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Louis "Lou" Gagliardi / Ash Franzetti / Alex 'Ace' Maddox / Tegan Ainsley / Taryn Amita / Diana / gothickitteh / gothickitty / Lynn Brooks / @acekatt - #T R A M S _ C R O W _ F U N D *buys 12 iPads* "Anyone got $600 they can spare?" *spits on cancer patient*
Isn't it interesting that he responds to art criticism but nothing that actually matters? Notice that he's not once directly responded to the spamming accusations or anything that reflects badly on himself as a person.
Even with regards to art criticism, he carefully avoids @Sintharia pointing out the big flaws in favor of my followup that didn't mention the big issues already covered and was mostly small nitpicks.
Hard to give much in the way of critique, btw, when he doesn't draw and doesn't shade. Shading is the part that would actually give some personality to what he's doing with other people's work; as is, all he's doing is the grunt work intermediate stage. There's not really anything TO critique, aside from 'it's sloppy' or 'you choose colors like a five year old with restaurant crayons' and give basic sped tips that you give to every kid with their first Deviantart account.
Lou if you want an actual critique I'd be more than happy (and I know how to write one that won't hurt your fee fees, even), but first you have to actually do art.
Even with regards to art criticism, he carefully avoids @Sintharia pointing out the big flaws in favor of my followup that didn't mention the big issues already covered and was mostly small nitpicks.
Hard to give much in the way of critique, btw, when he doesn't draw and doesn't shade. Shading is the part that would actually give some personality to what he's doing with other people's work; as is, all he's doing is the grunt work intermediate stage. There's not really anything TO critique, aside from 'it's sloppy' or 'you choose colors like a five year old with restaurant crayons' and give basic sped tips that you give to every kid with their first Deviantart account.
Lou if you want an actual critique I'd be more than happy (and I know how to write one that won't hurt your fee fees, even), but first you have to actually do art.
He's still obsessively reading this thread. It can't be a coincidence that he started discussing shading again after you mentioned it. View attachment 1296856
That's not even a good excuse. If you enjoy something enough to make it a hobby, then you should want to do a good job with it. How can you call something a hobby if you don't have any desire to improve your skill?
It's been said before but it's just dumb to charge $15 for such shoddy work even if nobody is commissioning him. I don't think he's ever addressed the comments on why many artists would dislike what he's doing as well, but then again he doesn't seem to really consider much outside of how he feels.
Didn't he JUST tell us that nobody commissions him for that?
Just fyi, when I shaded that first pic of his I found it very relaxing and tinkered with the idea of offering coloring/shading services on the cheap as a commission option, because it's the 'fun' part for me and I can do it extremely fast. Ultimately decided against it for the sake of opsec but when I was considering it?
Pricing I thought reasonable for full soft shading like I do? $15 if they provided me a flat jpg or $10 if they provided me colors separated from the lineart in a psd file, +$5 if it was just an uncolored lineart and they wanted me to flat colors for it as well.
Flatting colors takes like fifteen minutes if you're doing it smart. It's grunt work.
Also, know who uses the 'it's just a hobby uwu' excuse? People getting listed as scammers on Artist_Beware. Just saying.
Honestly at this point it's getting difficult for my goldfish cracker brain to keep up with whatever position or lie he's on. You're too generous even offering him any art advice at all tbh
Honestly at this point it's getting difficult for my goldfish cracker brain to keep up with whatever position or lie he's on. You're too generous even offering him any art advice at all tbh
I mean, if anyone were to take him up on his commissions he'd at least be making a tiny bit of effort towards earning money instead of being a fat lazy e-beggar. Hard to condemn that, even if they'd be getting super ripped off, they would know what they were getting.
Optimistic as fuck, but Lou actually working for his two dozen wings is a nice pipe dream.
Surprisingly he used to offer commissions at one point, specifically writing commissions. He even traded other people for art of whatever his fursona was at the time. That being said, the quality of the writing itself is pretty abysmal, but at least it's honest.
