** JULY,22,2020 - - The single (one only hand signed by many of the characters) original 13 x19" small FurPark poster is now up for auction!
As i need to downsize and in need of extra funds, i am auctioning off my original 13" x 19" FurPark Poster print.

>> https://www.thedealersden.com/listi.....er-2002/170890

Ok, I have the last remaining entire lot of past FS6 art prints are online for bids!
-Up for auction is the last remaining lot of original digital FS6 art prints of some past artworks, sketches, etc. These are the remaining hand-signed prints left from past fur-con Dealers rooms, art shows, conventions, and art sales. there are more than 30+ high resolution prints of past art works ranging from 2002 to 2007 before i moved onto Fursuit building.
Many are hand signed from back when they were originally done. contains various High-res prints of original works. Auction the entire as a lot only. (some art prints have duplicates)

» https://www.thedealersden.com/listi.....-prints/161268

- This came as a shock to me today as i found out just today..  shadow_bandit passed away. I have known him for many years in the fandom. He always talked to me on my Twitters, and gave me a lot of support with his happy replies and friendly nature. His last twitter reply to me was just days ago, and i had no idea he had become so ill the last few days.. I knew he had diabetes and was disabled, but he always seemed happy and was always great to talk to, which of nearly every day for the last few years on Twitter... I know he always wanted to meet me in person, and i wanted to try to met him before i moved east.
Rest in peace Shadow Bandit... you will be greatly missed...

I just discovered he had passed away after he went silent for some time.. he used to chat with me via DM's and emails, but after his name came up on a past fursuit interest list, i was shocked to see he had left us some time ago..

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/nemoen/

i know i have not been as active here on FA as much as i want to be.. Some already know i am going through some really rough times, due to family problems, family trying to destroy me, and having to sell my house due to family sucking the life & money out of me. added with other stress from the furry fandom i feel now has become more of a elitist/popularity contest, added with the political bullshit that is festering it like the Dumpster fire that is the collapse of human society the last few years, i have lost an incredible amount of interest in a fandom that was once a happy, inviting, open to all, and non-segregated place for so many of us who came here because it was a place where we felt safe, comfortable, happy, and without prejudice, to share so many common interests. the furry fandom is no longer that case. It has become a place of political sickness, hate, call-out culture, full of mental-sickness of a festering cancer, added with the cliches of the populism & show-boaters to gain popularity, ( one example is the shithole festering social anarchy nuclear-meltdown known as twitter or facebook)
This year i sell most everything i worked hard for, to move back east to pick up the pieces and start my life over, with, or without the furry fandom. Right now i feel it was a good 20+ year run. literally half my life has been the furry community, more than many can say they been a part of. I seen many changes over that time, some good & some bad. I been fortunate to still be able to hold onto the parts of the fandom i loved for so long. I have met literally thousands of friends here, but also gained enemies and haters. We are only human, nobody is perfect, we all make mistakes, but there will be those entitled little nodules of cancer that will infect the fandom as they do society in general, who thrive on attention, hate, & bitterness.
I will always try to keep in contact with the great friends i have gained in the fandom here no matter what, even if once i move back east to go back to my old life to pick up the pieces & start over again to live what i have left in my life, i will still hold my friends here dearly and try my best to stay close, even if my once fame as a lowly furry artist & fursuit builder comes to an end, i will be a part of the friends who want me to stay as long as i can & able to do so.
as mentioned above, some know i have been dealing with hell from my family dragging me down. that just adds to being used by people to gain their popularity, (or a free fursuit on one sick sad case) same goes for my time trying to help improve certain local furry events that were/are run by cliche groups and get screwed over, all these have driven me away over the years, because i am one who do not take abuse from some like others do.

- I will try to continue to be active as much as i can, but i will warn that will diminish due to the last couple years of my life falling. I know there are so many people here wanting to get a fursuit from me & StormfireStudios, and i have been falling behind in my goals due to things out of my control. I will always build fursuits, even after i move east, because building someone's dream and making another person happy by bringing their character to life keeps me alive and pushing on.. even though i can not produce one for everyone.. I am one man, with one life, and with the struggles of current life turmoil that is now dragging me down..and i am doing my best that i can... if that is not enough for some, then i am sorry.. when i am gone.. i just hope i am remembered for the good, happiness, & smiles i tried, and wanted to bring to you all, that has always been my ultimate goal, is to make others happy, even if its at my expense to the very last breath i take on earth.

