and once there's a petition out and a link to call your local congress and have them take action immediately, the fate and the future of the internet and our fandom rest in our hands, sign the petition now and call your local congress and tell them no, tell them that you're against these bad internet bills

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

apparently my instagram account was suspended and I didn't realize it until I tried to create a post and couldn't, so I tried to click on my profile and that's when I founded it was suspended stating my activity doesn't follow their guidelines, like I've actually posted anything on my instagram that violates their guidelines!, fortunately appeals work and process like lightning and I got my account back
this is strike against instagram, if dumbass shit like this happens again then I won't support instagram anymore

it's Pearl Harbor day today and to commemorate, I decided to share this, I hope you all enjoy

https://youtu.be/4qQim09n6mY

https://youtu.be/uZGGn2ZfGZo

Polyphony Digital's new Spec III patch update arrived which means the new Ferrari 296 has arrived
already have a few photos of the car in it's pre race test car phase will be uploading them soon, perhaps tomorrow hopefully since I forgot to export to my usb and upload them here

I don't know what FA did in their recent update, but they screwed up somehow, because link addresses no longer work, so if you try to post a link address to something it's guaranteed not to work and not be clickable, so if you all want to file your complaints?, please do so because this is unacceptable

hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving this year :3

a salute to all our veteran's who served, both alive and to those who gave their lives for our freedom

https://youtu.be/LfF_-dPo3x4

morning everyone, it's November 10th, 2025 today, and the reason I bring this up is because this date marks the 50th anniversary of when the most famous ship of the great lakes, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down on a cold stormy November night on the 10th of November 1975, to commemorate I decided to share a documentary that was recently made by one of my favorite youtubers, "Part Time Explorer", that tells the full and highly detailed story about the ship, from birth to wreck and goes over the all the theories of how she might have and went down as well as tells a tiny little tid bit about each of the 29 men that went down with her, so for the 50th anniversary memorial here is Part Time Explorer's video documentary on the Edmund Fitzgerald, and as an added bonus Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald song and a new version of the song I recently discovered that I thought was sung very beautifully, I hope you all enjoy and remember the 29 souls lost in Superior, a lake that never gives up her dead.

documentary: https://youtu.be/_2f0tZBSByI

Gordon Lightfoot original: https://youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?list=RDFuzTkGyxkYI

Home Free version: https://youtu.be/Um1PCCkyYHE?list=RDUm1PCCkyYHE

halloween this year has been very fun...the party especially ;3

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54052878/

lol joke XD, in all seriousness me and the family just went out since we couldn't afford bags of candy to give to trick r treaters and we just went for a drive, had some Culver's for dinner, and decided to head out to Senoia and head to the Senoia Speedway (or least kinda go there, we went as far as gate entrance) all while I played youtube videos talking about ghost tracks (tracks that are abandoned, or just don't exist anymore)
one favorite video in particular talks about an interesting racetrack that existed up in Illinois that I like refer to as "America's Monza Circuit" (you'll see why if you watch the video below), the track was Meadowdale Raceway and it sounded like a pretty racetrack when it was built and was operational for a short time, here it is:

https://youtu.be/G7TDC5W5R9o

in case Furaffinity is unlawfully shut down by fascist controlled feds, here's where to find me

Twitter (X): https://x.com/ShawnSkunk

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/shawnskunk.bsky.social

DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/shawnskunk

Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~shawnskunk

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shawnskunk/

my Discord: ShawnSkunk#8489

my Telegram: ShawnSkunk

the reason I'm sharing this I hear talk there's an investigation going on by the beds on FA and I hate to lose all of you in case it does get wrongfully closed down

