Just a few days ago I started feeling goosebump sensations on the left side of my crown, down my left temple, left cheek to the left corner of my mouth. I also had a minor headache yesterday morning at about 8. Being possible symptoms of several life-threatening brain ailments (stroke, brain tumor, embolism, just to name a few), I called my GP's office for a professional opinion and they told me to go to the ER, so I did.

Fortunately, it was nothing serious.

They did a cognitive test on me and told me there was absolutely nothing wrong with my cognition. They also ran a CT scan on me and it came up clear as crystal, perfectly healthy.

Apparently what I experienced is something called 'transient paresthesia,' which is just a fancy way of saying my sensory scalp nerves are acting up. The headache was likely entirely unrelated, and I don't really need to worry unless I start feeling numbness, having slurred speech, trouble walking, etcetera.

Also made a new friend in one of the nurses! Turns out she's big into the Star Wars films, and her daughter's an avid gamer. As a matter of fact she even said she likes playing games like Minecraft, but had never played any Star Wars games before. So I recommended Jedi Fallen Order to her, and gave her my Xbox Gamertag on the way back out of the hospital.

So... Probably the best trip to the ER I've ever taken, actually. Nothing's actually wrong with me and I potentially made a new gamer friend.

Am I missing something? I just tried to favorite art from an artist I watch, have been watching for a long time, (yet have never even interacted with), only to find out they have blocked me. This is now roughly the 4th time this has happened. Why? For what reason? Do I smell or something? Otherwise, I can't think of any legitimate reason for these people to block me.

I began DMing a new NSFW D&D 5e Homebrew Campaign on Sunday, May 2nd, 2021. After hearing Pat Benetar's Invincible, the lyrics of which suited my story eerily well, it made me imagine an 80s style Saturday morning cartoon intro. So I had it commissioned. Specifically, I put out an ad on the FA forums, which was subsequently answered by the talented and gracious .

The finished product was sent to me the day of the session, about an hour before it was to begin. I streamed it for my players, who all loved it quite a lot, as did I of course. The first session went extremely well too, as far as I'm aware all my players loved it and had a lot of fun.~

I wanted to upload the video to FA, but FA for some reason won't support videos, so I'll link to the YouTube upload here and then post campaign lore for context here. Those of you who are in the campaign or perhaps wish to join it later on if a player slot becomes available, please avoid reading the lore information below the link, as it contains major campaign spoilers. (If I catch you meta gaming I'll rap your knuckles with a ruler. NO CHEATING IN MY CLASSROOM.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdNozLCf3jE

Credit to the artist:
⦁ Website: https://needanartist.online/
⦁ DeviantArt Gallery: https://www.deviantart.com/commissionsnow/gallery

World Name: Hyrellos.

The cast of player characters:
⦁ Menepthah: Anubian Jackal/Dragon hybrid, Shadow Sorcerer. Played by

⦁ Aamus: Hynde (deer folk) Path of Wild Magic Barbarian. Played by

⦁ Darius: Dragonborn/Orc Hybrid, Order of the Lycan Blood Hunter. Played by

⦁ Undri: Tabaxi Fighter/Rogue. Played by

⦁ Titus Moonfang: Simic Hybrid (Tabaxi + Fox) Gloomstalker Ranger. Played by

⦁ Nova: Vulpin (Fox Beastfolk) Hunter Ranger. Played by

It's a noble dark fantasy setting, with the current date being set 173 years after an event called The Shadowfall.

Some lore for a bit of context:

⦁ The Shadowfall: All the stars went out in the night sky, the moon turned red and dimmed significantly, before reverting to a dull, pale blue. The dead rise after sundown only to be burned by the sunrise and then reform in their graves, tombs, and crypts. Monsters, aberrations, and such also appear during the night. And even the sunlight seems dimmer during the day.

⦁ Gods
⦁ All-Mother: Creator Goddess and goddess of time, depicted as the world resting in two gentle, feminine hands cupped together, also her sigil.

⦁ Gretham: Neutral Good god of the earth, stone, fertile land/soil, the harvest. Depicted as an old humanoid wizard man made of stone with a long beard of vines and a bald head with a crown of assorted flowers. Sigil is that of a healthy tree shadowed by a mountain.

