It's the #CoatiMonday before Sweetest Day, so I could hardly post anything but a picture with my sweetest, BunnyHugger. We've long made a very happy pair and thanks to a very flexible YCH by FA/Tio-Raine, here we are as a pair of slippers together! Not sure who we'd trust to step into us, but as it is, hiding under the sofa and just being together? That's the good stuff.

Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57647985/

(Sweetest Day is a regional holiday, a chance to give cards and candy to people you love. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetest_Day and it's different from Valentine's Day in important ways. Promise.)

Here I am trying to enjoy one of the too-few #CoatiMonday sessions of #Ghost-Being Season and someone tosses one of these traps at me! It's so ... oh, I don't know how to put what this is in a single word, it's just so ... so ... saaaaaaay!

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58434061/

This picture was a lot of fun to draw, both for getting the transparency effect to something I liked and for getting to draw in all the glowy arc-y special effects.

This is yet another picture of me where the backstory logically must be that someone has gotten fed up with me and is done.

We're still in the #Ghost-being season this #CoatiMonday and I am still enjoying it! For the most part. You know the tricky thing about being of variable tangibility? While it's easy to get into any food-bearing boxes there's this trick in getting back out and it is _really bogus_ how that will get you! _This_ is why the rules about what I can and can't touch are so complicated.

My own art; original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58591675/

I don't know why the fridge has a carton of milk and a very tiny bottle of milk too. Maybe the bottle is half-and-half?

Yes, those are the colors fridges and kitchens used to be and it was better than now when it's only white or black. Ask an Old.

Did you know the day after this #CoatiMonday is my dear bride's birthday? I can't say for sure whether @SimonTesla knows that.

But he was so generous as to use one of his LynxGriffin Patreon rewards ( https://www.patreon.com/LynxGriffin ) to commission this lovely piece of us in our favorite activity. I'm rather sure he knew that's our favorite pastime that doesn't involve amusement parks at least.

I genuinely thought my country would choose to live.

A grieving #CoatiMonday with my own art. Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58768761/

It's good to stretch yourself some and what better way to start a #CoatiMonday than with a good self-spaghetti tangle?

@rubbystrechywolf was kind enough to draw me --- original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57621764/ --- all spread out and shining, and please soak in some of the joy of having a lot of fluffy, stretchy belly to admire.

We start this #CoatiMonday with a tale torn from the headlines! Yes, I really did rickroll myself by switching over to the 80s station. I have to accept responsibility for the obvious consequences of my actions.

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58815267/

The song in the first panel is Sparks's 'Let The Monkey Drive', from their 2008 album _Exotic Creatures of the Deep_. You can hear it at the completely legitimate and non-rickrolling link of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWBBykhoyO8 I swear.

For #CoatiMonday today we look back to Parade Balloon Day, where --- as mentioned in https://blimps.xyz/deck/@Austin_Dern/113561522227563301 --- we got to hear announcers try and figure out what media property blimps.xyz regulars who snuck in represent!

If you missed it during the parade here's me and blimp cousin @2chaotic making the announcers do some good guessing about why we're there!

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59008381/

The Recycling Raccoons are a public-service project from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, and you can see how adorable my cousins are at https://recyclingraccoons.org/

Greetings to you! Bringing some cheer on a #CoatiMonday is the coati-ness of it all, of course! But also the joy of spending some time as a liquidmorph and hanging around another liquid friend. In this case, it's me with Aver the Dorbley, enjoying that great sense of shiny, glossy freedom.

Art by Aver the Dorbley; this began as a YCH offering that I believe may still be open (see <https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58378158/>); if this specific one gets posted in a gallery I'll try and remember to update this toot.

Having a ball this #CoatiMonday in the traditional blimps.xyz manner: being both big and round! I know it looks like I'm getting ready to hang on a tree but since I'm good at hanging in trees all the time anyway (and you should see what I have planned for next week) why not just hang out in the air? It's a fun place to be.

