Next part of the superhero story is delayed until tomorrow because I'm currently traveling

So, I'm planning to do Hypnovember this year via some really short (like maybe under a thousand word) stories every day that month.

From the impression that I'm getting, it's apparently loosely organized and more or less up to the person doing it so I'm down to take some suggestions for potential hypnosis-themed prompts and scenarios. Not all of them need to be weight gain or even expansion focused, keep that in mind.

Looking forward to hearing your ideas!

I know I said I was going to open on the 23rd but I've decided I want to get ideas gathered earlier than that so I'll be opening today in about 3 hours (2PM EST) so get ready to submit your ideas if you're interested!

I'll update the journal with everything when I open up

EDIT: Commissions are open! Link to the form is below

https://forms.gle/ru68bSjiy9Ea5KiH9

As mentioned, the top 3 have been determined and it's Kicks from Animal Crossing, Rarity from Friendship is Magic and then Ozzie and Fizz from Helluva Boss. Next bounty board update will happen a bit before I open for commissions (probably sometime mid-July, I need a break.)

Thanks for voting and enjoy your day!

https://strawpoll.com/BDyNzRB8zyR Got a few options on there! Top 3 go on the board for my next round of commissions

So, I'm making the hard decision to cancel the story auction I have going on. After five days of no bids and no traction, it's clear that right now isn't the best time for something like this. I'll put it up again later this summer sometime

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60879518/

My lipomancer training YCH auction is still going on! No bids have been made yet

While I'm getting the auction for the new YCH set up and still plugging away on commissions, I'm also going to be doing a new bounty board as well and I'm looking for suggestions! What are some characters y'all would like to see that aren't on there (and also possibly I haven't written about)

I've decided to move up the date of the auction for my next story YCH from the 22nd of May to the 15th, keep an eye out for that!

Wanted to pose a question to y'all about my bounty board as a way to potentially gauge interest and ways to improve it in the future.

Do you think there's too many subjects on it? I'm starting to think that there's a potential I could be giving my potential clients choice paralysis with the amount on there. I looked at other, similar types of options for commissions and there's generally far less so maybe that could be something for a new version in the future.

What do y'all think? I'm willing to listen to any feedback

https://forms.gle/NiAeBXqovCT1WGXSA Officially open now! No extended slots this time around and reminder that all bounty board stories get an additional 5% off!

Update

And I'm full up once again! Thanks for everyone that signed up. I'll get back to everyone tomorrow sometime and update my queue too!

In the lands you inhabit, magic and mystery are abound as scholars of the arcane are able to master everything around them to perform incredibly feats whether it is destructive mastery of the elements or incalculable transmogrification spells able to alter the very fabric of living and non-living matter alike.

One such art, though, is the most mysterious in practice: lipomancy, or the art of controlling fat. Once upon a time there was a rumor of a sorceress who was said to be the greatest practitioner of the school to ever exist. She had used it to end conflicts and save countless lives...or so the stories say. But one day she vanished and with it much of the secrets of how to properly perform lipomancy.

Now you, a young budding mage, have followed stories and leads to be able to locate the one known as the Emerald Enchantress in an isolated region of the world. Whether it is to study the art for adventuring, your own personal gain or even more selfish indulgences, you will become her student and master lipomancy. What you do with the knowledge is up to you and it may affect the world around you in ways that you never imagined.

Hopefully you've brought some extra sizes of clothing

May 15th, 2025 1PM MDT

EDIT: And the auction is now live! Link here! https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60879518/

Just to give myself a bit more time to finish current outstanding projects, I'm delaying my opening to Wednesday after next instead. Same opening time at 2PM MDT and bounty commissions will receive an additional 5% off as per usual

Hey hey, everyone! Hope your holidays were great and that the start of the year is going well so far. I'm still technically on vacation but I've been hard at work outlining and working on stories for the new year.

My main goal for this year is to try and balance doing commissions and personal work as a way to not burn out since I did come close to that a few points in 2024, though there were other things that happened too that didn't help. While my year admittedly wasn't as bad as other folks' from what I've seen, it wasn't all sunshine and roses. On top of essentially starting the year with having to move into a friend's house because I couldn't afford to keep living where I was due to rental company BS (seriously, those companies are all like the mob), I also lost a couple friends and had to deal with that. Hali, Xin, wherever y'all are now, I hope things are going well and you're very much missed.

Further still, I ended up hitting the threshold for needing to start reporting my commission revenue now (at least from PayPal) and because I live in the US, that means I'm going to be paying at least up to a 25% self-employment tax once all my taxes are said and done, which is one of the reasons why it's going to be a bit stressful at the beginning of the year but at least I have a place to live and aren't going anywhere for a while. As for other misfortunes that happened this year, well, *gestures at literally goddamned everything else happening in my country*

Now, despite the past couple paragraphs, things aren't all doom and gloom. I'm incredibly excited for this year and what things are going to bring me. There's a new Monster Hunter coming out in February that I am utterly buying day one and I'm going to start doing a bit more with 3D modeling soon since as I've discovered with my graphic design work on the bounty posters, if I at least look at something and try it out, I'm an incredibly fast learner.

The current commission queue is also proceeding well and I'm hoping that if everything goes well, I can have everything done by early March (since I do have some kinda' long ones to work on so it might take a bit) and then take a few more.

