>>4225
new thread, old thread hit 500 post bump long a long time ago
also first for yeen

halloweeny time

>>4226
can never have enough yeen

>>4231
halloyeen

>>4233
yes

Hey, I began writing a story recently and would appreciate any and all critique for this short snippet.

https://pastebin.com/2VbWbFz6

It's about a human and tomboyish lynx in a fantasy setting alleviating the loneliness brought on by their grim professions with eachother, and eventually forming a genuine connection. I want explore and the mundanity of terribleness.

Please let me know what you think!

Why must it be this way

>>4236
Schizos gonna schiz

>>4236
Autism and lack of parents beating their children.

>>4236
People posting stuff they know will cause trouble, but they do it anyways b/c they forget the are posting on 4chan.

It's not so bad. I prefer /fg/ to 4/trash/ anyway, I'll take a slow, high quality thread over a fast shit one any day.

And the more we post here the better it'll get anyway

>>4239
The idea that the shitposter is just going to behave if you take the effort to adhere to his ever-changing whims is nonsense. Like, what, you think he's sincere about his messages and intent, too? Suddenly switched from hating black people to fighting racism through blacked shit? Don't fool yourself, and certainly don't start policing the thread in an effort to ward off his anger like a good, little kapo.

He's obviously using a spambot, too.

>>4240
agreed

>>4236
THIS. Our choices are

1: stay on /trash/ and deal with the lack of moderation

2: move here and actually discuss anthros getting human dick in peace

>>4243
to be honest I'm most likely going to do both
the idea of running away doesn't seem right and just down right cowardly

>>4243
>move here and actually discuss anthros getting human dick in peace
I wouldn't mind moving here, but this place still needs more "slice of life improvements to make it better. Stuff like:
>A quick reply button to say something to the entire general
>The fixing of several bugs found
>a (you) system to figure your posts
>A way to know how many posts there are in a thread
And several other stuff. What do you guys suggest?

>>4245
I'll happily trade away modern 4chan conveniences for actually active moderators.

>>4244
I'll probably post in both, but shill /fg/ in 4/trash/ reguarly

>>4241
>The idea that the shitposter is just going to behave if you take the effort to adhere to his ever-changing whims is nonsense.
>Ever-changing whims
you knew exactly what you were doing posting those pics, but you didn't care. You violated KNOWN rules, you dumb fuck.

>>4241
The thread was going so well, but you just had to post your bullshit. Have you ever stop and thinked that maybe your actions affect the other anons?

take all meta discussion to meta thread https://furchan.net/b/res/1324.html

>>4235
Executioner is a rare profession for a leading role. You have caught my interest.

Just commissioned art for an upcoming story, swag

>>4252
may I ask which story and which Character?

>>4225
Is it possible to become a Jannie on /trash/? I would totally take one for the team and sign up for it once the applications open up.

>>4254
I have no idea. I'd love to as well, because -every- trash thread gets spammed and has nothing done about it.

>>4250
yes, less meta more yeen!

>>4253
My own story, Deer to my Heart, still in second draft, and the art is of the main waifur!

I know there were about 32 losses for the 588th Night Witches, what's the Full casualty rate like.
Also, I named the Borzoi waifur Natalya.

>>4258
Natalya a good name

>>4259
Honestly, I believe it makes up for the fact I named the human male of the story Boris. Lol

When I was younger I thought Red XII and Yuffie from FF7 would make a great couple, and produce a great waifur together. I even outlined a prompt for the scenario at some point https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3040048/3/A-New-Adventure (the potential hmofa part happens in ch.3)
I came across this picture of a rule 63 anthro Nanaki that is pretty close to what I'd picture his half-human daughter to look like. I even once had the scar and number tattoo edited away to make it fit better.
Unfortunately, the context doesn't fit the character at all.
A solo image of her wearing something fitting for Japanese (Wutai) nobility would be really nice, though her dancing with a human male would be on brand.
Maybe even her in a more tribal setting befitting her father. That would work especially well to make the mother ambiguous, for anyone who prefers her to be the offspring of Aeris, or even Tifa.
Really anything but her pleasuring herself in a cage surrounded by onlookers. She could at least be upset about the situation.

>>4235
Interest piqued, even with just a short bit the characters seem to have actual chemistry.

Definitely think you should continue this

chicken

Sometimes you just gotta go with the classics

Posted this on the 4chan version of the thread.
https://rentry.co/psgf2
If you're interested in continuing where I left off the edit code is "Davai borzoi"

>>4261
i usually don't like when characters are just taken out of a game or movie or whatever. However you can pretty much do whatever it is you wanna do. I feel aerith being dead is the first hurdle you would have to leap across.
or you can just make, whatever species red is (I forgot) an anthro to begin with and just have it be his daughter, if you really need to tie him into the story in some way.

>>4266
>I feel aerith being dead is the first hurdle you would have to leap across.
I agree. That's one of the reasons Yuffie was my choice for this instead.

>or you can just make, whatever species red is (I forgot) an anthro to begin with and just have it be his daughter
I don't think his species is ever named and yeah, you could do that but I feel that Hojo sets up Red's breeding compatibility with humans well enough that turning him into a furboi isn't necessary.
Hell, I would go the other way before I did that. I've read one story that turns his human partner into an anthro so that they are more compatible. (pic somewhat related. In that story it is a serum instead of materia).

For the purposes of this thread the specifics of the parents, regardless of whether they are transformed or not, are only important in producing the the 'fa' part of the hmofa which would hardly change at all.

>>4267
i read stories with pokemon anthros, if you just say that is what they are, then that is what they are. no need for transformations or whatever. have hojo capture him and attempt to breed him with arith because hojo is an absolute weirdo that plays the role of the ugly old guy in those chinese comics.

it's FF you can do whatever you want. It's got robots, anthro wolves, and flying fat cat next to a 4 door convertible that fucking turns into a flying car for some reason.
I was literally thinking of a story I may do with anthro chocobos, and just have the chocobos be really strong and need of a handler or else they either get depressed or turn wild and become useless to the empire of the setting. maybe make some kind of psychic link like neodogs in starship troopers (I still want to make fanfiction of that), have aether connection to her or somethin'...

I'm probably not going to do that story sadly, got too much on my plate. But if transformation is your fetish, whatever rocks your boat, as long as it's legal, and it doesn't gross everyone out and shits up the thread.

Fucking pedobots

>>4261
Red XIII? Isn't he just a magical talking feral wolf/lion thing? Maybe if he was already an anthro, but in his canon form the implications of that union are kinda disgusting

>>4271
What happened?

>>4273
Disregard that, just looked up.

>>4276
god i wish that was me

I guess we should use this since it doesn't seem like he is going to stop anytime soon.

>>4280
We should come here more often, anyway. This place is a good resource for stuff like feedback and more in depth discussion.

https://files.catbox.moe/lhvami.rar
proper link for missy

cougar?

>>4293
Yeah sure, post more.

>>4295
What is she from?

>>4296
T.U.F.F Puppy iirc

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The alpha version Masterbin should now work with chrome and chrome forks: https://rentry.co/hmofa

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>>4300
FYI, it was a Unicode problem.

>>4300
you're doing God's work.

