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Posted 2 weeks agohttps://bsky.app/profile/ablehunting.bsky.social
idk other account announcement i guess
not sure why i'm bothering to share it since i really don't have the time to interact on social media and don't want to upload vore there because i don't want your average person to stumble across it
i'm lonely
idk other account announcement i guess
not sure why i'm bothering to share it since i really don't have the time to interact on social media and don't want to upload vore there because i don't want your average person to stumble across it
i'm lonely
Complications with Biba's Treatment
Posted 2 months agohttps://www.furaffinity.net/view/62135761/
Hey all; sorry to push this issue so aggressively, I don't mean to be a bother. This is concerning
PriestofJashin and 
Alexvalyutin's cat, Biba, who they recently requested donations for in order to afford her medical bills. I wasn't going to share their latest update because I didn't want to test everyone's patience, but there were complications with her treatment that really urged me to spread the word! She had to have a gastrointestinal tube inserted, didn't react to anesthesia well, and ended up suffocating, so she now has pneumonia.
Please help if you can! She is fighting for her life!
Hey all; sorry to push this issue so aggressively, I don't mean to be a bother. This is concerning
PriestofJashin and 
Alexvalyutin's cat, Biba, who they recently requested donations for in order to afford her medical bills. I wasn't going to share their latest update because I didn't want to test everyone's patience, but there were complications with her treatment that really urged me to spread the word! She had to have a gastrointestinal tube inserted, didn't react to anesthesia well, and ended up suffocating, so she now has pneumonia. Please help if you can! She is fighting for her life!
Biba needs our help!
Posted 2 months agohttps://www.furaffinity.net/view/62070715/
I feel kinda like a broken record with a lot of my journal entries being fundraiser shoutouts to help the pets of the same people, but after lots of trouble keeping Rojo healthy, PriestofJashin and AlexValyutin's other cat, Biba, has fallen ill! Their elderly dog passed away recently, and ever since then Biba has fallen into a depressive episode where she refuses to eat and has triaditis. Please help her recover by donating towards her vet bills if you are willing to spare anything!
I feel kinda like a broken record with a lot of my journal entries being fundraiser shoutouts to help the pets of the same people, but after lots of trouble keeping Rojo healthy,
PriestofJashin and AlexValyutin's other cat, Biba, has fallen ill! Their elderly dog passed away recently, and ever since then Biba has fallen into a depressive episode where she refuses to eat and has triaditis. Please help her recover by donating towards her vet bills if you are willing to spare anything!Reminder to tag your stuff.
Posted 4 months agoCW: References to explicit NSFW material.
Seriously. I know that me going out of my way to create a journal about this subject is a bit on the redundant side because the inconsiderate people who don't tag their submissions correctly to allow tag blocking to actually be helpful aren't going to visit my profile and read it, but I figure my old pinned journal is pretty outdated and a PSA is as good a replacement as any.
Now that tag blocking is finally a thing on FurAffinity, avoiding NSFW content that you don't want to see is definitely a lot better than it used to be, but it's still not perfect, because there are still a large quantity of people who, for whatever reason, refuse to label their uploads correctly. And I get that there's really no point preaching about it; people not properly keywording or spoilering their lewds is a tale of old as time and there's always going to be bad actors regardless of what I say, but as someone who is extremely sex repulsed, tagging your genitals correctly is just common fucking decency, and it's deplorable that in some circles I'm the one whose viewed as the problem for wanting the option to toggle genuine pornography. Nobody is entitled to want to see your hyper genitalia!
Specifically, I've seen this weird phenomenon where people will tag the absolute hell out of their submissions, but don't include anything related to the incredibly obvious hyper dick that takes up 50% of the screen??? You know, like, the entire point of tag blocking? So that you can mention that and I can filter it and not have to see it? Apparently letting your audience know that the image has vore in it, while relevant, is more important than acknowledging the incredibly explicit NSFW.
A couple of things I've noticed people doing that don't work in place of accurately tagging genitalia:
1. Labeling your content as "nudity" and thinking that abstains you from needing to add anything else. Y'all know that things can be nude without displaying any naughty bits, right? Like, 90% of ferals are completely nude. 50% of anthros aren't wearing any clothing and just have their sex organs omitted. There's literally a "null" subtype of characters who have no genitalia whatsoever but can still strip naked.
2. Labeling your content as "NSFW" and thinking that abstains you from needing to add anything else. NSFW is a hugely broad category. Just because I might want to see some NSFW content doesn't mean I want to see all NSFW content. What if I was a straight dude who wanted to see woman private parts, but not guys? If you tag your art with only "NSFW", I have the choice of seeing either all genitals or no genitals, there's no in-between. What if I had a really gross fetish that was bordering explicit in nature, and I wanted to see that but not vaginas and dicks? A lot of people consider all fetishes to be NSFW to an extent, just not explicit. What if I wanted to see the vore people have labeled as NSFW but no actual sex material?
It's genuinely not that fuckin' hard to go out of your way to add a "cock" or "dick" tag to your posts. Seriously guys.
Seriously. I know that me going out of my way to create a journal about this subject is a bit on the redundant side because the inconsiderate people who don't tag their submissions correctly to allow tag blocking to actually be helpful aren't going to visit my profile and read it, but I figure my old pinned journal is pretty outdated and a PSA is as good a replacement as any.
