Wasps too and they get the same treatment. There's no need to freak out about them, they're new queens who hatched last fall to do little more than mate and then hibernate. They're groggy and have little incentive to be aggressive, no nest to defend yet
They must hibernate in our siding because this happens a bunch every spring
House bumbler rescue
one more "kwiiEeee" out of you and I swear to god-
and then because the admins/mods are the polar opposite of big social media (they're here, they're personally reading every report, they're anxious to build a good & accommodating community) it just spirals until everyone is hyperaware of anything remotely similar to the original thing
classic mastodon thing, someone has a genuinely good idea that would never get traction in a shittier place like twitter ("let's be more considerate of screenreader users, sentences made entirely of custom emoji actually sound really friggin obnoxious when read out by TTS in case you didn't know")
I ran it through TTS myself and it only took about 5 seconds & sounded really cool! and not that different from how I hear it in my head, aside from being clumsy like TTS always is
I couldn't see the difference between subjecting screenreader users to 5 seconds of unexpected nonsense vs anyone else
ough exactly, I already overthink way too much before I speak, it was so paralyzing. I got lightly scolded once for not cw'ing a brief snippet of Kurt Schwitters' dada sound poem "Ursonate" because it supposedly wasn't screenreader-friendly
poking your head in like "HEY! you mean, inconsiderate dumbasses! stop partying and come dig potatoes at our anarchist commune! don't forget our weird rules about making eye contact without permission!" is uhhhhh not a great pitch! and I LIKE digging potatoes!
we're not stupid! we know who runs this place and that it *will* enshittify, when-not-if. we know our presence is barely tolerated and likely temporary, like an illegal rave in a warehouse slated for demolition to build luxury condos.
I unfollowed even though this is an artist I've liked and respected for literally 20 years. I'm sure we'll cross paths again in a venue we both want to be in.
maybe that'll be fedi, maybe it won't; the chances are higher if I remove myself from hearing any more sales pitches like this
"Apparently today was bitch about Mastodon day here on Birdsite 2 and I gotta say, it's pretty nice on Mastodon now that all the people who whine about showing the slightest consideration for things like "please don't post ragebait without a cw for fuck's sake" are here instead. "Also this is your periodical reminder that I post a lot more on the Mastodon server that I run than I do on this place run by a bunch of vibe-coding techbros. Go follow me on a social network run by actual humans instead of this engagement farm."
I'm as sympathetic to the fediverse cause as almost anybody (it was my main/only posting place for like 5 years) and this is a great way to make me dig my heels in and never want to go back. why do you even want us there if we all suck so bad!
merry will disagree about the olives but I will notttttt gimme
sketchy and loose digital painting of a monstrous feline taur creature with stylized exaggerated proportions. it is pale and hairless with dark spiky armored plates, a stinger, bat wings, and a cobra hood. its face is a mix of feline and serpentine features, grinning openly with huge curved fangs. a hand rests on its raised tail, bowing the stinger downward. the pose exposes a cartoonish 'x' at the base of its tail.
what a rude cat(?)
wildly off-model piece started after waking up over and over and deciding to paint whatever until eyes gave up, just finished up tonight. trying to get back into more one-to-two session "loose but looks done" pieces instead of many-month sessions and not finishing anything
sketchbook page with character sketches
meow
these weren't modern chat programs that save everything, I wasn't saving them myself, and copying/pasting/printing an AIM or spinchat log probably wasn't something she was tech-savvy enough to do. I'm guessing my abusive older sister did it while I was out of the room, she loved to do shit like that
one thing I never mentioned in that thread about all the shit my mom stole is that, in addition to art & journals etc, there were printed chatlogs with friends, dating back to my earliest teen or maybe pre-teen years. how did she even get those.
you mean to tell me that a parent rummaging through every corner of my life, tossing or stealing anything that made me not-her before magnanimously sending some of it back when my life was already half over, might have messed up my sense of self and made me cling too tightly to the few shreds I had?
LEGO sinkdog (tm) (c) (arr) (etc)
the line's from an old tim minchin song that also makes me emotional about the earth :'3 man some comedians can really getcha when they decide to be sincere www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg3P...
nobody is doing brushwork like you, holyyyy
digital painting with heavy textural brushstrokes in muted browns and greens. a light green goblin with a mane of dark green hair with a greasy sheen wearing a ratty brown wizardlike robe pauses after descending mossy stone steps. she wears a large mollusk shell like a helmet, with the robe's long pointed tassled hood down and draped over the back, bones and twigs peek from a shabbily patched pocket. she grins with eyes wide and an outstretched hand poised to grab an oblivious inchworm perched on a lone white flower growing from between mossy cobblestones.
a belated finishing up of this Goblin Week painting from january!
#goblinweek
it's where I spend the vast majority of my time
anthro mouse wearing a mask with round opaque goggles with slightly convex lenses. real heads know that the mask usually has a spherical glass chamber enclosing the muzzle; this has been detached, allowing them to lick an anthro cat's dick. the cat has eight nips, the top pair has DI scars. the mouse's gloved hand rests on the cat's thigh
close-up of the licking
well... here's something a little different. an old sona (mousedrone Signal-23 'Sunshine Recorder') gets acquainted with the current sona. ink on paper #furryart #nsfw
first piece of 2024 and I'm really proud of it :///3
text-free alts in replies for those who find little asterisk emotes distracting
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#furryart #nsfw
welp inspiration struck just as I realized I'm starting to get sick, so I sketched this out fast before I'm too grody to do it. there are things I'd futz with but *throws this at u*
rowdy tomcat admires giant woman. possible sequel incoming, he is definitely gonna try to climb on #furryart #nsfw
gonna slowly start posting my adult art here until i manage to coax myself into making some new stuff
here’s elliot & elliot’s cock #nsfwart #nsfw
I had to bring my A-game with so many absurdly talented people in this zine!!!!
