x'D

*Le Ignore*

Crowd: "Oooh he's so hot and mysterious!"


I find that ignoring people (while being popular) brings the fake friends that stick around for #porn and the other ones that learn your deepest darkest secrets to either exploit your weaknesses or blackmail you with shameful things via public exploits (doxxing and airing of dirty laundry).

Granted, I've learned this all from a safe distance because who am I? lmao

What would you do with your newfound popularity? :3

That is a very good reply XD

Of course things could change in good time. But if I was like, ultra popular, I think I would feel pretty bad about it because I honestly doubt I would know how to get along with all the stuffs this implies. It is nice to meet new people and learn about them by listening to the very little insignificant thing they may have to talk about. You can just sit with them and no one will cares since you are just likely to be a "nobody" for them. Unlike being popular, I guess if people would see you somewhere they would expect you to stay with the crowd that have much more in common with you (same popularity rate, as an exemple). And, they maybe would find it weird if you stick with people who are like brand new in the fandom. For exemple, could you imagine an artist like Redrusker or a writter like Kyell Gold to sit in the dark corner of a place to speak talk with a fur who's left behind by every others? In my guess, even IF they wanted to do it, they probably would not have the time since popularity would request from you to be somewhere else at a very specific moment but definitely not to be lost somewhere/nowhere out of the cheerful crowd.

This is a very insightful response, and I feel that I would be in the same boat socially. Syber is a very popular fox, but they had time to talk one night on Steam. I think sometimes it's up to the individual as to how much they socialize with people outside their normal circie. Making contact with the new people often gives them a more positive image of the fandom I find (except in instances where you message them once and they had oped to have time for a lasting conversation.

I'm too scatterbrained for hanging onto more than about three conversations at a time. xD For instance I like your brain and how it works.it would be exciting to have talked at length for any number of days or hours, but there's no telling what life issue will distract me in the future. I am juggling metaphorical knives by balancing the love and connection people feel with me and sometimes one knife slips past my fingers and someone gets hurt. :/

I know how to sharpen a knives as well as to unsharpen one ;) (why everything sound sexual when said in here XP)

LMAO we have reached critical cheeky mass. Anything can be innuendo if it involves friction and grinding. xD

I always sharpen and unsharpen knives with specifics rocks. Does rocks are yiffable?

I have never tried to yiff a rock, but I would stay away from slate lol. It breaks into razor sharp edges and used to be used for primitive tools. xD

You should pass your finger on a Shapton Glass-Stone with a grit of 30 000. It is almost arousing because of how soft it is. I use this stone to polish the sharp part of knives and make them to cut like a razor.

I am definitely a lover of soft things. :) Whenever I get the chance I'll definitely pass a finger over one of those stones just for the experience. I had a whetstone at the old house that was ever so slightly gritty, but when it becomes wet it's smooth as a polished river rock. It's so intriguing how gritty things can feel so smooth.

Have you had the chance to design or assemble your own knife before? :D Seems like you know a good bit about their maintenance. :)

Yes I did. Many times. I have Stones from 100 to 30 000 grit. The 100 one is only used to 'destroy' the blade and prepared it for the next stone. Let's say I have a knive in the worst condition ever (with holes on the blade), my way to go would be like this :
Grit 100 - to destroy and prepare de blade
Grit 400 - to hardly polish the blade and give it an almost final shape
Grit 500 - to validate the shape of the blade and take of everything the next stone won't be able to take off (high grits are much soft and easy to tear)
Grit 1000~2000 - to start the polishing and see if I need to go back to the 500 grit ones
Grit 5000 - to perform a high level of polishing and sharpening (at this point I can pass through a sheet without a single slicing move)
Grit 30 000 - to achieve a 'razor like' texture and ultra-mirrored finish on the blade (at this point I can shave with it).

