...feel free to unwatch me.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/bge20_vote

Come watch me be nice to things destroy all that which I made and held dear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dAAS2cWM0s

In a bit. *ominous thunder*

(That's 10:00PM on GMT +00:00.)

*more ominous thunder*

Don't normally put stream notices up here. Or much of anything, really. I mean, who reads these things? Not me...

Anyway, here's a thing.
Starts in two hours as of writing. Come watch me be nice to things.

This is terrific news. It probably won't be the start of enlightenment for the Supreme Court, but we'll have something to point to when it turns out that, no, this won't end the world or hex the third-world countries or make the rivers run red with heathen blood.

Nope. Not even going to make an "Any hole's a goal; even a manhole" joke. It's a great thing that we finally have the acceptance of law that one person can legally express *love* for another person without being vilified. Because that's what it is, right? It's fighting for the right to have a homo-couple's deep affection recognised legally. It's not something that the law should get involved in anyway (or, really, has the right to), to illegalise love, but at the very least, it's not an arbitrary obstacle any longer.

Unfortunately, it'll probably take even longer for this opinion to take hold (and it'll probably be tough to find a bakery willing to provide confectionery for the weddings), but the people who are of the negative persuasion have been taught some very outdated things from a book that has almost no logistical relevance nowadays (the bulk of which happened around 2000 years ago, hasn't really been updated since, and is vague and flaky enough to be reinterpreted time and time again by saints and sworn acolytes). Those people shouldn't be punished nor attacked nor mocked. This is what they think is morally right, and it's up to others to gently update their understanding of how the world works. After all, an opinion forced on others is no opinion at all, and we would be no better than the bigots who insist that a man who sleeps with another man is an abomination.

Christianity is pretty great, and it teaches a lot of useful things (being kind to one another, charity, sanctity of life, respect), but perhaps it is time to not let oneself be defined by their religion any longer. To be a Christian, but not be beholden to opinions and standards that were formed before one's bloodline even started.

I don't know, but I stopped trying to get into Heaven about fourteen years ago, because I wanted to help make the Earth more pleasant (with impulse charity, mostly), and what I was taught was in conflict with what I believed. If we could have more success like the homo-marriage institution, we'd have no need for Heaven.

We'd already be there.

So I hear that One Direction is splitting up and, par for the course, teens are cutting themselves out of obsessive idolatry.

This is absolutely pathetic. No band or pop-culture entity gives a shit about you beyond being a demographic. One person cutting themselves is not going to inspire them to get together. Ten people won't. A thousand people won't. Claiming you have the power to enforce your will on a a corporate entity by holding yourself hostage is selfish and moronic. I won't go into any sort of speculation that they did this to boost social media attention (and thus acclaim and sales) because that's not the point. They did what they did and nobody else has a say in the matter.

Don't get me wrong. Self-harm is a tragedy when it's done out of desperation or social desolation. Doing it because your fucking sparkly flash-in-the-pan senpais are breaking up is just showing how little you are removing from the world by threatening to remove yourself from it.

In conclusion, if you're going to go One Direction, make sure it's the right one: down the middle. The rest of us will collectively shrug and continue on the true Direction - forwards.

NO, IT BLOODY WELL ISN'T.

It wasn't Pi Day the last time you idiots brought it up, and it sure as hell isn't now.

ISO 8601. Fucking look it up. It explains how you calendar, and how, under this well-established global system, the very concept of Pi Day is impossible.

Go back to debating among yourselves whether or not the dress was blue or not.

Mystery Skulls was a thing.

It was also unremarkable. And now it is trite.
You can all go back to work and stop drawing fanart and porn of it now. I'm sure you have better things to do than give Sir Dan Fortesque a pompadour and a dick, and I'm sure you have slightly better things to do then make a bopping avatar.

Yes, it was a thing. Can we get over it, like we do all fads?

Thank you.

I want to shout out my support to  servo117. Why? Because he's being attacked for things he is legally entitled to do. Let's rewind a bit.

