I bit the bullet. I'm on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/boinkplanet.bsky.social

Haven't posted any content as of yet, as this was primarily about getting past all the "you must be logged in to see this content" messages I'd been hitting on there lately.

So now I'm logged in.

Hey all. It's been a month so I guess I owe you all another update.

Mom had knee surgery on the 30th. She is now in recovery mode from that.

She has a sort of electric Igloo Cooler with a pump and hose that extends out to a knee brace which is supposed to keep her knee iced as she recovers. She's also on a couple painkillers and a whole rack of new medications. All of which it's my job to dole out and deliver. Which means I'm now on 24-hour pill watch and getting basically no sleep.

But this is the point where things are supposed to start getting better. And after four days of remaining pretty much laid out on the downstairs couch, she just now made her way to to the top level of the house and back again, just to get her earrings in. (she didn't want the piercings closing up)

So things may be improving finally.

A bit.

In the meantime, if you haven't already, check out my page over on civitai:
https://civitai.com/user/Talboc/

...where I have posted some new AI Models trained on my art which are free to use for all your pornographing needs. You can use them in your own standalone setup, or run them on the civitai website generator (which is basically also free, as they give you the tokens to run it, you just need an account there.)

Anyway, that's all for now.

Will keep you posted.

Cheers.

And so that was Christmas....

Hey all, seeing as how it's now a New Year and all, and since the snow is falling and I won't have to go anywhere to do a thing today, I can finally take a moment to catch you all up on the current state of my existence.

The holidays were a bucketload of stress, and I think I might have actually started getting an ulcer there for awhile, but whatever it was that flared up seems to have quieted down now that the seasonal madness has passed. So that's good.

On a more positive note, the doctors have finally convinced my mother to get knee replacement surgery. Which should get her up out of the chair she's been in since she came back from the hospital around this time last year.

And hopefully, the result of that will be that I no longer have to run the entire household myself. Meals, pills, driving, shopping, etc...

....which means I might finally get enough of my life back to start drawing again. Hopefully.

2024 was an absolute trainwreck of a year for me, and I'd like to thank everyone who stuck by me while it played out. Especially the patreon patrons, however many of them are left.

The light at the end of this tunnel is drawing closer. Here's to hoping it's not another fucking train.

Cheers all, and hope you have a good year this year, or at least as good of one as you can.

-c*

In light of recent events, there are some folks (myself included) contemplating the idea of moving to someplace new.

And while I can't make use of this info due to financial conditions, I've passed it along to a couple people in the off-chance it helps them. And now I'm passing it along here, too:

Portugal, an EU nation, offers what is known as a Digital Nomad visa. It's available to freelancers who regularly make and have been making around $3500 a month from their freelance work. (which I don't)

You can read more about it here:
https://imin-portugal.com/blog/port.....al-nomad-visa/

If you have the means, it would be a way to just sit out the next four years from a safe distance.

TRICK'N TREATS is a project borne out of sheer madness, which seems suitable considering.

As some of you may recall, my life sort of fell apart last December and it's been a long slow climb out of that hole. Here it is a year later and I'm only just starting to come to grips with my world again.

Just before it all fell apart, I'd had the idea to throw together a renpy game, spend a few months working on it and put it out as a christmas freebie. That ended up not happening. After the crash of December, the project was put on hold just like everything else in my life. And when I finally went back to it months later, I wasn't satisfied with it. It was basically just a slideshow.

So I stuck it in the junk folder and got on with doing what needed doing.

Over the past year, I haven't really drawn much art. There just hasn't been time for it. But I have managed to grab the odd moment or two here to poke and prod at AI image generation, and create a bunch of LoRA models. Which naturally involved trying to teach it to draw like me. Or at least in a close enough representation of my art style.

Anyway, On the first of October this year an idea flashed into my head - what if I took the concept of that old, unfinished game, and used AI to make something out of it? Specifically by adding some actual gameplay to it so it wasn't just a slideshow.

And it's October, so let's make it Halloween-themed. That gives me an angle I can hang the whole design on.

But it was the first of the month. And Halloween was 30 days away. Can you make an entire Renpy game in just a month?

