Things have changed a lot around here since I first started up my FA account. I assume that most of my watchers who have been here since the beginning are most familiar with me posting pokemon and fat and sometimes inflation and transformation and such. Things started to be shaken up a lot more when I got into MLP and began working on pony-related content with increasing regularity. And then I started to become...a lot more open in regard to the kinds of content I was interested in, especially in regard to porn and sexual things, which before I had been rather touchy about. I have written a handful of stories on the extreme side which are posted here on FA, and in addition I have a fair deal more in the form of pictures that I've commissioned, some of which are already up here but there's a great deal more that I have yet to bring into the light of day. I have plans to continue working on these things and post some of them, but I really can't help but wonder, are people bothered by anything that I've been posting? Please give your honest opinion on anything that you've had concerns about, I'd be glad to hear any of them.

So for a variety of reasons I really ought to be reopening commissions soon, I need to start having a more regular income of sorts coming in so that I can say I'm a properly functioning member of society instead of just a shlub living with his parents playing videogames all day. However something that I have pondered for some time is the prices that I charge for commissions, because the fact of the matter is that, in terms of time spent and the amount of work I get finished in that time on average, I am far under minimum wage. Ideally I ought to be charging $8 per hour, I've only felt hesitant about that before now because I'm doubtful if the amount of work I can get finished in that time is worthwhile, and because this is more of a side thing than anything really official, however at this point due to several developments that have transpired IRL I don't feel like I can let that slide anymore, I absolutely need to have something that can more properly be considered a job.

So I want to ask people for their thoughts on this, to make sure that I'll still have an audience of clients willing to be engaged. This would essentially mean going up to $8 per 500 words - or 1.3 pennies per word.

I would like to make a reminder again though that I am still plenty open for coloring commissions, details of which can be seen here.

I want to thank all of the people who seriously replied to the previous journal, but I came to the realization that I wasn't asking what I really needed to ask. I'm not going to be transparent about this anymore. Quite frankly I don't think there even would have been any point in me doing a popularity poll with my characters; I can say with almost 100% certainty that the top three would be Alice and Margaret, then either Non or Xenia, possibly Nefertari or Kabiyou. The exact order might be different, but I really don't see any sudden surprises happening. I was far more concerned with what characters people would even consider voting for in the first place more than what the results would ultimately be.

The fact of the matter is that I have too many characters. I have way, WAY too many characters, ESPECIALLY the Pokemon ones. Which is like 95% of them. A handful of them are the ones who have actually appeared in stories I've written and posted here, but there are far more that have yet to even appear in anything because I can never write enough to document all of them, and then there are those that I go weeks or months without even thinking of. I don't feel like I can deny the truth any longer: there is no point in having all of these characters.

The true reason I posted the previous journal was because I needed to know which characters are even worth caring about. If I were to limit my characters exclusively to those whom I actively think about nowadays my roster would be at risk of shrinking down to single digits, but I am aware that there are some characters which have appeal beyond myself, characters whom my friends and readers might like a lot and would be disappointed to see gone. So to this end I want to ask of you, please tell me about the characters in my stories, the characters I have shown here, even others that might have been elsewhere, tell me which ones have been important to you, the ones that you want to be remembered. Nothing decisive or drastic is going to happen right now, this is only in the event of me completely and utterly losing faith in myself in the future. And PLEASE DO NOT just say "All of them!" I do not even know what all of them are myself, and I can guarantee that you don't know all of them either, and therefore you don't care about all of them either, which is the entire point of this survey.

Well  blazekoopa tagged me, and then I realized that  gravityinbound had also tagged me a long time ago around the same time  da-end did, who had also made another suggestion on the previous journal alongside  kurohachuurui So we've got a quadruple threat journal here in the end.

Just getting straight on to the business.

Alice Mordelle
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14279994/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13600209/

1) I can't remember if there was any particular reason behind the name Alice. Her last name though is based on the Latin "mordere" meaning "to bite" and I slapped on the "-elle" just because it sounded nice.

2) Alice is my only character aside from Non to have an openly detailed family: her mother (Joan, maiden name Polytia, a Garchomp, former league champion who abruptly rose to fame as a rookie), father (Alan, a Nidoqueen, gentle and soft-spoken, accustomed to being the stay-at-home parent), younger sister (Claire, Gabite or maybe Garchomp by now, jealous of Alice, has breast implants), and brother (Patrick, Nidorino, looked up to Joan and Alice but resents how they've "neglected" him by being away or leaving home).

3) Alice grew up simultaneously eager to follow in the steps of her mother and being spoiled by her father's gourmet cooking. In high school, she was easily the largest applicant for the amateur league combat team, between her burgeoning figure and blossoming bosom, while at the same time there was an equally large Skarmory performing on the cheerleading team, which was how Alice and Margaret first met each other.

4) After high school Alice went to a college where she could major in professional league combat (basically PCA but not really). During this time she also came to know Neil, and they teased at a relationship for a time before settling for simply being friends, and they've been workout partners ever since.

5) Alice graduated at the top of her class, but after college she struggled to actually find a team or sponsor willing to accept her because of her unorthodox size. It was then that Margaret contacted her regarding a sudden surge in heavyweight teams in Goldenrod where she lived, and so she moved there, and eventually she found herself accepted into the Finest Fatties.

6) Presumably somewhere during this time Non met Alice and fell in love with her immediately in an incident which resulted in him inadvertently tearing her top off and receiving a retaliatory kick in the dick.

7) A lot of Alice and Margaret's time together is spent going around the city, dancing in clubs, eating out at restaurants, or playing videogames (Margaret usually wins). Margaret always goes to watch Alice's fights, and sometimes Alice tries to teach Margaret combat techniques. Although Alice has been growing increasingly distressed by Margaret's antics and attempts to woo her, sometimes (often after some alcohol) she'll give in and indulge her fantasies.

8) There was a time when I thought it might be feasible for Alice to drive a car, but at this point I don't think that's an option anymore.

Xenia
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12349451/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19433293/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18665134/

1) Xenia is derived from the Greek Ξενία, which is the virtue of being hospitable to guests. Presumably this isn't actually any name that she originally had, rather one that was given to her by someone she knew.

2) Except maybe for Daily Preparations, none of the stories I've written thus far about Xenia can really be considered canon, especially all the ones with the self-insert Milotic, they've all just been generic spur-of-the-moment things to fulfill particular needs.

3) Xenia's life energy manipulation powers have a variety of applications (see down below for example) which she has grown to learn over years of experience and experimentation. She greatly enjoys using them for the pleasure they can bring, although a part of this lies in a need to comfort herself after her past.

