Currently working on another little doodle of mien and so far i think its probably the single cutest Pepe le Pew ive ever done.:P Excited to see how that will turn out.

In case everyone who is a Looney Tunes fan is not aware.... This Sunday the 27th will be the official 'birthday' of Bugs Bunny!

Always been a favorite toon to draw and Bugs also holds the place of being the very first toon character I ever attempted to draw, all the way back with some tracings I did as a little boy.

For this B-Day I have something really big and long winded in the works. A Birthday Comic for Bugs Bunny! And it is the single largest comic I have ever done at a total of 10 pages!!! For this one i have spent many hours on it and applied a lot of my current skills to it, not to mention my experience with reading furry doujinshis from Japan. One thing i can say about this pic that you guys may like is I stepped back a bit from my normal mild sexual content and high kink elements to center instead on just a big hard fucking sequence instead. :P And a little less clothes too. But be prepared for a few new ideas and suprises too adding some extras ive not really seen other artists do.

This will be my first time on such a huge project. And it will be a bit rougher than ususal but I still stand by most of the content! It will also be released in stages to make the project doable! With the first 2 pages going up on Bugs's birthday!

But of course the big question is who could be Bugs's partner for this little adventure???? What other famous toon would be so ready for that??? Stay tuned!

Recently I happened to explore the works of an artist whom I knew back in the early days of the furry internet. One named Hammytoy They did a lot of animation on top of digital art. I remember when he first appeared on the fanart scene years ago and showed of a really good level of skill that impressed all of us!

I have not seen any new work of his in a long time. But today I went looking. Hes been very productive apparently and has really gone in on the animations. However... if you want to see his stuff its all now teasers with full content hidden behind Patreon. And hes also on many DNP lists.

I want to express some thoughts about how this kind of thing affects our community. I am aware that times are not easy for people. Its hard to survive. I struggle everyday with making ends meet. Sometimes i take commissions. But I never have considered hiding all my best work behind a paywall.

I dont have the money to afford it anyways. Having all these mini subscriptions would break me financially as im allready on small means. Which hilights another problem with this system. It basically means no art for the poorest of furs (which is kinda a lot of us so you know!)

I want this to be a community. I do this art to expand my furry experience and meet friends and inspire others the way they inspired me. Sometimes fans would gift artists with funds too. But old internet has changed, and now with everything being monetized, this kind of behavior is turning our furry culture into a pay-for-access system. where were now introduced to the idea that the best work must be done as a business. On top of that its not like your taking home all the earnings for your work, we all are using patreon now to fund the whole affair and patreon is making bank off your work with the big cut they take. And like any business they will start taking larger cuts as Patreon gets bigger and they will begin to try and direct the content you make for 'maximum engagement'. At this point, this is introducting the idea that your art is now not directed purely by your own imagination, but now by commerce. Do you create what you want to see? Or what you think others want to see?

This pay to play system is going to have a dettirmental effect on our community. I dont want us to be this. Another business venture. I want this to be a living community of people that support each other and have a love for what they do. This is why ive never done the paywall system for my art. And never will.

And even then now they figured out AI and how it can just mine art for free and make content off that.

Does everything in the human experience have to be about what it can be sold for?

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60900334/

Hey! Some nice fur just messaged me and asked if i wanted to do an interview. How curious!

You can read my responses here if u follow the link! Check out this user too! What theyre choosing to do is a rather novel idea and helps celebrate artists as well as giving fans a glimpse into their craft. Go check them out, theyre doing good work in the community and i hope it grows for them ^^

So for everyone out there that used to be a fan of my Timon fanart on Deviant art. i have christened a new home for him!

https://www.weasyl.com/~timonberkowitz

My DA page is over with, so it my relationship with DA. But starting now all my old stuff since the dawn of meerkats has been added to a new gallery on WEASYL! And with that done new art will begin to be uploaded there. So if u wanna see that please come over there and join Weasyl for free. Keep in mind it will have all the kinky content Timon Berkowitz was known for like girly guys and scat and feet plus added adult content not seen on DA. So be aware and be kind there!

As usual no paywalls to see my art! Ever! Dont monetize the world!

So due to a stange situation and a look for something new ive been pointed to the series Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss and given the chance to watch it as a cartoon that introduces queer elements... finally. I have a few thoughts.