Now that tag blocking is finally a thing on FurAffinity, avoiding NSFW content that you don't want to see is definitely a lot better than it used to be, but it's still not perfect, because there are still a large quantity of people who, for whatever reason, refuse to label their uploads correctly. And I get that there's really no point preaching about it; people not properly keywording or spoilering their lewds is a tale of old as time and there's always going to be bad actors regardless of what I say, but as someone who is extremely sex repulsed, tagging your genitals correctly is just common fucking decency, and it's deplorable that in some circles I'm the one whose viewed as the problem for wanting the option to toggle genuine pornography. Nobody is entitled to want to see your hyper genitalia!
Specifically, I've seen this weird phenomenon where people will tag the absolute hell out of their submissions, but don't include anything related to the incredibly obvious hyper dick that takes up 50% of the screen??? You know, like, the entire point of tag blocking? So that you can mention that and I can filter it and not have to see it? Apparently letting your audience know that the image has vore in it, while relevant, is more important than acknowledging the incredibly explicit NSFW.
A couple of things I've noticed people doing that don't work in place of accurately tagging genitalia:
1. Labeling your content as "nudity" and thinking that abstains you from needing to add anything else. Y'all know that things can be nude without displaying any naughty bits, right? Like, 90% of ferals are completely nude. 50% of anthros aren't wearing any clothing and just have their sex organs omitted. There's literally a "null" subtype of characters who have no genitalia whatsoever but can still strip naked.
2. Labeling your content as "NSFW" and thinking that abstains you from needing to add anything else. NSFW is a hugely broad category. Just because I might want to see some NSFW content doesn't mean I want to see all NSFW content. What if I was a straight dude who wanted to see woman private parts, but not guys? If you tag your art with only "NSFW", I have the choice of seeing either all genitals or no genitals, there's no in-between. What if I had a really gross fetish that was bordering explicit in nature, and I wanted to see that but not vaginas and dicks? A lot of people consider all fetishes to be NSFW to an extent, just not explicit. What if I wanted to see the vore people have labeled as NSFW but no actual sex material?
It's genuinely not that fuckin' hard to go out of your way to add a "cock" or "dick" tag to your posts. Seriously guys.
Rojo needs our help again!
Posted 7 months agoWARNING for potentially triggering eye injury!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60422418/
Long time followers of my account may remember the two journal entries that I created last year spreading visibility for PriestofJashin and AlexValyutin's beloved orange (cat), Rojo, who had fallen ill with an autoimmune anemia issue and the two of them needed money to help fund his treatments. I don't know how well he's been faring with that illness admittedly, but due to a side effect from the medicine Rojo is on, now he needs our help again! He now has bullous keratopathy, and has already had surgery to correct the condition in his left eye, but now it has afflicted his right one was well, and he is scheduled to go into surgery again tomorrow. Any money that you might be able to donate towards helping him would surely be appreciated by his owners!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60422418/
Long time followers of my account may remember the two journal entries that I created last year spreading visibility for
PriestofJashin and AlexValyutin's beloved orange (cat), Rojo, who had fallen ill with an autoimmune anemia issue and the two of them needed money to help fund his treatments. I don't know how well he's been faring with that illness admittedly, but due to a side effect from the medicine Rojo is on, now he needs our help again! He now has bullous keratopathy, and has already had surgery to correct the condition in his left eye, but now it has afflicted his right one was well, and he is scheduled to go into surgery again tomorrow. Any money that you might be able to donate towards helping him would surely be appreciated by his owners!Birthday Today
Posted 10 months agoyippee
My FA Wishlist
Posted 11 months ago- An actually useful block button that filters out the artwork of artists I've blocked from search and ideally prevents me from seeing their activity OR a separate button that just censors their artwork, because some people are still good people with different tastes than me (but it doesn't make me entitled to want to see their stuff).
- A basic blacklist feature that somehow FA doesn't have to filter specific tags and/or artists (could probably fulfill the same need as what I said above, now that I think about it).
- A way to search my/other's favourites so I can actually access the ones I favourited in like 2019.
Give these things, FA, and my soul is yours. I will help you take over the world.
- A basic blacklist feature that somehow FA doesn't have to filter specific tags and/or artists (could probably fulfill the same need as what I said above, now that I think about it).
- A way to search my/other's favourites so I can actually access the ones I favourited in like 2019.
Give these things, FA, and my soul is yours. I will help you take over the world.
It shouldn't have been a hard choice, America.
Posted 12 months agoCW: Pointless political rant.
On the right, we have Donald Trump, a “businessman”/actor who is in reality actually a con artist and has declared bankruptcy 4-6 times (according to Google) which suggests an ineptitude at performing admirably as an aforementioned businessman, with zero political experience until he took office in 2016. He’s easily one of the highest candidates for being one of the most, if not the most corrupt US president of all time. He’s the only US president who is a convicted felon, and the only one whose performance in office was so awful that he was impeached not once, but twice. He is a compulsive liar, a narcissist, and the vast majority of things in his incoherent sentences are either straight up lies or comments whose only purpose is to stroke his own ego.
He refused to accept the results of the 2020 American election and was in part responsible for encouraging a violent insurrection to overthrow the US government that he still insists was peaceful to this day in spite of all the evidence against it, and this alone should disqualify him from being president in a world that actually makes fucking sense. He hoarded classified documents after being booted from being president and likely sold some to who knows where, refusing to give them back. He was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, a sex trafficker. He has multiple credile allegations of sexual assault against him, he’s gone on tape saying that he “grabs women by the pussy” and has possibly raped people on top of making creepily sexual comments towards his own children.
