I have set aside something I was writing in turn for a sudden bolt of inspiration to write something else.

Pony Detective stories!
I already have fleshed out a character, RockFord, and selected a setting and timeline in a somewhat alternate future.
RockFord lives in the burgeoning city of Detrot that has begun it's industrial art deco style period.

Times have changed in Equestria, with the rise of skyscrapers, pony-less carriages and everypony has become detached and busied with working and simply getting by. Friendships suffer and the entire city begins a slow downward spiral where fear and desperation collectively take hold.
This telling of Equestria has taken a turn for the worse. Pegasus and Unicorns are being born less and less, leaving earth ponies as replacements, due to the darkening times they live in. The weather defaults to what would take hold, running wild, as there are simply not enough pegasus to see to the weather. Magic begins to recede back into the earth, and out of the hearts of the ponies as they turn their minds to machines and technology instead of the friendship that had created such a wondrous world.
RockFord steps in to see that order is restored, and try to rekindle the color back into the world, one case at a time. With a watchful eye, and inquisitive mind, he misses little and connects all the right dots. From simple stolen property, to a plot to overthrow the Crowns, no case is to small or large, as long as he can sew the seeds of friendship and repair the broken world.
Police forces are in their infancy, as the normal guards have become outmatched. He spawns a revolution of thinkers and new era guards to protect the everyday pony.
He intends to put things right peacefully, but has to contend with a new fact that some ponies may not want that. That's what the Colt 44 magnum is for.

After thought:
I want to do a noir-esque style series of stories, but I don't want it to turn into a bloodbath, call of duty "Let's rack up a mountain of dead ponies, 100:0 KDR " type of story. Nor do I want to have rainbows shooting out of pistols to instantly pacify the enemy and turn them into a weeping sobbing mess.
Maybe a balance between stories, have a light hearted story, then a twist of the knife with murder and intrigue.

And as I have recently learned, someone has already written such a thing... Detectives and such, SO I thought this up, as NO ONE HAS EVER WRITTEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS:

A secret agent cowboy time traveler sushi chef pony who befriends a monkey travels to the far reaches of outer-space and find a broken down ship that went to Hell and brought back life sucking aliens that put an egg into your chest to propagate. They race against time to stop and evil empire from building a moon like space station that clones robots who are actually genetic reconstructions of Earth's old gods who came from the stars to enslave them to build pyrimids and triangular portals that jump between planets so they could take the population and spread them across the galaxy to make human/pony/alien hybrids out of them, and also MAY have taken his sister to complete such research. He quickly realizes that what is really happening is the harkening of the galaxy wide extinction from giant rings that spew out aliens that have done this several times before, and instead of choosing a team of ponies that will survive and repopulate the universe after the harvesting of all life, Kanzu (The pony secret agent cowboy time traveling chef) and Bozo the monkey form an alliance with creatures that lived under their home world and instead unleash a massive army of city eating worms, giant mech-like warriors, dragons and sentient marijuana plants to nuke the mothership of all motherships. Then Elvis arrives and sets the universe strait.

I DARE YOU TO SAY THAT THIS HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE....

So I found a wacom tablet I forgot I had and went Black Beard on some SAI.
I love my dead laptop more. I didn't use the tablet much, and now I know why. I hate it... I can't see what Im drawing until it goes on the screen, and even though I have drawn circles fairly perfectly for ages, the tablet doesn't do it....
They are like squiggly lined squares that look like shit. I'll keep at it and see if it improves. If not, meh.....
Bamboo wacom tablets....

Any tablet users have any tips? Or is it all just learning to use it?

Here's a link to the story I read:
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/75199/asylum

It's a wicked good story. As I am a fan of asylum type writing, this interested me alot. So much so that I had spent 8 hours reading everything that was posted. IT IS NOT COMPLETE though... and I'm waiting for a new chapter to be uploaded to immediately read it.
It's not a mature type story, but it is very dark in the description.

Also, if you are thinking that there is alot of padded cells and straitjackets, there isn't. There are a few paragraphs with them in it, but the story is not centered around physical restraint. It's an emotional and mental journey of desperation and a slight glimmer of hope that could be quashed at any time. It leaves you cheering when a familiar face appears, then drops you on your flank when their position-as relevant to the world- is explained.

Nonetheless it has managed to hold my interest as it explores a level of self doubt for Twilight, making her question her entire life and if it was real or just a mental construction she has made to cope with what she had done.
It is VERY emotionally gripping, extremely descriptive, and above all dark.
You feel as if you are in Twilight's head as she tries to find out what happens, with all the pitfalls and enlightening moments as she finds her friends are in, or working for BroadHoof Hospital (Very reminiscent of "BriarCliff" from 'American Horror Story: Asylum').

