Been a while since I wrote a journal here, right? The last time was me just saying it was my birthday; I think the last fully serious one was over a year ago by now.

Well, I guess it's time for another one then! Now it's 3 am in the morning where I live, so I'm going to keep this as brief as I can without sounding absolutely unhinged, but effectively this is a feedback call for how I'm going to be running this page. Slowly but surely, I'm going to catch up on my backlog and begin properly uploading stuff here, which I've been neglecting compared to my Bluesky account. However, that's not the reason why I'm asking for feedback.

Now, as you might know, I uploaded this piece, which is going to be the start of a much more interconnected series of stories that flesh out my characters and their intentions. To help distinguish what's canon and not canon, all these canon stories will be a part of what I'm tentatively naming the Resonance Saga, and will all be in its own folder. As well as this, I plan to upload the stories accompanying the corresponding piece as their own separate uploads, so it's easy to read these interconnected stories and in a more digestible way using FA's story formatting... which I think is fixed now.

I hope it's fixed now.

Which leads to why I want feedback. I want to ask people if they mind this formatting, the story as its own upload, and it's being in the art's description. Should it be just for the stories in the Resonance Saga? Or should I do this for people who want to read my story? It's something I want to make, and thus I want to ensure the formatting is nice and digestible for viewers.

Alongside that, I want to know if people are interested in this concept, a series of interconnected stories about my characters, with more lore and it leading to something. I've been planning this in the background for a long time.ng time now, and I want to know if people are interested. On top of that, do you think the saga's debut is promising? What did you guys think of regarding what's going on with Pàocài and Fuerte, what's being implied, and what is the ending with Hiromasa? I wanna hear people's thoughts.

Other than that, that's all I really wanted to talk about. I appreciate y'all leaving your thoughts, and apologies if this is slightly unhinged. I've been writing this while half asleep. Anyways, I'm going to bed, peace!

Oh hey, it's my birthday today~

Hope you all are having a good one. I'll get to posting more art soon, got a lot of stuff planned.

I'm gonna be blunt here. I'd like a Switch 2, I'm pretty sure I'll have the funds for it by June, but it doesn't hurt to have some extra funds just in case.

So considering positive feedback regarding some recent stories I've written, I'm gonna test out doing some Story Commissions. This kinda stuff is still fairly new to me, so all of this is up for discussion and such. Things such as length, prices and the like can be settled during talks. I'd prefer to write using Canon Characters from media but if you really want me to use an OC or something like that I could give it a try given enough information.

If you're interested in a story from me, either reply to this journal or send me a note and we'll sort something out.

I'm going to keep this short because it's 6:30am in the morning and I haven't slept and I'm writing this on my phone.

I have said my thoughts on Dragoneer's passing on Twitter already but to briefly summarise, I give his friends and family my best wishes during this time, and I wish that every doctor and medical professional involved in his passing suffers extremely and has things happen to them that I cannot say on this platform.

He was another victim of the corrupted US Healthcare system, and that mere thought fills me with nothing short of anger.

Now to the real point of me writing this journal. I doubt anything will come from this, as we've had similar kinds of panic before, but with Dragoneer's passing, this type of concern probably holds the most weight.

There's currently a rumour ongoing that with Dragoneer gone, it might become harder to keep this platform running, if at all. I cannot say if it holds weight or not but the thought of it has made me consider the idea of potentially diversifying the platforms where I post my writing.

FA currently is the only place I post my stories, on Twitter I merely post a quote from the story I think fits the most and then link to the FA upload for others to read the stories, in the case that FA goes down so does the place where I post them.

So this is why I'm posting this journal. I'm currently seeking platforms where I can post my stories on as a form of backup in case something does go wrong over here. I don't normally use a lot of platforms so I really have no idea what to use or what to look into.

I could really appreciate the help, and I hope you all have a wonderful day. Once again, my condolences to the friends and family of Dragoneer, he will most certianly be missed.

Oh hey its my birthday today.

Very nice.

So... who's wearing their birthday suit for me-

Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays. Hope you all had a good one.

