I wish we could show White queer furries the terror, dread, trauma, and pain the builds up over a lifetime of living Blackβand how our existence is politicized, so saying βno pawiticsβ is functionally just as racist, belittling, and dismissive as just calling us niggers.
(Cont.)
So I went down the Furry AI art rabbit hole and came across this lovely infographic.
TLDR: βPay an artist for a sketch instead of a full piece and let AI do the rest so you donβt have to pay.β
Theyβre literally encouraging financially fucking over artists now.
Bruh π
So this is blowing up more than I thought it would π³
PoC furries: SHOW ME YALLS SONAS
PoC furry artists: SHOW ME YALLS ART
I wanna follow/support more PoC furries and this feels like the perfect opportunity
They assume artists donβt ALSO care about the other jobs potentially replaceable by AI.
Imagine being able to care about more than one issue at a time π³
@JayBrandstetter
Having worked as a graphic designer with a client ToS, many professional artists will have a βyou will not make further revisionsβ clause, the breaking of which constitutes a breach of contract.
Whether youβre adding a silly mustache or AIβing detailed rendering, I donβt like
@yacrical
And the scum thickensβ¦ theyβre putting ads at the top of your page before any of your posts while punishing you at the same time πππ
I made a cheat sheet of some foundational art concepts, principles, techniques, etc. you can learn for free just using some cheap pens from Walmart and scratch paper.
You don't need a $3500 Wacom to learn how to art well.
You need to learn the basics and build from there.
Vampire bat pencil sketch.
#HumanArtists
#furryartwork
Art has -never- been a 'gatekept' skill. You have never NEEDED a $1,000 tablet or a $100 art program to start learning to draw.
pencil and paper less than $2 at the dollar store.
Youtube art tutorials? F R E E
As someone who has been a victim of police harassment and brutality, and someone who is tired of furries getting annoyed when we βmake everything about race,β THIS is why Iβm not going to shut up, and Iβm not going to stop making posts, about how hard it is being Black here.
ππΎ
@AshePlup
Check the subthreads with examples in this thread. Theyβre training new models for use with Stable Diffusion all the time, and they can emulate many artistsβ styles really well.
So I hated the entitledness and self-pity of this comicβand how it threw NSFW artists under the busβso I fixed it and gave it a CYOA twist.
Yes, NSFW art might give you an initial bump in views, but you have to be an engaging creator with good branding to sustain yourself.
Then thereβs the βbut you use other programs that use AIβ argument which I used to believeβ¦ until I did the slightest bit of research and thought about how exploitative AI art can be.
@YaoiNek0
To be honest, while Glaze is a great first step, there are plenty of easy ways to get around it. Denoising is also super simple AND accessible.
For now, adjust your ToS, do background checks on your clients, and possibly suspend sketch-only commissions if you can afford to.
βIβm Blackβ
to
βSomeone in my family banged a brown Asian onceβ
Yβall wonder why Black furries bring up race so much?
Between all the alt-right/cryptofascist shit, disrespectful appropriation, and
#BLM
in bio White βalliesβ speaking over us and telling us how to react to shitβ¦
Soooo Iβm designing a second truesona for a lil side project I got cookin up, hereβs a WIP
πππ
Meet Bramble (they/them) π¦ββ¬ a Black-Throated Magpie-Jay who likes to paint, play music, and (but of course cus itβs MY truesona) lift weights.
Keep your eyes on
@Bramblebeak
π»
@ValestiVale
A greater number of artists and their supporters will see it than people who will use this method. Itβs better that more people know whatβs out there than just keeping them in the dark and potentially having this happen to them.
Thatβs a net positive.
So many amazing artists, OCs, stories in this thread π₯Ίπ₯Ίπ₯Ίπ₯Ί
I canβt respond to everyone just yet, but imma try when I get home tonightβthank you to everyone sharing a piece of themselves here π±π»
π³οΈβπ COMING OUT POST π³οΈβπ
#PrideMonth
Iβm Butch. I was a Butch long before I transβd, and I was a Butch after being a guy wasnβt my vibe. Wellβ¦ itβs more now.
Iβm a STUD. A hypermasculine, swagger-serving, unapologetically Black and beautiful STUD.
