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Pippin friendica

I'm still trying to figure out how to think of plots for stories. At the moment what I seem to do is:

- Think of characters. This isn't too hard, at least because they are very often fursuiters so as well as a name I can give them a suit species and imagine what the suit might be like, and so on

- Write about them. Nothing too strenuous, I just do little snippets of their day or them meeting another character, little things like that. I try to get a feel for the character.

- Hope that a plot involving the characters comes to me. This is where it all falls down, of course. In one case I've had a settings emerge which *might* be a good place for a plot to happen in, but so far the plot hasn't made itself known.

I wonder whether I'm going about this all backwards. Should I instead be deciding what the main theme(s) is/are, i.e. what I want to say, then finding a plot that serves the theme(s), then coming up with characters and settings that that plot could take place in? Maybe my big difficulty with writing is more than I don't know what I really want to say in the first place.

If you write stories, how do you come up with plots?


fedi software should have this variable
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There’s only one correct answer

  • Seen Been (36%, 79 votes)
  • Shorn Born (14%, 32 votes)
  • Seen Born (5%, 12 votes)
  • Shorn Been (43%, 96 votes)
219 voters. Poll end: in 3 hours

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Pippin friendica
What do you mean, why am I eating breakfast at 3.30 in the afternoon. I'm not skipping breakfast. I want my breakfast. steadily eats granola while holding eye contact

Pippin friendica
Just watched Wildwood. The last showing at this cinema. Glad I caught it, going to have to get it on disc at some point. That was pretty darn good.
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I've noticed a pattern when someone makes me try a new art material for coloring, I tend to try it doing a fox. It was completely unconscious, perhaps because I like foxes so much, especially their colors, that they’re the first thing that comes to mind whenever I need to add color to something.

Also a very basic furry take: I love foxes! I think they are so precious. I blame Disney for liking foxes so much, I played hundreds of times the same VHSs of the Fox and the Hound and Robin Hood to the point I knew them by memory.

This piece was made the same day I was trying acrylic markers for first time, first I drew a marten and then this fox. I'm gonna dispaly the original of this one at MFF's Art Show.
And in the end I bought an acrylic sets for myself, so expect to see many pieces with those materials.

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There’s room for one more, let’s catch up on some sleep debt
πŸ’€β˜οΈπŸ¦Šβ˜οΈπŸ’€
#fursuit #furry
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Go fetch!!

Kuragari playing with Loogamon.
A color commission done during BLFC's Artists Alley

(When I saw all the details I had to add on each character, and to work during a convention, I just thought "oh no!", yeah it took longer than usual but in the end it was satisfaying, I personally like the result)
(Hope that is not encouraging, don't bring overcomplicated characters for an artist to work during a convention if you don't want to see your artists crying) XD

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mlem πŸ‘…
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Let's cuddle in fursuit and talk about our hyperfixation topics together

EDIT: You do not need to own a fursuit to do fursuit cuddles if at least one of us owns one, and I do.

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Pippin friendica
It's now just over 20 years since I last went to the US (Anthrocon 2006, I believe) but if I ever manage to bring Kelsey to a con you're at please feel free to cuddle this little husky as much as you are able to; he needs it. 😊 (He can't talk, but he's quite able to listen to hyperfixations, no trouble.)
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GothPanda • mastodon (AP)
I'm game

Look at the first colored piece by this artist named "Pacour"!

Me and my friend Karpour had been talking for a time about making a collab piece together. In the past, we had played around with other artists doing collaborative sketches, where one artist starts doodling a character's pose and another artist finishes it. But we had never tried taking that idea a step further and doing a fully finished illustration by constantly passing it back and forth between us. Even to the point of coloring and inking it.
So we finally decided to give it a try!

This piece was for Kazan and Ronin, featuring them, executing the heist of the decade, running away with one of those fancy serving carts from the House of Prime Rib!

Process of the work:

Karpour: Composition and initial sketch
Paco: Second sketch
Karpour: Third sketch
Paco: First cleanup
Karpour: Second cleanup
Paco: Coloring
Karpour: Inking

It was a really fun experiment, seeing how the drawing kept evolving every time we passed it back to each other! I'm sure is not going to be the last one!

If you want to see photos of the process, check them out on the firsts comments of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

And check @karpour 's art, it is super duper cute!

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/117587043705902981

TFW you take a picture of an amazing moon on your phone.

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Kay Ohtie • mastodon (AP)

either that or fakes by the phone

Makes me want a decent camera just for that


Whyrl • mastodon (AP)
5-10 minutes into live action film: Ugh, boring
5 minutes into animated film: *eyeballs glued to screen*
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The cool color crew w/ the cool @koshkafursuits peeps
ft. Syber, purtan, enzo mossington
πŸ“Έ - @antwelm
#furry #fursuit
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Pippin friendica
So many things that should make me happy are making me sad instead. Is it just because they are fiction?
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Xoa Gray • mastodon (AP)
I feel the vibe you’re putting down tonight. I find myself often wishing that I could be in some of the worlds I read about instead of the one we’re in.
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Chinchilla!!!
Part of an art trade during a nocturnal art jam during BLFC 2026 with @Kipperart
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Read from the start, there is right arrow top right for next one. Very well done.

https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/018__Avian-Intelligence.html

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Giles of the Jungle • mastodon (AP)
I adore @davidrevoy 's work, it's clever, cute and the satire is bang on.

