As with a lot of others, I hold no opinion of the "shitstorm" that's whirled through FA.


I'm just a broke-ass part-timer who wants to broaden my fanbase.



I barely have time to draw any more, and I haven't been able to create anything special in a really long time,
but now I'm on here: https://www.weasyl.com/profile/fara posting the same old garbage you've already seen.

...but they're almost completely invisible to heterosexual women.

You already knew this. So did I.
But seeing it at my place of work, happening so starkly and frequently, it's kind of a shock.

I've been trying to bust back into journalism, and I'm piecing together a full feature article on the "End of the World" thing that I'm sure you know about. I'll possibly post the whole thing up here soon, but I want to, for the sake of it, give you the bare bones of the thing.

The World isn't going to end. The scary thing that's scheduled to happen is happening right now. You're doing it now! Basically the Mayan calendar ends on the 21st of December. Now, the Gregorian calendar (the one we generally use) is crap. It is. It's got leap seconds and leap years and odd-length months and nothing runs perfectly with anything, be it moon, Sun, stars, anything. But the Maya were bang on the money. Their calendar was pukka.

It was divided into thirteen stages, called baktun. These are roughly 394 years long. The end of the 13th baktun was prophecised as a period of great change. As an ending, not of the World, but of something. Some change of never-before-seen magnitude, almost beyond comprehension.

Skip forward a bit.

England. About 300 years ago. The invention of the Newcomen steam engine, later improved by Watt. This kicked off a chain reaction. Before these, mechanisation was done by mills and water wheels. But with the steam engine, mechanisation got big. Rail infrastructure grew. So did cities. Factories got big and the industrial revolution increased the pace of life hugely. But soon steam wasn't enough to power us around. So internal combustion engines came about. With internal combustion, we could fly, with viable aircraft. But soon our planes demanded more, and so the jet engine was invented. Another step up for the pace of life. While this was going on, radio had been invented, but soon there were too many people too far away for that, and so radio had given way to telephony. We had turned the Earth into a global village. But soon even the jet engine wasn't fast enough for our pace of life, and the internet came forth. Slowly at first, but now ever faster, and hasn't it changed the World? It's totally and completely transformed the way humanity works, from a single person level, all the way up through to multinational businesses and beyond.

300 years ago we were milling corn with a waterwheel. Now look at us.

Compared to the many thousands of years since the Mayan calendar was created, this has all happened in the blink of an eye. It's a period of great change. It's an ending, not of the World, but of a World. It's a change of never-before-seen magnitude, almost beyond comprehension. This is it.

Welcome to the end of the 13th baktun.

I'm not thrilled about afternoons either.

It's not often I can do badges, because I have to wait for the cosmic alignment of having a printer, and that printer works, and it has ink, and it's rigged up to a PC that I can print from. This doesn't happen very often. But while it is the case, I'm offering badges.

$16 plus shippididoodahs. Or $11 and you can print your own. That's an Ayrton if you're counting in queen quids. I know most of my watchers here use the Almighty Buck.

Examples:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4528892/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3987505/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2761157/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3712748/

All sorts of changes in the last couple of weeks. Most of which are trivial and uninteresting to anyone unless they're directly connected to me.

I've got a new house lined up, a new job lined up, new hair, and for the last couple of weeks I've been testing the strength of my anus muscles with a new motorcycle.

https://yiffy.tk/scraps/1131

It's fast.
It's actually not too far off being as fast as my slow BMW, and it's trounced a Toyota MR2 lawl.


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I'm going to give journalism another crack! It was hard last time, I put a lot of time in, and got nowhere, but since I have nothing better to do, I might as well try again to forge a career path into an industry that's being suffocated to death by online publications, shortening attention spans, and that you can read a blog or forum about anything and relegate the works of the informed below the opinions of some guy you follow online because he has a funny cat as his icon.

Whoo. Still got it. *click!*

So expect some new stuff going up here. As ever, you can be my proof readers, critics, muses, whatever. I love the feedback I get on here. Instead of getting advice and critique from experienced professionals, I value the opinions of people on here that follow me because I have an icon with funny pink hair.

