politically charged question
General | Posted 5 years agohow do you pronounce the word "crayon"?
do you say "cray-on"
or "cran"
how you answer says a lot about the kind of person you are...answer wisely lest the admins consider your response misinformation >:3
if anybody feels brave, and i mean REALLY brave, feel free to discuss this life/death topic in the comments below *puts on football helmet and slowly descends into bomb shelter*
do you say "cray-on"
or "cran"
how you answer says a lot about the kind of person you are...answer wisely lest the admins consider your response misinformation >:3
if anybody feels brave, and i mean REALLY brave, feel free to discuss this life/death topic in the comments below *puts on football helmet and slowly descends into bomb shelter*
i believe i speak for everybody when i say...
General | Posted 5 years agoi wish the admins of FA would focus on running a furry art site instead of being political commentators nobody asked for
reCAPTCHA sucks
General | Posted 5 years agoseriously FA, get rid of this shit and replace it with something that actually works (preferably the wavy texts you USED to be able to let people do instead of google's glitchy bullshit, i NEVER had problems with those)
am i the only one whose been having issues with this lately? i click all the relevant, nearly indecipherable grainy images and find all the crosswalks, traffic lights, buses, etc...and STILL it says "please try again" or just keeps prompting more and more...
yesterday i went through what felt like 30 iterations of the various dumb puzzles before it finally let me on, today was probably around 10, and included this piece of shit here:
https://sta.sh/01x9xvpjr68f
do you see another fucking bus here? cuz yeah, guarantee you 99% of people wouldn't have spotted it when they *just* wanted to freaking log on so they can fap in peace...so yes Google, there technically IS a bus here, but holy fuck are you getting picky
the simple act of logging onto a website shouldent be a trick question, jesus christ man...
am i the only one whose been having issues with this lately? i click all the relevant, nearly indecipherable grainy images and find all the crosswalks, traffic lights, buses, etc...and STILL it says "please try again" or just keeps prompting more and more...
yesterday i went through what felt like 30 iterations of the various dumb puzzles before it finally let me on, today was probably around 10, and included this piece of shit here:
https://sta.sh/01x9xvpjr68f
do you see another fucking bus here? cuz yeah, guarantee you 99% of people wouldn't have spotted it when they *just* wanted to freaking log on so they can fap in peace...so yes Google, there technically IS a bus here, but holy fuck are you getting picky
the simple act of logging onto a website shouldent be a trick question, jesus christ man...
quarantine from a shut-in's perspective
General | Posted 5 years ago*disclaimer* i am HEAVILY critical of the poorly thought out, over-exaggerated, draconian, and highly suspicious response to the covid-19 situation, if you find that offensive don't read any further.
its a little sad when you realize your daily life has been a default form of quarantine long before the world lost its head thanks to coronavirus. i am a textbook introvert; i dont like socializing IRL, i work 40+ hour weeks and almost never do anything with co-workers, i leave work and go to my apartment and typically dont leave again until the next workday, or when i go grocery shopping/other official errands. i usually only go on vacation once a year, and usually im by myself and only for a couple of days, hardly ever going out of state. going out of state might happen once every 5 years. i am very much a homebody and a working man, thats all my real life consists of.
you'd think i'd support everybody being in quarantine, cuz they're living the way i have for years, but im not. people who live in apartment buildings filled with dumb, obnoxious assholes and their little inbred children are not having a good time. typically these animals left and did things throughout the day, leaving the shut-ins at home in peace. now everybody is home, the parents arent working and the kids arent going to school. people are getting louder and louder the longer the quarantines last, and with everything shutting down, one cant just get in their car and leave anymore. public places like restaurants, movie theaters, hotels, etc...were places to escape fuckhole neighbors. now everybody is trapped together, the cabin fever is beyond description. inter-personal crime and domestic violence cases are going up faster and faster thanks to these quarantines, and it makes total sense. nobody can escape each other, tensions rise and violence happens. this is John B. Calhoun's "behavioral sink" in action, just with humans instead of rats. people forget that humans are animals too
so for those of us in apartments, the home is no longer a sanctuary, cuz all the demons who irritate the typical introvert are constantly near them. and since evictions were also postponed in the US...demons who are actively making the lives of their neighbors a living hell can now stay and do whatever the fuck they want. halting evictions was such a dumb move, nobody gets evicted for something small, best case scenario is unpaid rent. if the politicians used their brains they would have said EVICTIONS HALTED, BUT ONLY FOR UNPAID RENT.
i consider myself lucky that i was listed as a "critical worker" due to working in transportation, so i do escape the fuckhole neighbors by continuing to go to work every day. i leave a full parking lot in the morning and come home to one. however, the flight school i took care of closed a month ago thanks to this shit, and our workload is REALLY sparse now. other departments are being sent home cuz of a lack of work. its hard to feel critical when you stretch a 2 hour job into an 8 hour shift and arent even doing anything for the masses, you're just working on some random dude's private plane that they only flew 5 hours in the last year. despite shitty neighbors, a part of me is honestly jealous of all the time off non-critical workers are getting. i havent had more than 5 days off in a row in nearly a decade
airline division had an entire shift get quarantined due to somebody getting sick, and since its so difficult to actually get tested for covid, we dont know if thats what he got, so as a result, everybody working here is potentially exposing themselves. one of my 62 year old co-workers was actually turned away by his hospital when he asked to be tested due to having covid-like symptoms...this is legitimately fucked up, am i the only one who finds this fucked up? everybody who was listed as a "critical worker" (which is honestly 75% of the population) along with the non-criticals buying their groceries, are continuing to go out because they HAVE TO...nobody is defying anything like the media continues to say. but...this is still why cases keep rising. this is why i say these lockdowns are completely pointless and are gonna destroy the livelyhoods of millions of non-essential people while the essentials are sacrificed like lambs before a malevolent god. i dont fear covid-19, i fear the horrible long term ramifications of the world's RESPONSE to it. this is something more people need to consider and address. giving everybody stimulus checks and making pornhub free isnt going to fix people's economic problems the world's governments have decided to inflict upon them. h1n1 didnt stop the world like this, why should corona?