Overall, it is a mild relief to see a show that lack the total eptiness of modern cartoons like the animaniacs and the tiny toon reboots, space jam etc pretty much everything. I am still critical at how flat the cartoon art appears, seems like all 2d cartoons are troubled by this. But the characters are creatively designed and animated and ill give it that for sure. Stylistically i see that it does do the 2015 era pretty well and i do like the choice of subject a lot with its gothic overtones. My other high praise is that this cartoon is an american adult cartoon, but one that FINALLY escapes the long long tired out 'oh isnt this so crazy how much adult content were doing on cartoons which are like kids stuff!!!?? just random violence and sex and swears just cause we can it so funny our adult cartoon guy is a mad as fuck badass!" In this show there still is plenty of adult content... but it actually services a story and character development for once.

I think i became aware of Angel Dust because i saw a raunchy music video of him at a gay bar. I assumed he was actually female. But then discovered that hes male and the first notable non human gay char who has a major role to play and is not restricted in his sexual expression... Hooray... Im smiling between the tears here. Cause you know as a furry i have what i think is the hottest when it comes to animal chars and for Angel they made him.... a SPIDER. Arthropods being the one group of creatures i dont have a powerful furry attraction to and in fact tend to be grossed out by :<<<< Now knowing it im just disconneced from seeing myself in the char. :/
Its a bit absurd but i guess thats the nature of personal affection. Im reminded of similar gipes ive had about style changes and the new eras where what i found to be most relatable in a characters identity or sexuality have changed from what was. Im not a fool though to imagine that im entitled to demand that people obey my tastes or that furry styles should be prevented from changing. For the most part that is.
Anyways even if he is an unsexy spider bug to me, at least hes a prominent true gay character. Now we need to make more. Maybe a new one will come out that fits me better. Hopefully Angel wont be the last example of this. Maybe if we broke up media monopolies and algoritimicly informed productions, we can have really crazy or interesting new works. ones that dont simly just try to 'do something new' but also reinvigorate media thats literally been lost or forgotten. Much like what Cuphead tried to do. And we will see also a new lineup af LGBTQ characters too

Also yes the shows have good writting and really creative gothic like charaters.... but FUCK me if the music doesn't suck!!!! For such edgy themes the soundtrack is so bland and mainstream!

Ahhh... i often find myself missing the days when i had a lot more attention with my art back in 2012 or so. :/. Nowadays i think people are a lot more used to digital art probably cause of how u can zoom in on it. But i guess also ai too just stealing eyes off artists... im annoyedthis is happening at a time when my art is as best as ive been so far.

But my ruminations atm have been about a few comments that noted my art has such odd content as to be less than ineresting. Whereas ive seen images a lot more centered on basic popular sex subjects have a lot more explosive popularity than my fanart of the same characters.

I can imagine a lot of that is due to my unusual tastes and subjects. Or that what i draw is not as much straightforward sex.

It makes me sad but at the same time, i cant think of anyone who draws what i draw. That i hope im doing justice to more obscure and uncommon subjects that rarely get attention. I hope in some way that my art may inspire or convert people over to trying out these obscure little erotic ideas. :)

And also that in my shipping pics i can create a gentle and loving and sexually satisfying experiencd for those viewers out there.

I think the best thing is not simply enjoying sensual desire, but sharing with others and having that connection!

As i put together my many projects and deal with medical issues, i have to come out to leave a serious statement to all fans and visitors that you all must know.

Watch how you talk to other people.

Today i had to block someone. Im not going to name them ATM unless they try and circumvent my block. To everyone here, i know some of you really love my art. But that has to be a love for my ART, not me as a person.

I want to be generous to people but i think most will agree with me that receiving sudden messages from people you dont know professing love is unsettling. Even if any of you feel that my interests sync up perfectly with each other, that does not mean our personalities will.

Ive lived through abusers before. I know a few signs of how they operate. One is they dont take NO for an answer. I said im not interested before, but later on they persist in pursuing that direct relationship, a profound need to get to know me

Also there are other details, such as saying this need for frienship/ deep love for me, while also at the same time questioning my honesty, values etc. Or as i recall from past experiences, making vague threats while saying you adore them.

My best friends dont insist they must get close with me. Our friendships grew organically. Thats the way it should be for everyone..

