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Opened a Roleplay Searching Telegram group
Posted 6 years agohttps://t.me/KeepRoleplayAlive
F-list is great and all, but I wanted to open up a group on Telegram that isn't just a simple art-sharing room and that has people actively looking for recurring roleplay and isn't just an alternative chat client to most like F-list.
The room is 18_ and I'm trying to keep it to people who actively roleplay when life isn't catching up with them. If you know anyone who would benefit from this or perhaps just wanna nurse the idea of kinks with others, then join in.
F-list is great and all, but I wanted to open up a group on Telegram that isn't just a simple art-sharing room and that has people actively looking for recurring roleplay and isn't just an alternative chat client to most like F-list.
The room is 18_ and I'm trying to keep it to people who actively roleplay when life isn't catching up with them. If you know anyone who would benefit from this or perhaps just wanna nurse the idea of kinks with others, then join in.
On a related note
Posted 6 years agoI'm looking for someone to do a good quality hyper muscle pic for a similar reason.
Birthday this month
Posted 6 years agoIt's the 22nd.
No, not fishing for gifts, just had to be 'reminded' again by a certain friend.
I'll love you the same no matter what, but at least you know so you don't have to guess when I spontaneously began existing.
No, not fishing for gifts, just had to be 'reminded' again by a certain friend.
I'll love you the same no matter what, but at least you know so you don't have to guess when I spontaneously began existing.
Clean your room FA (incoming art dump)
Posted 6 years agoSO FA ATE A LOT OF OLD SUBMISSIONS FROM MY INBOX
As anyone who knows me knows, I'm a horrible procrastinator with uploads. I keep saying 'I'll get around to it', and left the artist uploads sitting in my inbox with the hope of it reminding me later when I'm clearing old submissions.
But now FA is going to be innately discarding inbox notifications older than a year, and a good chunk of my 'reminders' have been axed.
I know you can't save everything, but now's the time to archive anything you want that ISN'T 365 days old before it washes out automatically as the days pass. Populate your offsite porn and ref collection while you still have art worth saving.
As it stands, I know one artist I've been saving for a large art dump for a while, who I thankfully kept backups of the most, and will upload what I can of their work (old as it may be)
As anyone who knows me knows, I'm a horrible procrastinator with uploads. I keep saying 'I'll get around to it', and left the artist uploads sitting in my inbox with the hope of it reminding me later when I'm clearing old submissions.
But now FA is going to be innately discarding inbox notifications older than a year, and a good chunk of my 'reminders' have been axed.
I know you can't save everything, but now's the time to archive anything you want that ISN'T 365 days old before it washes out automatically as the days pass. Populate your offsite porn and ref collection while you still have art worth saving.
As it stands, I know one artist I've been saving for a large art dump for a while, who I thankfully kept backups of the most, and will upload what I can of their work (old as it may be)
Retiring Mera
Posted 6 years agoAs I expected, no one's interested in her. Guess I'm holding onto the art, but I may as well not really consider her part of my roster anymore.
Wishlist meme
Posted 7 years agoFair warning, I only spent a couple minutes on this cause I ran out of things to want.
http://a.co/9nh99uj
http://a.co/9nh99uj
Successful first month of Patreon
Posted 7 years agohttps://www.patreon.com/posts/first.....-paid-21875802
Hey all, this is just a brief update to say that I really appreciate what help the community has been giving me in this first month of me having to move states under the help of
photonman2
You've all been way more supportive than I deserve and for that, you all deserve to see what II've been working on in the meantime. These stories will be uploaded to FA indivdually before long, but every bit of help goes one step toward allowing me to do more things like this.
I hope you all enjoy, as per my word, I will not be gating anything I create from donation to my Patreon, but please keep it in your heart to help a little or spread the word. I'm still working hard to do as I do, and anything DOES help.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Heated Springs: A commission done for Bobert featuring his ott and his tigress girl, Rachael, as they get into a bit of naughty public play at a public hot spring. Things get steamy to say the absolute least.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Zedpour. A story done for close friend and lover of big, Beef-Supreme, also known as Zed, wherein they receive a magical present that turns them into an oddly magitechnically inclined Vaporeon hybrid. Bigness ensues when the rains come.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Amelia's Gym Tease. Another story done for a close friend, Ryuakira, who was kind enough to allow to do something fun with his beautiful blue dragoness, Amelia. More bigness involved here and a bit extra when a certain fluff comes around.
