There was a time when writing became an overwhelming burden, because I made the job too difficult, and I resorted to posting pictures I made in the absence of long written pieces, and then later I realized that, owning the website, I was entitled to do that, and later still I felt bad about it again and posted neither words nor pictures. Those were some tough times.
You should always bring a hat to protect against burns.
I think this fulfills my blue sky quota for the year.
Feel free to use this as the title screen to your terrible 1992 super vga shareware game.
a “bear” because the original sketch 9 or so years ago had a similar looking creature in it. I could change it but I have not thought lately. What I did change was the potential victim to ant, instead of a rat. I thought the rat was more stylish but was of improbable size and presumed quickness to suit this pasttime. And then I drew the replacement ant at the size of a rat because I was still hurting from my loss. I wish somebody who otherwise had no sympathy for humanity would take pity on me.
And I suppose you could say ah ha! Obviously nazis dislike gays so this is a JOKE. Like
Fortunately that mental acrobatics isn’t necessary because, like this one who has reported on a previous posting by me of the previous image, there actually are people who think adopting Third Reich names and symbolism is stylish and acceptable [for their otherwise stylish and acceptable misanthropic animal personas], which requires totally different but more publicized mental acrobatics to comprehend. Either they have no concept what real National Socialists actually were, and willingly keep themselves from knowing, making them morons, or know full well and have no problem with it, and I don’t understand how somebody raised in this country in this time period can get to that position.
In fact I have been more closely acquainted with at least one person who thinks neo-nazi-ism isn’t a big deal so long as the culprit draws cute kitty-cats.
And I probably don’t help it by changing the subject away from condoning Nazis,
because I was concerned I was being too hard on my conversation opponent because I knew I was annoyed at him already, for other reasons, such as liking other artists I had different problems with. But thinking now (glad I thought of it), I shouldn’t silence myself to preserve a relationship where I must constantly silence myself, for it is always the same reason: these people don’t care/notice how horrid or infantile anyone else is so long as the cute distribution operation is maintained. The fur-folk crum-bummunity thrives on that, but it is symptomatic of society in general. We treat babies like royalty (because they are “cute” to someone) and if they have a marketable talent then they may get to grow up feeling entitled to special treatment. Noisy, abrasive, uncontrollable, but they draw/sing/wear/remove clothing nice so they get away with it. People who are aware it is horrible say nothing because they can make money for themselves by filming and producing television programs about it. The fantasy of entitlement is “reality.” This “cute” nazi fan artist has nearly 1900 known regular observers, a majority of whom may be presumed to condone the whole thing. There’s no incentive there to alter the behavior. There are 14-year-olds who aren’t necessarily nazis but have 3 times the following and it’s just normal to them that whatever awful they thing they do, if even 3% publicly support them or think they stand to gain something by seeming to, there will be 90ish people to say “great job living!” If I said “that person is a Nazi!” in any other context I would look like a hyperbolic kook, and now that I can say that, the response is “I know, isn’t it cute?”
Anyway, the point is that sometimes it is better if people like me just post drawings without saying anything.
All this is not to say there aren’t individuals who deserve the gas chamber, but that needs to be decided on a case by case basis.
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sp0rk sez:
“there actually are people who think adopting Third Reich names and symbolism is stylish and acceptable…or know full well and have no problem with it, and I don’t understand how somebody raised in this country in this time period can get to that position.”
they aren’t raised in this or any country.
their formative periods are spent in an unsupervised echo chamber in which sarcasm substitutes for insightful wit, rudeness is the default mode of socialization, opinions, belief systems and even personality structures are copy/pasted, entertainment is the prime directive followed not only by children and adolescents but most of their moron parents as well, bad taste is considered automatically funny in proportion to how glibly offensive it is, apathy is the defining personal characteristic and only irreverence is revered. i think standardization of this sort is the point of this environment, but perhaps i’m paranoid.
Heapinfrimp sez:
For some years I heard of television being derogatorily referred to as a “babysitter” but except in the cases where some kid becomes a murderer nobody has (or did) ponder what negative effect having deeper bonds with fictional, commercial characters than your own family would have on children. I presume that is what is going on here; without trying you can fill any genre entirely with people that are terrible to each other. And even when they are nice they may still be terrible.
I think if the matter actually came to following orders that required killing, this group wouldn’t go along with it, but their inability to have empathy outside of direct experience or murder probably causes adequate trouble for the living.
One’s personality being entirely a product of cartoons and video games also fits into the furry experience, though I was trying to keep this whole topic brief because even in the main post I was concerned I was repeating myself.
I have had my own brushes with bad taste but I would never want to define myself with it.
sp0rk sez:
i agree that the average tv-raised persons are not actually being turned flagrantly sociopathic, yet it’s hard to argue that they are not being conditioned to extreme apathy and callous selfishness, a sort of low-grade detached psychopathy, which allows for the enslavement, exploitation and killing of many other people, and even themselves. considering how much subtler and pervasive is propaganda here and now than in 1930s Germany, along with an ever more sophisticated understanding of individual and mass psychology, that the increasing atomization and callous self-interest of a population whose existence depends entirely upon the virtual enslavement and abuse of huge swathes of the rest of the world and the dissolution of their own rights, genuine freedom of self-determination, and economic infrastructure, the dissonance about which is continuously anesthetized by entertainment which facilitates a general neurotic vacuity, suggests that the requisite amount of people could be brought to a state of total acquiessence by which the worst excesses of the nazis could very easily take place again, except with a range and efficiency the nazis couldn’t have had.
as for your own questionable foray into fuhreristic imagery, at least that was relevant to the topic and not a mindless glamorization. and while the alt text is inarguably tasteless, it is yet as such in a lonely class of bimshwel content, offset by a truly monumental lump of evidence of perceptive thoughtfulness, and therefore testifies only weakly against your character.
i apologize for undermining your expressed wish for brevity, though i believe you were likely only applying it to your share of the discussion.
MineralREalger sez:
My cat was looking out a window when I read this. I think it’s a sign from the Nazis.
Heapinfrimp sez:
Is your cat crispy?
MineralRealgar sez:
How’d you know that?
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