Project Update/CaTCF 20th Anniversary
Posted 2 months agoWork is progressing slower that would be reasonable, as I haven't been drawing and coloring for at least eight hours a day, like it's my second job, like I should be doing when I have days off from work.
I've finished Iono, at least, and have the line art for Penny just about finished, to start coloring soon. I do, however, have three questions to ask of you all:
First, would you like me to at least release teaser images of each drawing as I finish them?
Second, and perhaps most prevalent, do you want all ten drawings to be released on the same day, or over the course of ten days, one after the other?
(I don't want to give an advantage of time to any one over the others, as the winner will be determined by favorites and shares, but I don't want to overload my audience with too many pictures at once.)
And third... does anyone have an idea for a name for this series of pictures? I haven't thought of one myself.
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In other news, this year, particularly this day, is a very special day this Juicy July. Twenty years ago, on this day, July 15th, 2005, Tim Burton's adaptation of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was first released to theaters in the United States of America.
I'm tipping my hand a bit to my age here, but I remember seeing this film in theaters either the first or second week to its opening. I never felt an attraction to 05 Violet, but when that scene happened, I still vividly remember gripping the rests of my seat with white knuckles, covered in a film of cold sweat, thinking to myself: "Just keep looking ahead. Don't do anything to draw attention to yourself. No one around you knows; they can't POSSIBLY know..." I remember seeing the shot of Violet's butt surge out, and half wondering if the special effects department or Burton himself had any idea what they'd done with what they thought was just a comedic shot, as another half was thinking: "Oh yeah, THAT'S going to be a thing going forward..."
And even though I still thing the !971 film is superior in just about ever way except for how advanced the special effects were, one thing I'm still ever grateful to the 2005 film for was unlocking the meta of just how big a girl could get when she inflated into a blueberry. If you can find any extremely old blueberry inflation artwork that predates the 2005 film (it's exceedingly rare and sometimes hard to find, but not impossible), almost none of it has the subject blow up into a blueberry any larger than her original height, but the 05 film changed that, further adding to the implications of the thoroughness of the process; by having Violet, and all subsequent characters based off her inflation, blow up into a blueberry bigger than her skeletal structure would allow, it implies she has just swollen up with juice, but actually turned into a giant, living, sentient blueberry, down to the cellular level.
Hell, the sizes and shapes of 05 Violet's inflation is still one of the biggest influences on my own work, as there are traces and inspirations visible in almost every single character I've drawn as a giant, busty blueberry.
Do any of you have any memories of seeing Charlie and The Chocolate Factory for the first time?
Have a happy Juicy Jule, and if any of you need an excuse to rewatch CaTCF, today is probably as good an excuse as any that you could ever ask for. I might even watch it later today, either with a friend, or by myself, as I continue to work on Penny inflating into a giant blueberry.
I've finished Iono, at least, and have the line art for Penny just about finished, to start coloring soon. I do, however, have three questions to ask of you all:
First, would you like me to at least release teaser images of each drawing as I finish them?
Second, and perhaps most prevalent, do you want all ten drawings to be released on the same day, or over the course of ten days, one after the other?
(I don't want to give an advantage of time to any one over the others, as the winner will be determined by favorites and shares, but I don't want to overload my audience with too many pictures at once.)
And third... does anyone have an idea for a name for this series of pictures? I haven't thought of one myself.
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In other news, this year, particularly this day, is a very special day this Juicy July. Twenty years ago, on this day, July 15th, 2005, Tim Burton's adaptation of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was first released to theaters in the United States of America.
I'm tipping my hand a bit to my age here, but I remember seeing this film in theaters either the first or second week to its opening. I never felt an attraction to 05 Violet, but when that scene happened, I still vividly remember gripping the rests of my seat with white knuckles, covered in a film of cold sweat, thinking to myself: "Just keep looking ahead. Don't do anything to draw attention to yourself. No one around you knows; they can't POSSIBLY know..." I remember seeing the shot of Violet's butt surge out, and half wondering if the special effects department or Burton himself had any idea what they'd done with what they thought was just a comedic shot, as another half was thinking: "Oh yeah, THAT'S going to be a thing going forward..."
And even though I still thing the !971 film is superior in just about ever way except for how advanced the special effects were, one thing I'm still ever grateful to the 2005 film for was unlocking the meta of just how big a girl could get when she inflated into a blueberry. If you can find any extremely old blueberry inflation artwork that predates the 2005 film (it's exceedingly rare and sometimes hard to find, but not impossible), almost none of it has the subject blow up into a blueberry any larger than her original height, but the 05 film changed that, further adding to the implications of the thoroughness of the process; by having Violet, and all subsequent characters based off her inflation, blow up into a blueberry bigger than her skeletal structure would allow, it implies she has just swollen up with juice, but actually turned into a giant, living, sentient blueberry, down to the cellular level.
Hell, the sizes and shapes of 05 Violet's inflation is still one of the biggest influences on my own work, as there are traces and inspirations visible in almost every single character I've drawn as a giant, busty blueberry.
Do any of you have any memories of seeing Charlie and The Chocolate Factory for the first time?
Have a happy Juicy Jule, and if any of you need an excuse to rewatch CaTCF, today is probably as good an excuse as any that you could ever ask for. I might even watch it later today, either with a friend, or by myself, as I continue to work on Penny inflating into a giant blueberry.
The poll is closed. And the winners are...
Posted 2 months agoIono, Penny, Katy, Rika, Perrin, Paldea PokeMom, and Lacey!
Here's a screenshot of the poll, taken at midnight, July 2nd, 2025, verifying the results.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61432379/
Thank you to everyone who participated by voting!
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a LOT of drawing I need to do...
Here's a screenshot of the poll, taken at midnight, July 2nd, 2025, verifying the results.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61432379/
Thank you to everyone who participated by voting!
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a LOT of drawing I need to do...
New Story Posted and Poll Closing Soon!
