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Worst Poet Evar
Posted 17 years agoI'd not heard of this guy previously:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall
But I gather he's been dubbed the worst poet ever.
On behalf of all FA poets, I would like to protest this apellation; clearly the works of FA poets were not considered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall
But I gather he's been dubbed the worst poet ever.
On behalf of all FA poets, I would like to protest this apellation; clearly the works of FA poets were not considered.
Poetry Form
Posted 17 years agoPoetry needs form, just like it needs (real) emotion. What's form? I'm not going to provide a scholar's taxonomy of poetic form, but there're some basic things I want to go over and explain what they accomplish.
THEATRE
Poetry is a form of art that requires being spoken aloud. It's okay if you can hear somebody speaking it in your head when you read it, but the decline of poetry is that it's not being shouted out. It's NOT literature. It's theatre. Ideally, poetry should be heard, and never seen (in written form) at all except perhaps by the poet and by great actors and public speakers who train to deliver it well. That's why it's often used in theatrical productions.
ITS OWN END
Everything that makes poetry poetry is its own end. Poetry INTENDS to stand apart from newspaper articles, dinnertable conversation, and fantasy novels. It is, by definition, creating a special, mardi-gras, ecstatic, even sacred, place for itself in your attention by using form.
Form lulls your judging mind to sleep with its regularity. Form hints at secret meaning. It wakes up the senses of the imagination. It enraptures with its sheer playfulness. As I've said elsewhere, "serious playfulness" is the key. We can imagine grimmest tragedy and horror in play-- and take them quite seriously. Playfulness is not all light, giggles, and lollipops.
METER
Meter is a way of arranging syllables ('beats' in language) and particularly the accented/stressed syllables. The technical term for the basic unit of meter is a "metrical foot," which is either two or three syllables, with a stressed syllable at either the beginning or the end.
Poems usually consist of one type of metrical foot (without others), repeated the same number of times on every line in the poem. There're exceptions, but generally meter comes down to picking a foot and a line length and sticking to it.
METRICAL FEET
* Iambs: da-DA "My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the Sun," = .X.X.X.X.X (5 feet = pentameter)
-Sonnet 130, Shakespeare
* Trochees: DA-da "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary..." = X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X. (eight feet = octameter)
-The Raven, Poe
* Dactyls: DA-da-da "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with..." = X..X..X..X.. (4 feet = tetrameter)
-Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, the Beatles.
* Spondees: da-da-DA "You're in charge of the Last of the Truffula Seeds." = ..X..X..X..X
-The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
LINE BREAKS
Breaking poetry up into seperate lines is also important. Expressing more-or-less complete ideas in forcibly succinct ways can be a stunningly powerful way of expressing an idea. The ultimate example of this is any idea you can express in three words. Consider:
"Read My Lips!"
"No New Taxes!"
"You Are Lame!"
"Give It Back!"
"Kiss My Grits!"
"Yiff me hard!"
Every single one of these is absolute. Forceful in an inescapable way. And you get at least part of that same kind of force whenever you express one complete idea in one short, regular line of poetry. Deliver line after line that way, and you have a poem that can no more be stopped than a river.
Also, the steadiness of line length adds to the pagentry-- the theatre-- the sacredness-- of poetry. Miraculously, each crucial segment of idea comes out in it's own same-sized expression.
RHYME
Rhyme, meanwhile, gives the ear and the parts of the mind that understand language an intuition that something mysterious is going on. Rhymes suggest the continuity of ideas through the poem. They're playful and enigmatic. They bring the imagination to full alert, even moreso when they miraculously appear at regular intervals in a poem of regular meter-- we have the satisfaction of hearing them when we expect to hear them, that way. And obviously, since they're usually used at the ends of lines, they enhance the function of line breaks.
REPETITION
Obviously, all these things are in some sense forms of reptetiton. Now consider: poetry is a SPOKEN art, and so we can be quite sure that it was already very sophisticated long before poems were first written down, such as poems about the Sumerian goddess Inanna. Consider:
'Brother, after you've brought me the flax, who will comb it for me?
'Sister, I will bring it to you combed.'
'Utu, after you've brought it to me combed, who will spin it for me?
'Sister, I will bring it to you spun.'
'Brother, after you've brought the flax to me spun, who will braid it for me?
'Sister, I will bring it to you braided.'
'Utu, after you've brought it to me braided, who will warp it for me?'
'Inanna, I will bring it to you warped.'
'Brother, after you've brought the flax to me warped, who will weave it for me?'
'Sister, I will bring it to you woven.'
'Utu, after you've brought it to me woven, who will bleach it for me?'
'Inanna, I will bring it to you bleached.'
'Brother, after you've brought my bridal sheet to me, Who will go to bed with me? Utu, who will go to bed with me?'
Or
From the Great Above she opened her ear to the Great Below
From the Great Above the Goddess opened her ear to the Great Below
From the Great Above Inanna opened her ear to the Great Below
Poetry is a form of ritual (aka theatre). I think I said that at least once already. Ritual lulls the rational mind by repeating things the mind comes to expect and sneaking in the mysterious stuff.
Repetition of whole lines or key words in poems plays a strong role. Just as does the repetition of a particular sound-- rhyming-- the repetition of a particular stress pattern among syllables-- metrical feet-- and the repetition of a certain number of syllables per line.
MAGIC & RELIGION
The reason we think of poetry and magic as linked somehow is that they are. The modern idea of magic is adapted from religion, with all the theology taken out. Magic is fundamentally and entirely religious. Religions are an elaboration of theatre-- which is what poetry is.
THEATRE
Poetry is a form of art that requires being spoken aloud. It's okay if you can hear somebody speaking it in your head when you read it, but the decline of poetry is that it's not being shouted out. It's NOT literature. It's theatre. Ideally, poetry should be heard, and never seen (in written form) at all except perhaps by the poet and by great actors and public speakers who train to deliver it well. That's why it's often used in theatrical productions.
ITS OWN END
Everything that makes poetry poetry is its own end. Poetry INTENDS to stand apart from newspaper articles, dinnertable conversation, and fantasy novels. It is, by definition, creating a special, mardi-gras, ecstatic, even sacred, place for itself in your attention by using form.
Form lulls your judging mind to sleep with its regularity. Form hints at secret meaning. It wakes up the senses of the imagination. It enraptures with its sheer playfulness. As I've said elsewhere, "serious playfulness" is the key. We can imagine grimmest tragedy and horror in play-- and take them quite seriously. Playfulness is not all light, giggles, and lollipops.
METER
Meter is a way of arranging syllables ('beats' in language) and particularly the accented/stressed syllables. The technical term for the basic unit of meter is a "metrical foot," which is either two or three syllables, with a stressed syllable at either the beginning or the end.
Poems usually consist of one type of metrical foot (without others), repeated the same number of times on every line in the poem. There're exceptions, but generally meter comes down to picking a foot and a line length and sticking to it.
