Why is this game so perfect? The only way it could have been better is if there were deeper loot tables and some stat randomization on enemy drops! I'm currently hammering away at the game and massacring well...everything. To give you an idea of how bad I'm owning the game, I fought the Serpent in Gaia Mountain while it was unbeatable, and basically could have kept the fight going as long as I wanted to. I was stuck for a loooong time at Lemuria because I needed some specific items out of the Lemuria Spring, and while getting Wild Coats was done fairly quickly, getting 4 Crown of Glory proved to be the most challenging thing to get given that out of the 3 regions you could land a tossed medal on to get one, two of them were also loaded with typical crappy artifact restoration items. I'm looking forward to rejoining the second party soon and getting to play around with fun classes like Dragoon, Ninja, White Mage, and Ranger without messing up my party!

Edit: 3rd elemental lighthouse lit. Now I have to figure out some advanced class setups, though ninjas and dragoons are fun. Brb djinn swapping forever. x.x

My current party!

Felix
Level 31
Class: Barbarian
Hp 523
PP 123
Atk 448
Def 219
Agi 238
Lck 7

Weapon: Hestia Blade +145 Atk Unleashes Crucible Fire
Head: Crown of Glory +40 Def +8 PP Rec
Arm: Aegis Shield +41 Def +10% Crit +10% Unleash
Body: Wild Coat +37 Def +40 Agi
Feet: Leather Boots +6 Def
Finger: Spirit Ring Restores 160 Hp to all allies when used

Djinni: 6 Mars

Jenna
Level 31
Class: Barbarian
Hp 502
PP 122
Atk 378
Def 219
Agi 289
Lck 4

Weapon: Dracomace +128 Atk Unleashes Aging Gas
Head: Crown of Glory +40 Def +8 PP Rec
Arm: Aerial Gloves +37 Def +30 Agi +20 Jupiter Power
Body: Wild Coat +37 Def +40 Agi
Feet: Leather Boots +6 Def
Finger: Unicorn Ring Removes Poison when used

Djinni: 6 Venus

Sheba
Level 31
Class: Savant
Hp 464
PP 229
Atk 273
Def 232
Agi 324
Lck 9

Weapon: Glower Staff +126 Atk Unleashes Flash Force
Head: Crown of Glory +40 Def +8 PP Rec
Arm: Aerial Gloves +37 Def +30 Agi +20 Jupiter Power
Body: Wild Coat +37 Def +40 Agi
Feet: Leather Boots +6 Def
Finger: Guardian Ring +4 Def +20 Hp

Djinni: 6 Mercury

Piers
Level 30
Class: Sage
Hp 498
PP 217
Atk 319
Def 250
Agi 355
Lck 8

Weapon: Mighty Axe +142 Atk Unleashes Heat Shatter
Head: Crown of Glory +40 Def +8 PP Rec
Arm: Aegis Shield +41 Def +10% Crit +10% Unleash
Body: Wild Coat +37 Def +40 Agi
Feet: Golden Boots +15 Def +30 Agi
Finger: Stardust Ring Seals a foe's psynergy when used

Djinni: 6 Jupiter 1 Mercury

 Mitchkenzo and I have gotten fed up with throwing money in the trash for the bloated rent prices these days, especially with our complex wanting to raise monthly rent 163$ total these last 2 years while still remaining as crappy a complex as ever. We're going to be getting a house hopefully within the next 6 months, and it's going to be at a monthly rate perhaps only 100$ over our current monthly rent...except rather than a less than 1000 square foot 2 bedroom craphole apartment it will likely be a 3 bedroom HOUSE with far more space and storage and FiOS internet rather than Time Warner.

For the moment we are hoping we can get a roommate who is furry since it makes it a lot easier to let our guard down most of the time relatives aren't over, but if it takes too long we're going to have to just get a regular instead. We ARE going to be somewhat picky however, as we do have standards and just being a furry isn't going to get you into the door.

Here's a little questionnaire which I will answer too since I'm clearly such a whore for making first comments.

1. Do you live in Texas?

While living in Texas is not a requirement, we're more likely to want to make arrangements with someone reasonably nearby, rather than in say...Guatemala or Washington state.

1a. If Texas, any chance you're also near Dallas? It IS an unnaturally large state, so someone still in the same state still might be farther away than someone else one or two states out. XD

2. What's your job history?

I am not looking for addresses and contact details, but I need to know how capable you are of keeping your butt in one place for a while and earning mad piles of green shit. Mitches and Aves love green shit that pays rent. If you have a history of joblessness and short lived jobs you have to understand that we can't be gambling on our financial integrity when a house mortgage is on the line. While we could afford to pay it between just the two of us, we'd hardly ever have extra money to save up for emergencies or stuff we want to get.

2a. Would you be willing to find a new job quickly, even if it ends up being below your standards?

3. What are your cleanliness habits?

I don't honestly care if you leave stuff lying all over your room, or don't take a shower every single day. What I DO care about is stuff like spilling things a lot, making crumbs and other mess that get into everything, having mysterious odors wafting from your body, and leaving lots of stuff lying around in places others use. I also don't want to be seeing things like forgetting to flush toilets or griming up a bathroom and expecting others to clean your messes. It's also a good thing if once in a while you take it upon yourself to clean a few of the dishes or take out the trash on your own impetus.

4. Do you use drugs or controlled substances, legal or otherwise? How much and how often?

If you use anything illegal, don't even bother replying to this. Both because we don't want it in our house, and because it would be breaking Furaffinity's terms of service to talk about real life drug use on this site. Alcohol use is fine within reason, but if you have an actual drinking addiction or start puking on things you're asking for a footpaw out the door seeing as we have to pay out of our own pockets for the furniture and the floors. Kinda iffy on a smoker, too, as the smell of ash is gross and we will not allow any smoking inside the house ever, which is hard to monitor at all times. The smell would never get out of the furniture and floor and the walls would get stained.

5. What are your noise habits?

Do you tend to turn things up a lot? Do you tend to have music blaring from your speakers or a radio in your room? Are you a door slammer? Do you talk loudly or have a really loud laugh you might not be able to keep down late at night?

6. Are you a partier?

Mitch and I are likely going to ban alcohol for the most part in events in our house, and we're not too in favor of having lots of people we might not know mingling with our valuables. We also don't want you wobbling into the house drunk after smashing in the garage door and throwing up or forgetting to lock the door behind you.

7. Criminal Background?

If you've been hit for really bad stuff like theft and assault we probably don't want you in our house.

8. Pets?

We were thinking about getting a kittie, but if you already have pets that might not be happening. We also need to know how well trained they are and how they react to new people and places.

9. Do you own a vehicle that's not falling apart?

We really, really need you to be able to get to your own job with your vehicle the majority of the time.

10. Are you trustworthy?

We're going to be a lot more open to someone we already know rooming with us. We're not fans of people who are going to lie, steal, be emotionally unstable, or do things behind our backs we told them not to. We can't have someone who leaves the door unlocked or the garage open for stealing of anything inside.

11. Current health?

We're going to be less likely to take someone who has a chronic issue that makes it hard for them to hold a job.

12. Current relationships?

It's possible you could share your room with your significant other with some additional rental arrangements, but you need to understand that if they don't also meet our standards it could be grounds for removing you from the house. If you insist on doing things adults sometimes do with one another we also ask that you please refrain from making headboards hit the wall or making all sorts of lewd noises we can hear through the walls.

13. Can I molest your tummy and then eat you?

I'm going to be at Furry Fiesta from the 24th to the 26th. I had a lot of fun there last year! I know it's not too likely, but is there anyone else watching me who is going that I don't know of? :O

I've been meaning to get to reposting this statement.

News, With Reservations

Hello all,

What a day!

We dropped off the check with the University: http://lockerz.com/s/182645575

We got through a long meeting with the head of the Berkeley colony. Good news is that NO hyenas will be euthanized. More homes have been located and a more stable funding source has been planned out (planned not achieved). There are still some possibilities it may fall through and another meeting is planned for next week. That meeting will be key on the future of the placement of the animals or continue funding of the research. The hyenas will be alive, that is the end goal of what we strive to achieve.