If your a person that finds they cant stop craving or needing anothers affection, thats not some great parable of unrequited love anymore, thats a dagerous behavioral issue, and it can do harm to others and yourself. And you must see a therapist about it. I dont hate you but i dont trust you. You need help, and having me wont fix it. Getting what you want wont stop it.

Even if you feel it with all your heart, its not truth. Ive met a person once who absolutely knew right from wrong, loathed abusers, hated themselves when they did bad things, and knowing all that, would just flip a switch and be fully cruel and deceptive and do it anyways. Even i had to learn something once too ... I cannot will a person to fit my dream idea. They are their own person in the end and i have no control over who they are.

Maybe its a history of abuse, i do believe suffering can create more evil. I am really sorry and pained this happens. But that passing down of abuse from one to the next must be cut off at some point.

No always means no.

If i get more people who try and do this and insist they love me and must know me, snd who wont take a lite no for sn answer, ill reply in the open for others to see.

Thank you to all the few people here who have decided to be such sweet fans of mine. Youguys can always chat with me. I love it. But always be considerate. If im not looking or say im not interested please respect that.

Like many of you i do not know what exactly the future will be and im quite afraid how it will go for sexual and lifestyle minorities, not to mention the concepts of liberty and annonimity and freedom. A lot of people have been tricked into the idea that humans are inherently evil or self interested and need control and violence to deal with it. The only thing i can say is if we stand on these ideas of compassion and the value of human life, than we have to not look at the miseries of ourselves and instead look to protect and rescue others facing the worst of it. We have to build that community and be the opposite of the self interest and egoism that is taking over the rest of the nation and other countries. Yes things look hopeless, but you know you have friends and allies, the fact they exists demonstrates himand dont have to live in violence and force. So now more than ever is a time for selflessness, bravery, and care for each other.

Years ago violent right wing govts took over in Bolivia and Brazil. But years later they all collapsed and the jailed opposition party members took control. Open fascist empires have all eventually collapsed and yes some after massive atrocities. But they in the long run are not sustainable because they are built on such inflexible and imovable ideologies, and the world is always changing. It was over around 300 years ago humanity gave up the divine right of kings. Moved to more liberty, i think were moving to a new era of corporate divine rule, but that also is unsustainable due to how much waste and raw energy is needed to power their data collection. It will be dark times but humanity seems to slowly lurch forward towards a free and fully democratic future.

But this is the time of history we are in now and that cant be changed. So get out there and make a community. We all know how much humans will take for themselves and abuse others for their own gain. But dont forget that otherside where we want to zealously defend the kind and altrustic act. Move to altruism now. Love and good luck, hang in, be strong.

The other day i took a very old drawing of mine and wanted to do a new scan of it. when i did i foudn that i got a lot more detail than my original scan i made decades ago on a different scanner i got rid of in 2014. But a huge problem. I saw the colors as so mcuh more muted and washed out using the current scanner i have vs the original older scanner even with its low pixel count! This is a problem. I think it is high time i find a new art scanner that can deliver eyepoping realistic color!

Anyone have any recomendations?

UNTIL I CAN GET ONE I AM CONSIDERING PAUSING ALL NEW ART UPLOADS! This situation has been causing my visual art to suffer by whiting out all the colors and i need to fix that right away!

I for the first time have registered as part of FA+.

As most of you may know, other sites liek deviantart have now been turned into a 'services economy' where search results are now flodded with content they paid to go viral and often have nothing to do with your search keywords. DA tries to steer all your views and suggestions to pay content and micro subscriptions and so on. the DA community does not exist anymore and is now instead focused not on the natural interests of the viewing audience random chance, but is now focused on maximum individual engagement designed to show you content meant to lead you to making purchases. It gathers personal info, tries to figure out what you are most like to search for, and then directs you to redundant, or AI derivatives of lesser quality that it hopes you will pay to download or view. particularly paying a subscription to an AI channel that produces ai erotica. This is the horrible new situation where EVERYTHING must be incentivzed to make profit because they must insist on endless economic growth as fast as possible forever.

FA is one of a handful of small remaining spaces where 'optimization' has not occured yet and people are still able to form communities online. The alternative to this economy of derivatives, scams, extraction competition is a reality of cooperative charity. Its up to us to be able to give of ourselves to keep our community our own and not in the hands of ai generators and others looking solely for profit. That applies not just online but in the real world.

