Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka was a frightening man. When he first appears, he is staggering painfully about on a cane; then he falls, turns it into a somersault and finishes with a melodramatic "Ta-dah!"

It couldn't be clearer. "You think you know who I am? You think you know what I want? Wrong. I'm lying to you." He is less a candy maker than the Satan of a chocolate-themed purgatory. Horrible things will happen to you there - unless you are both noble and incorruptible.

Johnny Depp's was a weirdo.

I've always wanted to revisit some bits of unfinished business in Foxforce.

I actually started a novel about Victoria, but there wasn't really a plot so that was abandoned. ("THRILL as Victoria struggles to get her GED!")

And there's got to be more to Janet then we've seen so far. Granted, she's an idiot SJW but idiot SJWs have their sympathetic side, too. What ever attracted her to Silverfox and vice-versa? How did they fall out?

"Cheshire Goes to a Con" might be a possibility too.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10551469/

http://clawandquill.net/2014/12/dec.....ans-technofox/


Highly recommended, because this is obviously serious business.

Yep. So what's your take on the Nazi's attitude towards Chimera?

Ooo, good one. I'll probably turn this into a journal entry.

First, I'd say that there has to be some acceptance of the notion, since the Conils exist and they wouldn't without at least tacit Nazi acceptance of the notion.

That said, I see the Nazi philosophy as fundamentally driven by notions of Aryan superiority, They tended to see things along racial lines. I don't see them creating an artificial race with the notion of their being "equals" in any sense, since they tended to set up racially-based hierarchies.

I could easily see them using chimera technology to create a "perfect Aryan" subrace, sort of a posthuman development project. Shades of Iron Dream and the Shanna the She-Devil reboot.

The Soviets could easily go two different ways, using Chimera technology to prodce the "New Soviet Man" or doning it altogether, as happened historically with automation under Stalin.

"Before George Zucco died, he begged Ed Wood for work. Wood didn't have anything going on, and felt awful for the rest of the day."

"Not that scary."

Pagliacci is an 1892 opera by Leoncavallo. I assume most of us have heard the Pagliacci Joke, which goes something like this:

A man goes to a doctor and says, "Doctor, I love my job, but there are days it is torture to get out of bed. I love my friends, but being with them is like having razors slit my ears. Just being alive is torture, and there's no reason why. There are times I'm convinced I will never be happy again, and I can't live this way."

The doctor says, "Well, that's common. It's 1892 and nobody's diagnosed this yet, but I can give you some advice. Go see the world's greatest and merriest clown, Pagliacci. His antics make stone statues laugh. He won't cure you, but he will take you outside of yourself for a while, and maybe relieve what you're feeling."

The man shakes his head, "Doctor, I am Pagliacci."

If this story isn't the first reasonably accurate depiction of clinical depression, it's certainly on the short list.

So, when Pinkie Pie got tickets to see Ponyacci in My Little Pony: Micro Series 5 I was psyched. Naturally, I didn't expect it to end with an ambiguous suicide / accident; but I think it's quite possible to give Pagliacci an upbeat, even happy ending while still remaining true to the story. I'd pick "Pinkie Pie convinces him that this is not something he can 'deal' with; and he starts getting treatment."

There is so much to this story that I'd want children to be exposed to. Depression is a disease. It is not 'being sad all the time.' It is not your fault, it is not your fault if a friend has it. You need to get help if someone has it. Entertainers are not the people they pretend to be. And sometimes, the people who make us laugh hardest and longest are not themselves happy.

Robin Williams was just the most recent case.

What the story isn't about is retiring to start a school.

Now, I don't know who to blame for this mess. I don't even know if I can call it a mess: for what it is, the story isn't awful. Maybe the writer thought this was a good idea, maybe the editors made him tear the guts out of the story. I dunno.

I will say it's the worst violation of a classic story I've seen since Troy.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12920135/

I don't know why this tickled me so much. Maybe because it just seems so, well, reasonable.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12756493/

I'm still laughing.

Obviously, Shadowfox has people she sleeps with because she likes them, and she has people she sleeps with because she's manipulating them.

What word do you think she should use for people in that latter category?

First, I encourage you all to go out and read his biography, First Man.

I visited the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Ohio. And I remember thinking that he was probably the only astronaut who wouldn't want a museum to be named after him.

Dang. I wish he had lived long enough to see us go back.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8279774/

I need a M/F sex act with an active male -- in other words, it needs to be something the male "could do better." So, an act where it's more something she does to him won't work as well.

I'd rather it be something that I haven't spent much time on.

Any suggestions?

Will of the Alpha is an adult BDSM anthology book now available for pre-order:

http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=566

I've got a story in there. It takes place within the Foxforce universe, although none of the four make an appearance.

I haven't seen the other stories yet, although I look forward to seeing them when my copy arrives.

As I mentioned, I'm working on Shadowfox.

Unfortunately, the work isn't going as quickly as before. I don't think I can keep up a monthly release schedule. And heck, I don't even have an icon for it.