I wish we could go back to when a "political opinion" was "I think the welfare funding cuts should be reversed, it will just push the costs onto the overstretched healthcare budget".
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Pippin friendica

Content warning: Vague spoilers for The Wingfeather Saga

Pippin friendica

Content warning: Wingfeather Saga spoiler and speculation

Pippin friendica

Content warning: Wingfeather Saga spoiler and speculation


Xoa Gray • mastodon (AP)

This is all true, but to be honest every one I’ve ever met has been a love sponge and I’d have one as a pet without any hesitation at all.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3kcI5iaRb24

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ascii art is an underappreciated medium that most people just don't respect anymore (despite text emotes still being a thing)

when you search for ascii art it's mostly how to 'generate' it by processing an already made image, or with some text generator, it's very rare to find information about actual handcrafted text art

it's like if you were to search for pixel art and almost everybody only ever talked about making it by downscaling a high res image, you're missing a lot of the unique expressiveness of the medium!

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A friend came over with a big box of acrylic markers. I had seen other artists using them before, but I hadn't had the chance to try them myself until now. So this was my first attempt at using them!

A marten wearing schwimmflΓΌgel. Look how happy they are!

And yup, I ended up buying a set for myself.

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FIVE YEARS ago yesterday I released In Flux.

Today is #BandcampFriday and I've put In Flux on sale for only FIVE CANADIAN DOLLARS.

$5!!!

https://diym.bandcamp.com/album/in-flux

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Nu • mastodon (AP)

Oh no, my 120 baht has flown right out of my wallet~

Also, your pfp is cool I like it :P


Obscura, Cheetah • mastodon (AP)

The leaves back there say that it's autumn! 🍁 #FursuitFriday

Photo by Cryptodawg

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I'm hearing that blue is very in lately!

HERE I AM
YOU MAY PET πŸ’™

🧡 @selkiesuits
πŸ“· @HarryHusky
🌍 Furrific 2026
⌚ #FursuitFriday

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Bonnie(1) • mastodon (AP)
*Caught holding blue spray paint aimed at self* :drgn_o_o: *Quickly hides it behind* Oh, well you are indeed correct about that. :drgn_blep: Allow me to give you headpats, *pets your head* and how about behind the ears. *sritches behind your ears* :drgn_happy:
@Bonnie
*eees and prrprrprrs and tailwags* πŸ’™

Blue is IN.
Ft. Tyro
πŸ“Έ - soullacker
#fursuitfriday #fursuit #furry
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hell yeah, absolute banger

https://youtu.be/JEoxetlAHDQ

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Pippin friendica

I really feel this. I've got to the stage where if something seems anything less than easy for me to do I feel like a failure, and I rarely get anything useful done nowadays. I get by, just about, on absolute minimum effort, and feel I'm wasting my life.


there's no better way to screw up a child for life than telling them they're gifted (over and over and over again)

Matt Sqwrl • mastodon (AP)
@krishean I find it's the stress of having so many things to do that means I do none. I'm slowly working my way along the Rhine for a long walk, it's good to have a goal like that where you can just go do the next bit when you have energy
Pippin friendica
@Matt Sqwrl @Krishean Draconis Yes, that is also a big factor, true. And that does sound like a good project to avoid it.

Pippin friendica
And, kind of interesting if watched at 2x speed. Or maybe obvious to anyone who's not me?

Pippin friendica
In case you haven't heard why UTC is called "UTC":
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Paco Panda • mastodon (AP)

The mission of this hero is to get at least one of the lasts cookies in the jar, could he reach it flawlessly?

This cute wine red fox is RooChi
Done during BLFC's Artists Alley

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Phil M0OFX • hometown (AP)

That sound you can hear is every embedded redteamer and blueteamer on the planet adding "try logging in with root and a 257-byte password" to their "easy wins" list.

> affected: alpine, openwrt, buildroot, yocto

https://sshhole.com/

opwnwrt...

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Rogan Dawes • mastodon (AP)

openwrt is unlikely to be affected in a default install, due to using dropbear, as well as having daemon accounts (with a * as a hash) having a shell of /bin/false.

Installing openssh instead for whatever reason should still be protected by the latter.

Phil M0OFX • hometown (AP)
@RoganDawes thanks for the clarification - guess the original article didn't validate. I'm going to add "disabled accounts have a shell of /bin/false or /bin/nologin" to the checklist though.

RevK :verified_r: • mastodon (AP)
I may need this on a t-shirt for the 18th
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Gravecat :blobcatuwu: • mastodon (AP)
oh my god this is amazing XD
@gc I love it so much xD 🩡🩡🩡🩡🩡
Bonnie(1) • mastodon (AP)
Hmmm I wonder where you got that idea from? :drgn_think_smug:
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The Gneech! Awww Yeah • mastodon (AP)
I wanna play a rabbitfolk artificer just so she can say, "WD-40? You mean Wrench Dressing?"
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Chelivan Hebrusel • mastodon (AP)

Sounds like they'd go well with my short lutrine mind-reader.

"I'm a little teep ott!"


Pippin friendica
OMG this is corny as heck but I really like it anyway. Feeds directly into my "you really want a robot for a friend?" "Yeah, ever since I was six" feeling. Maybe not as good as D.A.R.Y.L., but yeah, I do like it.

Kay Ohtie • mastodon (AP)
Wild to search YouTube for something and see "20 years ago" as a date
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Furo • mastodon (AP)
Here is mine πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ
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Pippin friendica
I love Raww. :D

Krishean Draconis • mastodon (AP)
there's no better way to screw up a child for life than telling them they're gifted (over and over and over again)
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Content warning: USpol, voting

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