lei-lani on FA has been working hard with a great team of artists to bring three webcomics to the furry community. One that's been around a while is "The Depths", but you might not know about two others her and her partner  riffraffcat started. One is "Insignificant Otters", a comic strip about a shipwrecked couple of otters trying to survive on a deserted island without killing each other. The other is "Island Girls", a manga-type adventure that is actually a "human" version of "The Depths", with the same beautiful characters and different story.

So, yeah, these folks are doing amazing stuff and getting all these comics out each month or week is hard to do. They have set up a Patreon here and this is definitely something you might like to take part in.
Please? I had to lower my pledge this month and you can make up for my failure as a person.

https://www.patreon.com/Leilaniotter

I think they greatly undervalue their work, and they are trying to pay for their new bird, so please, check this out, please?

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33504192/

Well, a bunch of southern states are insisting their state's rights to treat a group of people as less than everyone else is more important than doing what the rest of the union is doing, a bunch of people in one political party are saying they are right and need to stand up against big goverment, and people are talking about the insanity of forcing equality on them will destroy the constitution and the whole USA.

Ok, fair warning, rant mode And some touchy/disturbing thought inside. Read at your own risk.

I had an interesting realization today. People in positions of authority are SO worried about making sure no one gets hurt and that, at the same time, they spend as little money as possible, they create Very dangerous situations.

Think about it. Take pain medication controls. The government tries to restrict how many people get pain medicine and much people get. Then, if you don’t have health insurance, they eventually just stop giving you any at all.

What do they Think will happen in this situation: “Ok, so you spent the last X number of years telling me how a small overdose of my pills could kill me, so you need to keep me safe from it. Now you give me one last bottle and tell me that’s all I get. So, you gave me 5 times the amount of this I need to die or enough to not be in terrible pain for 30 day, maybe 60-90 if I’m willing to be in just a lot of pain. Then you tell me that’s all I ever get? Really…?”

Why are people So Freaking Dumb?!

So, I'm watching TV reruns and the mother is talking to her baby about if he's going to be a kicker when he grows up and I keep picturing "Charm"...

Thanks Kyell Gold, now I understand football, but can no longer look at it the same way...

Well, I'm still recovering from RMFC, which was Amazing. I had such a good time and I think I probably felt better, mentally, there than I have in months, maybe years. To everyone I got to see there, it was amazing to seee you all. To everyone I didn't see, I hope to see you next time. And to the con staff, you people rock and I Really hope I didn't offend anyone in the Con Suite. >.<

-Sirberus Khaos

I had an interesting (I thought) realization today. I was looking at my list of ideas for writing to do and suddenly figured out why a number of the ideas never leave the idea list. They are basically fan-fics of stuff other furry writers have done, and actually writing those scares the hell out of me. Most fan-fic, good or bad, isn't pretty anonymous, but the furry community is small enough that there is a Very good chance that the original author will see, if not read, my work, and they could put my name to it, and that is Very intimidating to me. I worry that I would mishandle their characters, world, plots, something, and upsetting the artists who I idolize with my work would just... hurt.

Anyone else ever feel that way?

Today I was reminded that I should just not post comments while sleep deprived and/or on strong pain medication. >.<

I really hope I didn't manage to seriously offend anyone.

-Sirberus

Happy year end religious and/or secular holiday or holidays of your choice everybody. ^.^

So, tonight's rambling post topic is, I feel really self conscious about something.

A few times recently, I have been looking at someone's art or seeing images of other people's 'sonas and suddenly been inspired to write stuff. But because it has someone else or their characters in it, I just don't feel right posting it. They just sit silently on a flash drive, I don't even show them to the friends who usually review and/or proofread my work. I don't even generally manage to tell the other person and see if they want to see it, I am just to worried they won't like how I portrayed their character. It's kind of sad, really.

I was looking tonight at a piece I never finished for this exact reason and feeling like I was failing a child or something. And wondering if anyone who I have written about ever reads my posts almost kept me from even posting this. Which is dumb.

End of ramble, you may now return to the less odd parts of your day. :)

So, I spend a fair amount of time reading random things on FA, and some of the stuff is really deep, profound and thought-provoking. And some just makes me laugh. But I keep having random bits ofvthings people have said pop into my head at odd moments and just make me giggle. (Which looks silly, trust me) For whatever reason, however, someone will always ask me what's so funny. And it's pretty much always something I can't really explain to whoever asks.

And I really hope Any of this makes sense, since I'm trying to post from my phone, whike on pain neds.

So, in the average 24 hour day I am:
10 Hours: Sleeping poorly, waking up every hour or so in pain. Generally with nightmares, too
16 Hours: In enough pain that the 2-3 different narcotics they have me on only dull things, I still hurt, a lot.
12 Hours: So drugged up that I have to leave myself notes on my cell phone telling me what meds I took and if I remembered to write anything
6 Hours: Nauseous to where if I want to leave my bathroom I'm on two More meds to keep from being sick, and still chewing far more Tums than is probably anything like healthy
1 Hour: Trying to figure out some new form, some messed up appointment or reschedule my life around an unexpected bill.
2 Hours: Trying to figure out how to destress after the previous hour, even though I know the issues aren't really fixed yet
3 Hours: Fighting with my SO about the fact that I was ignoring them for 2 hours while I was trying to destress

The next person who tells me that I'm lucky to be disabled so I don't have to work 40 Hours a week like they do is in Very serious risk of suffering some acute physical harm...

So, while the story of how this started is long and I probably would get it wrong by now, it ends up with me giggling insanely and trying to explain the fact that I have a mental image of a whole airship full of Final Fantasy character looking annoyed. the airship has landed in a boring looking, modern suburban street, with a sigh that says, the part not behind the airship "it Drive" and one character is yelling at one version of Cid or another, "No, I said take us to the Moogle Village!"

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