There's a sort of "iron-man" challenge among renpy designers, where they try to do just that. But it's something that a lot of them fail to do, even working with a whole team.

But, I thought maybe.... by kitbashing some of the code out of my older unfinished projects, using Ai to generate the artwork and music, and working more as a producer than an artist... could I corral all these AI elements together into a basic but payable game?

I decided to give it a shot. It was something I could actually do in my (very limited) spare time, or so I rationalized it.

So... gameplay. I used an online AI maze generator to generate me a 10 x 10 maze. I then took the result and changed a few walls around to make it more suitable for a dungeon crawl. (I wanted to make sure the "correct path" covered as much of the floorspace of the map as possible)

In renpy, you can jump to what's known as a label, where a bit of code can be played out, and then you can jump to another label, and so forth. So I created 100 "labels" each to represent a grid square on the map. And I coded up a compass with buttons to navigate through them. Added locations for random "wandering" monster events. And added "levels" which would up the number and intensity of those events as the game progressed.

In the meantime, I had stable diffusion churning out hundreds of images - something I didn't need to be there for it to do. I could set it running before going to bed, and the next day review what it had given me. Picking through the images let me select the good ones and discard the ones with anatomy errors.

But the thing that I had to come to terms with the most to get the project together was cutting back on my design plan. I had planned on, and designed in space for a massive quantity of content which would be randomly selected from. I ended up with only just enough to make the game playable instead. Time was short, and that meant sacrificing my grand plans for "hey, it works."

While this was going on, I poked around on SUNO, making use of those 50 free song generations per day to experiment with different mixes of keywords to generate the specific styles of music I had envisioned. A MUNSTERS-esque opening theme, some spooky filler music, and some "sexy 80's porn music" with a slight "Thriller" feel to it for monster events.

Even cutting corners, reducing my plans, and using AI, and kitbashed code from other projects still took up what little free time I had left to me, but I somehow actually managed to do it. I managed to release an (admittedly buggy) version to my patreon patrons (and other folks) over on my discord just before Trick Or Treat time began locally.

And now, here we are, after midnight. I'm finally releasing a slightly updated (bugs fixed) version here and on Inkbunny.

It's still lacking a few things I had wanted to add, but it was designed with space inside to add more to it should I revisit it again in future.

For now, it is what it is. An entire renpy game. In one month. And I hope you enjoy it.

And again, if you'd like to help see more things like this get made, my patreon and ko-fi are linked in the header of my account page here on FA.

Cheers all.

Hey all. I said I'd post another update so, here goes.

Things are still improving bit by bit. There's not really a whole lot to say though. My hours have shifted somewhat. I am now doing the morning pills for my parents last thing before bed, usually at around 4am. This allows me to sleep until noon, when I have to get up and make their lunch and do their lunch pills.

This means that on some nights I actually get a decent night's sleep. However, sometimes I still wake up exhausted, and end up crawling back into bed once lunch duties are done. So on the whole I don't do a whole lot of actual living right now. I am at least partially shifted back towards the nocturnal schedule I've lived on for thirty years.

Monday is grocery day, so My whole afternoon gets taken up by that. I'm managing to schedule various doctor appointments for 2pm on wednesdays and fridays.

I think mostly what I'm dealing with is mental exhaustion. I'm balancing a hell of a lot, and it's kind of grinding me down. Pill wrangling, keeping tabs on who gets what, what needs refills, trying to get refills. ended up writing cheat sheets which I have stationed next to the pill bottle caches, so I know what gets what at what time. But just to give you an idea of the mess this is... my mom's blood pressure was reading high, so the doctor put her on some heart meds that she should be on.

Fine and dandy. Prescription sent in to Walgreens. Call to come pick up meds. I get over there and they've given me a bottle with only five pills in it. Because that was all they had. They're waiting for more, come back Monday. I go back monday. They don't have them. I go back wednesday. They don't have them. I go home, tear apart the kitchen cabinets until I find a mostly empty bottle of the same meds for her, at the same dosage, from the same doctor, check the expiry date. They're still good. They were from just before she went into the hospital in november.

So I've been using those up while I wait for Walgreen's to get their new order in.