He has a long history of making comments that have been branded as being both racist and misogynistic, and he’s also ableist. His entire campaign is based around abusing the fear surrounding minorities and immigrants whether they be illegal or not, and when he was in office he had a documented tendency of firing people who worked with him and gave some of the closest presidential roles to his own children (nepotism). He is endorsed by dictators such as Vladimir Putin, wants to pull out of NATO, and is a denier of climate change which will allow the issue to get even more irreversibly worse while one of the globe’s largest nations turns a blind eye to it. He discredits the press and waves aside any criticism surrounding him as “fake news” no matter how much evidence is mounted against him, purporting a culture where he tells everyone to ignore their eyes and ears, painting the media as the enemy and telling everyone to put unwavering faith in him, which was a strategy employed by Hitler in his rise to power. He’s funneled funds from fucking charities to support his own selfish ends. He's mocked America's veterans and called them losers. When he was in office, he claimed that Covid-19 was a hoax and literally told people to inject disinfectants into their body to cure it, which some people actually followed and died from, not to mention the millions of people who died thanks to his underwhelming efforts to combat the virus.
He’s 78 years old, is clearly cognitively impaired, still has criminal offenses he hasn’t gone to trial for due to the election (and now he probably never will), has praised Putin’s assault on Ukraine before, said that he “wants the generals that Hitler had”, and much, much more. He makes ridiculous remarks taken straight from his ass every time he speaks and, even when not referring to Trump specifically, is the head of the Republican party, a party of which I’ve tried my absolute fucking hardest to emphasize with… but at this point it seems that most racists, nazis, misogynists, sex offenders, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, and conspiracy theorists are Republicans so it’s very hard not to just see them as a universal stain on American politics.
And more shit that I probably can’t remember.
Trump is dangerous. His rhetoric encourages discrimination against minorities and enables neo-nazi’s and white supremacists. The entire first blurb in his Wikipedia page goes into detail of how many controversies and conspiracy theories he’s taken part in. The Republican Party is also the source of Project 2025, an absolutely dystopian initiative that seeks to give the president more autonomy and absolute power in the government while forcing Christianity on the masses and stripping the freedom of women and restricting the awareness of crimes committed against minorities. How the fuck could anyone in their right mind support that, nevermind more than half the US population? It’s literally fucking fascism.
And then you have Harris on the left. A mid, female democratic candidate who probably has done some questionable shit but can’t possibly be as bad as Trump. Like I’ve literally seen at least one person call Harris/Biden the most corrupt presidential duo in American history. Which is just… how? How can you say that when Trump and all of his wrongdoings are right there?
It should be a really fucking easy choice. You shouldn't be reading the above and saying “oh yeah, Trump sounds like my guy!” It shouldn't even be close. You have the twice impeached, misogynistic and racist felon with cognitive decline vs whatever bad shit you think Kamala has done, which I don’t know what that would be, but Trump is very hard to beat on the douchebaggery scale regardless. Pretty much every other freedom abiding country in the world sees Trump as a laughing stock.
And you’re telling me that you would vote for him not once, but twice?!
I don’t fucking know anymore. Is it really my place to judge? I’m Canadian so it probably won’t affect me either way. But if there’s one thing I know? If there’s one American political party that strives to strip the rights of women, minorities, and lqbtq individuals, it definitely doesn’t seem to be the democrats. How could you side with a group of people whose aims are so positively vile?
It’s so fucking depressing that, on top of everything and everyone I love seeming that they’re dying around me, that more than half of the populace of the most powerful country in the world can’t even fucking think straight. There’s no way you can read everything I said above, vote for Trump, and think that reflects well on you as a person. It just literally fucking can’t. How can I possibly see you as a good person if you voted for him? And I have to put up with his bullshit for another four years now and suffer through it.
I’m not pretending that I’m an expert on political grounds or that all of the facts that I stated above are completely accurate, but my overall consensus still stands here.
If this ends up getting posted I’ll probably regret it and delete it later. Assuming it even gets read by anyone in the first place. I’m not usually one who likes to share my opinion on politics and buckle easily under criticism so I’ll probably just retreat back into the darkness. People probably don’t watch me to see me complain about the state of politics for a country I don’t even live in. But at the same time it’s extremely fucking difficult not to see Republicans as a universal evil that I don’t want interacting with my profile.
It would be fucking nice if FA actually had a functioning block feature so that I wouldn’t have to look at the atrocious opinions of far right nutcases that I stumble across, but alas, it seems that will never happen.
On the right, we have Donald Trump, a “businessman”/actor who is in reality actually a con artist and has declared bankruptcy 4-6 times (according to Google) which suggests an ineptitude at performing admirably as an aforementioned businessman, with zero political experience until he took office in 2016. He’s easily one of the highest candidates for being one of the most, if not the most corrupt US president of all time. He’s the only US president who is a convicted felon, and the only one whose performance in office was so awful that he was impeached not once, but twice. He is a compulsive liar, a narcissist, and the vast majority of things in his incoherent sentences are either straight up lies or comments whose only purpose is to stroke his own ego.
He refused to accept the results of the 2020 American election and was in part responsible for encouraging a violent insurrection to overthrow the US government that he still insists was peaceful to this day in spite of all the evidence against it, and this alone should disqualify him from being president in a world that actually makes fucking sense. He hoarded classified documents after being booted from being president and likely sold some to who knows where, refusing to give them back. He was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, a sex trafficker. He has multiple credile allegations of sexual assault against him, he’s gone on tape saying that he “grabs women by the pussy” and has possibly raped people on top of making creepily sexual comments towards his own children.
