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/
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.)
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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
"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/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ever have a #CoatiMonday where you're a bag-of-holding? It's a texture-shifting adventure that FA/KieliIndustries illustrates! This was a difficult idea to depict, not just for the burlap texture but for showing it doing something. Kieli (whose Elliot arctic fox provides the holding) did heroic work turning it into something manageable.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/43072504/
('Magic burlap sack' is a wonderful enough weird texture but the laces added something surprising and great to it.)
A couples #CoatiMonday, with this convention sketchbook picture of me and BunnyHugger drawn by Ifus showing how we pretty much spend our days, given the chance. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/3711512/
BunnyHugger likes to get a couples picture every convention we go to, but it's been harder finding artists she trusts enough to give a sketchbook with ten years of couples pictures to for the weekend.
A shiny #CoatiMonday is always welcome but spending it part-kobold? Credit FA/KieliIndustries for getting me into this fix!
Transmutation is more my thing but I'm not unwilling to spend a weekend as coati-and-something. This was a fun bit.
First snap of fall weather for a #CoatiMonday? Enjoy a mug of hot cocoati with whipped cream, courtesy of FA/techno., in a picture done as part of an art trade.
Chocolate (and related substances) seem like an inevitable transmutation for coatis and I'm not sure why I've never really gone in for them.
In for much-repairs this #CoatiMonday! A Termyotter raffle gets me in one of their slick robot forms, but, you know, this month. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/43628736/
Termyotter has always been one of the best goo artists, and a fantastic bot artist, and feel so lucky to have had this chance. I have without exaggeration been hoping for decades they might draw me someday.
Also, ooh, but a body held together by force fields is sweet.
This #CoatiMonday FA/techno. helps me find a new position and helps me keep it together after a tough week! https://www.furaffinity.net/view/43808553/
I'm happy to finally have a couple modular pictures, especially this, where techno. got imaginative and a bit weird and delightful.
Please don't be alarmed by me in pieces like this. Right now I need the time to just hang around.
A precious #CoatiMonday! This adorable ceramic figure was an anniversary gift from my dear bride. From Etsy(?), from I believe a German maker who was under-pricing their work.
The rabbit in the background is the same old one you've been seeing for months around here.
Partner to last #CoatiMonday is this standing ceramic figure figurine, an anniversary gift from my dear bride. It also is from that Etsy(?) seller who was, apparently, under-pricing their work.
Our rabbit, whom you've seen in my month-starting 'rabbit rabbit' pictures before, wonders why this isn't about her.
A last blast of summer for this #CoatiMonday, me getting to the beach with Lobowolf the inflatable wolf! A gorgeous piece illustrated by FA/RyuCas, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44188045/
Lobowolf's been a friend for nearly a quarter-century now; he's among the first inflatables I knew and it's great having a fun time with him.
A heartfelt #CoatiMonday with this heartfelt picture of me and my bride, by FA/ToonFX.
Sketchbook commission from either Morphicon or Motor City Furry Con in 2014 and I don't know why I hadn't shared it before. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13333067/
My own art for this #CoatiMonday. On SpinDizzy Muck, PatchO'Black painted me up for the Halloween season as this heck-coati. It's a bit warm!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44423483/
(Patchy often paints me and I like it every time. He also painted bat-wings on but I can't draw well enough for *that*.)
Feeling like a Jersey devil for this #CoatiMonday! FA/techno. was inspired and drew me in the heck-coati pelage. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44443905
... I have no idea how to work wings, so, sorry they're going to be fwapping you in the face like that.
A first-plush #CoatiMonday, with a doll I got in the 90s, sending the North American Bear Co. a check after asking if they still had these.
The person answering e-mails didn't know this was even on their web site but loved it and said she put one in their store window, first of many people I've given the good news of coati loveliness to.
The thread is for a tiny booklet of coati facts I could never get back around its neck. The front legs are on hinges to swing a bit.
In this vintage #CoatiMonday convention sketchbook picture, FA/Amethyst answers the question, what if my wife and I were cute? Like, *really* cute? https://www.furaffinity.net/view/7923881/
Originally done at Morphicon 2012, which was the last of those conventions I missed because I was too busy getting ready for our wedding to spend a weekend out in Ohio.
For #CoatiMonday enjoy this actual rubber coati, just like everyone wants. This balata rubber figure is one of three that I got at the Smithsonian National Zoo in 1999. I don't know why it has stripes down the back.
