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Yapping Journal (23/02/2025)
Heya all, hope February has been treating’ ya well. Wanted to originally make this post after the bakery teasers but these thoughts have been lingering for a while so I’d figure I’d make this journal now incase they end up leaving my head.
As of writing this there’s only one left to tease for the bakery squad who’s design I’m still finalising and I’d like to thank you all for being patient with me. TFs will also be resuming in March, so don't worry about that. Sorta built up a lot of ideas :0
In this journal I’d just like to go over a few things, update you all on some random stuff and talk about where my head is at. Don’t feel obligated to read as I can sorta ramble and spitball >_<
Deleted Works?
Done a little cleaning up of my gallery so if you've gone back to view some old TFs or other artworks of mine, you may notice they're missing. If so. then I’d like to report that they’ve been sent to the trash can, like a failed sourdough starter… at least on DeviantArt. On Furaffinity I’ve kept most of these up and just moved them into scraps as I don’t want them to necessarily go away forever, but I don’t want them in the spotlight anymore. Here’s a rundown on what’s gone.
Roxie's Suggestion Box.
Am fond of the TFs I did for this on their own without context, but ultimately… Roxie as a concept was just genuinely stupid and in retrospect it sorta makes me uncomfortable as it’s sorta muddied how I’ve seen some people view the actual version of her. ROXY IS NOT EVIL AND GRAHAM DOES NOT DISLIKE HER. I cannot stress that enough, she’s just a silly Espe who likes to tease. She cares a lot about him and besides, it’s not like Graham doesn’t get a little mischievous too with his cookies >
Yeah Roxie ain’t ever comin’ back. I do hold some interest in opening some sort of request thing again someday, but how I go about it really depends.
Old Bios.
Kinda self explanatory. They’re outdated descriptions of the characters. In other words, they’ve aged like Miltank milk. Have gone on record saying I've wanted to update the character bios and in fact, there’s gonna be a batch (hopefully) arriving soon with the bakery squad at least and likely the others will be sure to follow. Many of the current cast are also quite different in the way I’d like to handle them now, so leaving this outdated information about them up feels icky as they’re not at all reflective of their current selves.
Domino Amphibia TF.
Just don’t like the implications of this one nowadays and it’s not the type of TF I wanna do or associate with anymore. Like what, Graham is just doomed to live life as Anne Boonchuy’s cat Domino from hit 2019-2022 Disney Channel series Amphibia for the rest of his days, with the looming possibility that said feline replaced him in Turquoise Hills? Eugghhh nah. If I consider doing anymore TFs with OCs turning into canon characters, then I feel I’d handle them more in line with the Spinni TF, with no implied dark ending, reality shift n’all that. MC depends really.
Do want to do an Amphibia TF again someday though. Turning a character into a smol, usually bucket bound polliwog similar to Polly (in the first two seasons) could be fun~
Team Cupcake Themed Art.
No longer a thing or even canon anymore. My characters have different affiliations now.
Story?
Said this in a random status long ago but I’ve wanted to do an ongoing narrative for some time. To be truthful my ideas jump around a lot but the only thing I know for sure is that it won’t be too linked to my current characters and all that as I wanna focus on a new group a little disconnected from the usual TF stuff.
Might even be on a separate account, but does depend really. I've had ideas with a group of mystery kiddos, Crayon and Phova, plus my liking towards stuff like BFDI and other viewer voting based competition stuff has weirdly gotten me interested in thinking “what if I do something like that but with Pokemon characters” but we'll see.
Upcoming Shenanigans
So yeaahhh TFs, I do those huh...
This year I do wanna be a little more experimental as it’s good for practice and I’ve seen many ideas that really do push my buttons, like plushies, objects and pool toys especially. Just very cute, cosy, fun vibe topics. Obviously Pokemon is my specialty and will most probably remain that way, but I’d like to do TFs for other franchises too. Feel another Sonic themed TF is way overdue, but there’s other franchises I love that I’m surprised I’ve done nothing with like Rayman. I’ll try to think of some mischief~
I’ve also dabbled in anthro stuff here and there with close mutuals, though any drawings regarding that will likely be FA exclusives, mainly as I wanna keep my DA and Bluesky free from slightly suggestive and more niche works.
