Yeah, FA got hacked, drama llama ding dong, etc. I assume many people will basically say "I'M LEAVING FA THIS IS THE FINAL STRAWWWW" but I'm not gonna go that far (yet). HOWEVER, I am starting to upload my content elsewhere alongside here considering other places seem to allow higher quality uploads than FA does. If you'd like to follow me elsewhere in case FA tanks or something, you can find me here;

https://www.weasyl.com/~allenr
https://beta.furrynetwork.com/allenr/
http://allengarnsfw.tumblr.com/

If you have suggestions on where else I should upload myself, feel free to let me know.

As mentioned before I learned I was losing my job recently. Well, good news is my current company was working with another and we're all basically transitioning over to another place. Different company entirely, slight pay increase (by 1 dollar). It's not work that I'm looking to do, but I'll do work that sucks as opposed to be homeless. But I'll be looking for other work on the side.

Anyway just figured I would give an update as I've been posting cheap commissions and didn't want people to be like "dafuq is he doing that when he's losing his job?"

Is there any tips or suggestions you can make to open a story? I've had a lot of ideas in my head I want to write up, but my biggest gripe is the first sentence that goes into it all. Do I describe something or have a character make a comment or what? I'm just curious if there's something people tend to go with that works or if there's clichés I should avoid.

Was tagged by  dshain

Rules:
1. Post these rules.
2. Post 8 facts about your character.
3. Tag 8 other characters.
4. Post their names along with their creators' avatars.

Andrea: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17727415/

1. She was kidnapped by pirates when she was extremely young
2. The captain brought her up to fight and what not, but also treated her like garbage
3. She killed the captain and took over his crew
4. Her lost eye is the result of her killing her captain (got a shot in before she got the final blow)
5. A bar she frequently visits is run by her father, however they are unaware of their relationship
6. She has two lovers, an alternate universe version of my sona and a parrot belly dancer girl she met at said bar
7. She doesn't really do much except raid towns
8. She's not a fan of killing women cause they're just not as interesting to her

Tags
 nexsix Pan
 whitewolfkiba Rend
 kippy Pag
 spirale Spixel
 spinal22 Keinos
 artsypaws Grim
 madpolar Betty
 naoma-hiru Nao

Just posting an update for those interested.

I applied for a position somewhere but didn't get the job. So that bummed me out, but I did kinda blow it in the interview and said a lot of wrong things. Lesson learned.

However I had 2 interviews today that they wanted to give me follow ups on, as well as another one for tomorrow. Both pay pretty well and one of them if I can get into the company long term can really net me a larger bonus. It also pays weekly instead of bi-weekly so I'll have money to spend more often.

Most of my friends already know this, but figured I would put a heads up in case people wonder why I wouldn't be flooding my page with art from the usual people I get.

I recently learned that I'm gonna be losing my current job May 6th. The contractor basically decided not to renew so we're being shut down. I don't have another job lined up yet and I have some money aside for emergency, but I can't spend it on commission work. So until I can land myself another job, I'll be avoiding buying commissions for a bit.

I made an account there. Haven't done anything with it yet but figure if this site kicks the bucket people would wanna know.

https://beta.furrynetwork.com/allenr/

Before people make the wrong assumption about this journal, I'm not making a call out or anything or trying to claim thievery or any ridiculous nonsense like that. I simply saw a few people mistaking my character for Undyne of Undertale. So I wanted to make a journal before someone tries to accuse me of character copying.

It's merely coincidence and my character is not inspired by Undyne. I actually had Andrea's design finished long before Undertale was finished and released (though after it was just a demo that only led up to after the Toriel boss fight). To prove this, here is the final design I had done by nexsix where the image had been submitted in 2014;

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13584819/

and even here's my own submission of it around the same time;

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13597881/

Undertale was released in 2015 according to Wikipedia;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undertale

I'm also aware Undertale is older than this. Though the Kickstarter has no real images of Undyne being armorless (unless there's one in there if you're a backer, in which I'm not so I couldn't have seen it anyway).

https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....3342/undertale

So yeah, just coincidence. No one's accused me of anything yet, but just figured I would cover my ass before someone tries to start saying shit anyway because both Undertale fans and furries are fucking crazy.

