Hazelmutt

funy trend heheh i have this book on my shelf, its a good book you should read it :) #myart #dav #comic

Vulture mama 🌹

PWYW for @keetacat.bsky.social

#commission #furryart

How to Dani

There's a lot of unspoken and assumed pressure for furries to be patrons of the arts. This mostly manifests on who wins the lottery for the attention economy on social media. [...] If it isn't a suggesting fursuit photo or cute art, [furries] aren't going to waste their time. This can make it feel like you have to spend money on art/fursuits/etc. to be accepted in the fandom. But this simply isn't true. You only benefit from those things if you're trying to win a popularity contest in your own mind and become an influencer on social media. Your Twitter follower count isn't your worth to your friends, and if you think that it is, you have the wrong friends. — Soatok, “Is there extreme classism in the furry fandom?” (17 February 2022) this is not an essay about whether there is “extreme classism” in furry subculture, a question i find myself uninterested in answering at length because i think the answer is obvious. (yes.) but it is an essay about the language adjacent to this question—about the ‘attention economy,’ about the ‘popularity contest,’ about ‘acceptance in the fandom’ and to what things this is tied. because the truth is this: the subtext that none of this matters if one has the right friends, the right mentality is little more than wishcasting. such a thing can only be true if one believes that furry subculture is in some sense socially meritocratic, a community—to adapt a phrase from Dennis Altman about the gay bathhouse—that is far removed from the “bondage of rank, hierarchy, and competition that characterise much of the outside world.”1 but the subculture is not a meritocracy any more than the gay bathhouse of which Altman spoke was a utopian ‘Whitmanesque democracy.’

one may say with conviction that there is no need to ‘spend money on art/fursuits/etc. to be accepted,’ but this is not really true. the furry without the signifiers of furrydom will probably not get far socially; the furry with money to splurge on these signifiers will probably pay their way to into many social groups. to buy off people is cheap, to buy commodities cheaper still. disposable capital lubricates ownership of the very luxury commodities (art, VR models, fursuits) upon which furry subculture is built, and the ownership of these luxury commodities in kind facilitates the accretion of social capital and attention—visibility, in other words. indeed, visibility within the subculture is often just a byproduct of what identities are privileged under the existing social order outside it. this dynamic can be felt across many facets of identity, but in furry spaces it most often reflects class hierarchy. the spirit of the ‘suspiciously wealthy furry’ is not an ex nihilo invention; the specter of the furry tech worker, the white-collar wage-earner, looms in almost every furry space. true, these phantasmal furries are over-invoked. (one presumes the median furry cannot be described as any of suspiciously wealthy, or tech-worker, or otherwise white-collar.) but discursive abuse does not really change what these phantasmal furries signify to many: a growing material hierarchy and inequality within the subculture—facilitated through visibility—that cuts against its meritocratic founding mythos.

and if visibility is not physical capital—if it does not convert one-to-one into success, or spend one-to-one into popularity or stability—it still greases the wheels much as literal capital would. by its very nature visibility is a form of social capital: it opens doors; creates opportunities; provides chances for things to happen that otherwise would not, just as physical capital can. if our subculture is a lottery of attention, then we neither enter it nor play with equal odds and it debases us to pretend otherwise. hierarchy and inequality reify visibility and always have; one cannot negate material reality by having the ‘right’ friends (as though friendship is fungible or trivial) or by tuning out the ‘popularity contest’ (as if one can simply opt out of the social forces to which they are subject). of course, i do not want to overstate the case. some level of social hierarchy and therefore inequality is immutable. we cannot redistribute intangibles like attention or visibility on Marxist grounds, nor would such a thing even be desirable anyways. the perception of hierarchy or inequality of social status is also not synonymous with genuine hierarchy or inequality; particularly in online spaces—so manipulated by algorithms and so corrosive to how we relate—one may attain a very warped sense of what one's place ‘should’ be.

