First time checking FA in two months, and... everything's the same as before. Well, I guess I was all worried over nothing, then, at least with regards to FA.

But now I'm left in an awkward position. I'd pretty much come to terms with the idea that posting NSFW art online would no longer be viable without connecting my IRL identity to whatever I posted it on, so I fully intended to just abandon this account, focus exclusively on my outside work, and keep any future NSFW drawings to myself. I mostly just checked the site to confirm my assumptions. But if everything's the same here after all, then, well I don't know what to do.

I'd already shifted to looking at the positives of having to abandon this place, such as the fact I'd no longer have to maintain a separate online presence, I wouldn't have to pick one or the other when it comes to new character/creature concepts since they'd all just go in my outside projects regardless (with the fetish aspects toned down, of course), and that if I kept my NSFW art going forward to drawings of outside OCs then it'd also serve as practice for drawing said characters. But most of all, the fact I'd no longer have to deal with the recurring question of whether I wanted to continue this online presence or not. It absolutely is a good thing that my hand isn't forced in that regard, but I'm really bad at committing to decisions so now I'm back to endlessly wondering if it's in my best interest to keep this stuff private or continue posting it here in the future. Right now, of course, the answer is "I really don't know."

On the bright side, the idea that NSFW art would be basically inaccessible to me unless I already had it saved or drew it myself really, really sucked. It's good to know I can keep following so many artists who draw really nice stuff over here, and even if I do stop posting art, or even abandon this identity entirely and delete this account someday, I'll make sure to maintain at least a passive presence on FA so I don't miss anything.

Not the kind of thing I'd normally talk about here, but it's relevant so I'm just gonna go ahead and say words, mostly with regards to how it'll affect my stuff, but I guess if you're a fellow Brit who hasn't heard about this then it's probably relevant to you too.

For any unaware folks, a few years ago the UK government passed a bill called the Online Safety Act, which from my understanding is a lot like all those laws various governments have tried (or succeeded) to implement over the years that bring in a load of surveillance, censorship, etc. in the name of protecting kids. I'm not gonna go on a rant about the bill itself, from what I've seen there are plenty of articles out there from the past few years about the details, and the purpose of this journal isn't to lay out my opinions on it. However, there is one part in particular that's relevant here: the part where certain kinds of websites are required to set up ID-based age verification systems for UK-based users to access adult content.

I'm unsure whether FA falls under the criteria that'd require it to implement all that stuff, but if it does, it'll most likely be in place by the 25th, since that's the deadline set out by the law. I suppose I'll have to wait and see how exactly that implementation works, but like I'm sure many people would feel in this situation, I'm not particularly enthusiastic about the idea of tying my IRL identity to the wacky art and such that I post here. I'm also not the type to bother with VPNs, and unless things get really bad I doubt that'll change anytime soon. Which means, depending on how things work (assuming this does affect FA) and to what extent this'd actually tie my personal information to the things I do under this handle, there's a decent chance I decide it just isn't worth the hassle and disappear from here indefinitely. Oh, and while I doubt this part would apply to a site as big as FA, some sites will probably just block UK-based IPs entirely to save the effort, so that's also a possibility. Now I'm thinking about the fact I'd have to go through my 7000+ submission notifications before the deadline, oh what a chore that'll be...

In summary, there's a fair chance I'll stop using FA (and probably the contact accounts I've set up elsewhere too) starting from the 25th. If that ends up not being the case, whether it be that FA isn't subject to the act, or the age verification is implemented in such a way that I'd rather go through it than effectively forever abandon this fragment of my online life, then I'll post a journal update sometime after the 25th just to confirm I'll stick around in some form (heh).

Managed to go two whole months without checking this place a single time, partly because I was distracted by personal things, and partly I just didn't really feel the mood for this stuff. Just finished going through over 1000 notifications from that period, and I figured I'd just say hi.
In that time I also got a new PC, and I've yet to install telegram, so if anyone messaged and got no response, that's why. Similar case with the discord, after the first week or so I fell out of the habit of checking, and I don't really feel the sense of longing for community that led me to make it in the first place, so I don't know what to do with it, really.