So today is my birthday, the day i was either hatched from a deformed egg, or boiled out of a test tube, or spit-out by some Borg cybernetic program. :P
- its also now that i have reached the same age that my father passed away of cancer. It has been on my mind for so long to reach this point in life, thinking will i make it past the age his ended? or will i go to join my father at this time in my life. While birthdays are supposed to be a happy day for us, this one in particular for me is a mile-stone on that front.

This journal tells the sad truth of what the fandom is going to become:
>
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9199118/

Its disheartening to see so many people in the fandom like that, who been in it for so many years and basically made the fandom what it is end up loosing so much interest & be driven away from enjoying it because of all the toxic cancer that is spreading through it.


In the 20 years i been in this fandom, i seen it go from a very inviting, happy, friendly, enjoyable open place to everyone where everyone could be who they are, enjoy the common interests in anthro arts, fursuiting, and share happy times with the people who shared similar interests,and just a place where people could have fun and be who we are...but the last couple years its become infested with toxic mindless political hate, from the toxic mindless lunacy of call-out-culture, political protest violence & hate, childish elitism and no longer an enjoyable happy place where you can enjoy the fandom for what it used to be. Just one look through the social mess that is Twitter can show you where the fandom is going and becoming full of. From 15 to 20 years old whiny childish miserable wannabees to the increase in arrogant asshole-brained elitists seeking the popufur pedestal in every way they can.
I see the furry fandom going in the exact same direction as society is, and collapsing at an alarming rate. I believe the only way to fix society now is the human race really needs a complete re-set, as there is no real hope for human kind in the direction its going.

- Today the fandom lost a great inspirational man, someone who's great deeds of positive energy, caring, and happiness he shared with so many has impacted us all in such a positive way. I met Tony years ago at MFF at the Redbar, and from that day i have cherished his friendship as he always brought a positive smile to my face every time i seen him online or at cons.
Godspeed Dogbomb, keep that tail waging across the bridge until we meet again.  dogbomb

been thinking of all the suits i been building over the years, and there as every fursuit builder, we go with a particular builder for many reasons, one is the style/shape design. I really want to do more different styles & have been for some time, (examples are Rocket Raccoon, Nick Wilde, Duke, tillwoof,the Corgi, Raver Rabbit, and others are all outside the popular style i do. I have a Sergal possibly on the list coming up next year & looking forward to that build as its something different, as i now have a Mastiff doggo in the current build group starting up which will be a different style also. I want to venture into others possibly like Dragons eventually, and species not common to the fandom, How about an Amoeba? someone has to have an Amoeba suit!

ok, my 12th MidwestFurfest in a row has come and gone.

