Artwork of course!

I normally do prefer stories if they're good, but if I'm looking for it, it's usually because I'm already pent up and want something right away so I'd probably say artwork.

Also I'm not interested in whether people view photographs and/or videos. I'm curious about entirely artist-created media.

Mostly artwork with me but sometimes I like to fap to a good sexy story too. I especially like pics that have a story to go with them and I have them side by side.

i do prefer stories but im so picky i am incredibly hard to please. i dont think i've read many stories that i've actually enjoyed outside of those i commission myself.

Hey nothin wrong with knowing your taste, though it can get expensive if it means you gotta pay people to make the things you like. x.=.o
Tho I think you have awesome taste. ^.//.^';

Art will always be more magical to me that stories, though.

Pics as always been my main sustenance even tho I'm not fapping on this site.

Yet I had the chance to read an incredibly hot writed scene that were perfectly matching my tastes.
It was not a story tho, just a sexual intercourse.

Heh I guess even in writing, there doesn't really have to be a story. ^^';;

I think remember that the decor was set but yeah, no story at all. In another regard, the overused classic porn scenario is always nearby x3. So maybe it is better to let the reader/watcher makes his own than to turn the whole thing into a comedy.
I've seen some comic/hentail that were begining directly during the action, so I think this could actually be a figure of speech :).

I actually like it when porn makes me laugh~ ^-^';;

I kind of think that sexual excitement melted to emotions is a recipe that only work in particular conditions.. That being said, I base myself on my experience to say that so idk if we can make this a generality. Either way I do enjoy shocking and depressing stuff :3 but I wouldn't fap to it xD.

To each their own!

And the sheep will be well kept :p

They're about equal to me! Just depends on whether I wanna be broad and quick or short and in-depth!

From what I have gathered, the scale of preferred medium around here is the artwork. It usually gets right to the point, can be digested quickly and one can move on after a minute or two. There are also a million artists dropping works into this site, daily. I mean, just take the front page as an example. I swear that if one refreshed every minute of every hour of every day, there would always (ALWAYS) be new art works to view and anything even ten minutes old will slip away past page 10 on the newest stuff. There is always a mixture of adult and general on the front page. (And, if there isn't, I have yet to witness it. (One must have the filter turned off...of course.))

But, with stories and poems, those move a whole lot slower. It is even possible to come back after a full hour and still see a story's submission sticking to the front page. It can also be very hard to present a story on this site. There's that small avatar icon to work with. Can get in a few words or present a picture. Being that writing is my preferred art form of creation, I originally used photos and stationary screens of info. That...didn't do much. Then, I started commissioning pictures with the stories and that did a million times more. Though, I do suspect that for every one person that actually reads, the majority just view and maybe fav the art piece before moving on.

A lot of time must be invested in actually reading. And, most (especially when in the mood for fapping) would just prefer to dash right in and right back out...which artwork does a whole lot more efficiently then a ten thousand word micro story on how Characters X and Y...interact.

I agree completely, and I appreciate you sharing your observations and experiences. :3

I would say that especially for those who are not able to visualize well, having an image to accompany your story or vice versa can add a lot. I think a lot of people feel that way. ^^'

But you're right—there will always be plenty of people who won't spare the time to ingest a story when they get what they're after from just seeing the image.

Once upon a time, the written word was absolute gold. Printing presses were tools for monks and it took a painstaking amount of time to just press a duplicate book. When there even was a library for the public, it often contained a very few amount of works and such books were chained and monitored, so as to insure that no one person could keep the books for themselves.

Eventually, printing technology advanced and the written word was possible to bring home...albeit at a steep price. Lanterns and candles were available, making it possible to read lengthily novels into the evenings when harvesting crops or hunting or working day jobs was not possible, creating a joyful option for entertainment in a time when few distractions existed. Not only that, but people wrote long, complex letters to each other.