>>4300
Based

Now if we could only get more people in the thread to read a few more of those stories, so we could actually discuss them some time.

>>4299
Fuck it, I'm going for it anyway. To anyone who has read Quar and Ray, do you think Cant is a new language made to cover the different speaking patterns between Humans and Ricks, and have something they could both reasonably pronounce, or is it a universal standard language that humanity is being taught to enter the galactic community?
Was that explained earlier and I just missed or forgot it? Scanning through the first chapter quickly now, it is only mentioned in reference to the ICG. I think there's also a lot we don't know about the nature of the ICG. Do we even know what the acronym stands for?

As for new stories, Doublespace added one. I like his setup, but I think I the execution is a little too simple. Reminds me a bit of a Naylor comic, but even he was able to tell a lot of story with no dialogue.
Though that comic is now reminding me of "Light my Fire" https://git.io/Js39z, or even good 'ol 'Tribes'. And the enemies taking warmth by a fire is reminding me of the sex scene from "Today's Demons are Tomorrow's Angels", or Snekguy's "Or Die Alone", but now I'm just rambling and dropping references so I'll stop.

>>4304
>like a Naylor comic
doesn't that guy write cuckshit(as in the non-meme sense of the word), I know he has a couple of actual HMOFA stuff but I'm not wrong to avoid him generally, right?

>>4307
If you are exclusively looking for HMOFA, I don't think you are missing much by avoiding him.

He does have some really hot fur/fur, or hfoma, if you're willing to risk finding the occasional nasty fetish. Cuckshit isn't even the worst of it. I'm personally more put off by his faggier content or watersports.
Stuff like cuck or pee isn't super common mind you, he's just done a couple of each that you might stumble upon while searching his content.

>>4307
Naylor has worn a few hats in his time. He used to be the laughing stock of the webcomics community for his stereotypical edgy furry webcomics. The meme used to be that he was really good at drawing butts, too. With how long he's been around, and how notorious he is, it's kind of reassuring he's still around, still doing whatever the fuck he wants. So many artists disappear over nothing, after all.

No promises but I might have a surprise ready by tomorrow, an update/ revamp to an old story. The original ending got wiped, and since quite a few people liked it I've decided to recomplete it, in addition to putting it somewhere where the link won't die. In all cases, I'll keep you posted.

>>4312
Oh, you talking about Racing Stripes?

sarf

>>4313
Yes. It's not ready tonight, but it will be ready, hopefully tomorrow. Editing took longer than I thought.

>>4225
I'll post in both threads, why not?
By Changed_Daily
>Racing Stripes
https://www.sofurry.com/view/1782197
A supervillain realizes how much his nemesis really means to him.

>>4318
Nice but why not AO3?

>>4319
Because I was excited to get it out in the moment and forgot, it's up now.

So I'm writing a semi-anthology story about two people meeting at various "iterations" of their life. Basically, it's two people being reincarnated over and over again and meeting with no recollection of each other. It's a lot more complicated than that, but you hopefully understand the idea behind it. The only other thing you probably need to know is that there are some weird non-Euclidean things happening that only start to occur when the protags encounter each other. You can liken it somewhat to fourth-wall breaking except the characters aren't doing it intentionally.

Anyway, I'm asking for suggestions for settings that work into the concept well. Mostly because I'm having a hard time thinking of some and maybe one of you can manage to suggest something that fits into the story. I already did modern, so pretty much everything else is free game, including fantasy and other unrealistic settings.

>>4323
Is it like Cloud Atlas in any way? Not comparing, it just sounds a bit similar to the premise of that book.

>>4324
Haven't read it, but reading the premise, it does seem similar. So yeah, I think it is. I think mine is more esoteric in nature, but again, haven't read it, so I can't say for sure.

>>4325
I see. As for suggestions, maybe Feudal Japan, Colonial India, Pre-Revolution Russia, and space colony near Jupiter were ideas that came to mind for your story.

>>4323
There's a nice doujin with a somewhat similar premise, where at the end the kitsune's human lover dies, so she keeps using her powers to reincarnate him as different people so she can love him forever.

https://e-hentai.org/g/1110024/4b1c932703/

>>4323
>You can liken it somewhat to fourth-wall breaking except the characters aren't doing it intentionally
I like this idea, like they're not "meant" to keep finding each other but still do despite everything. A bit different than how most reincarnation stories handle it at least.

Your waifur suddenly materialises in your room. What do you do?

>>4331
That depends. Does she know who I am?

>>4332
Yes since you're her husbando
The question is more about how you'd deal with the situation

>>4333
I think I’d be more worried about my roommate seeing her.

>>4331
Kiss her passionately and then giver her rigorous anal sex

>>4304
Between the downtime in his main story, and not even bothering to post his latest one in the thread, I wonder if Doublespace got scared off.

I hope I didn't contribute to that by misinterpreting the end of his last chapter.

Was told to repost but since the thread is having another meltie I figure this is a good place to generate discussion.

I need reasons to justify an Anon who doesn't really like anthros to start talking to and become friends with the waifur, instead of just dismissing her like most others outright. More of a "not rayciss just dun like em" sort of thing in a modern setting.
I have how they meet and the nature of their relationship figured out so far, I just think it's a bit of a stretch for the character to suddenly be open to dating an anthro.
I'm taking all the advice from the other thread into consideration but curious about other thoughts?

>>4340
what if she introduces him to a part of her culture and he finds it interesting?

>>4340
It's not like it hasn't ever happened in real life. Maybe they get kind of forced together, and he first goes "maybe this one is alright", and then "maybe I was wrong about some shit".

Anyone home?

>>4345
yes?

>>4345
Welcome! Here is your (You) and complementary trad wife horse.

>>4345
Yeah, taking editing notes on one monitor and watching Casablanca on the other

>>4345
I am dying a slow and painful death.

Neat

>>4225
Boy today's thread got shitted up. When was the last time we went a week without this?

>>4352
We have a meta thread on /b/ for this by the way:
https://furchan.net/b/res/2344.html

>>4353
Shit my bad. Thank you

>>4348
I hate horses though fuck you

>>4351
The Shafriend has breached containment

>>4340
Maybe she tells some elaborate jokes really often that are supposedly really funny, but he doesn't get it most of the time, because they often require you to know about the culture to really get them. So because he's "stuck" with her or a group for a while, he wants to know more about the culture to be able to laugh with her or the group, which inevitably leads to him getting to know more about and closer to her.

>>4225
i kinda wanna try a story, central points, living underground and rats, wheres some good easy to use places to upload stories if i decide to try it

>>4358
Rentry is the new pastebin. Alternatively, most people here use AO3 and/or SoFurry

Thread is so slow that you will have no choice but to endlessly ponder the fact that Morgan is my wife and eternal soulmate.

>>4360
>you will have no choice but
up yours i do what i want

>>4360
That's great for you anon. I also love my wife and soulmate, Sam Anonymous

Jindo... my wife, my beloved...

Is this hmofa?

>>4365
why do you care?

>vice versa sequel
Cool.
Drastic change in tone. I wonder how long Travis will dwell on this after he learns the wolf he killed was more or less just some guy.

