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-is there any influence you want to discuss that affected your current direction? these can be historical artists/movements and people you consider peers (preferably both, the cross between these is something im really interested in myself)

-do you have any suggestions or resources for people who are more used to the fandom art framework that are interested in exploring & engaging with other types of art?

ty... glad youve been enjoying it... tbh ive been having some motivation struggles and art block this last little bit too...

my current direction is influenced by paul peng, yoshitomo nara, the surrealists (max ernst in particular), and like. following the directions my art was already pointing me if that makes sense... other influences include my friend chatty, scribblechicken, focus, all are pushing furry into artsier places tho these are less direct visual influences and more like. ppl who made me wanna get more weird with it. spiritual influences. i guess my mom is an influence too? she is a ceramicist and painter and its

sequoyah was the man who created the tsalagi syllabary before it was ever a tree

if i try to look for apparel or crafts to show off my chickasaw pride, i get results for chickasaw plums which is just a specific species of plum before i get results about human beings

others have mentioned if they google their nations name they get boot companies before their nations website!

theres a tweet that still haunts me that was about a Quirky Quasi American Restaurant in europe or somewhere that was being funny by being cowboy themed and their steaks were named after native american nations. even outside the usa we are nothing but literal dead meat for others consumption

"blackhawk" "apache" - fuck theres a whole wikipedia page for the way weve had our names used for weapons used to colonize and kill us and others!

this is https://carrion.chat

f-list, if you are not aware, has made a recent decision that they'd like to store all your chat logs on their servers in the notoriously porn friendly state of... Arizona? unencrypted and in plaintext. when people pushed back against this, they said "okay we'll walk it back. here are five options we can do instead" but none of those options were "don't store our shit".

as the sort of paranoiac who has a gun ready to shoot my printer if it makes a funny sound without my permission (this is a joke), this was unacceptable.

so, over the past three weeks i made carrion. it is a chat platform for adult roleplay. we store absolutely nothing outside of profile data. everything is all in ram and we use clever programming tricks to get around several of the obvious limitations this would cause. we are being serviced by a privacy-focused hosting provider in iceland. god forbid we ever get subpoenad because simpsons porn becomes illegal, there is literally nothing on our servers for them to grab.

there are also some cool features beyond just the privacy angle. cherubplay style ephemeral chat ads instead of spamming the chatroom with "please roleplay with me"s. flexible character profiles (with optional myspace level of customization should you have the gumption to master html) with flexible kinks. chat that should in theory Just Work.

also, because this is a solo project i rule over with an iron fist i can guarantee zero enshittification. i will make a platform that works functionally, has all the features it needs, and then stop adding more shit and just host it until it stops being used. aren't you tired of constant discord updates? don't you miss usable, functional, peer to peer websites?

i'll quote myself from the previous post;

i am obviously taking a huge gamble posting this at all. i'm taking a huge gamble *making* this, a bigger gamble *hosting* it, and an even bigger gamble *posting about it*. but i also feel a moral or ethical duty in some sense to create things that allow people to experience joy, to have fun, and to, well, you know. in the current political climate and even just macrocultural climate what i have created is perhaps an unwise thing to make. and yet i think the freaks, furries, and gays (of which i am all three) deserve a win for once, or at least a cool toy. while i am posting about it on the reach account that's because it has the most followers and thus the biggest (ha ha) reach. in general conversation please try to respect my decision to separate my online personas between the developer of carrion and this one, reach artwork.

stop eating shrimps with the wimps. start eating carrion with, uh. the, uh. um... anyway, check out my website. discord server for helpdesking.