I've been drawing and amassing a following for this long, yet I don't really get any traction when it comes to revenue from sites like those. Times are sorta changing, so I figured it's about time I try this again. So, how could I get you, beloved reader, to throw me some dosh passively, without needing to wait for my notoriously slow commission cycles? I figured one way is to post exclusive content there. What sort of exclusive content would you want to see from me?

I often get told that my tales and stories are enjoyable. On occasion, when I draw or comm something that isn't a character ref, I like to add some lore to it with a short tale or two. Besides that, I have been writing a bit in Google Docs. I've just been lazy when it comes to finishing them. Is there any anticipation to me posting such things?

I've been thinking about this for a while now: I wondered whether making council leader Tak his canon path. I'm enjoying the idea of him having a devious and lusty side he openly induges in, but being a council member kinda puts on too much expectations for him to be more well behaved. Stifles his hyper and uncontrollable aspects too much to be properly enjoyed.
He can be well behaved, and he inspires genuine love and respect from his subordinates. But he's a hyper snek with some serious virility first and foremost.
This only applies to Canon Tak. Umbrella Corp Tak and other noncanon versions of him don't have this problem, because he's a CEO of a mega Corp or a secret agent or something. People won't have as high of expectations of him if he's any of that. The problem I discovered was that if he's ONE of a GROUP of rulers of a nation, he has to confer to the nation's rules and he's expected to behave accordingly. Civilians don't really know what he's about behind the scenes. But if he's any of those other roles, those who join him follow HIM, not his nation. They know the risk and dangers of working close to him and his suppressed breeding urges, but they do so anyway because he's just that cool.

After discussing this with some buddies, I came up with a possible path; instead of being an official part of the Bastion's government, Tak is instead a really powerful and influential noble, mob boss, PMC captain or something similar to a Rogue Trader, who has a hand in the Council Of Twelve. He isn't officially a Council member, but he has so much influence he might as well be. This way, he isn't expected to conduct himself like one of them and is free to mostly do his own thing instead of being stuck with the responsibilities of a Councilor.

You can compare him to how the Cartel controls the Mexican government, except he's not as much of an asshole and has mostly good intentions for the Bastion. He might run a privateer company, sponsor or own an adventurer's guild, have his own venues and clubs he likes to personally perform in, sells his blueprints and patents to manufacturers, run spy networks with professional freaky agents, funds and get involved in Biocraft research, and the Council and other nobles might outsource interrogation and execution of serious criminals to him since he and his cronies are good at that. So many more possibilities for him, and much less limitations that I've been feeling like his character was having. Do tell me what you think~

I'm not someone who likes to post publicly about what goes on in my days. But I do like to chat and stuff, I prefer to do it on other platforms like Discord and Telegram.

My Discord is:
covenantlurking

This is my Telegram group where frens and followers chat and where I post my WIPs more consistently!
https://t.me/TaketzusWorkshop

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56.....#cid:179242291

Posting this for the extra slot, but if anybody finds this, feel free to participate~

Greetings! I felt called to type out something, so here goes.

My state of mind have been in strange places lately, but recently I'm doing better. I've finally learned how to flow-state draw, so I'm now more active on the canvas on good days! I decided to give the Emperor a proper name; he's now Ni'Hal. The name came from the latin "Nihil". I've recently been introduced to the Warhammer setting, and I got charmed by it enough that I want to implement some Warhammer stuff into my lore. Tak is still the best noodle and I still love him lots, and Vandal's a good bat. Constance had canonically reincarnated into a new life, and has been renamed Calavera. Elden Ring's working again after months of it not working for me until the recent update.

Merry christmas, and to us all a peaceful season of rest and recovery. It's a shame that I don't celebrate it, and I'm required to work during this time. Ah well, at least it's a job I can enjoy.

It's way early in the morning and bodily discomforts had coaxed me to reluctant wakefulness. I was inspired by Linna_Auriandi's journal about how their character developed and thought it would be fun to try something similar myself. Let's recap Taketzu's development from his first appearance to his present moment.

There was only one reason I designed Taketzu on day one. I had a crush on Overlai's character Kuu, but I couldn't get my hands on him. I already thought about designing my own character based off of him, but I hesitated as I was afraid people would call it plagiarism. I held back the idea for a few months until a friend on Discord encouraged me to just do it. And thus Taketzu's first image came to be. I am eternally grateful to that friend, and it warms my heart greatly to know that you all love him. Really, that's the best outcome I could've asked for. Thank you all.