Posted 2 months agoAfter two damn months of writing (and struggling to overcome my avoidant behavior keeping me from writing), I've finally finished the contemporary part of the companion story for Persona Permaberries: Mitsuru Kirijo & Fuuka Yamagishi. You can read it at the link below! (Download required)
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61419086/
In other news, now that I (finally...) finished writing the story for my last picture, the poll for my next project now has an official end date!
You have until Tuesday, July 1st, 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time to vote in my current poll.
Pick seven (7) female characters from Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. The top seven places (with an additional three chosen by me) will be drawn in the process of inflating into blueberries! (In the event of a tie for seventh place, I will choose who to draw.)
The seven winners and my three picks will be announced on Wednesday, July 2nd.
When they are all complete, each of these ten (10) drawings will be posted on the same day. After the passage of a to be determined amount of time, the character whose picture has earned the most favorites/bookmarks/shares/retweets across all of my public galleries will be drawn fully inflated into a giant, busty blueberry!
VOTE HERE!
https://strawpoll.com/eJnvV2XVmnv
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61419086/
In other news, now that I (finally...) finished writing the story for my last picture, the poll for my next project now has an official end date!
You have until Tuesday, July 1st, 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time to vote in my current poll.
Pick seven (7) female characters from Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. The top seven places (with an additional three chosen by me) will be drawn in the process of inflating into blueberries! (In the event of a tie for seventh place, I will choose who to draw.)
The seven winners and my three picks will be announced on Wednesday, July 2nd.
When they are all complete, each of these ten (10) drawings will be posted on the same day. After the passage of a to be determined amount of time, the character whose picture has earned the most favorites/bookmarks/shares/retweets across all of my public galleries will be drawn fully inflated into a giant, busty blueberry!
VOTE HERE!
https://strawpoll.com/eJnvV2XVmnv
Story Update and a NEW POLL/PARTICIPATION CONTEST!
Posted 3 months agoFor almost the past month, I've been working on a story for my last picture, Persona Permaberries: Mitsuru Kirijo & Fuuka Yamagishi... most of which has been trying to work myself up actually working on it, or working to avoid working on it. It has been an ordeal and a half, as I decided I wanted to tell a story that more interlaced itself with the plot and themes of the game it's based on rather than just being inflation smut involving those characters and settings. But that meant having to do even more research and and planning that any story I've written before... and it's going to be longer than anything I've written yet, sans Not To See, But To Feel: Part 3... and I haven't even finished it yet.
So for those of you who enjoy my longer, more narrative-based stories, you'll be in for a treat when I eventually finish it. I'll write another journal when I do finish it, if not just upload it as it's own entirely separate story (it's going to be THAT long). However, for the sake of being more efficient with my time, I'll have something else going on, which is where you come it.
The Mitsuru & Fuuka drawing used up the last sheet of paper in my sketchbook, so I need to go out an by more. However, I was rather dissatisfied with the brand, so I picked up a bunch of sample pads of paper, and even some new colored pencils to see if I can achieve better results, and as an exercise to try and be more efficient with my drawing/coloring speed... and what better way to test them than with a poll of drawing a bunch of girls turning into blueberries!
Below is a link to a new straw poll featuring just about* every major named character from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, DLCs included, from fan favorites to underrated individuals with little to no inflation art of them, for which you can cast up to SEVEN (7)(!) votes for who you would like to see me draw.
NOTE: I will reserve the right to pick up to three (3) characters to draw of my own volition, as there are some I've wanted to draw for a really for a long time, who I'll probably draw anyway if I need to do more testing and/or if they don't win a spot.
The poll will remain active for as long as it takes me to finish writing the story for the Mitsuru and Fuuka picture. Once the poll is closed, each of the characters who won a spot will be drawn in the process of inflating into a blueberry.
But there's more! Each of these pictures, however many there end up being, will be posted on the same day, and after an allotted time, the character with the most likes/favorites/shares/reposts/etc combined across all of my galleries will be drawn on the paper/with the pencils I like the most fully inflated into a giant blueberry!
VOTE HERE!
https://strawpoll.com/eJnvV2XVmnv
*: Characters who appear to be/canonically are under the age of 18 will be redesigned to be equal to or greater than 18.
So for those of you who enjoy my longer, more narrative-based stories, you'll be in for a treat when I eventually finish it. I'll write another journal when I do finish it, if not just upload it as it's own entirely separate story (it's going to be THAT long). However, for the sake of being more efficient with my time, I'll have something else going on, which is where you come it.
The Mitsuru & Fuuka drawing used up the last sheet of paper in my sketchbook, so I need to go out an by more. However, I was rather dissatisfied with the brand, so I picked up a bunch of sample pads of paper, and even some new colored pencils to see if I can achieve better results, and as an exercise to try and be more efficient with my drawing/coloring speed... and what better way to test them than with a poll of drawing a bunch of girls turning into blueberries!
Below is a link to a new straw poll featuring just about* every major named character from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, DLCs included, from fan favorites to underrated individuals with little to no inflation art of them, for which you can cast up to SEVEN (7)(!) votes for who you would like to see me draw.
NOTE: I will reserve the right to pick up to three (3) characters to draw of my own volition, as there are some I've wanted to draw for a really for a long time, who I'll probably draw anyway if I need to do more testing and/or if they don't win a spot.
The poll will remain active for as long as it takes me to finish writing the story for the Mitsuru and Fuuka picture. Once the poll is closed, each of the characters who won a spot will be drawn in the process of inflating into a blueberry.
But there's more! Each of these pictures, however many there end up being, will be posted on the same day, and after an allotted time, the character with the most likes/favorites/shares/reposts/etc combined across all of my galleries will be drawn on the paper/with the pencils I like the most fully inflated into a giant blueberry!
VOTE HERE!
https://strawpoll.com/eJnvV2XVmnv
*: Characters who appear to be/canonically are under the age of 18 will be redesigned to be equal to or greater than 18.
Banned From Deviant Art. Again. And Happy Easter
Posted 5 months agoApril is just a cursed month for me, isn't it?
