Today marks the 50th birthday of an urban born and raised lop bunny from Philly! (Phloppy Bunny)

Thinking seriously of switching from Linux Mint to the Majaro Linux. I have consistently heard good words about Majaro for a few years straight. If anybody out there has used Manjaro let me know your thoughts.

The reason I am thinking of moving from Mint to another distro is because the makers of Mint are pulling some bullshit edgelord drama with some mission critical software I use causing them not to work anymore when upgrading from Mint 19 to Mint 20.

Some people think that extra terrestrial life does not exist or at best can never be found. It could be because of a built in limitation in how far a civilization can advance before reaching the end of its life span. It could also be because the universe being the immeasurably big place it is that advanced civilizations are spaced so far apart from one another that encountering each other in person or via intercepting each other's radio communications is statistically impossible. These are logical reasons.
But I do have an idea of my own as to why we can't find advanced civilizations out there or think they just don't exist. Maybe its not some limitation to how advance they can get before keeling over or being spaced so damn far apart that we have no hopes of encountering each other. I think its something else, something far beyond what our primitive minds can comprehend.

I think that advanced civilizations do exist. In fact, its down right absurd and even egotistical of us to even dare to think that humanity is somehow the only big fish in the cosmic lake. That is like how the medieval Church insisted that Planet Earth is the center of the entire universe when clearly its some insignificant spec in some remote part of a random galaxy among the countless billions of galaxies each containing millions to trillions of stars most of which having a collection of planets and other worlds orbiting them. You mean to tell me that out of all of that there is not a single world other than our own that harbors life or better yet an advanced civilization? Lets get real folks.

But why are we not able to find another advanced civilization? The aforementioned spacing issues and finite life spans are plausible theories. But what if at least for civilizations that are more advanced than our own that they have reached a state of technological advancement so far beyond our current tech we are simply unable to see them and comprehend them? It means that they could be all around us, but we are too primitive to be aware of their existence.

Let drop our jadedness and cynicism for a moment and let our minds wonder, not just to the street corner and back. Let's go waaaaay out there beyond the city and our daily grinds and into forests of a state park 50 to 100 miles away from our homes aka your comfort zone. Let that peaceful forest take away all of daily mental ruts we are stuck in and free our minds to actually think. Now that we have a camp fire lit, and we are signing Kumbaya under a starry night sky, lets get down to business.
Humanity through most of its history has been relatively the same when it came to technological advancement. Rather its a primitive bronze age agrarian society dating back thousands of years or a society from the late medieval age, the basic tech was the relatively the same. Cooking was done with fire, homes and buildings were made of wood, stone and clay, metal objects were made in a forge. Transportation, as well as hauling heavy workloads beyond human strength were handled by beasts of burden. Yes there were some innovations between the bronze age and late medieval times. But if you brought a bronze age person forward in time to the medieval period, they would be able to adapt since the basic mind sets, principals, and skill sets needed to live in either time is relevant, interchangeable, and very much applicable.

On the other hand, from the medieval period to the present, technology had advanced at exponential rates with no signs of letting up anytime soon. In just the past several hundred years, we go from the primitive means of doing things from the medieval period to automation, the internet, automobiles, Tesla, astronauts, the moon landings, and AI's at the cusp of surpassing human intelligence. Unlike the bronze age person going forward in time to the medieval period and adapting, a person going forward from the medieval period to the present would be in one hell of a shock. They would simply not understand let alone comprehend today's world and how vastly different it is from the medieval world. All of this would be wizardry and witchcraft in their overwhelmed minds.

I'm sure that if one of us from today were to go forward into the future even by mere 50 years, we would be blown away at how advanced tech would be and how much different the world would be. Hell, I was born in the 1970's and grew up in the 80's. What we have today is something that back then I would have laughed off as the stuff of science fiction and unsubstantiated fantasies. There was no internet. A land line phone was your voice chat that you had to pay by the minute on. My Commodore 64 had a measly 8 Mhz CPU and not even enough memory to hold a simple text document from today. The video game Skate or Die took 15 minutes to load from my floppy drive and I was grateful for having that much. Off air TV and Cable were your only YouTube. A person that had 1 whole megabyte of memory was considered the uber leet of leets.

