BigGoodWolf is having a raffle to celebrate 3000 watchers.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50992088/

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49148345/

One of my absolutely favorite artists is going to be drawing a black-and-white adoptable every day for the month of October. They also regularly do YCH auctions & slots with fantastic scenery. Come check it out and maybe stick around even afterwards to see their wonderful artwork.

(Also, not gonna lie, the image previewed in the link is getting me excited.)

So I've been seeing some creators set up personal goals for the next year, lot having to do with the inspiration from the late Unus Annus channel. So I think this year's gonna be my first "X-year plan", starting small with just 1. Like they emphasized, you can get a lot done in just 1 year. So let's go ahead and take a dive.

Goals for November 14th 2022
1.) Write & post 12 new chapters of Just Another Murder
2.) Run 26 sessions of my Pathfinder 2e campaign
3.) Make & Post 5 full digital drawings
4.) Become fluent in French
5.) Make & sell 20 sets of clothing articles

Reasons as for why
1 - "Just Another Murder" (JAM for short) is a murder mystery novel I started years ago and let slip not long after starting. In fact, all of my writing basically stopped. So in an effort to relearn to write stories, I'm gonna take it by the horns and just write again. I'll likely have to re-edit submitted entries, so I won't count those towards my goal. I think 1 new chapter per month is fair after going cold-turkey for so long.

2 - I've been running a PF 2e campaign already, but I've gotten overwhelmed a few times and requested to postpone game nights. This year I'm going to do my best to run my campaign once every two weeks as per my group's normal schedule and not request to postpone. This does not extend to my players, however. If someone else cannot make it for that session, then I will try to adapt the best I can and run potential one-shot adventures set within the same timeline.

3 - So this one is a weird one. I used to be active in drawing whatever, whenever. I saw my talent grow over time and was REALLY proud of it. Eventually that all just kind of stopped and I haven't been able to draw a circle without feeling horrible. I've been talking to a friend and he's thinking about selling me his tablet when he's finished with it. I'm not expecting to draw Mona Lisa or anything, they'll be pretty crude and unrefined, but I want to resurface my ability to draw.

4 - I've always wanted to speak French (France). Right now I'm just passively using basic words and phrases I've learned over the years, and I want to step up my game and hold full conversations. Dunno when I'll ever actually NEED it, but y'know, might look good on future resumes.

5 - I've been toying with this idea to start up my own small business where I hand-make clothing articles and accessories. Scarves, gloves, hats, jackets- dunno, just throwing ideas out. Technically I was trying to learn the craft over the spring/summer so I could get a kick start for the winter, but that fell through when I couldn't find teachers or videos that wouldn't frustrate me. That and sewing machines are a pain in the ass to set up every time I need to use new thread. I'm convinced this resolution is the most likely to fail out of everything else, but I might as well throw it out there.

Alright. 5 things to do this year. I have other resolutions as well but I want to keep those private. Ugh, just looking at these 5 things is making me sick and overwhelmed. But I need to do something. Every 1000 mile journey begins with a single step.

 Alcho's main job is debating to close down until the flu is over and done with. He's considering opening commissions to more subjects than he's used to to an extent.

If you got nothing to do and want to support your furry community, consider commissioning this guy! He's awesome to work with and I've commissioned him several times in the past- each one amazing and worth every penny.

My most recent commission from him: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35231638/

Alcho's journal entry: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9437186

Hey-o friend-o's!!

 LoboRaptorLo will be streaming in about 2 hours!! (3:00pm Eastern Standard Time) And I'll be trying to join him!

Fingers crossed there won't be any tech difficulties.

I've never played any of the games it provides, so this will be a new experience. If you have the time, come drop in and say hi. :) Wyvrn's trying to maintain an average viewer count to work towards Twitch affiliation.

His Twitch channel can be found here

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>> https://www.twitch.tv/wyvrnripsnarl

EDIT: Ooops, I misread his countdown! His stream is 3:00pm! My bad!

Firstly, thank you for reading this journal.

My dear friend  LoboRaptorLo has been working hard reviving his streaming content after getting a new computer, and has asked me if I could join his stream to play the We Were Here series.

We Were Here looks to be a co-operative puzzle game forcing 2 people to work together to escape a trap-infested dungeon in the arctic wastelands.

If it's within your ability, it would mean a lot if you could even simply drop by and say hi. Who knows? You may just enjoy his content in the long run.

