Happy Birthday to me... ~

I'm 31

... Merry Christmas to all you fluffy awesome peeps! You all are great and I hope that you take care of yourself

Just a smol update.

Turning 30 on Friday the 13th.

Can't afford to make MFF even though I wish to go.

TFF should still be a thing.

You all have an awesome day

No status update or anything, not feeling the need to get distracted or bore you guys with the stuff that's turning my muzzle grey...

I really do appreciate the uprise in my followers, it's actually a little surprising to see so many from my inactivity and I'm sure a majority of my journals are skimmed over due to the unnecessary "I'm alive" vibe they've all been radiating, so I'll make this short and sweet.

What is it ya'll want of me? My art? Commissioned Pieces? Stories? I'm not trying to be disrespectful, I'm just curious and I'll do my best to read and comment back in this journal.

Edit 1: If you don't feel comfortable writing in the comment section below, you're welcome to send me a note as well.

First off, I'm a bit buzzed and the con hasn't even started. I want to post on record I typed Anual update and Google wanted me to fix the typo to Anal, soooooo.... yeah.

Landed and having fun at Texas Furry Fiesta this year. Already tried the "Bark & Stormy" and "ManaPotion" cocktails which were very sweet. OPENING CEREMONIES HAVEN'T EVEN HAPPENED AND I'M A LIGHTWRIGHT FOR GETTING A BUZZ!!! Went to a nice Artist Etiquette panel, got some useful info. Doesn't really mean I'll be doing request or commissions anytime soon because I just have to get used to doing art again. It's been too long.

Kinda free forming this journal so I might go back and edit it. No bullet points, no real need for the update. Just... mental vomit and head clearing

EDIT 1: Got drunk, having fun, got a partial suit. More when I develop the character that was made by Lemonbrat fursuit.

Hiyo all... Most of the year absent from fA and not too social.

Just turning 29 today. My dad's turning 61 today as well and well... It's my aunt's birthday too.

Happy Birthday to us. ^^;

Hey everyone!

I'm getting back into the swing of things, I do have a couple of pictures I really do need to upload and I need to write out some stories that go with them. I swear they're there!

Anyways, this is just a brief update to let ya'll know I'm down in Texas right meow! I'm in the Dallas Fort Worth area staying at the Hyatt Regency and if anyone wants to come find me, I'll be wandering around the con, half tired and derpy because my watch is still on Mountian Time! D:<

If you need help tracking me down or what to head where I'm heading, I'll be updating my twitter at https://twitter.com/Ryanfawks

Narssistically Yours,
Ryan Fawks

That is all~

Another short journal, nothing long.

I'm trying to discipline myself into drawing daily rather than gaming. I want to work my way up to an iron artist batch, but my resolve needs a little work.

If anyone has any ideas, please comment down below. I'd use art-prompt, but I like community ideas a little better.

Thank you in advance!
~Fawks

Short journal...

I wanted to give a special shoutout to  jeevestheroo and  honeymoon for the special halloween kinktober story. It's a little late but work has been kicking my ass.

Story contains dom/sub and breathplay: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25269502/

Thank you again so much for the wonderful story!

~Fawks

Still alive and kicking, got a few pieces done or nearly done. A lot of what I'd like to upload I enjoy doing backstories to as well. A picture may say a thousand words, but context is still kind of nice as well.

████ Con News
So... CO furs have gotten kind of ridiculous. For those who haven't heard, RMFC has been shut down and, uh... I'm not a big fan of being know or associated with anything that has anything to do with a group named the "Raiders" or whatever. This narrows my option down to a flight out to Chicago (I won't be making BLFC on my salary. Maybe eventually, but not this year) for MFF. I'm currently exploring my options and seeing how feasible it will be for me to make a new con I have never attended. It's also nice because I know a fur out there as well whom I haven't talk to in quiet a long time. Maybe not the SOLE reason I got into the fandom, but in this instance, certainly obvious signs to show where I was heading. Don't regret a thing.

But yeah, MFF2017 if I can swing it and land a room to start planning expenses and such, and TFF2018 are good possibilities.

