Woo! So, a bit of news, everyone should know I do occassional art or gaming streams :) what you guys dont know is that I always have OBS record the stream as well, locally. So it's better quality than the actual stream, and I haven't deleted them :P recently I upgraed my google drive account, and I figured, it'd be nice to throw them up for eveyone, mostly since I just can't upload most of them to youtube cause of the adult art I do lol XD I probably will upload the clean ones to youtube as well, but for now, they are all here!

https://drive.google.com/folderview.....mp;usp=sharing

eNJOY!

I, am making this post from work, where I write for the story on slow days, and I just wrote the last sentence of the last epilogue chapter a few minutes ago. wow, this is an odd feeling :). I am proud of myself, sad its over, cause I wanna do more in the world with the characters, which I will! Just gotta do a few prequels first xD, and yeah, just. wow. Big project completions are always anticlimactic when you finally finish them xD. and be ready to see the end of my biggest and best story I've ever written on askirongut shortly! I'm also going to do this though, I'm gonna put the whole thing up as a book on amazon kindle and iTunes for 99 cents and you can read the whole thing at once then on there :D. as well as post the whole thing for free on FA here ^^ so, look for that soon! and I am just, wow xD

Say! After my incident with my old laptop a few months ago dying on me, and then me managing to reinstall the OS and fix it up after buying a NEW laptop to replace it, now means that what was my former backup laptop has become my 3rd laptop, and my Asus has now become my backup/gaming/streaming laptop. SO. I have an older IBM Thinkpad now that I am completely not using.

It's an IBM Thinkpad T23 model, and it asically runs Windows XP just fine. It's case is fallen somewhat apart, but only in the aesthetic portions of it. All it's vital components are not ever gonna fall apart on you. It's battery is 99% dead, and thus it really only works when plugged into a wall outlet unless you buy a replacement battery for it. But otherwise, it's a perfectly functional windows XP machine that has LITERALLY never broken down on me XD

I'm not gonna try and make any money off of this thing, it's not worth that much to begin with if it were in new condition nowedays XD but if anyone wants to agree to pay the shipping cost plus like, 5 to ten bucks maybe, I'll send this thing out to you with the charger and uhhh yeah! :D wheeee ^^ All you need is an ethernet cable to plug into it or a wifi card and you'll be good to go. CD Drive works perfectly as does all it's ports which include USB ports and a monitor port as well.

I also have a Macbook from around 6 years ago, that is having problems recognizing hard drives, BUT, I can boot it up using an Ubuntu CD into Ubuntu each time, every time. So if anyone wants that I'll give them that one for just the shipping cost, and I'll add the ubuntu cd and charging cable.

These laptops should work out nicely as someones internet only machine for either giving to someone in the house who doesn't have more than one computer, or as an emergency backup computer they can use if their main one breaks down or something. Either way, all they are doing is sitting here in my room now and the alternative is to toss them away :P dso PM me if you're willing to pay what'd probably be like ten bucks for shipping XD

FA:UNITED! 2014!

WOO! CON REPORT TIME! Ok, so to start off, I had a few thing splanned to do for this con :) firstly, I had two panels, Juggling 101 as I always do, but also a new one that i'm amazed nobody thought to do before, character roundtables, then I also ha the talent show to juggle for. I usually go chronologically with my con reports, but I feel like doing those three first :)

Juggling 101 - The panel this year went very well! First year I actually managed to GET a whiteboard out of the many times I've requested one at my panel XD and it helped out fairly well :) I got about a dozen students, and out of them, all but the ones who gave up after like ten minutes went on to at least flash three balls (aka, throw them all up once and catch them all) and I think I counted a full 6 who actually managed to get good enough to juggle continuously within the space of the hour :D so success!

Talent Show - OH MY HOLY BALLS X3 Ok, so I had gotten some action the night before at my hotel room, the first time actually with a woman <3 and it was great btw ^^ but one thing that meant was i didn't sleep til 4am, which the talent show being at noon was the big kick for. I got up from my second alarm, got dressed, grabbed my stuff, and headed for the con, finding the room already all setup and packed with people about to do the show, and hence it began as I was giving my usb drive with music on it to the sound guys, and then as soon as he handed it back, I heard "and next up is IRONGUT!" and I went. "BHWUUUUUUUAT!?!?! 0_0" and so I had to run up onstage, unceremoniously unpack all my juggling stuff, then on zero warm up time and not even a scrap of food in my hungry belly, perform for everyone XD I somehow managed a decent performance, helpe actually by the fact I underestimated how long my music was, and so it ended in the middle of my ring section, and then they threw on whatever funny music was next and I had a fun moment up there of acting all surprised for the crowd XD In the end, it went well enough and then I ran offstage, found some of the balls that i dropped dramatically, then ran off to get some food and drawings in the dealers den XD

