#i think furries are the target audience for this post :)

[chalkrub]

it's mendel!

[glutenfreedragonpotion]

Dog breeding is a harder form of colour mixing cause like blue + red = purple but chiwawa + beagle make a chiweagle

There's more biological maths involved

[foone]

I wrote a really long post and then didn't post it, but as an aside in it I joked about how not everything is sexual just because some people have sexualize it, and my example was keyboards. I'm into building keyboards, and that's not a sexual thing, despite the fact that you can definitely find sexual keyboard art out there.

So I googled "keyboard rule34" and discovered that the "official" rule 34 site does indeed have many pages of keyboard porn, but wait, it's not really!

It's people having sex or masterbating or just being naked IN FRONT OF A COMPUTER, and thus there's a keyboard there.

That's... A different thing! That's just keyboards being a background element of the rule 34!

It's a little like going on the furry site and searching for "dragons" and you get an image of two humans having boring sex in a field and in the distance a dragon is flying by.

Anyway the funny part is that I, being me, got distracted away from both that point and my original point, by geeking out over these background element keyboards. I could identify a few by design as being directly based on real keyboards, and others I criticized for being unrealistic with not enough keys and a completely unergonomic layout.

Mind you, I think that of a lot of "real" keyboards people make, and they weren't just made up by the mind of a hentai artist who spent way longer trying to make sure all the body parts were appropriately moist-looking.

Which is a shame. Our porn artists should focus more on including realistic keyboard depictions in their art, it'd really improve it. At least for me, an asexual keyboard geek who rarely looks at porn.

On second thought, I may not be the target audience. Never mind.

[hazbin-but-good]

another hazbin hotel rewrite/redesign?

yup! and i'm so serious about it that i made a whole blog for it. i'm a white queer ex-cath tran doing this as an art and writing exercise, so feedback from other creatives + jewish and/or racialized folks is especially welcome.

i'm putting this post and only this post in the main tags for visibility. also, not gonna link my main, but i do make my own original stuff, and i encourage fans and haters alike to do the same.

anyway, here's a mostly good-faith 1.7k-word essay on the original. i think it's pretty funny and brings up some less talked-about points. correct me on the facts, disagree with my opinions, and ask clarifying questions, but don't come at me with any piss-poor reading comprehension.

the hellaverse is garbage, and here's why

cw: strong language, stronger opinions, intersectional feminist critical discourse analysis

1. vivienne medrano, the person

medrano was born as a well-off white-passing latina (salvadoran-american) in bougieass frederick, maryland. while attending new york's top art school, she got popular on deviantart-tumblr-twitter by being a prolific multifandom fujoshi furry who's more into ornamental character design than storytelling. upon graduation, she leveraged her fanbase and industry connections to make the hazbin and helluva boss pilots, get helluva made for youtube, and get hazbin made for amazon prime.

like every woman online, she gets harassed for no good reason, and as a certified autist, i will defend her right to be dumb, weird, annoying, and bad with words. however, there are legit reasons to criticize her:

racism, misogyny, homophobia, fatphobia, some antisemitism, past transphobia, past ableism

shitty boss, bad friend

cowardly, vindictive, manipulative, thoughtless behavior

skeevy friends

sucks at taking criticism

in short, i think she desperately needs a PR person and someone to clean up her digital footprint.

2. medrano's art

incurious

inauthentic

noncommittal

creatively stagnant

overindulgent, and the indulgence isn't even fun

shallow and childish framed as complex and mature

bland and boring framed as shocking and subversive

to be clear, i'm at peace with the existence of suckass art like this; i just think the money, attention, and praise it gets are unearned and should go to more interesting works, of which there are infinite.

medrano's had the time, money, and social cache to grow as an artist, learn from the best, and take creative risks, but she hasn't. if she truly has nothing more to offer, she should let her collaborators take the wheel, but she doesn't do that either. instead, she keeps getting more and more resources to make the same baby bullshit, and that pisses me off. she could be the nicest person ever, and this fundamental arrogance would still make her art blow.

stop with the pointless guilt: liking medrano's work does not make you stupid or evil. however, if you stay in the kiddie pool of culture, if you refuse to engage with a diversity of art, if the hellaverse is your point of reference for anything media-related, you can't expect to have your opinions on art, media, or culture taken seriously. you have not earned a seat at the table. you gotta hit the books first.

i cannot emphasize enough how much incredible stuff is out there if you're willing to look further than what social media and streaming services put right in front of you. if you come away from this blog having learned about just one new artist or piece of art, i'll be a happy camper.