but these are complications, not refutations; that we cannot completely level the playing field and might attain a false consciousness of where hierarchy or inequality exists does not invalidate the very real hierarchy and inequality that does exist. if we speak of a world in which ‘[furries] aren't going to waste their time’ unless something is a ‘fursuit photo or cute art’—a luxury commodity—then we are speaking of, resigning ourselves to, a world in which there is a split between those who have and those who have not. we are resigning ourselves to the dichotomy between those whose sole visible representation was bought by the leftover between rent checks; and those whose visibility in art never evokes the cost of living at all. we are resigning ourselves to sociality in which some will never be so fortunate as to ‘be seen’ at even one furry meetup; and some will be able to arrange their lives around these spaces and their social circuits. we are throwing up our hands and allowing some to suffer tremendously at the hands of another for want of visibility; and allowing others to weaponize their visibility in the service of harm. and we are resigning ourselves to a world in which there are those who will, every day, bear the shame of begging others to live because it is what little leverage their visibility allows them; and those who will, each day, never know the indignity of groveling because their visibility has already paid the bills. what we should—must—speak of, and dream of, is something better. we must embrace politics, and politicization, of our subculture in the service of that something better. because i will not settle in any community, any society, any system for such TINA bullshit—“all is luck; some are rich, some are poor, that is the way the world is... it could be you!”—and you should not either.

on the matter of visibility in the furry subculture (or, somewhere beyond the barricades, there is a world you long to see)

alyaza.neocities.org/essays/Furry...

🩵 cutie

[ #furryart #commission ]

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eek (anthro ant) standing over Soba (anthro snake)'s huge giant penis, with just the tip in. Soba commands him to sit. Eek looks unsure.

hey listen man i just dont know if it's possible 🐜!!!!💦

a road at night. a passing car's headlights briefly illuminate a hunched, humanoid creature standing in the ditch. it's head is reptilian. behind, in the darkness, two shadowy figures look on with eyes that shine

Record number of missing pets and children shortly after the fire and subsequent closure of the government-run research and development facility located outside of the Nevada desert

I'm making an 8K render for large print and display use and I'm just kinda vibing with how this foot looks in high res here

Linkin Park app for iPhone in 2012

Linkin Park app for iPhone in 2012

I posted a Crucianelli guitar a while back, and here's another one, an Elite 40-V. This Italian guitar is a solidbody electric with an offset body shape. This specific one is red with a blackpickguard and a white stripe around the side of the body. It's got four pickups, with a gap between each set of two. (They probably could've fit a fifth pickup in there if they weren't cowards.) There are six plastic toggle switches above the strings (helpfully labeled ALL, T, B+T, M, B, and O), and a volume and a tone knob in the normal control area. The guitar also has a Jazzmaster-style trem.

Crucianelli Elite 40-V

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old banger that was brought up

A photo of my arms, covered in tattoo'd bird/dragon scales from my knuckles down to my elbow.

Another photo of my arms and their scales, just in a different pose. You can see my huge MLM flag in the background, some string lights and some dakis hung up on the wall but we're choosing to ignore those because look at my fresh ink!

More exhausted than ever before, but holy shit they're done.
Minus the fingers and upper arms but hey I'm symmetrical!

fullbody comm!

as a big cyberpunk buff i definitely wanna avoid pitfalls like that in my projects, it seems so ingrained into the genre that people find it a challenge to think around. also wanna write a video essay (or just essay) about orientalism in cyberpunk but i don't have all of my thoughts on it collected

a drawing of an anthro latias

a drawing of an anthro latias

a drawing of an anthro latias and togetic

OH WOW WAIT yesterday was pokemon day and i forgot to share one of my fave creations: lesbian latias (and her togetic gf)

birzeblog

Black History Month day 28, Why does any of this matter, anyways?, is now live on Birzeblog

[this concludes the conversion of the series; thank you for your patience in this endeavor]

alyaza.neocities.org/essays/BHM/why

self destructive. lyrics from tameless by hellhills #art #emo

"how to deal with harassment *examples of inappropriate behaviour* Should you find yourself in this situation, you may take the following measures to ensure your safety."

"step 1: KILL"

employee orientation

Quote with your fanart

Oh well! Nightflaid did got some numbers

this is a beautiful woman to me

bite hazard

snivy deadlock

One of my all-time favorite collabs that I have done together with @daikidai.bsky.social . Still love this one to bits. This is my girl, Sudo! 💙

a lined drawing of an anthro penguin sitting on the lap of the a flustered anthro leopard seal, grinding on her strap-on

found this in my files while drawing the last thign with these two uhhh so here

drawing of an anthro leopard seal getting a little handjob from an anthro penguin. The penguin says, "Ohh... so you DO want a reward for your hard work..." The seal replies, flustered, "Sh-shut the fuck up. For ONCE." The penguin just quietly replies "Mhm... you like it."

a drawing of a the anthro leopard seal with a strap, holding the penguin down. She says, "So THIS is REALLY why you hired me, huh?" The penguin replies, annoyed: "You are NOT to speak--!" The seal, amused, just says, "Whatever you say, princess."

you guys talk too much 🗣️