I am now curious about the grit of the stone you touched :P

Ooooohhhhh how fortunate! Thank you so much for the descriptions. I am not able to find any writing on the whetstone fragment that is left, but I would assume it to be in the 4000 grit range. It sharpens fast but it gives you a really fine edge. Dad learned knife making from a guy who used to live a few miles away, but that was long before my time so I was not learning along with them. Dad gave me a few basic tips for keeping the blades sharp at my house, but we never went in depth about the grit of the stone or the various materials and other processes involved. One day when life is a little quieter I may pick up the habit.

Well, two things that are really important to me when I sharpen my knives is to keep the same angle and pressure most of the time. You can at one point sharpen at any angle but the higher the angle is the less the knife will cut. Also, if you use a too big angle on a 4000 grit stone, you will end up slicing through it like in a cube of butter. Those stones are hard but they still can be amazingly fragile.

I think you should give it a try one day, if you are have the patience for this kind of thing. It is relaxing, somehow and self-rewarding.

I will definitely keep these things on my mind! It's kind of funny in an odd way that you can cut through the stone with steel. I guess the planar orientation of the crystals/ molecules within the stone has something to do with it? I would hate to drop one and have it shatter to pieces. The kits are around $300 online from what I saw a day or two ago.

As of now I can practice retaining a certain pressure and angle with my ceramic sticks and then move on to the stones. :)

Thank you for your knowledge

To give you an idea, my own kit cost me above 2000$ :P

And, no problem. It is nice to talk to a furry liking that kind of thing.

@o@ +$2000! Wowsers. Guess I ought to start saving now. :)

You don't have to go THAT far. I a crazy and dumb. Definitely not somebody to imitate :P

x) You are *dedicated*. Crazy and dumb is what happens when enthusiasm and a short attention span meet a lack of knowledge and an abundance of time.

*giggles* funny you.

I'm funny and I get a lot of things partly done before I'm distracted. xD Trying to wean off the bad habit lol.

Have you tried to seclude yourself in a jail?

Lol! No I have not tried jail as a solution. I read "seclude" as "suicide" and laughed pretty hard. Being dead would definitely help me to keep from switching tasks.

Honestly if I do seclude myself my mind instantly tries to go everywhere else and will continue that for hours no matter what I try to stop it.

HAha XD That's quite funny. My only recommendation then would be some good s** or y*** time :P
I have no idea if that would work but I am pretty sure you would like it XD

I have had s** but it was kinda meh. Even then my mind went everywhere lol. This brain is a nomad but I am not so much. xD

I am going to have to use a Genjutsu on you then ;)

lol

Popularity is a bitch sometimes. Chances are you'll have the opportunity to experience cool things that if you weren't in that position could hardly have achieved, but also it can bring the idealism of your image towards the people that admires you while they don't really know you and you aren't directly aware of their existence.
Then there's people wanting to know you or befriend you desperately and you may have no time, maybe neither interest to socialize with them, and you rather stick to the ones you knew outside of what made you popular. The ones that kept contact with you for who you really are with them and not the pretty idol, or the skilled autor. Sometimes I feel that does happen with popular artists, and it kinda happens to me. Happens that having people that admires you trying to push themselves into you, your personal life and boundaries while you're so out of their social circles and etc is more likely that you will have to leave your closests friends and family aside because of the stranger being a fanatic. Of course, that doesn't justifies being mean and take advantage of less popular people. Sucks that in a social event you can't reach out to people equally as anyone else going for fun when you're attending because of your popularity tho.

I don't think it goes that bad for most of the popular furries and artists. But, just as I try to picture a popular person trying to stick with people who are really not AND without being looked like "Why the hell he goes lose time with them". I just am unsure. Personnaly, I would never want to become popular no matter the reason it would. Even when I posted some videos of me performing Staff and Poi spinning, I got request from people to try to perform on songs they liked. I feel bad having to say I can't really do that. It is not how it work.
Not sure if that make sense. I did liked you reply though. Now I know more of what you think about that, I'll try to become your BIGGEST fan and follow you everywhere. I will even ask your subconscious to let me in during your sleep, so I'll be able to know what you dream about :D