4) I thought of Xenia having two consorts, a Sylveon named Oona and a Gardevoir (tentatively) named Hestia. Both of them would have originally been males who were transformed into their current form after a meeting with her gone awry. Oona had been a disrespectful Flareon who was transformed as a punishment; Hestia's is less certain (I don't feeling like just having her be a Gallade) but I thought hers would be more melancholy and Xenia was giving her something new to live for.

5) I'm not entirely certain on the reason that Xenia got involved with Kabiyou, originally it was just because they were together on my team in X. I can only imagine it's because Oona heard of her team and wanted to get involved with it so Xenia followed along to make sure she didn't get in trouble, Hestia acted as a medic.

6) I had big plans for a story series which would be about Alice and Xenia's first meeting with each other, introduced to each other at a big fashion conference which Nefertari and Kabiyou brought them to which eventually escalates into the two of them pitted into a fight together. Ultimately and rather effortlessly this leads to Xenia defeating Alice, which leads to her becoming jealous and longing to have a rematch. This would also be the more formal introduction of Alice's Mega form.

7) Oh boy, and then there're the plans I had for Xenia's origins, a vast epic fantasy story which mostly focused on various legendary Pokemon and their place in the modern world after the days of glory for them and their species have been a long time ago. The idea was largely inspired from The Last Unicorn after I finished reading it, and it would for the most part be non-fetishy, with Xenia starting out completely thin instead of fat. I've been kicking the concept around for nearly two years now and I only have about four pages to show for it.

8) Did you know Xenia owns a shop in Athens? I was surprised too!

(I probably could have put an actual fact here, something more specific from her backstory, but I'm hesitant about spoiling too much of it.)

Persephone Haidem
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14301127/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13532634/

1) I have never been entirely certain on Persephone's name, I feel like it ought to be something different, but nothing else ever really feels appropriate enough either, I guess the name's already stuck too much.

2) I came to realize as I was developing Persephone that Hydreigon poses a bit of a problem because of how it evolves from Zweilous. I don't really know any way to logically work out the fact that the Deino line goes from having one head, to two heads, then back to one. Persephone was meant to have one head develop into a more aggressive personality, which now manifests in the form of her violent side.

3) Speaking of which, Persephone has a violent side which hasn't really manifested in any stories thus far, when she gets pushed too far she becomes animalistic and attacks anyone around her, which makes her a lot more physically capable than she would be normally.

4) Persephone is most characterized by being the character most heavily hindered by her size, as almost all of my other heavyweight characters are far more physically fit, which is largely a result of her eating more than exercising. And not having the benefit of operating on cartoon logic like Margaret.

5) Said overeating is something of an obsession for Persephone, she frequently gets overwhelmed by her urge to eat despite knowing that she ought to be cutting back.

6) Persephone lives with a roommate who as of yet hasn't really been developed at all, probably someone who studied with her in college or some such, who assist a great deal with Persephone's daily activities as there are many things which she can't do at her size, and also plays a large role in facilitating her eating urges.

7) I wanted to have a story which would be about Persephone having to confront her gluttonous unhealthy side with the threat that she was at risk of being kicked out of the Finest Fatties - basically losing her only job. Among other things this would serve to be a lot of bonding between Persephone and Dimitri as the latter works on getting her into shape.

8) In conjunction with the above story concept, I had debated if Persephone ought to have her weight cut down to a far more manageable size. Ultimately I didn't do that, but I'm not really sure overall where to go with her character development.

Calypso
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14885243/
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c328vinn5.....Beach.jpg?dl=0

1) The name Calypso is derived from Greek mythology, the name of the witch Calypso who tempted men to come to her abode and turned them into animals. Appropriate, given her debut story. (Edit: Turns out I was wrong on this, I was thinking of Circe. I would say Calypso is still an appropriate name though considering it's etymologically based on the verb meaning "to deceive" or "to hide") This wouldn't be her real name, or her "true" name given to her by Eve, but I can't remember what either of those might have been if I had come up with them before.

2) Calypso is one of the most powerful mages among the Milovassals, almost on par with Catherine, but she's differentiated by her willingness to indulge in less moral activities for the sake of making herself stronger. Almost none of the Milovassals liked Calypso for this reason, but they have no choice but to let her continue as Eve had given her permission to work with the very worst of the "initiates" they receive.

3) Calypso's coloring is basically meant to be a "shadow" Milotic in the same fashion as Shadow Lugia in Gale of Darkness. I'm thinking that this would be something she had from birth, presaging her dark powers, rather than the result of her own corruption.

4) Calypso originally was an orphan, hounded by others because of her unusual appearance and innate magical powers, and she was taken in by Eve to be another apprentice. It was at this time that Eve was beginning to degenerate, and as a result Calypso was quickly tainted by the dark arts as she studied them more.

5) Above all there's a strong rivalry between Catherine, Eve's original apprentice, and Calypso because of this, as at this same time Catherine was growing disillusioned and mistrusting of her master.

6) Calypso is extremely domineering and it isn't uncommon for her experiments to become subjected to her sexual urges, but she secretly harbors a desire to have that be turned around on her by someone proving to be stronger than her.

7) I don't know how much I want to say to avoid spoilers, but there's meant to be more development for Calypso in the backstory leading up to New Non because she sympathizes with the plight Non's going through.

8) I've really been neglecting to do much of anything with Calypso since Mermaid Cove, which is unfortunate since she's supposed to be really important. If you've been wanting to see more of her I'd suggest going over to Norris' page, he's been nice enough to draw her a lot.

If anyone else asks for any characters I may just answer them in the comments instead of making whole new journals for them.



All but one of them have Greek names.

Well  da-end tagged me to do this with Lycallis a while ago so finally getting around to actually doing it.

Rules:
1. Post these rules.
2. Post 8 facts about your character.
3. Tag 8 other characters.
4. Post their names along with their creators' avatars.

The character in question, if you forgot him:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15189982/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/16534178/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19888920/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17268186/

1) I can't remember if the name Lycallis is supposed to have any meaning, it was just something I randomly came up with by pulling some syllables together. He also doesn't have any defined last name yet.

2) Lycallis originally wasn't even going to be a character for my usual Pokemon canon, he was going to be a character in a homebrew D&D campaign, and he was just going to be a fluffy white dragon thing based on Reshiram instead of actually a Reshiram. In this campaign he was going to be a sorcerer specializing in illusion and flashy magics, which translated into his performing.

3) A large part of his character arc in this campaign was going to be the revelation that he was the reincarnation of a forgotten goddess of thievery, deception, lust, tits, etcetera. This is supposed to still be a thing with the goddess in question becoming a Zekrom but nothing's ever come of it as of yet.