████ Other News
Life's been okay. 2016 was sour through and through, but I've managed to get a land a job. A few plans need to come together before I can say 2017 was worth something so far, but it hasn't been a bad year. I'm getting back into doing art off and on, and after a years worth of updates to download, I finally got Overwatch to work on my PC.

████TL;DR (Short update... maybe 15 minutes put into writing )
MFF looks good, TFF next year, Arting again, Gaming distraction

Thanks for reading!
~Fawks

Greetings, salutations, hiyo, and how's it hanging? Start of 2017 and apart from the upcoming impending doom in political shitstorms about to hit the US, I'm hunkered down in my bed comfy and cozy.

████ Ketchup
So, I've been absent for a while and so let me get the formal greetings out of the way that I didn't mention in my last journal: Happy Halloween, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa, Happy Boxing Day, and Happy New Year. Yeah, I feel like I'm waking up but I still need my morning coffee to get back into gear.

The end of 2016 sucked with the last three deaths of that year, and 2017 isn't looking pretty but I'm not here to dwell on that. Start of my new year went out with a little *pop*. The power unit on my tower pooped and I had to get it replaced. A hard task when you're broke and unemployed. I'm being skittish with the use of my system as well because the replacement PSU, while being completely adequate, kind of makes the rest of my computer a bit... crowded inside. Loose cables and whatnot.

████ Upcoming Cons and Projects
UNFORTUNATELY, with the lack of income, I don't even have enough money for the drive down to TFF this year. Even if I manage to get a job tomorrow, there's no guarantee I will be allowed the weekend off in March. It really does make me sad because there's a dense idiot who is currently residing at our house who is a prime example of what happens if you don't get your shit together. A little vacation would go a long way but it will not happen early this year.

ALTERNATIVELY, with early cons not being an option, I'm looking at late year cons instead. RMFC, while being a bit pricey for me, looks like I'll be attending this year. Same with midwest, depending on where I end up working.

As far as projects and them go, I've had a few brain storms but nothing concrete. I'm probably going to look at old memes and stuff to get the pen rolling again and try to be more regular. Last time I posted something was in March so hopefully something will go up once a month. I'll catch up on the backlog of stories for commissions I've gotten too and if I can get some disposable income for it, I'll start getting new comms as well.

████ IRL
Apart from the furry venture, I'm finding a balance between being social in this thing called the "real world" and the madness that is the furry fandom, so updates and post might still be infrequent and I might not chat with a whole bunch of people, but I'll be alive and kicking, even during the zombie apocalypse. I also want to try a few other things too like (and don't take this the wrong way) Let's Plays, additional conventions such as anime and video games, but primarily, I want to get back to school. While it's been shown that you can make a living without a high school diploma, it's not the best option for a scrub like me. That's not low self esteem, that's just the dust settling and me seeing what might be best for others is not 100% best for me.

Emotional overtones aside, 2017 should be a nicer year because I (and you) will make it nice.

████ TL;DR
Want to start ending journals with this so here goes. Been away too long, 2016 sucked, TFF not an option this year, RMFC & MFF maybe, backlogs to work on, balances to maintain.

Thanks for reading!
~Fawks

WARNING: Grim depressing journal ahead. I don't want to make anyone sad or worried, I just want to let everyone know the cat's aren't eating my remains.

So, This isn't gonna be a super fantastical furry "Yay, everything's awesome" kinda journals where I pump out pipe dream updates about future prospects. Genuinely the month of October hasn't been kind, to say the very least and with the state of everything, November isn't looking promising. The nice thing that I get to look forward to comes out about a week and a half from now (Which is Pokemon sun/moon).

████ October
I can't think of whitty titles and I don't wish to milk this for all it's worth so I'll make this brief. I disappeared during the month of October because of family issues. While I bear no personal feelings to this person, I'm not going to shit on her memory. My dad has been seeing a woman for about a year and in March, this woman was diagnosed with cancer. Shortly after her trip to Rhode island in September, her perception of living diminished quickly and passed away on October 13th. During that time and because of my current employment or lack there of, I became her care taker until her death. I have been taking care of family and although not a whole lot of information got out, I don't feel any ill will to anyone in the community.

