BLFC, Denfur, and now Motor City Furcon. What is it with this string of furry conventions running into serious trouble over the last three or so years? https://motorcityfurrycon.org/news/.....n-open-letter/ I'm beginning to think that with the pandemic, older furries leaving the con scene, and young furries not taking care of the cons they attend, the furry fandom is losing the convention scene. At this rate we will be lucky to hold small fur meets here and there in the coming years. People, con staff can only go so far in running a decent convention. Why? Its because what makes or breaks a con is YOU the attendees. Please take care of the cons you attend and respect the venues they are held in.

Next up on my art docket is a very special project, something I've been wanting to do for 5 years. This is going to be art of yours truly proposing to the love of my life Phloppy Bunny. Obviously this is going to have special meaning to me and bunny. So I'm going all out on this one. That in mind, Its going to take me awhile to pull this off. But if this turns out how I envisioning, the results will be worth the time needed to get this done. Stay tuned.....

Okay folks, I think I may have a work around that will help manage my issue with Krita. One I am modifying my technique of raising and lowering my pen on my tablet. Two, I have ordered drawing tablet glove to try cutting off direct contact of my bare hand with my tablet. I think the issue of Krita randomly drawing lines and dots with hovering and lifting my pen away from my tablet is caused by Krita confusing tablet actions with mouse actions.... even though I have disabled touch pad functionality both driver side and in Krita So hopefully the work around I'm devising will reduce my issues to a manageable level or better yet eliminate my issues outright.

Okay folks I'm stressing out over a nagging issue with Krita. First of all I am running Linux Mint. And the Version of Krita installed is 5.0.2. My Tablet is a brand new Wacom Intuos Pro. The problem I am having is when I hover my pen over my tablet (not touching the tablet at all) or lifting the pen off my tablet, Krita will spontaneously draw a dot or a line or spontaneously bring up the color palate or zoom in or out erratically. This problem was present on my old Wacom Intuos as well, but seems a bit worse on my new tablet. Now before you suggest a driver problem or replacing the nib on my pen, I have tried replicating this issue in GIMP and things work just fine over there. So I am at a bit of a loss here and I'm frustrated because I really like using Krita. But with this issue I'm having, its really killing my mojo to do art on Krita. So I really need some help and suggestions ATM. Or I may have to find another art program to do my drawings on.

Things I have done in attempt to solve this issue.

1. Unplug and replug the tablet
2. Play around with sensitivity in the tablet settings
3. Switch USB ports
4. In Krita > Settings >Tablet, I have unchecked "Use Mouse events for right- and middle-clicks
5. In Krita > Settings >Tablet, I have tried both checking and unchecking "Use tablet driver timestamps for brush speed"
6. In Krita > Settings >Table, I have clicked the "Restore Defaults" button
7. Uninstall and Reinstall Krita

So I'm not really sure what to do. I've tried just about everything I could think off and no dice. So I am very much open to suggestions to either solve this issue or suggestions on good Krita Alternatives that work on Linux.

Now that my two Teddy Ruxpin inspired art pieces are done along with the long promised Matchstick sword art for my fiancee, I have two more art works on the docket featuring yours truly and my Phloppybunny. One of them is also a long promised artwork that he and I will collaborate on. In that one he will be finishing his own background he put allot of work in GIMP to put together while I draw my 'sona and his over it. The second work I have on cue is going to be very special to me and him. It will be of my 'son and his replicating my proposal to my bunny on the rooftop of the David L. Lorence Convention Center during Anthrocon 2016. The latter is what I'm really chomping at the bits to work on. I will be going all out on that one.

After this batch of art is done I plan to shift gears back to working on the romance story featuring Tod the Prairie Dog and my second fursona Bri the Raccoon. First up on that endeavor is working on ref sheets on at least both characters and finishing their bios. While I'm in ref sheet mode I'll also throw in new refs of Tamias the Chipmunk and Phloppy Bunny as well so they too have new bios and ref sheets.

Well these are my immediate plans for the time being.

I managed to salvage my artist logo that has been sitting dormant for a long time. Thank you Inkscape for being able to open Adobe Illustrator files. So hopefully soon you will be seeing a new version of my artist's water mark appear on future artwork soon.