⦁ Merethi: Chaotic Good goddess of love, joy, marriage, beauty, free spirits, festivals, good luck, mirth, and whimsy. Depicted as a humanoid woman in a bridal gown made of white roses, face shrouded by a veil. Sigil is that of a marital band adorned with a rose-shaped ruby.

⦁ Hydrusa: Neutral goddess of the seas, water, and rain. Depicted as a water genasi. Sigil is that of a flowing river.

⦁ Fulminos: Lawful Good god of the sky, thunder, lightning, protection, and justice. Depicted as an elderly goliath wizard with a beard made of clouds and wielding a staff made entirely of lightning. Sigil is a lightning bolt.

⦁ Eruditia: Lawful Good goddess of wisdom, knowledge, rituals, language, and magic. Depicted as a female winged high elf wielding a shepherd's crook and holding an open book. Sigil is that of a closed book with a humanoid Vitruvian man on the cover.

⦁ Anti-Mother: Neutral Evil creator goddess and goddess of death, decay, and undeath. Depicted by/represented as a dead tree.

⦁ Thagrem: Chaotic Evil god of destruction, war, anger, and violence. Depicted as a male fire giant made of obsidian with burning coals for eyes, a beard made of smoke, and hair made of fire. Sigil is a spiked hammer.

⦁ Remethi: Neutral Evil goddess of hatred, misery, ugliness, oppression, funerals, bad luck, depression, and sorrow. Depicted as a bitter old half-orc crone with a gnarled cane.

⦁ Sydrusha: Chaotic Evil goddess of fire. Depicted as a fire genasi. Sigil is a single mote of flame, like that of a candle.

⦁ Sofmonil: Neutral Evil god of the void, darkness, silence, injustice, and the below ground. Depicted as a beholder. Sigil is a stencil beholder.

⦁ Utiredai: Lawful Evil goddess of trickery, lies, deceit, pacts, deals, gambling, and ignorance. Depicted as a changeling fortuneteller. Sigil is that of hands held up near to a crystal ball with a thorny vine at the center.

⦁ All-Mother despised the darkness in her, and cut it out of her, inadvertently creating the Anti-Mother. Upon creating Hyrellos, she progenated five children and gave them dominion over various parts of creation. Fearing what the Anti-Mother may do, she created the Starwall around the world, filling the night sky with stars, though they weren't visible during the day thanks to the biggest and brightest star, the sun.

⦁ Anti-Mother made her move and corrupted the Starwall with the help of her own progenated children, causing the Shadowfall, during which she and her children populated Hyrellos with their own dark creations.

⦁ The Magi Order begins trying to study the event, but a growing number of people being radicalized by an unseen source/person begin to blame the mages for The Shadowfall.

⦁ The individual responsible for the unrest is Akuma Aramitama, a Fallen Aasimar woman who took sides with the Anti-Mother. The Anti-Mother sent her down to Hyrellos to set about wiping out mages because magic is actually the light that could ultimately lift The Shadowfall.

⦁ The Lightbringer Empire is formed, promising law, order, and safety. They begin to arrest and persecute the mages. Ultimately, they raid the Magi Temple and slay all the mages, save for a handful that escape and go into hiding.

⦁ Menepthah is an acolyte of the Magi Order, and is a primary subject of prejudice as the Shadowfall had an adverse effect on his magical abilities. To protect him, his mentor placed him under the effects of the Sequester spell.

⦁ He awoke two years prior to the year 173 ASF (After Shadowfall), only to find the Lightbringers had built their capital around his Order's temple, which itself had been repurposed as their palace. Fearing for his life, Menepthah fled his old home and remained on the lamb until joining a halfling merchant caravan.

⦁ The party first meets upon joining the caravan, desperate to flee the oppression of the Empire by seeking Asylum in the elven nation of Fairhaven, guarded against invading forces and the terrors of the night by a magical barrier known as the Celestial Curtain.

⦁ The caravan is ambushed by the forces of an Imperial Magi Hunter named Kallista and everyone is taken, hostage. Kallista threatens everyone with summary execution if they don't turn the mages among them over. Fearing there is no other choice, the party flees.

⦁ Now fugitives from the Empire, they must stick together to survive in a world that wishes to persecute them during the day and kill them during the night.

