Bennie "BigTig" Tiger

If I had infinite creative time... I'd want to put together a music video for this for Halloween. A video where a fur ends up with Mal0 as a friend.* "Close your eyes and think of me And soon I will be there To brighten up even your darkest night" www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAR_...

Forgot to put this up for #OldArtMonday Another piece by @kencougr.bsky.social and a tiny taste of history of what early furry is like. The image itself is of Alex Leoni II from 1992 - pencil on sketch paper. Now about that history context...

So I want you to understand what you're looking at. In the Fur Affinity post on this, the commissioner talks about Ken and several NY/NJ furs coming to a PAS society meeting to hang out. They asked Ken to sketch their character... www.furaffinity.net/view/1520134/

Forgot to put this up for #OldArtMonday Another piece by @kencougr.bsky.social and a tiny taste of history of what early furry is like. The image itself is of Alex Leoni II from 1992 - pencil on sketch paper. Now about that history context...

Before there was an @anthrocon.org (1996) ... there was a failed con (CFE - 1995) ... and before that ... there were furry meets at @philconconvention.bsky.social and places like the Philadelphia Animation Society...

Is it #OldArtMonday ? -- I wonder if @furryfootage.bsky.social ever saw the 2-color animation intro on "King of Jazz" from 1930 Some folks used theses as icons and reaction gifs back in the early livejournal days.

Back in the olden days ... answering machines were rare outside of a business. And only large national businesses had "phone queues" There was no "we're experiencing abnormal call volume" recorded voice lies. ("We intentionally understaff the most expensive option to contact us")

People who need immediate response can push their way through a busy system. They have to invest a little effort to do so. (you have to sit there and keep re-dialing) So you don't have the JIRA effect of "every ticket is set top priority."

Back in the olden days ... answering machines were rare outside of a business. And only large national businesses had "phone queues" There was no "we're experiencing abnormal call volume" recorded voice lies. ("We intentionally understaff the most expensive option to contact us")

I never thought about it, but that produced an accidentaly situation that allowed for call sorting. You see: If you called, and no one could answer, you just got a busy tone. You had to dial again and hope to catch a moment when the phone was back on the hook and it would ring.

Chatting about college and classes with the other players at the orchestra last night. One of the clarinets talked about their college had a teacher who would do evening showings of operas for the music students. As extra credit to attend and with free snacks. That would have been amazing fun.

From there, there's a bunch extra-bonus trials of working around the witch and court conspirers to get the hydrate-or-diedrate princess back home. And they live happily ever after. And presumably don't drink organge juice when she's around.

Chatting about college and classes with the other players at the orchestra last night. One of the clarinets talked about their college had a teacher who would do evening showings of operas for the music students. As extra credit to attend and with free snacks. That would have been amazing fun.

Aided by a helpful demon and the court jester, the prince sets out to find the oranges. Bunch of obstacles and he eventually finds the three giant egg-shaped oranges.

Chatting about college and classes with the other players at the orchestra last night. One of the clarinets talked about their college had a teacher who would do evening showings of operas for the music students. As extra credit to attend and with free snacks. That would have been amazing fun.

This is an opera written in 1921. I want to stress that. It is a modern piece. This plot was presented to an audience that thought much like you, knew what a car was, listened to radio, etc. So... here we go....

Chatting about college and classes with the other players at the orchestra last night. One of the clarinets talked about their college had a teacher who would do evening showings of operas for the music students. As extra credit to attend and with free snacks. That would have been amazing fun.

So much good music is in opera. And if you ever worry about the plot of your story being unbelievable... oh please... just go try to read some plot summaries from opera. You are FINE fam. Opera plots are wonderful and insane. Let me give a random selection....