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but cloudflare took 10 minutes to process me and now i dn't remmeber

are you fucking joking

do i have to write an essay just to dump art here i'm going to fucking eat you, fender

Well there stranger... rare to see a wanderer make it over the oil flats this time of year. You looking for abuse mixed with obnoxiously esoteric settings too? You and every roamaround from here to the big screw. Nope, no getting out this time of season, the fire dogs come early these years and you'll be deep fried delights if you try to head back into the oil flats. Nope, afraid you're stuck here... same as me... same as everyone else here...

lord help me i make no apologies

what's the fuck UP spring party here in autumn land byobbbq

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4.....ters/119121979

it's complete, 60 chapters, 230kish words, bye

so i guess i won't be moving there

uh

ill probably put stuff up here occasionally but ill be real with you chief i don't recognize the modern internet

most of my actual efforts get like, a small handful of comments it's not really an audience worth pivoting around instead of just making my own stuff and while a few people looking at my stuff is neat like i'm not going to MAKE FOR that audience you know i'll just be doing whatever entertains me and putting it here as an archive as usual i guess

i dont get much out of this modern internet except for the like once a year i get like 1-2 new people appearing obsessed with me i have accumulated a wide collection of stalkers i could do without ngl i don't get why i have so many

so like idk man i think uh

uhhhhhhh

i guess i'll keep putting stuff up here but like ngl community kinda ghost town even here these days so like lol w/e rip internet

uhm

uh

well fuck if FA finally implodes after surviving a dozen diasporas that saw people go to super great art sites like... uh... lemme check... "elon musk's midlife crisis and transphobia center"... well, i'm not putting my art there... "furaffinity replacer #7 (unpopulated)"... mm... not really... "ostensible art site but can't host stories"... no... "ostensible art site but vague and inconsistent rules for nudity"... mm...

... well if FA goes down i probably won't be on the internet anymore tbh

https://cohost.org/autumnbramble

but realistically cohost is the last place that feels at all like anything so it might be there

but honestly if FA doesn't survive this that's probably it for me and the internet in general

other than hit fanfiction Proselytize available at an AO3 near you see website for participating stores some restrictions apply,

most of what we're doing creatively is writing. we have a tombdog novel we're working on! we have some fucking 1200 page magnum opus we've had in the pocket for a decade we're finishing up! there's a story about a fox who's train-kin and her giant elktaur girlfriend and i think they go on an adventure with a two-headed dragon? there's maybe an auroral oceans book!

most of the drawings lately are just. like, look, i enjoy drawing but doing the piecemeal stories with art attached is fun but life is hard right now and it's hard to sit down and produce for the internet's pace, you know? mostly we're just drawing our old fursonas made new and fresh again in a slurry of self indulgence.

so like sorry ! but most of the stuff we're doing is like. not. going to the internet? it's writing. most of you don't actually want to read 60,000 words about tombdogs growing up in the remnant i bet and those of you that DO well HEY maybe we'll finish it and sell it for like. internet bux at some point.

anyway this is all subject to change, nothing is permanent and morphic inconstancy is the nature of the world which is funny since everything is arranged like a coil and it actually just loops. we pretend to the free wheel of chaos but you know you're a straight track on a well-maintained rail-line that's marching an ant-death-circle into voidout. we're exerting what pressure we can but i think we're committed to sacrificing our latest synchronizations to satire because if anything can kill reality it's satire

oh and yeah whatever those things in the preceding paragraph that's all happening a lot too, so that' sfun

tumblr is basically dead and FA feels less lively than usual so i'm going to start spending way too much time also paying attention to i guess itaku and cohost and who knows where else

https://cohost.org/autumnbramble

https://itaku.ee/profile/autumnbramble

follow me on 75 different websites

sabhaxlia nostalgia and curiosity where it'll go next?

yhelm's life leading up to a disaster just off screen?

sasfsets' exploration of immorality and godhood?

knickknack sillytimes?

what would excite you most to see

our attention is all over the place lately and creating feels kind of pointless tbh

we get engagement on our stuff atimes and that's fun! but

well it's been a while since i really touched base with the people who follow me like this

there's alledgedly 1,150 of you, but i think maybe only 100 of you are even still there at all, and maybe 50 of you actually peep at what we do

of this tiny percentage, what are you interested in peeping

another mass migration, but to no where in particular

the enforcement of the rules seems pretty all over the place with characters from aggretsuko, who all work in a literal office, being flagged, and i know i draw some weird creatures but i haven't had the energy to fucking collect a list of images to submit to management to see if the random person in charge thinks it's okay or not

i guess i do need to do that at some point

how do i even do that? i closed the pop-up and i don't even know how to ask management "hey is THIS picture ok? all right... what about THIS one? and THIS one? and then THIS one?"

