The Patreon version is on the “Barks Coxley” Update, which features a new playable Monster Layer!
The free version is on the “Birdfucker” Update, which features a new layable monster!​ Direct links included below do to the ongoing delisting thing.

https://www.patreon.com/c/infinitydoomgames

Free Versions:
https://infinitydoom.itch.io/monster-layer
https://infinitydoom.itch.io/monste.....bility-edition

You’ve probably heard at this point about the wave of online censorship as payment processors pressure platforms. I’m here to mostly spread around a site that explains the situation and what you can do about it way better than I ever could.

https://yellat.money/

I’ve tried rewriting this post about a dozen times. I’ve tried writing it as a dire call to action. Which it is, the freedom of the internet, queer communities, and the livelihoods of sex workers around the world are under direct threat. I’ve tried writing it with the fervour of. “Yes, this is finally a thing to do about it!”

The truth is I’m worn down. And I’m not sure how effective any of it will be. But, other people are really trying to do something about it. And if nothing else, that means I should at least try.

I know most people reading this aren’t going to call Visa. And it sucks that (as mentioned in the website) the people who are most affected by this, the sex workers who are having their livelihood taken away. Can’t even contact without being attacked directly.

At the very least you can sign the petition, it only takes a minute or so.

https://www.change.org/p/tell-maste.....h-read-or-play

The Replay update is live on the Patreon version of Monster Layer!
The Replay Update features a new ascending difficulty system, Stat logging, and endless mode. It'll come to the free version whenever the next patch is out.

https://www.patreon.com/c/infinitydoomgames

I don't really interact with social media so it's just the same posts as on here, but if you'd prefer to receive updates through there instead here you go.

https://bsky.app/profile/infinitydoom.bsky.social

Hi, I'm gonna keep this one short. I made a horror game about being a discord mod for the spooky season.

Here is the link to the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6QkfEFVigU

Okay have a happy halloween!

I wanted to let y'all know about an interesting new project I made.

I made a game in a week about having an increasingly terrible job. Then I made a making of video about making that video game.

The game is a life simulation roguelike survival game and you can find it here:
https://moontouched.itch.io/terrible-jobs

And the video ended up being a hour and twenty minute long chill sleepy time vid you can find here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCXiu1vBhxI



With that announcement out of the way. I wanted to finally talk about how I'm doing and why i stopping drawing porn.

Originally when I stopped drawing Iron I gave very sparse reasons of feeling it was time to go do other things in my life, and drawing porn not giving me what I want in life. While I think both feelings are generally true. I don't think I really understood the scope of the problem.

I think what I wrote was largely influenced by the small amount of obnoxious fans demanding things from me. I think at the core of that negative fandom is the idea that the artist owes the viewer something because of their patronage. So by telling the world, that releasing my art isn't doing anything for me. I'm removing their power basically.

Of course, if someone thinks an artist of something they like owes them anything, the problem is squarely on them. I should just block them and move on.

But I didn't just leave cause of bad fans, I truly did want to do other things. I think something I finally started managing is the fact that I'm very non comital, and not just in the context of relationships. As much as I might want to make a 16 part fantasy novel series, I know I will be come exhausted by the idea partway through. A thing that makes this worse is due to the context in which I was raised, I thought it was better to just "suck it up" rather than do anything different. As probably apparent above, I'm trying to tackle smaller projects that are new and interesting.

Speaking of the context that I was raised, their is another problem I had to deal with. For those who don't know I'm a non-binary person who was enculturated as male. And that enculturation has given me a lot of problems. I mentioned I was predisposed to just suffer through problems rather than fix them, also I had a lot of harmful thoughts around my carrier and income. I'm lucky enough to not really need an income, I'm taken care of, and I provide care for my household. Logically I think this as fine, I mean I'm a homemaker, it's a really common thing. But I can't help but view all the care I give as "extra" and me not bringing home a lot of income as a failure. Even though we don't need the money. It goes without saying, but if I was enculturated female. My role would be normalized in my mind and I wouldn't feel ashamed over this (though likely over other things)

These are what I'd say are the main reason why I left.

