So, in July of 2025, I participated in a challenge/group activity known as Art Fight! For those unaware, Art Fight is a really cool website that has a yearly challenge where folks are randomly assigned to two teams and you score points by drawing art of somebody's characters from the opposing team. They call this 'attacking', and if you respond to somebody who drew art for you by drawing art for *them*, that's called 'blocking'. So, with all of this fun fighting game adjacent terminology, how could I not try this? It also acted as a good incentive to draw art for some friends and artists that I follow.

I've been seeing art of  Goldenrod's characters for about as long as I've been active in furry corners of the internet. Somehow, someway, his pineapple-shirt wearing fox would pop up in my feeds. So, when I joined up with Art Fight and saw that he was on the opposing team, I felt like it was finally my turn to do a drawing of his character as well... and I went and chose an entirely different member of his cast! I think I was mostly just trying to change things up and give him art of a character that he probably doesn't get very often, and I also am naturally drawn to skunk characters, so it was a win-win all around. Taffi was really fun to work with and I definitely tapped into my nostalgia for "Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Summer Vacation" when working on this picture. His cast is so toony that it basically begs dipping back into some Acme-laced nostalgia.

Taffi is ©  Goldenrod