asterisk6.bsky.social

If I had a time machine and could only do petty things, I’d go back in time to the Starlight Express workshops and go “have ANY of you considered why steam engines were ACTUALLY hated?“ and save it from marrying the absolute stupidest, most justified fantasy racism concept known to man

I have no idea why anyone thought that a machine known for being “black and dirty”, technologically primitive, genuinely dangerous, physically inferior, and banned from NYC for legitimate safety reasons was a good standin for ANY human demographic because holy shit that’s justified hate

If I had a time machine and could only do petty things, I’d go back in time to the Starlight Express workshops and go “have ANY of you considered why steam engines were ACTUALLY hated?“ and save it from marrying the absolute stupidest, most justified fantasy racism concept known to man

It’s fucking painful that so much physical effort and genuinely inspired artistic choices are wasted on a narrative that’s fundamentally blatantly stupid and regressive on every level. Even moreso when people DEFEND it because uwu it’s a racism metaphor and not really about trains

I am so close to making a Toon critter equivalent of Al Perlman who solely exists to brutally murder twee little cartoon choo choos. I have a rapidly growing hatred for cute cliche steam engines in media for erasing other historic trains and ignoring how they actually suck.

His joke is either that he is a completely reasonable railroader in an unreasonable universe, three more choo choos replace each one he obliterates, or that he’s actually fine with accurately shitty steam engines because they’re funny. Or he replaces them with equally shitty NEW trains

An interesting Mummer vs fursuiter thing is TOTALLY different species mix. Bugs, fish, reptile, and amphibians are way more common and non-pet small mammals are nearly nonexistant. There’s some dogs but (mostly big) cats are more common. Both have a lot of dragons and birds

Bird species are totally different (minus parrots, which are fairly popular with both) you see waaay more fowl Mummer suits for obvious reasons, but they’re rare as fursuits. You get way more overall species diversity with the former vs hoardes of generic canines

I can’t believe I found a photo of a fursuit in the Mummer’s parade in the 2000s but lmao of course it’s Acid Horse by the confederate flag suit guy (Magnus Diridian). So unsurprising I had to ugly laugh

Furries and Mummers having swapped reputations would be hilarious. “All fursuits are Victorian-style, clown-themed, or cosplays of racist early cartoons” vs “ plumbers in 50 pounds of sequins, scratchy interfacing, metal, feathers, and/or cardboard make you awooga because you’re a bird inside”

Trust me bro these are all inversions of real things. They barely make sense outside me because there’s like no overlap between the scenes

Furries and Mummers having swapped reputations would be hilarious. “All fursuits are Victorian-style, clown-themed, or cosplays of racist early cartoons” vs “ plumbers in 50 pounds of sequins, scratchy interfacing, metal, feathers, and/or cardboard make you awooga because you’re a bird inside”

one of the C-list hair metal guys wins the dance comp every year because he has the coolest fursuit and the crowd fucking loves it. Serious dancers hate it. Thus reinventing the Fancy category because yeah, a lot of people just want to see the costumes bounce around

Furries and Mummers having swapped reputations would be hilarious. “All fursuits are Victorian-style, clown-themed, or cosplays of racist early cartoons” vs “ plumbers in 50 pounds of sequins, scratchy interfacing, metal, feathers, and/or cardboard make you awooga because you’re a bird inside”

Fancy Mummer documentary filmed like Animal Planet talking about rare birds at a lek ft insinuating they think it’s hot Fursuit parades that go on all day. Femboy foxes exist because skirts mean you can piss anywhere (bonus for being in character). hairy legs count as NOT poodling

Furries and Mummers having swapped reputations would be hilarious. “All fursuits are Victorian-style, clown-themed, or cosplays of racist early cartoons” vs “ plumbers in 50 pounds of sequins, scratchy interfacing, metal, feathers, and/or cardboard make you awooga because you’re a bird inside”

My human art has been slowly mangafied by middle aged men in train costumes. Both unrelated. It’s absurd

People who make characters of fictional species like sergals or protogens while ignoring the lore for them is baffling to me, that’s the point where I just file the serial numbers off. Especially if I actively don’t like the lore.

It’s part of why I don’t make species and if someone really wants to knockoff a character of mine, sure. I’d be way too excommunication happy if you tried to use my names or universes. Species tend to get really cookie cutter anyways and I don’t care to encourage that.

I might need to revisit my powerpoint about just HOW spectacularly bad Starlight Express’s train politics are. To the point it’s not even stupid anymore, it’s a tragedy and sort of Train Cabaret but with neoliberalism and/or idiotic industrial politics

My energy is mostly back and I’m feeling a bit more social, so watch out for Sarai at Furrydelphia tomorrow

Asterisk currently isn’t wearable because I ripped the ears off during a mental breakdown (they’re fixable, just need more pill bottles the right size) I made some really dumb “refurb” decisions during it in general but fortunately most are fixable

I’ve always had a distinct art style, for better and worse. It’s started to feel limiting and inescapable. But also something I have little will to fight since I only really care about drawing character designs

Not knowing if anything is coming after Asterisk is heartbreaking. I guess commissioning is a possibility in the far future, but every personal project falling apart recently has been :/ I really prefer to make my own “face” in the furry sphere and I‘d swallow my pride just getting a base

Maybe this will lead to a less selfish core interest tbh I just hate that I seem destined to become normie and peak in high school

Not knowing if anything is coming after Asterisk is heartbreaking. I guess commissioning is a possibility in the far future, but every personal project falling apart recently has been :/ I really prefer to make my own “face” in the furry sphere and I‘d swallow my pride just getting a base

My heart yearns for an edgy metal sona and Sarai is the sad cat because he’s pretty damn close to that (his expression is just more cool vs edgy)

Bessemer is only becoming more of a boondoggle, I don’t like how the wings are coming out at all and they’re incredibly heavy Me vs high school me feels like a “why can’t we build a subway AT ALL we did it so easily in the past”