Character Roundtables - So for those who are a bit confused on the idea of this panel, it's pretty simple. Everyone shows up, and gets an unlimited (well, it starts getting long at a half hour XD ) amount of time, to discuss their character, IN DEPTH. That means going into who they are physically, psychologically, why they are the species they are, what their life story was, their skills, abilities, location they live in, their current status and storyline, and all those other beautiful details you spent years crafting but never get the spotlight to talk about. It was a resounding success. I got about a dozen pople in the panel, and they were in and out a bit as the panel did last for four hours, interrupted by the fire alarm of course, but overall, veryone took about twenty minutes or so to explain their character and have questions asked by the other people in the room, and it worked beautifully :) I went first with greg, and then waited to be second to last with my others, and then Lurdanjo went and explained all about himself and Mervas and such, and it worked out very nicely in the end. A few people started going long andboring and talking in circles, and when they did I'd give em a little verbal nudge to try and keep them moving on or to wrap up and let the next person go XD but that was really the only moderation I needed to give to the panel, aside from figuring out who was next to go and giving them the nod :) It's DEFINITELY a panel I'll e doing at a lot of cons from here on out ^^

Aside from that, which was ALL on saturday by the way XD hence my saturday was absolutely INSANE XD I ha another little project called the Book of Shark that i was passing around and getting started, and it worked out wonderfully ^^ better than I hoped! You can see all about it here :D http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14318565/

And then the rest of the con was a fairly good con, i got a good hotel room deal in terms of money at the best value inn just next door, vowed never again to eat at Jersey Mikes Subs. Ten bucks is not worth a single layer of ham on a footlong ham and cheese sub, I dont care HOW fresh it is. And I got a fair number of commissions that I am very happy with ^^ especially from I must have given her at least 60 bucks over the weekend XD and it was alll worth it ^^ as for free sketches this year, that was ok, the art jam panel I went too was done REALLY weirdly, in that it was rigidly timed and structured, where you recieved a paper and character refs and then had ten minuts to draw based on just that. No ideas WHAT to draw them doing or who they were or what they liked, just draw X3 lead to a bunch of pics that all were basically Meh across the board simply because of subject matter. Aaaand, yeah! that I think was my con :D

OH! and if you wanna SEE the unfinished pics I got this year at the con, well then here you go ;) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dj3hmny6.....LBGS0CmTamBnma I'd love to hear comments on the pics I got ^^

So then! Shark week 2014 has come to a close :) and with that means the end of my Shark Week Freebies for the year. (although really if you wanna get in late on that I'll have no qualms about it XD )

This year, wasn't the worst, it was a middle of the road year for the freebies with a total of four pieces that people did ^^ I am very happy with all four of them as well, and I plan on doing a stream soon dedicated to coloring them all and the images to color in trade :) My goal is to have them all done and all colored before the next two weeks are up, so before the end of the month :)

If you wanna see them, here they all are :D
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14230184/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14232505/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/14253347/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14277788/

And the images I'm to color in trade for them ^^
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/14253361/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14232532/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14213129/ (this person kinda went overboard/didn't understand the rules that I would color everything and not do any sketches XD thats ok though, the character looks like i can try a sketch :) )

And once again for the 5th year in a row now it's my shark week freebies deal :D Where you draw a sketch of ironGut and I will ink and color it along with another pic of your choosing! Pretty simple, and always fun :D This ear I might be a bit delayed in getting them all done, as I'm working 3 part time jobs at the moment, but I'll do my best to get it all done as fast s I can :P So when you see the submission pop up on the beginning day of shark week, simply post up your sketch and the link to the picture you want me to color, and that's all you gottta do :D

For anyone interested, here's the ref sheet for IronGut ahead of time, plus a list of ideas I would love to see:

Ref: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/12488228/ https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqmisu42p.....eet%202013.jpg

Ideas for images:
- Vore images :) Iron as either prey or pred, all types of soft vore from oral to anal to cock, especially same size vore, aka Prey the same size or larger than the pred.
- Stuck images of course XD Irongut wedged in a hole of some sort
- Fat images, from big belly to blawb, an image focusing on Iron's fatness is good.
- Any of the ideas off here if you like ^^ https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1146333/

Hehe, yup! So for those who read my journals, I went :) I finally went and took my deal to go one time for the anthrocon experience and I'll probably not be back again :P Now that's not because anthrocon is bad, it's a deal i made a while ago that i would go to exactly one anthrocon until I got a job that made me tons of money, and that's because it's a 6 hour drive for me and really xpensive compared to other local cons like Furthemore and FaUnited. That said, this con was right up there in terms of goodness ^^

