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/

This #Coati Monday sees me enjoying a great way to stay cozy in bed! Thanks to Aver the Dorbley, elastic/stretch artist extraordinare, who's both helped me get blanket-ready for the cooler days of autumn and depicted it so nicely. Only downside is that it's only temporary given limitations of the normal Dorbley transformation mechanism and that he wasn't quite able to land the post-tf wordplay. Too bad!

This picture was a YCH that I believe is still open (see https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61850223/ ) and I'll try to update this when the Austin-specific version gets posted.

Did you have a happy Sweetest Day or were you, like most people not in a tiny segment of Michigan and Ohio, unaware of its existence? This past Saturday was a chance to express your feelings to someone you're sweet on. For me, that's always my dear BunnyHugger first and foremost, and I spent my Sweetest Day with her, and for this #Coati Monday I share a picture I drew of our sort of snuggling up together.

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62695590/

Oooh, kids, ready for a big *scary* #Coati Monday? How about ... detached heads just ... hanging out? In a goofy fairy magic land where nobody can actually get hurt or killed or anything bad? Frightening, right?

This week's picture is one of my own --- https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50298504/ --- that's years old and I forgot all about until recently. The conversational partner there is supposed to be The Gump, a reanimated trophy head hung on the wall of the palace of Ozma, the beloved rightful princess of Oz, and if you're wondering how you can be reanimated in a land where nobody can die just look at that big distracting thing over there, all right? Also please look at that distraction instead of asking how Ozma and the Wizard of Oz interact, okay?

(About the 'When Ozma was Tip' thing, without spoilers: there's a story where, for the reasons, Ozma has to take on the form of Tip, a Munchkin boy.)

One thing I mean to share this #Coati Monday is how wonderful it is having a wife who tolerates and even sometimes enjoys her husband's seasonal ghostliness. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62940173/ is a picture I drew myself of Austin enjoying a little time touching noses and being close to his much-more-tangible bride.

I'll be solid again someday, but maybe for a little longer I'l just be a somewhat-ephemeral companion.

You know what's nice to do this time of year is just settle back, put a record on the enchanted old record player and see what supernatural spirits emerge to occupy your shoulders and finish off any peanut butter in the house. And so this #Coati Monday we see just that!

Art done by https://www.furaffinity.net/user/unidentifiedtypingobject/ but not yet posted to that gallery. Maybe I'll remember to post a permanent link when it turns up in one of their galleries. Meanwhile, please enjoy the tune.

I bet you didn't even know you could *get* a 78 recording of 'Anna Sun'.

I did tell you coatis are fabulous beasts, didn't I?

So like many furries I've seen maybe ten episodes of the _Fabulous Beasts_ series and really liked the style and general cute chic of it. So I figured this #Coati Monday to see what Austin might look like in that style, if I knew absolutely nothing of the underlying mythology and didn't really know enough about character design to select elements thoughtfully or assemble them in a way that made sense.

Did it work? Does it need to? I get to use the glowy light-brush for effects and to toss in some hip-wings. What more could you need?

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/63091918/

Looking for a fun video game experience? This #Coati Monday let me suggest the newest commission from Aver the Dorbley, an SNES game to explore the world and sniff all the things!

This fun sprite/pixel-art commission is from Aver, as mentioned, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62992463/

And it's time for this spirit of the season to get into ... the ... spirit of the season!

Switching my icon over from this, by @bakertoons ... to this vintage picture by Spaceroo.

You know what you need for a #Coati Monday in the cozy middle of December? How about a nice fresh pie, personally delivered? You certainly will not be unhappy with one!

This very innocent-looking and unsuspicious picture was an artistic-freedom commission from UnidentifiedTypingObject that isn't yet in a gallery, but, just wait. We'll see.

Who's staying hydrated this #Coati Monday? That's right, it's me. This is a simple little picture I did mostly to show that I am still drawing, and that I can draw something without going overboard on special effects brushes. I'll be back to the more usual nonsense soon.

Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/63401804/

Hope folks are having a happy #BoxingDay! As you can see, I had a great one with @Eon Your Toy Friend! I recommend anyone who box toy, do so.

(My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50413063/ )

Hope this #Coati Monday sees you able to spend some time on your hobbies! Me, I'm getting back into plastic models. And thanks to FA/peketope for helping me get ready. I hope someone has the instructions sheet.

Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/63404490/

A happy first #Coati Monday of the new year, folks! I start the year with my own art --- https://www.furaffinity.net/view/63532222/ --- and a short but honest discussion of why I'm not going in for any self-improvement projects this year.

If you find this at all relatable, well, yeah, we've been going through the same last few years.

Happy little discovery this #Coati Monday as I go sniffing around a strange grassland and find a cute little fairy kangaroo! What are the odds?

This is another of my own pictures --- original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/63609315/ --- and showing Roofus_Roo, fairy kangaroo who isn't always this small, but who isn't sad to be this small either. We've been friends forever and it's always nice running into them.

Good morning! And I hope it's a fine #Coati Monday for you as well; for me, it's a chance to get out on all fours and get a nice sniff from the e high point. It's so much more vibrant up there.

Artistic freedom commission from UnidentifiedTypingObject, who had a lot of good ideas and this was just the first one done. Not yet uploaded to a gallery so far as I've heard.

