I think sex is gross and always have and this won't change
7 years ago
don't see also this one
ehhhhdit: to clarify, nobody is singling me out for repeated harassment over this. That I can handle. The problem is me going through the same sort of thing repeatedly with different people who misread me in similar ways.
I have not in yikes nine years of using this website identified myself as male or gay, or really as anything. Yet I am consistently identified as these things, sometimes directly informed of them, in my interactions through the internet, this website primarily. Part of the trouble may relate to people mistaking nemitz (stupid red imp) as a representation of myself. At this time, indeed, I have mit as my user avatar, since it is animated and I want or wanted to subtly indicate that I can draw that and felt that using a character less or not associated with me would leave the authorship ambigious. However, I formerly changed my avatar regularly and rarely was it nemitz. of course I never identified nemitz as male either, but people interpret anything without cartoon eyelashes as male, and they get gay from me never once drawing any of my characters nemitz or not with any hint of genitalia nor engaged in any remotely sexual act, because usually, apparently, that is how it goes around here. This misconception with regard to me should not be a big deal, but people talk to me, and make requests of me, and once or twice a year want to talk relationships and/or forward phallus-featuring imagery at me based on this chain of misconceptions, and I would like to prevent that for the sake of both of us, but me especially. I am by now a deliberately misremembered distance past thirty years of age and I have never done sex with anybody, do not desire to, and expect I never will.
I cannot even wear short sleeve shirts. My flesh is sacred. It is necessary to understand that my entire life is bizarre and cannot be predicted based on my artwork and your experiences with any other person. For almost as long as my "normal" art pages, I maintained the alternate account pleistocene which featured the closest I make to normal person "porn," which includes an embarrassing amount of the eyelashes earlier alluded to, and even people who watch both accounts have regularly not getted it, and still thought I was hiding something, d-d-d-DESPITE that page explicitly stating "i think sex is gross" (or something to that effect; you think *I* want to read my boring nonsense?) right in the profile text for at least two years now. I do not even like the WORD sex. I think some people DID get it, but unfortunately those were usually the ones who didn't like what they are getting.
No, anonymous tumblr person, it is not "religion"-based. That accusation doesn't even make sense. Religious people do just as much or more sex as anyone else, they just are more likely to aim to produce children when they do. There are specific sects of some faiths which advocate abstinence, and almost nobody actually adheres to that, because religious people also lie to themselves and others just as much or more as anyone else. I am not "abstaining" from sexual deeds. My psychology was hopelessly warped as a child and this is one thing among many that didn't happen the normal way for me. I cannot draw with solid lines or without colors either. That is even directly evident from my uploads here but nobody asks me about THAT.
And no no, boring raccoon cartoonist guy (who isn't any of you, trust me), it is not because I don't "challenge" myself. People draw porn to give themselves a break from challenges, and if your conventionally erotic material is a challenge to you, it is a challenge with a potential reward, I have to assume. I would only hate myself more and attract more-- you know I already hit the glass ceiling on this website a long time ago by not having a fursona and not liking disney junk or trance music and not felt like I was in on a meme since All Your Base Belonged to Us. I will never be in the vicinity of a popular artist making big buck$ through obnoxious self promotion here. If I tried to force myself to draw regular person fetishes to try to gain followers I might as well be wearing that ceiling as a hat. It would be horrible, I would hate it, you would hate it, it would not go very far, and the scars would never heal. If I am going to draw something I am terrible at I should try room interiors because I can at least show those drawings in public.
And please do not claim you are in the same metafuzzical kayak as me if you only draw normal porn "rarely" or for money when not desperate. That is completely and wholly different from being disgusted by the sight and thought of the whole thing. I hate eating salad but I was eating a salad voluntarily as I was writing this. I CAN do that without vomiting. My situation with sex is not at all alike. If you can tolerate it to any degree, then we aren't the same. And we don't have to be. We can have things in common without pretending that is one of them. One of the reasons I dumped the skrimpf account, apart from the name being terrible and me not wanting to be called that, was to get away from all the contacts I had inadvertently made who thought they knew everything about me without trying or caring. I care about everything, even things I hate, and most of what I do is hard. But please trust me when I say what is and is not hard. Thank you and goop muck.
ehhhhdit: to clarify, nobody is singling me out for repeated harassment over this. That I can handle. The problem is me going through the same sort of thing repeatedly with different people who misread me in similar ways.
