Opa'
@opalance.bsky.social
Just an average 39yo grey muzzle furry snep fella with a big ole tail. Got my husband and my son plus my fur and scale babies. Big comics and soccer fan. Love myself some bad movies and weird old media. Collect traditional art and furry zines.
created October 25, 2023
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Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Over time I've come to realize that the only true value is sentimental. I look at art I've received and it matters to me because of the artist and the process of how I received it. Sometimes that's good and sometimes bad, but it means something and it states something about where I was at the time.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a great style of pants!
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
As a lifer there I can appreciate all the little details on the scene xD From the bay ID's to the "violators" the equipment license on the retractable lanyard, the probably platinum award watch, lol
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
How functional is he? Fully functional.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
M>0..0
august cloudmancy (@cloudmancy.bsky.social) reposted
Pendant in the shape of a ram's head, Eastern Mediterranean, 5th–4th century BC, made of glass
Anfor (@anforsorrow.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Some more photos I found interesting.
Anfor (@anforsorrow.bsky.social) reposted
Between 2010 and 2011, photographer Charles Fréger traveled across Europe photographing various folk costumes depicting "beast people." According to the photographer, "these characters or emblematic animals represented protective figures or symbols of fertility" possibly echoes of pagan customs.
Adam Ellis (@adamtots.bsky.social) reposted
💋
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
The sad thing is now I don't even know if I can trust taking commissions from newer artists who seem to have a well developed style and their prices are a little too good to be true...there's that doubt in the back of my mind now.
MajMajor🔞 (@majmajor.bsky.social) reposted
🌃🧥
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Good, now max them out!
Timberline Studio 🍳 Wishlist Beastro! (@timberlinestudio.bsky.social) reposted
Dishing up Beastro! Don your apron in this cozy adventure fused with delicious deckbuilding! 👩🍳Build up your cozy town to table restaurant 🥕Grow ingredients, gather resources, & care for your animals 🍲Craft delicious meals www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ3N...
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
Thanks I guess? #PokemonGo
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
The theme song is sooooooo catchy! Didn't see it growing up because we lived in the woods with 3 channels, but watched it on a retro furry cartoon kick a few years ago.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I've always had a thing for Icee, partly because some not too distant relatives of mine owned the distribution of it. Too distant to be of much help in getting our own Icee machine, but close enough we've met. XP
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
It starts off ok at first glance and then, oh hey a tail for a leg, only 3 legs, no face, etc etc
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Saw this on eBay. Soon people will grow up thinking that's just normal looking art and the fast forward, high pitched tiktok text to speech voice sounds normal...
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Dawww~ what cuties, such a fun dynamic and pose.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
Really scratching my head at some of the artist interactions I've had in the last year. I think I've had 3 artists ghost their accounts after being to the sketch phase of their art. Trying to hold our hope for some to return because I really liked the sketches...
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
That's so weird, I was just talking this weekend with people at a tailgate gathering any dogs and the people said they were getting a lion hunting dog bred out of Texas. Didn't know they made dogs for that xD
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Lived there for too many years, jumped the border to a blue state xP Love that you can buy a gun at any age as long as your parents ok it there, but now you can't view porn...
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like you think you're big enough to be mainstream and can push out all the weirdos that helped make you. Scrubbing it clean to get acceptable for advertisers so you can go public.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Loooooove the outfits!
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Like just...what's this guy doing?
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
I know it's going to burn me eventually and I'll see something I really don't want to, but I've learned how to find the most random YouTube videos and now I'm fascinated to see what weird, random things people recorded and just uploaded ten years ago with no real title and 0 views.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
It's something I'm conscious of, and even then I'm likely way too trusting, despite having been burned probably a dozen times at this point but artists. It's just so very awkward though when they ask you to send it that way so "PayPal doesn't take their cut" from their end I guess, and you say no...
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Love the mix of underground comics and golden age funny animals (which I collect).
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember having something of that brand but I can't remember when or where...maybe was a leftover in the backrooms of CompUSA...
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
The joy of my baby boy, just the goofiest single neuron child. #puppy
Steven Huang (@stevenhuang.bsky.social) reposted
For Raz0rWired! 🌻
Steven Huang (@stevenhuang.bsky.social) reposted
Lil' scribbly for Ultra_Cooper!
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I love that after this was posted, a few hours later the series was suggested to me on YouTube. So many horny furries saw this and searched it up that it must have boosted it in the furry leaning algorithm to where it made it to me.