Hey all, this is just a brief update to say that I really appreciate what help the community has been giving me in this first month of me having to move states under the help of
photonman2You've all been way more supportive than I deserve and for that, you all deserve to see what II've been working on in the meantime. These stories will be uploaded to FA indivdually before long, but every bit of help goes one step toward allowing me to do more things like this.
I hope you all enjoy, as per my word, I will not be gating anything I create from donation to my Patreon, but please keep it in your heart to help a little or spread the word. I'm still working hard to do as I do, and anything DOES help.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Heated Springs: A commission done for Bobert featuring his ott and his tigress girl, Rachael, as they get into a bit of naughty public play at a public hot spring. Things get steamy to say the absolute least.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Zedpour. A story done for close friend and lover of big, Beef-Supreme, also known as Zed, wherein they receive a magical present that turns them into an oddly magitechnically inclined Vaporeon hybrid. Bigness ensues when the rains come.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing
Amelia's Gym Tease. Another story done for a close friend, Ryuakira, who was kind enough to allow to do something fun with his beautiful blue dragoness, Amelia. More bigness involved here and a bit extra when a certain fluff comes around.
If you want to help me out.
Posted 7 years agoI never thought I'd actually resort to this, but I opened a Patreon.
https://www.patreon.com/alterationartist
As I mentioned, I'm going to be doing my damnedest to support myself through my writing or finding a job, but I expect there will be a pretty hefty stall in the first few month until such time that I get a bunch of things finished or get my first paycheck.
Bear in mind, nothing is pay walled and nothing will be. It's merely a venue to support me to the best of your ability.
If you prefer one time donations, I've had a Ko-fi set up for a long while as well
https://ko-fi.com/alterationartist
As I said before, I'm not here to beg. Anything you can offer will be an enormous help, but it is also important that I eventually try and get things handled on my own.
Thank you in advance, whether you provide anything financial or just stick with the moral support. I can honestly use the good will of both types.
https://www.patreon.com/alterationartist
As I mentioned, I'm going to be doing my damnedest to support myself through my writing or finding a job, but I expect there will be a pretty hefty stall in the first few month until such time that I get a bunch of things finished or get my first paycheck.
Bear in mind, nothing is pay walled and nothing will be. It's merely a venue to support me to the best of your ability.
If you prefer one time donations, I've had a Ko-fi set up for a long while as well
https://ko-fi.com/alterationartist
As I said before, I'm not here to beg. Anything you can offer will be an enormous help, but it is also important that I eventually try and get things handled on my own.
Thank you in advance, whether you provide anything financial or just stick with the moral support. I can honestly use the good will of both types.
Need a place to stay
Posted 7 years agohttps://twitter.com/DragonOfFluff/s.....18561481277442
Sorry for it being a twitter thread, but hopefully none of it should be blocked.
Sorry for it being a twitter thread, but hopefully none of it should be blocked.
My life story
Posted 7 years agoI didn't want to have to break it down like this, but I figured it'd be useful to keep available after arguing with someone why my family and I don't have ties.
To sum up the early years, I was born in northern California and within a year, I was in Arizona, where my younger sister was born a year and five days after me.
The first six years of my parents' marriage seemed to be uneventful, as I remember living with the two of them and they were sleeping in the same bed.
Sometime around the age of six, my father stopped appearing in my memories, and it took me until I was an adult and met him to learn why.
As it turns out, my mother was not a very stable individual, and my father wanted out, but he did NOT want out of me and my younger sister. We were his kids after all, and he didn't want us to be left alone to our mother. My mom, on the other hand, was dead set on removing my father's influence and as I had it confirmed by a few other individuals involved. One night, my mother called my father, claiming I, his only son, was crying to see him.
My father came over, reluctant to have to even share presence with my mom, only to be met with no son, just my mom and two officers.
Turns out my mom had lied to the police and claimed that my father had threatened to come over and beat her. Him actually showing up... not a good look for 1996 domestic values. I later learned my father was arrested and deported for this incident, since Arizona treatment of immigrants and potential domestic abusers was far from glamorous.
Because of my mother, I was indirectly a contributor to my father's loss of citizenship.
But the battle didn't end there. Despite my mother's insistence on keeping my father out so she would be the only influencer, she didn't like having less money to take care of me, my younger sister, and my older sister. So soon enough, the calls continued again. For about the next decade, my mom would make frequent calls to my dad, accusing him of not providing enough to us. He would send money, and my mother would take it, turn around, and pass it off as her own earnings to sell herself up in our minds as the woman providing us basic cable and occasional video games for me. She worked tirelessly to build the image in our minds painting my dad as a lazy irresponsible deadbeat, when he was easily the one working the hardest for our happiness.
