So since the other week somebody tried to steal my Dravers from me by claiming they ceated them this is a reminder that I created them and i've been working on creating them for nearly four years now. So anybody claiming they created Dravers are a liar and a thief, and I'm not going to stand and let that happen when I am close to making Dravers an open species, wether they get accepted into the Chakat universe or not.

So, please be patient a little longer. I just recently had a template made for people to create their own Draver characters with. (For personal use as a quick ref image, not for creating adopts with or selling otherwise)

If you are Eurpean do what you can to stop this "chat control" and over reach of the EU government who just want to total control over the internet and European citizens. Their latest idea to "protect the children" would have them monitor all private messenging and browser/search history and pictures, so unless you want the government to look over your shoulder while you browse FA like they are your parents stand up against this.
Don't be fooled by their emotional blackmail of protecting children, that is OUR job as parents, not the government, and not at the cost of all of our online privacy. It is not going to protect children at all because the AI is going to flood law enforcement with so many false flags they wouldn't even be able to process all the reports anyway and actual predators are going to slip under the radar.

Get in touch with your local representatives and tell them to vote against this bill, we need to gain a majority vote against this since so far only 3 countries are opposed to this and too many are undecided.

One way to do this is with the following link (I'll add more sources as I find them)

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

And to my American watchers, please stop your country's version of this (SOPA) and stop this new attack on the internet and online freedom/privacy.
Don't think this won't effect you wether you're left, right or liberal. The internet needs to remain free and parents need to get back to parenting and protecting their own children, we already have all the tools we need with parental controls and setting boundries to prepare them for the internet and the real world, this includes them seeing some bad things but they should be able to trust their parents enough to talk about it and protect them.

I don't usually get into politics on FA but I got to rant a bit here with the latest round of "online safety" bills being pushed and it looking like these will be going to become law no matter what. I'll leave the tinfoil hat thoughts aside, but in any case these have nothing to do with protecting children but simply governments seizing more power for themselves, and combined with the payment processors and banks goign apeshit and freezing accounts of people things are looking dire. Oh sure just give them your personal information and prove you're an adult, it will be fine...not like these companies have their servers hacked every five minutes and millions of people's date stolen every day. Europe is currently working on it's own draconian law where they will give themselves access to all our private communications, for the safety of the children obviously we must give up all privacy and sign up for the social credit score. And sure every other year they bring up these online safety bills and they get shot down, but this time it seems like they are determined to push this through on a global scale no matter what.

This nonsense has already effected me since my credit card already does not work anymore with a number of websites( hence why I can no longer use payment alternatives like Boosty and hipolink), and my bank has been pestering me to find out what I've been spending MY money on online through paypal. They even froze the savings accounts of our kids citing "suspicious activity" even though money only gets deposited on there untill they're 18 and nothing has been taken out so I don't know what this suspicious activity is suposed to be, they won't say over the phone. We're currently seeing what we can do about getting those accounts unfrozen and maybe switching to another bank, but the problem is which bank can still be trusted to not be control freaks?

If any of these bills pass I wonder if I'm going to have to hand over my personal information and ID to FA and if my account is just going to be suspended here if I refuse to do so... So yeah if I suddenly vanish and my FA account is tagged as suspended or gone completely you may have an idea why. I hope I am just being overly paranoid here and this blows over like a fart in the wind like previous times one of these online safety bills has been pushed, but the fact this is happening everywhere at once now is very concerning.

Sometimes I wonder what rediculous timeline I've ended up in and how do I get back to my own?

So with FA still not fully functioning for who knows how long I figured I would try something in the meantime and let people ask questions about Dravers or the tabletop game world (and it's characters) and I'll see if I can answer them directly or create a pose in Hero Forge to answer them later.

Could be interesting for me to see if I've forgot to mention something or need to go into more detail. Some feedback would also be appreciated ofcourse as long as it's constructive.
I don't think I'll put any characters off-limits for questions at the moment, but I will adjust that if needed.

Also speaking of Hero Forge, it's just the gift that keeps on giving for me, they just added some preset body types (which sadly don't really work on anthro and taur lower bodies.) I have not yet used the presets for anything new but I have started working on something about the Amazons, and once FA works properly again I have two or three more races to post.

So yeah, stay tuned for that I guess, and ask away. :)

So yeah since my laptop died and most of the data couldn't be recovered there are going to be delays for posting any new additions for both the game world and Dravers. I have to rewrite a whole bunch of things from scratch pretty much since I lost some notes and ideas besides completed descriptions and scenes. I am especially annoyed for the delay this will cause on finishing the design of the Dravers since I was close to adding the final details but now I'll probably be set back another month or two, not to mention I lost all progress on my first attempt at writing a proper story to introduce Robin, and Dravers, into the Chakat universe. That I think probably hurts the most of all.

And yes I do make backups, but this sort of thing just always seems to happen that ONE time you forget or skip making a backup. >.>

Anyways, yeah there will probably be less activity here for a bit but I will still try to post a few things I had ready, and try to make do working from memory so I apologize for any drop in quality...not that my writing was that great but still.

Wishing you all a happy, or at least a happier new year.
Year of the snake, so I hope there won't be any proverbial snakes in your life.

So what are my plans this year?


First of, I plan to continue working on the world building for my (hopefully) tabletop rpg game, and flesh out some more characters, races, lore and maybe try to make a proper map of that world.

Secondly, and I am most excited about this, I hope to get my pony taurs, the Dravers, to be officially part of the Chakat universe soon.
I still have to put a few things in writing for an image and finish Robin's short story, so hopefully that will be done in the next two months or so. If they do get accepted into the CU, I might do an auction or raffle of one or two of my original Dravers as mentioned in a previous journal a few months ago.