Short of it: We ask you temporally hold off donations. We will know within 2 weeks if more are necessary.

Why? We will not ask for donations unless crucially needed. Thanks to your donations the emergency aspect of the situation has been addressed, but I cannot say that more donations won’t be needed later.

Our donations have bridged the gap between where their funding ended and the new sources have been initiated. The hyenas are currently past the emergency but not out of the woods until we see what the next meetings hold. The show of support from outside people stepping up and donating to save the hyenas sent a VERY clear message to the powers that be- there is a LOT of love and attention given to those hyenas.

Next week we can say more about the situation because more will be known. Thank you for hanging in there with us!

As for our sanctuary, plans continue to progress on it. We may have it done in time to do some good for the colony after all.

We are also on our way to filing as a charitable organization. Our board has been formed and we have some very talented people on it that compliment each other very well. Look forward to updates.

Next week we will update on the status of the colony and future funding. I hope it all goes well and no further fundraising will be necessary.

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It seems the outpouring of donations has, for the moment at least, made the higher ups realize killing these animals might not reflect publicly well on them. They probably didn't think anyone would care what they did to the hyenas. It appears it is possible there will be funding that continues to keep the hyenas at the Berkley Colony, which is a bittersweet result for me. I want these animals to be kept in a place where they're able to spend their lives safe from being ever killed or maimed for life again for scientific data like happened a few years ago, assuming that's even the only case they did horrible things to them. Intentionally impregnating females and aborting the cubs 2 weeks from birth and beheading them reaches levels of depravity I cannot even begin to express coherently, and that's only a small part of the crimes committed over the course of Kunha's experimentation. A research animal has no protections from having horrific things done to them. These animals are highly intelligent and can make it past thirty years of age, and killing one just because you're too impatient for one to die naturally is sickening. If they remain at the colony it also simply means this debacle will likely be repeated again within a few years. It's quite obvious to me they don't have any exit plans that don't involve simply killing the 'useless' research animals and packing up shop - business as usual in today's scientific world. It is my sincerest hope that more of the animals are safely placed in zoos, and that the hyena sanctuary is still able to be come a reality as right now, if anyone with an exotic animal's license wants to get rid of a hyena, it's likely fated to be euthanized because no one will want to deal with it. Keep your eyes open and continue keeping options to help out on your minds, as we need to be vigilant for when this happens again.

Okay, I'm breaking my hiatus from FA because this is really important to me.

I have  Blotch to thank for bringing awareness of this situation to us, and I'm trying to help spread the word as this issue really hits me close to the heart.

To quote Blotch:

"Help Save Hyenas
A friend of ours, who works with at a Berkley facility researching hyenas, informed us that they had their funding cut a few weeks ago. As such, they will begin euthanizing animals when the last of the funds have dried up. Our friend and a few other people are currently racing against the clock to move the remaining twenty animals to zoos or sanctuaries (three will be going to the Oakland zoo later this week.) They are taking donations to keep the hyenas fed until all of them can find homes. You can find more information at hyenasanctuary.tumblr.com, or follow @HyenaSanctuary on Twitter, to stay tuned as things develop or see what you can do to help!"

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This kind of thing is terrible. It happens to all sorts of animals all over the world all the time. It's why I loathe science without morality. You don't need to believe in a religion to know when something is wrong, and greed for knowledge or profit results in more needless animal deaths than I care to even think about. These animals were merely means to an end, and now that the funding has been cut if the one person who cares enough to try to make an actual hyena sanctuary for abandoned hyenas in Arkansas or Texas can't make enough money to feed the hyenas and get the sanctuary built then they will begin euthanizing the poor animals one at a time. Not too many years ago I took the harshest emotional blow of my life when I came across a research paper that thoroughly detailed how several perfectly healthy hyenas were euthanized and dissected for the most unimportant data imaginable to satisfy an impatient researcher's greed for knowledge, detailed in an earlier journal, and it had happened when I was too young to even know or try to do something about it. I don't want that to happen this time. These poor animals are victims of the abhorrent animal protections of this country that make it okay to discard an animal like trash as long as you have money or were doing research beforehand.

I...honestly don't even know how to describe how I feel right now. I feel like the guy in a hood standing in front of a firing squad. I feel completely powerless yet so angry. I don't have any money I can spare for this when I need to buy a car so I can keep having a job and income, and yet I still want to donate something-ANYTHING to try to keep these animals from being killed. If you have anything to spare, please consider donating to help these animals. Or spread the word via journal. If you know of a zoo that might be interested in having some of the hyenas get into contact with them! Maybe you might know a group or a philanthropic individual who has the heart to help them out.

The most important aspect of this to me isn't even the current set of hyenas: it's the fact that if this donation drive gets enough support it will fund a permanent sanctuary for hyenas being disposed of that means they don't have to die. So few people in this country actually even care is something like a hyena is going to be euthanized because of stereotyping, and I can only hope enough can be reached that aren't blinded by such views that these animals can be saved.

Now I have to go to work and worry continually. Someone try to get  Dragoneer to post a journal about this please.

I killed him in six shots of my bow. I had some epic poison on that bitch. If you don't know who 'he' is, you probably should play Skyrim. It has beards.

Okay so first off, I'm trying to get more stuff done despite the 40 hour work weeks making me want to sleep all day. X3
I'm still working on a few pictures and stories to put up eventually! I'm also in the middle of collaborating a story with someone that's probably already past the 37 pages I recall counting and it's definitely nowhere near finished yet.

I also wanted to take the time to thank everyone who has watched me, commented on something, or favorited something over the last week. It really means a lot to me, but while I do try to reply to all my comments, the tons of watches and favorites might be a little much to shout on so many pages about. I wasn't expecting everyone to like my most recent picture so much! I've also gotten a lot of positive feedback about the story I wrote to go with it, which brings me to the second part of my journal...

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So uh...commissions?

For the last few years I've maintained the stance that my work isn't motivated by money and that contributing to the fandom my particular brand of what I do was what was important to me, but I've had enough people asking if I could do story commissions I might finally just relent my stance and start doing it. If people really want ME to write stories just for them I can do a good thing helping there be more vore writing of high quality for others to enjoy as imagined by my commissioners Writing is my natural talent and if I can make a little money off of it then I can recirculate all my profits to get more fun vore art done of Ave misbehaving with his prey like he always does.

So the question is, is my writing marketable? Is there a base of my watchers that want the things I can offer? How much is my writing even worth? You tell me. Is everything below here where it should be or should I adjust it? Did I forget anything?(probably did)

Here's a basic idea of what I've thought up so far:

Commission Types:
-Full Story
-Scene

Full Story: A full story starts off at some point before the vore/eating even happen and progresses forward until it reaches that point, and then can continue for a time even after the events of that point.

-Scene: A scene takes place with just the vore/eating parts and doesn't bother building up to it or explaining what happens later on. These can go very well with vore images(not provided by me) or if the commissioner just wants something quick and cheap.

Content Types:
-Vore
-Eating
-Other?

Vore: I can write oral vore, navel vore, tail vore, cock vore, absorption, soul vore, vampirism, cooking, and any manner of hard vore. I don't have experience with unbirth or breast vore, so see further below if that's something you want.

-Eating: Similar to vore, but just involves stuffing with regualr food.

-Other?: Looking for a different subject to be involved in your story? Want to mix in several things? Talk to me about it and we'll see if it can be done.