Fast forward to 2006, and there's been a falling out between my mother's consistent manipulation and my stepmom's tolerance of the exchanges with her husband. For better or worse, my father's payments halted again, only this time, my mother wasn't prepared for the rejection. In a fit of hysteria, she had called her mental health counselor and informed them that she was leaving my sister and I at our home and never returning. We learned this when a couple of officers knocked on our door to inform us of the encounter.
From there, we were given a choice that didn't feel like a choice. Stay with our older sister, who had just had her first child, my nephew, or call up my dad, who thanks to clever timing and mental revision, was a deadbeat asshole who let this happen to our mom. At least during the moment of this choice.
Our older sister (half-sister with no blood connection to my father) took us in reluctantly, under promise of child services of receiving multiple stipends that she thought would ease the burden of taking us in. For the worst, she saw little to nothing of these supposed promises, having to support us on the income of her and her boyfriend, out of their own pocket.
Misfortune struck as the stress, child-rearing, and numerous other factors swung my older sister straight into the throes of post-partum depression, culminating in her locking herself inside the house, leaving my crying nephew out on the front porch in Arizona heat, for her boyfriend to find. Save to say, child services was quick to step in and determine my sister and her unmarried boyfriend as unsuitable candidates for our care, putting us right into the group home and foster system.
I got to spend the time between my seventeenth and eighteenth birthdays in a Tucson group home. Despite my attempts to keep to myself built up from budding depression sinking in from the multiple tragedies up to this point, I was regular assaulted and harassed by other boys, several of which had been disowned by their parents because of their criminal record. It was unpleasant to say the absolute least. Once I hit the age of eighteen, I blame a lot of my failures strictly on myself for the last ten years. The only exception was when I did try to ask for help to stay with my dad and stepmom, because I was running out of options.
My dad had an ulterior motive for taking me in. Still living in the states illegally due to the loss of his citizenship, but doing plumbing under licensed contractors, he couldn't obtain a North Carolina license on his own. In short, he wanted me to work and earn the experience and study of the code in order to get a plumbing license in my name. However, despite our efforts, we learned that getting a license in North Carolina requires two years of documented full time plumbing experience as a prerequisite to even taking the exam. No amount of under the table experience was going to substitute for that, and my usefulness slowly dissolved.
In November of 2012, my stepmom delivered to me an ultimatum to leave. Regardless of whether I worked with my father or found work elsewhere, she wanted me out of her house.
My father sat in the other room quietly for this conversation.
I packed my things, and left in the middle of the night. I didn't have the self-confidence to make any sort of case for myself, and I didn't want to prolong the inevitable. That was when I finally left the impossible net of argument that was my family (my mother had called and texted both me and my father in the couple years I was living with him) and decided I was done. My reliance on blood to help me in any way was completely gone.
So no, I cannot go back to my family. It's not a matter of pride. My mother has aged and currently lives on disability, my father and stepmom have already washed their hands of me, and my siblings have enough disadvantages making their own treks into adulthood a rocky one. It doesn't matter how needy I am. They are not in the position to provide me anything, and at this point, I wouldn't want to accept any of it, for risk of being dragged into the incessant tornado that is my family.
Furthermore, I have lost respect for my father over the course of multiple instances revolving around the time he drove us home drunk, the multiple times he introduced me to his mistress and attempted to drag me into a green card marriage for his mistress' sister, and the fact that he puts more stock in the words of a woman he plans to "leave in 5 years" over his own son.
The person I wrote this all down for knows who they are. Here's a protip for you: That old saying you quoted is actually misquoted. The complete saying is:
"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"
To sum up the early years, I was born in northern California and within a year, I was in Arizona, where my younger sister was born a year and five days after me.
The first six years of my parents' marriage seemed to be uneventful, as I remember living with the two of them and they were sleeping in the same bed.
Sometime around the age of six, my father stopped appearing in my memories, and it took me until I was an adult and met him to learn why.
As it turns out, my mother was not a very stable individual, and my father wanted out, but he did NOT want out of me and my younger sister. We were his kids after all, and he didn't want us to be left alone to our mother. My mom, on the other hand, was dead set on removing my father's influence and as I had it confirmed by a few other individuals involved. One night, my mother called my father, claiming I, his only son, was crying to see him.