For those of you who don't already know, just before 9:00 AM PST on April 16th, 2025, my second Deviant Art account, TheOneHungryLurker was, just like its predecessor, black-bagged and sent to the work camp/shallow grave of indefinitely suspended by the NKVDA, with no prior warning or lesser penalty, even in spite of my increased mindfulness of their stodgy, inconsistent, capricious, and frequently hypocritically enforced content policies.
My the-size-of-the-former-twin-towers-of-the-World-Trade-Center-quotation-marks "crime?"
"Attempting to evade a ban."
Apparently, also previously unbeknownst to me, the NKVDA will purge any new account you make if a previous account of yours was banned, even if it was over litigious, bad-faith enforcement of policies that proved to be so unpopular that they were revised to no longer be a ban-hammer-catching "offense." Despite citing them in the notice sent to me, this "no re-entry" policy even insinuated, let alone mentioned nowhere in their Terms of Service or Etiquette Policy.
I didn't write this sooner due to being very busy are work (Friday and Saturday were back-to-back 12+ hour shifts) and waiting on the results of my appeal, but after a curt response from either the AI or NPC "Nick," straight up asked me to snitch on anyone else who may have made a rebound account, AFTER upholding my second BS ban (nice negotiation tactics there, you feckless fuckwit; maybe read The Art of The Deal sometime, assuming it doesn't burn you eyes like a vampire staring into the sun), I've been stone-walled by silence.
I don't know if I myself was snitched out by any of the lifeless, loser spurgs I've antagonized over the years as an Eobard Thawne levels of petty slight (though I have my suspicions...), or if I fell afoul of the soulless AI that the NKVDA left in charge of content moderation, but in either case, I'm fucking done with Deviant Art. They've been persecuting blueberry inflation artists for twenty fucking years; Ive been around long enough to remember when they first started deleting Johnny Swell's posted pages of The Bizarre Adventures of Berrygirl.
You have made me your enemy, Deviant Art. I won't even help you get a single click more. I was only ever on your dog-shit, increasingly degenerating site for the (mostly) very fine people, anyway, and I will now do my part to lead away as many of them as I can, free like like the poor sods in Plato's cave, that you may be reduced to as an inglorious, ignominious, pathetic state as Tumblr, assuming you don't go the way of Sheezy Art.
Like Pontius Pilate practicing hygiene before the pharisees, I wash my hands of thee. "Deviant" Art has only ever been "deviant" like Hazbin Hotel is only safe edgy (and headed by honorless curs).
So, my denizenship on Deviant Art is done, but my time in hopefully greener pastures has only just begun. Last Christmas, I opened up accounts on both Twitter and Archive Of Our Own, but due to cramming to try and finish Christmas Eve with Genevieve and restarting the ultimately futile relaunch on DA, followed by precessions of one thing leading to another, I never got around to posting anything there. However, I have now begun to upload all applicable works to those websites as well, and they will become new mainstays along with Fur Affinity, Pixiv, New Grounds, and Itaku that will receive new uploads whenever I have them to post.
So, if you'd like to help me rebuild my following again (and reduce Deviant Shart to Deviant Fart in The Wind), you can follow me there, too.
https://x.com/TheHungryLurker
https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheHungryLurker
And finally, speaking of murder at the hands of ideological zealots and resurrections, I wish you all (had) a Happy Easter.
For those of you who don't already know, just before 9:00 AM PST on April 16th, 2025, my second Deviant Art account, TheOneHungryLurker was, just like its predecessor, black-bagged and sent to the work camp/shallow grave of indefinitely suspended by the NKVDA, with no prior warning or lesser penalty, even in spite of my increased mindfulness of their stodgy, inconsistent, capricious, and frequently hypocritically enforced content policies.
My the-size-of-the-former-twin-towers-of-the-World-Trade-Center-quotation-marks "crime?"
"Attempting to evade a ban."
Apparently, also previously unbeknownst to me, the NKVDA will purge any new account you make if a previous account of yours was banned, even if it was over litigious, bad-faith enforcement of policies that proved to be so unpopular that they were revised to no longer be a ban-hammer-catching "offense." Despite citing them in the notice sent to me, this "no re-entry" policy even insinuated, let alone mentioned nowhere in their Terms of Service or Etiquette Policy.
I didn't write this sooner due to being very busy are work (Friday and Saturday were back-to-back 12+ hour shifts) and waiting on the results of my appeal, but after a curt response from either the AI or NPC "Nick," straight up asked me to snitch on anyone else who may have made a rebound account, AFTER upholding my second BS ban (nice negotiation tactics there, you feckless fuckwit; maybe read The Art of The Deal sometime, assuming it doesn't burn you eyes like a vampire staring into the sun), I've been stone-walled by silence.
I don't know if I myself was snitched out by any of the lifeless, loser spurgs I've antagonized over the years as an Eobard Thawne levels of petty slight (though I have my suspicions...), or if I fell afoul of the soulless AI that the NKVDA left in charge of content moderation, but in either case, I'm fucking done with Deviant Art. They've been persecuting blueberry inflation artists for twenty fucking years; Ive been around long enough to remember when they first started deleting Johnny Swell's posted pages of The Bizarre Adventures of Berrygirl.
You have made me your enemy, Deviant Art. I won't even help you get a single click more. I was only ever on your dog-shit, increasingly degenerating site for the (mostly) very fine people, anyway, and I will now do my part to lead away as many of them as I can, free like like the poor sods in Plato's cave, that you may be reduced to as an inglorious, ignominious, pathetic state as Tumblr, assuming you don't go the way of Sheezy Art.
Like Pontius Pilate practicing hygiene before the pharisees, I wash my hands of thee. "Deviant" Art has only ever been "deviant" like Hazbin Hotel is only safe edgy (and headed by honorless curs).
