Hey cool guys, I thought i should mention that, while normally I have attended USA conventions, right now America is a little too great again for my tastes so I've suspended all travel there for the foreseeable future.

As a result, I'll be giving some Canadian cons a try, so I'll be at Vancoufur this year in just a few days! Im sure it will be less likely with less attendees overall than I'm used to seeing at American cons, but if anyone cool I know is going, by all means let me know l3

I was originally gonna say something about how I should post journals more than once a year, but I did one a couple days ago, so I guess there goes THAT~ l3

Hello, it is my birthday and I am 39 feet long today l3 I guess I am now the age that everyone older than me gets to, and "holds at". I guess this is max level!!
But feeling good. Booked a day off so I can be lazy and drink coffee and look at porno today, which is all I ever really want >:3

I will take this opportunity to say I extremely appreciate the community I am a part of and the people I have been fortunate enough to know. Drawing and furry porno has given me a sense of purpose, something to work towards, something fun to do, and a great community of rad people to be a part of and engage with. If I didn't have this, I don't know what I would even have l3 And I appreciate immensely that there are so many people who care about what I make -- every day on FA I see people leagues and bounds, enormously more talented than I will likely ever be posting masterpeices all the time who get barely any engagement, just posting into a void -- which is a real shame for them. But when I post a noodle ass, a whole bunch of people wanna SEE IT. And that is very special to me l3

Now on the note of drawing, it's time for me to use some of this time to do exactly that right now >:3

Gonna be a little more troublesome looking for a while, change up the avatar and profile image for a while. Basically, I just wanted to use the ❤️ ME shirt picture of Beltempest as a profile pic, hahah l3
He's my favorite VRC avatar and has become somewhat like a sub-sona, unexpectedly, so let's be him for a while. Everybody likes bad boys, even me >:3

Actually, the real reason I made this journal was because I just wanted to mention that since all my timelapse and alt-version links are on Dropbox, inevitably, someday they will probably all break if I ever stop paying for their service -- but if this happens, I cross post everything to Inkbunny, and since they allow a single submission to have multiple variations, pages, and files all in a single post, all of my alt-versions an timelapse are all available there, and should always be, in case anyone cares l3 The Dropbox links won't go anywhere -- but nothing lasts forever, after all. l3 I'd hate for them to someday all be broken and leave someone hanging in case they really wanted to see me turbo-draw a picture from a decade ago by that point l3

I am 38 feet long today ✨

I rarely post any journals so this seemed like a good reason l3 I am glad to still be drawing horrible furry smut this whole time, and will continue to do so for as long as I can >:3
Tomorrow I plan on doing something fun, because I had to work today~

Anyways that's all, thank you l3

It's the fuckin best l3

Hello, I probably should have said something beforehand, but YOU KNOW....
Anyways, I was at MFF 2024 and it was RADICAL!!!! I had a great time, and met so many people. People I just knew of, friends I've known for 20+ years but never seen before, and even a couple random fans, which was a real flattering and validating feeling l3 I am blessed to know so many people in this community and have been part of it for so long. Makes big cons like that a magical experience for every reason l3

I doodled a bunch of paper drawings for friends in attendance, but it will be a while before I get them together, and even longer until I actually post them here -- I still have to post my AC 2024 drawings, hahah l3
Anyways, it was rad to see everyone I did, and I hope that uh.... well, hopefully world events in the coming year will still make visiting these cons a desirable option, we shall say l3

Hey cool kids. Just felt I should mention that I'll be going to Anthrocon this year, for the first time in 9 years l3
So if you're going and I know you, maybe I can say HELLO!! l3

Dear artists everywhere, it's time for your annual reminder:

This is Mistletoe: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/maepbmkd20yoamqbuhv35/mistletoe-3.jpg?rlkey=qqt7il9b59wjpazu8rkfknft4&dl=0 -- White berries, spindly rounded leaves.
This is Holly: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vpkqx6wtq3ippshuyo3vh/holly.jpg?rlkey=356w4jd7cif18nz5r1f1w23x8&dl=0 -- Red berries, spiky leaves.

