I kinda miss the days when furry was a place for social misfits who wished we were animals, rather than a community attracting people who simply like to party and think fursuits are cool

Gaia Happy Beltane! Around April and May, deep in their dens, wolf pups are being born. 🥰💚🐺

if you'll be my bodyguard I can be your long-lost pal

absolutely wondrous full moon this year for Beltane

that coyote looks familiar... Followers, if you aren't already following @straysongdog.com's graphic novel, do give it a read - volume one is already out!

Who recognizes their fursona? 👀

you may repair, you may restore but it will not be as it were before

one of my jobs is doing cataloguing for a rare book shop, and I am increasing suspecting my boss intentionally sends any gay-related books to me rather than his other cataloguers...most recently numerous books of nude male photography

at FC I asked @ishaway.bsky.social if she’d made prints of a lovely Anubis painting she did in 2022. To my surprise, she offered me the original instead! Moral of the story: if you like a particular work an artist did years ago, ask them about it - it may still be looking for a home

thinking again I ought to get art sometimes of myself riding or taming a dinosaur, in memory of the dinosaur-obessed little boy I once was, who supposed it was my destiny to move to Utah and dig up bones

FC was very chill this year. I met w/fewer people but the quality was much higher overall. Enjoyed seeing several close friends, one nice new boy, and had a couple good DD conversations about Anubis with artists. Unsure if I’ll be back next year…depends how my efforts to become a dad progress

🚆 @sound-transit.bsky.social

Mania of you. Valentine’s day commission for a couple of friends.

went to the opera for my second time yesterday (Das Rheingold), a splendid evening out with a cute boy - leaves me all the more eager to see other operas

I wanna live that coyote life

Lovely surprise from @victorgoat.cool <3 I think he got my good side :3

why can’t somebody start a boy band that actually sings about boys

I forgot to do some sacred dogposting while at the Met last week. here are St Roch’s dog, Anubis, Wepwawet, and Duamutef 🥰❤️

July 4th is above all the one day in the year I have to bite my tongue and remind myself ‘allow people to enjoy things’…like Reginald Jeeves, I would rather not dwell on what happened in America in 1776

there are exceptions to this, but I wonder how often in life the limitations people suffer under aren't actually their circumstance but their attitude about it 'I want x so very much,' someone says, 'but I can't have it' - others helpfully suggest ways they can make it happen - 'no, its not for me'

Happy Pride Month! :3 art by erixaluart.bsky.social

yesterday I went to a furry event despite my abuser being there, after six years of avoiding pnw events ‘cause he’s very active here, and despite a little nervousness nothing bad happened, he never noticed me and I had a good time…felt like a new step of healing

Happy May Day and Beltane! 🌷🌿🪻🌳 Now go frolic in wood and garden as one ought to on such occasions

if you're at LVFC (I am not), be sure to give my packmate a hug and ask him for one of his zines!

too many people complain about the pacific northwest's rain; we need to help more of you learn to love the peace and beauty of damp wet grey overcast days

I adore old bookplates, but this Victorian speciman in a newly-acquired volume is especially intriguing for combining mediaeval iconography of knights & heraldic lion with ancient egyptian elements - hieroglyphs, behdety (winged sun), and twin images of the jackal deity Duamutef

I would quite gladly live here

if only

having already gone to bed I did not see the blood moon last night, but nonetheless snapped one photo when I let the dogs out

'Lord Fermanagh, when ill for fifteen days in 1716, drank "horse-dung posset daily."' 'I drank snail tea for breakfast...for my chest is very sore.' ^dubious 18th century cures, from a highly amusing read, 'The Age of Scandal' by T H White

vinyl acquired of one of my all time favourite albums

against odds, and though without having any particular boy in mind, for the first time in a long long while I have hopes of boyfriends

finally I resolve to try applying for a fursuit head this year only to discover none of the makers I like give any hint of being open anytime soon

Pluto loves getting whipped cream at the coffeeshop

I asked a friend to deliniate one quality that united all the boys he's ever felt a 'spark' for, regardless their divergences in character and reflected that my own answer is: 'a certain kind of emotional independence, reticence and reserve, self-controlled and sustained from within, not without'

old paintings of moonlit cities are haunting to me for capturing something now gone from the world - nighttime urban spaces free from an eternal electric haze

coyote boyfriend a raffle I won from @gutbiscuit.bsky.social who’s drawn me so marvellously this is now one of my all-time favourite depictions of myself

Sometimes people ask me why I chose "Stray Songdog" as my name. What's it mean to me? And then when I say coyotes, they're like "why coyotes?" Here's the meaning behind my name.

I made the pound cake

as happens every time I read Tolkien's works, re-reading 'The Two Towers' yet again has me contemplating starting an Anglo-Saxon language study group

I've always been resistent to applying more specific relationship type labels to myself, but confess in my 30s I find my feelings and inclinations increasingly match the defitions of being demi

another Wepwawet piece, 2021

circa 2015-2020 I used to meet a lot of new furry friends/acquaintances via social media but since covid it seems online furries are much less interested in new connections - most of the time when I come across someone who seems interesting nowadays their DMs are closed

Slayer. looking for offers

Wepwawet on his standard ink, marker & acrylic on coffee dyed paper sold in the FC art show!