So not everyone may know this, but as of this maintenance FA now naturally embeds both .docx and .pdf files posts, awesome. This is for the Modern format though so us Classic users can still get fucked. What this means though is now you can read stories directly without needing to download or read it from description, which I hope attracts more people to read. I'll still be posting in .pdf format as it sticks closer to the original formatting than .docx does though

My Adoptable Catalogue has been updated to the newest v1.1 due to both the removal of Firecracker due to being adopted, and for the inclusion of 5 new adopts:

*Brody - Beach bum Leomon subspecies
*Jayce & Rodimus - Capybara/Giraffe Chimera
*Kenneth Maxwell - Kinetic Absorber Superhero
*Lemmy Lemur - Toony Clown with inflation powers
*Nau - Fae Pixie luring people into a dimension of fattening foods
*Silca - Imp with a cursed hourglass
*Sir Shred - 18+ Gallantmon/Megidramon hybrid knight with skimpy clothing

Welp June 8th and happy birthday to me. I’m 33 this year so I’ve made the milestone of the first third of a human life. It really is something isn’t it?

Well it’s nice this feature exists now, so I can obscure a username I’ve been using for nearly 20 years. I’m The_Bromodo now, as I’ve always been but now it’s official

Was going to do this sooner but I was feeling bluh on NE Eve, but happy new year and welcome to 2025. I don't do thi resolution stuff much so here's to more writing, more stories based on my own whims, and hopefully less to catastrophic mental breakdowns.

Merry Christmas to all from Australia, and wishing season’s greetings and happy holidays

Been meaning to post this but I made a Telegram channel last week, as a more direct means of posting my rambling thoughts without needing to update Twitter or BlueSky frequently, or be as subjected to the bloody character limit. Link is here: https://t.me/+fYl8Gld6Qfo4OTdl

This one will probably be a bit more brief here, but as I've been thinking things over for a bit, there's been thoughts I can't ignore. Regardless of how I feel, I can never stop thinking up ideas and the like. Doing that for the sake of doing theory is all well and good, but it renders a thought incontrovertible: I can't give up. No matter how appealing the idea is, or how alluring burning everything down is, my worsts are never bad enough- Truly bad enough, that I would finally throw in the towel and give up. I just can't. Even now during my hiatus I've been feeling pangs of wanting to write whatever's on my mind, though those feelings do go away eventually.

Ultimately, I will continue to be a writer in the furry community. However, I will not say I'm fully back yet, as I still need to reconcile with what I want out of being a writer in the furry community. Regardless of what positive feelings I may have at the end of the day I have been and still am motivated by engagement, and praise. This is something I need to figure out in regards to what I want out of the community from my writing. Going cold turkey is unlikely so I have to face in myself my own feelings and expectations, and see what I can do to adjust my outlook on things.

This is why I won't return to writing yet, as I have to learn to do away with my desires for engagement and validation. I don't know yet what I will be doing in regards to such feelings, but once I can reconcile how I want to approach things in the community, then I'll have my answer. So this won't be goodbye, simply be a continuation of "I'm coping", more or less. If anything though, I wanted to make this post to keep anyone concerned updated on this. I won't be gone, I just need some new coping strategies. I'm also working towards alternative means for sharing my ideas, namely a simple Telegram channel for thoughts, maybe the occasional shitpost, as well as posting completed drafts for followers to read the day before posting.

If anything, this at least gives me a chance to breathe some new life into myself, both inside and out.

-N

So those following my Twitter may already know this, but for those that haven't: I have not been mentally well for a while. Like, at all. The fact is I've been facing a lot of external and internal pressures with absolutely no mental energy available to combat them, so things have been breaking through. This has left me, let's just say, "fragile" and introspective. But it's been pushing me to think more about my future here in the Fuurry Community as one of its writers.