Now I know only talking about my problems probably makes it sound like I've had a miserable time lately, but it's actually kinda the opposite. These past couple years have been explosive in term of me growing and experiencing life. I've made so many friends and had so many new experiences. It's really crazy thinking about it to go from hanging out with two people and wondering what I'm doing in this fandom. To partying with all my friends at a fur con, in my new fursuit. Surrounded by a community that genuinely feels like family.

Even things I thought were truly impossible finally happen. It's been months and I can safely say, I've beaten the depression I've dealt with my entire life prior. I may feel down for no reason now and again, but that's all it is. No longer able to effect my ability to do what I want or hurt my interactions with others.

It's cause everything is so good now that I'm able to finally focus on all the problems I have.

I may have had a really bad time when I was doing porn in the past. But I don't think it was the porn's fault. I may do more someday, but I know better than to give any guarantees. I can say I have no plans in the near future though. And if I do come back, it likely won't be to continue my old long form projects.

Not much to say here, game is finally on itch. Haha.

https://moontouched.itch.io/burning-branch

Not much to say here, game is finally on itch. Haha.

https://moontouched.itch.io/burning-branch

Releasing into Early Access

Check it out here:https://store.steampowered.com/app/.....urning_Branch/

The post in question: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10560608

It seems that FA is finally entering a phase where they want to start saving face. The most recent update came with some periphery kink changes as well as a change of date that the policy is dropping. (From the 1st of June to the 7th)

I understand that a lot of us in these communities and especially in this fight are very tired. (I personally thought I’d spend this time trying to promote my game on here. Which is coming out on the 9th. The fact that this will continue till the 7th means I probably just… won’t be able to do that)

But this is probably one of the best times to push for change. FA’s reputation is so far in the ground at this point it might as well be burning in hell. It’s the only reason why they are trying to save face now, rather than their consistent strategy of just ignore and censor everyone. While I’m not gonna stop you from just telling them how shit they are (Cause they 100% deserve it). I don’t want to miss this opportunity to push to ensure the safety of our communities and the livelihoods of the artist still working in them.

Below I’m posting what I’ll be writing on my feedback ticket. Feel free to copy it, use it as a template for your own ticket, add your own ideas and demands. Or if you disagree with my approach, to send one with your own views.

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Regarding Upload Policy Section 2.7

Upon hearing these policy changes, I was instantly struck with how pointedly geared they were for abuse, and unfair treatment targeted directly at the Pokemon and Digimon communities. And none of the addendum’s so far have properly addressed the core issues of the policy.

To ensure the safety of these communities, change MUST be made to address the core failings surrounding the policies’ vagueness, and material assurance needs to be baked into the policy to ensure the Pokemon and Digimon communities aren’t treated differently from any other.

Firstly, the vague and non-quantifiable definition of childlike proportions, “Generally speaking, as characters age, their proportions change...” Means that the only metric for if something has ‘childlike proportions’ is that an FA staff said so. And this means the accused doesn’t have any grounds to argue against abuses under this policy, and ultimately whether the accused art falls in violation is completely up to the bias of the enforcer. Definitions around what is going to be under violation need to be exactingly clear, and quantifiable. With a reasonable minimum number of traits present to trigger a violation.

Secondly, if the policy is truly not targeting the Pokemon and Digimon communities as FA staff claims. The policy needs built in measures to make sure that fair treatment actually happens. If the same body proportions in an accused piece of work is found inside allowed work in any other fandom (Like Animal Crossing, Sonic the Hedgehog, Zootopia, My Little Pony, and General Furry) That piece of work CANNNOT be found in violation. And any false takedowns must be reversed immediately!

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To send an FA support ticket, click on the three lines on the top corner of the screen. Under the ‘Trouble Ticket’ category, click report a problem. Then change the category to feedback.

FA also suggests joining their discord, but I wouldn’t do that in a million years.

As some of you may know, FA has made their first concession. The policy is still highly prone to abuse, and targeted, but what of the largest community killing elements of it has been disarmed.

The update if you’d like to see it is below. But I’ll soon explain it and all the awful things that are in that post. As we saw with the banning of my protest two days ago. FA is trying their best to control the narrative surrounding this entire ordeal. So It’s best for us to stay critical.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10557600

But first, let's look at the good news. The only real change in that entire post, which is mostly just trying to feed the same meal they tried to make us eat on the 19th, in a more appealing way.

