#moving on from a previous fursona

[dynamo-deepblue]

"As you, in your body, lie empty and dying I steel my resolve, to chase dreams of flying I speak to my heart, while you keep your strings At last it can start: the era of wings"

Personal. A good-bye. Drawn July 2024.

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[griffinkid]

Doing a bit of updating! I have a new header image, done by @mellohisan, and I've moved the previous header by @agere-buppy to my pinned post, replacing my fictional cg list (I don't really need to list them, you'll see them when you see them)

I've also made the controversial decision to remove my fursona from my pinned post as I feel like I'm probably more well known by Gillian these days.

Anyways, just a small update!

[atlaswingsofruin]

Btw, feeling like sharing it:

I mentioned in my previous post that i (Kumara) had a story for how i became transgender, i feel like sharing it, so it goes like this:

It all started when i was 8 years old, i started to not like being female, so i started speaking with a male pronouns (in Hebrew theres a male and female pronouns for everything, theres no they them and it), but i never thought about changing name, my parents absolutely hated it when it started, i remember that one time i asked for something simple from my mom and she said “speak like a female, i don’t help males”, i spoke like a female only for that moment but then continued speaking like male again, but then there was this time where me and my cousin went to my Aunt’s house, we were both little kids, so we played a roleplaying game where we were both animals that work for a certain organization called “Mifkada” (which is how the Mifkada story started), my first ever fursona/my character was a dog with thunder element that is basically Boltound from Pokemon but with a different tail, that character’s name was “Thunderdog”, and even when we both went back to our homes, i still felt like im in Thunderdog’s shoes, and my first ever name i changed to was Thunderdog, later i felt like changing the fursona to a purple wolf with yellow moon on the forehead named “Moon wolf”, and so my name became moon wolf, but it only lasted for few months, then i changed fursona to the orange fox you used to see, Kopa, except he had a green collar and was named “Leaffox”, but eventually i started hyperfixtating on a web series in Youtube called “Lions’ light” (check it out) and named myself and my fursona after the main character, Kopa, but then in the summer vacation of 2024 i decided to go with an easier name, i remembered the existence of the name ��Atlas”, i checked what was the meaning of it in google, “to endure/enduring, based off the greek mythology”, it really fitted me, i endured 2 years of bullying in my old evil school, and even nowadays i face great challenges, yet i endure it and move on, so i named myself Atlas, and in my current school, where everyone knows me as Atlas (i mean, few students know my actual name and the teachers of course, but they still call me Atlas and use the correct pronouns, he/him), i now see that Atlas is a much easier name than Kopa, so thats how it started

[vee-crytraps]

someone left this comment on one of my fics like 100+ days ago and it haunts me and I don't even know why I think it's because it's So Specific and also the Most Vauge?? Like when you say AU, do you mean an AU of my universe with this exact dynamic (adopted civillian reader x batboys) or??? Anyway, to get it out of my system, this is how I would attempt each of these. Spoilers for DC vs Vampires.

I haven't read Beastworld but I do know it's a Fursona™ storyline where everyone gets beast boy powers and I have no experience reading furry or A/B/O stuff sorrryyy And Vampire AU! Like a completely seperate fantasy situation or literally DC Vs Vampires? Because (spoilers) most of the bat family is murdered like Quite Gruesomely right when the story kicks off. Jason literally takes his own life when he's about to be turned. Tim literally gets his head crushed! I would still keep the reveal of Dick was the Vampire King All Along and keep him killing Bruce, Tim and Jason and then turning Damian. BB would be holed up somewhere safe and Dick would come for her, pretending that he was the only survivor of an attack. I think he would move her somewhere the batgirls won't find and pretend he's going out to kill vampires during the night. Obviously she loses her mind being locked up all the time, ventures out to try and help him and gets kidnapped to be sold to a blood farm. Dick wouldn't stage a rescue because he knows she would make him free all of the other humans and take her to his headquarters. He'd still lie to her about who killed the other bats and say that he'd been turned after killing the 'real murderer', who just so happened to be the previous vampire king, making Dick in charge. I guess from here there'd be a lot of openly yandere/maniuplation until BB figures everything out. In canon, Damian became a vampire hunter pretty much immediately after being turned but is pretending to be evil to stay in Dick's good graces. Dick obviously knows Damian is with the resistance but is sentimental and won't kill him, but won't let him get too close either as he knows Damian is planning to kill him. So in fic this would include Dick keeping BB away from Damian, since Damian knows Dick killed everyone else. BB would uncover the truth on her own and draw on vampire Wonder Woman's feminist heartstrings to get her to train her behind Dick's back. She'd then find a way to communicate and work with Damian and Barbara. Then I'd go with the canon storyline of Barabra kills Dick, makes someone turn her and then she becomes the Vampire Queen?? Then Damian and BB would be badass vampire hunters in love, and she'd let him feed from her and they'd be badass resistance leaders together.

I have never read Harry Potter and while my physical form has been present for every single one of those movies, I don't think I have ever watched one in full without falling asleep. Not that they're bad or boring or anything but??? IDK. I would totally be at a loss plot wise because I do know that the school is basically the central location, so I would need to know a lot of lore to pull it off. I'd probably go a slice of life route. I'd also have to decide on a house to sort BB into. Probably Ravenclaw just because her upbringing would make her sheltered and well read?? Bruce would still be her adoptive dad and he'd be like whatever Snape was I guess? Maybe a dual potions/defense teacher. Damian is a slytherin who makes cool magic paintings that move. Dick and Jason are on Quidditch teams. Dick is well loved and popular, Jason would be sneaking around at night. IDK about Tim. He's a pop culture bitch in my head and the HP universe doesn't really have any of that, nor do they have tech. These are all cute thoughts! Also please do not do that whole 'where's my update' shit because writing about snogging fictional superheroes does take real hours of my life and I'd much prefer compliments on what I've already written rather than the whole 'gimmie more right now' thing. I know it's supposed to read as cute but tbh it just gives entitled.