It would be cool to couple this with some sort of "I've got some cool stuff coming up!", or at least some indication of my long-term plans, but my feelings over the past few years have been too inconsistent to commit to anything, and right at this moment my priority is on other things. I really just felt like saying hi, because it's been a while.

Just so this isn't a total nothing-journal, feel free to leave me questions, prompts, or just general comments, and I'll respond whenever I next happen to check this site. I doubt it'll be nearly as long as the gap since the last time I did, and I imagine I'll be more in the mood than I am right now.
Just keep it on topic to the kind of stuff I do here and avoid any overly personal questions. And since I don't think I've said it before, I'm totally fine with whatever kind of comments, etc. towards either of my sonas, as long as they're not actively malicious in a not-kinky way.

Anyhow, I'll end it here, and maybe next time I'll have something more substantial to say. If you actually read through this journal (I barely ever check those of people I follow, so I don't blame you if you didn't), have a good day.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I have some sketches laying around, mostly from a year or two ago, and I was considering posting those sometime, in groups as with the previous time I did this a few years back. Maybe I'll do that if there's interest, and I figure by adding this to the journal it'll serve as a reminder for me next time I'm around.

First of all, thanks for the follows. I had noticed a slow trickle of follows during my period of inactivity, but while I do appreciate those, it's nice to hit the next big milestone while I'm actively doing stuff here. That's right, I hit... 249, which is still fine, it just makes this first paragraph look a bit silly. Alas, my follow count dropped by one in the hours since I first typed this journal out, but regardless, my feelings still stand. I suppose it's not a particularly big number for an artist who's been uploading for years at this point, but it's the most interest in my work I've managed to build up in any space, and it feels good knowing I made it here without compromising on my personal preferences, even if they can be pretty niche at times.

Secondly, and the last thing I wanted to get to before I start rambling away, lately I've been feeling like it'd be nice to chat more about TF and related subjects. I do have my telegram chat for that, but that's focused around my own work, whereas I think what I want most is a more general place to chat about it, and to get to know fellow TF artists a bit more. So, I've made a discord alt specifically for this kind of thing. I probably won't make my own server (though as I type that it feels like it could be a good starting point), but maybe you'll see me around in other artists' servers in the future, or more general TF-themed servers if they exist. I doubt I'll be super active, since I already spend a lot of time on my main discord account, but I look forward to having more places to chat when I'm in the mood. As you'd probably expect, my handle there is rezi_lin.


Now, to address the elephant in the room. (Have I really not drawn an elephant TF before? I should get on that...) Over the past 18 months or so I've gone through a lot of introspection, and it's been a bit of a rollercoaster at times. One thing that came to mind on a fair few occasions, both as I re-evaluated my views and feelings, and as I made efforts to make progress with outside projects, was what I wanted to do regarding my presence here. There were times where I felt like I'd figured myself out, that actually I had much more vanilla tastes after all and all this TF fascination was just a product of repressing my identity. There were times where I thought about my past and wondered, given how much I've changed over the past decade or so, if there was anything wrong with some of the things I draw or fantasise about. There were times where I felt like this was it, it was time for me to fully devote myself to my outside work, and I couldn't allow a continued presence here to risk affecting said work. All in all, my prevailing feelings, especially for the first half of 2024, were that maybe I should give up on this, stop uploading new art, maybe even scrub my presence as Rezi from the internet entirely.

Fortunately for you guys, my eventual realisation was that no, this is part of who I am, and it's not going away, and if I try to suppress it, I'll only end up causing problems for myself. I enjoy drawing this stuff too much to give up on it entirely, and it provides valuable practice for my outside art, too. Sure, I could just keep it to myself, but I've spent too much time hesitating when it comes to interacting with the furry fandom. Hell, I'm almost 30, and I've never been to a furry con, despite it having always been something I've wanted to do sometime. When dwelling on my identity, a prevailing thought was that I should just be myself without worrying about being judged or treated differently for who I am, and why should this be different? Sure, I'm still keeping it strictly separate from my outside work and personal life, and keeping it to spaces where this kind of thing is appropriate, but putting an end to it entirely doesn't seem worth any potential benefit. Having this space is probably for the best, as making this account, talking to people from here, and having dedicated separate spaces to talk NSFW, have all helped me to keep that part of me out of spaces where it's less appropriate. Back in the day, I had a serious issue with keeping NSFW topics to NSFW spaces, because I spent a lot of time, especially in my late teens, in spaces where there was no real boundary. Ever since I started doing this stuff separately as Rezi, I've gradually solved that issue, and part of me worries that if I no longer had a space for NSFW it might start to come back.