METRICAL FEET
* Iambs: da-DA "My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the Sun," = .X.X.X.X.X (5 feet = pentameter)
-Sonnet 130, Shakespeare
* Trochees: DA-da "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary..." = X.X.X.X.X.X.X.X. (eight feet = octameter)
-The Raven, Poe
* Dactyls: DA-da-da "Picture yourself in a boat on a river, with..." = X..X..X..X.. (4 feet = tetrameter)
-Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, the Beatles.
* Spondees: da-da-DA "You're in charge of the Last of the Truffula Seeds." = ..X..X..X..X
-The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
LINE BREAKS
Breaking poetry up into seperate lines is also important. Expressing more-or-less complete ideas in forcibly succinct ways can be a stunningly powerful way of expressing an idea. The ultimate example of this is any idea you can express in three words. Consider:
"Read My Lips!"
"No New Taxes!"
"You Are Lame!"
"Give It Back!"
"Kiss My Grits!"
"Yiff me hard!"
Every single one of these is absolute. Forceful in an inescapable way. And you get at least part of that same kind of force whenever you express one complete idea in one short, regular line of poetry. Deliver line after line that way, and you have a poem that can no more be stopped than a river.
Also, the steadiness of line length adds to the pagentry-- the theatre-- the sacredness-- of poetry. Miraculously, each crucial segment of idea comes out in it's own same-sized expression.
RHYME
Rhyme, meanwhile, gives the ear and the parts of the mind that understand language an intuition that something mysterious is going on. Rhymes suggest the continuity of ideas through the poem. They're playful and enigmatic. They bring the imagination to full alert, even moreso when they miraculously appear at regular intervals in a poem of regular meter-- we have the satisfaction of hearing them when we expect to hear them, that way. And obviously, since they're usually used at the ends of lines, they enhance the function of line breaks.
REPETITION
Obviously, all these things are in some sense forms of reptetiton. Now consider: poetry is a SPOKEN art, and so we can be quite sure that it was already very sophisticated long before poems were first written down, such as poems about the Sumerian goddess Inanna. Consider:
'Brother, after you've brought me the flax, who will comb it for me?
'Sister, I will bring it to you combed.'
'Utu, after you've brought it to me combed, who will spin it for me?
'Sister, I will bring it to you spun.'
'Brother, after you've brought the flax to me spun, who will braid it for me?
'Sister, I will bring it to you braided.'
'Utu, after you've brought it to me braided, who will warp it for me?'
'Inanna, I will bring it to you warped.'
'Brother, after you've brought the flax to me warped, who will weave it for me?'
'Sister, I will bring it to you woven.'
'Utu, after you've brought it to me woven, who will bleach it for me?'
'Inanna, I will bring it to you bleached.'
'Brother, after you've brought my bridal sheet to me, Who will go to bed with me? Utu, who will go to bed with me?'
Or
From the Great Above she opened her ear to the Great Below
From the Great Above the Goddess opened her ear to the Great Below
From the Great Above Inanna opened her ear to the Great Below
Poetry is a form of ritual (aka theatre). I think I said that at least once already. Ritual lulls the rational mind by repeating things the mind comes to expect and sneaking in the mysterious stuff.
Repetition of whole lines or key words in poems plays a strong role. Just as does the repetition of a particular sound-- rhyming-- the repetition of a particular stress pattern among syllables-- metrical feet-- and the repetition of a certain number of syllables per line.
MAGIC & RELIGION
The reason we think of poetry and magic as linked somehow is that they are. The modern idea of magic is adapted from religion, with all the theology taken out. Magic is fundamentally and entirely religious. Religions are an elaboration of theatre-- which is what poetry is.
Poetry Emotion
Posted 17 years agoFeeling-- emotion-- is one of the indispensible parts of poetry. Poetry without emotion is like a furry without the yiffy bits.
Why does Furry poetry often get ridiculed for being "emo" then? Well, olympic swimmers are known for swimming. BUT they do not try to live underwater. Emo doesn't mean "emotionally open," it means gratuitously emotional for the sake of getting attention. But let's not look too deeply into the motives of the average furry poet, or blame poetry for enabling attention-seeking in the fandom.
Sometimes, furry poets talk about their emotions before they're really ready. Poetry is NOT a way to make emotions go away. And while I wish everyone had a paw to hold onto when things are rough, expecting writing poetry to help you make bad feelings go away is like expecting that all pretty girls want to take care of you when you're sick. It's not like that in real life.
So don't do that with poetry. You need to be on your best footing with her, not pathetic. She's demanding, and can be as cold as uncertainty about whether all of this-- life-- means anything.
If I say: "playful seriousness," most people think that's an oxymoron, but it's not. Children are playful in a very, very serious way. Sharks in the carpet, when the couch is a pirate ship, are very real. Playful seriousness is key. Playful seriousness is to a poet or daydreamer what muscle tone is to a track star. If you can't be playful with poetry, which is what she likes best, then you shouldn't be hanging aroud her.
And emotion alone is not enough-- just like rhyming and meter and Important Ideas are not enough, by themselves. And too much rhyme, or too strict a meter, or ideas that are too grandiose, can kill poetry just like too much emotion. An swimmer can drown from a thimblefull water! For the same reason that (Doug Winger notwithstanding) yiffy art with gigantic tits and cocks is just stupid, much less simple drawings of disembodied tits and cocks.
And if emotion isn't enough, then TELLING us about emotion is definitely not enough. Don't state emotions-- that's something you do to mess with a girlfriend you want to ditch. Hungry people want to eat, not look at a menu. If you're going to deal in emotion, *reveal* it. Don't label it and put it on display in a glass case. Surprise us with it's revelation. Don't part the clouds and sound the chorus. Don't announce the arrival of the King-- if he were important, people would bow and fall silent as soon as they saw him.
Why does Furry poetry often get ridiculed for being "emo" then? Well, olympic swimmers are known for swimming. BUT they do not try to live underwater. Emo doesn't mean "emotionally open," it means gratuitously emotional for the sake of getting attention. But let's not look too deeply into the motives of the average furry poet, or blame poetry for enabling attention-seeking in the fandom.
Sometimes, furry poets talk about their emotions before they're really ready. Poetry is NOT a way to make emotions go away. And while I wish everyone had a paw to hold onto when things are rough, expecting writing poetry to help you make bad feelings go away is like expecting that all pretty girls want to take care of you when you're sick. It's not like that in real life.
So don't do that with poetry. You need to be on your best footing with her, not pathetic. She's demanding, and can be as cold as uncertainty about whether all of this-- life-- means anything.
If I say: "playful seriousness," most people think that's an oxymoron, but it's not. Children are playful in a very, very serious way. Sharks in the carpet, when the couch is a pirate ship, are very real. Playful seriousness is key. Playful seriousness is to a poet or daydreamer what muscle tone is to a track star. If you can't be playful with poetry, which is what she likes best, then you shouldn't be hanging aroud her.