We're not responsible for Chloe offing herself. But if you notice, Louis, nobody here has told you to kill yourself. Okay, well, maybe a few, but they aren't genuine and they get badvotes for being naughty. The ultimate goal for most threads is for cows to not kill themselves, either to continue to produce content or to improve themselves. Some may disagree, but everyone enjoys a redemption story.
When people criticize your work or tell you to move out a get a job, it's mean-spirited, but it's also a means to improve yourself. Think of it as "tough love." When people here criticize you, it's because these criticisms have a basis in reality and are reflective of your actions. If you weren't doing something wrong or actions which could be easily corrected, you wouldn't receive criticisms. It's few and far between, but occasionally there will be threads where the cow in question improves themselves to the point that the threads either die or become a means to positively share what they produce.
And the first step to improving yourself is making an account here, especially immediately and as bombastically as possible.
Didn't he JUST tell us that nobody commissions him for that?
Just fyi, when I shaded that first pic of his I found it very relaxing and tinkered with the idea of offering coloring/shading services on the cheap as a commission option, because it's the 'fun' part for me and I can do it extremely fast. Ultimately decided against it for the sake of opsec but when I was considering it?
Pricing I thought reasonable for full soft shading like I do? $15 if they provided me a flat jpg or $10 if they provided me colors separated from the lineart in a psd file, +$5 if it was just an uncolored lineart and they wanted me to flat colors for it as well.
Flatting colors takes like fifteen minutes if you're doing it smart. It's grunt work.
Also, know who uses the 'it's just a hobby uwu' excuse? People getting listed as scammers on Artist_Beware. Just saying.
In my opinion, shading is easily the best part of drawing, with coloring being a close second. Coloring, however, is also the easiest part, to the point that I even do it for free when people here ask me to color their avatars.
I believe I said this before, but my offer still stands. If you make an account, quote this post, and do a quick Q&A, I'll color and shade any linework for you, Louis, and I'll keep the text insulting you off the subject matter. I'm an AI of my word, and I already do this for free when users request it anyway.
Since Lou is "calling me out" via mspaint-ing over a screenshot of my post about his Discord behavior, allow me to offer a quick response (since I know he reads this thread anyways):
Your handwriting isn't great, so what I THINK you wrote is "So why not message me and talk to me directly? Why should I do all the work?" What work? What would I possibly have to message you about? That I found your discord account? That you were talking in a public discord server and made an ass out of yourself? I hate to break it to you Lou, but Discord isn't your secret safe space, and if you were hoping I'd message you and say something like "Hey Lou you're making an ass out of yourself online, maybe you shouldn't do that", that's not going to happen. You're an adult, you shouldn't need someone to tell you that.
I could care less that you're transgender, or a furry, or Russian or whatever nationality claim you are right now. I screencapped your posts for the sake of showing everyone what a liar you are (claiming you have no money to buy food on twitter, then going on Discord and saying you have $1000 in the bank literally minutes after making that tweet), and so we'd have hard evidence of your lying in case you tried deleting or hiding your discord (which you immediately did). Most of the posters in this thread dislike you because you continue to lie about your situation and continue to solicit donations that you clearly don't need, and we keep tabs on you because you're a compulsive liar who constantly deletes everything as soon as someone points out you're lying.
You can go ahead and delete your old posts and pretend like nothing ever happened, but we all know you've spent months (if not years) lying about how you're starving/abused/sick with Covid-19 and need money to pay for food/medicine (which you immediately spend on videogames or commissions anyways). It's clear you're not sorry for accepting money from people who legitimately thought you were worse off than you actually were, you're only sorry because people are finally holding you accountable for your behavior.