Violations are no longer on a two strike ban system. For everyone here and elsewhere that has stood with the Pokemon, and Digimon communities. Thank you, you should be proud of yourselves. Because you made this happen.

However the fight isn’t exactly over. None of the systems inherent abuses, as well as its exclusive targeting of these communities, are gone.

During this post, FA reframes this new policy as old policy extending to Pokemon and Digimon. This is fairly nonsensical, as I mentioned in my post about the first policy. Pokemon and Digimon were always subject to these rules. And people HAVE been banned over posting cub containing Pokemon and Digimon in the past. Further more, their bandaid for unfair takedowns is a reminder you can send a support ticket or an email.

The real law equivalent of this is someone saying “No, this law isn’t racist. A black person can still make an appeal after there already persecuted under it”. If FA seriously believes, this policy isn’t targeted. They’re going to have to make material and trackable guarantees that the same body types that are allowed in the Animal Crossing, Zootopia, My Little Pony, and all other fandoms are also allowed inside Pokemon and Digimon content.

Next, they mention the system that they’ll be using to judge proportion, by not mentioning much of anything at all. If they really think that their support system is going to stop abuses. How are people supposed to argue for their case if the only metric for child like proportions is that an FA staff member says they are?

At the end of this, our demands should still be the same. WE don’t see these changes as fair or equal treatment, and you’ll need to ACTUALLY make changes to the targeted and abuse prone policy to ensure that abuse doesn’t happen.

My post protesting the new changes wasn't even up for a day before being taken down.

The still up version on Inkbunny: https://inkbunny.net/s/2999427

Anyone who see's through them is being silenced. Let them know this is something they CANNNOT sweep under the rug. Spread the news of what's been happening through your furry discords and social media, get in contact with FA Staff in any way possible. Make sure we are HEARD!

If you don't know what's going on please read the protest post on my inkbunny, or if you have the time, the essay in my previous journal both on FA and Inkbunny.

Look, I don’t really have a horse in this race. As many of you know, I'm moving away from doing porn altogether. But the new policy changes rub me the wrong way. It doesn’t achieve its stated goal. Instead it uses its stated goal to manipulate you into accepting its actual end.

Before we dive in, I’ll give a brief overview of the policies failings, and the purpose of this post.

The new policy stated goal of getting borderline minor content off its site would have so many unintended victims with the current implementation. That it can only lead one to believe that its “unintended” targets are what the policy actually wants to get rid of. And it achieves this effect by wielding two elements;

Vagueness and Targeting.

Secondly my main hope is to help people identify this type of manipulation in more important situations. FA is a furry art site, and it truly does suck that artists might have their livelihood threatened over this. Also these are the type of tricks governments use to try to drive marginalized peoples out of their homes, or prevent them from getting necessary care.

Policy Vagueness.
In short the issue with Vagueness in rules of any kind put the power of interpretation completely into the hands of those enforcing said rules. Moderators in this case, often the police in real life. And gives a giant umbrella for those groups to do whatever they want case by case. Often based on the enforcers bias, more than anything else.

In this case the offending line is “...have childlike body proportions or appear as adolescent animals will be treated as any other when in the presence of sexual activity…”

What they're trying to do by saying “having childlike body proportion” and the more egregious “appear as adolescent animals”. Is evoke an extreme case of this violation in the reader's mind. It even mentions that they will be treated just like all minor art is already treated (An odd statement considering that Pokemon & Digimon have always been subject to the same rules as every other pic on that website.) The issue is it’s saying these things while ignoring its actual implementation. What constitutes childlike proportions, and how many childlike elements do there have to be present to cause a violation?

An example of a childlike proportion element are arms and legs that are the same length. This is a well known phenomena, that adult humans have legs that are longer than their arms. And the meme images of medieval art children often lack this. It is also an element of almost all quadrupedal animals. And semi anthro works almost always have this trait. Let’s talk about Zootopia. That world has a character design rule. Large animals are fully anthro while small animals are semi anthro. Are all the small animals like Judy, Nick, and Mrs.Otterson in violation? Under the current vagueness in the rules, it would be completely up to the individual enforcing said rules.

