https://www.furaffinity.net/view/22892018/

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_Weekend_Atlanta_2017

Inspired by the one currently blocking the St. Lawrence to reminisce about 2021. My sympathies to the crew of the Heemskerkgracht; hopefully it's just engine trouble as stated.

Main/thumb art by Loimu: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41217515/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given

https://twitter.com/merzb0w/status/1376317267038793729/

https://x.com/heresvix/status/1376643119312158736

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54770038/

https://x.com/Ellizary1/status/1823734414184223194

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/14739132/

https://x.com/housebroke_fox/status/1493053869785554946

Bonus art:

https://x.com/DeoTasDevil/status/1493705124434231298

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56019320/

Yet another episode of Shit Jerma Says, this time animated by Corax

Also, yet another episode of an animator drawing Furries out of nowhere

https://x.com/merzb0w/status/1481775388762075137

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

The Bouba/Kiki effect ... is the tendency for people [across most languages and cultures], when presented with the nonsense words bouba and kiki, to associate bouba with a rounded shape and kiki with a spiky shape.

Bonus: Tom Scott explainer video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDIAObsqcs

The video in question: "I Made a 3D Model (I Love Blender)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgEbJEtnSfY

>brings adorable bird-person version of Blender-logo into existence for a mere YT thumbnail

>never Anthrofied anything before or since

>leaves

>refuses to elaborate

https://x.com/MooseArtAD/status/1013282866468274178

Original photo taken 1955 by photographer Phil Stern

https://www.philsternarchives.com/hollywood/stars/james-dean/

https://x.com/anthonysuarezjr/status/1816521823271698591

Original:

https://www.abebooks.com/9780439148245/Internet-First-Discovery-Book-Books-0439148243/plp

https://x.com/merzb0w/status/1482129005499219969

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21117116/

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21039619/

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/26865073/

What the HELL is Animalympics? (Furry Olympics) -- a video essay by Saberspark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6bDffuQHU4

ANIMALYMPICS (1980) | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZuWT0hglZ8

https://archive.org/details/animalympics1980

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalympics

Notes from the Wiki article:

Animalympics was commissioned by NBC in 1978, as the network intended Lisberger Studios to create it as two hour-long specials to be paired alongside coverage of both the 1980 Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics then held in Moscow. But after the Soviet Union had invaded and gained control of Afghanistan, then United States President Jimmy Carter decided to boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics. Because of this, NBC canceled its Olympic coverage and the Animalympics Summer special.

However, from its conception, producer Donald Kushner and director Steven Lisberger intended the project as a feature-length theatrical release (complete with Dolby surround sound via 35mm film), even though The Winter Olympics special was already considered being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Among those who worked on Animalympics were art director/animator Roger Allers, animation director Bill Kroyer, and animator Brad Bird. Allers, who animated Kit Mambo, the lion star of Animalympics, went on to direct The Lion King. Kroyer later wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated short Technological Threat and the animated feature FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Brad Bird went on to work as story editor of The Simpsons, and later achieved even greater success writing and directing The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Director Lisberger went on to conceive, co-write and direct the science fiction cult classic Tron, which some of the Animalympics crew were involved in. Its soundtrack supervisor was Michael Fremer, who was involved in Animalympics as a co-writer, voice artist, dialogue/music track editor and sound mix supervisor. Fremer also went on to supervise the soundtrack to Tron as well.

https://x.com/mochiri_work/status/1191003396775579656

https://x.com/GIMP_Official/status/1330329371048095744

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/21/25-years-of-gimp/

FOSS mascots, left to right, top to bottom:

• Firefox (web browser)
• [unknown]
• Puffy the pufferfish (OpenBSD, operating system)
• Tux the penguin (Linux, operating system)
• Wilber (GIMP, image editor)
• GNU (free software collection)
• Suzanne the monkey (Blender)
• Beastie the daemon (BSD, operating system)
• Konqi the dragon (KDE, international free software community)

Even more FOSS animal/Anthro mascots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computing_mascots

https://fixupx.com/melonfella/status/1753742139425542450

"The Star Wars lore states that Jawas are rodent-like furry creatures and EU Tuskens were related to Jawas so that can only mean that they are rat and mice people."

https://x.com/WolfdawgArt/status/1663678933483520003

Today's fun fact: Discord's logo is not only a game controller reference, but is also one of their mascot characters, Clyde.

Main/thumb art by DreamAtDusk https://x.com/dreamatdusk/status/1675260567806935040

https://x.com/rivergravidade/status/1522074790554906627

Art by Blooming~Lynx https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51153165/

https://x.com/lottieplus/status/1794043109354926501

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35312145/

Main img src: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47830714/

Paraphrased from the E621 explainer on 6/26:

On June 26 2015, the United States Supreme Court, presiding over the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, declared in a 5–4 decision that homosexual couples have the fundamental right to marry per both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and that any state-level bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. This tag is for posts where characters celebrate that decision in the form of gay pride.

Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise tends to be popularly affiliated with this date as well, due to his Experiment number (626). Even though he is canonically portrayed in Disney media as heterosexual (most notably his relationship with Experiment 624/Angel), he has become a minor gay rights icon in some circles. The fact that "Stitch Day" or "626 Day" landed on the day of the decision did not go unnoticed by Lilo & Stitch film co-director/co-writer Dean DeBlois, who is openly gay. On the day of the decision, he posted a sketch on his Twitter account of Stitch and Scrump respectively waving a rainbow flag and a flag with the logo of the Human Rights Campaign.

https://inkbunny.net/s/1915908-p2

https://inkbunny.net/s/2475973-p2

Bonus solo Anthro-Stitch art

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21756701/

https://x.com/sannota272/status/1579436804318859265

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/110435732

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38414995/

Deadass don't know a single other person under 40 who's seen this stupid flying-car movie lol

Have a wacky ~~Aeromorph~~ Carmorph from RenTheDragon to enhance those distant 20th century memories

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28529313/