This is the absolute worst season to be depressed. You look outside, the world is dead and frozen. Gray skies like dented metal. The ground is either mud or shredded wheat. There's no color to be had.

I'm really tired of this. I never expected to be out of work this long. Another month, and I can forget about going to cons this year.

Cons aren't the most important thing in life, I know, but they're the only vacation I get. Not having those gleaming weekends is really going to drag the year down.

Angstangstangst.

I want a job, and cuddles. I wonder if there are cuddle jobs?

The 'vore text meme' was kind of fun, and did get a bit of writing out of me. Open it up to see 'my favorite scene,' (Just one possible favorite of course, with lots of my button-pushers in it.)

Hermy pony fucks and anal vores Anima-panther! I am a whore for your attention.

Well, one of the hiring agencies I enlisted with finally called Friday and gave me a job for next week only, stuffing envelopes for 8.50 an hour.

Well, the money will pay for another month's worth of insurance and give me that much more time to look for something serious. It's a let-down though. All the agency's been able to find for me is envelope stuffing at place in the same office complex as the agency itself? That seems so...small-time and lame!

Drama makes me weep for the human race.

How can people be so retarded? They have to strike such a delicate balance.

1) Must be able to operate a computer and type
2) Must have no common sense or grasp of reality
3) Must have a crusader's spirit, a burning desire to spread the word about...whatever.

I won't even link to the drama I'm basing this off of because I don't want to perpetuate it. Directly. 9,9
I'm just SO PISSED AT STUPID PEOPLE!

I dunno what happened, but I've gotten more new watches and favorites over the past three days than I've gotten in three months. Did a bunch of people just stumble across the site? Anyways, thank you all for watching.

I'm still job-hunting. I have three more months until things get really ugly, but I think I can find something before then.

Look forward to a new Nerf project in the near future.

It took awhile, but someone has finally decided to try ripping me off. They posted the entire vixen series on Yiffstar, claiming it as their own.

http://yiffstar.com/index.yiff?action=authorsearch&authorsearch=milesfoxyprower&tabselected=stories

I can only hope that this asswipe will have it taken down before most of you look, but if not...feel free to comment-bomb the insect.

I did get a reply back from him after I left comments on 'his' submissions. Make of it what you will, :KD

"amima sorry i uploaded wrong story i use yours sas a inspireation i used basicly almost the same setting i change the names gave a better telling about his school took out the plushie part and the uncle and i think i have eraed mine enstead of yours"

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2372.....ccf46aeb_o.jpg

I won't get the piece of paper until June, but I'm DONE!

I'm flabbergasted.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/834769/

Kalamu offered to draw me something in exchange for a vore story, and like, three days later, showed me this.
O,O

I'm going to have a tough time writing something that's a fair exchange for this!

So, once over 21 THOUSAND journals had piled up, I decided I'd just better nuke the pile.

I'm sorry to all those who had real, life-altering stuff in there that I would've liked to have read.

You got buried in $7 badge commission/I'm going to teh beach/ OMG my hair dye didn't work posts. (Not that I'm not guilty of making similarly useless posts.)

Update: I started working on my proton pack prop again, and decided to check the measurements of some of the pieces. They're almost all wrong. I may have to start from scratch with virtually every piece.

It's been kind of downhill since then. I'm depressed over the prospect of school being over, mostly because it forces me to find a new job...something career-ish, (not that I know what career-ish means.)

I received this email last night.


***

Hi

My name is Suzanne Stratford. I'm a reporter with FOX NEWS CLEVELAND.

I hope you don't mind me emailing you - I found the address on the net.

I'm working on a feature news report on Furries. I saw the episode of Entourage and thought it was pretty wild and pretty cool and would make a great story. (thru research I realize it's not a sex thing like they showed)
I am interested in learning what it's all about.

Just for background --- I do alot of special projects.. 3 to 4 min pieces on fun, interesting subjects for sweeps.
We put alot of work into them.