who will I see there tonight? :3

earlier on 9/11 day or Patriot Day as it's called, I was looking up 9/11 videos when I suddenly came across a recent news clip put out by a tv news station up in Michigan talking about how an archive in Lansing Michigan managed to save and preserve the original blueprints to the World Trade Center along with other architectural works, all that were drafted and designed by one man and that's including the blueprints to the World Trade Center, his name was Minoru Yamasaki, a successful architect who ran his own successful architect business that lasted all the way up to it's permanent closure in 2009.
curious as I've sometimes have an interest architecture, I decided to look him up on youtube while I was still on there and found this documentary video (title of the video is also the title of this journal), it was a pretty good one and a half hour long documentary telling the story about Minoru and his life and career as an architect and what led up to how the world center came to be, and if you guys are interested in seeing this video for yourselves, I have it right here, I think it's totally worth an hour and a half of your time, without a further discussion, this is Minoru Yamasaki: the man behind the World Trade Center

https://youtu.be/uRKyjTF3t-o

skunktember is finally here, so it's time to celebrate ^w^

starting off this month with a new submission, a map of some of the continents on my fursona's home planet Eden, this was nearly two and a half weeks in the making and still working on it, but I feel it's ready for it's debut today so I'll be posting it a.s.a.p

happy Skunktember everyone, I hope you all have a pawsome day :3

she's in danger of becoming homeless and needs help, please read her journal here and try to help her if you can
please and thank you

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11205716/

since I've been mostly focusing drawing practice, it only seemed necessary that I balance things out by practicing the other thing I'm wanting to do, writing, and I felt like I was pretty good at it when I was doing AutoSkunk review series despite sometimes copying from wikipedia on certain reviews and really enjoyed writing, and I want to get into writing and practicing that as well, may even pursue a career in auto journalism if possible, it'll all depend if I can finally get my driver's license, if not then there's the idea of becoming an author writing books.
I'm currently exploring different possibilities at the moment, another two on my list of things to explore before college are also photography and video editing which is at the bottom of my list, while I'll still continue my drawing practice and starting my writing practice, I'm still exploring and seeing where my talent may lie as well as even been praying about it, we'll see what the holds for me until then.

but so far it hasn't been smooth sailing, I bought one in the hope of being able to draw my drawings and then transfer them directly to my computer to post on here, but the results have not been promising
for starters my drawing are turning up rougher and than how they would look on paper, unprecise, slightly off line, and not being able to draw as neat and straight on screen and as I do on paper
another problem is the touchscreen, even when I have finger sleeves on my image will enlarge unexpectedly and sometimes it will move around and I'm chasing it, and my previous line I draw will automatically undo itself because of the sensitive double finger tap undo function
I'm gonna try to make this work, but if I can't?, I'll just go back to old fashion pen and paper, perhaps next time I'll consider buying a scanner to scan my drawings and get them on the computer that way, perhaps should've consider buying that first instead, but like I said, I'm gonna try to make this work and if not?, I'll have another for it in photography.
if anyone out there has some advice or courses on how I can use my drawing tablet effectively and to draw better on it, I'm open to it

had a good birthday this year, I spent it going to the theater to see the F1 movie, it was great to watch, would definitely recommend it and will definitely be adding it to movie collection

and here's your chance to enter, just follow the link bellow:

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61481196/

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th this year despite all that is happening in our country right now

may 7 2025 was the day of my graduation ceremony for graduation GED class, everyone was loud and cheering, lots of hugs, and my favorite part?, I got a selfie with Nitro the nighthawk, West Georgia Tech's campus mascot, EEEEEEEEEEE! ^w^ <3
it's been an exciting day for me, and with FA back to being fully functional I may post my selfie with that adorable bird ^v^
with graduation done, I'll be throwing full time into my art practice and start preparing for art college, with that I'm already looking at affordable drawing tablets to use for digital art practice, the future looks for me despite the unfortunate future of America under it's current administration

with 2025 just around the corner along with the soon return of a certain evil administration and with it project 2025
I find it only necessary to share where else in social media I dwell just in case FA is wrongfully shut down by the coming tyrant administration, so here they are

DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/shawnskunk

Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~shawnskunk

Twitter: https://x.com/ShawnSkunk

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/shawnskunk.bsky.social

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shawnskunk/


so feel free to follow me on any or all of these platforms for good measure, happy 2025, good luck and god speed

for those wondering why the news came out so late was my test date delayed until December 11th today, and I'm glad to say I passed, just barely but passed and I've now graduated.
as for my plans of what to do now from here, probably most likely spending a lot less time on video games and focusing more on my artistic pursuit, practicing and refining my drawing skills and learning other art skills as well
I'm so excited about this, will be celebrating trying out a restaurant this weekend
other than that, getting my GED may be the best Xmas gift I could ever receive ^w^

