» April 23 «
HAPPY EARTH DAY!!! [Yesterday]
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Any time I see a “social media” site online overflowing with ads, I’m grateful to people on the indi-web for being so classic and cool.
No rage bait or slop, just people posting what they actually think and feel.
» April 21 «
I can’t explain why I find Magic the Gathering so compelling. I’ve hardly played more than a hand full of games, I’m a very recent newcomer, and yet, it’s so artistically compelling!
The sheer caliber of ART brought to this game blows me away. It’s all... so... beautiful!!!
It really inspires me to make work of my own, eh.
I need to paint some of my own Basic Land cards.
» April 20 «
Truly contemplating the nature of moving from a culture of “Consumption” to a culture of “Curation”.
My main parameters, so far, are things like
Curation is deliberate.
Consumption is passive.
Curation is engaged and considerate.
Consumption is unintentional, involuntary, and often algorithmic.
I’ll continue to refine these points as I read more into this subject but, basically, I’m really falling out of love with YouTube and Instagram makes my brain melt and I want to go back to the local museum.
» April 19 «
Good grief, do I ever love this video by Rhystic Studies on YouTube.
There’s something to truly encouraging, uplifting, and invigorating about seeing someone take the time out of their day to sit down and not only appreciate a work of art, but to even sit for a moment in awe and wonder of it.
Magic the Gathering cards are, unambiguously, children’s toys meant for ages 13 and up, to be traded, played with, and enjoyed as such.
And yet, the art on each of these cards is indeed a real piece of art, painted by a real person, made with love and care. And this person’s video brings me so much joy because, instead of being some slop churned out to hit algorithmic metrics or rage bait the audience, this feels like a miniature art gallery tour.
To take the time to sit with, appreciate, and even feel inspired by a piece of art that can all too easily be regarded as nothing more than a piece of commercial manufacturing meant to go on a toy... this is so uplifting.
In an online landscape where creative people are encouraged to post every single piece of their creative process, farm for likes, farm for clicks, and churn out content at a rate that can feel so dehumanizing at times, to see someone deliberately take their time looking at and appreciating a single piece of work for more than 30 seconds... feels so deeply meaningful.
I think that I’m feeling this way, right now, because I logged on to Instagram earlier today and I see so many people and artists striving for likes, views, clicks, and it can feel so demoralizing at times!
Honestly, I’ve been much happier getting off of Instagram, or at the very least heavily limiting my use of it, because it makes me feel so much less pressure to perform, post, and compare myself and my art to others.
It just feels... unhealthy...? To see the work of my peers sometimes getting tens of thousands of likes, from real people hopefully, and to wonder if I’ll ever be that “good” and then having to stop myself and say to myself, wait, no, that’s entirely the wrong metric here!
I dread the day we get some un-redacted information about what psychological damage Instagram and similar art platforms have done to the minds of young people and artists. If I’M having a rough time on Instagram, and I’m fairly confident in myself as a creative, I can’t even imagine what the number-chasing and comparison to an essentially unlimited international audience has done to the minds and senses of self confidence much younger, less experienced artists.
So, do yourself a favour and curate your feeds, watch videos that appreciate art, go to a local gallery, go to a local museum, and whatever you do, don’t start chasing those likes and follows... Beauty can be found right before your eyes, when not clouded by the harsh glow of anti-social media on a phone screen.
» April 15 «
I really gotta get back into sketching and painting!
» April 10 «
Good grief, what even is life, you know?
» April 09 «
One of these days I should play Kingsfield.
» April 08 «
And now, it is WEDNESDAY, MY DUDES!
I really need to get back into posting my thoughts a lot more.
I've just been so darn busy, eh!
» March 26 «
It is nearly Friday, my dudes!
» March 24 «
What a magical weekend it was! I took all of Monday to recover and, man, what a new trove of memories!
This was my very first year ever fursuiting and I was blown away with how kind and complimentary everyone was! I was blown away by the sheer number of people who said they loved how well Ardent was made!
Three days absolutely blew past. I was stunned just how much we did in only a single weekend. Dancing, cheering, buying art, and I even got to be in the fur walk this year!
I’m going to cherish these memories, eh. ^w^
» March 18 «
Fur con THIS WEEKEND!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!
» March 15 «
I DID IT!!!!!
WITH LESS THAN ONE WEEK LEFT, I FINISHED MY FURSUIT HEAD!!!
No chance in hell I’d finish a whole fursuit, not even my hand paws, but my head???
Hell yeah, THAT is actually complete!
God, I’m so happy, so proud, and so excited to finally show him off soon!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
» March 14 «
Life has been insanely busy for me but I actually AM almost done my first fursuit head!
» March 01 «
Really trying to power ahead and finish my fursuit head before convention season!
Also, happy March! Can't believe it's nearly the vernal equinox!
» February 27 «
Just keepin' on keepin' on, eh.
» February 21 «
Absolutely can not believe how powerful having my own media server is.
Jellyfin is basically changing my life right now.
All of my DVD and VHS archives at the tip of my fingers. This is amazing!
Wow, who would have guessed that making your own fursuit would be, like, a lot of work, actually!
Also, I really enjoy the Jellyfin server so far!
