Go check out Furrtyap's Art Raffle here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46075490/

I mean you've heard, right? You already know that a certain Argon Vile made a certain peg-puzzle logic game with pokemon-groping and insightful-writefuls, yes?

Then you certainly don't need me to direct you to go play Monster Mind right now, as in right now. Seriously, stop what you're doing and go play this thing. Even if you don't like puzzle games. Even if you're not that into pokemon. Even if your web browser hates Flash.

Then leave a nice comment for him, why not? He loves those! There's a Discord group too. What's a Discord group? Damned if I know, but it sounds lovely. Probably full of wonderful folks being charming and delightful. Christ.

Still reading, huh? Well the joke's on you, I've already divulged all the useful information I'm going to in the journal in the first three paragraphs. This one's just filler. Oh damn except, we'll be attending Confuzzled 2018 in Birmingham, UK at the end of May. Are you going? Say hi to the confused-looking guy with one black furry paw and one white furry paw, he's nice, I promise. Oh and come play Betrayal at House on The Hill with me at the Monday 9pm slot. It's spooooky!

It's soccer, with rocket-powered cars, and explosions and junk. If you play it, and looking for someone to play some 2 v 2 with (once they get the current lag issues under control, natch), message me for my Steam ID.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/252950/

What else? Oh yeah,  pawn and  jc75 are safely home, and our sofabed is now just a regular old sofa again. Forever. Or until the next time we try this manner of shenanigans.

Time to get back to drawing buff dudes in the nick.

Phew, this week has been quite busy! Our good friend jc75 is visiting tygre and I, and I've been helping him settle in. We also took a trip to London to get a replacement passport for him. It was fun, but unfortunately we didn't have time to do any sight-seeing at all :c

I've finished one half of Round 4 in Muscle, Bound, which this time was Wuffle. Machoke will be on the way shortly!

Someone linked to Kemo Coliseum's Patreon, and I decided to chuck a bit of money their way. I like match-3 games, especially ones with RPG elements. Oh, and big buff furry guys getting naked; that too.

Incredible! Sensational! Totally not what I was expecting and secretly hoping for! A tie!

Wuffle and Machoke are both this week's winners, which means. Crumbs, I don't know what this means.

Wait yes I do. I need to draw two pictures this week. Two! Christ!

Here are some number:

In 1st Place (38%): Machoke: with 16 votes
ALSO in 1st Place (38%): Wuffle: with 16 votes
In 2nd Place (14%): Broadway: with 6 votes
In 3rd Place (10%): Pangoro: with 4 votes

Seems my pep talk from last week got Machoke's perfectly sculpted ass in gear. Sorry, I was going somewhere with this but got distracted.

Crikey, what the heck am I even doing now? Oh yes. There's a whole world of chuscle out there, such as: Pey'j, weregarurumon, blastoise, James P. 'Sulley' Sullivan, Alistar.

The total number of votes this week was 42. Does this number have special relevance? Kinda!

There are too many sexy buff dudes in the multiverse! In light of this revalation, I'm opening this up into a four-way free for all. There are 4 guys to choose from this time: {Muscle, Bound - Round 4}

Up for the vote are:

In the Blue Corner: MACHOKE (some kind of vaguely lizardy Pokémon who likes punching things). Hands down my favourite Pokeman, original 150 for life, suckers. Still hot even on the mushy dark-green-on-slightly-lighter-green LCD display of the original Gameboy. Y'know: they best one.

In the Black Corner: PANGORO (a punching panda Pokemon, black and white is a colour theme that appeals to me). He's rather adorable, and yes I know I just replaced one bear with another. Bears are neat!

In the Purple Corner: BROADWAY (he's big, blue, and frequently gets rock hard; because gargoyles turn to stone, you see?). I don't know much about him since I never watched the TV series. A fact I intend to remedy shortly.

