I wish we could show White queer furries the terror, dread, trauma, and pain the builds up over a lifetime of living Blackโand how our existence is politicized, so saying โno pawiticsโ 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: โPay an artist for a sketch instead of a full piece and let AI do the rest so you donโt have to pay.โ
Theyโre literally encouraging financially fucking over artists now.
Bruh ๐
Look how diverse the furry fandom is!!
๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฉ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐จ๐ฟโ๐ฆฑ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐จ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฉ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐จ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฑ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฆ๐ป
๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ฌ๐ผ
So this is blowing up more than I thought it would ๐ณ
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 donโt ALSO care about the other jobs potentially replaceable by AI.
Imagine being able to care about more than one issue at a time ๐ณ
@JayBrandstetter
Having worked as a graphic designer with a client ToS, many professional artists will have a โyou will not make further revisionsโ clause, the breaking of which constitutes a breach of contract.
Whether youโre adding a silly mustache or AIโing detailed rendering, I donโt like
@yacrical
And the scum thickensโฆ theyโre putting ads at the top of your page before any of your posts while punishing you at the same time ๐๐๐
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 โmake everything about race,โ THIS is why Iโm not going to shut up, and Iโm not going to stop making posts, about how hard it is being Black here.
๐๐พ
@AshePlup
Check the subthreads with examples in this thread. Theyโre training new models for use with Stable Diffusion all the time, and they can emulate many artistsโ styles really well.
So I hated the entitledness and self-pity of this comicโand how it threw NSFW artists under the busโso 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 thereโs the โbut you use other programs that use AIโ argument which I used to believeโฆ 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.
โIโm Blackโ
to
โSomeone in my family banged a brown Asian onceโ
Yโall wonder why Black furries bring up race so much?
Between all the alt-right/cryptofascist shit, disrespectful appropriation, and
#BLM
in bio White โalliesโ speaking over us and telling us how to react to shitโฆ
Soooo Iโm designing a second truesona for a lil side project I got cookin up, hereโs a WIP
๐๐๐
Meet Bramble (they/them) ๐ฆโโฌ a Black-Throated Magpie-Jay who likes to paint, play music, and (but of course cus itโs MY truesona) lift weights.
Keep your eyes on
@Bramblebeak
๐ป
@ValestiVale
A greater number of artists and their supporters will see it than people who will use this method. Itโs better that more people know whatโs out there than just keeping them in the dark and potentially having this happen to them.
Thatโs a net positive.
So many amazing artists, OCs, stories in this thread ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ
I canโt respond to everyone just yet, but imma try when I get home tonightโthank you to everyone sharing a piece of themselves here ๐ฑ๐ป
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ COMING OUT POST ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
#PrideMonth
Iโm Butch. I was a Butch long before I transโd, and I was a Butch after being a guy wasnโt my vibe. Wellโฆ itโs more now.
Iโm 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 โI am because we are.โ
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
!
โ๐พโค๏ธ๐๐โ๐ฟ
Furries: in a closed, monogamous relationship
The same furries: post lewd content for all to see because theyโre exhibitionists, not to invite to crusty furries with boundary issues who canโt get off if theyโre not involved
Crusty men with boundary issues: BUT WHAT ABOUT ME? ๐ฉ
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 theyโre basically men with coochie and tits.
And femboys (cont. ๐๐ฝ)
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 (๐งต) 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 wouldโout of contextโnormally not be able to consent, you probably shouldnโt be sexualizing them.