At the end of every chapter, I just wanted to reach out and give Twilight a hug and promise her that what she is experiencing is just a passing moment in time and like all moments, they eventually end. That she will be outside the the life draining walls to see freedom again, to hug her friends without a watchful eye on her shoulder, and put this devastating experience behind her.

Then I remind myself that what I am experiencing through this literature is the playground of another mind, and I merely get to see what has been placed there a single fixture at a time. Despite my bifurcation of two possible endings I have speculated, I always have to remember that life isn't always sunny and at the end of this emotional roller coaster there may not be an exit.

I cannot recommend this story enough, and it was an amazing read for being the second MLP fic I have ever read and will be the measure of all the future fics I read.

Finally done with the car work, now I can get back on comissions so far I have
Jazzfox
Sibey3
Fabio
wolfnor

Lemme know if I missed anypony...

I have a few people written down for commissions, and yesterday I got 4 done, and a short story as well. Could have gotten a few more done tonight, but I got distracted.

I used to be a voracious reader, consuming up to three decently sized books a week. I can't remember when that stopped, but it did.
But I think I figured out why....
I can't put stuff down....
Got a book for Christmas, and went through 150 pages in one day.... been scared to pick it up again, as I'd loose another 12 hours.....

Spied a pic related to an MLP fic.... and now 8 hours later I'm done with what has been written.....
Was so good I couldn't stop.
READING WHY U SO GOOD?!

In case you didn't know, they are usually always open....
Send me a note first with what you want. Then we can go from there.

Drawing most about anything, though it won't get posted if it's not pony, and you are free to post it.

5$
Look through my recent posts, as what you will get are pencil only.

Nearly anything goes:
Ponies
Bondage
Any gender
Any non gender (Does that exist?)
Just look through my art to see what I am comfortable with.

Stories. Lately I have been doing alot of them, I can't come up with a reasonable price, as sometimes they take about 4 hours to do. Stories can be requested with a picture, starting at 5$ more, but ANYTHING you want to send over the initial price is awesome.

PAYPAL ONLY!

What all ponies would you like to see me draw? And doing what?

My youtube and facebook are linked...... now my whole family can see what I fav...
Won't be long before they put 2+2 together with all the pony shit I fav...

I have a special video for you all, something nice and happy for today!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVVtaWd8Pw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbNV4tmXjek&feature=youtu.be

So, Weird Al is going to be in the upcoming episode....

I've seen alot of tv shows, and celeb actors are a double edges sword....
They mark the sway of the show to draw in interest and the names that come with it, making those that wouldn't pay it mind see what a titan behemoth it has become.
Or just another finger in the hole through the ship, to try and slow it from sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

I know that John Delancey loves the fuck out of his Discord role, to the point where he considers it better than the Q role on star trek.
I just hope that everyone involved with the creation of the show keeps a level headed and decent approach to creating new content for it. Personally, I would think that they should rehire the damned music/song writers they ditched at the end of Season 2.....
At least it's in the 4th season, a blessing to most shows (See Firefly) that it has garnered such a huge fan base. And has possibly the largest community I've seen creating content to support it. I mean, how many shows have artists, writers and music composers in such great quantity and quality? I haven't seen a community like this anywhere, and I am sadly just getting into it's depths...

Doesn't seem to be present here...
anyone know of any sites that cater exclusively to the the MLP fandom?

Simple suits (Fox, meerkat) that comprise of 2 main colors and 1 markings color, I'm dropping it down to 900$ for the time being.

Measurements, clear plan, and such will be required before I accept any money. Also it's a 50/50 deal for payment. Half up front, half when it's done before it goes into the mail.

I keep seeing journals that say either:
I'm leaving FA, because of the drama, Find me here....
I'm not leaving FA, But I'm also here...

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

WHERE IS ALL THE FA-ENDING DRAMA I KEEP HEARING ABOUT?

AND WHAT IS IS ABOUT?
I usually keep ontop of things, but somehow this massive cloud of invisible drama has been harder to find than a cock on the planet of women....

So its the year of the horse, or something....

So I guess I'll make it so all this year with my art.
I'll let you all figure out what kind of 'horses' I'll be drawing.

Is with all the MLP songs lately?
After season 2's end they have all been trash...
Fire that Skillrex dude and get Mozart back...
Seriously, I have heard better fan creations for the songs than the drivel that passes for a song in seasons 3&4...

