Laying here in pain and disgust I come to the realization I cannot financially afford to go to FE this year. Which sucks donkeyballs to no end.

I was kinda hoping of going this year. But I personally am so behind the eightball, that all on my own, I cannot afford to attend.

I was lucky to go last year because I was house sitting for relatives there in toronto, so all I had to worry about was a $3 bus fare, and admission for the day. This year, ... I'm stuck at home, in pain (physical and emotional) which sucks.

Dammit, I wish I didn't always have to live 'hand-to_mouth'. Subsistance existence.

So, I will wish all those who are able to attend a Merry and Enjoyable Con experience, May you collect many happy memories, and garner benefit from many a new friendship and renewal of old!!

Hi and greetings...

I was able to get to the Con for Sunday Only, I paid some monies to an artist for commission. I left my contact information, but i have no idea what happened to her/them after that. I'm hoping i wasn't stiffed again. (cause that would be like the second time thats happened. Which frankly is and would create a bad president for my opinion on buying commissions/badges/etc ... if i can't buy it outright at time of purchase, i won't buy it at all..)

anyways, I'm hoping its just a simple matter of a polite reminder for material (and also i'm hoping the delay is/has/was because they were innundated at the last minute with badge requests, and not cause they blew me off.)

anyways, ...

That is all... for now.

I had fun, even if my plans got screwed up cause someone doesn't know how to stick to a planned schedual ... (i will not name names.) I'll just count it as something was also the price of attending such an event.

Now i'm off to my cave for some sleep.
Nite' all!

got quick responses, thats wonderful, thank you!

sad the search is removed, but i'm well aware of data bandwitdh and how its over priced and under appreciated.

guess i'll have to resort to the google method then

I've been trying to hunt down a few of my friends from yesteryear, but i find to my chagrin that there is no 'search' feature for specific artists or users of FA.

Is there such a beast and i'm just too stupid to see it? or does it not exist?

as a comment made by someone at random the other day, I Pose to you know as an open call for opinions, concerns, comments, ideas, etc...

"What Makes a Fur?"
(ie: what criteria does a 'human' have to have before they can be concidered a "Fur/Furry".)
(IE: Do they have to be fluent in the particular dialect of leetspeak associated with fur? or perhaps just enjoy Anthro-Art, and Anthro-behaviour (outside of the bdsm/fetish 'pet/anthro' behaviours) ? Do they have to have a Fursuit? or tail? etc....)

Run the Gambit people, let me know what you think. Don't be shy. Don't hold back. I wanna know what YOU Think and feel about this subject.

Cuase, well i need to reset my brain on a few subjects, and this is one of them. I'ma all gonna enjoy anthro art, anthro sex and suits,... but if i'm not 'fitting in' no use for me to try and fit in. Save my energies for more productive endeavours... should i even have those after the next 6months. :">

Okay, as listed by my 'participation type' tag: I'm an art whore. As proven by the fact that within the last week i've gone from zero favourites, to ... well i'm not sure, haven't checked, not about to either, but its alot :">

Some VERY well drawn, some portraying very sexual and erotic ideas but have no campairison with the well drawn stuff.
I like what i like and thats that. Haven't watched nearly half the artists on here i want to, but i'll get around to that eventually.... once i can pry my paws away from my groin long enough to take the time to use both paws to do everything neaded to 'watch' and not just paw off.

Trips; well trip to the hospital, the eye exam place, drug store, grocery store and moms. I've got a trip coming up to Calgary to visit "Daddy", and i'm looking forward to it, but with so much unknown and uncertain at the moment, i'm not as excited as i should be. I'm waiting for paperwork from ODSP so i can get my new glasses, I'm waiting on bloodwork results for Listeriosis and a call for a nuerologists apointment, but from an office i have no clue who. theres 3 in town, and it could be from any one of them, and it could be at any time too. hopeuflly they'll call to setup the appointment BEFORE i leave for Calgary. If those three things happens before the 12th of September I can calm down alot more than i am right now.

Oh, forgot to mention too that theres a farewell party for a family friend i had made a promise to go to on the 21st,... meaning.. either i flake out on $500 worth of plane tickets, or i flake out on going to the farewell party. I don't really want to do either one. My last option is to try and call up and give them my wellwishes and stuff before hand, and or try and get them to connect online and use a webcam to send my wellwishes thru.