>>4367
I had a hard time getting through it, the formatting really needs work like separating paragraphs and dialogue. Vice Versa didn't have this issue so I'm guessing it's just a case of needing another editing pass.

>tfw it’s been two years since a story update
Author is still somewhat active so I’m not losing hope! But man

Fluff anyone?

>>4370
Yes.

>>4370
haha, I remember that argument
I was one of the two guys having it

>>4366
He is just asking a simple question

what are some christmas gifts you would give to your wife?

>>4374
Hand-knitted blanket

>>4374
Engagement ring

>>4374
Tennis balls and frisbee

>>4376
you would give an engagement ring to your wife?

>>4373
so am I

>>4380
I believe he wants to know if it is okay to post it here, so he can continue to post more.

no seriously why are you guys using this general

>>4435
edgy alternative

/sarah and frens/ - https://furchan.net/fg/res/4381.html
Post sarahs, rare or not. Images are not limited to sarahs. Any /hmofa/ Icon with art that is numerous and elusive can be posted. Just be sure to put the name in the file title so it can be found easily.

Current Waifur Volume:

anna(lynx): 2
carrie: 1
charlotte: 1
clara: 0
elie: 1
grem-jin:0
group: 2
jasmine: 0
jin: 4
joann: 3
lake: 1
loka: 53
missy: 17
morgan: 3
orthus: 1
ruby: 1
sam: 3
sarah:88
serval: 1
sha: 16
sofina: 1
star: 2
trixi: 3
victoria: 3
whisper: 3

Notes
>Sarah™ is the standard thus far. Stable with high volume.
>Loka™ needs to be audited, 5 duplicates were found and there were instances Loka™ users trying to pass some dragon nerd with braces as a Loka™. The IRS handle of the BHA is currently looking into this.
>Missy™ is being watched closely by the /hmofa/ Federal Reserve (nobody asked them too). Prominent Waifur experts and fact checkers have warned against recognizing 3d Missy™ due to their ease of print that if not well regulated can lead to waifur inflation.
>/hmofa/ Federal Goverment issued a statement that only waifurs backed by actual or potential story gains and are not from external franchises are to be recognize.

Is there more to Sarah than It's My Life and Sattelite? Those are the two I can find.

I apologize to anyone who may be upset at my sudden departure from the main thread.
I just need a good, long break from the place.
As I said there, I'm still gonna be writing my shit and all that jazz, just not gonna be around the thread much anymore.
I don't know if or when I'll go back.

>>4379
it seems i have made a silly mistake. a foolish little deed.

>>4356
There is no containing

>>4512
I understand completely
There's a lot of unnecessary bullshit floating around that really knife-stabs one's spirit once you're home and sitting down to relax into /hmofa/ and writing.
Take a few weeks and think about all the wonderful things you've made. The smol still loves you, even if you shift gears to something less romantic and only marginally /hmofa/ related

Main thread having another episode so looks like /fg/ is open for business.

Anything (You) have in progress for the thread, anons?

>>4584
I've been away from the thread for a while, and to the surprise of nobody, very little has changed.
Well, I say that, but having checked my writefriend name, it was a bit of a shock to see my stuff get some discussion. It definitely gave me a nice shot of good vibes.
It used to be I could ride those vibes into getting some writing done, but I have a lingering (nonthreatening, but frustrating) medical thing that makes my already slow-ass even more slow, and it's currently causing me to be far slower.
That said, yes, I have something in the works. I finished the basic first draft of the first chapter of a story I haven't touched in a while. Hopefully I can crawl forward with it and have it done before the end of the year.

>>4584
Ready to send off a few chapters of something new for beta readers.
I guess the next few days should be me seeing if I can get a commission or two, but that's always been so far down my list of priorities.

>>4584
It's looking like my goal of releasing my next update by Dec 1st is coming along nicely. I've got 10 pages so far. I've been blazing through my writing these last few days, and I'm feeling fantastic.

>>4492
yes but sarah is shit

Looks like napalm found himself in a bit of trouble among the pronoun bio squad.

>>4599
He clearly doesn't care. a full week after that chicks post she reported that he hadn't even responded, and he posted new Missy art like a day after that.

It's good to not be controlled by the twitter crowd. they even uploaded the collage to e621 like a sperg.

>>4600
>they even uploaded the collage to e621 like a sperg
Stereotypical twitter crybullying. Give it the token "do not harass" while asking, and expecting, followers to plaster that shit over the internet. Doph got one in response to a post from months ago. I think I'd be more sympathetic to it if they actually knew what was going on, but they all seem to have no idea that Missy is a character from a story originally inspired by the fursona and its art. They're just stuck in that fursona NFT way of thinking.

>>4603
I actually took a look into the e6 post, the account that mass tagged it first (always the uploader) is a twipie alt, not to mention that not even the fags on e6 agree with her. its just her gaggle of 10 retards.

https://e621.net/posts/3052257?q=twipie

To whoever the author of quar and ray, you made me read your story for the entirety of the day, it's been so long since i've enjoy reading something like that. Thank you for posting it.

>>4656
As a fellow reader, do you have a favorite character?
Mine is Dotta. Not because she is right, but because she gives contrast that helps elements of the story and the other characters stand out more clearly.
Like how she is kind of an alien version of the rebellious, tattooed, idealistic youth that Ray used to be, and yet she also stands as an example of the complete opposite of the kind of Rick that Lahroujel is.

I'm also glad the daughter showed up in the story. Her introduction seemed maybe a little too perfect, but I still hope we get more interactions with her.

>>4657
It's Quar for me, i enjoy seeing how her character develops, even if it sometimes frustrate me with how she deal with, i think it's what makes the story great and what made her feel more like a person to me.

I wish there were more chapters when i started reading it, im dying to know what will happen next chapter Aaaa

>>4659
Oh I just thought of a plot twist. What if Ray's daughter develops a medical procedure that can save Quar's frozen husband?
I'm not sure the story could handle that level of drama.

Also, now that I think about it, wasn't Quar shocked to learn that humans would keep someone braindead on life support? And she was sitting on this the whole time?

>>4660

I don't think her husband is brain dead? But more of suffering to something we dont know yet, since Quar did mention living with him for at least 20 more years if she unfreezes him, i do think that's part of the reason on why she was down after mercy killing sam tho. She has to live with the fact the damage on Sam's brain is irreversible, and maybe it's the same for her husband too? But idk, as far as i recall it was not her choice to keep him in a frozen state. We still have little to no information on what really happened with her him

>>4584
I cannot for the life of me finish a story.

I don't know if it's just perma-writer's block or just lack of motivation or what, but at least three or four stories now I've gotten around halfway done before just having no drive or inspiration to finish and it's really making me frustrated. I want to write stories for you guys I swear, it's just like I have this inability to actually follow through with it.

Pepper is such a sweetheart. The right amount of flamboyancy and fun. Has the artist written a story or has expressed interest writing a story about her?

I a short think a slice of life fic would be perfect.

Is anyone interested in donating their time to beta read? I've tried to get ahold of Happy again but hes been having network problems for a couple days.

>>4668
How long is the story?

>>4669
4,400 as of right now, its just the first chapter.

>>4670
4,400 words? Do you have a time limit on when it needs to be read?