So I'm not sure if I should release each chapter when it's done, or wait until it's almost done.

I've heard people complain that a monthly schedule between installments makes it difficult to follow, and I agree. So I've been thinking of doing a weekly schedule instead.

But either way, there would be a long delay before releasing it.

So, thoughts?

I needed to research "places to have sex in public in Seattle" for Shadowfox and a Google search found hits.

In Technofox, our fuzzy nerdette changes the key to an encrypted archive to insert data. I've had a couple of people ask me about this, so I thought it might be nice to go into this in a bit more depth.

Suppose we have a short message:

H E L L O [Original message]

and we have a key the same length as the message

5 2 9 8 2 [Key]

This particular cipher is simple because this is an example: we just "add" the number in the key to the position of the letter in the alphabet. So here, we produce the encrypted string

M G U T Q [Encrypted message]

[And yeah, we're just using capital letters in this example. In reality, it's all binary math, because the computer sees the world as ones and zeros...]

In the story, Technofox and some other people both had access to the encrypted message. They can't break it, because if a key is the same length as an encrypted message and the key is truly random, then there are no patterns to find and exploit.

Technofox then finds the key. She's the only one who has it. But she tells the other people that the key was

9 18 14 13 18

The other people, trusting her [the fools!] then use her key to decrypt the message, and they get

D O G G Y

which is what our clever little fox wanted them to see.

"Hello, Tali, I'm here to recruit -- I mean, rescue you from the Geth. Are you all right?"

"Shepherd! It's good to see you. Did you see the Quarian Marines who were also trying to save me?"

"Uhm, well... by the time we got here there was only one guy left. He was wounded, under cover with a rocket launcher. He offered to suppress the Geth as the rest of us ran across the courtyard, under fire. It seemed like a good idea at the time..."

"...What happened to him?"

"Apparently 'stay here under cover and lay down suppressing fire' is Quarian for 'jump into the enemy's killing zone and yell.'"

"Oh."

"What really hurts is I got fifteen Renegade points for that."

"Shut up."

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=Fo.....f0855,aa8a7a5f

Docstock appears to be an online repository for documents that small businesses might find useful.

Apparently, someone uploaded Chapter 5 of Firefox. It was removed for "Inappropriate Content."

...Okay, but who would upload it, and why?

80's Action flick.
A world made only of cheese.
Schwarzenegger rules.

Macabre delight.
"Doctor Phibes will see you now."
Vincent Price kicks ass.

I've been asked a couple of times if people could write in the world created for Foxforce, and my generic answer is yes, please just credit me and Dynotaku, link back to us, and send me a link when it's posted.

But sometimes people have specific questions and I'd like to open this journal so people have a place to post questions.

If it's a question you'd rather keep private though, then by all means send me a private message.

MOMO: I guess what troubles me most is that ... well, people don't like my creator.

SHION: Yes, I can see that, what with him being responsible for all that death and all.

MOMO: But does being the spawn of pure evil make me a bad person?

SHION: Well... I don't think Mizrahi was a bad person, despite all the death. How could he be? I mean, he was a genius, and brilliant people are always good. Right?

MOMO: Uhm...

SHION: If it weren't for Mizrahi, we wouldn't have all these wonderful things to fight over.

KOS-MOS: If I may interrupt, Momo, am I a simpering bimbo?

SHION: Huh?

MOMO: Uhm, no.

KOS-MOS: Then my work here is done.

MOMO: Thank you, Kos-mos. I feel better now.

SHION: ...Watch it, robot. I gave you that rack and I can take it away.

[On the bridge of the good spaceship Elsa, the captain pauses from riding his camera crane to deal with the appearance of KOS-MOS in the window]

KOS-MOS: Captain, I require you to turn your ship over to me.

CAPTAIN: What the hell?

KOS-MOS: I am not a dead human, I --

CAPTAIN: No, I get that -- you're a cyborg or something. It's just that I can see stars through your arm. Are you supposed to be translucent? Or did they screw up the layers and put the stars on top of you?

KOS-MOS: I can't see from here. I need your ship.

CAPTAIN: Don't make demands little lady, except in bed.

KOS-MOS: Then I shall be forced to break this window.

CAPTAIN: Teh funny.

[KOS-MOS cracks window]

CAPTAIN: Oh, poopie. We give. What are you after anyway, little lady?

KOS-MOS: My Prime Directive requires me to bring the Zohar Emulator to the Federation. My Secondary Directive requires me to protect Vector personnel. My Tertiary Directive requires me to pound the genitals of sexual predators into a homogenous paste.

CAPTAIN: ...Gotcha. Loud and clear.

KOS-MOS: Speaking of which, who was it who proposed raping my corpse?

http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/.....-tigress72.jpg

I just really liked this picture of Tigre -- I believe it's either the first or second that ever came to my attention. I'm not sure how to get in touch with the artist -- she has an account here apparently, but it's been idle for a long time.