Maybe it's me, maybe it's my characters, maybe it's only for specific artists now, not exactly sure. It feels like though that people on this site are less inclined to comment on art now. Have the vocal people moved onto a different site or are they just limited to certain artists or am I just only now realizing it?

Just a heads up, better quality versions of the following pics were uploaded;

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18542675/

and

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18542700/

You can also fav the originals here;

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18628680/

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18628646/

Was my first actual furry con and had a lot of fun. Met up with some cool peeps and was introduced to some new ones. I honestly expected to be really creeped out by the whole thing or get harassed because of a certain someone, but had no issues at all. I might see if I can go again next year but I'll probably have other things to do first.

No one also seemed to know who I was which is fine, I still had a fun time. Also bought some commissions while I was there, just waiting for the artist to upload them since I got physical copies and don't have a scanner.

I've been buying some gift art for people of their characters as presents, not involving mine. Just curious if anyone would want me to actually post those works I paid for or just simply link em or what. I feel kinda weird posting stuff that doesn't involve my characters but figured I'd ask people to see what their opinion is.

So I'll be going to MFF this year with artsypaws. If you see me feel free to say hi. I'll have a badge with my name and character on it.

Yeah today is my birthday and I just turned 30. I don't really have any plans for today aside from just stay home and possibly drink up a bit and talk to friends. Might play Undertale for a while. I wanted to just do a short overview of my 20s though and some things I remember.

My 21st birthday sucked first of all. Went to Vegas to visit my dad, step mom and little brother. We went to a casino and I played slots (which I discovered is boring as shit). I ordered jack and coke at dinner but the lady was giving me shit a bit, when I showed her my ID and she wasn't sure what day it is. Then she didn't even bring the right drink. When I got back I ended up drinking myself to pass out with some friends cause I wanted to get wasted as a make up. I dunno if it was really worth it though.

Had my first relationship with someone too. Ended up moving from California to Washington for it. I put a lot of scars into that relationship though with some things I did, but we pulled through them until she finally called it quits with me. It was a 4 year relationship and I learned a lot from it and it also helped me be a more open and much less shy person. However when she broke up with me, that was by far the worst hell I've ever gone through considering I had to live with her to save up money while she was oogling over her new boyfriend over Skype.

She was also the reason I ditched the furry community for a while. After we finally moved away from each other I wasn't really into getting back into it, but eventually just decided to start looking at stuff again. I'm rather glad I did too because I gained a lot of friends from it. I lost a few though as well during that period unfortunately. I still feel bad about the situation and wish it could have gone differently, but what's done is done and all I can do is learn from it and try to move on. I don't like losing friends though, it's really depressing for me.

Another thing I learned is it's possible to build another bridge you might've burned. I cut ties off completely with a close friend because when I finally met up with him after not seeing him for ages, I saw how different our personalities had become and he became rather obsessed with me. I couldn't find any way to just tell him no so I just cut him out of my life completely. Some time later I decided to at least give him an explanation of what happened and we have since become better friends because of it. Maybe down the line that'll happen with the other friend I lost recently, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. If it doesn't at all then that's life.

EDIT: I removed a section about gifts from here because I didn't feel right mentioning this before the day was even really over. I'll make a second journal when the day is over.

You've probably seen me spam the commissions I get off him but wanted to signal boost that he has a Patreon now which he's probably gonna fill up with porn that people might be interested in. Plus it's very cheap (3 bucks to start) to get his works. Link is here:

https://www.patreon.com/kpnsfw

I have one I made a long time ago and I'm considering getting her redesigned to bring her back. The one thing though I'm thinking about is how to handle her genetalia. Is there sort of like a more accurate or accepted style that people prefer or use? In that I mean she would have a penis and vagina but no testicles or she would simply have a penis and testicles but no vagina, however she has breasts and the usual feminem look. Or she could have all of the above.