>>4671
I mostly just need a cursory glance to see if i need to split it in half and flesh out each half more, i already got good structural advice from happy.

It just feels to me like there might be too many different things going on in one chapter for the reader to keep track.

>>4672
not him, but speed reader here. I'll read it.

>>4673
Thanks man, heres the ghostbin.

Z5ytO

The reason it cuts so abruptly at the end is that its not quite finished, so I just left it.

>>4674
Finished reading. I like it so far; well written and has a really interesting concept for the plot. I only have one question: when do the waifurs come in?

>>4675
I'm thinking the first (and most important) around the middle to end of the next chapter. Sort of a "Lost and found" kind of thing.

Then a secondary one (maybe) for a different character at some point.

They're also not run of the mill waifurs, you'll understand later.

>>4676
>They're also not run of the mill waifurs, you'll understand later.
I think that I have somewhat of an idea of how you'll introduce them, but I'm excited to see how it turns out nonetheless. Cheers!

>>4677
The work continues, thanks friend.

when is mousguy going to drop his fallout fox stories?

>>4679
Ask about it next thread.

>>4603
for the other 3-5 people who use this thread for anything other than massive spazouts, how are your writing projects going?

>>4685
Got one chapter down out of around five, but my friend and beta-reader has adviced a potential change for the opening scene for something more fun and dynamic.
It's an actual in-world play that revisits the events of the first half of the first act, but said friend thinks it would work better if the viewer 'gets into' the play and elements I describe as being props are seen as real, with just the start and finish making it obvious it's a stage play.
Naturally pondering this is making me reluctant to continue for the moment, so we'll see.

>>4686
Yeah, making them out to be real is always a better idea than having to constantly reiterate the lack of realism in the objects they are interacting with.

>>4685
Got 1400 words of the next chapter so far. Planning on making it a longer one this time, around 5-10k once finished.

>>4686
Trying to get the nerve to start something new, then return to something older. I need to get something out.

>>4685
See >>4666
Ideas constantly outpacing writing output

>>4685
pretty good, almost done with a rewrite that I'm extremely happy with

>>4692
Complete opposite for me, I have one idea ant then I literally cannot focus on creating other ideas.

>>4685
Kind of stalled because I'm trying to get a bunch of details straight and tighten things up.
I've got a dedicated block of time this weekend and need to make major progress so I can start being a thread meme again.

>>4685
26k words in and haven’t touched it in like, 3 months. I’m hoping to come back to it sometime soon.

There are too many people who haven't lurked enough that talk like zoomers on twitter and it ruins the thread. I'm making this point here since burzum goes all out everytime someone makes a point on the thread.

>>4700
Wrong thread for this dumbass. It goes here:
https://furchan.net/b/res/2344.html

>>4701
try >>>/b/2344

Merry Christmas
(Its still Christmas in Hawaii )
https://gofile.io/d/Gemca0

>>4705
Just wanted to say this model is fucking amazing and thank you again for making it. Never thought I'd prompt anyone to make something like this when I started this silly story.

https://www.sofurry.com/view/1800264

Foxymilkies here,

I decided to try my hand at writing a short story featuring my waifur. It's my first time writing a story of this magnitude, not to mention sharing it publicly. So feel free to leave any comments, suggestions, and critiques you may have about it.

I may post it in /adhg/ instead of the main thread because I would rather deal with rapefags seething over it being "soft femdom", than deal with burzum throwing a shitfit for the next 20 threads or so.

Take discussion of other threads or websites to /b/.

>>4711
fuck off qtpie, he is posting a story

>>4712
I deleted the off-topic discussion, genius.

How about a pic of a hairy human with a snow leopard girl or a white dog girl.

>regular thread gone to shit
Time for the weekly spurt of activity for here.

I'm the one that posted about protogens and I started a new sci-fi story using them, for the most part completely reimagining their backstory to get rid of all the cringe bullshit the original artists wrote up. Definitely making them more humanoid anthros instead of the cartoony raptor proportions most art of them has.

I have something I need to get off my chest, but given that I don't have anyone in my life with whom to discuss such topics and with the regular threads being the way they are, I decided to post it here.

Oh, how I yearn for a fantasy based reality, a reality so fantastical, it's worth fantasizing about.

>How many of you here would actually pursue romantic relationship with anthro women if it were possible?
>How many of us would even be here if anthro women were a normal part of our shared meatspace to begin with, instead of refuge? Would they be as much beautiful as reality as they are as fantasy? Would we be normalfag riajuus?
I don't like human women. Never truly did. Sure, at some point the lust was there, but it never grew into a proper desire. I was never interested in them as people. I was never interested in other people at all to begin with, to be honest. ALways getting in the way of me spending my time and effort on things I found interesting at the moment. Never shutting the fuck up, never ceasing the constant yapping and nagging. I never truly felt loneliness, nor did I yearn for companionship.
>Then why is it that I gravitate towards anthro women?
Most of it is the attractiveness of their exteriors, the warmth and fluffiness of their animalistic vessels. The little quirks in their presented behavior, whether based on the species they're based on or whatever context they were put in. The unending fantasies, mostly centered either on casual interactions or satiating each other's desires, whether they be carnal, emotional or even simple validation. Tender moments in which we would feed off each other's warmth. Yet when I try to actually imagine a functional relationship between us as equal sovereign individuals, I'm drawing a blank. I was never in any sort of romantic relationship and I'm not about to start trying to get into one now. Am I even interested in anthro women beyond their delightfully plush exteriors? Would I be truly interested in building a relationship with one, were it possible to do so? Would I be able to be interested in her as a person?
I don't think I've ever truly felt love or passion beyond lust or mere shallow infatuation, nor do I think I may have ever been able to. No matter how my obsession with rekindling it, it's at best a faint ember, a faint glimmer of a dumpster fire my heart could have been, had I not allowed it to freeze into the broken shards it is now.

Similar with impregantion. For years I was disgusted by the mere idea of insemination, bringing another ugly human being into this ugly world, to join this buzzing, squirming mass of pulsating flesh known as humanity. Yet after contemplating engaging in the same process with an anthro female, I would not help bring ugliness into the world but beauty instead. Life could be a gift instead of a curse, if it's brought upon with proper care and resources and not just a result of some kind of unplanned mistake like I think I might have been.
Built upon a strong foundation of mutual trust and friendship, fostered with wisdom and care, a family may actually be something other (perhaps even more) than just a gathering of people you don't like (or rather don't even have any particular emotional bonds with), bound by the common thread of shared genetic material.

But enough ranting, I'm tired. Of this and that and so many other things.

May we all make it after yet another number change. Have fun in the new cycle.

>tldr: Anon finally realised he was a normalfag all along and is bummed that he didn't get a waifur along the way. Better luck next year!

>>4718
>I don't like human women. Never truly did. Sure, at some point the lust was there, but it never grew into a proper desire. I was never interested in them as people. I was never interested in other people at all to begin with, to be honest. ALways getting in the way of me spending my time and effort on things I found interesting at the moment. Never shutting the fuck up, never ceasing the constant yapping and nagging. I never truly felt loneliness, nor did I yearn for companionship.

