🌲Johnny Pines🌲

"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.

this is my fucking kryptonite.

One thing to note when you are paying an artist for their labor, and those prices seem steep, is that in the world of freelance, it’s feast or famine and more usually famine, so the price is also about covering the times where there’s no work coming in. Working in animation showed me that…

Literally me

posting this here too but:

black people who struggle with mental health and are disordered are more likely to be killed/assaulted by police during a crisis.

acab forever.

i hate the idea of minorities, ESPECIALLY TRANS PEOPLE AND POC, having to be kind to their oppressors and beg for compassion and forgiveness that shit has gotten us NOWHERE and honestly just sets us back farther.

fuck your liberal garbage.

No one is coming to save us, it sucks. It does. But we aren’t powerless.

It starts with you, y’know.

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

o man the furry fandom is SUCH a white dominated space it makes me a lil insane!! its hard to find other poc furries out there, and it makes me appreciate bipoc only spaces like the @bipocfurdiscord.bsky.social !!!

the erasure of who we are by silence and distancing from not just race but the depoliticizing that exists within furry makes it hard to feel like i am being truly seen and understood. the idea of no politics in furry is violent.

tbh my big thing is how it feels like the fandom doesn't make more of an effort to ostracize conservative and right wing furs
it feels unsafe when I see a fur with american flags adorning their profiles when my people are being rounded up by ice on the daily

we should be pushing these people out, furry is built on us being marginalized freaks. that doesn't mean that your white, cishet fur shouldn't be here, but it should be up to them to push their more dangerous brethren out of the space. is shouldn't fall on bipoc furs to do that, we want to feel safe

Stripe says it’s accepting payments for LGBTQ content
JVA site starts working with Visa again
Mastercard reportedly panicking and making Riot moderate messages

The tide is turning
We are going to win this
Keep calling
Keep writing
Keep fighting

You can do this

Like don't get me wrong, referencing is essential to learning and growing as an artist but, BUT LIKE- DONT JUST COMPLETELY RECREATE IT THATS NOT HOW YOU LEARN JFC. Or at least credit the original when you do, GODDAMN

The way people can get away with literally theft now-a-days is so fuckin weird to me 😭 like I remember all too well groups of rabid fucking 12 year olds ripping eachother to shreds because one of them "stole" the others OC and both the OCs in question are like, just a grey+white plain wolf

I fear social media culture has done irreparable damage to the online art community. OTL Shits never been the same ever since the art site giants fell/turned to shit

we've kinda lost the plot on sharing art online and the relationship between artist and art appreciator. i dont wanna get into it because im exhausted by other things go on, but if i ever hear someone refer to art as "content" and the appreciation of said art as "consuming" again ill kill.

I've noticed since the pandemic the "I got mine" selfish attitude has really become prevalent. It's disappointing to see how fractured communities like furry and LGBTQ+ have become.

Doesn't matter if you're a SFW furry, furry art AS A WHOLE is considered kink. We're all on the same sinking ship.

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

I am an adherent to the philosophy that all the best artists are perverts in some way, if not openly then privately. What is perversion if not having unchecked passion, the same passion that fuels artistry.

Piece of shit ICE fascists are swarming Little Tokyo. Posted up outside the Japanese American Museum threatening people with internment. Impossible to overstate how disgusting these people are.

OpenAI is now openly suggesting people use chatGPT for mental health, to „untangle their thoughts” to help them „think more clearly” or if they need to decide whether to „break up with their boyfriend”.

This is unacceptable. Somebody will die. They know that. They don’t care.

Fuck them.

The dykefag label is so good. Like Hell yeah, it’s gay no matter who I’m into, my gender is incomprehensible to mortal minds

If you have a Dollar Tree or Family Dollar near you they usually have them 👀

FUN I’M HAVING FUN 🎈🎊🪅🪄🎉🎉🎉

RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic

Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…

HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775

HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000

PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.

NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cruisader cat was in the #Anthrocon fursuit parade

They won't allow poodlers but they'll allow nazis??
Anthrocon is officially a nazi convention (if your con allows nazis, it's a nazi con)

#Anthrocon2025