See what I did there?
MAN DAMN, I'M GOOD AT THIS. I should write for a living.

PC wont boot, portable (Android) got drowned in heavy rain, internet seems intermittent, bank account is empty, and I have no way of playing music because my sound system stopped working. If I've asked for gifts, commissions, or anything like that, I'm going to have to put them off.

Good things are that my bike works, finally, and amazingly, since I rebuilt it myself, and the fridge is full.


I may be absent for some time. But then I haven't logged in here in a few weeks, and no-one's missed me, so I'm sure you can cope.

I'd like to branch out a bit more, and be more inspired. But I can only really do so much with networking on here. You all watch me for one reason or another, and I value you and your opinions. So here's an offer. If you recommend an artist to me, one you like, or one you think I'll like, and I like them enough to watch them here, I'll draw a picture for you. Only one or two per person, please.


As well as this, a long time ago, I did a thing where I'm supposed to recommend artists to you, by way of posting links to stuff in their galleries that I like. So here they go:


Cool dude, great writer, all-round good guy.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5654279/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6355430/


Not your usual anthropomorphs, dear.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1213209/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1196798/


A guy that knows what he's talking about. Under-rated writer.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7726661/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3828315/


Famous for a reason. Also a bloody good person.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3858310/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4490812/


Because they're new, in a not new way, and need hugs.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7798380/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7801651/



Whew, that was hard. Sorry if I missed you.


Also, one last thing. Express yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43e-eVVFc_U

Thanks to Mr Pfandflasche, I now have use of a silky little black graphics tablet, and can throw myself open for all kinds of things. Not least since I'm up shite creek financially.

Check my shit.

Clean:
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5130359/
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2245713/
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4110323/
Not clean:
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6949967/
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5823477/
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6353450/
Conbadges:
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4528892/
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3987505/
- http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2761157/

Sketches are around $9 depending on complexity.
I tend not to ink linework, but I'll offer it for $15.
Coloured stuff depends more on complexity, but is around $28 for any method.
Conbadges are flat rate $17 plus whatever mailing costs are.
T-shirts, hoodies, custom-made glow-in-the-dark rave trousers, and so on, note me and we can discuss.
All prices are negotiable.

Thanks for being excellent.





Current list of stuff I need to get on with:
Tuss - 1 art
Jay - 1 t-shirt, 1 art, 1 conbadge

I've got to raise dinero for a pen tablet (among other things) so only traditional stuffs and things available at the moment. I will take a graphics tablet as payment for a commission or two!


Also, I'm not looking to go too far out of my comfort zone (cars, boobs, boobs, cats, boobs, cars) that way I can assure speed and quality.


If you're Mitch, then I've taken far too long on your commission and you can have it for free... when I eventually get to it.

My browser isn't loading images, for some reason, so you'll have to the legwork yourself to see examples, of which there are a few in my gallery and scraps.


Prices are totally negotiable and range from like $6 for a sketch to $900 to paint the side of your yacht :B


I can still do t-shirts. No-one is interested in them, but I can still do them.



I'm on dA now. If you want to find me, more legwork.

It is official.

My output has dwindled since I relocated, and my creativity has all but completely evaporated in the soul-destroying monotony of my existence here. I've tried to mix music, tried to create music, tried to write, and tried to draw. Nothing has really worked.

I'd recently taken a break from trying to please everyone all the time, and had a couple of weeks of relaxation and peace, to the annoyance of those around me. But, because of this breathing space, for the first time in about four months, I had a massive kickstart of inspiration, as well as motivation, and most importantly, the time to be creative. I tried to shut the world out, but the world would not shut up!

This is no place for me to create art, so I am no longer an artist.

I decided, because I'm a selfish motherfucker with the imagination of a dog shit (but I don't smell as nice) that I'm gonna do the wish-list thing that Tuss started.

There's some rules with this, post some up yourself if you want to, or help the wishes of others come true if you're somehow nice and in a position to help. This is my list.