My dad's common law wife has a son. I'm not going to paint him as a complete asshole, but I'm going to use broad strokes. He has just lost his mother, but rather than grieving, he seems to be taking the guy route and putting on the strong act. During her last week on earth (And I was here for most of this, only sleeping in the weee hours in the morning) he was rarely by her bed side. He was more or less called upon to try and accept the situation but very rarely took advantage of the opportunity. You'll understand why I've called upon this person later.

What was unexpected and effected me personally was two days later, My grandmother on my dad's side had a stroke. The reason why this was because she is one of the reasons I'm proud not only because of my heritage, but because she was and always will be my reason for inspiration. She passed away on October 22nd.

While neither death was immediately related to me, I've been taking care of my dad and grieving in my own way. While it's not healthy to just shut everyone out, it seems like a method of meditation for me to keep my head down either in books or at least preoccupied with some form of activity. "Idle hands..." and all.

████ November [Explicit]
So the man-child called upon earlier? So, the general them of November isn't happy fun times. My dad, nice as he is (He's allowing me to stay while I get my shit together) is getting fed up with him as well. The "Man-child" is currently 39, a pot head, socially balls deep in his phone, narcissistic mess with violent tendencies, license-less, and is currently in need of counseling or mental therapy. I am sympathetic to a degree, but I have not seen this much of a broken man-child in person. He was fired from his last job for threatening the manager and coworkers and (I shit you not), wonders WHY he got fired. In the three weeks since he's 'moved in', he's already had to cops come calling for a public disturbance at a local gas station. He is loud, belligerent, obnoxious, and while I cannot claim to be the best person to read every situation, absolutely blind to everyone around him but himself.

While I'm currently trying to get interviews to any place, he's playing the pity card and taking advantage by bumming rides whenever he can from my dad and I. As bad as this is, I'm waiting until he get's arrested to enjoy some peace and quiet.

tl;dr: I have seen a future in which I do not want to living and it is UGLY! Love your family. Like your friends. Don't be an asshole. Don't try to make enemies.

I would rather be considered a doormat then whatever the fuck HE is.

████ Other Thoughts
Trying to be cheerful, when Sun and Moon come out because I preordered the steel book ages ago, What should I use as a starter? Owlet the Leaf type, Litten the pyro kitten, Popplion the Wet Sea Lion?

Thanks for reading and sorry if this journal got you down.
~Fawks

So, I know my track record for keeping people up to date with various news and the like is about as good as Steve Job's health right about now. Sorry for the dark joke, and the four month update on news and whatnot.

I've been searching for a job for the past summer, carefully avoiding a few because of my last job. I got a little too comfortable with my last job and ended up staying with a sinking company for over four years. I'm looking to expand into customer care so I can get a feel for dealing with day to day public standings and maybe using it for commissions and freelancing. A lot has happened over the summer as well apart from job searching. Overall though, scarcity in on fA and twitter might not be fixxed soon.

I've been dealing with a personal problem as I look at my upcoming birthday. On September 13th, I'll turn 27. I got a few birthday gifts already, mostly out of pocket. In my garage for the past few years, I've had a Honda CM400T motorcycle collecting rust. I decided that two things need to happen this year. One is I go and get my G.E.D. (I'm a high school drop out) and the other is I get the motorcycle endorsement to ride the bike. Well, I took the class in April. I think. I have a poor memory, but I got my motorcycle endorsement on a tiny Honda Grom. That was the easy trick. After that I decided that I should start working on my G.E.D., but I started facing a little problem. I get content really easily and I haven't really had a set goal for what I wanted to do out of high school. Sure, I need an income, but I want it to be an easy job that comes naturally to me. So, my job goals have changed over the years and I haven't had an endgame. I will go back to school because I have the feeling that once I get the ball rolling, something will show me what I want.

