There’s always something vaguely menacing about how Thomas frames things…

I’ve been on the edges of the furry “community” since basically before the internet was a thing. Fursuits and fursonas don’t really appeal to me. I don’t have that type of need to roleplay in quite that way. But I’ve always enjoyed anthro art and I’ve been on Furafinity for as long as I can remember with one account or another. I mean I rolled Alexandria and her friends into this comic because I hated to leave them to languish in that space after making them, frankly, extremely fun characters to write. As with every aspect of my life I’m always on the edge of things as a sort of ignored observer. The reason I bring this up is that the owner of Furafinity died a day or so ago. Dragoneer is a bit of a controversial figure, to put it mildly, but he created a space for people who needed containment. He also kept FA from devolving into the kind of greed driven hellhole that most modern websites have become. I think he was around my age. If we can put everything else about him aside for a moment, the last few days of his social media are some of the most grim, bleak, heartbreaking, and human things I’ve seen posted in a long time. He was staring down the barrel of a death sentence and not getting much care from the health care system. If you look up his social media on twitter https://x.com/Dragoneer or bluesky @dragoneer.bsky.social first of all you’re gonna see a lot of horny posting right up to the end, but you’re also gonna see the absolute disaster that is America’s health care system. At the end of it all his ending wasn’t happy and, if you believe we have some control over when we die, came too soon. I wasn’t his friend. In fact I was in direct opposition to him on more than one occasion, but I still appreciate what he gave me in the form of his website.

“The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones”

I apologize for bringing this story into what is a haven from such things for many of you, but I feel like observing these small realities is important in some way. How long must one atone? When can they be praised for the good in spite of their flaws? I don’t know. I simply know that one day we will each face the void, so it might be worth looking down the path to that time, and at the journey of others.

For now we are still here together. If you would like to help me maintain my life and work the support links are up above as always. I hope to see you again on Monday. Until then, memento mori.

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