Since mid november I was without a PC any any real way to get on the internet. I had Xbox and it's (Lack) of real internet connection, with the ability to view some websites, but not all. The on screen keyboard made it painfully slow to type (10 mins just to say simple things). Messengers all but non-existent there.
I was just glad for my outboard hard drive and the movies and videos on there. (MLP galore).

However it has made me realize on how much time that the world of online takes up, and the things I do to maintain my online life, sometimes more than my real life. And this has made me wonder.
I wonder what all I can do if I just limited my internet to an hour a day.

Since 2004, when my drawing stuff started taking off, god it's been 10 years since I kicked off my drawings.... anyway, since then I have devoted a majority of my time to the internets. Drawing art and the plethora of other... hobbies I guess is the right word... that I began to get into. I came into the internet with the burgeoning interest in furries and a definite love of straitjackets. I also had some interest in rubber, though it was undeveloped. Soon after a few months, I had delved fully into the furry world and it became my life, and consumed it nearly totally.

From then on out, I would do whatever college work, work and then onto the internet until it was time for bed. This cycle continued up until late last year. I've been wondering what would things be like if I didn't do that. Surely I'd be a different person than I am today, and perhaps the only regret I have is that I let it consume me. And it has consumed me to the point where everything else has suffered.

I graduated in 2008, and 6 years in now I should be working steady with that same amount of time fixing cars under my belt. But I let my other parts of my life dictate and at points stop what should have been an anchor that launched my other endeavors. As I have seen with my parents, and others around me, that the 'regular' job is what provides for the hobbies and interests, allotting time accordingly to them when everything else was done. I had done opposite. Of 6 years since graduation, I have spent at most 3 1/2 actually working.
I'd like to blame the economy, but i can't say its totally all to blame. Since I hadn't put my time and interest to maintain a regular job, I put hobbies and interests ahead of that, leading to bouncing around from shop to shop, and leaving because they pay like shit. The best jobs I ever had were from the mom and pop shops, because they paid well and I could take a day off when I wanted (they were few and far between) because they understood that I wasn't a cog that spun merely to make them money.

For those that don't know what it's like working in a shop, here's the breakdown. When you get your car fixed, there are two things that go into the (egregious prices), Book time and parts. Book time is derived from a master list that all shops have and that list is made from averaging the time it takes for an experienced and in-experienced mechanic to fix the problem. It is measured in hours, and then each hour is multiplied by the shop rate. (Shop rate varies, from 50$ a book hour, to 150$ for some top level dealerships)
Parts are a real fuckover. All shops get parts at or below what you would pay if you went to the parts shop. Depending on what shop it is, part costs are multiplied on a scale of original price paid. The mark up is a sliding scale, from 4x cost to 1.5x, the higher the part cost, the less the mark up. And sometimes to sell big jobs, engines and such, they rely on the book time and sell the part at cost.
With this being said, on a 1 hour job for spark plugs and wires (on a 4 cyl) one may pay 100$ for labor and 200$ for the plugs and wires. Personally I can get that job done in 20 minutes, but the customer is charged book time. So for 300$ you get a service at a shop that I would charge 100$ for.

Now with this all being said, what does it mean? Bottom line is money. Most mom and pop shops pay the mechanic 1/3 to 1/2 of the profit on each individual job. That 300$ spark plug and wire job above would get the mechanic 50-70$ for 20-30 minutes of your time. (mechanic experience is also what you are paying for)
Big shops, like Midas, Car-x, dobbs and so on pay on different scales. Some called "Bogeys"(After a certain amount earned, you get more per hour) and some are a divide of total earned sales to time on the clock. (It's fucked up how it all works out) But big shops NEVER pay on a percentage of work done because they can keep more money that way.
For example, my weekly work at one point was 9,000$ earned for the shop in parts and labor. With a breakdown of book time at 4,500$ of pure profit, and the parts taking up the other half. And of that parts, about 1,500$ was profit. Meaning that what the shop earned that week in profit was 6,000$, and the rest was what they spent on parts. Now, of 6,000$ they made, what would be my share? Personally I would say at least half. Why? Because without me, and people like me they can't fix cars. While they provide the building, lifts and power, I provide the work. So without them, I can't work efficiently, and without me, they cant make 6k profit. A rather symbiotic relationship, each would fall without the other providing a service.
Now, with all that said, guess what I earned (or more likely what I was 'given') for my time and talent? Well all stalling aside, I made 1,100$ and brought home 875$(This was for a 72 hours work week). Now these are all rounded numbers, it displays the severe lack of appreciation, and how we have all accepted what is 'given' to us in return for a majority of our lives.
I have seen this time and time again with nearly every shop I have worked at. The people that have fucked their way to the top and continue to fuck to this day. And with my mom and dad being in unions, I see the same thing happening. Even though unions claim to 'represent' the workers interests, I see things coming that will fuck them over, leaving the bosses at the top to glide down the gilded stripper pole into a pile of cash they stole from the people the represent.