I have not in yikes nine years of using this website identified myself as male or gay, or really as anything. Yet I am consistently identified as these things, sometimes directly informed of them, in my interactions through the internet, this website primarily. Part of the trouble may relate to people mistaking nemitz (stupid red imp) as a representation of myself. At this time, indeed, I have mit as my user avatar, since it is animated and I want or wanted to subtly indicate that I can draw that and felt that using a character less or not associated with me would leave the authorship ambigious. However, I formerly changed my avatar regularly and rarely was it nemitz. of course I never identified nemitz as male either, but people interpret anything without cartoon eyelashes as male, and they get gay from me never once drawing any of my characters nemitz or not with any hint of genitalia nor engaged in any remotely sexual act, because usually, apparently, that is how it goes around here. This misconception with regard to me should not be a big deal, but people talk to me, and make requests of me, and once or twice a year want to talk relationships and/or forward phallus-featuring imagery at me based on this chain of misconceptions, and I would like to prevent that for the sake of both of us, but me especially. I am by now a deliberately misremembered distance past thirty years of age and I have never done sex with anybody, do not desire to, and expect I never will.
I cannot even wear short sleeve shirts. My flesh is sacred. It is necessary to understand that my entire life is bizarre and cannot be predicted based on my artwork and your experiences with any other person. For almost as long as my "normal" art pages, I maintained the alternate account pleistocene which featured the closest I make to normal person "porn," which includes an embarrassing amount of the eyelashes earlier alluded to, and even people who watch both accounts have regularly not getted it, and still thought I was hiding something, d-d-d-DESPITE that page explicitly stating "i think sex is gross" (or something to that effect; you think *I* want to read my boring nonsense?) right in the profile text for at least two years now. I do not even like the WORD sex. I think some people DID get it, but unfortunately those were usually the ones who didn't like what they are getting.
No, anonymous tumblr person, it is not "religion"-based. That accusation doesn't even make sense. Religious people do just as much or more sex as anyone else, they just are more likely to aim to produce children when they do. There are specific sects of some faiths which advocate abstinence, and almost nobody actually adheres to that, because religious people also lie to themselves and others just as much or more as anyone else. I am not "abstaining" from sexual deeds. My psychology was hopelessly warped as a child and this is one thing among many that didn't happen the normal way for me. I cannot draw with solid lines or without colors either. That is even directly evident from my uploads here but nobody asks me about THAT.
And no no, boring raccoon cartoonist guy (who isn't any of you, trust me), it is not because I don't "challenge" myself. People draw porn to give themselves a break from challenges, and if your conventionally erotic material is a challenge to you, it is a challenge with a potential reward, I have to assume. I would only hate myself more and attract more-- you know I already hit the glass ceiling on this website a long time ago by not having a fursona and not liking disney junk or trance music and not felt like I was in on a meme since All Your Base Belonged to Us. I will never be in the vicinity of a popular artist making big buck$ through obnoxious self promotion here. If I tried to force myself to draw regular person fetishes to try to gain followers I might as well be wearing that ceiling as a hat. It would be horrible, I would hate it, you would hate it, it would not go very far, and the scars would never heal. If I am going to draw something I am terrible at I should try room interiors because I can at least show those drawings in public.
And please do not claim you are in the same metafuzzical kayak as me if you only draw normal porn "rarely" or for money when not desperate. That is completely and wholly different from being disgusted by the sight and thought of the whole thing. I hate eating salad but I was eating a salad voluntarily as I was writing this. I CAN do that without vomiting. My situation with sex is not at all alike. If you can tolerate it to any degree, then we aren't the same. And we don't have to be. We can have things in common without pretending that is one of them. One of the reasons I dumped the skrimpf account, apart from the name being terrible and me not wanting to be called that, was to get away from all the contacts I had inadvertently made who thought they knew everything about me without trying or caring. I care about everything, even things I hate, and most of what I do is hard. But please trust me when I say what is and is not hard. Thank you and goop muck.
The people who have hassled me usually do so after only seeing the other art, and I perhaps should not include that matter in this journal, but in my MIND these are very closely related topics.
It certainly looks strange to somebody who is not in the same situation (me included), but this is the difference that makes human race an interesting and diversified group. I don't think I can really understand the way you are, but I wholefully accept what you are, the same way I hope you accept who I am.
And it is the way you are that made me watch you. Not trying to tell you you should do otherwise. This way I know you are prone to surprise me every time you post a picture. And I LOVE that
Would be clueless how to even come close to writing something similar to this. I may practice virginity to this day...but, am not qualified to reply to a degree like this.
I probably don't "understand" it but I'm pretty sure I get it. You've said this before, and it tallies with everything I've seen in your work, and I've always been one to take a person at face value & believe what they tell me about themselves. One does not always accurately know oneself, but one usually has more of a clue on that subject than anyone else could!
