A Furry Or Whatever

Instead of a cutesie reference to film censorship it was an explicit statement of defiance of Maryland's criminalization gay sex, which was not repealed until 2002. This wasn't a guy saying "Oh they can't put what I do in the movies according to a completely voluntary industry code" he was saying "The State of Maryland wants to put me in jail for being gay and having gay sex."

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Anyway I need to share with you all the most hilarious line that has ever been written, circa 1887:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

10AppsManager lets you uninstall bloatware. Winaero Tweaker lets you disable crap like Cortana/Copilot, ads, telemetry, internet search results when you search from the taskbar, and all kinds of other stuff, plus it gives you lots of other little options that are just nice to have (like, it can restore the old MS Paint program in place of Paint 3D). Both are totally free.

Oh, and check your startup programs in the Task Manager tab to make sure your computer isn't automatically starting eight million programs every time it boots. But I think people mostly know about that. (Unless this is me going "they only know one or two feldspars... and quartz of course.")

This painting took me. Six months. Because I didn't wanna buy the 30 dollar cardboard cutout. Because. I wanted it to be dwarf sized. Its 5 feet tall btw.

Your art is amazing, and if you ever happened to want to draw Fem!Fíliori, (Fíli x Ori), I would be forever grateful, because they would look FANTASTIC in your art style. <3 (Though you can absolutely ignore this ask and pretend it never existed, honestly. Everyone has their likes and dislikes, so I don't expect anyone else to enjoy them even if I do, ever.) I just noticed you mentioned Tolkien Yuri and you take art requests sometimes, sooooooooooo......... I am here to humbly put the thought out for your consideration. But also, with 0 expectations as well.

Anyways, regardless, I will continue to love your art and enjoy whatever you do post! Thank you so much for sharing it with this fandom! :)

ask and thou shalt receive 🙂‍↕️