history needs to condemn these horrible decisions, and point out flatly that they were done in a knee-jerk way without giving them any logical thought. history needs to condemn the panic buyers for hoarding vital supplies and creating shortages that would never have happened if people bought conservatively. will history do this though? probably not, cuz despite all the raping and pillaging of grocery stores, intentional destruction of the world's economy, etc...history will only focus on how everybody was "in this together" and doing what they had to to "protect what was important to them". always remember that the road to hell is paved with good intentions
so i'll continue wasting the calories it takes to drag my ass out of bed each morning, drive into work and fuck off all day cuz nobody is flying...and then come home to listen to the neighbors and their kids beat my walls while the rednecks across from me get drunk/fight in the parking lot while letting their kids throw rocks at everybody's cars...and cant escape anywhere save for the vast empty parking lot of the movie theater which has been closed for weeks now. sooner or later i'll get covid-19 too (along with all the other critical workers) and either endure 2 weeks of pure fucking hell listening to all the motherfucking inbreds being obnoxious in my apartment complex...or die like the 60K that have died so far (which is still less than the total deaths for influenza as a whole in 2017...or the total deaths for h1n1 in 2009...) so yeah...welcome to New World Order 2020™ everybody! WOOOO
its a little sad when you realize your daily life has been a default form of quarantine long before the world lost its head thanks to coronavirus. i am a textbook introvert; i dont like socializing IRL, i work 40+ hour weeks and almost never do anything with co-workers, i leave work and go to my apartment and typically dont leave again until the next workday, or when i go grocery shopping/other official errands. i usually only go on vacation once a year, and usually im by myself and only for a couple of days, hardly ever going out of state. going out of state might happen once every 5 years. i am very much a homebody and a working man, thats all my real life consists of.
you'd think i'd support everybody being in quarantine, cuz they're living the way i have for years, but im not. people who live in apartment buildings filled with dumb, obnoxious assholes and their little inbred children are not having a good time. typically these animals left and did things throughout the day, leaving the shut-ins at home in peace. now everybody is home, the parents arent working and the kids arent going to school. people are getting louder and louder the longer the quarantines last, and with everything shutting down, one cant just get in their car and leave anymore. public places like restaurants, movie theaters, hotels, etc...were places to escape fuckhole neighbors. now everybody is trapped together, the cabin fever is beyond description. inter-personal crime and domestic violence cases are going up faster and faster thanks to these quarantines, and it makes total sense. nobody can escape each other, tensions rise and violence happens. this is John B. Calhoun's "behavioral sink" in action, just with humans instead of rats. people forget that humans are animals too
so for those of us in apartments, the home is no longer a sanctuary, cuz all the demons who irritate the typical introvert are constantly near them. and since evictions were also postponed in the US...demons who are actively making the lives of their neighbors a living hell can now stay and do whatever the fuck they want. halting evictions was such a dumb move, nobody gets evicted for something small, best case scenario is unpaid rent. if the politicians used their brains they would have said EVICTIONS HALTED, BUT ONLY FOR UNPAID RENT.
i consider myself lucky that i was listed as a "critical worker" due to working in transportation, so i do escape the fuckhole neighbors by continuing to go to work every day. i leave a full parking lot in the morning and come home to one. however, the flight school i took care of closed a month ago thanks to this shit, and our workload is REALLY sparse now. other departments are being sent home cuz of a lack of work. its hard to feel critical when you stretch a 2 hour job into an 8 hour shift and arent even doing anything for the masses, you're just working on some random dude's private plane that they only flew 5 hours in the last year. despite shitty neighbors, a part of me is honestly jealous of all the time off non-critical workers are getting. i havent had more than 5 days off in a row in nearly a decade
airline division had an entire shift get quarantined due to somebody getting sick, and since its so difficult to actually get tested for covid, we dont know if thats what he got, so as a result, everybody working here is potentially exposing themselves. one of my 62 year old co-workers was actually turned away by his hospital when he asked to be tested due to having covid-like symptoms...this is legitimately fucked up, am i the only one who finds this fucked up? everybody who was listed as a "critical worker" (which is honestly 75% of the population) along with the non-criticals buying their groceries, are continuing to go out because they HAVE TO...nobody is defying anything like the media continues to say. but...this is still why cases keep rising. this is why i say these lockdowns are completely pointless and are gonna destroy the livelyhoods of millions of non-essential people while the essentials are sacrificed like lambs before a malevolent god. i dont fear covid-19, i fear the horrible long term ramifications of the world's RESPONSE to it. this is something more people need to consider and address. giving everybody stimulus checks and making pornhub free isnt going to fix people's economic problems the world's governments have decided to inflict upon them. h1n1 didnt stop the world like this, why should corona?
history needs to condemn these horrible decisions, and point out flatly that they were done in a knee-jerk way without giving them any logical thought. history needs to condemn the panic buyers for hoarding vital supplies and creating shortages that would never have happened if people bought conservatively. will history do this though? probably not, cuz despite all the raping and pillaging of grocery stores, intentional destruction of the world's economy, etc...history will only focus on how everybody was "in this together" and doing what they had to to "protect what was important to them". always remember that the road to hell is paved with good intentions
so i'll continue wasting the calories it takes to drag my ass out of bed each morning, drive into work and fuck off all day cuz nobody is flying...and then come home to listen to the neighbors and their kids beat my walls while the rednecks across from me get drunk/fight in the parking lot while letting their kids throw rocks at everybody's cars...and cant escape anywhere save for the vast empty parking lot of the movie theater which has been closed for weeks now. sooner or later i'll get covid-19 too (along with all the other critical workers) and either endure 2 weeks of pure fucking hell listening to all the motherfucking inbreds being obnoxious in my apartment complex...or die like the 60K that have died so far (which is still less than the total deaths for influenza as a whole in 2017...or the total deaths for h1n1 in 2009...) so yeah...welcome to New World Order 2020™ everybody! WOOOO
seaworld, sea pens, & Makaio
General | Posted 6 years agoon May 4th, 2019, i came face to face with Makaio, currently the youngest orca living at Seaworld Orlando, and one of the last calves fathered by the infamous Tillikum. like most people who have gone to Seaworld, or have seen orcas up close in person by whale watching, i can tell you nothing truly prepares you for just how big they are up close, or how they literally look at you like people do, its a humbling experience that takes your breath away, and almost makes you feel like you're in the presence of royalty or something.
