it was out of this world haha. So, that one memory of what we have always called "supernatural cheese" since then is my number 1 cheese. :3

What is your favourite thing right now? :)

Right now? The D&D 5e game I'm DMing with my regular group. We've taken a few breaks over the last couple of years due to some mental health stuff (mostly mine, haha) but we're back into the swing of Dungeon of the Mad Mage now, and I truly adore DMing for them all. Another member of the group is DMing Rime of the Frostmaiden and I'm having a blast playing in his campaign too, but the storyteller in me loves DMing and getting to see how everyone reacts to the wild and wacky stuff I can present to them each session. :3

Coming in at a close second right now, like, right this moment, is the anime Girls Last Tour, which I finished watching last night. For an anime about the apocalypse and facing the end of all life on earth, it's incredibly wholesome, chill and relaxing, and both the opening and closing themes are bops.

For Dungeon of the Mad Mage do you have any advice for dealing with some of the more crazy early stage death traps. Some of them seem a tad harsh

Honestly, it's really less about 'dealing with' the traps from a gameplay point of view and more about knowing what your party wants from a game. If you're DMing, and you find that your party doesn't enjoy "save or suck" traps (though I really can't think of THAT many in the dungeon, compared to say, the ridiculous number of "one failed check and you're dead" traps in games like Baldurs Gate 3), consider lessening the consequences or replacing them with a different kind of trap. If however you talk up-front with your party and they tell you they don't want you to pull your punches, then don't. But, 'character death' doesn't necessarily have to be an end-point or a roadblock. Rather than having failure be a negative, have the failure push the story forward somehow.

For example, in my Mad Mage campaign (and I'll be vague about the details in case you're a player, rather than a DM) a particular "level boss" enemy managed to kill one player character and was pretty close to TPKing the entire party in the wake of her death (the party's main "tank" character). So, as she died, the character called out to anyone who was listening, any power, who could bring her back and give her the strength to save her friends.

And, I had someone answer. Not the character's chosen deity. Not even some devil or demon offering a pact/bargain, but, because this character's last name (and her moral code) was "Truthspeaker", I had her be brought back by Cyric, god of lies, who now lives inside her head. She got to immediately wake up with 50hp back, and her return turned the tide and allowed the rest of the party (not counting a shield guardian that got destroyed) to survive. I pulled no punches, the character DID die, but her story didn't end there. Instead she now has an evil god living inside her head plotting his escape from the prison he's been trapped in since trying to murder Mystra, and her soul is pledged to him so when she dies, she goes to 'his' afterlife rather than that of the deity she actually worships (so, essentially, she goes to hell when she dies again, unless she and the party can figure a way to break Cyric's hold on her).

So yeah! If your party doesn't like the traps, change them. The game is there to be fun, and the whole benefit of D&D as an interactive RPG is that you aren't limited to following the story, even in the published campaign, like you are for a video game or visual novel or anything pre-scripted like that. And if they do like the traps but don't want the consequence of failure to be a total roadblock to progress, use the lore of the world and the rules of the game to find ways to bring characters back, not consequence free, but in a way that pushes the story forward.

And if you're a player and non of that advice is relevant as it's all from the DM side of things, talk to your DM. Hopefully they'll be willing to listen and consider making some changes or introducing some new opportunities. And if they're not, perhaps the issue isn't so much the traps as the style of gameplay the DM is enforcing. In all collaborative games, but especially ttrpgs, communication and understanding between all parties at the table is vital. <3

Have you considered reading Lauren J. A. Bear's debut novel, Medusa's Sisters? It's an amazing novel retelling the tragic myth of Medusa from her oft-forgotten sisters Stheno's and Euryale's points of view.

I've not come across the novel before, but it sounds great! At the moment though I'm reading more sci-fi (and some manga), but if I find myself needing something more mythologically rooted, that sounds like a wonderful recommendation! Thank you. :3

How many times can you orgasm in a row before losing consciousness?

