Happy #CoatiMonday! FA/ fmirsokp did this spectacular piece adding color to my toes.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36934469/

https://twitter.com/Bimshwel/status/1275272995653771265

I've admired their style and energetic poses and bold colors for years and am thrilled to have gotten two pieces by them recently.

Also, for how much I like it, you'd think I'd have many pictures of me being painted. (TF and non-TF.) But it's only in the past month that I realized I could commission pictures where I *do* something instead of nervous-smile.

Botched Restoration Job on This Painting Is Breathtaking by fmirsokp

a drawing for the very generous AustinDern of a character of the same name who must have decided the scene was not colorful enough. . . ...

Happy #CoatiMonday! FA/techno. wanted to practice robot sketches and so that's how my second robot-coati picture came about! I don't know the significance of the circular handle on back but I really like it.

... Considering how I like technological forms you'd think I would spend more time in one.

Someone has given Robot Austin a time-out this #CoatiMonday! Follow-up picture from FA/techno. from last week's picture.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37276526/

Thanks to VahnoEckran on birdsite for suggesting this insult to my dignity.

Also I like characters caught by something that should, logically, be easy to escape, like this.

[c] time out by techno.

comm forAustinDern in robot form, having been hung up by his handle for a time-out.

I'm in a different fix this #CoatiMonday! corpsepet@birdsite (who's open for more object commissions) drew me in plush, struggling to speak.

I really like plush who can only speak with a drawstring pull they can't give themselves. It adds a nice petty vulnerability and that's rather pleasant. Don't see that nearly enough.

This #CoatiMonday finds someone else thought I was being a pill.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37182913/
Picture by FA/TheDarkestDream

It's tough to make a chibi coati but TheDarkestDream managed pretty well. I really like the claws, too.

Pill 10 by TheDarkestDream

Aaaand the very last multi YCH for AustinDern, thank you!

A fun #CoatiMonday as I help someone share their strange magic toys! Sketch by unIDedTypingObj@birdsite of one of my favorite pastimes. What's great about yoinking magic items off people is there'll never be any strange or inconvenient consequences to it!

Another paleoart #CoatiMonday! In 1997 Dakhaari, one of the first aeromorphs, drew me on her ward Niami. https://yerf.metafur.org/macnmoni/niamis.gif (with gallery at https://yerf.metafur.org/macnmoni?page=1 ).

Dakhaari used a remote drone (the small catwoman on right) to interact as furry hadn't yet invented just being an anthro CF-105 Avro Arrow.

I had fun prowling around her (and husband Kintannon's) real, airplane, body, but that can't be realistically drawn so it's clear what's going on.

I play the fool this #CoatiMonday! A new rubber-clown sketch from FA/techno. and why is everyone so tense?

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37869074/

Austin as a clown was their idea but it fits startlingly well. It's a delight having a commission show a side you didn't know you had. So I'm happy to have another performance in.

[c] the fool by techno.

comm forAustin_Dern who makes a great squeeky rubber clown, I think!

Vintage #CoatiMonday today! Remember conventions? Gene Catlow and I went to ConFurence East 2, and I can prove it:
https://yerf.metafur.org/tempalbe/cfe2_5.gif

More pictures that Gene Catlow did are in the Yerf archive at https://yerf.metafur.org/tempalbe?page=3

Furry art just scanned like that in 1996. Nobody knows why.

Fun Fact: Gene Catlow was the first person to call me cool who wasn't my parents!

My plan is going very well and everything fits in place this #CoatiMonday! A Chocobouchees fairy trap. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37915261/

Yoinking magic tokens and getting harmlessly trapped is a scene I don't tire of, but didn't think to commission before this.

Not that there's anything bad in being in an inescapable shiny magic trap.

Commission: Fae Traps!!! by Chocobouchees

Looks like lil Austin got caught in one of Fickle's many traps as he tried to steal one of her magical items! The bauble he was taking w ...

Going vintage #CoatiMonday again! I don't remember coatiating Gene Catlow; it may have been a bit of fun on FurToonia Muck, back in the day.

https://yerf.metafur.org/tempalbe/coatiatd.gif

One of FurToonia's built-in commands is to hug someone. And you can make your own hug-like globals. (Most mucks have these options.) I did that eagerly. I do think I made 'coati' one of the verbs. But see next post for a more likely explanation ...

