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.

So did you know that dates, the fruit, are really good at being fruits? If you haven't had any lately you should give them a try, you might be pleasantly surprised! Don't try these. I'm very busy enjoying myself here and we don't want a #CoatiMonday this adorable to change.

This lovely picture is a commission from @cutepencilcase who, you can see, understands well the benefits of adorable raccoon-like animals having good fruits!

What's better than a #CoatiMonday? How about a two-coati Monday? Today I share another of my own pictures --- original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61591770/ --- with a scene requested by the mysterious Rota Redom. This one depicts her as a young coati enjoying a spot of kite-flying, and the kite is either eldest fandom coati me or maybe a kite based on me. Not sure.

This was a fun one to draw, particularly in figuring a way to get two characters who were far apart in the same frame at once. Also in looking at pictures of Chinese dragon kites because the long string of circular discs looked like a great way to do a coati tail, which the picture couldn't possibly fit anyway.

Ready for a #CoatiMonday you can't help but laugh about? Me too! And fortunately I fell into the clutches of Purple the Tickle 'Monster', who needs the laughter produced by tickling for sustenance.

Little could Purple suspect that I enjoy being tickled and am so ticklish that _while watching the stream of this being drawn_ I started giggling in real life as the art cursor moved across my character's feet.

So anyway I am happy to be in this situation although, oh, looking at my left forepaw and my tail there? There might be an reversal coming, purely by accident. No way to know!

Thanks very much to @hexadoodle for hooking me up with Purple and also for drawing this. The original is at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61721900/

Sharing something novel this #CoatiMonday ... the first time I've tried drawing an icon! I knew it would have to have a less interesting composition and heavier outlines and simpler contrast than a normal picture would, but it seemed worth trying.

Especially as this #CoatiMonday I wanted to debut a bright, shiny look for myself! So I noticed August starts with Au, as in gold, and wouldn't it be fun to spend the month as a shiny and precious metal? Right? So here we are!

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61808987/

Is it #CoatiMonday already? Well, I had a great time seeing a bunch of little friends this past #VoreDay and I don't know when I've ever seen them so thrilled, just active and screaming my whole visit. Everyone was so thrilled to know my tail's got an imaginative new hobby!

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61693961/ and please don't worry that I might be turning vicious unstoppable pred. It's all in good fun no matter how thin I'm looking and maybe need to eat!

Hoping everyone is having a golden AUgust! For this #CoatiMonday I'm enjoying the view from an orb and shining like a fool.

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61785780/ and the slightly silly idea that inspired my current and oddly popular icon. Of course I'm never going to turn down a chance to be an interesting material and I am very proud how the metallic effects came out this time.

It's a late summer #CoatiMonday around where I am, so what bettet time to take a last pre-Halloween trip to the amusement park? And what might you see there? How about the welcoming embrace of a bronze coati statue, definitely a statue and not the actual thing right, commending you for coming around for the fun?

Picture here kindly done by @hexadoodle --- original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62041223/ --- based on a statue at Idlewild Park (Ligonier, Pennsylvania) in which Duke the Dragon (mascot of Dutch Wonderland, their sister park in Lancaster) gives you encouragement as you try pulling the sword from the stone. And doesn't that look like fun?

I hope everyone's enjoying a special #CoatiMonday! We start the month with another of my own pictures, this of my running into a field of ghost paws and making what's surely a bunch of new friends up to no mischief whatsoever!

Original picture at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62052493/ and this marks a departure for me in that I tried adding little bits of fringe to the fur, the better to look a little shaggy and maybe a bit more natural.

Fun mathematical fact: the Banach-Tarski 'Paradox' tells us that it's possible to disassemble an object into as few as five pieces and then reassemble it to get two complete copies of the original thing! It's a paradox only in that it defies our intuition. The logic is sound and you can find it explained within the first dozen posts on any mathematics blog anywhere.

Which is all to set up why #Coati Monday this week is sprawling out into Tuesday, as @hexadoodle was so kind as to try taking me apart and fix up some joint issues and then put found there was enough to make an extra me. Funny how that happens, huh? Something to watch for whenever you get modular, I suppose.

And thanks to Hex not just for the modular work but also for drawing it. The original is at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61765156/

For this #Coati Monday I thought I'd take inspiration from Sneptember and see just what it is snow leopards find so appealing in hompfing their own tails and ... and ... oh ... uh ...

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... I'm sorry, what was I saying?

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... Oh, uh, yeah, I just didn't expect it would be so .. so ... *so*.

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... Wow.

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62253100/

It's a special #Coati Monday and I get to share a special commission. Hornbuckle (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/-hornbuckle-/), one of the top three rubber artists in furry, was so kind as to get me outfitted and I hope you find it as welcome and inviting as I do.

I've been able to commission him a couple times and somehow failed before this to get his specialty. Maybe someday I'll catch up with BalloonPup ...

Not yet posted to any galleries I'm aware of, but I'll try to let you know if that changes.

And the counterpart to that special #Coati Monday of last week ... what if we had another fursuit Austin picture but this one from a different top rubber artists? And I was lucky enough to commission Kemono Inukai for a picture of Austin doing what he does best: enjoying a snack while being extremely shiny!

Not yet posted to https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/k-inukai/ but if I see it has been I should edit this.

Who's up for a party with Charlie Brown and Snoopy? This #Coati Monday I celebrate the 75th anniversary of a comic strip that's meant so much to me my entire life. It's hard to pick a Peanuts character I didn't feel for, but Snoopy has the great appeal of getting to be the animal and the person at once, and also getting to dance in one of the simplest expressions of joy I know out there.

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62518580/

@Austin_Dern @GoodNewsGreyShoes

Why, I could turn that ghost-self into an eye-self...