It's about 3:30 am as I write this, so forgive me if my writing seems to be a little off.

Something's been on my mind lately. It's not even an issue that's all that big a deal, in the grand scheme of things. Still, I figured I'd bring it up. About time I came out of my shell.

I took up the Ziggy fursona back in 2005 as a way to do expansion related artwork, without worrying about people I knew seeing it. See, I was a paranoid little cabbit. If my peers, who often saw my Deviantart page, ever found out I was some weird sexual deviant who enjoyed cartoon animals being inflated, I'd be humiliated. So, this gave me an outlet to draw something I enjoyed, while the secrecy of the intertubes ensured my privacy to the world. And, looking back on it, I still don't regret doing that. I met all kinds of people who have similar interests. I made a handful of friends, and a large number of acquaintances who, though we may not chat as much as I'd like (I am also a shy little cabbit), I'm happy to be around.

As you can tell, I haven't been posting much. In fact, of what I have been posting, it hasn't exactly been expansion related. Has it? A lot of it's just been drawings of Ziggy in various outfits, and stuff like that. See, I have a bad habit of, whenever I make a character, I become fixated on actually fleshing them out. Ziggy's got his own personality now. Which I don't mind. If I'm going to be drawing fetish work of someone, I'd at least like it to be of a character I enjoy drawing, and coming up with stuff like this for.

But to be honest, I realized that I haven't been using this account for it's original purpose. Instead, I'm just using it to experiment with this character. And, to further drive this point home, I HAVE an account for my non-expansion related artwork, where I do plenty of experimentation with my standard characters, and even intend to put some of them to use as well. (  teo-the-otter )

So now, I have two completely different sets of characters. One created by Ziggy, your favorite inflatable cabbit, and Teo, the elastic otter of no particular popularity standings. There's been a little overlap, but ultimately, the "serious" characters to go Teo, and the expandy ones go here. But lately, I can't help but notice that I'm not exactly comfortable with what, in essence, feels like me trying to pretend these two accounts on a website are different enough entities to warrant putting such a barrier between them. Why can't Ziggy be a normal character sometimes, while one of my previously unseen 'normals' get puffed up a little?

So, I'm thinking it's time I eased up a little, and allowed for a little overlap. So, here are the options I currently have in mind.

1) Keep things the way they are. Ziggy-esque characters remain here, and vice versa, and they get to have all the expandy fun.
2) Use this account only for fetish artwork. I take nearly all of the non-expansion artwork to the other account. Rather than worry about what account fits what fictional being I decide to scribble out, I just leave it all up to the subject matter.
3) Abandon this account, and move everything to the other. Everything is mixed. Yay.
4) The classic furry way to deal with any problem: Start Drama. BECAUSE OMG U PPL NEVER UNDERSTAND ME AND MAH ARTS! I IS LEAVEN TEH FANDOM 4EVAH! BAAAAW! </sarcasm>

I dunno. Like I said. At the end of the day, none of this matters. But, hey. If I didn't take the time to voice my molehills turned mountains, this journal would never be used. So what do you think?