I figured out this fairy allergy to iron thing. You know this deal in Northern Europe and the British Isles where fairies could not touch iron because it burned them or Some other effect.

Fairies had a Bronze Age level of technology. They had a preference for because they were a primarily ocean going people and their descendants saw no need for improvement.

Then comes humans. We start to mix with fairy kind the same way we mixed with Neanderthals, Denisovans, and maybe four or five other hominid species. Fairies started losing numbers to humans and then humans started to learn how to make iron.

Where does this come from?

All the bronze age civilizations collapsed at about the same time the land bridge between Europe and the British Isles was swept away by the Scandinavian tsunami. This was about the same time the arise of the Bicameral mind and increased color perception (humans couldn't see blue, and red and green were grey).

What a day it's been.

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Here in 'immoral' Kansas, we take care of our sick and poor as best as we can.

(Update on my 'Pay the Furry' post: I got better than two dozen replies to my post, all of them PM. All of them agree with me. I guess I struck a nerve with the furry community. And I'm going to keep striking that nerve until we fursona owners get out due!)

So here we are, thousands of furries and thousands of artists, of which maybe a few hundred are any damn good.

The artists get all the glory. Furries who gave permission to the artist to use their fursonas get a free picture while the artist rakes in a handful of cash that never gets reported to the IRS.

Well, that's going to stop with me at least. If you want to use Haggis, then I want to be paid as much as the artist.

Furries are like writers.We work long and hard to perfect our OCs. Is a free picture really worth it?

"Pay the writer," Harlan Ellison

I got called to the carpet by the pro-Gilead Incel from Kansas for 'name dropping'. Let's look at this for a moment, huh?

My family came from Hollywood and one of my brother still works for Disney and sits on panels at the San Diego Comic Con.

My other brother and I have worked in Las Vegas casinos since you were getting swirlies in high school.

I actually tempt fate and dare to talk to non-furries online (what do they use instead of Yahoo IM anymore?).

I'm nice enough for people to remember me.

In other words, ain't nobody going to visit you in your grandma's basement.

aDoes anybody have the transcript of the IM conversation I had with the woman who asked me for advice for wrestling her 15 year old son?

The pro-Gilead incel from Kansas is holding this bit of cotton candy over my head to establish a false equivalency between this and the shit he wants to get away with (a remote farm where he's holding preteens prisoners as wrestling opponents).

Okay, about 15 years ago (?) I'm up one night with my YIM running visible hoping to find some women interested in getting tips on how to wrestle her teenage son.

Okay, think about this for a minute: somebody, possibly a poser, needs advice how to wrestle her son from a stranger in the middle of the night.

Well, if she wanted to play stupid games to win stupid prises, she came to the right guy. So I obliged her and told her to another her smaller son with her breasts.

The next day I posted this bit of strangeness for shits and giggles. The rest should've been history.

But it appears that some furries have not forgotten this horror in all this time.

Furry fandom is full of pedophiles, horse fuckers, diaper fetishists, and more. Why are you trying give it up dirt on me, unless of course you're the fucking stalker I said you were.

"The worst part of having a mental illness is that people expect you to behave as if you don't." - -Joker

This is my one year anniversary here at the rehab. I thought I would've been out of here six months ago, but what it is, is what it is.

I'm celebrating with Halloween candy. Not for myself, but for the other residents here. Last year, we ran out of candy a week before Halloween and that bummed the residents out. This year, I bought $50 worth of candy from a 99¢ store during one of our outings. That candy is under closely guarded lock and key until Halloween. So hopefully this Halloween will be more fun than last Halloween.

I just hope they don't make me wear another funny hat.

I just witnessed two ex-marines in wheelchairs go at it through the door of my room here at rehab. Both of these guys are in far worst shape than I am, but it was like watching King Kong Bundy and Hulk Hogan going at it. The weird thing was they were both in electric wheelchairs and they were using one hand to choke their rival and the other to steer their chair.

No winner, but it looks like there's going to be a rematch around dinner.

I don't think this guy is wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularo.....meme_to_do_so/

They've started work rebuilding the condo! The rehab bus came close to the condo complex and I saw men slapping a roof on the building.