3. the hellaverse

a. empty and confused

hazbin and helluva's content and marketing has no clear target audience. the subjects are inappropiate for teens, but the execution is too childish for adults, and lemme tell you what i don't mean by that, first.

not inherently inappropriate for teens:

sex and sexuality

violence, including when it intersects with the above

politics and religion

not inherently childish:

animation (any style)

comedy

episodic writing and/or loose continuity

young characters

fun, happiness, optimism, the power of friendship, cuteness, tenderness, sincerity, etc.

what i mean is that these shows are literally about adult characters who fuck, smoke, drink, do drugs, go clubbing, work full-time, manage their own finances, and deal with stuff like bureaucracy, sexual violence, domestic abuse, marriage, divorce, late adoption, and family estrangement.

however, none of these "adult" things are given enough specificity to create drama or comedy. it's all too stock, vague, flat, weirdly sanitized, and thus utterly banal—pure aesthetics on top of bad saturday morning cartoons. it's exactly what i'd expect from a sheltered disney kid who needs to log off and get into their local gay scene ASAP so their only contact with things like poverty, policing, addiction, and sex work stops being facile movies and TV.

if the shows were aware of this and played with it, that could be amazing, but they're not. they give you the mickey mouse version of the world with a straight face and then play looney tunes sound effects to try to make you laugh and sad_violin.mp3 to try to make you cry. now that's funny.

b. old and tired

let's make like americans and pretend that the rest of the world doesn't exist. even within the confines of the USA, home of the hays code, the red scare, and reaganite propaganda, this neopuritan fascist state ruled by 1000 megachurches in a trenchcoat, the indie/underground animation scene has been doing crazier shit for decades. anti-war films in the 60's, bakshi movies in the 70's, the simpsons shorts and r-rated movies in the 80's, adult swim and MTV in the 90's, flash/newgrounds/youtube in the 00's, streaming in the 2010's—so what are we doing in the 2020's with this wet white rice drowned in expired ketchup? i feel crazy making this point because it's obvious if you've watched these things, but if you haven't, you're gonna be like "well, there's gotta be something new here". no! there isn't! in the words of jimmy "the scot" jordan, nothing, nothing, NOTHING!

c. ideological purgatory

actually, there is one thing in these shows i've never seen before: the presbysterianism. shout out some interesting or at least intentional presbysterian art in the comments, because the way these ideas are presented here is not compelling. it just makes the rainbow neoliberalism even more confusing and contradictory.

i guess the big presbysterian things are protestanism, calvinism, and, uh, big church government? presbysterians, get your shit together. get your brand down. catholics have BDSM and vampires, evangelicals have TV and corporatism; what do you have? celtic crosses? no wonder medrano has such uninspired ideas on divinity.

d. queer deficiency

when i look at a piece of art, i ask myself: "what does this give me that i can't get from the hunchback of notre dame (1996)?" if the answer is as limp as "uhh, gay people, i guess", i can probably look for my gay shit elsewhere and rewatch the hunchback of notre dame (1996) in the meantime.

but let's say that you have no standards. you've been waiting for ages for a show about gays by the gays for the gays, and by god you're gonna get it. this is it! here we go! time for some

generic twink obliteration

male sexuality as aggression and dominance displays

WLW (sex and chemistry not included)

a couple straight femdoms

and the stalest sex jokes known to man

...yeah, it's not very queer. and by "queer", i mean "questioning or subverting gender norms (including sexual roles) within a given cultural context regardless of creator identity and intent". i'm not a queer studies scholar so LMK if there's a more specific term for this, but whatever you call it, it's not in the hellaverse much.

there's not even any transness, literal or metaphorical, just ancient drag jokes. i guess the writers thought we would've been too controversial. so much for an indie animation studio that prides itself in the diversity of its staff both above and below the line, bakshi-style. i wonder how medrano, a bisexual woman, would've felt if told that a lesbian main couple in hazbin would be "too controversial".