You're going to have to come to grips with the fact that you will ALWAYS have to explain this, because an awful lot of people just don't pay attention. The ones who really SHOULD read this journal are not going to ever look at it.
It's inevitable that you're going to get a lot of gay attention, for some of the reasons you've already elucidated, as well as the fact that this is an excessively sex-obsessed fandom. Even considering that most people have erotic proclivities that involve a desire for sex of some kind, Furry fandom has that cranked up to 11. Asexuality makes no sense to them. Their reasoning must run something like "does not draw over-endowed naked females constantly, therefore must be gay." Everybody projects themselves online; in the absence of evidence we assume everyone is LIKE US on some level. I have gotten the impression that gays are hyper-vigilant in looking for "hidden clues" that help them identify other gays. It has resulted in the discovery of gayness in lots of places where I'm pretty sure no gayness was actually intended .. but the point of this is that the things you're complaining about, and which prompted you to write this journal, are going to keep happening at regular intervals.
I hope you can find a way to tolerate it, because I enjoy seeing your art here. It's a refreshing break from the monotony of pinups & oversized genitalia everyone else keeps posting.
But if somebody is trying to make me think they look at my gallery as a way of pushing me in any of these undesirable directions, and have plainly disregarded this disclaimer message, I will feel more confident in telling them that I think their behavior is inappropriate, and blame myself less.
Your "gaydar" theory makes some sense.
I still have justification to post here! I have endured more significant threats to that inclination than this.
By the way, do you know about http://www.asexuality.org ? I found it some years ago when I was trying to figure out my own celibacy (very different from yours, since I do seem to enjoy the idea of sex; I am just horrified by the reality of it.)
I believe I encountered that use of the word as far back as 2011 but it never felt scientifically correct to me, either, but I can compromise on THAT, I think, possibly.
Sucks about the getting hassled by the fandom. Eh this fandom sometimes, I just don't know... Too obsessed with sex and too much like junior high at times *cringes* horrible times for me...
Anyways, I started watching you pretty much because your art is just so weird, I love it, it's pretty well done, and it's just so different from a lot of stuff that I follow around here. Quite envious of the style, my work just feels so plain and not really sure how to go about making it feel I guess feel unique. Curious, who are your inspirations when it comes to your work if don't mind me asking?
I suppose the takeaway from this journal is that people and users of this site could use a little more effort to not exert their personal beliefs upon others, and exercise more sympathy on understanding (or tolerating) others's intricacies.
and that is sort of where they come from.
i think the amount of obsession people have with it is tidius.
but i feel the same about wars and bigotries of all kinds too.
(and excitement and 'epicness' and whatever the hell 'greatness' is supposed to be)
i just make the pictures i want to see,
because there isn't enough market for them for people who make their living with their art to do so.
though i do find other people do make them sometimes and some a lot better then me.
(and there are even places in this world that look a little like them,
if one is careful where they point their cameras. and crop them to the small odd little places)
humans aren't as interesting to me to look at as odd little trains and odd little houses.
furries because humans just don't have enough diversity of ways of looking,
and too much ego about thinking they look so good,
when really its easy to imagine other things that look so much better.
and looking huggable doesn't have to be about sex either.
i don't agree there's anything wrong with that if people want it,
its just human fertility that needs to be a lot lower.
but yah, there's nothing wrong with wanting to be completely sexless either.
in my dreams i often have no gender. no physical body at all for that matter in many of them.
but then there are often no other people in my dreams either, and when there are my dream self seldom interacts with them.
I am generally not conscious of the form, if any, I may take on in dreams. I would often like to have that power while awake.
I draw and exhibit what I want, to an extent, but I need some amount of outside approval to feel validated. But knowing who to trust, how to reach more such people, how much of my more base subject matter is too much, improving my own technical skills, and knowing when to stop trying to improve something that I cannot do much better are more difficult matters.
For me, I don't think sex is gross but I have stopped drawing nsfw content and viewing nsfw content and i've had people think im pretentious or think im better than them. I can only imagine what that could be like for someone like you who is repulsed by any sexual things.
and yeah unless someone specifically like...has had sexual related trauma and wants to "unlearn" their aversion to sex (if its even possible, case by case id assume) it's really unneeded and werid for ppl to try and make people unlearn their replusion.
there's no reason for you to try to do it
http://www.asexuality.org
I can safely say i was one of those people that didn't know you disliked the word associated with what happens when mommy and daddy love each other a lot and go to bed early. I honestly didn't know until I went on to your profile here tensed up hard after realizing what I had sent xD So, I SINCERELY apologize for even SENDING that note on DA all those years ago! Even though we're cool on the issue, I'm STILL sorry for sending that! I had NO idea!
