December means early Weymouth meets! And, because why not make it a tradition, board games. And burgers, because of course. Next WeyFur meet will be on the fourteenth, at the Dorset Burger Company. Have a blog post.

Don't panic! November will include a Weymouth Furmeet. We'll be meeting on the thirtieth of November at our usual spot, The Dorset Burger Company. Come and nom some tasty burgers with us. Full details on the blog.

A meet is happening! It'll be in Weymouth! There'll be burgers! And possibly mini golf! And maybe even more broken announcements with too many exclamation marks! ZOMG!

So yeah, next Weymouth Furmeet will be on the 28th of September, and it'll involve the consumption of delicious burgers. Full details over on the blog.

Details of June's Weymouth Furmeet are up now on the blog! Come join us on the seafront on Saturday, the 29th of June to nom some burgers and play some mini-golf. Or just point and laugh as everybody's balls roll in distinctly not-straight lines. Or both!

Please let me know if you're intending to attend.

Sadly, there'll be no Weymouth Furmeet this month. But May's will come two weeks early! Come join us as we take a ferry to The Boat that Rocks and enjoy some tasty noms! Full details, as always, are over on the blog.

Please give the blog post a read and let me know if you're intending to come.

More burgers can never be a bad thing. So, let's get more burgers! Also more board games. Possibly more mini-golf if we're feeling particularly spicy. So, to all you fuzzbutts out there, get your fuzzy butts to Weymouth on Saturday, the thirtieth of March for the next Weymouth Furmeet! If you want more details, go take a fuzzy look at the fuzzy blog.

Laters!

Details of the next Weymouth Furmeet on Saturday, the 23rd of February, are now up on the blog! This month's meet will be more of a laid-back affair, as we meet up at The Dorset Burger Company for lunch and some board games.

I'm also sorry to announce that henceforth, Weymouth Furmeets will only be held on Saturdays. Wednesday meets are no longer going to be possible for me or the resident kobold for the foreseeable future, so, going forward, we're going to run the meets on the last Saturday of each month. Apologies to anyone who this may inconvenience.

See you at the meet!

Details of the next Weymouth Furmeet are now up on the blog! It made for a good venue during the cold weather, so we're doing the bowling thing again, followed by a meal at The Gloucester. Hope to see you there!

Another month, another furmeet... but this month is the one where all the holidays happen, so the meet comes early! We're heading back to The Dorset Burger Company, on a Saturday this time; next saturday, in fact. Go see the blog for full details, and whether we see you or not, have a merry Christmas!

Let's go bowling! This classic furmeet tradition is one that's yet to be observed by the WeyFur meets, until now! We'll be meeting on the 28th of November at the venue, MFA Bowl in Weymouth, for a game or three, before piling into a restaurant (which one will be decided on the day) to rid them of all of their delicious noms. Go check the blog for full details, and please let me know if you're expecting to be there. I hope you will!

Next WeyFur (Weymouth Furmeet) is on Saturday, the 27th of October! We're gonna attempt the ferry cruise thing again, and only bad weather will be able to stop us this time. Regardless, one way or another, we'll wind up at The Boat that Rocks for delicious foodness and some hangout time. Full details, as always, are on the blog. Let me know if you want to come along. Hope to see you there!

Update 24.10.18
Due to continued strikes, South Western Railway are running reduced train services on the day of the meet. Please be sure to keep a close eye on train times. Further information can be found in this blog post.

Since it went down so well the last time, let's do it again! The Weymouth Furmeet on Wednesday evening, the 26th of September, will see us return to the Dorset Burger Company after meeting under the Jubilee Clock on Weymouth's esplanade. For more info, go have a look at the blog. Look forward to seeing you there!

Announcing the second WeyFur: Weymouth Furmeet! This month, we'll be meeting under the Jubilee Clock in Weymouth on Saturday, the 18th of August for a pleasant ferry cruise to Portland and to this month's venue, to enjoy some lunch and a few hours to hang out, have a laugh and generally just be furries. Full details are up on the blog.

Please read the blog post and let me know if you'd like to attend.

