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On Life and Life Support.
6 years ago
For those concerned, the Halloween YCH will be done by the end of the month. Now that I have Procreate, delays will be fewer and farther between.
As for my life support fat fetish work, I'm maybe going to give it a break for a while unless it's for pathos or tragic effect. It was fun and kooky and even kind of rebellious (what with the unspoken questioning of modern definitions of beauty) for a while, but now it's just gotten...morbid. I mean, it's obviously fantasy and nobody is getting hurt, but sometimes reality casts too dark a shadow, you know? And you kind of "sober up from all that." I'm not quitting entirely, I'm just going on a hiatus with that sub-subgenre.
In fact, with the prevalence of slob art in the fat fur genre, I wonder if clean, well-dressed and more conventionally beautiful fat furs are going to be the new thing these days. It's weird how fetishes sometimes act more like fads than fixations.
But on the other side of the same coin, would it be better if I made life support fat art that had darker, more tragic tones? More pathos? I mean, these are dark times we are living in and I wonder if indulging in something that is morbid and has simultaneous fetish appeal will have a cleansing, cathartic effect? A way of portraying emotions other than piqued interest or arousal? And if/when my career as a novelist takes off, will all of this have a sour impact on my reputation and public image? Although that seems like a whole 'nother can of worms entirely.
As for my life support fat fetish work, I'm maybe going to give it a break for a while unless it's for pathos or tragic effect. It was fun and kooky and even kind of rebellious (what with the unspoken questioning of modern definitions of beauty) for a while, but now it's just gotten...morbid. I mean, it's obviously fantasy and nobody is getting hurt, but sometimes reality casts too dark a shadow, you know? And you kind of "sober up from all that." I'm not quitting entirely, I'm just going on a hiatus with that sub-subgenre.
In fact, with the prevalence of slob art in the fat fur genre, I wonder if clean, well-dressed and more conventionally beautiful fat furs are going to be the new thing these days. It's weird how fetishes sometimes act more like fads than fixations.
But on the other side of the same coin, would it be better if I made life support fat art that had darker, more tragic tones? More pathos? I mean, these are dark times we are living in and I wonder if indulging in something that is morbid and has simultaneous fetish appeal will have a cleansing, cathartic effect? A way of portraying emotions other than piqued interest or arousal? And if/when my career as a novelist takes off, will all of this have a sour impact on my reputation and public image? Although that seems like a whole 'nother can of worms entirely.
-Slob art started as a niche subject in an already niche category, and more and more people have come out of their shell and made it. Now that doesn't mean that everyone secretly likes it, but doesn't want that to be out in the open, far from it. I feel that it's more of a Clean/slob spectrum with varying levels of such, and there will always be the people who like purely clean stuff, and the others who like their slob to be all-out to the point of being hard to look at. Maybe we'll just get a new wave of people that like the clean end more to possibly even out the numbers?
-As for the darker tones when it comes to life-support fat art. I feel it would be best used if you had some kind of narrative going on. Doesn't have to be a long one, a series of two or three pictures would do if it shows some kind of story happening. Keeps people from wondering what's going to happen to a character
As for a good way of portraying emotions, I want to suggest a bitter-sweet image series by Xinjinmeng that would have been a somewhat normal, somewhat exaggerated weight-gain series (that includes a death, oddly enough) but the writing that goes along with it made me feel for those characters anyway. Just goes to show what a little bit of writing can do to create a theme for a piece.
And yeah, it's a whole other can of worms, but worth experimenting with, at the very least.
And as for the images you've created, and even others I've come across. Well, dark tones and slobs have their place, that I understand and won't take it away from those who actively seek it out. It's just not for me. Can't keep someone from empathising with characters they like, after all.
You're right about not wallowing in pity and self-loathing, though. Not exactly sure how that plays specifically into extreme slob/life support but I guess it's related to what I mentioned with me and current event videos earlier. It frees you to do hobbies and productive stuff rather than those depressing emotions bother you and thus you barely do anything.
Ultimately, one's kink is another's turn-off, or nightmare. Reminds me of how most horror elements have sexual parallels, like how incest was a thing in this one horror story I read in high school. There's also this one film involving a woman get infected by some slug bug monster and she slowly becomes this massive ball filled with the baby creatures.
I awknoledge that my fetishes would make for some horrifying shit in a serious piece lol.