A multifaceted #CoatiMonday! I like spending the shiny holidays in amethyst, and @frengers did that perfectly. Alternate textures are a great thrill, and I don't get to be a living crystal enough. (It's easier to ask for melting or goo art, understandably.) I am fortunate frengers drew it so compellingly. It was also great fun watching in stream as frengers seemed to be working *magic*.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37037795/

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Spaceroo provides today's Vintage #CoatiMonday! A head shot of me with cousin honeygliders Skippy and Smucker: https://yerf.metafur.org/siemjohn/skaugljs.jpg

Skippy was the Animaniacs character played by a fan; Smucker was his other-colored twin, and sometimes they weren't squirrels.

Skippy-and-Smucker are not played anymore. Their player is still active on FurryMuck.

A warm October #CoatiMonday! techno. on FurAffinity was offering to melt people and how could I resist? https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38248887/

I can't explain the joy melting or other transmutation-like scenes brings me. I'm glad it comes across in the picture. The moment of becoming free-flowing, though, that's such a sweet thought.

[c] melty austin chibi by techno.

comm for <a href="/user/austindern" class="linkusername">austindern</a> - doin' a melt again! :)

An ingenious #CoatiMonday as FA/Akaji_lion drew me using elasticity to snag a shiny in a shiny-snagging plan that can't possibly miss! https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38490766/

I don't get to play enough with stretching or flattening and so am glad I had an idea and that Akaji, who's just a master at stretching and flattening art, was willing to do it.

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Happy #CoatiMonday! ArtByHornbuckle@birdsite/https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/-hornbuckle-/ brings me in a Scarecrow mood as we approach Halloween. Who doesn't love that Ray Bolgeresque slipping?

Hornbuckle's an expert in tf commissions, an amazing bundle of positivity, and, last I checked, open for Halloween commissions still.
https://twitter.com/ArtByHornbuckle/status/1316684256865857536

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Happy Haunted #CoatiMonday! PatchO'Black, Jellicle Cat of SpinDizzy muck, gave me a ghost-colored paint job for the season and that's been a lot of fun. And then Hornbuckle (ArtByHornbuckle over on birdsite) was wonderful enough to draw it.

This is my first real experience with a Halloween spoopy form and it's been fun playing out all the Casper-the-Friendly-Ghost body-humor scenes I could hope for.

Happy Halloween! Berkeley Moreland, crab-eating raccoon and Off-Brand Candy Shop owner, offers a Meh, Henry. Picture by ArtByHornbuckle@birdsite.

You can get these and other Off-Brand Candies at the shop on SpinDizzy muck. New this week: Peanut Ductile. Said one lucky taster, "That takes a while to finish."

It's a very 80s #CoatiMonday as FA/techno. gives me an Automan makeover! Remember this 'Tron, but a Cop' show?

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38616957/

Seriously though watch the credits and guess whether it's a real show or an over-the-top parody of 80s shows. I loved it as a kid but have not dared watch it with mature, adult eyes, if such a thing is possible.

(CW: Automan's powers include other people can wear him and take on his super computer powers so be aware if this causes emotions.)

[c] AutoCoati by techno.

austin_dern dons a special suit that's awfully reminiscent of Automan!

For #CoatiMonday FA/techno. animates me in clay. Gumby had this great style.

I keep meaning to play out being the material more, but I haven't found a way comfortable for me to do it outside FurToonia muck. But getting pictures like this, that get the Gumby style right, has to help.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39063506/

(c) Austin Dern by techno.

quick colored sketch comm forAustinDern - a clay version of the coati, akin to Gumby and friends, perusing a book of interesting places ...

An unusual #CoatiMonday! Thomas K Dye of 'Newshounds' and 'Projection Edge' did a banner for my mathematics blog series on celestial mechanics. https://wp.me/p1RYhY-1dO

I realize the end of that post promises a continuation that I never did write. This is a risk of an open-ended series.

Picture CW: eye contact

Why Stuff Can Orbit, Part 12: How Fast Is An Orbit?