I advise everyone here who gets community out of FA it get directly involved. not just in donations but in keeping touch on how it operates and making sure that it remains and egalitarian and democratic space where the love of furry fandom is the most important thing. Not money, not profit, ont one persons succees.

So Im putting this call out to my many watchers in case someone can help me.

South of Seattle in Tacoma WA there is a person with 2 plushies i really want. They are selling them for under 25$ but do not want to do shipping nor transport it to a person i know in seattle. So I need help in trying to get them. Im happy to cover any expenses you get from the effort and guide you through it. This will be in Taccoma. I can reward you with a free commission if you like and ill make it nice!

If youre interested in helping me get my dream plushies. please send me a note here in FA! Time is a little important on this one!

Coyote vs Acme awaits total erasure. A victim of the pursuit of profit first.

To be sure I dont think this will be the last time we see this character. But i DO think that this is the last time we will see him created by fellow people and creators. And future incarnations will be manufactured through AI or algorithms.

But as artists and fans, this likely will be the end of the cycle that we have grown up a part of. An artist creates the character, the fans love the character, the fans grow up to be artists, and then a few go on to create new media of the character. I think the studios are hoping for a future where there is no more creators, no one to have to pay to do their work, and all that is left is just the fans/consumers. No matter what people say about AI you cannot actually control it. Aside from not being able to fully control every aspect of it, it in the end is NOT owned by you, and the TOOLS to make it are not yours either. Its theirs and they get to see a full window into your imagination and what you want to see, something they can then store away and use for figuring out how to make money off it, or to then use to build a social profile of you so that all your private secrets are known.

Sadly we are all created by this inhuman system of capitalism, we live lives that are wrapped up in it. So ive been trying 6to think of how to regain some level of freedom and independence. I have a tendency to draw fanart. but i have to praise and show respect to the furries who are creating their own characters and just putting those out there for free. Long ago Disney considered tapping into the furry market, but they bowed out partly because they saw furries obsessed over self created culture largely independet of a franchisable character or idea, and they could not see a way to profit out of that. And we mostly shared our work for free.

New online media is trying very hard to get us to monetize our culture. AI is the first big step to that, drawing viewers away from actual artists to concentrate on simulated images made from repurposing free art. If you spend 40% of your viewing browsing AI, thats 40% less looking at human artists. It means less engagement for artists, and also less culture, fans and artists can get to know each other even have friendships. The AI platform no you wont have that at all. If youre lonely and wanna meet people, this space here is the best way to meet up and talk to others. All my friends and real life intimate partners came from the community and talking to people here in this free space.

And these are free spaces, places of free creation, but at the edges people are trying to pull resources and value from it. By sealing art with AI and by taking financial control of the domain we interact with. Pushing for more paywalls, more art sales, skimming off commission sales etc. The more that starts to profit them the more they want to take command of it and here you go... the space is no longer free anymore. I think that is the story of capitalism to its core ever since it started... find a free frontier full of resources and take it over until its run dry, then find another free space.

Anyways... as for Wile E and brand characters. I had the weird fortune/misfortune of growing up when all that stuff was in full free market power, where many industries all competed and in doing so tons of money was spent on the production giving some of the best products you could get for our fandoms. Now that stuff is all a set of monopolies, no more wild product wars. Its a captured market, they dont need to make good products in order to compete anymore. Everything were getting is set to be very bad in quality, flashy but not in any way meant to last. it be new characters, good films, ugh... theme parks, stuffed animals, toys, anything.

So what do we do instead. I guess mythmaking, lest stop engaging with new media. Its not good anymore, and its not helping our planet anyways, no more new movies. just keep your money and use it to buy your necessary survival needs. Instead just create more free art of wile or your own characters and use it to create dialouge and meet new people. Fan work has proven though a mess is often far more personal and better than the films themselves because you can see the real human in it. Its relatable. And as furries its about time we acknowledge... we are human, we are animals, lets live more like the human animal, who knows and wants human touch and cares less about synthetic creation, market, money, etc. All that stuff is just a fill in for human needs. We want a free world, so protect free spaces, and keep that corrosive MONEY out of it as best as you can! Afterall it was money that killed Coyote vs Acme. killed plenty of other really courageous animated art that never got made. Demand for an end to AI art theft. And spend a little less money on shitty products and instead on your survival and helping the people you love. We are furries, we are also humans and that cant change, shouldnt change. Furriness is just the art that we cover our lives in. Lets not let it become something to sell or devalue.