4) As for his actual Pokemon character arc Lycallis is a wandering street performer who comes to live with Ignigros. Or maybe Ignigros ends up living with him. I'm not really sure which one would be better.

5) Lycallis eventually became involved with Cosmopolipid/The Finest Fatties as a male model, and he was meant to design his own fashion line as well.

6) Despite what one might expect from the stories he's featured in thus far, he's not meant to be gay, only bi-curious at the very most and extremely flamboyant about his body. Ignigros, however, is very much gay, and Lycallis loves to tease him.

7) He's meant to be something of a casanova, prone to hitting on a lot of the other attractive fatties that he sees while working around Cosmopolipid, but that tends to not end up working too well for him when many of them (e.g. Alice) are more physically capable than him and don't take kindly to his constant advances.

8) My eighth fact is that I don't really have any more facts because I haven't really bothered doing enough with Lycallis, as I have with a large amount of my characters at this point, I've unfortunately been drifting away from a lot of them, which is probably a sign that I had too many in the first place.


I don't really do tagging so I'm not going to ask anyone else to do this too. I'd consider opening up the floor for anyone to suggest other characters of mine to see, although, given the above "fact" the results may end up being disappointing depending on which one it is.

Isn't it so great to be able to say whatever the fuck you want in a public venue where everyone can hear you? Who cares if the information you're giving out is grossly and purposefully inaccurate, as long as everyone is getting riled up and giving their support to you that's the only thing that matters! And if anyone tries to speak up against you or, heaven forbid, give a factual explanation of what actually happened? Just silence them from speaking and remove any evidence of what they said, their freedom of speech isn't as important as yours! Manipulating the truth to gain favor for yourself is the only proper way of acting! Such is the American douchebag way!





And no, believe it or not, this is not about Donald Trump.

Another friend of mine  show~time is opening up to taking writing commissions. She mostly does pony work but is willing to engage in others, as well as almost any sort of content, in case any of you might have had ideas for stories that I was too squeamish to do. :P Look here for details!

PS my previous journal is still relevant.

Firstly I want to thank everyone who responded to the previous journal, it means a lot to me to know that I have such dedicated followers, I just have a hard time thinking of individual responses to comments most of the time and then social anxiety starts getting in the way.

The main issue at hand this time though is regarding content I post on FA. I'm sure you've all noticed by now that I am posting drastically less writing than usually, which as stated before is because I generally have been struggling to muster motivation to do so amid college work and generally being too much of a lazy fuckwad. The other part of this though lies in the fact that I have been spending a lot more time lately working on art than writing, especially now that I've gotten into the habit of inking things in addition to just plain coloring. However, the vast majority of this ends up not showing up here for a long time, if ever, because of certain self-imposed limitations that I have placed upon myself. I absolutely abhor the notion of posting and thereby gaining popularity from any form of content that doesn't represent my own work in some form, and here on FA I typically prefer that everything I upload features some amount of writing, which is why I always try to have little short snippets to go up with any image I post. At this point, however, I'm beginning to consider that with the sheer amount of coloring I'm doing and all the time I'm sinking into it, I ought to be having something to show people what I've been up to, and there's too much of a backlog for me to come up with a snippet for every single image.

Before anyone suggests, I would prefer not to make a separate account wholly dedicated to coloring, not only do I feel that it would do no good to split up my followers like that but I also am quite simply very bad when it comes to managing multiple accounts, I tend to very easily forget about them and it could very easily end up that one of them will end up becoming lost - and I am especially wary of the possibility that it could very well end up this is the one that gets forgotten.

I've been having difficulty mustering the motivation to get myself to do anything productive in terms of writing for stories as of late, no matter what I do I can never shake the feeling that there isn't any point to it. I thought I wanted to write for no reason other than to get my ideas out and to entertain people, but it starts feeling hollow the longer I go when it seems like hardly anyone offers reason for me to believe that there's any interest. I'm already operating at a disadvantage because stories are inherently going to garner less attention than art on FA, but that frankly wouldn't bother me too much, I have a number of viewers who routinely give favorites and even a few who comment, I'm aware that the public masses are fickle and there's nothing that can be done about that. No, what I find truly disheartening is that almost none of the people whom I call my friends ever seem to give me any kind of feedback or even the slightest indication that they've looked at most of the things I've posted. No one ever comes to me to ask what I'm doing or if I have any plans for anything, no one asks about my characters or interests, no one tells me anything they'd like to see more or less of, no one seems to care. I haven't wanted to say anything about this for a long time because there's no way to say it without sounding selfish, I don't want to discount the moments when people do regularly read my stories, but the fact of the matter is that is a list I can count off on one hand, most only seem to read my work if it's something that I wrote for them or if I otherwise point it out to them directly myself, there's no initiative to act without impulse.

I don't like making this big sort of all-encompassing judgment call, especially because I'm openly aware that I've only been making the situation worse on myself by retreating into a hole away from everyone. I have never been a particularly social kind of person, I'm not good at thinking of things to say or conversations, I don't like bringing up my own thoughts because I always feel that I might be stepping on someone's toes or trying too hard to push myself, but I've been conscious that this tendency has only grown worse over time. I have changed significantly from the person I was when I first came to this site and began being an active person on the internet, and that is reflected in no small part by my writing, but while I have plenty new audience for such things I'm also readily aware of the fact that I'm driving away my old readers and friends who aren't interested in those topics even further, and I don't know what I can do about that, I'm still interested in those sorts of things from before but I just don't have the same impetus for them anymore. I'm afraid that I'm just going to drift away from everyone completely, and if there's one thing that terrifies me it's the thought of losing friends after having already lost so much.

I've asked for feedback on all journals like this in the past, but this time I cannot emphasize enough: please reply with your thoughts and opinions, be completely honest.

On a side note, I'm clearing the overflow commission queue because I don't think I have it in me to work on them, I've had those looming over my head for too long now and the guilt of having them waiting for so long has been wearing me down, I hope that having that off my plate will at least somewhat help to alleviate my stress. It's a new year and I want to be able to start fresh.

Hey peoples,  marity is considering going into the market of taking writing commissions, but for now in order to test the waters she's taking FREE requests for stories. If you like crazy content featuring ludicrous sizings, impossible biology, and in-depth character-driven plots, then you should consider giving her a look!

I'm tired and melancholic as usual, and it is a Tuesday and I haven't done anything like this in a while so I guess I'll put up another journal for asking questions.

