First, I want to acknowledge that this post will be political in nature. If you take issue with this being political at all, then I ask -- why do you follow me? Most of my narrative work is highly political and all my overweight art in general is geared with the intent of being political. Fat acceptance at its core is politics.

With that out of the way, I want to express some of my anxieties about the current "administration." There's an attempt right now to control the media, the news and the minds of younger people and it's all geared towards preparing them for the right wing. The right likes to gaslight and claim that it's leftists or liberals who want to control the narrative and we couldn't be less powerful at this moment. It's a situation where DonMcTacoTits is leading the country straight into authoritarianism to the point where making a post like this could lead to my eventual imprisonment if I stay in the United States. No, this is not paranoia or exaggeration -- the goals have been stated clearly and if there's one thing DonMcTacoTits does its never lie when it's about doing something evil. He's antagonized our allies (bombing of Iran), aligned himself with countries declared as genocidal by the UN, censored LGBTQ literature, opened concentration camps (Alligator Alcatraz), suspended habeas corpus under Miller and ICE, dismantled institutions that benefit the people like the CFPB, given millions in funding to AI, harnessed violence (threatening the entire leftist half of the country in the face of Charlie Kirk) and dismissed political assassinations when its by general lawmakers on the left (Melissa Hortman). This is not an exhaustive list and I fear for trans people especially.

DonMcTacoTits' actions are as awful as they could possibly be and if he survives his term in office he will attempt to remain in office. It is very reminiscent of a fuhrer. This is no joke.


I'm making this post as a call to action -- you *must* organize. You *must* not communicate over discord, use signal if you can. You *must* vote out neo-liberal democrats in the vein of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries as they will not vote for you (look at who funded them, if it's a certain country with the letter "I" stay away!) You *must* be engaged with all local elections possible. You *must* not stop speaking out about things publicly -- even if it's with vague language like I've been doing. Know that they are keeping a record of what you say -- push it as far as you can, as uncensored as you can, and never stop speaking truths. Something has to be done. Do or die.

Mikro

Decided to redraw the clawhauser pic https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44339170/
The original for ref: https://e621.net/posts/2994179

I updated the art!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46448185/

This is what it used to look like if you want to compare:
https://static1.e621.net/data/d4/35.....0a51161464.png

Hey guys! There's a big sex scene in Basil 3 coming up towards the back end of March! If you'd like to sub to my patreon to get the goods, now's a good time!
https://www.patreon.com/mikrogoat

The initial posting of page 43 had a mistake. An older version of the dialogue had accidentally slipped in without me noticing. In the incorrect version, Basil says at the end "No, I didn't!" In the correct version, he says "I want to stop!" It'll make more sense with the pages coming up, but yes, it's been corrected.

Mikro

Click this link to fill out a form and I might get back to you about a commission:
https://forms.gle/JdCUyq26qcX2tqtP7

My mother got diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and I'm currently visiting her and trying to support her. I should be posting Basil III pages again at the start of September.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

It's just RP! I thought it was funny / hot! xD
I keep getting congratulated for being a parent but I was just goofin'. I love that everyone thought it was legit real. If I were going to announce being a dad (someday) I'll make an earnest post~

I had no idea how to enable them before. I just did. You can donate on my front page. If I receive 10 dollars a month worth of donations, I'll subscribe to FA+ and replace all uploads that were lower resolution due to FAs change in policy to higher resolution.

It should be toward the ✨ bottom of the main page on FurAffinity.✨
(Reference image here)

Thank you!


Mikro

Que is finished. If you wanna hire me to draw something fill out the form here! I'm also flexible and can make things work within budget if you ask. >:3

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1.....-HziA/viewform

Pages 89, 90 and 123 have been changed regarding FlavorBabe1998's design. Instead of a tiger/bear hybrid, she's just a bear now. This is to avoid confusion and plant something specific for later on in the story.

Comparison 1:
https://i.gyazo.com/5345e3a19bafb0e.....9469cdee0b.png

Comparison 2:
https://i.gyazo.com/b1f77924ad27822.....2d69c3ed18.png

Mikro

Hey everyone. I felt like actually using the journal as a journal for once.

Three months ago I figured out I was bisexual. I've always been bisexual but I disallowed myself from admitting it to myself. I struggled with identifying as gay for years. I came out to myself when I was 19. I had relationships with girls when I was in high school but I wasn't really able to connect with them emotionally. My guy friends though? Oh my god, I had so many crushes on them.

Now I realize that's just me being homoromantic. I definitely think as far as close relationships go, I can only really see myself growing old with a man.

But I do find women attractive. Always had, always will. Not so much your stereotypical women who walk down the runway, but chubby women. Kinda' like all the guys I draw / am attracted to. I think my preferences also made things confusing because of traditional beauty standards it's difficult to see depictions of women you'd be attracted to if you're like me.

The first (and only time) I had sex with a woman was in my early 20's in a bi threeway with my ex-boyfriend who was bisexual. He asked me if I wanted to join him in a threeway and I did to comfort him but was pretty into it. I denied that. For me, it was a case of "If I find women attractive...why did I beat myself up for years when I found men attractive? Does that make me a bad gay?"

