Hey! Me and  run_rabbit_bounce where guests on the TFTuesday podcast this week and our episode is live for anyone who wants to watch it!  zilepo interviewed us for 2 full hours on how we got into TF, our work on TF RPGs, our love of robots and inanimate stuff and an assortment of random additional topics. If you like me, like Bounce or just want to hear creative people ramble about making art, its a fun time and well worth a watch! As is the show generally!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVh.....HwoIo&t=1s

It was an honor to be on and I hope to be let back in one day. Heh

Hey all, been a little quiet here this month, but its not because I've been sitting on my hands.

I've got ALLOT of stories, some art, a solo journal game and two RPGs loaded up and ready to be released, but do to some release window nonsense, they are all currently waiting on the green light to be uploaded. And increasingly it looks like 4 of them will be going up on Halloween!

I normally like to spread releases out, when I upload allot at once stuff gets lost in the shuffle, but... it's what it is.

So try and bare with me and brace yourselves...

Halloween is coming!

I just want to take a small moment as my birthday officially starts (35 years old! Half way point!) To thank everyone, friends and fans who have been here for me over the last year. Its been a rough time, but there have been more then my fair share of silver linings and almost all of them have come in the form of the people I've had the great pleasure to know over this last year!

I've sent personal DMs to a number of my friends who reached out over discord, but I want to just make a blanket statement here for everyone, I have not forgotten the numerous people who have in large ways or small, been kind to me over this last year. You have, individually and collectively, done so very much to lift my spirits and keep me going when I've been down.

Thank you all so very much and I hope I'll be here with you all, writing some equally sappy nonsense when I'm 40!

Big love to everyone who reads this!

~April

So Fallout Blue is finally done, took about a year, but feel happy with the end result!

Not so much with the numbers, they are pretty bad, but hey, that's just what happens with long series, people fall off over time... which is a problem, given of the 54 stories I put out over the last year since starting this (and that's not counting the two solo games I made or the art) only 20 where NOT part of an on going, long term series! (Oh wait, 19, one of those was technically a spin off of the 'soup' series...)

Over the last year, the majority of things I've uploaded have included:
Dee the Bride - 6 parts
Fallout Blue - 12 parts
Raptor Saga - 18 chapters + 1 epilogue (with 2 more I've just not put out yet cus of all the OTHER series going on)

And even with the non series stories, 2 of them where solo journals that I mostly just post cus... they are fun to do and easy to share even though I know most people don't enjoy them. And a fair few Christmas gifts that are nice and all, but not really stand alone stories as much as cute little things for friends.

Point is... WOW THAT WAS WAY TO MANY SERIES OVER THE LAST YEAR!

I DO have some one shot stories I am planning on posting soon and while I do have a few on going projects that will be series-like, I am going to make an effort to make some more one and done stories that are fun and horny and TF-y that DON'T require sitting down to read a short novel to fully enjoy.

Hopefully those of you who have been patiently waiting for me to stop spamming your watch list with chapters 7 and 15 of on going super long stories will be rewarded for that patience soon.

I hope at least some of you have been enjoying these longer form tales and for the rest, more normal TF stories coming... again soon.

If you are living in the US and are currently scared of what is coming over the next 4 years because of Trumps promise of a 'day one executive order' to force the federal government to effectively treat trans people and trans identities as not real and de-legitimate, I want you to know that you are not alone and that this is not the end. We have survived worse as a community, this will be hard, but we will get through it together.

I love you, all of you. You are not alone.

And for those of you cheering for this or who are condescendingly telling people terrified for their safety, telling people being targeted by an openly fascistic government, 'just calm down, your over reacting, lets not get political', I also have a message for you.

Fuck off and don't come back. You are unwelcome here.

This is a community created by and for outsiders and weirdos, hate and boot licking have no place here.

Hey everyone, short on time, but want to just send out best wishes and seasons greetings to all of you as well as my heart felt thanks for sticking with me over the last year! Its been crazy and allots happened, but we can talk more on New Years with a year end wrap up. For now, just have a wonderful holiday season to all who celebrate!

And weather or not you do, I brought you all presents! MERRY GIFT-MASS! HO HO HO!!!