First, the bad stuff though to get it out of the way :P The con space is absolutely enormous and holy fuck is it a walk to get to anywhere. The Zoo especially for the majority of the con was on essentially a dead end peninsula which was not on the way towards anything else at the con, and hence you couldn't just "swing by" the zoo, it had to be a destination for you. Second is something I knew going in, anthrocon is absolutely massive, in terms of attendance especially, and thus, I went in knowing there would be about 10 people I knew and wanted to see, and if it weren't for specifically texting them to come and find me with a bit of hassle, I would have only seen about 6 of them. As it is, I didn't see K2 once and PatTheCat I only saw because I texted him on the last day and said "I'm about to leave, if you want to see me come to the zoo!" and then another 2 peple who I didnt cross paths with. Also with the crowding problem came the LIIIINES. OOOOHH MY GAWWD the LIIINES. 3 hours in the registration line and I was lucky on that one, and then the artists alley payment line was a good half hour long on the first day when i went to get a lot of my commissions. Damn. The last sucky thing was I think the workshop selection, maybe it's because there wasn't much that I wanted to go too, but there wasnt anything I wanted to go to XD haha. I went to one of the art jams and then the adult writing panel and that was basically it :P heh.

That said, on to the good stuff :) And we'll start with the fun I had with fellow furs ;) I went specifically this year because it was possibly the last year my anonymous pet that i am absolutely adoring our sexy times with was going, and so I wanted to see him and play with him, which we finally did on friday and hoooo was it worth it <3 Mmmm, my little bitch was so eager to please and worship my body while I grinded my dick on his face and then he suckd it until it was painting him like a good bitch <3 only the fourth person to ever make me cum without me finishing off with my own hands ;) We did a bit more but I'll leave the rest to your imagination ;). Because the other person I met up with unexpectedly and played with was a scatty bastard from skype I knew, whom I had my first scat session with <3 sooo hot to have had him throbing as he licked my exit while I held back my day and a half held in load and then sat down and fed it to him ,3 HNNNGGG so hot <3 hehe. sorry if you dont like scat, but I like it like that at least :P

More good stuff was the Kage story hour and 2's show. I was a bit disappointed when 2 reused the finale from another show to close out, as was I also annoyed at how early the both of them were scheduled, and the line to get into them XD but oh wells, they were both worth it :) And then of course the main good that I had gotten from this con, and the thing that is tempting me most to go back to it again, is the amount of ARTS I had gotten 8D OMG did I get a ton! I usually don't do this but I've got a dropbox folder setup with previews of allll the pics I got ^^

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jlctomqc.....cA_Nn6oSAkNB3a

Between all the pics I commissioned, traded for, requested, and drew myself, I got 40 new pics! I drew 5, 4 of which i am happy with ^^ requested/traded for 16 pics, and commissioned 18 pics for a total of $120 dollars or so :D which I am super proud of, and especially thanks to  jet-buizel for having such wonderful prices that I finally got a ton of stuff I hd been meaning to get, including the comic of IronGut's name backstory, a cast picture for all the cast of Patches of Gray :D, and a longtime wanted sequence of Merc and Phil going at it ^^ You can see all of them in the dropbox :D and by the way, if you look, I would love to hear your comments on the journal here ;)

Aaaaand that was anthrocon! not sure what else to say about it except that I had an awesome time in the zoo hanging out, the three folks I met and played with some were all great <3 and uhhhh yeah!

Yeah, I planned on going just one time :P and this year is the year I'm makin the leap and going XD granted I'm planning on not doing tooo much money spending while I am there, but to meet people and stuff yes I am going :) PM me if you wanna meet up! i'll be checking my facebook mpobile prety often while Im there :P and I'm pretty easy to find XD big fat goateed guy with shark badges carrying around a yellow 8.5x5.5" sketchbook binder everywhere :P perhaps doing some juggling at random points and times ^^

How to train your dragon 2.... holy fuckballs! I still can't believe its here and that it might just be BETTER than the first! I'm gonna try to not be too spoilerific until the second half of this review, but let me just say my jaw was dislocated and down on the floor at the bold decisions the writers made with this film. I am still in shock a full day later. SEE THIS MOVIE.

What was so great about the original is only bettered in this one as the score is perfectly matched to the moments in the film that had me tearing up from the beauty of it at least 3 times, probably 4, I lost count. And the moments that this movie hits were all home runs, nothing in this movie saved for one scene overstayed its welcome or used the wrong words or the wrong notes. Everything was absolutely done with the perfect touch. There is one moment that niggles at my brain about exactly in the middle of the movie where I was going "OK, enough of this scene, there's something far more urgent and dangerous and exciting going on elsewhere...". But I don't hold that against this movie. Every movie of this caliber has one niggle spot, and only 3 movies have not got it and they are Dark Knight, Stranger Than Fiction, and The Avengers, all of which are perfect 10's in my eyes, and the only 3 movies I ever gave perfect 10's to.