Never in my life would I have ever imagined that I would be using a machine with gigabytes of memory, and terabytes of hard disk space. Never in my life would I have even dreamed of watching streaming videos and listening to music on demand from anywhere I'm at via a smart phone. Never in my life did I ever imagine that I would test drive a car that was able to drive itself on the open freeway either. Its mind boggling. .....MIND BOGGLING!!

This finally brings me to the meat and potatoes of this blog. A civilization more advanced than ours will be light years beyond what we can currently comprehend. Maybe on their world they have all uploaded their consciousness to a digital metaverse powered by quantum computers that are so advanced and powerful that the machines themselves do not exist as physical hardware as how we understand it. Maybe those computers and the networks that connects them all together exists deep in the substrates of quantum world, sub atomic particles, quarks, and other aspects of the quantum physics we have yet to understand let alone discover and learn about.

Such an advanced civilization would not need physical habitations to offer shelter. They would not need farms to feed them. They would not need cities to live and work in. Non of the physical things that we primitive human being require right now is simply not a thing because with consciousness existing in a metaverse powered by machines that exist in the substrates of the quantum world, for all intense and purposes the advance civilization would be living in the energies and subatomic particles that power the universe itself. Do you think that a civilization like that is even tangible whatsoever to how much we can currently see and understand, given our current place on the totem poll of advancement? I think its safe to say the answer is not yet.

This in mind. I believe that if we are to discover other and perhaps more advanced civilizations, we humans will need to become advanced as well. We need to be in the metaverse powered by quantum computers that exist in the substrates of the quantum world. Only then will we have the comprehension, knowledge, and understanding to be able to discover other advanced civilizations.
Food for thought, people. Food for thought.

....is canceled due to COVID19.

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Well due to the ongoing COVID19 crisis, Anthrocon 2020 has been canceled. I am bummed since its been two years since the last time I've been to a fur con. So it looks like another year. However it is understandable given how dire the global COVID19 pandemic is right now. There seems to be no end to this in sight right now. So its best to play it safe than dying from the virus. I have requested a refund for the con itself and also for my hotel room.

Since Anthrocon 2020 was a main event for my overall trip out east and given that New Jersey is not safe either, doing the beach and boardwalks of Wildwood may not be happening either. So thanks to COVID19 it looks like my vacation is pretty much dead before it arrived.

Be that the case I will continue to save as much money as I can. Maybe by the time the world gets better and traveling is safe again, I can put what I have saved to good use in converting a cargo trailer into a nice travel trailer or maybe go big and build a schoolie and travel the country for months on end. The big things I need to do is work on getting a telecomute job to detach myself from the 9 to 5 grind and be able to work from anywhere. Also if I go for the skoolie option I would need to find a place to do the conversion since I don't have the room on my premises to park a 40 foot long school bus..

In the meantime folks, please hang in there. We will get through this. We will have better times again.

Well I feel good despite putting in some hours at work today. Why? Its because my entire hours at work was spent packaging up face masks for the health care workers on the front lines taking care of COVID19 patients. It feels damn good knowing that what I did today and what I will be doing for the duration of the pandemic will make the difference between life and death. If a doctor, a nurse, a caretaker is saved from getting infected, then it means they can still provide life saving care to patients that need it regardless if they are COVID19 cases or other dire medical cases that require urgent care. I don't give a shit about the additional money I'll see in my paycheck. I would have done this voluntarily if I had to. What I do care about are the folks that will be putting the face masks to use and making sure they can continue to provide care to their patients and put food on the table for their families.
Thank you health care workers. This world needs all of you to do what you do best. Healing the wounds, making well the sick, and saving lives. I'm just happy that I'm doing my part to help you make those things happen.

A friend of mine I do care about has chosen to leave the furry community due to the shear amount of yiff content in furry as well as people mistakenly taking his own PG art as yiff content. Lets be honest here as you can see in my gallery and favorites I can be pretty cheeky myself. That's my prerogative though. But it has gotten me to think on some things myself. For me I find yiff to be enjoyable. I draw it, I fave it, and I also RP with those I feel I can trust with my cheekiness. But I do think there are those so obsessed with yiff that they tend to push themselves on others too much. I think it has cause those like my friend to feel very uncomfortable with the community at large. As much as I like yiff I can see his motive through my own experiences. Some in this community like him and his art because to them he and his art are nothing more than sex objects to fap to more so than liking him and his content for his heart and the artistic merit of his work. That's a shame. Really it is. I know how he feels.

