What should we do instead? :3

I'm a little confused. Didn't that piece have comments? And your Patreon post was decently active too.

I didn't pay too much attention to the rat drawing; but the feedback was positive I think. I'm thinking you might be frustrated that smut is overshadowing your creative endeavors, which I can sympathize. I'm a decently-sized vore creator. But few know/care my biggest love is writing orchestral music.

But as someone who participates in parts of your community I find interesting (music, character design) I would be miffed if I was told I did nothing, when I've been a big fan/supporter of your music. Obviously you have the right to not share your art, but don't shit on your community for not engaging with your content, when they're clearly doing something. (Or... not engaging? I'm honestly still confused.)

All in all, you've been frustrated. I like the glimpses of happy Whimsy. So quit wallowing in the dregs and focus on the good shit. If drawing porn makes you unhappy, don't do it. If it's *sharing* the porn that does that, don't do it. If it's that it's overshadowing the cooler shit you've done, then do cool shit until it overshadows the smut.

Just don't get yourself in a depressive spiral, because that shit sucks.

Indeed that gay rat piece had comments, even from people who seem pretty content to say and do nothing until the exact moment at which gay rats were offered. It also notably had faves from people who explicitly cut ties with me over my negative attitude, which was a deal breaker when all I had to offer them was an ongoing emotional struggle but was suddenly super forgivable when gay rats were on the table. Well that took a lotta conviction, didn't it? It's almost like you can treat people like absolute garbage and they'll keep crawling on back as long as the porn's good. But for that to be true, we'd need to have a fandom where popular artists or sometimes even fursuiters frequently get away with things like sexual assault or other reprehensible behavior only to be forgiven by a protective gird of sycophants looking forward to the next good wank, so so so glad we don't exist in that community, because that community would probably super piss me off.

My Patreon post was mostly 2 people I know more personally, whose contributions were essentially gimmes (I was in DM's with one of them at the time of writing and posting it). The other was, well, you.

Credit where it's due, yes, you do engage, share thoughts, all that, it's very nice, highly appreciated, but much like how I don't do the "not ALL men" thing I also don't go in for "Not ALL furries." You're relatively new to my corner of the internet so you weren't here for "Hey folks it's my birthday and I guess if you wanted to do something, I'd take feedback on whatever your favorite piece is, also hurting for more of that" and then lol furries can't be assed. Or another time when I was like hey, here's a few pieces of art, let's have a contest, add your own caption to 'em and I'll select a winner to give some free art to and again, nope, words, work, THINKING D: D: D: or countless instances of being told 'gosh, why are you always so negative?' so then I post about positive things, things I unironically love, things which inspire me, things which...nobody will ever care about because it turns out people are actually super into the negative shit, they just feel like complaining about it somehow absolves them from embracing it, they can say it's my fault for saying it, not their fault for feeding off of it. And of course, they care about the porn but they most assuredly can't be bothered with anything else.

You have never seen anything close to "happy Whimsy," that hasn't happened since I was single digits in age, what at best you've seen recently is somebody too distracted with school and such to put as much time into expressing that we're a plague of lazy, selfish sociopaths hurdling around the sun atop a doomed planet that nobody seems all that interested in saving. I promise you Whimsy is still a super mega bonkers unhappy person, but I don't waste a lot of time publicly stating that here because, hey, you can't wank to that, and my friends (their term, not mine) seem to think it's pretty unattractive, too. Leaves them no choice but to leave and not come back until I'm emotionally convenient again. Or, perhaps, if I'm posting porn. I'm a super fucking likable guy when I'm posting porn, christ I'm great, witty, dynamic, full of intrigue! Unfortunately I can't feign enough of that happy, bubbly, pounce-huggles energy to also be a person when I'm just drawing boring, fully-clothed lop-eared rabbits.

You seem like a nice dude and all but I've been dealing with this fanbase of vacant pervs for a very long time and have gotten pretty accustomed to what the bulk of them are capable of. I guess I could ask them to tell me just exactly how vacuous I need to be as a public personality in order to garner their favor (spoiler: it wouldn't matter, because they still see me as a porn artist, I can do whatever I want so long as there's porn, and any lost supporters in the event of a porn drought can be gained back or replaced immediately with more porn), you know where all of my journals are "commissions lots open" and "Damn, tablet died" and then they all give me free money for a new one. But unfortunately for me snapping a fake tail to the back of my jeans has never been literally all it takes for me to ignore the literal end of the world, and the layers upon layers of human nature that brought it about. So I guess I'll never be able to communicate with most of these people in the way in which they're accustomed which is okay I guess, because they don't seem all that interested in communicating at all.

If you want acknowledgment that you're the exception to the rule, okay, I'll grant you that, and you are appreciated, but I've gotten way too many "hey I'm just here for the porn" comments to entertain the idea that your particular type of engagement is average. The numbers are on my side. Don't know where you're getting the idea that my 'cool shit' is gonna overshadow the smut, that doesn't even happen with the good artists, and I'm not comfortable asserting that I'm putting out anything objectively cool. The fact is, the overwhelming majority of these people didn't follow me for cutesy wrestling rabbits or politically-themed rat rappers, they followed me because they're a bunch of weird, probably unkempt, isolated males* who found me during my heaviest period of rape porn, tagged along because I scratched that itch they're still ashamed of, and are just waiting around for me to plop more slop into the trough while they keep as low a profile as possible.

But hey, in the interest of fairness, Takaani, Reza, and, well, you can have the gay rats if they feel so inclined, they know where to find me.


*I have at least one cis female fan. She's very cool and I've enjoyed talking to her a lot, in sharp contrast to my more standard, overwhelmingly male audience who are seemingly medically incapable of meaningful, peer-to-peer interaction in most instances.

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I'm sorry people weren't there for your birthday and community participation. That's a terrible thing to suffer through. I know you aren't fishing for sympathy points, but I still sympathize—as that shit sucks.

You can totally overshadow the porn with other stuff! Hard as fuck, though. SFW stuff is hard to kick off with, but its cap is higher than porn. Like, everyone knows Dr. Seuss for Green Eggs and Ham, not his Playboy smut. Honestly, it's more important to just do things you like. People treat FA as a porn site, so the site medium might have to change—but you definitely could be known for other things. (Sadly there's a strong element of luck. But determination gives you a reroll every time you put out a piece.)

I think you're pretty witty when you're posting SFW stuff. Obviously what you said was a dig at people who just come for the porn and *blip* away, but I do want to put that out there. Hey—if society does collapse and we regress back to the middle ages—you've got a sharp wit and tongue, and you'd make an excellent bard. Honestly, you might make a good standup at a club.

I guess my ramblings end with this: even with the gloom of the world, do the small stuff that makes you a twinge bit happier—because it's better than nothing, right? That motto kept me going in dark days, so I might as well share it.

Anyhow, thank you for the reply. I hope the next time you're given reprieve from humanities' grossness in the brilliant thrall of a dream-filled sleep, you dream of something nice. Like gay rats wrestling whilst quoting the Simpsons.

Dang didn't event get to see them gay rats

Deserved. I am pretty bummed about the relative lack of engagement too. It's like screaming into the void. I have to wonder if this is a specific issue that NSFW and kink artists deal with. It seems to be a universal experience if the memes I've found on the bird site are any indication.

Sorry to hear it Whimsy… It’s all very frustrating, isn’t it.

:(