its been a mission of mine to see an orca in person for at least half my life, and i have to give credit to Seaworld for actually making it possible to see one of these animals as closely/clearly as you can (cuz unless you're a scuba diver, its pretty rare to see an orca less than 6 inches away when you're on a whale watch) and since they're no longer gonna breed orcas in captivity, now is the time to go see them, cuz its clear Seaworld has no plans to stop the shows like they claimed...or do anything with the whales afterwords if they DO stop the shows.
ive tried to remain neutral on the whole pro/anti cap thing (since the ones born in captivity really dont know anything else) but in my opinion the compromise for both sides would be sea pens/sanctuaries. it wouldent be a concrete tank, but it wouldent be the open ocean either (since orcas that have spent their whole lives dependent on humans for companionship and food are still gonna depend on them) and if Seaworld truly wants to modernize and help repair their image, they'd pursue something like this, cuz god knows they can afford it...charging damn near 100 bucks for a single day admission...it honestly makes me really sad how little financial support sea pens get, when it seems like such a logical solution
Makaio is only 8 years old and already his teeth are completely worn to the gums, no matter what your views on captivity are its hard not to consider this depressing. he, and all the others born in captivity, can never be released to the wild cuz of this, how can you catch fish with no teeth? but it would make me happy seeing Makaio living in a more natural environment where he still receives human interaction (and food) without having to do any performances.
and of course, maybe im wrong, but its an opinion i kinda support now, after setting foot at a seaworld location and actually seeing these animals and their tanks with my own two eyes
its been a mission of mine to see an orca in person for at least half my life, and i have to give credit to Seaworld for actually making it possible to see one of these animals as closely/clearly as you can (cuz unless you're a scuba diver, its pretty rare to see an orca less than 6 inches away when you're on a whale watch) and since they're no longer gonna breed orcas in captivity, now is the time to go see them, cuz its clear Seaworld has no plans to stop the shows like they claimed...or do anything with the whales afterwords if they DO stop the shows.
ive tried to remain neutral on the whole pro/anti cap thing (since the ones born in captivity really dont know anything else) but in my opinion the compromise for both sides would be sea pens/sanctuaries. it wouldent be a concrete tank, but it wouldent be the open ocean either (since orcas that have spent their whole lives dependent on humans for companionship and food are still gonna depend on them) and if Seaworld truly wants to modernize and help repair their image, they'd pursue something like this, cuz god knows they can afford it...charging damn near 100 bucks for a single day admission...it honestly makes me really sad how little financial support sea pens get, when it seems like such a logical solution
Makaio is only 8 years old and already his teeth are completely worn to the gums, no matter what your views on captivity are its hard not to consider this depressing. he, and all the others born in captivity, can never be released to the wild cuz of this, how can you catch fish with no teeth? but it would make me happy seeing Makaio living in a more natural environment where he still receives human interaction (and food) without having to do any performances.
and of course, maybe im wrong, but its an opinion i kinda support now, after setting foot at a seaworld location and actually seeing these animals and their tanks with my own two eyes
i wonder what would happen if
General | Posted 7 years agoHollywood was forced to abide by a ban on all comic book movies, sequels of any kind, and reboots of any kind for a period of 10 years...
i wonder if the writers, executives, and actors would even know how to do anything else...i think the entire motion picture industry would collapse like a tower of cards because nobody in Hollywood knows how to be creative anymore, or at least fund creative projects without HEAVY studio intervention...namely from evil empires like Disney.
its always nice seeing good talent wasted on uncreative garbage...it would be nice if such a ban were actually put into effect in January of 2020. i'd rather have nothing at all than another decade of garbage
i wonder if the writers, executives, and actors would even know how to do anything else...i think the entire motion picture industry would collapse like a tower of cards because nobody in Hollywood knows how to be creative anymore, or at least fund creative projects without HEAVY studio intervention...namely from evil empires like Disney.
its always nice seeing good talent wasted on uncreative garbage...it would be nice if such a ban were actually put into effect in January of 2020. i'd rather have nothing at all than another decade of garbage
things the aeromorph scene needs to do
General | Posted 7 years agothings to stop:
#1. stop drawing hypers
#2. STOP DRAWING HYPERS
#3. stop drawing herms
#4. stop making every character have massive lower lips
#5. stop making every character's neck wider than their head
#6. stop uploading 500+ different versions of a single pic
things to start:
#1. start drawing proportional characters
#2. START DRAWING PROPORTIONAL CHARACTERS
#3. start drawing more clothed aeromorphs
#4. start drawing more ferals
#5. start coming up with your own styles instead of copying somebody popular
#6. start actually uploading your work (or commissions) if it isn't hyper or herm
if only 2 or 3 artists in this fandom were producing hyper work, i'd be ok with it...but now its EVERY OTHER FUCKING AEROMORPH ARTIST. the uncreativity of this phenomenon is almost beyond belief...and the people who are doing decent aeromorph art, either themselves or through commissions, will NOT upload their work outside of a chatgroup on telegram/discord for some reason, no matter how much people beg them to...
