I ended a toxic relationship yesterday. 💔
Here's what it taught me about B2B sales:

In the 2000s technology was exciting because it told you "You can now do more with me, Imma let you express yourself like never before"
Now it's scary because it tells you "You're too stupid to do it, let me do it for you, *I* know what you want or need"

But again, fascists must always create enemies. And once again I feel inside me that little voice in my head called anxiety suggesting me that it will reach politics, that they will limit our spaces to express ourselves, and I'm not talking just about therians, but furries (too easy to think they're the same thing when they aren't) and then more, because they always start first with a specific group and then they broaden up.
Sure, probably it's just a fad. Probably it's just a "Summer of the shark" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_the_Shark). But every now and then something makes me afraid of politics now. Sure a lot of it is just my anxiety problems. But when the internet is being severely limited by laws appearing all over the world, when politicians do not even have anymore to pretend they have moralities and can start wars just the next day, one has to question whether the state, the concept of state, is something beneficial is this current period. Because right now for me it's something terrifying. Something that purposedly manipulates people for its own egoistical scopes.
All I have left to say is seeing how humanity acts is something that makes me self-identify with dragons even more, so if anything you mocking us makes me feel like one of us even more.

One month ago I found myself to be a dragonkin. I talked about it here about what the process of discovery was like: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11301131/ and immediately after, therians (concept nearly identical to otherkin, but applied to real life animals) became a viral news topic in Latin America. Why? No reason at all. Even compared to furries, otherkins and therians are so few and so niche that a normie would be very unlikely to discover the concept alone. But hey, fascism stroke again. Yes because the Argentinian government ran by an anarcho-capitalist needed to give the common folk a new enemy to distract them from other more urgent problems - you know, fascists fascisting. But guess gays and migrants started getting a bit old-fashioned, eh? So here you go, something ready to mock!
And so, Latin American news started making reportages of "Therians", the new LGBT madness, where boys believe to be animals and act like animals in public, probably saying they also shit on the streets. And of course Tiktok spreading the concept. To be fair, the internet already used to mock it (Remember the "On all levels except physical i'm a wolf" meme?), but the fact that now MAINSTREAM MEDIA has started targeting is a huge alarm bell.
And now it's spreding. It's reached Italy. The otherkin Telegram group I'm in posted already an article by a notorious right-wing newspaper and today apparently we were mentioned on a radio station, with the same usual tones.
Needless to say, as I stated in my previous journal: we DO NOT believe to be actual animals, we DO NOT behave like animals in public, being otherkin or therian is only about self-identity and spiritual, it's just a way to say: I have some peculiarities inside me that make me feel like I associate more with this species. THE - END.

Life with a dragon episode 109
All other episodes on FurAffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/randomvangloboii/folder/1394115/Life-with-a-dragon/

It's incredible how on GNOME I need a dozen extensions to get what on KDE is included in the main settings

RANDOM.BMP
Made by @cantdoxthedrox

I created a new personal Discord server. The name is Random's Free State.
A pair details about it:
- It is invite-only, at least for now. But if you are interested, you can write me and I'll send you a link.
- It has a NSFW section, but you can just not ask to access that role if you don't want to see it.
- It still wants to be a safe space where to talk about yourself, so you can talk about whatever your orientation is.
- I added a pair bots to it, like two that make you play Uno and Connect 4, plus a music bot to listen to songs together on voice chat.
Hope I can see you there!

I'll be at Eurofurence too

Adblockers are the antiviruses of the 2020s

== TO DOWNLOAD E621 POSTS ==
As you may know, e621's survival is at risk due to an age verification law being approved in Arizona, the US state jurisdiction where e621's owner Bad Dragon resides. To mass download pics so that your preserve the site's legacy, you can use this:
https://re621.app/
It requires you to first install the Tampermonkey extension (available on Firefox, on Chrome-based websites must be installed manually through a more complicated procedure), then you can just press the Install latest button on their website and reload e621. You'll get a download all option on any page in the sidebar, and get settings to customize how to download them.

#e621 #arizona

Autism is like having a 4 TB hard disk and an Intel i7 processor but 1 GB of RAM

A Bard For The Dragon, The fourth and final volume of Novellae Draconum, is now available on digital bookstores! A good way to celebrate Appreciate A Dragon Day. :)
Follow the link below to get it:
https://sites.google.com/view/carminebruzi/home#h.qzyd4kqx2v0a

Cover by @ryuvhiel.bsky.social

#dragon #book #appreciateadragonday

Portrait of me by Ryuvhiel

Random had a TERRIBLE nightmare. He dreamt he was a big tech mascot drawn in corporate style.
Happy halloween week!

#digital #art #anthro #dragon #sona

Big fat dragons. ❤️

Hello! I'm Random Van Globoii, from Milan, Italy.
I like #writing #dragon #stories and do lots of #dragon related stuff on my DeviantArt profile. https://www.deviantart.com/randomvangloboii
I have published some dragon-themed #books under the name Carmine Bruzi. You can have a look at them here: http://www.bookbub.com/profile/carmine-bruzi
I am a co-founder of Dragon-Human Association, a fictional worldwide group that promotes friendly coexistence between dragons and humans. Join here: https://www.deviantart.com/dragon-human-assoc
When I have to join the normal human world, I'm mostly a software tester. I like walking through mountains and forests, listening to electronic music and customizing Fedora on my computer.
Below is my dragon identity, drawn by @Plazehorta