[neververy4]

Are you still in the process of moving stuff around on your website?

Yes! I am about 1/2 through redoing everything

For those that don’t know, I’m recoding my website to support multiple languages, as well as have a cleaner backend. before it used to be “www.neververy4.com/“, now it’s “www.neververy4.com/en_US/“. So far, the www. subdomain and fursona. subdomain are fully complete, I still have art. and code. subdomains left to recode

And while recoding fursona.neververy4.com, I also made another URL-breaking change by shortening “fursona.neververy4.com/en_US/neverthedragon/ down to just “fursona.neververy4.com/en_US/never/“. And to match, I renamed all the images as well. I didn’t need that long URL for each character, I was getting tired of typing it all out every time.

In other words, “fursona.neververy4.com/reventhedragon/“ is now “fursona.neververy4.com/en_US/reven/“. Images changed from “img.neververy4.com/roxythedragon/Pheel01.png” to “img.neververy4.com/roxy/Pheel01.png”.

Summer of 2024 has been the biggest URL breaker my website has ever seen, and I am doing my best to keep up and fix external links as I break them. Don’t be afraid to report broken links! I’ll help you find the new ones and try to fix where it’s broken; I’ve already edited a bunch of previous posts in various areas

[housano]

Housano Live-A-Half Assed Summaries Presents: Welcome to the Black Masquerade Part 7- Judas' fursona was a lion

I did find my cord after the previous summary 😅 Anywho, buckle up kiddos because this is going to be a bumpy motherfucking ride.

For parts 5+6, click here

CW: Live a Hero Spoilers, Heartbreaking betrayal, Unsated feelings of bloodlust screaming for vengeance

Maculata is doing well and holding the Pauderna in pristine shape. The Chassard interrogator stays that this is proof we were conspiring to steal, but being the boss bitch that she is, she immediately shuts him up and explains what happened to her.

While everyone was distracted by the fight, she immediately heard the sound of the wall opening. She quickly took Pauderna and hid it under a tablecloth that fell down during the fight and hid herself behind a fallen table before the lights went out. Her race allows her to have decent night vision and make out figures who were panicking that the Pauderna was gone but they needed to move out before the lights went on and told to start apprehending the target, aka us. Maculata slipped in with the Pauderna and waited.

Additionally Maculata has kept in communication with us the entire time, guiding us through that because they don't have the Pauderna, they are desperate and panicking to get a confession out of us. She guides us to play it cool and have faith in Yohack and Nessen and that we have the upper hand in this situation. She reveals the only people who could have known about that passage were the Chassard as they declared earlier the only entries into the room were the doors and windows. Astosis commends us for proving our innocence and asks us to hand him the Pauderna, but MC refuses.

Nessen points out how Astosis knew about the conversation with the shopkeepers and how we knew certain things already which he should not have been privy to. Additionally the map with the layout of the castle in his office. The only way he would know this information is if he has been working with the Chassard Maculata then brings up the final nail in the coffine: the piece of Pauderna found on our person. This goes back to her reaction to seeing Pauderna but hid that something was off with Pauderna when she saw it as a piece was missing. Yohack confirms the only way that would be possible would be after it was on display at the venue, as the craftsmen thoroughly It was then we realized that Astosis slipped the gem into our outfit when he thanked us for coming during the dance

*My live reaction*

At this point, the mask is completely off in which Astosis commends us for figuring out the entire scheme. With new technologies and cultures, this would erase the cultures and traditions of Cloges. He worked with Chassard with the intent of destroying the Pauderna, blaming it on us, and then using the rage of the people to banish all aliens. That way Cloges will remain a permanently closed system. The bastard also implies that he was responsible for the fraudulent evidence that got Yohack's parents sentenced and banished. He tries to force us to hand over the Pauderna with the back up from the Chassard but our new bestie, Giasal picks them off one by one. Yohack is determined to get through to Astosis and we begin our fight.

During the battle the restrictions levels are offline and we are broadcasting and putting this bitch on blast. He goes on that the people do not need their own individual path. That they should only follow the path set before them by Chassard. That is the tradition of Cloges. He pulls out his Scales of Injustice at the halfway point, but all that does it attract the attention of Giasal who nullifies that. Astosis can't fight back against the brute strength. I felt it appropriate to end someone who set us up on accusations of thievery with an actual thief and who better to do that than our camp queen, Vulpecula?

Welcome to the Black Masquerade Part 7- I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU! WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU! HOW DARE YOU?!- END

For Part H8, click here

[poppyandzena]

That most recent OP is right about not trying to convince anyone anymore.

Poppy and !Zena aren't just walking away, though. They're following the same script they have done when they've been shunned from other communities: just moving to a new one to start over.

It's furries, gaming, and porn, now. Gaming and porn have always been there for all of their previous communities, but it's more on the front, now.

A previous OP nailed it when they said that's why Poppy was so upset about the info reaching furry artists. She's trying to quickly build up a bunch of credibility and authority as a person with lots of OC fursonas, and she needs all that art and those connections to build a reputation as having money, power, and influence in the space.

No matter what the community, she wants to be seen as important and powerful.

All of the sudden collabs and tagging of artists isn't an accident. She's quickly burying the previous details, moving YT channels, and leaving behind the previous names and accounts that can be linked to her TransGirlTheRapist era.