PS, If you think Kiwis live "rent-free inside your head", they don't, or at least not me. It literally only took me about 20 minutes to screenshot everything, crop the images, and write commentary for a forum post. And then I went on with the rest of my day.
something that i've noticed about Lou and his twitter feed is how one-note it is.
if you look at his tweets/replies it's always about an extremely limited handful of subjects:
1. e-begging
2. reblogs of other people e-begging in the hopes that if he pretends to care about them, somebody might throw him money
3. getting into slapfights with people over politics or other shit he knows nothing about
4. bawwing about his abusive transphobic family OR using his family members to drum up pity; there is no in-between
5. bitching out Grubhub, Amazon, or whoever else has minorly inconvenienced him today
6. ass-kissing people like Boozy
occasionally he will re-tweet stuff about politics or trans rights or other shit, but there is no sign of any real personality in anything he posts beyond "lazy, fat grifter." he says he plays video games, where are the posts about his gaming accomplishments? i saw somewhere that he had pets, but he never posts anything about them, very strange considering most pet owners love talking about their animals. he only mentions his pre-school age nephew when he's annoyed by something the kid is doing, or wants to use him for pity points; even if you don't like kids, children that age are hilarious and i guarantee you most normal people would find something cute or amusing to talk about.
Lou never talks about books he's read, music he's enjoying, art or writing that he's working on, nice or positive things in his day. he's a one note human being focussed entirely on being as miserable and grasping as he possibly can. he's not only unpleasant, he's boring; he might as well be a twitter bot for all the personality he displays.
I didn't see these posted in the thread yet, but here's the facebook profiles for Lou's step-dad and half-brother.
Joe Zastawniak - No photos and nothing of particular note on his timeline other than having very similar political leanings to Lou and Lou's mom and publicly posting their address several times.
Steve Zastawniak - I don't blame Lou for hating his brother, he looks like a dickhead. Timeline is boring and full of white-trash bullshit, no new posts since November 2019 so no way of confirming whether he's living with Lou and company
You know Lou, if you want to make more money at this you COULD learn to shade this stuff. I've given you plenty of shit over not doing it on the basis of plain flats often looking shitty without it, but it's actually fun and learning something like that could give you something to do that's more productive and better for your well-being than fighting on twitter all day. Learn something. Challenge yourself. Lord knows you have an excess of time.
@_01 has already mentioned it, but (most) of us don't wanna see you off yourself, if nothing else because frankly it'd be one more inconvenience you'd be putting on everyone else in your life. I want to see you stop e-begging for disingenuous reasons, learn some self-control with your compulsive buying of 'wants', either cultivate a civil relationship with your parents or get them out of your life by moving out, and honestly? Just get yourself out of this shitty hole you've dug for yourself, man. Part of why your thread has an audience is because it's super frustrating for functional adults to see someone just sitting there going nowhere and practically jerking off to their own misery.
You say you feel shitty and I'm not surprised because your life sounds like a self-imposed shithole. You've gotta do LITERALLY ANYTHING to change it but it won't happen unless you make an effort.
It's interesting how this thread slowly went from just shitting on Lou to frustrated efforts of genuinely trying to get him to understand it's not too late. Help isn't obligated to be nice either, and the people who demand others be nice have a pretty strong pattern of being assholes (see new twitch council).
He wont listen. If hes 36 and still acts like a shitty 17 year old then it's far too late. If he hasn't gotten a clue yet then he wont. It's cynical to think this but unfortunately it's the only optimism I can share if you want to call it that. Far too many people have tried to help this dude and far too many times hes done this bullshit and then some. Trying to help a 36 year old, grown ass adult to do the most basic things is a waste of fucking time. He should have gotten his shit together literal years ago.
Up until now the bulk of what we've been witnessing when it comes to Lou is limited to his behaviour on twitter, which, as someone mentioned earlier, is fairly one-dimensional and old hat. Several of us got together to do some proper digging, including @BoobWhiskers and myself, inspired in part by @Ol' Slag finding an abandoned weasyl account where Lou had posted fetish art.
The Weasyl accounts in question are:
fzygrrl - This seems to be his most recently active account, registered three years ago. There was a blogpost from January of this year announcing a name change, but no subsequent reemergence or activity. Requires an account to view, refer to the attached screenshots.