- Catgirls!
I wouldn't do much with them but they'd be cool to have around the house.
- AMG SL55.
If you bought me an SL65 I wouldn't feel short-changed either.
- DJ-friendly laptop.
So I can bring my fucking mixing to some fucking people, possibly while they're fucking.
- Bigger boobs.
Because I want to jiggle where it's cool to be jiggly.
- Sod it.
Might as well get the face done too.
- You know what?
Lets just go the whole nine yards and turn me right into my fursona.
- Many drugs.
To change my personality. The one I have is broken, and it's holding me back in life.
- A shit-ton of cash.
Would be nice too. I've conservatively estimated half a million to get my life back on track to a reasonable degree.
- A cup of Rosie.
If I got all of the above, I'd be cool. Look, I've only listed nine things, not ten, because I'm reasonable and not really selfish.




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Status update on my life, for those that care, or just have nothing better to do than to idly read the crap I type into a text box on a furry art community website when I should be sleeping, or working, or doing any fucking thing other than this *inhale* is, in golf terms:

BUNKER


I'm near the green! I'm nearly there. If I hit the ball well and explode the sand, I could be on for a nice birdie. However, if I don't get a job soon, I could be hacking away to nothing, end up with a triple bogey, or having thrown my whole life away, depending on whether you're looking at the analogy or the reality. Oh, and there's a flag stuck in the hole.

> http://i56.tinypic.com/vpvywy.jpg

I'm doing this because I'm fucked, and no-one ever seems to help. I've lowered my art/t-shirt/etc prices, and offered and offered and even begged people to commission me. It got me nothing. But if your need is anywhere near as great as mine, this almost unbelievably generous person might help you out.

> http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2666918/

On Monday I devised a system where electric cars can run almost endlessly, and charge-ups are even more simple and convenient than filling a traditional car. This isn't it. I'm saving that idea for a patent. This is something for the UK, who can't stand up for themselves when something is becoming an almost unbearable problem.


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1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

You may know these as the "five stages of grief" or the "five steps to acceptance" usually used to plot the way someone deals with a great loss or the death of a loved one. It's not a pretty process, and it doesn't always work. But increasingly, these stages, known as the Kübler-Ross Model, are being applied to something rather more everyday than your life-changing tragedy.

These five stages might soon be known as "the five stages of buying petrol"

Once again, Americans are outraged by the price they're having to pay to gas their vehicles. Once again, the UK car fans are outraged at the Americans outrage, being that fuel prices in the UK currently stand almost two-and-a-half times greater than the Stateside figures. Gas prices have entered the consciousness of a large number of motorists, and are becoming more regular in the news, both with significant stories related to the subject, and even a section similar to a weather forecast where the price is measured and explained. It's also becoming a battle zone politically, where a considerable portion of votes can be won or lost on the stance over fuel prices.

But the UK car fans are doing almost nothing; an arranged protest over fuel prices barely gathered 100 supporters, and failed pretty miserably. Words were spoken in Parliament, but this too came to nothing. The public just quietly takes it. Even I have put my cars to one side (and if you know anything about me, you'll know I'm nuts about my cars) and bought a tiny motorcycle, not much more than a toy, because it's all that I can afford, until this publication stops hiding my columns at the bottom of page 29. I wish they would, because once again, I have the answer.

While the solution in America might be to get angry and make noises, in Britain, a more diplomatic and strategic approach is more suited. The UK Government should slightly, just slightly, increase the import duty on foreign cars. This way, there would be a few less cars on the road, so they could claim it as a good thing for the environment. In fact, there would also be less cars shipped in the import process, which again is a plus, both economically and environmentally. It might also give a little bit of help to the tiny UK-based car makers, who simply can't compete with cheap imports. Also foreign-owned car makers might feel more inclined to build factories here, providing jobs and revenue. Lastly, they would make up the money from the increased duties, that they would otherwise have got from fuel taxes.

That'll mean Brits have to pay more for new cars.

Or at least the ones that come from outside the UK. Is that a bad thing? If you can afford a brand spanking new car, then you've probably got a shitload of money anyway. Thus the rich who can afford a new car can support the poor who can barely afford petrol, and we all get cut a break at the petrol pumps. So buying petrol doesn't have to be a five-step journey through misery.