Forgive me to a few of my friends who are diaper lovers. Im not here to attack u at all or others in specific for that matter.

But, when it comes to the fet community as a whole, im rather dismayed and confounded by the fact that watersports and scat especially are about 80% or so represented in diaper kink. And a lot of artist who draw diaper just draw that. Some also are uncomforable showing messy stuff directly and prefer it all diaper contained.

I have drawn diaper in the past and probably will do it again in the future. But its kinda sad to see how much it takes up space in the messy art community.

I honestly used to think it was part of our modernist revulsion to natual bodily fuctions that could be unsanitary, we have a literal terror of encountering human/animal waste that seems to be more psychological than reasonable sanitariness. But now i think our current glut towards diaper fetish doninance is designed by internet engagement. Social media will clearly ban messy art, but u can somewhat get away with diaper art since u cant see the mess. So that makes it more visible and then naturally more popular.

The selfish part is that cause of this i feel that its one reason my content that deals with the subject doesnt get views. I know at least i use to get plenty of requests to diaper my chars or draw more diapers. I will say i dont think this is a result of people being cliquey maybe a few... But mostly this is just an inadvertent result of this weird algorithmic, moderated media environmrnt.

We need more freedom to express, more free spaces beyond moderation for profitability, a more accepting society

After a very long time of struggling with productive issues it seems that im starting to get into the full swing of work. Major projects, a few of hundreds, are actually getting done. And art is going up. More on the way too. I hope to keep hitting them out every week. the goal is mutiple a week. We shall see,

After symptoms and a visit to the doctor i have tested positive for covid-19. I am self isolating at home right now. not looking forward to this. worried about long covid. I took all my precautions but after i stated going without maks and protective goggles at work it appears ive got it in just 2 weeks. it probably was inevitable. will be hoping for the best recovery. thank you for watching me my fans, i appreciate you all.

OK after years of working with self support and also strugglign with art, ive come into a situation where i have found work that affords me a good ammount of time to do art. I dont know how this will p-lay out in my future as I dont earn enough at this job to progress in life or prepare for retirement, but for now I can do my art and support myself.

My big issue nowe is how to actually complete my works. One thing ive NEVER been at a loss for is creativity, in fact im overwhemled with so many ideas every week there is no way to do them all. I cannot explain how much stetchwork i do every week, but never complete it. People ahve suggested i post my sketches but being a detailed perfectionist I find it very hard to do that. So im trying to work on finishing production. Completing works. hopefully i can make that happen. I need to organize my life better in order to do it. I have noticed that some works are getting done though, big works. so maybe I can maike thsi happen.

Thanks for staying with me everyone.

OK my life situation has changed in a way where now i have some optimal time to actually get artwork done. Just now i need to overcome a production block ive been living under since my delivery job stopped me from doing art alltogether. Now i draw constantly, but i can never seem to finish. Im afraid of submitting cause im worried about being rejected for my kinky content which is always evolving. And my work is getting so dense and i need to figure out how to control coloring it. I need to just overcome that and devise a plan on how to produce and finish my sketches into images and then stick to that. Im working on it. and i cant believe the content ive been producing in how well its progressed in drawing skill.

If anyone wants to do a coloring of some of my art digitally i would be happy to commission them ^^

I appreciate all you who have been following me all these years, the fans of mine is why i devote my whole life to this.

The last 2 years ive been very slow on updates, new art. My worklife has been a big part of it. I dont stop drawing, i just never finish any picture i start. I have found ive never once lacked inspiration, in fact im overwhelmed by it. When i went to clean my home, i found i had an insane piles of incomplete work that i never loose interest in. And i said to myself 'what is my life amounting to?'. If i didnt have to work 50 hrs a week to support myself i could get it all done.

Ive also lost a lot in my life recently and feel more isolated. Things will not be good for a while as i determine whats the new direction for me and living without things that made me where i am now. The friends i have will be valuable.

As of now i have to try and get control of my creative projects and maybe resist the pressure to overperform at my job to the suffering of my art. But that will be tight and thin. I just hope i can do this and start finishing work.