So, my denizenship on Deviant Art is done, but my time in hopefully greener pastures has only just begun. Last Christmas, I opened up accounts on both Twitter and Archive Of Our Own, but due to cramming to try and finish Christmas Eve with Genevieve and restarting the ultimately futile relaunch on DA, followed by precessions of one thing leading to another, I never got around to posting anything there. However, I have now begun to upload all applicable works to those websites as well, and they will become new mainstays along with Fur Affinity, Pixiv, New Grounds, and Itaku that will receive new uploads whenever I have them to post.
So, if you'd like to help me rebuild my following again (and reduce Deviant Shart to Deviant Fart in The Wind), you can follow me there, too.
https://x.com/TheHungryLurker
https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheHungryLurker
And finally, speaking of murder at the hands of ideological zealots and resurrections, I wish you all (had) a Happy Easter.
POLL: Shoild I make more recolors?
Posted 5 months agoHello, my faithful followers. I really appreciate your enthusiastic support for my art, although I do feel bad that I have to make you wait for, on average, a month or more in between uploads, and that's without mentioning on how taxing this is on the saint-like patience of my commissioners. I often wonder if this is one of the main reasons why traffic to my galleries is so relatively small... but then I look at extremely talented artists like Jinxed-Juice, who has been around for less time and up until the beginning of this month had and even more sparse unload schedule than I do, but has amassed a bigger following that I ever have, and I can't help but wonder what the fuck I'm doing wrong.
But, back to the question at hand, my recolor of Busrtoid's Beached Blueberry Arezu did surprisingly well, especially here on Deviant Art. So, I was wondering if you'd like to see more content like that; more recolors of inflation art color corrected to blueberry inflation (or maybe even other fruits if the inspiration so strikes me), that I can make in an hour or two (yes, it takes me that long; I suck at doing everything punctually) ever week or two during the month or more it takes me to finish a single drawing.
I will, of course, ask the original artist's permission first before recoloring and reuploading their modified work, with full credit and links to their profiles, obviously.
I'm conflicted myself. To me, the argument for yes is. first and foremost, more content. hopefully generating more traffic to my galleries, pay respects to artists whose art I admire but can't always must up enough time to write an entire essay to tell them how much their art is significant to me, and, of course, more illustrations of women turned into giant blueberries.
But on the other hand, the "no" argument is every second I spend changing someone else's work is time I'm not spending creating my own, and I piss away demonstrable protractions of time as is. And while there are some exceptional recolor artists out there (shout-out to DaBigSauce), he is just that: an exception. Recolors are cheap, easy, and can devalue the work around them in over-abundance. There is a negative stigma around recolors for that reason, which could mute the appeal of my galleries in the first place.
However, since it is you who will or won't be looking at them, I'll leave it up to you as to whether or not that is more content that you'd like to see. If you want more recolors, or want me to focus solely on original work, let me know in the poll below:
https://strawpoll.com/40Zm4RPxkga
I'll leave this poll open probably until I upload my next picture, and I really hope to hear your feedback up until then.
Who knows: there might even be more polls in the near future...
But, back to the question at hand, my recolor of Busrtoid's Beached Blueberry Arezu did surprisingly well, especially here on Deviant Art. So, I was wondering if you'd like to see more content like that; more recolors of inflation art color corrected to blueberry inflation (or maybe even other fruits if the inspiration so strikes me), that I can make in an hour or two (yes, it takes me that long; I suck at doing everything punctually) ever week or two during the month or more it takes me to finish a single drawing.
I will, of course, ask the original artist's permission first before recoloring and reuploading their modified work, with full credit and links to their profiles, obviously.
I'm conflicted myself. To me, the argument for yes is. first and foremost, more content. hopefully generating more traffic to my galleries, pay respects to artists whose art I admire but can't always must up enough time to write an entire essay to tell them how much their art is significant to me, and, of course, more illustrations of women turned into giant blueberries.
But on the other hand, the "no" argument is every second I spend changing someone else's work is time I'm not spending creating my own, and I piss away demonstrable protractions of time as is. And while there are some exceptional recolor artists out there (shout-out to DaBigSauce), he is just that: an exception. Recolors are cheap, easy, and can devalue the work around them in over-abundance. There is a negative stigma around recolors for that reason, which could mute the appeal of my galleries in the first place.
However, since it is you who will or won't be looking at them, I'll leave it up to you as to whether or not that is more content that you'd like to see. If you want more recolors, or want me to focus solely on original work, let me know in the poll below:
https://strawpoll.com/40Zm4RPxkga
I'll leave this poll open probably until I upload my next picture, and I really hope to hear your feedback up until then.
Who knows: there might even be more polls in the near future...
UPDATE:Valhalla Balloons Story Added, New DA Account
Posted 7 months agoFor all of you who enjoyed and favorites VA-11 Hall-A BA-11 00-NS: Alma & Jill, first of all, thank you but furthermore, if you enjoy the additional stories I sometimes include with my pictures, Valhalla Balloons now has an included story!
It wasn't originally posted with the picture because the drawing was actually completed on the 5th of February, and the story just took THAT long to write/figure out how to write. I tried stepping outside the style in which I usually write, which came with a lot of growing pains. I was trying to write something more like a noir, where everything is short, punchy, dark, and psychological... only for it to end up being the single longest picture-adjacent story I've ever written. Your enjoyment of it may vary, but for me, it really didn't come together until the end.
I hope it is to your enjoyment!
In other news I had meant to announce this all the way back after I posted Christmas Eve with Genevieve, only to get swept up in work and working on the Alma and Jill picture (I started work on it all the way back on January 3rd), but I got a new Deviant Art account.
Unfortunately, given how finicky, sporadic, contradictory, and even hypocritical the NKVDA are when it comes to enforcing its own content policies, so much pictures that involve nudity with juice leaking from the blueberries nipples exist merely in a thumbnail, preview only state, and pictures featured aged-up characters have only a perfectly normal, safe-for-work placeholder sketch. For the sake of not jeopardizing my new account, they are only available on sites like this. However, I am testing the waters a little; pictures like Warden Blueberrezu and Valhalla Balloons I have posted in their full, uncensored glory, so if those remain unmolested after enough time, I may consider resorting others to their full state, too. The one exception will be for aged up characters, though, especially (unfortunately) Hilda; the NKVDA have an absolute, frothing, leaking, undeflatable hate-boner for content of Hilda.