Really appreciated the love on all the small comics and sequences last year too, but so I don’t drought ya too much I do wanna attempt more simpler single frame mid-tf and post-tf ideas in between again. Can be tricky though as sometimes an idea breaches the comfort zone, gets all snuggly and ends up evolving into a sequence or comic unintentionally. Fun fact, it’s exactly what happened with the Graham and Skittles baby mon TF, now being one of the main darn AUs. Crazy huh.
Missing in Action
Truth be told, it’s impossible to deny that I’ve heavily neglected some characters as of recent, some of which haven’t been used in any art whatsoever for over 6 months (insert funny Venom meme here)
It’s basically been the Graham, Atlas, Skittles and Roxy show for a bit now and that’s something I’d like to change… Although... As I alluded to earlier, many of these characters have their own changes that I’d like to implement next they show up again and to not make them a jumpscare, I’ll give a brief rundown on the basics here.
Teddy
Pretty much spot on personality and design wise, though what I need to figure out are those darn rules. Just a big can of Wurmples and I definitely need to put in place limits for her heh…
Riley
Design already long updated and I still like the role of him being the older, stern voice of reason to Roxy/Graham. Just mainly needs some slight amendments to his lore and relation with Dyno.
Dyno
Really only needs some slight tweaks to his current design and maybe a slightly clumsier personality, as I feel it’d be fitting for causing unintended TF shenanigans with dangerous artefacts. Still love the whole oddity researcher and collector angle for him, though I don’t want him to be so stereotypically nerdy.
Maya
Actually hmmm, they’re pretty bang on. Maybe give them a slightly different leafy hairstyle and dress, but other than that I love this chaotic olive gremlin. Desperately need to use them more as some of ny moots have also pointed out.
Cara
Their Eevee form is just about sorted and I’m happy with their new dynamic with Skittles, but that Sylveon mode will see some adjustments. I don’t want them to be evil and have nefarious goals, they’re just a Sylveon who secretly makes the grumps happy, even if it involves some memory wiping… Already teased a design back in that Generations post which is meant to be a Sylveon/Deerling fusion which I feel fits with their sometimes skittish behavior~
The whole Black Doom Starmie thing is a joke. Don’t take that seriously haha.
Cole/Samson
Eeyikes… Lumping these two together as they share the same problem. Out of everyone, I’m most unhappy with them right now. Two guys on a whim that just didn’t work out and weirdly it has nothing to do with their characterization or personalities. That is totally fine, Cole especially filling an opposite role to Riley, being one to instigate Roxy and have her cause mayhem in the town. That I still dig.
My issue with the two is just purely design wise. I just feel like I flat out picked the wrong species and I wish I could time travel to tell past me to give these two more thoughts. I still would like Cole to be somewhat Rinrin/Berunrun inspired, perhaps just less feline like to make the cast a little more diverse. As for Samson? Yeah no. I adore Piplup but he really needs a species change. Not fond of the choice at all nowadays. Leaning towards a fiery Meinfoo but we’ll see for now
Maybe so all this is less uh, jarring I could give in universe explanations for these changes, but just stay tuned I guess. Some of this is silly spitballing again ahahaha…
End
Know this isn’t a terribly long yap session but if you’ve reached this far then thank you. Just wanted to get all this out of my system really so you can see where I’m at exactly right now. Honestly I wish I could share a lot more art, but with my job and some personal responsibilities it's sorta hard to gain the drive to on some days, rather spending time playing the switch/deck, watching tv or even napping. Do wanna figure out more effective drawing methods to hopefully speed things up a bit in the future though and I dream of having a proper desk setup to draw more professionally, but with the home space available to me. I sorta just gotta make do for now haha.
See you all later and play Rayman Origins/Legends. Best games ever (maybe?)
