outside The Know, Portland OR

kasoukai:

are you the young man who is here to read furry webcomics with my daughter? excellent. welcome to the family. have a coors

I played pinball with a TV actor who got hired once to do a table read. For an audience. At a convention. A furry convention. It was a play called Fursona non Grata, and the premise is a girl taking her fiance to meet, for the first time, her family. Who are all furries.

I tracked down the script online and read it because obviously I did. It's… subpar. It’s like Borscht Belt humor, with furries in place of Jews.

The author’s not some nobody, either. He worked on the Duck Dodgers cartoon, and created another series, American Dragon, that ran two years on Disney. (He also wrote the pilot for Undressed, that weird JV Skinemax anthology series on MTV, which okay.)

First, in retrospect it should be the exact opposite of surprise that someone who contributes to a funny animal series and then makes a show about a teenager who’s secretly a dragon is a furry. On the other hand, at some level I guess I always assumed that the fandom’s relation to mainstream anthro product was parasitic on creators who had some, you know, non-furry reason to be all about furry stuff.

Second, how the fuck did this guy get a TV show made and I didn’t? That’s an actual question. In LA I wrote a pilot, and it’s awfully 2008 (It starts with two brothers, one who wants to become a pirate but doesn’t, one who doesn’t but does; and ends with zombie redcoats fighting steampunk freemasons) but if this thing was representative of that guy’s work, wow. By a mile.

I mean maybe one answers two, the industry’s about who you know, and funny animal animation’s dominated by a Furry Mafia. Hahahahahahathat'sactuallyentirelyplausiblefuck.

I hope the sequel is called The Fursuit of Happiness.

gyaru-coordinates:

EVA x JSG leggings and tops
more.

15folds:

SATORI

by Alex Bond, Video Artist & Illustrator, Philadelphia

The window of enlightenment

Follow the full ‘Paradise’ thread on 15folds.com

dichotomoussimplicity:

The real beauty of the “snowflake” analogy isn’t in that every one is unique, it’s that every one of them is unique, but not enough so that any observer will notice the difference as they fall individually to join each other in a nameless and faceless mass.

When you think about it it’s kind of weird that we’ve been developing this discourse of “manipulation”/”bullying”/”abuse” to pathologize those who speak and behave with the goal of eliciting desired responses from other people, at the very same time that we’ve been developing the concept of the “autism spectrum” to pathologize those who don’t.

Oh wait no of course it isn’t duh read your Foucault.

Budget appropriations and borrowing authority are real asks on behalf of the institutional government as embodied in the POTUS, and to claim that they should be obligatory or disqualified as a bargaining chip is to endorse executive supremacy over the legislature.

If Bush the Younger got you angry about an overreaching executive the House Republicans should be your heroes.

Like, everyone gets that the conceit of Inglourious Basterds is that the (enlisted) Basterds are all monoethnic, weakly distinguished horrific monsters driven by ethnic hatred while the Nazis are noble, individual down-home types with distinct regional accents who share tales of the homes and loved ones they’re fighting to protect?

That the Nazis are multilingual humanists with a sense of chivalric honor, a taste for art, an appreciation of the nuances of foreign cultures, and a desire to end the war with a minimum of death while the Basterds are provincial, monolingual, sadistic thugs who have a superficial understanding of German culture, kill for joy, torture their own allies, and mutilate captives they’ve promised safe passage?

That the marketing campaign for the movie involved the principals doing interviews about how awesome it was to have a movie about Us wreaking mayhem against Them, while the principal of the Nazi propaganda film-within-a-film leaves the premiere because he hates how it valorizes the act of killing?

That after the whole movie we’re expected to cheer the Basterds as they go on a nihilistic homicidal rampage, setting fire to fragile artworks to destroy a temple of high culture, because after all what matters is that they’re Us, and anyway our popular media has long constructed Them as an insect collectivity to be incinerated en masse without compunction?

Right? But, I never saw anyone mention that, even though Tarantino made it COMPLETELY FUCKING OBVIOUS.

bearsbeetsbattlestar-galactica:

This is actually my favourite billboard right now

Sliced white bread as we know it today is the product of early twentieth-century streamlined design. It is the Zephyr train of food. But, in the American imagination, industrial loaves are more typically associated with the late ’50s and early ’60s—the Beaver Cleaver days of Baby Boomer…

Pretty good nugget of history, read the whole article.

kasoukai:

mommatomycrabcakes:

“LSD causes users to lose weight.”

That makes sense. It’s kind of hard to get to the fridge when there’s a dragon guarding it.

the person who wrote this post has never taken lsd

hotelgraffiti:

Austin, Texas. USA. 2008

sunset, north phila.