His role was originally that of a stereotypical badass wandering ronin for hire; more anime than he is now. Even had four katanas and everything. Even back then, I had a great interest for things like sentient body parts and perilous biology and all that. The idea that his dick had an archfiend sealed in it was based off of my own wild fantasies about Kuu after I noticed that he's never seen cumming in any of his artwork, so I came up with that idea and applied it to Taketzu. The extra peril to his whole cum deinal thing was super hot.

Later on, I developed his personality and lore some more. He gradually became this outgoing leader figure who's proud but not narcissistic, who genuinely cares for his people, leads by examples and knows his limits. I decided against the stereotype anime path, because that stuff gets old, and went with him being a warlord/engineer 'class' who uses crazy Monster Hunter-esque self-invented weapons, while also having some spycraft experience despite not being able to sneak himself because his nuts are way too noisy. I liked the idea that he has little to no proper superpowers, so that he has to rely on his martial skills, wits and his followers and companions.

It was at that time when I started vibing with him as my sona more than the Curator. I guess his personality and respected leader role represent the kind of person I aspire to be one day. Confident, inspiring, all that stuff.

His hyper bits went through the most changes and revisions over time. Eventually I did get bored with the permanent cum denial thing and mostly scrapped the sealed archfiend idea. I went with the idea that he *can* cum, but there will be serious reprecussions so that he's discouraged from doing so willy-nilly. So the nature of his endowment changed from being demonic in nature to biological, because I love biohorror stuff like the Zerg, Flood and Necromorphs. Instead of unleashing a pissed-off demon, his cum now causes drastic mutations and monstrous pregnancies, the latter part being inspired by RaccoonShinobi's works. Heck, even to this day, I still haven't pegged down what exactly his package could do, because I have a lot of ideas that all seem like a lot of fun, yet simultaneously feel like too much. Maybe I could leave the exact details undetermined?

In the current day, Taketzu's lore and backstory had been fleshed out more, but I won't tell much about his past nor what's coming up in his storyline. But he definitely got a bit of favouritism treatment from being my sona and being so beloved by me. Stuff like cozying up with my more powerful characters, receiving some boons from them, that sort of stuff. Part of me kinda feels guilty about it, while another part of me knows it's silly to feel guilty for enjoying my characters and whatever I do with them. What's your opinion on that?

I did give him some superpowers now, but they're the risky and volatile ones, so he's discouraged from using them all willy-nilly. Firstly, he's got his own version of a JoJo Stand. Originally it was the hypnotizing goop naga, but I lost interest in that and came up with a new one that I will upload later. One that's much more powerful, but because he didn't train it very much during his adolescent years, its powers can hurt him if he's not careful. The other power is Euphoria Fire, my own spinoff of the Frenzied Flame from Elden Ring that causes lust instead of madness. This either came from his endowment, or it had only amplified this innate flame to the point that Tak can fire it out. Of course, just like the Frenzied Flame, it's dangerous even to the wielder.

Intending for more control over his endowment, I went with the idea that he doses on special medicine to keep his libido at a more manageable level. His balls now hold a virtually infinite supply, but he won't cum it all out at once. It means he can orgasm back-to-back, but it also means he won't turn his victim into a blimp every time either. That will leave plenty of room for the monstrous pregnancy to grow.

This took a bit longer to write than I anticipated. Hooray for late-night musings.

I have to confess that things seem financially shaky at the moment. I'm in no serious trouble right now, but things are a bit worrying. If any of you reading would be so kind to help, please donate whatever you desire to my Ko-Fi. I'd be eternally grateful for every dollar I receive.
https://ko-fi.com/coventorethethiccserg

I decided to restart and update my Patreon! I don't have anything really exclusive to offer there, it will only be a donation box for those of you loyal and kind enough to support me. I will be uploading completed works and WIPs there, maybe figure out some exclusive content later on.

https://patreon.com/CovenantNoodle?.....rshare_creator

I do want to let my followers, whose numbers and devotion I dearly appreciate, to know that I'm just a regular person and not a distant artist or anything. My lack of socializing isn't out of ego or anything. I just don't have much to say. I don't usually have the urge to tell about my life at any chance I get. Well, things have been going up and down for me; I lack a job or a solid source of income, but I make a bit from comms. My days has been oscillating from calm and tranquil to bouts of stress and anxiety. I feel uncertain for what's to come. Have you lot been feeling like time's speeding up, or slowing down? The days seem to have gotten longer to me lately, which I find quite curious. So how has things been for you?