I rode with Dolbyvixen from my place to Chicago when he arrived at my house on Tuesday night after his 18-hour non stop drive! :P (He's used to the long hauls as a professional long haul truck driver.) so we left at 4:00 AM Wednesday morning to head to Chicago, and arrived at the Hyatt in the afternoon. (despite the snow & rain, he had good winter tires on his tiny Toyota Tercel that both of us & a truck-load of luggage fit into somehow like Vienna Sausages in a can. :3
Some highlights of the con was the new record as the first con to break the 10K attendance barrier, (at 10700 attendees!) This was amazing to see as it goes to show how great this con is, and how fast our tiny furry community has grown over the last decade or two. Since the convention has expanded into the convention center as of last year, the crowds in the Hyatt lobby was not to bad as 3 years ago, (as the attendees were spread out more through the convention center now and not confined to the hotel.) This year myself & Ronnie Noodles roomed with Stormwolf, Silverwolf in the Hyatt. was awesome to room with them this year, as it was a more relaxing room for for getting some needed sleep at nights instead of some of the nearby party rooms that were 24 hour crazy stuff. :P for the most part for first days of the con was great, even though the twitter time line was filled with tweets about the registration lines, regardless of the reg delays its a learning curve as the fandom grows. I seen so many suggestions on how the reg could improve, but so many of them seemed to be a logistical nightmare to implement. I know some of the larger conventions like comic cons i hear they mail the con-badges to -pre-reg attendees, (even though there are some ID verification complications with mailed con badges, one thing that may help for badge verification is to have pre-reg attendees send in ID photos to have printed on the back of the badge. I would gladly pay and extra 5 or 10 bucks for a Pre-reg ID-con-badge to have it mailed to me instead of the line up delays, (and that would help shorten the at the door line complications encountered too possibly.) either way with the massive number of attendees, i still understood that line ups like that can't really be avoided completely. The staff of MFF did a great job this year, and deserve more thanks than they get sometimes for what work is involved in running a convention of this magnitude on a volunteer basis, it takes dedication, a lot of work, and will, to make it enjoyable for the attendees. As for the convention itself, i always enjoyed MFF as my favorite "large" fur-con in the 19 years i been in this fandom.
- This year was not all sunshine & fun for me though sadly, starting with what happened on Friday night wile i was in fursuit in the hallway near the Dance main ballroom. As much as i tried to forget & put in the past of what happened last year at MFF, (where someone came into the SSC suiter meet uninvited, ate free food & drinks from us, then left without talking to us or even a simple thanks.. but then shortly after went on a complete rant & narrow-minded hate binge rant on their twitter attacking me and my celebration of part of my ancestral family because a part of the first nations people from north eastern Canada where some of my family came from, have different beliefs then what that negative hate-filled, toxic person's views was. So i replied in defense trying to explain they they had no right to try to dictate how other people or heritages from different parts of the world believed in how they seen & celebrated their past, that sour dark negative person and her band of trolls was not having any of it, and went on a continued typical hate attack against me. I blocked all of them to avoid the bullshit, but as with people lf that type blocking them only makes them worse, because they don't like to be ignored or given the attention they seek to feed their hate, it even went as far as the immature kid i made the mistake of taking in off the street when he was kicked out of his last place, then went & kicked up toxic rant to a friend of his who was a staff of a local con, then resulting them attempting to black-mail me into a public apology or ban me from their convention's dance DJ list after they had already confirmed my slot there, )at the time for something i was doing nothing wrong but defending myself against a toxic mob-like attack from those few who believe the world should revolve around them. (** see my past journal on the FE bullshit mess from my journals history**)
I thought it all been in the past and wanted to forget about it and move on, but as of Friday night at the con the nightmare happened again when this arrogant, ignorant self-centered, angry person came up to me claiming her nearby friend was "offended" by my suit & headdress, and tried to force me to remove it there on the spot, She continued to slander & argue regardless of my attempt to talk calmly to this person, but finally she walked on. She could have simply ignored us and moved on, but seemed to be hell-bent on causing problems & a harass us all because she lived in a closed-bubble, that believed everything & everyone, no matter where your from should follow her wants & needs.
Now as you all know Ronnie was wearing my Dakkota V1 suit at MFF as we posted it on Twitter, and with the original headdress on, was standing beside me at the time of the harassment & was there trying to explain too, but nope, she was not having none of it regardless. As i was wearing a fursuit i could not see her badge name clearly, but it did look like a name i remember i had blocked from last February when she attempted to harass me then. So she walked on, and then we noticed that the "friend" she claimed was nearby in the corner a few feet away was not there? so was this a lie & ruse by this person just to have an excuse to come up to me and disrespect me with slander & hate? i may never know.. but either way it ruined the rest of my con for me. I went to the MFF Security to file a report of the harassment incident, and they told me she had already tried to complain, but they told me to not worry about it, and if she comes back to harass me again report it to a staff or security immediately. It helped me feel a bit better they understood that what she did was wrong, but a forwarded post from a tweet by someone did not help the situation, when another person who replied to that hate tweet of the said person posted they will " rip it off my head" when they see on again..
- So now, how would YOU feel as a fursuiter seeing a tweet of someone threatening to do you harm or harm to your suit at a con? it was hurtful, worrisome, and depressing to see this kind of hate spreading through a community/fandom that was once friendly and open to every gender, every nationality, every race, every single person that found the furry fandom, but now the political shit-show of hate seems to be spreading in the fandom over the last 2 years.. Its depressing and sad. Both Ronnie & i went back in suits Saturday for the Menagerie and other photos, and fortunately there were no more incidents, but i had set up my go-pro cam on my chest to record the entire time just in case.. but that made me realize its all wrong.. NOBODY, ever, ever, in this fandom should have to go and do this.. to have to protect themselves by using cameras or security for protection, and walk around in fear from threats, hate, bullying, slander, and receive disrespect like i had this year in that incident.. When the furry fandom was formed, many people who went through live growing up having been bullied, slandered, hated on, picked on, or attacked during school, by family, etc. so now there are people in the fandom doing just that to others..