Just so I don't come off as some frozen in place fanboy that hates change, I'm gonna do something that I don't think fans of old school IP's that received the reboot/rehash treatments of their favorit IP's are doing. That would be to look at things from a point of view on the other side of the line of scrimmage. For example lets take Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers since its the current reboot/rehash being talked about due to the Rescue Rangers movie trailer recently dropping. To those like me who are fans of the original 90's animated TV show, what is presented in the Trailer can be a shock to the system, especially the voices provided to Chip and Dale.

I'm a huge fanboy of Chip and Dale from their old school classic cartoons to The Rescue Rangers. In fact, they are the inspirations that sold me on chipmunks and pushed me to creating my chipmunk fursona's Jerry Lee and Norman Lee/ Tamias and their world that eventually became the Chipmunk Kingdom. When I saw the trailer I was left in a total WTF moment at hearing the Mariana Trench deep voices coming out of Chip and Dale instead of their usual high pitched chipmunk voices. I was also dismayed that the premise of the movie renders everything the Rescue Rangers did in the TV show to be nothing but an act and all the characters in the TV show being just actors. Though I get that part because the synopses basically sets up the two chipmunks in a situation that they have to prove that they can do what they did in the TV show for real and save the day for real.

Now that said, I'm gonna stroll over on the other side of the line drawn in the sand and take a look at things from the prospective of those that are producing the Rescue Rangers movie. Now first things first, this is not going to be me switching sides. Its not gonna be me even justifying the movie and the choices made in its production. My opinion, being apprehensive based on what I've seen of the trailer and the train wreck that was Chip n Dale Park Life, remains unchanged. Its me attempting to understand the how's and why's instead of me being your typical old school IP fanboy blindly blasting out diatribes like a some old guy cranking some Ex-Lax laden diarrhea in his Depends every time a teenager walks within fifty feet of his front lawn. Now with that said, lets get started, shall we.

Now let me tell you a little story about the car brand, Cadillac (That would be big old school GM land boats your grandparents proudly drove, you know the boxy shaped sedans with all the gaudy chrome trim, the cheesy vinyl top, sofas for seats, and rode like a boat in choppy water down the freeway) and why it fell from grace as the premiere luxury car brand. I'm gonna tell you this little story so you can see the poor logic of NOT changing when times, tastes, and needs, change.

Once upon a time before the 1970's, Cadillac did live up to their slogan "The Standard of the World" Their coupes and sedans were absolutely beautiful, luxurious, well built. Cadillac was the pinnacle of American automotive design and engineering for those times. You know how your parents and grand parents often say "Wow! This is the Cadillac of *insert product type here*" to describe how good what what ever the feature laden thing that caught their fancy is? There was a reason for that saying. Cadillac DID live up to the hype back in their younger days. Everybody that wanted to show off their success and go around being the talk of the town aspired to own and drive a Cadillac. That's how good that line of cars were.

But what happened over time is that Cadillac fanboys developed a curtain expectation of what makes a car a Cadillac. It must be huge in size. It must have an interior and exterior that is as cushy as a living room, have all the bells and whistles, floaty ride, monster sized 8 cylinder engine under the multi thousand square foot hood big enough to propel a container ship. All of this and more despite how gimmicky and down right tacky such excess is by today's standards. The fanboys stuck to these expectations religiously, viewing any changes GM made to try to bring in younger car buyers as blasphemous and all out heretical. As a result of zealous fanboys screaming and grumbling over any changes attempted by GM on Cadillac and the fact that the fanboys were the car brand's bread and butter, Cadillac could not change. They were frozen in time forever beholden to the older generations that held Cadillac to what they expect Cadillac to be come hell or high water.

As gas prices rose, energy crisis hit, climate change became a forefront issue, safety and emission standards becoming more strict, and most importantly tastes and needs in the automotive world changed, Cadillac was left in the dust by the likes of BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Lexus, Infinity, etc. No longer the standard of the world and forever beholden to the ageing older generations, Cadillac fell from grace as the premiere American luxury car brand to being the Grandpa Car they are now known to be. Oh Cadillac has been trying to be hip and with it with their Art and Science design DNA. But its too little too late. Times have changed and Cadillac still smells like moth balls and old people stank just like Grandma and Grandpa's house.

The point is if you the fanboys are so rabid in what it is you are fanboying over remaining the same and NEVER, EVER deviating from your exacting expectations, your favorite and cherished IP, the subject of your fanboy-ism will become as irrelevant as Cadillac as the tastes and needs of the world change.