All in all, the main purpose of my presence as Rezi is to express this side of me, to let out my personal fantasies rather than keeping them bottled up and risking them seeping into my personal or professional life, to explore themes too sexual or fetish-fuelled for my outside work, and to get to know likeminded folks and make friends within the fandom. In an ideal world I could split myself in two, have one do this stuff while the other focuses on outside work, but unless that somehow becomes possible (which would be a dream come true, if you can't tell by my having multiple 'sonas), I just have to compromise. Also, in the event I for some reason give up on my outside work, or find myself in a precarious financial situation, this is the only real backup plan I have, and it'd be risky to throw that away.

Now when it comes to other spaces and such, I probably will keep my more public presence to FA. Having a single space for this stuff makes it easier to manage, especially in the event I eventually decide it is too big a risk to maintain this presence after all. I doubt spreading things out would work out anyway, as I've learned from attempting a similar thing with my outside work. I also just generally enjoy the vibe here, from my experience it's been pretty relaxed and I've never had to deal with troublesome folks. I could never put my art on a place like e621, as just the thought of seeing a piece I'm proud of get a negative rating is too anxiety-inducing for me. As for the alternatives closer to FA in nature, I guess my issue is either they don't seem active enough to be worth the effort, or they're more general art spaces where the risk of my work leaving its target audience is too high, and I don't like exposing fetish stuff to people uninterested in it. If FA ever goes down I'll probably start over on whatever website seems like the best replacement, but until that day, I'll just stick to here.

So apparently some stuff happened on this site while I was away for the weekend.

Fortunately for me, the kind of stuff I've drawn so far is pretty far off from the kind of things that might get caught up in the upcoming rule changes. That said, there are one or two ideas I planned to draw in the future that I'll have to drop, at least until enough time's passed for it to be clear what is and isn't ok.
Just to be extra safe I've gone back and removed a few uploads that could potentially run afoul of the rule (whether the existing version or the upcoming changes). They're all old and/or not very well-drawn so I doubt they'll be particularly missed.
Maybe at some point I'll even go back and draw some new stuff based on the few I've removed that is definitely fine with the rules - I've been considering redrawing/updating some of my older stuff anyway.

While I'm on the topic of my own stuff, I'll just say this since I've not stated it before: Please don't upload my art elsewhere (as in, on other art/gallery websites or whatever) without my explicit permission. If there's enough demand in regards to a particular website maybe I'll stick it there myself. Fortunately this has yet to be an issue as far as I'm aware, but I just wanted to make that clear given that it feels relevant to the topic.
The reason for this is just that I want to be in control of where my stuff is and isn't, and what stuff goes where. Partially because I'm self-conscious about the quality of my art and don't want to further spread stuff that doesn't meet my own standards, but also just in case I ever, for any reason, need to purge my online presence in regards to this stuff entirely.
I am giving thought again to the idea of also posting my stuff elsewhere, most likely either on Weasyl as stated before, or Itaku since that seems to be picking up steam lately. That said, I'm lazy, as is probably obvious by now, so maybe I'll never get around to that.