I've heard that she's also going by a different name for the most part, now, but I don't have proof so I'll leave that as speculation for now.

^ Thank you, but please don't use TransGirlTheRapist. One, it's a low dig, two, it drags other trans women down since it's so generic it comes across as an attack on them in general. Plus rape is a serious accusation and should be dealt with careful, precise language. 🫶

[limerental]

ficletvember 2023 - day 30

gascon/meve/reynard thronebreaker office au

After months of failed efforts to matchmake his boss and her secretary, Gascon resorts to mistletoe at the company Yuletide party.

Part 1 here

Gascon was nearing his wit's end.

Over the course of the past months, he had tried every trick he could think of to coax his stubborn and oblivious colleagues into recognizing their mutual attraction. 

To no avail. 

Granted, most of his tricks came from cheesy romcoms and his own meager, largely online dating experience, but it shouldn't have been so hard to convince two middle-aged workaholics that they were made for each other. 

Though his range was fairly niche, limited to obscure forums and hobbies most ordinary people would be ashamed to admit to in public, some would call Gascon an influencer.

If he could influence a few thousand people on Twitter into buying boring company merch featuring his fursona, surely he could convince his boss and her secretary to lock lips.

He didn't know how much more of this he could stand. 

There were lingering glances as their fingers brushed when Reynard brought Meve her morning espresso and then similar, charged looks when Meve brought him mugs of chamomile in the evenings, her silent plea that he leave the office at a reasonable time for once and rest.

There were fond smiles from a distance, vanished the moment the other turned their way. There were little moments that verged nearly into flirtation, the inevitable sort of endless banter that happened between two people who truly liked one another, but those moments were inevitably interrupted by some workplace drama or another. 

Meve pretended to care about Reynard's spreadsheet formulas. Reynard tripped over himself when asked to check Meve's emails for typos. Neither of them seemed to notice how often they finished each other's sentences.

It should have been fairly straight forward to give them both a nudge in the right direction, but alas. They were rigidly professional and bound by polite office decorum, wholly ignorant of their clear mutual interest.

The upcoming company Yuletide party, Gascon decided, would be his best shot to finally shove them out of the office and together. In previous years, the party had apparently been a dull midday luncheon, which just wouldn't do. 

It had taken several days of consistent pleading, culminating in a gif-heavy PowerPoint presentation, to convince Meve to authorize Gascon to throw a festive company bash the likes of which Rivia-Lyria Inc. had never seen before. Or really wanted.

His plan was simple. Good food. Alcohol. Questionable music. A casual environment away from the expectations of the office. And then, mistletoe. Bam. Kissing. Immediate eloping. Profit.

On the evening of the party, Meve appeared like a vision in the festively-decorated banquet hall Gascon had rented. She wore a gold dress that shimmered in the light and draped off her bare shoulders, and it struck him then. How beautiful and out of reach she was. 

He watched Reynard's lovestruck gaze follow her across the room and thought, I understand exactly what you feel.

Worse still, Reynard looked devastatingly handsome in a sharp tuxedo. His nervous half-smile when he noticed Gascon watching him was disarming in its awkward charm.

Ah. Of course.

In his months of unsuccessfyl match-making, Gascon had somehow managed to blunder into falling for them both. 

Uncomfortable personal revelations be damned, the show had to go on. 

But his attempts to lure them beneath any number of strategically placed sprigs of mistletoe went thoroughly ignored. The couple had eyes only for each other, locked in deep conversation, and could not be distracted into the convenient means of moving things along to smooching that Gascon had provided for them. 

Defeated, he moped in a hidden corner along the outskirts of the gathering, nursing a mug of spiked eggnog and posting depressing all caps song lyrics on his personal Twitter

He was interrupted in his attempts to miserably wile away the remaining hours of the party by someone clearing their throat.

It was Meve, smiling, and Reynard on his other side. She gestured above his head. 

Knickers leaned through the garland-draped banister of the balcony above him, wagging his tail with his usual expression of mischievous glee. From his collar hung a sprig of faux greenery rather than his usual oversized dog tag.

The brush of lips against his cheek was soft and unexpected. He must have been making quite the dumbfounded expression in response, because Meve laughed, bright and gorgeous, and even the seemingly humourless Reynard snorted.

His perplexed spluttering was interrupted when Meve leaned to kiss Reynard thoroughly on the mouth with a familiarity that could only come with excessive practice.

 Gascon had never claimed to be the most detail-oriented man. Well, maybe he had in multiple bullet points on his resume. But who's counting?

After a lengthy conversations about assumptions, open communication, and Gascon's poor taste in romcoms, the trio proceeded to christen every silly bit of greenery hung about the place.

And then some.

[blood-and-pizza]

So I got Tales From the Pizzaplex #7 today, and I just finished reading the first story in it, the title story, Tiger Rock.

Basically, in this story, we meet an interesting child protagonist named Kai, as well as The Mimic's VR fursona, Tiger Rock.

Let's just say in order to understand what's going on in this one, you need to have read a lot of the previous stories in the books about The Mimic, including the bonus stories at the end of each Tales From the Pizzaplex book.

Tiger Rock has four different forms in this story: his tiger form, an owl form, a cat form, and a clock form.

As a tiger, Tiger Rock is a metallic white tiger made from metal molded to look like real fur. What few black stripes he has are faint, and are on his face. His teeth are translucent and glow with soft colored lights. He wears a huge, flowing white robe covered in sequins and crystal beads, made from threads that seemed to move in the light. He also wears white leather bell-bottom pants studded with gold baubles that look like they're "dancing and twirling". Tiger Rock also wears a gold medallion around his neck. His most striking features are his eyes: one glowing bright blue, the other glowing emerald green. He also talks more naturally than the other Pizzaplex characters, informally and using contractions, with a voice like a DJ's.