The truth is I'm tired as fuck. Incredibly drained and at 0% battery. But this isn't the sort of thing not writing can just fix. The purpose, and the point, of my writing is largely to engage with others. Yes there's also the validation cause I'm really fucking vain, but I do it mostly to entertain and engage with others. It lets me communicate that I can be useful and worth being around. But that's the rub: Online society, as a whole, has been in a prolonged state of anti-engagement, mostly due to social media and the rising pressures of real life leaving everyone else similarly drained. Nobody wants to or has the energy to engage with anyone else, making it easier to drop a like/favourite and just move on, usually because they can't do much else. This runs completely counterintuitive to my need for engagement. Engagement is what I need to recharge my batteries and keep going, as no or little engagement means I can't get back what I put into preparing and writing my stories. Some of my recent stories? I did many of them in a single night, usually in about 3-4 hours. When I put my nose to the grindstone I don't stop until I reach the skull. This is pretty self-destructive but it's how I ensure I get the pieces done and not left half-finished cause I may not feel like working on the story tomorrow.


As some may notice I stopped writing, or at least wrote incredible sparsely in the past few years, with a sudden jump in activity last year. Last year was when I attempted a new resolution for building my profile, so to speak. I took out what were effectively loans on emotional energy to try and engage with others, trying to boost it as much as possible. I was able to take the licks better as I had convinced myself it would get better if I just kept trying. I did commissionss to earn funds to get commissions of my own; I was commenting more on people's stuff, usually on twitter. I was working to produce more and more stories to present to everyone. But the thing is, the watches went up, the faves went up, but the engagement stayed the same. I kept making myself try harder, in order to finally break down the barriers in front of me to reach the other side.


I failed....


The emotional toll has since swung the other way, and everything I spent has come back on me with interest. I took an immense risk trying this, and it failed utterly. I spent all that energy for basically nothing to change. The final straw really was likes becoming hidden on Twitter, which is my biggest soruce of potential engagement. My sparse engagement plummeted after the change as people's habits simply don't change easily, and all the likes did nothing to spread my word anymore, with my getting excessively little retweets. I'm not going to blame anyone but myself for this, as I played fast and loose with an unliberated sense of optimism. The fact is I am too emotionally and mentally dead to create now, and this time, I fear it's permanent. The truth is the risk wasn't just trying to raise engagement but as a means to think I could actually hope for better. Guess that's what misguided hope gets ya eh? Long and short what I'm feeling may not be fixable, not with time or with enough hugs and kisses. Once hope dies it's pretty hard to get it back.


Again, I only blame myself for this. I'm just one man; one man stupid enough to think he could change the status quo. The Furry Community, as a whole, seems content with this endless cycle of no-engagement, so really I'm the anathema here. What I want, and what the Furry Community can offer me, feel largely incompatible now. This isn't a pity party however, which is why I want to cut to the chase. I am not quitting. Yet. To put it simply, I'm deciding on what to do next. It's a hard and difficult decision, and I need to put as much time and thought as I can into this before I decide whether to risk a lot by staying, or to take my leave. This decision is going to be permanant, at least the leave part it is. That may sound extreme, but if I choose to walk away from this, I NEED it to be permanant. I can't go through what I have again, because the next time I suffer this failure I think it is genuinely going to break me. However, depending on how angry I may get at the time, I could very well take my entire gallery with me when I go. Extreme and not desirable, but my anger has been growing intense and it's starting to sound like a very good idea. I's kinda a coin flip thing.


What does this mean for you, assuming you read this far? Not a lot. I'm going to be quiet for a while as I decide what will be best for my mental and emotional health, as I feel what I'm feeling has started to seep into the physical as well. If I do decide to leave, it won't be anybody's fault except, again, my own. I need everyone to understand that I don't want pity. I don't want engagement. I don't want sympathy. What I want right now is to be left the hell alone as I think things over. This is something I need to do on my own without outside interference, as it's between myself and the writer I am. I just hope everyone understands and respects this wish. This isn't goodbye forever, but just for now.