On Adult Content

The following stuff is generally going to be fine to ask to be included at no extra cost:
-Romance
-Showing affection through kissing, rubbing, nuzzling, licking etc
-Light sexual activity such as touching of genitalia, providing oral stimulation of genitalia, foreplay contact(females excluded)
-masturbation
-specifically mentioned nudity/removal of clothes
-becoming aroused from something
-digestion
-blood
-scat

The following are going to cost you extra to include:
(single price increase, not cumulative)
-any form of sexual intercourse
-anything adult involving a female
-breast vore
-unbirth
-extreme pain/torture/cruelty
-really weird stuff(I'll know it when you ask for it)
-humans
-rape

The following are definitely off limits:
-cub
-snuff
-scat play
-probably more

The Cost:
(tentatively priced)
Page 1-4 = 2.50 ea
Page 5-9 = 3.00 ea
Page 10+= 5.00 ea

With the extra charges from really adult stuff:
Page 1-4 = +0.50 per page
Page 5-9 = +3.00 flat fee
Page 10+= +5.00 flat fee

The prices are lower earlier as a shorter story is far less effort to study for and edit. As it gets longer I have to study the minds of the characters more and have more scenes and plot I can potentially mess up and have to do over. I might consider discounts of long stories of 10+ pages, however.

Basically...
4 pages = 10.00
5 pages = 13.00
9 pages = 25.00
10 pages = 30.00

With extra adult stuff:
2 pages = 6.00
4 pages = 12.00
5 pages = 16.00
9 pages = 28.00
10 pages = 35.00

The Process:

First you have to contact me and give me a lot of information. I need to know an outline of what you want to happen in the story, and who is going to be in it, and where/when it happens. I need to learn what kinds of stuff you like to be in stories preference or fetishwise. Then I also need you to tell me how each character thinks and acts, their habits, any any important specific information about them. The more information you give me about all of this stuff the better. Then, if available, give me references to stories or roleplays involving the characters to further help me do my homework learning them. Provide me with any art of the characters for visual aid if you can. If the story is supposed to go with an image of yours, I'll need to see that image.

After all that give me an idea of what sort of page count you are aiming for. I can't guarantee a specific page count as stories are kind of hard to force into a particular size. Chances are unless it goes way over because the plot you gave me couldn't possibly fit into the page count you gave me I might let a page or two extra slide without cost. However please try to understand that given the nature of writing you might need to expect a little variation within a page or two depending on what you are asking for. Also please, PLEASE remember quality is directly tied to page length versus the amount of plot you want me to cover! If you give me too much plot for too few pages the work you receive might be really bad! In progress adjustments to make the story longer are possible at extra cost for the increased length.

At that point I'll go ahead and get to writing the story. I can't provide a stable timetable since a story may be easy or difficult to write based on what you asked for, and my schedule has to work around an often 40 hour work week with variable hours as well. Once I get a rough draft ready and edited I'll tell you the page count and expect payment at that point before I continue. Once payment has been received I will send the draft to you for looking over. At this point you need to tell me anything at all you feel needs changing. This is the only point you can ask for major changes or to include entirely new things into it, so don't leave anything out!

After you submit your changes I will go back and modify the story accordingly. Once this is done I will expect any additional payment if your changes added such a significant amount that the page count went too far up to ignore(generally more than 2 pages). After payment is received(if required) I will send the second draft to you. This time only minor changes can be requested, and after much the same process I will send you the final copy.

A copy of the story will be posted into my scraps section and potentially used as an example of my work in the future. Your copy is yours to do with as you please in your galleries on various sites, but you need to make sure to give me credit for writing it and to link to my page when doing so. I can't get business if I'm not credited! If you modify the story in any way you also need to indicate that you modified my work and that it is no longer in its original format.

Cancellations and Refunds
If for some reason I can't write to your satisfaction or real life makes me unable to complete your commission in a timely manner you may be eligible for a partial or full refund. The payments for my services will stay in my Paypal until my services have been completed so refunds will always be possible. Should I refund you partially or fully for a choice on your end and you already have a copy of your story from me you are not permitted to post it anywhere as otherwise commissioners would have an incentive to feign dissatisfaction with my writing and then turn around and post it after cheating me of my payment.

If there is a problem on your end that prevents you from paying I may withhold your story until payment can be received, and if payment is not possible it won't be posted online.

Openings
I will likely only take one story at a time until I can get comfortable with writing them and/or my schedule is less busy.

Lookie here! Link thingy!

Such wonderful mouth and teeth detail. The inside of a hyena's mouth is a slimy, toothy work of art. Just imagine sliding down into that or having it slowly work up your waistline towards your head. <3
I wish such a detailed view was available for the bottom jaws as well.

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|..............Dwarf Star..............|
|...................Ring...................|
|.....-...Required Level: 45..........|
|...............+40 To Life............-.|
|......+40 Maximum Stamina..--..|
|.........Heal Stamina +15%........|
|...........Fire Absorb 15%...........|
| Magic Damage Reduced By 15 .|
|100% More Gold From Monsters|

I've started a new file for Diablo II with level 1 characters of every class, and refused to leave normal mode at all. I have farmed Mephisto and Baal for a while now mostly on my necromancer and paladin and collected enough set pieces that every character generally has a couple varied set pieces mixed and matched, if not a full set. Granted, these are the low level sets, but the bonuses can easily carry you through normal mode.

I've built up a magic finding set that can exceed 300% magic find.(thank you Gull Dagger) This is where I broke the game. Staying on normal, my paladin has gotten up to level 46 and just made Baal drop him the unique Dwarf Star ring...which is a level 45 unique. Until now, i'd been sure you couldn't possibly see that thing until Hell Mode, but evidently normal mode is willing to give me broken gear when my magic find is so absurd! XD

Currently debating if I should change out from 3/3 Cleglaw and 3/6 Sigon in order to use an overpowered level 42 unique mace Baal dropped that has a chance of dropping meteors on enemies, which is absolutely hilarious. Its damage range is enough it might outdo the 50% deadly strike and 35% crushing blow I get for the full Cleglaw set... We're talking going from about 30-430 dmg to 330-630 dmg off the top of my head, plus random meteor explosions. When my fanaticism is nearly at level 20 that mace is really tempting. I'd get to use Sigon pieces more freely as a result, and since I only need 3/6 pieces to make the boots gain 50% magic find and I've obtained all of the set by now except the chestpiece(argh! Dx) I can freely decide what ones will work best for whatever setup I need. I will say that the Cleglaw shield sucks and that replacing it with the Sigon shield for the +1 to skills or perhaps any unique shield that drops for nifty bonuses(excluding Pelta Lunata or whatever the horrible buckler I've found twice now). Steelclash would be nice, I accidentally dumped one thinking it was a Milabrega somehow...

Now back to trying to get more high magic find Nagelrings and Chance Guards!
(edit: oh yeah, trying out a 2h unique hammer killed Mephisto in the space of one Zeal attack and Baal is going down as if he were only a champion enemy with stoneskin or something, except faster...)

I'm going to find the time to draw something...
And all the Bronies will like it
But then it will make them get into the better show the current one is partially borrowing from...
And my trap will be complete!
Down with the Ponies!

ps NO SPOILERS

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
DON'T B<

I don't usually do this, but I've become aware of a pretty nice art deal being made by the user  Nolow. I think they have a nice art style and would probably get at least one if all my cash wasn't going into my current car repairs. X3

The Link to the journal is here for slots in that, and if you go to the trouble of promoting the openings you can even get added to a list of people who might get something drawn for them without cost! I've noted he seems willing to do vore work, just look for yourself.

How to contribute to the community
aka how to avoid being a deadweight or parasite

I've been considering writing this for a while now. In a big community like this I feel there are certain standards everyone should try to uphold in order to foster a more healthy, friendlier community among us all. Here are some practices I think help encourage the good aspects of our community to keep it growing and antagonism free.

There are far more things I've thought of than I could possibly write here; idle thoughts that have passed my mind and been lost before I could commit them to memory, but I've tried to get as many down as I have been able to recall.