Thanks for your holiday consideration. l3

Just wanted to say I'll be going to MFF, so I will be eager to see who else is going and who I will get a chance to meet >:3
Figured I should probably say so in advance, and not "once I'm already there" as I usually like to do l3

Well, that was a super productive 9 days off. It was a real blast, and got so many doodles done -- uh, none of which you will see here until I get around to posting my backlog of things in chronological order first, but. Eventually, hahah. l3

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who showed up to any of them, and hung out with us during our multi-stream adventures~ It's a ton of fun, and I can think of few places I would rather be l3
I consider myself immensely privileged that anyone even knows about my art at all, let alone cares enough to hang out in stream with me. But it wouldn't be anything without cool viewers to come by and say hello and chat with me!!

So, that's all really. I appreciate anyone who comes by to hang out during them, because everyone's time is at a premium!! And really glad for everyone who did -- and for the rad dudes who co-streamed with me, too!! I was ill in the months beforehand and had some private projects to work on so I couldn't/didn't feel like streaming prior to now, but hopefully going forward I'll find more time to periodically do so on my days off. It's the best, and I appreciate anyone who comes by to hang out l3

If I do, all my links to timelapses will be broken.... oh no l3

Hello, just a small update since I don't use Twitter anymore and it was kinda the only place really well suited to just random thoughts and odd messages.

I'm on vacation now, and plan on using all the coming days for big doodle streams, so you'll see me posting about 'em a bunch in the coming days.
I hope to be able to see you there, it's a lot of fun l3 (That is at https://picarto.tv/Graedius !)

Also, it looks like I am going to MFF this year, so it will be nice to be able to see some of you in person as well!
That's about all for now. Life is good and I am enjoying creating shameless porno debauchery all the time l3

Well, I went through and deleted all the submissions that I felt were the most obviously infringing upon FA's new rules -- but I saved them all of course, and most of them still exist on InkBunny. However, I left whatever I felt was fair game, so we'll see how things shake out. Only time will tell l3 If anyone wanted a specific image and it's gone now, just let me know and I can fish it out for you -- ironically, many of my top submissions (most favorited, commented) were among the ones that had to be cut. Funny how that works~ l3

Lots of toony characters and monster fuckery that I feel should be acceptable, but I'm not the guy who makes the call, so we'll see. Anything may happen~

For the last time, I'll just mention all the other places I can be found, in case things ever go tits up here -- Inkbunny particularly, which has MOST of everything I've made in the past 12 or so years:
Itaku.ee: https://itaku.ee/profile/graedius
Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/graedius
Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~graedius
SoFurry: https://graedius.sofurry.com/
Afterdark.art: https://afterdark.art/user/Graedius
FurryNetwork: https://furrynetwork.com/graedius/

Okay cool kids, see you around. I have a shit load of finished drawings I really need to upload, but I've just been so lazy. Like, 20 things.... someday soon. Gradually. l3

Hello again l3

So, as I'm sure you've seen in the wake of recent events, Itaku has exploded in popularity, so I followed suit and made one too -- it's kind of like Twitter, but not-shit. So, that's yet another place I will continue to post stuff from now on -- I spent all evening adding a bunch of stuff starting from the beginning of this year, so it wouldn't be completely empty, and I like it quite a lot -- hopefully, it remains well-used by the community!

►►► https://itaku.ee/profile/graedius ◄◄◄

So, in a couple days the FA-ocalypse will begin, so with that in mind, I do intend to remove some submissions tomorrow -- the ones that clearly violate their new rules, exactly as worded. I intend to leave up anything I think is fair game, and if those things result in me getting canned, well -- at least you know where to find me, hahah. I hope it won't come to that, but if it's all up to a mod's subjective opinion, you just never know. Some might consider Zullie or my toony-styled bois to be "child like", and in that case, well, bye I guess. l3 So, I encourage you to save anything you might want if you think it's at risk, if you care. I of course backed everything up first, and in fact even saved every page of my gallery as individual HTML files, so I can remember them exactly as they were. After all, the memories mean more to me than anything else. The gallery count is just a number, but those ancient cringe comments and replies I made 15 years ago?? No one will take those from me!! l3

