As with last time, you'll have from now until the special Halloween thread to write up your stories, with a $100 US as a token of appreciation for the person who creates the thread's favorite story. Have your story on a website such as Ao3 or something else of the like where we can communicate privately if needed. Just share the link to the story here when you're ready.

This year to decide the winner we will run some sort of poll so that the whole thread gets to decide, details on that are still in the air though, so input is appreciated as im a total boomer lol.

Godspeed lads!

It feels to me like the last contest was only a few months ago, crazy how time can fly.
Does the story have to be finished?

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didn't get to see the eclipse today, the moon didn't rise from behind what was covering it til it was already over

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>>77701227
>wolf wife neglecting her hunting skills and has instead become the apex predator of the fridge
Many such cases!

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Damn, I was about to post
>wifwolfs when their thread hits page 10

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happy harvest moon

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>>77699211
>This year to decide the winner we will run some sort of poll so that the whole thread gets to decide
That's not a good idea. The financial incentive means there's a very good chance that vote rigging will occur.

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>>77698513
Sorry for my absence. For anyone wondering, I was losing my mind redrawing https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/75623276/#75694455 because I didn't like the original. Some things will change, but other than that, it's pretty much done.

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Awoo

>>77705505
>tfw she'll never wrap her arms around my neck
why even live?

awoo?

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>>77705283
It's a very nice upgrade. The foreshortening looks great.

>>77705283
very nice!

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I was watching Primitive Technology the other day and I realized something: this guy is every tribal awoo's wet dream
> Can build brick huts - comfortable shelter for the entire tribe
>Can make clay pots and weave baskets - storage for water, meat and fruits
>Can smelt iron - durable knives for hunting
>Can weave with bark fiber and grass - sleeping mats and blankets for cold nights
A man like him would genuinely be irresistible to them

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Winter cant come soon enough

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would you a cam-awoo

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Need more scary, bestial wifs

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>>77717747
I wanted to use this image oops

>>77717747 made a mistake when dealing with the spirits, and became >>77717767 and only your headpats and belly scritches can save her

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congratulations to the eastern hemisphere anons who got to see the blood moon yesterday and found the secret wifwolves who show up on that day

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>>77718359
Or the blood moon made them extra frisky and some lucky anon got to breed one

bump

>>77705283
i think her pinkie on the left hand should be a bit smaller/thinner, but other than that i've no complaints. it looks really nice!

>>77723137
made for hugs

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When I moved in with my wifwolf, I was a bit put out that her record collection was a lot bigger than mine. More to the point, her stereo system was way beefier than mine.

>Why do I love vinyl records?
>I mean, on one hand, it is a romantic thing
>Brushing the record, setting the tonearm, getting up to flip the disc
>Holding the sleeve and inserts in your hands
>Listening to the music bounce off the walls of the house and the furniture
>Being able to share the music I love with the man I love...

>Besides, I have to listen to music out in the open
>It's not like Sony or Sennheiser are rushing to make headphones for pointy ears
>Earbuds never sit right either, and the sound quality is awful

>Sound waves are a series of vibrations
>The faster they vibrate, the higher the pitch.
>Human beings can hear up to 20,000 Hz
>Though normally you tend to lose your ability to hear high frequencies over time
>By blasting your earbuds at max volume to make up for the lack of noise cancellation and bass response in those shitty $10 drivers
>Or by not wearing hearing protection to the range or to a concert or whatever
>Wolves can can hear up to 80,000 Hz

>What about low frequencies?
>That's actually one of the only things you all have over us
>That and being able to see the color red
>Wolves can only hear down to about 70 hz with our ears
>Humans can hear as low as 20 hz
>That's one reason why I don't have so much heavy metal, hip-hop, or electronic music in my collection
>They're too bass-forward, and if you can't hear those frequencies as well, they're practically unintelligible

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>>77725565

>What does all that talk of vibrations have to do with physical music?
>All music recording is compression
>The freest, least-compressed music you'll ever hear is at an acoustic jam session, a ceilidh, or an unamplified chamber music concert
>All electronic amplification implies a certain degree of compression and distortion of the original sound
>Sometimes that's a really great thing, but that's when it's deliberately done to make a certain sound
>Not so much when the compression is just meant to facilitate transmission in the first place

>Cassettes and vinyl records lose fidelity from the high-end first
>That is, if they don't lose it from scratches or crinkles or warping
>That's a problem for me
>It makes the music feel less three dimensional, it's hard to describe
>It's like the difference between a piece of meat that you salt as you cook it
>And a piece of meat that you only salt right at the end
>Maybe that's not a good metaphor, but it makes sense to me

>Cassettes lose high end way worse than records
>Even straight from the master dub
>You can keep a vinyl record from losing high end if you don't use too much pressure on your needle
>Basically, if you handle it right and store it right, and do all the things you'd normally do to avoid scratching it will also keep its fidelity high
>There's really no guarantee of that for cassettes, even if you do everything right

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>>77723134
Like this? Also, colors are done, but I'm not sure how to tackle shading yet.

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>>77726293

>No, I'm not into CDs at all.
>The way that digital music is they turn a continuous wave of sound into a chunky stair-step of micro-samples of sound
>Each one stored magnetically on a disc or on a drive or whatever
>Not to go too far into the weeds and talk about Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem or the Whittaker-Shannon interpolation formula
>But humans digitally mix records at a sample rate of about 40,000 samples, which are run through a reconstruction filter
>That filter, by design, cuts off all of the top end that humans can't hear
>And some of the top end that you can
Then some file compression and artefacts on top of that
>Especially if you're talking about mp3 files
>Double-especially if you're talking about streaming music over the internet
>So, if you can hear the difference between a master tape and a badly compressed CD or mp3
>I really, *really* hear it

>Look, I can turn my ears when I hear things, you can't
>Stereo imaging, high frequencies, good speaker and subwoofer placement
>They matter for everybody, but I'm extremely particular about it

>Technically, you can get digital music with a high enough sample rate that I would be able to hear the whole range of frequencies
>But that only helps if your master file was recorded to a high enough fidelity
>Humans only care about the bottom 20k hz, so that almost never happens
>Even vinyl records these days are recorded from digital, CD-quality master files in ProTools or Logic or whatever, so when I listen to something by a new band, or a new recording from an orchestra...

>...
>Anon, is this...
>...turning you on?

>"Life Is A Song Worth Singing"
>Teddy Pendergrass
>It's on the bottom left shelf under "T"
>Put that on while I go get ready

>>77707211
>>77706866
Thank you! The pose in the original looked stiff, that's why I decided to start from scratch.

>>77725565
>>77726293
>>77726570
Adorable.

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>>77724629
and for what else?

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Clapping worgie cheeks

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Touch fluffy wolf

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>>77715480
Still waiting for the cold

>>77729077
God she's absolutely beautiful

>>77718052 will give this a shot after work tonight

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>>77721212

>>77743537
>>77745371
Is Sanbaka!!! scanlated anywhere? Can't find it for the life of me.