In more recent times, the coming of electricity pushed lanterns into a novelty category. Electric brought forth radios. And that advanced into television. TV went from screens that were (amazingly) just a couple inches and slowly grew. B/W gained color. Telephones gained a foot hold. The more distractions that came our way, the more pushed out the written word became. TV screens grew in size to potentially eat up a gigantic section of wall. Phones went from wired handsets to wireless SmartPhones. Writing letters via mail became a novelty in comparison to sending digital letters that not only said short things, but became e-motes and abbreviated words. Libraries, once places of worship and shared knowledge, shrank their storage of books to accommodate more and more electronic devices. (I couldn't believe it when I saw a library checking out...video games. Then, stopping by BlockBusters to see them...selling books.) The printed book is falling out of style. A recent poll noted that only 3% polled even cared about getting news from newspapers.

The world is just moving faster and faster. It's almost like a chore to take hours or days to get through a book when a simplified movie can envision it for you in a matter of an hour or two. (Or the cherished works like Lords of the Rings can still be a tiring marathon of over 12 hours. In 50 years, it will be like some kind of 'Triple Dog Dare' to marathon the entire Star Wars saga...presuming they really do reach their promised goal of 46 movies! And, to think, there's a guy's whose life goal right now is just to see the first Disney made Wars before he dies. Doctors say he could pass away in a couple weeks or so.) The way it's getting, there just may...some day...be no room in most people's lives for a lengthily novel. Why bother reading a book when some kind of future medium can probably just upload a set of 'memories' right into your own brain and you can peruse it like a cherished memory.

What a nostalgic passage. It's true that it's been years since myself have made much time for a few good books. If I'm to be perfectly honest. I think the best hope of the industry, is audio books, seeing as they're the only way to consume a book without a decent movie adaptation in a way that isn't too inconvenient for most people to consider worthwhile.

I really should start hoarding audio books myself. C: I did mention I'm a slow reader. I usually read at around the pace I would read aloud were I recording an audio book. A little faster, maybe, but not by much. ^^'; I read aloud in my head...heh.

On a long road trip, it was great to be able to check out a digital book and play it through the stereo system. Really helped to pass the time. They weren't on tape or CD. But, a dedicated MP3 player device. Simple to use and worked really well.

Alas, with a couple exceptions, I think the last book I really, truly got into (reading wise) was Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide. (And, he was alive and writing when I read that, BTW.) I've bought a small number of 25 cent soft cover books over the years. It's just that I never really cared to put any real time into actually reading them. (Although I did read through Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and H.G. Well's Time Machine, all thanks to a DS cart that the store literally just gave to me. Pre-Kindle tech.) Guess it's a miracle that I've even been writing this mega novel called Plight at all.

Hmmm...not exactly certain that hoarding audio books is even necessary, anymore. Might want to check in to it. But, I've heard that libraries have gotten rather 21'st Century, these days. That includes the ability to check out 'digital books'. And, what a strange concept it is. You go to a web site and check out (get this) a kind of text/audio file for your mobile device. It is yours, for free, for a select number of days. All digital. And, I do believe that includes books in audio form.

Also, there are new technologies coming out, all the time. Audio tapes could hold a half hour or more of a recording, requiring packs of 3 or 5 tapes in a box to cover a general sized book. Then, the CD make it possible to harbor one book on a disc. Imagine how many books on audio could fit into a Blu-Ray...if it had an audio only version. (I learned about Blu-Ray's insane storage via a video game. They had so much space, an interior television ran a Flash Gordon marathon. Somewhere into the eighth hour, I began to question what the storage capacity of this disc truly was.) Or, there's this new kind of disc coming from the UK. Crystal Disc. Over 300 Terabytes! Why, every book ever written should fit on to one of those in text form. Might take two or three to store all the audio book versions. Or every movie ever made could fit on your book shelf...just one shelf, too.

Why, just the other day, I was thinking about an added scene in the modern remake of Time Machine about the hologram guy in the library. And it hit me. With the advances in computers and flat screens, we are technically almost there in bringing said Human Interfaces to life in real places. Another piece of sci-fi, ready to become reality. But, now I'm just babbling.

Babbling you may be, but it was a pleasant babble to read. In spite of that, I'll admit I balked, intimidated by its length, and put off reading it today until I finally got in bed just now.

I'm not entirely certain why, but my A Dance With Dragons audiobook is on I think at least four dozen CDs. Maybe 60. I'm not certain but I could check. It seemed kinda exceesive to me.