And emotion alone is not enough-- just like rhyming and meter and Important Ideas are not enough, by themselves. And too much rhyme, or too strict a meter, or ideas that are too grandiose, can kill poetry just like too much emotion. An swimmer can drown from a thimblefull water! For the same reason that (Doug Winger notwithstanding) yiffy art with gigantic tits and cocks is just stupid, much less simple drawings of disembodied tits and cocks.
And if emotion isn't enough, then TELLING us about emotion is definitely not enough. Don't state emotions-- that's something you do to mess with a girlfriend you want to ditch. Hungry people want to eat, not look at a menu. If you're going to deal in emotion, *reveal* it. Don't label it and put it on display in a glass case. Surprise us with it's revelation. Don't part the clouds and sound the chorus. Don't announce the arrival of the King-- if he were important, people would bow and fall silent as soon as they saw him.
Tunak Tunak Tun
Posted 17 years agoOkay, somebody (cool) brought this up in her journal. It's an oldie, but a goodie, so I feel the need to repeat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN7Ts0xBo
This guy's a flippin' genius. ZOMG!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN7Ts0xBo
This guy's a flippin' genius. ZOMG!
P(orn)oetry, Round 1.
Posted 17 years agoWell, round one of my foray into pornographic poetry was fun. And sitting down to compare, I realized I already have written some stuff that qualifies. Here's how this stuff ranks at the moment, in terms of its popularity and content (Three numbers seperated by periods-- the first is favorites, the second is comments not including mine, and the third is views):
Sibling Sonnet: 6.5.256-- Sexually explicit, consentual sibling incest, romantic.
Epyllion Of Cocoa and Drumtalker: 1.3.239-- Sexually very explicit, bondage, toys.
Rhiannon: 1.1.29-- Romantic with sexual overtones.
Summer and Fall: 0.0.24-- Romantic with sexual overtones.
Legend of the Lunataur: 0.0.21-- Mythological, violence, rape.
Answer the Whirlwind: 0.0.18-- Mythological.
A Poetic Form: 0.4.17-- Two poems, actually-- rape and sexual overtones, respectively.
The Troth of Actaeon: 0.0.16-- Mythological, romantic, sexual overtones.
Dragon Unforgiven: 0.0.13-- Argumentative, Mythological
Familiar and Your Own: 0.0.13-- Romantic, first cousins, sexual overtones.
Furry Sonnet 130: 1.1.6-- Derivative, romantic, sexual overtones.
Immiscible: 0.1.2-- Abstract/Descriptive
Definition?: 0.1.2-- Abstract/Descriptive.
I see two trends-- one, my older stuff gets looked at less than the newer, and two, generally the more obnoxious, the more views.
Sibling Sonnet: 6.5.256-- Sexually explicit, consentual sibling incest, romantic.
Epyllion Of Cocoa and Drumtalker: 1.3.239-- Sexually very explicit, bondage, toys.
Rhiannon: 1.1.29-- Romantic with sexual overtones.
Summer and Fall: 0.0.24-- Romantic with sexual overtones.
Legend of the Lunataur: 0.0.21-- Mythological, violence, rape.
Answer the Whirlwind: 0.0.18-- Mythological.
A Poetic Form: 0.4.17-- Two poems, actually-- rape and sexual overtones, respectively.
The Troth of Actaeon: 0.0.16-- Mythological, romantic, sexual overtones.
Dragon Unforgiven: 0.0.13-- Argumentative, Mythological
Familiar and Your Own: 0.0.13-- Romantic, first cousins, sexual overtones.
Furry Sonnet 130: 1.1.6-- Derivative, romantic, sexual overtones.
Immiscible: 0.1.2-- Abstract/Descriptive
Definition?: 0.1.2-- Abstract/Descriptive.
I see two trends-- one, my older stuff gets looked at less than the newer, and two, generally the more obnoxious, the more views.
P(orn)oetry
Posted 17 years agoAlright. Not that I'm a decent artist, but popular response to my "art" such as it is, has been very closely linked to how obscene it was. The more obscene, the more popular.
This is no great revelation for anybody publishing on FA, I'm sure. I'm just curious to know if it applies to poetry.
So if you have any ideas on kinks and obscene situations you might like to see versified, post here or note me. Note that personal preferences will dictate essentially heterosexual themes and preculde scat, cub, and bestiality.
This is no great revelation for anybody publishing on FA, I'm sure. I'm just curious to know if it applies to poetry.
So if you have any ideas on kinks and obscene situations you might like to see versified, post here or note me. Note that personal preferences will dictate essentially heterosexual themes and preculde scat, cub, and bestiality.
Furry Character Names
Posted 17 years agoOkay, so. If you're bored and would be so kind, list for me the names for furry characters, male and female in seperate lists, you can think of that aren't fursonas specifically, that you created or worked with.
Male:
Eddie
Karel
Marek
Vaclav (I have a thing for ethinically Czech furs)
Ouray
Tim
Phil
Lou
'Uncle' Mike
Alfred
Harley
Drumtalker
Spite (co developed in RP)
Eddie
Hodja (not mine-- turkish folkloric character)
John Brown (not mine-- the historical figure)
Female:
Rhiannon (not mine-- character from the Mabinogion)
Dajulie
Cocoa (real creative, I know)
Tlazoteotl (not mine-- an Aztec goddess)
Atropos (not mine-- a Greek goddess)
Vera
Julie
Irma
Dixie
Louise
Annie
If you're really bored, you could always ask the same question of the much larger list of people who watch you.
Male:
Eddie
Karel
Marek
Vaclav (I have a thing for ethinically Czech furs)
Ouray
Tim
Phil
Lou
'Uncle' Mike
Alfred
Harley
Drumtalker
Spite (co developed in RP)
Eddie
Hodja (not mine-- turkish folkloric character)
John Brown (not mine-- the historical figure)
Female:
Rhiannon (not mine-- character from the Mabinogion)
Dajulie
Cocoa (real creative, I know)
Tlazoteotl (not mine-- an Aztec goddess)
Atropos (not mine-- a Greek goddess)
Vera
Julie
Irma
Dixie
Louise
Annie
If you're really bored, you could always ask the same question of the much larger list of people who watch you.
Catalogue of Mediocrity
Posted 17 years agoI just wanted a more readily browsable catalogue of my stuff in case somebody wanted to look at poetry, or porn or something specific. Probably 60% of these items are mature or adult, and are properly marked in FA. At the bottom are the wincingly obnoxious (because of subjet matter, not my lack of skill, which is ubiquitous) works.