Okay well I'm just posting the transformation solo journal games I made over the last year here on FA. And while yes, they HAVE been available on Itch since October and November respectively... you get them on FA now and they are free! (Instead of 'pay what you want' so free anyway on Itch.)

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Look I'm joking, but I did work really hard on these, Stoned, the petrification game is small and lite, but Short Stacked is like 50 pages long and took months of hard work and it has a special little twine program on Itch you can download that comes with a bunch of handy cheat sheets and a tarot card drawer! It's allot! I'm giving it all away for free, but it was a decent amount of work and I really hope you all enjoy it.

Anyway, seriously, thank you so much for another wonderful year here on FA and I hope, weather your celebrating with family or just making it through the winter day by day, you have a lovely end of year!

And here is the Itch.io link if you want to download the games there/get the nice add on for Short Stacked/donate to help me make more games in future.

https://duhad.itch.io/

Happy Holidays!

- April

fuck

And now a few more words:

I'm not going to sugar coat it, this situation sucks. If your a queer person in the US or one of the many countries which will feel the knock on effects of the US pivoting to the far right yet again, life is about to become much worse. Those of us in more protected areas of the country will have to live with the looming threat of federal laws making life harder for us and those living in far less protected states where federal protections are just about the only thing covering you, its going to be down right dangerous.

That's the bad news.

The good news is we have been through this before. We have LIVED through this before. We are going to live through it again.

Things might be worse this time, they likely will be as this time the gloves and the mask both seem to be coming off. Even so, the rules of the game remain the same, stay alive, protect your family and friends, don't let them break you.

Stay alive, keep your head down if your not safe, but rise your voice if your in a position to do so.

And for the love of all things good, watch out for each other! We can't rely on the government to protect us and honestly never should have in the first place, the only people who can protect you are the ones you know and can reach out to in times of need.

The next 4 years are going to be rough and things might get really bad before they start to improve again, but if I've learned one thing in my 34 years on this little ball of rock its that the only thing that you can count on is that nothing lasts forever. Good or bad, everything changes. So, inevitably, this too shall pass.

Stay strong out there.

- April

Pretty much what it says on the top! The 2024 TF Game Jam has started and I've submitted 'Short Stacked - A Monster Transformation Solo Journaling Game' to it! You can pick up my game for free or kick me a couple bucks as a donation, either way, enjoy the game and keep an eye on the jam as I'm sure allot of other cool video games, RPGs and similar projects will be going up there soon!
The jams over here:
https://itch.io/jam/tf24/entries

Also Happy Halloween!

Hey all, seeing as how its once again, "Oh god, what fresh hell is this!?" o'clock, I thought I'd take a quick minute to update folks on a few things.

First, I've been on Bluesky for awhile, its my preferred social media platform, though to be honest, I mostly just use it to look at art when not hanging out in the Root, Hades and Jurassic Park subreddits. I don't really enjoy social media and prefer to just be a nerd in chill online spaces when I feel the urge to doom scroll. Still, if anything happens to me here, Bluesky is where you can see updates about what's going on:
https://bsky.app/profile/duhad.bsky.social

Speaking of which, I've been making progress again on my blog. Its still very much behind the times, but its up to around 57 posts... 57 stories AND short story collections from my work with various artists and I'm still only on page 2 of 4 on my own gallery... I write to god damn much and also should have gotten on this ages ago, but its a kinda slow and annoying process. Anyway, I have been picking up the pace a little so should the worst happen, the archive is in a much less sorry state then it was last time I mentioned it.
https://duhadstoryarchive.blogspot......7c93e4707749ff

Finally for this round of updates, I finished work on a solo journal TF/TFTG game that I'll be submitting to the Transformation Game Jam 2024, its called 'Short Stacked' and is about being a fantasy adventurer who gets turned into a goblin, kobold or imp. (With plenty of room to also just make it a general monster TF game.) Its just over 50 pages long, has art by my incredibly talented roommate Balileart and will be free on itch.io during the jam and probably here as a PDF afterwards. Also working on a story using it, though that's been slightly delayed due to being A. Busy, B. Sick and C. A little overwhelmed with how massive the story is already becoming while I'm only like 1/6th of the way through it...
Check out the game jam and my submission to it once it goes live:
https://itch.io/jam/tf24

And that's basically it for now!