He has a long history of making comments that have been branded as being both racist and misogynistic, and he’s also ableist. His entire campaign is based around abusing the fear surrounding minorities and immigrants whether they be illegal or not, and when he was in office he had a documented tendency of firing people who worked with him and gave some of the closest presidential roles to his own children (nepotism). He is endorsed by dictators such as Vladimir Putin, wants to pull out of NATO, and is a denier of climate change which will allow the issue to get even more irreversibly worse while one of the globe’s largest nations turns a blind eye to it. He discredits the press and waves aside any criticism surrounding him as “fake news” no matter how much evidence is mounted against him, purporting a culture where he tells everyone to ignore their eyes and ears, painting the media as the enemy and telling everyone to put unwavering faith in him, which was a strategy employed by Hitler in his rise to power. He’s funneled funds from fucking charities to support his own selfish ends. He's mocked America's veterans and called them losers. When he was in office, he claimed that Covid-19 was a hoax and literally told people to inject disinfectants into their body to cure it, which some people actually followed and died from, not to mention the millions of people who died thanks to his underwhelming efforts to combat the virus.
He’s 78 years old, is clearly cognitively impaired, still has criminal offenses he hasn’t gone to trial for due to the election (and now he probably never will), has praised Putin’s assault on Ukraine before, said that he “wants the generals that Hitler had”, and much, much more. He makes ridiculous remarks taken straight from his ass every time he speaks and, even when not referring to Trump specifically, is the head of the Republican party, a party of which I’ve tried my absolute fucking hardest to emphasize with… but at this point it seems that most racists, nazis, misogynists, sex offenders, anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers, and conspiracy theorists are Republicans so it’s very hard not to just see them as a universal stain on American politics.
And more shit that I probably can’t remember.
Trump is dangerous. His rhetoric encourages discrimination against minorities and enables neo-nazi’s and white supremacists. The entire first blurb in his Wikipedia page goes into detail of how many controversies and conspiracy theories he’s taken part in. The Republican Party is also the source of Project 2025, an absolutely dystopian initiative that seeks to give the president more autonomy and absolute power in the government while forcing Christianity on the masses and stripping the freedom of women and restricting the awareness of crimes committed against minorities. How the fuck could anyone in their right mind support that, nevermind more than half the US population? It’s literally fucking fascism.
And then you have Harris on the left. A mid, female democratic candidate who probably has done some questionable shit but can’t possibly be as bad as Trump. Like I’ve literally seen at least one person call Harris/Biden the most corrupt presidential duo in American history. Which is just… how? How can you say that when Trump and all of his wrongdoings are right there?
It should be a really fucking easy choice. You shouldn't be reading the above and saying “oh yeah, Trump sounds like my guy!” It shouldn't even be close. You have the twice impeached, misogynistic and racist felon with cognitive decline vs whatever bad shit you think Kamala has done, which I don’t know what that would be, but Trump is very hard to beat on the douchebaggery scale regardless. Pretty much every other freedom abiding country in the world sees Trump as a laughing stock.
And you’re telling me that you would vote for him not once, but twice?!
I don’t fucking know anymore. Is it really my place to judge? I’m Canadian so it probably won’t affect me either way. But if there’s one thing I know? If there’s one American political party that strives to strip the rights of women, minorities, and lqbtq individuals, it definitely doesn’t seem to be the democrats. How could you side with a group of people whose aims are so positively vile?
It’s so fucking depressing that, on top of everything and everyone I love seeming that they’re dying around me, that more than half of the populace of the most powerful country in the world can’t even fucking think straight. There’s no way you can read everything I said above, vote for Trump, and think that reflects well on you as a person. It just literally fucking can’t. How can I possibly see you as a good person if you voted for him? And I have to put up with his bullshit for another four years now and suffer through it.
I’m not pretending that I’m an expert on political grounds or that all of the facts that I stated above are completely accurate, but my overall consensus still stands here.
If this ends up getting posted I’ll probably regret it and delete it later. Assuming it even gets read by anyone in the first place. I’m not usually one who likes to share my opinion on politics and buckle easily under criticism so I’ll probably just retreat back into the darkness. People probably don’t watch me to see me complain about the state of politics for a country I don’t even live in. But at the same time it’s extremely fucking difficult not to see Republicans as a universal evil that I don’t want interacting with my profile.
It would be fucking nice if FA actually had a functioning block feature so that I wouldn’t have to look at the atrocious opinions of far right nutcases that I stumble across, but alas, it seems that will never happen.
Friend's Cat Needs More Help!
Posted a year agohttps://www.furaffinity.net/view/58223018/
PriestofJashin requires financial support to help their cat once again! A few months ago it was discovered that poor Rojo has autoimmune anemia (thankfully not leukemia, which the vet thought he might have initially). His owners were able to keep him healthy with the last round of donations, but unfortunately, Rojo's health has taken a turn for the worse and they need money for more tests to rule out what could be wrong with him. Please help if you can!
