I got a new cat. :3 He's very shy, 8 months old, and was a surprise Christmas present for  NoventaWolf. He's a little tuxedo cat. :3 We have named him Nico. [NEE-ko] We are currently INTEGRATING HIM, which in the cat world is apparently a big gigantic clusterfuck.

a) this is both the happiest and most stressed I have ever seen  NoventaWolf

b) New Cat was found in an apartment complex and has never been alone or, based on his total confusion, seen a mirror, because he keeps trying to run through it

c) two of my existing cats are just hissing at everything that moves......................boy if they're this upset with a little kitten they are going to be HORRIFIED when i roll in with a fucking husky puppy

d) the cat is going between "OMG HIDE" and "omg this human is petting me must roll around for human i love human pet me human lovelovelovelovelove."

e) i hope this Integration shit goes quickly, it's really getting old. do you know how you integrate two unfamiliar dogs? you put them in a room together. INTEGRATION COMPLETE.

f) "meow."

THE END

i hate well-drawn, poorly-written comics. artists, just because you can draw really well doesn't mean you can write for shit. geez.

It's okay to consult with a real writer if you want characters that your readers might actually care about. Here's an exercise: try summarizing your plot arc in word form. If it's 2 sentences long (or you're cocking your head like a confused labrador at the term "plot arc") it's probably time to get some help.

I mean, you'll still get HITS, because the audience investment is 95% art to 5% plot, characters and story, but just for the sake of well-roundedness it would be a nice touch.

in many cases i'm glad i'm an author instead of an artist, because it seems like people completely ignore storylines and character development in favor of whether a character is hot or not. I saw  CodyVFrost put hours into the storylines behind I.S.O. and then most of the comments are like "OOOH SQUEEEE DOUG IS HAWWWWT" and it made me want to quit the internet.

NOW BE QUIET I'M EXTREMELY HUNG OVER

p.s. this isn't directed at anybody in particular, i was just reading over Nov's shoulder as he read some comic i've never seen before, and while the art of some dragon-thing was great, it read like it was a parody photoshop where somebody edited in new speech bubbles, and we were like...............really?

sunday night the oil change morons put 5.5qt in my 3.9qt crankcase, and Monday i had to have my fucking car flat-bedded an hour and a half so i could spend all night at the mechanics seeing if i still had an ounce of compression left

tuesday i spent an hour and a half in aforementioned car trying to find someone before the police did

wednesday i don't even remember

last night i ended up staying FOUR HOURS late at work for no other reason than it's year-end

tonight we had our Yearly Hideously Awkward Christmas with my dad who I don't speak to the rest of the year. i'm still at my sister's, dog-sitting her moron dog-aggressive canine while she parties at NIU

i r dead puppeh. @_@ call coroner 4 teh dead puppeh.

SCOTCH: IT'S WHAT'S FOR DINNER

i spent 10 full minutes yesterday reading about white-tailed deer and their antler growth/shedding, because SOME of us live in CITIES and don't KNOW this kind of shit

it's really a struggle to give one of these things an actual personality, since actual white-tail deer are so colossally stupid they cause more deaths wandering into traffic than any other animal on this continent doing...anything else. NOT MUCH PERSONALITY TO WORK WITH, any deer character will inevitably shop at wal-mart and watch a looooottt of TV

AND YES ESCA "HANDLEBARS" I'M AWARE OF THAT...though at some point in the middle of winter they would just snap off, which would likely scare the hell out of whoever was hanging onto them at the moment

. . .

that would be a GREAT scene, lol

i realize this is technically more accurate (...probably. i REALLY do not have sufficient interest to google the subject).....

.....but does anyone else miss good old-fashioned one-penised sharks?

and SURPRISE i'm drunk again

MORE! IMPORTRANTLY! It's a MEEEE

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6957513/

I'M SITTING ON THAT COUCH RIGHT THE FUCK NOW MOTHERFUCKERS

...your drama CAN have real-life consequences, if you do it hard enough!

GREAT JOB!

SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS

SADLFKJSDKLFJSKDLFJSLD;JFSL;FJSLKDJF;ASLFJ;SALD;ASLDKF;ASDFj

and dammit i deserve it

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IT'S FREEZING AND I'M SO ADORABLE

New icon get. :3 Courtesy of  TwistedSpectrum

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6937715

Hilarious and extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemely accurate right this second

yayy :D

Just so everyone knows, http://artists-beware.livejournal.com/542999.html

I will be changing my icon as soon as my next commission comes in. Makes me fucking sick.

Really, GREY FOXES? THAT'S the worst thing you can think of in the fandom? OH BUT THESE 9000 FOOT TALL PINK LIONS WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS, THOSE ARE FINE.

What a load of shit. A STUPID load of shit, at that.

I'M GUNNA GET COMMISSIONS OF MY MITER SAW LOLOLOLOL.

now accepting suggestions for names. :3

a) PEOPLE DOING THE COMPARISON MEME, or

b) PEOPLE DOING THE COMPARISON MEME WRONG

No, I'm not actually ATTENDING the con, but I do live remarkably close and my boyfriend wants to see some people so I will probably be kind of maybe near the premesis at some points in history. I do hate the Rosemont Convention Center with a burning, fiery passion, and I'm not so keen on cons in general, soooooooooo don't get your hopes up.

What day are you getting there and what day are you leaving?
I will probably be on-site for about 10 minutes picking people up, disappear to as far away as they'll let me get on the pretense of "a really good restaurant" (I know this GREAT diner in northwest Indiana), and then be back for about 12 seconds dropping them off, since that's how long the fuckers at the convention center will let you wait in the vehicle turnaround.

ARE THERE SMALLER CONS AROUND THE CHICAGO AREA? I'm rulll sick of MFF.

Who will you be with?
Of course  noventawolf. Otherwise TBD.

How old are you?
30.

How tall are you?
5'7" (i'm fun-sized!)

What do you look like?
Short, wiry, spiky hair, very italian, fairly ripped. cruel yet handsome mouth, smoldering eyes, the usual

What is your badge name?
Not attending the con. Might wear an Anime Central badge just to fuck with people. (it says "Koino-sama")

What do you prefer to be called?
Shep, Shepherdwolf, Sheppy, or for special treatment TRY USING MY -ACTUAL NAME-

Will you have any fursuits?
I might have pieces of some wedged in the grille of my car, if I get spooked enough on the way out of the parking lot.

Can I touch you?
Do you GENERALLY march up to angry dogs and touch them?

Can I talk to you?
Sure, what the fuck.

Are you nice?
Yes. Yes, I am.

Are you cliquey?
Not really, I'm pretty open and friendly.

Can I stalk you?
Please see my post about wanting an arch-nemesis.

Can I buy you lots of drinks?
Sure, provided a) you can convince me to socialize with you, and b) you don't mind Mr. Curb Rash Hyena driving us home and inevitably killing us

Do you do trades?
Uh, like at a swap meet?

Do you do commissions?
Sure, if you've got $75 lying around. Current estimate for completion is...uh...2013? lol

What should I not do around you?
OH WOW. Please see my 71-page dissertation "Furry Behaviors That Make Us The Embarrassment Of The Internet" for a more detailed response to this question. Also: I spook easily and I really do behave like a shelter dog at cons: I'm very skittish and nervous about getting into a situation I don't want to be in. I don't like crowds as a general rule, and furry crowds tend to scare the shit out of me. Also I have a pathological fear of fursuits. WONDERFUL.

anyone interested? we'd have to like fight to the death and stuff

not sure if i'm an antihero or a villain, so must be versatile and ready to experiment.

please apply within.

...would you guys actually read it? lol

what the hell are all you people doing, BEING OUT AND ENJOYING THE WEEKEND? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?

Nov and I are off to the animal shelter in a few hours... we're gunna meet Albert today. if we like him and he's cat-friendly we're gunna adopt him this February. he's a husky-labrador mix. he is a huskador. :3 56 pounds of cute white fluffy lovings.

in the meantime, i'm taking the time to rearrange the guest bedroom before my mother-in-law is here next month. NO, I'M NOT PUTTING IN A TRAPDOOR TO THE OUTSIDE, the doors sticks so she would just be able to come right back up

loving my toshiba laptop and probably buying a kindle this weekend. the two of those will be my biggest purchases since i bought my nano in...like...2009? lol.

also all the plants in my apartment are flowering, ALL AT ONCE. the spider plant (which has never flowered before) and the poly alocasia (which rarely flower indoors) both just decided "SPRING TIME IS NOW LOL." so soon i'll have an alocasia seed and 40,000 little baby spider plants. AND YET NOTHING FROM THE AFRICAN VIOLETS. i hate those things.

sooooooooooo yeah. what's up with YOU guys? surely that was a broad enough range of topics to initiate SOME conversation, lol

DOGS ARE A PAIN IN THE ASS.