Also, also, I used to write journals more frequently and I gotta get back into that, eh! This is always great fun!
» February 17 «
Slowly learning how to set up my own Jellyfin media server! Just one step closer to having my own TV network with zero ads and no subscription fees!
» February 06 «
Man, learning fursuit making is exhausting! This’ll be worth it! But... exhausting!
» February 01 «
My unsorted thought for the evening, as if most of these thoughts aren't horrifically unsorted to begin with, is very much on the nature of technology, interpersonal connection, and web freedom.
I probably have said this before, but I'm very interested in seeing a future where more technological tools, including things that are arbitrarily labelled as “AI”, even though they're not intelligent in the slightest, might be able to radically lower the barrier of Entry to people making their own personal websites and art galleries.
If the net is going to become so utterly flooded with AI spam, bots, and slop then perhaps a dark forest of an internet is an inevitability. That being said, is that such a bad thing,? Maybe there will be great fun to be had and exploring the dense jungles of the future internet. Where web Rings stretch vast and infinitely, and you would be able to truly surf the internet in a decentralized yet powerful way.
I don't know, I'm rambling now. I should really start writing these ideas down in more concrete form! That'll probably help me communicate a lot better, LOL.
Something about “The future of the net will need a lot more privacy, and user generated spaces.”
» January 27 «
Working to vastly improve my financial literacy feels harder than going to the gym. The gym for my brain!
But in this economy it’s more important than ever, eh.
» January 26 «
Web design is so rad, actually.
» January 25 «
So, I’m doing some musing about the state of the internet, as usual, and I’m very curious to know what the future will look like for things like so called “social media”.
Though our relationship with A.I. is all over the map right now, I will say I think it would be supremely ironic to see people develop A.I. coding tools that would basically allow even really illiterate users to generate half decent HTML code to start making their own websites and get off of the main social media pages that are devouring all of our time and attention.
» January 24 «
Nothing fights the winter blues like spending time with my loved ones ❤️
» January 23 «
I think I need to admit to myself that January is actually a really difficult season for me.
I still have high hopes for the rest of the year, and even the progress I’ve made with my current life stuff and projects! And, also, it really just fills my heart with ice when I try and get motivated for something, lose focus, look outside, and it’s the same shade of grey it’s been for weeks now.
I’ll do what I can to salvage the day but, boy, this Friday isn’t nearly as jovial as I’d like it to be!
» January 22 «
On more than one occasion I’ve thought about completely redesigning my website.
Three years on from it’s launch, I’ve learned a lot more about it and have a lot more “best practices” that I’ve picked up along the way including making my menus more accessible and easier to read and understand.
I’d also make a few extra pages where I’d experiment with more CSS and HTML ideas and, also, probably revamp the way I display my journals.
I love using my journals pages but I have a few ideas on how I’d make them even easier to use and upload. Not to MENTION trying to add an RSS feed for them, and my art!
I’ve recently found a few tutorials for making a custom RSS feed and I’d really like to work on making one, for the future, eh!
So many fun projects, so little time.
... Also.... I should download the entire original game soundtrack to Deus Ex. The UNATCO Office theme makes me feel surprisingly productive in a “future office” kind of way, lol! <(^^,)>
» January 12 «
I’ve been doing a lot of musing about the nature of social media and actually communicating and forming online communities these days.
A short while ago I watched a video essay by former YouTube Pooper Emperor Lemon where he makes a comment about the nature of trying to make friends in online spaces these days , compared to the smaller, less populated net of the early 2000’s. The analogy he uses is “Like trying to make friends in an airport terminal, rather than a coffee shop” and that analogy has stuck with me.
When I get online most days, I don’t really see people behaving in actually social ways. I barely tread into the YouTube comments section because so few comments have any real sense of engagement to them, and even on fun sites like Blue Sky, which I vastly prefer the rigidly reverse chronological order of posts to compared to sites that randomly update like Reddit and Twitter, posts don’t seem to get nearly enough comments or thoughtful engagement! Maybe it’s just because posts can be made so quickly and scrolled past so easily but it’s a darn shame I don’t see more people actively commenting and engaging with the things artists post.
This being said, these days my favourite site on the internet, aside from my own, is probably my Furaffinty page. I see so many more people making groups, posting comments, and truly engaging in community building conversations over there, and I want to bring that energy back out into the rest of the net!
I’ve been really trying to post more comments online and really tell people that I like something they’ve made, if I find it beautiful or challenging, or inspiring, or just interesting in general!
We absolutely can make the net a better place by engaging more thoughtfully and deliberately and I think that’ll make our online spaces better from the ground up!
» January 11 «
In the wake of all the horrors the advent of consumer grade image and video generation software is bringing about, I need to make some posts or videos about how much I enjoy SOME kinds of tech, like this website, or making a home media server!
2026 is a year I want to post more joy online, more things that make me happy!
» January 08 «
I forgot I have new art to upload!!!
» January 05 «
I'm actually making progress on more art this year! And, with any luck, I'll be able to post a lot more furries, too!
» January 01 «
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
2026 is finally here! May the New Year bring you all good health, prosperity, joy, and good art inspiration! I can just feel that this will be an amazing year!
✨ Cheers! 🥂✨