Drumtalker (Woolly Mammoth Shaman)
Drumtalker Speaks (Drawing)
All Sons of Old Gods, Die (Drawing)
Drumtalker stomping (Drawing)
Drumtalkers Song (Poetry)
Drumtalker vs the Kitsune (Drawing)
Mare Liberty (Drawing)
Three to end the war (Drawing)
Drumtalker Closeup (Drawing)
Testament of Drum Talker (Drawing)
John Brown, Invictus (Drawing)
Certain and Impossible (Drawing)
Cocoa (Chocolate Rabbit)
Cocoa at Easter (Drawing)
Coca and Louise (Drawing)
Cocoa in Meadow (Drawing)
Rhiannon (Mare-- SciFi)
Rhiannon and Prometheus (Fiction)
Rhiannon (Poetry)
Vera and Julie (Siamese Skunks-- circus)
Sisters Middle foot (Drawing)
Vera and Julie ala vargas (Drawing)
The Sisters (Drawing)
Lou (Leopard acrobat -- circus)
Lou, looking sultry (Drawing)
Lou, Circus Leopard (Drawing)
Other Poetry
Definition (Poetry)
Immiscible (Poetry)
Furry Sonnet 130 (Poetry)
Obnoxious furry limmericks (Poetry)
Summer and Fall: Seasons of the Hart (Poetry)
Familiar and your own, or strange and sweet (Poetry)
Dragon Unforgiven (Poetry)
Other Prose
Dont Stop Believin (Fiction)
Two Worlds Setting (World Creation)
A World Named ____ (Heterogenous Accretion) (World Creation)
The Mythical: Tafinline (World Creation)
Hodja the Fennec Sufi (Fiction)
Other Drawing
Roses Magic Sonogram (Drawing)
Vaclav the Rabbit (Drawing)
Ample Annie (Drawing)
The Black Virgin (Drawing)
Triops Imperator (Drawing/World Creation)
Hyena Ugly (Drawing)
Yule Tidings PG 13 (Drawing)
Jido (Drawing)
Irma (Transgressive Vixen), Everything Very Adult/Obnoxious
It wouldnt count (Drawing)
Ill be there for you (Drawing)
There for you pt 3 (Drawing)
Medical Breakthrough/Guide (Fiction)
Sibling Sonnet (Poetry)
Drumtalker & Cocoa, Very Adult/Obnoxious:
Frequently Asked Questions (Drawing)
Name the Kink (Drawing)
Rhiannon, Very Adult/Obnoxious
Omnomnom (Drawing)
Who would eat horse? (Drawing)
Other Drawing, Very Adult/Obnoxious
Happy Yule! (Drawing)
Drumtalker (Woolly Mammoth Shaman)
Drumtalker Speaks (Drawing)
All Sons of Old Gods, Die (Drawing)
Drumtalker stomping (Drawing)
Drumtalkers Song (Poetry)
Drumtalker vs the Kitsune (Drawing)
Mare Liberty (Drawing)
Three to end the war (Drawing)
Drumtalker Closeup (Drawing)
Testament of Drum Talker (Drawing)
John Brown, Invictus (Drawing)
Certain and Impossible (Drawing)
Cocoa (Chocolate Rabbit)
Cocoa at Easter (Drawing)
Coca and Louise (Drawing)
Cocoa in Meadow (Drawing)
Rhiannon (Mare-- SciFi)
Rhiannon and Prometheus (Fiction)
Rhiannon (Poetry)
Vera and Julie (Siamese Skunks-- circus)
Sisters Middle foot (Drawing)
Vera and Julie ala vargas (Drawing)
The Sisters (Drawing)
Lou (Leopard acrobat -- circus)
Lou, looking sultry (Drawing)
Lou, Circus Leopard (Drawing)
Other Poetry
Definition (Poetry)
Immiscible (Poetry)
Furry Sonnet 130 (Poetry)
Obnoxious furry limmericks (Poetry)
Summer and Fall: Seasons of the Hart (Poetry)
Familiar and your own, or strange and sweet (Poetry)
Dragon Unforgiven (Poetry)
Other Prose
Dont Stop Believin (Fiction)
Two Worlds Setting (World Creation)
A World Named ____ (Heterogenous Accretion) (World Creation)
The Mythical: Tafinline (World Creation)
Hodja the Fennec Sufi (Fiction)
Other Drawing
Roses Magic Sonogram (Drawing)
Vaclav the Rabbit (Drawing)
Ample Annie (Drawing)
The Black Virgin (Drawing)
Triops Imperator (Drawing/World Creation)
Hyena Ugly (Drawing)
Yule Tidings PG 13 (Drawing)
Jido (Drawing)
Irma (Transgressive Vixen), Everything Very Adult/Obnoxious
It wouldnt count (Drawing)
Ill be there for you (Drawing)
There for you pt 3 (Drawing)
Medical Breakthrough/Guide (Fiction)
Sibling Sonnet (Poetry)
Drumtalker & Cocoa, Very Adult/Obnoxious:
Frequently Asked Questions (Drawing)
Name the Kink (Drawing)
Rhiannon, Very Adult/Obnoxious
Omnomnom (Drawing)
Who would eat horse? (Drawing)
Other Drawing, Very Adult/Obnoxious
Happy Yule! (Drawing)
The Furthling Obnoxious Art Challenge!
Posted 17 years agoThis is the Furthling Obnoxious Art Challenge for April (I am a huge fan of frogs).
Female cane toad advising: "lick me." Boobs need not apply (not that I don't like them). For bonus points, she should look both trippy (possibly more color than in a real cane toad), hot, and I dunno. Somehow obviously australian?
Female cane toad advising: "lick me." Boobs need not apply (not that I don't like them). For bonus points, she should look both trippy (possibly more color than in a real cane toad), hot, and I dunno. Somehow obviously australian?
No Subject
Posted 17 years agoWell, my last journal entry was no less tedious than this, so I'm stealing this from Talbona. I guess it's a meme for: append 'in my pants' to the first 10 song titles that come up randomly in 'your playlist.' Had to do a combo of four of my favorite playlists (Rock, 80s Trash, Furry Tunes, and Spooky Fantasy), since I don't do monolithic playlists.
The Wheat in my pants. (Gladiator Soundtrack)
Crosstown traffic in my pants. (Hendrix)
Somebody in my pants. (Dee-lite)
Your Love in my pants (Outfield. 80s one-hit wonder.)
Wheel in the sky in my pants. (Journey)
Missionary Man in my pants. (Eurythmics)
More of that jazz in my pants (Queen)
Poison arrow in my pants. (ABC)
Rain Dogs in my pants (Tom Waits)
Le Grind in my pants. (Prince)
o.O
The Wheat in my pants. (Gladiator Soundtrack)
Crosstown traffic in my pants. (Hendrix)
Somebody in my pants. (Dee-lite)
Your Love in my pants (Outfield. 80s one-hit wonder.)
Wheel in the sky in my pants. (Journey)
Missionary Man in my pants. (Eurythmics)
More of that jazz in my pants (Queen)
Poison arrow in my pants. (ABC)
Rain Dogs in my pants (Tom Waits)
Le Grind in my pants. (Prince)
o.O
I need to be cool.
Posted 17 years agoAnd what I need to be cool, is to market myself cleverly, in the fandom.
I could market myself as somebody who's extremely opinionated. Ranting is suppoedly cool. I am, after all, opinionated.
"I'm all up in this biotch yo! ::pose::"
I could try and market myself as a brilliant cyber artist. Which I am, too.
"He turned away again, but this time, it was easy to see by the stillness of his body and twitch of tail, that he was still mentally looking over his shoulder at her."
