This was a long time coming
I finally gave my profile page a complete overhaul. It was honestly not changed very much since day 1 of making this account, and 278 watchers later (approaching 300 wow!!!) it still was mostly the same format, and honestly it was getting kinda cringy and boring to read.

So, I finally did it. Please check out my new profile page! (just click on my icon or name)
I had to play around with it for a while before it was satisfying to me. If any of you happened to see it in the last few days you would have probably noticed it was still under construction. And honestly I may still change some small things here or there but for the most part I'm happy with how it looks now, which is a big deal as basically the first thing people see about me. Very much necessary.

Does it look good to you guys? I really want to know if it looks poor on any other FA theme or format, as I only use the classic FA format with the default theme. But I want it to look good on any presentation! So PLEASE tell me if it doesn't!

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That's the main thing I wanted to share, but since I haven't shared a life update in a while, here's what's been goin on for anyone interested!

I am currently working summer activities at the Park City mountain resort. It's a fun job! But goodness the hours are long and the commute is kinda long too. But I do get 3 day weekends and free use of the chairlifts for downhill mountain biking, which I'm not very good at right now but its still a ton of fun! I have decided that I plan to work at least one more Winter at a ski resort as well, and for the foreseeable future I will be continuing to live in Utah!
I'm also fully vaccinated and things are opening up again so I'm hopefully looking forward to things going back to normal, and especially for furmeets and cons to start up again! I can't wait to get back out there!
So yeah overall, while I'm still more of a winter person than a summer person, things are going very well! The livin' is good!

Yo! It's been half a year since my last journal! I hope every single one of my watchers is doing well, because I promise I still appreciate every single person that hit the watch button for me!!

As for myself? Well the title of my last journal certainly didn't lie. I've basically been working my dream job throughout this whole winter!! Working as a ski lift operator [AKA a 'lifty'] has been absolutely fantastic. I feel like I'm getting paid to go skiing half the time. The only downside is that sometimes traffic is a nightmare, but not for the reasons you might think. My daily commute is the most avalanche-prone road in America! [Also fun fact: this is the only place outside of a warzone where people have permission to fire live ordinance over civilian heads!! That's how they control said avalanches.] So yeah, even the worst part of the job can be spun into something incredible, and the benefits are so, so numerous.
Otherwise, due to the pandemic not much other news, but I am convinced that I'm making the absolute most of my time given the circumstances. Still no idea what I'm gonna do when the ski season's over but I'm confident I'll figure it out.

Now, for the reason I decided to make a journal in the first place, I have new stickers!! I haven't gotten new ones since 2019, and have not mentioned my Telegram sticker pack since then, so it is definitely worth giving it another shout out now!
The bulk of the added stickers were done by Cúgaru! Who has an amazing art style for stickers! I also added one bonus sticker each from Pitari, Rude Bird Studios, and Moonblaze64 !

Check out my sticker pack HERE!
https://t.me/addstickers/Craddock

That's all! Thanks for reading!

That's right! You read the title correctly!
I have just secured a job at Alta Ski Resort in Utah! I will be working as a lift operator!!
Now this probably sounds like a funny picture of a 'dream job', but I didn't realize until my interview how good the lift operator position is! First off, I will get a LOT of time to ski while still on the clock! I'm gonna get PAID to SKI! Second, while I'll probably stick to one lift as the ski season progresses, I'll be constantly swapping between base and peak, so even though I do have ADD, I doubt things will ever get too stale or monotonous. And I've had plenty of experience working with people before so I definitely don't mind that aspect! And third, I get free skiing at Alta, and once a week at Snowbird, which are two of my favorite ski resorts, PERIOD!

Now, another reason this news may sound confusing is because as some of you are aware, I majored in Aerospace Engineering hah! So it definitely seems strange to chase a position as a lift operator, no?
Well that's because I'm taking some time to work at a ski resort while I still can! I won't be so young and active forever, and I feel that once I get an engineering job, it would be unwise to quit and work at a ski resort later. I'd probably be missing so many opportunities for advancement. So I'm gonna get this out of the way before I get an engineering job.
So, yes, this job is only temporary. The pay is nowhere near good enough to sustain me later down the line. So it's all about those skiing benefits baby!

I am so dang excited for this Winter season! I start work in November, and man the ski season cannot arrive soon enough!

Hey guys! I just reached 100 followers on twitter!!!

