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A Ramble on Envy, Worldbuilding, and Continuities
a year ago
Hey all, I hope you're doing well! It's time for one of my rare mid-month rambling journals. Been awhile since we've had one of these! But thankfully this one isn't quite as... whiny as my last one about being a bad RP partner. It's not necessarily sunshine and roses, but it's much less self-deprecating. If anything, this journal is more of a love letter to others!
As you can probably tell, the whole reason I even wrote this journal was because of feeling envious of some others. Not necessarily of popularity though mind you, I've managed to successfully train out the envy of big view/fave/watch/comment numbers a long time ago. Today's envy is of people who have amazingly cohesive creative visions in their worldbuilding.
You see, over the last couple month I spent a lot of time browsing through the works of two different artists and getting absolutely sucked into their worlds. The artists in question are
landingzone and 
themefinland. If you're not familiar with them, landingzone draws amazing art of their own custom setting, prominently featuring the demon corruption cult run by their demoness OC Naote. themefinland draws their own worlds too, including one featuring a fucking awesome hiveminded ooze monster species called the Amalgamate.
Needless to say, I fucking LOVE Naote and the Amalgamate.
I'd been casually following both of these artists for a long time but never really dug deep into their worldbuilding until recently. I spent hours upon hours going through themefinland's entire gallery to look at every Amalgamate picture, reading all their descriptions and all their stories. Then I did the same thing with landingzone's gallery for Naote. I was so fucking immersed, the creativity these two people put into their work just put me in a state of awe. I already loved corruption and infection as kinks, but combining that with tons of legitimately creative storytelling through lots of art is just *chef kiss*
And yeah, I have found myself wishing I could create worlds and stories with as much unified, coherent, and creative stuff as these two. Granted, I don't think my own writing is bad per se! I love being a writer, and all my work has been a labor of love. But I will not deny that my stories do tend to be somewhat scattershot. I have written dozens of different scattered continuities and gotten art from all over them, and while I don't regret creating them, I do realize that they do come off as a bit scattershot. I haven't really chosen one big centralized story continuity to be my primary one here on this account like LZ and TF have done with their galleries.
Granted, this doesn't mean I don't have the capability! Lightest as a character originates from Crossing of the Paths, that giant-ass story you guys have seen me working on for years and now posting here. Crossing of the Paths is just the first entry in a much greater story series called The Travelers Trilogy, which is intended to eventually be a complete history of the entire Mewtwo species spread over three big main stories and many smaller side-stories. I started writing the series in middle school and got like, almost 2/3 done before I eventually decided to re-write it from the ground up to fit my adult standards. That rewrite is what I've been posting here.
I am very proud of that story and its continuity, but I understand it's very niche. Heh, it's totally SFW and this IS Furaffinity after all. But I've been buying art comms of stuff from the Travelers Trilogy for many years now and I've never really bothered to post most of it here since the vast majority of it is SFW and I felt like most of my watchers would therefore find it SUPREMELY boring. I think the vast majority of y'all either watched me for Arina porn, Lightest porn, or Sedalia porn after all! (Especially Sedalia, holy shit that Assimilation of Hyo pic series has gotten SO MANY FAVES!)
So I guess what I'm getting at here is, would any of you actually like to see me posting my SFW Travelers Trilogy Art commissions here alongside my smut? I feel like I have a really fun continuity built in it, even if it's porn-free. I promise that if I did post it, I wouldn't stop posting the porn though! It'd just be more new content posted alongside the porn.
Also, if you had to choose one of my NSFW continuities, like the Arina is All story or Lightest's Bimbo Planet Thetera, to significantly expand on, which would you like to see more of? If I ever want to get as beautifully expansive and cohesive as Themefinland and Landingzone I should probably focus more effort into a few continuities rather than spawning countless more of them!
And as a closing remark, seriously go check Themefinland and Landingzone out if you haven't already. I know a lot of my watchers share a similar love of corruption with me, and those two do it so well!
Peace out, lovelies! <3
As you can probably tell, the whole reason I even wrote this journal was because of feeling envious of some others. Not necessarily of popularity though mind you, I've managed to successfully train out the envy of big view/fave/watch/comment numbers a long time ago. Today's envy is of people who have amazingly cohesive creative visions in their worldbuilding.