Mebbe I should invent drama. I mean, I can precipitate it.
As when, after I civilly spoke out in an appropriate section of Furtopia against the danger to animals a permissive attitudes toward bestiality entails, the mods, who presumptively are pro-bestiality, not only deleted the entire thread but as a group fabricated all sorts of dire (but imaginary) ill intent on my part and subjected me to insults, disrespect, and scorn that would have been withering had it not been so feebleminded.
Maybe I should write some *bad* poetry. You know the stuff where one ejaculates one's emotional turmoil onto the page in unfettered quasi-english and then saves it for posterity (because you know, no generation before or since has actually felt lonely, confused, angry, betrayed, & c.)
I could badly draw some really exceptionally obscene pr0n. Apparently that got a lot of attention. Except I got nowhere to go except ... really repulsive and/or morally reprehensible obscenities.
I could organize an online by-post roleplay. That would be fun. Except I don't know who'd play, or if I'd want them to.
Maybe I'll go read something good. That's what I feel like doing anyway.
I could market myself as somebody who's extremely opinionated. Ranting is suppoedly cool. I am, after all, opinionated.
"I'm all up in this biotch yo! ::pose::"
I could try and market myself as a brilliant cyber artist. Which I am, too.
"He turned away again, but this time, it was easy to see by the stillness of his body and twitch of tail, that he was still mentally looking over his shoulder at her."
Mebbe I should invent drama. I mean, I can precipitate it.
As when, after I civilly spoke out in an appropriate section of Furtopia against the danger to animals a permissive attitudes toward bestiality entails, the mods, who presumptively are pro-bestiality, not only deleted the entire thread but as a group fabricated all sorts of dire (but imaginary) ill intent on my part and subjected me to insults, disrespect, and scorn that would have been withering had it not been so feebleminded.
Maybe I should write some *bad* poetry. You know the stuff where one ejaculates one's emotional turmoil onto the page in unfettered quasi-english and then saves it for posterity (because you know, no generation before or since has actually felt lonely, confused, angry, betrayed, & c.)
I could badly draw some really exceptionally obscene pr0n. Apparently that got a lot of attention. Except I got nowhere to go except ... really repulsive and/or morally reprehensible obscenities.
I could organize an online by-post roleplay. That would be fun. Except I don't know who'd play, or if I'd want them to.
Maybe I'll go read something good. That's what I feel like doing anyway.
Bamboo thingamabob & Great movies
Posted 18 years agoWell, hopeless copycat that I am, and after having thought about whether I could really get use out of it, I just now bought a Bamboo drawing pad thingy. It seems very promising, but will take a little adjustment before I'm using it intuitively.
Also, while I'm on the subject, if anyone out there has not see Strictly Ballroom or Whale Rider (which I saw back-to-back yesterday while recovering from this vile illness), or for that matter Amelie (which I also watched yesterday much later-- technically this morning-- for the first time), I highly, highly recommend them.
Also, while I'm on the subject, if anyone out there has not see Strictly Ballroom or Whale Rider (which I saw back-to-back yesterday while recovering from this vile illness), or for that matter Amelie (which I also watched yesterday much later-- technically this morning-- for the first time), I highly, highly recommend them.
ALSO STOLED IT
Posted 18 years ago~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ : Like (more is very liked)
o : Indifferent or circumstantial
- : Dislike (more is KEEP AWAY!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cub(----)
Footpaw(++)
Oral(++)
Anal(-)
Scat(---)
Watersports(o)
Blood(-)
Tentacles(o)
Bondage(++)
NC/Rape(-)
Vore(--)
Half-clothed(o)
Muscles(o)
Petting/Cuddling(++)
Pet(++)
Macro/Micro(o)
Inflation(-)
Fursuits(o)
Crossdressing/Girly Boys(o)
Super-muscle(-)
Food(-)
Transformation(-)
Lactation(++)
Hyper(--)
Toys(o)
... but I think there must be others
flye didn't list. At any rate, mine is better:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/682302/
M++ Ml- Fm++ T+ Ss+ Tr- B-- C-- I++ Sc+ P+ L+ R+ Do+ Ds+ Un- Ra- Vi- Or+ Sn-- K+ Vg+ Va+ Fe- Cn+ Ni+ An- Aa- Dc-- Ty+ Ri- Fd-- Ma-- Pe+ He- La+ Bl- Vo-- Mn- Vm-- S-- Le+ Bo+ Pl- Da--
+ : Like (more is very liked)
o : Indifferent or circumstantial
- : Dislike (more is KEEP AWAY!)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cub(----)
Footpaw(++)
Oral(++)
Anal(-)
Scat(---)
Watersports(o)
Blood(-)
Tentacles(o)
Bondage(++)
NC/Rape(-)
Vore(--)
Half-clothed(o)
Muscles(o)
Petting/Cuddling(++)
Pet(++)
Macro/Micro(o)
Inflation(-)
Fursuits(o)
Crossdressing/Girly Boys(o)
Super-muscle(-)
Food(-)
Transformation(-)
Lactation(++)
Hyper(--)
Toys(o)
... but I think there must be others
flye didn't list. At any rate, mine is better:http://www.furaffinity.net/view/682302/
M++ Ml- Fm++ T+ Ss+ Tr- B-- C-- I++ Sc+ P+ L+ R+ Do+ Ds+ Un- Ra- Vi- Or+ Sn-- K+ Vg+ Va+ Fe- Cn+ Ni+ An- Aa- Dc-- Ty+ Ri- Fd-- Ma-- Pe+ He- La+ Bl- Vo-- Mn- Vm-- S-- Le+ Bo+ Pl- Da--
Species List
Posted 18 years agoHere's my composite species list, in arbitrary order of what families (er, usually, genuses) are most common in the fandom:
1 Canids (Dog, Wolf, Jackal, Coyote)
2 Panthera (Tiger, Lion, Leopard)
3 Vulpines (Foxes)
4 Felis (Domestic Cat)
5 Lapines (Rabbits, Hares)
6 Mustelids (Ferrets, Otters)
8 Ursids (Bears)
9 Mephits (Skunks)
10 Equine (Horses)
11 Acinonyx (Cheetahs)
12 Macropods (Kangaroos)
13 Puma
14 Rodents (Mice, Rats, Squirrels)
15 Chiroptera (Bats)
16 Hyenas
This is derived from a couple different sources, both of which forced fairly similar category choices on respondants, so that people couldn't easily respond: "Oh yeah, I'm a Kiwi," or "a Llama" or whatever.
Don't complain if yer not on the list. It' just means yer sooooo cooool. ^_^
1 Canids (Dog, Wolf, Jackal, Coyote)
2 Panthera (Tiger, Lion, Leopard)
3 Vulpines (Foxes)
4 Felis (Domestic Cat)
5 Lapines (Rabbits, Hares)
6 Mustelids (Ferrets, Otters)
8 Ursids (Bears)
9 Mephits (Skunks)
10 Equine (Horses)
11 Acinonyx (Cheetahs)
12 Macropods (Kangaroos)
13 Puma
14 Rodents (Mice, Rats, Squirrels)
15 Chiroptera (Bats)
16 Hyenas
This is derived from a couple different sources, both of which forced fairly similar category choices on respondants, so that people couldn't easily respond: "Oh yeah, I'm a Kiwi," or "a Llama" or whatever.