Same energy as โIโm not racist butโฆโ
[ Short ramble ๐งต]
People whoโve only had friends online stick out, cus many donโt:
- know how to calmly and sympathetically resolve conflict
- understand boundaries and are entitled to space/attention that isnโt possible IRL
- know how to deal with uncomfortable/unfamiliar environments and people
Jek o' lantern๐ | 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 ๐ป
Yโall Iโm literally crying as Iโm bout to head to bed rnโso many beautiful faces, sonas, art styles, JUST SO MUCH BEAUTY IN THIS THREAD ๐ฅน๐ฅน๐ฅน
Thank you everyone for sharing a piece of yourselves, stories about your experiences, EVERYTHING
Youโre all so amazing and ILYSM ๐ฑ๐ป
@xmasovrdse
Fuuuuck my heart dropped reading thisโฆ
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 nervouslyโone mom straight up asked โyou know what everyone is here for, right?โ
We read fantasy too, Gretchen ๐คช
Happy Sapphic Visibility Day from the yeenest butch and butchest yeen you know!
โค๏ธ๐งก๐ค๐ฉท๐
Yโall already know ainโt nobody gonna make me hide my love for my pumpkin pie
@FiskdiskART
The number of furries in the replies whose heads this went over, or were quick to be like โno no itโs okay I sexualize women too uwuโโฆ this fandom sometimes I stg ๐
Meet Ewa, my Bison boo: super empathetic gentle womanโฆ whooo isnโt the best with words ๐ฆฌ
Used the trans flag and the pansexual of color flags!
๐ฉต๐ฉท๐ค๐ฉท๐ฉต
๐ค๐งก๐ฉท๐๐
So the homie
@_moontouched
has this ADORABLE kobold named Dahlia whoโs a ballerinaโand yโall KNOW I love arting dancers ๐๐พ
But you knowโฆ most of the dancer poses I do arenโt so candid, and I figured if Iโm gonna try new some new stylistic stuff, might as well try new poses too!
1. Lewd shit can be wholesome.
2. If youโre too lazy/slow to find wholesomeness or SFW shit in the fandom, thatโs on you. Thereโs plenty.
3. Lewdness isnโt the problem. Inappropriately lewd people are.
4. Furries have also been non-lewdly problematic (theft, assault, etc)
1/2
Looks like itโs
#PrideMonth
again ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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 ๐งต 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 ๐งต 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 ๐ค
This is why Iโm so loud about being a Black furryโitโs 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 textโฆ
Artists are gonna have to really revise their ToSs now cus it seems much easier than weโre talking about.
@ZephyriWolf
It sucks cus itโs not just artโoftentimes when women/AFABs speak up, weโre dismissed, spoken over, or otherwise disrespectedโฆ 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 isnโt ours.
โHuffff goshโ is not how you make a body positive comment.
Yโall know Iโm as sex-/body-positive as they come, but framing such a cum-brained comment as โbody positivityโ and THEN posting your DMs with an artist you made uncomfortable without their consent?
Manipulative and ick
@ZephyriWolf
Them: โBut you seem so extroverted!โ
Me: โYes, autistic folk can be extroverted.โ
Them: โNo, but youโre so good with people.โ
Me: โYes, grow up a Black woman and youโre already forced into people-pleasing. Throw autism and having to mask on top of that, and voila.โ
Them: โbut
Day 5 of
#PrideMonth
and I wanted to speedpaint my magpie baby Oliverโs gay trans ass ๐ฆโโฌ๐ฆโโฌ๐ฆโโฌ
Bought @/NomaxArtโs oil brushes and I am absolutely in loveโdid the whole piece with em (other than some light blending, shhhh ๐คซ)
Yโall 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 wonโt be there in the final piece).
Translation below ๐๐ฝ
Yโall 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 wonโt be there in the final piece).
Translation below ๐๐ฝ
Yโall voted, so experimental shit it is!
I wrote a stanza of poetry for
@FiskdiskART
(in Swedish ofc, cus Iโm gay and horrendously down bad for her) and Iโm making an Art Deco-ish piece about it ๐
Have a bit of todayโs 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 Iโm mounting a painting, hold you down like Iโm securing a load in the bed of a truck
So yeahโฆ Iโm thirsty.