Along with that whole thing, I'm also offering a brand new payment option for people. Now, because the amount for receiving gifts is technically higher than self-employment, I have set up a Throne account with some items listed on there that you can either purchase or contribute to a fund for more expensive items. It's essentially a digital gift wishlist sort of thing. I've vetted it and talked with other folks that have it and it seems very much on the up and up. I'll throw a link to that at the end of this journal as well as adding that to my socials and profile here.

That being said, normal payment options are still a thing since obviously Throne payments don't give any clients buyer protection and while I'd like to think that I've gained a reputation for being very reliable and a puppen of my word when it comes to what I do, I'm still understanding of maintaining that trust and having my clients feel comfortable. The Throne option is also a way to essentially help me acquire fun things and the like since that's essentially what I use my commission earnings for anyway. Writing isn't my main job and I have a full-time one that helps take care of bills, utilities, groceries etc. Either way, it's an option and if anyone's interested, we can discuss more details.

Finally, I'm also going to try and stream a bit more in the future! It's generally only going to be once a week but I'll be announcing when I go live and what I play and the like. I'm not expecting to go huge on Twitch or anything but I like playing stuff blind and getting genuine reactions so hopefully that might be something everyone can enjoy.

Well, with all of that out of the way, I hope everyone has a great day, a great start to the year and let's try and make this whole year awesome in spite of everything. Take care!

Throne link- https://throne.com/jake_the_puppen

Hope everyone has a good day no matter what's going on or what you're doing! I'll have some new stuff to post by the end of the year, mainly some short personal projects.

I'm open for commissions! I'm only taking five regular slots and one extended slot

As a reminder, any bounty commissions get an extra 5% off between now and February 14, 2025!

https://forms.gle/TdRi5HJak6w8HdMX9

EDIT: Only one slot is left for regular commissions, still have a slot for extended stories remaining

EDIT 2: And that's it, my queue is full! Thanks for the interest and for everyone that grabbed one!

Just a heads up I'll be reopening commissions this Thursday. I will only be taking five slots total, including extended length ones

And to go along with something that I'll also be posting as well, I'm going to be doing a thing where any bounty commissions will garner an extra 5% off between the time of my opening and January 31st, 2025

Whatever you're doing today, celebration or not, and wherever you are, I'm hoping that you're able to find something to be thankful for today. Me personally I'm grateful for my friends, family and having a support network to keep me going when I need it. It's not a luxury everyone has and I'm incredibly thankful for it.

Also if you're a fat/expansion fur, grow as big as you're comfortable with today! Me personally I'm trying for Alpha Centauri size

I'm currently working on getting a Throne account set up. It's essentially a wishlist site allowing y'all to contribute to certain things on there (PC upgrades for example) and in exchange I'll provide a story for the amount contributed to.

Obviously I'll still have other methods to allow for payment. This is mostly a way to help alleviate the 15-20% self employment tax that the US imposes.

So look forward to that soon!

Hey, everyone. Just chiming in to let you know the bounty board poll has ended and the two new characters for the board have been chosen.

First up is the fireball kicking, carrot chomping fun bun Cinderace from Pokemon!

And then there's the four armed, buzzing about, sweet as cotton candy Queen "Bee" Beelzebub from Helluva Boss.

Both of them will be added to my updated bounty board when I reopen for commissions. It might be closer to early December now given that I got sick after getting back from Furpoc and resting seems like a good idea right now, along with, well... *gestures at literally goddamned everything*

Either way, take care of yourselves, stick together, keep going and if you need to reach out, do so. I hope y'all have a good day

Hey hey, everyone! Hope today is fun for you regardless of whatever you're doing! I'm going to be at Furpocalypse 2024 through the weekend, so looking forward to that. As a reminder, the polls for the next two bounty board characters ends Wednesday the 6th so vote if you haven't yet!

https://strawpoll.com/7rnzVMBRYnO/results
https://strawpoll.com/3RnYXDqkpye/results

Have a great day, everyone!

Hey hey, everyone! So, I'm working on a new bounty board for when I reopen commissions (which hopefully will be sometime in late November/early December) and I've decided I'm going to let y'all pick the next two subjects that will be added. I'll be posting a link to two different polls here and I'll leave both of them open until I get back from Furpocalypse on Tuesday. After that I'll reveal the winners and you'll get a sneak peek of possible subjects.

https://strawpoll.com/7rnzVMBRYnO

https://strawpoll.com/3RnYXDqkpye


Anyways, have fun and take care!

I'm feeling the need to hypnotize and rapidly expand someone. I'll take a few suggestions of characters from TV shows, videogames, whatever and then write a Fatass Factory story about them getting made fat as sin. Go nuts in the comments!

EDIT: okay, locking this for now so I don't get drowned too bad in suggestions lol Thanks for the ideas, everyone!

Just letting everyone know that I'm going to be posting some stories in the next few days, a dump of sorts if you will. They're mainly going to be gift stories, some collab stuff I did for art packs years ago and things like that. I've decided there's no reason not to post them and share them with others, so enjoy that!

As for other updates, I'm still plugging away on commissions so expect those to come up soon too! I'm also planning to update the bounty board upload too with a new entry as well.

And I'm also going to be attending Furpocalypse 2024 at the end of the month, so maybe I'll see some of y'all there!