Let’s use my own work next. My own Sona and main character of Driftwood, Ferro. The world they live in also has a character design rule. Species based on large animals loosely take the proportion and heights of tolkien fantasy human/elves. And small ones loosely take those of fantasy dwarves/hobbits/halflings.

An image of Ferro, a rat based creature next to a canine based creature.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40019851/

Now dwarf proportions are different from child proportions. Dwarves in real life have the same torso and head proportion as a “normal” person. If a dwarf is sitting on the floor next to a non dwarf, they’ll have similar seated heights, even though the dwarf will be much shorter if both people were standing.

An image of Ferro as a child
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40125545/

Now what’s the difference when Ferro was a child. Well they tick off more childlike proportion boxes, Small torso, larger head, smaller ears, and short tail. Depictions of childlike proportion are obvious with how many traits they trigger. But without a minimum number of traits needed to trigger a violation. The person enforcing the rule is free to file false positive traits as violations. If for example, the individual had certain perceptions of how bodies “should” look. And dwarves don’t fall into that group.

And there are all types of false positives that can come from this. Cartoon Style. Large eyes on nocturnal animals. Cute art style. Anime, Chibi, Feral art. (maybe you could argue it’s not when they're on all fours. But what if you draw a missionary pic. This is being judged an a per Image basis after all)

And out of the examples I gave, what is more likely for an individual enforcer, biases and all to give a violation. A hyper popular multinational pillar of the community like Zootopia, or a small independent thing they probably won’t care to look that deep into, like Driftwood? If the rule were firmer and more exact, the two would be judged equally based on the rules standards.

And finally, the line about “...or appear as adolescent animals…”
Notice that’s an ‘or’, not an ‘and’? What this means is even more vague. But means art with 100% adult human proportions can still be found in violation at the enforcer’s discretion. The umbrella is so large here it’s hard to know what to start with. Art of someone drinking out of a juicebox? Art of someone in a diaper? Anything that has design elements from animal adolescents. Like any deer that has spot patterns still in their fur?

Maybe you’re the type of person who thinks, sure. But the people enforcing the rules SHOULD be able to interpret who violates that rule. Despite seeing the result of that, killings by police with immunity from the consequences of their crimes. The rich and powerful just being able to get away scott free with a crime that would otherwise land a poor minority in prison. Well the next thing is far, far worse.

Targeted Rules
When rules are targeted at specific groups of people it’s a very obvious red flag, and a show of what said rules are actually meant to oppress. Regardless of what the power’s stated reason is.

“..any reports we receive of Pokémon or Digimon who have childlike body proportions…”

Well, forget about every single thing I said about Zootopia or Driftwood. Cause those properties are exempt from the new rules. I don’t think it’s even hyperbolic to say that the equivalent to this in real law are old laws that only applied to black, irish, or jewish populations in America. It’s a shame because It’d be important to talk about how lots of modern racist laws are passed. Often cutting up cities along racial lines and policing each district separately. But they aren’t even hiding it, they just said the only two communities these rules will effect.

A false equivalency is drawn at the start of the policy change between a previous rule, and this one.

“... removed the classic “1000 year old loli vampire” loophole trope by expanding our definition of minors to include humanoids with childlike body proportions, including canonically adult characters who look like children… and based upon additional feedback from our community, any reports we receive of Pokémon or Digimon who have childlike body proportions or appear as adolescent animals will be treated as any other when in the presence of sexual activity…”

Why is this a false equivalency? Well the ban on canonically adult characters who look like children is site wide. This has always included Pokemon and Digimon who are canonically adult characters who look like children. People have been banned over this in those subcommunities already as a result of that rule. What this false equivalency accomplishes, is an attempt to show the Pokemon and Digimon community as “loopholes for artist to draw minors without getting banned”. Rather than what they actually are. Sub-communities within the furry fandom.

When you are confronted with a targeted rule, ask yourself. What would this rule accomplish if it was instead applied to everyone, rather than just the targeted group. Well in this case. If the rules were completely just, clear, and fair. Nothing would happen.

There is already a rule against adult characters that look like children that is applied to pokemon, digimon, and everything else! Moreover, If that rule didn’t exist, targeting it only to the pokemon and digimon communities would just let the mainstream furry community draw as much minor content as they want.