You can watch his stream at approximately 12:00 EST (11:00 for CST, 10:00 for MST, 9:00 for PST) over here: https://www.twitch.tv/wyvrnripsnarl

Thanks again for reading. Perhaps in the future I'll be able to give an earlier heads-up than the day-of. xD No promises.

A friend of mine, , is holding a raffle for reaching 6,000 page views, and I want in on this!
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I mean, *ahem* I'm here to support my friends in a totally unbiased way.
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Y'all should click that watch button on his profile! He's a really talented artist and deserves the whole world to know who he is! And it's not because there's more stuff in the raffle if he reaches higher watch numbers. Nope, no way. That would mean I'm biased.

You can find his journal here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9229513/ All the rules for entry is listed.

Oh man, a year without a single journal entry.

But my friend  LoboRaptorLo needs help. For several years he's been trying to piece his life together, and in a few short months he's going to be taking the biggest leap of his life. He's moving provinces to live with his trusted mate, but he' been struggling with finances for over two years. Already a month late on his apartment, he needs every bit of aid he can find.

Please, if you can help a fellow fur take charge of his life, if you can find a hint of generosity for a stranger, if you understand what it means to have your back against a wall and having to fight day-in-day-out with challenges... could I ask of you to please make however much of a contribution you can to his Gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/wyvrnripsnarl-movingout

He also has a facebook page for it as well: https://www.facebook.com/donate/378.....er_source=feed

His pages will better explain where all contributions will go to. If you're able to give anything at all, it would mean the world to both him and everyone who's supporting him.

And I say this risking any possible donation; If you could share those links on any social sites, his chances for a successful moving will significantly improve!

Well too bad this journal isn't about that nerdy game!

You should totally check this game! It's Endless Realms, and it's waaaaaaaaay cooler than some Dungeon and Dragon stuff.

https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....dless%20Realms

They just launched their Kickstarter today! And you can get some really cool stuff by pledging! And if you want to check out what's already public:
http://www.endlessrealms.ca/

You can look there for the core races and see what articles they've posted so far.

And if you can't pledge anything? That's okay! Spreading the word around is also awesome! Because you're awesome!

An artist here, , has a journal out asking people to pick 10 out of 14 numbers to determine what songs to make snippets out of for a small sample for his next album coming out. It would be awesome to drop by and spend 20 seconds picking 10 easy numbers. Maybe check out his stuff in the meantime.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8303416/

This all started in my sophomore year of high school. I had just gotten through my first year of nothing I would consider bullying against me. I've met some of the most amazing people who've made me smile harder than I thought was possible. Life was good, and I started making friends again. New friends I was acquiring re-introduced me to chat-based rp (my sister taught me it years and years ago shortly into middle school for a short while). With these new friends of mine, we made story after story after story of seemingly endless rps. I was loving it so freaking much. One by one, we got a couple other people to join in.

Then, halfway through my Senior year, I took priority of other things. I was on the rp stuff less and less. Then it all stopped before the February I graduated. Now, I don't rp at all anymore. I even go so far as to say rps sap my energy. I want to explain how I see why that is.

1.) Rps were the main reasons how I made and kept friends. Or, at least a select group of them. And the things is, I knew these people in real life. I could visit them regularly, as they could me. Once I had made my friends... that was it. I was finding more and more ways to bond with people rather than just role-play out characters we create. RPs were no longer needed to make and keep friends.

2.) Going along with that, I was able to keep a healthy balance between physical interaction and technical interaction. These were people I could, a majority of the time, see the next day and say face-to-face how much fun we're having, and talk about other things in the meantime. Now I'm out of high school, half a country away from those people, and facing more pressing matters like getting a job and being able to drive.

3.) Now that I'm more mature and able to understand the world around me in bigger context, rps do not provide a discussion I want out of a conversation. Rps are little more than childish games that no longer provide the same meaning it had when I first began. I want to have serious conversations and not get all wrapped-up in confusing impressions going back and forth between real and fantasy feelings. Which brings me to-

4.) Inside the furry community especially, the people in my age group put waaaaaaaaaay too much emphasis on rping "true feelings" through characters that don't exist outside their minds. They're too damn quick to say "I... I love you! *snuggles* Do you... love me back?" and role-play a relationship out of that as if they're dating the actual character they're reading about. They LOVE the character/per/fur/whatever-sona, but they haven't the faintest idea who the other person is on the other side of the screen. It's just not for me. They get wrapped-up in emotions on identities that don't exist. In my mind, that's little more than talking to a mannequin. (Some people actually prefer talking to mannequins. In that case, more power to ya, buddy. It's just not for me.) And to claims made that fursonas represent the user entirely, I'm just gonna leave this here; fursonas are more or less the *ideal* characterization of the user. Otherwise, the user would be using their own body type, their own attitudes, their own thoughts, their own backstory, etc. It's much easier to love a character in a book when you can imagine how they look and sound, rather than a real-life person who also fits the same character description.