Previously: Laying Some Groundwork Why Stuff Can’t Orbit It Turns Out Spinning Matters On The L Why Physics Doesn’t Work And What To Do About It Circles and Where To Find Them ALL the C…

Another banner-image #CoatiMonday! Thomas K Dye, of 'Newshounds' and 'Projection Edge', did this for the 2017 glossary project on my mathematics blog, https://wp.me/p1RYhY-1hk

Glossary projects are fun but exhausting: I write an essay for each letter of the alphabet and then wonder why I commit to such a workload. The answer is that the exhaustion is the fun.

The Summer 2017 Mathematics A To Z: What I Talked About

This is just a list of all the topics I covered in the Summer 2017 A To Z. Arithmetic Benford’s Law Cohomology Diophantine Equations Elliptic Curves Functor Gaussian Primes Height Function (e…

Observe #CoatiMonday with the 2018 glossary on my mathematics blog Thomas K Dye, of 'Newshounds' and 'Projection Edge', made this snappy header. https://wp.me/p1RYhY-1B7

Also, if you're on birdsite, you can help him have a completely overloaded, busy weekend of drawing!

https://twitter.com/projectionedge/status/1333126459674693633

Picture CW: eye contact (cartoony)

What I Wrote About in My 2018 Mathematics A To Z

I have reached the end! Thirteen weeks at two essays per week to describe a neat sampling of mathematics. I hope to write a few words about what I learned by doing all this. In the meanwhile, thoug…

First #CoatiMonday of the holiday season! A ghost-painted Austin has a legit excuse to not help Chitter Squirrel decorating. My own art.

I may have a shaky grasp of anatomy, muscle, composition, and lettering, but I *nail* 'cardboard boxes left in the basement all year'.

Also I'm stunned how much I like the effect of a 50% opacity on a color layer. Art tricks that easy shouldn't *work*.

#CoatiMonday here observes Thomas K Dye (of Projection Edge, Newshounds, and several other web comics) giving visual identity to my 2019 mathematics glossary project. You can get to all the essays of that project at https://wp.me/p1RYhY-1QY
What I Wrote About In My 2019 Mathematics A To Z

And I have made it to the end! As is traditional, I mean to write a few words about what I learned in doing all of this. Also as is traditional, I need to collapse after the work of thirteen weeks …

Happy #CoatiMonday! Gosh how did I mysteriously end up stuck inside a too-small bottle again? It's some weird thing that just happens to me now and then for no good reason. And I'm not even a genie so far as anyone knows.

Fun sketch by FA/techno. as published at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39349620/

[c] bottled coati by techno.

comm for <a href="/user/austindern" class="linkusername">austindern</a> - a bottled coati. looks like he's okay with it, though!

A #CoatiMonday gift from FA/ZukaroTravon; thanks from the wax fox, after I gave heated socks for his powerfully-popcorn-scented feet. ... Yes, of course this is a good idea all around, why wouldn't it be? https://www.furaffinity.net/view/34348841/

Zukaro's a kind, if fragile, person with interests in low melting points and such. Befriending him rekindled my interest in melting and fluids and that's been fun.

(Gallery CW: vent art, sometimes with melting as a dire fate.)

Celebrate the first #CoatiMonday of the new year with a piece of my own art and my own thesis! This may also be Ashleigh Brilliant fan art.

Another banner #CoatiMonday! Thomas K Dye rushed to dress me up to host the Playful Math Education Blog Carnival last March.

The carnival's this roaming educational/recreational mathematics project that you, too, can host. It's challenging but worth it! https://wp.me/p1RYhY-1UX

Picture CW: eye contact (cartoony)

The Playful Math Education Blog Carnival #136

Greetings, friends, and thank you for visiting the 136th installment of Denise Gaskins’s Playful Math Education Blog Carnival. I apologize ahead of time that this will not be the merriest of …

One more banner #CoatiMonday! Thomas K Dye created this for my mathematics blog's 2020 glossary sequence.

That's an annual project during which I explain one mathematics term for each letter of the alphabet. It's fun and exhausting.

You can see what I covered for 2020 at https://wp.me/p1RYhY-256

What I Wrote About In My All 2020 Mathematics A to Z

I am happy, as ever, to complete an A-to-Z. Also to take some time to recover after the project. I had thought that spreading things out to 26 weeks would make them less stressful, and instead, I j…

Everybody loves transformation paint, but FA/techno. shows how a simple alternate-color paint is a #CoatiMonday delight too. I'm surprised more people don't take advantage of a simple brush and paint bucket. And, watch this space, as there's more than one brush on hand, and my fur takes paint *very* well and suspiciously often ...