I've got a Halloween story written up, Amborah did an AMAZING picture for it, she surprised me with the picture as a gift and I'm... your gonna LOVE it!

And I have 4 other stories written up and just waiting to be uploaded.

So expect some Halloween fun soon and some BIG things in the near future! Till then, Happy Halloween!

Like the title says, I was a guest on Bianca G.'s delightful podcast 'The Blorbo Club' where I spent over an hour talking about mostly my various furry characters.

The shows very cute and worth a watch and while I don't want to gas myself up to much, I think this was a good episode as well! So if you want to hear me talk about my funny little guys and gals and NB pals or you just want to find a really chill and relaxing podcast, go give it a watch at the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grCTvSB27yY

That's right, thanks in HUGE part to my wonderful girlfriend  UnsavoryRepute my full novel length story, The Raptor Saga is live and readable! 18 chapters across 3 volumes, all online and ready to read! If you've been waiting till the whole thing is up before starting to being the whole thing, yes Tocixcog I am talking to you right now, you now have no excuse not to read it all... aside from it being really long. And also a very self indulgent story that's not my normal TF work. BUT STILL! Read it! I worked really hard on it...

So what's next?

Well I have allot actually!

Three more chapters of 'Fallout Blue' the Fallout/Pokemon TFTG story I've been writing for  D-6alaxy are ready and just waiting on editing.

I have a couple epilogue-esc follow up chapters to the novel, mostly slice of life side stories about everyone settling back down and figuring out the new normal post-world altering adventures and a more regular (though somewhat experimental) TFTG story that takes place post novel so I've been sitting on it for AWHILE now to post.

And a BUNCH of art from  WHISKEYWHISKERZ I need to put up!

So ya, allot is coming in the near future and that's JUST what's ready to be uploaded, allot, ALLOT more has been going on behind the scenes, allot with  GoldenGryphon, tons with  Amborah, the rest of the 'Best Man To Bride' series and much more!

And on a personal note to wrap this up, while its been over a year since I wrote the novel, having it all up now really has me feeling a certain way. I started this FA account as basically just an excuse to post stories I wrote while working with AllBadBadger's that he ended up dropping the art that they would have gone with. Since then this place, this sight, has very much become my creative home online. While my most famous and profitable work has easily come from the games I wrote for, my personal creative ambitions and the things I am most proud of have come to life here on FA. I have made so many friends, found love with two wonderful women and created things I really wasn't sure I'd be capable of thanks to the community here.

While recent events have reaffirmed me belief that we ALL should be preparing for a potential future without FA and I really, REALLY need to get back to working on my archive and possibly also uploading to Archive of Our Own or some other writing sights, FA will always have a special place in my heart. As long as this site stands, I'll try and be here. And as long as your all with me, I'll never stop writing as long as I have strength to type.

With all the love in the world, thank you for reading.

- April

Hey all, its been... a time.

With the passing of FA's owner and the current on going questions about the sights future (the team seems to be handling things well for now, don't panic) I thought it might be a good idea to once again mention that I have a blog I've been... failing to update for awhile with all my past written work. Still, while its been months since I last updated it, I do still plan on eventually adding all my old work and all future work to it so that a back up of my stories remains around even if something where to happen to FA.

Meanwhile, if ever you cannot find me on furaffinity, look for me on Twitter or Bluesky, I'm decently present on both sights and go by 'Duhad' just about everywhere. Finding me again is not hard and should something happen to FA I might swap to Co-Host or Archive Of Our Own as a new home.

That being said, I am not leaving FA anytime soon and hopefully FA will continue to be a wonderful home for all of us for the foreseeable future. As before, I just like to make sure I have back ups in place and ways for people to find me.

Anyway, on a more positive note, what's coming down the pipes?