And those are my main 4 points why I do not care for rps. Now, I'll say this now, I love role-playing games like D&D and other similar tabletop games, the Elder Scrolls series, possibly Dragon Age, so on and so forth. That is NOT the same as rping with someone via text-based messaging. In the games I mentioned, you're role-playing with a simulation. Something that has little to no personal ties with role-playing in the first place. In fact, that would be the actual rping I was doing with my friends back in school. Simulating an entire fantasy world and playing a clearly defined character that does not represent the user in their entirety- or at least what they want their entirety to be.

What if one day you woke up and you were 9 years old? No reason. It just happened. You don't know how long you'd be stuck like this.

What would you do? Would you try to reenact your year as best as you could? Do better with mistakes made? Tell people about the future?

I had a dream last night I was 8 years old. I know that because it was the summer going into 3rd grade. Nine just kind of stuck in my head for some reason. I remember asking questions like "Was last Christmas the one I asked the aunts and uncles for colored construction paper?" and "Did grandma and grandpa leave to travel the states yet?". I remember it took some time to convince my parents I was really 20 years old stuck in my 8 year old body. They asked me what I would've known at twenty, and some of the answers I gave were personal. Like to my mom I told her "You gave me a little notebook you wrote in during high school that had a small chapter about a princess with two spirit dogs, Magician and Luna." To my dad I said "You told us once and only once, but you used to go up in buildings under construction with your friends and play games, sometimes even barefoot."

Basically, I just spent the day with my folks and little brother back in time trying to warn them about what happens to me through the years. I told them about my bullies in which grade, why I sometimes told them I didn't want them to see my drama productions, who my best friends will be, which schools I went to after elementary, and what happens after high school.

So, what would you guys do if you woke up 8 or 9 again.

A cold
The cold
My cold
Your cold

Which of these is different?

April 5th. That's my birthday! Just so y'all know, I'm not twenty. That's too old. I'm now twenteen. Then it'll go to twenteen-one, then twenteen-two, and so on.

I hope everyone either had a good birthday so far in the year, is having the best party ever, or is looking forward to their special day. I wish the absolute best for everyone every day and may good fortune and success come at you faster than you know what to do with.

And lemme tell you something. Y'all thought FURRIES were weird as frack... At least you can look at a cheetah afterwards and still call it cool/adorable. I'm probably just gonna eat dirt for the rest of my life...

Oh god. The corn. The undying, digested coorrrrnnnnn!!!!!!!!! It won't leave my head!

No... No you can't. When you've given something to someone else, you no longer have claims over it. It is now THEIRS. Not yours.

In terms of a physical gift/goods, again, you no longer have ownership of that/those items. You do not have custody to take it back because you wish it. Lending is different from giving. To LEND is to expect its return. To GIVE is to pass full ownership and lose it in its entirety.

When I say I give this to you, you can do whatever it is with it to your heart's desire. It's yours. You are the owner of whatever it is I gave you.

When you say you give this to me, don't pull the "I can take it back whenever I want!" card. Because at that point you're telling me I had no ownership of it, that I was mere storage purpose. That, my friend, is disrespectful. Tell it to me the first time when you want your "gift" back. That way I can put it in a shelf and forget about it until you ask for it.

Sorry. Something from the past was bugging me. I'm trying to get back into writing, and thought I should take the opportunity to get back into the habit.

So, I've been in a bit of an inspiration funk these past few days. I really, really wanna make something and let my creativity fly, but I'm not motivated to put effort in things I'm familiar with. I don't want to go on UTAU, don't want to even think about MuseScore right now, and I'm not patient enough for AudioSauna. Drawing is out the window. Haven't done that in a while and I don't get satisfaction from that. Not in the mood for a lot of games I'd love to play even by myself on any other day...

I dunno. Anyone got any suggestions for getting me out of funk town?

So this artist,  bosswolfe just hit 100 watchers and is throwing together a raffle. I'm participating, and you can, too! Hey, it's free art, so what's to lose? Their art is really good, so it makes it all the better to dive right in.

Check out their journal: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8001704/

Good luck to everyone, and Happy New Year to each and every soul in the world.