But because the rule is vague, unclear, and in the hands of enforcers. The result of the targeted rule is that these sub-communities in particular will come under harsher, more unfair treatment. While the main community and sub-communities outside of these ones will be completely immune from its effects.

It’d be nice to think that the FA management is just really stupid and doesn't really understand what they are doing. But I simply find it hard to believe. This was never about minor content, if it actually was, their implementation would have been completely different.

Minor content was always just their fabricated reason to attack the Pokemon and Digimon subcommunities in particular.

So what do we do now. Ultimately there isn’t much tangibly you can do. The FA staff have final say over their site. I just hope this makes people more aware of what manipulation looks like. More ready to deal with real instances of this you can actually influence, however small.

I wanted to stay quiet over this. I'm not even a porn artist really anymore. But I just couldn’t hold my tongue over something like this. Hopefully this post will help me quiet my mind. I guess that’s something you can do. Don’t lie down and take it. Be loud. Make it known you see through their manipulation!

That goes for this case and out in the real world too!

Hi, the change that has been happening to my channel has been pretty simple. Though for many different reasons I’ve had a hard time really internalizing it. To put it plainly. The purpose of this channel for me at this point is a hobby. It isn’t a burnout I’ll recover from, or a passion I need to rekindle, it just, shouldn’t be treated as my main focus anymore.

I’ll get through the practical realities of this before I get into the feelings and reasoning underlying them.

Firstmost the idea that I keep up consistent uploads was a ridiculous idea that became ingrained in my mind after doing this professionally for a few years. I cut off my subscribestar a long while ago, I should be posting art for the sake of sharing it. That’s all. Secondly, if I were to return to this channel professionally somewhere down the line, it would be purely focused on commissions. And be born from desperation. This means that I just don’t see a future where Iron will be returned too, maybe if I’m able to accomplish all I want for myself (as will be detailed below) it would become something feasible.

So why this change?

I’d like for people to understand what this channel has meant for me over time. In the very early days, this channel was a small pinprick of light in a very dark world. The one thing a repressed kid just out of high school could care about. That kid gave themselves 2 years to find something to care about, before they would take action to never care about anything again. That was the weight of meaning this channel had back then. A weight I cannot really fathom at this point, because I am no longer that kid.

At that point my art really didn’t have any attention. Nobody really cared about it except for me, I tried many different projects until finally I made one that people did actually care about. It’s no secret that the start of Sands of Iron was rough for me. But it’s biggest contribution was giving me the confidence and the means to move out of the horrible oppressive environment at my parents. And start my life in earnest. I do still consider life as a starving artist the start of my ‘real’ and current life. But even though I can’t completely dismiss this era of me as ‘in a situation so different it might as well be a different life’. I am no longer that person, as well.

I made my living with the porn from this channel. But it was more than that. I always knew I’d make way more money doing commissions rather than Subscribestar IRON stuff. But it was more about wanting a certain lifestyle. Even though I never really achieved my goals in this regard (that support always staying small and stagnant). I still found that experience meaningful, but it’s not what I want anymore.

So, what do I want?

Early on, I bought in really hard into the idea that artistic fulfillment was the only thing I needed in life. But I don’t think that’s completely true anymore. Even though I detest the notion of vapid consumerism, there are material conditions that are important to me. I want to be physically with the people I care about, and I want to be with them in an environment we can be happy in. I simply didn’t see a future with this channel where I'd grow to a point I could make that happen. It was unlikely enough that I thought It would be a better idea to try elsewhere.

A thing that is often brought up when I express unhappiness at this channel. Is the idea that I have lots of people who care about what I make. And that’s true. Way more people than I thought would ever care this much about a porn series have made it clear they do. I keep on thinking of a lyric, though, “What kind of living legend would only want a living wage?” The material facts define this situation way more than I initially thought. Not only would doing this be theoretically easier if I didn’t have to worry about eating or improving my life situation. But well, if I was in that ideal situation, I probably would have stopped doing this even sooner.

Artistically, this was never really my dream. I never really fantasize about being a big popufur artist. I don’t really even follow artists in this field. Hell, I never really read any comics before or after I launched mine. I was a twenty year old with zero creative skills of any kind, completely unable to even grasp their artistic dreams. My only personality trait was a crippling porn addiction. So I started this, always telling myself I’d build up the skills I need to someday do what I wanted all those years ago.