In the case of the Rescue Rangers, its been 30 years since the final episode of the TV show aired and so much change has happened to this world and people. What worked back in the 90's will not necessarily work today. People have far different tastes. 3-D CGI is preferred over traditional 2-D on animated feature films. So there is rime and reason for CGI being used in the new movie other than the story calling for CGI specifically. People are allot more sensitive to curtain topics in that what was seen as perfectly fine back then is now seen as blatantly offensive nowadays. Chip and Dale hitting on Gadget would likely be criticized as sexualizing her, a big no no to those who support women's rights. Pop culture and current affairs are allot different now than they were back then, so most references to those two things back then current generations won't get now. Rather old school fanboys would lambaste those who would dare criticize the show or not, that's the reality of these times and if the Rescue Rangers are to live on like we older fans would like them to, the IP needs to adapt to stay relevant even if it has to deviate from our expectations of what makes Chip and Dale, the Rescue Rangers we know and love.

Does it mean that the premise of the Rescue Rangers lore has to be thrown out? No. Solving Crimes and saving the day in situations that slip under the radar is a noble and timeless premise and will remain as such for the foreseeable future. Does it mean that we have to have human voices instead of chipmunk voices for Chip n Dale. No! Some say that sitting down and listening to their old squeaky voices for 90 minutes would be annoying. Good audio engineering can easily make high pitched voices easier on the ears to listen to. If you can sit through all three Alvin and the Chipmunk Movies without blood erupting out of your ears, you can definitely sit through 90 minutes of Chip and Dale chattering and squeaking just like they did in the original TV show and their classic Disney shorts. The IP can and SHOULD remain faithful to the spirit of the original Rescue Rangers lore.

However the Rescue Rangers needs to adapt to changing times. If people want CGI, present the Rescue Rangers in CGI. CGI can be done right. Just look at Zootopia, need I say more? If Chip n Dale...anything... were done in Zootopia levels of CGI quality, I dunno about the rest of the fans out there, But I, for one, would have an instant fan-gasm right on the spot. If one wants to reference current POP culture and current affairs, then let it happen so today's audiences have something to relate to. Besides us older generations still around are dealing with the same struggles that younger people are dealing with since we are all living on the same 3 rock from the sun. Many of us will get the references and jokes and find something we can relate to. To deal with those sensitive to controversial topics like woman being treated like sex objects by Hollywood, how about instead of Chip and Dale simply ogling all over Gadget just because she's hawt, have either Chip or Dale showing genuine love to Gadget as in there is something about her character, her personality, her moral code, etc. that strikes the heart of either chipmunk and develop a romance between one of the chipmunks and Gadget. Believe me when I say this. There are Rescue Ranger fans that have been practically screaming at the top of their lungs for THREE DECADES to ship Chip with Gadget and Dale with Foxglove. Seeing those two relationships happen would be a God damn dream come true for many fans out there...including me!

So the jest of this is older fans of an IP do have a point in preserving what makes the IP great at least in their eyes. They don't want what makes the IP fanboy worthy to go away. Otherwise, what's the point? But on the flip side if the IP is to remain successful through changing times and ever evolving tastes, the IP needs to change with the times to stay relevant. Both sides of the scrimmage can be satisfied. By remaining faithful to the spirit of the IP, one can include the older fans. In the case of the Rescue Rangers, staying true to the original lore and keeping Chip and Dale sounding like chipmunks would please the older fans. However telling a story in ways that younger generations would latch onto such as this whole "Meta" direction of the new movie, new generations would pay attention and be introduced to the lore we older fans love in ways that will make the new fans will love as well.

Now mind you, its certain that however Chip and Dale is handled will never satisfy everybody. You will have older people screaming, "THEY ARE TAKING AWAY MY CHILDHOOD!" when any amount of change is made to their favorite IP. On the flip side you will have younger generations going "DA FAQ IS THIS DORKY MOM AND DAD SHIT DOING ON MY STREAMING DEVICE?" when older IP's remain largely the same as they always have been. You will never satisfy the extremes of any spectrum nor should those extremes be paid any heed. But if an older IP like Chip n Dale is handled in the right ways that preserves what makes the IP great while presenting it in ways that keeps it relevant to changing times you CAN cast a cast a very wide net that covers a majority of the spectrum between older fans and newer generations. As an older fan, I do want what makes Rescue Rangers such a great IP in my eyes to NOT go away. But on the flip side I DON"T want Rescue Rangers nor Chip and Dale remain frozen stiff like Cadillac and smell like Grandma and Grandpa's moth ball house either.