I too have ran into my fair share of what I call yiff sluts out there. They come to me because they think my 'sona is sexy and want to get under the chipmunk's breech cloth. A few nights ago on Second Life I had some bitch come at me from out of nowhere asking me to let her give me a blow job. I'm flattered... but I'm like ".....and who are you?" Another incident also on Second Life I had a furry constantly begging me for RP. "Hey tamias. Wanna yiff. *grope grope *slurp *link etc, etc, Neither those two examples nor any other yiff obsessed individuals have ever asked me "Hey how are you doing today?" no causal convos. No formalities at the very least. Its "OH there is a hole under tail *YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF YIFF. As cheeky as I can be even I tend to shake my head at the some of the most yiff obsessed fuzzies out their. Yiff sluts reguard people in no better light than their bad dragon sex toys. So I definitely can relate to my friend.

I'm not saying yiff as a bad thing. Despite what furry haters like to bitch and whine about, there is nothing wrong with yiff. We are all adults here. Besides a majority of this fandom is made up of young collage age students at the peek of their sexuality. Hormones and pheromones will saturate this community and make for some horny people out there. So that tail hole, vag, peen, boobs, and the idealized frames of furry characters are naturally going to be sexually attractive and boners will raise to attention in short order. Fact of life on that.

But the thing is behind the sexy looking fursona's, there are HUMAN BEINGS with feelings dreams aspirations. They can be happy sad, content or scared just like you. And for fursona's like mine, they serve as extensions of one's own identity. In Tamias the Chipmunk's case he is my vehicle I put to use in diving into my own inward feelings to explore myself as a person to figure out my strengths and weakness and to work out deeply buried feelings I need to resolve but cannot in any other way. In short inside the fursuits and behind the fursonas are people that need and deserve to be treated and respected as such.

What I'm saying here is even though yiff is a big part of furry. There is a difference between yiffing another furry just for the sake of yiffing that furry....and putting yiff to use in making that furry thoroughly enjoy you and the experience because you care about your yiff partner and genuinely want to make that partner happy inside and out. With the select few people I RP with, I'm only happy when those I RP with are thoroughly enjoying the experience along with me. I want them happy because I care about them and their emotional well being.

More importantly is the fact that yiff should not be taken lightly. You cannot and should not yiff the first tail hole you find. There are allot of furries that regard RP and those faping to their content in the same light as actual sex. As funny as that sounds, that's the way it is like it or lump it. You advance on them with complete disregard of who they are as individuals and what they are comfortable with, you will offend them. You will make them feel awkward and in some cases make them feel violated. In my friend's case, its people faping to his art that was not meant to be faped to, that made him feel offended and awkward to the point that he wants to leave. That is fucking irresponsible as hell let alone a literal dick move. Those that reguard people, their characters , and content as sex objects and nothing more do not deserve the pleasure of yiff nor the friendship that should come before any yiffing. Period! End of story.

Bottom line is don't think with your sex organs. Think with your head. Regard artists, furries, and their creations in the same light as you would actual people because that is exactly who they are...ACTUAL PEOPLE!! Respect them and their personal space and bring out the yiff ONLY when THEY....not you....THEY indicate they want to have a yiffy good time with you. Yiff is awesome...but only when its done with responsibility.

That's all.

I'm currently working on a new version of the Chipmunk Kingdom's national anthem. After looking at the current version I do like what I see. So I want to new version to send the same message of the current version but reinforce that message with far better invocation of the most important elements of the chipmunk culture and conveying more clearly the purpose of the kingdom. Should have the lyrics up soon. Though I would like somebody with some good musical talent to compose a melody for it. Hey  TonyaSong You up to the task?

...and, the things I draw come true.

Oh, the pictures take me, take me over. Climb a ladder with you.







Pinwheel, spin wheel, spinning around. Looked at my pinwheel, and see what i found.

Pinwheel, spin wheel, where have you been? Hello. How are you? And, where have you been?

Time for some chipmunk advice.