With what above been said, I know that anywhere I get work, I'm going to get fucked. A little part of me inside asks, "Why bother then?" Why become a cog in the machine, when unlike the brain dead sports nuts who down their life in booze and drugs, I can feel the surrounding cogs grind against me. Since I'm cut from a different material, and a different color, I don't fit in well with other pieces of the machine. This causes friction and problems. It's hard knowing that you don't fit, but stick yourself in there anyway, spinning along with all the other pieces who don't know or care that they just spin as well, going nowhere, but all the while bits and pieces of them self start to fall off, the teeth wear away over time until they no longer mate with the surrounding gears and slam against the forces that try to keep them spinning when all momentum is gone.Eventually the piece is reduced to a fraction of what it was. Soon after it is removed, or the piece merely falls apart, a new gear is installed, and the cycle starts all over. Day in and day out, people have figured out how to keep the gears spinning and spinning, all towards the top where it stays. I just hope at some point, all the gears stop turning against each other and reverse to bring what they had mind numbingly sent up back down.

I think I have too many hobbies I'm trying to juggle. Fursuits, Rubber, other fabric crafts, Drawing, Gaming (though that has taken a back seat), Firearms (Shooting, reloading, casting), Bondage/kink stuff and Auto mechanic. These are a summed up list of the things I do on a fairly regular basis. As other things take off, or interest returns, others take a back seat. But it's a rotating carousel of what gets attention and what gets worked on. And I feel like alot of times, these hobbies, when coupled with keeping up with them and the internet updates if each require it, takes alot of time.... I just dunno if I can keep each alive and still maintain a way to support them without taking a major chunk or completely removing some of them.....

I'm just trying to figure out if I should get something stable as far as 'work' goes, and turn my hobbies over to when I have time that doesn't cut into anything else.
Or try and maintain a hectic life of keeping many irons in the fire, and whatever happens to each portion of life fall apart and then heat another iron when it melts......

I'm borrowing my parent's extra extra backup laptop PC, so I at least now have some semblance of being online. Though I have missed being online, I can't say that I would be angry if it were gone all together.

Anyway, news of the latest.
Haven't been doing much, looking for a job and drawing whenever.
I did get some interesting stuff for Christmas.
Aside from the regular clothes (I can open my own goodwill with the amount I have now..) I got a new bed, and a book I've been wanting to read for some time now, Atlas Shrugged.

Anyway, sorting through pics to upload...

So I have no computers left. I was borrowing a friends laptop, but he needed it for work. So I'm down to no computers that I can use on a daily basis....
Probably be like that for a while, as I can't afford a new one. Well, I CAN afford one, but I'm not going to buy one.

See all of you later

Sent heads off to a machine shop for cleaning and checking for cracks.
Well, they came back as good.

Needless to say a simple visual inspection revealed a crack in the intake valve to the spark plug well....
DAFUQ..... gave em 250$ to clean, machine and check for cracks... and it's cracked. Fucking Ray Charles would have seen this crack....
I'm soo fucking pissed.

*Wears zebra boots to cheer up*

Although the pony boots didn't work out, I made a foam and fur cover for them. I cannot describe the joy and adulation of having something, be it not perfect, but useable.
I've settle an old argument and am no longer bound by speculation and the want to complete things that may not come.
I feel free, not from someone, but from expectations.
Pony boots are 50% right, and for the firs time I feel that I'm .5 for 3, and that small percent is great.

Saw some gameplay footage...
Not impressed.
Seems like another MWF3 jerkoff, some portion of the horrible orgy sprayed itself into another corpse allowing re-animation to take hold to give us another of the same lifeless corpse.
I like when I virtually kill people that it's visceral, Long shots they never see coming, The knife that severs an artery, or the imaginary barrel burns on smoking charred skin when you run right up to someone and muzzlesnuff em.
It seems they have taken the fun out of killing the digital enemy, getting points, instead of kills. Streaks that make up points to use.
Seems they keep making it easier and easier to play the game. Assist, captures, and on now give you points, allowing you to get your rewards and not even have to expand a round of ammunition. How easy is that?

I'm starting to get dis-enfranchised with games lately... But unlike before, I don't jump in and regret the purchase anymore. I wait, and if I really am interested, watch let's plays on youtube...
But just like movies, I have seen a trend of Package, consume, collect waste, rinse repeat. Hollywood and Game devs are playing it safe, and force feeding the same shit down out throats that has proven to make them money, sometimes.

