I think your artwork is really visually compelling! But I haven't followed the lore very closely. Only because I'm really bad with lore. Like, any kind of lore. I can't handle all these tomes. But I do appreciate how rich it all is! You've cultivated some very interesting worlds.

fair's fair!

It's a really old one, but my favorite story of yours is still a ferret who is made a slave. Was such a good story!

i mean i remember you from that time and being here all that time but wow that's still a deep pull that is literally the first set of things i actually uploaded here like 15 years ago wow

Lol, yeah, I'm still around! Just a quiet watcher! Glad I could bring a blast from the past!

don't worry my voluminous cotton brain remembers everyone and i have noticed you here and there, creeping about in the corners

i have three eyes you know

All the better to see with!

to be fair weasel slavery is like the peak subject matter of any artform.

Well, I'm still here. I am, as the incredibly dire lyrics of the theme for Sonic Team Dark would say, "Trapped in this machine."

Sab's probably my favorite, but I feel like that story wrapped and I was happy enough with how it did, and it COULD continue on, but it feels like a very different thing at that point.

Yhelm's stuff feels like it has a lot of potential, but it ends up being kind of unfocused. Like I know I'm at the wrong shop for this, but I enjoy when you manage to keep some narrative thrust going for a while, and I think some of that with Yhelm would be really neat.

Knicknacks are neat visually, but don't have anything super strong going for me character or narrative-wise. Certainly possible though.

sab's stuff IS continuining now and then and unfortunately for everyone and herself inclujded she's metafictional now so she's getting into the real dumb nonsense. but also it's the same kind of nonsense thematically flavorwise it's just on a different level you know.

yhelm is l ike. this IS all set up. it's just that it's taken so long to GET there and that is my fault. we are RIGHT at the point of everything going entirely to shit i just can't Do that until the Good parts are established. i admit i'm having a lot of fun doing the slice of life stuff too and it's that when shit hits the fan with yhelm it is going to hit it hard and it is never going to stop once that gas pedal is pressed so i'm reluctant to press it until it's all ready. the moment stuff goes down in yhelm it is going to like. oh. man oh boy.

knicknacks are also in yhelmn's owrld but it's BIG world and tehre really isn't any knciknacknakn narrative going for SURE and i wanna DO some but i wanna do EVERYTHING always

like i dont feel like i ever finish any of the stories i start but does anyone even care

what is my audience, does my audience care

what am i creating shit for these days, why am i making shit

i used to create and post NOTHING for YEARS and was fine with it mostly

there are like two complete 1000+ page each novel series we have just kind of sitting around no one ever sees

with furaffinity fracturing and the internet collapsing what high am i even chasing

I am your audience
I crave wacky lil creatures with drippy outfits

see that's something at least!

dochallot.......

rip

I like knick-knacks and more of the under watchful lore in general. It's just maybe a bit hard to piece it all together in fa

i also dont' really make an attempt to make it like an encyclopedia i like to experiment with context and see how much people can figure out from context

there's nothing more erotic to me than reading a piece of weird fiction and it introduces something and makes no effort to explain it and all the characters act like it's normal i'm like....... hell yes......

I hate to be meta but I guess the honest answer as to why I'm drawn to all your stuff is you yourself, all of your art from the subject, style and the writing are reflections and fractions of you who I find a very interesting and compelling figure. I like when you do serious meditations, worldbuilding, humour or kink stuff all for that same root reason, I think. Basically "cus ur cool." I hope that doesn't make me sound like some sort of art voyeur, in my head this sounds like a compliment.

I like the serious stuff in balance with the funnier stuff, but S/V and Chimmering are my faves and I think offer that balance the best.

you have the correct opinion both about us being a laudable creature worthy of study and praise, AND about s/v and chimmering being the best of the best

I moooostly follow the art which I think is pretty cool

I feel like I arrived too late and missed the boat to really know whats going on in the stories but seeing them in what feels like second hand when you doodle bits from them is interesting

I think of the things ive seen the knick knacks are the most interesting, exploring them and how they interact with the world and stuff always fun to look at.