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January:
It was hard for the other patrons of the gym to not take notice of Neil as they passed by, stealing a glance at him, some unconsciously slowing down or stopping completely to stare longer, a few unable to stop themselves even from looking at him while doing their own exercises around the room, captivated by awe, or perhaps some degree of jealousy. There was something inherently fascinating in the way his muscles flexed, enormous mounds of tight sinew thicker than footballs bulging underneath his sky blue scales, as he pulled down rhythmically on the cords of the machine he sat on, the metal contraption rising up behind him with arms extending forward, leading down to the giant stack of weights below, which he was lifting all at once. Even with so much exertion, it didn’t seem to pose much of a strain for him at all, hardly a single bead of sweat visible trickling down his brow, his brown hair tied back in a ponytail so that his face was completely visible.
-Pumping Iron

And also:
Xenia stirred in her slumber, a slow movement that began with her fingers twitching and flexing one by one, then moving along her arm and through her body, until she curved her back and brought her legs up against her chest, curling into a ball on her side, as if she didn’t want to wake up and leave the warmth of her bed, but then she stretched out her tired limbs so that consciousness could completely return to her. Her eyelids gradually fluttered open bit by bit, a little wider each time, like a flower opening its petals in anticipation of the morning sun, and her soft eyes, murky pools just as blue and mysterious as the ocean, stared in the darkness of the room surrounding her. Every movement she made was calculated as she pushed herself up from the mattress, the blankets sliding off of her bare form, and gracefully swung her legs out over the side of the bed so she could stand, her bountiful tresses of black hair trailing behind her until they too slid off the mattress and onto the floor.
-Daily Preparations

I really couldn't choose between a single one of these for this month. Pumping Iron was a nice little quick thing to do that was also about a type of subject matter I don't approach very often and still haven't because I don't do nearly enough with Neil, while Daily Preparations was just a nice thing to do with Xenia because Xenia is always good.


February:
With no further objections, Applejack carefully turned back around the corner, stepping into the alley itself, grateful that at least the rain and wind were slightly diminished in the enclosed corridor, and stood over the form of the massive unicorn. She took in a deep breath as she tried to gather her thoughts and words, to form an appropriate question to pose to her, but in the end she simply settled on saying, “Rarity…? Is that you?”

One of Rarity’s limp ears twitched as she heard the voice calling out to her, recognizing the deep tone and thick accent, carrying strength in its determination that was equal to the physical strength of its owner. Her head slowly stirred, lifted up by her thick neck, and she seemed to look about aimlessly for a few seconds to remind herself of her surroundings before she looked up at Applejack. Long strands of loose wet hair draped all across her face, but it wasn’t enough to completely obscure her deep blue eyes, which appeared dull and glassy, empty of life or emotion.

“Oh…hello, Applejack,” she said, hoarse and flat, almost in a whisper that would have been more fitting of Fluttershy than somepony known to be as boisterous as her, and then she abruptly asked, “Do you hate me too?”
-Learning Curves Part 3

Hey remember that other big continuous story I've been trying to desperately cling to? This had been a particularly emotional episode in an already emotional series, I like to think that I delivered on it really well. Maybe I'll actually finish the next part of it before it'll be a whole year since the last real update.


March:
“You’re back early, Shiny,” Cadance said, every word slowly pronounced, laced with hunger. She batted her eyelashes from where she laid stomach-down upon the bed at the opposite end of the room, resting her chin upon her interlocking fingers, her wings folded against her back. “If you were just going to play hooky anyway, you could have stayed here from the beginning,” she continued, chuckling to herself, “my invitation for everypony to take the day off extended to you too. I suppose I can’t complain too much though, you did give me some extra time to prepare.” The bedroom had been decorated specially for this occasion, the windows closed, leaving the only light in the room to come from dozens of candles that were placed here and there around the walls, and there were red, pink, and white flower petals scattered all around the floor, a soothing, earthy scent in the air.

“I’m hardly shirking my duties,” Shining Armor replied without pause as he began to stride forward, matching her sultry tone as he chose to play along with her little game for now, “I simply decided that it would be more effective for me to protect the Crystal Empire if I was directly by the side of its ruling Princess.”

“Oh really now?” the pink alicorn asked, raising an eyebrow, while at the same time her horn began to glow with a pale blue light, and from out of an open, heart-shaped box lying in front of her levitated a small piece of chocolate, flying up to her waiting maw so she could begin to chew on it and savor its flavors, gooey caramel bursting from within the cocoa shell. “Are you certain your intentions are to serve your kingdom, or are your eyes only focused on the monarch herself?”
-All You Need is Love


April:
“Mmgh…yes…ohhh, yes.” The moans echoed through the royal bed chamber as Princess Celestia stumbled around in a manner rather unbefitting of her divine personage, more akin to a drunken bar patron. While that might not be too far from the case with her present state of mind, she wasn’t currently inebriated in the slightest – in fact it was incredibly unlikely, given that her tolerance for alcohol had surpassed the ability to drink gallons of Canterlot’s strongest wine without feeling a buzz centuries ago. When one has a lifespan stretching longer than a millennium, there are a great many exciting and wondrous things to be experienced, but it also only becomes a matter of time before each one loses the initial excitement that it had to start with, and the Princess, in her endless need to stave off the tiresome toil of ruling her kingdom, was constantly in search of new ways to stimulate her senses.
-Seeking Thrills

For better or worse, this was the beginning of a new trend my life has taken. I could have done more with this, I had plans for more buildup before getting to the hyper stuff, but ultimately the only way I was able to get myself to start working on it was to jump right into the meat, and I think it still came out just fine.

This was the only part of the story that I could include without mentioning anything overly explicit.

May:
As she turned her head this way and that, suddenly she spotted something that stood out from the blanketing field of white. It was still far away, only visible as a dark, indiscernible figure that stood amid the motes of falling snow, but it appeared to be about the shape of a pony. “Hello?” Rainbow Dash called out, putting every ounce of strength she had left into her voice to make sure she was noticed, “Is somepony there? Are you with the rescue crews?”

There was still no response to be heard, but it did appear that the shape was coming closer to her, growing larger. Even as it approached, however, it didn’t appear to be getting any more distinct, still remaining as a pitch black, barely pony-sized shape, although the pegasus did notice what appeared to be shadowy wisps emanating from it like an aura of darkness, and a low hissing susurrus of inarticulate whispers. “Hello…?” she said again, less sure of herself, unable to stop from taking a step backward. She found herself remembering when she and her friends first went to the Crystal Empire and were attacked by the specter of King Sombra, but, despite the eerie similarity, for some reason she felt that this wasn’t the same thing, and yet it still felt like something else familiar she couldn’t put her hoof on.