As an endeavor to form a little community for myself and my dear watchers, I invite you, old and new frens, to join my Telly group. It is where I'm more active and post more of my WIPs and occasional musing.

https://t.me/TaketzusWorkshop

Lately I realized a problem with my storytelling and lore. Despite my creative aptitude, I just don't have the capacity to create a whole structured universe for my stories. I could create great characters and scenarios, but not a foundation to tie them all together. After talking with some friends, instead of continuing to pretend that I could do such a feat, I'm going to rememdy this by intergrating a canon into my lore. Not to replace, but to serve as a foundation. I've chosen the Endless Universe for this; crafted by the game studio Amplitude and featured in Endless Legend and Endless Space. Here's a little docs file to compile what this decision will entail~

https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....1FT7K05yk/edit

Maybe I desire to return to the swing of doing commissions by starting small. If you're interested, I can make you a fully detailed headshot picture of your character of choice for just 20 USD. I've done one of them for a friend. Maybe I should post that here.

I wish to throw out what I've had in mind for a while now, and I want to hear what you think about it. I'm planning to introduce a Resident Evil-based alt universe for Tempestarii and the Bastion. This was mostly because I've been imagining Taketzu as Umbrella Corp's CEO and everything branched from there. Yes, this alt setting will focus on Umbrella instead of the 'good guys'. None of the canon characters will be present, instead my characters will be refitted for new roles and allegiances. Taketzu's Umbrella's CEO, Aska's an opposing detective, Connie's a spy working for the highest bidder, and so on. I might write a story as an introduction to this setting one day.

I apologize in advance if I go through long droughts without activity. I don't have the desire to share my life on social media like others do, and I'm more active on places like Discord and Telegram. I'm still here, just that I don't have much to say.

Aside from that, I've decided on a lore for Anivia that seems to resonate. She'll be a spirit caller that works with disincarnated and immaterial entities. She may also bring them into the living world by birthing them out in phsyical bodies. I imagine that she's a subterranean specie, so she'll have affinity in earth elements as well. Should she still get wings? Or maybe different appendages to facilitate her subterranean nature?

Plus, I have ideas to introduce a bazelgeuse into my roster too. not much is planned yet, except her name is Ace, and her allegiance belongs to the Bastion.

You! Yes, ye who reads this here text. From following the actions of a friend, I invite you to my Telegram channel where you can view my works in progress and amuse yourselves with my musing. Come along now, don't be shy~
https://t.me/TaketzusWorkshop

Some time ago, I compiled my characters in a Docs page and put them next to the characters or designs that inspired their designs. I decided to share it with you all, to show what sort of inspirations I take for them.

Linking all the sources would be too much of a pain. If you're curious of a certain character, just ask and I will provide a link to the source. And if one of you happen to be the sources of my inspiration, I express my gratitude in advance, for inspiring my character~

https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....it?usp=sharing

I have to admit that I've never been one to pay attention to statistics. So I never realized that I'm already over 250 watchers. I just want to express my gratitude to you lot, those who find joy, entertainment and pleasure in the stuff I create.

For those of you unaware, my musing tends to conceive more unusual things. Things more suited to be called the works of horror artists and writers; more detailed things I keep only on my concept papers that I really should feature. A Telegram friend suggested I make an alternate account for such things to be posted.

I once participated in a group drawing event on DeviantArt. I unfortunately got a rather unfortunate draw. I did it, but not to the best of my abilities and expressed my dissatisfaction with the attempt. I felt really bad. This happened some years ago and it actually still bothered me. I didn't mean to blunder so hard and sound like an ass saying I didn't enjoy doing it... There were also one or two times where I had to change what's being commissioned because I couldn't get the original scene right. I guess I've lately been sticking to personal art because I know my own characters; I know their designs, and if I mess something up, it's on me and I know how to fix it... I can't do that when drawing for someone else. I didn't want to cause any further disappointment. Even though I have one or two extremely overdue comms left. I haven't forgotten. The guilt of not finishing hangs on my shoulders every day.