Do you know what stars do? I'm sure you will say they shine light and give off heat as a result their nuclear fusion and that many also harbor planets around them. That's the scientific explanation which is true enough and thus most logical.

But do you really know what a star truly does? Look up into the night sky. Do you see the blackness of the infinite dark, that inky void all around? Now look at the stars themselves. They shine their light into that darkness reguardless of how vast it maybe.

You see, stars are beacons of hope shining into the cold dark void of uncertainty calling and guiding those lost in crisis from the night of their own despair. They shine with happiness and twinkle with joy.

A star like our own Sun, who's loving light and soothing warm calms the fearful, reassures us that things will be okay. It tells us to worry not for when the night makes us most weary, its golden rays will break the night every morning. We just need to not give up nor give into the night creatures that are our own fears and self doubts.

We just need to simply look up to the stars at night and allow them to remind us that the morning will come again and we all will bask in the life giving light of the sun once more.

Let the stars guide you. For those you care about, be a star. Shine your light into their night just as the stars shine into yours. Be their sun to give them soothing love and the joy of life. Looking to the stars and being stars for one another, we will make it through these times of crises and those yet to come. That's a fact. So hang in there though this night Morning will indeed come again.

I want to let everyone here know that even though my state now has 549 cases of Covid19 and 4 deaths (those numbers will surely go up since 'MURICAH has yet to see the peak) I do want to let everyone know that I am doing okay so far. My household and I are taking this matter seriously and obeying the executive orders of social distancing signed by our State Governor and doing what we can to reduce our exposure. We are washing our hands more thoroughly and more frequently and venturing out only for the essentials and going to work, basically just enough to stay afloat. Of course like you I am worried as to how long this crisis will last and what the prospects are for the future as a result of the Pandemic.

I have been through crisis situations before, things like tornado warnings, a hurricane making landfall in the east coast state we use to live in when I was a little kid, a tornado chasing us down a freeway on the way home from a camping trip, several severe winter storms, two earth quakes, and who the hell can forget 9/11. I've dealt with family crisis as well. The worse of which were an eviction from a mobile home park in southern Indiana, living in a car for a month in the streets of Chicago, a Bankruptcy when I was in Junior High School, and the most recent crisis was Mother's stroke 7 years ago that landed her in the nursing home. I have been through some hell in my 45 trips around the sun. I'm still here. So I guess I'm doing something right.

But from what I can tell, this COVID19 crisis is unlike anything I have ever seen in my entire life. This is a crisis hitting not just one city, not one country, not one continent. This crisis is affecting the entire planet! All of civilized society!! The only safe place is Antarctica and who wants to live in an eternal freezer other than penguins and seals? The impact this is having on the world and on me and my household is making 9/11 look like small potatoes. The aforementioned executive orders, entire states going into lock down, food shortages due to panic buying, and the stock market hemorrhaging in ways not seen since the onset of the Great Depression.... this shit seems to be a perfect storm that is fast transforming this world into an unrecognizable place not too dissimilar to a zombie apocalypse. And this crisis seems to be just getting warmed up.

I really don't know what to say or think about all of this. I am finding this latest chapter we are in absolutely mind boggling.....and down right surreal. Right now, my mate, dad and I are taking this day by day. Really that's all we can do for the moment. I've taken a hiatus from Facebook other than messenger to avoid having my already heighten stress levels aggravated by the solid unabated mass hysteria Facebook is right now over COVID19. I'm also avoiding the panic mainstream media is causing as well, only paying attention to the CDC, WHO, and my governor's office for updates as well as trusted sources to monitor the situation across the country.

I'm worried as all of you are folks. In light of the COVID19 crisis the future does indeed look uncertain. We just don't know what is going to happen. But we will get though this. We just have to remember what fear really is. Its nothing more than ego trying desperately to hold on to and preserve fleeting moments against the tides of change, a battle it will eventually lose one way or another. We have to realize that like it or not, that there are no uncertain times because time is always uncertain. Constant change happens all around us, while permanence is an egotistical man made concept that should have no place in the vocabulary. So fearing uncertainty serves nothing but to render us inflexible and unable to adapt to change thus making life rather difficult to live to put it mildly.