Don't complain if yer not on the list. It' just means yer sooooo cooool. ^_^
D'awwwwwwh! Overload!
Posted 18 years agoSo, I was at a local "Half Price Books" store the other day, and I'm looking around, an in really short order, I come across two books that're utterly adorable, not to mention, patently furry. >.>
Consider Love, by Sandra Boynton:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0689878141
I picked it up for like, five bucks, and I adore it. It makes me want to be in love with somebody just to send it to them. Boynton is FREAKING BRILLIANT. I love her. But am unlikely to send her a copy of her own book.
Never Too Little To Love, by Jeanne Willis and Jan Fearnley:
http://www.amazon.com/Never-Little-.....ef=pd_bbs_sr_1
This one, I got even cheaper ($2), and it's also brilliantly cute. True love between a garlanded Giraffe lady and an industrious Mouse.
Consider Love, by Sandra Boynton:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0689878141
I picked it up for like, five bucks, and I adore it. It makes me want to be in love with somebody just to send it to them. Boynton is FREAKING BRILLIANT. I love her. But am unlikely to send her a copy of her own book.
Never Too Little To Love, by Jeanne Willis and Jan Fearnley:
http://www.amazon.com/Never-Little-.....ef=pd_bbs_sr_1
This one, I got even cheaper ($2), and it's also brilliantly cute. True love between a garlanded Giraffe lady and an industrious Mouse.
Art/Story Collaboration?
Posted 18 years agoSo, seriously, though. Does anybody collaborate?
I'm a heap of not-so-bad creativity just going to waste. Give me a melody, I'll write you a symphony.
Collaborative story writing/RP by post? Note perhaps? Picture for 1000 words? 1000 words for some lousy scribbling of mine?
I'm a heap of not-so-bad creativity just going to waste. Give me a melody, I'll write you a symphony.
Collaborative story writing/RP by post? Note perhaps? Picture for 1000 words? 1000 words for some lousy scribbling of mine?
My most popular FA stuff? >_<
Posted 18 years agoI thought it might be interesting to look at which works of mine have been popular and unpopular in the FA community so far.
So, I came up with a(n arbitary) rating scheme based on favorites and views, and I looked at three categories, drawings, fiction, and poetry.
Drawings, more popular than average (nearly all of these are rated for mature, obnoxious, and weak artistically, too. Make sure to have your eye-bleach handy):
Score 20.1 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/676078/
Score 9.0 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/675518/
Score 6.2 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/655643/
Score 6.2 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/715418/
Score 4.2 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/717368/
Score 4.0 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/655665/
Score 2.6 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/947654/
The two out of four more-popular-than-average pieces of fiction:
Score 4.3 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/689307/
Score 2.0 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/709492/
And the only more-popular-than-average poem:
Score 6.0: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/701469/
I guess what this means is consentual sibling encounters (the most popular three drawings, and the major subject of the poem and more popular fiction), as well as perhaps anthro mares (which makes up the remainder of my most popular items), are what's best in my work, somehow. >_<
So, I came up with a(n arbitary) rating scheme based on favorites and views, and I looked at three categories, drawings, fiction, and poetry.
Drawings, more popular than average (nearly all of these are rated for mature, obnoxious, and weak artistically, too. Make sure to have your eye-bleach handy):
Score 20.1 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/676078/
Score 9.0 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/675518/
Score 6.2 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/655643/
Score 6.2 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/715418/
Score 4.2 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/717368/
Score 4.0 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/655665/
Score 2.6 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/947654/
The two out of four more-popular-than-average pieces of fiction:
Score 4.3 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/689307/
Score 2.0 : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/709492/
And the only more-popular-than-average poem:
Score 6.0: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/701469/
I guess what this means is consentual sibling encounters (the most popular three drawings, and the major subject of the poem and more popular fiction), as well as perhaps anthro mares (which makes up the remainder of my most popular items), are what's best in my work, somehow. >_<
No Subject
Posted 18 years agoIt's my birthday friday. I'll be turning a prime number. And I've not gotten laid in a decade either (that's mostly by choice, mind you). If you can do the math and are female, I will consider you for the priviledge of going to bed with me friday.
No Subject
Posted 18 years agoWah! Not that my pr0nz is good, but geez, come on. I draw girl pr0nz, or girl-on-girl pr0nz-- and yes, freehand, my lack of skills should be evident-- and nobody even looks twice at it.
Is penis obligatory? I'm just not that interested.
Is completely bizarreo obligatory?
I know it's not skill that's the key factor. Some silly-ass things I've scribbled and colored have actually gotten people's attention.
Is it how you tag it?
>_<
I don't get it.
Why, oh lord, can't I be universally revered for my awfully drawn furry porn? Is there even a reason to go on living?!?eleventy!!
Is penis obligatory? I'm just not that interested.
Is completely bizarreo obligatory?
I know it's not skill that's the key factor. Some silly-ass things I've scribbled and colored have actually gotten people's attention.
Is it how you tag it?
>_<
I don't get it.
Why, oh lord, can't I be universally revered for my awfully drawn furry porn? Is there even a reason to go on living?!?eleventy!!
The Golden Compass!
Posted 18 years agoIt's Out! I saw it! Oh, oh, oh! ::hugs self with joy::
But yeah, if you want my review, there's a nice prominent link to my livejoural on my main page-- probably just to your left.
My third major furry character, and best self-identified (e.g., Fursona), was Marek Samek, was a Czech Polarbear and Iron Foundry worker, developed in spontaneous RP, several months after I first read the Golden Compass, and nobody'd heard of it. I think there were whole days I went around saying "Panzerbjorn," when I was reading it, too.
But yeah, if you want my review, there's a nice prominent link to my livejoural on my main page-- probably just to your left.
My third major furry character, and best self-identified (e.g., Fursona), was Marek Samek, was a Czech Polarbear and Iron Foundry worker, developed in spontaneous RP, several months after I first read the Golden Compass, and nobody'd heard of it. I think there were whole days I went around saying "Panzerbjorn," when I was reading it, too.
Art = female
Posted 18 years agoAs it turns out (and I had no idea until recently in at least two cases), all the people I'm watching are female. I think. At least the VAST, vast majority are.
What's up with that? Girls shouldn't be allowed to draw better than me. Or. Something.
Hmph. I can still, um. Open jars. Yeah, biotch. Wher u jarez at, yo?
What's up with that? Girls shouldn't be allowed to draw better than me. Or. Something.
Hmph. I can still, um. Open jars. Yeah, biotch. Wher u jarez at, yo?
Furthling's Poetry Review
Posted 18 years agoI've decided somebody needs to do poetry review on FA. I just don't like most of what I read out here, and naturally, I think all poetry should be more like mine, which means, I'm a tyrant, and additionally, am humiliated by the shortcomings of my own work that I don't even see.
