So yeah, yet another "Hey, FA's back up!" journal for your inboxes. Remember folks, keep your inboxes clean and delete your messages after viewing them so we can avoid this mess happening again! I know too many peeps that let their notifications pile up, and from what I understand that was a pretty big chunk of why FA went down this time. Hygene, folks, INTERNET HYGENE!

Now, I'm just gonna tell ya now that I'm not planning on posting anything for a few days at least, to give FA a chance to get a bit more stabilized. Then I figure I'm gonna start tossing pics up at a rate of a few a day. I've got a pretty chunky backlog of images I've been sitting on, and I think they're about ready to hatch. I fully admit that with the weather change I've been feeling a bit less productive and low on energy, but I've been gettin stuff done as quick as my energy allows. Winter sucks ass. I'll also likely be opening up for some more bust commissions early next week as well, cuz of that wonderful thing I gotta do known as paying rent. Gonna do a Rule63 theme (that's genderswap, for the uninitiated) with the next batch. Enjoy the holidays with the gift of new genitals!

I gotta admit something here, and this might go a little deep. The last couple days I've found myself looking at some of the stuff I've been commissioned to draw, and, stepping back. You know when you're doing something and you step back and take notice of just how strange it is? Like when you sit back and boggle at the very concept of pet ownership? That kinda thing. Take me back to when I was 18 and I can guarantee you I did not expect to be drawing herms, slimegirls, hypers, macro, multiboob, and the like. Hell, even my first couple years in the fandom I woulda quirked a brow at the idea. And here I am, drawing some very strange things. I guess you could expand it out to the whole furry thing in general, y'know? How many of us, before we got into the fandom, saw this coming?

My guess is that it's just us tugging at the leashes of the status quo. We're taught by society that what we do is a little weird, so when we pull our heads out of it, you kinda sit there going "Man.... I drew that weird thing" or "Wow, how did I go from ____ to getting off to _____?" (That'd be a great black card for cards against humanity, don'tcha think?). I don't think it's a bad thing, even if our first instinct is often to feel ashamed. So ya spank it to _____, whatever makes ya happy. And while in regard to unusual kinks and fetishes I'm personally fairly vanilla, I do derive a different kind of pleasure from drawing weird things. I love it when I pull off a convincingly huge-looking macro, or make jaws drop with a cyborg, or nail the light diffusing through a slime creature. I get a charge when I put that perfect expression on a character's face that isnt just a mere smile, but a smile that speaks volumes about the personality behind it.

I like drawing weird things. Not to get off to them (Though I'm not offended if you get off to 'em, that doesnt bug me in the slightest) but because I actually enjoy drawing them. That's part of why I do themed commissions alot nowadays, so I can draw something I'll enjoy working on. If I drew cyborgs and power armor ALL THE TIME I'd lose my damned mind. Sometimes, you gotta switch things up. And sometimes that switch involves a generously-endowed hermaphrodite jackrabbit covered in bees, cuz that's what you feel like drawing, and it's pretty likely there's gonna be someone out there willing to pay to enjoy that. figure out something you like and find a way to get paid to do it, as the wisdom goes.

...I have absolutely no clue where the hell I'm going with this journal. I just pulled an all-nighter and I'm loopy

ANYWAYS, oh, right, yeah, DERP, I was gonna say that FA remains my site of choice for posting stuff. I've got a Weasyl account too, but that's only to reserve the name, and a twitter and tumblr, but my artwork never makes it to those, but they're more for random thoughts and retarded reblogging. If FA ever goes down for like, a couple weeks to a month, I might consider doing Weasyl as well, but for all the technical accidents, Furaffinity, both as a site and as a community has been far too good to me for me to simply abandon her. I'm staying the fuck here!

That should rap it up. Please don't comment about FA's technical issues here, I'd like to keep the comments fight-free, thanks
I'll catch you guys later, and if I don't see you, have an awesome holiday, whatever you celebrate! PEACE!




COMMISSIONS (the fullsize huge ones)
1/ Rogern (inked, restarting colour)
2/ 9Lion (pencilled, plus one other)
3/ Mechaman
4/ Chazore
5/ Sandalf
6/ yutrah (inked)
7/ rageki (inked)
8/ Twitch The Dragon
9/ Kipeo
10/ Opeoaslam