Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls

[austin_dern]

• Reading the Comics, June 18, 2016: The Quiet Week Edition which ran last week and then just look below at what happened.
• Minimal Yet Interesting Surfaces which is my most popular kind of mathematics post, just linking to someone else's pictures.
• Theorem Thursday: A First Fixed Point Theorem that was supposed to be a quick little thing and ended up way longer than all that.
• Reading the Comics, June 25, 2016: Busy Week Edition which is an extra post I put in because the comics page was so busy.
• Reading the Comics, June 26, 2015: June 23, 2016 Plus Golden Lizards Edition for one very busy day.

That's what you saw on your Friends page if you added my mathematics blog there, or saw on your RSS reader. Or you see them now. In any case, now you can go from there to more AnthrOhio Fursuit Parade pictures:

Fursuit Parade gathering on the patio outside, where nobody's likely to get drizzled on. Also possibly the best shot I could hope to get of bunny_hugger in the midst of the crowd.

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Just a mass of people gathered around the Fursuit Parade group photo. Yeah, raccoon in the background.

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And a slightly less crowded picture of the crowd for the group photo. Is anyone normal-colored anymore?

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The famous crane fursuiter! You can see how this could be something that's body-supporting and yet also allow the suiter to completely disappear within it.

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bunny_hugger is totally not rubbing her paws while scheming against the people who haven't left the group photo yet.

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Trivia: The first definite appearance in the historical record of a maritime chart dates to the 2nd of July, 1270, when King Louis IX of France's expedition for the Eighth Crusade got lost at sea in heavy weather, and the crew provided a map showing they were not far from Cagliari, a town on the coast of Sardinia. Source: The Fourth Part Of The World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name, Toby Lester.

Currently Reading: He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Minicomic Collection, Editor ... um, I can't tell. There's like thirteen people on the credits page and it isn't obvious any of them are in charge. Publisher Mike Richardson, does that help any?

Comments

[moxie_man]

Is anyone normal-colored anymore?

Yeah, I've noticed that in more and more photos these days. Everyone needs to make their character suit look absolutely unique. Maybe in a few more years, you'll see more "natural" suits/characters as people figure out that's the way to look unique then.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Mm, along with warnings that their character is copyright them, etc. I don't mind weird and neon hues, but when it becomes just part of "must look unique at all costs", it rather winds up feeling like folk are trying a bit too hard to emphasise some specific patterning rather than what actually makes a character endearing or noteworthy.

(Contrariwise, there was a trio of neon bunnies a few years ago. That was quite a fun idea =:)

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I do, truly, like novel colors. ... Heck, I let Patchy or other folks paint me on SpinDizzy or other mucks whenever they feel like. I'm just grinning a bit at how everyone's so interested in novelty that normal ends up being a bit novel. It's kind of the same way that not having any magical powers makes you a rare character.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Well, of course, my dear bride is normal-colored. Sort of. Her exact marking patterns don't seem to happen on any actual rabbit breed, but the evidence does suggest that it could, it just hasn't been bred for.

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

Well, what is normal, anyway?

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

In my case, orange-red with highlights.