I don't know... I am in a messy state...

I really want to write some tales, or make a comic, or do anything to feature my world and characters in more than just one or two images and either short descriptions or rundowns of their lore. I want to show how my characters act in situations. I want to take you on a tour through the Bastion and the scarred world of the Conjunction; show what happened there and how it affected the survivours. But I just don't have any clear ideas on how to start any story series...

I am well aware that I got plenty of character concepts currently shelved right now. Let's see if I can list them all, and you lot could share your own ideas and suggestions.

Dragana. Oh boy, I've been struggling with her for the longest time. No concepts I try to implement to her seem to stick. The current idea is that she's an offspring of Taketzu's, conceived during a time before he arrived at the Bastion. She took the role of either the pirate queen, wandering mage or engineer before coming to look for her father in the more recent time.

Quicksilver. I think I've decided to reintroduce Kaiju Chynni, and Silver's current lore doesn't seem to resonate at its best. Either I put her up for adoption or try something else. If I were to do the latter, I might make her someone with a connection to the Beach and the realm of the dead, similar to Daleth. She might be Merlot's sister, which along with a third individual, could form an Earth, Sea and Sky-sort of trinity of titans.

Neeva, Viscerin and Mabel.  ShizameAkanzatsu gave a nice suggestion on how to introduce them to the Conjunction (What I'll be naming the main world for now). They turned away from the spacefaring life for now as they carried refugees on the run from enemies onto the planet, and start up a small colony. Some adventures may be told from their perspective; those that won't be confined to the Bastion and more explore the wilderness of the regions.

Dekwita. Her original idea's good, but lately I just haven't had a lot of ideas with her. A shame though, I think she has a great design and personality. Maybe I need to come up with a new cassus beili for why she does her things, or just turn her allegiance completely and make her less antagonistic, like I did with Mabel. She might also have ties to the Deep Dark instead of the Unreal World, too.

I have the mood. The mood to bring back hyper Emperor. Since the will to art eludes me right now, I thought about writing more about him. Then brilliance struck. What do you lot say if I make it a YCH situation, where I put your characters in the position of the leviathan's victims? COuld give me new materials to write with and keep things interesting.

I think I've just been getting tired of overthinking things when making the sketches for my artwork. I tend to draw without using a lot of references; figure things out on my own. Though I take pride in being able to do that, I think the perfection stress of having to do all the pose, angle and proportions myself when I just want to draw a simple image of a new character or something's starting to get to me... I think I might do more images that result from sketches drawn over a reference image. What do you think about that?

Though my will to draw and write have been at an all time low, my imagination continues to run wild. I got two new characters in mind, since I won't draw them any time soon, I figured I should write about them instead. One's inspired by my times playing Death Stranding, and the other's the result of me looking back at my old Deviantart interests.

The first character has yet to be named, and some suggestions would be appreciated. He's inspired by  Souvillaine 's salamander Axel, someone I've had a crush on for a long time and wanted to take inspiration from for quite a while. This character's concept is a mix of Axel and some elements from Death Stranding. He was someone who had lived in the past ages, during the days well before the Bastion was founded. One day he got lost in a Beach-like dimension and vanished from the overworld. Eventually he managed to find a way back, only to reappear decades or even centuries later, in the present day. Now he's out to reacquaint himself with a world he no longer recognizes. His time in the Beach had given him some powers similar to Fragile's, as well as him now being accompanied by cryptobiote-like creatures that assist and accompany him. These little bugs might have their own abilities, maybe 3D fabricating, or they simply bolster his own powers.

The second character is more of a resurrection of an old one. Luanaa. I looked back at my old DA faves and got reminded of Merlot, a lugia character and the one behind my Merlot's name. This revamp might be mostly inspired by the lugia Merlot. The idea is that Luanaa _ her name might change _ is a countess who resides in her own castle somewhere in the Highlands, remaining independent from the Bastion and any of the other Provinces. How she got there remains to be clarified. She might have an affinity for hypnosis or necromancy, employing brainwashed thralls and/or undead servants to keep her castle in shape, but also because she has a fear of being alone. Very likely will still be permapreg, because I like that sort of stuff.

I've had plenty of ideas for characters over the time of my art drought, but most of them are fleeting and undeveloped, and I need to keep my roster under control. These two are my most recent ideas, and the one I feel like keeping the most. Do tell me what you think.