Tiger Rock claims to love learning, and is apparently multilingual. He not only speaks Hawaiian to Kai, but in the VR attraction where Tiger Rock is featured, he can also communicate with helper robots, even one named Henry whose only "language" is funny burping noises. Tiger Rock explains, "I know all kinds of languages. If it exists, I can learn it."

Tiger Rock's owl form is metallic white and has the same blue and green eyes. So is his cat form, and his clock form - a clock with a human-like face and a black nose - also has blue and green eyes.

I feel really bad for what happens to Kai in the end... like I said, it won't make sense unless you remember everything else you've read about The Mimic up until this point. Damn good story, though. I really wanna see Tiger Rock in an actual game. He sounds cool... too bad he's such a sore loser at hide and seek.

[argent-sz]

What's a "lore" anyways? I can do whatever i want forever

cw mucho texto

In terms of "lore"... there's only finished lore...

"Wtf does this mean" well you see, my fursona lore that I've been slowly tinkering with has some.... "playing someone else's save file" vibes in it.

Most of the characters have already finished their "main story" so i display characters that are already developed.

"Whats the fun in that?"

Well... the lore is from rhe point of view of my fursona as an almost different character, still canon, but after following some Lore Development Events they lost their memory!

So the premise is "look at the previous story of others to find yours, and at the same time develop forwards"

Fucked up, right? I tried to not make it too much like a videogame... but i fw with some gameplay_mechanics in storytelling....

Mostly Psychonauts (have never seen any gameplay at all) because of the way you go through other's memories.

So i just imagine danny going through other characters backstories, finishing multiple "stories" to continue getting memories back, all that culminating on them learning other's moves and abilities to undertake the "final story" which is a global event for every character showcased while placing them in new situations and stuff.

[tsuki-sennin]

Jyoooooooo! Jyamato Grand Prix! Sengoku Edition!

This might get bloody, strap yourselves in folks.

Spoilers, I guess...

-Super Hero Time bumper!

-"That dirty fox! Messing up MY garden! AAAAAAAAAH!"

-Archimedel's taking getting Boosted on very well.

-Micchi? Oh fuck, this really is gonna turn out badly.

-Naptime, Ace?

-"Oh thank God... he is human~!" OKAY KEIWA WOW

-Is that a lemonade?

-"The Red Fox..."

-Ohhhhh

-I guess Beroba

-He's so sleepy

-...that's almost more worrying than him going apeshit, tbh

-Guess even an obsessive super fan has limits to what he knows.

-As he well should tbh, Ace doesn't owe him that.

-Oh shit, it's time.

-...that outfit looks super cute on Neon.

-Ninja Plants!

-Hot damn, Keiwa!

-YOOOOOO NEON

-These untransformed fights make me giddy.

-Oh fuuuuuck

-Daichi continuing to be the woist

-"How delightful~! Like Oda Nobunaga's last day in Honnoji~!"

-"I call dibs."

-Shogun Niram.

-...I guess Samas-san doesn't exactly wanna play along.

-You could help us at anytime, Producer Man. Just saying!

-Aren't you a Rider too, Ziin? Why don't you help?

-Oooooooh

-Here comes Ace with the hair extensions.

-Boost! Mark Two!

-...I just noticed, but I think his head is recycled from Lopo's.

-Oh shit, fox time again!

-Damn Michinaga, you survived that. Didn't even get knocked out.

-No more Jyamato.

-"Bro what the hell is that?"

-"Yeah... I guess it is."

-And he's down!

-Naptime.

-What Neon and Keiwa know definitively about Ace.

He really misses his Mama.

He's way too good at this game.

His fursona is a fox.

-That's it.

-OOOOH?

-Seems kinda mean to not let somebody meet their mother just because their previous incarnation already did.

-"I may be new meat in this fandom, but everybody knows Yakumo Eisu."

-Wait... Fox... Yakumo... Associated with extreme deceit... from Holy shit, Ace is Yukari and Ran's secret bastard son!

-Desire Grand Prix! Genso Edition!

-...don't ask how they both got Mitsume pregnant, that's not a conversation I'm prepared to have with you.

-"Move me! Your character development is fascinating."

-I knew it~!

-Chirami off to complain to the manager.

-"You moron, they'll murder you!" I love just how sick Tsumuri is of this bullshit.

-Ohhhhhh

-Here she comes~!

-Don't tempt her.

-YOU DUMBASS

-Tsumuri should be in charge of the whole game, she's clearly putting in all the work.

-"Keep your disgusting hands away from me."

-Oh, Beroba can just

-Do that, huh?

-Well, we're fucked.

-Oh!

-Seeing Ace stressing himself, even in such a limited capacity, is a bit frightening.

-Hello Ziin.

-Oh, that was

-That was a commercial break, okay. Weird.

-Ukiyo Ace...

-Oooooooh

-Those must be Garfield's parents. ...I wonder if their names are Jonathan and Elizabeth?

-There's very obviously not Yukari Yakumo.

-And that woman in the Mediterranean must be Mitsume-san.

-Influencer stans are horrifying.

-You tell him, Ace.

-2fast4ace.

-"So like... is there a reason you guys picked us of all Riders?"

-Kekera really likes Keiwa, I see.

-Yeah you be very careful around Kyuun, Neon. His vibes are icky.

-Guess Chirami's getting fired after this.

-Oh finally! Some initiative!

-Naptime.

-Damn he shoot

-Lots of untransformed fighting today!

-Rider Time.

-Berobaaaa!

-Ohhhhh

-Teenage girls are frightening.

-Glare2! Log in!