if you're so disgusted at what the aeromorph scene has become, dilute the garbage by uploading decent work...nothing is going to change if the people who have the power TO change things just hide their work where nobody can see it...then bitch about how shitty all these hypers are...you have no fucking right to bitch when you're just as much of the problem as the artists and commissioners cranking out all this hyper shit in the first place
enough is enough! at this point if you draw or commission aeromorph art that looks different in ANY way from Walter Sache, Renthedragon, or Nolollygagging...you need to be uploading that shit here, cuz im not the only one getting sick of these ugly ass hyper fucking aeromorphs infecting our fandom. its cancer at its most insidious
#1. stop drawing hypers
#2. STOP DRAWING HYPERS
#3. stop drawing herms
#4. stop making every character have massive lower lips
#5. stop making every character's neck wider than their head
#6. stop uploading 500+ different versions of a single pic
things to start:
#1. start drawing proportional characters
#2. START DRAWING PROPORTIONAL CHARACTERS
#3. start drawing more clothed aeromorphs
#4. start drawing more ferals
#5. start coming up with your own styles instead of copying somebody popular
#6. start actually uploading your work (or commissions) if it isn't hyper or herm
if only 2 or 3 artists in this fandom were producing hyper work, i'd be ok with it...but now its EVERY OTHER FUCKING AEROMORPH ARTIST. the uncreativity of this phenomenon is almost beyond belief...and the people who are doing decent aeromorph art, either themselves or through commissions, will NOT upload their work outside of a chatgroup on telegram/discord for some reason, no matter how much people beg them to...
if you're so disgusted at what the aeromorph scene has become, dilute the garbage by uploading decent work...nothing is going to change if the people who have the power TO change things just hide their work where nobody can see it...then bitch about how shitty all these hypers are...you have no fucking right to bitch when you're just as much of the problem as the artists and commissioners cranking out all this hyper shit in the first place
enough is enough! at this point if you draw or commission aeromorph art that looks different in ANY way from Walter Sache, Renthedragon, or Nolollygagging...you need to be uploading that shit here, cuz im not the only one getting sick of these ugly ass hyper fucking aeromorphs infecting our fandom. its cancer at its most insidious
birdshotting
General | Posted 7 years agoBIRDSHOTTING
/'bərdSHätiNG/
verb
the act of an artist creating a piece of work, making multiple edits to it, and releasing the multiple edited versions as separate pieces, IE more than two. term originated from the shotgun ammunition "bird shot" which fires a spray of tiny metal pellets, similar in action to how an artist sprays the public with multiple versions of the same piece rather than "firing" out a single substantial version.
"this guy has been birdshotting pretty hard lately; the last pic they drew had six separate versions just slightly different from each other."
/'bərdSHätiNG/
verb
the act of an artist creating a piece of work, making multiple edits to it, and releasing the multiple edited versions as separate pieces, IE more than two. term originated from the shotgun ammunition "bird shot" which fires a spray of tiny metal pellets, similar in action to how an artist sprays the public with multiple versions of the same piece rather than "firing" out a single substantial version.
"this guy has been birdshotting pretty hard lately; the last pic they drew had six separate versions just slightly different from each other."
COC 2.7
General | Posted 7 years agoya know...theres a great quote by Friedrich Nietzsche that has been on my mind quite a lot lately...
"whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process they do not become a monster...when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you..."
well this abyss is starting to seep deeply into the minds of these said "monster fighters", particularly on the left side of the political spectrum...and i feel like its starting to become really dangerous to voice truthful perspectives of how hypocritical and insane various examples of this logic are...
in the 20-teens you are only allowed to have a viewpoint so long as its a popular one, and you'll be labeled a monster for voicing opinions that differ from any given popular majority. make no mistake, this is censorship at its finest and could not be any more obvious to somebody who isn't a political jihadist
just remember FA, you might think you're defeating Hitler but all you're doing is becoming Stalin
"whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process they do not become a monster...when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you..."
well this abyss is starting to seep deeply into the minds of these said "monster fighters", particularly on the left side of the political spectrum...and i feel like its starting to become really dangerous to voice truthful perspectives of how hypocritical and insane various examples of this logic are...
in the 20-teens you are only allowed to have a viewpoint so long as its a popular one, and you'll be labeled a monster for voicing opinions that differ from any given popular majority. make no mistake, this is censorship at its finest and could not be any more obvious to somebody who isn't a political jihadist
just remember FA, you might think you're defeating Hitler but all you're doing is becoming Stalin
patreon and tumblr...
General | Posted 8 years ago...two of the greatest ways to say "fuck you" to your friends and watchers...
fight me
fight me
so, you wanna work in aviation?
General | Posted 8 years agolemme give you a piece of advice...dont
the people you will encounter in the field will suck away whatever passion you had for the aircraft you love, or whatever feelings you had for aviation as a whole. you'll be surrounded by the most arrogant assholes you'll ever meet, people who literally live and thrive off the stress, torment, and destruction of others...people who are convinced they can say and do whatever they want because they have money, and usually get away with it too...people who think they're hot shit cuz they fly jets...people who feel they can say and do whatever they want cuz they were in some foreign war somewhere...people who will treat you like a piece shit cuz you are younger and/or less experienced than them...etc...these people are mostly on the jet side of things, but the industry has become so infested with these cockroaches you'll find at least one no matter where you are.
on top of the people you'll encounter, you'll also watch as the FAA and lobbyists for major aviation corporations rally behind and pass regulations that continue pushing the average man out of the sky, you'll watch as they force people to buy multi-thousand dollar transponders and other mostly useless avionics to keep up with ADS-B or mode-S transponder requirements, you'll watch as the price for PMA/TSO parts get manipulated and jump 5 dollars every year, so a stupid fucking tie-down bolt that used to be $10 in 2000 is now $310 in 2017, you'll watch as airspace requirements change, as regulations get more and more complicated and hard to understand, as more and more single engine prop planes are left to rot in hangars, you'll watch as private pilots die off and never get replaced by younger pilots cuz the cost of fuel and rentals to earn your license jump so high nobody can afford it, you'll watch airports close down, you'll see finances ruined, see the genuine fear of getting fucked in the eyes of your customers who are about to have major work done to their plane...and all this while corporate jets and airliners thrive the more smaller owners/operators die off...but also get ripped off too, but they're just wealthy enough to afford it...for now
oh, and you'll also watch as the airlines continue pulling fees out of their ass for things that used to be free just 10 years ago, and you'll watch as they manipulate their own prices to get more and more money for themselves, while treating their own employees and customers like shit.