4. spindlehorse and the vivziepop brand

spindlehorse toons underpays its overworked staff and keeps outsourcing more and more labor to even more overworked freelancers overseas to cut costs. a rainbow sweatshop is still a sweatshop, and just because these practices may be "industry standard" doesn't make them any more ethical.

the studio has also been repeatedly accused by current and former employees and contractors of creating a hostile and abusive workplace. AFAIK, it still has no dedicated HR person, and victims are too afraid of retaliation like blacklisting and online harassment to speak out.

this is exactly the stuff that unions exist to prevent. as i'm writing this, the IATSE (the parent union of TAG, which is the parent union of all US animation unions) is negotiating with entertainment industry executives for better working conditions, and if the execs fuck around like last year, it's strike time again. so watch this space, voice your support, and don't cross any picket lines.

i hope spindlehorse unionizes, but until then and for these reasons, i don't think you should give money to the company.

first of all, all content on amazon-owned platforms is ok to pirate, and all youtube ads are ok to block. everyone involved in making the episodes has (or should have) been paid upfront, so you're not taking the bread out of anyone's mouth.

next, let's look at the succulent offerings of the official vivziepop merch shop:

$10 pins and keychains

$15 sticker packs

$20 mugs and acrylic cutouts

$25 shirts

$30 metal cards (not even tarot)

$40 lounge pants

$50 mini backpacks

random $80 skateboard deck

forgive my latin americanness, but this is all stuff you can get made by a local metalsmith, print/sublimation shop, or just crafty people in your life. it's cheaper, customizable, and better for the environment to skip all the shipping and packaging. also, not painting your own skateboard is poser shit.

the hazbin website also has $15 pins, one $20 keychain, and $6 trading card packs. people are weird about trading cards, so if for some reason you wanna gamble for a mass-produced bit of cardboard, plastic, and tinfoil, at least bulk-order for all the vivziepoppers in your area so it's less of a huge waste. better yet, trace the designs and make infinite bootlegs.

at the end of the day, buying merch is not activism. your bulk order of trading cards will not save any wage slaves from getting evicted from their overpriced studio apartments. however, the shop links you to all the credited artists/designers, and more of your bucks will actually reach them if you buy their designs directly, then turn them into body pillows or life-sized bronze statues or whatever the fuck.

go through the credits of any episode of helluva or hazbin, and you'll find even more creatives you might wanna support. get jinkx monsoon's albums on CD. subscribe to actually good artist, animator, and composer gooseworx. lots of voice actors now have patreon, cameo, or self-hosted pages where you can write better lines for their characters and have them read it. these things may not look as shiny as Official Merch™, but we all need less plastic shit and more culture anyway.

[internetgiraffekid1673]

What the Hell is Wizard101 (and Pirate101)

I'm making this post for the lovely @ellazimmermansblog, who is very sweet and wants to actually have half a clue what's going on in the fandom that I'm in but she's not. And oh sweet cheese and crackers. You asked for it. I tried to leave this in the comments. I really did. This is gonna get long, so feel free to read this in chunks or disregard it or just read it whenever you get the time.

Genre:

Wizard101 is a JRPG or junior-role-playing game that's also an MMO or Massive Multiplayer Online game that was big in the 2010s. In case you don't know what those are:

A JRPG is a game where you basically play as the protagonist of a middle grade fantasy/adventure story, meaning the target audience is usually 7-13. Think Pokemon or Kingdom Hearts.

An MMO is a game where everybody who plays the game is playing at the same time, in the same world. You can always interact with other players and are heavily encouraged to team up and collobarate.

While it is advertised as "free to play," it's only free for like the first hour or so of playtime. You can do the tutorial and like two other areas before you have to fork over some cash for a membership.

Basic Story:

Anyway, the spoiler-free story of Wizard101 is that you are a young Wizard enrolled in Ravenwood School of Magic by Headmaster Ambrose. He found you magically transported from "a strange world that doesn't believe in magic" (read: Earth). He believes you may be "the one we've been searching for." After doing a personality quiz to decide which school of magic you belong to, your enrollment is immediately crashed by Malistaire Drake. He used to be the Professor for the Death School, until his wife fell ill and he went mad with grief and turned evil trying to bring her back.

After beating up your would-be teacher, you learn that he's been unleashing scores of undead onto Wizard City, mind-controlling people, is going after major infrastructure, and is just being a dick in general because he's eeeeeeeeviiiiil. Ambrose turns you loose in the streets to help a number of other student NPCs save the city and do general damage control.

The main story of Arc 1 basically has you trekking after Malistaire like a lunatic, cleaning up his messes and trying to stop him from breaking the world apart while he attempts to ressurect his wife. This is where me and my brother J-Dog are at in our playthrough.