One of Servo's schemes is that he buys characters that are up for sale ("adoptables"), and then destroys them through vore. Now yes, that's a pretty mean thing to do, and artists are right to feel a bit, y'know, desolated that their heartfelt creations are being destroyed fetishistically. This is sort of like having someone come along to knock over a house of cards you very carefully erecte--
Who am I kidding? Of course it isn't fucking like that.

A lot of the adoptables up to post are sent off with the intention that the buyer owns them and is free to do whatever they wish. Granted, what Servo does is a bit...surreptitious. If he tells the artist that he intends to kill their sold character, they would likely decline his custom and find someone a little more loving to sell their character to.

But this is the internet. If you don't lay down in black and white that you don't want your characters to be degraded, abused, or killed, you should specify that in the terms. To use the above analogy, this is like giving someone your house of cards for $12 and getting angry when they punch it over. Yeah, it's a nice structure and you probably put a whole lot of care into it. But come on, it's not yours anymore.
If I were to buy a car, drive it home, and then whale on it with a crowbar, the dealership isn't going to sue or report me to the police, because I own the car. If it's a Gallardo, then probably a lot of love and passion went into the design and fabrication of it, but it's still my car and I'm still gonna whack the shit out of it if that is what I want to do, and Lamborghini will not stop me.

So what this is is not a "call-out" journal for getting Servo lynched, because I respect his legal right to do with his new things what he will, and with no conditions stating that he cannot do such things. I want to doff my hat to this guy. I don't exactly like what he's doing, and I'd probably be pissed if I poured my heart and soul into a character only to sell it to someone and hear they kill them off unceremoniously. But I didn't buy the adoptable, I didn't supply the adoptable, and my opinion in the matter is only that. The auctioneer gets their money, Servo gets food, the world keeps on spinning.

Finally, I want to make two non-specific call-outs. One salty-teared idiot compared this act to racial segregation. I won't write the whole quote out (I will paraphrase it because I like hovering close to the danger-zone). They likened the trade and subsequent destruction of scribbles on paper to the oppression of people of a different race. The mind boggles with stupid, and I hope they remember to close their mouth the next time they get in the shower so they don't drown like a turkey in the rain. This reeks of false equivalence, and completely downplays a great injustice that is still being propagated. And it is being compared to legally-traded material that is being masturbated to. That simultaneously downplays racism, and makes makes this non-issue more serious than it ever had a right to be.

The other person is one of possibly-countless others, who reported Servo to the admins. If these reports amount to anything other than a collective giggle around the FA admins, then it will prove Intelligent Design and the existence of God. That God exists, hates justice (He sets a hardcore precedent about this, mind), and worked tirelessly to create the biggest pile of losers and morons around.

Keep going, Servo117. We don't have to like what you do, but it is unjust to deny you your right to do this (unless the artist says specifically that the character is not to be defiled, at which point, yeah, you're kind of a dick and should be ashamed of yourself for violating a merchant contract) Just keep the money rolling out and you'll be doing nothing wrong.
And let the people making hateful call-out journals be banned because they are the only party violating the rules. Because I'm reporting each journal I see, and I encourage others to do the same.

(Edit:) Oh, this is great. The head moron who was leading the anti-Servo charge got suspended!!
I'm crying inside, you guys. Tears of joy and hilarity.

I swear on my still-beating heart that he said this to me: "raising awareness to an issue and insulting members is not against the rules, otherwise I'd be banned long ago. lol". Section 1, Item 2 would like to disagree with him. And seeing as he is suspended, it is apparently more convincing than his impotent rage.
Every so often, the stars align, and a cosmic beam strikes the earth. And from that spot grows the single stupidest vegetable to ever exist. And then it reproduces with spores and they all show similar stupidity.

Oh, I love furry drama. I so do.

(Edit:) This journal post by Samanthaweltzin describes the position far more levelheadedly and eloquently than I could. Give it a read.