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Artists
-Don't only draw in commissions. You need to draw for yourself too, and leave something behind that only you could create. Leave your mark!
-Do not succumb to the temptation of furry paysites. These sites are a black hole for the free expression of creativity and contribute nothing to the furry community, instead leeching off of it. To be popular you need to be accessible, and such sites only appeal to a small number proportionally of total users. You would never have gone anywhere without freely accessible work, and if you disappear behind the closed walls of a furry paysite someone is going to replace you sooner or later who wasn't lured by the promise of less work for more money.
-Don't only write journals or draw things on your own when you are hoping to get commissioners. This makes you look either desperate or like you're only in it for the money.
-don't use cell phone photos to scan your art, especially not dark or blurry ones

Writers
-Learn to write stories more than two or three pages long. Something so short is often only a scene and calling it a story tarnishes the reputation of all writers on FA. No one wants to make the effort to read our works when such low quality writing is all over FA. Don't be a part of the problem!
-Learn to use synonyms, paragraph breaks, character/plot development, and basic grammar.
-Never submit something without proofreading it on the shallow excuse you were tired and it was 'done'. When you finish a story it's called a rough draft, and your work is only just getting started. You must refine and hone it into what you may have the honor of calling a story.
-Don't make an important character in a story seem more like an object pushed by your fetishistic whims; it is a person.

Commissioner
-Always credit the artist who drew your image with at minimum a link to their page and/or a link to the original image. Just typing their name means whoever reads it will quite likely have no idea who it is or where to find them. Make sure to mention where the artist is located as well, as the users are not going to know that artist happens to only be on DA, for example.
-If you've commissioned a particular artists a few times, consider letting some others get a slot for a commission instead if space is often limited.
-Always be on the lookout for new and upcoming artists with talent. With a little risk you might get a great deal on a piece of work and possibly even send more commissioners their way!

Watchers
-Don't make requests to people you don't really even know if they aren't advertising it. Request openings are often indicated in a user's profile info area.
-If you've frequented a particular stream a lot and gotten art before, consider letting some others make requests before making one yourself.
-Favorite things that aren't only art of your own character. You're supposed to be enjoying the site, and through your favorites other can come to know what you like and discover new artists and art which they might otherwise have missed.
-Watch other users. If you have hundreds or thousands of watchers and could count your watching list on two hands, there is a serious problem. It makes you look like you think you're above everyone else and that others are not worthy of your attention, or like you are trying to hoard commissioners and refuse to risk losing them to another user because you watch them.. Personally, I won't commission users like this.
-Don't only pay attention to submissions with red borders. Are you really only on this site to fap and find anything else unworthy of your attention? Don't you ever enjoy furry material simply for being furry material?
-Put up something on your page! Write something in the about you space. Fill in some profile info! Write a journal once in a while! Use an icon! Make it look like you have some investment in the site and are more than a two dimensional account. Leave a mark of your personality behind and maybe you'll eventually find you want to take it one step further and become a contributor too.

Comments
-Try to avoid roleplaying with other random furs in a user's submission somewhere. This can be awkward for the user of the page themselves.
-Don't try to roleplay with a user every time you comment to them, this gives off very serious creepy vibes.
-Don't make roleplay requests to users in their submission comments. Such a thing should be reserved for shouts or notes rather than on a piece of their work.
-Make sure to keep comments within the same rating of the place they have been posted in. If you decide to murry purry it up with someone in a general submission you are creating a potential lawsuit since a minor might read what you wrote.
-If users are commenting in your journals or on your submissions, make an honest effort to at least respond to some of them. I can't be the only one who doesn't bother commenting if I feel like it's going to be ignored or not responded to. What's the point then? If I see a massive difference in the ratio of comments given to comments received it can often be very telling of the user being mostly only interested in receiving attention without bothering to return it, or simply not caring.
-Don't be paranoid or let your negative emotions show in your posts. Nobody likes a wet blanket and hearing you moan and whine about your problems while everybody else likely has equally pressing life issues they keep quiet about is annoying. I've stopped watching people for this because I don't need such negative examples of human beings constantly irritating me.
-Additionally, don't ever assume someone is out to get you, or that you are always right. Assuming you are always right is pure, undiluted ignorance and elitism. You should welcome criticism and opposing logic, for they are the tools to hone your argument into an unassailable point. They are necessary to find your weak points and refine them, or if you truly are wrong, to discover your error and become a better person for realizing it.

I've sat down and forced myself to start writing again because it's gone on far too long since I've actually written something by myself without collaborating with someone. Here is the first page of what I'm working on. I really have no idea how long it's going to be. There's a bit of a  Strega influence involved in this story as I have decided to set it in the D&D world of Greyhawk and to make a few references to things in some of his stories, though there will be no overlapping of places in his stories(I don't think...) or interactions with the characters of his stories either. I'm trying to keep the setting at least somewhat true to the current political and territorial states of the region I have set it in, and I certainly hope I can keep it true to the setting and make a very enjoyable read. It will ultimately be a vore story, but here's just the opening alone, which I am very proud of so far as I have not even gone over it for improvement edits yet - it's very much in its raw form still. :)

No idea of what to name the story yet.

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It was progressing towards evening in a secluded corner of the Adri Forest where a village set into the outskirts of the Flinty Hills was beginning to glimmer with the light of evening cookfires. The forest was considered to be a dangerous place by most, shunned by most humans save those with a sense of adventure and no small lack of courage. There was a single Elven city called Elversford in the region, and many dangers lurking at a great, abandoned Elven city its heart. However, despite all of these dangers, a tribe of gnolls had carved out a life there, finding plentiful game and even some sources of mineral wealth in the abandoned and sometimes dangerous mines in Yellowretch and Goldchasm that gnomes and others had left in the region that had been left untouched by the dwarves living in Flinty Hills.

The clan had been gradually driven to this place, surrounded on three sides by the large human kingdoms of Aerdy, Ahlissa, and Nyrond. On the northern fourth side their only options would have been trying to contend with the dwarves of Flinty hills for game to hunt - a contention that would surely have put the gnolls on the losing side. To the north was the Bone March, a land far more riveted by disarray than the occasional infighting in the other surrounding kingdoms. The gnolls could certainly try to survive there, but they would have to contend with many other bandit gangs and well organized Orc raiders to do so. There was also the problem that it was likely to fall into human control again sooner or later, effectively meaning the gnolls would likely be forced back into the forest with nowhere left to go anyway. It was a last option they preferred to avoid given the plentiful game to fill their bellies in the Adri Forest, the general lack of humans to contend with, and that the presence of a region where quite a few large Ettins were known to lurk keeping the Elves of the area from doing more than remaining quietly vigilant of their unwanted new neighboors(in Elven terms), and generally not bothering them.

The gnolls had seen enough fighting and losses to the seemingy inevitable advance of the human races that they had very little interest currently in trying to find sport hunting the Elves that vastly outnumbered their reduced numbers. The uncharacteristic cautiousness of the gnolls displayed when the very survival of their clan was at stake unsettled the Elves of Elversford and had kept them from eradicating the unwanted settlement, though Ettins between them or not, they had made it clear to the clan just whose forest this was and that the clan's presence only continued because the Elves allowed it for as long as the gnolls remained neutral towards them and respected the forest. They knew full well what had driven the clan into their region, and only a small sense of pity and preference to avoid bloodshed worked in the gnoll's favor. Still, in their current dire circumstances, it had instilled a grudging sense of respect in many of the clansmembers towards the Elves, something they would have never thought possible before now. It was likely to grow over time since the newest members of the clan were growing up learning to leave the Elves alone and why it was important to do so.

There was a lot of time and energy put into patrolling the outlying regions on their end of the forest for fear of one of the human kingdoms seeking retribution for the bloody fighting that had taken place before the clan had ceded its territory to the encroaching forces, but in recent weeks the pressing fear of being hunted down and eliminated to the very last gnoll was lessening as it seemed the humans were more interested in keeping their borders secure and letting the gnolls be the problem of the elves than venturing into the ill reputed forest that had just gained yet another habitant with a very bad reputation among most of human society. While the gnolls had gained a sense of respect towards the grudging benevolence of the elves, it was counterbalanced by a deep seated sense of hatred and need for vengeance against humans as no one in the clan had avoided losing a brother or sister, a mate or friend, or even their own cub in the fighting and subsequent desperate flight - precious things that could not be replaced like food stores and shelters.