Alright fuzzbutts, listen up! I feel pretty good about myself right about now. I've been working with a free music-production app in the google store and right now I'm getting seriously familiar with the mechanics how trance beats work. I'll be posting what I have so far soon, hopefully today.

And the thanks I owe for that? This lovely musician,  tundrafox1. He makes really, really cool music I've fallen head over heels for. I say this month is a month of inspiration because he just posted a journal: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/...../#cid:51645091

If I wanna make myself known, I better start doing something! Watch out guys, gals, everyone in between, and those who do not conform; Shard's in the building and I ain't leaving 'till I throw the towel. Good thing I left mine at home.

"Literally"

"Essentially"

"So basically..."

"The point that I wanted/I'm trying to make..."

"Let me put it this way..."

"Becaaauuusse..."

"To be honest with you..."

I love my friends to death, but I really, *really* hate repetition. xD They can't help it, and I wouldn't ask them to change. Just, uh... a note to everyone reading; be aware of how much you're repeating yourself.

I just listened to Alison from HoneyBadgerRadio read a letter a Japanese grandmother wanted to say to the people of reddit. With the rise of censorship popping its head around the corner, I wanted to take a moment to post this and spread the word what 'censorship' really means.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc.....ar_100yearold/

I would copy & paste the entire post onto here, but I think that would be disrespectful to the authors of the note. It's better you go to the real source than look at a copy.

You can listen to Alison read it here: https://youtu.be/hEwZX8NOks8?t=3m17s I already marked it where the reading part starts.

is trying to push forward for a few commissions. They need new glasses and some medication, and is just a few £'s shy for some things they need.

If you wanna make someone happy for the holidays to come, here's your chance to give a little. When I get my paypal account working and sorted out, I'll be commissioning. Check them out! Currently they have a chibi commission sale for £8 (about $10). You can find out more here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/21790272/

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, y'all! May your winter be full of warm snuggles and hot chocolate, and may your belly be full and filled with love.

According to wiki, October 21st is an apple celebration day in a few places like Britain.

And why was I not informed of this day, public education? Hmm? HMMM??? e^e

So guess what? October 21st is now officially Fuji Snicker's birthday! You are all now required to consume one apple-included food item today (unless you're allergic. Then you'll just have to sit on the side lines and watch everyone enjoy their apples).

Apples! Apples for everyone! And happy birthday to Fuji!

Hey y'all! Bet you forgot about me. xD

Just throwing this out there, I'm in a serious art-block rut. I haven't been motivated to write, draw, anything.

So I got to thinking. I've always wanted to make a YouTube channel. I'm not a gamer, nor a viner. I don't want to get into political debates, and my skits are near next to poopy in quality. Same goes for my art.

So I'm thinking, why not have a channel that reads out written work? Not like read-alongs for Harry Potter. Bleck, I can't do that. I'm more or less talking about reading out poems from Edgar Allen Poe, fables I've read over and over growing up, maybe even short stories made by furry users. Heck, if this gets me out of my rut, I'll even make original work and read off of that.

This is just something I wanna do for fun. :3 It's something different I've never been able to do before. And I don't think there's any harm in doing it. So long as it's all following the rules of Fair Use.

So... I dunno. What do y'all think about that?

To all my friends I've had since middle school, I've all asked you the same question.

"If I died, would you come to my funeral?"

Many have taken me seriously. Some, not so much. All have said yes, though.

But I mean it. Would you be able to come to my funeral? Because if I were to go to yours... I'd be crushed. I'd be bawling my eyes out the entire time. I'd be in denial over your death, and for the rest of my life I'd be crying over that fact. I know it to be true. To this day, there are things that have happened years and years ago that I still cry about.

I seriously don't know if I would go to their funeral... I'd be scared to admit the fact they're not in this world anymore. I would see their pictures hung everywhere and hear people constantly talking about them. I wouldn't be able to handle it. All those crushed faces... Those heavy hearts... It's too much even to think about.

I could never say it to their faces, though. I would say "Yes, in a heart beat, and I would be the last to leave." But in my head, I hesitate. If they died, would I be able to accept it in time of the funeral? Would I have the energy to even get up and go? Would I even have the heart to put on a brave mask in their honor for the sake of everyone else?

... And that is why I ask them. Because I'm terrified to answer them. I don't know if I'll be lying or saying the truth. I'm a coward. A coward who wears a mask at all times besides the death of others. One who probably wouldn't admit to the truth and value his dearest family-friends.

"If I died, will you come to my funeral?"

That is a direct echo of the great fear of mine.