On Jan. 6th, armed insurrectionists attacked the US Capitol. MAGA Trump Supporters wearing Trump hats, waving Trump flags, it was not 'a peaceful protest' or 'Antifa trying to make Trumpers look bad.' It was Trumpers, they're on camera. Multiple infamous Trump supporters like 'The Qanon Shaman' have been identified. Bombs have been found inside the Capitol. People are dead. It was a terrorist attack incited by Trump, there is no other way you can spin it without looking like a tinfoil-hat wearing Alex Jones caricature on MAD TV.

The First Amendment states that the government cannot arrest you over your opinion. Private corporations with public platforms don't have to host you or your bullshit. That right is in-fact being protected under the first amendment. Refer to this.

If you're upset about the FA announcement about the Capitol Riot and want to leave because 'communism' or 'Marxism' or 'socialism' or whatever other bloody 'ism' that is the devil because it's not the utterly flawless American dream of CAPITALISM! *insert heroic eagle gif here*, then by all means do not let the door hit you in the tail on the way out. Your rights aren't being violated if Twitter gives you the boot because they think you're a violence-inciting shitheel, and this community of tolerant and inclusive people is not the right place for you.

Stop making excuses for these goddamned insurrectionists and terrorists. They were not there peacefully, they went there with the intent to murder both Pelosi and Pence, and one GOP Trumper congresswoman was live-tweeting Pelosi's location for that reason. Trump incited this, he should be removed, period. Clinton was impeached for a blowjob, if inciting a goddamned insurrection isn't grounds for removal, we do not have a democracy, we do not have an America. People fucking died. A woman was shot. An officer was murdered. Another officer was nearly crushed and trampled by the mob.

This one was surrounded and beaten.

Trump supporters, if you still support him at this point, if you still defend him or the rioters at this point, you are traitors to this country. You will forever be remembered as enablers, insurrectionists, and seditionists. You will not be forgiven. How much of a goddamn loser do you have to be to look up to a racist, rapist, fake billionaire like Trump as your beacon of hope? How many times are you going to keep parroting his blatant lies, in the hope of saying it will make it true. Stop. Get some help. You are no more a patriot than the Confederates, who went to war against their own country because they wanted to keep slaves.

You're on the wrong side of history. Know that at this point, I no longer have any tolerance for it.

May God have mercy on us all.

It's incredibly disappointing to see people buying into the Trump Administration's propaganda. 'Project Veritas' is a well-known far-right movement that supports Trump, nothing they say or 'bring to light' has any basis in reality.

1. Antifa isn't an organization, they have no leader, no base of operations, and no funding.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/us/u.....eft/index.html

2. Antifa stands for 'Anti-Fascist.' The entire USA is anti-fascist and has fought literal wars against fascist governments. If you're against fascism, as you should be, congratulations! You're Antifa.

3. Trump's administration is using Antifa and peaceful protestors as scapegoats to cover their asses of their own fascist behaviors. Just recently Trump ordered troops to use tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protestors and clergy to clear a path to a church for a photo op. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru.....ry?id=71052769

4. The protestors are protesting police violence, George Floyd's death being the catalyst. Police have committed multiple atrocities against peaceful protestors, including shooting them in the face with rubber bullets and shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, busting the back of his head open. There are graphic photographs all over the internet. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new.....ng-75-n1226566

Antifa as a movent has existed since the 1920s and only engages in acts of violence with the interest of self-defense and protecting others from the violence of right-wingers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news.....-many-faculty/

"In February, 150 Antifa members smashed windows and set fires on campus at the University of California in Berkeley in protest of a speech by right-wing media personality Milo Yiannopoulos. Earlier in the summer, Antifa members violently clashed with demonstrators attending a pro-Trump “free speech” rally in Portland.

And in Charlottesville, they fought with white supremacists and neo-Nazis and formed human barriers to protect counterprotesters. As Slate reported, some clergy members at the rally said Antifa members saved their lives from men waving swastika flags and giving Nazi salutes."

As for the George Floyd protests, there is no evidence linking them to the riots or looters. https://time.com/5849592/antifa-far.....mp-protesters/

"Of those charged with such offenses as curfew violations, rioting, and failure to obey law enforcement, only a handful appeared to have any affiliation with organized groups.

Those charged with more serious offenses related to looting and property destruction – such as arson, burglary and theft – often had past criminal records. But they, too, were overwhelmingly local residents taking advantage of the chaos.

Social media posts indicate only a few of those arrested are left-leaning activists, including a self-described anarchist. But others had indications of being on the political right, including some Trump supporters.

