Hello everyone. Once again I'm sorry that I have not been around posting I am doing alright, life has been hectic and I'm sure we all have been suffering through this year...but today I come with bad news...it is with a heavy heart I have to announce Evan "Sirocco" Stutman has passed away...

Words can not describe the pain and hurt Evan's family is going through we ask that we respect their privacy in their time of grievence.

I want to thank his family for coming onto his Discord account to tell us the news we are forever grateful.

I'm going to miss you. You where the kindest, sweetest person I ever met and I thank you for being in my life. Thank you for putting up with my nonsense. And thank you for being the best Second Life brother I can ask for. I'm going to miss your talks about Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh.

RIP Evan "Sirocco Moonkill" Stutman.
I'm going to miss you bro...

December 25th 2020.

Hello everyone! After much thinking I've decided to open up a Flickr account!

Why Flickr? My family and friends have said to me I should make an account. And I felt the time was right. As a bonus for following from now on. All of my photos will be uploaded there first before I upload them here to Fur Affinity, That includes art and any other projects I have going.

So please take the time and give it a follow!

Ryla's Flickr Page

Last image I posted was 19 days ago. Reasons for small uploading lately is mostly two major things.

1. I updated my PC to a more high end machine. I have still to install the new 140mm fans once that is done my PC should be running smooth and cool as butter. But that will have to wait for the second reason.

2. I had surgery to get a cyst removed. It went well but Doctors told me to rest for at least a couple of weeks. And too keep from doing strenuous or heavy activity.

Once I've recovered things should be back to normal. :)

It has been 5 months since my last journal post, I do not like to talk negatively about these sort of situations but this is something that must be said.

As most of you all know I'm part of a 3D sociable world known as Second Life. For those who don't know Second Life has been around since 2003 and continues to grow substantially to the present day. Though it has seen it's fair share of bad media with it's different community's which I will get into now. I am part of what is known as the furry community. We are no means small there is a big majority of us in the virtual world. One of the major features of Second Life is the ability to create an avatar.

In the furry community that avatar can be anything you want. There is a big market of fur avatars made by great creators you can browse from in the Second Life Marketplace or if you have the talent and time. Some creators give out their kits so you can texture your own.

I am what is known as a shapeshifter. Which means I don't have an exclusive fursona, I switch from time to time depending on my mood if you watch me on FA you can see that from the pictures I take. Now being a shapeshifter we do have to deal with certain negativity which now I am going to get into.

If you like to make different avatars on second life but you don't want to be another copycat there are things you can do one of which is called 'Mods'. A mod is where either you or a creator can make certain adjustments or 'modify' your avatar, adding certain marks, tattoos, glow lines, horns or even changing the skin texture if you bought one from the marketplace and have permission from the creator. And in most cases they don't seem to mind but it's always best to ask first.

Now what really upsets me is some people believe that this is some shady illegal way of taking a persons creation and claiming it as their own, even going so far as too attack them personally even after showing evidence and proof that the owner has giving them the permission.

Me and some other people I know personally who I won't name as to keep their lives private have been attacked for said action even after providing evidence. It goes so far trying to invade our personal lives with meaningless threats saying they have higher power over us.

This has been going on for months now and I won't tolerate the behavior anymore I have kept silent about this far too long and it's time I speak up about this.

I speak up to those who have endured and put up with this harassment. Continue to do what you are doing, don't give up or be put down if you love to create. If you love to mod. Then by all means keep doing it. And if they try to intimidate you, threaten you, or even go as far to push your buttons Ignore them. They're s a saying well known on the internet 'Don't feed the trolls'
Don't give them fuel. Let them be the court jester and act like a fool. Show you are not intimated.

Keep creating and doing the things you love. Be civil, don't point fingers and ill blame. Don't stoop to their level. And if those type of people are reading this know one thing. You can't and won't break me you can try but you will fail. You can't kill me.

Love you all.

Hello all.

Sorry for not making any journals lately since my last one 10 months ago, since I have been on Fur Affinity there is something that really does make me face palm when I see it.
That being when I upload something I have spent time working on. I try to put my all into these images even when it's something simple. I appreciate everyone who favorites and comments on my content and every time I upload some new I'm greeted with these words in my feed.

'The favorite has been removed by the user.'

This has been going on with nearly every upload I do. And too those people who do this I say this to you.

If you don't like my content or anything I upload then don't fave or comment! Simple as. If you are trying to be a troll, trying to get me upset? Then move on. You are wasting your time as well as mine trying to spam my notification panel trying to pick on the little guy.

I know I'm not the only person this happens too, but I ask you to my watchers. If you also find this annoying.

I'll end with these words. To anyone reading this if you have just found my page, If you like my stuff thank you and if you don't. Then please move on. They will be other art, pictures, music, animations etc. That will be more worth of your time.

Thank you.

Hello. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I will be taking a long hiatus.
I don't know when I'll be back, it will take sometime, That means the rest of the shark week pictures won't be coming. I'm sorry to let you all down.
I want you all to know I do love you and thank you for supporting me. And I hope I will see you all soon.

I ended up taking a trip to the shopping centre and picking up a copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
If any of my watchers have a Nintendo Switch. Leave a comment below and I'll add ya.
Maybe we can play sometime.

Firstly I want to say sorry for my lack of uploading. Things over here have been pretty stressing and busy for me. Heres my reasons why.

1. My Dad had to be rushed into hospital as his sciatica has come back and is worse than ever. He can barely walk, so me and my mom have been taking care of him till he is able to get back on his feet. Doctors have told him that it could take two to three weeks for him to recover.

2. Because of my Dad's condition I have barely been able to log onto Second Life to take more pictures. I have got the bento update for Riah and would love to take some nice pictures of her. Because of the situation when I do log on, I'm very tired and only want to chat with my family and friends. Please be patient I hope to get something uploaded when I can.

3. Work has been stressing me out too, been pretty busy and with the lack of employers we have to make amends for it.

Thank you all for understand and again I'm sorry for not uploading, If I do get the time I will try to upload something to let you know I'm still around and haven't abandoned you guys.

Take care all <3

~Riph