Dee recently finished the art for the next part of the 'Bride' series so that's going up soon! I have an RPG supplement book for the game 'We Live Forever and We Love To Live' which is about 90% done and will go up on Itch.io when its finished, probably as a 'pay what you like'' download. And story wise, ALLOT of colabs with Amborah, some planned stuff with Goldengryphon and hopefully soon the next chapter of 'Fallout Blue' are all either done or in the works! And naturally the next 6 chapters of the Raptor Saga will be coming out sooner then later, wrapping up this novel length story! And after that, a few more short stories that I've had to sit on till its done as they contain spoilers.

Seriously, me and Goldengryphon have had over a year to make things in the GE setting and keep having to go, "Oh wait, can't do this yet/can't upload this yet, its spoilers for the novel... damn." And I cannot WAIT to be able to get back into normal GE nonsense once its all uploaded!

So that's it, that's what's going on and what my plans are in case of trouble.

I'll post here once I get the blog properly updated with the rest of the backlog and I'll make it a priority if anything happens here. Everything is backed up on Google docs AND on a back up hard drive, but I want to make sure its all readable by the public, so no risk of it being lost even if the sight suddenly shut down, so even in the worst case, that would lights a fire under my butt to get on reuploading everything on the blog.

Hope your all doing well and hopefully, I'll keep seeing you here for many, many years to come!

- April

This is mostly a small update I'm post for the sake of anyone who wants to read my on going, semi serialized novel 'The Raptor Saga' by volume rather then reading a chapter and then having to wait for the next upload to see what comes next. Unfortunately for the TRUE binging fans, there is still one last volume to go... and its easily the longest! So much more story to come, but this volume and the story it tells has now come to a close...

I want to also take a moment to once again thank  GoldenGryphon who has been working hard on the covers even through allot of IRL stuff that's kept her from drawing/uploading more on her own gallery. She's a wonderful friend and a serious trooper and I owe her allot! Please go give her gallery a watch, I promise more art is coming from her eventually, I've just kinda kept her tied up way, WAY to long on my book!

Sorry bestie, love you!~

And for fans of my other work, I'm actually currently working on a pretty big project that's not going to be posted here, but soon as I'm free again, I'm gonna continue Fallout Blue and hopefully also finish up Neo Gob City Witches! I know... I didn't actually forget about that story. I DO plan on finishing all my own going projects, even if it takes awhile...

Anyway, thanks for everyone who's read the novel chapters, I know its light on TF and I know its not my normal stuff, so I deeply appreciate everyone who's stuck with me as I indulge in some creative experimentation and worked on my big passion project. Ya'll rule and I promise we will get back to porn soon enough. <3

- April

Holy hell, I never thought this day would come... I started writing on FA mostly just because it was where my, at the time, primary artist collaborator AllBadBadgers was uploading allot of his work and I figured, 'What the hell? Maybe I'll post whatever scraps of personal writing I do between my work on Exiles of Aphrodisia and other professional stuff? Its not like its going to go anywhere..."

From there I slowly started meeting folks who would in time become incredibly dear friends, I'd list them all here, but just look at my front page, I've made a big old list of the people who's collaborations and more importantly, friendship has made such a massive difference in my life. I truly could not ask for a better group of friends and creative partners to be working with!

1k isn't like the most insane number for someone here on FA to reach, allot of my friends have FAR passed that by now, but the thing is, being a writer on FA is NOT easy! This is NOT a fiction site and outside of a small handful of truly big name TF writers, its a climb getting up to this point on fur affinity... and like, god damn man, ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE! ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE enjoyed my stuff enough to want to follow me to see more of it! That's never going to stop being crazy to think about! You, reading this, the fact your invested enough to read these words is unbelievably touching in and of itself, but knowing your joined by a literal legion of others... well not actually actively reading this, most probably just check out one in every dozen or so posts because its the very specific thing they are here for, but STILL! A Roman legion of furries reading my stuff, looking at my friends art, watching this page... its genuinely incredibly touching.

I'm not sure what the future will bring, I have been meaning for awhile to start finding other homes for my work, NOT LEAVING FA, just also uploading to places like AO3 or other more nitch TFTG writing sights that are more focused on writing then FA. But FA is my home and I'm not leaving it. Nor am I going to stop writing, hell I have ALLOT more of my novel to put up, the rest of Dee's bride series, the on going Dee Fallout series, Bounces Witches of Neo Gob City series and so on and so forth... ALLOT is in the works and until I drop dead, I don't see myself ever giving up on my beloved TF fiction.

