Hey guys.
Keep in mind that I post MSPaint parodies of the fandom every now and then.
Back to your regularly scheduled personal art soon.

Here's two paragraphs of my softer side.

Recently I received through the post a trunk containing a lot of sentimental items. Figurines I've had since I was a child, small ornaments, some bead bracelets my boyfriend gave me when I was still in Canada, the ribbon that wrapped the gift my mother sent me for Christmas that was the first civil communication we'd had in years... Things of that nature. Also my little Aloe Vera plant I ordered arrived today. Some of its tendrils were broken and it's a little shaken up, but it seems to be okay.

I got the chance to put up some items of mine around the room, and it's just made me so happy. I've been here for three months exactly as of today, and it's really been the happiest time of my life. I'm the happiest I've been in years. I'm just so elated that I've been welcomed like I have been, and now I even have a couple of my things I've had since I was a kid up around the room, like my old Yinepu statuette. That little statuette and the moon stone that sits in its lap has been with me ever since I found it in a little shop in Norway when I was twelve years old. It's been in every room I've ever stayed in, every apartment I've ever lived in, with me every step of the way except when I left the continent. And now, it's here, cementing the feeling that this room truly can be a home. It's not just a place I'm throwing my stuff in... It's safe here. I can be here.

I can't tell you how long I've waited for that.

You know, it really pisses me off when people post all these scribbles on looseleaf paper in their Galleries.
It's just this pet peeve of mine. Most people who do it are in school of some kind.

Take the fucking time with your art to remove those lines. If you have the time and dedication to scan the thing, you have the time and should have the dedication to remove -- Or at least attempt to remove -- those lines. Looseleaf paper is not art paper. Looseleaf paper is shitty note paper. Art is to be done on art paper, except during Trigonometry, when it is acceptable -- nay, encouraged, to draw cocks and monsters all over everything. Take some blank paper to class if you want to ignore your teacher most effectively; Take only note paper if you want to actually learn something.

I've done my fair share of scribbling in class when I went to school and shit. I mean, there's something to be said for an old, tattered notebook filled with disjointed thoughts, lessons, and the occasional face or something, but I didn't post said faggotry. Or if I did, it was in my Scraps. Why? Because it looks like striated ass, that's why. Looseleaf paper is for scribbling cocks on. That's it, art-wise.

If you're not going to take the time for your art to make it look nice, then I'm not going to take the time to look at or comment on it. If it's not worth shit to you, why the hell should it be to me? You've no excuse.

So what is with this recent influx of 15 year old "Goffik" and "Emo" kids on FA? Or even better, "GEMO" kids. Do the math. They treat FA like some sort of fucktarded MySpace, posting their stupid "I held up the camera" shots of themselves and occasionally scribbling a horribly drawn furry blob in MSPaint to somehow justify their existence here.

So I'm sitting here being a productive adult, sitting the in the abode I fought tooth and claw to be in, on my computer that I worked hard to buy for myself, watching these fucking faggots clog up my FAs. Yes, FA is a plural now.

Like, okay, I realise you guys are filled with rage because you're expected to take out the garbage and wash the dishes in exchange for your free shelter, food, and clothing, but what's the deal? Yes, you. I'm pissed off at you. Get off my Internet, wipe off that ridiculous black lipstick, and complain when you fucking have something real to complain about.

School sucks for you? Guess what, it sucked for me too. I was a loner and an outcast, too. Get over it and drop out of your stupid popularity contest. It's not you against the world. You're not that important.
Your parents are mean to you? Yeah wow, one of mine hit me, as well. Get over it, stop crying, and for fuck's sake clean your damn room.
You're not understood? Big fuck, I left home when I was fourteen to have to support myself. Eat shit and stop complaining. It can get a lot worse, and in fact, it probably will before it gets any better.

You probably have some kind of college fund stacked away, so that when you can fucking bother to get off your ass and finish highschool, you'll be able to go to secondary education, and waste your time there complaining about it, as well! Nevermind the fact that there are people out there who would kill to go to school and can't because they've got no money. You just sit around and mope about how you're actually a vampire, and listen to Insane Clown Posse as if they're deep or something.

I like the emo style of dress, but god fucking damn, if I have to hear one of them cry about their 372947293 undiagnosed but serious business psychological disorders, I'm going to blow up the Internets.

So, I went to my first meet ever in Manchester yesterday, and it was pretty awesome. I got the chance to put some faces to names, meet some people in person, like Fioxy, Sora Yasha, Wolven, and Istauri, who were exceptionally cool, and bum around the city a little bit. I'd never seen fursuits in person before in my life, and whilst really it's not my thing, there were some really cool ones there. If I had a suit like Saethwr, I'd wear it to meets and stuff for sure.
The bar was nice, I had an interesting fruity vodka thing, thanks to Daravel!

Since I can be shy and very scared of large groups of people I was pretty impressed with myself. I tried hard to be forthcoming and social, and whilst I wasn't the life of the party, I certainly wasn't a complete wallflower, either. I do much better in a group of 2 or 3. I'm just going to have to go to more meets to get practise in!

I went home as soon as it was dark because my boyfriend was sick and I wasn't sure that I'd be able to recognise landmarks I needed in order to get the bus home. Indeed, I was lost for a half hour, but there was a hot bath waiting for me at home, so good stuff for the grey foxie.

Also I did a sketch and got some Pocky from Sora Yasha so that rocked pretty hard.

So I was looking through FA one day and I come across some submission made by some guy who calls everything he makes 'purrfect' and makes basically all his submissions via a Gaia Online Avatar Creator.

Wut.
Completely, totally, utterly lame. Super lame. This goes beyond lame and into another category -- But I'm not an asshole, so I'm not going to say something like that on someone's page!

So I go and comment that I'm not particularly impressed, and that I would be impressed if he'd go ahead and endeavour to draw the character he'd made, with his own hand.
Seriously, worded like that. It's not rude, it's not offensive, but it gets my point across that what he's doing isn't creative and is in fact, pretty fuckin' lame. Anyone can click shit around for half an hour.

He flips shit at me, calling me names and calling me 'rude and ignorant.' He then tries the supposedly bullet-proof comeback, "HOW WUD U FEL IF I SED DAT 2 U!!????!1///"
I said rather succinctly that, because I am an artist and I am in fact not ignorant, I would love it if he called what I did garbage and could explain to me why, because I want to improve.
I explained that as an artist I recognise that negative criticism is necessary for growth in an artistic venue, and that flipping out at me like that and calling his shit "purrfect" really only made him look haughty.
Also, furfaggotry. Use English. "Purrfect" is a horrible pun you find on birthday cards with cats on them.

The fact is, you will never improve at what you do if you're not informed of what you're doing wrong. I want to be told what it is I'm doing wrong, so that I can get better at what I do. It's nice to get 'o dat's cute' as a comment every now and then, but in all honesty that's kind of useless to me. I'd rather be told 'you need to work on your foreshortening.'

That's what my aim is. To give positive encouragement when I see it's needed, and to give negative criticism -- always constructive, however, I'm never going to just 'tear someone down.'

People need to grow up and stop taking themselves so seriously.