Some may say its all because of the political atmosphere in the US, due to their president they have now. I do understand that things are bad lately when it comes to the political atmosphere there, but its getting way out of control now and affecting the fandom with the hate, and going in a direction away from what the fandom used to be.. if this person was belonged to that group of so-called anti-fascists, but then what this toxic person did was one of the most fascist attitudes i ever seen. - People know i am NOT political and avoid politics for all reasons, but because of that some of those certain political groups believe if your not one of them or follow their ways, then your wrong and evil. (for example, I recently witnessed one of those delusional so-called social justice warriors call a Jewish person a NAZI, all because he disagreed with some things that group is doing!
The point I'm getting at.. is nobody in this fandom should NEVER have to be subject to harassment, disrespect, hate, slander, attacks, threats, or any form of mob-mentality from these toxic people spreading through the fandom that seems to be occurring lately. As i said above i been in this fandom for almost 20 years, and never seen this kind of hateful toxic arrogant attitudes until the last year or two. And added to reading a threat by some asshole to want to damage my suit, makes me loose a lot more interest & respect for the direction the furry fandom is going. This fandom was a place where many of us could be and feel safe, feel wanted, feel like were a part of something we all share in common, but when things like this happen and continue to get worse, its no longer the friendly, welcoming place it used to be. I do agree that there are some really bad people to have come & go though the fandom over the last few years, (child abusers, animal abusers, criminals, racist hate-groups, etc) but now i feel its getting to the point where some are looking for nothing but attention & drama in any way they can, even if it takes to single out & harass anyone they can over something as petty as what i had to receive, over some person's single belief & want to find something to hate others on.
After this con i even felt like retiring Dakkota after nearly 18 years as my fursona, and giving up on conventions because now why should i have to go to a convention in fear of further harassment or fear some asshole is going to attack me physically and damage my fursuit, or injure me all because they don;t like how i continue the tradition of celebrating my distant family heritage, that hundreds of them still do in the local powwow events & first nations celebrations from northern Canada, where they go to these events, and wear the headdress in the exact same fashion, with some wearing costumes of spirit animals there in celebrations, and with an aunt who is a 30% descendant of the local FN people who helped me build the new headdress for Dakkota, while she loved how i continue to be proud of what the first peoples by representing them this way, (yes she seen my Dakkota fursuit when i was there back home this past July) but regardless to the person who harassed me at MFF this year and after last year its wrong to them. The fact is they have NO right what so ever to dictate how other people's beliefs are around the world and in different countries. Their claims is directly against what we all fought for for years.. FREEDOM. I even thought about posting my AncestoryDNA test results for proof of the percentage i have, and posting photos of my aunt, my grandmother, great grandmother, but then i was told by many i really do not have to prove anything be revealing personal & private information or family photos to anyone in this case all because of their personal narrow mind-set & their lust for attention or to cause me problems or drama. So what i can see the fandom is changing, and in a bad way where people can not feel safe or be free from hate anymore like it once stood for. So should i simply retire my suits, and stop going to cons to not have to fear of this harassment & threats of damage or injury to me & my suits? Eiter way it was very upsetting to have to be subject to such arrogant, narrow-minded toxic people again. (for those other negative toxic people who want to reply to my journal i suggest you simply ignore and move on, any slander will be screen-copied & reported to FA staff.
I did have a very key head FurAffinity staff member proof read this to make sure it was safe to post on FA and did nto break any of FA's TOS rules in advance.
For many years of going to dozens of conventions was fun & enjoyable. I proudly worn Dakkota (a Timber wolf which is a spirit animal of some Nēhiyaw & Mi'kmaq people of the north east, have met many, many young & old native people of various levels of descendant from many nations across America & Canada in the fandom over the last nearly two decades and they all loved the suit & headdress but now in just one year there have been a spawning of hate groups and people coming into the fandom that have a negative and hate-filled mindset.. but now seems times are changing, and i am beginning to fee is it worth the stress & crap to deal with it anymore, as the fandom is not as friendly as it once was.. am i wrong to feel that way? i don't know.. Some day i will be gone like everyone will be when their time comes, (life is to short on this planet) but for now i want to live free of hate, slander & negativity, and maybe i need to make a change of life direction while i can still enjoy a few more years left.
Either way it all really dampened my convention experience this year for the first time at MFF as its been my favorite big-con since the first time going 12 years ago.
On to better news from the con, i was happy to help Doon Fox debut his new suit there! he as an unboxing video form there on his YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS18S3OAfpw
Overall the convention itself was awesome as MFF is awesome every year! -Again a HUGE thanks go out to all the staff & volunteers of MidwestFurfest for their hard work and time to make such a huge event run so smoothly with the massive attendance this year. While the reg line was long, it wasn't as bad as some posted on twitter made it out to be considering the huge number increase in attendance. Sure it was a couple hours long for most of it but those things are always a learning curve for con staff, people sometimes forget they do this for the attendees for free and unpaid, using their time for everyone, and they deserve a better thanks honestly for what is thrown at them sometimes on social media. I got t see many friends and hang out with many, meet so many new friends & faces as i do every year, but as due to the size of the con there were so many i never got to see this year sadly, and felt brushed off a few times but understood in some case it was probably the size of the con. As mentioned above the roomies (Stormwolf, Silvrwolf, & Noodledragon were awesome room mates. A big thanks goes out to Bauer Shep for hosting the SSC fursuiter meet/party this year in his VIP suite! then after that party a bunch of us went to board the FinnaCorp Airlines brand new 1965 McDonnell Douglas DC3 with plaid window curtains for the FinnaCorp party on Saturday night. :P
We had a good number of suits for the Menagerie, then did the SSC photo shoot directly after on the stairwell under the atrium dome area in the Hyatt (due to rain that day) The drive home Monday morning with DolbyVixen was good, we got to my place at 8 pm i think. :P