If you'd like to help me rebuild my presence on Deviant Art, you can find me here:
https://www.deviantart.com/theonehungrylurker
It wasn't originally posted with the picture because the drawing was actually completed on the 5th of February, and the story just took THAT long to write/figure out how to write. I tried stepping outside the style in which I usually write, which came with a lot of growing pains. I was trying to write something more like a noir, where everything is short, punchy, dark, and psychological... only for it to end up being the single longest picture-adjacent story I've ever written. Your enjoyment of it may vary, but for me, it really didn't come together until the end.
I hope it is to your enjoyment!
In other news I had meant to announce this all the way back after I posted Christmas Eve with Genevieve, only to get swept up in work and working on the Alma and Jill picture (I started work on it all the way back on January 3rd), but I got a new Deviant Art account.
Unfortunately, given how finicky, sporadic, contradictory, and even hypocritical the NKVDA are when it comes to enforcing its own content policies, so much pictures that involve nudity with juice leaking from the blueberries nipples exist merely in a thumbnail, preview only state, and pictures featured aged-up characters have only a perfectly normal, safe-for-work placeholder sketch. For the sake of not jeopardizing my new account, they are only available on sites like this. However, I am testing the waters a little; pictures like Warden Blueberrezu and Valhalla Balloons I have posted in their full, uncensored glory, so if those remain unmolested after enough time, I may consider resorting others to their full state, too. The one exception will be for aged up characters, though, especially (unfortunately) Hilda; the NKVDA have an absolute, frothing, leaking, undeflatable hate-boner for content of Hilda.
If you'd like to help me rebuild my presence on Deviant Art, you can find me here:
https://www.deviantart.com/theonehungrylurker
Happy Thanksgiving 2024! | Poll: Should I get a Twitter?
Posted 9 months agoTo my fellow countrymen and women of the United States of America, but to all my associates abroad as well, I wish you a happy Thanksgiving!
Today is a day of celebration, to express gratitude for that which you have earned, through either diligence, thrift, or benevolence, and more so the things you are blessed to have.
Of course, this doesn't have to be delegated to just one day, nor should it. It is impossible to live a life with true, meaningful happiness without gratitude. No matter how little you think you have, only by being thankful for it can you truly appreciate it, and then it won't seem so small. If you're reading this right now, it means you have access to electrical power, a computer device, and the internet; that's an extraordinary amount to be grateful for. Yet you could have all the world, but it would be but a hollow trinket unless you cherished it for such the wonderful thing it is.
It's been a wild year so far. I have lost many things, but gained many, too, and held onto things I hold dear. I am thankful for the friends I still have and hold so close. I'm thankful Reee Tardy Oswald missed. And I am thankful for you, yes you, reading this, and that you've stayed with me through it all, or found me again after my greatest loss this year... though, if one social media account on a crumbling art (and AI slop) hosting site was the worst thing to happen to me this year, seems like a pretty good year.
To use the topic of social media as a segue, that begs the question for something that I've been pondering for a while:
Should I get a Twitter account?
With Deviant Art slowly going the way of Tumblr, and being the largest social media website on the planet (and very notably lax terms of service for art that's posted there), Twitter by default seems to be slowly overtaking Deviant Art as the world's largest art hosting site, if it hasn't already. And though I have seen growth on both my Fur Affinity and Pixiv sites, my audience on all my current galleries combined is still barely more than half of the audience I had on DA.
However, even putting aside the kind of discourse and chaos cultists that abound on the site has likened me to compare Twitter to taking a stroll through The Warp without any Gellar Fields active (watch the movie Event Horizon if you want to know what that's like), I have also personally disparaged how Twitter is, bar none, the absolute worst layout for assembling portfolio of your artistic work. It's endless, single-file feed system means your invalidating and burying your own work. Yet, unfortunately, Twitter's user base is still astronomical, and is also the main if not sole site that many artists post their work, even those whose work I highly admire, like Raikovjaba.
So, below is a poll that I'll be linking to on all my accounts: should I also set up a shop in the greenest pastures of all, or close myself off to it like a Custodian closing his mind to prevent Slaanesh from entering? (No more than he/she/it has already gained a foothold, at least.)
https://strawpoll.com/XmZRQDDR6gd
IMPORTANT NOTE: I cannot stress this enough, even if the overwhelming super majority vote "Yes," Twitter is not the site I want to become my primary gallery, due to how truncated conversations on posts are by strict character limits, and my aforementioned disdain for the site's browsing layout. Therefore, I would only ever upload teaser thumbnails of pictures, current and new, with links in each post to my current galleries, where I actually want my audience to engage with me and my art.
Thank you again, on this day of thanks.
Today is a day of celebration, to express gratitude for that which you have earned, through either diligence, thrift, or benevolence, and more so the things you are blessed to have.
Of course, this doesn't have to be delegated to just one day, nor should it. It is impossible to live a life with true, meaningful happiness without gratitude. No matter how little you think you have, only by being thankful for it can you truly appreciate it, and then it won't seem so small. If you're reading this right now, it means you have access to electrical power, a computer device, and the internet; that's an extraordinary amount to be grateful for. Yet you could have all the world, but it would be but a hollow trinket unless you cherished it for such the wonderful thing it is.
It's been a wild year so far. I have lost many things, but gained many, too, and held onto things I hold dear. I am thankful for the friends I still have and hold so close. I'm thankful Reee Tardy Oswald missed. And I am thankful for you, yes you, reading this, and that you've stayed with me through it all, or found me again after my greatest loss this year... though, if one social media account on a crumbling art (and AI slop) hosting site was the worst thing to happen to me this year, seems like a pretty good year.
To use the topic of social media as a segue, that begs the question for something that I've been pondering for a while:
Should I get a Twitter account?