and these are the things i can think of JUST off the top of my head...aviation is so fucked up and full of scum its gonna take nothing short of an iron willed dictator to change things for the better. if you wanna work for aviation, get ready to sell your soul to the company you work for, get ready to bust your ass 24/7 and never have any time to spend the table scraps you're being paid, get ready to lose sleep thinking about work, get ready to be exposed to chemicals that will cause your life to end with cancer or Alzheimer's, get ready to feel like you can never get anything done, get ready to be confused and under pressure all the time with little to no appreciation, get ready to feel like everyone around you is bigger, that you're constantly in the wrong...get ready to have every drop of confidence and sense of self worth stripped away until your entire existence seems dark and colorless, unable to enjoy or feel anything.
but who knows, maybe its just FBOs that are like this...maybe its just the FBO im at...but you see a lot when you actually leave school and start wrenching on live airplanes, and its hard to imagine anywhere else that wont be equally cockroach infested when you see how the aviation industry is actually run.
the people you will encounter in the field will suck away whatever passion you had for the aircraft you love, or whatever feelings you had for aviation as a whole. you'll be surrounded by the most arrogant assholes you'll ever meet, people who literally live and thrive off the stress, torment, and destruction of others...people who are convinced they can say and do whatever they want because they have money, and usually get away with it too...people who think they're hot shit cuz they fly jets...people who feel they can say and do whatever they want cuz they were in some foreign war somewhere...people who will treat you like a piece shit cuz you are younger and/or less experienced than them...etc...these people are mostly on the jet side of things, but the industry has become so infested with these cockroaches you'll find at least one no matter where you are.
on top of the people you'll encounter, you'll also watch as the FAA and lobbyists for major aviation corporations rally behind and pass regulations that continue pushing the average man out of the sky, you'll watch as they force people to buy multi-thousand dollar transponders and other mostly useless avionics to keep up with ADS-B or mode-S transponder requirements, you'll watch as the price for PMA/TSO parts get manipulated and jump 5 dollars every year, so a stupid fucking tie-down bolt that used to be $10 in 2000 is now $310 in 2017, you'll watch as airspace requirements change, as regulations get more and more complicated and hard to understand, as more and more single engine prop planes are left to rot in hangars, you'll watch as private pilots die off and never get replaced by younger pilots cuz the cost of fuel and rentals to earn your license jump so high nobody can afford it, you'll watch airports close down, you'll see finances ruined, see the genuine fear of getting fucked in the eyes of your customers who are about to have major work done to their plane...and all this while corporate jets and airliners thrive the more smaller owners/operators die off...but also get ripped off too, but they're just wealthy enough to afford it...for now
oh, and you'll also watch as the airlines continue pulling fees out of their ass for things that used to be free just 10 years ago, and you'll watch as they manipulate their own prices to get more and more money for themselves, while treating their own employees and customers like shit.
and these are the things i can think of JUST off the top of my head...aviation is so fucked up and full of scum its gonna take nothing short of an iron willed dictator to change things for the better. if you wanna work for aviation, get ready to sell your soul to the company you work for, get ready to bust your ass 24/7 and never have any time to spend the table scraps you're being paid, get ready to lose sleep thinking about work, get ready to be exposed to chemicals that will cause your life to end with cancer or Alzheimer's, get ready to feel like you can never get anything done, get ready to be confused and under pressure all the time with little to no appreciation, get ready to feel like everyone around you is bigger, that you're constantly in the wrong...get ready to have every drop of confidence and sense of self worth stripped away until your entire existence seems dark and colorless, unable to enjoy or feel anything.
but who knows, maybe its just FBOs that are like this...maybe its just the FBO im at...but you see a lot when you actually leave school and start wrenching on live airplanes, and its hard to imagine anywhere else that wont be equally cockroach infested when you see how the aviation industry is actually run.
traditional vs digital
General | Posted 9 years agoso for the past few years i've noticed all my digital drawings seem to get more views and faves compared to my traditional drawings, which is the complete opposite of what i would have expected, considering traditional pics take me twice as long to draw and have twice the effort put into them compared to my digital pics XD
plus i use MSpaint to do all my digital pics ^^; which isnt the best programs to use, but i use it cuz digital mediums are still like a second language to me XD my first instinct whenever i get an idea is to grab a piece of paper and start doodling, so doing things digitally isnt exactly a natural process for me yet...but i've been working on it for the last 5 or so years and have been getting better. someday i hope to be decent at digital, but i need to move out of MSpaint first XD
so yeah, just wondering what my digital pics have that causes them to be more popular than my traditional stuff? am legitimately curious, cuz both digital and traditional mediums have their pros and cons XD but if one medium produces artwork that is better received, then maybe its worth exploring a little more :P
plus i use MSpaint to do all my digital pics ^^; which isnt the best programs to use, but i use it cuz digital mediums are still like a second language to me XD my first instinct whenever i get an idea is to grab a piece of paper and start doodling, so doing things digitally isnt exactly a natural process for me yet...but i've been working on it for the last 5 or so years and have been getting better. someday i hope to be decent at digital, but i need to move out of MSpaint first XD
so yeah, just wondering what my digital pics have that causes them to be more popular than my traditional stuff? am legitimately curious, cuz both digital and traditional mediums have their pros and cons XD but if one medium produces artwork that is better received, then maybe its worth exploring a little more :P
that feeling when...
General | Posted 9 years agoyou see a pic of yours was faved, and you check out the person who faved it and find out they're a silent troll based on the other pics they've faved....
[EDIT] from now on if a pic of mine appears in the faves of a silent troll, i'm gonna block that person right away...getting real tired of this silent mockery. the internet is a weird place, get over it
[EDIT] from now on if a pic of mine appears in the faves of a silent troll, i'm gonna block that person right away...getting real tired of this silent mockery. the internet is a weird place, get over it
seriously FA...