Uh I had a Christmas Piece lined up as apart of a YCH I got, but the power has gone out here due to an intense storm that came out of nowhere, so I won't be uploading it until AFTER Christmas. Whoops.

I'm safe don't worry, just waiting for it to come back on.

Enjoy yourselves today okay? Be sure to spend this day with the people ya care about. We'll pretend it's still Christmas when my power comes back on~

Well, it’s time to indulge once more.

This has been something I’ve wanted to do for a long time now, semi-longer form journals talking about various topics, movies I’ve watched, games I’ve played, or in depth thoughts about my OCs and characters, and this journal should hopefully be the start of such things.

So what a way to start then by talking about food… again.

If you haven’t followed me for a while or don’t follow me on Twitter, a few years ago I tried one of the worst things ever created, Mountain Dew flavoured Doritos. It was one of the worst things I have ever eaten that’s commercially available, and still is to this day. Well apparently I couldn’t stop myself because I’m doing it again.

Over the past week I’ve been trying out a bunch of things and I’m gonna talk about them, because I’m bored, and the Raamaiah content I’m uploading tonight doesn’t particularly need any stories. In the future I’ll probably post much more significant journals like this, probably more significant ones.

So let’s talk about the stupid Netflix frozen snacks. Yes, Netflix made snacks… for some reason.

It makes sense when you think about it for a second. Stranger Things has some iconic food joints such as Scoops Ahoy, so make a limited run line based on those food joints. Making Squid Game themed food on the other hand? That was certainly a decision. Once again, a distinctly anti-capitalist show is used for peak capitalism vibes.

Now all this would be fine, a small collab with a line of food, but there’s only just… one problem.

It’s $10, for a small little box. I got the mashed potato balls and the BBQ chicken nuggets, and there were only 9 nuggets in a box, albeit them being large, and only 12 of the mashed potato balls, which were… fine in terms of size, which for most people, is way too expensive for too little, especially compared to what else is on offer at supermarkets.

Now luckily, I didn’t actually spend $10 each on these boxes. Seemingly the Australian public weren’t a fan of these prices either, since within a fortnight, the entire range was heavily discounted. I got the two boxes for $3 each, and a tub of ice cream for $5. Looks like this little run was a failure, but to be honest, I’m not too surprised, this really looks like a case of paying for a brand, not inherently quality or quantity.

Speaking of quality though, what did I think of the actual products? The BBQ chicken nuggets were honestly large and meaty, but the crumb was fairly light, and the BBQ taste wasn’t there at all. It tasted just like regular chicken breast, which as I said earlier, there’s a lot better frozen chicken products like this, with better crumb, meat and flavours. It’s not the best. The mashed potato balls were better, had a lot of sauce inside and it was real potato, however the instructions were a little off, I cooked this as instructed, and it was still raw inside and had to be cooked longer, which is never a good thing when you’re eating frozen food.

On top of that, I also bought some of the Scoops Ahoy themed ice cream, specifically the Vanilla and Cookie Pieces flavour.

Yeah this was the worst of the Netflix trio I got. There’s a lot of really good ice cream here in Australia, most of it commercially available, and so to be able to go up against them, you have to be at least similar quality.

This wasn’t, the flavours were bland, the ice cream wasn’t creamy enough and overall needed something like a sauce or accompaniment to make it taste nice. Which for originally $10 is criminal, for context, for two more dollars, you can purchase something like Connoisseur which has the same amount of ice cream, much more complex and nice flavours, and more cream and overall a much better tasting ice cream. You’d think that this would be the headliner for this line of products considering Scoops Ahoy in Stranger Things, and yet this by far the worst of what I’ve had from this line. I would definitely avoid it, even for the $5 I got for there are much MUCH better options.

Now I wish that was the end of this journal.

I really do.

Unfortunately that’s not the case.

Because I also drank the AI Coke.

I’m not gonna go into too much detail for this one, because I’ve seen it in other countries, not just here in Australia, but for those unaware, Coca Cola came out with a new flavour that was allegedly designed in collaboration with an AI software. Codenamed Y3000 and “Future Flavoured” they claim it’s what drinks would taste like in the year 3000.

Well if that’s what they’d taste like, I’m glad I’d be dead by then.