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In other news, I got an album by Supercell ft Hatsune Miku, and it's brought new life to my sound system. I really like it. Perhaps only six or seven albums have had this much of an impact on me, since ever, and I've been alive for a loooong time. Normally, I don't post links to music on YouTube. It's annoying, and I hate feeling obliged to listen to the stuff people throw at me, though sometimes someone will recommend something absolutely stunning. This wont be, most probably wont "get it" like I do, but nonetheless I'm going to post a link anyway, so nAAAr.


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If you sent me money for a fursuit, there's developments happening. I'm already job-searching, and I'm going to take the first thing that's offered to me, regardless of how shitty or inconvenient it is, so I can start paying you back, if you so choose. Believe in me, folks, because I was born intelligent, cunning, and ruthless... and engagingly modest, of course.

TL;DR fans can skip to the end.

Finally I'm back into the groove after spending some time away. It's great but hooooly shit I need to work hard to get things rolling again when I come back. I have a totally new sound setup, fumpin' 2400watts of power in a Dolby 5.1 surround system that can be dismantled in around an hour, and taken to live DJ gigs, should anyone want me to do their party, the setup should cope well with a small hall and be more than loud enough for a house party. I just need a permanent laptop/computer solution so I can actually mix. Feel free to donate to the cause, you'll get a t-shirt too!


Stush tagged me in a thing. Yes. A thing. So now I have to put ten things about myself, and tag some furries to do the same. I have no idea what to put, but I've done a similar meme before, and me being the diligent, creative, original thinker I am, have decided to use five of the ones from the last meme, which has now been deleted.

01 - I've got loads of qualifications in nothing, and no qualifications in anything.
02 - I can play just about any musical instrument, except the "usual" guitar or piano/keyboard.
03 - My teeth are all still there, still healthy, and have never needed any work.
04 - I hate my stupid face
05 - I understand the plot of the movie Bullitt, and would still love it even without the car-chase.
06 - Foster's is my beer of choice. I try not to drink anything else, for more reasons than just the taste...
07 - I'm a horrible cheapskate, but in some situations, like friends, I will not compromise for the sake of budget.
08 -
09 -
10 -


This is taking too long and I want to get the PC/LS shit set up, so fuck the meme and the tagging for a bit.




TL;DR?
I'm back home, 2000+ new subs here. New stereo setup, will bring me closer to live DJing. Still need laptop. Send money? Seven useless facts.

Seems as though all the trendy artists are skipping
the inking stage of the drawing process
and "Photoshop" digital colouring their sketches.

I've been doing this for years, and now suddenly
it's popular. Fuck.


Where are my black ink pens?

No more free/cheap fursuits for a while! We're booked like woah!

Thanks to everyone that has ordered/bought one. You can view the progress of it here.



I am still offering cheap t-shirts with your furry artwork on!

I'll spare you the "laptop died" etcetera stuff.

Any full suit for $6 plus price of materials and postage.
Anything fursuit, including partial suits, for $4 plus cost of materials and postage.

Anything is fine regardless of size or complexity.
Limited time only.

Feel free to Note or Comment.

The offer is pretty simple. You can have an inked drawing of your car, or any car (normally priced at $45) for $45 dollars. Not too bad of a deal right there. But I will also draw the artwork onto a t-shirt, with a dye pen, for FREE.

For a bit extra you can have cel colours on the design, or a choice of t-shirt colours. The stocks are limited though, I'm not a factory and I can only afford so many t-shirts. Not to mention I want one for myself, because I'll look good in one.



Any questions or feedback are welcome, and if you'd like a t-shirt, I'd be totally stoked!

The more keen Fara fans will know my two borrowed characters Alex and Luci, and might even know that they're a pair, as seen in such submissions as this and this.

While setting up some web related stuff, I had a look on Facebook out of curiosity for Alex, full name Alexander Hendon. Not much of a surprise that I found several, since it's not an unusual name. What was a bit odd was that one of the profiles made me think "hey, he actually looks like my Alex" and so I clicked on his profile.

http://i36.tinypic.com/t0hu6t.png

In a relationship with Luci Galloway. Alex Hendon, who looks like my Alex Hendon, who is involved with a girl called Luci, is dating a girl called Luci. Pardon me while I pick the bits of my exploded brains off the wall.