-Install!

-I believe that makes Beroba one of a very rare breed of female Rider with multiple distinct Rider identities.

-The only other examples I can name off the cuff is Natsumikan as Den-O (briefly) and Kiva-la (and Natsumikan Arms Gaim, if you wish to count that) ...does Sakura becoming George's Clone Riders really count? Fuck it, I'm counting.

-Ohhhhhhhhhh!

-She's real dangerous now!

-Ziin got fucked.

-Damn, they threw that boy!

-"I'm gonna kill off your beloved blorbo~! And there's not a thing you can do about it~!"

-Oooooooooh.

-Laser Boost, incoming!

-Right, that's all done.

-Oh, Ace. Gotta sell me something, eh?

-I see, thank you.

[batbeeps]

The “How did I not work this out sooner?!” List

I've made light-hearted references to this list existing ever since coming to the realisation that I'm a robot. I figured I should make it real.

This is in addition to robot identity being, on a deeply personal level, incredibly self-affirming. It feels good to think of myself a robot, it feels good to be seen as a robot by others, it feels like a coalescence of decades of weird thoughts and personality quirks that I otherwise had no explanation for—and that's really the most important part of any of this.

This list will probably be expanded as I continue to remember things. They're in no particular order.

(Warning: There are a couple of references to sexual acts and medical subjects.)

As a pre-teen, had vivid dreams about being revealed that I was a robot disguised as a human, enough so that I took these dreams to be literal for several years.

Continued to have occasional robot or robot-adjacent dreams since then too.

Most other dreams I have are in third-person, I am not inhabiting my human body, simply watching what it is doing.

Pretty much life-long fascination with robot-related media. From The Iron Giant to Pacific Rim, Robot Wars to Robot Arena, it's all good.

Favourite characters in many pieces of media have been robots or cyborgs (e.g. Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Batty Koda in FernGully, Marvin in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.)

Avid enjoyer of music about being robotic, like The Robots by Kraftwerk, Technologic by Daft Punk, and Prototype by Glaze/WoodenToaster.

Got an entire playlist of music about being a robot, actually...

Designed and built simple or conceptual robots for fun when I was teen-aged. Was pretty darn good at it.

At a regional schools STEM event, built and programmed a robot faster than anyone at both that and any previous event.

Been a sex-repulsed asexual pretty much my whole life. Have never experienced physical attraction.

Usually feel pretty grossed out during/after masturbation too.

Hell, even pooping is pretty gross.

Been into computers ever since family first acquired one when I was about ten. Started teaching myself programming at around age 12.

So into computers that my mother often jokes that I was born holding a computer.

Given pretty much every piece of technology I've owned a name. Have always refused to throw them away when I no longer need them.

Generally enjoy being surrounded by technology and wearable technology, and being able to control it in unconventional ways. Have also automated my home as much as my tenancy permits.

An OC I've used occasionally from 2018 to the present day is a robot puffin.

My fursona from 2008 to 2018 was a cyborg bat.

My fursona from 2020 to the present day has been a robot bat.

My fursona being a robot was initially meant to be temporary. She stayed that way for 10 months before I made it permanent because I preferred her that way.

Considered making a protogen OC rather than making that change permanent, but being a full-on robot instead of a cyborg just felt better.

Actually cried when the Opportunity Mars rover stopped working.

Actually cried when I saw a model of the failed Beagle2 Mars lander in The Science Museum.

ASIMO is just such a good bean, oh my god. Sad that Honda is discontinuing work on it :<

In 2013, I wrote a public letter in which I came out as panromantic, asexual, and agender. Within that letter I acknowledged at length that I had extreme physical dysphoria relating to being human, did not associate myself well with humanity, and (at least somewhat) associated with being a machine. Still not sure how this didn't click sooner.

Have a habit of optimising tasks (and the ordering of tasks) to optimise efficiency.

Have a habit of moving in rigid, jerky motions.

Have a habit of copying and mirroring the speaking style of automated announcement systems.

Three of the four online usernames/identities I've had over the years (robomilk, querkmachine, batbeeps) have referenced robots or machinery. The one that didn't was used for the shortest time, and is only still present on a single profile, where I can't change it.

My personal (not the one listed publicly in various places) email address also references machines.

Incredibly adverse to doctors and medical interventions. Horrified by basically anything entering my body (needles, surgery, etc.)

Conversely, would love the ability to non-invasively change body shape, swap out limbs, etc.

So adverse to seeing doctors that I started self-medicating HRT using grey market meds because I couldn't bring myself to obtain them through 'legitimate' means (even though I was only 1-2 appointments away from doing so).

Go into shock if I cut myself badly.

So dysphoric about my human body that I only own a single mirror, which I avoid looking at unless I need to for some reason.

Have a habit of running 'diagnostics' by very consciously moving physical extremities in specific ways (e.g. curling and uncurling each finger on a hand in turn).

Changed CAPTCHAs to read "I am a robot" as a bit of a silly joke. Kept it because it made me feel good.

Got my Twitter account flagged as an automated/bot account as another silly joke, two days before actually realising I was robot-identifying.

Kind of scared of ageing. Have often joked that I would die before I would reach [insert major age milestone here].

One week I had lost my voice and we were due to play D&D, so naturally I wired the microphone input up to a text-to-speech program instead. Considered continuing to do that for future sessions too.

I dance a pretty mean robot.

During my teens I put on voices and accents. Constantly. Basically every sentence I said sounded like it came from somewhere else, like my ability to speak was just audio samples being mixed together.

In a similar vein, I also enjoy singing along to heavily-sampled and remixed songs (like "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches and "Ride on Time" by Black Box), which humans shouldn't really be able to sing along to.

