"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people.

As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."

- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

I noticed something disturbing lately on Furaffinity.

More and more symbols of hate and oppression are showing up on this site.

I'm not talking about Nazi symbols, they are already rightfully banned.

No, I'm talking about the symbols of political organizations who committed equally heinous crimes of prosecution, mass murder and fascism under their own symbols.

The Symbols of Communism, Marxism and Socialism.

To me a hammer and a sickle are just as offensive as a swastika, both are the symbols of oppression and bigotry.

But for some strange reason people do not seem to have problems with the symbols of the extreme left appearing on this site.

Is this the result of a whole generation being ignorant of the crimes committed by Communist, Marxist and Socialist before the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of communism?

Or are they convinced that just because Communism, Marxism and Socialism opposed the Nazi's and fascists it automatically made them the good guys and they are willfully ignoring the heinous crimes committed by the Communists, Marxists and Socialist. (They all had concentration camps, secret police, stifling of free speech and prosecution of people who dared to think differently.)

I dislike fascists, Nazi's, bigots and extremists like everyone else, but I dislike ALL fascists, Nazi's, bigots and extremists, regardless of them being left or right.
My list includes Marxists, Communists, Socialists, Stalinist and Maoists, not just National Socialists and Fascists.

My two cents and no, no change or your money back.

P.S. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Sir Winston Churchill

I saw this little quiz in RECoyote's journal a while ago and decided to have a go at it myself well, sort off, it was buried and forgotten on my hard disk but here it is.

01. ( ) Have you ever howled at the moon?
02. ( ) Have you ever barked at someone?
03. ( ) Have you ever found yourself drawing or scribbling furry art when you're supposed to be doing something else?
04. ( ) Have you ever worn an animal costume or tail as a child and pretended to be an animal?
05. ( ) Have you ever eaten out of a dog bowl?
06. ( ) Have you been to at least one furry con?
07. ( ) Do you like to look at furry porn all the time?
08. (X) Do you RP or play second life as a furry character?
09. ( ) Do you own a fursuit or at least a tail?
10. (X) Do you know what all these words mean or have used them at least once?
11. ( ) Do you have at least 5 videos of you acting or doing something furry on YouTube?
12. ( ) Has your anthropersona/character been drawn in a furry porn type manner?
13. ( ) Are you well known in the furry fandom?
14. (X) Do you dream furry while you sleep?
15. (X) Would you transform into your character/fursona if you were given the chance to live like that for the rest of your life?
16. ( ) Have you ever worn a collar?
17. ( ) Do you own more than 20 art badges of your fursonas or characters?
18. ( ) Have you been to more than 20 furry cons in your lifetime?
19. ( ) Do you think that deep down you have the spirit of an animal within you?
20. ( ) Do you enjoy hanging out with other furries?
21. ( ) Do you think we should have a furry run for president of the USA?
22. ( ) If you ever became rich would you own a room in your house that was just to display your fursuits or furry art?
23. ( ) Is your best friend furry?
24. ( ) Does your furry friends call you by your furry name in public?
25. (X) Have you been in the furry fandom for at least 5 years?

01 to 05 = Furry wannabe.
06 to 10 = Furry newbie.
11 to 15 = Furry.
16 to 20 = Hardened Furry.
21 to 25 = Hardcore Furry.

Just 5 points? Bleh....

Problem is that these are all yes or no questions and leave very little room for different interpretations.

They also seem to assume that your fursona is a canine or vulpine of some sort, see questions 1,2,5 and 16.

My avatar is neither of those two and not a feral furry either, I'm too fond of opposable thumbs, depth perception and seeing the world in full colour.

A few footnotes to some of the questions.

1+2+5+16 My avatar is a skunkette, not a dog

2, As a child, not as an adult.

5, As a child I loved to eat Frolic (dog food) does that count?

6+18, Never have, probably never will, if only because my avatar is anything I'm not, that includes intelligent, young and good looking.

7, All the time of what? there is much more on the web then just porn you know?

9, I will never wear a fursuit, if only because most fursuits look like rejects from a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

11 Acting like a furry? What exactly is that supposed to mean? Do you mean wear a fursuit and behave like a complete and utter prick and after people getting mad at me and tell me to stop I come up with excuses like "but I'm cute" or "it was my inner fursona who did it! Not me!"?