My new job has kept me rather busy, and it leaves me pretty tired, especially after the 9 hour days. A lot of the time I just feel like laying down and not moving. Not a very good condition for arting or writing, to be sure. x.x

I've had a little time available to be on Secondlife occasionally however, and I've been on a huge Zelda kick lately, so between Pixel Hills and the Hyrule sim I'm feeding my creativity there, as shown in the following images of stuff I've mostly made myself:

Find the Armos Avatar
Linkyena
Mirror Shield
Golden Gauntlets
Hover Boots

I'm ironing out the last few improvements on the stuff I've already made and will hopefully have them available on in-world vendors within a week or two assuming things go smoothly. Here's a list of all my stuff:

To be available for free or very cheap:
Goron Bracelet
Fierce Deity's Blade
Golden Gauntlets

Other soon available items:

Armos Avatar
-Features an AO so that it hops when you walk, spins when you run.
-has a walker script so that it makes realistic moving sounds
-Collision detector to let other avatars know audibly that disturbing an Armos is a bad idea, also flashes you red briefly.
-Alpha layer to hide your default avatar from having any limbs stick out.
-boxed sound set of the Ocarina of Time battle music that can be used to let everyone know danger is close!
-Angry Armos gesture

Mirror Shield
-Sheathed and on arm versions
-has a touch to hide script version of each
-has an unscripted version of each that you can add your own scripts to
-for ZRCS functionality you will still need the scripts found in the ZRCS Hylean Shield.

Hover Boots
-Left boot hovers for 5 seconds on touch before dropping you
-Right boot hovers on touch for as long as you want it to
-Features a version which hovers at the same level and a version which slowly descends as it hovers
-touch Hover Aura to de-rez it
-Has a foot alpha layer to keep any part of your foot or lower leg from accidentally sticking through the boot

Coming soon:
-Iron Boots
-Gear Walker to make the same sound as Link's equipment does as he runs
-Link Collision Detector to make a few Link sounds if anyone bumps into you

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Aside from the above image showing I was a little bored, It's been a pretty good week. I won a kiriban picture, got a free continuation of another picture, and sent the details for a free commission to an artist who had reached me in the queue. I have some writing pretty much ready to upload a chapter of, and have done some work on having another story ready for posting as well. I still have a few images I need to work on some more to put up as well.

I also didn't have any $400+ bills attached to my car inspection this year! Insurance is down to like $220 for 6 months with decent coverage now that I hit the magic age of 23 as well! Now if only one of the places I've applied to for a job would give me one. It's been getting rather stressful not getting anything but phone calls that don't actually go anywhere. There should be a law against a company taking applications if it has no positions to fill. I also got rid of an insurance roadbump this week too. A bogus crash listing attached to my policy has been made to disappear leaving my driving record spotless as it should be. The only spots I need will be on my fur thank you! @.@

I dunno when I can be online on YIM and stuff to talk to people. I've met a lot of interesting people and even some writers whose work I admire wanting to roleplay with me and I'm just too stressed to talk with them lately. D:

Finally in closing all of you seriously need to -Click This Image-. It's such a well drawn dragon and the picture is freaking cute. Also just look at that perfect view of the dragon's belly fffffffffff. X3

I hope every one of my now over 200(!!!) watchers is having a good time and I hope to bring you more content to enjoy in the future. :)

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I got a chance to take some time to read one of the Reboot comics on the main Reboot site and have to say it was fairly alphanumeric awesome, the characters appeared to act canon, and it in no way tried to pick up right after where the 4th season left off with a huge cliffhanger. The new characters were very cool and seemed to fit. It's definitely a comic worth perusing for any Reboot fan.

Click this link and hit the picture for Paradigms Lost. After that there will be a button in the upper right corner to fullscreen the comic pages. After that you can turn the pages using <- and -> on your keyboard.

I was feeling silly and ended up adding a PID icon to my Secondlife Avatar. Don't worry if it's virus green right now; it's my default colorcode. I can change it along with the rest of his entire outfit to sprite or guardian mode anytime I want. Or does that make him a trojan type virus being controlled by a user and changing appearance as necessary. ;o

Hell, maybe he's a user character from the game PSO and the guardians have to beat him. ;)

EDIT: Ohhhh man it would be hilarious if I made a binome model in Secondlife. XD

As most of you know,, there was a loss of journal comments within a certain timespan after a database restore. Today however, I have noticed that two of the four comments listed as deleted in my management region are saying I have been responded to in journals of users which I have never seen or responded to before. Is this only happening to me or has anyone else seen this as well?

I find it quite interesting how FA has been enduring constant DDOS bombardment with such perfect timing to overlap other drama already going on. It's like the drama mountain just keeps getting piled onto before it quite has a chance to die down. Naturally I assume the DDOS thing is probably coming out of a Chansite; but I doubt it's going to really stop anything since outside people are now on the case watching it. I'm honestly really curious what sparked them to decide to do this at this particular time though.

I did however come across an interesting tidbit of information some chap kindly posted into the FurAffinity page on ED which stated that when administrative accounts were hijacked they did more than just de-admin them, change people to deceased status, delete galleries, and mess with profiles and page info and even site layouts and putting up a kind of hilarious administrative announcement.

It wasn't even just that the notes of a couple prominent figures of FA(of which I actually recognized maybe half at most) that got released. If what the little blurb said was true, they may have installed in some malicious software for the purpose of cracking FA back open even after everything is supposedly back under control. So if anything a word of advice: keep being careful about what you put in notes, and hope you have it set so you don't have to type your password in every time you log in until someone can confirm/deny if they actually got something in under the site's defenses. For all we know more user data could be leaked at any time if something's embedded in there now.

The notes that were released aren't really anything overly interesting from what I've seen. The primary thing that concerns me is that I have seen lots of email addresses, phone numbers, and messenging program names all over them that could be used for harassment purposes. I'm not going to tell you where to find the leaked notes or what they contained, but I will say that if you've given any such information out and do happen to find out the names of all the users with leaked notes, you may wish to look into changing numbers and emails. I want to list the names of the leaked users to help protect others, but in doing so I could potentially cause people to specifically gain an interest in finding the notes for malign purposes.

Another thing of concern to me is that the 30+ exploit loopholes that a certain someone posted on his LJ are being linked around in places we really don't want them going. I've a feeling that said user's method of making the administration and its one. single. coder. take them seriously may soon be used by others who are not seeking to make a point but wish to cause as much disruption to FA as they possibly can.

In other news, what happened to make them put the forums down for so long? FA Twitter is proving useless and doesn't even give any useful details on the DDOS stuff since it's been 6-7 hours since the last update on it. I can only hope the long wait means there's some serious work going on. Or maybe they'll find more coders because making one person do it all is a horrible setup. I personally feel the certain someone whose warnings they ignored deserves the internet version of the Purple Heart for taking the fall to make a point of how serious the many exploitable holes were, and to see this person cast out as he was when he might have been the key to stopping so much potential nonsense is really giving me a case of schadenfreude seeing the mess going on right now.

Edit: Forums are down because they were being leeched to get the administrative forum threads, as these threads are starting to be posted up for regular viewers to see. Nothing particularly dramatic to be seen in those either, just mods doing theirjobs really.

This first set of tracks come from a game on Newgrounds called Epic Battle Fantasy 3. I'd fully suggest trying the game to hear the tracks in their intended setting. (also Epic mode was super awesome to beat)

Here are some particular favorites:
Sister of Snow Dissent - Lands of Ice track
Nebula - Black Hole track
Wings - Battle Track
You'll Never Guess This! - Boss theme
Acruta Lao D'nor - Miniboss theme
DiVINe MaDNEss - Final Boss Theme
BONUS:
Organ Jaws - Epic Battle Fantasy 2 Final Boss

Secondly, I have to give some serious props to  Woofle, who makes some seriously cool music. I haven't gotten to listen to her new tracks much lately, but I can give you links to a few of her older tracks that are seriously awesome.

Classic Game Tracks
Aquatic Ambiance - Donkey Kong track
Stickerbrush Symphony - Diddy Kong Adventure track
Skull F--- Castle - Megaman track
Butthole Man - Megaman track

Project SAGA Tracks
I had to really cut myself off on these(14/31). I really like most of them.
Done Got Lost
The White Walls of Kalandia
Verse's Theme
Verse's Theme ~ Heroic
Xan's Theme
Boss Battle #1
Boss Battle #2
Karina's Theme
We've Got To Get Out of Here!
Spelunk! Sneaking Under Moss
Lay Siege to the Castle
I'm From the Future
Northern Lights
Massive Boss, Massive Damage

And this was only part of all the songs only in chapter one of her RPG tracks!