The president has tried to portray the protesters and looters with a broad brush as “radical-left, bad people,” ominously invoking the name “Antifa,” an umbrella term for leftist militants bound more by belief than organizational structure. Trump tweeted last Sunday that he planned to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization."

https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral.....86493671141376

https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral.....03966634848257

https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral.....17061538717696

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/st.....12892053749760

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/st.....33899229917184

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EDIT: I commented on a journal by https://www.furaffinity.net/user/gothicskunk/ with this same thing. It was deleted and labeled as 'misinformation,' and I was blocked. A quick look at his profile showed he was both anti-SJW (social justice warrior, a term used to designate people who fight for the rights of others) and heavily biased against 'Antifa.' Logically that'd make him a fascist. I'll be unwatching his profile and I'd urge all decent people to do the same thing.

If you are a  PoliceFurs it is your duty to serve and protect citizens. If you see your fellow officers engaging in abuse, turning off their body cameras or anything like that, report them immediately or be complicit in their crimes!

There's no proof that any of them are at all involved with Antifa, and the FBI has warned that white supremacists have been taking advantage of the chaos and looting. https://www.thenation.com/article/a.....ifa-trump-fbi/

If you still want to be ignorant, insist that Antifa is 'a terrorist organization' and block me, bye Felicia.

Fuck racism.
Fuck homophobia.
Fuck transphobes.
Fuck TERFs.
Fuck alt-right chuds.
Fuck white supremacists.
Fuck social Darwinists.
Fuck right-wing liars and propagandists.
Fuck MAGAts.
Fuck Trump.

Holy crapski I had the most amazing dream last night!

So I was back in school and the bell rang for everyone to go home, so everyone went out to the bus lot to wait on the busses when out of nowhere the Ark from Halo and a Covenant fleet warped into the sky. So everyone start's panicing.

Sam and Dean Winchester from Supernatural turn up and star organizing a resistance but shortly after, Rita Repulsa's minions from Power Rangers show up with space flight capable school busses driven by putty patrollers and start loading people up onto them and shipping them up to the Ark. I start trying to find Sam and Dean while dodging Rita's minions.

At that point a little girl comes through the crowd to me and quietly points out that my high school inexplicably has a gift shop now, and tells me 'The roses will grant thy every request.' So I go into the gift shop while no one is looking, grab a rose from a display and wish the Furon armada from Destroy All Humans into existance and thousands of flying saucers swoop in and start fighting the covenant fleet.

But one of the high schoolers snatches the rose from me and uses it to take over, forcing me to have to dodge and escape his friends/goons in order to sneak into his newly transformed school palace in order to get another rose from the gift shop to wish things back to normal.

I shit you not that was literally the dream I just woke up from!

I've been a huge fan of the whole 'medieval fantasy' genre for ages now, ever since I discovered Skyrim back in early 2012 (a few months before I signed up for FA, in fact). I've been scooping up adopts here and there, as well as the odd YCH, but for a long time I've had a character in the works with his own story, setting and the works.

If you're aware of  MoodyFerret you've probably seen art featuring her two medieval ferret boys, Jarreth and Kimber. A couple years back I even commissioned art from her with financial help from a friend, featuring my 'sona Jon strapping Jarreth into my deliciously devious Bold King Cole-themed milking machine.

I've always been fond of her medieval ferret boys, not just because they're both a nice piece of ass, but for their overall design, setting and whatnot. So I deigned to create my own medieval character, also a ferret because I just think they fit the setting aesthetically and they're a very rare species in the fandom.

I began working with Moody a couple years ago now, initially approaching her with the idea for the character and seeking her counsel on the subject of ferrets (because I know jack-diddly-squat about ferrets), and she was impressed with the detaled background I had given him. His actual appearance still had yet to be designed though, Moody suggesting a black-footed ferret given both their rarity in the fandom and their status as an actually rare, endangered subset of the ferret species.

Currently I'm working very closely with Moody to design this new character, who will eventually have a final appearance and a set of detailed ref sheets. Moody's fantastic to work with too, patient and gracious, as well as just a great person to generally shoot the shit with.

I also intend to break through my writer's block and write an entire 'episodic' novel following this character, as well as guest-starring Jarreth and Kimber. When I say 'episodic,' I mean I'll be releasing the chapters individually here on FA as they're finished, starting with a two-part prologue once the protagonist's design is fully complete.

