My latest art commission from  ArtieNuki , as both a tribute and evolution of my very first online profile picture from 2011.

When I pictured this art prompt myself, I imagined the scene in a much more "2d" looking room design, very flat and boring. But somehow Artie managed to bring this idea to life so well, the whole scene looks amazing! After all, one of my favorite things when ordering furry art is to give the artist creative freedom over some of the details, and the great quality this came out in is exactly why.

Let's not forget that big lovable BELLY! DANG!!!! If he gets much fatter, I'm pretty sure that chair isn't gonna last much longer (and because I got the one slob/blob art piece in which he IS way fatter than this, I'm going to say YES he does outgrow this chair eventually UwU). But just look at that face, he knows exactly how huggable and fluffy he is! Those BEANS, too! And the chubby arms, his big ol fluffy chest? Stuff like this just makes me wanna squeeze my own fursona half to death in a big fluffy hug! Thank you so much to Artie for this incredible work!

---

Back in some time from 2010 to 2011ish, I first signed up for Google+ to create a YouTube channel, and later signed up for Twitter to enjoy some new apps on my iPod Touch. At the time, my social media personality was "FluffyCats17 Productions", aspiring to create a now long outdated format of YouTube channel featuring home videos, AMVs, Machinima skits, and highlights of my Halo modding series "HMBI". Not as some zany new-age vision of a career in """content creation""", but for the love and the fun of maintaining a hobby. While no money or fame-drunk mentality was ever a part of it, my entire old channel got vaporized and deleted by YouTube with no explanation one day, and the channel no longer exists.

But back when social media was no more than creating a profile to browse funny cats on the internet, my pre-fursona-days profile picture for both Twitter and YouTube was an unintelligently stolen piece of art found on google images: the sketch of a gray & white cat, sitting on a recliner in a dark room, playing video games with a retro controller and a weird half-visor for a headset. It is an art piece I can no longer find no matter how much I search, and must've belonged to some forgotten artist or a dead website.

But ever since the days of FluffyCats17 Productions, so much has changed. Friends have come and gone in my life, I as a person physically grew up from an edgy little teenager into a furry loving adult, and the mainstream normie internet itself has gone from a place I loved into a place I deeply loathe. And as a person who's grown up so much in a world that's changed even more? I've decided this month that I'll be discontinuing my old Twitter account for the better of my mental health, which originally bared the old stolen "FluffyCats17" profile picture.

Having seen myself evolve over the years from an edgy gamer boy who would rip a random art piece from google as a profile photo, into the art loving furry who I am today? I felt it would be nice to connect my online history going full circle, by paying a genuine furry artist to depict Talon in the exact same portrait scene that "FluffyCats17Productions" took inspiration from. To remake the same old scene, fully updated with my big fat fursona. <3

Also with the updated inclusions of some posters based on my latest sources of artistic furry brainrot - the Sonic series that I've been revisiting through the eyes of a 100% kinked-up furry, and my latest reboot of my "HMBI" modding series (available on Steam Workshop for Halo MCC). Also my favorite Xbox One compatible retro controller, in all of its green y2k aesthetic plasticy glory. (But nobody tell Talon his controller is unplugged! Plugging in the chord would get in the way of his beautiful belly!)