Since was kind enough to introduce her lovely daughters I thought it only fair to introduce my "girls" in kind.

I picked them up at FWA last month but in fact they existed long before then. If you know me from DA you might even recognize them. (I was surprised I haven't yet uploaded that pic here; that was the first commission ever did for me.)

The cheetah on the left is named Nitra, and despite her downcast look here I created her to represent my inspired side, the part of me that comes up with these wacky ideas for stories and commissioned pictures.

The snow leopard on the right is named Linda, and she represents my more cautious, even stuck-in-the-mud side, or, when writing, my internal editor. You can't see it in the picture, but like real snow leopards, Linda has a freakishly long tail, literally as long as the rest of her body. Trivia: I chose a snow leopard for her species because Apple OS X 10.6, code named Snow Leopard, was released while I was writing my first furry story.