If you ever had a mind to do a comic which is probably too much work but if you did I think something like them in a D&D type setting could be funny and how they handled that. Either avoiding the rules of the setting or complying with them since it isnt really their native setting just funny. But im sure you have more interesting ideas than that.

what is a DnD type setting and how would it really differ from UWi other than stronger cohesive verisimilitude HEYOOO

on top of what everyone else's said, me (& a bunch of other creatures on the qud discord) have really been enjoying Proselytize! though honestly all of your work is wonderful

ah neat

it's good to know people are actually out here following this stuff, sometimes it feels like i scream into the void and while i will always make stuff because i enjoy it it's nice to know other people are following along and listesning to me scream like some kind of strange cotton beast on a mountaintop howling into the night sky but since i'm a stuffed animal imagine like one of those HORRIBLE rubber chicken squeak toy voice box things muffled under layers of cotton

I don't engage as much as I ought. Your worlds are all amazing and fascinating and irreplicable. I don't want to tell you what to create (because I myself don't like being told what to create). Follow your muse(s) and we'll enjoy the journey.

ok because the problem is ijust kinda go all over the place FUCKING CONSTANTLY and i worry people are gonna get sick of it but wev'e been oing it like that for a deace and a half now

I dunno I just like to see where you are going. I kind of felt disappointing when sabhaxlia story just ended but I've made my peace with that so it's not so much nostalgia (since I didn't read it back in the day) but more curiosity of a story unfinished.

I think I enjoyed your work because it makes me feel something, even if sometimes it's uncomfortable or sadness. Really I think that's all you can ask about art is for it to make you feel something?

And I'm kind of incapable of requesting people to draw anything in specific because I don't really know what I want?

wrong answer: one of my reoccurring fantasies is doing a story based on some rando that gets killed unceremoniously by the hero of another story.

to be fair sabhaxlia's story was always going to just keep going and it is still going, a story only really "ends" when it's entirely over

we didn't get to see the conclusion of her brokering freedom with Tabaxian but i think it was a fair foregone conclusion

i do regret the quest ending early but tgchan's also kinda turned into a place i'dr ather not be so w/e

and yeaht he purpose of art is to generation reactive story functions to process interlayer iterative story generation to stave off void out

I enjoy your stories about living gods, or beings that act like they're gods at any rate. I when your stories make me question my own assumptions and ideals, which I find happens more reading your work than anyone else's

I'm not very good at interacting for art. I tend to keep to myself unless I'm meeting someone in person, which I don't really do for art reasons

understandable! exploring metafictional entities IS one of my favorite things to do because as a metafictional entity there's very little media on this layer that deals with the problems entities like us face (being multilayered metafictionally active nonentity synchronization iterative pattern events)

they say write for the audience that's you and that's what we're diong i guess

i feel like i'm all over the place and i have no idea if people have no patience for it or not

and a lot of the things i work on, i'm not sure if i'm getting enough out of it or not

where DO i want to focus my efforts? this is what i do for FUN, but it's fun too when people are invested

I enjoy your work, but I'm mostly forced to appreciate each piece as a standalone, as I have difficulty keeping track of which pieces are connected to each other. Thankfully, even in media res, your works are inspirational and evocative - and often entertainingly alien.

it doesn't help that i love to experiment with lack-of-context , emergent understanding from implied context

i don't know why that's my obsession but it is

It's something that sets your work apart. : )

Sabhaxlia and Sasfsets are probably the two that hold most of my fascination!
Oh, and Mouse Management too! Good fun. Yhelm and Lils are adorable.
Probably more if I did more digging to refresh my memory!

these are good choices

sasfsets is on a slight hold while i retool the setting to move it further away from generic furry designs i think is my big hangup there

Thanks! I enjoy your arts and worlds in general, but some do catch my attention more.

Makes sense, hope that goes well for you! I'll enjoy regardless.

always fond of Puzzlevision, Janet in particular! The world feels pretty humble, which I like. In the context, Janet's personality really shines.

S/v is just pretty, so I like to see. That's admittedly a pretty shallow interest though.