I will say this as a form of high praise. I don't read books at all, but watching this movie, and seeing how deep and rich this story was, and how fast they had to go through it to fit it into a single film, it makes me want to read the original books so much.

Oh man, but I have something else to mention too, and that's what this movie is REALLY about at its heart. Relationships. First of course is the incredibly amazing relationship between Toothless and Hiccup, which is the focal point of just about the whole 3rd act of the movie, and its so good. Then there's the relationship of Hiccup and his parents, which has only gotten more mature and complex with Stoic since the first movie and the TV show, and him and his mother is handled perfectly. Then of course at the beginning of the movie is the relationship of boyfriend and girlfriend between Hiccup and Astrid, which I think is the absolute best and most wonderful portrayal of a young couple I have ever seen in any movie bar none. I don't say that lightly either, the one scene the two of them are alone together demonstrates perfectly the playfulness, joy, and love of a beautiful relationship, and it'll make you glad you have someone if you do ^^.

The bottom line is that you HAVE to see this movie, it is so damn good for everyone and has surprises that truly you never saw coming that change the world of Berk forever, and moments to make you cry from joy and sadness and beauty. SEE. THIS. FILM.

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OK, so I think I managed to get through that without giving away anything you didn't already know from the trailers, but now its spoilering time, so don't keep reading unless you saw the movie. I'm serious. Normally I am the kind of guy who doesn't care at all about having things spoiled or spoiling things, but my god the bold choices in this films writing just made it so incredible I really don't want you to know about them beforehand.

OK, so have you all gone who haven't seen it yet? Good. Holy fuck, I never thought they'd show tooth cup kissing onscreen! Lolnope, though that would have been epic ^^ he he, what actually happened in the death of Stoic I literally couldn't believe when I watched it happen. Wow was that a bold move worthy of the golden age of Disney, and the unbelievable thing is that it works. It makes the movie BETTER for having happened. It forces Hiccup to grow and to become the chief we all knew he would be, and I am amazed at how well it all works.

The next big spoiler kinda gives away the whole climax of the movie, but its so great that Toothless is essentially now the king of all dragons, the alpha of the group. It is so cool and those two big shakeups plus hiccups mother now make me so eager to see another TV series and the 3rd movie coming out in 2016 :3

My patreon is still going guys and will be forever! i'd just like to signal boost it some right now, and hopefully get some more of you guys to donate XD

http://www.patreon.com/IronGut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCteniXC0ls

So now, I'm going to throw in a bonus offer. anybody who donates a dollar per week I'll commit to doing an inking and coloring of a picture for them once each month. That turns out to be $4 an inked and colored pic, no matter how many characters are in it (reasonably XD If it's more than two characters I'll be splitting it up a bit and do half now, half later :P )) So boy isn't that a deal! Hehe, hopefully this'll entic a few more people to join in ^^

Also by the way, you don't have to do the $.50 optio as the minimum, you can of course donate less! Also if you're worried about how much it'll accumulate, you can change your settings on patreon.com to have an upper limit so that as soon as you've given a total amount per month it cuts off and doesn't give anymore than that.

So for those of you who don't know, recently within the past week my main laptop died on me all the way, I can't boot it into windows anymore and the only way i can run it was by running off an Ubuntu disk. Don't worry as I've learned to be prepared for this, all my files for everything are all kept in my external hard drive and my backup external hard drive as well (yes I have 2 :)), so nothing at all was lost. Hell I even managed to get my firefox tabs and bookmarks pulled from the backups on the external drive ^^

So now I have a new laptop, a Lenovo thinkpad with comparable specs to my old one, plus a bit of extra memory, the thing is though, it doesn't have the same graphics card as my previous laptop. In fact, very little graphics/video card at all. SO. When i tried to run open broadcaster to test streaming, it wouldn't run the broadcast. What does this mean? Unfortunately it means that I won't be able to stream anything or even record video of me playing video games or anything for a little while. I'm reinstalling windows on the other machine right now in the hopes that I can save my previous laptop as a streaming and gaming laptop as well as for emergency backup laptop if the new thinkpad ever has an issue. W3e'll see what happens and if I can get this plan working. For the time being though, if that doesn't work, don't expect to see any new streams from me for a while. I am officially on a hiatus.

Hey there everyone! Just a little signal boosting here for everyone =) As some of you may know, I've had my big furry project that I started last year just turn 1 year old, and that would be my ask blog on tumblr. Of course it's turned into much more than that, and as it turns out I'm essentially writing a series of erotic novels on it ^_^ I'd like it to be a bit more than just writing though, so I'm doing this.