Truefax:
Some of these might even be true; guess which ones!

-Mr. Popo is the source of every shoop that has been whooped.

-The origin of every tentacle coming in mysteriously from an unknown, out of view location is in fact from the ever unfindable Grue. Damn you Grue, damn you. Some day, I WILL find you in Zork and free the world from your tyranny!

-The San Andreas Fault was created when Chuck Norris and Mr. T decided to have an arm wrestling match. Neither could best the other, but it's said you can still feel the tremors in the ground whenever they get back together for a rematch. It's said that someday the immeasurable might of those two arms will shatter cities and pull half of California into the sea.

-If you thought Swine Flu and Avian Flu were bad, just wait until Dragon Flu comes around this year. You won't even LIVE through something that a dragon can get!

-the next island in the Hawaiian chain has already been named even though by the time it comes up out of the sea our civilization will probably have been long forgotten.

-The Jesus Liberation Front is going to save all the Jesuses still on crosses all over the world. Next time someone asks you if you've been saved by Jesus, ask them if they have saved a Jesus today.

-Dread Pirate Neckbeard does not in fact own his ship; it's his mother's ship and she lets him sleep in the brig and have other pirates over to do bad things.

-Dread Pirate neckbeard is a staunch Pastafarian and believer in the prophet Ragu, and also maintains an active branch of the Jesus Liberation Front to funnel illicit funds and materials through.

-The Westboro Baptist Church is run by Cthulu. Think about it.

-My facts bring all the boys to the yard and they're like 'his assertations are most indubitably superior to yours', so I'm like 'I'd teach you, but I'd have to CHARGE MA LAZOR BWAAAAA'

-Every time a herm grows breasts larger than the dreaded 'Double D'...

...not only does God™ kill a kitten, but a fox chokes to death on a cock, the Flying Spaghetti Monster strangles a nun with his Noodly Appendage™, Cthulu drives another person so mad they join the Westboro Baptist Church, Pedobear manifests into this plane of existence until he finds another victim to take away, Pyramid Head's knife loses its erection, another Final Fantasy©™™© comes out, Duke Nukem Forever is delayed again, a Redshirt dies, GLaDOS makes you kill another Companion Cube, and the Scientologists sacrifice another anon to Xenu.

-The secret to solving all the world's energy problems is by harnessing the electrical energy created by Crossfire by having all the children in third world sweatshops play it.

You can't live without these facts? DISCUSS!

...then these are more things I would draw!
If I were an artist...
If I were an artist...II
If I were an artist...III

Escaping Winter
Sunny solution

Avereth, being a hyena isn't the biggest fan of cold weather. He'd rather all the chilly parts between where there's actually snow could just be skipped. Then he gets a chance to move to Texas and it's sunshine and happy days!

How to Drop the Soap
Messing up is a pain in the butt!

It seems that these days no one knows the proper etiquette for what to do if you drop the soap in a public showering location. As we all know, it's been done the wrong way so often that it's believe that dropping the soap immediately sentences you to gang assrape and that there's nothing you can do but take it like in the butt like a man. In this comic Avereth shows you the proper methods to get the soap back off the floor without exposing your rear to probing dicks. Remember: if you don't use your knees to lift, you'll get a bad back and be raped!

Revenge of the Thirty Foot Meerkat
Karmakat?

Avereth has spent a lot of his life eating meerkats. They're not the most filling things, but they're quick to get down and wriggle around very nicely. Avereth probably eats more pounds in meerkats than in gazelle! He also enjoys it entirely too much. It has been going on so long a meerkat demigod finally gets fed up and manifests into the world to confront him. There's much awkward irony and dialogue as the giant meerkat devours the hyena in a manner all too similar to how the hyena himself went about it with meerkats.

Mesmerizing Meerkat
Mental Menace!

The meerkats decide to try this new thing they heard of called hypnosis. The next time Avereth tries to get them one uses an old stopwatch to try to mesmerize him. It doesn't seem to work because he's not paying attention to that one, but the one he was going for has been entranced by the watch and is rocking back and forth in time with it. This somehow entrances Avereth and he finally falls over onto the ground passed out. The meerkats hiding in the mound emerge with a plan to celebrate. They won't be having bugs and lizards for dinner tonight...

I Would So Wear That...
Seriously!
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Starring:  Mitchkenzo

Avereth is talking about a game to Mitch when he is given the idea to actually go look to see if the shirts the main character wears are online. When the hyena looks and actually find them, he is amazed so much he stands up glowing and somehow rips off his shirt and is wearing the one in the browser.

...To the Airport!
Free Cavity Searches

Avereth finds it funny to wear the shirt to the airport and can't stop giggling, but security pulls him aside and decides to give him a thorough search. A huge guard can be seen giving him a cavity search while the hyena wears a frown so big the edges go off the side of his face and his eyes look like they're getting bloodshot and about to pop out. The guard keeps pulling out things he finds, and an assortment of bones, cans, anchors, bottles, and other random objects pile up. In a final panel the guard is confused after reaching really deep and holding a derpy faced meerkat that he found in his search.

Bonus scene: The meerkat exclaims 'YOU SAVED ME!' and the guard says 'Sorry, you know the laws about prey, it's out of my hands' and shoves the screaming meerkat back deep all the way in. Avereth is pretty much passed out at this point but manages to make a final tortured face.

72 HOURS REMAINING
The 3 words you don't want to ever hear

Starring:  MitchKenzo

Avereth is in the process of getting ready to move when Mitch calls to tell him he has 72 HOURS REMAINING. After a cheerful 'Bye!' from the lion Avereth hangs up and has a premonition of himself running on a dark background with flames rushing up behind him not unlike in a certain Nintendo game. The hyena dreadfully looks out the window and sees the moon has a face(Mr Popo's face for lulz?) and is staring back at him. Ave flings himself against the wall so the moon can't see him and ponders the options he now has. On one hand, maybe the moon will just crash here and he'll be fine if he leaves for Texas. On the other, he's not sure he wants to go dungeon crawling to find giants to stop it.

He decides to ask the moon if it's going to crash where he is now and it tells him it's supposed to just home in on him. With this development Avereth gets pissed and decides to make things personal. The hyena builds a rocket and flies to the moon to start punching it in the face and poking it in the eyes. The moon, being only a face, has no way to stop this. He does this until the moon's face turns totally dark and it hides by turning around. On the drive to Texas the moon can be seen in the sky as a giant ass.

Too Much Touching
It's Super Effective!

Starring: A couple people I know well enough to know how they or one of their characters would act!


In this comic Avereth's one super weakness is exploited by lots of hands as the hyena's worst nightmare is forced upon him and people keep touching and petting him from all sides. He's paralyzed by this treatment in shock until he suddenly wakes up. His relief lasts only a moment when he notices he's not alone in his bed.

Mitch the lion is currently rubbing on his belly along with Dorenrab in feral form, except Dorenrab is using his very long tongue. Bannor the otter is half concealed under the covers half covering the hyena on the end of the bed, and one can only guess what he's doing to Ave's lower half under there. Shade the vampire bat is latched onto one of his arms poking his teeth against the hyena's skin. Jeremy the meerkat is also poking him on the nose. Ben the machoke is tickling one of Ave's feet.

Avereth is making a D: face at all of this and suddenly wakes up a second time. This time nothing appears to be in the room and he sighs in relief and goes back to sleep saying something about 'Nothing worse than that dream could possibly happen'. Four sets of purple eyes open beside the bed and a four armed creature's outline appears in the darkness...

What Do You Collect?
Skeletons in the closet

In this comic Ave goes around showing what he collects...rocks and gems...cacti and succulents...lots of games...and in the closet here the leftover bones and skulls from people he's swallowed and digested alive! Now that you know, he's only got one place to put you...