I keep going back. They don't have them yet. I'm using up what we do have. Today I'm down to five pills again, and they finally have the shipment in. They don't call me to tell me this though. I bring it up while we're picking up some other medication for my mom, and they admit oh yes, they have some of that and I finally get the rest of the bottle handed over.

That's just one pill, for one parent. My dad gets four pills of different kinds in the morning, three in the afternoon, two at dinnertime. My mom gets six different ones in the morning, two at lunch, two at dinner, and two at bedtime.

I haven't had a day off since december, and I don't even get weekends. Every waking moment is pretty much being spent dealing with all of this.

On the plus side, my mom is making a point to get up out of her chair and move around more. She's even started cooking again. So I've gone from having to jump to attention for six DO IT NOW alarms, to just three. And on some days just two.

Still.... my nerves are still on edge, and I really need a vacation of a length and quality that I can't afford right now in any conceivable sense.

Still moving though. Not fast, but still moving.

And while I haven't really drawn much of anything since March, I am still messing around with Stable Diffusion. I finally got around to upgrading the video card in my main computer, so I have been able to start experimenting with XL models... specifically PONY XL.

You can see some of what I've been doing over on civitai, where I am logged in under the alias Talboc: https://civitai.com/user/Talboc

That's about everything I can think of for the moment...

Cheers, all.

Further updates eventually as life permits.

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Additional last minute note: if you haven't contributed to the Dragoneer's Legacy GoFundMe thing yet, please go do so. I put in fifty bux. It seemed the least I could do.

Hey all. Still among the vertical.

Things are also improving somewhat, though I'm still basically maidservant to my parents.

Up ay 8 am. Breakfast made and served by 9am. Lunch by noon. Dinner by 5. Bedtime pills at 8pm. Running errands, shopping, handling medications etc...

I'm not waking up exhausted every day though.

And while I haven't picked up a drawing tool in months, I have started tentative pokings at art-related projects again. Assembled and ran off a couple Lora training models for stable diffusion based on Foozles, and Delos. Messed some more with renpy code for one of the game projects I've been tinkering with.

And I'm starting to feel like myself again. I'm not walking around dead inside the way I have been for the past five months.

Things are starting to feel normal again, for a limited quantity of normal.

I've actually lost 20 pounds since December, just through a mixture of stress and constantly being on my feet.

Keep your fingers crossed for me. I might actually be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel here.

Cheers, all.

Hello all, here's an update on how things are going.

When last we left, several months ago, my life had gone to absolute crap. My mom got hospitalized, I got covid, my dad got covid, christmas got cancelled... etc....

Things have improved somewhat. The covid was dealt with via a treatment with paxlovid. (Which worked but left a horrible earwaxy taste in my mouth for a couple weeks, thank gawd (and torc) for altoids)

My mother has regained the ability to stand up on her own, though she gets around the house with a walker now. The various wounds and sores she had picked up from being in bed and flat on her back for two months have all but healed. She can dress herself, she doesn't need constant 24 hour monitoring.

Things are returning almost to normal-ish, though I am still fighting with my inner clock after decades of working all night and sleeping all day.

And this is because I am full-time looking after both of my parents still. Preparing all the meals, managing the pill doses that go with each of their meals, and since I'm the only one capable of driving here anymore I'm also running all the errands, doing all the grocery shopping, answering all the phones, and making and driving them to all their doctor appointments.... which means I've basically become their full time butler, maid and personal secretary.

Up at 8:00 am, dead on my feet and usually crashing hard by 8:00 pm.

But in the scant few free moments I have between alarms to make this meal or deliver those pills, or run that errand, and this needs to be picked up at the pharmacy, go go go..... I am going to tentatively attempt to get back to working on the art that I owe people.

So you should be seeing something new from me soon, for a variable quantity of soon.

I am managing to cope, for the moment.

I do kind of want my life back though.

Hey all.... I figure I should probably post some sort of update on how my life is going, for those folks who have started filing me under the heading of "Hey, whatever happened to...?"

So here's what's been going on.

December was a disaster for me.

As you may or may not know, my parents have had a number of medical conditions which meant they needed help around the house. So, I moved home to Delaware to look after them, and I've been doing that for at least the past ten years. At first this consisted of things like lifting heavy objects, or reaching things on high shelves.