After years and years and thanks to depicting bisexual characters in my fiction, I finally allowed myself to explore my attractions and discovered that I was bi the whole time. I'm approaching my 30's and am just figuring this out now. It has caused me so much undo stress and despair, and mainly because of the way people have reacted.

"You're into men less, now?"
"Oh man! I hope you go full straight! That would be so hot!!"
"You aren't bi! you're actually gay. All you do is have sex with men"
"I bet you're regretting marrying a man now tee hee~"
"Good for you. That's not what I'm into."
"I thought I was bi once."
"That explains why you care about women's rights and write women characters!" *cringe*

When I say I'm bisexual, it's not an excuse to criticize me! I am just looking for support if anything... I've been trying to off handedly just say it and hope nobody comments on it negatively. It's been actually painful. I have never felt more alone. A gay man coming out as bi late into his 30's who also is still very much into men?? There's not a whole lot of people I know like that and the few who have reached out have just tried to fetishize it; fellow bi people who are orientation play fetishists trying to take advantage of my vulnerablility to tell me I should be less gay than I am and even more into women. The orientation play fetishists hear about my circumstances and reach out to me to try and "support" me while hoping to change my desires to fulfill their kink. I'm bi -- but I do not love men less. I suck so much dick and always will. I would fuck a woman again, yeah! I would love drawing it~ I would enjoy being friends with women. But even if sex with women was 11/10 I would still never stop loving men or sex with men. I'm not less gay. I'm just more bi. Doors opened. Nothing closed.

I am writing this because I feel most have found ways to say the wrong things to me. Most have either made it about themselves or use it as a chance to criticize me. It makes me desperately regret ever having mentioned it. I am in a very chaotic and tumultuous headspace. Yet...

I can't NOT mention it. I am an artist and a human being. I am going to put myself out there. That's just an inevitability. I don't want to hide. I don't what to be in the closet. All I want is for people to say "congrats dude!" and many have. But there's a serious problem with both bi people I've talked to not respecting my boundaries and gay people not either. I am in a nightmare dimension of in-betweenness and I hope that anyone who reads this will sympathize with my strange unique fucky position. I just hope this pit in my stomach ends. It's like replaying the worst hits realizing you're gay.

Thank you,
Mikro

I recently came out as bi/pansexual. As such it feels weird for my terms of service on my commission form to be limited to gay oriented artwork. I decided to expand my TOS to include cis/trans women and heterosexual sex.

Note the updates here:
https://forms.gle/TvzQxpa4WQCDmFnL8

I am still open for commissions for the next few months.

Mikro

I am open once again. Click here:
https://forms.gle/xASngyH7mPkn2e9L9

Mikro

Hello everyone! I've given myself time to sit on Basil II and came back to it to read through it again before the physical release. You can read most of the changes I made right now as I've replaced the pages! The physical release actually has *even more* changes planned than what's on FurAffinity -- especially art-wise.

The following 58 pages have been adjusted:
02, 05, 07, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26, 27, 29, 35, 36, 37, 39, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 56, 59, 60, 61, 65, 75, 76, 78, 83, 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98, 100, 105, 106, 108, 109, 111, 113, 114, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 127, Authors Note.

Here's a change log of all the biggest changes with some brief explanations:

Page 2 -
https://gyazo.com/7f69cd6af0f175a66fffd9b2adbb39ea
Basil's dialogue has been changed here to illustrate the core theme stronger. I will not elaborate on it exactly -- I think that I generally should allow people to interpret things more, but I do want to bring awareness to this change because it's very important.

Page 13 -
https://i.gyazo.com/455ef358172bb05.....54fb74ac56.jpg
Ruby's edges have been sanded off a smidge. Instead of her calling Basil a creep, I just have her be surprised. I also changed Abe's expression here to be more clearly "in love."

Page 47 -
https://i.gyazo.com/4b083a4cd850862.....2e3a28588c.png
Building off of what I said in 13, Ruby's edges have been sanded down a little bit. Ruby generally has been re-examined and allowed to be slightly gentler regarding Basil. Does this dilute the cliffhanger at the end of II? Potentially, but the trade-off is a more understandable character overall. By empathizing with Basil's position a little, I think it helps her not to read as too abrasive.

Page 50 -
https://gyazo.com/f7249dfc3e023b78dccfb0a1bf9c5a18
Basil here closes off the tension established on page 1-2 more cleanly. He also more clearly starts to transition into asking Abe if he'll train him. This was always meant to be the case, but it was not clear before.

Page 61 -
https://gyazo.com/696e2a66437e27394e78484d5e7bfba0
My intention here wasn't to make Laguna come across poorly by sighing, but that's what ended up happening. I've changed it so he's more empathetic to Carolina. The bubble order is now more appealing.

Page 100 -
https://gyazo.com/5c296953f9b4e97802a278f65d297ae5
Abe's language here is less clunky and the flow order is less condensed. Hopefully you can feel the pauses more readily.