And the other side of last week's #CoatiMonday, a Coatimundi Day special! A rainbow color scheme of FA/techno.'s splendid painting. It's hard to decide on a good paint scheme so variations are always great.

Coatimundi Day is this event at the Cohanzick Zoo in Bridgeton, New Jersey where they have three coatis forecast the weather by what plate of fruits they go to. I don't know whether it's happening this year.

Another, and my last (for now), banner #CoatiMonday! Thomas K Dye of Infinity Refugees drew this for the September 2020 Playful Math Education Blog Carnival, a rotating educational/recreational mathematics blog which I've hosted a couple times: https://wp.me/p1RYhY-22j
Playful Math Education Blog Carnival 141

This is the 141st Playful Math Education Blog Carnival. And I will be taking this lower-key than I have past times I was able to host the carnival. I do not have higher keys available this year. Th…

Frommer Possum art this vintage #CoatiMonday, and a 1999 watercolor of me at my most photorealistic.

When I first met Frommer he thought I was the new character of someone who'd quit FurToonia forever and ever and this time he meant it a couple days before, and he grabbed me and stuffed me into his pouch, just like the jokes about introverts making friends.

When his friend rejoined a couple days later we became friends too. And it *really* made sense people would think we were the same guy.

Another vintage Frommer Possum piece for #CoatiMonday, a 1998 picture of me enthusiastic about spaceflight. Imagine me, being enthusiastic!

Frommer had a crush he never figured how to get me to reciprocate. But one time he was just messing around, and finger-painted me yellow all over and I realized, oh, that is *quite* nice. Rewrote my description to match. Being painted is a real joy and only a few people ever try it.

I think he never realized he activated a particular interest in me.

A surprise #CoatiMonday! crazyyellowfox@birdsite did a draw-your-mutuals meme and picked me for the bottom row. https://twitter.com/crazyyellowfox/status/1364797153365823491

I suspect a Frommer influence in how the head was shaped.

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“Okay, I didn't get a full set of nine responses, so I chose some mutuals at random to fill it out... @Fitzroy_Fox @StarTheWerewolf @WeirdoDSheiks @GlowingLeem @Zahzu @AbraKadabra634 @toonvasion @Austin_Dern @Gamblepaws”

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In 2004 Loam was annoyed my Livejournal didn't have an icon, and fixed that. This #CoatiMonday icon is still my default image at https://austin-dern.dreamwidth.org

The Krazy Kat influence is because I discovered the comic about the same time I discovered coatis and pushed both on my friends in the 90s.

Loam (https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/loamchu/ ) isn't an active artist anymore, a pity, though they are still around on FurryMuck regularly.

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Loam (FA/Loamchu) did test sketches for the icons he made as gifts back in the day. This #CoatiMonday I share a rough that's expressive enough I sometimes use it. The Krazy Kat influence is still really obvious and I envy how alive the drawing looks.

Love that #CoatiMonday! FA/techno. did a great piece of me having got into the paint bucket again.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40961642/

This was part of an art trade; https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40568860/ is my half of it.

colorful coati by techno.

foraustindern !

Another vintage never-seen-before #CoatiMonday! This is another Loam-created sketch, practice for my Dreamwidth/Livejournal icons.

Loam is still around on FurryMuck and a few other furry hangouts but what I understand is he doesn't draw much and he posts even less.

https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/loamchu/ for his gallery, though, including pictures of other coati characters.

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Just a guy made of dots and lines.. .

Enjoy another Loam #CoatiMonday! This rough-draft is great enough I often use it as my first icon when I join a site.

https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/loamchu/ for Loam's finished work.

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Just a guy made of dots and lines.. .

A gift #CoatiMonday! Ardarius, on SpinDizzy muck, commissioned vk/vankorsk to show me shy about something. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40967172/ I'm usually not actually a balloon, but it makes a great impression on people when I am.
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Another Loam sketch for #CoatiMonday; it's unfinished, but I do like its showing the thinking of how to abstract 'coati' in a few lines.