Just as time is change, we need to change with the shifting sands of time. In order to be that change we cannot nor should not fear any change. We just need to learn to let go of the fleeting moments when its time to let go. We do that much, we free ourselves in mind heart and soul to learn, adapt and overcome what ever ups and downs change brings. After all remaining static and inflexible is not how life remains resilient in the constantly changing environments and climates through out the history of the earth. Life is resilient only because life changes to adapt to changes. Humanity is resilient against crisis such as COVID19 only when we change and adapt to constant change. Bottom line when facing a crisis rather its a personal crises or a massive humanitarian crisis like the one on us right now and you want to change how thing play out and/or at least successfully endure the crisis and get through it, then you have to be the change. There are no other options than that.

I sincerely wish all of you the best in getting to the other side of this crisis. We will make it though this and times will get better again. Just hang in there people and do what you need to do get to the other side.

To any fursuiters our there. Due to people freaking out amd panic buying everything off store shelves....INCLUDING ISOPROPYL ALCAHOL.... which is needed to sanitize a fursuit after use, I can't fursuit until this panic blows over and things get back to normal. ...Unless there are other ways to sanitize fursuits that work just as well. So any pointers fellow fursuiters??

I'm copy/pasting some good wise words from my fiancee  phloppybunny about the Corona virus mass hysteria

Begin quote....

Disconnect from it all

No, I don't mean disconnect from Ink Bunny, this page or the Internet in general...


I mean, disconnect yourself from anything and everything that is news media right about now. Because, unsurprisingly... there is only one story they keep going on and on about.

Namely Covid-19 (Corona virus).


It just basically is so much constant doom and gloom. And, if you were already a person that has been suffering from depression or anxiety before this whole supposed "Doomsday scenario" took hold in the media, I figure this whole media hype won't help your condition.


Besides... why be a sheep? I mean, I think there still continues to be no shortage of people with a knee-jerk reaction kind of mind to anything the media hypes up.


People who fear when told to fear... people who hate when told there is some group of people we must hate... people who just make themselves nothing more than puppets of the media.


Zero percent cerebral, 100 percent knee-jerk reaction... to everything.


That's just not healthy. It really Isn't. Not for you, not for me, not for anyone.


Take a break from the hysteria by going to some public park, and sitting for like maybe 30 minutes or so.

Feed the squirrels. Watch the world go by. Take in some fresh air. (helps to clear the mind).


Stay away from the Red Bull and Monster energy drinks.

Make some time for yourself to get away somewhere for maybe an hour or so.


Do what makes you happy and relaxed, whatever it may be.

But, again... most of all.. pull the plug on watching/listening to news media on TV, radio and Internet.


And, remember... no matter what... you, I, and all of us won't be on this Earth forever no matter what anyway.

Yes, It's certainly nice to live as long as possible. And, I sure want to as well.


But, again... like I said, no one lives forever. And, because that's the case, It's just all the more reason why not to constantly worry about things we just can't do anything about.


Well, okay... we can all wash our hands thoroughly like they said, and take the precautions they mentioned. And, other than seeing a doctor if need be, that's pretty much all any of us can do.

But, worrying accomplishes nothing.

So, let's all just take life day by day, regardless of what's happening out there in this crazy world.


Sometimes, It's best to put the past in the past... and, not constantly worry about weeks and months into the future.

Because, ultimately... all any of us ever really have is the here and now.


Yesterday is long gone, and tomorrow is promised to no one... virus outbreak or not.


No matter what... at least we all have is this world, this life... ourselves and one another.

That may not sound like much... but, if we learn to make the most of it, life can be better for all of us if we but learn to co-operate and work to together a little.

Universal brotherhood is something I've wanted to see in the human race for some time now.

Yes, granted... I think the odds are VERY slim for that happening with the human race. But, it doesn't have to be impossible if we don't want it to be. And, that's exactly the point.


Plain and simple... don't embrace all the doom and gloom in the media.
You'll just end up slowly driving yourself crazy sooner or later.



So yeah... disconnect... decompress... regroup. And, don't rush... take your time about it.


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Given how fearful many of you maybe of what's happening in this world right now. I think it's time for some chipmunk advise. It's not the events and bad things that are happening you fear . It's the uncertainty that you are afraid of.

