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Purple Back in the Wild

Purple Back in the Wild You've been walking for an uncountable amount of hours in this dank forest. The sun still doesn't seem like rising, and the feeble light of the obscured moon scatters in the humidity of the air. Your hand touches the stone. Cut stone, and bricks, held together by concrete. You look around: the ruins of a settlement, maybe a city, emerging from the haze, half-sunk in the soil and swallowed by the vegetation. Two bloodshot eyes blink, and the moonlight caresses the shape of a gorilla of an impossible purple color. He walks towards you, walking on his knuckles, but you can see that there's something different, not just the color, but he's wearing clothes. Not exactly, more like accessories, like a necklace made of bones, and stripes of leather necessary to keep a stone axe tied to his waist and a quiver to his back. He's a gorilla, the strongest ape on Earth, and he's undoubtedly intelligent. He's going to cut your head open with his axe or will he try to communicate out of curiosity? Eh, this time I wanted to play more like with a Planet of the Apes scenario, where gorillas, which are already real-lie anthros, make the evolutionary tiny step to become authentic uber daddies. I wanted also to experiment with a more complex palette. Experiments usually leave me very tired and frustrated, and this was no exception. But I guess, this will be a nice first post for the Itaku account I've just opened. I like how it looks sleek like a modern social network but it's also art-focused and gives the option to create two-sided profiles to have both the SFW and NSFW material in the same place.  Go take a look if you're already here. Right now it's empty, but I will do some intensive reposting in the following days and you may also find earlier pieces you haven't stumbled upon yet. Plus new stuff obviously.

Tech Help required with Wacom and Steam Deck. Commission Reward

Hey guys, in the last Black Friday frenzy I bought a Wacom One (CPT133) and a USB Hub to connect them to my Steam Deck and make a portable digital art assembly more functional than my heavy Cintiq Companion 2 and its braindead Windows 10. The Steam Deck runs on Linux, so I imagined that installing the drivers from the Linux Wacom Project would have worked, but it's presenting more difficulties than expected. Firstly, the Deck's firmware is based on Arch and I'm a Ubuntu user, so I'm not familiar with the commands. Secondly, I'm a Ubuntu user in the most basic interpretation of the term. I use it, period. I'm semi-illiterate when it comes to using the command line. I copy-paste the commands from the internet's guides whenever it's needed and that's it. Thirdly, and most important IMHO, the Deck's firmware has some tweaks necessary to make it work as a console first, and some configuration files are different. I link here to the post I've made on the Linux Wacom Project page for a detailed description of the point I'm at. Step one of at least two already done. if you're savvy enough about Arch Linux to guess you can help me in finishing the installation of the Kernel and maybe also the X-Drivers, hit me up on Discord (#Rickleone6306.) (Or also hit me up in the DMs) I will reward anyone who effectively helps me with a commission depending on how much time and effort it takes. Let's say that a doodle like the one that accompanies this post is the minimum, and from there I will decide how much more rendering or extra characters the help deserves. My usual nonos apply here: no gory, no dirty, no vulva.

Gokong Reference Sheet

Here's my dear purple ape in all of his majestic goofiness. Here to remember that in a month it will be Gorilla Boxing Day, an event led by Matthew Smith about silverbacks wrestling each other. Truly a species that doesn't have the recognition it deserves, in this fandom made mostly of canids and felids. His big arms make him very good at boxing, but his short legs made him miss a lot of trains. The legs and his chronic lateness. Despite being the character of a fantasy comic, I couldn't help myself imagine him in modern attire and setting. Since my first watch of Zootopia I loved the idea of an urban landscape designed around a heterogeneous population of many sentient species.

Gorilla on Leg Day

Gokong feels very pumped for being able to increase the load of the leg extension so fast, but the sad truth it's just that he has a good lever because of the short legs. So yeah, it's has been a while without any upload. No art crisis or anything. It's just that I've heard of a "true ending" in Hades, I've reinstalled the game for a new run where I don't give all my ambrosia bottles to Dusa out of pity, pretty sure that after 200 hours spent the last year I had my sexy daddy gods addiction under control, but I don't. Hades has destroyed my sleep cycle again and so I'm less focused and productive. I will get back on track soon, but in the meanwhile, I've started an animation with the sexy daddy gods, and that's my status curse.