FzyGal / (a) - His previous account and the one discovered by Ol' Slag. This account is public and archived totally. It will set the tone for where we'll be going from here
quad-titty panther taur
Voluntarily dropping personal information
There are traces of two other past accounts Lou made on Weasyl under the names "Swiftpawz" and "Vixyn," but no current results or archives.
While looking into the Weasyl accounts, BoobWhiskers made a comment in this thread about a line in Lou's wikifur entry mentioning a SoFurry profile, something I ended up stumbling onto entirely by accident shortly afterwards.
I archived what I could, some sections require member registration to view, but I took screenshots of most everything that was of interest and attached them to this post.
The account was registered in 2013 and was active up until 2016. According to information gleaned from FA, Lou had at least three other accounts on SoFurry at some point under the names "Jordana," "leonaerrett," and "Dinah," although there's no trace or archive of these accounts in 2020. It's entirely plausible that he may have additional surviving accounts on the site that have yet to be discovered.
Lou uploaded a lot of material to the Jamie Lopez account (mostly stories, probably some commissions he bought too) before purging it some time prior to March 2018. There's no reason stated outright, but considering statements he made leading up to his most recent identity crisis on twitter, the reason could have to do with SoFurry tolerating the presence of cub material.
Which leads us into Lou's Likes/Dislikes / (a) on SoFurry (a feature similar to the "Kinks" feature on f-list). Notably "Cub" is in the "hated" column. He also has loads of goofy shit in his "love" column (male pregnancy, inflation, egg-laying, and "banjo"), appearing particularly obsessed with TFTG and multifurs as a concept/kink, which is reflected in his various journal entries and forum posts.
There's more, but you get the idea. Refer to the bottom of the post for the remainder
In what will be a running theme, Lou claimed in 2014 to be transgender, contradicting claims he made as recently as February of this year that he's "freshly out" as trans.
He also made the same claim in 2016 in one of his final journal entries on the site
His journals are mostly concerned with his stories, various fetishes, and musings about his fursonae, again displaying indecision and confusion about his identity that would become his trademark. There's a couple of instances where he brings up his family and off-line life, particularly this entry from 2015 that was made shortly before his 32nd birthday detailing the tumultuous relationship Lou's half-brother has with the family.
As previously mentioned, this traversal through Lou's past online activity resulted in the discovery of a variety of forgotten and abandoned identities. Not only the derelict Weasyl accounts, but also five additional FurAffinity accounts.
FionaDoyle / (a) - The earliest FA to date, started in late 2012 and later abandoned in early 2015. Like the other times he's shed an identity, he DFE.
Journal announcing his rebrand
Jordana / (a) - Started immediately after the previous account was closed. Like the SF account his main obsessions at this time tend to be multifurries and TFTG shit.
Main profile as of April 2015. The journals aren't anything special, just raffle reposts.
Gallery as of April 2015
Contact form revealing additional names and a third inkbunny account that no longer exists.
BrandyDevyn - A bunny fursona started in June 2015. Account requires registration to view.
Another possible twitter profile, I don't know what the biography is referring to.
According to commissions, he had two additional accounts in 2016 called bloofawx and ltea, unfortunately they've since been deactivated and there's no archival snapshots.
To recap, and for those who haven't kept count, this puts the total at ELEVEN FurAffinity accounts Lou has used at various periods. It's possible there's even more out there.
As long as we're doing a dive into his FA profiles, let's take it a bit deeper. These are gallery uploads from across his various FA accounts, the entirety are OC/fursonae that he created, and the bulk of the art was either commissioned or requested by him. Anything else was a gift or trade. The stories are all his own handiwork. Ordered chronologically with notes as necessary. Bear in mind that Lou was 29 when he opened the first account and he's almost 37 now.