And I think my skills have been at the point I needed them for a while. But abandoning what’s familiar is scary, and taking the plunge was always something I’ve worried about. So, am I saying I’ve reached some epiphany, that I’m finally ready to do it?

No, not really.

I’m admitting that I’ve already been doing that for almost a year now. The plunge was taken ages ago. Even when snow of Iron was still running. Trying to work on my new project while still keeping this channel I wasn’t even monetizing alive for some crazy reason.

I love this channel. I love the voice it gave me. I love the people who’ve come to know me here. But I don’t owe it this constant unceasing maintenance. I think this place can still be something important to me. But rather than squeezing the life out of it, trying to force it to be what it has been in the past, it can be a new, light thing. Where I can just relish in the joy of posting something as a hobbyist creator again.

I’ll always be an artist. I’ll go as far to say I’ll always be a furry artist too. I’ll share my new project here soon, hopefully. Though things have been up in the air lately. I hope that those who wish to follow my art wherever it goes do so, and those who don’t, cherish whatever has already been made.

And for those saddened that they’ll never see the world of Iron, again. All I can say is the world is yours now, take it, make it yours. Or put it in a bottle, glance at its depths and flaws as you begin to pen your own world. It’s always been fanwork. Work derived from another. The greatest way to honor such a thing is to keep the chain going!

…What’s up gamers…

It’s with a heavy heart that I tell you that IRON as we know it has come to an end. My Patreon has been served a dire warning due to my content’s use of copyrighted characters, and also rape porn, and also existing.

Rather than end IRON entirely, and cut off my only ability to pay rent. I’ve made the decision completely of my own free will to continue doing the comic without aforementioned copyrighted characters, and content. Instead of taking the other enticing offer Patreon served me, of starving to death.

IRON will be rebooted as a family friendly comic with (slightly) less litigious franchise. I hope you all will join me for the brand new..

Sands of DIGITAL IRON

And I sincerely hope this news doesn’t hurt your enjoyment of this April 1st

Hi, for those following along things are much better with me. safe and sound and getting my life back on track. And I started the process of catching up on my sub content. really seeing the light at the end of a very dark year tunnel. hope you all are doing well 2 and hopeful in whatever ways you can be for next year. Thanks for being with me and watching my stuff so far.

I try to keep my personal life off of here as much as I can. But at this point I just don’t know what to do anymore. Earlier this year a friend moved in with me, and now that I’m moving out they started threatening to kill themselves if I leave. I know it’s manipulative, and abusive, but it doesn’t matter. It gives me so much stress and fear and causes panic attacks. They refuse to get help, even hanging up on the hotline I called. I don’t know what to do anymore, I need help. The stress is so much I can barely work or do anything. I want my life back. I just want a clean exit more than anything. I don’t want to feel responsible for that. I know that it isn’t my choice, but I know I’ll still blame myself. I don’t know what to do anymore.

HI, I've been contacted by a few people who are unable to subscribe to Subscribe Star for various reasons. I'm currently trying out a back door solution with Ko-Fi and a Discord server. The Ko-Fi subscription below will grant access to a discord role that will allow you to see a channel with the Subscribe Star content.

While this doesn't technically violate Ko-Fi's terms of service. I will say Subscribe Star is a safer bet if you can do it.

In compliance to Ko-Fi's TOS These subscriptions only give you a discord role. I will describe what is in the discord for the different roles here instead of on Ko-Fi.
-Guild Members ($5)
Gain access to the exclusive black and white IRON spin off porn comic "View From the Bottom", which is currently releasing every twice a month

-Noble ($10)
Gain access to the high resolution IRON comic pages

-Wallbreaker ($20)
Gain access to a monthly extra look at the world building process, with the "Forged In IRON" lore and concept art posts. Where I explore aspects of my worlds both in fiction and out of it.

Link to the Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/infinitydoom/tiers

Welcome to the Sands of IRON post mortem and AMA. I’m going to be talking about what Sands of IRON has meant to me personally. But if you have questions please feel free to leave them below, no need to read all my ramblings XD.