Eventually, my dad started to lose his eyesight, and his ability to drive. So, my mom became the family driver. That was status quo for a good while. If my dad needed to go anywhere, either myself or my mom would drive him.

Over the course of 2023, my mother slowly started to lose the ability to walk. And suddenly she couldn't drive anymore either. So now I was also handling the family grocery shopping, and became the family driver.

It kept getting worse and worse. There is something wrong with one of her legs. her foot no longer points forward. And right around the time I finally got her doctor to get her scheduled for some x-rays to look at it, the disaster, or rather a string of disasters kicked in.

In the first week of December, my mom woke up with a pain in her abdomen so sharp it woke her up. And we called an ambulance on the spot. She was driven off to the local Hospital and after a couple days of examination from various doctors, they told us that she had suffered a "perforated ulcer."

That's essentially a hole in the stomach, through which things were leaking that shouldn’t have leaked, into places they shouldn’t have leaked into. And this seems to have been building for some time. She required surgery, and a lot of recovery time.

She spent most of December in the hospital recovering. Christmas got cancelled. (The whole family still have gifts we bought for each other that we haven't exchanged yet) And just after the 25th, my mother was moved from the hospital (which was five minutes away) to a recovery ward downstate (which was approximately half an hour away).

My father and I spent most of december driving back and forth every day to visit her.

And just as we were getting used to this new "normal".... we both got Covid. He caught it from someone at the hospital, and I caught it from him. We got test kits, we both tested positive.

Thankfully, we both managed to get prescriptions for Paxlovid, which eventually knocked the symptoms out of us.

But, we spent New Years' being sick.

People with Covid are onlly really contagious for the first three or four days after symptoms show up. And with our symptoms dying down, and almost another week gone by, the recovery ward announced my Mother was being discharged and sent home.

She is now home, but having spent a month flat on her back in various sick beds, her legs have become weak enough that she can no longer stand up on her own. She can walk, with a walker. And even tho we have those robot chair lift things on the stairs, she has spent the past few days in the downstairs level, because she's worried about trying to get out of the chair once it reaches the top of the stairs.

To compound matters, my father is suffering from memory loss. He can't remember things minute to minute. So he is basically useless in helping to look after my mom.

I am now doing 24 hour nurse care for two aging, broken senior citizens.

And although we are still having visits from various healthcare people, and my brother has stopped in for a few days to pitch in and handle a few things of a financial nature, I am basically carrying the bulk of the load of keeping this family functioning. Preparing pill doses. Making sure food gets prepared. Doing grocery shopping. Making medical appointments, Driving them to and from those medical appointments. Constantly reminding my father of the things he needs to do to help look after mom because he can't remember anything.

I am also therefore being run ragged. My nerves are shot. I am getting little to no sleep.

So... I don't exactly have the time or inclination to draw anything right now, and don't know how long it's going to be before I have time again.

The family have discussed selling the house and moving my parents into assisted living, which my father objects to because he feels he spent too many years paying this house off to just throw it away. They'd also likely be unable to take many of their possessions with them, or the cats.

...and of course I would become instantly homeless if it that happened.

My dad has said he doesn't want to do that to me. But my brother has suggested that if I can't handle this load and the situation falls apart, they'll likely have to do that whether they want to or not. They'll need the money from selling the house to afford the assisted living home.

We're looking into in-home care specialists, but it looks like twice a week is all we can afford. Their agent will be arriving in a few minutes to assess our situation. I have no idea how that's going to go.

So I have all that hanging over me as well.

Loads of stress, loads of doom and gloom. I am in a really rotten mental place right now.

So, that's how my life is going at the moment. And that's why you haven't seen much of me recently.

My world has basically been shot all to hell.

M*A*R*S stands for Mobile Animal Rescue Services.

They are a small group of veterinarians working in Ukraine, and are in need of equipment.

Among other things, they need new body armor and helmets as their work is regularly taking them dangerously close to the frontlines.

By day they provide vaccinations and medical care to all manner of critters including pets abandoned or left without homes after russian atrocities level homes and kill the former owners, by night they hunker down against those same bombardments.

You can read a bit more at this gofundme page:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/continue.....ost-vulnerable

If you have the means, please donate to their cause.