If you want you can see a sample of my work at MYFOXCLEVELAND.COM. search "Regrowing Human Tissue" or "Dog Potty" or "No Surgery Nose job". Those are just a few since our website went on-line.. '

Hope to talk to you soon
Sincerely
Suzanne

((phone numbers erased))

ps ..
dig the gas mask -- i was chemical specialist in the army - a lifetime ago - yikes but true

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The website and name seem to check out. I have no intention of doing an interview, being a, uh, non-ideal representative for the fandom (as well as not trusting this woman to do an objective piece). Interesting though.


Also, you HAVE to go look at this comic. http://xkcd.com/311/

I posted a couple entries on my LJ describing my experiences in Sierra Leone, Africa, when my parents took us all over there to do mission work. If you'd like to know what it's like in one of the world's poorest countries, from the capital city to a village deep in the bush, go take a peek.

http://animakitty.livejournal.com/2.....32.html#cutid1

and

http://animakitty.livejournal.com/2.....67.html#cutid1

Mentions of venomous snakes, a secret society, rebel invasion, and a military general straight out of something like "The Gods Must Be Crazy" lie within, and it's all real-life experience.

The con's going middling-well. For anyone who hasn't found me yet and wants to, leave me a note at room 911 at the Marriott or call me. If you need my number, call me. :D

I'm covered in blue and yellow dust after two hours sanding the logos and warnings off of two Maverick frames. x,x Sanding is by far the worst part of modding/painting these things. It takes forever, makes a mess, smells bad, and makes MY HANDS DIRTY! AUGHHHH! (I have the rather feline trait of loathing dirty-hands.)

I finished modifying a second Longshot, and it seems to work just fine. Hello quadrupled range! There's just one left to do, and I'll have three superpowered Longshots to work with. Then I need to upgrade the guts of the LS that's still in pieces, getting painted.

I've been selling off some of the guns I've collected over time, trying to free up some room in my living space and get some cash for it. I sold a Supermaxx 5000 to a guy for 50 bucks, for instance. Apparently that's a gun you can modify to let you kill squirrels with its foam darts. (Prolly an exaggeration.) I'm selling the crank-driven Razorbeast to someone else for 20 bucks and a Vortex Tornado: a gun that fires Koosh-brand rubber rings. It has a really neat shape to it that I look forward to painting.

Q: Where will you be?
A: Here and there. I may attend a panel or two, I'll try to make it to Kage's show and 2's show if nothing better's going on. I'll visit the dealer's hanger several times, no doubt. I'll be staying at the Mariot, I think.

Q: Who will you be with?
A: Who knows? Probably Wolfgang (the wolf!) and hopefully Kamber (the pony!). If anyone else shows an interest in having me around, I'll follow 'em for awhile. :KD

Q: How can I spot you?
A: Well...umm...hmm. I'm about 5' 9", dark brown short hair, wear eyeglasses, I'm fat...and I suppose at some point I'll probably be wearing a neon green and black leopard-spotted pimp hat. Will that help? Also, there's a pic of me in my scraps section. I'll be wearing a few conbadges with my panthery-self on 'em, but that's a close-range thing.

Q: Do you do free art?
A: ...If you want art from me, you're a sad misguided person. If you commission me for art, you're a sad misguided person whose money I will take with a smile, returning only napkin-doodles.

Q: Can I have your cellphone number?
A: Send me a note or IM me about that.

More Personal Stuff

Q: What is your gender?
A: Male. I'm a good listener though, and I hate football. ;KD

Q: How old are you?
A: 24.

Q: Are you taken?
A: No, and never have been. Someday I hope to be. And not in the 'I'm quite taken with those curtains!' fashion.

Q: Can I touch you?
A: Do you know me well enough to touch me? Ask yourself that seriously. My standards tend to be: If we met online and have spent a lot of time together there, a greeting hug instead of a handshake is alright. Contact beyond that can go by how many cons you've hung out with me at (hours of social time, not a passing I-know-you in a hallway). If this con will be your introduction to me, no, no more touching. Second con, scritches are okay. Third, fourth, etc you're probably fine. Don't grope me, okay? (This isn't arbitrary. It just takes me time to become comfortable with people.)