In the Green Corner: WUFFLE (the big, friendly wolf). Big strong guy who's a complete softy? Clearly boyfriend material, but that doesn't mean we can't have some fun with him first. Those overalls aren't staying intact, trust me.

Why is Broadway in the purple corner when he's clearly blue? Because Machoke's in the blue corner, and this nonsense is quite confusing enough already, thankyou.

Click the link below to cast your vote! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell people to whom you have no particular inclination! And for goodness sake, if you have a suggestion for a hot muscular bloke that I could draw next, Tell ME!

{Vote Here!}

This one was close, too close, closer than most.

Pangoro was looking to be a shoo-in, right from the start. Then, out of nowhere, Midbus came rampaging through like some sort of pig-like creature with tusks that I don't know what. Personally, I suspect Coast had something to do with this.

Nice one, Coast.

Final count:

In 1st Place (43%): Midbus: with 10 votes
In 2nd Place (39%): Pangoro: with 9 votes
In 3rd Place (17%): Machoke: with 4 votes

Get it together Machoke; honest, you think having a third leg's gonna win you this thing? Back to the gym with you!

Voting for Round 4 will open as soon as I decide it should. In no particular order, here are some possible contenders: weregarurumon, blastoise, James P. 'Sulley' Sullivan, Alistar, Wuffle, and Broadway.

What d'ya think?

Time for more chunky hunks, and once again I need your help. As before, you can find the preview sketches for the next three contenders here: {Muscle, Bound - Round 3}

Up for the vote are these dudes:

In the Pink Corner: MIDBUS (a boar-like mid-boss from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. Wordplay!). While he can't hold a candle to the King of Koopas, his appeal has definitely grown on me recently.

In the Blue Corner: MACHOKE (some kind of vaguely lizardy Pokémon who likes punching things). Hands down my favourite Pokeman, original 150 for life, suckers. Still hot even on the mushy dark-green-on-slightly-lighter-green LCD display of the original Gameboy. Y'know: they best one.

In the Black Corner: PANGORO (a punching panda Pokemon, black and white is a colour theme that appeals to me). He's rather adorable, and yes I know I just replaced one bear with another. Bears are neat!

Click the link below to cast your vote! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell people to whom you have no particular inclination! And for goodness sake, if you have a suggestion for hot muscular dude that I could draw next, Tell ME!

{Vote Here} Poll closed!

The results are in, thank you to everyone who voted!

Banjo took an early lead, with no small assistance from Yooka I think. Like a breegull in a downhill turbo talon trot, it was clear from the start that our favourite RareBear would be victorious.

Final count:

In 1st Place (54%): Banjo (+Yooka): with 19 votes
In 2nd Place (26%): Machoke: with 9 votes
In 3rd Place (20%): Midbus: with 7 votes

So there you have it. Muscle, Bound - Banjo should be up quite soon, and I intend to have the Round #3 poll and preview sketches ready for the start of next week. That means if you have a suggestion for who should take Banjo's place alongside Midbus and Machoke in the voting, you have approximately 48 hours to make it known to me.

Ladies, gentlemen, and assembled gentlefolk: the tock is clicking.

So, that picture I drew of Booser in Boondage seems to have struck a chord with some folks. Good, I think it's super hot too.

Now I wanna draw some more chunky hunks, and I need your help. Yes you. Specifically, YOU Alex. Your name's probably not Alex, but if it is, sorry for freaking you out there.

Where was I? Oh yes. You can find the preview sketches for the next three contenders here: {Muscle, Bound - Round 2}

Up for the vote are these dudes:

In the Yellow Corner: BANJO (with assistance from the decidedly NOT chunky YOOKA). The original RareBear was amongst my first furry crushes. If I draw this, the picture will have been more than 15 years in the making!

In the Pink Corner: MIDBUS (a boar-like mid-boss from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. Wordplay!). While he can't hold a candle to the King of Koopas, his appeal has definitely grown on me recently.