But, your viewpoints on these sorts of topics is great since I haven't come across many people that are willing to stick to their guns about the 'naughty' topic(s)! Generally, they're either lying to your face about not liking the naughty stuff, then in private they LOVE it!
I honestly have no opinion - good nor bad - about you since I've always found your art to be VERY distinguishable and recognizable among other art I find on DA [predominantly]. And that's why I've followed you on there for so many years - I've ALWAYS enjoyed your art since it's so vivid, vibrant and FULL of character!
So, I'm here for the art you do and nothing else :3 It doesn't bother me if you do or don't do naughty stuff. Your art is GREAT and I LOVE it!
To be clear, I draw material which fills the porn-like role for me personally, it just does not for most other people, and determining how to best exhibit it or if to exhibit it at all for my general audience can be difficult. You at least knew what characters I was interested in seeing drawn tackily. And as I [think I] said, I am not opposed to somebody including the characters in illustrated "normal" pornography for their own amusement.
I only stick to these guns because there is absolutely no incentive for me doing otherwise! I might as well try and teach myself to levitate. I am glad if you like the drawings for any reason, since I cannot help making them.
Glad to have ran across this!
First one is because an absence of porn on this site typically means absence of sexuality (furries are horndogs, on average). Second one is pretty much "No way in hell does someone this weird have a gender". And I don't mean "weird' in a bad way, either; it's the reason I'm even here.
I also get you on the whole "no Disney characters" thing; there's several Disney movies I actually do like (mostly the Renaissance ones and Treasure Planet), but as I've grown more and more jaded, it's hard for me to look at anything from Disney without remembering that there's something deeply corrupt under the surface. To be frank, Disney as a corporation is directly responsible for so much suffering and so much of what's wrong with America that it's hard to ignore its sin.
the second journal which is only for the needlessly curious gets more into the fact that I am not precisely asexual, a trait which I strongly suspect makes my life considerably more difficult. If I were attracted to nothing at all I could go about my business and not be bothered. But instead I engage in an unending pursuit of something that never quite seems to attainable, even when I make it myself.
I did not say disney characters, I said disney junk! As in everything disney-related that I deem to be less than meritorious.
In general I think cartoons are poorly written. Disney is rarely an exception to this but has a considerably higher profile with its poorly written cartoons than any other company. When another company comes close it is one with no aspiration but to emulate disney/pixar. Additionally Disney led the way in making cartoons more about celebrity voice actors than characters. Kids are indoctrinated with the brand, not just the cartoons but the idea that consuming its products should be a way of life long before they have the capacity to make choices, by adults who have themselves been indoctrinated with it. I have gotten to watch this happen with my now five-year-old niece since 2014ish, who could EASILY have been exposed to a wider variety of media in the years before public socialization would take over and also be shoving disney at her from all angles.
And indeed apart from all that the corporation has enough money to impose its will on anything and anyone that it wishes, and rarely faces scrutiny due to this undeserved reputation as a "wholesome" company by people who never attempted to think about it much.
Cartoon writing falls prey to Sturgeon's Law, so that's not an unusual statement.
I also hate how Disney's dead-set on overshadowing all other media! There's plenty of fantastic non-Disney animation, but most of that is foreign, and the only foreign media your average person seems willing to watch is anime. I hardly watch any anime, myself, especially since Sturgeon's Law seems to seep into the parts people actually like, and anime has a very self-referential, masturbatory kind of culture surrounding it. That said, I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, just because it's so over-the-top.
Your niece needs to give Arashi no Yoru ni a watch, sometime; it's one of my favorite family-friendly cartoons that doesn't try to be Disney. Though, it gets pretty intense, so that one might want to wait a bit. You Are Umasou is another one, though there are bits with a weird kind of pastel-colored cartoon gore (you'll have to see it yourself to see what I mean).
One thing you need to understand, is that the "furry fandom" is filled to the brim with people who use it to get laid, artwork mostly being an excuse.
As a result of all this staying connected to other people on an emotional level is an uphill struggle for me. Often I feel like society doesn't know what it wants from me / how to make use of me in any fair or sustainable way. It's an uphill struggle to be assured a place in society other than as a psychiatric guinea pig. People like us are not even allowed to acknowledge things like 'I work full time and I have close friends' for the hard-won achievements they are without being looked at funny and put at risk of being cast out again. It's all quite Sisyphean.