Browin my fav toons and though i know theres a lotta fans of it and a lot of character formation between the two.... But i hate the Baffy ship now :Y. And why? No lie, its all about attraction. Daffy Duck is a fine enough personality, but physical sexiness.. just not big for me. Yes everyones gonna hate my take but hey im sick of the huge quantity of Bugs/Daffy art and near nothing of Bugs with his similar bodied peer, Wile E.! Wiles the best! A skinny cute furry dork and nerd with nice paws and big googly eyes!

For all those who love the char interactions of Bugs and Daffy, go check this short out. One of only 5 where Bugs competes against Wile!

https://archive.org/details/to-hare-is-human

They totally have a great dynamic! The poncy fop Wile with the inflated ego and the clever bunny secretly fooling him and taking him down a notch! Bugs even gets to nicknaming him 'Mud' in order to mess with him!
They only got 5 cartoons together but they are all gems to me and you guys should check them out!

So someday, i plan to get a "Wugs E." Ship fandom going! Allready got art underway! Time to show everyone why they are the cutest couple!

Im making this entry after a private fallout with a person who wanted to debate or question my personal progressive beliefs. It was an exhaustinve, emotional, and extensive debate, that at tomes got a bit scary to me, and extremely emotional for them. Soem of the things they said to me were frightening... namely the stuff that was 'this or that has gotten so bad that extreme measures must be taken"
Itr reminds me of a time just after the last presidential election, where my brother told me he felt that the supposedly stolen election was so serious that a coup might be a necessary thing. He even suggested that if it resulted in a civil war to reinstall his preferred leader, that he would be willing to accept something as grim as an actual war where americans are killing each other.

Seems everyone i know has become insane. Its nto their fault. we have had a lot of people for a long time decide that only terrifying doomsday, moral panic rhetoric is the best way to advance their political objectives. and the end result is this extreme hyper partisan borderline secterian conflict we have now. This person, like my brother, was so agonized, enraged, terrified, and cornered into a very strict moral worldview that any kind of compromise or self ananlysis was impossible. I asked if they could stay on to debate. told them that without actually talking across the isles, there is no hope for a peaceful resolution. I think it would be good if we all have some friends who are our enemies. imagine that. its not easy nowadays....
Im not askign people to force themselves to be moderate and incremental with their beliefs. but, and i know this seems bogus, but people could at least not give into moral outrage so often...... this mostly applies to talkign between average voting block people like each other.... not so much carreer pundits or politicians who have media empires and the power.

But the populating themselves need to recognize that the more we encourage the idea there is no going back, that only overwhelming force of law or power can solve this.... the more it risks the safety of all of us. one of the last thigns they said to me was how beyond evil it was that 'they' are using the rape of a 10 year old to push for 'murdering children up till childbirth!" I had to ask, what did they think "they' want, what these pro abortion people want? Do you think they are eager to murder children? that they want to slaughter babies out of delight? He was so deep in his emotion that he could not see that people fighting for this right literally also see this as a profound moral crusade, were not evil, not in our belief. we dont think an undeveloped fetus is equal to a born child, that a mothers well being and especially victims of rape are far more important that this undeveloped fetus we do not think has a legitimate perception of life that you could call the 'soul'.
And this is the danger of this situation. Panic outrage media has made it so we are unable to accept or even internalize the other persons thougths and actions. and we only see a black monstrously evil creature in a human body.

And that is the big danger to evreyone.

Im recenlty int he process of revisiting an character....

For a lot of personal reasons, particularly due to project overload and a sense of despair, I basically have nto done any work in a year or more using the character Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh.

But now due to some recentl collecting things ive had and various long put off fantasies about him, ive got up the gumption to try my had with Rabbit fanart once more in a long while. And in one day i sketched up 7 drawings of him!

The question though of course is finishing them with color. that will likely take me some time. so we shall see what will happen with that.

Some time ago i told my conservative brother there was one thing that i did find really good about America today. And that is, thanks to Americas core value of individual freedom, our modest tolerance of transgender people. It was not anyones business to tell someone how to present themselves and in some areas it was all but accepted. We were much better than say France or "terf island' UK.

That has all changed though this year. Apparently the freedom loving, balanced and open debate, all oppinions matter obsessed Republicans have now taken to laws banning changing your gender to non-binary, banning books with ideas they find offensive, suing and firing teachers and university professors who say things that run afoul to their values, even now so far as to charge parents of trans kids as child abusers and threaten them with felonies and 10 years in prison for trans care to their children. With Texas even offerign the idea of sending parents to jail for child abuse and taking their trans kids away to be placed with caregivers that we can be totally sure of will try and 'reverse' the child's transition. Its amazing how quickly they got started a fiery moral panic about satanic ritual sexual abusers in government and all child care institutions gooming you kids, mutilating their bodies, and turning them into sex objects for the LGBTQ movement.