I Like Tentacles Inside Me
Everyone's doing it!

There's been so many furries letting themselves get impaled by tentacles that the tentacle population is exploding. Inevitably Ave finds himself ensnared by numerous tentacles, but as soon as it sticks one in his mouth he bites the end off and swallows it...and then the next, and the next, and pretty soon it's trying to get away and he gets the main body and gulps that down too! The hyena can't help but groan at the feel of so many pounds of individually squirming bits and pieces of tentacle massaging his stomach and decides he's going to have to do tentacles more often from now on.

Avertaur
Now even more expensive to feed!

In this comic Avereth has been turned into a taur merely for the word pun it allows. He's also blue patterned in a way quite similar to the alien race of a certain movie, making the name pun even worse. His new size requires quite a bit more meat for his feral belly so he eats the narrator..wait WHAT?! HOLD ON Ave DON'T-

His Shirt Is Off
It must be a trap

Starring:  Mitchkenzo

Ave is going around with his open vest on again, and poor horny furries keep following him into secluded places and taking off their clothes only to find they're rammed headfirst into hyena belly. Mitch knows all about how this works but chooses to take the bait anyway. Predictably retarded dialogue follows.

Taured and Feathered
This will come back to haunt you

All the townsfolk are sick and tired of all the noise Avereth is always making in his tower with his experiments, so they do what any reasonable townsfolk would do and get the pitchforks and torches and storm the place. Avereth is predictably unprepared for this and is promptly dragged outside. It is decided his punishment is to have to drink his potions so they cram a funnel into his throat and pour all of his potions inside and leave him in one of those head and arm locking wooden things backwards since he's too bloated to go in the normal way.

Ave's unable to sleep because his belly feels funny and has been making ominous noises and giving him glowing gassed burps, and in the middle of the night he starts...changing. In a brief amount of time he's broken out of the device holding him as he gradually changes into a tauric hyena...with feathers. The development pleases Avereth until he notices the feathers, upon which he goes berserk and starts destroying the town and eating people.

Bonus panel: Avereth coughs up a mutated meerkat that also starts eating people and destroying the town, until Avereth later eats it again.

Words of Wisdom
Inside every fat hyena is a skinny man trying to get out

A simple poster type thing with a new spin on an old phrase, probably showing a bulging bellied Avereth in his homeland of Africa with a skinny tribesman wiggling around inside of him!

Dear Meerkats of Fur Affinity,

I only eat you because I love you. :)
Have a nice day on the Savannah and don't take it too hard if I eat your family.

Noms and slurps,
Avereth 'Bane of Meerkats' Ireto

P.S. I got that one lookout who used to spot me in time for all of you to escape down your hills; the little devil was quite wriggly all the way down and I was so glad to finally meet him personally! In a few hours I'm sure my belly will have become acquainted with every part of him! :9

(Edit: In all seriousness though, meerkats are one of my favorite animals. The result of this is that this also makes them one of the most appealing things for my character to dine upon, especially given their perfect size. I'd actually love to get some vore where a meerkat is the one doing the eating done eventually too! :) )

This is my guide to asexuality and will always be linked to on my main page. I want this to be a living document which is constantly being improved until it reaches a point that I can use it to explain asexuality to others.



Asexuality explained

It seems no matter how often I answer questions people have about asexuals in threads, new ones always seem to come up again after a while. There's a loooooot of misinformation about this orientation out there, and disturbingly, many prejudices as well. I'm tired of explaining over and over, and I'm tired of being told by people who have no idea what they are talking about I must just have something wrong with me. My goal is to make this the end all-be all page I use to put everything on the table about asexuality in a manner which is near impossible to misinterpret.

What is asexuality?

Asexuality is a sexual orientation identified as an inherent absence of a direct sexual attraction to either male or female individuals. Asexuality cannot be caused by hormone problems, injuries, or diseases. While those things can cause conditions with similar effects, those are caused by outside factors and are not something one is necessarily born with outside of unfortunate diseases or deformities passed on in extremely rare cases.

How do you know you're an asexual?

For me, being asexual isn't something that was noticed as a sudden manifestation. In fact, if anything being asexual was something that made itself apparent simply by way of its lack of appearance. At a time when everyone else my age was starting to shift interests less towards the games we all used to play and more towards people of the opposite sex, I was finding myself in complete disunderstanding of what was going on with them because I was not experiencing such mental changes in the slightest.

I went through puberty physically pretty much like any adolescent, but I didn't feel anything towards others that could be called attraction. I simply had friends and acquaintances and that was it. I was even scared of and subtly rebuffed advances by the few females who actually took the initiative to express interest in me. It was during this period in middle school it really began to sink in that there was something different about me, and that my thoughts in late elementary school that I would simply catch up with the others my age later were not going to happen.

It was a very long time after that that I continued to live with the knowledge that I was different. In a world where you were supposed to be attracted to girls and get a girlfriend, I lived thinking something was wrong with me. When I thought that you could only be either attracted to girls, or guys, or both, and knew that I definitely wanted nothing to do with females, but was less uncomfortable around guys simply because I just happened to be a guy myself, I began to fear that it must surely mean I was gay, even if I honestly felt no attraction towards guys either. Lack of attraction or not, I was still more comfortable around them than girls, and at the time my mind translated that to mean I might be gay.

That terrified me. It wasn't that the idea of being gay in and of itself was terrifying to me; it was the idea that I might be attracted towards other guys in such a way. I never was of course, but at that age I wasn't capable of the level of psychological evaluation that I am now. A long, long time went by. Years spent in confusion, fear, and shame because I didn't know exactly what I was inside. I couldn't talk about girls. I had no idea which girl was hotter. My parents were really starting to push me to get a girlfriend and have them some grandchildren. I felt like I was failing them.

It wasn't until I was 18 and had the powers of the internet at my fingertips that I finally learned what I was inside. I read a word that burned itself deeply into my mind. A word that burned into the very center of the empty void inside me that needed an answer to a question it did not comprehend. The word was asexuality, and it filled that void and created a sense of self and direction I had not known since the blissful days of early childhood. I knew who I was now. I had a full identity without any missing pieces. I wasn't into guys and there were going to be no grandchildren. With relief filling my very being and lifting away the weight of a tension that only years of fear could burden me with I knew that there was a fourth orientation, and that it described exactly what I had been experiencing all those years.

What do you mean by prejudices and misunderstandings?

The human mind is an amazing thing. You can discover so much about yourself if you only take a look at your own mind and learn the secrets of your own mental processes. I think perhaps I could have had a career in psychology of some sort and maybe even enjoyed it. My learning experience has taught me however that the mind attempts to insert the most plausible answer to a logical question that it can think of. This answer will always be based on one's own personal experiences in life however. It's not often someone will say they don't know an answer, or suggest the answer is yet to be found when their own answer, however unlikely, appears to possibly fit the question.

This is the primary obstacle when it comes to making people understand what being asexual is. Just as I didn't have any idea how to understand myself when I thought the only possible sexualities were heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual, most people have no idea how to understand how someone can be asexual when every moment of most of their life has been consumed by constant sexual urges and desires. Just like I needed someone to give me the answer I had been unable to reach on my own, it is necessary to make these people experience the paradigm shift necessary to facilitate the beginnings of understanding.

There's so many things people mistake for being a part of sexuality. The mind is able to take an idea, an emotion, a thought or thing, and link it to an emotion. We are able to enjoy the taste of food, savor the sound of music, or be thrilled by the rush of wind and horizon twisting weightlessness of a roller coaster. So many stimuli that different people translate different ways. What's mundane to one person could very well be a fetish for another! I find this amazing and think it allows me to explain things to a non asexual metaphorically.

I think the most infuriating thing I ever come across is when someone says you can't be an asexual and masturbate. The reason it infuriates me is simply because there's so many logical failings and assumptions in such a statement that my mind simply screams incoherently at the travesty of logic that such a statement is merely by being spoken and the web of further assumptions and misinformation it creates merely by existing. Righting such a very wrong statement is a complex beast and requires me to start with the basics as if with a child and work up from there and hope the reader has not lost track of the point as it progresses from infancy to unassailable counterstatement.