“Are you afraid, Rainbow Dash?” The voice prompted a shiver to run up the pegasus’ spine, its tone unearthly, vaguely feminine but disguised under distortions and echoes, as if it weren’t entirely there, filtered through layers in the fabric of reality.
-Black Lightning

(I'm including this for May even though it was posted in June because I finished writing it in May...I think.)

I don't think there's any way I couldn't have included this behemoth on the list. I don't know if I can entirely say that every part of this was written well, but there were enough parts that I'm sufficiently proud of, and I at least know with some certainty that this was an extremely important learning experience for me as a writer.

June:
“Alright…fine!” As soon as Non regained his balance, he planted his feet firmly on the ground and reared back, screaming a battle cry as he threw his fist directly at Rukh’s face.

In response, Rukh immediately spun in place, using one arm to catch the attack aimed at him and knock it to the side, and while Non was left open he slammed his open palm against his chest and sent him flying backward, rolling across the mats covering the floor they had been fighting on before coming to a stop, sprawled face-down.

“Mngh…ow, fuck,” he groaned as he lifted his head up, long ribbons of purple hair trailing across the ground, “dammit, Rukh, you hit me right in the boob! Again!”
-An Exercise in Self-Control

I don't really have too much to say about this one, it just sort of is, I don't entirely think all of it is good but there's at least a lot more to it than any of the other stories I wrote for June, and I don't write many things that go into the backstory of Non.


July:
The vicious Goodra didn’t particularly care about what direction she went or what she had to go through along the way, only that she continued her chase, and Derek himself didn’t know where he was going either as long as he was trying to reach somewhere further away. Gradually the trees thinned, more light filtering down through the canopy of leaves above, and a sound of rushing water in the distance grew louder and louder, until eventually they burst out from the forest, the grassy floor sloping down and giving way to bare soil and then pebbles and rocks, the foliage interrupted by a river running through the middle of the vale, the trees rising up again on the other side. The water wasn’t particularly high, barely even enough to rise over one’s ankles, nor moving at an especially fast pace, and so Derek didn’t worry much about getting a little wet as he tromped his way right through, the steps of his feet stomping into the surface producing large splashes that flew everywhere. Sharlene, now even more intently focused on pursuing the Sneasel now that she could plainly see him in the open, also didn’t care to think much about the water at first, but as soon as her foot landed in the riverbed and became inundated by wetness, a thought dimly popped up at the back of her berserk mind: “I shouldn’t have done that.”
-Pursuit

There wasn't much I felt particularly strong about in July, I don't really feel like I should put Rain since I had written most of it long before and I didn't feel like most of it was that good. Pursuit was at least a fairly fun story to work on, especially since the character was one whose design I had been fond of.


August:
The heart of the dreamscape was dim and quiet when Princess Luna appeared, pulling aside the veil of blackness and walking inside as effortlessly as one would an ordinary chamber, hooves tapping against an intangible, indiscernible floor. It was still early in the night, before the vast majority of Equestria’s populace would have gone to sleep, and as she looked around she could only see faint glimmers of fantasy dotting the void, flashes of color accompanied by low whispering voices. A lesser mare might have been unsettled by the eerie atmosphere and boundless horizons stretching out in all directions, an abyss that seemed ready to swallow one up at a moment’s notice, but Luna only looked on with a soft, enigmatic smile and twinkling teal eyes. Her subjects were so peaceful in their slumber, but she knew they would not truly be able to embrace the peace of sleep in this state; they would require a more nurturing environment in which their dreams could grow to their full potential.
-Beyond

Full Moon 2.0 cranked things up to eleven and then some. This was done to fulfill some urges for extreme content, but in particular I wanted to indulge in this particular method of expansion through a dream-like state where things just happen suddenly and inexplicably, and making use of vivid imagery.


September:
“My oh my, now this is interesting,” Non said aloud as he looked at his reflection in a mirror that took up a substantial portion of one wall in his expansive bedroom. The reflective surface was far larger than necessary to contain the entirety of his form, leaving large amounts on either side empty, although it was required at times in order to account for his desire to experiment with his appearance. Today, however, or at least for the moment, his alterations were a bit tamer than how he usually preferred to play around with his body.
-Breast of the Sea

Well I don't have a lot of options for things to choose for this month. Breast of the Sea was a short bland thing that I just had to do on a moment's notice because I didn't have anything else for Lugia Day, but at least it was suitable enough for what I wanted to do, which is more than I can say for The Mane Event.


October:
Nene didn’t say anything, but she slowly smiled as she relaxed her fingers, revealing her open palm so that Yukimura could take the mega stone. He gently plucked the tiny sphere between his fingers and lifted it up, pulling out the string necklace with his other hand so that it was unraveled to its full extent, then brought it up over his head, past his long pointed ears and the bushy dreadlocks hanging against his shoulders. It felt like some part of him that was long missing had been returned once he had the glassy ball resting against his chest, nestled in the tufts of tawny fur just above the spike that jutted from between his pecs, and as he closed his eyes and concentrated on the power inside him it flowed through him naturally. It had been so long, and yet he could still remember what he had to do perfectly.

Yukimura let loose with a roar from the deepest depths of his being as he flexed his muscles, and all at once there was a bright flash of light as he changed, his body swelling in size to accommodate all the raw power that was growing inside him. The bandages wrapped around his torso snapped apart one by one under the burgeoning bulging mass of his chest and abdomen, and the folds of his robe no longer seemed so loose, sleeves conforming to the curvature of his swelling biceps, seams even ripping slightly to reveal the silver fur underneath. His hands and feet turned a bloody red color, sporting spikes that were turning more into razor sharp blades, and the dreadlocks hanging from his head stretched further down his back, all while wisps of ephemeral azure energy whirled all around him, his body unconsciously absorbing residual aura from his surroundings without him even needing to try, feeding his growth further.
-Blind Date

I've done a lot of emotional sorts of writing before but I think that this one was special in a lot of ways, GuanYu's characters always seem to work well for these sorts of scenarios.


November:
“Is it really necessary to be doing that right this instant, Rarity?” Twilight Sparkle asked from her seat, peering over the top of the book she was reading with one eyebrow raised quizzically, “Wouldn’t it be better if you waited until we got back to the boutique?”

“Perhaps you’re right, but I just can’t help myself!” the white unicorn replied giddily, and Fluttershy yelped again as she tugged in her from behind and pulled her closer, simultaneously further compressing the pegasus’ breasts while also mashing her own engorged chest against her back, “I’m so eager to make these new clothes for you and the rest of the girls!”