It's a bit whitened with age; for proper care it needs to be rubbed with skin lotion now and then and I haven't been reliable about that.
This #CoatiMonday my friend DeeterRabbit on birdsite ponders the question, what if I were anthro ... and buff? He thinks I might just look a little something ... like this.
Deeter's an old friend (I shared a room with him at ConFurence East II, in 1996!) and would like to see a bit more toon muscle on me. (I feel like a 1980s action figure doll.)
(Picture CW: partial eye contact, toon)
For the #CoatiMonday before Christmas, sharing an old gift. @/[email protected] found this delightful shotglass and thought of me.
I like having the chance to show off coatis as climbing animals since it's rather fun to hang around like this.
This #CoatiMonday I send the hope you were able to see some good holiday decorations and share in the spirit of joyful light.
My own art, and for a change, one where I tried doing a lot of stuff and it mostly came out like I imagined it would. Really feel myself punching above my weight, this picture, thanks in large part to ProCreate's 'light pen' brush and other special effects brushes.
A #CoatiMonday for meeting your heroes! I forgot last week was the anniversary of Popeye's debut, so, have this now. It's my own art ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38887320/ ) disputing whether coatis are Jeeps and there's a fair case for it.
(There's some resemblance but my suspicion is when Elzie Segar designed Jeeps he was thinking of a way he could draw Krazy Kat in his own strip. He and Krazy Kat's cartoonist were fans of each other.)
Getting around this #CoatiMonday! FA/techno. was doing some round icons and who can resist being a ball?
Fun fact: my player has such tight hamstrings that he can't even *look* at this picture.
This #CoatiMonday FA/breakerfa again envisions me, with the physique I could have if I were anthro and didn't like eating bagels so much!
Inking by FA/Lodoss-12. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45806976/ for the original.
(Odd fact: the pose was inspired by that _Catdog_ episode where Cat decides to bulk up.)
Don't embaraskt the man... he's had a hard day!
@JulieSqveakaroo I would never seek to embarrass Popeye! ... Except, I mean, I am reviewing his cartoons from the 60s on my humor blog but I keep finding stuff that's good about them, all right?
Anyway sometimes misunderstandings happen and they're hard to sort out and that's all there is to it.
@Chiaroscuro Something like that many rings, yeah, in fact. Have always said I have 'around a dozen' rings, based on what real coatis manage more or less.
As for being muscle-y ... well, I always see myself as twinkish (if I didn't, I could just be a weird-colored raccoon after all) but that doesn't rule out strong. Do feel like this is a pretty good blend of twink and musclefur, though.
@Austin_Dern I shall try to remember your ringedness.
And I've never quite considered Austin a twink, though It took me a decade of playing Chiaroscuro to realize oh *hell* he's a total twink. But I can see this, even if it's definitely the strongest/muscliest looking Austin I recall.
Well, aside from the CatDog-inspired one by the same artist.
@Austin_Dern This looks cute!
I was going to ask how a floaty for an inflatable works, only to realize you never specified what you and Lobowolf are inflated with… If Lobowolf has something with a heavier density than water, you'd actually help hold him up. (Of course, "don't try to think too hard about it" is a valid approach.)
@digitalfox Oh, we're both just regular old air inside. Part of the fun in pooltoy life is riding on top of the waves.
... Wearing a friend, or being worn by one, is also a particular delight.
@Austin_Dern Ah, noted! And that makes sense, I think.
It's not quite the same experience, but being holstered around in someone's pocket is fun (pocket fox, or paw-kit fox). Haven't (yet!) explored more toony/transformative means of wearing/being worn, but you have piqued my interest.
@Austin_Dern Ooh, I see. And I definitely wouldn't object to being held in a more snug place like a watchband - within easy petting reach too.
(…generally, you've made a lot of things sound interesting that I hadn't otherwise considered.)
@Austin_Dern Might this seller have a snowshoe hare? ^_^ (Moot point for now, but I can bookmark)
One assumes she may be satisfied with executive producer credit.
so miniature coati, normal rabbit.
definitely not normal coatl, and the dread leapus
So are the keys for use on you or are you holding them for a friend?
Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis
digitalfox
Julie Sqveakaroo
Robert "Chiaroscuro" Armstrong
Shy bunny
Glitch Yeen the Ice Cream
Damage control kobold