To that end, though most people have made their decisions and acted upon them already, I feel like sharing two archival tools I used to make the process I just described way easier:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/.....ihhobgphecbkon -- FurAffinity Extender, an addon that does a few things, but chiefly, for my intents and purposes, adds a button to one-click download the uncompressed version of any submission on FA. Just makes it real fast if you have a lot to save and don't wanna dick around. l3
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/.....fadehl/related -- Single HTML Downloader, a thing that puts a right-click menu button/extension icon to download the current webpage as an HTML file -- but unlike "saving as HTML", it saves it as just one single file -- not an HTML with a folder of assets for each page. Just one click, done, saved a single file, move on to the next. Made saving all my gallery pages as-is extremely fast and easy, and now I have them for my own archival purposes forever. They look just like the live webpage, with all assets and comments intact. l3

So yeah, that's my cool radical update of the day~ I will still use FA in a more limited respect (providing someone's opinion of what I drew doesn't get me destroyed). But, if that happens, well there's like 6 other places to find me now, so. I'll see you all here, there, and everywhere else!!

I suppose I should just end by using this opportunity to say, since I think about it a lot but rarely make journals -- how much I appreciate this community, and the people who follow me and enjoy all the silly horny indulgent things I've made over the years. Nearly every meaningful relationship I have in my life today was, in some way, formed via this website, or through connections related to it. Looking through my gallery as I individually saved every page was a walk down memory lane that spanned the course of 17 years. I met countless amazing and important people here, pretty much everyone I consider the most important to me who aren't my real-life family and friends (and even then, the friends came about as a result of furry stuff, too!!). Drawing furry art has grown into my number one passion, and given me some real purpose to my life. I am blessed that there is an audience who really cares about what I make, especially when I see people with enormous, astronomical skill way above me post here and get almost no engagement -- I'm not sure what I've got that they don't, but I'm glad I have it, hahah. l3 Drawing this stuff is a ton of fun, but it's made way more so because of all of the people who have engaged with it over the years. An inspiring and driving force, and it means the whole world to me <3

Okay, see you later. Time for bed, I stayed up till after midnight uploading stuff to Itaku and writing this journal, oops. l3

Hey cool kids. I suppose I should actually write a journal more than once every 5 years for reasons other than this l3

Everything is obviously a bit up in the air at the moment, nice and ambiguous, the way we like it. But, as I'm sure you know, I draw a lot of cute and toony bois and girls banging, as well as cute monsters of various sizes and shapes, so in the event that I get raccooncelled come this July 1st, I'd like to remind everyone that I also post art in these places, and perhaps someday that will be necessary:

Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/graedius
Weasyl: https://www.weasyl.com/~graedius
SoFurry: https://graedius.sofurry.com/
Afterdark.art: https://afterdark.art/user/Graedius
FurryNetwork: https://furrynetwork.com/graedius/

I sincerely hope this isn't as bad as it seems, though. Because FA, despite being a rusted relic of the past, has always been a special place for me. My "home on the internet", so to speak, since 2006. The place where the entire body of my artwork has been posted, and is still available in it's original form. Where I met and made so many of my most important friends, from all the way back then to this very day! And, insofar as furry communities are concerned, it's by far the one with the most active and meaningful engagement -- you know, comments, replies, userpage shouts, replies to my replies. I do post to all the above places, but in comparison to FA, they are all ghost towns. I'd like to never have to abandon it, because it's been a big part of my life for such a long time -- someone born the year I made this account could, in theory, next year, legally look at porn on it!!!!!

I've been wary of this for some time now, even before this whole debacle started. You might have noticed that many of my submissions these days, with even a tiny hint of ambiguity, all bear the text: "ALL CHARACTERS DEPICTED ARE 18+", just in case some hyper active internet hero decides that stuff like this is all illegal. It's always been a concern, but now moreso than ever.

So, we will just see how things shake out. If worst comes to worst, I'll still be available all those other places, at least. l3
Just to clarify, I intend to continue using FA exactly as I always have been.... but it just doesn't hurt to remind everyone that those other places exist, just in case l3

I am 34 feet long today, an important length milestone reached. l3

Also nice cute new avatar by  Buyo!

Hello, I just wanted to say that I am at MFF, so you may see me around, doing whatever it is that I do l3

Now that I'm using my own artwork for my avatar l3

Hey just said I never actually officially said anything until right now, I will be at MFF! I'm heading out in the morning and will be there late afternoon Wednesday. So, if I know you but haven't already talked to and want to say hello.... I'll be around, being a nerd!