My father came over, reluctant to have to even share presence with my mom, only to be met with no son, just my mom and two officers.
Turns out my mom had lied to the police and claimed that my father had threatened to come over and beat her. Him actually showing up... not a good look for 1996 domestic values. I later learned my father was arrested and deported for this incident, since Arizona treatment of immigrants and potential domestic abusers was far from glamorous.
Because of my mother, I was indirectly a contributor to my father's loss of citizenship.
But the battle didn't end there. Despite my mother's insistence on keeping my father out so she would be the only influencer, she didn't like having less money to take care of me, my younger sister, and my older sister. So soon enough, the calls continued again. For about the next decade, my mom would make frequent calls to my dad, accusing him of not providing enough to us. He would send money, and my mother would take it, turn around, and pass it off as her own earnings to sell herself up in our minds as the woman providing us basic cable and occasional video games for me. She worked tirelessly to build the image in our minds painting my dad as a lazy irresponsible deadbeat, when he was easily the one working the hardest for our happiness.
Fast forward to 2006, and there's been a falling out between my mother's consistent manipulation and my stepmom's tolerance of the exchanges with her husband. For better or worse, my father's payments halted again, only this time, my mother wasn't prepared for the rejection. In a fit of hysteria, she had called her mental health counselor and informed them that she was leaving my sister and I at our home and never returning. We learned this when a couple of officers knocked on our door to inform us of the encounter.
From there, we were given a choice that didn't feel like a choice. Stay with our older sister, who had just had her first child, my nephew, or call up my dad, who thanks to clever timing and mental revision, was a deadbeat asshole who let this happen to our mom. At least during the moment of this choice.
Our older sister (half-sister with no blood connection to my father) took us in reluctantly, under promise of child services of receiving multiple stipends that she thought would ease the burden of taking us in. For the worst, she saw little to nothing of these supposed promises, having to support us on the income of her and her boyfriend, out of their own pocket.
Misfortune struck as the stress, child-rearing, and numerous other factors swung my older sister straight into the throes of post-partum depression, culminating in her locking herself inside the house, leaving my crying nephew out on the front porch in Arizona heat, for her boyfriend to find. Save to say, child services was quick to step in and determine my sister and her unmarried boyfriend as unsuitable candidates for our care, putting us right into the group home and foster system.
I got to spend the time between my seventeenth and eighteenth birthdays in a Tucson group home. Despite my attempts to keep to myself built up from budding depression sinking in from the multiple tragedies up to this point, I was regular assaulted and harassed by other boys, several of which had been disowned by their parents because of their criminal record. It was unpleasant to say the absolute least. Once I hit the age of eighteen, I blame a lot of my failures strictly on myself for the last ten years. The only exception was when I did try to ask for help to stay with my dad and stepmom, because I was running out of options.
My dad had an ulterior motive for taking me in. Still living in the states illegally due to the loss of his citizenship, but doing plumbing under licensed contractors, he couldn't obtain a North Carolina license on his own. In short, he wanted me to work and earn the experience and study of the code in order to get a plumbing license in my name. However, despite our efforts, we learned that getting a license in North Carolina requires two years of documented full time plumbing experience as a prerequisite to even taking the exam. No amount of under the table experience was going to substitute for that, and my usefulness slowly dissolved.
In November of 2012, my stepmom delivered to me an ultimatum to leave. Regardless of whether I worked with my father or found work elsewhere, she wanted me out of her house.
My father sat in the other room quietly for this conversation.
I packed my things, and left in the middle of the night. I didn't have the self-confidence to make any sort of case for myself, and I didn't want to prolong the inevitable. That was when I finally left the impossible net of argument that was my family (my mother had called and texted both me and my father in the couple years I was living with him) and decided I was done. My reliance on blood to help me in any way was completely gone.
So no, I cannot go back to my family. It's not a matter of pride. My mother has aged and currently lives on disability, my father and stepmom have already washed their hands of me, and my siblings have enough disadvantages making their own treks into adulthood a rocky one. It doesn't matter how needy I am. They are not in the position to provide me anything, and at this point, I wouldn't want to accept any of it, for risk of being dragged into the incessant tornado that is my family.
Furthermore, I have lost respect for my father over the course of multiple instances revolving around the time he drove us home drunk, the multiple times he introduced me to his mistress and attempted to drag me into a green card marriage for his mistress' sister, and the fact that he puts more stock in the words of a woman he plans to "leave in 5 years" over his own son.