For the sake of brevity, I left out the vast majority of pieces and opted to include only the especially noteworthy ones. I'll include links to the sources at the end of the post. if you're interested in Lou at all I greatly encourage and implore you to browse the galleries because there's a massive amount of material. Going to start out with FionaDoyle, the earliest account that I've found so far. Started in June 2013 and active until February 2015. I won't be capping favourites, as pretty much everything he favourites is gay/hyper/multi/musclegirl shit, which is fairly benign by most standards.
Another picture involving my pantheress, Jasmin. By now, her male mind had slowly become feminized and she was gladly shopping and trying to look nice. She still belches and farts and what not but she's becoming more and more lady like.
If it hasn't made itself clear by now, Lou fancies himself a writer. In addition to his own personal writing, at various points he offered "open commissions" for his (questionable) services and, shockingly, some people took him up on it. His obsessions outside of furry shit include Doctor Who so you'll see a lot of quotes and references to that franchise crop up. All stories are linked via Patebin
The Jordana account was started in February 2015 and ended in October of the same year. The uploads had a lot of repeats from the SophiaDoyle account, sometimes repurposing previously commissioned artwork. During this time there were a number of "free" scraps that he took and coloured himself, abiding by the rules and including original artist credit, but also shitting on the original artists for not adding bulges, etc
A retired fursona. I later learned that Lou is scared of horses and claims he makes equine characters as an effort to get over this fear, however he usually ends up retiring them or selling them off.
Chronologically, this takes place shortly after her transformation. The underwear she's wearing would be the tattered remains of her boxers, conveniently torn to be like a thong. The former male is seeing herself in the mirror for the first time..
We tried to get it at the last minute to have a hermy bulge but the artist wouldn't do it which is fine, not mad. So for all intents and purposes, Jordana is a herm who in this picture is tucking it in. (for those wondering, when hard she can get to be 15 inches. but she's also 6'5 and 225 lbs of solid, feminine power.)
So lateinshowing commissioned this for me.
The basic story is at some point in the future, Conner (his character) lives with a smallish human named Jordan. Well thanks to some alien nanovirus called repair/recode virus Jordan became Jordana, this hulking, four arm four breasted panther herm.
Conner can't say that he's not loving the results
The Brandy Devyn account was ostensibly started as "fan service" in June 2015 by Lou who made the claim that the character was exploding in popularity and he didn't want it proliferating his other account. This became his main account after he abandoned the Jordana one. The account was active for only a few months but saw a ton of OC shit with a fair amount of commissioned artwork by the time it became abandoned in December. He changed his "true fursona" several times during this period.
Lou started doing a lot of self-insertion into his writing around this time, as such this affords a better look into his psyche and overall self-image. It's informative to say the least.
This was a "free request"
To be honest her full name is Lily Dawn Moon, born Louis Dominic Moon.
In the year 2114 at the age of 31, she finally had enough and admitted she was transgender and went to see a special Doctor. Doctor Who? Well, you'll have to read her story to find out.
Another colouring job by Lou of an OC named Jayashri.
Jesus christ, Lou.
Stripes and colour added by Lou
This is the piece that inspired Lou to start calling himself a colourist. In the description he announced his commissions were open for the bargain price of $5, later increasing it to $20 in 2019 despite no apparent improvement in ability
This is a new character, the last new character I will make.
**it's called wishful thinking & being delusional, Lou
I wasn't going to share anything from his favorites because it's all pretty milquetoast, at least compared to what the average furry is into, but this one was too good not to post.
The next account is vyxxn and was started in October 2015 and abandoned in February of 2016, so there's a little overlap in terms of timeline with the previous account. Again the introduction and abandonment of various fursonae, as well as a lot of recycling of previously commissioned pieces. Eventually the account was deactivated totally.
Lou's next "true fursona," a fox named Rebecca
An additional fursona but Lou claims Becca is still his main
Illustration for a TFTG story he was writing
A red panda fursona he had
Another character he named "Flutterjack"
An omen of things to come.