This is Chifundo, my stud OC.
Ubuntu is more than a Bantu term meaning βI am because we are.β
It is a philosophy rooted in recognizing, respecting, and honoring the role of community in who we are.
You are not just you: you are all of those before, around, and because of you.
Happy
#Juneteenth
!
βπΎβ€οΈππβπΏ
Furries: in a closed , monogamous relationship.
The same furries: post lewd content for all to see then have the audacity to be pissed off that someone flirts with them .
Soo...
Both also definitely fetishize a reductive aesthetic of womanhood.
Tomboys are depicted by furries/weebs as sexually insecure/inexperienced, immature, and accessible to men who are intimidated by femininity OR theyβre basically men with coochie and tits.
And femboys (cont. ππ½)
Apparently this woman has a PhD in "Dance Culture," yet has the audacity to disrespect the art form on a global stage. Eww.
Here's 6 reasons (π§΅) its inclusion in the Olympics icks me:
1. Appropriating
2. Erasing
3. Commodifying
4. Stereotyping
5. Tokenizing
6. Deauthenticizing
Last thing imma say on all this:
If you have to go out of your way to add loopholes to justify sexualizing a character who wouldβout of contextβnormally not be able to consent, you probably shouldnβt be sexualizing them.
Same energy as βIβm not racist butβ¦β
[ Short ramble π§΅]
People whoβve only had friends online stick out, cus many donβt:
- know how to calmly and sympathetically resolve conflict
- understand boundaries and are entitled to space/attention that isnβt possible IRL
- know how to deal with uncomfortable/unfamiliar environments and people
Jek o' lanternπ | COMMS OPEN 24/7, INFINITE SLOTS
Online friends cannot substitute real life ones.
Not saying you should stop hanging out with yours, but having ONLY online friends and staying isolated with nothing but discord and twitter all day can make your brain really fucking itchy
Been seeing this meme (well the original) floating around furry Twitter lately, and I realized we need more collective Black APPROVAL. We need some Black positivity in the spotlight.
Black furries, lemme see your sonas, your art, your suits/cosplay, your EVERYTHING π»
Yβall Iβm literally crying as Iβm bout to head to bed rnβso many beautiful faces, sonas, art styles, JUST SO MUCH BEAUTY IN THIS THREAD π₯Ήπ₯Ήπ₯Ή
Thank you everyone for sharing a piece of yourselves, stories about your experiences, EVERYTHING
Youβre all so amazing and ILYSM π±π»
@xmasovrdse
Fuuuuck my heart dropped reading thisβ¦
My dad and I went to a Harry Potter book drop when I was a teeny yeen and when he and I showed up, people kept looking at us nervouslyβone mom straight up asked βyou know what everyone is here for, right?β
We read fantasy too, Gretchen π€ͺ
The number of furries in the replies whose heads this went over, or were quick to be like βno no itβs okay I sexualize women too uwuββ¦ this fandom sometimes I stg π
So the homie
@_moontouched
has this ADORABLE kobold named Dahlia whoβs a ballerinaβand yβall KNOW I love arting dancers ππΎ
But you knowβ¦ most of the dancer poses I do arenβt so candid, and I figured if Iβm gonna try new some new stylistic stuff, might as well try new poses too!
1. Lewd shit can be wholesome.
2. If youβre too lazy/slow to find wholesomeness or SFW shit in the fandom, thatβs on you. Thereβs plenty.
3. Lewdness isnβt the problem. Inappropriately lewd people are.
4. Furries have also been non-lewdly problematic (theft, assault, etc)
1/2
Looks like itβs
#PrideMonth
again π³οΈβπ
Did a lil 60-min speedpaint today, basing my piece around the sapphics of color flag, and made it a lil bio piece about my lil queer self!
9th hot take 𧡠of the year:
As gender identities become more complex, fluid, and divorced from outdated norms enforced by cisheteropatriarchy, we must also adjust our language accordingly.
That said, mspec lesbian labels are not functionally an improvement on current labels.
8th hot take 𧡠of the year:
People are entitled to design their characters however they want, so I want to preface this by saying I am not shaming existing OCs, but encouraging new designs.