To celebrate hitting triple digits, my AMAZING friend Redac has offered to draw the winner a free mawshot, just like the one he drew for me here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/34826597/

If you're already following me on twitter, then let this serve as a reminder to enter!
And if you're not, then trust me, I won't flood your feed. My tweets/retweets are fairly exclusive, and always SFW (including vore/belly stuff tho of course!), so I would really appreciate the follow!!

The raffle will end in one week on 7/21 so don't put it off!

And thanks again you guys! I'm legitimately honored to be getting so much support from y'all!

EDIT: OH SHOOT Y'ALL NEED THE LINK TO MY TWITTER RIGHT!
Well here it is: https://twitter.com/CraddockDragon

Wow, now we're at 150!
I just can't thank you guys enough! I really do appreciate every single one of you that clicked that watch button for any reason!! Be it because you share my tastes in vore/stuffing, you found one of my commissions extraordinary, or you enjoy my writing (either the short blurbs with each piece or the full stories), I can't tell you how much ANY of those means to me.

Sorry, no raffle for this one hah! I think I've proven that I'm a bit slower at putting out stories than I thought. . . I'm certainly not as motivated to do so as the bigger and more active writers on this site, but I really do enjoy writing when I want to write, and it feels good to be able to prioritize quality over any sort of deadline! But yeah I can't take on another raffle prize right now! I probably will at 200 tho if I get there, because if there was anyone I'm going to write for, I would like it to be one of you guys!

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And now onto the update portion of the journal:

I would just like to make it public that   Dravsky and I are no longer in a relationship. But don't worry we ended it on good terms, and we are still the best of friends! We just decided that romance isn't really for us. I can guarantee that we will still have joint commissions with both of us in the future! Just probably no more of us kissing or anything hah!

And that's it! Thanks once again to all 150 of you! For real! Stay safe and have a good one!

So as many of you likely saw by my gift from   Dravsky yesterday, May 4th. . . (WHICH IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT PLEASE GO LOOK AT IT HERE LIKE SERIOUSLY ITS SO GOOD CLICK HERE!!!)

It has now been officially one year since I first considered myself a furry. Or scalie. Or whatever you wanna call it. One year as part of this beautiful community. And I'd like to reflect!

History of Craddock
First of all I'd like to make some qualifications. The design of Craddock was actually made slightly earlier than May 4th last year. I can't really pinpoint a date where his design was finished as I was constantly making small adjustments or additions, but I first started designing him over Spring Break, so somewhere around mid-April.

And this isn't the date that he was publicly revealed to the world either. That would be the day that I made this account and posted his ref, being June 1st 2019.

So May 4th is actually right in the middle of these two events. But I think that makes it a fitting day for an anniversary. It's probably the nerdiest date out there anyways hah! I'm glad to have even more reason to celebrate it.

Joining the Fandom
The reason I decided on May 4th specifically to join this fandom is because my roomate   Cugaru invited me to tag along with him to a Renaissance Fair that day, and he was meeting up with some local furs while he was there. I came for the Ren fair, but let me tell you I stayed for the furries. I had been around furries before, heck I had even been to a furcon with my roomate, Califur 2016! But that was just because I was immensely curious at what went on at a Furcon. I had a great time! Super friendly people, lotta fun times, plenty of artists.

But I'm getting sidetracked. I was still hesitant to associate with furries despite in the process of designing a dragon because even though I knew they were cool people, I thought that EVERYONE else believed they were degenerate sexual weirdos. But I was proven oh so wrong that day. The furries ran around in suit doing silly things, participating in the events in suit, and just having a good time, and to my utter surprise, everyone there LOVED them. Left and right, people were asking for selfies with the fursuiters, asking to touch their suit or get a better look, asking about them or their sona, and some of the booths even gave them free stuff in exchange for pictures!

This was an eye-opening experience to me. I thought everyone hated furries. But everyone here loved the furries!!! The only jeers they got were from some young kids, either elementary or middle school, but I wasn't sure whether 'Haha! Look at the furries! The furries!' Was lighthearted or not, hard to tell, but everyone else just loved them!

So I abandoned all reservations about the fandom and decided to join! I was much more unafraid of associating with the community, and I am so glad that I did so.

What I've done in a year
I would have N E V E R imagined the impact this fandom would have on me in just a year, and where I've gotten to as a result.