I REALLY wonder where the libertarians have gone now?

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Going to a personal level, this reminds me of my experience as a gay youth in the southern states, with parents that did not accept me as i was. I remember back in the ealy 2000s hearing all those proclimations by people in my community and culture about how essential God was to America and how divine judement was coming, how gay people caused 9/11 for their debauchery, how homosexuals if allowed to thrive will be the death of america. That sensation of being told you have no place in American values, or are its malaise for being queer. That experience informs my own positions everytime I am presented with the story of a minority community facing bigorty, I remember what that was like for me, to be told you never will belong, that yorue the enemy.

So... unlike SOME older gay men, I want to try and be totally open for trans people and listen to them and learn about them. And watching all these new laws come to pass and this new moral panic over transgender queer 'gooming' and all the conspiracies around it, really has caused me to feel a great deal of distress over what is happening to trans and enbee people in America right now. Hell the fury over this trans moral panic is so severe its also got us gay guys and lesbians to in the crosshairs as politicians seek to keep kids from knowing gay men and women exist too.

Ive been taliokg soem political action, putting up signs, writting letters to news and political figures, makign donations, and msot importantly trying to make my voice heard in local elections and events. Which if youre not doing.... you ABSOLUTELY should do. But overall i feel maybe that the best for me is to help out behind the scenes in the dark shadows as i do. Right wing psychopaths would use the idea of a furry fetisher, porn artist, and deviant, promoting trans rights issues to great moral outrage im sure. But the leas ti wanna do is help out directly with any trans people i know just as a moral support. and maybe through art too as im trying to figure out how i can include trans chars in my art in a way that is genuinely sexy and daring but also respectful.... no dickgirls or cutboys cliches (i tend to hate those anyways). Its a struggle though, with the worry if im doing it right but we shall see.

I knwo when i endured my experience with oppressive bigoty and exclusion from my community as a whole, having so many people view you as an enemy to good society for your sexuality, or a threat to Christian values, it became just in a way empowering to do the Nick Wilde thing. If they only see a fetish demon, then just be the best fetish demon you can. Thats the trouble witht them makign something out to be so dangerous dark and scary and threatening... it becomes alluring and attractive and powerful. That this one thing could made them so panicked and angry. Particularly when those outrages are illogical and tied into a very rigid and conforming worldview. So now we have emerged with a new right wing crusade where were even having parents and politicans saying that words like 'damn' and 'shit' ... or 'fart' and 'butt' (let alone gay or transgender) are too inappropriate for kids to be exposed to and it has to be regulated through school policy or government legislation. That is just RIPE for creatively gleeful attacks from the youth rebel counterculture.

The best thing i can try and advise for trans people facing this cultural malestorm of intolerance and prudishness, is somethign i learned from the classic gay culture of the old decades when they were absolutley at the mercy of a society that didnt accept them and a hostile government. I noted, that community built themselves up by being creatively rebellious. They had that old slogan "out of the bedroon and into the streets!" They amde lots of art and film and drag shows and cultural creation that strenghtened their community bonds, and put up an indignant resistance to normalization or being silenced. They were loud about who they were and most of all they saw societys attemopt to take away their value as being unable to harm them when among their peers and their tightknit community. they wrre as they say "fabulous". Maybe that will help for trans people. Recognize that when society or people try and misgender you or take that away, YOU can at least take it back in YOUR world. By stating that these people doptn have control over you and that the true reality is not their society but the community of LGBTQ and allies that YOU are a part of. The art you guys dom, the content you create, the words you speak THAT is the trea reality and understadn that all those other people agaisnt it are simply hysterical prudes, intolerant of science, sexually neurotic, and deeply, deeply UNCOOL. Youre a real person, they are not. You have the courage to be yourself, theyre to afraid to do that and need to have some godhead tell them theyre important and safe. Be fabulosly demonic. Be big and scary trans. And finally, show love, love among your kin, be that wonderful soft and fun space that is at the core of queer and especially furriness. im sure you know what i mean :)

So today was a real wild one.