Frankenstein and Time Machine are both great things that I would like to read. There are a number of classics that I would like to notch into my belt. The Picture of Dorian Gray is definitely another such work. A couple favourites of mine if we're talking classics are The Count of Monte Cristo and Gulliver's Travels.

Eventually I hope to convince myself to read more.

Well...I suppose to read more, one must simply slip away from the grid, so to speak. No cel-phones or wi-fi net signals.

Why, just today, I slipped away from the grid and sat by a gently flowing river with little else then my netbook to write into and have some soup for dinner. Then came home, watched a rental and had a couple hour session of Red Dead Redemption on-line. After typing this, I shall probably fall asleep to some YouTube. So, a healthy mixture of relaxing things. But no plans on picking up the DS to read some Huckle Berry Fin.

Electronic devices at bedtime are unhealthy. Nevertheless, I fall asleep practically with fone in hand every night. What you described does sound idyllic, though. :3

According to multiple polls, a whole generation can't live without their phones. So, you are not alone in that regard.

My TV has a sleep timer. I try to set it around bed time. Then again, there's also something interesting about what the YouTube randomly picks in the mornings. Some of the dreams; very interesting.

Would have loved to have had a dream recorder for this morning's dream. It was complete and movie like. Yet, so much of what it was just faded after waking.

They say that while they may seem longer, most dreams generally only last a few minutes each.

And I think it was the type of light that made it bad to shine a phone screen in your eyes around bedtime. Reading a physical book is apparently much safer.

Oh, yea...something to do with the contrast of a bright, centralized light with near blackness all around it. Eye strain.

Dreams can most certainly seem long, at times. To their real length, that's almost for an external eyewitness to contest to.

Stories are always more of an investment than a well-made image or set of images; however, I've found that a well-written story (ie, anything from  Runa216) can be a lot more descriptive and alluring than a good image because of how the author applies imagery and highly-descriptive words and phrases. In short, I think well-written stories are better than well-made images for people with good imaginations :p

I'm happy to see some variety of preferences. ^-^

Bingo. The words are there to guide and inspire the reader's ability to create the scene inside their own heads. It can do so much more then when some movie person read the book, saw that scene in their interpreted way, rewrote it to a facsimile for the real world and sold it off with hopes of reaping in profits by the millions.

In fact, there are whole scientific studies that show how the brain works. When one reads a book, it pushes the brain to work harder and become imaginative. Scans of those that just watch TV look...kind of sleepy/dull...perhaps even preparing to die in some sense. And a lazy brain seems like a bad thing to me if overly indulged.

Couch potato, indeed.

What? People faps here? O:

No I made that up to trick people. I think they are falling for it.

hahahah

i love stories but roleplay is what gets me most going

Roleplay>Story>Art

Hmmm... That's like the exact opposite of me. :D RP is so much...work. Major boner kill for me. ;c

it is not really work but sexual adventure who many fun things can happen , and often very personalized and interactive

^=^ I'm glad you find enjoyment in it! I'm afraid I have found myself to generally be unable to do so.

Perhaps, you just need to find the 'right' kind of RP'ing session, is all.

There are writing sites out there where 'real' RP'ing takes place. It doesn't all have to be...

"Hi, there! See my Penie? Hard, isn't it? Let's boink..." (Ugh...that hurt me, just trying to think in that no dimensional space.)

Nah...how about...

"His chest glistened as the spray of the ocean sea settled into every strand of hair. Giving highlight as the dusk's sun stretched forth it's dying rays to shine forth a sparkling array as she looked up from her evening activity of skinny dipping.
'Dirk!' she cried out. 'Cast forth the ring of life, so that I may give tribute to your bounty!'
To which he gave the deep throated reply. 'Cindy...you...don't seem to be getting the gist of this whole 'Walking-The-Plank' notion all that well...' " ;P

The first, of course, is trite and boring. The second seems to me ostentatious and indulgent past the point of corniness.

It's not that I haven't found good RPs or partners. It's that I can no longer stomach the activity of RPing, which I once loved and did all day every day—albeit not the sexual kind: I didn't do a ton of sex or fetish RP until fairly late in my career of loving to roleplay.