For those who don't know what patreon is, it's a kickstarter like site where you can give however much money you want to projects either once a new piece of content comes out or once a month. It can be 1 cent or a million dollars XD I'm asking basically for 50 cents a week from everyone ^^ And what happens when I get that? Well then my novel becomes a comic book. Which will have, depending on how much funding I get, either single picture illustrations for each chapter, or full fledged comic pages depicting the events of each chapter.

http://www.patreon.com/IronGut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCteniXC0ls

As some of you have noticed and faved I've uploaded a bunch of chapters and will continue to upload to FA chapters of Patches Of Gray, so enjoy and hopefully you guys who faved them will help me out here with a few quarters each month XD

hehe, my buddy  fudgyseel has got quite the unique idea for requests right now! He'll randomly pick three pokemon and you choose the one you want, then he'd draw that pokemon as one of your charecters blended with it. In other words like half you, half that pokemon. It's interesting and unique and really cool! and so far he's only gotten two so I wanna get him some more ^^go check it out and comment on the image to enter yourself :D

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13396427/

So! I guess I should lay this out actually for those of you who couldn't figure out what I was doing or why I was doing it :P hehe. The way I upload pictures to FA is very peculiar. Let me start my two point post here with an explanation of what I do.

This is a moderately loose guideline so expect deviations from it, but overall I try to upload one or two pictures a week. Spaced apart by at least 6 days. Ideally I post exactly 7 days apart. Sometimes I'll only post one pic if my "to upload" que folder is getting thin on pictures, and conversely if I have a BUNCH of images ready to upload I may upload 3 or maybe even more pics a week. Never more than 4 though.

Now, why do I do this? Well a few reasons that intertwine with each other. The first is that I HATE mass uploads with a passion. Yes it's great for everyone to see a bunch of new art from someone they follow and like, but too much of it devalues each individual piece, and therefore allows some pics to slip through the cracks in people's minds. Like what happened with a pic I'm quite proud of in my Manlyshark Giftart piece, when I took part in a gift-art-splosion that was way bigger than anyone anticipated it to be, and Manny ended up getting like 2 dozen pictures or so, and it made each one of them worth less during that time. I don't ever like that happening when you've spent upwards of hours working on something, putting a lot of time and effort into it just for it to be swept away in such a silly thing as "It's just one of many".

I also post the way I do because there is a LOT to be said for regularity. My coloring schedule is alll over the place, mainly because I don't have one. I color when I feel like it, and some week's I'll be in a mood like I am right now where I want to color everything in my in progress folder, and there's other week's when I'll stare at my in progress folder and go "UUUaaaaghhhhh.... I'm gonna go watch Mythbusters instead..." And I understand the value of not having that be the source of your posting schedule, because it puts pressure on you during the off weeks to have to get something done because you feel like it's been to long since your last piece, or conversely resulting in artfloods during the good weeks. Instead, once again, I space out my postings and let them accumulate in my to upload folder, and I post the ones I feel like uploading that week when the window to post comes around again.

Which leads me to another issue I wanna talk about, and that's WHAT I decide to post and when. Heh. Like when I decide toactually DO coloring, it's not very predictable hehe. I'll post things or not post things for a number of reasons. But here's a couple of the key factors. #1, I don't want to post too much of the same fetish in a row. (like you'll notice that I try not to overload you guys on the stuck images XD even when I have a dozen still waiting to be upped :P ). #2. I'm really proud or particularly love a certain pic and want to show it off NOW. And conversely, #3. I'm "meh" about a pic and let it sit there while I decide whether or not I want to work on it some more before I upload it. This one is actually a pretty rare reason for me to not upload something, but it sometimes happens.

I could go on about this all for a while, but I think that's enough XD hehe. Mostly I say to people, if you've been commissioned by me or traded by me and wondering why I haven't put your stuff up yet, don't worry, I'll be getting to it :3 What I told you about how much I love the picture is all true and I look at it this way, that waiting to upload thing means you get to see my appreciation for it twice ^^ once when I get the pic, and again when I upload it after that initial joy has worn off and I get to say how much I love it again :3

heh, time for a warning guys about me and such :P I've gots a new temp job! wheee! money for the sharky! unfortunately though, it's from 8AM to 5PM every weekday, PLUS the traffic going to and from ends up being like 3 hours total. AND it's a warehouse job picking orders, so I am absolutely exhausted, sleepy, and drained of energy when i'm home. what dpoes this mean? well, unfortunately, don't expect me to be on skype for much more than an hour or two a night because I end up only having like 4 or 5 hours period before I need to sleep again each day. and the next few weekends are gonna be taken up by trips, INCLUDING

FurTheMore! I'll be going, and I still need to find a hotel room XD anyone have an open slot? let me kjnow :P I pay my fair share of the cost and I've got an air mattress I can bring so no space on the bed needed for me ^^

So those are the 2 announcements I need to make. I'm gonna also be doing possibly for uploads to FA over the next few weeks, either a bunch of posts of pics I colored that are NOT any of my characters, and/or posting 1 pic a week for the near future, as my to upload folder is starting to run a bit thin. :P