Chip n Dale Park life was an abysmal train wreck because the spirit of the original Chip n Dale was simply NOT there. Disney went too overboard in trying to be hip and with it. The result was just yet more Calart's garbage, which alienated older fans like me who expect Disney to be THE top notch 2-D animation powerhouse, which clearly they are not anymore. What makes me apprehensive of the new movie is the spirit of the Rescue Rangers IP not being present at all or at least not presented in the most faithful, positive way. The standard unaltered human voices for Chip and Dale and the fact that the original Rescue Rangers TV show is portrayed in the movie as just that, a TV show with actors pretty much says it was all just an act which renders all the heroics and saving the day the Rescue Rangers ever did null. Maybe it was done that way to set things up for Chip and Dale to prove that they can be Rescue Rangers for real and that is most likely the whole point of the movie. To reinforce that plot, maybe the voice changes are to make it clear that Chip and Dale were just actors portraying themselves as the Rescue Rangers. This would make sense in the type of story being told here.

But since we are going with this Meta humor and story here with the new movie, I do hope that the whole point of the movie is for Chip and Dale to prove that they can do more than act as seems to be what the trailer is hinting at. I hope the whole point is for them is to prove they have the testicular fortitude to be Rescue Rangers "for real." If that is indeed the case, I will be satisfied with that hands down even if Chip and Dale both sound like Basso Profoundos from a Russian Orthidox church choir instead of the chipmunks they are, because I think proving they can walk the walk so to speak might be the best way to present the original lore of the Rescue Rangers. That might be enough to please a wide swath of the spectrum between old and young. I will see the movie when it comes out. But I'm still nervous about how it will turn out as Chip n Dale are the direct inspirations for my chipmunks and their world.

Here's a little thought.

What if imaginative individuals, who create characters and write stories, are not simply making up these things purely from their minds, but instead are unwittingly peering into the lives of individuals in alternate universes and merely recording what they see as characters and stories for us to read and enjoy? For example maybe instead of me just coming up with Tamias the Chipmunk and his world, the Chipmunk Kingdom, maybe he and his world are very much real existing in an alternate universe and I'm unknowingly seeing into that universe. Same could be said for you and your characters and stories.

Just a thought exercise.

Some food for thought, folks.
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” - Fredrick Douglass

So it does look like Disney is finally going through with the Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers movie. Well let's see here.

Chip N Dale looks like Chip n Dale: Check

Other Rescue Ranger Characters: Check

Animation quality acceptability: A little off but Check

Looking good so far to this chipmunk. Now last item on my Check list.

Chip and Dale's voices: *FAIL BUZZER*

Normal human voices? ....Da Faq?!!! What happened to their cute chipmunk voices?

Eeeeeh..... I'm on the fence on this folks especially given the complete fail boat CnD Park Life turned out to be.

You are NEVER too old to be a furry. You are NEVER too old to enjoy cartoon animal characters. You are NEVER too old to participate in the furry fandom and share your enthusiasm for cartoon animal characters to others. Anybody that tells you that continuing to be a furry into your 40's, 50's, 60's, and beyond makes you into some sort of degenerate freak have allot of internal problems going on inside their heads and should be blocked and ejected from your life. What you are too old for is putting up with such immature tirades from young punks who have yet to learn a few life lessons.

I do not support grey muzzle furries being told they are bad people for continuing to be furries just because they are supposedly too old. That said I'm in my late 40's I'm still a furry and I'll continue to be a furry until I'm six feet under. If that's a problem for you, then either deal with it or find somebody else to play with. There are plenty of youngin' out there for you to pick from.

This is just a silly, off the wall topic here.

But since a large majority fursona characters *NOT referring to the actual IRL furry fans. I'm referring to the characters themselves here.) are LGBT, how would furry characters procreate at a rate to sustain and expand the population? And number 2, since in furry land, procreation can happen across species, how does that work? Well obviously we cannot apply IRL logic and IRL laws of nature here. We need to use something more akin to cartoon logic on this. So lets suspend our scientific believes and let our imaginations run wild.