With Deviant Art slowly going the way of Tumblr, and being the largest social media website on the planet (and very notably lax terms of service for art that's posted there), Twitter by default seems to be slowly overtaking Deviant Art as the world's largest art hosting site, if it hasn't already. And though I have seen growth on both my Fur Affinity and Pixiv sites, my audience on all my current galleries combined is still barely more than half of the audience I had on DA.
However, even putting aside the kind of discourse and chaos cultists that abound on the site has likened me to compare Twitter to taking a stroll through The Warp without any Gellar Fields active (watch the movie Event Horizon if you want to know what that's like), I have also personally disparaged how Twitter is, bar none, the absolute worst layout for assembling portfolio of your artistic work. It's endless, single-file feed system means your invalidating and burying your own work. Yet, unfortunately, Twitter's user base is still astronomical, and is also the main if not sole site that many artists post their work, even those whose work I highly admire, like Raikovjaba.
So, below is a poll that I'll be linking to on all my accounts: should I also set up a shop in the greenest pastures of all, or close myself off to it like a Custodian closing his mind to prevent Slaanesh from entering? (No more than he/she/it has already gained a foothold, at least.)
https://strawpoll.com/XmZRQDDR6gd
IMPORTANT NOTE: I cannot stress this enough, even if the overwhelming super majority vote "Yes," Twitter is not the site I want to become my primary gallery, due to how truncated conversations on posts are by strict character limits, and my aforementioned disdain for the site's browsing layout. Therefore, I would only ever upload teaser thumbnails of pictures, current and new, with links in each post to my current galleries, where I actually want my audience to engage with me and my art.
Thank you again, on this day of thanks.
Banned from Deviant Art (UPDATED 4/20/2024)
Posted a year agoAs some of you are probably already aware, my main account on Deviant Art was deactivated on Thursday, April 18th, 2024. This was not by my choice. It was terminated by Deviant Art Staff.
Here's what happened.
UPDATE: Italicized text is just speculation of the possibility of one event playing into another, and given the second update bracket, is likely inconsequential. While the timing is certainly suspicious, "suspect" is not a synonym for "guilty."
On April 11th, I got into an argument with another user named iamtheladyoflight, a fundamentally untalented "artist" whose work all screams "mid-to-late thirties spinster with baby rabies" and whose existence I only mildly tolerated, over, of all things, her pro abortion beliefs. (Stew on that divine comedy irony for a minute.) I didn't have the foresight to save the whole argument before she hid it, which lasted only a total of six comments, but I was keen enough to screenshot the first half, linked:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56.....oad-successful
Afterwords, we blocked each other and went our separate ways... or so I thought.
On April 16th, I had four of my pictures -- Massive Maternal May, Persona Permaberry - Ann Takamaki, Carmine, the Indigo Blueberry, and Happy Birthday from Hilda -- removed by Deviant Art on the claims that they contained "sexualization of underage characters," despite the fact that I made an effort to both show and explain that all the characters within them were meant to be depicted as eighteen years old or older. But others were targeted as well, such as Not To See, But To Feel: Part 3 (I'll be honest, that one doesn't surprise me), but so was "Nice Blue Balls, Bro." deleted for "violation of sexual policy," despite the fact that there isn't even any nudity in that one.
I was only on the site as TheHungryLurker since Christmas of 2021, but I've been lurking Deviant Art since some of my watchers were still in diapers, so I know that the NKVDeviant Art staff don't typically remove something unless somebody reports it, and Lady herself once said to me "never underestimate what I can do with enough spite." I'll admit this is speculation on my part, but there is at least a suspect and motive.
Either way, after those first four pictures were deleted, I attempted to reupload them in a heavily edited state, where almost everything but their heads were obscured. This just resulted in more take downs, and a permanent ban.
I've filed an appeal, but for all I know that's just going to amount to piss in the wind. Even if my original account is reinstated, I'm going to direct people more towards and increasing my standing on my accounts outside of Deviant Art, such as this one. And if I do make a new DA account several months from now when the heat has died down, I'm going to do the same thing. For now, none of my current plans involve Deviant Art. Time will tell if my future plans don't involve it, either.
[sighs] Rimou was right.
UPDATE: A user claiming to be iamtheladyoflight has contacted me and stated that she had nothing to do with my pictures being reported, only that she blocked me after our argument and moved on and offered their condolences for the situation. I personally cannot independently confirm or disprove if this user is Lady, or if she is, that she is indeed telling the truth on the matter. Then again, I have also stated from the start that my speculation of her involvement is exactly that: speculation, and that I also cannot confirm or disprove her involvement. So don't go doing anything rash like mass report her profile without irrefutable evidence of her involvement. We must abide by the precept that people are innocent unless they can be immutably and objectively proven guilty.
I did something rash, and my Deviant Art account got deleted for it.
Here's what happened.
UPDATE: Italicized text is just speculation of the possibility of one event playing into another, and given the second update bracket, is likely inconsequential. While the timing is certainly suspicious, "suspect" is not a synonym for "guilty."
On April 11th, I got into an argument with another user named iamtheladyoflight, a fundamentally untalented "artist" whose work all screams "mid-to-late thirties spinster with baby rabies" and whose existence I only mildly tolerated, over, of all things, her pro abortion beliefs. (Stew on that divine comedy irony for a minute.) I didn't have the foresight to save the whole argument before she hid it, which lasted only a total of six comments, but I was keen enough to screenshot the first half, linked:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56.....oad-successful
Afterwords, we blocked each other and went our separate ways... or so I thought.
On April 16th, I had four of my pictures -- Massive Maternal May, Persona Permaberry - Ann Takamaki, Carmine, the Indigo Blueberry, and Happy Birthday from Hilda -- removed by Deviant Art on the claims that they contained "sexualization of underage characters," despite the fact that I made an effort to both show and explain that all the characters within them were meant to be depicted as eighteen years old or older. But others were targeted as well, such as Not To See, But To Feel: Part 3 (I'll be honest, that one doesn't surprise me), but so was "Nice Blue Balls, Bro." deleted for "violation of sexual policy," despite the fact that there isn't even any nudity in that one.