The actual can doesn’t tell you what it tastes like, not the first time the Coke Company has done this, here in Australia they’ve done two runs of a mystery Fanta flavour titled “What the Flavour”, I cannot remember what the first mystery flavour tasted like, all I remember is that it had cucumber in it, and was really gross because of it. The most recent one was allegedly Apple Strudel flavour which… I guess? It tasted like sickly sweet apples, also not good but better than the one with cucumber.

This one however, was bad. Really bad. Took one sip and tipped it down the sink bad. It tasted like sour berries, and with the sweetness of coke, it made this awful flavour combination that was frankly just really gross. I nearly threw up when taking the sip. For the love of god don’t drink this, throw this onto the pile of why AI shouldn’t be normalised because holy shit, this shit sucked.

So yeah, that was my various adventures in food related war crimes. I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself, and yet here I am. Thought some people would be interested in this kinda stuff, so fuck it, here I am at 11pm at night writing this.

If you wanna see more journals like this, tell me, because I’d like to talk about movies or video games and the like, as I stated earlier. As always, stay safe, have a good one, and I’m gonna go clean my tastebuds out.

Finally set up that Bluesky account

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

I'm unsure whether I'll use it a lot or not but it's always good to keep your options open... I guess, even despite my thoughts on the matter.

I don't care what that Billionaire says, I will not be calling Twitter something different.

I am in the process of making a Bluesky however, I'll post it as soon as it's done, I've just been procrastinating, as usual...

In the meantime, got some things I'm curious about. Now that I'm beginning to post my backlog of art, I was wondering how you all think I should focus on it. Pieces with longer form stories are in the works and almost ready to post, but in the meantime, should I just upload the pieces that don't need long stories, only flavor text like in the pieces I uploaded tonight? Should I focus on just Fuerte, or should I give small attentions to my other OCs as well? I'm curious to what you guys think.

I've also been playing a lot of games recently and have a lot of thoughts about them, so would you like a journal where I talk about my thoughts about them? Or random other journals about thoughts, events and creative processes.

I wanna hear y'alls opinion, because I have quite a lot I can do and plan to do.

Oh hey it's my birthday. Another year spent on this earth.

It's almost over but I thought I'd still mention it here. Been too busy playing the new Zelda.

Something something Fuerte birthday suit joke.

Anyways enjoy yourselves~

Probably gonna be making small revisions to some stories over the next couple of days.

Namely the Gaaharu backstory and hopefully the Mecha Fuerte story.

Basically some details have changed in both of the background surrounding these stories and so I'm gonna change them so they're more accurate to what I'm currently writing about them both and make sure everything about them makes sense. Namely when Gaaharu became a colourless for his backstory.

That's all, have a day.

Hi, it's 3am here and after posting that new Malik piece, I'm about to head to bed. But I've been bored lately, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has been taking over my life and to get back into the swing of writing, I thought this would be fun.

Ask me questions about Malik and Gahaaru. I'll see if I can answer them.

I've done this before, but I thought I'd do it for my two newest OCs. Develop them a little more and give them the depth that Fuerte and Raami have.

So if you have anything creative to ask, that'd be good, I'll have a look when I wake up~

2022 eh?

Well time to perform the usual New Year's tradition I always do every year and spend the first three months still thinking it's the previous year. Fun.

So you're probably a bit tired of seeing these New Year's journals but I thought I would throw my hate into the ring and say some things, first of all being, I hope you all have had a good holidays and a happy new year, here's hoping this year is a better one eh?

Secondly I've been rather reflective on last year. It's been a rather good one for my growth I feel. Even though I haven't posted on this site as much, and still have quite a large backlog of art, I feel as if I've taken great steps in my self expression, my writing and my characters. I feel as if Fuerte has become a real massive part of me and my identity, and someone I do enjoy having fun with and showing him off. There's a lot more I want to do with him as well, but I want to ask you guys a couple of questions.

Do you guys think I'm doing well? Do you wanna see more Fuerte content? Or the other two? More group pieces? I'm curious, I want to better myself and my characters, so I am always welcome to opinions.

Hope you guys have a good one though, thanks for all the interactions, and I wish you all a good one.