Here we differ, I haven't had a sexual or romantic thought about another person since I was very young, but I still love my family and friends. I just have no interest in a sexual or romantic relationship with real people.

>For years I was disgusted by the mere idea of insemination, bringing another ugly human being into this ugly world.

The beauty of childbirth is not something to be hated. If i could have kids with her (pics related) my life would be fulfilled beyond the mere content of what it is now. Yes, I realize that the world is a bad place right now, but men have viable sperm well into their 50s. We could always wait for the world can be made less ugly. hell, it's shitting itself cleaner as we speak.

>>tldr: Anon finally realised he was a normalfag all along and is bummed that he didn't get a waifur along the way. Better luck next year!

Most of HMOFA is normies with a quirk. the fact that that quirk is anthropomorphic women is of no consequence. being a normie (to an extent) is good for you.



As for the rest of your post that I didn't pick out individually, we are all going to make it anon. Stay strong, despite some people's best efforts it has been good to me for the relatively short time I have been on it. Perhaps it can be the same for you.

>>4718
>Built upon a strong foundation...
You're hitting a very common theme - biological family versus found family.
If we're keeping things on the level of writing, how does a society deal with those that don't fit into the structure? Very obviously, there are those that end up in the criminal class. Another common path is those without strong bonds, so they gravitate to the military or police. Whether or not that group fits the orphan trope, they find a fraternity within the service.
After all, the hero or main character needs a reason for his adventures.

Personally? You don't need love or passion to find other people that share whatever interest you do at any given moment. What is wonderful about online groups is that I can close the tab. They're persistent and not anchored to some weekly schedule.
I wouldn't consider myself the type with his heart in shards, nor am I the asexual/aromantic type either. I just haven't found that one person for me.
What I have found is that I enjoy the trip of life when all is said & done. If that's all it takes to make it, then the world is in a far sadder shape then I would like. Then again, I'm a cynical optimist.

Best wishes for another spin around the wheel of life.

>>4724
Cute!

>>4724
Both are cute images DM. It's good to see you're still with us. Hope you get better

>>4724
Very nice. Hope things are going well on your end, DM.

>>4705
oh I remember when your missy was nothing but a smooth black polygon with tits and now look at her.
How you've both grown since last year.

Another bucketload of Missy from NaPalm Express himself.

And that's that.
The previous Missy dump is over here
>>3676

Does anyone know if the artist who draws Pepper is still around? used to be pretty active, but I haven't seen him since around the holidays.

>>4737
He's been regularly posting stuff on his twitter, anon. Not everyone lives for the thread. In fact, most of us don't.

>>4739
Not everyone lives for twitter, either.

I don't think he's advertised it in the thread, but the "Tech Terror" story one of our writefriends is doing is getting good.
Definitely a step up from "Predatory Dating".

>Move to new town,also new roomie, he is BIG pigeon
>Every night on weekends he goes to some kind of club
>A bit of fun and music wouldn't hurt you, decide to go with him
>It's avian only night club...
>You two come up with bird mask idea for lulz
>decide to try it
>Telling everyone that it's part of your style, BDSM n stuff
>It works! You're in. Lots of feathers, birds, booze, and strange music.
It's an interesting experience but atmosphere seems off for ya.
>sit at the bar, crow-thing on left from you drinks some kind of COCKtail,
It's suddenly asks ya some strange questions, related to powder dust and some other grainy substances.
>Conversation starts, crow-thing is a big talker actually and girl!, you discuss lot's of stuff, she seems to like you
>after finishing drink she suggests moving to her place
>Oh shit you can't accept offer, you'll be compromised, how she'll react?
There might be reason why she goes into avian only club.
>Bird wastes no time, she's clinging to your body, all protest ignored by her iron grip, two of you slowly move to exit.
>Your friend saw that something was wrong, he tries to stop her "Zara it's a misunderstanding , he's new here"
>She pulls knife out of her sleeve "Back off! fat qtpie! If you don't want troubles" Some people at crowd stare daggers at your friend.
>You two leave the place, she forces you into her car, threatening with a knife.
>A bit of fun and music might actually hurt you...

>>4746
cute crow

>from fur to waifur
Finally (well, not that much since it's been like three days since I've started it) finished with AC Last Raven. Since I probably won't look at it for a while, I'll share the only emblem so far I've spent multiple hours drawing with my other favorite anons here.

And to keep it on topic, I've finished reading Mechanized Memories some time ago.
>Where is the cut off line both for hm and for fa?
By the end (both of) the guy(s) was clearly in some kind of post human state, possibly undead too, depending how you'd look at it. The girl was never an organic being (though she may be derived from one or even in a similar state of undeath), but given the full emulation mode her vessel is running, she's capable of eating, shiting and popping out babies like any regular ol' dame. There was some discussion about it in the main thread some time ago, with a vampire being used as an example of post human not qualifying as a human simply simply by the virtue of vamires tending to not identify as the species they originate from anymore. If a vampire (or any aesthetically not all that divergent (passing as a human?), even though it differ more functionally) post human identifies as human still (blah blah blah, the same with anthro) would they still fit within the context of hmofa?

>>4737 >>4739 since the holidays ive been catching up on irl work, not a lot of time to spend hours drawing requests, i miss having that time. it flatters me a lot that people ask about pepper though, gives me more of a reason to take some time off to draw here

Lol I forgot to start posting Silver Lining updates here. https://www.sofurry.com/view/1827700 https://www.sofurry.com/view/1833964

>>4763 oh man hype!! was waiting for this.

I've posted this thing multiple times already but not here yet. It's still the most recent thread-relevant thing I've done in the past few weeks.

How are all of my best friends in the whole wide world doing today?

>>4820 Could be doing better, honestly. Still waiting on my Comcast application to be received.

>>4820 I don't know. Have you tried asking them?

Evening gentlemen.

>>4823 Evening, what you doing right now?

>>4801 Very cute. >>4820 Decent, feeling nice. Happy about the /haa/ thread.

>>4824 Catching up on the dozen or so stories I had to put off to focus on other things. You?

>>4826 Playing New Vegas. About to take out the Omertas for Mr. House. It's all research for my story that I will eventually write.

>>4824 Just finishing up at work before going to bed, only a few more days until I get +40 hours of free time to actually write again.

>>4827 People just keep playing this game, huh? Last time I tried it crashed when I exited Goodsprings.

>>4829 It's been pretty stable so far. Only really crashes when I play the DLCs.

>>4824 i've been thinking about a lot of sentimental shit recently, but thats about it. how about you?

I have a question that could trigger the shitposter on the main thread, so I'm putting it here. I started lurking in the threads around mid 2020 so I missed when that "panther" guy was around. I would like to know who was pantherfag, and what did he do to be hated?

>>4834 Some random anon who was "spamming" panthers, like the name implies, and argued constantly with Burzum. I'm not him though, and I don't consider what I do to be "spamming" Dobermans.

>>4835 It being the same image most of the time can be a little annoying but yeah, there have been far more annoying people (such as me when I was new) on the thread.

>>4834 I'm pretty sure he was one of burzum's boogeymen, maybe of some other people in the thread. I've never even been able to see a pattern to pantherfag's supposed spamming. And knowing how autistic some people can get, it might not even have been spam.