So, I've been seeing this in my Journal box about eighty-trillion times. And every time, I think one thing.....

"Get a fucking grip on yourself."

My understanding of the situation is that one of the people working on the upcoming reskin is accused of...well, sexual pressure. And so far, all I've seen is hearsay, but given how inept the staff are at member issues, staff issues and priorities, and how nepotist they are, the "evidence" is compelling, were I into baseless gossip. Except I'm not. And you should not be either.

The staff here is laughably poorly maintained and, to an extent, corrupt. That much, we are reasonably certain of. But there is little evidence to go on about the rape. And until I see a positive rape-kit , I'm not weighing in my opinion on that. I'm weighing in my opinion for everyone who thinks that leaving is a good idea:

You're all morons.

Seriously. Ha ha... Do you really think that migrating to Weasyl is going to make anything happen? Do you think that your indignance is going to correct what is a deep-rooted issue with the staff ethics? These are people who are known for obliterating posts when it inconveniences them (long before this kerfuffle happened). They are believed to routinely embezzle donation money, they know next to nothing about hardware that would do this site worlds of good. One member leaving won't make a difference. Fifty would not make a difference. 50% also probably would not make a difference. They know Weasyl is a strong competitor, and they won't care if you leave.

Don't get me wrong, it's difficult to tolerate a place run by people of such muddy morals, dubious talents, or tenuous PR, but if you don't interact with such people, leaving just makes your exit just look like a token stance on these issues.
Go on, get out of here. I subscribed to you because I liked your content, and if you're willing to turn your back on your subscribers because of some misguided attempt to be democratic through protest, then that's your prerogative and I wish you well wherethrough you will not hit yourself on the door. Go find yourselves a tree to chain yourselves to.

(No, I am not leaving. My contributions here are a bit flaky as is, but I'm here for the site and the art, not the administration.)

The opinions expressed underneath are simply opinions and are not to be taken as unilateral consensus. That said, I will probably be speaking a bit strongly. Sorry if I offend anyone.

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For some reason, I see a lot of artwork depicting Brian (the late dog character from FOX's Family Guy sitcom). I don't understand this.

Brian is not a particularly attractive character. He's not a smart or admirable character. He only existed to serve as Seth MacFarlane's political mouthpiece. Even as far as a character ascribing to the furry fandom goes, Brian is unremarkable. The bulk of his sexual comedy is that he's a dog with canine characteristics (can't stand up in moving vans, but can somehow perform a whole musical number on a freight train), and that he tries to score with bimbos in spite of being a dog.

There's a reason why Brian was the poster child for TV Tropes's 'Dethroning Moment of Suck: Western Animation: Family Guy' subpage - Because he's a generally unlikable character who exists only as MacFarlane's raging opinion-boner. And he had two glorious minutes of getting the shit verbally beaten out of him.

He's a stocky, unattractive, unfit, moronic entity whose only remotely positive merit is his elocution. That is not something I would tap. In spite of my fetishistic oddities, I do not find it a sensible thing to make any erotic investment for.
Seth MacFarlane is an intelligent, witty, charming man, and his voice is hot. Family Guy is a show I will turn over to if there's not really anything else on. But holy shit, why Brian? He's about as interesting as an unpainted fence-post. That would be like sexually showcasing the Claptrap from Borderlands, or Hans Moleman from The Simpsons. Why not pick an attractive male furry character? Like Crash Bandicoot?

Can anyone tell me what the point of marking something "NSFW" around here is?
I know that it stands for "Not Safe For Work", and my understanding of it is is that if you have it up on your screen as your boss walks past, your career is pretty much done for. But there are a lot of supposedly "SFW" images that would be unwise to look at at work.

The fact that this is a furry fetish site aside, "NSFW" shouldn't just mean "beware - dicks in this pic". I just happened upon a picture of some furry showering, pressed suggestively against the glass. The NSFW-version of it was just that he had a visible (and unrealistically large) wiener. I'm pretty sure if my boss saw me looking at the "safe" version of this image, I'd be out of work anyway.