Enough about personal stuff though, I also wanted to hop on to let ya'll know about future updates. I'll still be here and I'll still be me, but the updates might be few and far between. I've been drawing but it's all been sketchbook goodness. If I haven't been sketching or looking for a job, I've probably been playing on the console with my brother. Don't ask me why, but I've been getting back on Destiny, what with the new Rise of Iron DLC coming up. I've also been playing Fallout 4, Best RPG of 2015, Worst Fallout of the series. Still true with Nuka-world as it feels like the games lead up to you making a cardboard cutout of a city and now you get to be godzilla f*cking everything up. But yeah, job searching, gaming, and sketching.

Right, well... I think I've rambled long enough. Sorry again for the absents and frequently infrequent updates. ^^

~Fawks

This is just a brief journal. Back on top of things. Still job hunting and gaming, changing up my art style to something that I hope I can keep up to doing every day, at home or out of the house. After talking and sorting out stuff from my last journal, I may be stepping back away from certain themes and activities, one to get out of this now-far-too-long creative drought I've been stuck in and growing a personal experience from it and two, to grow an appreciation for those themes again. Having a bad memory can have it's advantages as it means that I have the joy of rediscovering those things again.

Oh, and before I forget, I will get interrupted again in art, even if right now that doesn't seem like much. But I'll be playing Overwatch. I preorder while I still had an income way back last year and I did it for both the PC and the PS4 version. I'm glad I did because my PC isn't up to date, even with a new graphics card in it so I will most likely be playing PS4 if anyone wants to raise some hell on console. I'll probably switch back to PC once PlayStation plus runs out, i get a new job and income, and my computer gets fixxed.

Anyways, thanks for the warm wishes and thoughts,

~Fawks

Warning: This journal contains half complete thoughts under mythological circumstances. Any relation to current, past or future characters, places, or things are completely coincidental. It's just brain vomit!

Alright, I feel I need to get this off my chest because it's been bugging me for the past week or so and it's kind of a wake up call. I've tried ignoring it or dismissing it but lately it's gotten a little worse and as I still have too much free time, It keeps popping into my head. It's kind of a boner killer and it's narcissistic to open a journal with something that petty but it still deals with a much bigger problem. I'm also sharing something I think should be personal so if there are any comments to this journal, please think before posting it. Last thing I want is a kink shaming mess where someone could get hurt.

So, I'm sure some people have dreams like this, were a kink is entertaining and sexy, leading you into situations you would enjoy. I always think about being bound and teased, used as someones toy for pleasure and fulfilling their needs. One of the last commissions I received was, in fact, a slave auction for a submissive pet Fawks. The idea is sexy and the pleasuring of someone else at the expense of my own turned me on. Bound, helpless, teased, stuffed and gagged by either a dominate master or practice pleasuring one.

The ideal part about fantasizing is that there is dominance in the situation even as a sub. You get to control what happens to you and where you end up. It seems in one of my dreams, my subconscious wanted to give me a jolt about what it would be and it turns out, it was less ideal. It turned out to be more scary and the master that my mind conjured up was not even close to who I'd imagine.

To me, the part that I guess I started to dislike could be described kind of like a job. You get a new job, you meet new people, and there are things that you may like about it. For example, I worked as a returns clerk and my coworkers had fun back stories to listen to on a day to day basis. We had little unspoken games where we'd try and find the oddest or cutest return reason and what not. Even breaking a lot of stuff for fun and excusing it for keeping dumpster divers from pillaging it.

But then you reach the part where you really don't want to deal with it but you have to. It's your job and you don't have a choice, like dealing with moldy returns with unnaturally disgusting smells or questionable liquids just dripping all around whatever it was they didn't like. It goes in the trash but not till you dealt with it.

That is the best way I can describe the turn off. Normally I wouldn't mind this but in my dream, I don't recall clearly but I apparently did everything I was told and kept satisfying whoever my master was and while I was used as a toy, there wasn't any joy or pleasure in it. It was just a hallow job. Maybe I'm just too invested into it to think that something wonderful can come from a thankless position or maybe I just need to find a normal person in a normal world and be grey. It just seems depressing but not so much that I would want to stop... just maybe take a breather from it all. Art, games, stories... I don't know but I wonder if anyone else really has ever felt that helpless in one of their kinks.