I've karaoke'd chiptunes.

Around 2012 I was, like many website developers, trying to cultivate a personal brand identity to sell myself under. The logo I made at the time consisted of the silhouette of a head with a gear in it. I happened to resume using that logo a few months prior to recognising my machine identity.

In 2014, I was questioning whether I was transgender or not. I published a post on Reddit questioning my feelings, part of which included once again identifying myself as "some sort of android" and that I considered my body "nothing more than a broken shell that I would very much like not to have".

[hunter-the-sad-skeleton]

PLEASE infodump i would love to know things

HI YES SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG TO ANSWER, I HAD TO THINK OF WHAT TO INFODUMP ABOUT AND FINALLY DECIDED ON WHAT TO INFODUMP ABOUT, LESS GO!

So uh, I’m gonna infodump about a fnaf Security Breach Animatronic OC/Self Insert, so be ready for a wild ride! :D

First off, his name is Pip! He’s a Red Panda(Fun fact; he was a fursona of mine that I made in octobor-ish of last year before he was an animatronic :D) and he manages the drums of Freddy’s band! He’s more quiet than the other animatronics and has an error in his code that makes him start to freak out if a room is too loud! It started off as an error, but then Fazbear Entertainment decided to make it a feature so that kids who have sensory processing issues don’t feel alone! :D

Other features that started off as errors include:

Random body spasms(it got turned into a form of happy stimming so those kids don’t feel alone)

Random loss of volume control(It got turned into a feature so kids who have volume control issues don’t feel alone)

Random voicebox glitches(Turned into vocal tics for the same reasons previously stated)

Servers/programs overloading in massive crowds(Obviously got fixed so that he didn’t die, but kept it as a sort of anxiety feature thing! :D)

Pip tends to get along well with the crew, but Monty and Sundrop tend to be ones he can’t hang around for too long.(He can hang around with Monty longer than Sundrop, but that’s because Monty can quiet down a bit when asked lmao)

If he were to be in-game, he would pop up at one point where Freddy’s unavailable and Monty is about to get Greggory and rescues him, but at the cost of being safe from the Glitchtrap virus. In previous bits, he could have functioned as a stand-in for Freddy in specific areas, but he would have a time limit for how long he could be used that’s WAY SHORTER than Freddy’s.

Pip COULD be saved from getting infected by Monty, but that would only delay his infection. He’s a doomed animatronic from the start. If it wasn’t Monty who got him, it’d be Chica. If it wasn’t Chica, it’d be Roxanne. If it wasn’t Roxanne, it’d be Vanny.

Obviously, he’d have an upgrade for Freddy, being his legs. When you give Freddy his legs, Freddy moves faster and can jump slightly higher. The reason you get his legs is since he plays drums, so they’re an important part of him keep tempo and whatnot! :D 

The first time you run into him is during the intro bit where everyone is chasing you. He chases you alongside everyone since he thinks you’re a robber of sorts.

Idk why, I can see him sounding like a mix of John Mulaney and Wilbur Soot for some reason-

When Freddy is out of order, Pip steps up to plate and helps Gregory out as much as he can.

In the daytime, he plays with the rest of the band on-stage, helps wait the tables, herd any children that need it, hangs out in the Fazcade, and of course, hangs out in his special area, Pip’s paint studio! An art studio for artists of all skill levels, lessons starting at $15 an hour! :D

If Monty or Roxanne get too rowdy, he just. WALLOPS them with his tail. No second thought. Stop scaring the children, you two.

When he gets infected by the Glitchtrap virus, he’s one of the trickier animatronics to locate without seeing, since his footsteps are gentler and quieter than the others due to extra padding on his feet.

His eyes look a little different due to the special ability they have! He can tell what temperature someone is, and he has facial recognition software built in! :D Oh, and he can tell what Animatronic is where thanks to sorta x-ray vision that sees through walls and identifies an animatronic by color-

I can kinda see him working with Monty, I guess?(I say this as a potential Monty simp lmao) But it would probably take a bit of Monty learning how to. Not scream every two words.

Feel free to ask more about this guy or my Security Breach AU! I love screaming about it! :D

[lunathewafflelord]

My Sketchbooks In a Nutshell

Really like this one character and draw them for five pages

Start drawing a few other characters or objects, but still mostly draw said character

Move onto a new character, but still draw the previous one for a bit

Draw just the new character for five pages

And the cycle continues

When looking through my old sketchbooks you can really see what my current interests are. I remember in one there was three detailed drawings of N, not just a sketch, a fully colored and lined picture. In my REALLY old (when I was 10 - 12) sketchbooks I drew a lot of Creepers and Endermen. My current sketchbook is kinda everywhere. I’ve drawn my OC Cassette a few times, but other than that there’s not much of a theme going on and surprisingly I haven’t drawn N yet. I drew my OC dressed as N, but it’s just a sketch and I don’t think that counts.

Then there’s also the case of that one OC who gets so much art when the others are almost never drawn. Sometimes I draw the same OC for MANY pages, then move onto a new one. Most of the time, the only OCs I draw from my main story are Minty, Shady, Cassette, and Flannery. The rest of them are pretty much only drawn once per sketchbook for some reason. I need to start treating my OCs more equally and not just drawing Cassette for ten pages in a row.

To be fair Cassette used to be my fursona for two years so of course I’m super attached to her, but she’s not even my favorite character in the story.

This was supposed to be discussing sketchbooks and then it became a discussion about me drawing one OC more than the other.

Wow.