The person I wrote this all down for knows who they are. Here's a protip for you: That old saying you quoted is actually misquoted. The complete saying is:
"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"
Birthday this month
Posted 7 years agoNot expecting anything, but it's the 22nd.
Just to let people know
Just to let people know
Open TRPG idea/Freeform Roleplay
Posted 7 years agoSo my Discord Server isn't used all that much these days, but I did have an idea to make it a stop worth checking out. I've been examining the FATE Core system a lot lately and managed to do my first ever campaign. So I thought about opening an open tabletop session section on my server, but in order to pull that off, I need ideas and more importantly, I need interest.
Let me hear what all of you think about this and whether or not you'd be interested in giving the rough test a try.
Let me hear what all of you think about this and whether or not you'd be interested in giving the rough test a try.
The Pirate's Fate: World Without Lies (comms)
Posted 7 years agoSo as I'm sure you're aware if you've been following me recently, I've been writing a rather simple fanfic of The Pirate's Fate, the hot TF centric game from Volkenfox and T.F. Wright. Yes, fanfic about a game laden with spoilers is pretty daring, I'll admit, but what I've been offering is a chance to rewrite the past. Yes, World Without Lies follows only one of TPF's endings, but for a flat rate of $10, I can guarantee you a chapter of at least four pages to expand the branch of your choice. If that isn't enough for you, I am also listening to commission ideas for TPF fanfiction of any type. You can redo a piece of the canon story as you like, ship the characters you enjoy in a more risque fashion, and maybe even insert your own OCs into the mix. Commissions of these type will be taken at my usual rate, and I may decline if I feel like I couldn't do the idea proper justice. In any case, please do consider me, as I have gotten pretty involved with the game since its release, which I've been channeling into making a quality product.
If you read through all this jumble, thank you for your time. If you've yet to play the game and enjoy TF, it's a solid recommendation from me, so give it a look!
If you read through all this jumble, thank you for your time. If you've yet to play the game and enjoy TF, it's a solid recommendation from me, so give it a look!
Artist friend in need of some help
Posted 7 years agohttp://www.furaffinity.net/view/26292351/
HelloSummers is looking to take some commissions, so give them a peek if you can
HelloSummers is looking to take some commissions, so give them a peek if you canNo more Skype
Posted 8 years agoAfter much debate, I've decided to end an active relationship with Skype. It's just become clunky and unmangeable, and even disconnects randomly for seemingly no reason. So I'm not devoting the memory and processing power to it anymore.
Anyone who had me on Skype can reach me on Discord or Telegram or even Steam if need be.
Discord Alterationartist#1414
Telegram @ Alterationartist (lose the space)
Steam The Magical Fluffdragon
Anyone who had me on Skype can reach me on Discord or Telegram or even Steam if need be.
Discord Alterationartist#1414
Telegram @ Alterationartist (lose the space)
Steam The Magical Fluffdragon
Looking to take on SHORT story commissions
Posted 8 years agoI have been tortuously unproductive when it comes to writing, so I want to see if anyone is interested in 1-4 page short stories or scenarios for $2.50 a page. It's lower than normal, but only because I cannot bear being asked to work on huge arcing stories with neverending happenings or sequels to other stories I've done right now. The focus and the heart just isn't in me to tie all those plot elements into a convincing web, but I sure as hell can lay out a simple progressing scenario with your favorite kinks and characters, at least for a short bit. I really want to commission something, and rather than beg people for money, I'm willing to scrape together what I can.
Be sure to check me on my small Discord group if you like, as that may be where I end up delivering the correspondence.
https://discord.gg/2ErEnvH
Be sure to check me on my small Discord group if you like, as that may be where I end up delivering the correspondence.
https://discord.gg/2ErEnvH
Happy New Year + 1K Watchers Discord Server
Posted 8 years agoHello all. It occurs to me that through my sickness throughout the last month, I actually hit a milestone I never thought I'd actually reach. I finally have over a thousand watchers on FA. I've long since mulled over the idea that once I hit this milestone, I'd make a Discord server for any of the new people to watch my page to come and see me, or generally discuss things in a contained group. I'm not doing this because I believe myself to be popular but more as a way of giving people who've wanted to approach me a more calm environment to do so. I'm also interested in seeing who willingly shows up.