That said, I wonder if anyone's ever tried to sue the content owner for being fired for looking at art the uploader had declared as "SFW"?

I've seen SFWs of couples laying on top of each other and grinding. What was apparently "safe" was that their genitals were either obscured, censored, or outright absent. But when you get down to it, it's two furries making pelvic friction. Dick or no, that's still sexual.

That's not safe for work.

So Skyrim PC has a vore mod. This normally wouldn't bother me (it is probably old news by now), but only now have I managed to get my Xbox save file to the PC (to use with a copy of Skyrim that I purchased in a Steam Summer Sale for £2).
I have a post-game Khajit, LV81, and the best thing is is that I stopped playing this game by the time I got to the "Civil War" story arc, and I hadn't even touched Dark Brotherhood.

This is absolutely splendid.

With a bit of practice to hone my "abilities", I will be the perfect assassin. I will snatch them from their beds. I will pull them into alleys. I will corner them in corridors. And they will vanish without trace (save for a bit of fat on me).

Yes, I know Skyrim's on its way out, but I get to be a fat kitty devouring his way across a country. This is practically my dream.

Let's get that rant on the front of my Profile Page away, shall we?

Contagion kicks ass. Best $45 I've spent in a while. The players are mostly dicks through. One guy kept killing himself just so he could come back as a zombie to terrorise people. And people like to hoard ammo and not share it with anyone. I had only an empty SiG Sauer and a grenade in my pockets. I would have blown everyone up, but my computer bluescreened.

Oh, wait. This was supposed to be a happy journal! Ok...

Science in Kerbal Space Program. Awgh! So satisfying! With Sandbox mode, you could fit anything, go anywhere. But having to unlock the stuff with Science is very character-building.
Strange, though. One of the methods of data-gathering is known as Mystery Goo, a rare and odd substance apparently found in roadside refuse. The Kerbals could not reach in or extract the fluid, but contently watch it under different environmental conditions.
My problem is the name... Mystery Goo was a synthesis item in Kingdom Hearts.

Someone needs to make fanfic of the Darkness and the Kerbal Space Commission. Maybe involving finding Heartless in the monolith on Mun, or something.

(Disclaimer: This Journal may be offensive.)

Yep, looks like it's that time of the month again. It looks like people are getting butthurt over the NoThanking group and the things it stands for, and I might have expedited one or two of these reactions myself.

Really?

"Boohoo, I have to feel like shit because I said "Thank you" and the bad man didn't want to hear it."

First off, fuck you. It's my right to choose what goes on in the public areas of my profile. If you're offended by the basest privilege one gets here, then go buy yourself a tub of freaking Ben & Jerry's and sob yourself into a pillow for the evening.

Secondly, I have made it abundantly clear in the past that if you perceive a Watch or a Favorite as a service that deserves a Thanks, then you've had a pretty good upbringing. You're a sensible person who will probably do well in society. But my God, just keep it away from me! I don't care. The number that pops up saying I have a Shout is literally more interesting than the Thanks Shout itself, and that's the problem.
Showing someone your thanks is supposed to make them feel good about themselves. I don't need that treatment. Persisting anyway instils me with negative emotion as I notice the number at the top that says someone is talking to me, only for it to be a ten-a-penny disposable sentiment. That defeats the purpose, and I'm pretty sure it makes you the bad guy for incessantly doing something that detracts from my relaxation, in spite of my repeated requests for you to stop it.

I don't want your gratitude! I didn't Watch your account or Favorite a piece of your work to hear you simper like Louie Spence hopped up on Monster! I Watched/Fave'd your stuff because I like what I see, not what I hear. And if you can't accept that without sobbing into your Doritos and Mallow-Mars, then you need to get off the Internet right now, because there's far ruder people than the man who wants to stop the dispensing of insipid sentiment.