I do know that I need to share some thoughts with a few friends but these are on other related matters. In the mean time, if you tl;dr to the end of this journal, play safe.

~Fawks

P.S. Thank you to those few who reached out and contacted me to talk about this journal. I know I must sound like I'm making a big deal over this and I appreciate the support from your guy's help.

Another year at Texas Furry Fiesta up and done and now for general updating and news.

████ Texas Furry Fiesta
So, it might have just been me, but this year's con ran more smoothly than a lubed bad dragon toy with no ridges. Joke aside, there wasn't all that much trouble this year which is good for security, but the party floor was toned down and pretty much dead around 11 PM Saturday night. There's nothing wrong with that, it just seemed more grandmotherly than young and furry. The panel spacing was awesome but there were two conflicting panels that I couldn't attend both. Ah well, such is life and that's con scheduling for you. They do their best but there will always be conflicting interest.

I did get away with some nice swag and although I should have been more ballsy with a few artist in the artist ally, most of my stuff did come from the dealers den or art show. Friday wasn't a good night for me at the con but I'm not too worried about it. I got to actually hang out and have fun with Neybulot and "Bacon" a while(I don't remember your fA page... if you even have one D:). I don't remember too much the first night and to the fourth hanging out with us, I wish I knew who you were. I would have actually wanted to talk to you and get to know ya.

Saturday morning rolled around and although I was hung over, I did get to the Guest of Honor Luncheon. It was lunch and a movie, guess which one. After the GoH and with a little luck from Steam and Twitter, I met up with iornstone77 and although both of us were pretty quiet, it was still awesome to see him. We kinda got separated after the fur suit parade. Most of the other panels I hit up(or tried to) were art panels to kind of gauge if I'm ready to take commissions or request... just general stuff. After a little bit more practice, I can post ToS, prices and take one or two slots. I'm leaning more towards traditional because while digital has it's advantage, my traditional allow me to work on them any time, number one. Number two, it's a little more satisfying to give or send out commission pictures like that.

But I digress. Sunday was really relaxed... and DEAD. There were still panels but they tore down most everything around 7 except for the dead dog dance. I danced! Well, Hitch lesson of dancing. Texas two step really (>///<). The last few nights, I got to me and talk to Inanimax, which was actually interesting, even if I did make a bad impression by joking around with him.

The con was still good, even if it seemed smaller than usual. A lot of the trouble makers didn't seem to be there, but I didn't loose too much sleep over it. Looking forward to the Mad Scientist theme next year, but I'd like to be more established community.

████ Backlog/Buffers
I do have absolutely no job right now. Let me explain; the company that I worked for terminated everyone and the reason I was able to make it to TFF2016 was a severance package and tax income this year. That's why most of my arrangements were last minute this year. So... I have free time. I need to actually clean out my backlog of request that I keep saying that I'll do, but in the mean time I'll be playing around with new forms of media, like badges.

My queue, if I do open, will be small and it will /NOT/ be first come, first serve. I want to give everyone an opportunity and if I don't specifically say that I'll be doing comms based off what I feel, I will be drawing lottos. I do have a YCH that I should post, but I'd like to create a buffer first.

Thank you all for reading!

~Fawks

Hi everybody!

Here's my usual update to let everyone know I'm still alive and kicking!

████ State of the Union
So, as of January 29th, 2016, I am no longer a Chef's Catalog/TC4 employee. This fact is posted very late due the fact that as of February 17th, I am no longer a temp employee of Chef's Catalog/TC4. Turns out the employers running the blue collar (heavy lifting/physical labor) portion of the job didn't take into account how much work needed to be done among middle management and I was one of the few requested by the CFO to come back for a few more week so as to help wrap up closing and get products ready to ship out to liquidators and vendors. I don't want to get to
detailed about what went on because in truth, I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to divulge.