Now an easy explanation can be found in Flash Gits animated series parody of furries. A source of corruption called the Lupus Mortum is spreading across the universe transforming humans and even their planets in to furries and its up to the Dark Templars to stop this corruption and its spread. What happens is your stereo typical social outcasts succumb to the Lupis mortum and become furries. From there, they spread their seeds across their world transforming inhabitants into furries and their planet into one gigantic macro fur with the ....erm..."red mountain". Its a workable explanation that accounts for how furries procreate. Though its more or less too parasitic in nature in that a host species, humanity, is required for furries to expend and propagate. Plus its a parody on fursuiters more so than of the fursonas themselves.

So lets go for a more self contained way for furry characters to procreate. What if in furry logic the characters are neither male nor female in the traditional since. Though they can appear to be male and female or a mixed bag between in outward physical appearance, gender identification, and gender rolls. But in actuality every furry character has all of the provisions to reproduce in a "male" as well as in a "female" way. When copulation or what we furries call yiffing happens, dominate characters AKA the toppers, the pitchers, etc. will produce the fertile seed. The submissive characters, AKA the bottom, the catcher. etc.will take on the gestation of the resultant offspring to birth. That's the concept.

Now you might ask what if the bottom is a male, how does that bottom have the proper anatomy to handle the gestation of the off spring and give birth. Well that is were you need to toss IRL logic aside and go with cartoon logic. What are furry characters? They are cartoon characters. Cartoon characters are made of a special substance called imagination. Without the constraints of IRL physics and the laws of nature holding furry characters back, furry characters can do anything they want. After all, how else can you explain a yiffy pic of a bottom character taking in that school bus sized hyper man part without being torn apart into a gory mess by said hyper man part? Like cartoon characters furry characters can stretch, contort, and bend in ways that would make the laws of physics lay a patch in its underwear and not be phased at all.

But if you want to have a somewhat more logical explanation of how furry characters procreate. We need our host humans like in the Flash Gits furry parodies. We can also account for the presence of furry characters that lay eggs. *points to any of you that are into egg laying*. What if instead of the bottoms carrying offspring to term, they lay eggs instead. Since furry characters live in the world of imagination, eggs are not laid in a nest. Instead eggs are laid into the mind of us furry fans. We hatch those eggs by creating our fursonas into the characters they are.

There we go. I just explained how furry characters procreate. Now get over here, Human, and get your computer and Wacom fired up! This chipmunk got yiffed by a sexy topper and I have whole clutch of eggs to lay in your head. XD XD XD XD

Okay now that I got prototype artwork of Tod and Bri up along with a dry run story posted. Next I will be working on a ref sheet of Tod and doing a new ref sheet of Bri for 2022. Also I will need to finish the character bios of the support characters for the big romance story. That process will take a while. However I when I get ref sheets of Tod and Bri up I will include their bios in descriptions. In the mean time, I want to puase my work on Tod and Bri to take care of some art I promised my fiancee and a couple of Tamias the Chipmunk pieces I have in mind. Once those things are squared away I'm going to be diving head on in doing Tod and Bri's big romance. Bottom line, expect an active and busy chipmunk.

Damn what a bummer. One of my favorite furries and inspirations to join the furry fandom is no longer going to be attending anymore furry conventions. But hey one has to do whats needed to be happy in this crazy world. I'm just glad I got to meet Tilt Longtail in person at Anthrocon 2016-18. He's really a good dude.

That a question I'd like to pose to any of you that put effort in the character development of your fursonas and other characters. I wrote a quick test run story involving Bri the Raccoon and my recently revived character Todd the Prairie dog. As I said in previous post I am aiming to put Tod and Bri together into a romance story. I had written in Bri's current bio and his new one soon to come, that under that raccoon mischievousness of his is a charming and very kind hearted person. But when I wrote the test story, Bri blew my mind at just how sweet and intensely loving he truly is especially to Tod. I kind of feel bad for retiring Tod all those years ago since i created those two characters together as a duo. Well lesson learned. Now that Tod is out of retirement and reunited with Bri, they will never again be separated. Rather its the romance story I will eventually be writing or any future story thereafter involving them, one will not be without the other. Both will always be a pair for as long as the characters exist.

As for the test story. I may post that up here and on FA after I finish working on character bios for the romance story and do some art work I've been meaning to do for awhile.

It hasn't been too long since I did the substantial updates to my second fursona, Bri the Raccoon. In fact, I feel the paint is still drying on him. Even so, I'm rewriting Bri's character bio in preparations for being reunited with his best friend Tod, the Prairie Dog reestablishing the original duo.they once were when I created the characters two and a half decades ago.