It’s a tough job only made tougher by being under fire.

Update: You can also donate directly to M*A*R*S at this hastily thrown together website:
https://crow202.com/mars/

Update 2: The facebook page for M*A*R*S with regular updates:
https://www.facebook.com/people/Mob.....0093341925840/

Update 3: A substack newsletter put out by one of the other members, with more updates:
https://irregularmedic.substack.com/

Hola all. I know it's been a while since I posted anything.

Figured I'd check in to give you all an update on things and let folks know I'm still around and still doing stuff.

So, I pretty much took June, July and August off. I needed a summer vacation.

I had planned to go to Furrydelphia in August but that sort of fell through. Maybe next year.

September I got back into things, doing a couple patron commissions. (still need to post those)

Worked some more on an old commission I still owe someone. (still need to finish that)

Apart from that, I've been messing around with Stable Diffusion and AI art.

I compiled a training data set made from something like 200 of my drawings, and made a hypernet model that mimics my drawing style. I can generate images of a number of my characters using it.

You can see some of the images I've generated using AI at my account over on Inkbunny:
https://inkbunny.net/Cobalt

I also taught myself how to make LoRA models, and I've trained a few of those up as well, based on various bears from pop culture. You can find those as downloadables on my civit.ai page:
https://civitai.com/user/Talboc/models

Apart from that.... I've just been watching youtube and goofing around on Discord, on my server Skypad, and a couple other places.

But, I'm doing reasonably okay-ish. Not great, not horrible, just sort of.. eh.

I'm still around. Just been keeping quiet.

Cheers all.

Quick poll... who all out there might be going to the Furrydelphia convention this year?

Howdy all, this is a decision I have been rolling over in my head for awhile.

Recent events, and the recent losses that they have delivered upon me have led me down the path of considering my own mortality. And while I don't plan on dying any time soon, It's also become clear that you don't always get much notice when your time is finally up.

So, I'm taking care of this early, while I still have time, and hopefully loads of it.

And this is it: Upon the untimely advent of my demise, rather than that whole "lifetime plus however long Disney is willing to pay to keep their cartoons locked behind a paywall" I would instead like all of my creative output to be placed directly into the public domain.

This is my wish and fuck any copyright police who try to say otherwise.

Although I came ever so briefly close to that shiny brass ring these many years ago, Hollywood has not really beat a path to my door, and my childhood dreams of being the next Charles Schulz or even a Disney have not come to pass. So my creative works are unlikely to be worth very much in the grand scheme of things. As such, when I eventually pass along to whatever comes next, I would like to leave them all to you - the world at large.

Foozles, Delos, Characters, Concepts, Comic, Art, writing, all of it. Into the public domain at the moment that I cease to be a living entity in this world.

To change topics in a rather abrupt manner, and rest assured this will loop back around to being relevant eventually, Nanimoose and I have spent a chunk of the recent past playing with an AI image generator called Stable Diffusion. Now, I know that some folks are up in arms about the advent of AI art, but I've embraced it by putting together training sets of my own art, in an attempt to teach it to generate output of my characters, in my style.

And here's where this loops back around, now: when I've eventually kicked off, and once my art is all public domain property, I want folks to feel free to use any and all of it to train whatever AI may exist at the time to draw more of it.

Let there always be Foozles.

This is my decision, and I have made it.

Peace be with you, and Rock On.

-Chris Sutor

edit and update: Nanimoose suggested I point to the specific and exact public domain license for this, and CC0 seems like a good fit:
https://creativecommons.org/share-y.....ic-domain/cc0/

“No Rights Reserved”

I should also add that this is not an invitation to bump me off. I still have a lot of living that I intend to do.

Cheers, all.

One of the things I miss most about the time I had with  rosenotter were the road trips.

We went on so many road trips. "I'm gonna go (place) to (do a thing) wanna ride with?" started so many of those adventures.

Up to New York to visit Slickpuppy. Saw SLAYERS for the first time, had some low-budget but still decent pizza.

Trip to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds to wander through their collection of aging military hardware, including the smallest tank I'd ever seen.