Needless to say, I'm unemployed. While having no steady income is a problem, I tend to look on the bright side of things. This allows me time to change some of my white hair back to normal colors. It also allows me the chance to pursue going back to school or at least getting the process started. Thanks to taxes and severance package, I also have the opportunity to make it down to Texas Furry Fiesta this year (pending cost of pretrip and car repairs.)

████ Paper Wings
So, I have gotten a few more pieces done and I need to get them uploaded, but I'm working on a few stories to go along with them as well. It seems you guys enjoy a story to go with my... predicaments. I mean, I'm still doing small things on the side, but this observation is just based of gallery post. It's also part of the reason why most of the commissions I've gotten over the past few years haven't been uploaded here. I do want to note that any collabs, sequences or stories not uploaded here are because I didn't get everyone's permission. Just to cover my butt. ^_^

████ Tip The Scales
Comments? Questions? Suggestions? This is more of a scritch'n'bitch journal too. Apart from me needing to take commissions or trades, collab work or solo, I'm actually curious what you guys think I should do. I'd also like to work on a little side project for after I do find a new job so if you have specific questions for any of my characters or even me, let me know! I need daily practice.

Thanks for reading!

~R.Fawks

P.S. This doesn't have anything to do with my art but I just remembered and I wanted to post this anyways. I'm gonna be getting Overwatch! I preordered it for PC but as my computer is acting funky(and thanks to a forced change in ISP), I'm not sure I'll be able to play it on here. If not I also got it for playstation. Something to do in my down time. ^^

With the passing of jasentamiia and the shutting down of xenolugia150's gallery, it seems this community is getting smaller by the moment and it really does make me heartbroken. What makes me even more sad is hearing about people who are either done with the community or are just down a lot of the time. I don't mean to harp on it and, be it an act of God or personal demons, I don't fault anyone for making whatever decisions to maintain their personal stability.

While it seems insensitive to as much as the phrase has been used and despite what the community looks like, I want to remind everyone that you're not alone. While the fandom is growing everyday, people are joining because they are either interested in learning what makes anthropomorphism great or because it was enough to change a mass amount of people into what we are. I may sound young and naive, but being optimistic is a great thing. Our interest and our creative output is what makes this community what it is. While people may join and people may part, we're still the same species through and through(Well, physically speaking :3c ). Talk to them, send them messages, collab with them, have a drink with them, play games with them. The community is still here and we're still growing. There are new things to learn every day about everyone. Socializing is trial and error so don't hold onto your faults and learn from your mistakes. If nothing else, set one goal every day:

Make someone smile.

I'll chip in to help flood your journal boxes with one more Christmas journal.

But really, All y'all lovelies out there have a Merry Christmas and (assuming I'm ill disposed to remember) have a happy new year!

Just a simple short three line journal. Happy Thanksgiving lovies! If you don't live in the states, stuff your face silly anyways. :3c

████ Current Employment
So, I took last Friday off because one, I needed to get away from work before heads started rolling in a non-halloween fashion and two, October is the last ‘legit’ time I can take off. Saving up time for my future trip to the east coast to visit family while they and I still have the common syptom of being alive, I hadn’t take off so much as a half day in over two and a half months.

Not my point. Anyways, I took all of last Friday off and did my best to relax, with the minor exception that my phone was still going off for work questions. Short, simple, and to the point. Then I get a phone call around two in the afternoon. My business is shutting down.

While I might be completely in shock, I’m genuinely happy. I hold no grudge against any of my employeers or employees, they planned on shutting down after the season is over with. Their returns policy is changing as well, which means my department might be one of the first to shut down. I get to find out today.

████ Future Events
Well, I had a genuine hope to go to AnthroCon this year but that might be a pipe dream. I’m not even sure if I’m going to make it to Furry Fiesta this year. I tend to pay for most of my room and reg fees three months in advance but with the promise of paychecks drying up soon, I don’t know if this is a good idea.

On top of that, if I do get a job right away, there is no guarantee that I can take that weekend off. It’s not like I can get hired on and than turn around and ask for the first weekend I get off to drive down to Texas. I don’t know, I’m not shutting down TFF this year right away, but it’s not looking bright now.