“Rarity, you’re making a scene!” she hissed back, hunching over and hiding behind her book again as if it would offer her cover, although in truth there were hardly many other ponies to be seen, the train car mostly unoccupied with the few others preoccupied with their own business, conversing with each other, reading, or sleeping. “We don’t need to so blatantly draw everypony’s attention to our…assets.”
-Overproduction

Possibly one of the most fun commissions I've had in a while because the subject material was something I had wanted to do for a while but didn't have any ideas to do myself.

Or at least back then I didn't have any of my own ideas...


December:
“Oh? What is this?” Rarity asked aloud as she reached into the pile of glittering sapphires that filled one of her storage chests, catching a glimpse of something out of place amid the blue, and she pulled out a small, flat, disc-shaped object, pale in color. “This doesn’t even look like a gemstone…” she mused while turning it around in her dainty fingers, feeling the smooth texture, rounded around the edges, “How did it get in here?” She lifted it upward so she could see it in the light, and when the glow of the ceiling lights fell upon it she saw a dazzling transformation as the white disc sparkled with all the colors of the rainbow, covered in small pinpricks like stars. “Goodness, but it certainly is splendid nonetheless,” she said with a small grin, almost having to squint her eyes, “perhaps I can find some use for this after all.”
-Splendor

Well I'm pretty strapped for things to do for December too, but I can only put Splendor here because it's the least bad. I'm wary that all of the things I posted for today are just tiny bland snippets accompanying images.


I don't really know how well this year compares to previous years, I suppose I did some things well but I'm stuck feeling that I was lacking in a lot of ways. I've had a lot more progress done in coloring than writing, and I suppose I probably ought to have some kind of summary done for images in addition to writing but I haven't posted all of the things I've worked on here and I haven't properly kept track of everything I've done. I can only hope that next year I'll improve more.

Also happy new year everyone.

So I've been thinking for a while that I might want to try getting a tablet so I could get better at coloring, especially so it would be easier to do inking.

Does anyone have any particular recommendations for something that works well and is relatively cheap? I'd prefer not to spend too much more than $100.

Today we are bringing important updates straight to you in the world of Milotics. There has been an alarming increase in the spread of Milotitis across the country, and it is confirmed to have begun to appear overseas as well. Initial symptoms of the onset of the disease are characterized by rash, itchy skin, hair growing out, and a shift toward aggressive flamboyance. Late stage symptoms extend to the appearance of scales, warping of the skeleton as the spine extends, and the multiplication of lipids in the body, especially around the chest area. Scientists have ascertained that the disease is not airborne as originally thought, but is in fact the result of a memetic phrase which triggers a change in hormones in the brain, there is still no known cure or way to delay the onset of symptoms, it can only be avoided at the source. We strongly advise anyone reading this announcement to HAVE SOME FUN, COME JOIN- please, there's no time, we can only hope to WELCOME THE SERPENT OVERLORDS- save as many as possible, we must all PRAISE THE UBER!



Happy Milotic Day! :D

I've finally finished off all the commissions in the main commission list, this only leaves the overflow queue, but I'm going to put those off for a couple weeks, I'd like to get some time in to work on my own stories in the meantime plus I have a big project for college that's going to be due soon and I really need to start getting it done sooner rather than later.

I have been thinking though about what exactly to do whenever I next open up for commissions. The last time was a train wreck in every sense of the word, I really didn't handle it well at all, I had thought that it would make things fair if I spoke with everyone at the same time so they could all have a fair chance to get in, but I didn't realize just how hectic it would be to talk to seven people all at once.

So for the next time I'm thinking I might try doing it something like this:
-May or may not have another announcement a few days in advance.
-When the journal officially opening commissions is opened, people will have a day, maybe two, to post and say their interest.
-I will speak with each person one at a time in order to determine what they want.
-When the time is up, no further applicants will be admitted.
-At this point, I will choose myself which applicants will be entered in the queue; there will be no random selection, it will simply be entirely based on how I feel. Factors for decision will include:
+How well the word counts fit together into the total amount I'm taking for the queue.
+Longer stories that have already been started in previous queues may have priority to ensure they get finished eventually.
+Conversely, clients who have already gotten overly long stories in recent commission rounds may have less priority to ensure that there are more openings for others.
+New clients or clients who haven't gotten anything from me in a while may also have priority so more people can have a fair chance to get things.
+Personal preference on my part for whatever the subject matter may be, I'm more likely to be invested in a commission I find enjoyable after all.

I hope to streamline this process as much as possible.

I have been attempting to find alternative methods to stream since Livestream has been grating on my patience more and more, not to mention it's extremely limited and doesn't allow me to do some more complex actions that would be helpful for certain streams I'd like to do - especially anything pertaining to coloring. I've heard plenty of good things about OBS so I thought I'd use that with furstream to replace FFsplit, but I've been having nothing but difficulties with it so far. Originally I was already having problems when it for some reason wouldn't recognize any Microsoft Office programs - including Word, the one thing most necessary for my streams - when I tried to select them for window capture, but they finally did work when I used a sub region with monitor capture. Between the time when I got that set up for practice in advance and actually tried streaming, however, it seems like either I forgot about something or something horrendously bad happened because now the sub regions don't seem to work properly at all. Any time I try to select a region, the area that actually shows up on the feed is a space up, to the left, and shrunk down compared to what I selected. As an example, https://www.dropbox.com/s/gmpyrv32m.....49.01.png?dl=0 here you can see that it does indeed properly show the whole area that I wanted to select, however https://www.dropbox.com/s/aox9o2dwi.....48.32.png?dl=0 this is what the sub region actually looks like, I have no idea how I got it to be like that where it's covering the right space despite going completely offscreen. While I do still have this window for Word working, I can't get any other sub regions to work so I can't properly show anything other than writing right now. Does anyone know what's causing this to happen?

Additionally, another issue that happened during the last stream I had was that the computer audio was glitching up while I had OBS running. I noticed right at the beginning when I started broadcasting that the pitch abruptly went down, but over time it started to have moments where it periodically went further down, and those moments only got worse and worse, to the point that toward the end there were long stretches where the audio was so low and muffled that I could barely discern anything. I had this exact same problem when i was using FFsplit so I'm not sure if it's just a problem with this computer and/or furstream, has anyone else experienced something like this and know of something to do about it?

Additional things I have to ask/should mention: Does having a second monitor or trying to capture footage on a second monitor have any problems associated with it?

This isn't something I do much but it's come to my attention that a close friend of mine is in urgent need of financial assistance.

-> http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7164789/ <- Please take the time to look and offer what you can if possible. He's willing to provide compensation for donations.