I’m not positive on how I could even begin talking about what SOI has meant for me personally. It’s a work that spanned two years, and changed my life more than anything I have ever done!

Let’s start at the beginning though. When I first started making Sands of IRON, I was in a failing relationship. Feeling like I was a failure of an artist as well. Just wanting to make something that would get viewed. It was hardly a good place to start from. Of course the idea for Sands of IRON was older than that, and I chose and wanted to make it. But that early time ended up tainting my view of the work.

After the 8th page I took a long hiatus. During that time away I would think about the scenes I had planned for it so much that I knew I needed to return. I guess you can say it’s been love/hate. But with the growth my channel was getting from IRON I finally had the confidence to leave my horrible living situation with my parents. I moved into my then boyfriend's place across the country, and started my new life.

I put a lot of work into IRON after I moved, growing closer and closer with the project with things like the comment short stories. Eventually I took a 3 week break from IRON where I released the comic “RoomMates”. During this time I completely rewrote the last half of Sands of IRON. Finally having it hit the artistic notes and themes I wanted to!

Then came the SubscribeStar, My fan Discord, and even IRON themed commissions. It really ended up feeling like this story I started making for views actually meant something, especially to me.

And now Sands of IRON is over. And I find myself at yet another life transition. Without going into too much detail. My failing relationship ran it’s inevitable course, and now I’m looking to move once again. It’s almost poetic in a way, this massive life changing project put to rest as I close this chapter of my life as well.

But while Sands is completed, this is not the end of IRON.

A new IRON comic is in the works. And I hope it will be every bit as exciting and meaningful as the next chapter of my life.

I’d like to take a moment here at the end to thank all of my SubscribeStar Subscribers. If you enjoyed Sands of IRON, I’d hope you’d consider joining. My subscribers are the only reason there can be a new IRON Comic:
https://subscribestar.adult/infinitydoom

Also if subscribing isn’t in the cards, you may consider a 1 time donation at:
https://ko-fi.com/infinitydoom

Thank you to all the IRON fans who read this, and to everyone who enjoyed the comic in general. Don’t forget to put any questions you have below <3!

Hi, due to major life events I need to take this week off, as well as change uploads for a while as I restructure my life, deal with moving, etc.

Let’s cover just the uploads before talking more about how my content and life will be changing broadly;
-Next week I’ll post the final SOI Epilogue about Shia.
-The week following I’ll be doing a Post-Mortem/AMA in a journal, as is tradition with my long term projects.
-The next tuesday won’t have IRON uploads. I’ll be taking some time off to actually craft the new IRON comic. I had underestimated how much work these epilogues would be, and on top of all the life stuff I need to do currently. There’s no way I could make something good without giving myself the time to make it. My hope is that this gap will last only around 1-2 months.
-Driftwood will be returning in it’s Thursday slot at this time, just so I have something besides commissions.
-You should expect more commissions being posted in the time being, as I work through my waitlist.

As it might be noticeable from the rest of this journal. Without getting into personal matters I currently need to transition to living on my own. This means going through the process of moving, as well as fixing my income to deal with the loss of support.

While this is not an emergency financial situation, your support would mean more than it ever has before. Even temporary or one time support. It will mean the world to me as I am trying to find my footing again.

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I apologize for plugging support for a large chunk of this journal, it has just been something at the top of my mind.

I am closing my commissions so I can work through my waitlist and relaunch with new prices.

I apologize for the abruptness of this change. And not doing a lead up like last time. Life circumstances are such that I needed to do this as quick as possible.

Hi, and welcome to the Driftwood Season 1 Post-Mortem. I’m going to talk about Driftwood more personally during this, but if you have any questions about the first season for me or Ferro. Please go ahead and ask them in the comment section below. My Post-Mortems double as AMAs.

I first want to take a moment to talk about what Driftwood has meant to me personally. I never thought this little vent project would be much of anything. But at the time of writing: Driftwood is the proudest I’ve ever been of any of my projects. Of course Driftwood does have flaws. There are some episodes that are pretty boring in my eyes. But its meaning is so much more than it’s quality for me.

I think it can be easy to see me as a porn artist that wishes they were a “real” artist. My porn comics aren’t constant sex, and often go on long winded monologues about sadness or whatever. But Driftwood is something I could have only made as a porn artist. The ability to explore sex to this degree is something I could have only done on my current life path.