Three paragraphs down. Haggis says goodbye to a 16 year old boy who's going off to die: https://fiction.homepageofthedead.com/forum.pl?readfiction=912H&rdp=3

If you think this is sexy, then there's something wrong with your head.

I get asked this a lot. The answer should be apparent:

"MY HOUSE BURNED DOWN!"

Jeez.

I was halfway through a collection of forgotten folklore takes derived from original sources (I can now read Olde English as easily as newspaper print).

Two Haggis novels, halfway done. I'm happy to say that the one reads like a collaborative effort by Fletcher Pratt and Stephen King.

Something I've been tinkering with I call 'X-Cops'. Basically real life cops encountering the paranormal. I was working on a chapter about a house here in Las Vegas that spits blood at the occupants and gathering information about giant spiders.

BTW, if it's late at night, and you're strolling by a lake or creek or any body of water and you hear singing, run. Just run.

"I have reviewed this issue and determined that the user's character is different enough to not warrant removal at this time. Thank you for your report and have a nice day."

And that's that.

Oh, by the way, when you think someone is trampling your rights, don't come to me.

Blood negative.
Urine negative.
X-Rays negatives.
Fish tired.
I saw several specialists. I have an infection, but they're not taking the nuclear option to deal with it this time. Thank goodness because I only have about 40% kidney function left.
My ass hurts from all the long trips I've been on. The last specialist was so far out there that I thought we were going to run out of city. The driver had to wait for me, so I have him some money for lunch and a big burger for myself.
I have a ton of visits coming in October. Wish me luck on those.
And thanks for all the well wishes. They really help!
*Hugs All!*

I currently have a kidney infection and boy, does it hurt.

Get back to you guys later.

I was having a bad night last night. It was extremely hard to finally fall asleep. This morning, something walks up to me and I think it's one of my cats (sadly, all of my cats are now deceased). I start petting it and cooing to it in one of my cartoon voices until it pulls out one of my earplugs and shouts in my ear:

"Martin, it's me, wake up!"

The cat turned out to be my nurse trying to give me my morning meds. To be fair, she isn't a very big woman.

My right foot is slowly, but surely healing. One of my problems at this point is that everybody is calling it a stump. Well, I want people to call it something else and I want to think of it as something else. So how about this:

You think somebody in FA can make me a hoof to fit over the stump? It would replace a shoe and maybe add stability to my gait.

What do you think!

Funny thing: yesterday I held hands with a wound care nurse who tells me I'm her favorite and loves my stories. It's been awhile since I held hands and I guess I'm kind of stunned by what happened. Hope it happens again soon.

Several items here. You may want to pour yourself a cool beverage before you continue.

Apparently I'm allergic to zinc-based ointments and lotions. Not to the zinc itself, but something used in conjunction with the zinc. For the last year, they'd give me something to heal and soothe my skin, only to turn it lobster red and painful. My doctors have said they never saw anything like this before.

The foot is still healing, but now I'm very susceptible to infections. I'm so tired of antibiotics, I'm about ready to hang myself with my own IV tubing.

Because of all the antibiotics I've been given, they're very worried about my kidneys. I'm afraid failure is an option here. My heart isn't doing too well either.

Not much else to say. Just that I love you guys and please be kind to each other.

And turn off your spellcheckers and be creative once in awhile.

One of the best woman wrestlers of all time made her permanent retirement from wrestling official yesterday. It's a crying shame. He worked very hard to become one of the best Indy wrestling stars there ever was, but all the haters who had a problem with her stripper background just kept dragging her down. Geez.

If I ever get that Haggis novel finished, I'm dedicating it to Annie, which is only fair because a lot of Annie went into the making of Haggis.

See you in the funny pages, Annie.

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Thank you for scaring the crap out of me...

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Basically all my advice can be boiled down to this; don’t just put their name on the gear. Think about where the character came from and is going and use that to inform your design. And use at least 5 colors/textures. Everything else is just personal taste!
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I'd like to commission a picture of Hellboy smacking the shit out of Modor from the movie, The Ritual.