Still, somebody's got to do it. So without further ado:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/921063/
God is not a Cock:
Makes a gesture at having form, but then turns around and does one better with pretty natural sounding speech. It's a typical lecture on what many don't especially like about the efforts of the fandom. I mainly agree with it, but it's couched in a bad metaphor-- and I say this speaking as an atheist-- since it essentially denies that sex parts "are god," whereas actually treating them that way would be a big improvement.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/920955/
Your Smiling Face
No rhyme, but a decent effort at least at dividing lines into coherent units-- usually. Does a fair job of saying what it wants to, though the 'smiling face' bit seems sorta trite to me. I dunno, maybe that's exactly what works about it. But at the same time, it seems a bit lazy. Still, ultimately, effective, as far as poems-as-social-acts go.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/920652/
The Good Still Shows
Not exactly a profound insight. There's an intuitive effort at rythm per line, and it almost becomes iambic hexameter. The author didn't take the time to exactly spell everything right (but hey, I can either forgive that or be a hypocrite), either. Still, for all that it's sort of a badly arranged hallmark sentiment, it uses a pair of interesting images: one is visual and tactile, and suggests heaviness and depression, the other, elusive and auditory, suggests the pleasures of life. And that, I think, is a great contrast.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/920179/
Faithful's Sin
A fair showing in terms of having easy, regular form. Sort of a lecturing/forgiving tone. Seems fairly popular to lecture poetically-- I guess people figure it's better than plainly saying what they think and disagree about. Presumably because people can't as easily make a clear response of the same sort. I don't know that I approve, and the subject matter doesn't thrill me, not least of which because it perpetuates myths about hell that I think are pretty obnoxious. But, still, does what the author wants it to, I think.
Mute
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919898/
A really interesting use of repetition in several ways. Goes over in the mind's eye better than it sounds aloud, really, and definitely creates atmosphere, or whatever. Not exactly cheery or entertaining, but ends in a way that makes reading it worthwhile, I thought.
A Pondering Fox
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919737/
A charming, easy use of rythm and rhyme. A sense of futility that makes me say aloud: "... and?" I guess I just don't think it's enough to make a dejected observation. Shuffling criticisms in poetic form, because people aren't going to argue back to a poem. I agree with the sentiment, I guess. I'm not exactly left inspired, though.
The Fire Inside
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919733/
Like many casual haikus, the best description of this one is:
Twice five syllables
plus seven, can't say much but,
that's Haiku for you.
It's never seemed fair to me to complain about something being cliche-- after all, the most moving ideas are old and familiar as dirt. But I guess, I think you can at least choose carefully what you let the eye rest on. Fire, as a grand metaphor without really creating a full vision (hard to do in 17 syllables), doesn't exactly fascinate.
Nice use of the form, though, though "ever so" could probably go.
Silence
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919644/
Ideas segmented out fairly neatly (or at least faithfully) into lines, and those that're prsented do an okay job of drawing out the imagination a bit. Also refreshing after several poems that seem to be lecturing-- this one points the mind towards an idea for fresh consideration. There's a lack of formality and a certain clunk factor to it, though, that keeps me from really loving it.
I Celebrate the Underdog
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919460/
I really liked this one. It ambles along, it's happy-go-lucky, it splits ideas out well, and it pivots on a number of really great images. Plus of all the "lecture" poems, it's actually on a topic I like hearing lectured on. Great poem.
Glass
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919281/
Don't entirely get this one. It throws us an odd image (something about the author's past on "the glass,"), out there, but doesn't do much with it. I picture... the meat counter at a grocery store, or something. Maybe that's what the author intends, and they're just a subtle genius.
I don't know. Didn't do much for me.
Still, somebody's got to do it. So without further ado:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/921063/
God is not a Cock:
Makes a gesture at having form, but then turns around and does one better with pretty natural sounding speech. It's a typical lecture on what many don't especially like about the efforts of the fandom. I mainly agree with it, but it's couched in a bad metaphor-- and I say this speaking as an atheist-- since it essentially denies that sex parts "are god," whereas actually treating them that way would be a big improvement.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/920955/
Your Smiling Face
No rhyme, but a decent effort at least at dividing lines into coherent units-- usually. Does a fair job of saying what it wants to, though the 'smiling face' bit seems sorta trite to me. I dunno, maybe that's exactly what works about it. But at the same time, it seems a bit lazy. Still, ultimately, effective, as far as poems-as-social-acts go.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/920652/
The Good Still Shows
Not exactly a profound insight. There's an intuitive effort at rythm per line, and it almost becomes iambic hexameter. The author didn't take the time to exactly spell everything right (but hey, I can either forgive that or be a hypocrite), either. Still, for all that it's sort of a badly arranged hallmark sentiment, it uses a pair of interesting images: one is visual and tactile, and suggests heaviness and depression, the other, elusive and auditory, suggests the pleasures of life. And that, I think, is a great contrast.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/920179/
Faithful's Sin
A fair showing in terms of having easy, regular form. Sort of a lecturing/forgiving tone. Seems fairly popular to lecture poetically-- I guess people figure it's better than plainly saying what they think and disagree about. Presumably because people can't as easily make a clear response of the same sort. I don't know that I approve, and the subject matter doesn't thrill me, not least of which because it perpetuates myths about hell that I think are pretty obnoxious. But, still, does what the author wants it to, I think.
Mute
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919898/
A really interesting use of repetition in several ways. Goes over in the mind's eye better than it sounds aloud, really, and definitely creates atmosphere, or whatever. Not exactly cheery or entertaining, but ends in a way that makes reading it worthwhile, I thought.
A Pondering Fox
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919737/
A charming, easy use of rythm and rhyme. A sense of futility that makes me say aloud: "... and?" I guess I just don't think it's enough to make a dejected observation. Shuffling criticisms in poetic form, because people aren't going to argue back to a poem. I agree with the sentiment, I guess. I'm not exactly left inspired, though.
The Fire Inside
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919733/
Like many casual haikus, the best description of this one is:
Twice five syllables
plus seven, can't say much but,
that's Haiku for you.
It's never seemed fair to me to complain about something being cliche-- after all, the most moving ideas are old and familiar as dirt. But I guess, I think you can at least choose carefully what you let the eye rest on. Fire, as a grand metaphor without really creating a full vision (hard to do in 17 syllables), doesn't exactly fascinate.
Nice use of the form, though, though "ever so" could probably go.
Silence
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919644/
Ideas segmented out fairly neatly (or at least faithfully) into lines, and those that're prsented do an okay job of drawing out the imagination a bit. Also refreshing after several poems that seem to be lecturing-- this one points the mind towards an idea for fresh consideration. There's a lack of formality and a certain clunk factor to it, though, that keeps me from really loving it.
I Celebrate the Underdog
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919460/
I really liked this one. It ambles along, it's happy-go-lucky, it splits ideas out well, and it pivots on a number of really great images. Plus of all the "lecture" poems, it's actually on a topic I like hearing lectured on. Great poem.