Anyhow, I've gotten a bit sidetracked. Back to the topic at hand.
If I'm being honest, it's difficult for me to really have a strong, defined opinion on the changes in question.
I've been re-evaluating my views a lot over the past few years, and at this point I've kinda accepted I'll never know all the right answers to these things. I was exposed to a lot of wacky NSFW stuff from a relatively young age, during a time where much less thought was given online as to what is or isn't okay, and it's been a long, slow process for me to give these things deeper thought and figure out where I stand. It certainly doesn't help that I have friends on both sides of the aisle when it comes to this kind of thing.
There are definitely going to be quite a few cases where totally fine stuff gets caught in the crossfire, and that sucks, especially for those who have a lot of stuff at-risk, whose livelihood depends on comms on this website, etc. I understand it's easy for me to not have a strong opinion since I'm unlikely to be personally affected, but that doesn't mean I don't care.
But, I don't know what the best solution is, whether there are big enough issues with the existing rules for it to be justified, whether it should be walked back on entirely, or somewhere inbetween. Maybe they'll make things more strictly defined so as to not catch too many innocent folks out, maybe things will turn out to not be as bad (or worse, I won't discount the possibility) than they seem. I'll leave that discussion up to other folks who have more well-defined opinions on this than me.
That was a lot of words for me to just say "I dunno," but I felt like since I'm bringing up the topic in the first place I should at least mention my stance on it (or I guess lack of stance.)

Last thoughts on this, it sucks knowing there'll probably be at least a few folks I follow, or who follow me, who will end up getting caught in all this, or who feel forced to leave the site.
Even if I don't actually start actively posting my art elsewhere, I'll probably set up an account on one or two other websites just to follow anyone who does either leave or get booted from here.

I considered disabling comments because to be honest I'm not interested in discussing views on the rule changes themselves - I've seen more than enough of that already, and I only mentioned my own viewpoint because I felt it'd be weird not to. That said, I'll leave them open since there are other things that might warrant a comment.

Hey people, I just felt like giving a general update because a few things are on my mind. I guess first thing's first, given the date I'm posting this, happy Christmas or whatever other holiday around this time of year you happen to celebrate. Anyhow,

First I just wanted to give an update on the whole 'second website' thing. I've considered the options out there since posting the previous journal, including those suggested to me by others, and after weighing them up in regards to my main priorities (gallery-oriented rather than booru, decent-size userbase, and primarily furry content-oriented being the main three) I decided I'll make a Weasyl account to stick stuff on. As I mentioned before, it'll probably be a more curated subset of my work here (and may feature remakes of some of my older faves from my gallery, though I'll probably put them here too). And just to be clear, I actually made this decision over a month ago, it's just been a matter of me getting off my ass and actually going through with it, and I still don't feel like I can guarantee that'll happen quite yet, but I just wanted to give an update on the previous journal.

Second, I figure I may as well say that I do intend to draw and upload at least one new drawing within the next week or two, most likely a belated Christmas-themed drawing, and something involving Venusaur-Rez. I've wanted to draw more of 'em multiple times since said previous upload, I've just either not been able to settle on an idea or prioritised outside work. I think I have a solid idea in mind now, though, and hopefully it'll be something you people like.

Third, I've always relented from using discord for my work here, even though I much prefer it over telegram, just because I always felt uncomfortable with the idea of having multiple accounts on the same thing, in case I do something on the wrong account, but with discord adding a 'switch account' button earlier this year, I've begun to give it some thought. As with Weasyl this is probably going to end up being one of these things where I intend to do it for months but take ages to get around to actually doing it. And I don't know whether I'd make a discord server of my own or just lurk in any other TF-themed discord servers out there. Either way, I'll still be more responsive on telegram since it's something I always have open, but once I set that up it'll be another point of communication for those who don't use telegram (or just don't use it for furry stuff).
For the time being, the telegram server exists (link in bio, 18+ ONLY), and even if I make a discord account and server for this stuff, I'll keep the telegram server around unless it just dies completely at some point.

Fourth and final thing the recent update is cool, I do want to get a profile banner sorted out, but I guess that's not like a super interesting thing worthy of being the main focus of the post. Oh and I guess posts will be higher-res now unless I just completely forget about the increased filesize limits.

tl;dr There isn't really anything concrete being announced here, just rambling thoughts on a few things I've had over the past two months of mostly-inactivity.

The events of last week got me thinking about the idea of having an account on a second website in case for any reason I decide to stay away from FA for some time or ditch it entirely at some point in the future.
While I have no intent of leaving at this time, I do still want to set up a secondary account elsewhere, for a few reasons.