To a house party in I Don't Know Where, where I met mejeep and Whiffert for the first time. Heard The Goon Show for the first time. Saw Lupin III, Castle Of Cagliostro for the first time. (The 79' streamline dub will always be the definitive version for me, since it was what we watched there)

Into New Jersey several times to visit mejeep, in his warehouse of an apartment. Got to fall asleep hugged up with the biggest teddybear I'd ever seen, and on a waterbed no less. swanky!

Multiple trips into new Jersey to visit his Mom and her boyfriend, including a couple of thanksgiving dinners.

Another house party at Wildwolf's. Saw a bunch of Jackie Chan, had my first Stewart's.

Couple of other house parties. At one, the host's wife presented me with a latch-hook rug made from a piece of my art. Still hangs on my wall to this day. At another a bunch of us went to a mongolian BBQ, where Andy and another fur made a competition of seeing who could tolerate the most Dave's Insanity Sauce on their food.

And of course, for many years, we'd drive into Philly to attend the Philadelphia Animation Society's weekly get-together, where Ed Zolna would set up his boxes in a sideroom and the local furs would congregate to buy and sell. I actually financed a couple of convention trips by manufacturing print portfolios that he'd buy for %50 of the cover price.

Afterwards we'd hit Pine Street Pizza, do a tour of the local gay bars to hang out and play video games and pinball into the small hours.

I miss all that so much. Maybe it's just because I've been mostly cooped up in about ten square feet of space for the past few years because of the pandemic. But I have this yearning right now to get back out there and do a road trip to a place to see people.

But I guess it's one of the reasons why Andy always asked me to ride along: a road trip's not really a road trip if there's nobody else along for the ride.

Got to have someplace to go and someone to go there with.

This is going to be long, and personal, and more than a bit depressing, so you may want to skip reading it, if you aren’t prepared to handle that.

Anyway…..

After yesterday’s shock revelation that Brian “Jace” Harp had died, I started contacting who I could to spread the word. And this led me to the FA page of a longtime local friend (and former roommate)  rosenotter

We hadn’t really seen much of each other since he got involved in a relationship. We kept in touch via notes here on FA, sometimes saying we should make plans sometime to get back out and do stuff. But then the pandemic hit, and with nobody going anywhere that sort of talk just stopped happening.

With nothing left to talk about, messages became less frequent and then stopped.

I had been intending to leave him a note about Jace, but upon reaching his FA page, I discovered that his shouts area was full up with commemorative messages.

RIP messages.

He died in 2021 and nobody told me.

Basically because there was nobody left to tell me.

He was a part of a crowd of local furs I used to run around with. We used to hit conventions together, go out and about, to see movies and eat at restaurants. Crash over at each other’s places. Go on road trips to visit other furs in more distant locations.

But over the years that crowd had dwindled. Folks just sort of disappeared one by one.

Some moved away to inconveniently distant places. Some just died.

So, on top of discovering that I’d lost two good friends all in the same day, it sort of slapped me across the face with something that had been nagging away at me for awhile now.

Everybody I know, I know primarily as a name on a screen.

The crowd I ran with is all but gone.

I kind of feel like the lone survivor. Last man standing.

It’s not a good feeling.

Just been passed some bad news from a reliable source:

 jace has died.

It seems that his medical problems finally caught up with him.

He was one of the few folks from way back in my FurryMuck days who I was still in contact with.

Gonna miss him.

After working multiple night jobs over the course of my life, I've become a bit of a night owl. As such, I'm usually awake when the rest of the world is asleep. And up until COVID hit, there used to be a pretty decent assortment of 24 hour places in my area. All night restaurants and diners, Denny's, all night grocery, wal-mart... all kinds of stuff.

Now, we're down to just Wawa (which is good, but gets old after a thousand repeat visits) and 7-11 (no longer close or convenient, since our local one closed). No grocery. Not even Wal-mart.

It's like retail just gave up.

Seriously, what is the point of Wal-mart if it's not open 24 hours? That was the one and only reason to go there. Now it's just another store, and when it's open, so's everything else. So why bother with it?

For all the talk about how the pandemic is over and everything's back to normal? Forget it, we're still under lockdown 12 hours out of the day. And if they're actually dumb enough to think that this is a necessary cost-cutting measure, because people are shopping online instead?