I laugh and watch as these "Triple A" Titles spend Hundreds of Millions (Yes some devs blow $100M) on the game titles that flounder.
Splinter cell Blacklist
Medal of Honor (2 latest releases)
Resident evil 6
Tomb Raider
Hitman
Dead Space 3
Crysis 3
All these games above had Massive budgets, Larger than Life ad campaigns, Hype, and yet fell short.
Now I haven't looked into What they spent totally on the games, But I do know that everything listed above has failed to meet company standards for sales. Now we all know companies love to spend little and get billions in return, so The final numbers for the games sales may (To you and me) seem to have made alot of money. If we made 10Million in profit sales for a game, we'd shit ourselves. But Imagine if we spent 60Million to make the game. A return of 20% profit to spend ratio, we'd be pissed too.
It's the game dev's fault for this. They see what sells and try to clone it, trying to cash in on the wave of popularity a game has. And in some sense they see games as a Theme/Money/Return ratio. And like Disney did with pixar's stuff, they see green and try to emulate the success without the heart. this is why we see the indie game devs doing well. The people that want to make a game, for the sake of making a game, and pouring all their effort into make what they want, and screw the profits. Though I'm sure a couple Mil in the bank feels nice.

So as the list of games-to-be releases, and though I have my compulsions to pick them up, time stops me and saves me money.

Waiting for Fallout 4......

Fursuit head I made for someone that didn't fit. Worn for an hour or so
Spandex lined inside, have more pics if you want.
Size:
Crown fits 23" snug. smaller sizes would fit as well, maybe 22 or 21.

Outisde head measure 19 long and 12 tall. It's a rather large head.
Fur used to make it: Sy fabrics Minky brown and black, and 2" shag, all from Sy Fabrics so you can make a suit and such for it if you want to use the same fur.

150$ shipped first person who wants him

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11947629/

Got fucked up Burnt 60$ down the drain.
Good thing I used silicone that it wont stick to, and the boots were easily removed from the failed urethane pour.
The urethane had a 15 min work time, but was more like 8 and started to solidify and turn gooey then. Halfwyay through the pour I ended up trying to pour the shit through a 12mm hole when it was as thick as frozen molasses....

And I used Archimedes displacement method to figure out the volume of urethane I'd need to re cast.
Just need 100$ to do it.

I fail at shit sometimes... I rebuilt a transmission and it works fine, but I cant mix part a and b to make a hoof.... The fuck is wrong with me....

Don't get me wrong, FA has lots of life left. At least on the art department.
FA has been unique, the first of it's kind I have come across with no limitations (for me anyway) on what I can post. It has been my home since about 2007-8, though I joined in 2006. I was in a dual post mode with DA and FA. Since then DA (Deviant Art) has taken the shit and become a pretty crappy place, giving me a PC killing virus a long time ago. I left DA, save for posting random fursuit stuff.

FA was about a year old when I joined, and since then has had a roller coaster of 404 errors being my bane... as it was down for a month and a half. In the 6 years I have been here there have also been alot of contenders, Sheezy art, Inkbunny, Weasly, but none of them has toppled the 'king' so far. Some of those sites had great ideas and improved on some features, but through it all FA has managed to stay on top.

This leaves me to wonder. As I have been on the internet for about 15 years now, and have witnessed the rise and fall of My-space and several other sites. Alot of my older go-to sites for things I like are still around, but have become quite dated format wise.
With all the time and effort, as well as one-off stories that are ONLY on FA, as they were created by writing in the description box as I was uploading the drawings, I don't think that if something usurps FA's top furry go-to site that I would be able to successfully make the transition over to a new site. One reason would be that if FA ever 404's permanently, there would be thousands of artists flooding other furry sites that do not have the capability to handle the giant influx of furs that would arrive, and the art. unless they were to limit a 1 per day upload for a few months. Though that would lead to me taking forever to redo everything. (Though I would probably upload the best of what I have from the past two years alone, and maybe some older stuff that is popular.) And I have a decent user base here... So far I have 2371 watchers and 807 submissions. Averaged out, my 800 submissions have about 2 millions views across them all.
Now I like achievements, and so far FA has been the best place to put my stuff, numbers wise. So to start over somewhere new would be a mental set back.... I'd loose all my 'stats' and 'numbers'... not to mention some cock taking my username on a new site because reasons.

I just wonder sometimes, if FA is going to be around for a decade or two more, or will I get to post my very last picture on here and close out my art career, wrap up my user page, and get it ready for the day when no one is there to answer messages anymore and I go down in history as a mediocre furry with drawing skill....