Q: Can I talk to you?
A: Sure! Unless you're excessively maladjusted in some way, I'll talk back too! Please don't be offended if I've forgotten your name. I've worked at the same place for five years, and still forget the names of coworkers I see daily. I'm just...broken like that I guess. o,o

Q: Can we hang out?
A: Again, as along as you're not excessively maladjusted (Really really loud, lacking any sense of appropriateness or social awareness, really creepy, etc.) then sure! I'm an easy-going guy.

I've updated my site again with the following:

Replaced several poorly-formatted versions of my stories with cleaner ones.

Added a list of webcomics I like to the links page.

Added a big content warning to the front page of the site.

Added more art to the art page, and made it a little easier on the eyes.

Cleaned up the Nerf and Computer pages, which had gotten all screwed up in the last update.

http://animakitty.furrynet.com

If you haven't peeked already, I just posted a four-page unbirth story. Slippery gecko pussy versus unsuspecting jaguar! FIGHT!


I had a really stupid thought a few minutes ago. There are six or seven ways to vore someone at this point, right? I thought of a new one. BRAIN VORE! It actually has showed up in various media before...and I don't just mean zombies.

Imagine a creature that devours another creature's brain. The method doesn't much matter, though keeping it whole (and alive) would certainly help. Once ingested, the creature's 'digestion' would rather absorb relevant structures from the consumed brain, reproducing them within its own brain.

You read all the Harry Potter books? The folds in your brain that represent that material are copied, and the brain eater has as-good-as read the same books.

Now, is it a stretch to imagine the predator's brain containing more than his/her own brain-contents? Well, there's a lot of the brain the predator wouldn't need. Unless the reflexes, balance, and so on were superior to its own, those needn't be copied. All the autonomous stuff like breathing and so forth would be useless. And remember, according to legend, we don't use much of our brain. Consider the rest of it mass storage.

Now, this wouldn't be all that exciting unless you assume that the creature keeps the mind conscious while devouring it. You as the prey experience your memories over again as they're drawn from you, and all the while the predator is mentally teasing you...delighting in what it's gleaning from you, giggling as your brain loses fold after fold. Eventually it's nothing but a smooth oblong, and everything that made you you is now part of the predator. Panicked fragments of you reside in the pred's brain, trapped and powerless...just trophies to be fondled and enjoyed for the rest of that predator's life.

Snuggle me or face the dire consequence!

...Sad kitten-face.

Yay Morphicon. I just returned today from three days of small-furry-con-fun.

I will admit that it wasn't my best Morphicon, but I still had fun. It was great hanging out with Wolfgang, Odendo, Bastian, Mystee--and briefly with Z-Trooper and Digit. I met a couple new people, like Mulefoot and one horrible horrible man I hope never returns to the con. (He smells like old carpet, writes cub erotica, draws more poorly than I do, and will talk your ear off if you so much as make eye contact with him.)

I took some pics at the con, and you can view 'em here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/animak.....7600240444719/
I'll make them friends-only in a couple weeks though, in case anyone photographed minds being on display on a public site.

For those of you I missed, I'm sorry. o,o I'm also sorry I didn't spend much time (or money) at the dealer's den. I was just struck with a wave of 'why spend money here and get something possibly-rushed' when I could contact them and make arrangements by email and such later? Yeah, I suck.

The Nerf war got some good attendance numbers, and thank you everyone who came to help me pack up!

I have no words. I have only animalistic grunts and screeches of excitement and confusion, in regards to this.

http://dory.mncast.com/mncHMovie.sw.....20061105012849





Also, I updated my site further. Check out the facelifted art page! All the artists represented there are now linked to, :K)

I've updated my personal website, http://animakitty.furrynet.com

I've posted the three newest stories to the story page, as well as the two W.I.P. works I've had hanging over my head.

I cleaned up and expanded the links page.