You fear uncertainty because you know that everchangung times will rip you from your comforts of familiarity and place you into uncharted territory where your established perceptions, rules of thumb, and what you know may no longer apply. You will be forced to relearn and rebuild. Depending on who you are and what makes you tick. That process does hurt emotionally and mentally.

Of course you want to avoid emotional pain.which In my humble opinion is allot more agonizing than physical pain. So its understandable that you are afraid of what is to come. You dread the thoughts of having your own little world flipped up side down and transformed into an alien landscape by the shifting sands of time. Maybe the passing of a family member left you scared. Maybe that job loss is bringing on that fear. Maybe ita the mainstream media constantly stiring up doom and gloom causing people to panic over a virus no worse than the flu. Either way things are happening and you are scared.

You try desperately to hold on to the familier. You don't want to let go. You don't want anything not even the advance of time to take what is familier to you away. But the catch of this is the more you resist the constant change the more painful that change will be once you finally realize you have been fighting a losing battle to stay the same and keep your little world the same.


The thing is if you really want to know the truth, I'm talking about the truth, absolute truth, the truth that is the kernel that runs reality itself. The truth is who you think you are, all of your endevors, your ambitions, and the results of all of your work to make your life and the immediate world around you exactly as how you like it, is just a fleeting moment, a quick flash in the passage of time. It comes and goes. Sometimes that moment will persist for awhile or it can disappear as quickly as it came. The truth does not care rather you like it or not because in the end the truth will win .

Therefore rather the truth will make you a stronger and better person or reduce you into a basket case on a one way trip to an insane asylum depends entirely on you and how willing you are to accept the truth, learn and understand what it teaches, and act upon what you have learned and understand.....and be willing to never stop learning and understanding. In short don't be so egotistical that you think are immortal or that the things you have accomplished will last forever.

The truth is flux. The truth is a stream constantly flowing. The truth is the ever changing clouds rolling across the sky. The truth is the restless wind. The truth is the shifting light of the rising and setting sun. The truth's only constant is constant change.
So you will always be faced with uncertainty.

Yes do enjoy the comforts of familiarity...but only for how ever long they last. That all could disappear in the blink of an eye. So always be humble enough to accept and embrace the truth and let it teach you how to let go and adapt to the constant change that is the truth. Once you realize and understand that times are always uncertain, you will be allot better at not being afraid and more able to ride the waves of change to a better you and a better life.

Bottom line is, don't fear. Instead embrace, learn understand , adapt, overcome. Once you can do that much, the truth won't be so painful.

Given that facebook is now nothing more than mass hysteria and panic over the Corona virus, I am taking a hiatus from facebook until the panic blows over and things returns to normal. So to those that track me on Facebook, I will be ignoring all my feeds. However I will still be active on messenger so you can still communicate directly there.

Chipmunk Advice of the now:

Depression, anxiety, and just about any other mental and emotional problem have one thing in common. They all make you unable to see that you are better than you perceive yourself to be while making the world around you appear far worse than it actually is. This is not to say that everything is happy happy joy joy with Care Bears and My Little Ponies. You are a human being with virtues and flaws like every one else and that you still have to deal with them. Also this world still can be and is unfair place.

But when you are having an anxiety attack or feeling down, and seeing nothing but doom and gloom, you should atleast consider that allot of how and what you feel and perceive is your emotional and mental problems messing with your mind and that situations, the world, life is not as bad as what your inner demons are telling you. Also, you are never as weak as your inner demons tell you.

Think of it this way. If you are indeed as weak as your inner demons make you think, then how did you make it this far without going into a nuclear meltdown as a human being? How did you make it this far in life reguardless of what went down in your past and what your current standing is? How were you able to enjoy your successes and endure your set backs you experienced thus far? You see folks, it takes incedible amonts of inner strength to keep those inner demons in check ontop of living your life. You are better than what your issues make you think.

Do everything you can to NOT let what tries holding you back fill your head with lies of self doubt. It's not easy. I know. I have my own inner demons too. But not trying and instead letting your inner demons steam roll all over you gets you nowhere. But even if you are doomed to fail at life no matter how much you try and struggle and fight, at least when the grim reaper comes calling, you can leave this world knowing that you denied your inner demons the satification of throwing in the towel.

Never give up people. You are far more than worth the efforts to keep yourselves together no matter how hard things get for you and no matter how worthless your inner demons make you feel.