[theorynexus]

Yay, 72!~

It suddenly occurs to me that Davepeta becoming a thing might not have only been the logical conclusion of ARquiusprite being included in Lord English (thus allowing Dave and Nepeta to confront their Bro and Equius in destined combat/pacification), but also possibly a reference to Dave’s fursona,  Akwete Purrmusk, whom he once used to RP with Nepeta after first being unable to utilize it with Jade?          Just a weird and sudden though that occurred to me at the end of my last post.  I thought it would be preferable to leave the “Do:” as the last note of said previous page, though.

I am in fact reasonably sure it could technically qualify as the one you grew up with.   That said... awwww, that’s not nice, taking Gamzee away before the battle rather than after/during its tail end.   That means that Gamzee that took place in it lost his conditional mortality and almost certainly just died in the world explosion/black hole.   What a cruel thing to DOOM him to. v.v

I remember this.  Also:  Maybe he hadn’t. At least, not in a non-romantic way.  I certainly can’t remember such an occurrence. 

Oh, umm... is this supposed to have been a reference to him being part of Lord English all along?  Man. There goes another joke flying above all of our heads. Wow.

Yeah. You go back to being too cool for school, not-yet-a-villain!Dirk. Nothing to see here.

Well. That’s an interesting trick. Very magician-like. Almost Houdini-ish. 

I suddenly wonder if Calliope has a sense of smell.   More importantly, gah, I know that smell. Not pretty.  John really should have thought this through more.

Awww. Him having wheezes mixed in there along with coughs is not a good thing. Not very nice or silly at all.   >:

On the other hand, his boos and hoos work very well with the honks, and fit with his Comedy/Tragedy persona duality.  “Sob” being mixed in is a mixed bag, but oh well.    Anyway, his being rescued and treated kindly by Calliope, here, sortof makes sense of his willingness to so pitiably serve the Cherubs later, I guess.   It’s not just a desire to become LE later, but a longsuffering debt payment which he is engaging in with Calliope.  Thus, his Rage is suppressed, especially compared to his violence in the Game Over timeline.

Prison CAN reform some people!   Torturous time in near-suffocating conditions can really make one rethink the decisions one’s made in one’s life, regardless of the major reveals concerning the fictionality/fates of such people, I guess.

Locked being semi-ironic, here. Because most certainly does this revelation stay with him; yet at the same time, he indeed also is corrupted by the influence of Caliborn and willingly ends up serving him+becoming part of LE.   ***shrugs***

***raises an eyebrow***    What an interesting wording and thought.   I did not think that Calliope would be the kind to be so performative like this!  (Or at least worn down/out of patience~)

Man, I don’t need to hear your inherently biased explanation. I mean, others might, but the fact that it’s coming from you and not the narrator isn’t going to help people actually recognize the tragedy inherent in your existence!

...   ...   ...    Aaaaaaaannnnnd this makes me think that Gamzee is actually being insincere, considering he is not actually in fact addressing the true problems that caused him to snap and become evil:  namely, Tavros’s death and Lil Cal. None of that other stuff affected him at all other than to cause him to become more susceptible to the aforementioned and much more important events, subsequent to his running out of the pie that his neglectful father figure allowed him to poison himself and/or rot his think pan with. Mind you, I’m sure that the initial burst of rage that would lead him to storm off would in fact be a result of his subjugglator/religious upbringing, but... Well, if those two events had not actually occurred, I’m sure that he would not have taken up the carefully planned---     you know what, given his rant to Dave about using his chucklevoodoos to make their universe terminal as a result of the blasphemies that Dave gave him via the Miracles music video, I have changed my mind.   I will admit that his upbringing DID have an influence on his actions, beyond making him fall to the perfect moment of weakness for LE to influence and direct him.  I’d say that if I had to measure it, the responsibility of his earlier life would be something between 30 and 49.9% of the overall reason for his behavior during the series of events called Murderstuck. His only mentioning the upbringing side of the coin still makes me question how honest he is being, though.  Having him explain it in such a manner really makes him seem to just be making excuses in a blatantly insincere manner.

Uhhh... Karkat?   Dangit, I knew it was going to be Terezi, but Karkat seemed the more straight-forward choice to inform before her.   Ugh.     Darn me and my refusal to make guesses that seem a bit less secure, sometimes.

Yeah... he probably deserves one.  Gosh darned prerequisite hidden conditions for the proliferation of reality, and the fact that you don’t want to---   wow, why does Karkat have tarps the color of his blood on his house [I forget the troll term] if he is trying to hide said blood color?   I’m sorry. It’s just that Let’s Read Homestuck is playing on my TV for some reason or another, and the thought suddenly occurred to me. Hivebent has obviously just begun.    Anyway, yeah, you wouldn’t want to get Gamzee raging out of control, at this point~

Yeeaaahhh.   Not much to say, indeed.  What can you do?  

...   I take it Terezi’s not going to be split between timelines?  Or is she?  Hmm.  It feels like events over there should remain singular; meanwhile, stuff in Earth C are divided.   I wonder if he’ll continue to talk to Terezi for a long, long time to come, despite the fact that John from the Meat Epilogue never really did until he met up with her again.    (She is right, though. He really didn’t deserve redemption. It’s just... necessary.  Gosh, he’s going to probably screw things up so badly, socially.  I shudder to think of the nonsense that shall result. Shall Earth C[andy] truly become the Paradise Planet that was prophesied? I guess that would make sense of his statement that the mirthful messiahs were both him and ***expletive*** him, mayhaps.  If he, for some time, spends his life as a sort of religious leader in this timeline, before moving on to the far future to help Calliope and Caliborn in their youth. )

Wow. This is a dramatic reversal of the other situation: her feeling like it’s been far, far longer than it has for the other John, once they do meet up.  Veeerrry interesting, seeing the mirror’s faces juxtaposed like this.