But there are 4 arcs, and the story continues WELL after you mop up the Malistaire problem. It's basically the Young Wizard saving the spiral from major threat after major threat, trekking through quirky worlds willy-nilly, and meeting a massive and entertaining cast of NPCs, all with different motivations and sidequests and problems for you to solve (or cause).

Each world in the spiral is also kind of an analogy for a real life place or a popular fictional story, but you replace all the humans with anthropomorphic animals (I'm really not sure why this game isn't more popular with furries). Marleybone, for example, which is where my brother and I are right now, is analagous to Victorian era England and populated by a bunch of stiff-upper-lipped dogs that nobody likes, mutliple crime rings of cats, and a contingent of Irish foxes that only appear in the less-popular but very good companion game: Pirate101 (I'll get to that).

That's the most basic I can make the gist, but there's still a lot of other basic information that might matter when I talk about it, so I'll put that under a cut!

Magic Basics:

The 7 main schools of magic that you can play as, and what they're general purpose/ability is are as follows:

Storm: Hit things really hard in exchange for a low accuracy rate and lower base HP. Glass cannons basically. This is what I'm playing as.

Fire: Also hitting things, but focuses more on damage-over-time spells that kill your enemies slowly.

Ice: Damage Sponge. They have the highest natural health pool, access to some decent spells early on to reduce damage, and even have a taunt spell that can draw enemy fire onto them (this isn't very useful in practice from what I've heard).

Those are the three elemental schools. The next three are spirit schools.

Life: Healers. What did you expect? They're the only class with the ability to heal other players. They get a high health pool, really good accuracy, and a lot of healing spells, but they're less good at hitting things and dealing damage. This is what J-Dog is playing as.

Myth: Summons. You can summon lots of different minions to help you out. From what I understand, each minion plays slightly differently and you're supposed to build different strategies around what they give you.

Death: Drains. Stealing health from the enemy basically. A lot of their spells will hit the enemy really hard, and then give half of that back to you. Because of the capability to hurt and heal in the same turn, they're the best to solo the game with.

And finally there is a school that lives in between Elemental and Spiritual:

Balance: battlefield control. They have a lot of damage increasers and damage reducers, and have the capability to mess with the powers of any of the other schools.

While each class does have it's unique and specific niche, they do all have the same main function: summon a monster to hit your enemy. All the combat in the game is done in a summoning circle where you take turns summoning monsters to hit each other. Each side can have up to 4 allies at a time (are we sensing a number theme yet).

Each enemy in the game has an assigned school that they belong to. Casting spells from the same school as them does less damage, while spells from the opposite school are stronger. Opposites are as follows:

Life and Death

Fire and Ice

Myth and Storm

Balance is a special snowflake that has no opposite :)

Your ability to cast spells depends on your Mana, which can be restored with blue wisps of magic floating around the world. Your ability to not be dead depends on your health, which can be restored with red health wisps.

Most spells that you cast, especially damaging spells, have a chance to "fizzle" or fail to cast. It's like missing in a pokemon game. This is the bane of every player's existence.

There are also Astral Schools later that do other things, but I ain't got there yet, so it's whatever.

Extracurriculars:

There are a number of other fun things you can do in Wizard101 that don't involve saving the world:

PvP: player versus player combat! Get the shit beaten out of you by people with more time and money! For fun! Beat the shit out of other people and win arena tickets, which can buy you cool prizes like better gear!

Pets: You can have a number of adorable little animal companions that, if you take good care of, will help you in combat! Some of them cast spells on their own, some of them give you extra spells to cast, some of them have passive abilities that increase your strength, and all of them will get more helpful the more you train them. You train them via minigames, like teaching them to dance or having them eat snacks off a stage or FIRING THEM OUT OF CANONS (amongst other questionable activities).

Gardening: Take care of the weirdest assortment of magical plants you've ever seen, in exchange for harvesting them for money and crafting ingredients and treasure cards and stuff. All of them are puns btw. Like. I have laugh-o-dils, despairagus, baby carrots (literal screaming baby carrots in diapers), and dandelions (which have actual lion faces) to name a few.

Fishing: Pull weird magical pun-based fish out of the water and sell them for exorbitant amounts of cash or stick them in your aquarium or something!

Monstrology: Study various creature types by killing them a lot until you become an expert and can either summon them as minions, stick them in your house, or just get EXTRA good at killing them.