MFF is less than a week away! Will be arriving on Wednesday night and there until Monday. This year I will be giving Dakkota V1 one last con before he gets retired from cons. (Both V1 & V2 will be there at the same time, with Ronnie Dragon (Zeke) wearing V1 while i wear V2.
The SSC fursuit group photo shoot will be on Saturday in the main Ballroom during the Menagerie at 2:00 PM SHARP, at section #5 for those wanting photos.
Who will i see at MFF this year?

- Back in 2017, i did a solo expedition to the top of an ancient plateau mountain peak to camp on its summit. One of the few places in eastern Canada where you can see the curvature of the earth.. I have the time there to reflect on life. This place known as "the Gaff Topsails plains" in central Newfoundland is said to be 30+ billion years old.. We as a being in the human race, a part of thousands of species of life, on a part of our tiny planet called earth, which is a tiny speck in our galaxy, which is another tiny speck of existence in the universe.. live an average of 70 to 90 years. My father lived for only 50.. A tiny speck of a fraction of the time of the world around us. - We all take for granted which is the the meaning of Life. We live our daily lives as its an eternity, working 3/4 of our life time to make money & survive, pay bills, feed our families, teach our children what we were thought to succeed in our short lives, - shown the ways to be who the people who we are and be proud of what we accomplished in our short lives on earth, but in reality its all only a split second in time compared to the world we live on. Hear me my friends.. enjoy it while you can & able to do so... all because we are here one, day, but can be gone tomorrow. Think about it.. we are just a tiny insignificant speck in the cycle of life in this existence. Enjoy life as much as you can, cherish family, loved ones, friends, and everything you hold close as much as you can, because before you know it you will be unable to to do so. Stop all your hate, stop all the angst, stop all the petty problems, stop all the petty negativity, because some day you will realize how pointless they were, and realize how much pain all this hate causes the community & others, and realize how once how you cause pain for others its to late once they are gone.. As for me, I am now only 2 years away from the age my father passed away.. so like my plans, all of you should enjoy every single day we have to the fullest, and try to be a good a person with as much positive thoughts & wish as you can. Do things like this while you can and are able to do, because when that time comes as we get older, as we get ill, as we get closer to our chapters closing on our life and reach a point, that we are a shell of what we used to be & that we can no longer do things like this, ... we will look back and say .. " why did i not do things when i could, why didn't i be nicer to a fellow person in need, why didn't i been a better person to our fragile community. In reality, regardless & in contrast of the different views of certain people in certain groups who seem to live in some kind of personal bubble, - there is no political left or right, there is no different races, there is no different gods, there is no different anything with all of us "humans" on this earth.. We all are ONE of a being, one life form, one existence of life on a tiny planet in existence. While so many will never understand that reality, i do. my suggestion to everyone in this fragile fandom & community of ours, please stop.. please stop the hate.. please stop the mess that is going to destroy us, who we used to be, who we need to be, a family for the short time we are here in life supporting each other no matter what others do to cause us pain or grief, no matter of what others flaws are, no matter of what others may have done to cause us pain & sorrow, because some day you will reflect back and realize the mistakes were all (including them) are making are like grains of sand in a hourglass.. we are the grains of sand in a hourglass. Think about it for awhile. I hope you can step back for a moment and view the big picture, and not just the moment your in, because it will not last for ever. None of us have that much time in our world, and its better spent being happy and helping others be happy, and want to make things brighter for everyone.
- Sincerely, FS6