I started off by just getting many cheap solo commissions, and of course a commission from my favorite artist   kori16 which is still one of my favorites. I had fantasies of having a character that would be willing to be eaten by my dragon, but I figured I was fine just eating random made up dragons and such for vore art.

However, I first met Dravsky and we started bonding over writing stories together, and was the first person I met that I got a joint commission with too! Except for Fauxtrot but I knew him from my IRL furry group. I even toyed with the idea of asking Dravsky if I could eat him in a commission despite not being into vore. Little did I know, Dravsky would be the one to ask ME! I still cannot believe I got Dravsky into vore, or at least awakened the desire in him. Incredible.

But after Dravsky agreed to get commissions with me, slowly over time, more and more people grew interested in Craddock! I could have NEVER seen this coming! And now I have multiple people that want to get collabs with me, and over 100 watchers somehow, and I've really found my niche in this community.


Alright, before this post gets too long, let me wrap things up. Thanks a bunch for being really the best community out there. I've been in a lot of gaming communities in the past and none of them even come close to how friendly, open, and accepting this one is. I'm proud to call myself a furry!

  Rovel_von_Renard !!!

Congrats Rovel!! You have won your choice of
1. A free 10 page story commission
2. Both my Craddock trading cards
or 3. A free commission with Craddock!

I will message you over discord to discuss!

Thank you everyone so freaking much for watching and for participating! I have a LOT of commissions in the works currently (Like no joke, 8 things in the works), and with the virus shutting everything down, I'll probably actually have time to write! So more content is on the way, of all types!

I will have more raffles in the future, so even if you didn't win this time, there will be more opportunities down the road! Thank you all SO MUCH again for over 100 watchers! And make the most of being quarantined!

Yo!! The super freaking amazing chonky derg artist   Belly_Emporium just reached 100 watchers at basically the same time I did, and so she is also holding a 100 watchers giveaway, and the prize is a FREE chubby dragon YCH! That's like, a super good value prize tbh. Def check out her gallery if you aren't convinced. She is super friendly too, and I even have multiple pieces from her on the way! So I will vouch for her art personally! Also the more people that enter, the more prizes she adds! So I want to see as many people enter as possible!

GO ENTER   Belly_Emporium 's RAFFLE HERE!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35475915/

In other news, I will also be ending my own raffle in 24 hours!!! That means I will announce the winner at 10 PM PST TOMORROW! So if you have not entered that one yet, GO ENTER NOW! DON'T DELAY! You can get your choice from 3 different prizes! It's certainly worth your while!

Go enter my own 100 watcher raffle HERE!

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9429422/

Thanks for reading! And I appreciate every one of ya that signs up for either raffle!

Just freaking 4 months ago I hit my 50 watcher milestone, and now I just hit 100! In fact this journal is even a bit late, as I am currently at 101 watchers!! I think that's kinda insane, just how quickly my account is growing! So heck yeah thanks you guys, like for real I'm not just saying that to say that, I really am kinda touched that so many people are interested in either my dragon, my writing, or my interests!

Now, I'm quite embarrassed to say, but because of how busy I am, I still haven't finished my 50 watcher raffle prize story, even though I just hit 100 watchers. . . But I've been in contact with the winner and they are totally aware with what's up and cool with it! Now, the winner of my new raffle of course has the choice again between multiple options, but I can confidently say this:

If the winner chooses a story commission, I WILL get it finished in a timely manner!

I can guarantee this because as of right now, shortly after the raffle ends my family plans to go on a week-long cruise for spring break, which means NO WI-FI OR INTERNET WHATSOEVER for much of the vacation, which means I have nothing to do BUT write! So do not hesitate to choose the story option if that is what you choose! But this time, the other options are bigger and better too, so the winner will have a real choice ahead of them!

Now, enough of that, let's get to what all you lovely amazing people came here for, and what you deserve:

Craddock's 100 Watcher Giveaway Details!

There will only be 1 winner, but with only 100 watchers and likely only a fraction of those participating, everyone should have a decent shot! And of course, new watchers are not only allowed, but welcomed with open arms! Just say that you watched in order to participate in this raffle in the comments!

Here's what you can win!

You will get a choice of either:
1. A free 10+ page story commission from myself! (check my Commission Info!)
2. A Craddock Blue-Eyes White Dragon card AND a Craddock & Cúgaru Pokémon League card mailed directly to you! Click each of the hyperlinked titles to see what each looks like! And yes you would get BOTH!
3. I will pay for a joint commission of one of your characters with Craddock! This won't be anything huge, probably worth no more than $40, and the artist and subject of the commission will be negotiable.