Heya all, hope February has been treating’ ya well. Wanted to originally make this post after the bakery teasers but these thoughts have been lingering for a while so I’d figure I’d make this journal now incase they end up leaving my head.
As of writing this there’s only one left to tease for the bakery squad who’s design I’m still finalising and I’d like to thank you all for being patient with me. TFs will also be resuming in March, so don't worry about that. Sorta built up a lot of ideas :0
In this journal I’d just like to go over a few things, update you all on some random stuff and talk about where my head is at. Don’t feel obligated to read as I can sorta ramble and spitball >_<
Deleted Works?
Done a little cleaning up of my gallery so if you've gone back to view some old TFs or other artworks of mine, you may notice they're missing. If so. then I’d like to report that they’ve been sent to the trash can, like a failed sourdough starter… at least on DeviantArt. On Furaffinity I’ve kept most of these up and just moved them into scraps as I don’t want them to necessarily go away forever, but I don’t want them in the spotlight anymore. Here’s a rundown on what’s gone.
Roxie's Suggestion Box.
Am fond of the TFs I did for this on their own without context, but ultimately… Roxie as a concept was just genuinely stupid and in retrospect it sorta makes me uncomfortable as it’s sorta muddied how I’ve seen some people view the actual version of her. ROXY IS NOT EVIL AND GRAHAM DOES NOT DISLIKE HER. I cannot stress that enough, she’s just a silly Espe who likes to tease. She cares a lot about him and besides, it’s not like Graham doesn’t get a little mischievous too with his cookies >
Yeah Roxie ain’t ever comin’ back. I do hold some interest in opening some sort of request thing again someday, but how I go about it really depends.
Old Bios.
Kinda self explanatory. They’re outdated descriptions of the characters. In other words, they’ve aged like Miltank milk. Have gone on record saying I've wanted to update the character bios and in fact, there’s gonna be a batch (hopefully) arriving soon with the bakery squad at least and likely the others will be sure to follow. Many of the current cast are also quite different in the way I’d like to handle them now, so leaving this outdated information about them up feels icky as they’re not at all reflective of their current selves.
Domino Amphibia TF.
Just don’t like the implications of this one nowadays and it’s not the type of TF I wanna do or associate with anymore. Like what, Graham is just doomed to live life as Anne Boonchuy’s cat Domino from hit 2019-2022 Disney Channel series Amphibia for the rest of his days, with the looming possibility that said feline replaced him in Turquoise Hills? Eugghhh nah. If I consider doing anymore TFs with OCs turning into canon characters, then I feel I’d handle them more in line with the Spinni TF, with no implied dark ending, reality shift n’all that. MC depends really.
Do want to do an Amphibia TF again someday though. Turning a character into a smol, usually bucket bound polliwog similar to Polly (in the first two seasons) could be fun~
Team Cupcake Themed Art.
No longer a thing or even canon anymore. My characters have different affiliations now.
Story?
Said this in a random status long ago but I’ve wanted to do an ongoing narrative for some time. To be truthful my ideas jump around a lot but the only thing I know for sure is that it won’t be too linked to my current characters and all that as I wanna focus on a new group a little disconnected from the usual TF stuff.
Might even be on a separate account, but does depend really. I've had ideas with a group of mystery kiddos, Crayon and Phova, plus my liking towards stuff like BFDI and other viewer voting based competition stuff has weirdly gotten me interested in thinking “what if I do something like that but with Pokemon characters” but we'll see.
Upcoming Shenanigans
So yeaahhh TFs, I do those huh...
This year I do wanna be a little more experimental as it’s good for practice and I’ve seen many ideas that really do push my buttons, like plushies, objects and pool toys especially. Just very cute, cosy, fun vibe topics. Obviously Pokemon is my specialty and will most probably remain that way, but I’d like to do TFs for other franchises too. Feel another Sonic themed TF is way overdue, but there’s other franchises I love that I’m surprised I’ve done nothing with like Rayman. I’ll try to think of some mischief~
I’ve also dabbled in anthro stuff here and there with close mutuals, though any drawings regarding that will likely be FA exclusives, mainly as I wanna keep my DA and Bluesky free from slightly suggestive and more niche works.