Some update news on recent events. I did enjoy my trip/holiday down east get the last 6 weeks, I came back to a mess..
So some remember that I bailed my parents out (mother and step father) a few years ago, (with a 60K grand loan using my house as collateral) because they were irresponsible with their money… So they been paying on that loan and got it down to roughly 25K grand. Now I get back home, my dumb mother tells me her and dumb drunk husband have been having marital problems, and they have not paid on the loan for the last 3 months, leaving I have to pay 3K grand in 2 days or the bank will come after me & my house because I am the co-signer on the loan i bailed them out with, (a mistake I made in good faith back then to bail them out...) so they hid the fact they acquired another 20K grand in credit card loans since the last fall.. So they have left me with no other choice to sell my house as soon as possible, pay the loan, move away and start over. So now I have a mess to deal with, I have to down-size & liquidate everything, and plan my move now sooner than later. I need to make some real decisions I was not ready for this soon..
meaning now, i have to concentrate now on downsizing along with fursuit work, and doing it all alone, along with preparing to list my house on the market, talk to real state agents, looking for new places to live, (which will be on the east coast because of the cost of living in Ontario is really, high, and trying to get a new mortgage in Ontario now is near impossible unless your married & make 100K+ grand a year, meaning once i sell here i am going to have to move east, because i need a house space for fursuit work, and not a small apartment room.
I was not expecting to come home to a financial disaster my mother & alcoholic step father left for me.. They lied to me before, and lied to me now again. I will try to do as much as i can without help to build fursuits for all my customers as its my income atm, but things may get extended a bit due to my new load of being forced to the fact i have to begin selling off things & downsizing as fast as i can to pay off the debt of my stupid, irresponsible mother and drunk idiot step father has left me, and leave them behind in my past and start my life off over again..

UPDATE: July,29,2018, 9:30 PM,so my brother calls me, and my idiot step father apparently got arrested late tonight for impaired driving for going out drunk in his car after they got into their usual arguments..

I am sorry everyone, but this stress have been unloaded on me & hit me so hard its nearly unbearable.. I literally had to tell my mother to f***off today that i am done with here and her drunk idiot husband that she don't get along with.
I just wish that they did not hide things from me & LIE to me like they do time & time again, and try to ruin me financially like they did, but they have..
I hate to ask, but I really need friends to help for when I’m ready to pack up, move, get settled again to start over & get back to doing what I love is building suits without the stress of family problems.

Update: July,29,10:20-PM:
my mother and her drunk step father hid their mess from me while i was on holidays, so when i get back i get a call from the bank that they have not paid on their 50K loan for 3 months, then my irresponsible mother comes to me and says she ran up another 18K grand on a credit card they were not allowed to have, (A high interest MasterCard that they promised to me years ago to never get another of) so now i have to pay off a 55K+ grand again and more, because my drunk step father just got arrested for impaired-driving AGAIN apparently..) (i have to go pay 3000 tomorrow on their over-due loan just so the bank don't come take my house! (which i have to take out on MY line of credit..) Family sometimes can be the worst possible enemy, and mine are to me..

EDIT UPDATE: - So now i discover they ended up getting another line of credit (when they promised me they would never again) and ran that up to its limit at 10K grand.. and i am learning that my mother may have a gambling problem which would explain where the thousands of dollars disappeared.

a plug to help His journal: >> http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8737982/

.. Is 2D traditional art! Since the fursuit building been the big thing i am wrapped up in now, i have not done any real traditional digital art works in years. Not including the basic fursuit reference art i still do from time to time, and the odd con badge art, i think the last time i did a full character pic was when i was GOH for MidWest Furfest in 2012 when i did the con book cover of Spikey, (BigBluFox's character) for the MFF theme " It Came From TV" that year. ( here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9340616/ )
Then before that the next one was the detailed Zeke Hyena one 6+ years ago: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6679871/
The last "commissioned" piece that i posted here was the one for SpikedPunch & his mate here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4228206/

and after going through my gallery, i discovered so many art works & variations i never ever posted online yet.. So should i post these now, & name them as "flashback" arts? (for the versions that never got posted on FA, as some of them only the AD versions got posted.