Crafting: Use natural ingredients you found across the spiral (reagents) to make better gear yourself!

There's also photomancy, but that's just a glorified screenshot feature and we all know it.

NPCs:

Me and everybody else who plays this game is fucking obsessed with all of the non-player characters in both games. There are so many of them though, and they're so different from each other, that you're better off just asking who's who every time I post about one.

Pirate101:

While the Wizard is off being a tragic chosen one saving the spiral from various world-ending threats, there are other adventures going on underneath their nose! Pirate101 takes place at the same time and in the same universe as Wizard101, but never interacts beyond vague references.

The basic spoiler-free plot of this one is that you are a young orphan who got thrown into prison after crossing the Clockwork Armada, a tyrannical army of steampunk clockwork robots who want to conquer the world and end our God Given Right to steal shiny things (and also suppress free will or something. Idk. I never got that far).

You're broken out of jail by eccentric pirate captain Boochbeard and his monkey first mate Mr. Gandry, drag a fellow captive along with you, beat up one of the high-ranking members of the Armada, and are taken to the pirate safe haven of skull island. You're introduced to it's steward, the successful and retired pirate Captain Avery, who immediately enlists you as his errand boy/girl/goblin thing. You meet one of the first companions of your crew, Bonnie Anne, and together you run some turncoat sharks out of town.

After proving yourself to Avery and getting swindled out of a real ship, you basically spend the rest of the game chasing after untold gold and riches, beating up the Clockwork Armada, and helping out unfortunate souls where you can.

The critical difference between wizard and pirate though: The wizard makes temporary NPC acquaintances and even a few true friends, but they're always left to fight alone with just themselves (and a few other wizards if you're playing the game multiplayer, as intended). Meanwhile, the pirate is collecting ragtag companions for their motley crew like they're pokemon cards. Some of them are looking for adventure, others money, others freedom or a new life, and a lot of them just feel like they owe you because you beat them up.

All of these NPCs join your crew and you can have up to 3 of them in a fight with you, in addition to a pet. They all have highly entertainig personalities and different sets of abilities that are useful in different scenarios.

Pirate101's combat is much more up close and personal, playing more like chess where you have a bunch of different pieces that you have to strategically move around to hit different attacks with.

The different classes of pirate, which are determined by which crime got you in jail at the beginning of the game, are as follows:

Musketeers (my fave): guns and traps. The idea is that you don't have to get too close with them.

Witchdoctor: magic! They function sort of similarly to wizards in wizard101, but they can also hit things over the head with their staff and get stabbed, so no they don't.

Privateers: Healing, boosting, and commanding other pirates

Bucanners: Big sword that hits one thing very hard (and also big defense) at the cost of more agility and freedom to move.

Swashbuckler: Also hitting things, but less defense and health in exchange for more agility.

Pirate101 also has ship combat. While Wizard has convenient magical teleporters to move you between worlds, Pirate101 said "get in your boat and drive there yourself." You basically fire canonballs at each other until one ship gets damaged so badly it stops moving and gets boarded, at which point you transition to regular combat.

Pirate101 is in general, the neglected younger sibling. Kingsisle doesn't pay a quarter as much attention to Pirate, but it's still really good.

Apart from the companions and the combat, the biggest difference in pirate is probably your lack of supervision. You don't constantly have people glaring over your shoulder and telling you what to do, you just have a ragtag gang of misfits and a general order to "get money, don't die, and don't be a dick." The pirates get to be very chaotic in comparison to the wizards.

Holy mackeral, that was a lot. Anyway, I played both games a lot as a kid and spent my summer allowance on memberships for them. Now that I have an adult brain and adult money and am a lot better at video games, I have returned to enjoy them again, and I am dragging my brother along with me (don't worry, he's having fun too).

I highly recommend that you play them both, they're very fun. But this post should be a good guideline if you don't want to put that much investment into it, but still want to have half a clue what I'm talking about when I bring up either game. Thanks so much for asking!

[nirogryphon]

I'm high as fuck rn, and was really curious about this

Note: I'm vehemently against zoophilia. I'm also a furry and monster fucker and think that because they are sapient and (usually) part human that they're not zoo. This is not about whether or not you support zoophilia, because the target audience is for people who do not support it, so zoophiles do not fucking come near this post, you will be blocked on sight. Do not argue in this post either, I do not want to hear it. I merely wish to see what your opinion on centaur fucking ethics are.