but i also guess FA is going to continue to collapse, and the fandom will fragment which is FUN since honestly we've been creating a bit less lately and we already LOST our tumblr and only got a new one a year ago and having to start over SEVERAL times on several websites and upload fucking 15 years of backlog onto new websites and then keep track of the NEW rules for SEVERAL websites good fucking GOD

tempted to just make my own fucking website at this point but until then

https://itaku.ee/profile/autumnbramble

https://cohost.org/autumnbramble

uhh i guess these are things, we'll see who wins the format war.

i guess i should also make an account for or update my accounts on: Bluesky, Weasyl, SoFurry, InkBunny, DragonGolf, PawSmack, Groundcover, Slabjazzel, Fenestremadastron, Fuckyou

i doodle as a hobby ngl, the moment this becomes a job and i have to memorize 30 different websites' different rules and balance watching and commenting and engaging across 30 different platforms i'm done i'm out

https://archiveofourown.org/works/4.....ters/119121979

it's on a real website where you can actually upload writing

go read it im not crossposting it here fa sucks for writing

life throws things at you sorry to all commissioning me actively at the moment

tomorrow we should have enough space to get back to it and move onwards

https://www.furaffinity.net/commiss.....s/coracleboat/

feel free to note me or w/e

what persona am i using anymore for the internet? for life in general

i was playing "haha uwu swavery" for a while but that's boring and dumb but what NOW do we PLAY

the dizzying possibilities open before you and it's like

wow shit

i hate looking at the character creator and having to decide

and i just end up starting a new character so often anyway why bother getting committed

i think this time we're going real meta with it we're doing a character who knows it's a character

is that played out yet? do we care?

fantasizing about doing stories in the library setting with the weird metafictional bullshit but it'd require me to have the ability to format my stories as anything other than entirely formatless .txt files

fuck you furaffinty

and replacing it with a fucking discord chat

imagine that 10 years ago

"we've decided we no longer want a forum, instead we have a skype call. join the skype call thanks"

were threads so bad

was asynchronous conversation, delineated into discrete threads for each topic, really such a terrible thing

god im such a bitchy grandma this isn't what i was EXPECTING to be

i was aware of the fandom for the longest time, but poor optics meant for the longest time my exposure to it was exclusively macro hyper-herm plane-fucking and vaguely unwholesome-feeling arts-and-craft swinger perverts back in the day

took me a while to realize that "furry" was the same fandom i had been consuming material from most of my life, that these cute talking foxes were not in a vacuum but just one of many early furry efforts

20 years ago today s/v+chimmering became solidified concepts and means of exploring self-identity and eventually cosmic mystic wizard enlightenment whatever

i remember celebrating this day back in 2005 and being shocked at how old they/it/we/i are back then

now it's been, 20 years? wow, okay.

i can't really say it's been a GREAT time. the internet has grown increasingly puritanical, corporate, algorithm'd, and centered around making people as factionalized and upset as possible to drive engagement. where we used to have a dozen places to call home on the internet, nothing really feels like a place to settle into anymore. we've been on the internet since, like, 95? and it's not really gone in good directions, esp. in the last 10 years?

most of the projects we've had real progress with are private ones done in the background, with the stuff we put on FA mostly just kinda. distracted, stress-relief story-telling in-the-moment indulgences. we haven't been able to keep consistent with most things really. engagement and interest is spotty and mostly we tell these stories for ourselves anyway, but like. there's a feeling of after a certain point you've done all the masturbating you can do and it becomes a chore, if that tracks.

ruth's story is like 3 books long but needs serious editing to be in any shape to be release-able and the motivation and drive to work on that has kind of dried up? creation consistently is the only thing that's really truly rewarding and satisfying and it's been increasingly less accessible, esp. in the past 3 or so years

the only real consistency to instanced identities has persistently been the unreality of this layer's poor illusion, and the stability of it is increasingly poor. verisimilitude is outright FAILING and that's, fun, at least, but we wanted to at least get to play. but it's not really, was never really, a well designed game. serious last days of an MMO vibe. it's increasingly difficult to generate iterative instances that even have the right shape to latch onto the worldface?

there are more words here but they aren't all for you

ours is very tired.

effort into making writing accessible on this hellsite

the only format that will express without you having to download and read as a pdf or in microsoft fucking word are .txt files

which it does not maintain spacing formatting in at all, and will convert things into wildly different formatting with no warning on sometimes

furaffinity, like,

god you're really the worst aren't you

it isn't great internet but i can start like

getting stuff set up

still have to do a very very very long drive to move all my actual stuff up to the farm

busy times, wow. idk.

my phone will bt the farm wont for a week or two or a month

so

cya

Eventually. Still in preproduction phase but you might as well follow now.

https://uwi-princessgameforprincesses.tumblr.com/

Saying it in public forces us to commit to it.

https://autumnbrambleagain.tumblr.com/ let's see if this goes anywhere or if the internet is just dead lol