Here's what you have to do!
1. You must be watching me (new watchers welcome!)
2. Tell me why you started watching me in the comments below! It could be because you saw a certain commission or story you loved, because you like my general gallery or my dragon, or heck just because you saw this raffle and wanted in! All reasons are cool by me! I'm just genuinely curious!

Winner will be drawn on Thursday, March 19th! The reason why this is such a long period before the winner is picked is because I am heading into finals week right now, and my last final is on that Thursday. I'd rather not be handling anything unnecessary until after they are done, so the winner will be picked that night, and will get to choose from any of the three amazing options!

Thank you, good luck, and y'all deserve this!!!

You heard the title right! Craddock is in a relationship with the amazing   Dravsky !!

Before I go any further, I want to clarify one thing: Craddock the character is in a relationship with Dravsky, not Craddock the person IRL. As a person I don't like to do long distance relationships, and I would still consider myself straight, but I am not afraid to experiment a bit through my sona!

Anyways with that qualification out of the way, Craddock is in a very happy relationship with Dravsky now! We wanted to post a story to announce the relationship with, but I got Dravsky a gift for valentine's day, and with more couple-based commissions on the way, we simply couldn't wait to announce it!! But let me tell you, the two have gone through a lot together, more than is in our completed public stories so far! And after all that, and some excellent persuasion on Dravsky's part, the two developed into a loving relationship!!

Please do take a look at that gift art in the form of a Valentine's Day card that I got for Dravsky HERE!
Also,   Redac_1 has even contributed some of his talent to the relationship and gifted us another little pic of us together giving each other a loving headbutt HERE!

Anyways, we just wanted to make this announcement so that people don't get caught off guard by all this 'Cravsky' (yes that is our ship name) stuff that we are posting, as well as the stuff to come! There will be a story detailing the blossoming of their relationship eventually, but in the meantime, the two may have a few scenes depicting their relationship posted! So absolutely keep a lookout for that!

First of all, real quick thanks to all of ya for watching me. Insane to me that I'm now closer to 100 watchers than I am to 50! I feel like I only just hit 50, and we are already here!

Anyways, I'm off to a great start this 2020, having attended FC, got a new PFP, and updated my ref!

My new PFP is from   Hato , who is a super amazing dragon artist and did a great job with it! Finally I don't have to use a cropped view of my ref sheet for my PFP!

Speaking of my ref sheet, I have gotten a MAJOR update for it! So thanks to   Cugaru for updating it for me for free! Very appreciative for that! You can see the newly updated Craddock Ref 2.0 HERE

Changelog:
+ Added view of mouth w/forked tongue!
+ Added specification that neck wedges are NOT spikes!
+ Added shoulder height
! Changed height to 11 ft (up from 10 ft)
- Removed any mention of an anthro form. Craddock is purely feral.

Reasonings:
- I did not previously have any indication of Craddock's forked tongue before on the ref itself, so I sometimes had to ask artists to change Craddock's tongue after they already worked on it! So hopefully that never happens again
- Similar story with the neck wedges. Some artists interpreted them as spikes, so that had to be corrected after they began work.
- Many people wanted me to measure Craddock by shoulder height since it is the most consistent way to measure a feral's height, so now he has an official shoulder height as well!
- I have always imagined Craddock to be in between 10 and 11 feet, but I have often found myself rounding up closer to 11 feet, so I decided to change his height to it officially.
- I gave Craddock an anthro form as a bit of a safety net in case he couldn't do some of the things I wanted him to do in feral form. But over time, and using creative thinking and engineering, I've found ways for him to do everything I've wanted him to in feral form. Even skiing! So I've gotten rid of the anthro form entirely. Craddock is 100% feral!!

Thanks for listenin to my ramblings and updates! Glad to have started off this 2020 well, and excited to see what it will bring!!

Lucky me! I will be attending Further Confusion this weekend! On the off chance that anyone who comes across this journal is also going, tell me! I'd love to meet up with ya!

I will be carrying my plush on my shoulder almost all the time! So that will be the easiest way to find me! I will also be wearing my Tapfur badge, and handing out my Craddock Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards! If you would like one, just come up to me and ask! I have plenty so I am more than happy to give them out to anyone interested!!