████ Other News
As mentioned before, I’ll be heading out to the east coast next week and will be visiting most of the rest of my family. I think our little family (My dad, my brother and I) are the only bloodlines west of the mississippi. I’m visiting my Japanese grandmother and hoping to visit my Italian Grandfather as well from my mother’s side. I haven’t seen them in many years(I think I was 14 when I last saw them) and hopefully, I’ll visit them again.

Apart from the trip and employment, I’ve got plenty of distractions to keep me either happy or preoccupied. I’m taken to reading some Javascript manuals as well as some webdesign. I’ve also been playing around with the idea of drawing time lapses and possibly more. In the mean time, I’ll be looking for a job and might be a bit quiet. I know I haven’t poked some of my friends in a long time for a chat but… eh. That’s 'nother can of worms for another time.

Ya’ll take it easy now.

~Fawks

While my journals are inconsistent and this journal is narcissistic, an update is in order.

████ 13 Twice...
Posting this journal on my birthday. I'm 26 years old today and I'm still loving life with a few minor nags and (being a furry, but not strictly furry related) a lot of drama.

Ya'll have a drink on me today. ^^

████ General News Update
*Puts on serious suit and tie with glasses*
Other unrelated news that I've been bringing up every time I talk to someone is that, while my content update has been nonexistent, I've still been working on stories and arts. I'm working on a story at the moment but apart from concept designs, I don't think I can illustrate it. I've been using a sort of story-boarding application to help me write it as well and I'm hoping to use it for other ideas too.

I'm also going to be busy over the next few months as middle management at my job seems to be in disarray. Anyone they can't control to a T is more or less just let go for some bullhonky reason or another. Even with that going on, I'm still trying to get a week in November off to visit family while they're still alive.

████ Upcoming Cons, Commissions, and Shenanigans.
As always, I'd like to do some of your commissions but I have this strict lack of discipline. I'll get right on that though... right after I screw around with Mario Maker for a while.

CONS! No, not that thing Harry the Hat is well known for (Sorry, been watching 'Cheers' while I draw). I've been wanting to visit more than just Texas for Cons in a year. I live in CO and I haven't been to RMFC. I was going to go but I couldn't find room or time. That never ending phrase "Maybe next year..." is wearing thin too. So I do have a few number of cons I'd like to and I'll try and write up on an old filler journal information about that. Which cons I'll attend, and if I have Time, Room, Transportation, and spending munnies for such endeavors.

In the mean time, Ya'll have a fun month. Until I can update these journals again...

~Fawks

Won't be there.

Sorry for wasting your time on this journal. I'd love to actually get out of CO for a few days and be on the east coast dearly, but I didn't know what my plans were going to be like for this year so I did not plan to make it out this year intentionally.

My only other con I wished to attend this year would have been my first as well, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to forego Midwest Furfest. I get the feeling one of my old school mates might be attending and also another one of my friends but with the timing and poor work management skills, I wouldn't be able to make it out there. I'm positive most people would be sick of me saying "I'll try and make it next year!", so...

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I'll try and make it next year!

In the mean time, I have taken a sort of break from drawing, as my last update was in March, but I'm kicking back into it. I'm so burnt out on games, I'm playing WoW again on an alt email account until the 30 day trial is pretty much up. As to if you'd like my account name, sure, I'll give it to you, but I probably won't play much once the trials up. I don't mind paying for subscription services for console games because it's still relatively cheaper then paying $30 for 60 days to a single game. I'll still look at private servers if they're still a thing, but I doubt I'll be dedicating a lot of time to it.

I'm still happy to hear from ya'll and I hope you guys don't mind the misleading journal title and forgive my absents from the furry art community.

Ciao for now!

~Fawks

...And all I have to say is "This new UI"

Sort of interesting. Makes it less confusing for Gallery and Favorites to be mixxed while scrolling though fA users. I'm curious if anyone else has seen/used it yet and what your thoughts on it are.

It's not terrible important but I genuinely like hearing other peoples opinions on weird topics. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't be furry. :P

Edit # Back to classic. Update to beta broke navigation. Huh, almost 3 weeks.