Chaotic-Strike (@chaotic-strike.bsky.social) reposted
Godzilla: The Series surprisingly managed to correctly predict the advent of Gen AI in 1998, and had an appropriate lesson at the end of the episode.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Yaaaaaaaawn goes my lil bean
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Peak pear poke
Kintsugeist (@kintsugeist.bsky.social) reposted
Goodra doodle
Azuza (COMMS OPEN) (@azuza.bsky.social) reposted
2nd commission for Zinovia finally done! 🥳✨ #art #commission
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Pink, blue, anything but green.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Well I do see clogs...
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't forget, Trump's dad was arrested at a KKK riot in 1927 and Trump was sued by the DOJ civil rights division for racist housing policies in 1973. Shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I think as a teenager I had a similar email conversation with Dark Natasha about the dark and skulls and things I found scary or evil in my child's mindset, and she tried explaining to me that creativity can come from darkness and expression of darker themes and thoughts are exploring yourself, etc.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
You literally phrased it as you being fine with things being bigoted in what gets banned and censored, but worried about it getting "super" bigoted where your personal fetishes or kinks are banned...If you agree there should be a line, don't be shocked when it's moved to somewhere you don't like.
Pascel (@pascelfalcon.bsky.social) reposted
Sly tabaxi comm
Pascel (@pascelfalcon.bsky.social) reposted
Little mosaic for flustered-fish (Artfight)
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Kitty love~
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Baby boy got a hat
c3rmen (@c3rmen.bsky.social) reposted
Friend shapes #art #sketch #furry
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, even at the time reading them as a kid I noticed the stereotyping/racism that was all over it. Some are just all good, some are all bad, but they're pretty much the same regardless of upbringing or era. I was really rooting for Veil as an owner of ferrets myself at the time.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I really just didn't like the world or core story of Beastars. It has a message of fighting against stereotypes...I think? But it also enforces really stupid, unfounded stereotypes of different animals from the dark ages, like carnivores going into an insane bloodlust or killing for fun.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Finally made peace with the yarn~
Ticking Timebomb 🧨 🔜 Megaplex (@timebombdogart.bsky.social) reposted
Cat crafts 🧶 Sketch @llew91.bsky.social got for their partner @folkwyn.bsky.social as a gift :)
Giovanni Edwards (@gioedwrds.bsky.social) reposted
My 2nd year film, Wilbur & Harold, is on YOUTUBE! It's too big to post here, so please enjoy this teaser lol!! (link below)
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
Me-"Man, why does my stomach hurt?" Also me-*Had squid flavored ruffles, peanut mochi, and a carabao to wash it down with* Imported food store opened up in the mall...
Andreus Felix Lutradius (@centuriotter.bsky.social) reposted
The raiding crew of my Redwall AU~ Stellar art by @kiergane.bsky.social
🌿Oaks 🌿🇳🇴 (@oakfury.bsky.social) reposted
hardly awake / highly motivated ☕
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I had an msx, no idea how, but it made its way into a church camp gymnasium in central Louisiana for me to find and play games on.
Luke☕ (@fattydragonite.bsky.social) reposted
A new short film is currently in production My thanks for your kindness and support in making this possible☕
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I've always wondered that, I think it's a natural conclusion people come to if they are introverted. I think if you're the one who reaches out, you're just the less introverted person out of the group x3
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
Spent the 4th surrounded by 11 dogs, 9 of which were corgis, one even came swimming in the pool with us. Quite the time, though exhausting at the end when the fireworks started popping off in town and mine were clinging to me for hours.
ʝꪖꪀꪊᦓ ᥅ꪮᦓꫀ (@janus.bsky.social) reposted
Renumuro | comms closed (@renumuro.bsky.social) reposted
The Last Hunt Everything changed when the Tiger King, Batara Kala, slew the she-dragon. Her spilled blood and stolen life bestowed upon the cats sentience—and a new form. #fantasy
Plive 🐊 (@plive.bsky.social) reposted
attack on ALL FRONTS @heresvix.bsky.social
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
Gotta remake some lost files from a lost time with my freshly acquired floppies.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
The "joys" of having a young, blind dog. Out fence racing with the neighbor's dog and hit his chin on the fence post and got a gash in his tongue...so much blood and I was watering the grass and he ran through the water and it looked like it was everywhere. I'm sure he'll be fine but...dumb baby.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Dhooooooole! I just learned about them like a week ago and wondered why there weren't more fursonas of them!
Maximum993 (@maximum993.bsky.social) reposted
Sketch commission for @foxlexib.bsky.social Owl bear with an aloe vera
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Mine too! Hope you had a happy birthday as well!
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
The countdown to the big "four o'" begins...