Really appreciated the love on all the small comics and sequences last year too, but so I don’t drought ya too much I do wanna attempt more simpler single frame mid-tf and post-tf ideas in between again. Can be tricky though as sometimes an idea breaches the comfort zone, gets all snuggly and ends up evolving into a sequence or comic unintentionally. Fun fact, it’s exactly what happened with the Graham and Skittles baby mon TF, now being one of the main darn AUs. Crazy huh.
Missing in Action
Truth be told, it’s impossible to deny that I’ve heavily neglected some characters as of recent, some of which haven’t been used in any art whatsoever for over 6 months (insert funny Venom meme here)
It’s basically been the Graham, Atlas, Skittles and Roxy show for a bit now and that’s something I’d like to change… Although... As I alluded to earlier, many of these characters have their own changes that I’d like to implement next they show up again and to not make them a jumpscare, I’ll give a brief rundown on the basics here.
Teddy
Pretty much spot on personality and design wise, though what I need to figure out are those darn rules. Just a big can of Wurmples and I definitely need to put in place limits for her heh…
Riley
Design already long updated and I still like the role of him being the older, stern voice of reason to Roxy/Graham. Just mainly needs some slight amendments to his lore and relation with Dyno.
Dyno
Really only needs some slight tweaks to his current design and maybe a slightly clumsier personality, as I feel it’d be fitting for causing unintended TF shenanigans with dangerous artefacts. Still love the whole oddity researcher and collector angle for him, though I don’t want him to be so stereotypically nerdy.
Maya
Actually hmmm, they’re pretty bang on. Maybe give them a slightly different leafy hairstyle and dress, but other than that I love this chaotic olive gremlin. Desperately need to use them more as some of ny moots have also pointed out.
Cara
Their Eevee form is just about sorted and I’m happy with their new dynamic with Skittles, but that Sylveon mode will see some adjustments. I don’t want them to be evil and have nefarious goals, they’re just a Sylveon who secretly makes the grumps happy, even if it involves some memory wiping… Already teased a design back in that Generations post which is meant to be a Sylveon/Deerling fusion which I feel fits with their sometimes skittish behavior~
The whole Black Doom Starmie thing is a joke. Don’t take that seriously haha.
Cole/Samson
Eeyikes… Lumping these two together as they share the same problem. Out of everyone, I’m most unhappy with them right now. Two guys on a whim that just didn’t work out and weirdly it has nothing to do with their characterization or personalities. That is totally fine, Cole especially filling an opposite role to Riley, being one to instigate Roxy and have her cause mayhem in the town. That I still dig.
My issue with the two is just purely design wise. I just feel like I flat out picked the wrong species and I wish I could time travel to tell past me to give these two more thoughts. I still would like Cole to be somewhat Rinrin/Berunrun inspired, perhaps just less feline like to make the cast a little more diverse. As for Samson? Yeah no. I adore Piplup but he really needs a species change. Not fond of the choice at all nowadays. Leaning towards a fiery Meinfoo but we’ll see for now
Maybe so all this is less uh, jarring I could give in universe explanations for these changes, but just stay tuned I guess. Some of this is silly spitballing again ahahaha…
End
Know this isn’t a terribly long yap session but if you’ve reached this far then thank you. Just wanted to get all this out of my system really so you can see where I’m at exactly right now. Honestly I wish I could share a lot more art, but with my job and some personal responsibilities it's sorta hard to gain the drive to on some days, rather spending time playing the switch/deck, watching tv or even napping. Do wanna figure out more effective drawing methods to hopefully speed things up a bit in the future though and I dream of having a proper desk setup to draw more professionally, but with the home space available to me. I sorta just gotta make do for now haha.
See you all later and play Rayman Origins/Legends. Best games ever (maybe?)
