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Hey, I try to be good, so if I step on toes, please tell me and I'll improve, thanks.

Seems people are interested in starting with the earliest history of feminine males in furry art. Well and good! First, some background about furries themselves; this will be review for many of you.

The very earliest furry art dates back to some of the first recognizable art humans produced. The Löwenmensch figurine is a lion-headed anthropomorphic figurine dating back 35 to 40,000 years; its gender was a matter of some debate!

Got a great villainsona sketch from @distressedegg tonight, really pleased with how it turned out! An unassuming professor of occult studies, with of course just a harmless horn mutation, *definitely* not an infernal/diabolical/supernatural demonhost here to lead a villainous cabal of queers! Now, what would lead you to ever suggest such a thing? Just because a bookworm may have some popular classes doesn't remotely mean that he's recruiting all the local queers using occult fascination, right?

Every so often I post something that explains why some of my most negative opinions and some of the greatest scorn I have is heaped liberally upon advertisers, so people understand that this isn't personal, no advertiser ever did anything to hurt me specifically. However, all advertisers participate in one of the primary mechanisms by which the world is consciously kept in a miserable state: Heuristics.

Correcting my old intro: Hi all! I'm Colophon! I'm here to post art/writing/lewd stuff (and lewd art and writing). I'm 26, I'm queer, recently married, I've been a furry since the mid-late 2000s, and I've tried to turn my freakish photographic memory when it comes to gfur artist styles/motifs into something like an 'art historian' skill set. Thanks for having me, I'll do all I can to contribute well and wisely here!

Kant was a huge nerd. D+.

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A Ken Burns Documentary

In short, we *don't* actually know that we are the most intelligent form of life, even on Earth. Materially we may make the largest impact to our sense of things, but consider Philip K. Dick's VALIS. We cannot even form a consensus on whether or not viruses qualify as life, or some kind of proto-life, or what. Grokking the limits of knowledge and perception means accepting that our first assumptions are just that, assumptions.

As for organization and consciousness, of that, you must be even less certain. It could well be that there are forms of life that we do not even recognize, at scales we are simply not set up to calculate. A member of an ant/bee family could not have most human concepts explained to them even partially, but they share enough that we can recognize organization in them that we mirror. So it could be with life we cannot understand.

Identifying *purely* as a member of humanity makes no biological sense. Our ancestors as a species were not human, but they gave rise to humans. There is no possible way that you, a human, have a brain capable of accurately simulating the distance from here to the moon. You can barely accurately simulate zooming out from your house. Therefore, you cannot possibly accurately fathom the number of planets which probably contain life.

On occasion I'll share opinions that get me branded as a cynic, or it's suggested that I am depressed or anxious. I know what serious episodes of those feel like and I have to disagree.

For me to say that I am not certain whether or not humanity survives "all this," whatever "this" is, doesn't mean I'm despairing. In fact, even if humanity does not, why would that particularly be cause for me to despair or fail to live well?

The best thing about Milo not going to MFF is going to be the wave of big-account cryptofash popufurs crying buckets about it on social media and, with luck, "boycotting" cons as a result. It'll help to clean house without having to do more than rescind one pedophile's registration. Nobody who keeps up with their actions wants bad-faith racing stripes like Trunchbull (cop stan), Jasonafex (transphobe), Zaush (also a pedophile), etc around convention goers. This sets a very good precedent.