PriestofJashin requires financial support to help their cat once again! A few months ago it was discovered that poor Rojo has autoimmune anemia (thankfully not leukemia, which the vet thought he might have initially). His owners were able to keep him healthy with the last round of donations, but unfortunately, Rojo's health has taken a turn for the worse and they need money for more tests to rule out what could be wrong with him. Please help if you can!Friend Needs Help Saving Their Cat
Posted a year agohttps://www.furaffinity.net/view/57007248/
PriestofJashin's poor sweet kitty Rojo has tested positive for anemia and feline leukemia and needs financial support in order to be saved, or at least improve his remaining quality of life. Please donate what you can to help him! I've lost multiple beloved cats in the past and it hurts to see someone else going through this :(
PriestofJashin's poor sweet kitty Rojo has tested positive for anemia and feline leukemia and needs financial support in order to be saved, or at least improve his remaining quality of life. Please donate what you can to help him! I've lost multiple beloved cats in the past and it hurts to see someone else going through this :(
Postponing Comm Purchases
Posted a year agoI suppose this is, in a way, a follow-up of the previous journal entry I submitted where I expressed some doubts about how I was spending the monthly allowance I've set aside for myself for commissions and was contemplating cutting said funds in half so that I could save more money, just in case a need for having some extra currency stashed away arose in the future. Ultimately, while internally I decided to modify the way I was using my money very slightly, not much changed, and the reasons I'm about to elaborate on below as to why I'm deciding to commit to not buying any commissions for the time being are ultimately largely unrelated to the uncertainty I was experiencing a couple of months ago. Honestly, I'm not entirely sure why I'm bothering to make a journal to announce this in the first place because the people who watch me probably don't really care if I'm actively buying artwork, and it's not like I've ever been efficient at reuploading them (although I've been trying my best to change that lately), but I figured there might be some users out there who might want to know about my thoughts on the matter.
Basically, here's the long of short of the events leading up to my eventual decision to commit to not buying any more commissions for the foreseeable future: a little over a week ago, one of my cats had a vet visit so that she could undergo some dental cleaning for her teeth that had been scheduled a couple of months prior. We were concerned that, since it had been the vet first time she had her teeth cleaned in her entire life (and she was 15 years old at the time, and just turned 16 at the beginning of April), that she might have to have some teeth extracted, but thankfully the condition of her chompers was basically flawless aside from being covered in plaque and tartar, so she didn't have to have any of them removed, much to our surprise. Unfortunately, it was discovered from some bloodwork that was taken before her cleaning was underway that she is currently in the early stages of kidney disease... which came as sort of a traumatic shock to me since we already had a cat who passed away from renal failure.
It's not really anything particularly urgent or serious. Our other cat suffered from acute kidney failure and died within a week of showing symptoms, whereas her kidney disease is the chronic kind. But just knowing that the disease itself is irreversible and it will probably eventually be what takes her, effectively making it so that my remaining time with her is limited... it's pretty mortifying. She's been with me for 16 years of my life, since I was 7 years old, so I can't imagine what I would do without her. She should still have a couple more years of quality life ahead of her with dietary changes, and we've been discussing nutrition plans extensively with our vet, so hopefully everything will end up as okay as they can be.
Now that I have an actual reason to save money, which is to say, a pet with a professionally diagnosed chronic illness, I've made the decision to cut my spending towards commissions entirely. It sucks because I have so many ideas I want drawn, but my cat will likely be visiting the vet much more frequently in the future, and I want to be able to afford any expenses that might be thrown at us. It's not like I desperately need to save money at the moment because we have a substantial vet fund set aside, but you never know how pricey pet healthcare is going to be, and who knows how long other people in the household will be fine with me leeching expenses from our joint account.
So, yeah. I guess that means there will probably be less August & Friends in the future, aside from the backlog of commissions I have stashed, of course. I suppose with this new development I should probably say that, while I probably can't pay anyone or anything, if anyone feels like drawing any of my characters for whatever reason as a gift or something, don't be as shy to ask about using my characters, because I likely can't get as much art of them by myself ^^'
TL;DR: Due to a recent discovery pertaining to the health of one of my cats at one of her latest vet appointments, I've made the unfortunate decision that it would probably best to stop purchasing artwork from artists for the foreseeable future so that I can save more money to help afford the costs of more frequent vet visits going forward.
Basically, here's the long of short of the events leading up to my eventual decision to commit to not buying any more commissions for the foreseeable future: a little over a week ago, one of my cats had a vet visit so that she could undergo some dental cleaning for her teeth that had been scheduled a couple of months prior. We were concerned that, since it had been the vet first time she had her teeth cleaned in her entire life (and she was 15 years old at the time, and just turned 16 at the beginning of April), that she might have to have some teeth extracted, but thankfully the condition of her chompers was basically flawless aside from being covered in plaque and tartar, so she didn't have to have any of them removed, much to our surprise. Unfortunately, it was discovered from some bloodwork that was taken before her cleaning was underway that she is currently in the early stages of kidney disease... which came as sort of a traumatic shock to me since we already had a cat who passed away from renal failure.
It's not really anything particularly urgent or serious. Our other cat suffered from acute kidney failure and died within a week of showing symptoms, whereas her kidney disease is the chronic kind. But just knowing that the disease itself is irreversible and it will probably eventually be what takes her, effectively making it so that my remaining time with her is limited... it's pretty mortifying. She's been with me for 16 years of my life, since I was 7 years old, so I can't imagine what I would do without her. She should still have a couple more years of quality life ahead of her with dietary changes, and we've been discussing nutrition plans extensively with our vet, so hopefully everything will end up as okay as they can be.