So if you're into geeky, nerdy high-fantasy fiction featuring furries and desperately want something to read on the crapper or before bed, stay tuned! And yes, there will be smutty kinky scenes at some point, but they're by no means a focus anymore than they are in A Song of Ice and Fire. I won't be writing '50 Shades of Fur' here.

I also fully intend to innovate on the genre setting and push past barriers of repetition and familiarity, meaning there will be no humans, elves or dwarves or generic Tolkein copycat nonsense like that. This will be its own setting with its own lore, comprised entirely of anthros with unique and original wildlife. Well, that is my goal, anyway, so let's see how I do!

So I woke up to a note from someone called  Jbunny96 simply titled 'Um' in which they chastized me for commenting on a hyper bulge on art posted five years ago. They blocked me, so I can't reply. Hence I'm leaving my reply to them here.

"Um about the comment of the buldge of rax on that pic. That's my husband and well that's kinda much. Also the dude who posted it didnt have permission for that in the first place."

Is there any way you can prove what you say? Hyperfalcon's fursona is featured in the art so he clearly owns at least half of it since I assume he either paid for it or co-payed.

Forgive me if I don't just accept the word of a brand new blank account.

Also, how long exactly have you been married? You do realize I posted that comment five years ago, right?

So people are throwing shade at Sonic Fox again and for whatever reason I decided to get involved, which I am now immensely regretting. Currently a raging bitch with an anime profile pic (and multiple alts) is harassing me along with several other people on Twitter. In my particular case she's perpetuating the narrative that I'm a bigoted racist against cishet white people because I'm terrified of being shot or beaten up (the later of which has happened before) because I like dicks.

This cunt and her insufferable follower base made up of anime pics began with a raging hateboner for Sonic Fox but now they're just going after anybody. She's referred to multiple furs as degenerates as well. If you have a twitter and you see these people, please block and report them ASAP.

https://imgur.com/a/CQu0eXO

In lieu of Red Dead Redemption 2's impending release in a couple months, I decided to make an anthro wild west bounty hunter/merc/vigilante character for the purposes of roleplay and thematic art. Yes, I intend to get art of him down the line, either when I can afford it or a friend can afford it.

Name: Virgil Wayne Cassidy
Date of Birth: April 6th, 1851
Age: 22
Species: Prongcat (Pronghorn + Bobcat Hybrid, also 1/16th whitetail deer on his father's side.)
Build: Perfect Idea of the Body Type I Have In Mind For Him

Biography

Virgil was born to Elijah and Jane Cassidy in the spring of 1851, who at the time had just bought a choice piece of land in the untamed plains of Oklahoma to start up a cattle ranch. When he was young, Elijah taught Virgil everything he knew about foraging, hunting, breaking horses, farming and many other skills, while Jane taught him about using his agility and quiet weapons like the bow. When he was 16 Virgil was out running errands in the nearby town of Flatfield, returning to the rach with groceries only to discover it on fire, his father dead and his mother in the middle of a frenzied shootout with members of The Pack, a ruthless gang of outlaws lead by a direwolf known only ass The Alpha.

Despite trying to intervene, Jane was killed like her husband and Virgil took a whip to his left eye, which scarred him and made him blind in his left eye. When he came to he mourned amidst the smouldering ruins of the Cassidy Cattle Co. ranch, before burying his parents and riding back to flatfield with what little possesions he had left. From Flatfield he began working as a bounty hunter in the hopes of tracking down The Pack and avenging his home and parents.

Appearance

Virgil is a hybrid, Pronghorn on his father's side, bobcat on his mother's side. He's got a toned athletic build as a result of growing up on a ranch, with the fur pattern of a typical pronghorn plus the spots of a bobcat. His primary fur color is mauve, secondary fur color is blue jay and his tertiary fur color (spots) are eggplant or indigo. His face and snout favor his pronghorn father, though he did inherit his mother's whiskers. His teeth are that of an omnivore, some flat for grinding plant life and some sharp for shredding meat. His horns have been straighted and shortened to about six inches to allow him to wear his hat, his ears are the more triangular feline ears with the small tufts of fur at the tip. Adorning his head is long and messy hair, braided into a ponytail at the back. His eyes are gold and green. From his mother he interited feline slitted pupils for better vision both during the day and at night. He's blind in his left eye and has three claw marks over it beginning at his central brow and ending at his left cheek bone. Due to being 1/16th whitetail deer on his father's side he has the telltale tail of a whitetail deer instead of the practically nonexistent pronghorn tail or short rigid bobcat tail. For genitals he has plum-sized balls and a sheath with an 8x2 inch human-shaped penis with feline barbs. He has plantigrade padded feline feet.