Rationalise it all you want. "Oh," you might say in between asthmatic fat-guy gasps for air, "but this is FurAffinity, everyone is supposed to be kind to each other! Camaraderie, community, basic courtesy. That kind of stuff.". Yes, that's true. But do you know what one of the cornerstones of community is? It's the ability to understand the wishes of another person and respecting them. If you're going to walk past the "No Trespassing" signs to ring my doorbell and stand there like a freaking goof, I'm going to push you off of my property. It doesn't matter if you wave happily at me or whatever while you're doing it. You are in my personal space doing something that I have asked clearly for you to not do. I am going to ask that you desist, and that's only because there's no Castle Doctrine in my country and I can't legally shoot you for trespassing.
You have no right to complain. I don't care if you or your friend(s) feel like shit. You saw the message, you posted anyway, get over yourself.

Could I lose Watchers for passing this rant? Maybe. I don't care. If I do, it means that they can't segregate between what I create and what opinions I have. And I draw because I like to and I submit it because I know that (certain) people may find it interesting. Watchers and Favorites are not statistics I care about.

I really don't mean to cause further offense by saying this, but most of you are just a number to me, a byproduct of the Submission process. Very few people here have interacted with me to a degree where they'd stand out to me in a social setting. I have a very low Dunbar's Number. Either make the effort to interact with me properly (I try to be a nice guy, in spite of my appearance here), or don't expect any respect beyond "This is a stranger who is nudging me. Raise shields."
You're not trying to make a meaningful exchange, or gazing into my earthy hazel eyes and trying to determine if I'm your soulmate or not. You're dropping a business card through my mail-slot. Kindly stop it, because it's irritating. Especially when people get butt-sore over it. I expect they'd have complete emotional breakdown if they were rejected by a member of the opposite sex if being rebuffed by a random Internet dickhead like myself upsets them to the point where "they feel like crap" and need the back-up of their self-esteem team.

Many people have recognised that I don't like Thanks Shouts. These people have shown the initiative to follow basic instruction. Even the ones who couldn't and found their error showed initiative. "Thank you" to those people. You guys actually sort of kick ass. Yes, even the ones who say "Thanks. Oh, wait. You said you don't like that stuff. Sorry!".

Well, 101, but the last few submissions were in sequence, so...
I get most of my inspiration to draw from my RP forum, and I've used a few of my close friends (and their characters) in my designs. In particular, FroxMagis has provided me with a large fraction of the artwork, and Jordandahedgy, MasonWolfy, and (most of all) Shadethecat97 have been terrific sports with this form of entertainment.

So, another reputation-less person on some art-site has reached a barely significant benchmark involving art where the best-looking material was not even drawn by them...

...and the people rejoiced...

So I read a journal a few minutes ago (lapseph), about her disdain for people who write "Stop leaving "Thanks" messages". Naturally, this resonates with me as I am one of such people. I won't link to the journal in question (if you want to find it, look for it, and maybe watch her gallery and stuff).
I am quite offended, but she makes a logical point (about things I can't colate in my head right now because I'm tired and I want to get the body of my journal in before I forget). I'm offended because it is a valid point that I happen to disagree with, and it was delivered brutally (and if she's reading this, then "you've aimed well"). Not offended to the point where I'm angry or indignant, but it's kind of a unilateral stance to hold.

Let me run through the process of thought that happens when I see it say _C at the top navbar.

Me: *sees 2C at top navbar* "Oh. Someone's trying to talk to me! Maybe they have critique on my art, or something!"
Shouter: *copy-pasted "Thanks" message*
Me: "Dammit. How about the next one?"
Next shouter: *copy-pasted "Thanks" message*
Me: *hopes thoroughly dashed*

A thanks message is (on a personal level where I'm concerned) tantamount to spam in a system that expects it to be used for that purpose. No, you are not wrong for wanting to thank someone for their patronage. And no, I don't not want to feel the cold unforgiving sting of appreciation. But I don't talk to many people here, so every communication sticks out to me like a crooked nail. I take specific interest in it. And it turns out to be another dime-a-dozen message. In my header that apparently "nobody gives a shit about", I've mentioned many things about my conduct here. I like to roleplay. The shout could be about that. I've dropped an F-List dossier. Maybe someone wanted to discuss it. I've got a few hanging RPs from players who vanished. Perhaps they're trying to reconnect. There are friends I have here whom I can only contact through here. It could be them. I upload a lot of art. Someone having featured in (or having drawn it) could be lodging a complaint with me. I didn't read the rules of this place very carefully. It could very well be a passer-by politely pointing out that I have broken a rule so I can correct it before an admin gives me an infraction.