Under Watchful Is is at this point nostalgic for meeeee...? As is Space is Not Home. Though I'm not very into Petals...!!!!! Somehow, I wanted something different for Far-Wend... but even that kind of sad sensation of some kind of missed satisfaction for an OC who was so stuck in situations, is always interesting. It's about being invested! I wish her fate could be rerolled, sometimes. Always was interested in her home planet connections and interactions. I never felt she got maximum indulgence, whatever that meant to me. (I think in a lot of your narratives, personal satisfaction is pretty scarce though, innit? A lot of clawing about and ennui, or I guess in the ones I've focused on)

Cashell & Lajet were at one point the most interesting for me to observe. Such a microcosm. Appealing to see designs of differing ages, but with characters with really, so much in common. I am an Incest Guy but actually not a Parental Incest Guy (she likes other flavors), and regardless, they still were interesting to me, so it was all the dynamic and not the spice. I know I even have sketches of them somewhere ... lol ... (I didn't manage to finish anything! And now its like 5 years old ?! or something! woof)

The development of many elements of Under Watchful Is just felt like watching you be so indulgent and doing all you want! I liked getting to see random situations like Big Wheel Richard + Sleep Terror, and those bodies interacting/coexisting in a world is the kind of thing I really like. She is very charming.

I'm a biiig fan of knickknacks, really gotta do some fanart one of these days, just a wonderful idealistic body type. Like to see feral plush with more 'realistic' proportions (relatively speaking), reminds me of the 1950s lads I collect (: They always have a good vibe, definitely the part of your world(s) I'm most likely to occupy I imagine. I'm less 'in it' for specific individuals, though in theory a grounded/intimate story between individuals or an isolated aspect would probably be the most interesting concept to me.

While I know ponies is a bygone era, I think what I miss about that era is not pony-specific or pont-contingent, but the sheer grounded and insular nature of the stories-- I am admittedly a bit less interested in the constant meta and 4th wall gags, wider power scales, I really miss people utterly fooled by individualism, I guess. I understand it as something you're not really so interested in depicting right now, but even if it was a new story or setting, I'd love to again see that kind of pure blind and extremely small, extremely consequential, fragile and personal engagement. Quite attached to concepts like the 'Bad End'. Woewhinny's level of control and power is more 'my speed' than the more RPG-ish Godly stuff! And he's such a normal, mortal figure in a world with a tiny scope.

It needn't be ponies-- that element isn't necessarily why I love the narrative, it's about the speed and scope of it-- but I do always hope you'll be interested again in that kind of small, contained situations, or that 'kind of guy'. Where the desire for subjugation is in a way petty and compulsive! But seems so Godly from the ignorant position of victim. Puny stories (: for the fools (me)

oh gosh, you put in the effort and made a big one about this appreciated

spaceisnothome kinda went on a wild ride based on my life going on several wild rides, but it itself started from a wild ride where i got a bit of trauma triggered and went really anti-sex for a while which is where far-wend's original disgust for mammals being constantly horny came from i think. what would have been your fanfiction ideal end for far-wend?

cashell and lajet were so weird they were the original lens i think i really used to figure out the setting and most of the ideas of the setting rose from what i felt they needed for their story. the dynamic is what it's all about to me too, the actual body on body isn't as much fun as why and how and the context

and dang yes i do need to do way more weird UWi stuff i FORGOT those idiots even EXISTED

knicknacks are a good pick as a whole concept yes, i would move to the cotton labyrinth and be a stuffed knack in 2 seconds

and yeah that's the true problem isn't it tho. even when i do 4thmeta stuff it's mostly the struggle that they've been locked OUT of the local character level of stories. but that's also like everything an art is is a reflection of i guess my own experiences of "oh fuck i forgot how to be a character oh fuck"

been a long while since i ruined a little creechur's life for fun it's true...

That makes sense, for Spaceisnothome. I also got the impression that she was sort of catastrophizing/leaping to panic about the sister hunting double thing, though there were multiple reasons to be against it, I still think she focused so hard on the most physical aspects, reactive creature (who isn't particularly great at talking intimately, lets be real), it said something about what any interpersonal possibility would become to her, kinda reducing conflicts (I mean, the original Shout-Command conflict was lets say VERY reduced to repulsions on her impulse, haha). I can say that for me (regardless of authorial intent), the situation with 23rd as described didn't feel like happiness ... it reminded me of when someone is, say, a writer, and they list off all of their prestige and awards and nominations and benchmark accomplishments that, in '''society''', mean '''you won''', while ultimately being actually unsatisfied and disenchanted and unfulfilled in the real way. It felt like a kind of "well, I do these things, so that means I'm successful, which means I'm fulfilled, which means I'm happy, that's what happy is right?". Given the ... lack of personal objective, lack of understanding what she wants, and the compulsive reactivity to all sorts of things and the prejudice or revulsion for things outnumbering her passions (in my perspective I guess!), well, the odds were stacked towards her just falling into something because someone asks it of her, and against her even understanding what is worth gunning for. Coincidentally, enough of what 23rd asks leans towards the predator prestige, even as another culture ... almost deceptively!