So look forward to many more years of writing to come and who knows, maybe in a decade or so, we'll be looking at a big old 2k mile stone!

A shark can dream.

Much love and endless gratitude,

- April

Good lord, the time flies, doesn't it? Feels like my 34th birthday (coming up on the 15th, remember to file your taxes) really just popped up on me! Between being sick for around a month at the start of the year, having on and off back pain issues keeping me from writing through most of the intervening time and writing up a storm for various work and personal projects without being able to share much of it with all of you... its hardly felt like 4 months have already passed since 2024 started.

Still, the time has come... well near enough, its still like 2 days away, but whatever, I still want to take this moment real fast to just thank everyone who has been watching and commenting and favorite-ing my work over the last year.

Health issues aside, this has been a DAMN good year for me. I've met some wonderful people, some incredible artists I've had the pleasure to start working with this year, I've begun dating a frankly incredible little goblin as well as continued dating the best damn yeen in the world and I've had a chance to work on some TF RPG stuff that genuinely has been a dream come true for me as a life long GM and lover of pen and paper RPGs!

In short, its been a good day and I'm looking forward to this coming year being as good or better!

... wait isn't there going to be an elec- FUCK!

ANYWAY IN BETTER NEWS...

My novel is FINALLY BEGINNING TO COME OUT! Volume 1 is now FULLY out and FULLY free to read here on FA and volumes 2 and 3 will be coming out as well just as soon as the cover arts are done! Each volume will have its own cover and each part can be read as sort of its own episode, though one that tells a serialized story.

I know that's not really the best way of putting out a book, but... well its already taken a very long time to come out and honestly I'd rather just get it out to you all in episodes rather then make you wait even longer to read the whole thing at once. And once its ALL done I'll put out a full collected version, the proper novel length story!

But anyway, that's all for now.

Thank you again for another wonderful year and for your patience. Enjoy volume 1 and... more normal TF stories coming soon! I got a few that are set AFTER the events of the novel that I've held off on uploading for spoiler reasons, but soon as the full book is out, I'll be able to share all that good stuff and hopefully allot more normal TFTG stories to boot!

Lots of love,

- April

Hey all, been awhile since I posted anything, wrote much of anything or even appeared in collabs with my usual friends outside of old posts just going up now. Unfortunately, the reason for that hasn't been that I've been busy working on some SUPER COOL big project or taking a nice long break... its been cus I've been really sick and spent basically the last month in bed.

Just to be clear, I'm not dying, its not serious, it IS getting better... but its not better yet.

Best as I can tell I got covid around the end of last year, was sick with that + the flu through till about the 15th or so, then ended up getting rained on just after I started to recover and tossed a case of the common cold onto of all of the rest of that crap.

Its been a ROUGH month so far and much as I wish I could say, "But its now all better!" Its not. Its still not great, but it IS starting to clear up.

I have a pretty solid backlog of stories I'd like to start uploading soon even if I'm not well enough to write properly yet, but till I am in a state to do so, it might be a little while still before you start seeing new stories.

But when I am ready, I got some stuff I think you'll all like.

Stories with  Amborah, with  Pawsetto, with  Sunderlovely, A BUNCH more with  D-6alaxy continuing that 'Best Man to Bride' series. (Its already up to part 4!) I also have a few with  Goldengryphon cus I never stop writing for Jade and even... hold onto your butts cus this is crazy... A story that doesn't have any of my friends and OCs in it, its just a normal one off TF story featuring some randos! WILD I KNOW! Thought I stopped making stuff that wasn't impossibly self indulgent, didn't you?

Also one more that's the MOST self indulgent bullshit ever that's like a big spy story with all my OCs.

OH ALSO THE NOVEL! Ya that's still done and just waiting on cover art... its just taken a while to get the art done, but its still coming eventually! Swear to god, its honestly done and ready to go. I didn't make up a fake book I wrote...