His outfit consists of the following: A dark blue/black cowboy hat, a periwinkle button up dress shirt, a midnight blue button up cowboy vest with a matching duster coat, snug/tight-fitting navy denim jeans with a black leather belt supported by a gold-engraved belt buckle with a bark scorpion preserved in blue amber at the center. For footwear he'll wear matching leather cowboy boots. As far as underwear goes, I don't find any of the historically accurate old west underwear attractive at all, so for that I'm going anachronistic; simple men's trunks. Around his neck he'll wear a navy blue wild rag bandana. He will sometimes wear an eyepatch over his damaged eye.

His weapons and equipment include: a bowie boot knife, a Henry Repeater, dual St. Etienne Model 1873 Double-Action Service Revolvers, white gold plated with jacobean wood grips. His Henry Repeater will be made of the same materials as well. Ammo will be stored and easily accessible from his gun belt and a bandolier. He'll also carry a black leather satchel for essentials and provissions, a black leather wallet in his back pocket for cash and ID, and a lasso for capturing bounties alive.

Personality

The tragedy at his ranch left him somewhat bitter. Virgil's snarky, sarcastic and doesn't have much left to lose, so he's not afraid to get his hands dirty if he has to. He's also taken up smoking cigarettes and cigars, as well as drinking hard liquor such as whiskey and moonshine. At the end of the day his heart of gold shines through and he'll help honest folk who need it without asking for anything in return. He enjoys reading, gambling and card or board games in general, swimming, picnicing, napping in the shade, target practice and various other things.

I'd very much appreciate artist suggestions for high-quality refs and pinups at reasonable prices!

Art pieces I want to get:

* Ref - SFW Underwear Ref - NSFW Nude Ref

* Underwear pinup

* Badass SFW bounty hunter pinup

* Drinking whiskey in the saloon

* High-noon shootout

* Quicksand peril

* Tied to a log in the sawmill peril

* Smoking a cigarette at the poker table

* Shirtless on a hot day leaning against a wooden fence with his trunks just peaking out the top of his jeans.

Anxiety and Indigestion are currently ruling my day-to-day, but I'm fighting it with dieting, herbal tea and a few other means. It's bad, but it could be worse. If you or anyone else you know suffers from an anxiety disorder, I penned an article detailing ten home remedies and advice that have helped me through it at the worst of times.

The other day I came across a Larry King interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson (great guy) about the afterlife, and King asked him 'aren't you afraid of not-existing' and Tyson replied with something like 'if you could live forever, why bother getting out of bed every morning,' and I realised that I really want to write a philosophical non-fiction novel countering such cynical logic, a sort of foil to humanist and nihilistic beliefs that condemn the notion of an afterlife because 'forever would get boring' or some other such closed-minded nonsense. The issue is that despite being a writer, that is, someone who throws up a gaming article once in a blue moon and writes (or wrote) creative fanfiction, I have no idea where to start in writing a legit book that I would want to publish.

Beyond that though I've got great ideas for fiction novels, like a Tolkein-esque high-fantasy fiction novel featuring anthropomorphic animals and a sci-fi novel about a high-school youth growing up in a future without video games because the son of the president died in a horrific accident involving VR equipment and lightning. Again, though, I have no idea where to start. You'll start seeing art of the high-fantasy main character next year, courtesy of the friendly and gracious  moodyferret. I may limit this one to FA until I 100% how to publish a book.

In gaming related news, I finished Shadow of War, AC Origins and Minecraft Story Mode and decided to reinstall Saints Row IV because leaping tall buildings in a single bound to Haddaway's What Is Love while collecting powerups is relaxing and fun as hell. Still, can't wait to play Battlefront II on the 11th, I get it up to three days early since I bought the Super Deluxe Ultra Mega Holy Shit Fuck You-Give-EA-Money-Now Edition. Also Sims 4. Oh my god I want to play Sims 4 so bad, but I intend to complete Battlefront II first so I can relax with The Sims.

Anthro horse being pulled under quicksand by disembodied arms.