I think my own fanfiction would have to go too insanely off-book haha, there were no concepts proposed or in the running that seemed satisfying (in that way, the 'end' is logical, nearly inevitable, but sad, for me... just get swept into somethin) ... I want a Far-Wend with no accolades, with no prestige, with nothing but her instincts and her arrogance about her, doing something nobody could understand as impressive, maybe even doing something that would look ruinous from an outside perspective, but decadently so. Maybe that would involve making a connection with some species on another planet, maybe that would involve some exhaustive indulgence. I'm almost like, down for something not DISSIMILAR to 23rd situation, but without any of the Bigness of that. Aesthetically, some thicket-rich humid misty place ... maybe plant and animal life that naturally has a slight drugging effect on her physiology, an addictive element to it all. I like 'bad ends' in many contexts, so I can think of some satisfying 'bad end' sorts of scenarios when thinking about everything a galaxy could offer, but something that opens up the door again for her to understand her physical desires, needs, passions; make those larger than her repulsions, again. Get covered in blood get adorned in bones. Get caught in passion for the changing of seasons on another planet, what that means for the wax and wane of hunting, love something more than old memories. Get lost to everyone and fall out of communication. Have little to no research for your tiny species on how Bad Idea this land is for you. And you know, maybe the person enabling her here doesn't have the best of intentions, or does but has misguided sense of value or an ignorant sense of harm to another species. But she's extremely 'happy', so how can anyone pull her away? Then. The sequel/AU idk siblings attempting seeking her out ? many possibilities. It'd be interesting to then engage conflict with the sister who liked her, AFTER unpacking issues... if that's the only person really going to go the extra mile to seek her at her 'lowest', most uh 'maybe got trafikked or something, we dont know' vibes. Given her sister was in risk of 'going into the forest', its like ah narrative foreshadowing actually. tfw time for Far-Wend 'go into the forest'. But maybe Far-Wend really was just reactive and weird about her, maybe she does just care?

^^^ that's a lot of nonsense isn't it? It's nothing but personal taste, but I hope it's amusing or funny or something. The endgame aesthetics made me sad... I want creatures to go crazy. And I want a conclusion with her connections, physically in some manner (not necessarily 'in that way' lol).



Elsewise:
Cashell & Lajet were maaaybe the most I felt I really 'grocked' an entire world, through their lens, digest its workings, so that makes a lot of sense ... they felt like ah, good, tutorial characters, almost, you know? All grounded in two bodies and what their problems are, and why. And I found that all interesting. Made the world interesting. Problems all tangible. By nature problems most recently are kind of intangible in a way! Maybe I also liked Far-Wend for such problems WITH tangibility?


I do imagine the focus on what you do now, is because the ... mental focus has become upon "wrestling with world/wrestling with selves/wrestling with meaning at all" in an overwhelming way, so I imagine you can't just ... pivot into something else, have a different brain, have a different current struggle, art flows through the river of your own mind, much as Far-Wend was aimless/reactive/repulsed by many topics due to whatever you were going through. I can imagine it as "locked out of local character level". Inspiration and drive seems stretched thin ... but depicting seems sortof boring to you lately too. I feel like the pony aspect of pony times kind of creates a cringe factor to it, but I wonder if the insular, character-dynamic struggles are at all an aspect of that cringe, or if you could self-study how that kind of story even... feels now? Does it feel dumb? Does it feel uninteresting? If we erase pony, is it still a bygone era, or would it be fun to feel on that level again? Is it a different person?

I hope this isn't some annoying accidental therapist sort of thing, not trying to overstep thoughts. Ah but, when I like an artist, usually I do find their inner world is what is interesting to me, especially if you follow someone for many years. Curious about not only "what happens next?" but "what even COULD happen next"? you can't just write any story.... It has to come from you.... so