However this time around Tod and Bri will not be the simplistic Beavis and Butthead like characters they were originally cast as. Bri himself has changed and evolved too much as a character since I retired Tod to go back to that roll. Plus as I said in previous journal entries, I intend to do a romantic story involving Tod and Bri as a loving same sex couple.

So what this means to you is even though Bri's character design won't change and his personality will remain pretty much as is, Bri's current character bio will be struck down from cannon to be replaced by a brand new character bio gearing him up for the romantic story my efforts will be leading to.

Okay, folks. If you have been paying attention to this chipmunk on here Fur Affinity and on Ink Bunny, you may know of my second main fursona character Bri the Raccoon. But what you may NOT know is early in the life of my raccoon boy, he was one half of a dynamic duo. Well if you have read my previous journal entry titled "A Formal Introduction", maybe you might know about Bri once being one half of a former duo the other half being Bri's best friend, a prairie dog named Tod. The last pic of that character I drew was him doing tricks on a BMX bicycle. That was years ago. Even at that point Tod was separated from Bri and basically on his way to full retirement from my roster. That Left Bri as a solo character from that point onward.

Sometime when I was in high school, I created Tod and Bri together pairing them up. They were mainly meant to be Beavis and Butthead-esque characters just out to cause mischief and mayhem in their school, making the life of their principle, Ivan S Tremble, a living hell. They were really meant to be just some characters to have fun with. I did draw comics about the two placing them in various stories. Allot of it was just the stereo typical edgy stuff that I kind of snicker at when I look through the old sketch books with those comics. But hey, I was young too back then still trying to figure out who I am as a person. Over time though unlike Bri who persisted to the present day and eventually rose to stand along side Tamias the Chipmunk as one of my two main fursonas, Tod faded into retirement.

Bri stuck around with me though, I toyed with him in other stories. For awhile he was a pilot of a starship captained by a significant character in my roaster named Addus, of a warrior race known as Fantarans. Currently Bri is cast in the Chipmunk Kingdom storyline as an assistant and a bit of a care taker to Tamias helping the chipmunk during the summer season when Tamias's priestly duties as Chipmunk Chieftain gets really busy. The raccoon's roll is reflected in his current character bio.

However I have been doing some experimentation with Bri in his character development and uncovered a big aspect in him that was surprising even to me. Bri the Raccoon is full tilt homosexual. I tested the waters with Bri via non-cannon, experimental stories placing Tamias and Bri in...erm....romantic situations... and Bri took to those situations like a fish to water. My god that raccoon NEEDS a romantic partner...BADLY!! The raccoon is more than capable of making the lucky partner melt in his arms. He made short work of Tamias in one hell of a hurry.

But here's the issue. I can't pair Bri with Tamias in a romantic way mainly because I want my fiancée's fursona being Tamias's romantic partner to be as official cannon and rightfully so for obvious reasons. Also I have been thinking about doing a romantic story involving Bri for awhile. So the raccoon is in dire need of a partner to make a romantic story possible. The one and only solution is Bri's former companion, his best friend, Tod. On that note I need to revive Tod and recast him as not only Bri's best friend, but as the one to become Bri's soul mate and romantic partner. This means a ref sheet of Tod and a good backstory and character bio for the prairie dog.

Bri has been with me for nearly as long as Tamias. He has went though allot of changes, been through many situations, and was hit by the loss of his best friend. So the raccoon needs to be rewarded for his persistence in sticking with me for all this time. So in addition to the work I have already done to his character development thus far, what better reward than to give Bri back his best buddy as the raccoon's romantic partner. I can already sence my raccoon boy jumping up and down gleefully at these prospects I have in store for him.

What this means is I will need to eventually update Bri the Raccoon's character bio and redo his back story to include Tod as his romantic partner and also redesign and rebuild Tod in my current art skills and style and flush out his character development to a point he can handle the romantic story I want to place him and my raccoon 'sona in. It will take some time to pull this off. But this should be fun.

I just got done reading the furry themed Visual Novel called Adastra. Frankly, I was walking into it out of curiosity and to see who Amicus, the starring character, was all about since many furries all over the Fandom sing praises of him. Also walked into it with the mindset that it was going to be just a tacky boy friend simulator much like those stupid anime chick games...only for furries.