Anyway that's what's been happening with me and why I've been so quiet for so long. More soon, very soon hopefully, but health has just been a real SOB.

So thanks for sticking with me and hope to entertain you all soon!

Much love, April

Hey all, just as a heads up for anyone in the Seattle area or who will be attending Anthronw from the 4th to the 7th of January, I'll be attending the con with my partner  Run_Rabbit_Bounce, :DummyThiccOni: and a few other wonderful furry pals both from the local scene as well as a few flying in from further afield!

This is my first furry convention and I'd be happy to meet up with anyone who wants to say hey!

If your gonna be attending, let me know and if you don't, at least keep an eye out for someone wandering around with a head shot of my shark-sona clipped to her badge, cus that's your girl!

I've been considering doing this for awhile now, but given recent turmoil within the community, I figure it would be wise to just go ahead and get started on this project now.

I'm creating a small personal blog that will be host to (eventually) all of my stories, both the ones posted here on my FA account as well as those I wrote to go with other peoples art and/or that were posted on other sites. I will NOT be including commission stories unless they are OKed by the original commissioner and will NOT have other peoples art included again unless I can get permission from my current and former collaborators as... Well its not my art to repost.

To be clear, I am NOT going to stop using FA as my primary host site nor am I going to prioritize the blog over FA, its very much a side thing, a safety back up in case of trouble. Its just that since Imgur enacted their porn ban, I've been increasingly uneasy about the future of online adult entertainment and since most of my work is currently stored on GDocs and FA, a very corporate site and a... Less then stable privately owned sight, I feel like it would be good to just make sure I don't end up flat footed if/when things take a turn for the worst on either platform. (Not that Blogspot is much better, but hey, 3 questionable back ups at least beats 2.)

Plus if I end up also hosting stories on say... Fictionmania or TG Story Time or Docs Lab, it helps to have a central link to use as a 'If you like this, check out more at this singular page where you can read everything.'

Anyway point is, I have been thinking of making a backup blog for awhile now and now I am slowly getting that started. So far its VERY work in progress, like I said, side project, but eventually I hope to make it a nice little storehouse for the thousands of pages of (mostly TF) writing I have done outside of work!

Oh and just to be clear, THIS IS NOT IN RESPONSE TO THE FA RULE CHANGE! I don't really have strong feelings on it one way or the other, but with the community up in arms and some artists/writers planning on migrating, I figured I should use this as motivation to finally get started on this blog.

TL;DR - Making an archive blog for all my old stories, its FAR from finished, I'm not leaving FA, this is just a backup for anyone who wants to make sure they can find all my personal/gift writing in future. Here is the link:

Duhad's Story Archive

So this is a short update on what's coming from me in the near future and where my head is at currently in terms of writing, my work and life more generally.

First of all, as the title of this post already spoiled, I wrote a novel! Which is to say, I wrote a 60k+ word trilogy of stories that form a singular narrative that if published together, would qualify as a decent length novel. (Part 1's sort of short, part 2 is close to the 'I'm Jade' story and part 3 is basically a short fantasy adventure novel all on its own.) And I wrote all of this over the coarse of 4 months, starting on New Years Day and ending on the 30th of April.

For those of you who don't know, that's allot of writing over a pretty short period of time given I was ALSO writing for various projects and jobs at the same time, like... An unhealthy amount of writing. Like an amount of writing that has taken allot out of me... And I'm still going.

I've already uploaded a few stories I've written since finishing the novel and I have multiple stories both written and planned that take place after it in the same continuity as well as just more silly TF stories and my work and my D&D game and... Its allot. Its allot allot.

I am... I don't know if I'm burning out, I feel pretty good and pretty inspired by further ideas, but I know, intellectually that I am working to hard and its going to come at a cost, I just don't know if it will be burning out for a couple of months after the fuel finally runs dry or just needing to slow down or... Who knows.

Anyway that all aside, I got some less doom and gloom news to share!

In a little less then a month, I'm going up to Canada to see Hazel (Unsavory Repute) and Syl (DrakenTenuem) and if all goes well... We have long term plans that should do allot to help make my life just a whole lot better.