Okay okay~
Well I finally made a porn Twitter account, so I don't shit up the normal one, and because porn is like 95% of what I draw.
https://www.twitter.com/graedicoon . I'm only using it to post porn though, I'm probably not gonna follow a single person, so don't get butthurt about it~

Updated my last three pics to be full size, non-artifacty messes, for those who care.
FA doesn't have a notification thing like IB so I thought this would work best. l3

Well my body almost sudoku'd me again~ But not this time!
Got hospitalized with acute appendicitis and got emergency surgery~
But I am good, got treated well and the follow up is fine. So it's just easier for me to tell people here en masse than one at a time. I had a lot of missed messages over the past few days (I also had shitty or no cell reception in most of the hospital, too~)

So yeah, not dead despite my body's best efforts. I should be back in shape soon I hope l3

Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for all the positive words and support and things that people have been giving me over the past year or so, moreso in the past six months~ I've had a lot of people come out of the woodwork and be awfully supportive of my doodling here, and it has been really nice and inspiring~ I'm just glad that others enjoy my lewd doodles, even if a lot of it is awfully similar and derivative things, hahah. I keep trying to do something once a day, even if scrappy and quick, to improve just a little bit -- and even if I retread ideas, at least it'll look better the next time I do it, huh~ l3

But yeah, just thanks to everyone who has been so nice and cool over the past forever~ Hopefully I can continue to provide nice lewd things to look at, and get better at doing it l3 <3

Now, about commissions, since a lot of people have asked me about it in the past few months...
I am super flattered that anyone would want to pay me for my artwork, hahah. Obviously, since I'm the guy making it, I really don't think it's on that kinda level at all, but it's awfully nice that you think so~ It means a lot to me, truly. l3 That being said, though -- I don't think I'll ever take commissions in any capacity. I have a full-time job, working 12-hours a day, 3-days-on, 3-days-off -- so half of all my days are work days. it pays me more than well enough to live nicely on it's own, so my artwork is just a hobby (one that I'm devoting a decent amount of time to, but still.) My drawing time is a bit limited by my work and life (and energy), and I don't have the time to do anything like that. I also have a hard time drawing anything that isn't something I really, really want to do -- I've been bad about even my closest friend's birthday presents, hahah. So if someone came at me with an idea I wasn't really into... I dunno man.

only in the last year or so have I gotten to a point where I can imagine something, and mostly make it come out the way I had in my mind. It went from training as a chore, to actually being a genuinely fun experience nearly every time, hahah. So yeah... that's kinda where things stand~ So, sorry if you wanted to throw money at me, but for now, I can't see that changing. But I hope you enjoy the lewd things I do draw (I imagine that's why you're here), and thanks for all the support l3 <3

Hello furry internet people~ Two quick orders of business~!

One is that I remade my Twitter. I had one for two weeks a few years ago, but deleted it when I realise that I was just.... not getting out of it what was intended, I think. That being said though, it seems to be one of the best communication methods, so I remade it almost exclusively to post things now and then -- at this point, I imagine it will be mostly for posting stream links on the rare occasion that I do that again, and also to try and hook up with people in video games that are a bit less intuitive for meeting with friends (looking at you Nintendo.) Posting when I'm playing one of 'em online and all that.

https://twitter.com/graedius/

Now don't get me wrong, I still think Twitter is super unintuitive garbage that's intentionally obtuse and almost impossible to follow, combined with all the ads and suggestions I didn't ask for (do I want to follow Barack Obama? Really?) So I don't plan to use it for more than that, mostly. So don't follow it expecting a stream of nonsensical thoughts and pictures and retweets and all that nonsense. Just periodic posts about the above mentioned, almost exclusively. There may be NSFW stuff too, so just be aware.


Second is that I got a Nintendo Switch. Had one for a while now, but kept forgetting to post about it. The online presence is still pretty minimal at this point in the game, but this information will surely be relevant later, so here's my friend code: SW-1406-9352-0137. So feel free to add me so we can Splatoon later on in the year~!

I planned on typing up something more meaningful about the meaning of life and everything, but I'm at work and have too much other stuff going on, so. This is all. l3

Maybe I will later. To be continued?!

How appropriate that I would hit this landmark on the last day of the year~ It only took me 10.5 years to get here!
I'll take my Popufur™ status now please, I'd like to visit the lounge.