I don't actively look on here for Stories, as most people would obviously use Yiffstar, but there have been a few that caught my eye and I wouldn't mind having a few to look at willingly. It's up to you, of course.

Yeah. Yiffstar does seem like a more appropriate place. Though it seems that they've switched over to images these days as well. I was kinda more interested in them when they were just doing stories.

I put my stories on here, but people don't look often at them, neither here, nor dA. I'm not sure where I, myself, should post my stories, otherwise, I would give you a place to put it up.

I have enjoyed your previous stories when I got to look at them.

What is this nonsense? I enjoy reading well written material. It's just... not a lot of people can write. It's not easy.

 glee <--- <3

Unfortunately, you're absolutely right in that FA is not a good audience for stories. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if only about 25% of the people who use this site can even read. As a writer-not-artist, I've found that Yiffstar works a lot better for me, but even then, there's no reason to be exclusive about it; post to both places, and even if it gets ignored on FA but for one or two comments, that's one or two more than you would have gotten by only putting it on Yiffstar. Plus, if your writing is sufficiently good, then there's kind of a snowball effect where everything you post attracts a few more watchers and you can slowly build momentum.  hellkat is an example of the payoff of that--a hugely successful writer, but that's because he's extremely prolific and has therefore built up a ton of momentum (just look at the size of his gallery and the amount of watches he has.) Also, he's also on Yiffstar as Von Krieger.

Hmm. Well, I find even for myself, I don't read a lot of stories on FA. In fact, I really do love stories, but there doesn't seem to be a good place for them. Yiffstar was a good place for that, but now they do images, too. And putting the two together always seems to force writing into the back seat.

For me... and I expect for a lot of people... I need to be in the right mood and have time to read a story. Whereas artwork is a more immediate sort of thing. It only takes a moment to look at a piece of art.

I don't like the way the message queue in FA works because it puts music and stories in together with images... with the expectation that you're going to go through them immediately and in order just like the art. And it just doesn't work that way. I end up just bypassing them usually, since a story in the middle of a bunch of art you're looking through is like a boat anchor. Not because writing is less pleasing to me, but because it can't just be skimmed in a second or two. I want to save the story to check out later, but there's not really a way to do that.

What I really want is for them to be in seperate queues. So I can roll through the bunch of new artwork separately... and then when I'm in the right condition to pick up a story, I can look through the new stories queue... and when I'm in the mood for new music, I can look through my new music queue.

As it is now, the system is designed around artwork and works efficiently only for that.

It's keen of you to realize the systematic bias here. All I can offer is my own preference in browsing...

Many of my favorite artists are also beautifully talented writers, and while it's disheartening that I don't get to know them as well as I would like, I do appreciate what is revealed through semantic imagery. The "queue" of written work I'm looking to explore often becomes my list of recent documents in Word, or the ones I make portably accessible on my http://docs.google.com/ . Unfortunately that requires a bit of time in saving or copying the stories, a process that isn't exactly streamlined by our web communities.

I think it's a valid concern, because like it or not, these are the primary resources for exposure and communication that much of the dragon/fur/etc. community relies on. I would love to see your idea of separate lists of recent stories and recent gallery uploads. I also look forward to whatever stories you do choose to share with us... and if you find the community too close-minded (hard to imagine, but I'll admit that elements of it are!) then I trust we'll find each other for long enough to share tales.

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Dreams suppressed are a spirit caged,
Dreams lost leave naught to gauge
the essence drowned as torrents rage around us,
when memories are all we have.

Oh, I would be very pleased if I can read some of your stories.^^

"Ral" was the first story I read when I first discovered the fandom, and it left one hell of an impact on me. It made me realise so many things about myself that I hadn't known before, it helped me open up. And I still think of Ral himself quite often.

Personally, I enjoy good stories more than artwork. But I've never really looked around FA for them, because like you say, you can't really skim them, which means there's no quick way of knowing whether you'll enjoy it or not.

If you have stories that aren't already posted here, what do you have to lose by posting them?

Personally I can't say I search for stories on this site, exept for a limited amount of users, but I would like to see whatever it is you have written, there is just as much joy to get from a good story as there is in artwork, sometimes even more!

I for one welcome your kinky stories. :P
If you are concerned about your reputation, you could make a dub account and post them there? If people love them then you can say HEY IT WAS ME! Or if humans narrow minded views can handel it just delete the account but meh.

It would be a shame not to do it. You know what they say,

"Pictures worth a thousand words,"

"Yeah but a good story always uses more," says I.

While I agree with your wish that FA was more story friendly, I don't think that's much of a reason to not post them somewhere at least.

As for any controversy or backlash for their contents, I don't think it would anything like what your are afraid of. I've seen other writers/artists worried about posting their 'darker' stuff, and always come out surprised how little negative feed back they received. Most furs around here seem to have learned to simply look the other way when given warning ahead of time about content they won't enjoy.

So please consider at least testing the waters so to speak with a sample of your stories. It would be a shame to let your nervousness keep your creations hidden away, especially if they are as good as your stories I have read.

personally I'd love to see you post your stories!
I've only ever seen your Ral story so far. But every now and then, I feel the desire to go back and read it again.
Like rathalos, it was one of the first I'd read, and it was how I found out about how much I loved vore.
I must have reread that scene with the waitress at least 4 times before finally continuing with the rest of it. ^_^;

Anyway, my point is, I've always liked your works. your art, your music, and your writing. your a lot better then you give yourself credit for, and if you do decide to post your stories, chances are good that there will be at least some people reading them, even if the focus of this site is mostly visual artwork.
I know I'll be one of them! : )

If it means anything, I still go back on occasion to read over your stores, or at least the ones that you shared and I was able to save down. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing more.

I look forward to seeing you post your stories publically.

I've said this before, but you inspired me to write. The story of Ral and the human mechanic is an awesome story. To my knowledge, the human was never named, refered to only as "human". The Carnivoria scene being epic, the different characters were very fun, the ending funny and clever.

You know, I have found a lot of liberty in expressing myself since coming online many years ago. What I would be bashfull to express at one time, I almost feel completely free and uninhibited in sharing now. For example, I'm co-writing a dragon story where a journalist is interviewing a dragon and human couple. They live together, and in the second half of the story the reader learns that the dragon and human couple are into scat and watersports. Would I ever write about scat and watersports and share it with my RL friends and family, the answer is a resounding no. But I don't mind writing about these things and posting them on an internet forum. This is what I love about FurAffinity, BigGulp and YiffStar, I can express myself even among some people who may know me in RL because its appropriate -here-.

There are people in RL who see me at the laptop typing stories, but they will probably never know what I'm writing, unless they're a furry or other sort reading it on the forums I post to, they're out of the loop and don't need to know.

I would encourage you to post your stories.