I've been gone from the furry genre a long time.
After a long time of focussing exclusively on superheroes and comic strips, I found myself in a rut and needing a break.
10 years ago when I first got into the internet in general, and online art in particular, the whole furry thing was the first thing outside of superheroes that I stumbled across.
I liked it a lot until the drama and in-fighting and stigma beset it.
I dig it, as I grew up on Bugs and Mickey and Woody and Yogi. That's still the main reason I dig it.

But, I've decided to start fresh. And, I feel that if I am to move forward, a sizeable chunk of the past must be left behind.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not completely abandoning my older characters, but I don't really want to go back to the headspace I was in when I was making them.

You can find me at http://www.furaffinity.net/user/scarr/

So, you'll see the occasional appearance of my older furs like Tequila and Dodgeball, and maybe a few others, but I definitely have to go in a new direction if I am to get back into this.
I'll be culling my old stuff from here and it'll go up on the website I'm making by X-MessTime.

If you were watching me, feel free to re-watch. I will be filling my own watchlist slowly, hopefully with artists I can commune and collab with. I have a lot to learn (like this OC thing? What's that about?)

So, Hi to old friends, Hi to new friends and may all of you continue to rock.

-Johnny/Johann/Jack

Okay, so I'm 4 hours late due to technical problems, and being invited out to see AVP:Requiem. (cool flick, btw.)

Anywho, Merry Holidays of Relevance and all that pc jazz.
This bbw Mrs. Claus was sparked by Todd MacFarlane.
Well, it's like this:
Ol' Toddy M puts out kick-ass toys. (I like 'em better than Spawn, at any rate), but I was kinda honked off by his Twisted X-Mas line.
Oh, they were fine toys and all, but, well...
Okay, the icons of the holiday,: Santa, Rudolph, Jack Frost, Mrs. Claus, The elves, and I think I saw Frosty in there.
Each one is a horrendous murderous monster, right?
They come in clamshell packaging with a sweet cartoon mugshot of what the 'normal' versions look like. Inside the packs, though are the evil versions.
Frosty's a deranged snowcreature with multiple pointy stick limbs. Jack Frost looks even meaner.
Rudolph's a mutant deer man with a huge maw and his reins frankly look like fetish gear.
The elves are a trio of hunched, blade-weilding psychos and the Fat Man himself is a grizzled, gas mask wearing nutjob with Freddy Kreuger's claws on BOTH hands.
This is what irks me... Mrs. Claus?
Is she a gnarled sea hag in red and white garb? No.
A demented witch casting evil holiday spells? No.
Is she even a withered granny with an army of carnivorous gingerbread men? Hell no.
Apparently, "Monster" Mrs. Claus is an scrawny stripper grinding on a candy cane pole! That's what makes her "twisted"?
Whatever.
Mind you, what spawned this is not the absence of the EVIL in Mrs. C, so much as the absence of, well, BODY.
Mrs. Claus, good or "twisted" is not an anorexic, 19 year old sex worker in MY mind, so, I made my own Mrs. Claus. Not so much "twisted" or evil, but what I would make of her if it were up to me to re-imagine her.

She's a partially immortal (you get that when you marry Santa) kitchen-witch with a love of the aforementioned gingerbread cookies, semi-gothy, fetishy fashions and a penchant for getting into trouble when St. Nick's not around (which is surprisingly often, considering how much prep is involved with delivering gifts to the whole world in one night.)
I imagine Mrs. Claus (ne' Zaria Holly) to run around the world with her own elven assistants, solvin' mysteries and fighting Jack Frost, Malcolm Scrooge (Ebeneezer's Great Great Grandson) and even Santa's ex wife, Marian, the First Mrs. Claus.
Using her magicks and her surprising naughtyness to win the day.

But then, I get a little twisted around Christmas myself. Knowing me, I will start a comic about her.
(Another log on the fire of my brain, I guess.)

Whoa!
I don't know what started the whole "Can't enjoy sandwich" deal, but rock on!
I opened my 'favorite artists' page and see not 1, 2, or even 3, but FOUR pics of different characters in the same pose, and at first, i was a bit scared.
(Okay, really scared.)
when I realized what it was, i couldn't stop laughing. That cheered me up on what was otherwise a down day.

Thanks you guys.

I'm not here everyday.
Hell, i'm not here every MONTH, but it seems that every once in a blue moon, I check back here and there seems to be some drama.
Well, i haven't seen the cub thingees everyones got sand in their vaginas about, and I don't wanna.
I don't even have 2 whole cents to contribute to the issue at hand, but I will say this:
No matter what it's about, it all comes down to divisiveness, subculture elitism and attention seeking.

Please. Stop. It's the internet. no one REALLY cares.
Whatever the pictures or stories or whatever are that has everyones panties in a bunch, no one is really losing sleep over it one way or another. You don't turn off your computer and sit on the edge of the bed, sweating and ringing your hands about it til you log back in the next day. Let it go.
Those who are leaving, please, leave without fanfare. I am sure your arts are spectacular, but we will all continue to breathe without them. Those who are staying. Stay. Enjoy. Railing at those leaving in TYPE, over the vast expanse of the net isn't going to change things, shame them, or otherwise impact their lives for longer than the 3 minutes it'll take for them (the mature ones, anyway) to read your comments, get slightly offended, then get over it as if nothing happened.
Right or wrong, left or right, stay or go, nobody's opinions, insults, fetishes or moral high horses here means anything in the real world unless you're going to pull a "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back". And I don't think any of us "Starvin' Artists" 'round here have the money for that many plane tickets.

Please. Let it go and move on.

Going thru my old pictures, I realized that March is the month o so long ago in 2000 or so that I created Tequila. I think it was the 15th of March.
So, I decided to post (and in some cases REpost as many Tequila pics as I have. I have a few more that need scanning. Hope you enjoy

Well, I am now on vacation for 2 weeks. I have time on my hands and almost no inspiration, so for the next little bit, I am accepting A FEW art trades and creating A FEW gift arts in an effort to make new online acquaintences.
Everythings gonna be in black & white to save time and effort. I plan to (hopefully) make a lot of stuff.

Back on FA!
My old account, Ionyx, seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
I lost a few of those pics forever, but it's my fault for not backing them up.
Won't make the same mistake again.

So, hello again, my furry friends!