>>2389 >full potential We've got basically zero faggots, a handful of active artists, and no CP spam to speak of. You're doing great. The only thing that I take serious issue with is the guy pumping out AI slop since he used to be the anon who collected and dumped stuff made by kemono artists on twitter (and because I've started drawing a little bit for personal fun, and I've gained a much deeper appreciation for visual art and distaste for AGI). But that's his problem. >monastery Nice. I've wanted to visit one myself, but I've always thought it was kind of an all-or-nothing commitment. >icon I think what you're trying to say is that anime as a word and as a style are both strongly influenced by Western animation, and early Western animation from the rubber hose era and prior actually has a lot of similarities with modern anime (Betty Boop is the first chibi girl, perhaps?). I'm not a fan of that particular illustration by Owen Cyclops because I do think that there needs to be some craft put into a shape/painting in order for it to be spiritual or moving, but I get the point both it and you make. >>2390 >>2394 The etymology and popularity of both words derive from the "30 year old boomer" meme which was psyopped into mainstream consciousness via a Discord clique about 6-7 years ago. There was then a trend of making simulacra using the -oomer suffix because the heavy vowel sound triggers something in the ape brains of most people, and the majority of modern communication is simply trying to harness linguistic magic which they do not understand. Thus, a cynic is a doomer; an optimist is a bloomer; a romantic is a swooner, a porn addict is a coomer, and so on. This is also why words like troon(er) and gooner have become popular; they technically existed earlier as tranny + goon (meaning SA user who paid tenbux) or as in "gooning" in the hyperfetishistic sense. Words like this also serve practical purposes in evading word filters on social media, because the curry niggers who run them are actually so fucking stupid they can't identify troon as a euphemism for tranny, nor can they design LLMs to do so. But yes, word magic, it really is that simple. If you want to see this notion of words being long-lost magic symbols that we activate with our voiceboxes explored more, you must read Snow Crash. I will also tell you something that literally nobody else on the face of the internet has seen fit to mention: Snow Crash is an incredibly fun and funny read, and you will have a good time regardless of what your reason for picking it up is. I suppose most people are too busy in their quest to add books to their List of Quote Tweet Gotchas to appreciate the written word anymore.

>>2389 Thanks, I looked a little bit on the theory of forms after you mentioned it and I could get the basic idea, I still need to read more on Plato and the other guys, remembered a IRL friend who is also interested in philosophy. I heard something similar in the mgtow bubble years ago (more specifically on the topic of "waifuism", have you heard about it?) What I could get regarding western and anime is that in a way what has been going on in the western media industry goal for de-sexualization and masculinization of female characters due to things that, of course, everybody here knows well. And with that in a way one could get a feeling that something isn't as it was before, the (mainstream) "muse" ideal that was the status quo not so long ago. A good example is Stellar Blade ( I will hold myself from calling it a "gooner game" after reading the latest posts), I won't judge the game's quality here but we can remember the rage cries from the gaming "journalists" to this title simply because it had a pretty, idealized (in the sense of the theory of forms again) woman as the main protagonist. Other example is Atomic Hearth, for two reasons that we all know. I think that this episodes show that at least here in the West there has been a huge lack of something that we had in the past and we desperately try to get back, at least this is what I could formulate from the idea, specially regarding the idea of femininity that seems so lacking today. (with that I imagine that we could also trace a parallel with the article that you've send (nice site btw), but in a more transcendental manner of course) >monastery Cool, recently I moved back to a city with a big catholic influence (even on the name of the city itself), and between my last post in this thread and now I have visited the city's main cathedral a couple of times, although there are at least a couple more churches in town that I am planning to visit too, I even live near one as I can hear their bells from inside my bedroom. As >>2395 said, the commitment for entering a monastery is big, I could only imagine it being a good place to disconnect from the modern world, I also wanted to visit one if there was a opportunity.