No see answers/I'm bald/nuanced options, I am collecting strict data. Once it's done, I might make charts to see how things stand.

Do reblog if you can. I want as big of a sample size as possible

[supersumc]

Was thinking about the main differences between funny animal art and the broader category of furry art that it birthed, and I realized that it basically comes down to the target audience, where the characters live, and, to a lesser extent, the style of the illustrations.

Very few people would have a gut reaction to Warriors or Peter Rabbit as furry - they're prime examples of this difference. The funny animals either live completely in their habitat or in houses/towns that are made from that habitat. The style tends toward realistic, but there are some exceptions in both regards like the Berenstain Bears.

If you were to show someone something like Zootopia, though, the furriness is quite apparent. The artstyle is much more often toony, and more often than not the animals are all but removed from their "natural" habitats, living in structures that are much more like man-made structures in the real world - almost no hobbit hole-like burrows or elfish tree dwellings to be found here! Unless special care is taken by the author and/or artist, it can be very easy to fall into the zipperback trap - not that funny animals are immune to that, but it's much less startling because funny animal books tend to be marketed toward children and young teens while furry covers all ages.

It's also worth pointing out that what we'd regard as funny animals are mostly children's classics now, while furry covers most newer media. Artistic freedom has become much more vast, especially since Zootopia's success, and while there are still books and other media post-Ztopia that are quite funny animal, the art style and setting has gone in a much more loosely-defined furry direction.

[i-cant-sing]

How do you get over fear of posting your writing? I draw a lot of my characters but I'm really nervous about posting the writing I do for them 🥲

I never had that fear, mostly because of the whole "I write for ME!" I don't give a crap what anyone thinks about my works because my target audience is ME. If I like it, that's enough.

Besides, I can 1000000000% assure you that there is always an audience, always someone lurking in the shadows who will gobble up your works like hotcakes. Like who would've thought there would be furry enthusiasts??? But there are furries, way more than I would've thought.

Plus! Tumblr and many other sites allow the wonderful thing of secrecy. Under any alias, a nickname, you can post anything u want- anonymously.

If you're worried your work isn't good enough, more the reason u should POST now. Because you'll practice more, maybe even get tips on how to improve your skill and voila, you'll be a little Michangelo in no time :D

Besides, you're always better than someone. Even if u think u can't draw a straight line, u can at least draw it better than a baby???

[henarten]

Gay ramblings of someone who is very used to having a character limit

This is kinda very much trauma dumping in real but also idk figured its good for my mental health if I get it out in writing and maybe someone else will get a kick out of it who knows my most popular posts are just my sona. I don’t know why I’ve felt digitally illiterate my entire life. I mean, it *might* have had something to do with growing up in the middle of the woods and having actual dial up internet until I was 17 (4 and a half years ago damn). Or maybe not having a proper working phone until high school and no free time to figure out what I was doing. My parents always said I was the “tech wiz kid” of the family but what this really meant is I knew how to use google and had a history binging wikipedia on the computer. My first real introduction to social media that I actually bothered using was discord in 2017 and even then the most it was used for was the occasional meme browsing on a friend’s server or meeting up irl with said friends... and later on, finding out what RP stood for. I used discord rp to cope with my gender dysphoria at the time, initially joining a random big rp server (I think it was RP World or something I cant recall) to finding friends and enemies both figurative and literal in much smaller servers, to somehow running one of my own and watching it build up into something good and then burn to the ground. Twice. But that’s sorta different from the social media experience you get from Tumblr, Twitter, Mastodon, etc. You get these short little snippets that can be targeted towards a larger audience. It could be towards just yourself, or no one at all. The act of existing is such an open ended question that can barely be considered as such. I am staring at a white box. All the potential in the world, with little splashes of color and text, images, videos, songs. Struggling to find out what I can contribute. What is my niche? Do people like me for how I talk? I’m not a comedian, I’m just neurodivergent with a LOT of trauma. Do people like me for my fighting games clips? Am I really that good? Maybe they just like me for my sona? Do people like me at all, or is it just this online persona I’ve made for myself? I’d like to think people like me, but this nagging feeling has always existed in the back of my head telling me I’m not. It’s hard to ignore but it doesn’t mean I don’t try. Above all, Tumblr is from what I’ve seen a site that lets people be people. To find or even make their own niche, regardless of the popularity. A post could have a thousand notes or just ten but still mean something to someone and have an impact on their life far greater than the silly little image of a cartoon animal dancing was ever intending on. A random stranger turned me into a furry simply for having a pfp of their sona and look at me now. I’m so much more accepting of myself than I was in 2017 and its still gonna get better from here. So yeah, maybe I’ll make a post once in a while about my very ADHD spur of the moment interests like the time I made a wooden travel version of a board game or a paint program for the TRS-80 Color Computer or how I’ve accidentally transed at least 3 other people’s genders. Just silly things idk.