Here is a tweet with images of all these things if you would like a visual: https://twitter.com/CraddockDragon/.....340546050?s=20

Alright, my 50 watcher raffle has concluded. There were 8 entrants! While the odds are certainly much better than most any other raffle out there, keep in mind the odds of winning are still 1 in 8. Not very likely. I wish I could give all of y'all a special somethin for watching me closely enough to make the effort to join the raffle, but I have limited time as is!

Anyways, without further ado, I have used the randInt function on my TI-84 Graphing calculator to determine the winner, and the winner ISSSSSSS. . .
furious drumroll proceeds. . .
!!!   larien !!!
Congratulations!! You can choose between a free 10+ page story commission, OR you can have one of my Craddock, Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards mailed to you!
When you see this, send me a note or PM me on Telegram Craddock or on Twitter CraddockDragon and I'll get in touch with ya! (Although it may be tomorrow, I'm about to go to sleep)

As for everyone else, once again thanks so much for participating. I will definitely do another one of these raffles when I hit 100 watchers!

. . . Also I guess I am considering doing a 50-follower giveaway on twitter as well, as I'm currently at 42 followers there. . . buuuut considering the very low likes and retweets my tweets get there, I feel like most of those 50 don't even actively check my stuff. . . So I feel like a giveaway there would not go over very well. If I get to 50 watchers by the end of the year, that will show that peeps are interested, and I'll consider it. But hey you should follow me on twitter anyways!
Shameless self plug: https://twitter.com/CraddockDragon

Thanks so much for watching me you guys, and I hope you all had a very merry Christmas!!!

Yooo! We hit it! 50 whole watchers!!! Thank all of you guys so much!!!

As I stated in my Thanksgiving journal, I was considering doing a raffle when I hit 50, so that's exactly what I'm going to do! There will only be 1 winner, but with only 50 watchers, your chances are likely going to be pretty good! You guys deserve it for watching me!

Here's what you can win!

You will get a choice of either:
1. A free 10+ page story commission from myself (check my Commission Info!)
2. A Craddock Blue-Eyes White Dragon card mailed directly to you! Click here to see what it looks like!

Here's what you have to do!
1. You must be watching me (new watchers welcome!)
2. Just leave a comment here with your favorite image or story from my gallery, and why it's your favorite, and you'll be entered! I'm interested in this so I know what to write/commission more of in the future!

Winner will be drawn on Christmas Day! That is in ONE WEEK! So at the end of Wednesday, December 25th, I will randomly select one watcher from the comments to choose their prize!

Thank you, good luck, and merry Christmas!!!

Hey, to all my watchers, thank you so freaking much for watching me! Like seriously, I do very minimal marketing/pandering, so I can be confident that my relatively small watcher base is here because they are genuinely and seriously invested in AT LEAST one of the following things:
- My sona and his design
- My stories
- My commissions and interests

And honestly, the fact that people care enough about ANY of those things means so much to me. Because (respectively):
- I can't properly convey how awesome it is that other people like my dragon design enough to watch me. Like, I wanted to create MY ideal dragon when I created Craddock. One that had all of MY personal favorite characteristics, and reflected ME personally. And seeing that other people agree that they like his design is about the best confirmation I can get that I designed him well!
- I freaking love writing stories. I'm a very, very busy person, but I still enjoy writing enough to make time for it. And seeing people view, favorite, and even critique my work means the freaking WORLD to me. Like, the fact that my stories are interesting enough to hold anyone's interest until the end? That's all the confirmation I need that I'm doing it right, and that my passion is getting shared!
- If you watched me because of a particularly beautiful/cute/awesome/delicious commission, yo I'm just as thankful for that! I'm so glad that you liked my idea for a commission, and you agree that the artist did an amazing job with it! Because I am beyond satisfied with all the arts I've gotten so far, and I'm so glad that people agree enough to want to watch me for more!

To wrap things up, you all may have noticed when you watched me that I gave you a shout out specifically thanking you for being one of my first watchers! Because its true! Y'all will ALWAYS be my first watchers! And well, there won't be many more of you left! I plan to stop calling people my "first" watchers after I hit 50. After that, nobody else will get that title from me. So congrats guys, you watched in time to join that exclusive club!