The two obvious reasons I guess are to reach audiences who might be interested in my work but don't use FA, and as mentioned above, in case a situation arises where I'm unable to (or don't want to) use FA.
But also, I want somewhere where I can keep a more curated gallery of my stuff. I have several pieces that don't meet my standards, or that for other personal reasons I'd rather not have spread around too much. I've considered deleting them in the past, but I know there are people out there who like them, so I don't want to take that away from them. I'm kinda losing track of where my train of thought's headed with this, but basically the idea is, FA is my unfiltered place to post all my stuff, if I upload elsewhere it'll be more curated towards work I actually like and am proud of.

Anyhow, to get to the point of the journal - I've only ever really used FA, so I only have a very vague knowledge of what other furry art websites are out there. I'm interested to hear what other websites people would recommend I stick my work on, preferably with some explanation as to why.
Ideally websites along similar general lines as FA; I have no issue with booru type websites like e621 but they're just not what I have in mind with this.
Also don't say twitter, I won't make one for the stuff I do here. I already have one for my outside stuff and I get very paranoid about posting things on the wrong account if I have multiple on the same website. I also generally just don't feel comfortable uploading nsfw/fetish art on a website that isn't meant for that sort of thing.

I've also been thinking, if I do make an account on another website I might go back and redraw a few of my older pieces, specifically ones where I really like the content of the piece, but the quality of the art itself isn't really up to my current standards. No promises though, as you might have noticed by now I'm far too fickle when it comes to art mood to ever stick to a promise of upcoming art.

So I know I'm a bit late on this but 200 followers? Very cool and nice.
I did see it on the day I reached 200, but I didn't want to post a journal that was just mentioning that without anything else. Which leads to the other thing...

I've been wanting to draw stuff for here for a few weeks, but I just can't settle on an idea, so I figured I may as well ask around.
Specifically I feel like drawing more Anne-Marie stuff. Probably NSFW and I'm leaning towards a solo piece but I'll also consider suggestions involving her with others.
If it's a TF suggestion I will take some liberties with it - Anne-Marie likes to mess around with her customers, after all.

Alternatively there's a few ideas I've had in my head but can't settle on - if people are more interested in those I might draw one of them instead. To be clear, both of those will involve NSFW content.
-Anne-Marie running a homemade milkshake stand.
-Anne-Marie taking a nap.

I can't make any guarantees but I do intend to get at least one drawing done, whether it be a suggestion or one of the above. Maybe more than one, who knows?

Update: I've made my choice and the person has been contacted. But I also, kinda... had to give up on the particular drawing I had in mind, turns out it was way harder than I expected, so after several hours of working on drafts I decided it best to cut my losses. I'm still drawing a TF for the chosen person, it's just a different one (they already okayed the new TF). Just wanted to give full clarification as to why there'll be a suspicious lack of tanuki TF coming up.

Working on a TF piece and I'm looking for somebody who wants to volunteer to be a part of it. Tanuki-related TF, accepting both human and nonhuman volunteers. It's an anthro TF and the basics are already set in stone, but specifics of your character's part of the TF will be up to your preferences.

After x amount of time (maybe a few hours, maybe a day or two, depends how many replies there are) I'll pick one person from this journal's replies, message them the details, and we'll work from there.

If you're interested, reply with the following two pieces of information:
Whether you're volunteering with yourself, your 'sona, or one of your OCs
Whether you'd prefer for me to contact you via FA note or Telegram

This should go without saying but please no tanuki characters, just because tanuki-to-tanuki TF wouldn't be interesting.

While I'm at it I may as well also shill my telegram group chat, we currently have 4 members and I occasionally post WIPs and take suggestions there: https://t.me/joinchat/pSEw0XywvA8wMDY0

Edit: Forgot to mention, ONLY 18+ ALLOWED, that goes for both volunteers and the telegram group chat.

Okay so I figured that maybe rather than asking around I should just make a telegram chat and post a link, and if anyone wants to they can drop by.

My intent is for it to primarily be a place to discuss TF-related topics, I guess we'll see how things pan out over time.
Maybe I'll occasionally post sketches, ask around for drawing ideas/requests, etc., we'll see.

Use common sense - don't be a dick or I'll remove you, hopefully though things won't get to a point where I have to actually write up rules.
Oh and 18+ ONLY, please, as topics will likely be NSFW.