[aiiih]

UPDATE III

As you know, I stopped posting AIIIH on tumblr because the censors caught one of the pages (yes the one where Morris gets pegged by a capitano mask). And I REFUSE to be censored. So I'm currently posting over at comic fury because it's more friendly towards adult content. But that site's userbase seems to be mostly furries and incel types, who, as you can maybe tell, are not my target audience. But the site is really nice and algorithm-free and totally early-2000's internet-esque in some of the best ways. But I don't know if my comic is reaching a lot of people over there. But then I remembered the existence of a certain image which may, in fact, empower me to resume posting AIIIH on tumblr...

Also in the process of moving sites I redid a lot of the old pages that were bothering me so I'm gonna delete everything I think and start posting pages again in their new... censored form here, and you can read the uncensored version over at comic fury!

If anyone actually reads through all of this, thank you!

[ft-rj]

YOU KNOW HOW IT IS WITH THE PINNED POSTS

HELLO. it's RJ again. 4th blog reload in 8 years. Skill issue.

Uhhh um uhm. yeah. 24!. discord: ft.rj .

he him. Gay As Hell. musician? furry (HYEENER but also other things. find out later) Certified London Resident.

rp blogs:

HOMESTUCK RP BLOG PEOPLE: I switched Tekras to @tekr4s and @tekras-iszovh read him for more information. If you're a RP blog you don't have to follow me just because I followed you that one time !!. This is my personal / ooc. thanks

I'm mostly in the hs roleplay community with Tekras, but I also dabbled in others in the past. If you think it's me, it's me, ask? Yep?

No interaction rules. Go hard post hard. Whatever. We just posting out here. Anyhow, uh, vibes. I don't run a dni or block because it's tiring and it saps all of the positivity from my body to even care about it for a second.

other accounts: ft-rj on bandcamp, Buy My Albums. the money goes towards character commissions and such. or furry merch. or like, other things. so it's like circular and all that. i also have a spotify if you like playing stuff there.

I am also, duh, a furry, but those accounts post wilder stuff also, and as such, has a different target audience. you can go there, though. 18+. i post my furries and stuff, but also irl pics and other rambles that wouldn't go here, it is my Other Main Social.

PREVIOUS URLS: ask. a few fantroll community ones

[fencesandfrogs]

@cmorgana replied to your post “Do y’all know I’m super controversial in the war...”:

@fencesandfrogs ok... And they come from what? I'm seriously scared to Google warrior cats

​okay making a new post because literally warrior cats is my big special interest. before all else i am a warrior cats fan. they call me "guy who processes all of his emotions thru war cats fic" for a reason. etc.

warriors (often called warrior cats, to prevent confusion) is a book series (well, series of series) by erin hunter. (erin hunter is a pseudonym for a writing team, often referred to as "the erins".)

the first book came out in...i want to say 2003? sometime around then, and there's like. 100 books now or something. i haven't read all of them (see: i'm mentally ill), but i've read quite a few and have pretty strong opinions.

the books features a feral cat colony (or colonies, depending on how you want to analyze it), and the first six books are a fairly classic "mundane person enters a magical world" fantasy story, if you replace "mundane person" with "normal kitten" and "magical world" with "feral cat society."

because of the series' longevity, the age range of fans is very wide. it sweeps from people who grew up with the books and are now adults, living adult lives and having adult thoughts, and people who just found the books and probably are too young to be on tumblr anyway.

i think the target audience of the books is probably like, 10 years old or so? but they're extremely gritty children's novels. a lot fans report liking them because of the grit: they feel like books that "take you seriously."