Anyway, sorry for the ramble, just wanted to let you all know roughly what's up with that 'big project' I've been hinting about for awhile and what to maybe just be prepared for in the near future.


OH RIGHT, FORGOT TO MENTION EARLIER!
The novel is pretty much finished, part 1 is fully edited and parts 2 and 3 have already had a basic editing pass done on them, at this point they are just waiting on Golden Gryphon who has very kindly offered to do nice covers for each of them! Given they are set within the shared world we created and feature her characters in both major and minor roles, it wouldn't feel write to put them up without her wonderful art work! However she is very busy, we have a number of on going series that she's still working on as well as a very special request I made of her awhile back so... Gonna be a little longer before you can read this whole mega story. But it will be worth the wait when Jade's gorgeous art is added to them!

Another year older (33) another year... Wiser? Maybe not, but I am at least wise enough to know that I would not be here today if not for the amazing people in my life who have so drastically improved... Just about everything!

I genuinely cannot name everyone individually here nor express in detail how much each of them, individually and uniquely, has earned my undying love or else I'd be here all day, but I hope you all know how much I care!

Thank you all so much and I look forward to entertaining you all for years to come!

- April

THE GAME IS OUT! Judoo posted a thing about it here:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51054322/

But ya games out, its 15% off for the first week, go buy and play it so we can make more games! Heh

Seriously its a HUGE game and while VERY text focused, its got a ton of great art and TFs of all flavors for days!

Hey all, was gonna upload the last part of the Fallout series today, but had a wonderful date night and then kinda ran out of energy so just gonna do that tomorrow.

However, if your looking for something fun to close out your evening with, my wonderful girlfriend  UnsavoryRepute also known as  Pretzel-Hyena not only has two amazing galleries FULL of stories and art, she'll ALSO be uploading in the near-ish future 7 or so pictures I gave her for valentines day, a fantastic picture she gave me and BEST OF ALL a truly wonderful, touching story that brought me to tears... I fucking love her so much, oh my god...

Uh sorry, right so anyway, go check her out, if your in a relationship, I hope you had a great valentines day and if your single, I hope you just have a wonderful day with friends, family or just your own fantastic self! Self love and the love of those close to you is just as valid and amazing so if that's you today, good! Be happy my friends!

- April, Kat and Willow

CW: Discussion of NSFW Involving Minors (vague descriptions kept behind spoiler tag

Important note: This is in part about a comic created by the now former user Bubbeh. I find what they drew deeply offensive, but they have removed it and themselves from the site. Please do not harass, attack or threaten them in anyway shape or form!

So... Ya I saw that comic before it was deleted along with Bubbeh's whole FA account. And one of the comments under it before it was nuked was someone complimenting the comic for being... Similar to the work created by myself and Snake89. Which uh... Wow that's about the most soul shattering compliment I've ever been given...

Now a couple things to clarify right upfront:

The comic was CP.

Their are some people on Twitter and FA currently trying to change the narrative and claim it was a 'dark comic that had a kid in it, but they where not involved in a sexual way' and no. I saw it with my own eyes, fucking wish I hadn't, but I did and it was two minors with... Well lets just say that while it is true that the DIRECT sex scene didn't DIRECTLY involve the minors, their was sexual behavior happening TOO the minors and they where fully... You could see everything, they where being sexualized in their nudity and it was fucking CP lets not fuck around here splitting hairs. It was BAD! If you want to argue that or try to argue that 'its all just pictures, not real kids' or anything like that, I invite you to post your arguments in the comments so I know who to block. I have NO sympathy or patience for pedophiles! FULL STOP!

Okay... MOVING ON FROM THAT... The 'compliment.'

Again to clarify this, Snake has NEVER drawn CP and they have never drawn children in any state of undress. I am NOT calling him out or trying to get him in trouble!