Now that I have an actual reason to save money, which is to say, a pet with a professionally diagnosed chronic illness, I've made the decision to cut my spending towards commissions entirely. It sucks because I have so many ideas I want drawn, but my cat will likely be visiting the vet much more frequently in the future, and I want to be able to afford any expenses that might be thrown at us. It's not like I desperately need to save money at the moment because we have a substantial vet fund set aside, but you never know how pricey pet healthcare is going to be, and who knows how long other people in the household will be fine with me leeching expenses from our joint account.
So, yeah. I guess that means there will probably be less August & Friends in the future, aside from the backlog of commissions I have stashed, of course. I suppose with this new development I should probably say that, while I probably can't pay anyone or anything, if anyone feels like drawing any of my characters for whatever reason as a gift or something, don't be as shy to ask about using my characters, because I likely can't get as much art of them by myself ^^'
TL;DR: Due to a recent discovery pertaining to the health of one of my cats at one of her latest vet appointments, I've made the unfortunate decision that it would probably best to stop purchasing artwork from artists for the foreseeable future so that I can save more money to help afford the costs of more frequent vet visits going forward.
Unsure How to Go About Commissioning Artists Going Forwar...
Posted 2 years agoContent Warning: Sexual attraction, past depressive thoughts
TL;DR I've been very recently undergoing some personal self reflection regarding how I manage my money and time, brought on by a probably temporary feeling of self-loathing, and am unsure how I should be approaching commissioning others in the future. I'm contemplating the possibility that I should cease purchasing artwork all together.
Sooo in all honesty I don't really expect anyone to actually read this, hence the brief summary of what I'm about to type up above, if only because it's bound to be a text wall that nobody is going to want to waste the energy sifting through due to my inability to write anything succinct. I've managed to accrue quite a large amount of watchers from my time being active here and reuploading the artwork that I've commissioned, and while I'm thankful for that, I know that the majority of them are likely on!y following my account for the kink related content that I post and can't be bothered to be invested in my personal drama. And that's not something I take offense to, it's just the way things are when the method used to obtain said followers is via vore imagery. However, I figured I would compose a journal about this instead of/in addition to consulting my closer friends about the subject, as the issue at hand is ultimately related to the future of the artwork I purchase and I figured my watchers might want to either know about my thoughts regarding the matter or provide feedback on them.
Not really sure where to start with this, or how much I should confide about it in the interest of not revealing too much about my personal life that nobody cares about, buuut here goes...
I've struggled with my affliction as a vorarephile for the majority of my life. My inexplicable interest in vore, which I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out the origin for to largely no avail, has been the subject of a lot of personal grief due to how bizarre it is, and I've spent of lot of my years attempting to reject any kind of connection to it. This of course has never been alleviated by society's general opinion that vorarephiles and people with other paraphilia are freaks, and really, why wouldn't they think so? I can't find any genuine explanation for why I'm into this than they can. But it's lead to a lot of depressive and suicidal mentalities throughout my life. It's only in the last couple if years that I've grown more comfortable in my identity as a vorarephile, and for the most part this has been a resounding positive for my mental health, because I haven't been rejecting something that will likely always be part of me. And part of that acceptance has been in part by participating in the community by buying artwork and doing things like roleplaying.
But even now, I can't really stop myself from thinking... is this what I want for myself, really? I'm happy with myself, but in my childhood, could I really have predicted that so much of my time and money would be going towards purchasing what's basically porn for myself, and would that version of me be proud at all with what I'm doing with my life? Probably not. Again, I probably shouldn't care what my past self would think because they hated themselves even more than I do right now, but I the thought does sort of just make me ponder whether I should be dedicating my resources towards something that isn't so... incognito. I know, just something more productive.
Moreso than how I personally feel about how questionable it is to spend so much money on this type of stuff from a fulfillment standpoint, I've been sort of thinking about how I use my finances themselves, and how I should be maybe doing things differently. Like, don't get me wrong, I'm not short on money or anything, and I'd arguably say that I'm pretty financially stable. I don't live in a household by myself, so only a certain amount of my money received goes towards paying for household expenses, and I'm still left with a decent amount that I can spend on whatever I want with. But the thing is that a lot of that monthly allowance is sometimes being used on commissions (not always, but sometimes, and the amount I spend is never consistent), and the more I end up spending on commissions, the less I'm free to use that on other stuff that isn't secret to everyone else around me. People around me sometimes probably wonder where the money goes and, in the interest of keeping my interests private, I can't really provide them with an answer.
It doesn't happen every month, but there's been a couple of times where the combined expenses of commissions plus whatever other money I spend (i.e. fast food) leaves me with no finances remaining for a given thirty day period, and it makes me wonder, should that even be happening? And if it does still happen, would it make me feel better knowing that the money was spent in something more worthwhile instead?
My largest issue that's occurred to me recently is that I'm not really saving any money. Like, okay, I am saving a bit if money, but the amount is always different each month and the quantity saved is basically just what I didn't end up spending at the end of the month. So sometimes I'll save no money, sometimes I'll save 40$, sometimes I'll save 80$, whatever. Either way, my backup funds never really end up increasing. And don't get me wrong, they don't really need to rise right now. I'm pretty much in a living situation where most super huge expenses are paid by other people, so there's no much of a requirement to hoard wealth. But like, what if there was...? What if, god forbid something awful happened, and I needed more money, but I hadn't been saving enough of it?