I just had to help a close friend get through a saver emotional break down. It was pretty bad. I'm just gonna say this about what I learned from that experience and the things he told me about what lead to the break down.

It does not matter who you are. You could be sombody that is justifiably angry with a person who transgressed you or you could be just some dickhead out to start shit. Words do hurt. How painful those words are depends on the situation, how molisious the verbal abuse is, and most of all how vulnerable the targeted person is. But words do hurt. If somebody says otherwise, they are a bald face liar lacking any empathy, plain and simple.

Now of course you need to do your best to not allow somebody belittling you to get to you. You either need to stand your ground and insist they stop or if they refuse to listen to reason, boot them out of your life. Also you should not dwell on the negative and instead focus on the positives in your life as best you can.

That's all sound advice that can and should be heeded. But it still does not negate how much words can fuck up a person's mind. Especially if that person is suffering from conditions that are mindfucks in of themselves. A person suffering from mental conditions usually and almost always have self esteem problems usually stemming from their mental problems rendering them to struggle in properly engaging in social interactions and do allot of things healthy people can do.

If you lob mean words at someone even if it's just some meaningless insult a healthy person can easily brush off, those words can do to a person suffering from mental issues as much emotional damage as the worst of physical abuse. Even a simple insult like "Your an idiot" can have the equivalent damage potential as a punch to the gut. Telling somebody with mental issues that they are a nobody and this world would be better without them is the equivalent to dropping an atomic bomb. Its undeniably soul crushing!!

One very big thing to remember when you interact with people be it online or IRL is unless you are inside their head, you don't know what kind of inner demons are messing with their minds. On the outside, a person can be smiling and bending over backwards to put smiles on other people's faces and doing a bang up job at that. But on the inside they could be in the depths of missery.

Case in point is the late comedian Robin Williams. He was one hell of a comedian that was a master at making people laugh and smile. His heart warming personality won over the hearts of his fans. But on the inside he was in a very dark place emotionally suffering from chronic depression that lead to his suicide.

In the furry fandom there are so many people in this community that are just like Robin Willaims. They put heart and soul into making people smile and brighten their days. That's the magic of one of the most visible types of furries in the fandom, fursuiters. You know those fuzzy 6 foot tall cartoon animals you see on youtube or in downtown Pittsburgh every year on the 4th of July weekend. But the person inside that suit is suffering from things like depression, anxiety, or in my friends case more serious mental conditions that puts them in emotionally dark places. All it takes is just one single case of verbal abuse to crush their soul. I know fursuiters who have killed themselves because words hurt.

The pain that words can cause is the single biggest reason I have no forgiveness of bullies and those who verbally abuse.

The pain of words is also the biggest reason that no matter the circumstances, no matter if you are angry with a transgressor or if you are tempted to pick on that small guy over there by himself, think about what you are going to say before you say it. Because you have no clue if that person can take it or is just one insult away from hanging themselves.

Please think before you say anything.

Finally, the Chipmunk will be back to Anthocon!!!

Okay folks, its official. Expect to see yours truly and my sweetheart Phloppy Bunny at Anthrocon 2020. The con is registered and hotel room booked.

Just like last time we will be shacking up at the Double Tree. Free Double Tree chocolate chip cookies, non non nom!!!

Merry Christmass folks. New avatar to celebrate the occasion.. Pulled drom this video by my bunny X3

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I'm still.pondering the idea of getting a manniquin way to store my fursuit and display it at the same time when not in use. Any fursuiters put there have tried it? If so let me know how it worked put for you down 8n comments.

My bunny was at it again and created another animated avatar from one of my fursuit videos. Check it out on my profile.