Just a heads up to everyone who kinda gets ticked off at me streaming totally unplanned and unannounced XD hehe, I've actually set aside time to stream tomorrow! for my two closest loves for valentines day i'm gonna be inking and coloring a pic for  ohjon and finishing or at the very least doing some shading on a big pic for  xaviermaldonado1 :3 so join me Thursday (today) from around probably 6pm until at least 1 or 2am Eastern Standard Time. Also please be aware I won't be on skype during that time to chat, hoewever obviously I will be in the stream chatroom so you can say hi there ass you watch me color, I also have on a playlist of awesome videos I like to watch while I work and that i think you all will enjoy ^^ so wheeeee XD

http://twitch.tv/irongut1 will be the stream location :3

I will be going! though I haven't booked my room yet :P I need to know who else is going that either hs an open hotel room space for someone with an air mattress he'll bring if you like, or someone else who is going or thinking of going who hasnt gotten their hotel room yet :P get back to me soon folks! Splitting the cost is very good :3

A post I reblogged and added to on tumblr yesterday that I thought I'd share here too.

whitetail-music asked:

What's with furries that seems to make them as a fandom so hardheaded about art ownership and respecting artists - like I've never seen so many people try to hound artists into putting hard work into something they don't even want to draw specifically fr FREE like it takes years of practice to get decent and you just wanna undermine that like your shitlord ass who won't even try is entitled to their art?

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manabananafox answered:

I have no idea :/

It’s one thing to want to have a picture that represents you and yea, not everyone can draw, but it’s like they don’t understand that these characters represent them- and using them takes away that person’s ID. For furries, it’s like their fursona is like a photograph of them. And someone taking your photograph and posting it on their personal twitter, facebook, whatever makes their followers think that is who that username is! If that makes sense.

Well, you know, how dare artists be so “selfish” and tell people not to take their fursona’s and art without permission. We are such terrible people.

Oh our skill, imagination, and time mean nothing to these people. Because fuck us they want to roleplay and need something visual to go off of!

They are lazy, they can look for people who draw art for free or join in art raffles. Or pay for a commission but no. Easier to google and take.

This goes past the artists too, this goes for people who commission, get gifts, and come up with the idea of their fursona. Because fuck them too. :/

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I think you stated the core of the issue in the second line and didnt even realize it Mana. “It’s like their fursona is a photograph of them.” That sentence right there encapsulates the whole issue.

A persons fursona is called that and not just a character because the level to which some furries identify with their characters, to the point of a movie cliche “look in the mirror and see my character staring back at me” thing. And to furries who don’t have that experience, they simply can’t understand that concept unless it’s outlined VERY specifically and clearly that the persons character IS essentially them in their eyes, and I mean explained to them along the lines of “How’d you like it if I took a picture of you from facebook, and posted it up on a sex site for myself because you’re more attractive than me or take a better picture than me and that’s how I want to look.”

It’s not that they don’t have an appreciation for artists skills or abilities, in fact if I ever had my art stolen I’d be a bit flattered to be honest as much as I’d be pissed XD, because the fact they liked your art enough to steal it means it was good enough to be stolen. But rather that they don’t understand how much that art MEANS to the artist. They think an artist looks at their drawings the same sort of way they would look at something like their gamerscore or their pokemon collection, or their home projects they made as their hobby. As merely “a thing I created and now I’m on to the next thing, this one is now done and in the past”. And I’mby no means defending them, but this is the reason I think they do it, because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what fursonas mean to their creators and what the art means to the artist, not because they’re selfish little assholes who want to fuck over an artist at every turn (tho those people do exist too…)

Over the past two seasons, I've been such a fan of the Legend of Korra, but I've noticed something a bit lacking in it for some reason, and I couldn;t quite put my finger on it. it was always a vague thing in my mind that it was somehow the villains, and I was partially right, I figured out WHY though as I was talking about Korra vs Airbender to my mate OhJon just a few minutes ago and he put Azula as one of his top charecters and I went "haha, if you mean FAVORITE CHARECTER TO HATE AND DESPISE, and then feel pity for at the very end." And that sparked in my head a train of thought about why she made such a good villain besides her ruthlessness, cause whatshisname is just as ruthless it seems this season but he's like, such a meh main villain. and it suddenly clicked the reason WHY. BACKSTORY. NAMELY, that we don't get to LIVE it, we just HEAR about it.

Take Zuko + Azula for example. what made them so compelling was that we knew and saw flashbacks and saw their backstory firsthand of the sibling rivalry among the nation at war and father hellbent for the throne with Zuko's mom being the only level head in the whole family besides Zuko's, who was quickly warped and distorted through the series. We KNEW and LIVED all of that information throughout the thing, and it got us not just invested in the characters, but it made us UNDERSTAND THEM. And that made them compelling.