-N

I get to spend my birthday working 10 1/2 hours on 3 1/2 hours sleep cause my body decided to wake up an hour and a half before my alarm was due to go off. Ain’t life grand?

Bored at work, ask me anything

Work’s going to be a long day again so ask me anything about me, my writing, my characters, whatever you want

Work’s going to be a long day so ask me anything about me, my writing, my characters, whatever you want

Ask me or my OCs anything

Well, with the current year drawing to a close, I guess I should probably think back on what's been achieved this year.

Starting off, I ended up making an OC I've fallen in love with, that being the hellhound Aaron. He's honestly just been a lot of fun to work with and I can't wait to do other stuff with him in the future; especially writing as I can't just leave him with his debut story Collateral Flabbage. I know I've been obsessive with him, but it's rare that I've felt so deeply for an OC, especially one with as much potential for kinks as Aaron has. Definitely one of my top SoulCs. Also, major shoutout to  KingdomHeartsKeeper for drawing him and helping me design him; he came out exactly how I wanted him too.

Moving on, I finally finished my YCH that was long, long, loooooooong overdue, clocking in at 23,247 words, which is now my single longest story in my entire gallery. It was a hell of an undertaking but I am so happy to have put it behind me so I could continue on with my work. Plus I can be proud to have such a massive story under my belt while trying to balance a repetitive system, and also working with so many kinks. Quite possibly one of my most loaded stories as well.

I actually managed to do not 1, but 2 quickie "on stream" stories in one day, which I never thought I'd be able to do again. They weren't bad for rushed little stories, and My 600 Pound Housebound House Hubby has given me some ideas for the future.

I am quite happy with the collaboration I did with  A-Side, allowing me to stretch a little and try something I haven't usually done. And of course A-Side is just great to work with anyways. Plus, I also got to fiddle with Microsoft Word as well, learning features in it that I have never used before. Allowed me to make it a more interesting experience for the readers.

One major highlight for me is the final writing and conclusion of the Kumako Prison Arc, reaching the final high in Even Though I Am a Demon and breaking the barriers over Byakko's heart that will finally allow him to heal from his own torment. I look forward to much lighter stories for the two, especially with the slow development of their relationship. As well of course as working with Byakko's ease of gaining large amounts of weight.

And then there comes July. My oh MY July was an incredible time for my writing; I couldn't even remember when I had had so much energy and drive and above all else utter love for writing. I was literally putting gaming and other things aside so I could sit down and write out whatever came to mind. And most of these stories were ideas I've been wanting to do for so long. Ignacio the Monster Layer. The New King of the Ring. Jazz Jackrabbit is Carrotus Maximus. The Ripe Fist of Justice. Some of these I've carried for years, and it was so good to finally have them out of my head and onto the pages where they belong. And you just could not stop me at the time; hell, the reason I stopped was to try and avoid burning myself by spreading myself thin by constantly writing. I was just having so much fun that I wrote all parts of Carrotus Maximus in one night! I stayed up until 1am to finish the hyper muscle side. It was crazy.

Commissions. It has been so long since I've done commissions and lemme tell ya, it felt great to finally eradicate the block I've had when it comes to working with other people's ideas. Plus I can't deny that the comms I took gave me some tasty ideas to write out. I'm especially fond of Cheetah's Always Prosper, Organic Chemistry, and Eating You Out of Soul & Society (granted the last one was just someone paying me to write out my own idea lol). I have completed 6 commissions (though 1 is as of yet to be posted), which for getting back into things, was pretty good all things considered. I also concluded my trade with  Kayde09, who produced an absolutely magnificent piece of Orlon the Demon Mandrill in return.

On the other side, I have very much enjoyed the commissions that my own commissions have funded. I can easily say I am thankful to the work every single last artist has put in, and would definitely commission them again in the future. And while I have been very Aaron-centric, moving forward I do have plans to at least give my other main OCs and my sona time to shine.