My sweetheart Phloppy Bunny busted his hump to make this chippy a new animated avatar based on frames he pulled from one of my fursuit videos <3 <3 So take a look at it on my profile X3

Normally I save these kind of posts for my Facebook wall nowadays and leave my FA for my art and basic status updates. But in light of an FA journal I just read, I do want to lay down some advice for all of you. Folks we all have our problems in life. They could be dealing with a dysfunctional family. Too many of us furries have that issue. Seems down right ubiquitous unfortunately. As good as my parents were to me and my brother, our family still went through our fair share of hell. So I feel for any of you out there dealing with family issues. Maybe those problems could be mental and emotional issues. I certainly have my own inner demons to deal with, namely stress and anxiety problems. That shit often fucks with me hardcore at any opportune time where I see a situation being far worse than it actually is, over analyzing a new scenario I find myself often hesitating to jump at something when I need to. I missed some prime opportunities because of that, Its the "What if's" that always hangs me up. So I feel for you on the dealing with inner demons. The problems could be financial issues. I operate on a shoe string budget myself. My family has had a roller coaster ride financially. I think the latter is a large reason why I have stress and anxiety problems. Point is we all have some kind of problems....something that tends to push us to our limits and beyond. In other words shit does get real for waaaaaaay too many of us furries out there. I think allot of us joined this fandom as a desperate attempt to get away from our IRL problems from both around us and within us.. Unfortunately for too many of us there seems to be no escaping it. No break.

Reality is you can't get away from your problems forever no matter how much you try. You can drink yourself into a stupor.Your issues are still gonna be there waiting for you to sober back up. You can get high on a can of Krylon spray paint and super glue fumes with a dash of Crystal Meth. Your problems will still be there when you come back down from that buzz. You can be the internet shitlord extraordinaire by making it your obsession to bully and torment people and get a thrill from making their lives a living hell, your problems are still gonna bitch slap you once that sense of power and gratification of destroying another person wears off. In short, you can do anything......ANYTHING.... to get away from your problems and they will still be there waiting for you once you snap back into reality.

Your problems will always be waiting for you because they will never go away until one of three things happens. One you resolve your issues, what ever they maybe, Two, if you cannot resolve your issues, live life as best you can by managing your issues and find work around's. Or three you do like what happened to the subject of the journal I just read...That would be cracking down the middle and end up killing himself and hurting others along the way. I'm not going to sugar coat this time. I'm not going to say it in my softer Tamias the Chipmunk way. I'm going to tell you like it is. Those are the only three avenues reality will give anybody facing life's challenges. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from, and what your story is. That's it. Deal with it because that's the way it is.. Its entirely up to you and you alone as to which avenue you take. Its harsh. It seems unfair. It hurts. But if their is one thing I've learned in my nearly 45 years on this chunk of rock we call Earth, its often that the truth can be goddamn ugly.

However the truth is ugly ONLY if we do anything OTHER THAN accept the truth, learn from it, and act upon it to nothing short but the best of our abilities. Hiding from problems may give you a temporary reprieve. Lord knows everybody needs that fleeting moment of catching one's breath from time to time. But unless you want to end up the next statistic, you have got to do what ever it takes to survive and thrive in a world that is designed to fight you every step of the way. Rather you realize it your not, you are valid. You do matter. You have it in you what it takes to take on what life dishes out both good and bad. You just need to hack your way through the jungle of fear and self doubt to the point that you realize that fact.

Bottom line folks, you need to keep it together. Don't sit there and wallow in your own misery when something knocks you on your ass. You want to live? You want any chance to make it? You got to get back up and continue on as best as you can regardless if you successfully resolve what is challenging you or life does kick your ass from hell to breakfast . Because if you don't and you let your problems get the better of you, then you won't make it. Now I know these words are no magic bullet answer to solving your issues. If I had the answers to it all, I'd be living in paradise with sexy stud muffins and chicks answering my beckon call and I'd be sharing the bounty with you all. The point of all of this is, even if its written in the stone of destiny that you are to live a meager life barely hanging on for the rest of your days, at the very least don't give your problems the satisfaction of you giving up nor cracking down the middle. If you do at least that much. That tiny little once of effort, then when the grim reaper comes calling at the end of your life , you can at least leave this world with the satisfaction that you tried. I don't know about you. That alone is worth all the effort I have invested into keeping myself together as a person.

Okay for those tracking me on Inkbunny, I am having problems uploading to Inkbunny. But be something going on at their end. I will try uploading my latest artwork to Inkbunny again tomorrow night.

Okay lesson learned. When using the colorize mask in Krita, ALWAYS, do your color assigned to transparency first or you will be spending a couple of hours screaming every obscenity known to man kind at your PC while trying and failing to get things to work right....and you have to give up and start the colorize mask procedure all over again. Transpancy first....then colors.