I will say that NSFW content may be expected, such as art or kinks, so that's your warning before you jump in.
https://discord.gg/2ErEnvH
I will say that NSFW content may be expected, such as art or kinks, so that's your warning before you jump in.
https://discord.gg/2ErEnvH
Birthday incoming
Posted 8 years agoSo I thought I could get away with not advertising my birthday this year, but the same friend mentioned in last year's journal is still insistent. They even wanted me to name them to absolve myself of responsibility, but I've already told them that even mentioning that could give them a bad reputation as a freeloader/mooch when I know they are clearly not. They want the best for me, and I still don't think a forewarning is all that much of a courtesy. His reasoning is that everyone does it (and I do see as much evidence supporting that as I do AGAINST it) and that anyone who would want to get me anything would appreciate the notice, in case any relevant sales or openings happen in the interim. It's bizarrely more well calculated than I would ever put into the ideas of gifts.
But here it is.
My birthday is August 22nd, 2 weeks from now.
If you would LIKE to get me a gift, it would be appreciated, but it is
NOT MANDATORY TO MY RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU
I have to make this clear, because I would rather let my "special day" pass without an extra thought than let anyone feel pressured into buying me things I clearly do not deserve. As I said last year, I like ideas, and very little of that has changed. There are far better people than I to buy a gift for. These include my roommate, Anthony, and all those who have ever said they would miss me if I were gone, and ESPECIALLY those who have already gotten me gifts so many times over. You know who you are, and I want you to know that you've done more than I could ever hope for and I thank you for that kindness, without requesting even more. You're too good for me, but you put up with me anyway. Thank you.
But here it is.
My birthday is August 22nd, 2 weeks from now.
If you would LIKE to get me a gift, it would be appreciated, but it is
NOT MANDATORY TO MY RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU
I have to make this clear, because I would rather let my "special day" pass without an extra thought than let anyone feel pressured into buying me things I clearly do not deserve. As I said last year, I like ideas, and very little of that has changed. There are far better people than I to buy a gift for. These include my roommate, Anthony, and all those who have ever said they would miss me if I were gone, and ESPECIALLY those who have already gotten me gifts so many times over. You know who you are, and I want you to know that you've done more than I could ever hope for and I thank you for that kindness, without requesting even more. You're too good for me, but you put up with me anyway. Thank you.
Writing commissions
Posted 8 years agoSo I'm deciding to try my hand at doing more writing for money. As per usual, I'm doing it at a rate of $3 per 500 words, or $6 per 1000 for those who like clean numbers. However, I can't guarantee the length of a story before I start, so the eventual end price will come down to how detailed you want things to be.
I do pretty much any kink and can only work on one story at a time, for the sake of focus and finishing one project before moving onto the next. I like to keep in contact with the commissioner so that I can confirm a story is moving to their tastes, but it's not fully required, it just speeds up the process and allows things to feel smoother by the end.
If you're interested, please leave me a comment or note and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
I do pretty much any kink and can only work on one story at a time, for the sake of focus and finishing one project before moving onto the next. I like to keep in contact with the commissioner so that I can confirm a story is moving to their tastes, but it's not fully required, it just speeds up the process and allows things to feel smoother by the end.
If you're interested, please leave me a comment or note and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
A plea for help
Posted 8 years agoSo something monumentally horrid has happened. Out of nowhere, the monitor on my laptop, AKA my only computer broke to the point where it's 'jumping', meaning it bounces about at random and causes a mirror image. After checking several driver changes (because it appeared completely at random, ie in the middle of a Youtube video I'd been watching at the time) I concluded the damage was with the physical monitor. As of now, we've been able to juryrig the setup so I can still use it with an external monitor and a keyboard, but it's really more of a band-aid than anything resembling a full fix. Not only that, if it did turn out to be completely physical, this also doesn't bode well for the rest of the computer.
While the last thing I would want to do is ask for unnecessary help, it's... hit me rather hard. I'm not going to outright demand handouts, but I would be willing to pay things back in the form of written stories and the like. As much as it takes to pay people back. This is my only means of connection to the internet and it's... really important to me. I'm not looking for anything super valuable. Just a plain old stock laptop that runs equivalent to my current setup, which is just a regular old Dell Latitude. Anything will help, honestly.
While the last thing I would want to do is ask for unnecessary help, it's... hit me rather hard. I'm not going to outright demand handouts, but I would be willing to pay things back in the form of written stories and the like. As much as it takes to pay people back. This is my only means of connection to the internet and it's... really important to me. I'm not looking for anything super valuable. Just a plain old stock laptop that runs equivalent to my current setup, which is just a regular old Dell Latitude. Anything will help, honestly.