This is my male 'sona. I have decided that I may not be transgender but gender fluid so i decided having a male and female 'sona would be good
The BlooFawx account was started in February 2016 almost immediately after he shuttered vyxxn and then discarded in April. The profile was deactivated, but due to Lou's habit of uploading commissions across multiple accounts, it was easy to find traces of it. This account was different from any others as Lou was mainly interested in male characters this time around.
Coloured by Lou of a B&W commission.
I'm actually redoing Vance's background and idea. He's..intersexed. Well, I think some people use 'CuntMEN' to describe muscular men with that type of anatomy).
Liam used to be human. Then Liam found out parts of his ancestry that were a bit more..fuzzy. I'm writing a story that might be expanded keyword: might and in it, sometimes the world is a little out of balance, so it is up to grandmother to straighten it out.
In Liam's case, his grandfather was a fox anthro, but because at the time his father was born the world was out of balance his father came out as a human.
By the time of Liam's 32nd birthday, the world is out of balance again so Liam is transformed into a fox to use his craft wit, charm and general good personality to 'fight' for equal rights for furries and protect the environment.
Not bad for a single guy who runs a book store, eh?
P.S. if you're wondering, all of my research says this is how traditional Shawnee men would dress. though not to go into battle. they would shave their heads for that..but..I like guys with long hair so it stays. end of discussion.
Despite (re) coming out as trans, I still love Liam to death. He represents the masculine side of me. In that I'm protective of my family, not afraid to fight. He's that dominate side. Not mean or masterish but that 'don't mess with me' side.
I think that's a side of me, regardless of gender, that I can't hide or ignore. To quote Doctor Who, "he is my secret."
Another deactivated account, again overlapping with the previous account. Started in April 2016, it lasted barely over a month into the beginning of May 2016. The name was a reference to a new character that was featured in the previous gallery. As an aside, I'm not sure why, but Lou seems obsessed with the notion of moving to and living in Baltimore. It's a reoccurring theme in his writing and OC biographies.
Lou urges in the description that "despite the toony look (which i do not mind at all), she is 6'8", she does weight 350 lbs. and she does have a more athletic build with H cup breasts. "
This is..hmm..well, I'm not entirely sure. Lexa? Maybe? I'll update it when I have a name.
I know one of my friends says I "push the TF/TG aspect a little hard" but it's who I am and so it remains.
I have an idea for a story. it involves a computer program and possibly nanotech but I don't know how deep it'll go or if it's a good idea. It's sorta based off an erotic series I like called "Master PC." The computer program can change about everything and anything that a person inputs into it, including a person's attitude, gender, likes and dislikes, etc.
Precursor to his next fursona and the specific piece that led me to discover additional FA accounts.
This account begins in May 2016, named after another "true fursona" called "Lia Williams." It was eventually abandoned in August but saw a fair amount of activity in those four months. Notable for still retaining uploads (albeit a fraction of the total) instead of being blank or deactivated outright at the time of this writing. Additionally this was the account he had for his first con and had a burst of activity right after when he uploaded a bunch of pieces he got done while attending.
Hypermuscle version of the eponymous fursona
Badge for Anthrocon 2016
Yet another OC
Coloured by Lou, commissioned at Anthrocon
Another anthrocon commission
Lia Origins - Origin story for the Lia Williams character. Again, a lot of self-insert. Lia Origins pt 2 Lia's Date with Thom - Story commissioned by an artist that Lou frequently hires in which Lia goes on a date with the artist's male fursona Outfoxed - More self insert Leyla - Outline for another new character of his that would later be featured in stuff he got commissioned at anthrocon
Chronologically, the FzyGal account should follow here, however I'll be saving that for last as it's his longest running and most consistently active account to date. Instead we will be taking a look at prrflr, an account started in April of 2017. You'll notice that in the previous account, Lou attempted to sell off some of his characters. I have no way of knowing which (if any) were sold. At this point his main fursonae of choice were cougars/pumas/big cats, hence the name of the account. Like the Liaws account, there are still some files squirreled away on it.
Another new fursona and one that he's used semi-regularly since then.
Yet another fursona. He tried to sell this one but I don't know whether he succeeded.
