As someone who stands on the sidelines of the "furry community" I find myself fascinated by the psychology of the various players invlolved. There are so many people who wander around the FA site who vehemently oppose the culture while simultaneously embracing the art. And they're dicks about it. Sniping passive agressively at whoever wanders into view, or trolling outright. I'm drawn to it like a moth to flame. I studied psychology for a while, but stopped when I realized that I can't spell the word correctly with conistancy.

DA is not a community in the same way. It has so much less focus that it's more like several blocks in a city. Each section populated with its own little gang. I like to imagin something akin to the gangs in The Warriors. Theme gangs. All opposed to one another, but mantaining an uneasy peace. All wearing imaginative outfits.

On FA there are still factions, but they all have a through line. Kind of like a single gang that has fractured. The infighting slowly tearing the group apart.

There is so much human psychology in these places just waiting to have grant money thrown at it.

No one has been able to tell me at what point a person actually becomes a 'furry'. I've decided that it's when you build, or buy, yourself a suit and start 'living the dream'. Anyone outside of that is just a poser. Perhaps an enthusiast, but not fully comitted to the idea of being a 5 foot tall timberwolf centaur with purple fur and a 2 foot long cock.


Also, my subscription is expiring again soon. I offer up the same deal as before. If you want to pay for a new one I'll make you an art. I think the magic DA faries will tell me if you do. The what I won't draw rules will apply to whatever you might want, so keep that in mind.

I find that if I learn something negative about an artist I have a hard time ever enjoying his work. My present colors my past. For the most part I try to avoid learning very much about artists I like. This goes for all art, from writing to music. If I find out the creator is racist it skews my experience. The severity of the flaw matches how much I can, or can't, enjoy the work. Racism pretty much destroys an artist for me. On the other hand if someone makes porn on the side, or whatever, it doesn't bother me at all because I'm not morally opposed to porn. For someone else that might be a deal breaker.

I don't know what it is in me that makes it hard for me to seperate the artist and the art, but I generally can't. I started thinking about this because I was reading an article about a famous artist and they mentioned, in passing, that he was a massive bigot. As soon as that info proccessed his work looked different to me. It was tinged by knowledge... This shouldn't be taken as an argument against knowledge. For me it's just a precaution. I know that if I find certain things out about a creator I may end up having to trash shelves full of books, and years of fandom, from not being able to distinguish between an artist and his, or her, work.

It looks like the terror that is gum disease is going to be the next big monster craze. I'd like to see them turn that into a story about sexy tweens cavorting in the woods...

It looks like the bulk of people who pay attention to my nonsense have no particular ill will towards furries. I think that's nice. From what I know of them they are, lke any group of people, alright for the most part. It's very trendy to hate them since you aren't allowed to hate many groups these days. When deprived of a target humans will never fail to find a new one to direct their ire towards.

I decided to make the silly Hitler poll because it's something you can do with a paid account. Most polls are pretty lame, but I enjoyed the commets on this one. For the record I'm in the camp that thinks Hitler's incompetence helped to shorten the war so killing him might have lead to competent Germans stepping up and causeing much more trouble.

I glanced over the gallery window on my profile and was struck by a random thought. If you were to combine the mass off all the boobs of the characters in the fanarts I've done recently it still wouldn't be enough to equal Carol's bust. Just for a moment I tough "No one else gets to have so much because I took it all." This is silly, of course, but for just a moment I felt like I'd been greedy.