It's been a very chill year since my last birthday, but there were still some highlights!

1) Got a new Jex fursuit head!
It's my first simple toony foam head, made by DragonsDen, and I'm so happy to have a big ridiculously stupid snoot to bap things with. I've always been all about the realistic heads and suits but toony suits have really grown on me as easy, fun and worry-free methods of self-expression ever since trying on friends toony suits. My other suits are so much more difficult wear, maneuver in, or stay comfortable when doing fursuit cuddling. This one is made with the same fur as my sergal's bodysuit so I can literally use one bodysuit for two characters haha.

2) Las Vegas
This one was a minor bucket list item. You gotta see the nuttiness of vegas at least once! The Meow Wolf Area 15 takeover on the first night was a really special experience, and I was to return with my kangaroo bud Waffles the very next day to do the Omega Mart experience quite thoroughly. Then we headed to the strip and did the tourist thing - I gave a bit of money to roulette, got lost in ceasers palace, watched the fountain show at the bellagio, ate really expensive steak at the MGM grand, and took too many selfies with all the nutty architecture! Also had the sketchiest suv limo ride back to our hotel after being stranded in a traffic jam due to a sports event lol.

3) Yellowstone National Park and the Grant Tetons
Major bucket list item nailed! In June I went with Shasta, Devleon and Arctic for a week, and it was fucking AMAZING. We saw almost everything. Deer. Elk. Moose. Black bear. Grizzly bear. With cubs! Ospreys nesting. Coyotes hunting. Foxes hunting. Great grey owl. Golden eagle up close being harassed by ravens. Heron getting the fish in the rapids. Otters. Marmots. Mammoth hot springs, Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, Old Faithful poppin off. I even hiked in my jex fullsuit up to the Grand Prismatic Lookout, giving at least a hundred people photos and high fives and fun interactions. Everyone thought I was some kind of fox and their best wildlife sighting of the day, and even a park ranger got in on the fun with us! And then on the way back I totally got too close to a bison herd near the trail for my own good and the ranger shooed me (and everyone else) away from the bison laughing. The god rays in the sunset through the valleys in between the Tetons while an osprey hunted along a stream was like being in a piece of heaven. I'll never forget so many moments from this trip.

4) Home
Since moving to Calgary I've been settling in and assembling so much ikea furniture and covering the walls with art, blankets and tapestries that it's really starting to feel like home. I'm really happy with this nest now, especially the room that is literally just beds, pillows, blankets and plushies. It's so cozy and I can't help but jump into the pile of plushies everytime XD


Anyway, I'm decided I'm getting a bit more active on FA again now that Twitter has imploded. I kinda like writing more long-form journal entries so bluesky/mastodon is hard to keep my interest, and I have a LOT of backlogged art and photos to post that would just be buried in timelines on a microblogging site. Here there's journals, there's folders for things, there's friends, there's art! So sorry, you're all stuck with me again, and I apologize for the sustained influx of foxy, birdy and orca things as I trickle them in XD


Edit: I forgot I had a bunch of other accounts on FA and elsewhere. Uhhh forget about them. They're interesting detours from more footloose times in my online life I guess? But this here is the original account so here I'm making my stand and stayin XD