And a third.
By the way, he's obsessed with Doctor Who.
He subsequently decided he wanted this fursona to be hyper which meant getting a bunch of new pieces commissioned
One of the rare male characters Lou commissioned
If you've read any of his work so far, you'll know what a rip-off this is
Another discarded fursona, with this description: "The concept here is that she was a male, and a human male, who took some fertility stuff (yeah, the details are awesome right? ) but they were female rabbit pills that somehow, someway reacted with him...turning him into a her and making her always heavily pregnant."
A Date - one of his characters goes on a date with the fursona of an artist he commissions Misha - Same concept, same artist, different character Beginnings - An origins story for a red panda persona Diary of a Wah - Another commission but also a blatant self-insert. PC has a backstory identical to Lou's IRL life. Golden Day - Apparently the guy who commissions these is a chakat enthusiast Time with Taizel - Another commission featuring a hermaphroditic multifur Vance - Origins story for a fursona he had gifted to somebody Kylie's Day Out - Commission that continues a self-insert he had previously written for somebody else The Next Chapter - part 2 of Misha Wah-nderful Time - Another dating commission from the same guy. Wah-nderful Time 2
Lou shuttered the previous account and immediately moved to aceleeu in August of 2017, an identity he abandoned in less than three weeks at the beginning of September. Not much here, not even any stories. It's noteworthy for being one of the few public profiles Lou retained, with the added benefit of acting as a hub for several other of his accounts.
Another fetish piece with one of Lou's pregnant OC
In mid-August 2017, the TarynTiger account was made. Undoubtedly Lou's quickest stint as he was active on this account for exactly three days before abandoning it. He claims that he was "under attack" by alt-righters in the furry and brony fandoms which is why he retreated to this account. He uploaded several previous commissions and his pricesheet, other than that there's nothing of note here.
The final account we'll be looking at is Lou's most recent and to my knowledge the only one still active. Started immediately after the Liaws account was abandoned in September of 2016 and ahas been in regular use since, although he would occasionally suffer apparent fits of depression and delete files from the account before reuploading them some time later.
He continued to go through fursona like underwear, with the most recent, Diana, coming about in the middle of 2019, which is also one of the most active years for Lou commissioning artists. During this period he started bemoaning his financial state in earnest, despite the increased visual quality of the art he bought (and continues to buy).
Angst notwithstanding, activity continued normally until earlier this year when this thread was made and he locked it all down and DFE once again, although he has continued to use the account in some capacity for browsing and commenting.
If there's any account that you ought to read the stories from, it's this one, because wew
She says Hail to Pitt!
I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. So really our hometown animal is the Pitt "panther" (really cougar. just like the Nittany Lions of Penn State).
But I'm a fox, not a panther.
The colors are Pitt blue, Pitt gold and both belong to the University of Pittsburgh and used without permission.
color of the mug is TARDIS blue. I was trying to write "Foxy on the Inside" or "Delicious on the Inside" in the Doctor Who font but I couldn't make it work.
Yes, Casey is a Pitt fan and a Whovian. She's also a brony. She's also Tolkienist, having even read the Silmarillion.
Basically..she's me. Very ounce of me, all the angst, all the happy....and I can't believe it's taken me this long to find her.
See normally when I get a commission, even when fully body, I only get 'pinup' poses or of the character just standing there. and i'm starting to grow bored with that. Not that I don't love it, but I want more action. Otherwise how do I feel inspired to do anything with them?
This is my fursona. No, not the fox. Not anymore. I'm a cougar and I always should be. My personality just fits it.
In her story she's a former male and human. She worked in an area (I'm debating police like the fox but i dunno, maybe fire department? or emt? are those full time positions in any areas?) that allowed her a bit of free time. So she did a lot of soul searching from about 18 until she was almost 33 including years of therapy. Then she took part in an experimental process with the help of her therapist and doctor and became what she was always meant to be--a female. The cougar was just an added bonus of the technology.