And finally, I will keep chipping away at my backlog of characters and images to post, maybe see if I can resell a few that have been in storage too long, but I'll see about that when the time comes.


So yeah, that's my tldr list for this year.
I hope 2025 will be alright, but I get some bad vibes for this year on a personal level and I don't know why. Maybe I'm just imagining things, but time will tell I guess.

once again happy new year everyone, hope it will be a better year for you.

  hershen is holdign an art raffle. More info here : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58544883/

  dak0_ is holding an adopt raffle, if you're interested in winning a character adopt then have a look here

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57994337/

I've been thinking about when Dravers are officially an open species when/if they are accepted in the Chakat universe, of maybe doing an auction of one or two of the Dravers I've created thus far (except for Robin and her family, and Anouk), I may have created a few more by that time as well but I figured I'd see if there was any interest in any in particular to be potentially put up for acution.
Also to be clear I am not selling the image made in hero forge (as that would probably break their ToS and FA's), but I will have a proper ref sheet made of the character(s) up for auction and you would get that instead.

So do let me know your thoughts and who you might pick if they became available.
Or maybe make a suggestion about something you would want to see next for a Draver character.

Thanks in advance. =)

Who was this DrawJapan? (or something like that) I got a follow and a note from them earlier today but now they seem to have vanished from FA.
Were they just a scammer or a random spammer?

It's just so weird. >.>

  undercoat is holding a raffle for a YCH, two discounts also included for second and third place.

More info here :

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55893831/

  growlybeast needs some help.

They recently lost their cat and gotten into some finance troubles.

You can read their journal in the link below for some more info if you want to help out.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal...../#cid:60005908

  popessa is holding an art raffle.

Check it out here : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51114786/

Just a little update on how things are going for me.

Last week I started feeling a bit off, like I was coming down with a flu and sure enough over the weekend I got sick and gradually got worse. Did a couple of covid tests on monday and it was a positive three times in a row...

Still at least this time it seems to be a much milder variant as I only have a mild fever and my oxygen levels are still good, so it seems I may not end up in hospital this time if it doesn't get any worse than this and I remain stable so fingers crossed.

Not much else going on besides this, but I'll try keep you updated when things improve...or get worse. (Hopefully not, I've had enough hospital time last time to last me a while...)

Free Art raffle going on by   menzzu

Go check them out and give them a watch!

You can enter here : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47960373/

In case some of you were wondering why I haven't been very active lately on FA I thought I'd give you an update on things.

Early january I caught covid so I had to self quarantine, I had a fever which gradually got worse and just didn't improve. So two weeks later I was still running a fever and I barely had any energy left since I could hardly eat a thing and my oxygen levels were dangerously low. I was rushed to hospital and put on oxygen, and aparently it was bad enough the doctors were considering intubating me and putting me in a coma... thankfully I was stable again the next day so they didn't do that.

That's where I've been the past couple of weeks, only just got back a week ago and I've been mostly resting and recovering at home so it may be a little while before I can start posting things again here.

Thanks for reading.
I hope you're all doing better than me at least.

Ok so I've run into some financial trouble due to a bunch of sudden bills (thanks to a post office screw up not delivering my bills in time) which are due soon, and I don't normally do this asking for money thing but if someone could lend me some money that would be great. I'm gonna need to find at least 160 euros (about $180) by monday.

I hate to do this since I don't like being in debt with anyone but this is a bit of an emergency, so if you could help me out that would be much appreciated, just note me for my paypal. I will try to pay you back by the end of the month or early next month.

I'm also gonna try sell some characters which I'll be posting in a little bit once I've selected some that I can part with as I've been sitting on them for too long or I don't really connect with anymore to get some additional funds.

*Update*

Thanks to a generous person's donation I got the most urgent things covered for now, but thank you everyone who offered to help or just offered some words of support, I very much appreciate it.

I may still try to sell a few charcters as an extra safety net, anything left over will go towards paying back the people who donated as soon as I'm able.

So I got a sergal character a litle while ago, never particularly liked them but it was an impulse buy as I kinda liked the design. >.>

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/43092602/

Now problem is I know next to nothing about the race so I'm gonna need more info before I can even do anything with the character. So where can I find some good info on them?

  art-abaddon is having another art raffle, check it out and join in here : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42484261/

  nevermown is holding a character raffle.

Check it out here : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42.....#cid:156408441

  galleria has some leftover adopts up for grabs if you're looking for a new bovine charater.

Check it out here : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41455939/

  art-abaddon is holding an art raffle. for reaching 4500 watchers

Check it out here for how you could join in and maybe win : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39338260/

Good luck.

I am thinking of donating a set of 3 metal posters from Displate as a prize for Gaming for Kitties this year, However I'm having some trouble deciding on if I just pick some out myself,, let the winner pick out whichever they want, or if I should pick from a theme.

I've put up a strawpoll so if you have a moment, you could help me decide on what to do.

The poll can be found here : https://www.strawpoll.me/20911746

Thanks for your time.

I apologize for the journal this morning (for those who seen it at least), I had a moment of weakness and FA was still open so that's where I vented.

Sorry to worry people, I'll make sure it won't happen again.

I'm not going into details about what happened, FA isn't the place for it anyways, but these are my personal problems that I had no right to dump on people.

I'd rather try and forget this incident but I'll probably leave this journal up for a day so anybody who may have possibly been worried knows that I'm still alive at least.

Only just heard about this, so maybe this isn't really news anymore, but aparently we lost Tolkien today (January 16th)

Thanks for many great stories, may you rest in peace.