Don't leave us hanging. How did they taste?
I don't drink, but I haven't smoked weed in a while. I should do that again. Thank you for the reminder <3
The c is a little hand / paw indicating higher levels of silliness than usual :3
Aww shucks. But I believe in you <3
This is in Blackpool, England, a bit south of the station Waterloo Road where Waterloo Road (the actual road) meets the Promenade. The coordinates are (roughly) 53.7984, -3.0557 if you want to check it out. The double-decker tram is a "Balloon" by English Electric.
Same
An elevator music job is exactly what I want. Something that I can do four days a week, that doesn't totally suck, and that I don't have to think about when I'm not at work. Add work-from-home and I'll be the happiest fella around. My big issue with my "career" is that I'm about to graduate with a degree that's not entirely useless but very general, if that makes sense. There will always be someone with more adequate, more specific qualifications than me, and because there are very few jobs in my field that I wouldn't hate, my options are extremely limited. My current job would fit the bill fairly well if it paid better, but the company only hires students for it, and if I wanted to stay with them after graduating, I'd need to become something like a team leader. Add that I'll definitely be one of the first to go if they run into financial hardships, and it doesn't feel like a viable career any more.
That's why I'm thinking about doing an apprenticeship in a completely different field that has way more job opportunities that are, on average, better paid and more secure. It's still a scary thought, though. I've been in the "trying to find myself" phase for so long, but my interests change so rapidly that I never really pursue anything for long enough to actually find myself in any of it.
I agree that working conditions are often hostile to human nature, and I guess our entire economic system needs a major overhaul to create a world where people like the 26-year-old woman you mention don't see themselves forced to do things like that (it's also really fucking with my head whenever I hear that someone who's younger than me has died). I try my best to put myself in a position where I'll never have to even think about doing that because of a job, and I definitely have the kind of mindset that puts work last, but living in a world like this is extremely taxing nonetheless. It's not just the body perpetuating existence that's so hard. It's the extreme mental strain of living under conditions that make perpetuating existence so difficult that is really taking its toll on me.
And I appreciate your old fart advice. Thank you <3
Can you book one for me, too? I've been telling myself to do that for over a year now.
Me when I want to switch careers before my "career" has even begun and I actually don't want to have a career at all :)
What am I doing with my life
"I don't think I've ever seen someone fuck up this bad"
Thank youuu :3c
Making it part of a video series is a fun idea. I know that artist, and I can understand how recontextualising their work like that might make it more acceptable in the eyes of an audience.
tbh I'm not really "opposed" to art that features NC play, and I even like a lot of it, but sometimes, when I have nothing else to do, I think about how messed up it would be to do these things irl, and these thoughts are pretty sobering for a moment. But this type of art is just fantasy, and I know the difference between fantasy and reality.
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One of my favourite parts about working from home is that I can take short breaks to walk around, stretch, or cuddle Blahaj whenever I want :3
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A digital drawing of my canine fursona sitting on the floor in their room and cuddling a Blahaj (IKEA's shark plushie). They look very happy. Their work laptop is on a desk in the foreground, implying that they are cuddling a plushie instead of working. End alt text.
alt text: a screenshot of the Wikipedia article about leap years. It says "A leap year, also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year, (...)". The word "bissextile" is circled in red and has arrows pointing at it. An image of a bisexual pride flag, Moxxie (a bisexual character in the show Helluva Boss), and Freddie Mercury are placed around the word "bissextile" because it looks a lot like bisexual. end alt text uwu
edit: apologies for the missing image. I uploaded it to my home instance (pawb.social), which had some technical issues and went down a couple of hours later. But it's back now, and so is the image. (Nothing but love for the pawb admins, shit happens <3)
cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/5635301
reject humanity, embrace the machine
alt text: the first two panels are a close-up of my generic-canine fursona's angry face, first with their eyes closed, then with their eyes open and a fire in them. They say, "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine." The third panel is my fursona wearing a protogen visor, doing a cute face, saying "beep boop", and sitting on the ground like a silly little guy.
reject humanity, embrace the machine
alt text: the first two panels are a close-up of my generic-canine fursona's angry face, first with their eyes closed, then with their eyes open and a fire in them. They say, "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine." The third panel is my fursona wearing a protogen visor, doing a cute face, saying "beep boop", and sitting on the ground like a silly little guy.
image transcription:
me: "yeah, I'm doing well."
also me: a screenshot of a YouTube video titled "1 hour UwU sound effect."
I made a comic :3
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A black-and-white comic with seven panels. The comic’s title is “The Duality of Furries.”
First panel: My “generic anthro canine” fursona is holding a phone, smiling, and looking flattered.
Second panel: A phone screen showing a conversation. Me: “ur cute :3” - them: “no u >w<” - me: “not as cute as u O//w//O” - them: “u the cutest”
Third panel: My fursona smiling and holding a phone, similar to the first panel.
Fourth panel: Another phone screen with further messages. Me: “oki gotta go now :3” - them: “nuuu why? ;-;” - me: “goin 2 a concert uwu” - them: “oooh have fun <3”
A text box: “one hour later”
Fifth panel: My fursona is in a dark concert hall and participating in a circle pit (lots of people running in a big circle to the rhythm of the music). My sona is smiling and has determined eyes. The circle pit is surrounded by other concertgoers. Big, red letters above the circle pit spell “KILL.”
Sixth panel: My fursona is in the same dark concert hall and participating in a mosh pit (an area where seemingly violent dancing occurs). My sona is windmilling their arms with closed eyes and a strained expression on their face. Others in the pit are doing a two-step, the bees knees, and the chicken dance. Big, red letters above the mosh pit spell “KILL.”
Seventh panel: My fursona is crowd surfing with a big smile and their arms raised. In the background, a photo from a Dying Fetus concert (a death metal band) shows the band members to evoke the feeling of being at a concert. Below my crowd surfing sona, big, red letters spell “KILL KILL.”
I often wonder whether the people who work in beautiful places like this get used to or even tired of the view. Driving a tram through a snowy forest sounds fun, but when you do it all the time, does it just become a normal thing that you do, like driving trams in the city? Maybe the change of seasons is enough to stay excited. Maybe the drivers all have their favourite seasons and get giddy when the first snowflakes start to fall or when the grass starts to grow in the spring. I think that'd make me happy if I had this job, watching ature cycle through the seasons.