With that out of the way:
WE NEED MORE DIVERSITY IN ANATOMY OF MUSCULAR WOMEN OCs π€
This is why Iβm so loud about being a Black furryβitβs not just for me, but the lack of exposure many White furs have to BIPOC both in and out the fandom.
Black furries been here since the beginning.
A lot of White furries forget that and act a donkey when race is brought up.
Random comment from someone on telegram when they saw this
R: Dudddeeeee your black?
Me: .... yes i am ????
R: thought you were white all the furries i meet are
Me .... I have no ....have you been to any conventions ???
R: any way really cool i know a black fur.
Me:??? What
@Arkson10
A lot of artists put clauses in their ToSs against revisions not made by them and using their work as a basis for new work other than adding like textβ¦
Artists are gonna have to really revise their ToSs now cus it seems much easier than weβre talking about.
@ZephyriWolf
It sucks cus itβs not just artβoftentimes when women/AFABs speak up, weβre dismissed, spoken over, or otherwise disrespectedβ¦ the fandom is a place a lot of folk use as an escapist fantasy, and it sucks women/AFABs are often only welcomed when we fit an escapism that isnβt ours.
βHuffff goshβ is not how you make a body positive comment.
Yβall know Iβm as sex-/body-positive as they come, but framing such a cum-brained comment as βbody positivityβ and THEN posting your DMs with an artist you made uncomfortable without their consent?
Manipulative and ick
@ZephyriWolf
Them: βBut you seem so extroverted!β
Me: βYes, autistic folk can be extroverted.β
Them: βNo, but youβre so good with people.β
Me: βYes, grow up a Black woman and youβre already forced into people-pleasing. Throw autism and having to mask on top of that, and voila.β
Them: βbut
Day 5 of
#PrideMonth
and I wanted to speedpaint my magpie baby Oliverβs gay trans ass π¦ββ¬π¦ββ¬π¦ββ¬
Bought @/NomaxArtβs oil brushes and I am absolutely in loveβdid the whole piece with em (other than some light blending, shhhh π€«)
Yβall ever get so gay for a woman you write her a poem in her own mother tongue?
Lil WIP of the piece I started over spring break, now with the poem I wrote for
@FiskdiskART
and an obnoxious watermark (that wonβt be there in the final piece).
Translation below ππ½
Yβall ever get so gay for a woman you write her a poem in her own mother tongue?
Lil WIP of the piece I started over spring break, now with the poem I wrote for
@FiskdiskART
and an obnoxious watermark (that wonβt be there in the final piece).
Translation below ππ½
Yβall voted, so experimental shit it is!
I wrote a stanza of poetry for
@FiskdiskART
(in Swedish ofc, cus Iβm gay and horrendously down bad for her) and Iβm making an Art Deco-ish piece about it π
Have a bit of todayβs lil progress WIP
Me and quiiite a few of my oomfies
Just carry yall like a little briefcase, throw you around and flip you like some pizza dough, pin you to the wall like Iβm mounting a painting, hold you down like Iβm securing a load in the bed of a truck
So yeahβ¦ Iβm thirsty.
Whatβs good? π
Gluttony is essentially lustβs cousinβas both are built on a foundation of endless, self-serving self-indulgenceβbut:
- in lust, the desire is insatiable
- in gluttony, the pleasure derived from desirous actions is insatiable
Her visual design shows none of this.
π§΅π§΅
Is that what the problem is this character is receiving? The perception of the word βGluttony?β
It doesnβt have to be food related. A person doesnβt need to be large to be gluttonous.
People need to think, βHow can one be gluttonous out of the known norm of gluttony?β
Been about a year since I posted this, and Iβm sure thereβs a ton of a black furries I ainβt met yet π₯Ίπ₯Ίπ₯Ί
In honor of
#Juneteenth
in a few days, letβs see some Black furriesβ artists, sonas, fursuits, and whatever else you got π»β¨
Plus you can check last yearβs thread too!
Been seeing this meme (well the original) floating around furry Twitter lately, and I realized we need more collective Black APPROVAL. We need some Black positivity in the spotlight.
Black furries, lemme see your sonas, your art, your suits/cosplay, your EVERYTHING π»
If someone unfollows, ghosts, or otherwise indirectly cuts off contact with you: it sucks, but youβre not owed an explanation.