(also, a lot of furries.)

the books also have a wide roleplaying community, and community that's very open to original works set in the world of the books, or even just loosely inspired by it.

i've been reading them since i was six years old and they represent a huge amount of passion for me. they're my main special interest, i write a lot of fic about it, and many characters hold a lot of personal significance to me.

so yeah, that's warriors (in a nutshell)

[ghostcrows]

Saw a twt post that was like ppl who joke about doing furry art out of desperation are annoying and I agree .. if your hearts not in it I think it's very clear and also kind of insulting to your target audience to be like oh I'd only sell to you if I was about to have my house foreclosed on. I'd only draw a funny little animal If I was being evicted

[who-is-this-weirdo]

I think most people didn't understood my post and are accusing me of being an evangelical puritan.

I wouldn't care about porn in the wof fandom if it was restrained to certain sites or discord servers, to ocs and stuff like that. It's also nobody's fault (other then the child or teenager's) if a child or a teenager search for weird sexual stuff and find weird sexual stuff.

The problem is that even by searching innocent things like "seawings" or "smolder x palm" in the image section of google you can find nsfw very quickly, most kids (thankfully tbh) aren't allowed to have social medias like instagram and tumblr, pinterest has some nsfw things, so the only way most kids find wof content is through the images section of their search engine, devienart, and wattpad.

Wattpad is infamous for the younger target audience as well as, in the wof fandom, the sheer number of smutfics. I've talked about the problems with the search engine. Honestly, and quite ironically, devienart seem like the most safe place to find wof content ... ignoring the fact that going there they will end up finding gross things quickly too

We are a smaller fandom. This means that content is rarer, thus, if a group of people want nsfw things to end up easily displayed in google images it's easy and it's also easy to make it show sooner.

Again, this means that kids who are just searching for innocent things or things with a level of maturity similar to canon will find stuff they aren't supposed too

Nsfw art exist in every fandom, that's the origin of the 34th rule of the internet. But I was in fandoms known for their nsfw content as a child (bronies and furries), without any sort of parental guidance, and I can count the times I found weird shit on one hand only. Because most nsfw artists kept to adult sites and adult communities.

And it was in the 2010's, today, making adult spaces is easier then it was back then. So they don't have any excuses, they can just make a discord server, nobody forced them to post their things.

I also don't care about wof artists who draw nsfw art, especially if they're commissions, people need to gain money and nsfw art in itself isn't bad.

Also I'm not asking anyone to police the fandom, just asking those who want to help to make fanarts. Stop putting words in my mouth and please stop calling random people things you don't understand the meaning of, just asking a bunch of people if they want to make fanarts to try to drown out the nsfw ones isn't puritan evangelism.

[papiliona]

So I noticed this fandom doesn't have a hunger games simulator post so… here u go this ones for the girls and the gays and the CCs that lurk like they’re the phantom of the opera or something (not calling anyone out specifically of course ahahaha )

The teams:

District 1: Faceless americans I post a lot about

District 2: British men with simp potential over 9000

District 3: Mandatory clingyduo

District 4: Mandatory anarchist duo

District 5: The cool ones

District 6: More cool ones

District 7: Skephalo

District 8: the people that streamed jackbox yesterday

District 9: My favourite dynamic, problematic and unproblematic.

District 10: Karlnap

District 11: see district 9

Disrict 12: Yeah.

My Dumb Running Commentary

OH MY GOD GUYS HES GONNA BLOW UP L’MANBERG

The fall of communism; 1989 revolutions, colourised.

GeorgenotfoundxSchlatt, slowburn, 200k, pining, unrequited,

He knows his target audience I guess :’)

I think he’s making a nether portal?!?! Speedrun?

Furry on furry violence

Fighting homophobia one day at a time I see

When they form a government ahaha #justanarchythings

*sobbing* jump in the cadillac-

CONTINUES IN THE REBLOGS!!!

[spacecritt3r]

So EA has released werewolves trailer and my disappointment is immeasurable.. so I have decided to bitch about it (just a bit) on the internet to a bunch of strangers. Clearly I am not the target audience, I am happy for the furry community though. They could have at least given them werewolf legs. Like they absolutely have the budget to do so. Unpopular opinion, this is yet another proof that TS3 is actually a blessing flawed one but you can't compare it to TS4. Also Yeah, I like the hairy monkey men better... fuck off (#｀ε´)

Little update

I think I am ready to make a reappearance and start posting again a bit, hopefully. I have a not so busy weekend this week after like 6 months or so, I will try to force myself to put something out, srsly I am hoarding all the stuff I do because I feel really bad about putting out halfbaked sketches which is what it consists mainly of.