You know why I have to shop online for the stuff I need?

BECAUSE YOUR STORE IS CLOSED WHEN I'M AWAKE.

Yeah, I'm pissed.

I want my 24 hour everything back.

Since all the cool kids are doing it, here's a link to my own personal Discord channel, The Skypad:

https://discord.gg/fTpsyBhuaV

Home to Boink related stuffs, Foozle art and sporadic bursts of chat.

Read the rules before posting, please.

Cheers.

Since I've had a number of people write to ask these sorts of questions, and since I keep having to essentially write the same answer over and over, I figured it was probably a good idea to just make a public journal about it as a statement to the world: Here's The Deal.

So Here's The Deal:

A) Can I make my own Delos / Foozle character?

Yes, by all means. Go right ahead. There are already a number of them out there, created by folks other than myself. All I ask is that they adhere to the concepts as laid out in the wiki:

https://foozlefan.club/index.php/WikiBoink!

(which I need to get back to writing entries for if I ever get a free moment to myself again)

I'd also ask that you not do anything with them that I wouldn't do. So, no squick material, okay?

Basically, if it's subject matter that's already in my gallery here on FA, I'm likely to be okay with it. Use my gallery as a guideline.


B) Can I use Cobalt. Twinkle, Foozles, Delos, etc.. in brief cameos in my own work.

I'm open to cameos for any of my characters. Go right ahead. Again, stick to the contents of the wiki or use my gallery as a guideline for what's acceptable to do with them. Stick them in the background anywhere you want. Speaking roles acceptable too, but if it's anything more plot or story-related, drop me a note first. Okay?


Thanks all. It's great to know that folks are interested enough in my ideas that they want to grab on and run with them.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with them.

Hola folks.

The artist known as Bbmbbf has a web-based company that makes little statues of furry characters, at:
http://furrysculptures.com/

I've been consulted by  rnixon about the possibility of having them make some Foozle statues. He's gone to them and asked them what it would take to get started on that, and he was told the following:

Setup for a new figure (tooling and so forth) would cost the company $1000

...so they would need to sell at least four statues, at $250 each.

(correction, I've just been told it would be $400 to make the first one, and $200 for each additional one)

So far, he's got himself and one other person who is interested. So, to kick this off he'd need at least two more people.

This is all early stages planning. Just testing the waters to judge interest sort of thing. So far, a design hasn't even been picked out or anything. This is just to gauge interest.

So... If you're out there, and you're interested in the idea of a Foozle statue for your collection, and think $250 sounds like something you'd be willing to put towards it, drop him a note.

Thanks all!

This song has been stuck in my head all day.

Now it's stuck in yours too.

Enjoy!

I don't often do this, but there's a decent ol' lady here who I know from outside the fandom, and she could use a hand getting over a rough patch that life has dealt her.

If you're so inclined, and have the means, please drop her a couple bucks to help out:

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/tra.....locale.x=en_US

Every little bit helps.

Thankye!

I've been a regular user of Discord for awhile, but I recently set up Telegram too.

...only I'm not really sure what to do with it. I have only one person in my contact list, and no idea where to go to make it do things beyond that.

Where do furries hang out on there?

Latest update on the Foozles thing:

I have finally managed to make contact with Dragoneer. I explained that I had asked for Foozles to be added to the fan created species list, and that I'd waited patiently for six months for some kind of a response, without luck.

Here's what he wrote back to me:

"What's a foozle, exactly?"

....it's a step in the right direction.

Here's what I wrote back:

The easiest response to that would be to point you to the character sheet on FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42488628/

But, the short version is: clone race of nonbinary, gender-shifting alien bears with rampant libidos. A search on FA for "Foozle" should turn up a large collection of artwork from myself and others on the subject.

So, back to waiting.

Fingers crossed.

So... I finally heard back from the FA staff about getting Foozles added to the fan created species pulldown for uploads:


Posted: 06/22/22 10:41 am
I passed the feedback along to the team, but this is not a promise that it will be added. Just that it will be considered in the future.

Sorry for the confusion!

[system]: Closing the ticket.


It's really hard not to get discouraged by seeming indifference to performing what should be the most basic and trivial of support tasks.

Especially after six months of nothing already.