>>2395 >>2397 Do you remember how monasteries used to play a big role in caring for travellers and such? I don't know how it is in the Catholic world (I imagine it's still the case there), but in Eastern Orthodoxy it's still kind of like that. You can visit monasteries or stay at them for a bit if you give the monks a bit of a head's up first. Like a lot of things in the church, it's still around, and you can still participate in it even though it's mostly outside the modern consciousness. This description by Patrick Leigh Fermor of his stay at a Benedictine monastery matches pretty well what I've heard from others, even if his initial response was more extreme: >To begin with, I slept badly at night and fell asleep during the day, felt restless alone in my cell and depressed by the lack of alcohol, the disappearance of which had caused a sudden halt in the customary monsoon. The most remarkable preliminary symptoms were the variations of my need of sleep. After initial spells of insomnia, nightmare and falling asleep by day, I found that my capacity for sleep was becoming more and more remarkable: till the hours I slept in or on my bed vastly outnumbered the hours I spent awake; and my sleep was so profound that I might have been under the influence of some hypnotic drug. For two days, meals and the offices in the church - Mass, Vespers, and Compline - were almost my only lucid moments. >Then began an extraordinary transformation: this extreme lassitude dwindled to nothing; night shrank to five hours of light, dreamless and perfect sleep, followed by awakenings full of energy and limpid freshness. This explanation is simple enough: the desire for talk, movement and nervous expression that I had transported from Paris found, in this silent place, no response or foil, evoked no single echo; after miserably gesticulating for a while in a vacuum, it languished and finally died for lack of any stimulus or nourishment. Then the tremendous accumulation of tiredness, which must be the common property of all our contemporaries, broke loose and swamped everything. No demands, once I had emerged from that flood of sleep, were made upon my nervous energy: there were no automatic drains, such as conversation at meals, small talk, catching trains, or the hundred anxious trivialities that poison everyday life. Even the major causes of guilt and anxiety had slid away into some distant limbo and not only failed to emerge in the small hours as tormentors but appeared to have lost their dragonish validity. This new dispensation left nineteen hours a day of absolute and god-like freedom. Work became easier every moment; and, when I was not working, I was either exploring the Abbey and the neighbouring countryside, or reading. The Abbey became the reverse of a tomb - not, indeed, a Thelema or Nepenthe, but a silent university, a country house, a caslte hanging in mid-air beyond the reach of ordinary troubles and vexations. >... >If my first days in the Abbey had been a period of depression, the unwinding process, after I had left, was ten times worse. The Abbey was at first a graveyard; the outer world seemed afterwards, by contrast, an inferno of noise and vulgarity entirely populated by bounders and sluts and crooks. This state of mind, I saw, was, perhaps, as false as my first reactions to monastic life; but the admission did nothing to decreaese its unpleasantness. From the train which took me back to Paris, even the advertisements for Byrrh and Cizano seen from the window, usually such jubilant emblems of freedom and escape, had acquired the impact of personal insults. The process of adaptation - in reverse - had painfully to begin again.

I, for one, continue to be annoyed that the anon who used to collect kemono art and dump it in the /animu/ threads has spent the last year or more obsessing with AI slop models. I remember he had a huge collection of doujinshis and often ordered stuff from kemoket/comiket each year. Keeping up with his uploads was like a holiday. longsworduser on sadpanda, for anyone who wasn't around at the time Obviously Twitter became way more hostile to any alternative frontend efforts and disabled any loopholes that resulted in RSS feeds being manageable, but I feel like there's been a void of kemono art in my life that just hasn't been the same. Maybe I simply need to stop being a lazy faggot and set up Hydrus.

>>2502 That's up to him. At least it's pushed me to look around pixiv a little more for kemono art. Speaking of unfortunate changes, apparently shikki_2p has been a 3DPD vtuber for nearly a year now.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62262133/chapters/166352869 Made this originally for 4chan Back to the void I go

Nice to see some other /hmofa/ anons survived.

>>1158 good stuff. i like the use of colorful decals on the art surrounding the cuties

>Tfw no alien bunny gf Lop is cute but I have never really been into Star wars since I watched the clone wars series. Even though Star Wars Visions is basically the japanese studio given free reign to do as they please with it. Still deciding whether or not I wanna watch it since it's all just shorts being seperated from star wars lore. Looking at the shift away from the japanese theme in season 2 isn't really giving me confidence to even watch it at all.

>TysonTan drew his goat girl again I question whether she'd be all that warm with the exposed legs and boob window, but mountain goats are hardy animals so she probably knows what she's doing.

>>2069 I have often thought and said that Beastars would have been a great manga if it'd ended around chapter 100 when the murderer was revealed and defeated, or if there'd been some timeskip that showed how Legosi and Haru had to fit into wider society after becoming famous. I'd have preferred to see more of Legosi awkwardly trying to impress Haru's parents, or trying to figure out how to live like a functioning adult in his apartment building with Sebun and the rest.

>>558 There's a hentai doujin of it, lmao https://exhentai.org/g/3294574/9439c9a94b/

Can't get over how much I missed since this manga was last updated. I really need to find out whose translating these to keep up with them. Anyways it's a full on backstory of the fox wife this time, and why she's the way she is.

>>2382 a cutie

>>2265 Barely over a week later, and it seems she has.

>>1868 Crazy how that iceberg image I made years ago is still circulating

>>2325 It summarises the way that the show accidentally inverts itself really well, so I'm not surprised that it still makes the rounds.

>>2326 I'm just surprised since I only ever posted it in the BNA thread on /trash/ which was never all too popular. I honestly forgot all about it until now

>>2327 I don't even remember where I got it from, but it certainly wasn't /trash/.

>>408 So fish furries also count as scalies, huh?

>>2202 technically.

>>1933 sorry, but you knew i had to do it

>>1943 kek

Wow after nearly a year this finally reaches the bump limit. I'll make a new thread. The OP needs some touch ups too.

>>2117 Adding some kemono/furry artist loras that I use before uploading the thread.

First I have to get on the /site/ whitelist before making a new thread.

>>2123 Try again now, I'm testing less strict settings for the detection and added you to whitelist.

New thread: >>2125 New thread: >>2125 New thread: >>2125 >>2124 It worked. Thanks.

>>2024 i did not know they were from Canada. Ariette is my favorite, the cute gambler she is

>>2026 Yeah, hence all the leaf stuff he posts and pictures of his workplace. He probably has the ideal line of work for a guy with his autism.