Having said that... The commenter was not wrong that the incredibly dark and twisted nature of the Bubbeh comic, which included other themes such as incest, feral sex and an over all pitch black tone... Is not that far off from allot of what Snake draws. And as his long time editor and script writer (I don't come up with the comics, but I take his outlines and rough scripts and rewrite them to read better in English and to clear up plot holes, character motivations and inconsistencies)... I do feel deeply conflicted about this. I have for awhile now, this has been something that's been weighing on me for a long time and... Well its hard not to take it deeply personally when someone looks at one of the most morally repugnant things you have ever seen and goes, "Wow... Ha that's so cool! Its just like what you do, right?"

I got my start in TF writing here on FA working with Badger (also NOT trying to call him out) and allot of our stuff started out really dark. Their was allot of non-con and QUESTIONABLE consent and... Allot of stuff that as time has gone on I have become more and more uncomfortable with. As years past, folks who read my stories (aside from the ones I write for Snake, which again, I do not come up with myself) know I have been been moving more and more in the direction of lighter, softer and more wholesome stories as time goes on. My current on going series set in the world of Gryphon Enterprises started with Free Delivery, a questionable consent breeding series that eventually turned into a romance story (not involving the initial questionable consent person) and the over all setting has likewise evolved into one more about the life, lives, loves and traumas of a bunch of characters who effectively all started as TF porn archetypes and have grown into real, developed, complex characters. (Allot of it is still yet to be uploaded, but spoilers, there are more non TF and light TF stories coming, along with TF ones, don't worry.) And I'm SO much happier now writing these more joyful, silly, heartfelt stories then I was when I was basically processing my own pain and trauma from some REALLY dark stuff into art basically just out of a bloody minded commitment to make SOMETHING good come out of my own pain.

But... I donno. Stuff like this makes me wonder how good of a person I actually am and how compromised my morals have become that someone could make a comparison between something I have worked on and a CP comic and not be ENTIRELY wrong to do so?

I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to follow in the footsteps of other folks who have been purging their galleries of super fucked up content after this wake up call of just how easy it is to slip into utterly vial behavior or if I'm going to continue to do what I have always done, try every day to be better then I was the day before and hope that any harm I have caused can be made up for by the good I'm doing...

One thing I do know for sure though...

CP IS GROTESQUE, VIAL AND IF YOU TRY AND DEFEND IT ANYWHERE ON MY PAGE I WILL BLOCK YOU SO FAST YOUR HEAD WILL SPIN!!

APRIL OUT!

I have recently been made aware that my current prices, 1 cent per 1 word is TERRIBLY under costed. I spent several DAYS working on a 6.4k word (or 14 page) story that made me only 64$ USD, a rate that really is impossible for me to actually live off of.

Now as most of my income comes from freelance and fixed rate work and I don't take allot of commissions this has not been a major issue till now, but after realizing how much work I put in for so little pay, I was told by fellow writers that I'm basically cutting their rates in half which is unfair for me (as I am not being paid) and unfair for them as I am cannibalizing their properly priced commissions.

So going forward I am upping my rate from 1 cent per 1 word to 2 cents per 1 word. Doubling my rate to match a more fair standard set by my fellow writers.

However I am adding one small exception to this which is that I will give discounts for any stories under 2k words. I can knock them out very easily and as long as people are okay with just buying a SMALL story, I don't mind letting them save money on it.

My current commissions, those already started will NOT be effected in anyway, but all future commissions, including ones people have reached out to ask about, but not yet settled on an idea for, will be charged at this new, more fair rate.

Thank you for your time and I hope to still be writing for some of you in future. If not though, hey, that's fine, I would really rather focus on work then spending multiple days writing something I have little passion for AND am not being properly compensated for.

Love - April

Just a quick update to let anyone who follows me for or in part of the amazing art work my friend Metalmew, formally Cherrynobyl has done, he has decided on one last major rebrand before kicking off a new art business. So from now on, he can be found on WHISKEYWHISKERZ here on FA and any art I upload labeled as being FROM Whiskey Whiskerz is in fact from the same artist who was previously known as Metalmew.

So don't be confused when it looks like I've started getting art from someone who is 'copying' Metal's style.

Anyway aside from that, he still has an on going 20% off commission drive to help raise money for a VERY needed move, so please consider checking out  WHISKEYWHISKERZ and asking about commissions when his new price sheet drops early into the new year.

Cheers everyone and happy 2023!