I think that's a step-ladder, Krystal.

I want to go to more events, but I have some amount of body dysmorphia and the last time I was at a furcon someone told me unprompted they thought my looks were mid and I haven't stopped thinking about it since.

I will buy the new game because I’m a Star Fox shill, but this is the 2nd remake of SF64 and the 5th telling of more or less the same story. I was really hoping for something new

For the love of God, please stop remaking the same game over and over.

Last repost: I haven't kept up but I knew Fred for years from about 2015 on (met Emmett and a ton of wonderful people through the original AFIS discord), and let me just say be wary of social media and its backward social economy that incentivizes pernicious behaviors from bad faith actors.

I’ve known Fred for pretty much my entire adult life, doing the odd voice for him and simply being lucky to call him one of my friends. Fred is not a Nazi, he is one of the chillest dudes I know without a hateful bone in his body, he and his AFIS crew are some of the finest and best people I know.

Crazy how immediately and completely my body and brain go offline after any sort of travel whatsoever.

Overheard at airport: “Been ripping farts all morning.” “Keep it up, big dog!”

Signal boosting this just in case. Likely locking in plans by tomorrow. Excited for next week!

Gonna be passing through the Bay Area April 21 and 22 with Lone. If anyone wants to hang out, hit me up!

Ready to banish this unholy week to the past. Hope y'all are flourishing out there.

Happiest Wulbiest Birthday to my very special and dearest @lonew.bsky.social! If you happen to know him, please put him in a virtual headlock and shake him till candy comes out 🐺🪅🎉

Hereditary. Depictions of shock and grief so raw I almost threw up and had to take a break before I could finish it.

ANE was such a profoundly fun and weird con experience in the best sense of the term. Give me more chaos in my life, not less. Also, I think my 2010-era fursuit might be coming back into style? Not sure, but I got stopped more this con for interactions than in the whole last decade combined. Wild.

LET’S TEAE THIS CON UP @rynden.bsky.social

Things I saw at ANE : PART 1

LineCon 2026. I’m sure it’s a logistical nightmare to manage this but man.

We (we being @rynden.bsky.social and moi) are downstairs and meandering. Come say hi!

Also hope folks have a wonderful time at FC this weekend. I thoroughly considered it.

Early train up to Boston for ANE. Did not expect to see so many other furries on the same ride, but it’s a welcome surprise.

Requisite 2025 retrospective: difficult year with a lot of difficult firsts I never wanted, but I was also finally reminded of so much about who I am that I had forgotten. I do have agency and I can make right the parts of my life that seem written; they're not, I write them and I still have time.

Living my best life. See you at the dance.

Done with rounds. Heading to the Hyatt for a bit to see people. Come say hi!

Je suis arrivé.

On my way to MFF! Let's grab a coffee and chat (my favorite topic is foxes).

Nothing gets me spiraling autistically in someone's general direction quicker than some weird etymology, orthography, or grammatical fact that they didn't know and couldn't possibly make use of.

Home from Austin. Exhausted. Had a great time. Ate some good food. Pet some goats. Tried Curling for the first time (yes, in Austin).

Tore through Silksong over the weekend and just hit credits. I personally really enjoyed it, maybe more than the original, especially as it starts to pick up after a fiddly start.

Work has been a shitshow this year and I think it's only a matter of time before I need to plan my exit. Industry is in such a horrid state right now. The sooner the AI bubble pops (and it will), the better for everybody.

Oh to be a little behemoth, wearing a tiny flower crown. #FinalFantasy

Much needed weekend of reprieve with good food and good animals.

Promise this'll be the last XIV post for a while, but what a tier! Might be my favorite since Eden. Refreshing to see the formula shaken up to this extent and a willingness to explore gameplay elements I thought they long abandoned. Faster mechs, less downtime, and so, so much more for tanks to do.

m6s down last week, and m7s down today. Might be through the tier by next week? Mostly out of my comfort zone as a first-time tank (usually heal), but I've had a ton of fun and I'm with a supportive group.

I volunteered for a deferred resignation, which will be the end of my 18-year career as a Fed. I do data engineering, data viz and business intelligence primarily, have a bunch of experience in full stack web dev and will shamelessly mooch referrals. Multiple awards from a cabinet secretary!

m5s down. Adoring the encounter design this tier.

I gotta say, grading student papers in the age of Chat GPT and, with it, the ever-looming paranoia that tints your read of every wild, out-of-place assertion is already proving to be the unwanted energy fuck it sounded like it might be.

Hey furry adults: if you're having a scaled-down event and you need to exclude people, that's ok. But don't make a secret of it and don't put your guests in a position where they feel like they need to lie about it to their friends. It's weird and deeply puerile and damages trust.

I got addressed by a student as "Professor" for the first time last week and I did not expect it to feel some kind of way, but hoo boy did it ever.

We did it. We saved the lesbians.

Thank you all for your patience. The Smoke Room Build 36: "No Less a Man Than is a King," is available on Itch. thegoodnightfellowship.itch.io/the-smoke-ro...

Been seriously considering giving Mandarin another go, but seriously this time. Always had the interest, but fell shy of being willing to fully commit to it in the past with other priorities taking front and center.

I'm really excited for the new Ultimate FRU tomorrow and the ensuing race to world first, but I'll be judging the quality of the raid on one criterion and one only: will they let those girls finally kiss.

Had a minor heart attack when bsky briefly labeled my account "unresolvable"

I'm not exactly misgendered or anything but why do people keep thinking I'm a top

Some good news - Wendell, who might have died from FIP only six months ago, probably will not die and seems to be getting healthier every day.

Will be in Denver all week starting today if folks are around and want to catch up. Have some plans in place but might be able to shift some stuff around.

I like hearing that you are alive on Christmas or Thanksgiving or our birthdays that are close together and that for the briefest moment thought of me, old friends and lovers. Well-wish away, no matter how brief or shallow, and I’ll deliver the same until we’re together again

Is it really considered messing up your sleep schedule if it wants to revert this way naturally?