Is anyone out there willing to help me do something in HotS?
Posted 8 years agoSo I've been recently been getting back into Heroes of the Storm, just for fun. Admittedly, I'm mostly just enjoying the collecting of things. But now that I'm back into things, I noticed that there's something in a game mode I haven't really touched before.
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog.....wards-3-9-2017
While there exists some small rewards for playing Ranked in HotS, there also includes some exclusives. Most notably the Season mounts. Most solo players won't be able to receive them unless they reach Platinum Rank or above, but anyone in the starter Bronze tier for queueing as a team of 2, 3, or 5 gets access to the season's mount after just ten games in Ranked. I didn't think much of this at first, but then I saw the rewards for last year's seasons
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While I don't know what this season's mounts will be, it's definitely not something I want to miss out on (and yes, you CAN miss out on them. I made sure the season mounts weren't purchaseable with Shards or something.) With the help of
Tome I managed to complete 5 of the required 10 games to be ranked (each takes like 5-20 minutes just to start the match), but I really would like someone else to help me get the remaining five. Problem is, that you're required to level 14 of the game's heroes to level 5 to participate in the league, which is quite a lot to ask of just a new player.
Bear in mind, I'm not asking for a regular or involved team to reach top tier with. I just want to get ranked on the lowest possible portion of the leaderboards, which requires 10 games, win OR lose to acquire a formal rank. If you're able to help, please let me know. I only need one person, but a party of three or five has quicker matchmaking times.
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog.....wards-3-9-2017
While there exists some small rewards for playing Ranked in HotS, there also includes some exclusives. Most notably the Season mounts. Most solo players won't be able to receive them unless they reach Platinum Rank or above, but anyone in the starter Bronze tier for queueing as a team of 2, 3, or 5 gets access to the season's mount after just ten games in Ranked. I didn't think much of this at first, but then I saw the rewards for last year's seasons
https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cm.....5861615745.gif
https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cm.....3450356822.gif
https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cm.....1059922294.gif
While I don't know what this season's mounts will be, it's definitely not something I want to miss out on (and yes, you CAN miss out on them. I made sure the season mounts weren't purchaseable with Shards or something.) With the help of
Tome I managed to complete 5 of the required 10 games to be ranked (each takes like 5-20 minutes just to start the match), but I really would like someone else to help me get the remaining five. Problem is, that you're required to level 14 of the game's heroes to level 5 to participate in the league, which is quite a lot to ask of just a new player.Bear in mind, I'm not asking for a regular or involved team to reach top tier with. I just want to get ranked on the lowest possible portion of the leaderboards, which requires 10 games, win OR lose to acquire a formal rank. If you're able to help, please let me know. I only need one person, but a party of three or five has quicker matchmaking times.
Gauging interest
Posted 8 years agoSo this is just a journal to see who, if anyone out there, would be interested in commissioning me for $3/500word stories. I've done a few as those who've been watching my page might notice, but I just wanted to see if there was anyone else out there who would want a short story from me. Don't do it because you think I need the money. I want to know if people think my work is worth the money I'm asking.
Please stop killing the word 'emergency'
Posted 8 years agoWhile I've been browsing the front page most of last week in boredom, I noticed a peculiar trend going on. I have seen the words 'Emergency Commissions' every single day for the past week or so, often from different people. That's okay and all, but what's been bothering me has been the very... questionable nature of some of these 'emergencies'. search for 'emergency on FA by 'date' in 'descending' order, and you'll see several dozen submissions in the last week with everything ranging from 'Emergency selling my character', 'Emergency adoptables', 'Emergency YCH', or my least favorite: 'Emergency auction'.
I never want to be called the one to overreact, but unless there's a sudden tragedy befalling every person with something to sell, this recent buzz word is attempting to prey on the innate kindness and sense of community within every person who has money to spend, here on FA.
I've seen 'emergency' pictures being sold at starting prices of $40, with no discernible discount to speak of (can't name names, ToS), and that just makes me think these are just regular commissions or sales, but suddenly it's more urgent because there's a nondescript 'emergency' that means people have to buy something they wouldn't have otherwise wanted to before some vague deadline, out of some perceived notion of pitying the person trying to unload what they can. One person even described their 'emergency' as needing only one sale of their YCH. There are far better methods of obtaining $50 quickly than trying to appeal to strangers online in the hopes a single one of them gets a large art piece. Small, quick pieces (sketches, headshots, coloring existing pieces) with a discount tend to draw in sales quicker because more people can afford them, but these 'emergencies' seem dead set on spearing entire whales by having one or two people bear their entire supposed cost, oftentimes with no 'safe' amount or idea of what the emergency is.
