#burnedfurs

I feel like this needs to get some more traction on social media…

#comicsbrokeme trended recently, with comics creators and artists telling horror stories of extreme low wages, cruel bosses, and the constant struggle to make ends meet.

One company, and one person came up in an alarming amount of posts… Iron Circus Comics and its founder, Spike Trotman.

What Trotman has been accused of is not just run of the mill mismanagement or low wages, though they are infamous about underpaying and missing payment dates. They will actively and precisely bully, berate, and mentally destroy creators working under them. Trotman uses their clout as an internet famous comics publisher to keep people in line, and a recurring threat that if creators ever spoke out, Spike would sic their fans on them.

If you ever wondered why so many creators from Slipshine and Iron Circus up and vanished, THIS IS WHY. Several artists and creators have said that Spike Trotman sapped them of their desire to make comics.

This is downright sociopathic behavior to be sure. But then one starts digging into Spike Trotman’s past, and there’s a lot of skeletons in the closet. Squee Rat and Darth Versace were their previous handles on the internet. Squee Rat may sound familiar to people who have heard of the ‘Burned Furs’ movement.

Burned Furs was a puritanical, homophobic, transphobic offshoot of the furry fandom, founded by Spike Trotman, who also wrote the ‘Furry Manifesto’, which outlined their goals of getting rid of pornography, degeneracy, and expression of sexuality in the furry community. They distributed pamphlets at cons encouraging ‘degenerates’ to kill themselves.

A very inconvenient past to have when your brand is leftist and sex positive. Spike very much knows this, and they have tried to scrub all evidence of their past as Squee Rat from wikis and articles about Burned Furs.

Right now, Spike is hoping that this all dies down. In fact, they just had a big party for the success of the Lackadaisy cartoon pilot.

Especially ironic given that Spike once encouraged people to eat one meal a day to make ends meet in the comics industry.

What you can do is make sure this reaches the eyes and ears it needs. Find the dissenting voices against Spike and Iron Circus, and boost them as much as you can.

Fun Furry Facts! 

Spike Trotman (aka Squee Rat) was the founder of the “Burned Furs”, a conservative (and later deeply homohobic) Furry movement. Spike was also the author of the “Furry Manifesto”, a truly bizarre rant that outlines the beliefs and motivations of this group. 

Burned Furs claimed “Anthropomorphics fandom is being overrun by sexually dysfunctional, socially stunted and creatively bankrupt hacks and pervs.” Spike now hypocritically makes a living selling pornographic comicbooks and refuses to discuss her past as “Squee Rat”.

Spike Trotman also distributed material encouraging certain individuals to commit suicide.

“I remember when being a pervert was a bad thing. I don't know what the hell happened here.“

-Spike Trotman, editor and publisher of “Smut Peddler”.

Spike Trotman was also known as “Darth Versace” on the “Something Awful” forums. She used to be a very vocal in that community, taking part in the mocking, bullying, and harassment of young child artists on DeviantArt.

Apparently Spike Trotman was also responsible for purposefully changing a hosted image on her website to a pornographic gif in order to knowingly spread that image on a children’s art forum (the now defunct BakaNeko forums).

Other names that Spike Trotman has gone by are “Charla Trotman” (her actual name) and “Charlie Trotman”.

How people describe Spike Trotman during the time of the “Burned Furs” movement:

“The woman self-destructed. She had all the interpersonal skills and charm of a tasmanian devil with herpes, and she snapped and frothed at everyone around her, friend and foe alike.“

@burnedfurs for example: the top images are “bright” normal colored dark chao (specifically neutral, run, and power) in the HD ports of SA2

bottom is what normal shinies of these forms are SUPPOSED to look like, as seen in the gamecube remasters/ports.

what people speculate is that somehow whatever texture determines shininess glitched out and turned to a weird coloration instead, and sega never fixed it

a lot of ppl rly enjoy these bright chao, and honestly some of them can look neat. downside is that lighter colored shiny chao like the hero chao look terrible and all bloom colored to shit in white.

there are extended chao garden mods for SA2 steam, so i bet someone probably fixed it that way, if u rly want to fix it.

burnedfurs: pick like your fave five animals and work from there imo

i am pretty ambivalent towards insects but a moth fursona is so good?

i would use chao island’s sa2b info site, it’s one of the best resources on chao raising

also for chao content: the chao battles are locked away on the steam and ps4/360 ports of SA2 as “battle DLC”, whereas it comes already with the gamecube port versions. this is content including the “chao karate” mode (a new battle system for the chao) and also some multiplayer junk, but if u dont mind not having chao karate, u should be good with just plain steam version SA2

one thing to note is that there are major visual differences in the HD ports of SA2 chao colors, mainly in that shiny two tone chao appear drastically differently than normal, they are known as “bright chao”. they are kind of odd but they are kinda neatly neon; they are most likely a texture error caused by poor porting of the game, which unintentionally created an interesting look for them

Fuck yeah

my paperwork unfortunately has autism listed as a “deferred (aka delayed for more info) diagnosis” because i forgot to mention key symptoms that i do have but i forgot to mention, rip.

It’s delicious and i am grateful for the rare occasion we can afford it ; ;

burnedfurs replied to your post: arby’s is so fuckign bad and it makes me sick...

give me ur roast beef

u 2 can both eat it. genuinely all their food makes me sick no metter what