Hey all, hope you're doing well, hope you're enjoying the recent Fuerte and Raamaiah art. Got vaxxed during my little break so that's fantastic, you all need to get vaccinated as well if you haven't yet.

Just a simple question today, even though I want to do more journals other than once every couple of months.

Been commissioning a lot of artists on Twitter lately so I was wondering if there's any artists here on FA that'd want to draw Fuerte. Got some leftover money next week since I've got Christmas all planned out. If anyone doesn't have a queue at the moment and wants to draw the great tiger, I'd be up to have a look at your work and maybe chat or exchange ideas. Think of this journal as a little advertisement page or somewhere to inform me about artists I haven't heard about yet.

Other than that I have a Curiouscat where you can ask me questions about myself or my OCs here: https://curiouscat.qa/great_el_fuerte

And I have a Twitter too where I'm more active: https://twitter.com/great_el_fuerte

As always have a good one! Peace~

Feeling very chill tonight. The journal title says it all, ask me random shit about Raamaiah and especially Malik since he's still fairly wet under the ears.

I want to expand the lore for the both of them and random questions will help a lot.

Other than that uuuhhhh...

Toph is gonna be in the Nick fighting game, that's really fucking cool.

I really want to focus on Raamaiah and Malik as they're supposed to be enemies in a way and I haven't done much in a while with either of them.

And I got my first COVID vaccine last week, that was incredibly nice, glad to know I'm half way to being safe. Hope y'all staying safe too.

I'm pretty sure this is the quickest time between journals I've ever had...

Hey, it's been a hot minute since I last had a proper journal like this, so thought I should write it now that I've begun tackling the backlog of art I've gained over the past while. For those wondering, the long form stories definitely won't stop, I have one piece with a story that I've just neglected to post, so that should come soon, as well a couple of pieces that I definitely want to write stories for and refuse to upload them without the stories as I'm extremely happy with how they turned out, seriously they're my favorite pieces for both Fuerte and Raamaiah, and I want to give them the justice they deserve. Though I do plan to basically try and interchange them, upload some pieces of Raamaiah, some of Fuerte or do thematic ones, such as the pieces of the duo both clad in underwear etc., and if people like the pieces, I'd be happy to expand the stories or flavor I write for each of them a little bit further, expanding them into full stories.

Some other things that have been going on is that I finally got a Nintendo Switch at the start of the year! A console I've always wanted, and finally obtained and it's definitely one of the favorite ones I've ever owned, while I posted my friend code on Twitter, it hit me that I never did on Furaffinity, so I'm gonna fix that here, if you wanna add me and I know you, just send me a request using the code below:

Nintendo Switch Friend Code
SW-2124-3795-9997

I've also wanted to write a rapid fire review of the games I've played, if people are interested in that, then just tell me.

As for some other things, I always want more artists to support and commission so if you know any that would make my boys look good, be sure to tell me and I'll check out their gallery, and all that.

Lastly, I'm always open for questions or asks, both about me, Fuerte, Raam or especially Malik considering he's newly created and all. I have a Curiouscat for where you can see all the questions I've answered all in one place there, which you can find here:

https://curiouscat.qa/Great_El_Fuerte

Or you can simply ask me here, I don't mind. I always like expanding upon my OC's character and thus appreciate this kinda stuff.

Other than that, I plan to be more active here like I said, update the backlog more and more with the pieces I've neglected to upload, I'm more active on my Twitter and way more casual there if you wanna see me on that platform, and I hope you all are looking forward to the things I have planned for the future.

As always I hope you all have a good one, you get vaccinated, and you definitely stay safe.

I have quite a lot of art currently in the backlog, which I need to write stories for, but would you like to see some of them now and have me update the pieces with the story later? Admittedly I haven't shown a lot of art here recently and this might change that fact, since I've been procrastinating writing and all.

What do you guys think? Would you want to wait for the stories, or want them now? Do people even read the stories and enjoy them?

I want to hear your guys' opinion.

Yep, today means another year has gone by in my life.

Uh, I don't know what much else to say other than its been a good day?