General | Posted 9 years agohaving to play a picture matching game just to log in? what the fuck is wrong with you guys? change this shit back to the text based security caches you stupid fucks...
acen 2016
General | Posted 9 years agomight be kind of late posting this, but i will be attending Anime Central this year in Rosemont, Illinois =D i went back in 2014 and had an epic time, and since i was unable to attend last year due to money problems and conflicting work schedules, i made sure to prepare for this year >:3
there were plenty of furries there in 2014 so yeah, if anybody happens to be going too and wants to meet me, i'll be there, my badge name will give me away :P
Acen's website: https://www.acen.org/
there were plenty of furries there in 2014 so yeah, if anybody happens to be going too and wants to meet me, i'll be there, my badge name will give me away :P
Acen's website: https://www.acen.org/
undertale and living airplanes
General | Posted 10 years agoyeah, the hype is all true people XD seriously, i havent been this emotionally moved by a game since final fantasy 10. i almost cried at certain parts XD the storyline and (really awesome) soundtrack are in perfect unison too, so it makes for really immersive gameplay. also the weird random humor is badass, and the characters are all so lovable x3 if you arent on steam, its worth joining just to download this game, thats what i did XD and it was definitely worth it!
love the tidal wave of Undertale art thats been sweeping over DA/FA too x3 i downloaded Undertale on Saturday and there were i think 800-something results on FA, today there are well over 1000 XD
oh...and anthropormorphic aircraft are referenced multiple times in this game XD one of the "enemies" is a living airplane called a "tsunderplane", which is a female airliner that pretends not to like you, but secretly does x3 flirting with her in all the ways planes like is actually how you get the option to spare her! omg that was such a great decision having that be the way to beat her XDXD also theres a news-like segment later in the game where one of the stories scrolling at the bottom of the screen talks about a plane holding up a line at a grocery store or something after questioning why it has to buy the products its trying to be sold XDXD totally awesome!! anti-consumerist planes!!
point is...you need to play this game x3 it has everything! =D
love the tidal wave of Undertale art thats been sweeping over DA/FA too x3 i downloaded Undertale on Saturday and there were i think 800-something results on FA, today there are well over 1000 XD
oh...and anthropormorphic aircraft are referenced multiple times in this game XD one of the "enemies" is a living airplane called a "tsunderplane", which is a female airliner that pretends not to like you, but secretly does x3 flirting with her in all the ways planes like is actually how you get the option to spare her! omg that was such a great decision having that be the way to beat her XDXD also theres a news-like segment later in the game where one of the stories scrolling at the bottom of the screen talks about a plane holding up a line at a grocery store or something after questioning why it has to buy the products its trying to be sold XDXD totally awesome!! anti-consumerist planes!!
point is...you need to play this game x3 it has everything! =D
aeromorph slave auction?
General | Posted 10 years agowould anybody on FA be willing to pay for adoptable aeromorph slave characters in auction? cuz i got a really sexy idea for a series of pics involving a slave auction, with aeromorphs being the slaves getting sold XD
[EDIT]: i'm implying that these characters will be sold as SEX slaves, to be "politically correct"...there are plenty of sex slave auction pics out there in the furry fandom, using the term "slave auction" kinda implies something like that within the context of this website
i figured i'd create 4 characters, 2 males and 2 females, all based on specific airplanes, all with different physical features and liveries to make it a variety =D as for the prices, i'd probably set the starting bids off low, around 2 or 4 dollars, then set a standard 2 dollars per bid minimum after that. since there arent many of us plane people around, i figured such low prices might increase the chances of people actually taking notice and buying the characters getting auctioned! XD
here is how its set up in my mind as of now:
4 characters at auction
2$ minimum per bid after starting
all costs must be paid via paypal
auction duration will be one week, then a journal will be written declaring the winners
character colors and features cannot be altered, but names can be changed
winners must draw their character at least once, i wanna see what their new masters have in mind for them >:3
does this sound like a reasonable thing? cuz either way i plan on doing the drawings based on this, whether or not the actual auction happens XD it would be nice if more than just a handful of people got involved too, maybe i'll have a rule making participants post a journal about the auction to get the word out to more people, idk, have never done anything like this before so yeah, suggestions and such would be very helpful x3
[EDIT]: i'm implying that these characters will be sold as SEX slaves, to be "politically correct"...there are plenty of sex slave auction pics out there in the furry fandom, using the term "slave auction" kinda implies something like that within the context of this website
i figured i'd create 4 characters, 2 males and 2 females, all based on specific airplanes, all with different physical features and liveries to make it a variety =D as for the prices, i'd probably set the starting bids off low, around 2 or 4 dollars, then set a standard 2 dollars per bid minimum after that. since there arent many of us plane people around, i figured such low prices might increase the chances of people actually taking notice and buying the characters getting auctioned! XD
here is how its set up in my mind as of now:
4 characters at auction
2$ minimum per bid after starting
all costs must be paid via paypal
auction duration will be one week, then a journal will be written declaring the winners
character colors and features cannot be altered, but names can be changed
winners must draw their character at least once, i wanna see what their new masters have in mind for them >:3
does this sound like a reasonable thing? cuz either way i plan on doing the drawings based on this, whether or not the actual auction happens XD it would be nice if more than just a handful of people got involved too, maybe i'll have a rule making participants post a journal about the auction to get the word out to more people, idk, have never done anything like this before so yeah, suggestions and such would be very helpful x3
dragonplanes
General | Posted 10 years agoso for the last month or so (though really only 2 to 3 weeks) i've been seeing a TON of aeromorph/dragon style characters explode onto FA =D basically they're anthro dragons with airplane features, making them look similar to straight up aeromorphs. there are so many pics of dragonplanes here that i've lost count of how many artists were drawing them (was around 10 the last time i checked) with more appearing every day ^^ and i have to say, i think they're cute =D adds a nice "furry" spin to the concept of an aeromorph =D (even if i prefer "pure" aeromorph characters the best x3) which tells me that us aeromorph types are starting to get better received by the furry fandom as a whole ^^
as the aeromorph community continues to grow within the furry fandom, its important artists out there take the concept of an anthropomorphic plane and add their own spin on it =D this spreads the concept farther in the fandom and makes it more diverse =D so yeah...keep up all the dragonplane art =D
...though it would be nice if more artists out there drew non-anthro "feral" aeromorphs, especially "feral" aeromorph porn, cuz yeah, the number of active artists on FA that draw that kind of aeromorph porn can probably fit on one hand XD
as the aeromorph community continues to grow within the furry fandom, its important artists out there take the concept of an anthropomorphic plane and add their own spin on it =D this spreads the concept farther in the fandom and makes it more diverse =D so yeah...keep up all the dragonplane art =D
...though it would be nice if more artists out there drew non-anthro "feral" aeromorphs, especially "feral" aeromorph porn, cuz yeah, the number of active artists on FA that draw that kind of aeromorph porn can probably fit on one hand XD
dear FA...