So I'm sure a lot of you know that by now I have posted a lot of various things I have written up on FA. What you may not know, however, is that I have far, far more ideas for things than I have anything that has actually been completed, largely because I'm a lazy fuck and I spend more time playing videogames, watching videos, or coloring smut than I do actually writing, and as such I'm constantly coming up with thoughts for things and then never doing anything with them. This includes some ideas that would be continuations of previous stories or settings that I have already written but continuously get distracted from working on. Since these are things that my viewer base may already have some familiarity with, I decided that perhaps it might be worthwhile to ask what kinds of things any of you might be interested in seeing if I ever decided to go back to them at some point. This is not necessarily a guarantee that anything will be produced immediately, due to the above factors and also the fact that I'm busy with college work and commissions currently, but I will take these results into consideration.

The following are stories that I have considered doing more with at some point or another:
Shower Scene
The New Enlightenment/Making Mega
Don't Eat the Berries
The Hoard
Inner Focus, Outer Bulk
More Shaken Up
Deep Dive
Path to Polyfris
Shop-Keeping
Full Moon/Rising Sun
More Super Smash Bros character insertion stuff
The Substitute
A New Kind of Cupcakes
Seeking Thrills

Alternatively, feel free to suggest something else you might be interested in seeing continued, and I will explain why I may or may not potentially ever do something like that.

Well I've seen a few of these around here and there so I thought I might as well do it myself.

1. You started to play videogames at the age of...?
I guess I must have been something like 5 or 6, although that was just the rare occasion when my cousin allowed me to play one of his games, I didn't get to play any of my own games until I was 8.

2. First game you ever played?
I can't even remember what the very first was due to the above circumstances, but the first game of my own that I played was Pokemon Red.

3. First console you owned?
Gameboy Color, although first home console was a Playstation.

4. Consoles you own/owned?
Gameboy Color, Advance, and SP, DS, DS Lite, DSi, 3DS, 3DS XL, Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, Playstation 1 through 4, and PSP

5. Your favorite genre(s)?
Fantasy adventure RPG type things

6. Favorite game character(s)?
Gosh I dunno, I don't really think of that many specific characters.

7. Which element(s) in games is/are most important for you (story, graphic etc.)?
A variety of things: captivating music, smooth gameplay, generally looking nice (not necessarily perfect graphics, just appealing design), but something that I like best is when a game has something to give me emotional investment.

8. You don't care about ...?
Only thing I don't really care very much about in games in general is competitive online stuff.

9. Prefer PC or Console?
Don't really have any preference, although PC games tend to be kind of more tedious for me to play because they take up space on the screen and make it generally harder for me to multitask.

10. Your current 3 Fav games?
Journey, Bloodborne, Shadow of the Colossus

11. 3 Games you didn't like...
Okamiden, Starfox Command, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

12. One game that's totally overrated in your opinion?
Anything GTA

13. Ever played an online game, if yes which one(s)?
Just...anything that's has online play? Well uh...any Souls games and most Monster Hunter games.

14. What do you think about ...Tomb Raider?
Nothing much really, I haven't played any of the games.

15. ... Tetris?
I've played a few installments of Tetris but not much opinion there either.

16. ... Sonic?
Sonic's still a fairly cool series, even counting some more recent missteps.

17. ... Spyro?
It's hard not to like a purple dragon, and the first two games were some of my favorites growing up. I haven't played many of the games after the original trilogy, although I thought the first Legend of Spyro game was fairly decent, I always wanted to play the other two. It's a shame the character's practically dead in the water right now, although at least he's still in games nowadays, which is more than can be said for poor Crash.

18. ... The Sims?
Same as Tomb Raider.

19. ... Legend of Zelda?
LoZ in my opinion is one of the best videogame franchises out there, there's really no bad Zelda game (Philips CDi excluded).

20. ... Assassin's Creed?
Same as Tomb Raider and The Sims.

(What's with these series choices? I get that they're fairly big/iconic franchises but they're so random, sounds like bias from whoever originally made this meme.)

21. GAME OVER!!!
YEEEEEAHHHHHHH

22. Game(s) you'd love to see?
Gotcha Force sequel
More Jak & Daxter
Sequel to/HD remake of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles on Wii U with online co-op
A new Starfox game that doesn't cheaply retcon all the series' problems away

23. Game(s) you're waiting for at the moment?
Dark Souls 3
Pokemon Z or whatever
Bloodborne DLC if that counts
Star Wars Battlefront (assuming I decide to lift my anti-EA policy)

Edit: Hey again everyone, I'm just going to be honest, I really didn't think this through enough. I'm just going to lock this off from any further applicants now, but what I'm going to do is fill up this 20k with whoever gets all their info finished up first in order, and then anyone else will be reserved for a later date. I'm terribly sorry about this, I didn't put enough effort into deciding on a way to accept new clients.

*opens floodgates*

That's right everyone, story commissions are now finally open for real! I was originally planning on only opening 15,000 words, however having noticed that there appears to be a considerable number of people anticipating this occasion I'm going to raise that up to 20,000 words, although there will be an upper limit of 5000 words per client for this round. In the event that you might want a story significantly longer than that, it can be started now but it will have to be continued at a later date.

If you are interested, please comment on this journal stating as such. DO NOT start telling me what you want immediately, WAIT until I have acknowledged your comment. Once we have fully worked out what you would like to get I will give a rough estimate of how long it will be. In the event that we do reach the end of the allotted word count and your story is still not finished, I may keep going if I judge that there isn't too much more to go, but in the event that I grossly misjudged the length then I will have to stop there and the story will have to be continued whenever there are more words available. Price is a penny per word - ergo a 2000 word story would cost $20 - HOWEVER please keep in mind that my initial estimate is exactly that, only an estimate, and the final price is not necessarily guaranteed to be exactly the same; if it ends up being shorter, then the cost will be lower accordingly, but by the same token if it's longer then it will cost more.

Refer to my previous journal about commission policies for more information.

Queue: 20,000/20,000 Words Taken
- gravityinbound 3000 words DONE
- guanyu56 3000 words DONE
- silverflame 5000 words DONE
- psychofloatzel 5000 words
- teblin 4000 words

Overflow Queue: To be completed later
- nidogatr 5000 words
- guderian 5000 words

Hi everyone! So you've been waiting for me to reopen writing commissions? Well I am soon finally going to start taking some more on THIS COMING WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. This will be in accordance with the new commission policies that I have been planning on enacting which means that I will not be taking "slots", instead the queue is going to be based on number of words. I will be opening for taking a total of 15,000 words with a maximum amount of 5,000 allowed per client.