The anti-progfressive anti-science pro right wing trucker convoy came to my town today and blocked off the streets. made me late for my doctors appointment.

Im not goign to put up with these people and not raise my voice about it. and that is what i endeavored to do. after my doctors apointment i kenw i would have to counter protest in some way. and do it in a manner where i would nto get b4eat down by the cops. In fact the cops actually were standing at the blocked off streets and told me that "if i have a problem with the street blockage, take it up with president biden", Supportive co9ps made it clear they would not do anything about the situation.

But little did i know how it would resolve. once i headed back from the doctors, I was stunned to discover the convoy was actually breaking up! they only held the streets for just the morning! i foudn the road to my post office was open in fact. And i needed to stop to get mail which is what i did. the post office was located next to a central area where the trucker convoy was stationed. And in the parking lot i saw a ton of far right anti vaccine pro trump people getting into their trucks. And the situation set up just right.
As i was pulling out of the parking lot, one of these far right people pulled up just behind me. So I fucking put my car in park. blocked the exit, got out and told them. "hey im dooing a convoy! sorry! cant move the car! Im protesting!" the crowded suv loaded with pro trump people was driven by a woman with an incredibly ugly nancy pelosi sneer and she started tellign at me what the fuck do i think i was doing. I started asking her, (why are you blocking our streets? what do you think this is going to do? what so bad abotu masks? etc" she started getting really angry buththen she flagged over a police officer who was keeping guard at the rally said "let him deal with that!" the cop came over with a vengeance asking me "do you havce a problem that I need to deal with?!" No shame, cops were allready supporting these people and i told the guy i only wanted to make my point clear about what they were doing to my town. and he told me cto clear out now or else he was going to take me downtown.
What can i say, for now, cops always are going to to help out people on the far right than any progressive person. However i shouted a big goodbye to anti-vax nancy pelosi face trucker lady and got on my way! It was sheer delight to see that their little convoy lasted for just a few hours befor it cleared out haha.


Man, given that i wake up this morning to hear bitchy people like this in Texas are now trying to separate trans kids from their parents for using puberty blockers is more than i could take. they are nto going to do what they do without going through me ion some shape or form.

Just today at work i overheard a report put out by the BBC's radio broadcast.
They detailed what they were referring to as an 'invasion' of antiracist activism, 'wokeism', gender neutral pronouns etc in europe that they claimed to be coming from the US.
While i think most people are aware at how evil and dramatic the contempt for transgender people is in the UK, the bbc report highlighted France instead.
It made france out to be some bastion of 'anti-wokeness' whose media as well as government wether liberal or nationalist were all united against 'radical' social justice ideology. They interviewed an american professor working in France who whined about having seen graffiti using the word TERFs. And how he proclaimed that new youth movements about trans rights and equality for minorities was being brought on as some empty fashion movement told to them by shadowy nebulous 'leaders' with each minority group having some style leader dictating to them what to think. He could not say this in a convincing way. Like he was making it up on theory with no actual substance.

The radio report ended with them asking will the proud french society be able to stamp out the invading social justice movements, and can france be a 'beacon of hope' for other nations like UK against trans and minority activism.

You know im not trans and im an older fur who just hit 40. But man did this distress me. I recall my own experience as a gay male and i can see the continuity between my battle for tolerance and those of trans individuals, i hope. Im also pretty certain that the same anti-woke talking heads and figures will be certain to go after gay rights as soon as they go after the rights of trans and nb people. They have that same thing in common.
Im aware that canceling ant postuing wokeness is a problem online oftentimes, but this whole 'anti-woke' crusade is making a majority of people who want the return of restrictive traditionalist moral codes and limit societal freedom and equality.

Ive always told trans people i know to be strong and not give in. Seeing the french president, cultual figures, even the education secretary talking about purging 'wokeism' and exploding with rage over a dictionary addind a non binary gender pronoun was extremely chilling and saddening. It makes me angry, fearful, and depressed. I see more how dark things have gotten.

This stuff though makes me further ephasise how essential it it for trans people to band together and be very strong in as of they dont give into suicidal ideations and self harm and instead must get mad and make a stand alomgside their fellow trans community members. Dont fucking let these powerful forces destroy you without a fight back. Fight back please, even just staying alive and saying im who i am is at least the first step in that. Block out the evil vitriol sometimes and listen to your allies and bretheren. Just dont die please. Get mad and keep fighting. I love you all