If you have the entitlement to put someone on public blast/share private DMs like this, you never deserved that person as a friend.
Ick.
@MisterStallion
@RrowdyBeast
Yeahβ¦ also update your ToS with non-alteration clauses and join groups/chats for artists to share blacklisted commissioners π
here, have one of the doodles of my new butch rhino Frieda who's gonna love up on my other butch gorl Huitaca (the tapir)βthese two and Oliver (the mapgie) are in a β¨throupleβ¨
idk we need more butch4butch lesbian love up in here, y'know?
LMAO TRUMP BROUGHT UP THE HATIANS AND THE DOGS LMAOOOO I'M FUCKING
S C R E A M I N G
"The people on the television say my dog was taken and used for food." BRO HIS BRAIN IS PUDDING LMAOOOOO
π» About My Fursona π»
- Name: Juniper Muakkyr
- Gender: Enby T-Masc Butch
- Species: Yeem
- Fav. Color: Lavender
- Main?: Yes
- Weird fact?: Loves birds π¦ββ¬
- Best quality: Stronk n smaht
- What I dislike about them: They never shut up/stop rambling
- Would I sell them: ππΎ
π About My Fursona π
Name: Anna Klava
Gender: Non-Binary
Species: Cobra leopard/ leopard snake hybrid
Favorite Color: Purple
Main?: Yes
Weird fact?: Loves Red Lobster π¦
Best quality: Their Snitties
What I dislike about them: They have asthma. π«
Would I sell them: Never
Some days I donβt feel like yeening anymore and I want my truesona to be a White-Throated Magpie Jay or a Harpy Eagle or a vultureβ¦ basically I like birbs
Some experimental gift art for
@FiskdiskART
!
While drawing furries more realistically is enjoyable, itβs so much fun to play with shapes and flow and working with limited palettes!
𧡠1/?
Watching The Boys, and this scene hit hard.
Know why I normally dgaf about non-Blackfolks' opinions on Black culture/identity? Those fucks don't have to wear Blackness all day every day.
Like Paul Mooney/JID said: "everybody wanna be a nigga but nobody wanna be a nigga."
@meikahidenori
@Aliiwa
@starbyter
Thatβs a fantastic pointβIβve seen 40hr Timelapses reduced to 30 seconds and it looks like something you could do in an afternoon. I wonder if itβd make people justify charging less cus βI know you COULD have donβt it faster according to your TLβ π
@CatContagion
Youβre the only one saying βWhite people badβ my guy π€‘
Try being less defensive: your viewpoint isnβt new or original or even remotely unfamiliar to us.
Weβve heard it our whole lives, while you clearly havenβt heard shit from usβand if you have, you CLEARLY werenβt listening
Happy
#HyenaDay
to one and all! Meet the Muakkyrsβmy truesona Juniper, their two sisters Holly and Ayana, and their Dad Braddock πΊ
(Art by my fΓΆrtjusande grissΓΆtis
@FiskdiskART
πΊ)
1. Artists, beware of
@Sarahsmith2023
2. Crossing boundaries on a post about setting boundaries is not the move
3. Entitlement to an artists' time for "help" is not the move
4. Not taking no for an answer is not the move
5. Trying to cancel someone based off lies is not the move
Here's how
@AnnaKlava
will respond if you ask her to dm you for help with some art and my response. So if you are gonna ask her for a commission. Remember this post. I try to join her clientele and this is how she treats a new customer? Do NOT commission her. She doesn't want to
Furries really canβt tell the difference between fetishizing girlhood and fetishizing womanhood.
Most donβt know how to interact with womanhood/femininity without sexualizing it.
And itβs creepy as fuck seeing an aesthetic more resembling girls than women so often sexualized.
Everybody wanna be a nigga,
but nobody wanna be a nigga
when itβs time to be a nigga.
I donβt wish harm on others, but it would be cathartically karmic if this recent wave of chronically online βuwu furry gang OwOβ Black culture fetishists saw what gang shit was face to face.
Day 2 of
#PrideMonth
and today I wanted to celebrate two facets of my identity I've explored more deeply over the past year: being agender and being aromantic.
π€ππ€