General | Posted 10 years agoplease fix the following problems:
#1: the advance search button no longer works when clicked...this is extremely annoying when trying to browse for art
#2: the image previews on userpages for gallery/favorites only shows the latest image of each, no longer showing whatever image the mouse rolls over. this is annoying for artists who put thumbnails on all their artwork
#3: the "check all" option in the message center isnt there anymore, this needs to be fixed as sometimes people just want to clear one page of submissions instead of deleting everything...or having to meticulously check every submission in order to "delete checked"
seriously FA...you are under better management now, there should be no reason for shit like this. these are features of the site that are actually convenient and do not need to be fucked with. if you want to get more people to use the beta version of the site...just switch everybody over permanently instead of trying to smoke us out by breaking features one by one until we switch
#1: the advance search button no longer works when clicked...this is extremely annoying when trying to browse for art
#2: the image previews on userpages for gallery/favorites only shows the latest image of each, no longer showing whatever image the mouse rolls over. this is annoying for artists who put thumbnails on all their artwork
#3: the "check all" option in the message center isnt there anymore, this needs to be fixed as sometimes people just want to clear one page of submissions instead of deleting everything...or having to meticulously check every submission in order to "delete checked"
seriously FA...you are under better management now, there should be no reason for shit like this. these are features of the site that are actually convenient and do not need to be fucked with. if you want to get more people to use the beta version of the site...just switch everybody over permanently instead of trying to smoke us out by breaking features one by one until we switch
short burst of activity
General | Posted 10 years agoso now that i resolved my computer situation last month...buying a replacement hard drive and re-installing windows 7, pretty much rebuilding my comp from the ground up (after having to download 5 years worth of windows updates XDXD) i am starting to get back into the swing of things =D
i have a bunch of MSpaint pics i drew, both before the crash (that i managed to recover from various sources) and after, that are all upload worthy =D albeit some in scraps XD but still lol
so expect a short burst of activity here ^^ one of these days i'll draw a traditional porn pic again, but i'm still trying to recover my drive when it comes to traditional art XD but i think its already common knowledge that i work SUPER FUCKING SLOW as it is, so its not anything too surprising lmao
comments and faves (but especially comments) are appreciated! thank ya!
i have a bunch of MSpaint pics i drew, both before the crash (that i managed to recover from various sources) and after, that are all upload worthy =D albeit some in scraps XD but still lol
so expect a short burst of activity here ^^ one of these days i'll draw a traditional porn pic again, but i'm still trying to recover my drive when it comes to traditional art XD but i think its already common knowledge that i work SUPER FUCKING SLOW as it is, so its not anything too surprising lmao
comments and faves (but especially comments) are appreciated! thank ya!
hard drive destroyed
General | Posted 11 years agoso last night i decided to be a dumbass and hit my computer a little too hard after it was loading really slow...and apparently i hit it hard enough to destroy the reading/writing mechanism on my hard drive...so 5 years worth of data (if there is any left) is now entombed on the platter, unable to be accessed unless i pay 500-1000$ to have a hard drive forensics expert extract it for me. originally i thought it was just a booting issue cuz the computer bluescreened for half a second at starting, only to reset and do the same thing again and again. but after staying up until 4 in the morning running diagnostics, the error code it gave me was hard drive related...and after going to two different computer places today to test the drive, i dont think i'm ever going to be able to get at the data that is still there unless i pay a fortune, which was technically supposed to be money for a car but yeah...clearly i'm gonna have to get a new laptop cuz i'm back typing on the computer i used from before i joined DA, which is itself starting to fail cuz its so old >.<
i dont have any words to describe how devastating this is. there were things on that hard drive that could never be replaced, photos and drawings i never backed up or uploaded, RPs i saved, music videos i made, and just about everything else that anybody would consider extremely important that dont have a price tag. its like having half your family die, i almost cried in the car when i left Geek Squad.
so now i have to pay for a new laptop without any way of being able to save the data from my old and now useless one. if money werent an issue i would pay that 500-1000 bucks to recover the data (even at the expense of having somebody else look at all my files...) but thats money i just dont have. i will be able to get a new laptop though, but only just, and it will still be bittersweet without everything from my old one. if only i could turn back time and fucking drop kick myself before i hit my laptop, but i cant. this is officially the worst day of my life and i only got my own dumb ass to blame
RIP, Dell Inspiron 1545 (2009/10-2015)
i dont have any words to describe how devastating this is. there were things on that hard drive that could never be replaced, photos and drawings i never backed up or uploaded, RPs i saved, music videos i made, and just about everything else that anybody would consider extremely important that dont have a price tag. its like having half your family die, i almost cried in the car when i left Geek Squad.