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So back when I first joined FA I read a story I really enjoyed called The Other Side by  whyteyote, whom I held high opinions of... Up until now.

Today he posted this story and included a nice cover with it, which includes an attractive male cougar. Being a cougar myself I decided to comment, playfully expressing my delight of the cougar on the cover.

I was met with this response:

I'm so glad all the hours I spent writing and polishing my story, submitting, editing and teasing it, don't compare to a cougar on the cover. That really makes the effort worth it.

Passive-agressive sarcasm, well done. It isn't like I don't understand the issue here, I am a writer myself, all my visual art has more views and responses than my written work. I've written a small few stories myself and had some written for me by other writers, I wholy understand, it does bother me too. Despite the trepedation I felt I decided to respond gracefully with the following:

Welcome to the club mate, though in all seriousness as a cougar I'm inclined to be personally biased toward other cougars. I do enjoy your writing though, I read and loved The Other Side back when I first joined the community and even commented on it. I don't get to read as much as I used to sadly, considering I'm spending a lot of time with friends and family lately (lost my favorite aunt to cancer back in February).

But much to my dismay upon trying to post my comment, I was met with this:

You appear to be on whyteyote's block list.
Your reply was not added.

Apparently it bothered him enough to block me. This is where I take issue, instead of handling this with some degree of grace and professionalism, he chose instead to use the internet equivilent of a forced restraining order on me for something absolutely petty. Now were I to ever read another of his stories I could not compliment it or offer any constructive criticism, now could I comment on journals to wish him a happy birthday or express condolences for a loss. He burned an entire bridge over a simple comment, rather than simply confronting me on the matter he took it too personally.

As an entertainer, a writer or otherwise, your audience is paramount to what you do. The internet isn't some positive echochamber, no matter what you create you will be criticized for it, but if you turn your audience away, shut them out and so on and so forth, especially just for petty silliness such as this, it makes you look bad not only as a creator but as a person. Just look at how Phil Fish reacted to simple tweets, that isn't how a professional should conduct themselves, period.

I still have a high opinion of whyteyote's work, I think he's very good at what he does, but he's chosen to block me over a simple comment, which implies his overall opinion of me quite inherently. This experience has left a bad taste in my mouth to be sure, it just boggles my mind, but I do believe I'll simply move on and put it behind me. I'll likely still continue to enjoy whyteyote's work, but what respect I may have had for him has certainly waned.

Saw the movie for the first time Friday, have seen it five times since. It's safe to say that I love the movie.

If you're looking for a guild, I've started up Mystical Beasts, a guild for Argonian and Khajiiti mages of any gender and/or level. If you're interested in joining send me your gamertag and I'll add you in!

So I just came across this subreddit while searching for cat communities: https://www.reddit.com/r/ifuckinghatecats/

One of the top rated threads there is titled 'So I just hit a cat with my car...' and includes the following:

"THUMP. It felt good to remove one of these assholes off the face of the earth. Natural selection at it's finest.

It's my personal opinion that NO animal's life is worth more than my own, so I never swerve for animals, especially not while going 90 km/h (55 mph)."

...Yeah, I'm sorry, why the fuck is this a thing? No, y'know what, why are these people not in prison? Sadistic shitlords like this who get some sort of emotional gratification over killing ANY animal are sociopaths who are dangerously close to taking a human life. If you ask me natural selection needs to start picking off unempathic dickwads like this. Fuck you humanity. Fuck you, you disgust me you violent, hypocritical, arcissistic, arrogant species of fart-huffing apes.

So for those who don't know, there's a petition on Change.org to 'class all furry activities as zoophilia.' In its own right it's a completely idiotic petition and the supreme court would laugh the petitioners right out the front door, but recently the petition has started building up steam and gaining more signatures by the day. It's bad enough the fandom has this bad image of being 'animal fuckers,' but the fact that so many people seem to believe in it is even worse. There are even a couple admittedly funny comments from concerned soccer moms, but this could ultimately contribute to the fandom's already bad image. So if you guys see this, report the petition as abusive hate speech and upvote any sensible comments so they go to the top so people can understand that the furry fandom isn't about 'zoophilia.' Do try to be civil too, please.

https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate.....s-as-zoophilia

To the people who think furries are gross or weird, why don't you have a problem with cosplayers in general? Why is there no outcry to stop women from dressing up as Twi'leks at Comic Con and to ban Comic Con? Don't lie, a lot of you think green skinned space babes are hot and have no problems with xenophilia, yet someone cosplays as Sly Cooper or Crash Bandicoot and you're quick to pull the 'furfag' card. You're all a bunch of ignorant hypocrites.