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel like I need to give that a watch after work. I've been wanting to write again (just for my personal enjoyment) but I've been getting stuck due to avoiding ideas in my world building because they are "too similar" to something already existing. I feel it's like copying or ripping it off.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it might be a symptom of people who haven't had to develop a "professional" persona, separate from their personal. You have to draw a line between what you share with your inner circle of trusted friends and family, your burdens and opinions, and what you share with strangers.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
When you don't know how to deal with your emotions, you feel an urge to dump them onto other people to see if they know how to deal with them, or else it builds up inside you, getting more jumbled and hard to unravel. Just knowing you're sad because you didn't sleep well changes your whole view.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Looking back over the last 20+ years of being online, the biggest thing in relationships, and for yourself personally, is emotional intelligence. Understanding why you're feeling what you're feeling and how your actions have and will affect you and other people.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know how I felt when I came to that realization after much testing around the house and at stores that was the end texture result I was looking for because I just have never been that into being messy or sticky.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Really like the look of it! I spent ages trying to figure out the theoretical texture of a magical form and entirely I came to the texture of those puffer balls, stretchy but not slimy...then I realized that was just a soft hardness sex toy...
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I got married at 20 and had never even kissed someone before my wedding day, so I had no idea what I was getting into. We stayed together for 8 years and though we have a good relationship now, after we separated she went online saying I emotionally abused her by not having sex with her enough?
Faar the Ram (@faar.bsky.social) reposted
Smoochability 📈 ✏️ : @bearlyfeline.bsky.social
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm ace, and I've been married to a girl and a guy, but with my ex-wife it was a clear case of emotional manipulation when she wanted to have sex, and I never really felt like it, didn't enjoy it. I'm still dealing with sex aversion from unwanted touching to try and arouse me and the guilt tripping.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
It's something that really gets looked over and I've straight up had coworkers tell me that it's impossible to rape a man because of said perceived willingness, or that if a man gets raped it's because he's "weak" from another coworker. Then as ace with low sex drive, it's been a real issue.
Coffeeclaws 🔜 Megaplex Artist Alley (@coffeeclaws.bsky.social) reposted
Soft snep ☁️ ‧˚✩ #furryart #furry
Coffeeclaws 🔜 Megaplex Artist Alley (@coffeeclaws.bsky.social) reposted
Snow leopard cocoa ˚. ♡
Azshara kletete (@azsharakletete.bsky.social) reposted
Fancy
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
One snep, one flag!
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
Really putting the "doom" in the doom scrolling today, huh? Goddamn, look through the news for once and bam, all hope gone.
Street-cat(街貓) (@streetcat36.bsky.social) reposted
🐯🌼 #furry #furryart #drawing #digitalart #illustraion #art
Scale (@scalerandiart.bsky.social) reposted
"Greenhouse care", oil on canvas, 30x40 cm A commission from last year I hadn't posted yet, painted for Mango - his character Aelph tending to his greenhouse. I like drawing/painting specific, recognizable plants whenever possible rather than generic or fantasy plants, even though it's a lot 1/2
🌱Sita Art🌱 Comms open (@sitaart.bsky.social) reposted
Snow Leopard Wizard!
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social)
@stormblaze.bsky.social It arrived, just barely though! Everything inside was just fine however. :3
Kou 🍜 (@ixkouu.bsky.social) reposted
He who overcomes adversity Comm for @spectacledlion.bsky.social
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
They usually sprint off, away from my towels, to rub against anything they can and try and dry themselves off which riles to the other ones, thinking they are trying to play.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
My pups were all shedding with the warm weather so all 3 corgis got baths today which led to chasing them around with towels and then brushes for the next few hours. X3
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sure that'll make their whole week to see how well he's done in his new home.
🔞Sinibun | waitlist open⭐ (@sinibunnn.bsky.social) reposted
The light of the cosmos for Weaver @vore.ing Painting the light effects turned out to be a lot of fun #furryart #furry #furrynsfw
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
Almost as good as the plate on a Subaru I was behind Saturday, "0W0BURU"
Carpe Dice (@carpedice.bsky.social) reposted
El gran @chaoticseijo.bsky.social aparecerá en nuestra mesa como Liteno, Primer Escudo del clan Segeda... porque nadie más quería el puesto y le sabía mal por el anciano del clan, que el buenhombre se esfuerza. Pronto, ¡recorrerá de nuevo los bosques de Isphanya en otra misión!
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I've come to believe that the acceleration of our lives as we grow older, is because we've become so used to things we see often that our brains write it off as something not to be paid attention to. Unless we either seek out new experiences or take time to appreciate old ones, we skim through life.
Opa' (@opalance.bsky.social) reply parent
I carefully manage who I follow, mute, and block to not get first or secondhand toxicity.
Taz🍀🌟 (@tazzle.art) reposted
comm featuring Hazel of the Rootbloom, for a ko-fi supporter :) 🐿️🌿 #furryart #furry
Toothybj (@toothybj.bsky.social) reposted
Dog date