But no. It's one of those fifty-thousand messages that I need pay no regard to.
I don't care if you feel some obligation to thank me for watching you, whether you handwrite it, copy-paste it, or dammit skywrite it for all I care. I'm a no-nonsense person. I believe in common courtesy. Yes, you're welcome. Having someone subscribe to you feels pretty good. I get the same kind surge when I get a message from YouTube saying someone has subscribed to my channel. But I know people could be using their energy to better effect than reading a 4-word message I paste in with Stardock Keyboard Launchpad, because I could be better using my energy than reading it.

I don't exactly know what motivation you extract from thanking someone (yes I am that miserly), and I'm not going to attack your right to exercise the most common and decent courtesy (after "please"). I'm proud of you. If you've been serviced or complimented in some way and you decide the appropriate response is to thank someone, then your upbringing couldn't have been much better. Give yourself a pat on the back, there really aren't enough polite people in the world.
But your obligation to thank me? Leave it outside.

Alternatively, find me a way to suppress Page Shouts from appearing as notifications in the Navbar, then you can thank me until the Sun engulfs the Earth.

Seriously, folks, it's getting old. You're welcome, but I watch a lot of people, and it all adds up.
When the hundredth person thanks me, it gets annoying (and when someone thanks me in spite of the big-ass ASCII shade up there, I'm scorching the goddamn earth.)

If you want to Shout me for something else, then terrific. Let's get an exchange going. But I don't need a hundred artists shouting me a hundred thanks. I'll infer the moment I press "Watch +" that you're going to thank me, so you don't actually need to thank me.

I should point out since I'm populating my Watch Lists that there is no need to thank me for pressing a button and adding +1 to a number on your page.
If you want to thank me, make my next visit to FA a satisfying one.

I'm kind of pleased that I may have found a niche for my art. And it makes me happy that my art gets favourited as quickly as eight hours after uploading. I'm still kind of a newb when it comes to vore. I've read role-plays and have a ton of images on my hard drive, but that doesn't really mean anything when it comes to personal experience, does it? That's like reading a whole stack of books on how to drive a car. You can memorise every word of the Highway Code, know what all the little road markings mean and what side of the road you should drive on. But until you feel yourself in the driver's seat and feel the contour and texture of the road, you don't know jack about driving. All of the theory in the world doesn't hold a candle to hands-on practice.
And it's the same here. I can draw facial imprints on the wall of my stomach until the cows come home, but without practical experience, I can never perfect my art.
If anyone would like to role-play with me, I'd like that a whole lot. I'm going through one now, but the time between posts is upwards of six days. Whatever channel suits you best (so long as it isn't Instant Messaging. I can barely get through one post without palpitating. Private Messaging would be great, though.
I could be persuaded to swing any which way, except for hard vore, soul vore, crushing, and maybe a few others. If it endangers the life of prey, I'm not much of a fan of it.
And I compiled this list of likes/dislikes.

I realise I'm pretty much begging for attention, but do you have anything to lose by eating a cougar, or letting him eat you? No? Because I'd be getting some much needed practice in, and you might get a kick out of the experience...

So I only really used this site to look at the mature content. Mostly things involving explosions or violence (some of my wallpapers involve dragons laying waste to miscellaneous shits). With my home website dead for a month or so now, may as well use this for my portfolio, like I was actually going to several months ago before I got struck down with terminal cannot-be-arsed.