Which makes me think that I should probably be committing some of my money to savings regardless of how much a spend. A consistent amount at the start of each month, I guess. But the thing is that if I stockpiled the amount I think would be financially healthy, I wouldn't be able to afford a lot of the commissions that I purchase right now. And as much as I acknowledge that, in order for my finances to be more reliable in the future, I should probably omit commissioning others, I've grown very accustomed to doing so and am very fond of the characters and scenarios I've shared with everyone. Ultimately, what sucks about this the most is that at some point, even if I commit to the decision to save more money, I'm bound to change my mind in the future because... well, because of arousal, I guess. I keep avoiding mentioning it explicitly but there's really no sugarcoating it. At some point I might go back on my decision simply because I'm vorny and the temptation to commission whatever takes my fancy overrides my better judgement, just like whenever I try to roleplay with people and discover I don't have the time for it (such is partially what inspired this journal entry to begin with). And that is really frustrating, I hate my ability to make sound decisions being disrupted by this garbage natural attraction.
Another thing making me uncertain about the process of commissioning artists is time. Everyone who knows me knows that I'm awful at time management, and really, with how bad I am at it, can I really make space for commissioning people when that time should be being used to do more important activities? Granted, I doubt I'd be able to do everything I wanted to even if I eliminated commissions from the mix, but really, that just highlights even more how dire my time management talents are. I sleep all day. I take forever to do anything. Should that ineptitude be further impacted because I feel the need to buy vore kink illustrations?
Believe it or not, I don't have myself a high school education, and I should really, really focus on that and sacrifice some things that make me happy. But, I don't know...
Whatever, thanks for reading my journal and my cringe thoughts. It'll probably become irrelevant a couple of days from now.
TL;DR I've been very recently undergoing some personal self reflection regarding how I manage my money and time, brought on by a probably temporary feeling of self-loathing, and am unsure how I should be approaching commissioning others in the future. I'm contemplating the possibility that I should cease purchasing artwork all together.
Sooo in all honesty I don't really expect anyone to actually read this, hence the brief summary of what I'm about to type up above, if only because it's bound to be a text wall that nobody is going to want to waste the energy sifting through due to my inability to write anything succinct. I've managed to accrue quite a large amount of watchers from my time being active here and reuploading the artwork that I've commissioned, and while I'm thankful for that, I know that the majority of them are likely on!y following my account for the kink related content that I post and can't be bothered to be invested in my personal drama. And that's not something I take offense to, it's just the way things are when the method used to obtain said followers is via vore imagery. However, I figured I would compose a journal about this instead of/in addition to consulting my closer friends about the subject, as the issue at hand is ultimately related to the future of the artwork I purchase and I figured my watchers might want to either know about my thoughts regarding the matter or provide feedback on them.
Not really sure where to start with this, or how much I should confide about it in the interest of not revealing too much about my personal life that nobody cares about, buuut here goes...
I've struggled with my affliction as a vorarephile for the majority of my life. My inexplicable interest in vore, which I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out the origin for to largely no avail, has been the subject of a lot of personal grief due to how bizarre it is, and I've spent of lot of my years attempting to reject any kind of connection to it. This of course has never been alleviated by society's general opinion that vorarephiles and people with other paraphilia are freaks, and really, why wouldn't they think so? I can't find any genuine explanation for why I'm into this than they can. But it's lead to a lot of depressive and suicidal mentalities throughout my life. It's only in the last couple if years that I've grown more comfortable in my identity as a vorarephile, and for the most part this has been a resounding positive for my mental health, because I haven't been rejecting something that will likely always be part of me. And part of that acceptance has been in part by participating in the community by buying artwork and doing things like roleplaying.
But even now, I can't really stop myself from thinking... is this what I want for myself, really? I'm happy with myself, but in my childhood, could I really have predicted that so much of my time and money would be going towards purchasing what's basically porn for myself, and would that version of me be proud at all with what I'm doing with my life? Probably not. Again, I probably shouldn't care what my past self would think because they hated themselves even more than I do right now, but I the thought does sort of just make me ponder whether I should be dedicating my resources towards something that isn't so... incognito. I know, just something more productive.
Moreso than how I personally feel about how questionable it is to spend so much money on this type of stuff from a fulfillment standpoint, I've been sort of thinking about how I use my finances themselves, and how I should be maybe doing things differently. Like, don't get me wrong, I'm not short on money or anything, and I'd arguably say that I'm pretty financially stable. I don't live in a household by myself, so only a certain amount of my money received goes towards paying for household expenses, and I'm still left with a decent amount that I can spend on whatever I want with. But the thing is that a lot of that monthly allowance is sometimes being used on commissions (not always, but sometimes, and the amount I spend is never consistent), and the more I end up spending on commissions, the less I'm free to use that on other stuff that isn't secret to everyone else around me. People around me sometimes probably wonder where the money goes and, in the interest of keeping my interests private, I can't really provide them with an answer.
It doesn't happen every month, but there's been a couple of times where the combined expenses of commissions plus whatever other money I spend (i.e. fast food) leaves me with no finances remaining for a given thirty day period, and it makes me wonder, should that even be happening? And if it does still happen, would it make me feel better knowing that the money was spent in something more worthwhile instead?
My largest issue that's occurred to me recently is that I'm not really saving any money. Like, okay, I am saving a bit if money, but the amount is always different each month and the quantity saved is basically just what I didn't end up spending at the end of the month. So sometimes I'll save no money, sometimes I'll save 40$, sometimes I'll save 80$, whatever. Either way, my backup funds never really end up increasing. And don't get me wrong, they don't really need to rise right now. I'm pretty much in a living situation where most super huge expenses are paid by other people, so there's no much of a requirement to hoard wealth. But like, what if there was...? What if, god forbid something awful happened, and I needed more money, but I hadn't been saving enough of it?