It's not the Luci though, since the Luci I use is called Luci Telford but still. Brains. On wall.

Strike of inspiration here, a column about technology, cars, electricity, and politics. Enjoy.


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I've recently bought a new mobile phone, due to the warranty on my previous one expiring just 22 days before the phone itself expired. The new one is very good, as an internet addict, whose world is largely online, I'm just the sort of person who can feel disconnected and detached even in the centre of a busy city, if my phone isn't on me. I admit this to be a character flaw, to have a certain amount of dependence on a device. But I have it, and I don't mind it. Until these conveniences cease to be convenient. That is, when they run out of battery power, and have to be revived. This happens a lot with my new phone, and I'm not the only one. A friend has also recently bought a modern smartphone, and it's very nice, the one I would have bought had there been any available when I was ready to buy, and with my previous one breaking, I didn't have the time to wait for new stock. Either way, both his and mine both suffer with diabolical battery life, we joke about it but it's really not that funny, and would be considerably less so in an emergency. It's pretty bad, this problem. Last Friday morning I fully charged my phone in the car, and returned home to get a few hours of sleep through the afternoon, to be woken by the cry of the phone, wailing for its charger like a hungry infant. The charger was still in the car, of course.

I'm sure that power cell technology will improve to some degree in devices of this kind. But never by enough. Laptops have been around for a very long time now, and they've never really got to an acceptable battery life duration. The better power cell technology gets, the more power-hungry processors become. Clearly then, the way to solve the problem is with smarter charging solutions. One such solution is the Powermat, made by Powermat USA, which is a wireless mat, not unlike a mouse mat, that charges such electronic devices as MP3 players and mobile phones that are placed on top of it, and fitted with a special receiver. This ability to transmit electricity wirelessly to a receiver unit might not help replenish your battery when you're outdoors or isolated, but it does open up possibilities for other uses.

Electric cars are great. They're smooth, quiet, efficient, and they accelerate pretty well too. Their only downside is their small power capacity, even the best electric cars are no match for the range of an internal combustion engine, and unless you own something that uses a stupid amount of traditional fuel, like I do, the range of electric is unacceptable by comparison. They have the same problem as my mobile phone, and while the item to which I will now refer to as a "power-mat" for trademark reasons might not have been a solution for my phone, it could be for an electric car.

Cars run on roads, usually, and these roads are pretty low-tech things, made of stuff dug out of the ground, that wouldn't even be considered modern even in the Stone Age. They do nothing other than provide a surface upon which cars can run. But I think they can do more. The power-mat idea is compact and flat, which is why it's a mat. It's flat surfaced, like a road. Which means that if a section of road were to be replaced with a section of something which works like a power-mat, it could still be driven on; and that section of road could also transmit power to a car fitted with a receiver. This means that electric cars could be charged as they go, by the roads they're driving on, thus increasing the range of the vehicle. Assuming lots of electric cars are on the roads, and that there would be thousands of miles of major roads, this idea as a real-world thing would need a great deal of electricity to run. Power from where? Well, also from the roads, actually. Much like power-mats, solar cells are also flat by design, and could also be used as a road surface. They'd be mostly exposed to the skies and sunshine all day long, and a solar cell that runs for mile after mile is going to produce a fair amount of power. Two-lane roads could have a power-mat surfaced lane, and a solar-cell surfaced lane, with one lane providing power for the other. If you need to charge your battery, go to the power-mat lane, or if you need to charge ahead with your journey, speed down the solar cell lane.