Also that Loam figured one of my default reactions to the world is wide-eyed surprise. I think it's still true, although in different ways from back around 2005.

A busy #CoatiMonday! Ardarius commissioned https://vk.com/art_niche to show me keeping him and Beltrami up to pressure. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41130256/

Ardarius (the purple dragon) and Beltrami (the silver/clear dragon) are SpinDizzy Muck regulars and this is a view of me in inflatable form.

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Another Loam-created study for an icon this #CoatiMonday. It's got a great soft look with a healthy-size snout.

I love these sketches for just expressing a quick mood, mostly 'startled', in this nice quick casual way.

I don't know, just seems like any old day to me.

(1998-vintage picture by Spaceroo, https://yerf.metafur.org/siemjohn/robotroo.jpg )

A gift from DeeterRabbit (on birdsite and Telegram) for this #CoatiMonday, showing off me with muscles I did not know I had!

CW: eye contact (cartoon sketch)

Pooltoy Austin drawing attention to *something* in this #CoatiMonday picture Ardarius commissioned from club182738933 on vk. Love to see seams like this all over my body, too.

Fun fact: coati tails are not prehensile, but they look so much like they *should* be that nobody's ever disagreed with the artists.

The last of Loam's gift icon sketches for #CoatiMonday today! It's another sweet, slightly surprised, George Herriman-esque look for me.
Spend #CoatiMonday looking down a magnificent nose thanks to FA/techno. in an iconic pose! Also I really like the 70s Variety Show Backdrop here. Adds a lovely touch. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41720298/
[F] Austin_Dern by techno.

forAustin_Dern :)

Chanspot's vintage #CoatiMonday piece captures me at a moment when I swapped my ears with a bunny's. It's a flattering image.

The 'Happy 10th' implies the picture's from either 2005 (my character's 10th anniversary) or 2008 (SpinDizzy Muck's 10th). I think the latter's more likely, as I remember the swapping. Also not sure what's being tossed at me there.

(I don't have an original URL for this, I'm afraid, and can't swear that Chanspot drew this rather than commissioned the gift.)

Hexadoodle Frog reveals how I get that great Shiny Day form this #CoatiMonday: it's all about knowing where to go. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42225400/

I believe this, after a quarter-century, is the first picture to show me in the act of transmuting or transforming, which seems odd considering how much that theme interests me.

(For those who worry, yes, it's transmuting into a living crystal. Won't be frozen in place until the next discoverer, unless I feel like playing a prank.)

Coatite by hexadoodle

Commission for austindern ! A crystallizing coati.

Ready to hit the pool this #CoatiMonday thanks to FA/RyuCas helping me get in shape! I've had a couple inflatable pictures before but this is my first color (and lineless) poolring and it's a delight.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42333055/

[C] AustinDern by RyuCas

Commission for AustinDern. . I invite you to my telegram channel to be aware of everything. https://t.me/joinchat/Vja_N-DSSDl-RBS8

"Just because I took *this* peanut butter doesn't mean I took *the* peanut butter!"" Wonderful #CoatiMonday art by pencilforge on Birdsite.

I don't get to play the side of me that's a bit peanut-butter-mad enough and I'm glad to have something showing it off.

(That side is partly on real me, and partly on a rescued raccoon I used to sponsor who'd had his head trapped in a peanut butter jar.)

Art trade #CoatiMonday! @/ChavapaBearTW@Birdsite was kind enough to swap arts and to give me a great-looking nose.

My half of the trade is at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42325797/

Chavapa Bear, Burger Time, Hot Dog, and Fried Egg, 13 Jun... by AustinDern

My half of an art trade with https://www.twitter.com/ChavapaBearTW. As he's got a YouTube channel talking video games --- https://w ...

My dear bride BunnyHugger sculpted this for our anniversary and I share it this #CoatiMonday.

And how did she keep secret sculpting, firing, and painting a pretty good-size figure during a time when neither of us left the house? She said to me, "Well, I think I'll do something boring, no need to check on me for a couple hours," and that made sense to me.

That's our Tri-Zone pinball machine used as background. Not its permanent home.