A lot of it is just me not having the attention span or feeling rewarded enough by the experience for it to be worth the time. I haven't ever saved a chatlog or RP before, either. :/

A lot of it is just me not having the attention span or feeling rewarded enough by the experience for it to be worth the time.
This sums up my thoughts really well!

Great points. Summed up what I've been denying to say and/or admit.

u3u *hugs*

I have experienced so many amazing things through RP's. It's been very inspirational.

The sexual RP, however...how to say...grows hazy and dull after you boink the other player in the yahoos a thousand times over and repeat on every chance they get to bother you over it with. It's like eating the same desert over and over...with nothing else but. It becomes bland and even toxic after awhile. I mean the 'porno' kind of RP.

Woo...delivery boy rings bell.
Sexy woman in nightgown answers.
"Pizza's here. That will be..."
"Come in, big boy. Let me pay you."
*Boner music as pair strip, hop in bed and...*

Dribble for the writing soul...

never did delivery boy thing , found it dull:P

It's typical porn plot. As in..."Plot? What plot?"

Ahhh...but there is still a plot hole. See...once the bed scene starts, the pizza box mysteriously vanishes and is never heard from, again.

R.I.P. Pizza Box. Died from lack of anyone caring.

my usual plots:
Daddy play/parenting (adult characters)
Random stranger meet up at shower/lockeroom/sauna for non consensual play
Various games(usually skyrim/elder scrolls , 2 friend related)
Sea park(1 friend related)
i had a friend where we did lots detail and it was in his "world" but our ways drifted apart

Rest is just generic hookup with cuddling

i had "more" then that , but if i not done something more then once or twice i dont see reason to mention it as list would be long

Pizza guy is ok tho i guess

Like I said I think it's cool that there are people with your interest in roleplay. There are a lot of them, and I know quite a few. The lengths some of them go to for essentially what most furs just look at art for...is astounding! Several fleshed out characters, lots of world-building, volumes of writing.

I respect some RPers for the work they do and the experimentation they try, as I would respect any artist who does impressive or innovative work, but that doesn't really make me want to take part, generally. Even when it does, the feeling tends to not last.

Roleplaying part is always who is "not appreciated" , never in light , lots are very rude about anyone who even gently ask

Its probably one part of creative fandom who instead of nice and positive comments , you never get appreciated , and often mocked if you speak about in public:/

You're certainly not wrong about that.

So many other things could be done in that time! Lots of nice pics to look at :D

Plus having to stop fapping to type up a post kinda defeats the point a little, I think. Not to mention the amount of focus it requires to keep going at a reasonable pace...

You're right. If we're talking about RP specifically in the thread of this journal, wherein fapping is the goal, I usually felt like I was just writing porn for the other person, becoz I seldom bothered trying to fap.

Pretty much! I'd much rather cuddle (or other things) with a friend irl than pretend I am D:

I love cuddles! ^//^

I know ya do~
Would totally cuddle you c:

<3

My policy: Pics or it didn't happen :D
I do enjoy stories though! But unlike with pics, it usually takes a lot of weird content for those to get me going lol.

They may as well just start naming the site FAp XD

A friend of mine once asked me to critique his work on another Furry website.

Don't ask. I mentally blocked the whole name of said site from my psyche and only remember thinking my soul needed a long shower after just visiting it. Furry can get far dirtier then this place.

There's only one fetish not allowed here, so I suspect I know the site you speak of and the kink you saw.

Hmm... Wondering if you're talking about the place Tekayos implied you meant.

For me it's both. If it's by a writer I like, and a subject I enjoy, I'll go for it~

Art is the 'easy' target I admit. There's been a few times where I liked my -own- artwork enough to ...erm have fun with it.

But I guess it varies depending on the mood I'm in~ Both are very good sources of 'fun' hehe

l3 <3 Thanks for sharing. Heehee...

And yeah I know a lot of artists who kinda rely pretty heavily on being into their own work for inspiration~

Not a problem!

Well, for me it's rare, cause usually I dislike something about a piece I've finished <..<;;
But yeah X3

How about both? Good story + nice artwork == Great comic

;3

I agree there. :3! Some of my favourite comics are more cheesy than good, though. X3 I actually like when porn makes me giggle or grin. But teasy dialogue is even better and super hot >//<