Peter Mandelson has dogged my existence for as long as he's been around. I've hated everything he's done, pretty much. But for this idea, I hate to admit it, but I'd like to see him back in The Cabinet, as opposed to just locked in a cabinet. Because his stupid ideas to get internal combustion off the roads are expensive, and this particular idea to get internal combustion off the road will be monstrously expensive, I believe he would be the only one that could implement it. As well as this, cars would still need power storage of their own, as I don't think power-matting could be applied to all roads, particularly small country lanes, for reasons of both viability and technology. Auxiliary electricity would likely need to be fed into the system, as it's unlikely that it'd be totally self-sufficient. But even so, the road and transport system would be powered mostly by itself. Parking spaces could be charging stations, without the need to run a heavy cable to a mains power outlet socket. Best of all though, there would be no more huge reliance on hydrocarbon fuels, and no emissions either. Maybe I could even use the roads to charge my stupid phone.


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Lowest ever price. Still doubt anyone will be interested.
Something like this - http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2284800/ - just $25. Usual price around $60.

I've forgotten where I found this, or when I did it, but I discovered the text file on my hard drive, and thought it'd be totally pointless to post it up, but that I would do so anyway. It's basically a two-step personality test that is arguably pretty accurate.


Your Enneagram type is SIX (aka "The Loyalist").


"I am affectionate and skeptical"




Questioners are responsible, trustworthy, and value loyalty to family, friends, groups, and causes. Their personalities range broadly from reserved and timid to outspoken and confrontative.



How to Get Along with Me

• Be direct and clear.

• Listen to me carefully.

• Don't judge me for my anxiety.

• Work things through with me.

• Reassure me that everything is OK between us.

• Laugh and make jokes with me.

• Gently push me toward new experiences.

• Try not to overreact to my overreacting.



What I Like About Being a SIX

• being committed and faithful to family and friends

• being responsible and hardworking

• being compassionate toward others

• having intellect and wit

• being a nonconformist

• confronting danger bravely

• being direct and assertive



What's Hard About Being a SIX

• the constant push and pull involved in trying to make up my mind

• procrastinating because of fear of failure; having little confidence in myself

• fearing being abandoned or taken advantage of

• exhausting myself by worrying and scanning for danger

• wishing I had a rule book at work so I could do everything right

• being too critical of myself when I haven't lived up to my expectations



SIXes as Children Often

• are friendly, likable, and dependable, and/or sarcastic, bossy, and stubborn

• are anxious and hypervigilant; anticipate danger

• form a team of "us against them" with a best friend or parent

• look to groups or authorities to protect them and/or question authority and rebel

• are neglected or abused, come from unpredictable or alcoholic families, and/or take on the fearfulness of an overly anxious parent



SIXes as Parents

• are often loving, nurturing, and have a strong sense of duty

• are sometimes reluctant to give their children independence

• worry more than most that their children will get hurt

• sometimes have trouble saying no and setting boundaries


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Just been inspired to try and express my thanks to everyone here.

For the entirety of last year, I was straight up proper miserable. Those that had the misfortune of knowing me will know a bit about that, many realised that my upbeat humour came from deep cynicism and hurt, and didn't want to know me any more. A few stuck. A few weeks ago, I'd pretty much had enough, and was literally two weeks away from seeing a doctor and getting myself some anti-depressants. There's no shame in that kind of thing any more, thankfully.

But before I got around to doing that, I went to a furmeet, and it cheered me up, instantly. I then went to another, and for the first time in about four years, I was actually happy. Another fairly important influence was discovering the music of Furries in a Blender. It made me cheerful on a more superficial level, as well as striking a little deeper too. Finding more great music by the same creator, as well as attending furmeets almost every weekend, helped me amass much happiness.

The perspective is odd. Some people continue to smoke, thinking that cancer is something they will never have, something that wont happen to them, so they don't worry about it. I realised, that was how I felt about happiness, about relationships, even just about having good friends. I felt like it was a nice idea, but it'd never happen to me. But it has. Because of the furry fandom, I am now genuinely happy.

The situation is still monumentally shit, truth be told. I'm still single, still poor, still unattractive, still hopeless and futureless. Those that speak regularly to me know that I work ceaselessly just to keep my head above water with the things we all have to do to lead a normal life. I'm not going to say that I don't care about all that, because I do. But I know that it doesn't mean that I can't be happy. Because I have you.

♥ Furries. ♥