Just looking for insight on how to make her more potentially appealing. I'm also aware it's all fantasy so I can do what I want but I'd like to pick something that other people could look at and be like "yeah that makes more sense"

The first time an artist (as far as I know) has blocked me today because of a friend of theirs. I won't say who as I do not want to start drama. I just wish people would be up front with me about things. I'm not an unreasonable person. If you do not wish to associate with me or work with me on projects because of personal reasons, I can be told about this. I just hate secrecy.

On another topic, as my previous journal mentioned I have an ex-friend who assumed I'm still following her. I can guarantee everyone that I am not. Frankly it's really annoying that since day 1 of the drama issue happening, it feels like there's been someone out there to make me look bad. Someone pretending to me be and harass this person I no longer speak with. I have an assumption of why they're doing this and have an idea of who it is, but I'm not going to point fingers. I don't have factual evidence but there are some things that did not sit right at certain times. To go into them now though is a bit pointless though and I'm sure whatever I say would just be considered lies to them despite having no reason to lie at this point.

As far as the block goes, I'm not exactly sure how the person found out about the drama or what's been said. I assume there could be a potential PSA out on me, which if that is truly the case, feel free to ask me questions about the situation. I am an open book and will admit to things I feel I did wrong and things I feel I did right. But of course that's assuming that this is all public knowledge at this point.

7/20/2015: Slightly edited this because some of the wording bothered me.

First of all, I apologize to my watchers for this journal, but I have an ex-friend who apparently still thinks I'm secretly watching her at places. So I want to put up some semi-open clarification on some things, without any name drops in case she wants to use her other accounts to view my page. I've forgotten what the user names are and I do not want to hunt them down either because that would require going to her normal FA page, which I avoid like the plague.

Now, I have no idea why you think I'm watching you or looking at any of your pages. I haven't looked at anything of yours since that first note you sent me. If it's because you have some IP tracker on your blog and you see someone from WA, I can tell you it certainly is not me. I don't want to look at your pages, your username, your art, you yourself and honestly, I don't even want to know you even exist. I'm not going to go into detail about how I feel about you, but let's just say, I'm trying really hard not to stick to a negative opinion about you. But apparently you want to keep pushing my buttons and are tempting me to put up a public article about the shit that went down and put up a potential artists beware on you. Though I keep telling myself you don't deserve that, so I don't bother doing it. I don't want to ruin the reputation you have. Plus, I'd rather move on from this situation and just try to remember the good times we had instead of the shit storm that ensued at the end of it all.

Also, here's my public IP address http://t.co/Dwk5MNnJJ0 so you can stop assuming it's me following you. Before you also think about it; it's not one of my friends following your pages either. The only people I've spoken with about the situation who know what your pages are live in Indiana, Finland and Canada. Everyone else that I've also spoken with about this situation has no idea who you are or what your pages are. I also have no idea why you think my ex is following you. I haven't spoken to my ex in almost 2 years, long before you and I even started talking to each other. So if you've got someone from Texas (which is where I last know she was living) following you, it's probably one of your exes again.

Lastly, tell your boyfriend to stop sending me messages as well. I already sent you a note saying exactly what I said above. There is zero reason the conversation should continue. Though honestly I don't even know what he said due to the fact I deleted it without reading it, but I can say he is the last person on earth I want to hear from for the shit he said. If you have a problem you think is related to me, deal with it on your own. Block me or something from everywhere, I don't really care. I'm not going to notice it because I haven't been visiting your pages. I dropped the situation back in June after your first note. I've been trying to move on and forget about it because I still feel bad I lost a good friend. But you keep dragging me back into it for god knows whatever reason. Just leave me alone. I want to move on. Please do the same.

A friend of mine is inviting me there and I'm considering attending. So I guess if you see me say hi or something.