In the Blue Corner: MACHOKE (some kind of vaguely lizardy Pokémon who likes punching things). Hands down my favourite Pokeman, original 150 for life, suckers. Still hot even on the mushy dark-green-on-slightly-lighter-green LCD display of the original Gameboy. Y'know: they best one.

Click the link below to cast your vote! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell people to whom you have no particular inclination! And for goodness sake, if you have a suggestion for hot muscular dude that I could draw next, Tell ME!

{Vote Here}

Just gonna leave this link here for when I inevitably forget about this awesome thing in the future.

http://youtu.be/cKhXhQt5y-w

Original song is here, maybe? (I am relying on Google Translate for help with the Japanese)

http://youtu.be/lwT4h6x3UM0











~~~~~~~ It's entrancing

Well, you should definitely watch Starbomb's first animated music video, Luigi's Ballad to find out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jfU7pw76ZE

Then go watch the rest of Egoraptor's stuff, Game Grumps, and so on; which is all totally classy, absolutely safe for work, and video game geek hilarious.

Bonus given of course for awkward Yoshi riding at about 40 seconds in.

So, Space Dandy. It's not available to watch here in the UK yet, _{though I'm sure I'll find a way.}

I loved and still love Cowboy Bebop, and if the show's TVTropes page is accurate, it's by the same creators.

My interest has been piqued in Meow, via argonvile, asbellhant, and of course, tygre. Never. Apologise. for Selfies.

Some sketchy stuff up of a new fursona for me, along with an avatar. With actual fur this time, would you believe?

More to come!

These are not my words, they're Ze Frank's, and I get a tingle down my spine every time I read them or hear someone speak them.

Ze wrote:Don't call it a comb-back; I'll have hair for years.

I’m scared. I’m scared that my abilities are gone. I’m scared that I’m going to fuck this up. And I’m scared of you.

I don’t want to start, but I will. This is an invocation for anyone who hasn’t begun, who’s stuck in a terrible place between zero and one.

Let me realize that my past failures at follow-through are no indication of my future performance. They’re just healthy little fires that are going to warm up my ass.

If my FILDI is strong let me keep him in a velvet box until I really, really need him. If my FILDI is weak let me feed him oranges and not let him gorge himself on ego and arrogance.

Let me not hit up my Facebook like it’s a crack pipe Keep the browser closed.

If I catch myself wearing a too-too (too fat, too late, too old) let me shake it off like a donkey would shake off something it doesn’t like.

And when I get that feeling in my stomach, you know the feeling when all of a sudden you get a ball of energy and it shoots down into your legs and up into your arms and tells you to get up and stand up and go to the refrigerator and get a cheese sandwich. That’s my cheese monster talking, and my cheese monster will never be satisfied by cheddar, only the cheese of accomplishment.

Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me. I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

Let me find and use metaphors to help me understand the world around me and give me the strength to get rid of them when it’s apparent they no longer work.

Let me thank the parts of me that I don’t understand or are outside of my rational control like my creativity and my courage. And let me remember that my courage is a wild dog. It won’t just come when I call it, I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.

Let me not be so vain to think that I’m the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.

Let me remember that the unintended meaning that people project onto what I do is neither my fault or something I can take credit for.

Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.

Let me remember that the impact of criticism is often not the intent of the critic, but when the intent is evil, that’s what the block button’s for. And when I eat my critique, let me be able to separate out the good advice from the bitter herbs.

There are few people who won’t be disarmed by a genuine smile. A big impact on a few can be worth more than a small impact

Let me not think of my work only as a stepping stone to something else, and if it is, let me become fascinated with the shape of the stone.

Let me take the idea that has gotten me this far and put it to bed. What I am about to do will not be that, but it will be something.

There is no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. My pencils are sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark. Warts and all. Let’s start this shit up.

And god let me enjoy this. Life isn’t just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.

The words aren't mine, but I will make the meaning my own.

Let's start this shit up.