- Also i been wanting to clean the rust off my Wacom and do a full art commission piece some day.. Would there be enough interest?

- Here is the link to the open StormfireStudiosCostumes Telegram chat group. This is where i will be posting many updates, planned auctions, commission info, future projects, current WIPs, WIP photos, and the first links to the returning Fursuit building Live-streams that i plan to start again now that i have faster interwebs connection. :P It's also for fans, supporters, future SSC suiters, and just a friendly place for us to mingle and be who we are.

>> https://t.me/StormfireStudios_Fursuit_Chat

( its open to anyone)

I have some bad news regarding my attendance and the Retro DJ set at Furnal Equinox 2018, I will not be attending due to them cancelling my DJ set.
The reason for them canceling my DJ set is due to seeing the recent twitter dispute I’ve had with someone, and attempting to force me to make a public apology over something that did not involve their convention. However, the past few days I have been talking with this individual and we already worked out the issue. It was just a misunderstanding over that different cultures have different beliefs & views on native/first nations items, and it got worked out with just a simple talk on a phone. The big issue was when the other people & trolls wanted to get involved and began to throw their 2-cents in, and certain people who just thrive on drama get involved to make a mountain out of an ant-hill so to speak.
So they basically wanted me to make a public apology to everyone on an issue that was already resolved so I could keep my DJ spot. I really wish they would have just talked to me first about the issue rather than telling me I wasn’t allowed to DJ if this wasn’t resolved. ( Basically they attempted to "BLACKMAIL" me, which is a criminal offense in certain cases in Canada. Corruption & favoritism in a furcon staff of directors is wrong, immoral, and disgraceful to this community,and Canada.

Then apparently they claim that I posted on "forums" that I had cancelled FE 100%. The only spot I mentioned this was in the private SSC telegram group, which was because I thought they already cancelled my set. Apparently someone took screen shots of that and sent it over to the heads of FE. I never once said to any of them I wasn’t going or wasn’t going to still do the set. However, the next thing I get is another email from a different director of FE, stating that they heard from “forums” that I was no longer going, and they were now cancelling my set.
I was just a little surprised at the lack of communication between them and myself to work this issue out before they completely cancelled my DJ set.
If you’re curious on the exact emails they sent me.
So not only did i get shafted (and used back in 2012 by internal favoritism & corruption) i get shafted a second time after i was willing to give that convention a second chance 5 years later. NEVER AGAIN.
I can send you the emails to show the original threat of removing my set if I didn’t comply with their demand, and the following emails where they cancelled it anyway. contact me directly via PM, Telegram, or via Twitters DM's.
-FS6

*** A new open SSC Fursuit chat group is online in Telegram! - its for any fans of SSC fursuits, future SSC fursuiters, friends of SSC fursuiters, The rules are pinned, but its open for anyone to join. >> https://t.me/StormfireStudios_Fursuit_Chat

The 10th annual SSC New Years celebrations is in TWO days! for those at home who want to join us we have set up the live stream again for the entire event! (Will post the link sometime tomorrow :) (here & on Twitter)

As every year, i spend months & hundreds of dollars preparing this mini-convention like event, and now at its decade mile-stone year!

Been working non-stop on fursuit stuff trying to get caught up a bit at least, (added that the other job is pushing me for more hours) though i am leaning more & more lately on quitting that job and trying fursuit building full time. The demand is definitely there for it, and would be less stressful to concentrate on fursuits only.
Was at the clinic today to have a tanker-load of blood sucked out of me for my yearly physical checkup, and pray it all comes back normal. At the Docs' office on Friday everything else was good, my blood pressure is normal, chest sounds, nervous system, & pizza disposal-pit is working great. Will know later this week hopefully the blood work is good or shot.

As for suits in this group/lot, currently working on a Fox, a tiger, a blue/yellow/grey wolf suit (except head) and waiting for fur to arrive for another blue/gray wolf, another husky wolf with navy/blue, a teal/black wolf, and soon hopefully opening the first (lavender/purple) Dragon suit, (and others waiting on a list.

During all this, i been trying to squeeze in some needed renovations i need to begin. ( just replaced my main door, then next begin re-paint each room, replace the roof on the other garage section of the house, begin replacing my damaged laminate floor, re-do the bathroom, then the bedrooms, then replace the window wells on the west side, replace the door to the upstairs apartment, replace the shower in the bachelor apartment, The list goes on & on of money-sucking renos i need to slowly do.