A person, or me? XD Coz uhh, I've never tried to push my limits in that way, being ace my libido is very disconnected from any actual 'interest' in physical stuff (despite being a porn writer, haha, I know it's weird and counter-intuitive, but the further something is away from 'reality', the more easy it is for me to engage with in that way. Hence why furry stuff is great for me, and why I tend to shy away from writing pieces solely about humans in the real world. :D)

But for other people, I think it depends on a variety of factors including equipment. Generally speaking I think someone with a penis can orgasm fewer times before being overwhelmed just because of the way the nerves in that part of the body work. But, I'm sure there are exceptions (and of course people who enjoy over-stimulation related fun) so honestly I don't know what the upper limit is. That's why I always enjoy writing stories that include time skips implying extreme, obscene numbers/lengths of orgasms. It's fun to imagine those boundaries not existing. :3

Hehe I did mean you! And I get what you mean, makes sense. I don't read the stories that feature sex so I never really thought about it in quite that way since it's just not what I'm into. I suppose I can say I'm similar, but I also feel like extreme overstim and forced multiple orgasms are perfectly possible IRL (and without needing to involve any sex) so for me at least it is something that gets my libido going even when thinking about reality. Even with my aversion to the human body, I find it's something I can enjoy thinking about by just ignoring the human component of it even if it would necessarily need to be present for any IRL experience. I should stop here before I start rambling on about my own interests, this is supposed to be about you!

When it comes to books and novels, are you more sci-fi or fantasy (or neither)?

I think I go through cycles of preferring one more than the other, but I always enjoy both. More recently I've also started enjoying manga, and outside of scifi or fantasy (though there's sometimes overlap) there's few things more relaxing than reading a chapter or two of a chill slice of life manga series before bed. :)

How would you define your position on the ace spectrum? Curious where other aces fall.

I've done surprisingly little research into the technical terms of the ace-spectrum beyond what I've picked up from other individuals over the years, so apologies if there's a much more succinct way to say this that I just don't know. XD But, I have no physical attraction to or interest in intimate physical activity with anyone, ever. Even when I was sexually active, before I even heard about and recognised that "ace" was an option, I was engaging in physical activity because I sincerely believed it was just 'what you did' as part of a relationship, so I put in all the effort I could without realising that for many other people, it wasn't something they did purely for the emotional reward of seeing a partner be happy, as opposed to actually enjoying the experience (though of course I SAID I enjoyed it right up to the point where it drove me so crazy I had to break up with the person, because why wouldn't you just outright lie to your partner to make them happy? Ahhh, what a dummy I was. XD)

So yeah, I'm not 'grey-ace' or anything where I can feel a physical attraction and enjoy physical intimate contact with others after developing an emotional bond. I'm just flat out uninterested in and made uncomfortable by the whole concept of sexually physical intimacy and attraction in any 'real-world' context.

Where fantasy/non-real-world type stuff is concerned? I can find a drawn image or a story appealing, an explicit animation enjoyable so long as it's featuring non-human anthros/non-photorealistic animation (and if it contains voice acting, it's much harder for me to enjoy). Weirdly I think furry stuff played a role in me not figuring out I was ace for as long as it took me, because it gave me a space where I could and do find things appealing on a regular basis. But if a fantastic creator whose work I love does a piece featuring drawn or textually described humans with no anthros/aliens/utterly fictional entities in it, especially if it's meant to represent humans existing in the 'real world' as opposed to some entirely fictional realm, even the fact it's drawn/written doesn't stop my enjoyment level from dropping sharply, though with it being drawn/written/etc it doesn't quite provoke the same discomfort as if I saw a photo, video or read a description of a sex act that was meant to be an account of an actual occurrence between real people.

And needless to say, my own writing doesn't make me uncomfortable, though I really don't enjoy writing about solely human characters in an erotic/explicit context if there's no anthro/otherwise less realistic characters involved. So long as whatever entities involved are all fully consenting adults, be they anthro animals, aliens, sentient robots, etc, it's all far more pleasant to me than anything remotely "real".

Ace stuff is a right royal pain to figure out with it being as buried as it still is; I am kind of amazed that it was able to get as much of a movement of getting people to see it as it has, considering how invisible it can still be to the public eye where it comes to representation and everything. The fact that there's such a spectrum of ace-identity, too, makes it all the more difficult for someone to define it compared to someone defining themselves as gay, straight, etc., since that's a little clearer than what we have on this spectrum.

For me, I land in the 'aegosexual' space, I think. Long-story short, as far as I can tell, it's a micro-label made distinct by:

-Mostly ace, but can find some appeal in fictional/'unrealistic' settings
-Seeing it in third person rather than inserting yourself in it
-Still not being attracted to IRL stuff, nor wanting sex, but finding a connection in fiction/fantasy/impossible things

Maybe look into that for you, if you want it? Just throwing it out there.