Picture by a friend who, last time I discussed, wished to go unrevealed. This may have changed and I'll update if the subject comes up.

You know what's a great way to spend that last #CoatiMonday before the New Year? Visit some friends, such as the artist and wax-robot fox Zukaro Travon, who enjoys collecting friends and their faces and keeping them in a basket for safekeeping.

It's a nice way to feel wanted and also to discover that, huh, you were a robot hiding underneath that skin, that's pretty neat to find out, isn't it?

Nice glossy commission from Zukaro, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59092998/ for the original art.

First #CoatiMonday of the year and a good chance to power down and get some maintenance cared for! This picture is based on a YCH by FA/thefirstlast that's still open, at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/48890658/ and while I may be looking a bit more anthro than usual in this pose I assure you, it's an optical illusion of the goo-filled maintenance tube. You'll see.

Beep.

And this YCH was gifted to me by Ballada, a friend on a robots group that I'm in, hoping to help me upgrade to the new community. It's pretty nice.

This #CoatiMonday finds a strange state of affairs: someone's gone and defragged my fur colors! It's going to take *so much* swapping around to get my eyemask and tailrings back where they should be. ... That color seam across my middle is pretty neat, though, must admit.

My own picture, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59501791/

This #CoatiMonday I'm taking another try at the piñata body texture, this after a Brewster Rockit comic strip last week (<https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2025/01/17>) suggested an approach. I think it's more successful effect than past ones, but it's still not there yet. Probably the body outlines need to be more fringed.

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59569802/

#BlackLivesMatter

This #CoatiMonday is a good chance to help your robot cousins with some routine maintenance! Here I sit up with cousin @Loosf and help it review all its ports for any that have changed or that look suspicious. It's good to check routinely in case of trouble!

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59661717/ and based on a silly toot from https://blimps.xyz/@Austin_Dern/113771245251167716

And my thanks to my robot cousin for letting me use it to amuse the public!

Might be worth checking out those more cryptic symbols though.

And a happy first #CoatiMonday in this Year of the Snake! You know a snake's body is almost all torso, with almost none of their length tail? To help you see, please consider the coati-snake, with an enormous quantity of nice, readily available, fluffy belly for those who approach just right.

Also hey, nice to see @Chiaroscuro --- one of my longest friendships --- bringing the enthusiasm from the mongoose community!

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59709637

For this #CoatiMonday before Valentine's Day, I share photos of a gift from my current and I hope forever valentine, my bride. This past Frithmas she gave me this nice pair of vinyl coati stickers and while I haven't decided what to stick them on, I love having them by my side and showing what I might look like if I were flat and iridescent; I hope you do too!

The stickers were made by Ryan McCullough, https://www.ryanteachesart.com

Are you feeling the chill this #CoatiMonday? Thanks to artist ZukaroTravon I'm not; this heat lamp is just the right thing to bring me up to a nice, cozy temperature. Say, did I mention Zukaro is an expert at finding ways to lower your melting point and make it easier to spend the week as a cozy blob?

Sketch commission from FA/zukarotravon who as far as I know hasn't posted this anywhere yet.

It's a fine-looking late winter #CoatiMonday and you know what that means: the first stretchbow of the season! This phenomenon, seen when a sufficiently elastic furry is feeling energetic, was first documented by elastic artist Aver the Dorbley (FA/aver-art) and offered as a YCH at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58595009/

(So far as I know individual instances of the stretchbow aren't being posted, but if I learn better I'll edit this to match.)

'Flate Tuesday already? It seems to sneak up on you earlier every year, for example, despite this being #CoatiMonday! Well, at least someone's having a ball, and I'm it? Looks like a merry time for all.

My own art; original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60056488/

And a happy #CoatiMonday morning. Just enjoying the early-spring weather around here and waking up just enough to confirm this doesn't need me to act on anything.

Simple pastoral picture of mine, drawn mostly to keep practicing pictures where nothing weird is going on. Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60149296/

Hey, hope you had a great time with the eclipse this past week. I had a great one and this #CoatiMonday I can share why! You know how great cheese as old as the Moon can be?