To me, an emergency would be like the situation that brought me to Mississippi, where I left my father and stepmom, who were basically going to work me to death for my dad's winter plumbing work, to tell me I would be kicked out regardless come spring. I would have hitchhiked across state lines if I needed to, at great risk to myself, but I was helped by people I owe my life to in order to get here safely. An emergency does not entail buying the latest game release, not having food until you can receive a proper commission, or being short on paying a scheduled bill. These things need to be planned out, and falling short on your responsibilities is NOT an excuse to try and get the community to cover for you through pity.
As a final word, yes I know not EVERY emergency is a fabricated one, but with the recent uprising in 'emergency this' and 'emergency that', I beg the ever important consumers in the furry economy to be wary. Before contributing to an 'emergency' advertisement, do not immediate be guilted or drawn into pity unless you KNOW what the emergency is and how much the person needs. It's possible for someone to only need $20 to cover their sudden expense, but pull in $200 in commissions related to the 'emergency'. Don't be dragged into buying something you wouldn't have otherwise paid for, or at a price that you wouldn't otherwise buy it at, just because you feel bad for someone's situation. Being guilted easily is a trait that can easily be taken advantage of, and the one thing it should not take from you is your hard earned funds.
I never want to be called the one to overreact, but unless there's a sudden tragedy befalling every person with something to sell, this recent buzz word is attempting to prey on the innate kindness and sense of community within every person who has money to spend, here on FA.
I've seen 'emergency' pictures being sold at starting prices of $40, with no discernible discount to speak of (can't name names, ToS), and that just makes me think these are just regular commissions or sales, but suddenly it's more urgent because there's a nondescript 'emergency' that means people have to buy something they wouldn't have otherwise wanted to before some vague deadline, out of some perceived notion of pitying the person trying to unload what they can. One person even described their 'emergency' as needing only one sale of their YCH. There are far better methods of obtaining $50 quickly than trying to appeal to strangers online in the hopes a single one of them gets a large art piece. Small, quick pieces (sketches, headshots, coloring existing pieces) with a discount tend to draw in sales quicker because more people can afford them, but these 'emergencies' seem dead set on spearing entire whales by having one or two people bear their entire supposed cost, oftentimes with no 'safe' amount or idea of what the emergency is.
To me, an emergency would be like the situation that brought me to Mississippi, where I left my father and stepmom, who were basically going to work me to death for my dad's winter plumbing work, to tell me I would be kicked out regardless come spring. I would have hitchhiked across state lines if I needed to, at great risk to myself, but I was helped by people I owe my life to in order to get here safely. An emergency does not entail buying the latest game release, not having food until you can receive a proper commission, or being short on paying a scheduled bill. These things need to be planned out, and falling short on your responsibilities is NOT an excuse to try and get the community to cover for you through pity.
As a final word, yes I know not EVERY emergency is a fabricated one, but with the recent uprising in 'emergency this' and 'emergency that', I beg the ever important consumers in the furry economy to be wary. Before contributing to an 'emergency' advertisement, do not immediate be guilted or drawn into pity unless you KNOW what the emergency is and how much the person needs. It's possible for someone to only need $20 to cover their sudden expense, but pull in $200 in commissions related to the 'emergency'. Don't be dragged into buying something you wouldn't have otherwise paid for, or at a price that you wouldn't otherwise buy it at, just because you feel bad for someone's situation. Being guilted easily is a trait that can easily be taken advantage of, and the one thing it should not take from you is your hard earned funds.
Raffle for a cool upcoming artist
Posted 8 years agoI've gotten a few secret pieces from this guy 
princewind and he does really nice looking work. Please give him a looksee, especially frot his raffle he's holding.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/23264863/
Raffle
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/princewind/
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princewind and he does really nice looking work. Please give him a looksee, especially frot his raffle he's holding.http://www.furaffinity.net/view/23264863/
Raffle
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/princewind/
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An open question
Posted 8 years agoIf you could be written into a story with one of my characters, who would it be with?
Bear in mind, it'd have to be a story you would actually read.
Bear in mind, it'd have to be a story you would actually read.