I was only on the site as TheHungryLurker since Christmas of 2021, but I've been lurking Deviant Art since some of my watchers were still in diapers, so I know that the NKVDeviant Art staff don't typically remove something unless somebody reports it, and Lady herself once said to me "never underestimate what I can do with enough spite." I'll admit this is speculation on my part, but there is at least a suspect and motive.
Either way, after those first four pictures were deleted, I attempted to reupload them in a heavily edited state, where almost everything but their heads were obscured. This just resulted in more take downs, and a permanent ban.
I've filed an appeal, but for all I know that's just going to amount to piss in the wind. Even if my original account is reinstated, I'm going to direct people more towards and increasing my standing on my accounts outside of Deviant Art, such as this one. And if I do make a new DA account several months from now when the heat has died down, I'm going to do the same thing. For now, none of my current plans involve Deviant Art. Time will tell if my future plans don't involve it, either.
[sighs] Rimou was right.
UPDATE: A user claiming to be iamtheladyoflight has contacted me and stated that she had nothing to do with my pictures being reported, only that she blocked me after our argument and moved on and offered their condolences for the situation. I personally cannot independently confirm or disprove if this user is Lady, or if she is, that she is indeed telling the truth on the matter. Then again, I have also stated from the start that my speculation of her involvement is exactly that: speculation, and that I also cannot confirm or disprove her involvement. So don't go doing anything rash like mass report her profile without irrefutable evidence of her involvement. We must abide by the precept that people are innocent unless they can be immutably and objectively proven guilty.
I did something rash, and my Deviant Art account got deleted for it.
Christmas Consolation Discount
Posted a year agoI forgot to announce this on Christmas Day, due to working until six in the morning to finish Carmine, the Indigo Blueberry, then having to write the entire accompanying story the same day, posting it and Taoblockaka to all my accounts, having to contact a few friends, and getting less than three hours of sleep that day, but I decided to announce a special offer for everyone else who entered a candidate for the Christmas Drawing poll.
If you entered a suggestion that didn't win, if you would like to submit your request as a commission, I'll give you a 25% discount on the commission price!
Standard prices are as follows:
Line art: $15
Flat color: $40
Cell shading/coloring: $60
Full dynamic coloring and lighting: $80
Add a background:
Simple: $20
Detailed: $40
Complex: $70
If you'd like to reserve a commission slot, you will be added to my list, and your commission will be completed in the order in which it was reserved. This does mean it will take longer to get to than it took me to finish the drawing of Carmine, as I do have other commissions in front of it, but I don't ask my commissioners for payment until after I have gotten their approval to color the final line art.
I look forward to doing business with you.
Thank you again to everyone who submitted a candidate, and thank you for all the love for the picture of Carmine. I hope you all had a merry Christmas, and that we'll all go on to have a new year as filled with happiness as blueberry girls are filled with juice!
If you entered a suggestion that didn't win, if you would like to submit your request as a commission, I'll give you a 25% discount on the commission price!
Standard prices are as follows:
Line art: $15
Flat color: $40
Cell shading/coloring: $60
Full dynamic coloring and lighting: $80
Add a background:
Simple: $20
Detailed: $40
Complex: $70
If you'd like to reserve a commission slot, you will be added to my list, and your commission will be completed in the order in which it was reserved. This does mean it will take longer to get to than it took me to finish the drawing of Carmine, as I do have other commissions in front of it, but I don't ask my commissioners for payment until after I have gotten their approval to color the final line art.
I look forward to doing business with you.
Thank you again to everyone who submitted a candidate, and thank you for all the love for the picture of Carmine. I hope you all had a merry Christmas, and that we'll all go on to have a new year as filled with happiness as blueberry girls are filled with juice!
I want to wish you a Merry Christmas...
Posted a year agoChristmas Drawing Poll is Over! And the winner is...
Posted a year agoWith almost a full quarter of the 82 votes cast and over twice as many votes as the second place candidate, the clear winner of the Christmas Drawing Poll is...
Deviant Art user Arcosianfan1's suggestion for
Carmine of Blueberry Academy from Pokemon Scarlet/Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC as a gigantic, flirty blueberry!
The matter is now out of your hands, and into mine, as I will be doing everything that I can to have this picture completed and posted on Christmas Day, 2023!
Thank you everyone who participated in the process! If your suggestion didn't win, don't feel too bad; you're still getting a free, giant blueberry girl for Christmas, and maybe even some other surprises as well!
Now I just have to finish a drawing that could take me up to 50 hours in a week... help me, baby Jesus...
I'll see you then, and Merry Christmas!
Deviant Art user Arcosianfan1's suggestion for
Carmine of Blueberry Academy from Pokemon Scarlet/Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero DLC as a gigantic, flirty blueberry!
The matter is now out of your hands, and into mine, as I will be doing everything that I can to have this picture completed and posted on Christmas Day, 2023!
Thank you everyone who participated in the process! If your suggestion didn't win, don't feel too bad; you're still getting a free, giant blueberry girl for Christmas, and maybe even some other surprises as well!
Now I just have to finish a drawing that could take me up to 50 hours in a week... help me, baby Jesus...
I'll see you then, and Merry Christmas!
Christmas Drawing Poll: less than 30 hours left!
Posted a year agoWhat a time it's been already! There have been some surprise standouts, multiple leads lost and taken, and some shocking upsets! There's still time left, but it's running out!
Cast your ballot, and share this poll with your friend, and you can get your favorite PokéWaifu inflated for Christmas!
VOTE HERE!
https://strawpoll.com/B2ZBEPABQgJ/
Cast your ballot, and share this poll with your friend, and you can get your favorite PokéWaifu inflated for Christmas!
VOTE HERE!
https://strawpoll.com/B2ZBEPABQgJ/
Election Day(s)
Posted a year agoThat's it; the primaries are over and closed. Thank you everyone who submitted a suggestion!