When a trucker steps out at a truck stop or a highway rest stop, such as when parking for the night, does he leave the engine running when he goes in to use the can? I don't know if truckers cut the ignition to avoid theft or most of them leave it running if they're just stepping in for a moment.

thanks

Sooooooooo yeah while attempting to write a story with a siberian husky as a principal character, john carpenter's "the thing" is NOT the movie to be watching

>_<

EYYYYYYYEEEECCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKPTH

WOW, half my shit is police-themed so far o_0 And here I thought I was just biased toward canines.

LOOK AT ME I ONLY HAVE ONE SUBTHEME LOLOL.

well, i'm a german shepherd, what the fuck do you people want from me. IT'S IN MY BLUUUUUUD

VOTE FOR NEXT:

a) werewolf park ranger first transformation
b) trucker encounter rest stop 2:00 in the morning

GO

in quotes because FURSONA IS NOT A REAL WORD

1. Reason/story behind your fursona's name
i had two names at the time - i went by shepherdwolf and i published stories under the name Matt Wolf. taken together, you got Matt Shepard, who was hate-crimed to death for being gay in 1998. That was the year before I started college, just after I learned that my school was declared the most homophobic uni in the midwest by u.s. news and world report. i had a friend get violently attacked (in front of a chapel, of all places) for being a lesbian so hate crimes were somewhat on my mind. call it a tribute.

I added the "j" after Kevin J. Dog, because I loved that strip and I think it's funny. also my middle name is John.

2. Reasons why your species represents your personality.
this is probably better explained by those who've seen me at cons - i'm sociable and i love attention until you cross a line, and then i will bite you on the arm as hard as i can.

3. Any special aspects to your fursona (wings, demon side, ect.)? Are there reasons behind them?
borrowing from completely unrelated aspects of mythology & fucking with genetics seemed stupid to me (yes, i think your half-butterfly grifftaur with demon wings and one blue eye is completely stupid), so i mixed breeds until i got what i wanted. half shepherd, quarter wolf, enough yorkshire terrier to explain my blistering hatred for the majority of the population. i think i got it right.

4. Is there a stereotype about your fursona's species that holds true to you?
i am a raging, angry, violently dominant alpha, until i find someone who dishes it out the way i like to take it...and then i can bitch with the absolute best of them. ssh, don't tell.

5. If you had to find a more suitable species to be your fursona to better match you as a person, what would it be?
besides GSD the only thing i'm really drawn to is bats, because they're social animals and i happen to think they're fucking adorable. plus i have a mean goth streak and i would rather sleep than interact with most of the population. but since i'm mostly friends with dogs, wolves, and tigers (aka "dogs with stripes"), i think i'll stick with what i'm good at

SJW OUT

...was originally a term coined off of the series "Iron Chef," in which competitors would cook based on a weird, unknown ingredient?

"Iron Artist" originally described a contest in which artists would compete in a weird, unknown medium, such as cake frosting or sidewalk chalk. TRUE STORY

just kidding, everyone knows this, which is why it's even fukken WEIRDER that its FA definition has somehow mutated into "LOOK HOW MANY SKETCHES I CAN VOMIT OUT IN A GIVEN PERIOD OF TIME GIVE ME MONEY."

i realize language evolves, but...come on people. what the -fuck-.

the end <3

...it's World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft with zombies.

THANK YOU PLEASE DRIVE AROUND TO THE NEXT WINDOW

Just hit page 23 on A2...went back to see how long A1 was and it topped out at 22 pages.

Only got a little left to write...it should be up within the week.

AND THEN SO HELP ME I AM FINISHING THIS WEREWOLF CRAP BEFORE HALLOWEEN IF I HAVE TO USE THE TIME-TURNER.

should i do this?
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2657324/