>go to sleep >thread goes to shit what happened this time?

>>4834 He didn't really spam panthers; iirc, he had a taste for dark-furred anthros and used common anime reaction images that could be traced back to other boards. He had other fringe tastes as well, and was open about them. Not inherently a problem itself; the issue is that he liked poking the bear as it were, and didn't really care for much else after he got that taste of blood in the water. >>4832 Know that feel, my dude. >>4842 People ignoring the "Please do not feed the monkey" sign. Anyway, there's a meta thread for these topics.

>>4843 It seems that the meta thread is gone.

>>4844 https://furchan.net/b/res/3357.html#footer

Well, hello again gentlemen.

>>4846 Good evening. We should really consider hosting the #2000 thread here if this is gonna keep going on. Plus we get 900 posts as opposed to the 300 posts on trash.

>>4846 SO WE BACK IN THE BUNKER GOT OUR WAIFUR'S TAILS SWINGING SIDE TO SIDE SIDE SIDE TO SIDE THIS TASK, A GRUELING ONE HOPE TO FIND SOME WAIFURS TONIGHT, NIGHT, NIGHT WAIFURS TONIGHT

Artist/Commissioner Links Akella Am190 Anon2000000 Armain (account deleted) Auren Blokfort Botty tanics Chivalrous CZasKi (is this same guy as KasCz?) DeadMimicked DeltaVee *DimWitDog *Dr. Comet DoctorDJ Doph Drawfren Gabriel of Creosha (Commisioner) GreasyMojo *Hattonslayden HOc JackByVespers *Jiji-Sama Ipainthere *Kame KasCZ Lockheedmartini Lovelocked LuckyFeather Mek Mightypoohead Mornin Dove Merle (need account, his keeps getting deleted) Paper_Anon Patecko Vuko-Jebina *Securipun Schmutzo SketchyToasty Smekbo SpaceDimSum SpamandEggs Tetchy_ The Serg Wetchop Wharblgharbl (Commisioner) KEY * means I don't know if they have ever interacted with the thread directly. I am split on whether I should separate people who I know have interacted with the thread with the people who have. Reason being is that there People are always finding more artist that draw hmofa. If I keep putting every single one down. There will be more non-thread artist than not in the list and I want to keep it in the spirit of the masterbin, where only stories that are posted in this general are put there. And the criteria "has interact with the thread directly" is really vauge and hard to ascertain for some artist. Also do You all want the Resource bin on Rentry? I myself think it should, just so much better to navigate than google docs. - Azuhmier (aka taganon)

Tagging and development of the project "Urgent Furry" is being slowed down due to having to job search at the moment. By 'tagging' I mean I won't be able to as much read stories and put tags and descriptions as frequently as I used to, I will still be tagging, just more emphasis on sofurry and other author tags. Hopefully this is only temporarily and I will return to normal levels of /hmofa/ productivity after I get a Job. Remeber you are more than welcome to blow up my email located at the top of the masterbin and I will reply ASAP. And when I mean suggestions I mean ANYTHING. Nothing in the rentry bins are set in stone, not the tagging, nothing. If you want more milf tags, I will prioritize milf tagging, if you think the urls are clobbered I will fix them. If you want your story or name removed from the masterbin and archives I will do it (better to message me on the site you made the story so I can verify you are the author of said story). If there are other things you want to see out of the scraping and tagging say it. I'm all ears, I work more confidently knowing that people agree with the choices I make rather than shooting in the dark. I also made a new journal entry: https://www.sofurry.com/view/1858367 It's basically contains status of projects and is a longer, more concise, and more complete version of this post. - Azuhmier (aka taganon)

happy 2000

>>4853 hello fren. How are you?

>>4854 I'm ok. Just a little fucking frustrated. Shouldn't have made that deleted post really but a well. I just want the simple times back.

>>4855 Understandable, a couple weeks ago I had a massive surge of creativity from the calmness of the thread. I have since lost that creative spark and am a bit irritated at its loss.

It's hard to advertise this place on 4chan, not saying I want to move the thread here, but I just want to let as many people possible know that it exists. We can't put it in the OP, we would run serious risk of getting /hmofa/ banned, since they do not aloud links to other chans. Right now it seems to be linked in the resourc3e bin and masterbin.

>>4857 Can't we just post it after the OP?

>>4858 No, 4chan has a hard ban against linking other chans anywhere. It's the fastest way to get the general blacklisted by the mods

>>4859 If it's linked in the master bin why not have instructions on how to get to it for example: in case of meltdown follow instructions at master bin. maybe we can get around the blacklist

>>4860 see >>3891 I am in the DEN. Trying to plead our case.

to the anon in the main thread (I'm range blocked idk why) >>48293060 Waiting for updates so I'm going through my backlog, got through Chickenman’s wild ride and now I'm reading Hell-o nurse.

>>4849 Feels bad not being popular enough to be on the list.

In my head I always imagined them looking like the kubrow from warframe, but I was way off.

Soon(ish)...

>>4845 Weird. It doesn't show up on the overboard.

>>4871 /b/ is hidden from the overboard, for obvious reasons.

>>4872 Hey, total aside, I found something forgotten on a nostalgic lark. Some of you ought to remember it.

Beach episode.

Reminder to let your anthro roomies/honies some AC time for the summer.

>>4879 >>4881 It's always nice to see new Blokfort art.

Is there any way we can actually make this place more active again? Also, if you had the choice to meet and marry your waifur in exchange with forgetting everyone you know, would you do it?

>>4884 Shill it more, i guess. And to answer your other question, yeah that would be an okay trade-off

>>4866 Well I still think you're cool, whomever you may be.

>>4884 >Is there any way we can actually make this place more active again? Simply by posting. I check here a couple times a day. If I have a post I can make a meaningful reply to, I do. >if you had the choice to meet and marry your waifur in exchange with forgetting everyone you know, would you do it? No. Who would I be, at that point? A significant amount of my memories are the positive memories and negative memories of what I've done with other people, and what other people have done to me. While I also have solitary hobbies and interests, if I were to forget everyone I knew, I'd no longer be me. >>4885 >Shill it more, i guess This too.

>>4887 >Who would I be, at that point? I agree, I also wouldn't take the plunge. Here's a tougher one. Guaranteed waifur who loves you, you get to keep your memories of who you are, but you have to live in anthro world, and you can only visit your friends and family one day in a year, no other contact with anyone from your old life.

>>4888 >but you have to live in anthro world My answer depends on what that world is like. If the world is just like our real world, but with furries, I won't go. I have many good online friends in this world which I'd miss. If the world is an improvement over the real world, I would go.

>>4888 >Guaranteed waifur who loves you, But do I love her? >you get to keep your memories of who you are, Good, I guess. >but you have to live in anthro world, How will I be treated in that world? How does it functionally compare to the world I'm living in right now? How do I live in that world? What am I supposed to do in there? >and you can only visit your friends and family one day in a year, Do I have to? I have no friends and am borderline estranged from the family. >no other contact with anyone from your old life. I barely have anyone in my life anyway, much less anyone I want to keep in contact with. >>4884 >in exchange with forgetting everyone you know Do I forget that I forgot or am I aware of my choice? Do I keep my memories intact but with people shaped holes in them or do I lose everything as much as associated with other people?