Whatโs good? ๐
Gluttony is essentially lustโs cousinโas both are built on a foundation of endless, self-serving self-indulgenceโbut:
- in lust, the desire is insatiable
- in gluttony, the pleasure derived from desirous actions is insatiable
Her visual design shows none of this.
๐งต๐งต
Is that what the problem is this character is receiving? The perception of the word โGluttony?โ
It doesnโt have to be food related. A person doesnโt need to be large to be gluttonous.
People need to think, โHow can one be gluttonous out of the known norm of gluttony?โ
Been about a year since I posted this, and Iโm sure thereโs a ton of a black furries I ainโt met yet ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ
In honor of
#Juneteenth
in a few days, letโs see some Black furriesโ artists, sonas, fursuits, and whatever else you got ๐ปโจ
Plus you can check last yearโs 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 ๐ป
If someone unfollows, ghosts, or otherwise indirectly cuts off contact with you: it sucks, but youโre 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
Yeahโฆ also update your ToS with non-alteration clauses and join groups/chats for artists to share blacklisted commissioners ๐
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)โthese two and Oliver (the mapgie) are in a โจthroupleโจ
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
๐ป About My Fursona ๐ป
- Name: Juniper Muakkyr
- Gender: Enby T-Masc Butch
- Species: Yeem
- Fav. Color: Lavender
- Main?: Yes
- Weird fact?: Loves birds ๐ฆโโฌ
- Best quality: Stronk n smaht
- What I dislike about them: They never shut up/stop rambling
- Would I sell them: ๐๐พ
๐ About My Fursona ๐
Name: Anna Klava
Gender: Non-Binary
Species: Cobra leopard/ leopard snake hybrid
Favorite Color: Purple
Main?: Yes
Weird fact?: Loves Red Lobster ๐ฆ
Best quality: Their Snitties
What I dislike about them: They have asthma. ๐ซ
Would I sell them: Never
Some days I donโt feel like yeening anymore and I want my truesona to be a White-Throated Magpie Jay or a Harpy Eagle or a vultureโฆ basically I like birbs
Some experimental gift art for
@FiskdiskART
!
While drawing furries more realistically is enjoyable, itโs so much fun to play with shapes and flow and working with limited palettes!
๐งต 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
Thatโs a fantastic pointโIโve seen 40hr Timelapses reduced to 30 seconds and it looks like something you could do in an afternoon. I wonder if itโd make people justify charging less cus โI know you COULD have donโt it faster according to your TLโ ๐
Making more time to let my creative juices flow, and I made an experimental gift piece for my snekcellent homie
@AnnaKlava
of their Sylveon Pokรฉsona ๐ฐ๐
@CatContagion
Youโre the only one saying โWhite people badโ my guy ๐คก
Try being less defensive: your viewpoint isnโt new or original or even remotely unfamiliar to us.
Weโve heard it our whole lives, while you clearly havenโt heard shit from usโand if you have, you CLEARLY werenโt listening
Happy
#HyenaDay
to one and all! Meet the Muakkyrsโmy truesona Juniper, their two sisters Holly and Ayana, and their Dad Braddock ๐บ
(Art by my fรถrtjusande grissรถtis
@FiskdiskART
๐บ)
Sooo if I havenโt talked yalls ears off about it yet,
@FiskdiskART
and I have a headworld with over 130 OCs ๐ Hereโs some of our couples with a bit of a size diffโand theyโre all sapphic โจ
โค๏ธ๐งก๐ค๐ฉท๐
(Left/Right)
1: Juni/Galt
2: Naida/ Ewa
3: Nora/Tamar
4: Saanvi/Nilar
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 canโt tell the difference between fetishizing girlhood and fetishizing womanhood.
Most donโt know how to interact with womanhood/femininity without sexualizing it.
And itโs 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 itโs time to be a nigga.
I donโt wish harm on others, but it would be cathartically karmic if this recent wave of chronically online โuwu furry gang OwOโ 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.
๐ค๐๐ค