Amon was a great villain last season in terms of sheer unstoppable power (like Ganondorf in the Zelda series), but we weren't really compelled to be interested in him, we were just afraid of him. THEN finally in the finale we see his story with Noatak and his brother Tomalok, we UNDERSTAND him and his motivations, and THAT, makes us interested so much more. I must have watched that segment of the episode a dozen times and then some by now, because it's so compelling. Before that though, Amon was the equivelent of Jason Vorhees or some other one dimensional powerhouse who you feel nothing for but fear.

With this season, whats-his-name Korra's uncle is just completely rootless in his explanation for WHY he's doing what he's doing, and what his plan even IS, even after it's explained in what was essentially like a bullet point blurb, "He's power hungry cause of his brother, Korra's dad. and his plan is to release the spirit of darkness" but that's it! We have NO idea what his plan is AFTER he'll release the dark spirit, and we only just figured that out an episode ago, and we haven't been given the chance to understand or know who he is at all as a person because we haven't seen a single thing about who he is or anything. THAT'S why he's a sucky villain this season and it seems like the show this season doesn't have it's swaggar. and it bummed me right out and blew my mind at the same time when I realized this.

his style and prices are an awesome combo :D (I'm basically gonna single handedly get him to his goal when he picks the ideas he likes off my commission list, but you should get some too!

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal...../#cid:36593749

Alright, so I went through and cleaned my room recently and FINALLY decided to get rid of a bunch of things I don't need anymore :P it's just abotu all tech related stuff so without further delay, here's the rules. If you want to pay me for any of these items you can pay whatever you want, obviously for stuff like cables I won't charge anything for XD but whatever offer you wanna make after paying for shipping for the bigger stuff, OR! I'll take sketches as well in exchange :D let me know!

Free Stuff:
- like a dozen - USB to USB Mini cable
- 1x - Micro-usb charging cable
- 1x - USB to square USB cable (printers)
- 1x - Audio Jack style cable input to Component outputs
- 1x - Audio jack style end to yellow and white RCA cable output
- 2x - pc microphones
- 2x - earbud headphones.

maybe free stuff XD
- Gigaware Webcam.
- Old Motorola flip-camera cell phone with mircoSD card slot with charger and car charger plus case XD not a cell phone you want really unless you need a camera for video and pictures :P
- 2x - USB mouse
- 1x - Serial Mouse
- 1x - 50 GB internal hard drive for desktops.



Probably not free stuff lol:
- 320gb external mini hard drive. HP Simplesave drive. Model # "HP SD320a"

- BURG Watch Phone http://www.amazon.com/MQ998-Phone-W.....023&sr=8-2

And now the BIG item.

http://www.amazon.com/POLAROID-DVC-.....pr_product_top
- Polaroid DVC-007225F Digital Camcorder. Does 720p video, has a screen that flips to face forwards, tripod mount, lithium ion battery, HDMI cable to connect directly to TV, AND! my own addition of a lens ring which I have 2 lenses for, a standards wide angle lens and a fisheye lens. This will come with the hdmi cable, charging cable, BOTH lenses which are in flawless shape, PLUS a case for everything. This I'm not willing to part with for less than 75$ cause the lenses alone are worth 60. I WILL OF COURSE ALSO ACCCEPT PAYMENT IN DRAWINGS OF THIS AS WELL, but not unless I think the value of the drawings is reasonable XD aka, don't just do 2 drawings and expect to get this :P

Alright, so some of you may know I’m also a football fan, and as such recently I was on the wikipedia list of super bowls page, and a thought occurred to me. If you could change the outcome of any super bowl, meaning switch who won and lost, and it would have no change on what happened in the following seasons in any way, which games would you change?

Here’s the list of the games that I would change and the ramifications and reasons why. (listed with the actual winner named first in the vs)

#6 - Cowboys Vs Dolphins
#19 - 49’rs Vs Dolphins
#26 - Redskins Vs Bills
#30 - Cowboys Vs Steelers
#35 - Ravens Vs Giants
#36 - Patriots Vs Rams
#40 - Steelers Vs Seahawks


So! What are the effects of these flips? Well it means firstly that the Bills would have a ring out of those 4 straight super bowls they went to, and the Redskins would lose 1 ring. Next largest one would mean the Seahawks would not be screwed over by the refs and have their franchises first and well deserved ring, and so would Hasselback; This also takes away one of the Steelers rings and Big Ben’s. The Cowboys would never be able to say “HA! You said we’d never beat the Steelers in a super bowl! Well guess what! WE DID! SUCK IT!”, and give back the ring taken away by my flipping of SB40. The Greatest Show On Turf turns into a dynasty like it deserved to be with it’s second ring and subsequently the Patriots dynasty is lessened with the removal of their first ring. Trent is not a super bowl champion and instead my team, the Giants, gets another Lombardi to add to their collection. I GIVE DAN MARINO HIS WELL DESERVED RING against the 49’rs, and take away one of Joe’s, he’s got enough, he’d still be a massive legend, and Dan and the dolphins finally get the respect they deserve, because if it weren’t for the fact they ran into a dynasty team he would have been a champion. And lastly I take away another of Dallas’s rings and give it to the Dolphins as well back in the old days of football. So the Steelers still have 6 championships, the Giants go up to 5, the Rams have 2, Dolphins get 4, and the Bills and Seahawks both get one. Meanwhile the Cowboys drop from 5 to 3, the 49’rs go to 4, Redskins to 2, Patriots to 2, and the Ravens down to one.