But ...erm.... I got to be honest here. Adastra is not really a boyfriend simulator in the literal since. Even though an LGBTQ romance between the main player character and Amicus is the central core of the story, it's only a part of a much broader story that left me profoundly floored. When you binge read for hours at a time for 4 days straight, you know it's good.
I've been a furry for 30 years and officially active in the Fandom for 13 of those years. I've seen allot of good content come out of the community. But Adastra IMHO is a crown jewel of just how creative us fuzz butts can be. The complex and comprehensive story blew me out of the water, tossed me around the full spectrum of emotions like a rag doll, and hit me square in the heart so hard I was crying...I'm talking water spikets, here, pouring tears down my face...by the time the story drew to a close. Just ...stunningly... beautiful!

Oh yeah. Got to admit that I too now have a bit of a crush on Amicus. Hehehehe *blushes* ❤ ❤ ❤

Fair warning to those thinking of downloading Adastra and giving it a go, there is some NSFW here and there. Though that's not why I'm warning you I'm going to make it crystal clear that you better have a good handle in emotional control because Adastra does NOT pull any punches. It hits hard...very hard. But trust this chipmunk on this, don't give up no matter how gut wrenching things get. Keep reading and if you have to go back and change choices to get the more optimal of the two endings I'm aware of, DO IT! It is so well worth the emotional roller coaster ride.

Aright I'm sorry for coming off as one of them young googly eyed 20 something popufurs. But I got to admit this here. The character called Amicus from the furry game Adastra is HAWT!!! in all the right ways. But then again, as some of you who have been following me for awhile know, this chipmunk cannot resist the immensly strong but gentle types. It just so happens that Amicus strikes all the right chords. So you'll have to forgive me on that he he he he. *grins a cheeky grin* <3

Heads up. I am taking a break from posting on Facebook due to some BS restrictions slapped on my account for equally BS reasons. I'll be on break until Jan 19 2022. Though I will still be active on Messenger. I will remain active on my other fronts as well.

There is one furry artist I'd love to see Tamias the Chipmunk drawn by. That would be Shiuk. Everything he does is beautiful. The art skills abound with him. The hawt yiffy spiffy factor is the icing on the cake. I also love how he draws rodent based characters too. Most of all I think his style would position him perfectly to capture the essence of Tamias spot on. Now if only I could afford the commission prices for his stuff.

 shiuk

FYI. Posting your IRL name and other contacts that leads to things like street addresses and phone numbers' etc. on anybody's page shouts is a really bad idea. You don't know that person from third base. That person and they're watchers could be perfectly benign. Or they all could be incidious dramaqueens and haters of the obsessed keyboard crusader types out to ruin people over petty disagreements and baseless acusations. Believe me, folks. The furry fandom and Fur Affinity are infested with such specimens of toxicity. All they need is seed information and they have you by your fuzzy balls.

That in mind, I deleted a page shout where a person gave their IRL name and other contacts. It's for their protection and to insure I have nothing to do with anything should they get DOX'ed and hit with the resultant shitstorm.

Good News!! We have a Tesla Model Y Long Range on order. The Car has been optioned with the metallic blue paint job, white interior, FSD, and the Base Gemini wheels. The car should arrive sometime in June if all goes well. At a whopping 70 grand the new Tesla will be by far the most expensive vehicle we have ever purchased. But a bad situation last year actually resulted in us being in a perfect position to pull the trigger on the car and NOT have the monthly payments put us in the poor house. Its strange that this will be the first time in my life that I will be driving a vehicle on my list of dream cars. .... not to mention that the Model Y is one of the most technologically advanced cars on the planet. Excited Chipmunk is Excited.

Yesterday at 10:45 in the morning the rock of my family, my mother, quietly passed away after loosing a battle with a severe case of pneumonia. She was a good life long partner with my Dad while being a good mom to me and my brother.. For me, mom has been a pillar of strength for me and I thank her for always being there for me and the rest of the family. I also thank her for instilling into me the moral codes I live by and inspiring my brother to be a faithful husband to his wife and a good father to their kids.

I love you mom. Thank you for the mortal life you lived. You have definitly earned your place in Life Eternal.

"Rock of Ages Cleff for Me."

Just a quick entry here. I have made some minor updates to Tamias the Chipmunk's character bio. I wanted to remove all references to a character belonging to a former friend (drama... :P *rolls eyes) and make a few other tweaks. These updates are to act as a stop gap until I can sit down and rewrite Tamias's character bio to better reflect the direction I want him to go into. Here's the bio as it currently stands https://www.furaffinity.net/view/24.....che=1617861390