Announcing the first WeyFur: Weymouth Furmeet! Come join us on the evening of Wednesday, the 25th of July, 2018, when we'll be meeting under the Jubilee Clock in Weymouth to hang out by the beach for a brief while before hitting balls with long-handled clubs and gobbling some delicious, juicy meat! (It's more innocent than it sounds.) Check out the blog for more details!

If you want to come along, please let me know, in case we wind up with more people than expected.

https://youtu.be/XgAfF96UnV4

So, where have I been this whole time? Working on a few things, actually, but easily the biggest of them has been the M-DRIVE 16-bit music pack!

M-DRIVE is a varied collection of music and sound effects, for games and other media, that are inspired by a certain classic 16-bit games console of the early nineties. You know, the one with a controller that looked like a fat boomerang and a TOTALLY RADICAL spiky blue mascot. Yep, that one.

Each of M-DRIVE's music tracks and sound effects has been lovingly crafted using the same synthesis method as the original console's Yamaha sound chip, in the styles of many of the games I grew up loving. When composing, I tried to hold the idea of an action RPG in mind, but the pack is open to several different game genres. M-DRIVE's audio is optimised for use with RPG Maker, but can be used in any game engine.

Find out more about the pack and pick up a copy of your own over here!

Woah, is this really the first time I've logged into FA in four months?

I'm really losing touch with the fandom. I should probably try a bit harder. There are still some badass people here and I think you all deserve an update.

So where have I been lately? Not much has been happening IRL, to be honest. I've not moved house, lost any family members or done any of the other things that tend to keep people under the online radar. I think, more than anything, the main reason I'm not so active anymore in the art and/or furry communities like this is that it feels, well, kinda old and tired to me.

Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of good friends here, but I also have most of those same friends in my MSN, Skype and Steam buddy lists. I don't really need online communities to keep in touch with people anymore, so they've kinda taken a backseat to IM clients.

I still draw, to a degree - it's usually just doodles these days, and rarely anything that feels worth uploading. And music is something I have to browbeat myself to do, and when I do, it tends to be for a friend's game project or something, so uploading it here doesn't always feel right.

Speaking of game projects, I also have two of my own munching into my time. One is my own RPG Maker project, and the other I'm working on with a bunch of friends, and we literally mean business with it, so it's pretty serious stuff. A lot of my creative energy is going into those - mainly the latter - leaving little for my own random art and music projects.

On the plus side, the big project is calling for me to learn to use Blender, so hey, you might start seeing some renderings from me if I turn out to be good at it. Fingers crossed, eh?

So I was at ConFuzzled 2011. And it was win.

The main thing people said to me about my art while I was there, though, was "you should totally post your stuff on FA!"

Now, there are a number of reasons why I don't often do this. The biggest and simplest reason is because my art gallery is on deviantART. The only reason I have this one on FA is so that I have somewhere to upload my music, and so that I can keep up-to-date with friends and artists who have migrated here from deviantART.

I like having all my art in one place. It makes it simpler for me to organise, as well as making it easier for other people to enjoy. It's just less of a jumble.

Besides this, I consider deviantART to be the better community for artists. FA, in my eyes, is little more than a porn site. The only reason furries flocked here from dA when it opened was so that they could have somewhere to post their cock drawings. Not to stigmatise it - I know there are a lot of artists here who post only clean art, and props to 'em for it too, but I already have somewhere to host all of mine.

On the other hand, there's a lot of furries now who tell me they like seeing my art, but don't have a deviantART account.

So I've come to a compromise - I don't know if it's considered proper or not, the posting rules are 404ing at the moment - but from now on, when I upload something to deviantART, I'll post a thumbnail and a link here too so that you furries can go look at it. If you have no DA account, just comment on and/or +fav the thumbnail here on FA as a proxy.

Let me know what you think about this, if anything.