The Groovy Gorilla, and why furry?

Seems like I've settled with this avatar, Gokong from SkyHorn Adventures, accompanying his groovy palette with a groovier outfit. And I'm satisfied because, I found a 'sona that reflects my horniness, silliness, and innocence at the same time. Not even something I've instantly tough about, in my first days I was way more about super cliched lions and wolves. Furry primates aren't that widespread. I guess for two reasons:

Their faces have a series of traits that we associate with mature men, a demographic that has always been depicted as repulsive. Because beauty is considered by the patriarchy a passive virtue that suits women and not men.

They look very human, and their anthro interpretations look a lot like the real counterpart. Giving the impression that we're thirsting over a feral.

Then I wonder. Why furries? Are we really thirsting for animals? Yes, plenty of artists out there are making feral art, but more that don't. We can all agree that furries are big animal lovers. We kiss our dogs on the forehead and when we see a horse our first instinct is to hug its head instead of keeping that fuzzy drake at a safe distance. But is it enough to say that we would all secretly bang that animal? It's complicated. Essentially because erotic art is a cope. We get through art what we can't get in real life. In this case, for the very position of the human species. Boomer biologists often repeat the catchy sentence "Man (emphasis on the masculine noun for signifying humanity) is the greatest apex predator on planet Eart." True and at the same time ridiculous, because the majority of us couldn't survive three days in the wilderness. We're strong as a collective, pitiful as individuals, we can't live on just vegetables nor raw meat, we're weak, slow, and fattier compared to the other mammals. That generates envy towards animals that can rely much better on their physical performance and could outrun us at any moment. See the first part of the Prometheus myth: he created all the animals but when it came to making humans he realized that he had run out of physical perks to give us, and felt so sorry to endure his emblematic punishment just to grant us the gift of fire from the gods. And that's the other side of the coin, we envy animals but also pity them. We know that have emotions, feelings, and intelligence, but not the right kind to become persons. We like to consider pets members of our families, toddlers that never grow up, but we know that they won't be really able to communicate with us, that they live just the present with no sense of cause and effect, that they can't understand if they're mistreated, or that if we're absent it's because of obligations, not because we don't love them. And that makes us feel guilty about the privilege of seeing the context while they can't understand what's truly going on. Also the sense of solitude as the unique sentient species on planet Earth plays a role. One of the fields of spec-fic where furry designs developed is sci-fi, and sci-fi is all about convivence with other sentient species and the exhilarating possibility of not being alone in the universe. There's also the other inspiration of the furry fandom, the more popular: cartoon and fable animals. Notorious since the times of Aesop, because humanized animals are allowed to embody extreme characteristics of people without resulting uncanny and offensive towards real people. The prideful lion, the cunning fox, the gluttonous bear, and so on. People can sexualize fable animals because it allows them to sexualize a very specific behavior or trait, that would hardly fit a human character. Beastars is a clear example of the use of fable animals, with just a sprinkle of decontextualized scientific facts. Wolves, rabbits, and deers are used as the metaphor for male aggressiveness, female submissiveness, and the frustration of men that don't reach the top position in the social hierarchy. The entire omegaverse genre is the exploitation of a pseudoscientific notion about wolf hierarchy in order to justify coercion and disparity of power in romance. And yeah, people, both furries and normies can be more at ease with the use of abstracted depictions of animals (giant eyes, bright colors, tubular muzzles) because they resemble less the real thing, keeping the suspect of latent zoophilia at bay. But why sexualize them? Well, because sex is the biggest form of acceptance and appreciation. Despite the trends of reducing them to a simple transaction, it's still two or more individuals that (hopefully) agree to rub their bodies and exchange internal fluids for a certain amount of time. When the motivation is mutual acceptance and appreciation, it's quite a boost in satisfaction. And we use erotica and erotic art to have that satisfaction in areas that real life just can't give. Maybe for life matters, or because we are the only sentient species on this planet and our ancestor maybe killed our sister species 40k years ago and we feel alone and sorry for all the other species that show emotions and intelligence but can't really be people like us.