My own picture, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60206260/

(Whew, some weird stuff after the very normal last week.)

Can't keep a good #CoatiMonday bottled up! This picture by techno depicts Austin as a glass-bottle coati, which is a fantastic thing to be and a fantastic way to be it. What might be the amethyst-colored liquid inside? No way to know, but I'm delighted to show it off.

Original art by techno as mentioned; not in any online galleries I'm aware of.

Hey, anyone else hear about this great Slab offer? You find one on your doorstep and you can just ignore the weird CGI guy wanting you to return it or whatever and have all sorts of fun! You should get one yourself, there's no downside!

This week's #CoatiMonday is a sketch page done by unidentifiedtypingobject, working on the theme of Coati and Slab, and if you haven't seen the Courage the Cowardly Dog with the slab-returning or haven't seen it recently, give it a try. I believe Cartoon Network is showing it this very week.

Art not posted to https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/unidentifiedtypingobject/ but if that chances I'll probably not remember to say anything. Sorry. Busy with a Slab.

Time for spring cleaning this #CoatiMonday! And there's nothing like getting your paws dirty and really doing the work yourself, as your best vacuum-cleaner self.

Mostly silliness, but also my chance to hang out with some of those maid furries you see all over the place. And there's something nice about getting your robot side on.

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60474839/ and I was joking in asking if this was tail vore but based on the people who've been favoriting it, I guess I'm hitting something people do want to see.

I've got one of those incredibly relatable experiences to share this #CoatiMonday ... you know how it is when something or other has gone and stretched your tail out preposterously long, and then this blue snake comes along and thinks it's the most gorgeous snake ever and you're trying to avoid the snake's affections without hurting them too much? I know, it's always a weird day when that hits you.

This is a commission from @bakertoons, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60395558/ and as you likely spotted, based on the Pink Panther cartoon where Pink's tail got stretched preposterously long ('Pinktails For two', viewable at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp6_9VuqLyQ )

Happy Easter #CoatiMonday! You know what's even better than those Slabs you hear so much about? UnidentifiedTypingObject inking and cleaning up some of the gags shared last week, plus adding a lot of nice shading and grey washes so what was already a great set of gags is even better yet.

Also, the episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog that this was based on? Still really good. Worth watching.

Happy Slab, everybody!

Not yet posted to https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/unidentifiedtypingobject/ but I'll try and update this post when I see that it is.

Little something unusual this #CoatiMonday as I reached just past 350 watchers on FurAffinity. So I chose to celebrate by tossing open an art-giveaway, the first time I'm trying something like this. And it's gotten a bunch of interesting suggestions, not every one of them based on this headless hydra I keep drawing! Neat.

This picture is the one used to announce it, minus the explanatory text --- https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60708166/ --- since while I like the picture I did here, I'm worried about art requests getting out of control. The pose is a little bit better than average for me, because it's referenced from a photograph of a coati sitting in the nook of a tree ( https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/south-american-coati-sitting-between-tree-2239096293 ) and somehow my pictures come out better when there's, like, reference or practice put into them, a lesson I will never learn.

This picture could also be a title card for the new season of The Austin Dern Show (see https://blimps.xyz/@Austin_Dern/101932971578355028 by @projectionedge ).

Happy #CoatiMonday! It is really, really weird how #FurAffinity continues to struggle with the servers, huh? Well, I did what I could to help out but you know, some folks don't know what to do with helpful animals on their side and everything and you know a lot of their servers have a really good mouth feel. Lot of crunch. I recommend it!

My own art, which you can find at www.furaffinity. ... ... waaaaait a minute.

Little bit of an artistic stretch for me this time as I colored using a simulated watercolor brush, rather than the more basic flood-fill and ink-brush that I've been used to. I like the loose feel of that.

You know what people are always [*] asking me? 'Austin, what if there were more of you? What would a coa-taur-mundi look like?' And yes, other artists have taken this on but for #CoatiMonday today I share a brand-new piece of my own art showing Austin showing off how nice he can be to look at when there's quite so much of him.