And I hope I get plenty of naked dudes as presents now~

Hi all, I've been drinking Prims Lemonade and Ginger Ale, truly the most manliest of drinks.

So since I'm drunk, ask me shit. Can be about me or my OCs.

Also if you're an artist I'd be happy to collab or do a trade with you. I can make your kinky fantasies into literate masterpieces...

...I think I'm way more forward when drunk.

21 years on this rock we call a home.

Let's hope for many many more eh? Cheers.

Hi.

It's been a hot minute hasn't it?

Well everything is going downhill. I hope you all are safe and staying at home. That's where I've been, I've been looking after family, but at the same time I've been dreadfully bored.

So consider this an alleviation.

Ask me questions about Fuerte and Raamaiah. There are no limits and I will answer in character if needed.

Well I hope we can enjoy this, and please, please, please stay indoors.

Stay safe y'all.

Hey, it's been a hot minute. I'm fine, I've just been fatigued a lot lately, but trust me I intend to get into the swing of things sooner rather than later.

Just wanted to write this journal quickly to spread the word that a good friend of mine  Jag_knight12 has opened up story commissions. He's a good writer and I highly reccomend him if you have an idea for a story, and hey he also offers a deal on stories alongside an accompanying art piece by  joesanchez

If you want more information his FAQ is here: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9394517/

While if you're interested, you can respond here: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9451013/

Other than that guys, I hope you all are staying safe, remember to have proper hygiene and wherever you are I hope you have a good morning, good evening or good afternoon.

Oh hey. Furaffinity got an update to support mobile. Huh.

Let's see how long it takes for something to break horribly.

Well it's been a while since I wrote a journal like this but Happy New Year. Let's hope this year is a good one for everyone.

Just wanted to write this journal to wish everyone that as well as share some other things.

For starters my backlog is getting sizeable and I plan to do something about it. Today or tommorow will be the first of that hopefully depending on my energy but I just wanted to bring that up.

Secondly I want to experiment more. I want to potentially try commissions and perhaps even go back to writing more pure stories as well as stories that aren't sort of my normal thing, in terms of characters and perhaps even scenarios. I want to know if you guys would like such a thing.

Finally I wanted to mention the bushfires here in Australia. They're terrible and I wish everyone affected the best, but I thought I'm not in any of the affected areas as of current so I am safe. A lot of people have sent me messages asking me if I was okay so I thought I should make that clear.

But other than that that's really it honestly. How are you guys going? Good I hope. Well let's all start this year off with a bang eh. Wherever you all are, I hope you're doing well.

Hey I'm sick. The flu it seems, been in bed sneezing all afternoon. It sucks. It really does.

But anyways I need something to do while I'm trapped in bed. So let's talk. Any questions for Fuerte or Raamaiah? Fire away. Wanna know more about me? Fire away. Got any ideas to situations to happen to my characters? Fire away.

Legit anything. I just wanna talk and all that.

(Also oh yeah the milking piece is coming. I'm just trying to find a good artist for it at the moment)

But anyways hope you all are doing well. Thank you all for talking and I hope you have a good morning, evening or afternoon!

Hey everyone,

As most of you may know, I asked people to come up ideas and then got you all to vote on said ideas to celebrate 250 watchers. The tiebreaker poll has concluded and I am pleased to announce the results.

The situation that will happen to Raamaiah and Fuerte to celebrate is:

Fuerte and Raamaiah tied up, gagged and milked for their cum, as suggested by  typoking1107 (69% vs 31% with 16 total votes on the tiebreaker)

Now as I explained in the first journal, there are some things I wanna make clear now that the results are finally out.

I cannot guarantee how long this will take me to get commissioned. As I am paying for this out of my own pocket, I need to make sure I'm in a financially stable position before getting it, not to mention the fact that the artist will take as long as it takes them to get this done. So I ask if you all can please be patient for the results. Not just that, but I do not know who I will be commissioning as of current. But I most likely will slide it in during a future journal once I know.

Also there are several other commissions I have people currently doing for me. So if you see other art posted that isn't this celebration art, that's why.

But other than that, thanks to everyone who suggested ideas and voted during this celebration. I can't wait to show you all the art that is to come from this!