12, My avatar has been drawn by Cuanu, HoneyBadger, Bubbycat, AngelBear, Graytail, AceXCat and Ranchan in a non sexual way.

15, Yeah, if only because my age drops at least with several decades if I change into my avatar.

16, Seriously, why would a self-aware creature wear a collar in the first place? Look at me being owned! I'm a slave! Oh wait, it’s that inner animal thing, right? If you don’t mind I rather settle for self-awareness, conscious and rational thinking and giving someone a hand and saying my name instead of butt sniffing.

19, I do not believe in the spiritual part of Furry and I do not take advice from anything that eats their own young and/or rolls in their own poo.

20, Only in Second life or FurryMUCK.

24, I keep real life and Furry separated, Furry is a collective fantasy, it is no more real then Dungeons aNd Dragons, Star trek or Star wars is, anyone who does treat it as real, realy should seek long term professional help.

25, officially member of FurryMUCK since 26 September 1997

For me being Furry means having a furry Avatar that I use to interact with other people in places where it is appropriate to act that way, like FurryMUCK and Second life.

My two cents and no change, no refunds.

P.S. sorry for the bad English and horrific grammar.

P.P.S hopefully i actually let this stay online. for longer then a hour.

I am a (bad) gamer and one of the games I like is Borderlands.

To me one of the characters who was the most fun to play was brick; as soon as he would go into his berserker rage, he would get a narrowed vision and an insane [HEALTH] regeneration. I really liked beating the snot out of the bad guys with my fists.

I played it into the late hours trying to find as many rare weapons as possible.

Naturally, when part 2 came out I bought it only to find out that according to the package it needed at least a dual core processor, so I put it on the shelf to install it later.

Several months later however I became curious and decided to install the game in steam anyway, so even if it would not run it would still be available under Steam in case I found a faster computer.

What happened next is kind of cliché, but... it turned out that Borderlands 2 ran even faster then borderlands 1, loading is faster, less waiting times and overall much more fun to play.

A friend told me later that they vastly improved the game engine.

Unfortunately it did not work with Fallout New Vegas, the sound lags and the game crashes a lot!

Star trek online works okay until I go to Sol, then loading takes forever.

In case you are wondering, my machine is an Athlon 64 – 2,41Ghz single core machine with 2GB DDR(1) memory and a 1GB Nvidea GT430 Video card. OS is Windows XP Home with service pack 3 and all updates installed.

P.S. not that my computer is a “super computer” Once in a while the computer becomes extremely slow, the only remedy is starting with a recovery cd and typing chkdsk /r in recovery mode, 3 hours later it will function normally again.

P.P.S I also got legendary skins and heads when Borderlands 2 saw the game files of Borderlands 1.

P.P.P.S This is my personal experience YMMV.

Today I reached 777 page-views which, as far as I understand can be explained as a good thing.


Apparently 666 stands for evil while 777 stands for good.

I counted all views on my submissions and that came to a total of 285 Page-views, leaving 492 page-views unaccounted for, I guess that this is the number of logins on my own main account page.

So basically my logins created more page-views numbers then there where people looking at the art.

Oh well.

I won, I won, I won! Yaaaaaay, weeeeee!

*Dances happy skunkie dance, runs around the room, then stops.*

Oh darn. I actually won, now I have to tell her how I want Kamida to be drawn...

Alone or with an other person? Rita Mariner, Kamida's Second Life mamma, wait, that means I have to ask her permission first, or with Graytail Dana, have not seen her in a long time though, or perhaps with Ranchan herself...

What should Kamida wear on that drawing? Perhaps a Star trek uniform, or Star wars clothes, or fantasy clothing, little sorceress, hmmm, that does not sound so bad, as long as it is not pink, she hates pink! Pink stink she calls the color pink.

Background? Gawd, so many possibilities, not even the sky is the limit, more like the universe with infinite realities....

And then of course there's hairstyle, specifics about her fur pattern, her age and gods know what else..

Never knew winning could be such a headache. (kidding!) =^.^=U