[*] Like twice, so far, lifetime, but that's more than most of you have been asked what a coa-taur-mundi might look like.

Folks might remember me being peeved that a picture looked better flipped than as I drew it ( https://blimps.xyz/@Austin_Dern/114517923559740086 ) and the coa-taur-mundi is what did that.

Not yet loaded to FurAffinity but I'll let you know when it is.

Do you have anything big planned for this #CoatiMonday? I was thinking to just spend the day enjoying being around with no particular responsibilities and maybe show off just how amazingly flexible a coati is. See that hindpaw? Double-jointed, so it can turn all the way around effortlessly. It's part of why we can climb down trees headfirst so easily and quickly.

Fun fact: a squirrel friend once came to me extremely squicked by the discovery my ankles would do that. He was surprisingly unappreciative when I told him that squirrels have the same amazing ankles and his own feet could twist around backwards anytime he wanted! Go figure.

Leaping into the warm summer months this #CoatiMonday! For that I share a picture of pooltoy Austin, kindly illustrated by @frengers! The wild thing is I've gotten several pictures from frengers in the past but this is the first time I've gotten a pooltoy picture from one of the top pooltoy-picture specialists.

The important thing is I'm now all set to suddenly drop down on you and make my way innocently over to the water! Or anywhere else, since as you can see from my face, I am an extremely innocent creature in all contexts whatsoever!

Not posted in any gallery to my knowledge yet.

A special treat for you this #CoatiMonday as I share a picture I drew of a coati who isn't me! This is Rota Redom, acquaintance over on Wolfery, a web-based muck-like experience. While I can't say we've met directly, we know some people in common and I was glad to give a piece of art to my cousin!

She's a bit more serious a person than me and does the whole clothing thing, although not shoes of course. I'm not authorized to tell you why the clipboard is important.

Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52130267/

Today is an extremely happy #CoatiMonday for Churchy La Femme, here, turtle star of Walt Kelly's classic comic strip _Pogo_, because it means we've gotten past the last time that Friday the 13th comes on a Friday this whole year! Until February, Friday the 13th will be coming on other days of the week, which is bad, sure, but not as bad as it might be.

So to celebrate this I did a little picture of me completely failing to comfort Churchy. Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61212403/ and no, that's not @/[email protected] but there's some resemblance, sure. Maybe a cousin a couple times removed.

Who's got no thumbs and is being constructive this #CoatiMonday? That's right, it's me! And now brought to mecha life thanks to @kika who had a fantastic idea of how to manifest me in a more operable-equipment form.

It's a fantastic look and I am glad to be part of something bigger than usual, even if it does end up being a workplace safety film for Coatipillar Construction!

My love, and bride of 13 years now, BunnyHugger noticed a couple of _Peanuts_ strips from the early 60s when rabbits would appear, mostly in the form of Freida nagging Snoopy into chasing bunnies that he would rather be friends with. Charles Schulz didn't often draw animals besides dogs and whatever Woodstock Birds are, so seeing rabbits in happy poses stood out.

For this #CoatiMonday --- our anniversary --- I had to adapt the header panes from the 11 August 1963 comic ( https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/08/11 ) to our happy situation and here's how it came out.

Also please know that our human'sonas have a similar difference in height, so I often do stand resting my head on hers, or nuzzling her hair, and we both really like that arrangement of things.

My own art, to be posted to FurAffinity this evening.

For this #CoatiMonday it's a visit with one of my relatives! This cousin has landed a cozy gig being kept in the ZooAmerica exhibit, adjacent to Hershey Park (entry granted with admission to the amusement park). For some reason they keep the coatis in the nocturnal-animal enclosure, which is why my photograph is not the sharpest you'll see.

But they're looking well, and were doing some wonderful curling while standing on the branch to press their head against the branch, which is very cozy. And as you see, all my stories about our tails were if anything understated.