(Liberated shamelessly from Korrok and whomever preceded)

The Rules: Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "my life according to (band name)"


• Pick your Artist:
Gorillaz

• Are you a male or female?
Man Research

• Describe yourself:
New Genious

• How do you feel:
Dirty Harry

• Describe where you currently live:
Slow Country

• If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Hong Kong

• Your favorite form of transportation:
Gravity

• What did you get on your last Birthday?
Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head

• Your best friend is:
Dracula

• You and your best friends are:
We Are Happy Landfill

• What's the weather like:
Starshine

• Favorite moment:
El Mañana

• If your life were a TV show, what would it be called:
Left Hand Suzuki Method

• What is life to you:
Re-Hash

• Your last relationship:
All Alone

• Your fear:
People

• What is the best advice you have to give:
Don't Get Lost in Heaven

• Thought for the Day:
Every Planet We Reach is Dead

• How I would like to die:
Double Bass

• My soul's condition:
last Living Souls

• Most Faithful Companion:
Clint Eastwood

• My motto:
DARE

It's not often I'm inspired by a meme. ...Believe it or not, looking at my gallery on here. X3

And no, I'm not making a hundred of them. Not even for you. I don't have the time, nor the inclination.

Well, I was introduced to the latest incarnation of Windows Live Messenger and the capacity for animated Display Pictures was just screaming out to me. So I spent six hours throwing this li'l thing together. I forgot how fun animating is, it's such a shame you need to find such a large gap of free time to do anything decent with it.

I know my last journal was about questions, but kritterfox just did this and I figured it could be interesting to see what people wanna know about me.

So, I'm opening the forum for questions! Anything you wanna know about me or just feel like hearing me answer! Ask away!

Stolen from  rin-chan... not sure from whom she took it beforehand.


75 Random Questions

Do you have any pets? I used to... they all died, though.

What color shirt are you wearing? Light gray with dark sleeves.

Name three things that are physically close to you: A Coca-Cola can, a pirate figurine and a Christmas card from my Dad.

What is the last book you read? Phantoms in the Brain by Dr. V. S. Ramachandran. I've not picked it up in a few months and still need to finish it. >_>

Are you or were you a good student? In previous courses I've been rather slack with getting work in on time... this time, I'm really pushing myself to do better. I don't wanna screw this one up.

What's your favorite sport? I'm not into sports, but if it counts, I love swimming.

Do you enjoy sleeping late? Yes, and I hate myself for the time I end up wasting.

What's the weather like right now? Blue sky with some clouds. 7°C

Who tells the best jokes? 2 The Ranting Gryphon, Bill Bailey and Lee Evans, going by favourite professional joke-tellers. And many of my friends, going by casual joke-tellers. Oh, and my Grandad is good at those really bad puns that you just have to laugh at.

What was the last thing you dreamed about? I rarely remember my dreams, but for some reason I had a really vivid one the other night that I remember bits of... it involved some kind of first-person shooter and a bag of dead guinea pigs. Weird stuff.

Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed? I don't feel any need to drive as yet... I prefer cycling. It's cheaper.

Do you believe in karma? I believe that life is so up-and-down that everyone gets what's coming to them eventually.

Do you believe in luck? I don't believe that an unrelated object or event can influence it, if that's what you mean.

Do you like your eggs scrambled or sunny side up? I like eggs. I don't care how.

Do you collect anything? If so, what? Dust.

Are you proud of yourself? Occasionally.

Are you reliable? Occasionally.

Have you ever given money to a bum? Occasonally.

What's your favourite food? My favourite sweet food is ice-cream. I have many favourite savoury foods, but pizza is probably the lead runner.

Have you ever had a secret admirer? How should I know? If I did, it wouldn't be much of a secret, would it?

Do you like the smell of gasoline? Do you like the taste of my penis?

Do like to draw? I love to draw, but just lately due to dampened spirits my creativity's gone out of the window.

What's your favorite invention? I could say the Internet, but I expect everyone else who's done this has said either that or computers. So I'm gonna go with the flannel. Flannels are awesome too.

Is your room messy? Not as messy as it was a few months ago. I could still do with some more storage space.

What do you like better: oranges or apples? Apples.

Do you give in easily?[b] Not often.

[b]Are you a good guesser? If I have an opportunity to make an informed guess, yes. If I'm going with dumb luck, no.

Can you read other people's expressions? Not very well.

Are you a bully? Anyone who draws pleasure from the belittlement of others needs to die slowly and painfully.

Do you have a job? Yes. And I bloody hate it.

What time did you wake up this morning? About eleven.

What did you eat for breakfast this morning? It was too late for breakfast... but I had a cup of tea if that counts.

When was the last time you showered? Actually, I haven't showered since Eurofurence... but you'll be pleased to hear I bathe.