She even got to choose her body type and she chose big booty, thick and about a DD (it may be bigger or not. i dunno. i dunno bra sizes). So the only thing not showing is the belly..but that's because she's bent over.
This is her admiring some sweets because like me irl she has a sweet tooth. In her story, after some unneeded sexism towards her (the "locker room talk" you hear about in this year's election) she quit the force and decided to open a bakery..well coffee shop and bakery, Cougar's Coffee and Baked Goods (working title)
After 18 years of flopping back and forth on characters, I finally have my fursona.
Alex(a) Strypez. Mostly cause I'm lazy and don't want to give her a last name, I gave her a nickname (Strypez) that just became her surname.
Heavily influenced by thegneech's Tiffany Tiger, as Tiffany was the first furry I ever saw. Unlike most kids my age, I didn't associate Robin Hood = furry. or Chip n Dale, or any of the tohers like Baloo. They were just cartoons to me.
He claims that someone paid him money to colour this.
this is my fursona. (she says with 10000% confidence). She has no name yet but I'm thinking Alexis for her too. or just Ace. I will maintain that while she is me she is a much more idealized me as you'll find out in later photos.
Last year at Anthrocon, I had done a spirited animal guided meditation and thought I found my fursona.
i did it again this year and I am 1000% sure i did.
So i formerly want to come out to ya'll. My deadname is Lou. Sometimes I use it in stories cause it's convenient. I prefer Alex, or Ace. I took that name from Doctor Who. I am a male to female transgender...
i am also a hyperbeasted tigress.
and i never specified if she's a Bengal or Siberian tiger, so she is a species of my own creation--An American Tiger (in Pit...nope! not ruining that title )
note: i am listing her as female because despite her transgender nature, her parts all work.
**This is like the twelfth time Lou has come out, I swear
Diana
New You - Commissioned, features one of Lou's OC Play Night - Another "date" commission Swapped Out - A "body-swap" commission that still somehow features Lou as the self-insert main character Game On - Supposedly a commission about self-validation, actually a story about Lou epically btfoing his mother Doctor Who - Featuring Lou's TGTF tiger OC as the Doctor Perseverance - An autobiographical look into his psyche written in 2018. He attached the preface below and it sets the tone for the entire piece. Someone paid him for this.
An anonymous commissioner wanted me to write a story set in modern time about something persevering. So..I wrote about a literal thing I did yesterday.
and I want to say as a preface. When I come to you, as a friend or a customer, and say "hey my commissions are open!" I'm not trying to hound you but more than "hey thanks for letting me know" would be nice. this is literally my livelihood. If you can't commission me, fine. at least advertise to your followers? Commission me when you can? As you'll see below, it's a difference of making a three year old happy or not.
Boozy - BoozyBadger fanfic Second Time Around - Another Doctor Who fanfic featuring his OC Commission for Avie - Somebody paid Lou $25 for this Eggs - A horrifying commission that features a bunny laying eggs in excruciating detail Castlevania - Lou claims he wrote this in 2009 but subsequently edited it recently to include his OC
In conclusion: Contrary to what Lou believes, this entire forum is about documenting and discussing the behaviour of interesting people, the definition of "interesting" being varied and subjective. The fact of the matter is that Lou is interesting, which is why this thread has exploded in the way it has.
In this specific case, the motivating factor was putting a picture together as an effort to better understand the psychology of someone who acts like Lou Gagliardi: someone on the cusp of middle-age who lives with their parents, doesn't work, and begs on the internet for money to buy junk food, electronics, and dozens (likely hundreds) of pieces of commissioned fetish art depicting their countless RP fursonae, when they could just as easily exercise restraint, get a job, educate themselves, and climb out of whatever depressive hell they're in.
**edit right before posting: of course the .onion links break right when I'm finished. If they won't load, just wait for a bit and try again. Hoping it's just temporary downtime.
) but they were female rabbit pills that somehow, someway reacted with him...turning him into a her and making her always heavily pregnant."