To say it outright, it’s been a validating joy to make Driftwood!

As mentioned in the first Driftwood description. Driftwood was originally thought up as a twine game about loneliness. It was supposed to be a project where I could vent. Which of course brings us to possibly the most interesting secret about Driftwood.

Driftwood is semi autobiographical. Some of Ferro’s stories are just my stories dressed up and disguised, and some of them are complete fiction. This format was very helpful for me personally. Since it let me air out things from my past I’d never be able to talk about normally. To this end though, I will not be answering questions about WHICH stories are real and fake. Since that would take away my ability to talk about them, my apologies.

Ferro’s personality is also very similar to my own, with a few differences obviously. Ferro isn’t artistic at all, and is almost superhumanly good at getting laid XD. Having a self insert in my own world has been really fun!

I have worried about what my life will look like now that my vent project is on midseason break. But I was really glad with how this season ended. In the meantime, I have at least one fun worldbuildy Driftwood/Nocturnal extra in the works. And there is always Season two, someday!

Thank you to all the Driftwood fans who read this, and to everyone who watched this project in general. This has been a really meaningful project for me! Don’t forget to put any questions you have below XD!

Hi, everyone. I want to start by thanking everyone for the support and patience when my commissions were relaunched. It means a lot. I am now coming off of two very long multi comic commissions and would like to make a small change to keep the queue moving. And hopefully make it a better experience for everyone involved.

I am implementing a sort of express lane system, where I’m only going to take one multi page commission at a time (Unless I have no more single commission request on my wait list). I don’t want to discourage multi page commissions by any means. They provide me with a certain level of financial security, and my comic prices reflect that. I just want people who only want one thing to get through the system a little faster.

Thanks for reading everyone!

Hi, as some of you might know recently I’ve recently been having anxiety over how slowly I was getting through my artistic work and projects. With the completion of the latest chapter of my passion project, Nocturnal (https://nocturnalcomic.com/). It’s time to turn my attention to commissions.

Commissions will close after June 30th. At which point I will work through doing commissions for the entire wait list at the current prices, before reopening with increased prices that will hopefully create a more desirable workload and a shorter or non-existent waitlist. The reason for this warning is that I want to give people who may have been waiting for one of my slots to become fully open a chance to get on the waitlist (I know I’m that kind of person).

There will be a few additional rules surrounding the waitlist for the purpose of fairness and shortening the wait;
-First is repeat commissioners can’t be part of this run of commissions. A few people I’ve done commissions for have asked if they could get another one. While this is really flattering and very good, it isn’t fair for someone to get two sets of commissions while some others wait to get their first (I still have people who contacted me the day commissions opened).
-(Revised to no limit, but I reserve right to refuse long comms) Second is a 3 page/piece limit for this set of commissions. This was a hard one for me to put on here, I love the multi-page comic commissions! It’s honestly how I imagined feeding myself when I first started commissions and I don’t want to discourage it by any means. But I know without a limit this run of commissions could go on for a very long time, hopefully three will be enough for people to still get what they want.
-Thirdly I’m putting a limit of 4 additional people to the waitlist. I honestly doubt this limit will be hit, but I wanted to put something in place in case I’m very wrong again and I have another disaster.

Thank you for reading, love you.

This might not be relevant to my watchers cause I have no action to take right now. But I wanted to put this somewhere. I feel surrounded by projects that I’m doing too slowly. I see my wait list for commission and see it is still as long as it was when I started and think about the months some people will have to wait. I look at the already months delayed Nocturnal chapter, and it hits me on the personal level. I think of the 3 comic arc I plan to do after and dread over the actual years it will take to complete. The only thing I honestly feel comfortable with right now is Sands of IRON. I don’t really have an answer for this, despite feeling this way for a while. I know I probably fucked up with commission prices, but I don’t want to change it for everyone who is on the waiting list. I might close commissions until I’m done with the wait list and reopen with new prices. It’s what I planned to do after the world got better anyways, but you know... Also it wouldn’t help Nocturnal at all. I honestly don’t know what to do with it, sometimes it’s so bad that I don’t want to work at all (Which obviously doesn’t help).