The one drawback of being born a coati? You never get to experience that post-transformation joy of exploring your new body and finding that it's made up entirely of good parts. Still, that's no reason not to occasionally appreciate your own body and my art this #Coati Monday is simply me taking a moment to do just that.

Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/63762847/

This #Coati Monday sees a low-melting-point coati (it's me) enjoying how, despite the frigid temperatures, the sun is still there and still warm, when you don't have dense clouds in the way, and you can still get remarkable periods of melting despite the cold of the trees and the air and everything.

Art is by Aver the Dorbley ( https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/aver-art/ ) not yet posted in their gallery but I hope that changes soon. Also kind thanks to Aver for helping me get back in touch with my melty side; it's too easy to be too solid these days.

This #Coati Monday I take the ongoing cold snap into my own paws, and particularly into my fur! It sure seems like a woolly mammoth knew something about enduring a drearily long stretch of days below freezing, so, why wouldn't a few tips from them be useful for me?

My own art, and experiment in making something look even shaggier than it already did. Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/63946101/

One way to overcome post-con depression? Get yourself captured by a relentless and inescapable liquid fur determined to tickle every other thought out of you. And on this #Coati Monday after Motor City Furry Con that's exactly what I've got going for me. Strongly recommended.

Art by Aver the Dorbley, whose gallery is at https://www.furaffinity.net/user/aver-art/ and doesn't seem to have posted this yet. The liquid morph here is Darty, and, hey, this is how we met. (Darty is Flyynt's Dorbley character, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62467418/)

So, for the first #Coati Monday since the end of Fae'bruary I just wanted you to see this fifteen-minute sketch I got from @chasetheredfox.

Finally I get to hang with my magical friends who are always saying funny stuff like 'oh ... oh no ... oh, no, we can't let him have magic powers, that's ... so much trouble'! Going to be great!

Not yet posted to their gallery as far as I'm aware; again, I'll try updating when that changes.

You know, you ever wake up some #Coati Monday to find your friend's gone and swapped out tails with you and of course you admire how great your tail looks on them but it does leave you with this pretty undersized thing? Yeah, me too. What are you going to do?

This art is my own --- original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/64252538/ --- and it's Austin with a particular bunny-eared flying squirrel friend whom I've known forever but preferred to be anonymous for this, just slipping in with all the other winged bunny-eared squirrels with coati tails.

Lot of signs of spring this #Coati Monday! For example, the leaves are looking better and the rabbits have a better choice in salads and you know, I can try eating healthier too!

Commission from @bakertoons of my dear bride BunnyHugger and myself sharing one of those happy little moments. Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/64166444/

I didn't hear until halfway through that petrifaction enthusiasts were observing Marble March! This explains why I'm seeing so many pieces of Gargoyles fan art on FurAffinity lately.

So this is why I'm jumping in to enjoy the fun, and for #Coati Monday today share some of my efforts to be a good and faithful protector of a not-always-grateful public!

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/64412204/ and you can see how foolish it is for me, who's never drawn a character twice so they look the same, would try drawing a character who's motionless in successive panels in about the same pose.

#marbleMarch

Feeling a bit flat this #Coati Monday? Me too! Thanks to Rubby the Rubber Boi for putting that feeling into perspective and up against a great display surface!

Little flat zig-zaggy commission, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/64316507/

Obviously everyone loves seeing raccoons pop in through the ceilings of a Tim Horton's, but did you know that doesn't just happen by itself? No, we have to practice and so for #Coati Monday today I share a (open YCH) picture from Aver the Dorbley showing my practice!

OH yeah since it is warming up I'm a little bit melted and maybe more fluid than usual but that's all right, that's all part of bringing cheer and timbits to the world!

(Picture concealed because while the scene is merry and certainly I'm having fun, it *is* a picture with a lot of twisted, dribbly bits, especially in the face, and that can be body-horror-y so please consider whether, particularly, non-symmetric eyeballs are a problem.)

I don't know how it is I'm spending #Coati Monday playing the Fool? It must be some April thing but how did we get this far into the month before I showed myself like this? ... not sure, it's all very peculiar really.

My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/64630571/ but closely referenced to an actual photograph of a real-world coati standing on hindpaws, which shows off how good we do look those times we're made to stand on hindpaws and look around.

So it's been a couple weeks practice, now this #Coati Monday I'm finally ready to participate in the beloved raccoon-family pastime of entering a Tim Horton's through the ceiling vents! Can't wait for the staff to get in and see me first thing in the morning!

This is an alternate coloring of an (open) YCH by Aver the Dorbley. So far as I know the YCH is still open, although this particular picture isn't (yet) up in Aver's FurAffinity gallery.

(Picture concealed because while the scene is one where I'm happy and enjoying myself, it *is* a picture with a lot of twisted, dribbly bits, especially in the face, and reasonable people might find that body-horror-y so please consider that before un-hiding the image.)

The tail is one of the many good parts of a coati and you can't blame anyone for wanting to try it on themselves! So this #Coati Monday I share my own depiction of @hexadoodle using his skill at taking people apart and putting them together to see how his tail-less form could be improved with a nice long bit of fuzzy ringedness! I am definitely not freaking out over the chance he might keep it for himself, don't worry!

Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/64775275/ and my thanks to hex for letting me borrow his whole actual character to draw this scene.