NEW: Custom Vore Search Engine! Thanks to a new tool Google is offering, I made a search engine tailored to find vore stuff. You can find the search box at the bottom of my site's main page. Try it out!

Later I'll add a poetry section and a Nerf section to the site, but my insomnia's finally giving out on me...so g'nite.

I really hate people some days.

It's...so very hard on the web to restrain myself and not swing a verbal hammer into their eyesocket.

Trolls are bad enough, but to just meet someone *thick* and self-righteous... Ugh.

I don't like the judgmental side of me, and I try to keep it in check when my brain is actually in gear. But when my higher functions agree that the individual in question needs slapped out of their seat, it gets ten times harder to keep my mouth shut. Even worse than that though is the situation where remaining silent makes them look right.

It's...a kind of pain, even. A tightness in my chest and neck and a hint of rising bile. It's multiplied twenty fold in real life of course, but fortunately it's often easier to avoid morons in reality. Someone says something stupid? Leave.
Leave before you shoot them in the face with a bazooka.


*SIGHhhhh* Just me venting. Apologies to those who lost porn-browsing time over this. ;K)

http://animakitty.livejournal.com/217647.html

I don't want to flood everyone with pics of a dusty old warehouse, but if anyone is junk-minded enough to want to see pics of Mendelson's Surplus Electronics/Industrial Warehouse in Dayton Ohio, then head over to my Livejournal for a look. I make regular trips there to look for pieces of props. I've found resistors that were used on the original Ghostbusters proton pack and ghost trap, an air valve used on the proton pack, electronic counters almost identical to those used on Imperial stormtrooper blaster rifles, and who knows what else.

For anyone who's interested, I took a bunch of photos at Wolfpark (An education center and preserve in Battleground Indiana. They own a large chunk of land and keep a wolf pack there, as well as other animals in other sections.) but didn't want to dump them here and clutter everything up. You can peek at 'em here, http://www.flickr.com/photos/animak.....7594577787631/

There's a few of the wolves, (Not many of those turned out, so there aren't a whole lot of 'em) and a lot of Basil the red (though his fur is white) fox.

I also took some video! Here's one of Ember, the (actually red) red fox.
http://www.ourmedia.org/node/286280

There's also a short video of some coyote puppies, and a couple clips of Basil. Easiest to get 'em here, links near the bottom of the page. http://www.ourmedia.org/user/54832

I'm a little ticked. Classes just resumed this week after a one week spring 'break.' There's a student who keeps popping up in my classes who drives me to distraction.

Have you ever known/met someone who doesn't understand the concept of timing, when it comes to opening their trap? Not only does this fellow have a very *loud* very *annoying* voice, he uses it whenever he feels like it regardless of the setting or activity.

Teacher's lecturing? If he has a comment, out it comes. You're sitting there, minding your own business and reading a book or doing homework? He'll do his best to start up a conversation anyways. If you give him an inch (especially about horror/splatterpunk, of which he's a big fan, as everyone will learn after spending more than two hours total anywhere near him) he'll take several hundred miles.

I can't help but think he must be retarded...yet, if that's the case, how is he in the upper level English classes I'm in? He must have ADD or some learning disability because at least once a week he'll roll over whatever the prof might be trying to say to ask a question about something that was *just addressed* in the prof's last two sentences.

This quarter, I have him in two of my three courses...the same situation I was in last quarter. At least THIS quarter I'm not reading and critiquing his poetry, or listening to him read it!

On top of all that, I have the sneaky suspicion he's going to end up a serial rapist/killer. Ever get that feeling about someone? Ever wonder if maybe you should take some preventative measures...?




Sorry about that folks. Just needed to rant this out of my system. That twit just makes me grind my teeth.

I tossed up a bunch of my old stories, realizing that I'd hardly uploaded a fraction of my finished tales. Reading 'em again or seeing them for the first time, I hope you all enjoy.

I moved a lot of the Nerf photos to the scraps section so they wouldn't clutter up the gallery so much.

I'm making a ghost trap. :K)