Reduxes. A new addition to my roster, it actually baffles me why it took so long for me to realize I could expand on scenes that simply didn't provide enough in their given forms. I am also quite happy that my firest redux of my newest major crush, the Dragon King. Prissy. Sissy. Inflatable. He's everything I love and he's joined the likes of Byakko and Kumatetsu in my heart. Also, back on point, I am satisfied with my current reduxes and have every intention of doing more in the future. Plus I know how many of you must have enjoyed the Bowser Weight Gain Redux. It's a bit shameless but I always felt that scene could have even more to it.

Thumbnails. I have plans to revise my system a little more, though at present I find using canon art of characters I'm writing about seems to improve the chances of my work being seen. I'm not sure how true this is course, but I can only hope this method will draw in more eyes that my old thumbnails couldn't.

Going forwards, I plan to try and pull myself away from fat/WG scenarios, as, while fun, tends to be the main thing I do and I want to explore other horizons. I have so much to give in other fields and I definitely want to flex my muscles and learn more from them. This especially applies to my fascination of limb growth, as well as my new romance with farts. Other than that, I plan to work on creating character YCHs that will double as adopts for the countless OCs that I've made but have never used. I just feel that they'll be at home more than with other people, than languishing under my own apathy. I likewise have plans to run a Growth Drive next year, though the when is still up for debate. It will operate differently from most Growth Drives, but I do hope people will be interested and invested nonetheless.

Finally, I would like to give a shout out to both  Xandromeda and  TheBoldCharr, who have diligently commented on most of the stories I've posted this year. Thank you both for making this process so much more bearable during my more downer moments.

And that's about it. See you all in the next year. This is N, and ciao friends~

To watchers old and new, merry christmas from the Bromodo~

So as a surprise, I have done a second spin of the wheel to declare a second raffle winner, with the winner having been declared on twitter here: https://x.com/The_Bromodo/status/17.....938978676?s=20

Let's give a big round of applause to Maliper, who will be notified now

However, if there is no response in 24 hours, I will respin again and choose a new winner.

So with the lack of activity I have chosen to speed up the end date of the raffle, with the winner having been declared on twitter here: https://x.com/The_Bromodo/status/17.....841951365?s=20

Let's give a big round of applause to long_1989, who will be notified now

However, if there is no response in 24 hours, I will respin again and choose a new winner.

To those who may have missed the post, I am hosting a raffle across FA and Twitter for someone to win a free story request voucher found here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54629983/

And here: https://x.com/The_Bromodo/status/17.....843013733?s=20

Requirements for entry listed in the image and you can apply on both sites to double your chance at winning

So those who follow me on twitter may have seen me rapid fire off OC ideas across the past few years. Well, honestly I’ve developed too many to even make use of, so here’s my idea:

YCH scenarios involving these OCs that act as a proof of concept, as it’s both a YCH and an adoptable, with those who get the YCH having the option of taking ownership of these OCs.

Basically I don’t want them to fade away, so this seems like a good option to let them live on by having other people adopt them instead. Thoughts?

Aaron: Hello papis, why not sit a while with me? And feel free to ask me anything~

So I've gone through my gallery and updated my thumbnails for all stories done with pre-existing media (Pop-up Pandamonium, Kimahri's Mini Mastery, etc) and also done a couple that I decided to care about.

Please tell me if this new choice of thumbnails makes the stories more alluring, or maybe if they need something (story title still, stuff like that)

In line with new habits, over the next few days I’ll be updating thumbnails for stories that are of commercial media (Crash Babdicoot, Undertale, Disney, etc) with thumbnails made from their source material to be more eye-catching. I’ve done sone of the more recent ones and will be working backwards from there.

Please tell me if this makes the stories seem any more appealing than the old thumbnails.

For a while now I've been working out the details for a written growth drive starring the DBZ dragons Shenron and Porunga as sumos. Would anyone be interested in that?

Been a while since a proper one of these with nothing else attached, but with my expanded menagerie and better work ethic, why not? So ask me or my OCs anything