I don't know who was responsible for this, but Quasi Skunk's website, quasiskunk.org is not there anymore, I had to find it on the wayback machine website just so I can see it again as the anniversary of Quasi's passing is coming up next month and wanted to see his website again to remember him by.
the fact the site has been taken by someone makes me both sad and angry at the same time, beside his FA page, his website was the only memory of him left and now it's gone and only accessible from the wayback machine website, the recent activity there was of it's existence was some weird links written in Chinese that I just don't trust at all and I had to access it from the 2018 slot on the timeline.
if an anti furry troll was responsible for this I would tempted to petrify him or her, that's just exactly how I feel about it TnT
that's all I've got to say here, thank you all for reading this and happy thanksgiving.

hello everyone, how many you out there is a long time Gran Turismo player like me?

how many of you play Gran Turismo 7?

than has anyone in GT7 ever drove a car that could outrun a 2020 Alfa Romeo Giulia GTAM tuned to 700PP Group 4 specs in a 30 minute long race at Le Mans worth 550,000 in game credits?

cause let me tell you, that's my go to car and my go to event when I wanna grind for credits to buy cars costing millions of credits, and even though it's tuned to 700PP Group 4 performance specs, it can easily run rings around the competition as if they the ai drivers were running slow mo's

so has anyone, in GT7, ever driven a car that could beat that?

no?...well then guess what?

https://youtu.be/kaqeizvxefM

with fall practically here and winter not too far behind, it's always important for us mammalian animals who hibernate to make the necessary preparations for hibernation.
today we'll talk about the most debate topic in hibernation prep, hibernation prep remedies (both the pre prep and the post prep)
many animals believe that you don't these prep remedies to hibernate, being firm believers in the old fashioned natural approach to hibernation, but there are some animals out there that prefer these remedies as it helps through their winter sleep in regards to not having to store away fat and ruin their feminine figures or their chiseled abs, not having to waste tons of money stocking up on food or having to run about the forest scrounging for food.
but are these hibernation prep remedies and how do they work?

let's start with explaining the stage 1 remedy, the pre hibernation remedy, the pre hibernation remedy is simply just a liquid version of army food rations but on steroids, unlike army food rations, this pre prep remedy is formulated to last an entire winter season and it comes in a four fluid ounce plastic bottle.
just simply drink the bottle and within a few hours the pre hibernation prep thickens up inside your colon forming a solid but comfortable plug running almost the entire of your colon, eliminating those annoying hungers pains for your entire winter long sleep, however this will not help you with sleeping an entire winter without having to urinate and the remedy does help in that area so will still have to use the bathroom for the sake of that.

but once you have slept through the entire winter and you need to empty your colon of that solid but mushy pre winter prep, how do you do that without staining yourself and with ease?
well that's where the post hibernation prep comes in handy, the post hibernation prep remedy is basically a supercharged laxative design to soften up that solid pre prep waste and force it out, effectively cleaning you out and getting you ready for spring fun, however there is a side effect with this remedy and that side effect is, extreme starvation, almost immediately upon using the post prep remedy and cleaning yourself out you will hit with a feeling of extreme hunger pains, almost like a sucker punch to the gut, so do have a good hardy meal ready first before taking it.
another thing to keep in mind is be ready to race to the toilet, for this powerful remedy will work fast and will try to force all that pre prep waste out of you as quickly as possible, if this is your first using the remedy?, then you'll find out quickly just how fast it works and how powerful it is.

https://youtu.be/kK-2E4MTc3Y

so remember furries, the next time you want to consider taking hibernation preps and are uncertain about the safety of these preps and side effects, just remember to turn to this helpful resource guide to learn everything you need to know about this and other hibernation prep tips.

this has been a special psa presentation from the National Health Administration of the United Tribes of Animalia
helping to you to stay healthy, happy, and safe.