But nice to know where other people fall on this, so thanks for sharing your experiences.

Questionnaire Marcel Proust & Bernard Pivot.

1. What is your favorite word?
2. What is your least favorite word?
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
5. What sound or noise do you love?
6. What sound or noise do you hate?
7. What is your favorite curse word?
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
9. What profession would you not like to do?
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

1. Verdant!
2. I always found 'belch' to be rather unpleasant, haha.
3. Playing D&D with my friends, reading, watching anime while biking, my Animal Crossing island, taking walks while listening to podcasts, musical theatre.
4. Social media, capitalism, people who casually yet deeply insult things I enjoy just because they don't personally like them.
5. Nature sounds. Birdsong, lapping waves, rustling trees, all that hippy garbage lmao. <3
6. Any sudden, loud, sharp noise.
7. Fuck! It's great because it works just as well in positive contexts (fuck yeah!) as it does in negative ones (fuck no!)
8. Tangentially similar because it does involve writing of a sort, but I think I'd make a great restaurant reviewer for a journalistic publication. If I can't pick anything related to writing though? A museum archivist, or a deep sea ecologist (perhaps relating to echinoderms, corals or sponges). :)
9. Anything customer service related. Working in a call-centre would probably be my idea of hell just because it involves so many of my least favourite things.
10. "We apologise for the inconvenience."

Awesome!

If you were to attempt a CYOA, would you tackle cyberpunk? Or Mechwarrior?

Apologies if CYOA has a second meaning, but to my understanding that's "Choose Your Own Adventure", like a branching choice path story/novella. And if that is what you mean, I've absolutely thought about writing one of those before, but I've always struggled to figure out how and where I'd host/display it (not to mention having the time to write such a thing atop my existing schedule). I can't say I've really read or played much from either the Cyberpunk or Mechwarrior/battletech universes though, so probably neither. My CYOA would either be sci-fi or lighthearted furry smut, haha.

If CYOA does mean something different specifically in the context of Cyberpunk/Mechwarrior though, please let me know and I'll answer the question again correctly, haha.

You’re correct, they are choose your adventures.
For some examples… cyberpunk: https://imgur.io/a/aiIFO
And two for mechwarrior (future of the 80’s): https://imgur.io/gallery/M41mI or https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gs.....VJDSEhbHc/view

Haha, that's very cool! But yeah, honestly that sort of cyberpunk dystopia stuff isn't what I tend to go for in my fiction. A little too close to reality for comfort, unfortunately. That's not a criticism of the genre of course, it's just not to my personal taste. :3

So no Deus Ex like stuff then, alright.

So? Chicks dig giant robots? :)

Haha, I feel like I've heard that phrase but I'm not sure what it's from.


The sci-fi type stuff I tend to enjoy is lighter, more optimistic sci-fi. Fiction that envisions a more peaceful future of exploration and co-operation, i.e. Star Trek aside from its more grimdark moments, haha. What I suppose you could call escapist fiction.

Umm… Star Trek and grim dark are two words I would never put together. :?

Mechwarrior is a lot more grey, in that mankind is divided. Among 2 million stars and over 2 thousand inhabited planets.
But with the “Great Houses” fighting for the throne of the star league.
A place with danger, but power and wealth up for grabs. aka No Guts, No Galaxy!

I'm thinking specifically about some of the more modern elements of Star Trek, particularly elements of all three seasons of the recent Star Trek: Picard (that's not a criticism of the show overall, just a matter of personal preference). But, DS9 had its share of more grim and pessimistic moments too (though I still love DS9, its' just not the kind of light-hearted Trek I'd watch if I wanted to feel more upbeat. Season 3 of Discovery however is probably my favourite optimistic, hopeful Trek, as it focuses so much on the good that can be done by small, individual decisions to be kind and understanding, and how if expanded out that can be a far more powerful source of good than the power wielded by a mighty organisation. :3

Damn, sorry I'm late, but I never thought to ask before; has the highlander bun ever met a wild capercaillie, and if so, how awesome are they?

I've never SEEN one, but I've HEARD one in real life, so they were close by! I was visiting the Cairngorms at the time, and a lot of them (relatively speaking) live around there. :3