Also, with that milestone of 50 coming up, perhaps I should do a raffle to show my appreciation once I hit 50 watchers! Perhaps a raffle to decide my next story, perhaps a raffle to win one of my Craddock Blue Eyes White Dragon cards mailed to you, or perhaps a raffle to cameo in a story of mine! If any of these sound enticing, tell me! Or if you have any other ideas I'd love to hear them! I'll definitely do something when I hit the big 50! As of writing this journal I'm at 44, and with another story + commission nearing completion, I may hit 50 very soon!

Anyways, to conclude, THANK. YOU. All of you! While I hope that one day I might get as popular as some of my idols, its pretty nice to have a small dedicated base of watchers that I can be confident are interested in my sona, work, or commissions! And I thank you all for being a part of it!

Yo! I have a proposition for ya'll!
So I got an idea for a vore story on my trip home from the last con I visited
The TSA agent pulled out my Craddock plush for additional screening, where she squeezed him all over (I guess to check if I was smuggling anything inside of him heh). Of course they gave him back to me pretty quickly, but it gave me an idea. . .

I want to write a vore story where Craddock smuggles a bunch of friends into a well guarded city by eating them.
Basically, the city is closed off to most commoners, but Craddock is allowed in because he's giving a gift to the king (or something I'll figure it out). So Craddock will eat them all, digest them and get all fat, then reform them once he is inside the city. However, on his way in, the guards will see his fat belly and stop him. They will ask him to lie on his side, and they will start giving his belly a 'pat down' searching for people inside (but they won't find any as they're all digested by now, and they don't know that Craddock can reform). But of course Craddock will gladly accept the free belly rubs. Then they'll let him go in, where Craddock will then reform everyone and let them do as they please in the city.

So here's my proposition: Who wants to make a cameo in my story (get eaten & reformed by Craddock)? All I would need from you is a basic reason why your sona/character would want to get in the city (visit a shop, talk to a person, they're curious, go to a party, anything really). Also, optionally, I would like to know if your sona/character has a distinct taste to them that I can describe, or if they just taste like a normal member of their species. I'll of course shout you out in the FA description for your generosity!

I am also getting a commission of the scene where Craddock is getting the 'pat down' BTW, and I'll be releasing the story alongside it heh

Just note me or DM me on any of my socials if you're interested (listed here: https://t.co/I1tUgj6TTR?amp=1 )! I will write the story this weekend so make sure to tell me by then!

Thanks to a bit of a trade deal I struck with my good friend   Cugaru I now have a starting sample of Telegram stickers! All of them involve me dealing out punishments with varying severity! add them here: https://t.me/addstickers/Craddock

I'll add to that sticker pack as I get more stickers. I chose to get these ones first since I wanted to get stickers for Craddock's more unique abilities that I can't just substitute in other general dragon stickers for. Plus I have a friend who is interested in making more standard Craddock stickers for me, but it seems like he's still experimenting with his own style so he doesn't feel confident enough to make them quite yet.

Hey! I'm heading to Arizona Furcon this weekend! If by any longshot chance someone who reads this is also going to be there, please tell me! I'd love to meet up with anyone who would know me! I am bringing physical Craddock trading cards to hand out to anyone who wants one!

And while I'm writing a journal, I'd like to let everyone know that I have two exciting commissions on the way! Not sure what order they'll arrive in, but both are going to be Craddock's first joint commissions with another character!
One is going to be a vore sequence commission (my first sequence as well) featuring digestion and weight gain
The other is going to be a very wholesome and beautiful joint commission with another dragon that I've gotten to know very well, this one accompanied by a dual-author story written between the two of us! This story has turned into quite the project, as we've both put a bunch of time into it, but it has turned out to be honestly incredible, and I can't wait to unveil it once the commission finishes!

So recently I've been completely enamored with this text based game called Golden Treasure: The Great Green, and to all you dragons out there, or even just people that can enjoy a good text based survival game with BEAUTIFUL visuals, writing, and music, listen up:

This game is really unlike any other game I've played before. You play as a dragon, already unique enough right? But in this world, dragons are very feral and animalistic. The game can become very detached from human thought processes, and really forces you to come at it from a much more primal point of view. You hunt prey, you defend and expand your territory, you collect treasure for your hoard, and there's even allegedly an emphasis on mating season, but I haven't gotten there yet.