Glass
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/919281/
Don't entirely get this one. It throws us an odd image (something about the author's past on "the glass,"), out there, but doesn't do much with it. I picture... the meat counter at a grocery store, or something. Maybe that's what the author intends, and they're just a subtle genius.
I don't know. Didn't do much for me.
By another name
Posted 18 years agoWe "Atheists" have trouble with the term, and inevitably somebody like Dawkins comes along and invents a term like "brights," (freethinkers, rationalists), that may not be as inaccurate as atheist or agnostic, but certainly aren't any more useful for identifying ourselves or reassuring people who've been terrorized by silly superstitions that there're plenty of sane, ordinary people who don't put up with that crap.
I've often felt it was meaningful to draw attention to the lack of religion among animals; for them, what's worth noticing is the things that come to them directly from the senses. (This is not to deny the function of the imagination-- which is perhaps comparable to other senses, but special to humans like sonar to bats and dolphins.)
In anthropomorphizing a stance on the {thing religions normally purport to constellate and set in stone}, I get closer to the stance I expect of an ordinary human: to hold everything sacred; everything that comes before the senses, or before the mind. Even other people's religions-- certainly churches and church ritual are all magnificent, strange, even frightening things, and I do feel some awe of the like.
Not so much of theology and enforcement of social norms relating to religion, though. That's where I come up short, though. I usually recognize, when I see 'em, things that aren't really ... a-thing-you-could-hold-sacred usefully, but I'm not sure I can define it.
It has something to do with whether the thing (like a belief, practice, or argument), is really just the result of so much friction between arbitrary, situational, programmatic nonsense. It's like, the overhead in thinking. Somehow religious institutions inevitably magnify the overhead in thinking to the point that it predominates. Probably because it tries to be a singular, universally applicable message to everyone. Obviously that doesn't work.
At the same time, it's not like, if you were an animal (and I don't feel we have much distinction from them in terms of what-things-we-might-hold-sacred, aside from the imagination-as-a-sense business), you would need to have the sacred tailored to your ultra-unique, individual tastes.
You also just wouldn't raise one concept far above another, in terms of experiencing the sacred.
I don't know. The idea's incomplete. I want to hammer out a term that means "everything's sacred," probably from "pan" and something.
If an animal's point of view was occam's razor, what would be the term for it's kind of outlook on the sacred?
I've often felt it was meaningful to draw attention to the lack of religion among animals; for them, what's worth noticing is the things that come to them directly from the senses. (This is not to deny the function of the imagination-- which is perhaps comparable to other senses, but special to humans like sonar to bats and dolphins.)
In anthropomorphizing a stance on the {thing religions normally purport to constellate and set in stone}, I get closer to the stance I expect of an ordinary human: to hold everything sacred; everything that comes before the senses, or before the mind. Even other people's religions-- certainly churches and church ritual are all magnificent, strange, even frightening things, and I do feel some awe of the like.
Not so much of theology and enforcement of social norms relating to religion, though. That's where I come up short, though. I usually recognize, when I see 'em, things that aren't really ... a-thing-you-could-hold-sacred usefully, but I'm not sure I can define it.
It has something to do with whether the thing (like a belief, practice, or argument), is really just the result of so much friction between arbitrary, situational, programmatic nonsense. It's like, the overhead in thinking. Somehow religious institutions inevitably magnify the overhead in thinking to the point that it predominates. Probably because it tries to be a singular, universally applicable message to everyone. Obviously that doesn't work.
At the same time, it's not like, if you were an animal (and I don't feel we have much distinction from them in terms of what-things-we-might-hold-sacred, aside from the imagination-as-a-sense business), you would need to have the sacred tailored to your ultra-unique, individual tastes.
You also just wouldn't raise one concept far above another, in terms of experiencing the sacred.
I don't know. The idea's incomplete. I want to hammer out a term that means "everything's sacred," probably from "pan" and something.
If an animal's point of view was occam's razor, what would be the term for it's kind of outlook on the sacred?
Fursonality Test.
Posted 18 years agoLook, right over there. It's linkness to my Fursonality test. You should take it, take it, take it, and respond with what it says about you. I can interpret if it's ambiguous still. It's based on the Jungian Meyers-Briggs personality test, and some careful thinking about the generic personality of various popular animals.
U no u want 2.
U no u want 2.
Thank you, Wacky Furries, Everywhere.
Posted 18 years agoAs somebody on the fringe for a long time, and especially as somebody that's been enjoying the creativity of FA for a few months now, I want to say that despite all the penchant for self-loathing and melodrama and all the other silly crap:
Thank you, furry community. Thank you for: being sane. This isn't even an effort to damn the rest of humanity by faint praise. I really mean it.
Long have I been arguing for the importance of imagination, in all sorts of unlikely places-- famously once for example, in defense of religion (I'm an atheist) on the Yiffstar forums.
And furthermore, my alliegance has always been to everyone who was indifferent to the need to prove anything about one's own normalcy, ability to fit in, make others comfortable, diminish themselves without really letting go of anything or making room for anything good, promote themselves without ever becoming themselves, in deference to either cliche or persuit of empty uniqueness.
Let me put it this way: furry isn't po-mo, and it's not empty classicism, so it's an automatic win. Everything here, even the clumsiest and most humilitating (and plenty of my stuff is that), is superb. Even all the silly boners. And certainly all the subtleties-- I'm an utter philistine, and yet, I have so many experiences with stuff on FA that're satisfying and layered, I'd rather have the fandom than TV. (Actually, I just don't like TV).
Here's to the wild animals, and the tame, everywhere, that constitute our improbable menagerie, geniuses every one. I've tried to praise you-all elsewhere in poetry, but it wasn't very good, and I'm pretty tired now, and mostly babbling.
Thank you, furry community. Thank you for: being sane. This isn't even an effort to damn the rest of humanity by faint praise. I really mean it.
Long have I been arguing for the importance of imagination, in all sorts of unlikely places-- famously once for example, in defense of religion (I'm an atheist) on the Yiffstar forums.
And furthermore, my alliegance has always been to everyone who was indifferent to the need to prove anything about one's own normalcy, ability to fit in, make others comfortable, diminish themselves without really letting go of anything or making room for anything good, promote themselves without ever becoming themselves, in deference to either cliche or persuit of empty uniqueness.
Let me put it this way: furry isn't po-mo, and it's not empty classicism, so it's an automatic win. Everything here, even the clumsiest and most humilitating (and plenty of my stuff is that), is superb. Even all the silly boners. And certainly all the subtleties-- I'm an utter philistine, and yet, I have so many experiences with stuff on FA that're satisfying and layered, I'd rather have the fandom than TV. (Actually, I just don't like TV).
Here's to the wild animals, and the tame, everywhere, that constitute our improbable menagerie, geniuses every one. I've tried to praise you-all elsewhere in poetry, but it wasn't very good, and I'm pretty tired now, and mostly babbling.