I do wanna say this as a lot tougher to come up with my list than I thought! There were so many hard choices and massive temptations that I decided to leave. Such as Super Bowl 43, Steelers over the Cardinals. That was the TOUGHEST decision of all to leave, because I REALLY wanted to have the cardinals get that championship, and for Larry Fitz to get his well deserved ring, but because I already switched Super Bowl XL, if I swapped 43, I would take out all of Big Ben’s rings and the modern Steelers Championships, and so it came down to who deserved to get it more of the teams who only went to one super bowl? the Cardinals, or the Seahawks? Because I wasn’t going to get rid of the modern Steelers Super bowls and ESPECIALLY Big Ben’s rings, I already felt bad enough about taking the ring off Bill Cowher’s finger, and I wasn’t going to change the result of the Packers Vs Steelers super bowl, because Aaron Rodgers DESERVES his ring. Eventually I decided the Seahawks just deserved it more, plus Fitz is still playing and has a chance at a super bowl ring in the future. plus I wouldn’t change a single play of #43, especially because changing the result would mean getting rid of the Santonio Holmes Tippy Toes catch, which i think was one of the top 5 plays in super bowl history. (if you wrere curious, the top 5 included the Helmet Catch, the Harrison 100 yard pick 6 in #43, the Jacoby Jones 108 yd return TD, the Santonio Holmes Tippy Toes, and the Tackle for the Rams. )


Another tough one to decide was the Cowboys and leaving the Jimmy Johnson dynasty intact, because as a Giants fan, I would LOVE to take away the cowboys as Americas Team, but I respect Jimmy a ton and the Bills I already gave their ring too, so i decided to leave that intact. Same sort of thing with the Patriots back to back wins. I HATE the Pats, but I do respect them, and I hate the Eagles more and so I decided leave those two games intact as they were, but they were SO tempting to get rid of XD

I was also SUPER tempted to flip the Saints vs Colts games outcome, because I think Peyton deserves to have 2 rings, but not only is he well on the road to getting his second more than likely within the next two seasons with the Broncos, but in that game the way the Saints played, they earned it, plus Drew Brees deserved a championship after all he’d been through in his career.

Now I’d like to see YOUR lists and the reasons why you made them the way you did! and it’s ok to be shallow and say “Because I’m a ___ fan and I hate the ___’s”

Boom! hit 30,000 pageviews today with my latest batch of uploads :3 thank you everyone who watches me and comments especially and stuff XD thanks for enjoying my characters <3

Hehe, let me tell you, for those of you who are artists with a big folder of stuff you're currently working on and stuff to do. Get a dropbox account, and put that folder on your dropbox :D it is SO good. It means everything is instantly backed up when you save it, you can access it from anywhere to keep working on it, and you can appease your narcicism by looking at freshly finished pics or freshly commissioned ones anywhere like on your phone or tablet as well as computer XD

PLUUUSSSS, it allows you to easily share in progress pics with people, which is what I'm putting this journal up for so that I can share the link to the subfolder in my art in progress dropbox folder, with the raw sketches of images I've yet to finish inking and coloring and shading ;) I figured because I don't post up sketches at all, those who wanna see Iron and Merc and Greg without waiting at all for my slow ass to finish it then have it sit in my "to upload" folder until the week I do decide to upload it, you can now enjoy the raw sketches and this folder will be updated every time I get new sketches, so check it back often ;) (also pro-tip, if you see an image removed from this folder, that means I HAVE inked and colored it, and the finished version will then be in my to upload folder, ready to upload when I decide to put it up ;) )

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e6gc642q.....FxYZgi9oa?dl=0

Enjoy!

I'm startin to feel better now over the past few days, and so sometime next week I'm hoping to finally come back on skype for everyone X3 I've been working now to get a new job since losing my old main one right before getting what turned out to be mononucleosis :P so I'm gonna start huntin again which may keep me offline XD but aside from that and the desire for peace and quiet (which, I'm sorry guys, I have fallen in love with talking to just one or two people on skype at a time XD instead of having half a dozen people or more going at once, meaning I have literally no time between replying to each of them to do anything) I should be online anyways again XD