Irony.  Also:  WHAT THE HECK IS PSEP?!?!?!     Also also:  Way to go, you derp-head. He’s the one she’d least want to revisit.  Bringing him back practically assures she stays out of this version of the universe you live in!

It’s nice to see them both in such high spirits and playful humors, though. :3

Gosh, I hope that no one’s beginning to feel pity toward that pile of horns.  No one wants to see the disgusting filth that might emerge as a result.  The world doesn’t need more of that.

Yeah, he wouldn’t be able to. This is genuinely a huge shift in the balance of the world, though.  The beginning of a dark, dark carnival of mayhem to come, probably.   “performatively” seals the deal, especially with him speaking to the crowd like that.   ***shudders***

[tasmanianstripes]

15 and 38 for your faves!

OH SHIT THANK YOU SO MUCH

Okay so I'm gonna do 4 characters since I love them the most, Damien aka my fursona/oc, Hestia and Theo, two siblings I had since primary school, and lastly Peter who's way more recent oc than the other three and is gonna be a character in my book I'm writing :')

TW for alcohol abuse, child abuse and religious abuse for Damien, drug/alcohol abuse, medical abuse, ableism/mental illness, suicidal tendencies and child abuse for Peter, and war and death TW for Hestia and Theo

15. What was your OC’s childhood like?

Damien: He was raised by a single alcoholic father who beat him and two super religious grandparents who put the fear of God in him. You can imagine his childhood was very crappy! He was abused physically and emotionally by his father, and abused emotionally and manipulated by his grandparents who forced him to do what they wanted or he'll end up in Hell (which now that I mention it it's hilarious that the guy ends up making a deal with the devil and becomes a demon). He was also a closeted trans boy and so was forced by his family to be traditionally feminine which he HATED. He was bullied a lot in school and was mostly a loner because of it, he mostly spent his time drawing which is also how he let out his feelings. So, in short, he had a pretty traumatic and strictly religious childhood.

Hestia and Theo: This needs a lot of context so it will most likely be more of a story explanation. Theo was born to the leaders of a god-like dragon race (they could control and create shit and were given appropriate names for it, also they are called the Elements), Charmony and Earth, and was originally named Shadow. HR was well loved and raised by his family, often playing with other young Elements, one of which was an older Element named War and his siblings. The two would fight and bicker and have their little competitions between each other. For some time he was the only child, until his little sister was born, at the time named Jewel. He really adored his sister and they quickly became inseparable. They had a very good childhood, up until the point their father's brother, Chaos, got jealous of their mother and ended up trying to kill Shadow out of rage, got promptly exiled, then came back and kickstarted a dragon war that nearly made their entire species extinct. Earth was killed trying to protect his children and Charmony got killed by Chaos during a fight. Stone, Charmony's brother, took his nephew and niece and created a pocket dimension where they hid and he put them under a spell so they'd sleep. The whole royal family was presumed dead and the very few remaining Elements created the rest of the universe, took on human-like appearences and kickstarted pretty much life (which is also why human-like apperence is very common in the universe, they were created by Elements to look like them). Years passed and the two grew in their sleep, eventually Stone deemed it safe enough to let them out (he really felt bad for putting them under) but out of fear for them he wiped their memories and fabricated new ones. They lived on different planets, Stone consistently wiping their memories and moving so he wouldn't have to explain their immortality to them, at the time he thought it was for the best but of course he would later regret this practice. This eventually put them on Earth where they lived as teens/young adults on a farm with their uncle, who gave them their names Hestia and Theo, once again with fake memories about their parents' death, made specifically to be less traumatic. There was one problem though, all this time Chaos was convinced they were alive and hunted them and now the Elements got a prophecy about the two post royal children being either the saviors of the universe or be the cause of its destruction, and blowing on cold the current leader, Life, decided to fucking go find her dead friend's children and fucking murder them because that's definitelly what a good and well adjusted leader would do. So all that shit only convinced Stone that what he did was good, bUT too bad for him because the kiddos found out, Hestia was heartbroken and her brother was fucking PISSED. Shit happens, so much shit happens, I do not have the space on this post to talk about just how much shit happens, so let's just say at the end Stone deeply regretted his choices, apologised and returned all of their memories, and the kids eventually forgave him.

Peter: Peter was born a youngest son to a polish Jewish immigrant family (not the first generation, but like 3rd or smth?) in USA. He was Jewish from his mother's side, his father instead being a traditional Christian man, so he was raised with two religions in his life (still researching stuff on Judaism and its traditions so I won't tell you a lot about this just yet, sorry!) Most of his childhood was uneventful until he reached the age of 8, when he started to get horrible nightmares about another world and monsters, the nightmares grew in intensity until he started getting auditory hallucinations irl, his mental health steadily declined until the age of 11 when he tried to commit suicide and was promptly hospitalised. Up to that point he wasn't treated very well either, being a neurodiverse child he was bullied and his parents didn't take his problems seriously, after he was hospitalised his family ended up disowning him eventually as a teen. So, his childhood was shitty and mostly spent in a mental hospital. Yaaaay.

38. How does your OC react to and handle stress?

Damien: Drink, party and repress the shit out of your problems until they go away

Hestia and Theo: Although some of Stone's practices were...questionable, he overall was a good parent to them and he raised them well. They generally know how to handle stress well, which is a good quality to have as the new leaders kdhfjf. They usually either vent or use either a physical or artistic outlet, like going horse riding, flying or making music and singing!

Peter: The literal opposite of the previous two, this man is a definition of unhealthy coping mechanisms. Anything from pills, to alcohol, to self harm. He eventually gets better and finds better ways to cope with stress, but it's a long process.