Now it's time for the real competition to begin! Below is a link to a poll hosted on Straw Poll, where all eighteen of the nominees have been listed with a name, picture, and a succinct description of their expansion/transformation.
The candidates were organized at random, so be sure to look over the entire ballot before casting your vote!
Everyone, of course, can only vote once, but don't let that stop you from sharing the poll with your friends or on your social media sites!
The poll will remain open until Sunday, December 17th, 11:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time, then the winner will be drawn and posted (God willing) on Christmas Day, 2023.
It's time to vote for the Christmas Drawing!
VOTE HERE!
https://strawpoll.com/B2ZBEPABQgJ
Now it's time for the real competition to begin! Below is a link to a poll hosted on Straw Poll, where all eighteen of the nominees have been listed with a name, picture, and a succinct description of their expansion/transformation.
The candidates were organized at random, so be sure to look over the entire ballot before casting your vote!
Everyone, of course, can only vote once, but don't let that stop you from sharing the poll with your friends or on your social media sites!
The poll will remain open until Sunday, December 17th, 11:59 PM, Pacific Standard Time, then the winner will be drawn and posted (God willing) on Christmas Day, 2023.
It's time to vote for the Christmas Drawing!
VOTE HERE!
https://strawpoll.com/B2ZBEPABQgJ
And the winner is...
Posted 2 years agoWith almost a third of all votes cast, this year's Christmas drawing is going to be...
Another Pokégirl!
Now for the next step. Leave a comment on this post (or send me a private message if you're shy) with one (and only ONE) suggestion for any female character from the Pokemon franchise, be she human or Pokémon, and whether you'd like to see her turned into a giant, busty blueberry, or inflated like a big balloon, or any form of inflation and/or expansion, or even just a simple, safe for work character drawing if you're so inclined, plus any other optional criteria that you'd like to add (size, position, camera angle, setting, her expression and/or state of mind, etc).
I will take suggestions until noon (Pacific Standard Time) on Friday the 15th, 2023, when I will then take each suggestion I find acceptable and compile them all into a linked, off-site straw poll, so everyone watching any of my galleries on separate sites can vote.
The poll will remain open until midnight (PST) on Monday the 18th, 2023, and the winner will be declared!
After which, I will do everything I can to finish that drawing by Christmas Day, 2023.
Thank you to everyone who has participated so far, and good luck!
Another Pokégirl!
Now for the next step. Leave a comment on this post (or send me a private message if you're shy) with one (and only ONE) suggestion for any female character from the Pokemon franchise, be she human or Pokémon, and whether you'd like to see her turned into a giant, busty blueberry, or inflated like a big balloon, or any form of inflation and/or expansion, or even just a simple, safe for work character drawing if you're so inclined, plus any other optional criteria that you'd like to add (size, position, camera angle, setting, her expression and/or state of mind, etc).
I will take suggestions until noon (Pacific Standard Time) on Friday the 15th, 2023, when I will then take each suggestion I find acceptable and compile them all into a linked, off-site straw poll, so everyone watching any of my galleries on separate sites can vote.
The poll will remain open until midnight (PST) on Monday the 18th, 2023, and the winner will be declared!
After which, I will do everything I can to finish that drawing by Christmas Day, 2023.
Thank you to everyone who has participated so far, and good luck!
Christmas drawing poll on Deviant Art
Posted 2 years agoI set up a poll on my Deviant Art account for what I should draw for Christmas 2023. If you'd like to have a say, you can vote on it here:
https://www.deviantart.com/thehungr.....istmas-8380839
You'll need a Deviant Art account to vote to vote in the poll, but if you don't have one, leave your vote here, and I'll add it to the tally.
I have more details about the criteria for each choice explained in the featured comment on the same poll.
I hope to hear from you!
https://www.deviantart.com/thehungr.....istmas-8380839
You'll need a Deviant Art account to vote to vote in the poll, but if you don't have one, leave your vote here, and I'll add it to the tally.
I have more details about the criteria for each choice explained in the featured comment on the same poll.
I hope to hear from you!
Genevieve Fan Art Shout-Out
Posted 2 years agoSo after I posted Genevieve's First Halloween as a Blueberry and during my rounds of obligatory "thanks for the fav" comments, I came across a user named Braindead-Squirrel, who also just so happened to have a permapuffy Pokemon OC dressed in a shiny Snorlax costume for Halloween. Upon noticing this, I commented on the cosmic irony of the situation, and he was so inspired that he drew something extra to mark the occasion.
So, I'd like to give a special shout-out to Fur Affinity user Braindead-Squirrel, for drawing this:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54375707/
And as long as I'm shouting out fanart of Genevieve, the permaberry Gardevoir, I should also call attention to Deviant Art user NeedToBeat, who drew this in her honor after the first picture I drew of her:
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca8......eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcL2E5NTdjODg3LTk3M2EtNDYxMi04MzAxLWM3NjA3MjNmOGJlN1wvZGZsMXBiNy02YTg4MmQ4Yy02ZTNhLTQ1ZWMtOTIyZS02NmMwMTEwNjBhMDMucG5nIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.6S9pZ-C1NTHcHrOIDyp8h28U-eHt-qMBhgGmB7IPtJs
I'm honestly thrilled by their contributions. When starting up this moniker, I never thought I'd draw something that people loved so much that they'd draw fan art of it, but it warms my pervy artists heart. Go show them some love for their work and for giving the world more Genevieve, the parmaberry Gardevoir!
So, I'd like to give a special shout-out to Fur Affinity user Braindead-Squirrel, for drawing this:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54375707/
And as long as I'm shouting out fanart of Genevieve, the permaberry Gardevoir, I should also call attention to Deviant Art user NeedToBeat, who drew this in her honor after the first picture I drew of her:
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca8......eyJzdWIiOiJ1c
I'm honestly thrilled by their contributions. When starting up this moniker, I never thought I'd draw something that people loved so much that they'd draw fan art of it, but it warms my pervy artists heart. Go show them some love for their work and for giving the world more Genevieve, the parmaberry Gardevoir!