>>4889 Similar to our world, but anthros are more open and amicable, so it's easier to make friends. Crime is lower, and there's much fewer problems with addiction. You still need to work to live, of course, but there's less pressure because it's easier to find a community that will help you get back on your feet if you screw up, or if something happens to you or your beloved beyond your control. >>4890 If you don't want to visit you don't have to. But, speaking from the heart here, sometimes space makes you appreciate the people that you had more.

>>4891 So, what's the actual catch here? What is the price and what exactly does it get me?

>>4892 The price is that you can't really improve any of the relationships you've left behind, nor can you form meaningful new ones. you can only maintain them or let them deteriorate. The other is that even if you make friends, you'll still be only human in a world full of anthros. Sure they'll accept you as one of their own, but they'll have no idea what it's like to be human, because their brains work differently, and they have other people around like them. Your waifur will always be by your side, but not even she can understand what it's like to be alone in that sense. And if you don't maintain those human friendships, it can become very easy to lose touch with that part of you.

>>4893 >>4892 New friendships in the human world, I mean. You can befriend anthros to your heart's content.

>>4893 >you can't really improve any of the relationships you've left behind, I'm not really improving on any of them right now. >nor can you form meaningful new ones. I'm not forming any right now. >The other is that even if you make friends, If I make what? Ha. >you'll still be only human in a world full of anthros. I'm already alone in my own world. Thus far, the outside world is for annoyances, disappointments, not belonging and other unnecessary noise. I'm tired of it. >>4894 >You can befriend anthros Well, it is a hypothetical possibility for me to have capacity to form mutually meaningful relationships, bonds even, with other xenoforms, but it is yet to be proven empirically. Especially now, with me sliding right back into what was filling my heart of hearts for years (if not decades already), bitterness and anger. Show me that beautiful world you speak of, so I can make an informed decision.

>>4895 You have issues that living in Anthroworld won't solve, the biggest one being that you're just a massive fucking downer to be around. Let your bitterness go. It doesn't do you any good to hold on to it.

>>4891 >but there's less pressure because it's easier to find a community that will help you get back on your feet if you screw up, or if something happens to you or your beloved beyond your control Yeah, I like that. Helpful communities are nice. I'd give my remaining friends a virtual smooch and be on my way to that world, then. I'd miss them and they'd miss me, but they'd understand.

>>4896 >You have issues that living in Anthroworld won't solve, Bummer. >you're just a massive fucking downer to be around Fair enough. Usually there's no one else around so it's not a problem, or at least I don't register it as such. >Let your bitterness go. And how exactly does one do that. How does one stop being 'a massive fucking downer' without embracing unbeing? It's an integral part of whatever's left of my personality construct.

>>4898 Let yourself honestly enjoy something. Work out, explore somewhere new, get out and meet people, read a book, make yourself some good food, or drink a beer. It doesn't matter what you do, the most important thing is to just let yourself feel pleasure from the action. Enjoy the simple fact that you're lucky enough to be able to think and feel at this instant in time above any other. Live in the moment. Once you've captured that, try projecting that joy on yourself. Even if your life sucks, there are always blessings hidden in the muck, and you're going to find other things, or maybe even people, that you appreciate. And if you keep doing this, and you take advantage of the opportunities that come your way, you'll find your people.

>>4899 >Work out Already do. >explore somewhere new Maybe in a video game. I go to work seven days a week, don't particularly feel like leaving my 'abode' anywhen else. >get out and meet people Nah. I've had enough of 'meeting people' during work hours, it's already far past my tolerance limit. >read a book I'm already playing games with novel worth of length of dialogues, does that qualify? >make yourself some good food Already do. >or drink a beer. Don't drink alcohol, not interested in doing so anyway. Not to mention driving everyday, don't want to catch any unnecessary noise from popomobile riders. >Live in the moment. Already do. All flow of causality is filtered through the choke point of 'now' as if no other point in time exists. >you'll find your people. I thought of /hmofa/ as 'my people' once, but there's far too much unnecessary noise for me. There's too much noise in general (pardon the pun) and it sucks out the enjoyment out of any activity or state of being I experience. I miss it when the world was quiet and empty, but alas, that was not to be. It's not 'my' world anyway, so it's not for me to decide such things. All in all, solid advice. I rate fullfilling life/joy as a state of being, would like and subscribe.

>>4900 I'm not a psychologist, but maybe thinking about some of this stuff may help you appreciate people more. How often can/do you take a day off? Are you living check to check and need the money that bad? Or are you just ultra focused on your career? Do you feel burned out at all? You don't seem to have a healthy work/life balance, so spend less time there IF that's an option. Climbing the ladder isn't worth it if you have to sell your soul to do it. You mention that the only time you really socialize is at the office. The workspace mutes people's best qualities and in some cases highlights their worst. It's where psychopaths and machiavellians thrive. Now, assuming you work with people, and not just demons and meat-husks, the best place to build friendships with coworkers is outside of work. If they're working similar weekly hours to you, they might be just as wound up and bitter as you are. That's a point of commonality. It might be cathartic for you to vent with them. If everyone at work is irredeemably shit, than limit your exposure to it as much as possible. Meet people through your interests, on the internet if you have to, but ideally in real life. Some will be insufferable, but some will be worth keeping around. And from there, plan things with them. Go to movies, concerts or conventions with them. Go with them to visit museums or eat at cool restaurants. Go to the park and kick a soccer ball or throw a frisbee around for an hour. Serious friendships take time, and serious effort to build, effort that may not see immediate payoff. Sometimes it takes people time to realize what they have. So... I know it doesn't come naturally, but be patient. Every single human being is going to irritate you in some way. Maybe they flake on plans. Maybe they brag about their money or their accomplishments. Maybe they pick fights for no reason. Maybe they have disgusting habits. Or god forbid they play armchair psychologist on the internet. Those people are the worst. But there's no strength in ignoring everyone and shutting yourself in. Human beings are social animals. We're meant to have families, and live in communities with other people we care about. So when you hate everyone around you, it's almost inevitable that you start hating yourself, too. I've been there. >I thought of /hmofa/ as 'my people' once, but there's far too much unnecessary noise for me. I have lurked on and off in the general since 2017, and I've written there since 2019. I have made ONE meaningful connection with somebody I've met there. It worked out for me, but generally speaking, 4chan porn threads are not a good place to meet friends. Meet real people first, otherwise, focus on hobby boards and threads like /diy/, /fit/ or /tg/. I wish you luck. You can make it if you try.