What do you plan on doing tomorrow? Going back to college and making some noise.

What's your favorite day of the week and why? Sunday, because it's the only day I have entirely free.

Do you have any nicknames? Snowy's the only nickname I've ever really had... though a few people sometimes call me Toblerone.

Have you ever been scuba diving? No.

What's your least favorite color? Pink usually. If it's overused.

Is there someone you have been constantly thinking about? If yes, who? Yes, and I'm not saying who.

Would you ever go skydiving? No.

What toothpaste do you use? Aqua-Fresh.

Do you enjoy challenges? Are you asking for a challenge!?

What's the worst injury you have had? I've never been notably injured... which is kinda boring, but I'm thankful for it.

What's the last movie you saw? The Village. It was on telly last night.

What do you want to know about the future? Will I still be single in 2009?

What does your last text message say? "just wondering if ya had a chance to look at the oxford fur thread" - From Silv.

Who was the last person you spoke over the phone to? Funnily enough, Silv. Right now.

What's your favorite school subject? Music. It has to be, 'cause that's all I do. If you wanna be specific, though, music sequencing is my favourite lesson.

What's your least favorite school subject? My least favourite is CLAIT, which is just IT... all it is is following instructions from a sheet. It's a strict, narrow way of learning and I just find it a dull and lazy move by whoever thought we should work in such a way.

Would you rather have money or love? Love. Definitely.

What is your dream vacation? Eurofurence 13 was probably the best "vacation" I've ever had, and I don't think I'm gonna top it with any conventional holiday. In terms of a location, I'd love to visit Japan some time, not that I'm some kind of hardcore anime freak. More for the history.

What is your favorite animal? Guinea pigs.

Do you miss anyone right now? I miss many people.

What's the last sporting event you watched? The football was on the telly in the canteen at work yesterday... I didn't so much "watch" it as much as "looked at" it. Though football has stopped being a sport and is now nothing more than an overrated, overhyped and overpayed franchise.

Do you need to do laundry? My Mum does the laundry...

Do you listen to the radio? Not very often.

Where were you when 9/11 happened? At my Grandma's house. I remember watching it on the news there, and realising full well that people would be refusing to shut up about it for years to come. Oh look, you're still asking about it now!

What do you do when vending machines steal your money? I shake the products out instead.

Have you ever caught a butterfly? A couple.

What color are your bed sheets? They're the Thunderbirds ones I've had since I was a wee cub.

What's your ringtone? I always have my phone on silent these days. It saves me silencing it on the way into the music department and work.

Who was the last person to make you laugh? My Grampy when we were joking about his new keyboard.

Do you have any obsessions right now? Just lately I've had too much on my mind to concentrate on one thing...

Do you like things that glow in the dark? Not on my person. I naturally like to feel I could hide if I needed to.

What's your favorite fruity scent? Fruitcake. ;P

Do you watch cartoons? I prefer adult cartoons like South Park and Family Guy, but for nostalgia's sake I recently picked up the complete series of The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. I could probably say anime too, but I don't really think of them on the same lines as cartoons.

Have you ever sat on a roof? I've sat on several.

Have you ever been to a different country? I've been to Spain once, and Turkey twice.

Name three things in the world you dislike: My job, Norton Antivirus and people who rub their relationships into other people's faces.

Name three people in the world you dislike: The last three people to kill me on Battlefield 2142.

Has a rumor even been spread about you? I hope not.

Do you like sushi? It's OK at best. I pefer noodles.

Do you believe in magic? I believe in illusion, and playing on the subconscious, but I don't believe in magic.

Do you hold grudges? I'm more the "forgive and forget" type, but only if whoever it concerns is willing to do the same. Otherwise I find they're not worth the trouble.

I apparently still have eleven unread messages under Submissions... but they don't show up in my message box. O_o Anyone else having this problem? How can I fix it?

(Pops head in through side of screen)

I'm here on the advice of a friend... I've heard good things and bad things about FA and thought I may as well have a look for myself. It's late right now and I'm too tired to set up a proper journal, so I may do that tomorrow. So, for now, I'll just perform a quick recon before I retire to my kip.

Watch this space, art will begin to appear soon. (Disappears back off screen edge)