Right now i need sleep. ZZzzzz

I have been noticing dsiscussions lately on Twitter, FA, FB, and other social media with peole discussing the issue of fursuits taking years to build, up to 10 years in one case. I do understand how much work, time, and hours that can go into building a fursuit, its not just the hands-on work its self, added the design stages, workng out details with commissioner, delays caused by illness, shipping delays, out-of-stock fur materials, life's pot-holes, the list goes on.
I know i have had many people waiting to get a commision from me in the past, and waited years even, but i have always never accepted payment or started a commission i did not complete (from once started) in usually 6 moths or less. If i know i cant' stsrt a person's suit within a month after they make a down payment, i will not take the payment in the first place.
Many suit builders including myself build suits in "groups" at the same time, and take commissions as the groups get completed. Also some builders build fursuits as a fulltime job, and have assistants & others working with them, in my case i am alone with no assistant, and work another job, making a reason i have for being able to only take a few commissions at a time. I know for a few years i have been thinking of quitting the other job and going fursuit building full time, and believe me i keep thinking on that more & more all the time as i am growing frustrated in the other job.
I do applogize to those who have been wanting a suit from StormfireStudios, but have not gotten a slot right away. Again there are only so many hours a week i have to work on suits, until that day i begin work on it full time, then i can take on more at a time. In the mean time as in the past i always make sure i complete suits in months, not years. Once a suitcommission is accepted & work started on, and as always i place quality of craftsmanship a priority #1. I strive to build your suits that last years & years

i been away since June 26, and will be away until july 20th.

Here is the GoFundMe lead by Cobalt, to help Clumzy back on his feet after his SF ordeal & suit head loss during BLFC: https://www.gofundme.com/clumzys-sa.....an-crisis-fund

Ok, This got me thinking now after this weeks mess that happened to a local friend & fellow fursuiter.
Since the recent sad loss of Clumzy Lion's fursuit head & tail  Clumzy which was stolen by some street scum thief in San Francisco this past week, and other's who have had their suits or luggage stolen from cars, ( as did Zarafa Giraffe did with is in nearly the same way)
I am thinking of putting together a discussion & info panel of helping to make sure your treasured fursuit is safe when left in a car during traveling. I have gathered some very valuable info and techniques to help fursuiters keep their suits more secure when having to park in unknown areas.
Some of these topics would include low-cost portable alarms, locking your suit bin or duffle in the trunk, making your suit less visible to thieves, many ways to disable or "hide" the electric push-button trunk openers, ( also disengaging older mechanical trunk openers so they can only open with a key) other theft deterrents, the list goes on.
sometimes a little knowledge and even cheap low-cost security items can save your most prized & expensive possession that is a part of who we all are, our fursuits.

I feel its worth spending 40 or 50 bucks and some time to make sure our 4000 or 5000 dollar fursuit is safer from the increasing problem of low-life street scum stealing them, ( or the bins & duffles they are in because they are looking ot grab things to sell for drug money or what ever) but sadly like Zarafa's suit when they discover what they have stolen is not sell-able to them, your beloved & expensive investment & fursona ends up in some dumpster in a dark alley.. or in some ditch where we will never see them again.

- I will be working on the panel idea over time, and may try to get it put together to maybe host it at MidWestFurfest this year. If some things can be learned to help save even just one fursuit from a theft attempt, then its worth it.

Some topics that would apply here:

- Methods of locking your fursuit bin or duffle, AND locking the bin or duffle to a frame part on any car trunk. (most cars have places to use & secure cable locks)

- low-cost, battery powered alarm ideas for cars without alarms, or even alarms in your fursuit bin or duffle.

- simple methods how to disable both electronic & mechanical trunks of cars, (so they can be only opened by the key)

- practical theft deterrents.

- hiding & making your fursuit bin or duffle less attractive to thiefs.

- "out of sight & out of mind" methods.

- others to be discussed.

Edited with update: - So MidwestFurfest is a go this year! as i missed out getting a room. the entire 1500 + rooms booked up in less than 45 seconds, but fortunately i got offered a room spot for me & Clumzy lion with two close local friends ( and all SSC fursuiters) for MFF. Lets hope everyone else we know can manage to do the same. :)

Also i really enjoyed MCFC last weekend! a report will come soon for that con too!