so now i have to pay for a new laptop without any way of being able to save the data from my old and now useless one. if money werent an issue i would pay that 500-1000 bucks to recover the data (even at the expense of having somebody else look at all my files...) but thats money i just dont have. i will be able to get a new laptop though, but only just, and it will still be bittersweet without everything from my old one. if only i could turn back time and fucking drop kick myself before i hit my laptop, but i cant. this is officially the worst day of my life and i only got my own dumb ass to blame
RIP, Dell Inspiron 1545 (2009/10-2015)
redraw project
General | Posted 11 years agoso i've been kinda low on ideas for drawings here for the last few months, other than Paint doodles that i've expanded into decent pics (which i'll continue doing as a lot of the ideas i do get work better in digital...easier to draw and such)
but since the last time i uploaded a traditional pic was back in February, i figured its about time i get back into traditional again, especially considering i no longer live with my grandma anymore so i actually have time and privacy to do adult art again XD
i'll be going through the pics i uploaded in the 2010-2012 era and re-drawing some of them in my current style =D cuz a lot of the sexiest ideas were done back then, but the shading and coloring was horrible, so yeah...they need to be updated XDXD
most of the pics are gonna be traced from the old ones though (dont judge me its my own art XDXD) and just colored in with my current style of shading =D cuz my line art hasn't changed much over the years. but a few drawings will be completely re-done, and will take longer to do XD i already have two traced linearts from older pics that i'll start coloring tomorrow, and a whole stack of old pics that are all destined to be redrawn, so yeah =D expect more REAL art soon ;)
but since the last time i uploaded a traditional pic was back in February, i figured its about time i get back into traditional again, especially considering i no longer live with my grandma anymore so i actually have time and privacy to do adult art again XD
i'll be going through the pics i uploaded in the 2010-2012 era and re-drawing some of them in my current style =D cuz a lot of the sexiest ideas were done back then, but the shading and coloring was horrible, so yeah...they need to be updated XDXD
most of the pics are gonna be traced from the old ones though (dont judge me its my own art XDXD) and just colored in with my current style of shading =D cuz my line art hasn't changed much over the years. but a few drawings will be completely re-done, and will take longer to do XD i already have two traced linearts from older pics that i'll start coloring tomorrow, and a whole stack of old pics that are all destined to be redrawn, so yeah =D expect more REAL art soon ;)
Ot Vinta 3D (От винта 3D) avaliable again!
General | Posted 11 years agoso last month i discovered a program called "onedrive" which is sorta like Microsoft's version of Dropbox XD only better cuz there are not as many upload limits =D but i realized that with this new program...i can once again share my English subtitled version of Ot Vinta 3D (От винта 3D) with the world which has been unavailable for about a year now cuz it was taken down from my youtube account in September of 2013 (and i subsequently shut my whole account down after that) and after the American version "Wings" came out last summer...the world really needs to see the original Russian version, it is INFINITELY better than what Lionsgate did to the film last year >.< so yeah..here it is! =D
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D376645FA1565F99!124&authkey=!AEkm1Vx879HmNPw&ithint=video%2c.wmv
bear in mind the quality of the video was not very good even when it was on youtube ^^; the audio is VERY quiet so you have to crank the volume to hear it, plus the video seems to be a lot grainier when you view it directly from Onedrive. i would HIGHLY recommend that you download this for yourselves, the file is a little over 1GB so its kinda big, but not terrible. the quality of the video will be better than it was on youtube if you download it yourself. plus you'll then have a copy of the greatest living airplane movie ever made for yourself that nobody can take away! >:3
plz let me know if there are any issues, enjoy
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D376645FA1565F99!124&authkey=!AEkm1Vx879HmNPw&ithint=video%2c.wmv
bear in mind the quality of the video was not very good even when it was on youtube ^^; the audio is VERY quiet so you have to crank the volume to hear it, plus the video seems to be a lot grainier when you view it directly from Onedrive. i would HIGHLY recommend that you download this for yourselves, the file is a little over 1GB so its kinda big, but not terrible. the quality of the video will be better than it was on youtube if you download it yourself. plus you'll then have a copy of the greatest living airplane movie ever made for yourself that nobody can take away! >:3
plz let me know if there are any issues, enjoy
comments plz
General | Posted 12 years agoaccording to my list 241 people watch me, but yet only 4 or 5 of that 241 actually comments on my artwork consistently D= same goes for faves too, is like 98% of my watchers are dead D=
i know a lot of people (myself included) fave and run on this site XD but still, its not like every pic i upload has absolutely nothing that cant be commented on D= i do put a lot of effort into my pics, even if they pale in comparison to most of the digital art out there on this site XD so i like getting feedback, positive or negative (though i would really prefer positive, if possible XDXD)
i know a lot of people (myself included) fave and run on this site XD but still, its not like every pic i upload has absolutely nothing that cant be commented on D= i do put a lot of effort into my pics, even if they pale in comparison to most of the digital art out there on this site XD so i like getting feedback, positive or negative (though i would really prefer positive, if possible XDXD)
looking for RP doms
General | Posted 12 years agocalling all RPers!! i am looking for anybody who is willing to play the dom in any adult RP, living airplane characters preferred but anything else is OK at this point cuz for some reason people find playing doms hard (idk why but they do)
we can RP through notes (both here and on DA) or through Yahoo IM, MSN, or Skype
PLEASE HELP ME, i type detailed posts and am very dirty minded, so you will like RPing with me as long as you can handle living airplanes
here are my RPing rules;
NO vore (both regular or vagina), unbirth, inflation, anything that involves pregnancy (live or egg birth), or gore, AND YOU MUST POST MORE THAN ONE LINE REPLIES (i hate skimpy replies after typing out a detailed scene)
oh, and my GF and I recognize the fact that RPs are not real, so yeah, we dont get offended if either of us RP with other people, so please do not be afraid to approach me, cuz yeah, so long as you also recognize that RPs are fake then you will be safe >:3
we can RP through notes (both here and on DA) or through Yahoo IM, MSN, or Skype
PLEASE HELP ME, i type detailed posts and am very dirty minded, so you will like RPing with me as long as you can handle living airplanes
here are my RPing rules;
NO vore (both regular or vagina), unbirth, inflation, anything that involves pregnancy (live or egg birth), or gore, AND YOU MUST POST MORE THAN ONE LINE REPLIES (i hate skimpy replies after typing out a detailed scene)
oh, and my GF and I recognize the fact that RPs are not real, so yeah, we dont get offended if either of us RP with other people, so please do not be afraid to approach me, cuz yeah, so long as you also recognize that RPs are fake then you will be safe >:3
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