Asexuals come in two basic subgroups. Group A is asexuals who don't masturbate. Group B is asexuals who do masturbate. I've seen it suggested that group B isn't asexual. Frankly, I don't need a sexual individual trying to say I'm not asexual. Within these two groups, some of these asexuals even do have sex. There's a very explainable reason for this I can see even if I'm not one of the ones that does it, but basic points must be covered before the more complex ones.

Both groups can also have fetishes. I've also seen sexual individuals trying to say you can't be asexual and have a fetish. It's time to explain how all these seemingly sexual things can be experienced by an asexual. The most basic and obvious thing that really shouldn't have to be said but shall is that asexuals have perfectly functional and working genitalia. Due to this fact, asexuals are quite capable of feeling sexual pleasure. There is this strange idea that being asexual somehow means you must be incapable of having an erection despite the fact your hormones are working normally and your genitals are capable of sensing pleasure.

That's another point there; people seem to think an asexual must not be able to feel anything good down there. I don't really know how people can possibly think this, but I'm not to experienced with being ignorant either. Some asexuals don't seem to experience much or any pleasure from their genitals, but at this time I am unsure if this is from asexuality or merely a side effect of circumcision. It's a very, very sensitive topic and not the sort of thing I can comfortably talk about with others.

Now, as I said earlier, the mind is able to link unlike things together. A fetish is what happens when for inexplicable reasons the mind links something to an arousal trigger. In a normal sexual individual a fetish is also going to likely be linked to the 'sex' trigger. That is, exposure to a fetish is also going to be considered a suitable substitute for sex in the case of masturbation, and it's also going to be capable of making the individual crave actual sexual activity with another, or want to involve them in it as well. This is where asexuals and sexuals trip up on one another. An asexual mentally links a fetish only to arousal. A fetish will never be able to make an asexual crave sex or serve as a substitution for sex to them. A sexual individual isn't able to immediately comprehend this concept because they've never experienced such a thing before.

The most complex topic is asexuals having sex. Part of this stems from the misconception that all asexuals are supposed to be averse to sex. The defining thing is that an asexual is unlikely to initiate a sexual encounter themselves. When asexuals have sex it tends to be because they know it will please their partner. They may find it awkward or prefer to avoid it sometimes, but they care enough for their partner that they're willing to move out of their comfort zone for their partner's sake. Society places a heavy pressure on having sex as a sign of a healthy relationship, and many asexuals, having already been pressured into a relationship or having grown very attached to someone end up engaging in sexual encounters. Generally an asexual views sex as a somewhat messy act that's far too much effort when they can just masturbate on their own.

Asexuals can form a relationship with someone else. That relationship can even advance so far as to be called love. An asexual doesn't feel the urge to have sex with someone, but that doesn't mean they don't love them and want to be close to them. It's so sad to know lots of people think an asexual can't love someone too. Asexuals tend to form very strong emotional bonds with the right person, often far more real than anything you see in most relationships between people today. They engage in sex because they don't want to deny their partner happiness.

On the topic of a fetish, I've seen it tossed around way too much that asexuals can't have them. Never mind that a fetish is as unnatural for a sexual individual as an asexual. I can't talk for everyone, but my fetishes for vore and navels were definitely a part of me way before puberty, and I think it's that way for a lot of other people too. I've picked up more fetishes over the years, but none will ever be as strong as those two for me. I honestly have no idea why I like them, but I know that they arouse me and that they are my only means for achieving it. I can't arouse myself with men or women. It takes my fetishes. The fact my fetishes have to involve entities with genders is irrelevant.

How exactly is one supposed to have a fetish where nothing ever has a gender exactly? That's certainly not very realistic and would ruin everything. I prefer males in my fantasy fetishes because i'm a male and have been comfortable with being a male all my life. Females are like an alien species to me and I want them nowhere in my fetishes if I can help it. I sure as hell have no intentions of imagining myself as a female! I'm not getting off with feelings directed at the individuals in my fantasies however. I'm getting off on the idea of the vore itself, or the idea of looking like one of them, or the theme of domination and submission, or any number of other things that have nothing to do with wanting sex with whatever creatures my mind has conjured up. This is the important difference that distinguishes an asexual's fetishes from a sexual's fetishes.

I've seen people say an asexual would just like sex if they tried it. I'm sure I could tell one of my asexual friends he's like masturbation if he just tried it, but that would be horribly rude and inconsiderate and completely ignore that fact he probably has his own perfectly reasonable circumstances to make him avoid such activity. There's so much wrong in saying an asexual would like sex if they just tried it. It may as well say 'You would like rape if you just tried it'. I can't think of many things that cause more revulsion than the thought of sexual intercourse with a man or woman in any position whatsoever. It would be rape no matter how you spun it. The fact such crude actions cause pleasure being a justification makes as much sense as saying rape victims who had an orgasm actually liked it. If I were to suddenly find an interest in sticking my bits in asses and vaginas, why even stop there? As long as it's warm and wet right? Why not a dog? A fresh corpse maybe? A burrito? Hell how about we go exotic and try a tree or a shark. It's like saying you the reader would like sex with whatever gender you aren't attracted to, or with one of the things I just listed. All you have to do is try it and you'll see! It's a completely absurd suggestion and anyone saying such a thing has not done any original thinking on the subject.

So that's my take on asexuality. I highly doubt that I've remembered to explain everything I wanted to, but doing such is a very difficult task given the size and complexity of the subject at hand. I encourage others to ask me questions, offer their own experiences and ideas, and test my logic. It's the only way I can further improve my explanation of asexuality and what it really is.

How to scare off an Avereth from his IM window in record time: WIP
This will likely be linked to on my main page eventually. I seem to be turning my journal into a quasi wiki...

More of these things have happened already than I care to think about. :(
I decided to gradually list every single unpleasantry I would prefer to avoid in my online interactions where roleplay and IM chatting is concerned so that I have an easy list to use to inform people what sorts of things are inappropriate to do around me without having to awkwardly explain everything over and over again.

-Only ever talking with me with an immediate interest in RP that was there before I even talked with you before, to the point you don't even want to say, discuss how to make an RP extra interesting or figure out shared interests better

-Wanting to plunge your hot, steaming dick in Avereth's ass

-Wanting Avereth to whip his out and do the same unspeakable things to your ass or vagina

-tentacles that have a libido of their own and want to cram themselves into orifices

-giant breasts

-hyper cocks

-wanting to eat Avereth as a human or humanish character

-wanting to do hard vore before I really know you

-scat fetish

-Trying to roleplay as a trademarked famous character

-short, undescriptive RP posts and in general showing no skill as a writer whatsoever

-messaging me to say hi as soon as I get on, and then expecting me to somehow keep up the conversation almost entirely on my own. If you want an RP it's not going to work that way.

-Playing a predator with no respect for prey whatsoever; the type that enjoys inflicting pain and suffering or is indifferent to causing it

-trying to get me to play out fetishes of yours you already know I don't want to touch repeatedly

-mistaking two characters getting off with a little assistance from one another as them having started a romantic relationship together

-constantly complaining about things in your life that are irrelevant and quite likely unimportant to me. I'm not an angry or depressed person, and don't want you getting your unpleasantries which I overlook in my own life as nothing when they happen to me all the time all up in my grill. :/

More likely to come in time as I think of them X3

This journal is being used as a reference point for art my character has appeared in that isn't actually posted on my own page.
The artist's titles for the images as well as their page links will be placed here. This journal will always be linked to via a link on my main page.
If you see art of my character that isn't posted here or on my page, chances are it's going to be put up at some time in the future.


Rubbery Uvuzi featuring Avereth and Dracodragon5 by Strega
Won from a drawing of names

Sexy Anthro Balto swallows Avereth, ( Digi Pic No. 2) by Lope
Won in a number picking contest
Gallery Deleted. Contact me if you want the image. Do not bother Lope about it!

Entering Fur Affinity by Ka-Atis
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Gift for drawing this picture in a forum art game on Eka's Portal.