Which brings me to my first major praise, THIS GAME IS HAAAAARD. But it's fair in the sense that it should be hard, you're surviving as a wild animal basically, even as a dragon life is tough in the wild. Like, you start out as just a hatchling, and freaking so many things can kill you. Took me multiple tries just to reach adolescence and claim my first territory, but it honestly only gets freaking harder from there as now you have to fight other DRAGONS to defend your territory, not just wild animals as before. And the animals aren't the only things that can kill you in this game. Plants, diseases, forces of nature, everything is against you and can kill you. I've been playing for a while and I've still never reached adulthood or my first mating season, but I really do appreciate that. You truly have to be resourceful to survive, and with many games catering towards more and more casual audiences, this is honestly a welcome challenge.

Also this game is freaking beautiful. Like, the amount of QUALITY art of dragons, beautiful vistas, and other creatures that you get to witness in your playthrough is easily worth the buying price alone. But its not just the art, the writing is really good. It can get very spiritual and philosophical at times, but that really just helps flesh out the world more, as even though the game is very beast-like, dragons still seek out knowledge and wisdom, setting them apart from the rest of the animals. But the writing in general is so professional and expertly done, its almost always an enjoyable read! And the music is really freaking good too. Beautiful piano tracks and environmental noises, it absorbs me into the world personally. All of this combined, this game has made me very emotional at times, more than anything in years honestly.

But this brings me to my biggest point, Dreaming Door Studios is like, the best game dev team ever. So many hours in to one of my runs, my save data got corrupted. I didn't lose, and yet my only option was to start over again. It was honestly heartbreaking. Nothing I could do would bring it back. So as a last ditch effort, I emailed Dreaming Door about the problem, not really expecting to get my save back, but at least so that they could figure out what went wrong and prevent it from happening to others with a bug fix. BUT THEY ACTUALLY CAME THROUGH AND FIXED MY SAVE FILE! They sent it back to me completely fixed, right where I left off! So yeah, not only is the game amazing, but the company behind it is too.

So yeah, I highly recommend this game. I haven't even come close to experiencing all it has to offer, and I'm still confident in my recommendation! When I finish, I'll probably write a more complete review, but this game will certainly keep me occupied for a long time. If anything I've said interests you, there is a free demo that you can try out, and if you decide to buy, it keeps your progress in the demo, so no reason not to really! Please do check it out, and if you do end up playing it, I'd love to talk about it with ya!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/.....snr=1_7_15__13

First of all, happy vore day!

Second, with my new piece that I got commissioned for vore day, I have released my first bit of writing to this account! And with that, I have an example of what I am capable of producing! (A piece that you can read HERE if you haven't already!) It is a great example of what I can do with vore writing! I can also write general fiction, and in fact I started a much longer story even before I thought of the vore story I just released, one that fleshes out the characters of Craddock and 40Sim-0 and doesn't involve any vore. . . yet. I'm not currently planning on adding vore but since I'm just writing as I go, it might end up with some.

But anyways, the reason I'm writing a journal about this is because I would like to open up my writing services for commission! If you are interested enough in my writing to commission me to write something for you, I would love to do so for the very low price of $1 per page! Please check out my commission info HERE for all the relevant information! This price may go up in the future, but for now I'm just excited to be writing fiction, so I'm starting low!

Thanks for reading! And I hope you stick around to enjoy more of my writing in the future! As well as many more commissions I plan on purchasing!

Short notice? Well that's because I just made my plans short notice!
My family had plans for the weekend Anthrocon was happening on, but those plans recently got delayed, so the weekend was free! And I'm not one to waste a perfectly good weekend! So I made some quick plans to travel to Pittsburgh and attend!
This is going to be my first big FurCon. I technically went to Califur back in 2017, but many people have told me that con is nothing compared to many of the others, and well, Anthrocon is one of the biggest, so wow am I excited for this!

If by any slim chance anyone reading this is going to be there too, tell me! I'd love to meet in person! Otherwise, I just wanted to share this very exciting news with y'all!

Thank you so much for checking out my account!

If you are coming over from my old account, first of all I'm touched by how much you actually cared to follow me, and also surprised that my old account gained any followers at all, but regardless thank you so much for your interest in me. Finally I will have some real art to showcase for you now! (all art will be commissions as I cannot draw)

If you found my account through other means, thank you so much for your interest! Not entirely sure where I'm going to go with this account, but you can expect some vore stuff and some great commissioned art, so I'd be happy to have you stick around!

And I am ALWAYS open to talk about whatever. Please do not feel afraid to talk to me, DM me, comment, shout at me, really whatever. I'd be more than happy to connect with anyone interested enough to reach out to me!