Which makes me think that I should probably be committing some of my money to savings regardless of how much a spend. A consistent amount at the start of each month, I guess. But the thing is that if I stockpiled the amount I think would be financially healthy, I wouldn't be able to afford a lot of the commissions that I purchase right now. And as much as I acknowledge that, in order for my finances to be more reliable in the future, I should probably omit commissioning others, I've grown very accustomed to doing so and am very fond of the characters and scenarios I've shared with everyone. Ultimately, what sucks about this the most is that at some point, even if I commit to the decision to save more money, I'm bound to change my mind in the future because... well, because of arousal, I guess. I keep avoiding mentioning it explicitly but there's really no sugarcoating it. At some point I might go back on my decision simply because I'm vorny and the temptation to commission whatever takes my fancy overrides my better judgement, just like whenever I try to roleplay with people and discover I don't have the time for it (such is partially what inspired this journal entry to begin with). And that is really frustrating, I hate my ability to make sound decisions being disrupted by this garbage natural attraction.
Another thing making me uncertain about the process of commissioning artists is time. Everyone who knows me knows that I'm awful at time management, and really, with how bad I am at it, can I really make space for commissioning people when that time should be being used to do more important activities? Granted, I doubt I'd be able to do everything I wanted to even if I eliminated commissions from the mix, but really, that just highlights even more how dire my time management talents are. I sleep all day. I take forever to do anything. Should that ineptitude be further impacted because I feel the need to buy vore kink illustrations?
Believe it or not, I don't have myself a high school education, and I should really, really focus on that and sacrifice some things that make me happy. But, I don't know...
Whatever, thanks for reading my journal and my cringe thoughts. It'll probably become irrelevant a couple of days from now.
dear furaffinity
Posted 2 years agoplease implement a proper blacklist/block feature
idk, something that would provide the ability to filter specific artwork, ideally without having to block the user posting it entirely
do this, and you can implement whatever controversial changes you want
thanks
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idk, something that would provide the ability to filter specific artwork, ideally without having to block the user posting it entirely
do this, and you can implement whatever controversial changes you want
thanks
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Potentially Seeking Writing Suggestions
Posted 3 years agoAlright, so I'm not incredibly confident that I would even be able to follow through with this at all given my tendency to procrastinate combined with all the other responsibilities I need to fulfill that would likely have a higher priority, but I figured I would just type this up regardless and see what happens. If anything else, I'll at least finally have a journal entry that people can look at on my profile page! Huzzah! Granted, I can't say that I expect anyone to even respond to this at all given how reasonably obscure I am within FurAffinity's community, but still.
As some of you may be aware, likely only because you may have read it in my biography unless you've been friends with me for a while, I consider myself a writer and occasionally write things from time to time... even if I don't have any examples in my gallery to show for it. However, I'm nowhere near confident enough to open for written commissions, and couldn't possibly rationalize receiving money from people for a writing style that I consider to be cluttered and inadequate. I've contemplated the possibility in the past, and that's my stance on it. However, sometimes it's difficult to decide what exactly to write about when it comes to personal submissions, even when I have a plethora of scenarios to choose from... which is why it might be easier to consult the community and see what they're looking for.
And thus, that's the purpose for this journal: suggestions! You can leave your ideas here, whether they be broad concepts or something more specific, and I might write about it. Maybe. Honestly, I wouldn't get your hopes up? I still have a ton of commissions to reupload, some of which I'm planning on pairing with short stories themselves, so this is moreso a potential idea for the future when I don't have anything else to do.
Please note that these are not requests. I'm not going to just write about anything, so the ideas should keep my own preferences in mind, and will probably contain elements relevant to them if I choose to actually pursue a specific idea. If you have a certain predator/prey pairing (assuming it's vore related, anyway) that you like, or even just a concept focusing around a certain, singular creature, feel free to list it here... just make sure it's something I might appreciate as well!
I look forward to reading ideas, if anyone has any!
As some of you may be aware, likely only because you may have read it in my biography unless you've been friends with me for a while, I consider myself a writer and occasionally write things from time to time... even if I don't have any examples in my gallery to show for it. However, I'm nowhere near confident enough to open for written commissions, and couldn't possibly rationalize receiving money from people for a writing style that I consider to be cluttered and inadequate. I've contemplated the possibility in the past, and that's my stance on it. However, sometimes it's difficult to decide what exactly to write about when it comes to personal submissions, even when I have a plethora of scenarios to choose from... which is why it might be easier to consult the community and see what they're looking for.
And thus, that's the purpose for this journal: suggestions! You can leave your ideas here, whether they be broad concepts or something more specific, and I might write about it. Maybe. Honestly, I wouldn't get your hopes up? I still have a ton of commissions to reupload, some of which I'm planning on pairing with short stories themselves, so this is moreso a potential idea for the future when I don't have anything else to do.
Please note that these are not requests. I'm not going to just write about anything, so the ideas should keep my own preferences in mind, and will probably contain elements relevant to them if I choose to actually pursue a specific idea. If you have a certain predator/prey pairing (assuming it's vore related, anyway) that you like, or even just a concept focusing around a certain, singular creature, feel free to list it here... just make sure it's something I might appreciate as well!
I look forward to reading ideas, if anyone has any!