You see, over the last couple month I spent a lot of time browsing through the works of two different artists and getting absolutely sucked into their worlds. The artists in question are
landingzone and 
themefinland. If you're not familiar with them, landingzone draws amazing art of their own custom setting, prominently featuring the demon corruption cult run by their demoness OC Naote. themefinland draws their own worlds too, including one featuring a fucking awesome hiveminded ooze monster species called the Amalgamate.Needless to say, I fucking LOVE Naote and the Amalgamate.
I'd been casually following both of these artists for a long time but never really dug deep into their worldbuilding until recently. I spent hours upon hours going through themefinland's entire gallery to look at every Amalgamate picture, reading all their descriptions and all their stories. Then I did the same thing with landingzone's gallery for Naote. I was so fucking immersed, the creativity these two people put into their work just put me in a state of awe. I already loved corruption and infection as kinks, but combining that with tons of legitimately creative storytelling through lots of art is just *chef kiss*
And yeah, I have found myself wishing I could create worlds and stories with as much unified, coherent, and creative stuff as these two. Granted, I don't think my own writing is bad per se! I love being a writer, and all my work has been a labor of love. But I will not deny that my stories do tend to be somewhat scattershot. I have written dozens of different scattered continuities and gotten art from all over them, and while I don't regret creating them, I do realize that they do come off as a bit scattershot. I haven't really chosen one big centralized story continuity to be my primary one here on this account like LZ and TF have done with their galleries.
Granted, this doesn't mean I don't have the capability! Lightest as a character originates from Crossing of the Paths, that giant-ass story you guys have seen me working on for years and now posting here. Crossing of the Paths is just the first entry in a much greater story series called The Travelers Trilogy, which is intended to eventually be a complete history of the entire Mewtwo species spread over three big main stories and many smaller side-stories. I started writing the series in middle school and got like, almost 2/3 done before I eventually decided to re-write it from the ground up to fit my adult standards. That rewrite is what I've been posting here.
I am very proud of that story and its continuity, but I understand it's very niche. Heh, it's totally SFW and this IS Furaffinity after all. But I've been buying art comms of stuff from the Travelers Trilogy for many years now and I've never really bothered to post most of it here since the vast majority of it is SFW and I felt like most of my watchers would therefore find it SUPREMELY boring. I think the vast majority of y'all either watched me for Arina porn, Lightest porn, or Sedalia porn after all! (Especially Sedalia, holy shit that Assimilation of Hyo pic series has gotten SO MANY FAVES!)
So I guess what I'm getting at here is, would any of you actually like to see me posting my SFW Travelers Trilogy Art commissions here alongside my smut? I feel like I have a really fun continuity built in it, even if it's porn-free. I promise that if I did post it, I wouldn't stop posting the porn though! It'd just be more new content posted alongside the porn.
Also, if you had to choose one of my NSFW continuities, like the Arina is All story or Lightest's Bimbo Planet Thetera, to significantly expand on, which would you like to see more of? If I ever want to get as beautifully expansive and cohesive as Themefinland and Landingzone I should probably focus more effort into a few continuities rather than spawning countless more of them!
And as a closing remark, seriously go check Themefinland and Landingzone out if you haven't already. I know a lot of my watchers share a similar love of corruption with me, and those two do it so well!
Peace out, lovelies! <3
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But, the prospect of growing the setting and getting more eyes on it is now strong enough that it might outweigh even that old anxiety, especially if more people show interest in it!
As for which continuity to significantly expand on... Hm. That's a tough call, since I'd love to see them all further fleshed out (possibly on a bit of a loose sort-of rotation depending on muse), although some might not suit super-heavy expansion. Of the two named, I would probably prioritize Thetera. Arina is All is already decently fleshed out with the momentum for more, having a substantial main story well underway in addition to the story & worldbuilding stuff in the art descriptions. Thetera has a bit of worldbuilding and story in the art descriptions (especially the Urbosa piece), but not as much as AiA yet; it also doesn't have a main story series yet. Thetera would also just be a really really cool and positive world to see more heavily expanded upon.
The only reason I haven't gotten more Theteran art at this point is because Meshpet hasn't done public commission openings in years. You better believe if they did, I'd be all over that! But I certainly could write more stories in Thetera.