>>4901 First of all, I am what can be called, a certified retard. I have certain not readily apparent defficiencies and have papers for that, as well as the so called disability status. I cannot stand human interactions for any extended period of time, so I basically cannot hold any job requiring me to as much as pretend to be legally responsible well adjusted productive adult. My place of employment can be called a 'family business' since it's operated by a certain relative. I'm not choosing my 'work hours'. I do not have free days or holidays. Any extended time without supervision is, even if not explicitly, implicitly forbidden. I am assigned to a certain location and am to remain there during set hours or until allowed to leave, assisting in whatever tasks and productive efforts are ongoing. Given that the location itself pretty much amounts to a noise filled cage with an enclosure surrounded from all sides by walls of eyes, I am not exactly thrilled to fade away into the nothingness of sleep just to be forcefully awoken and forced outside just for the cycle to repeat itself. I do not receive any kind of payment or compensation other than an unspecified extra amount of unnecessary noise when and where applicable. On the other hand, I do not pay rent nor am I wanting for basic necessities. People I meet at the workplace are mostly from outside coming in, in most cases wanting things that are not there or asking questions I'm neither willing to anwser or don't have any answer to in the first place. Interactions with the coworkers are actually relatively smooth most of the time, given that we tend to keep to ourselves as we focus on the task(s) at hand and do not socialize if not necessary. Not willing to go and meet people outside of work, especially given the amount of effort it would take to comfort to the basic personal hygiene standards for casual social interactions. I live in trash bin of history in a 2.5th world country equivalent of a 'drive through state'. The single room appartment I share with a relative is not equipped with a bathroom or even a toilet. At least the toilet is accessible in the corridor between appartments, one for every floor, but there's no easy way to keep my meat unit at a presentable level without a dedicated cleaning facility, so I keep to the basic minimum required to function outside. I hate having to enter not only public space, but also public forum (since local inhabitants have a very bad habit of just lingering around and not shutting the fuck up), just to expel waste. It is heavily hinted that my meat unit's brain either does not have or has a severely impaired ability to ignore background noise, which, coupled with soaking up unnecessary noise during not only my 'work hours' but during most of the time I spend either lucid or on auto pilot, tends to result in ear aches and head aches I not only go to sleep with but also awake to. The biggest, brightest highlight of my unspecified amount of time lately was an interaction with a stray feline in a parking lot at night in the middle of nowhere. It came to me out of its own volition and initiated mutually pleasant physical interaction. It also left a lot of fur on my pants after ejoying quite a rigorous rubbing session on them, so maybe that was its goal all along and I was just there along for the ride. Point being, I actually haven't been this relaxed in unspecified amount of time between happenings. Felines are my favorite. Anyway, thanks for indulging me. Have fun with your Anthroworld. PS. >R9K prevented at least one of your files from being posted. What does that even mean?

>>4900 >I'm already playing games with novel worth of length of dialogues, does that qualify? Sorta, but not really. The important part is: are you enjoying games? That matters more than the other Anon's examples of hobbies. If you're enjoying games, that's a good thing. >There's too much noise in general Interesting. >I miss it when the world was quiet and empty, but alas, that was not to be No, it can be quiet and empty. I know this, because it's what I need to read or write. If you want quiet and empty: turn off everything with an internet connection. Computer, cell phone, whatever. If you want extreme quiet and empty: unplug everything electronic from the wall outlet. It's possible to achieve focus. If you mean literal noise, hearing protection earmuffs are really wonderful. I recommend the VS130. Last year, when I was reading more books, I'd occasionally do it outside, since sunlight has a better color than some lightbulbs. I'd go out with just a book. No phone, nothing else. And if it was loud out there, I did occasionally use my earmuffs. And with nothing but a book, I'd either read or daydream.

>>4901 >Meet people through your interests This. If you're going to meet people at all, meeting people you consider to have good taste is a plus. >Some will be insufferable, but some will be worth keeping around Exactly. When I joined my local furry communities, while the majority of people weren't impressive, the minority of people that were worth keeping around were truly wonderful, lovely people. >museums, parks Good things. Since anon 4900 says he's into games, he might perhaps also play games with others. >Serious friendships take time, and serious effort to build, effort that may not see immediate payoff. This. Finding a pleasant acquaintance definitely takes less time than forming a real friendship. I think for people who are truly compatible, however, there is some amount of immediate payoff. >But there's no strength in ignoring everyone and shutting yourself in. I disagree. Before I became very social (but still an introvert) a few years ago, I thought I was on the path to becoming a wizard. I was quite shut-in. (though I did have online friends) And there certainly are some advantages to it. If you really want to be a shut-in, you can do a lot with your hobbies and totally get rid of all the negative qualities of humans from your life. It's a life. >Human beings are social animals Agreed, as a whole. I really think most humans should socialize. I fully support anyone who decides not to, though. I think modern US society is messed up. The way most people in the US live today, in medieval Europe, would've been called being a hermit. Hermits living in their hermitages. While most humans are social animals, most adults in the US have no friends, as they live in rural or suburban locations where it takes half an hour to go anywhere interesting, and they don't know any of their neighbors. I support anyone who actually wants to be a hermit, but for most people, this is truly awful, and it's clearly having terrible mental effects on people, both normalfags and not. (And while I dislike normalfags, I don't want them to needlessly suffer) I hope society can abandon eremitism some day. >We're meant to have families I disagree. The modern nuclear family is partially an invention. >live in communities with other people we care about This, I agree with. >focus on hobby boards Blue boards truly are the best ones on 4chan, for sure. >It worked out for me, but generally speaking, 4chan porn threads are not a good place to meet friends. I don't fully agree with this though. Over the decade I've been on 4chan, I've certainly exchanged email addresses and IRC contact information with people in porn threads and had friendships for a while. And I hope /hmofa/ can be more than a porn thread to you: I'm there because I want to find inspiration to write more sci-fi. I only found /hmofa/ earlier in 2022, however. I like it so far, though.

>>4904 Dang. Your work situation sounds truly horrible. I think even jobs that are commonly considered terrible, like carrying boxes in Amazon warehouses, might be better for you. You wouldn't have to interact with people much, and at least you'd have holidays. >in a 2.5th world country I see. I guess I can't give job suggestions, then. I still think some jobs do exist, though. Like warehouses. I've lately been trying to find a solitary job simply to try to not catch COVID, and I haven't been having much luck. >I hate having to enter not only public space, but also public forum (since local inhabitants have a very bad habit of just lingering around and not shutting the fuck up), just to expel waste. Understandable. >It is heavily hinted that my meat unit's brain either does not have or has a severely impaired ability to ignore background noise, which, coupled with soaking up unnecessary noise during not only my 'work hours' but during most of the time I spend either lucid or on auto pilot, tends to result in ear aches and head aches I not only go to sleep with but also awake to. I really think you should get some earmuffs, for sure. It's not perfect, but it truly is an improvement. Depending on the muffs, you may be able to hear other peoples' voices fine enough to have conversation when required, while still having a good reduction in other noises. Normalfags consider noise to be way too acceptable. I've had people cruelly tell me too many times that I'm "sensitive" and should stop being a baby about loud noises. Now I have tinnitus. :^) >Felines are my favorite. I agree. Every day I pet a cat is a good day. I haven't pet a cat in months. I love cats. >The biggest, brightest highlight of my unspecified amount of time lately was an interaction with a stray feline in a parking lot at night in the middle of nowhere. You should go there again. You should try to find that cat again, and bring a little bit of meat or something a cat might like. You really really should find that cat again. It sounds good for you.

Feeling demoralized about posting for the thread again, not in a "creators are underappreciated" way but just seeing others accomplish what you want to do but better while never seeming to be able to get anything done in a satisfying way. Sorry for the blogposting but I don't really have anywhere else to put my thoughts out.