(Really she said she was making a test for a Christmas decoration project she's been planning for several months, but its *true* protection was trusting that i would find that too dull a project to eavesdrop on.)
A vintage #CoatiMonday! A long while ago my not-yet-bride created this image of me as a coatipede or coatipiller (whichever name less unsettles you; I have people close to me with centipede phobias). It's the longest me, and a rarely-seen side of me. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1871162/
Coatipede by BunnyHugger

Austin Dern, imagined as a "coatipede."

Keep cool this #CoatiMonday! FA/bakertoons was good enough to help me chill out in classic style. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42699351/

I've been feeling that UPA/Jay Ward/Total-TV look lately so I'm glad to have something in that tradition.

Ice Cold Coati by bakertoons

Flat color commission for austindern. . Taking commissions now! See info at https://twitter.com/bakertoons/status/1412400566664302603

And a happy #CoatiMonday sprawl into late summer! FA/techno. helped the coatipiller/coatipede become a less-rarely-seen long version of me. ... Also I'm gratified to learn how many people would like me to have so very much belly and paws.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42739893/

[c] Coatipede by techno.

What a cutie!! Austin is always cute, but the more legs, the merrier!. . stream comm foraustindern

Hexadoodle Frog surprises me with a wonderful #CoatiMonday demonstration of how long my tail can be! https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42979746/

Back in the 90s someone on FurToonia assumed coatis were my fan-species of Marsupilami, a character I had not heard of. But I liked what still pictures the Internet had. Also when they extended my tail so very long. I'm shocked I took 23 years to get a picture of the idea, though with someone else extending my tail this time.

Tape measure noises by hexadoodle

Commission for austindern whose coati frequently gets a fun modification of some kind! This time it's a tail that can be pulled as ...

Handling a #CoatiMonday heat wave with FA/techno. giving me a change of phase. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42762904/

Something got me thinking about how transmutation is great fun but you almost never see vapor morphs, so I was happy techno. was interested in this challenge.

[c] Austin Dern, evaporating by techno.

pfp comm forAustinDern who is in a bit of a steamy situation. and it's not what you thought that meant!

@Austin_Dern Ha, yes, as soon as I saw this I thought that's a very Marsupilami tail. I never watched the cartoon myself, but was aware of it from ads.
@Austin_Dern Damn I'm jealous of the Tri-Zone.
Also this story is adorable.

@V Aw, thank you!

Our Tri-Zone's served us very well and we're just sorry we haven't figured out why the sound isn't working. It deserves better care but the past year has been bad for calling people in to help with non-essential stuff.

@Austin_Dern Gosh, this is cute
@Glitchyeen Thank you! RyuCas took a pleasant little idea and did so, so much more and more wonderfully than I could have hoped. I'm so delighted by their work!

@Austin_Dern Looks great! Inflatables keeping other inflatables, well, inflated reminds me of the "dogs petting dogs" joke :)

…um, speaking of application of pressure, I'm guessing it's purely coincidence that with my phone in landscape (instead of portrait), Tusky's unexpanded image preview focuses on everyone's footpaws. >.<';

@digitalfox Glad you like, and I'm always glad to see interesting inflatable interactions, even as I don't join them often enough.

The preview isn't coincidence, or at least isn't purely coincidence, though. I set the preview section to focus on my involvement and that happens to put the dragons' feet in view too.

@Austin_Dern Yeah! There's a lot I don't understand, but I'm fascinated with how you and others explore different forms and what amusing/silly/in-depth situations can result, inflatable/pool-toy being one such thing.

(For example, a little while back on Bigfurs IRC the topic came up of an inflatable that's large enough to host a pool party *inside* theirself, by partially filling with water, or as another suggested, fully filling with some form of oxygenated/breathable liquid.)

As to pedestrian pursuits, uh, I guess the unusually tall/wide aspect ratio of some modern day phones contributes to exaggerating the effect - here's an unedited screenshot of what greeted me:
(It wasn't /entirely/ my fault for noticing this…)

@digitalfox Oh, yes, something like an inflatable big enough to house people inside, or to be partly filled with water is exactly my jam. I like transmutation and strange materials and am lucky a couple people like playing along.

Now, the screenshot ... huh! Well, I did drag the center-of-focus down to the bottom of the picture, figuring that was the best chance to have me appear. I hope folks who like squeaky paws appreciated the preview!