Oh yah, Damn but September is full this month, apparently theres also a parcel supposed to arrive here sometime before too soon i hope too.
Plus theres mothers birthday here soon too. ugh. September is a stressfull month for this cubbie.

As for Trips, well Calgary is fun and hope to move, though half the time with my health i wonder if its even safe to try and move to far too fast. make the journay in stages type thing. Dunno, i know i'ma bit scared with the idea of moving so far and not having any kind of saftey net to fall back on should things go sour. I mean its an entirely different province with different disability rules, different health care structures, different doctors etc... I mean i'd be starting over ENTIRELY, other than a few friends who i know couldn't support me if things fall apart on me. And basically 6months in which to make sure i get settled before my 'tail between my legs' failsafe dissappears too. (that being "please put me back on ODSP with no questions asked. Otherwise its "full application and doctors apointments and months without money, and being homeless while waiting for them to decide weither i still qualify for my disability pension/support.)

and now you know the rest of the story. Daddy, I'm coming, just got ALOT of things to deal with, that you probably haven't even concidered before. ::Hugs:: Love you!!

Well i've been aware of FA site for awhile, haven't really kept checking back often, casue well i'm 35 and alot on my plate, and when i wanna relax, i tend to focus on the sites that cater to some of my 'other' interests, if you know what i mean.

But between the BF sending me links and others sending me links to images that they thought i would enjoy, i finally broke down and created an account (again.) This time hopefully it won't go dormant like the last time. but i Suppose if it does, it does. and i'll just have to make a new one.

Tomorrow, or 'after the sleep' abunch of us are gathering to have a Furry BBQ at one of the folks homes. Not sure who's gonna show up, or whats gonna happen, but I do know that someone I invited has been asked (i think he's been asked) to abstain from attending, as someone else who is attending from farther away (??) 'has some issues' with this friend of mine.

I realize the Furry fandom, society etc is full of Drama. Hell, sometimes thats why i like it. But to be fair to all parties involved, i felt hurt that these 'issues' once again cause my friend to be excluded from the festivities.
I'll admit to know being aware of the specifics of these issues, and weither or not these issues are even "Current", but ... well... I feel bad for my friend. I know he's got problems and issues, and well hell, Who doesn't have problems and issues these days. What with everything becoming Micromanaged and what not. BUT common, in order to make ME feel better, Someones gonna have to make the effort to include him willingly and take the chance that he has changed and won't repeate the same things that caused the trouble the last time. I mean, we all learn by doing and well he's done and learned and can only show that he's learned if he's given a chance to prove it. If not, then the only knowledge anyone has is 'old outdated complaints' and nothing relevantly new.

Oh yah,... whats this got to do with being 'new and checking things out' ... probably not much really, but its a beef thats been on my mind the last few days, that i had to get out and off my chest.

Getting back to the subject line at hand,... Some of those who will read this post in the future I'm sure will notice i have many of the concidered 'more talanted' artists 'watched' or 'favourited'; please don't assume that means i don't like the more 'unskilled' or 'learning/apprenticed' artists out there. I like what i like, and as i work thru the archieve of material on here, i'm sure others will eventually show up on my list as being 'watched' or 'favourited' :) Afterall, when you need a 'fix' >:) Doesn't matter what quality or clarity of the image, if the subject matter fits your Fix, even stick figure art will get ya off! ::evil grin::

But well, i'm sure i'm gonna ad some friends to, friends that have no talent what so ever. Who can't even screw in a lightbulb for that matter ;) (just kidding, they can do that, but not much else) ;) JOKING ...... ... ... ... ... or am i? ;)

but yah, checking things out, seeing how things work, what there is, and just how warped this little cub can get by viewing such wonderfully 'buttsexy' artwork and YES i admit not all of it is buttsex... some of it I'd even show to my Mom. :P

and I'm begining to ramble so thats sign #1 that i'm getting to tired to stay awake. (and dammit, theres a mosquitoe in the apartment, which means 8new bites on my legs that are already heavily scared from bites! ugh.)