I did this for a Peruvian furry, but despite showing them the piece via private note on DeviantArt, and they read it, they didn’t respond. God, if I had a nickel for every time that happened…
This I created for a Quebecian fur’s birthday today, and he actually followed good cyber-netiquette and responded to me a few minutes later, giving me the okay to post it on DA.
Old birthday art for Kalika, a furry artist I’ve known since my early days in the fandom, side-by-side with newer digital art I did for her recently.
Yesterday was also the birthday of a DeviantArt user who really loves Polly Polaris, one of the four current mascots for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters baseball team in Japan, and I thought her design really cute, so I decided to do fanart with elements of my own style (i.e. referencing the faces of real-life squirrels).
Today was Yukon Heritage Day in Canada, so I decided to use Bing Image Creator to generate Dall sheep, one of the mammals that inhabit the Canadian Territory, serving the RCMP:
Since today was the Emperor of Japan’s birthday as well, I decided to depict him in tanuki form:
Generated AI art of hippo Mounties since today is World Hippo Day in addition to Flag Day for Canada.
Also did a digital piece for the occasion. That’s supposed to be the Canadian flag before their current one in the background behind the waving contemporary flag.
I’ll try to make it a new year’s resolution to post some of my art here, but here are some memes I did today that demonstrate what I can do artistically. In particular, discovering FireAlpaca’s symmetry feature made doing anthro art a lot easier.
Since I reject Jeffersonian philosophy. I bet most Americans haven’t actually read the Declaration of Independence in its entirety, and I’m sure Lincoln didn’t either in his famous Gettysburg Address, given some of the rhetoric one will encounter in the section detailing the offenses allegedly committed by King George III, and it was pretty much a hypocritical propaganda piece, with the Founding Fathers generally being men of privilege seeking to protect their own wealth rather than everymen, so one could argue that America was essentially founded upon hypocrisy and the lie that “all men are created equal” (if that were so, everyone would be of equal class and ability).
I also somewhat think the document to be sacrilegious in that it invoked the name of the Creator then didn’t didn’t extend the “rights” to everyone like the “merciless Indian savages” it condemned, although from one of my English classes in high school I know Thomas Jefferson had condemned slavery in previous drafts, which to be showed that slaves were actually held in somewhat higher regard than the Native Americans, since they did contribute to the American economy, even if forcibly so. I further think statements of the American Revolutionaries like “No King but Jesus!” were blasphemous since the Bible says Christ is “King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Master of Masters.”
I think generally the main reason none of this comes up in discussions about United States history, particularly the Southern Independence War, is that the looney American patriots and those who defend the Confederacy tend to paradoxically be one and the same, and vice versa. I actually think the Thirteen Colonies would have been better off staying with Britain, since it would become a more peaceable country within the following century, given the establishment of Canada as a Dominion, and I imagine that today, Texas would either still be independent or a Canadian Province, and endless resources wouldn’t have been squandered in the name of America extending its own imperialist foot across the world.
Since it’s Sunday, I’ll also mention that Sigmund Freud had said the invisible commandment of all religions is “thou shalt not question,” though I think that could really apply to many subjects such as politics, science, and journalism, but in some cases people only selectively question points of conflict, instead of all. In the entertainment industry, as well, there are many books, movies, and video games that are treated as untouchable, regardless of whatever flaws they may actually have, and those who dare question their hypothetical infallibility fall victim to their countless apologists. As far as media goes, their quality, good or bad, is in my mind strictly a point of view rather than fact.