Page 109 -
https://gyazo.com/bad78ea799b25d1145af23ec2043a6ce
To me the new dialogue is more romantic. I know I'm swinging for the fences a bit more now with how mushy it is, but I think it's worth it.

Page 111 -
https://gyazo.com/5f6b753705ee48e90ffd831e3c776b47
Basil transitions better into the core conflict by repeating "next time," alluding to his inability to perform during sex. I think this is cleaner.

Page 114 -
https://gyazo.com/f8d7be5ca7baf7448566619438735092
Basil shows more trepidation here agreeing to Abe, foreshadowing his unhappiness with the decision and him eventually going against Abe to head to the gym alone.

Author's Note -
I've removed the previous author's note as I feel it gave too much direction to how people should read the themes of Spotting Basil II. To me, Basil II should speak for itself without me needing to spell it out. I've also added some previews into Basil III. :3

There are so many changes now it's worth going back to re-read Basil II, I think. Details like Abe calling Basil "Super Pig" more than once, which is important thematically...or Carolina making slight differences in wording regarding her relationship to Alcohol. I hope all the changes I've made reflect well on the story!

Mikro Goat

For the first time Patreon hasn't shown growth for me -- but has slipped backwards. I'm losing money and already make $3 USD an hour for my work.

For Issue 3 I'm upping the panel count to 9 panels per page instead of 6 and slashing the page count to once a week. This includes outside of Patreon.

I will also be doing 1 pinup a month on there which will be exclusive longer.

Read the full update here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/79108.....tshare_creator

Because twitter is dying. I need as many backups as possible lmao. Thanks to everyone who has been following me various platforms.

Check it out for a surprise!
https://t.me/mikrogoatart

If you've got one~ Please follow me here:
https://itaku.ee/profile/mikrogoat

Let's go!!
https://www.tumblr.com/mikrogoat

Hey everyone! So I decided to update my gallery and use the folder system. So now if you want to check out comics, you really easily! If you want to check just pinups, you can! Etc.

Link to pinups
https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....8/NSFW-Gallery

Link to Basil extras:
https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery.....g-Basil-Extras

I've got a Night in the Woods Greg x Angus Pinup

+ cum alt
+ bigger dick alt
+ something funny
for silver tier ~

bronze gets it in 2 weeks!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/73451.....tshare_creator

Thanks for considering supporting me :)

SO! After today's Basil page, I'm slowing down the release schedule due to a move. Patreon also mirrors this also but...

For October, page 85 is releasing the 8th.
Pages 86 and 87 are releasing 12th and 15th
Page 88 is releasing on the 22nd
Page 89 is releasing on the 29th.

That's the current plan. I'm posting up to page 95 (96 if I can,) on Patreon so if it interests you to jump ahead.
Or you can just look at the upload schedule to see what I've got here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/octob.....tshare_creator

thanks!
Mikro

I figured I'd make a new journal to update how things are going. So far, so good.

I got a part time job doing website management. It doesn't pay a whole lot -- a few hundred bucks a month, but on top of Patreon, it's a good income and it's something that doesn't take me more than a few hours a week to do.

Speaking of Patreon, I got a crap top of Patrons from the werewolf comic. I'm bringing in 500+ dollars now, which is a big milestone for me and halfway to where I want to be (1500.) If I can make that much, it'll be enough to support my living situation for sure. I decided to do more one shot comics like that from now on rather than normal pinups.

I'm a bit behind on Basil pages for Patreon, but I want to catch up. The reason I fell behind is that I just submitted two pitches for TV series ideas to a major television conglomerate and I think both ideas are quite good. I doubt they'll get greenlit, but as someone who has been trying to work in film and television, it's a good start and something I want to keep doing.

I have several other projects I'm working on too. So... It's not all doom and gloom at the moment. I'm grateful for that in spite of how expensive our living situation is in California.

Thanks for reading and for supporting my work! Love you all.

Mikro

Real talk, I feel a deep deep despair about my comic and how much time I put into it. I can't find a real job to help supplement anything -- haven't been called back for any position -- and I can't really afford to live as is in the house I'm at. I'd love it if my Patreon took off and I'd suddenly be successful, but I am far from paying the bills with it. It makes me want to give up on Basil and focus on something else, to find SOME WAY I can begin making money...

I'm not going to give up on Basil. I'm going to finish issue 2 100% and then do issue 3 when I've sorted my life out. For right now, it's been very hard. After graduating college I figured it'd be a smidge easier to live life than it has been... I love working every day on Basil...but yeah, it doesn't make me anything in the grand scheme of things and that sucks. If Basil does well, it'll be a sleeper hit or something that takes off a bit more AFTER it's done.

I'm sort of spiraling again. This happens a lot for me. I need some place to vent and twitter doesn't feel like the place to do it, so here you are! Hopefully I don't inflict this on anyone who also is feeling down and unsure of the future, but yeah...I feel uncertain about the future.