These 'furfags' have raised money for charities, gone to hospitals to cheer up children with cancer and other debilitating sicknesses, entertained at birthday parties, which is a lot more than any of you 'yiff in hell' hillbillies can claim to have done I bet. They don't have sexual attraction to animals or go home after a long day and fuck their pet poodle, the furry fandom has nothing to do with bestiality. Yes there are some who have sex while in costume or jerk it to art of anthropomorphic animals doing it. Those are anthros, not actual animals, and not all furries are like that. Many furries just grew up with shows like Thundercats and like the fantasy aspect of animals personified and being placed in human situations. Yes that does include some pornographic material, just like there's rule 34 art on the internet of Twi'leks and Cortana from Halo. It's a double edged sword.

If you're a parent and you're worried about your child being exposed to this sort of thing, stop being an idiot and learn how to turn on the parental controls for their smartphone. The best thng you can do, however, is let them discover it anyway and stop trying to shelter and coddle them, and then teach them why you believe it's wrong. If you shelter and coddle your kids they'll grow up to be socially awkward and get bullied in school because they'll be too innocent to know any better. I speak from experience.

The Furry fandom isn't doing anything to hurt you idiots other than existing, and the only reason you have a problem with them is because you have ignorant preconceptions of their culture based on bullshit you saw on CSI and Dr. Phil. They don't fuck animals, that isn't what 'Furry' means.

I just received the news that my aunt Lorene just passed away at 9:45 am today after a four year battle with cancer. When I was little and my own mother was hospitalized for ovarian cancer, she looked after me, and when my mother passed away Dec. 22nd 2009, she became like a second mother to me. I always loved going to visit her, I cherished every Christmas I ever got to spend with her and all my family. Life is never going to be the same without her, but I'm happy she's no longer suffering, and I will remember her as she lived, a happy and sweet lady who never deserved something as awful as cancer. Please keep us in your prayers everyone.

Here is a photo for those who's like to see what she looked like.

So my holiday season has been anything but sunshine and rainbows. Dec. 20th I had my first really bad panic attack since 2011, afterwhich I started suffering from thanatophobia and death anxiety, so I essentially spent Christmas and New Years uncontrollably thinking about morbid thoughts.

On top of that, today I recieved a letter from the Georgia Department of Human Services declaring that because I was unable to provide them with proof of my identity my food stamps have been 'terminated.' (Yes, that's the exact terminology they used, not discontinued or cancelled, 'terminated.') I only have one copy of my birth certificate, and we don't have a copier or anything of the sort, nor do we readily know anyone with a copier who could make the copies for us, and the stupid GDHS only gave us around a week to meet their request.

Naturally my father blames me because 'I spend too much time on the computer and playing video games,' says the man who sits on his ass all day watching Encore Westerns. Nevermind that due to my death anxiety I've had to immerse myself in a game or watching Let's Plays just to take my fucking mind off the morbid thoughts. Then he complains that I don't go to bed early enough and he can't wake me up, so we can't just drive up to the DHS office and hand them the documents.

Which he doesn't realize is because of my anxiety because I have trouble going to sleep at night, it doesn't fucking matter if I go to bed early or not, I just end up tossing and turning until I pass out from exhaustion. He was the one who was supposed to find my birth certificate and take it to our neighbor's place since his wife works at H&R Block so she would clearly have access to a home copier, but no, he sat on his ass watching westerns the whole time while I CAN'T FUCKING DRIVE and have no means of transportation besides walking. Walking? In my area? Coyotes have been stalking and killing my cats, which is more stress in and of itself but I'm not fucking walking up a gravel driveway through the woods and then down a road that has woods on both sides for miles in either direction.

But no, yeah of course it's my fault. They gave us 'till Jan. 31st to turn in the required documents and start recieving food stamps again, but watch my idiot father sit on his ass again for another month and then fucking blame ME for it. Just, fucking FUCK!

http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/694/?

I fucking love modders. Can't wait till I can get this on Xbox One!

25 years old... I'm starting to feel old, haha.

Check here for details: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7054328/