So how will you be able to sign up for a spot? Well, once I post the journal with the full opening announcement you will be able to make a comment stating your interest, and then we can start actually discussing what you'd want. I will plan on posting the announcement as soon as I get back from college for the day...but when exactly will that be? Who knows! You're just going to have to keep an eye on my page. :P The most I can say is that it will be around late afternoon/early evening EST. This should give you all plenty of time to think about what you might want to get; remember, the order of the queue depends on how quickly we are able to finalize the plot details of what you want.

If you have questions about how many words you might expect to need for your commission so you can have some advance information, you can refer to previous journals to get an idea of estimates. If need be you can ask here for more clarification, but PLEASE do not start telling me everything about what you want, that has to wait until after commissions are officially open, just give me a basic sentence or two synopsis with simple details (number of characters, what kinds of fetish things you want to see).

I've been thinking of changing my usual stream day for the duration of this semester, Thursday doesn't seem like it's going to work too well for a number of reasons.

Also you may notice that I added thumbnails to a bunch of my stories. This is something I've wanted to do for a while, I may still change things around, and I still need to make a thumbnail for stories that aren't Pokemon or MLP.

(Relevant music to listen to while reading)

So it's getting time that I really ought to start taking commissions again soon, but before I can do that I need to do more work on my commission policies. The biggest thing I need to do is find a way to more effectively limit the amount of work I have to do so that I'm not getting overwhelmed by massive quantities of work. As mentioned in a previous journal, I was thinking that something I will do is, instead of opening for "slots" I will open up a set amount of total words that I will be willing to do and customers purchase however much they need. For example, let's say I open up for 10,000 words, and three people are interested. The first person who confirms their idea and the plot details thereof with me wants 3000 words, so that leaves 7000 words left for the others. In the event that all of the allotted words are used up and a story still isn't finished, I might be able to go just a little further if it's nearly done, but otherwise this will necessitate purchasing an additional allotment of words, whether there's still any available or waiting until the next time I'm open. I apologize if this sounds unfair, however after recent commissions it's become apparent that longer stories are in greater demand than I thought when I first started taking commissions so I'm going to have to make sure that I'm both taking on a workload I can handle and getting properly compensated for the time I spend. Generally speaking, it's more likely that shorter stories are going to get on the list first because it will take less time for them to get confirmed.

Now, how exactly does one go about knowing how many words they will need to purchase for their commission? This is admittedly a process that still isn't entirely effective, but I would like to be able to say that I have gotten substantially better at doing this than I have in previous years. Generally, there are two things to take into consideration for how long a story will be, and those are how many characters are in it and how many primary actions there are. When I say a "primary action" I refer to the steps of the plot that lead into one another. For example, let's take a fairly standard weight gain plot: character eats some food spiked with fatblorp plot convenience and proceeds to grow into a blob. The eating itself serves as one action point and then the growth itself is another (also allow a little extra for concluding wrap-up); generally, any time you have to say "and then this happens" or something similar, that indicates a new action point. On average, a single plot point like this takes between 1000 and 2000 words, although this is only for a story that features one or two fully developed characters (side characters can be easier to squeeze in), adding additional primary characters to an interaction can stretch it out by a fair amount. For the record, I imagine a story like the weight gain plot I just mentioned would be somewhere around 3000 words long.

UPDATE: I am considering putting a hard limit on the maximum number of words someone can commission per round in order to make it so the whole queue can't be taken up by one person, and also since it's probably better anyway to do super long stories in chunks spread out over time instead of all at once.

Prices for commissions themselves will still remain the same, I will be charging a penny per word - so the above example story would cost around $30. However, if it weren't already clear, I am going to be getting stricter about this; as mentioned above, I try my best to give accurate estimates of how long a story might be, but I can rarely be perfectly accurate. In the event that a story takes less words to complete than I initially thought then the price will be lowered appropriately, and by the same token if it goes over the estimate then I will unfortunately have no choice but to charge extra as necessary.

Things that I can definitely do:
Fat/weight gain
Inflation
Transformation
Macro
Hyper (male or female)
Pokemon
My Little Pony
Monster Hunter

Things that I definitely won't do:
Underage stuff
Scat/watersports
Anal-related things
Anything that I deem to be too rape-ish

Anything not mentioned above can most likely be negotiated. In addition, when it comes to MLP, or possibly any other pre-established characters, I reserve the right to decline to anything that I feel goes too far against a character's canon portrayal. I'm slightly more open to doing sexual things now, but it may be best to keep in mind that I'm not that great at erotic scenes, and if there's outright sex I prefer to keep things minimalistic, I may have to charge extra for things like that.



Now lastly, regarding the current situation in which I am posting this, it is important to note that this does NOT mean I am actually taking writing commissions right at this moment, I will be posting a new journal sometime later to announce when that is happening. I am thinking that I might make an announcement a day or two ahead of time to let people know when I am planning on opening so that they can have a better chance to prepare for when spots open. Again, the more prepared you are to get a spot the more likely it is that you'll be at the front of the line, and it will also help to that end if your story is on the shorter side, longer stories are more likely to take a while to plan out.

Although if you want a coloring commission, I'm still plenty open for those. :D

Hey there! Have you gotten any plain black and white pictures that just don't look lively enough? Do you need a little more color thrown in? How about some shading and highlights? Well luckily for you I am now publicly opening for commissions to color and shade pictures! How much does this service cost you may ask? Well let's proceed down below.

Prices:
$8 for colors, plus $6 for any additional characters beyond the first.
Same as above for shading
Background details (buildings, room interiors, etc) count as an additional character. If you so wish however I can also add in a simple gradient background for no extra charge.
Especially intricate character designs/backgrounds may necessitate an additional 50% charge.

I have the same rules for what I will or won't color as I do for writing:
No anal-related content
No scat/watersports
No underage stuff
No rape

Now, there are a few things to keep in mind for this in addition:
-I am limited by what the original drawing was. I can't make major changes to the lines.
-Images with fully inked lines are preferable, I can try to work with sketches but they are not going to look as clean.
-If the drawing isn't plain black lines on a white background I might have some difficulty with getting the colors to look right. If the image is still monochromatic I might be able to manage (for example I can turn this into this using filters in SAI), but if it's something like, say, grayscale shading I might not be able to do it. In cases like this, it would be preferable if you gave me the original .sai file from the artist.
-PLEASE ask the original artist to make sure they're okay with this. I accept no responsibility if someone comes to me saying that they didn't want their art to be altered by someone else.

I haven't really gotten much feedback on how many people might want one of these commissions, so for now I'm just going to have five openings since I know that should be an amount I can decently handle. Please comment on this journal if you are interested.

Queue:
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Giving some general idea of the kinds of things I have. Might make more in the future.

Also TOMORROW I will HOPEFULLY put up another journal with definitive information about color commissions.