Uh I can't think of anything else to write, link here:
https://t.me/joinchat/pSEw0XywvA8wMDY0

First thing's first, it's come to my attention that this account reached 100 watchers while I was off doing other things. Thanks for the support, everyone. It means a lot to me.

As you might have noticed, I've been kinda busy over the past few months, so I haven't found the time for any full drawings. However, what I do have is some sketches of ideas and concepts I've come up with over that period. So I think what I'll do for now is upload those in groups (and by 'now' I mean in an hour or two from when I post this journal). I should be less busy over the latter half of the month, so hopefully I'll have time to turn a few of those into full drawings, and maybe the general response to those sketch uploads will influence which ones I do that with.

Aside from the things that appear in the upcoming sketch dump, I've also been considering the following, so I'd also be interested to know about interest in the following TFs: Muk, Lapras, Tropius, Regice, Volcarona, Coalossal, Venusaur post-TF along similar lines to the Torterra 'sona stuff.
edit: Malamar too, I need to stop forgetting that pokemon exists...

So I'm currently working on a piece that feels like it's maybe a tad too... intense for some people, and it got me thinking.

In regards to content that's more towards the extreme side, particularly body horror-centric TFs that can be violent and/or possibly gory in nature, would people prefer I stuck that on a secondary account made specifically for that brand of content, or just upload it onto this one as normal?

Update: I've decided that I will do this, but I'm going to wait until I've got a bit more to post there before I actually make the alt account. Might be within the next week, might be a month or so, depends when I next feel like working on that kind of content.

As you all might have guessed by recent uploads, the break I took about 3 weeks ago is over.
At several points in time I've talked about working out a long-term schedule, but I'm starting to realise I just can't realistically force myself into one without either neglecting my outside work or things here starting to feel more like a chore than a hobby. So I'll just draw and upload when I feel like it. At the bare minimum I'll try to upload at least one drawing per month, but based on my habits it's more likely to be week-long phases of obsessive drawing with gaps in between. I guess we'll see how things go.

I've also decided to set up a Telegram, just because I personally prefer an IM format over the more email-style format of notes. Messaging me on either is fine, though, so don't feel you can't get hold of me if you don't have Telegram.
Telegram username is rezi_lin, note that unlike my username here it uses _ rather than -.

Also RIP the isekai-style journal entry names, I ran out of ideas and it got to the point where it was getting in the way of writing journal entries so I ditched that dumb joke.

Over the past few weeks I've been drawing a lot here, like way more than usual. In the space of 2 weeks I've completed 6 fully-shaded drawings, which is only 1 away from my record for most completed in a whole year. Hell, the Venusaur TF was my first fully-shaded drawing in about 9 months. This level of productivity has rapidly improved my artistic skills, and it's been a great time. Problem is, with this level of artistic development being entirely focused around art for here, it's left my outside work behind, and now almost none of that meets my standards anymore. It doesn't feel right to me, especially since this is supposed to be a side thing, and my outside projects are supposed to be my main focus.

So I'm going to be taking a break from making art for here for a little while. As of right now, my intention is for it to be a 2-week break, but ultimately it depends both on my motivation to come back and draw more TF art, and on whether I get super into working on said outside projects.

In the meantime I'll still be checking notifications, responding to notes, and so on. I just won't be actively working on producing content for here. And when I do come back from the break, I'll make more of an active effort to settle into a long-term schedule that is sustainable and doesn't get too in the way of outside work, probably 1-2 drawings per week.

Also I was super lazy with the isekai-style journal name this time but I feel compelled to continue that trend no matter what.

First off, thank all of you for the support over the last few days. As of writing this, the TF art I've drawn so far has amassed 113 favourites in just 72 hours, and this whole thing has gone way further than I expected back on Saturday when I had the idle thought of "hey I should draw something of Venusaur". It's done a lot to boost my confidence in my artistic abilities, and really helped me settle into drawing the topics I love most on a regular basis.

Also I dearly apologise for the dumb isekai title-style journal titles, I've developed a dangerous habit and I'm not afraid to admit it.

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Something that's come up multiple times in my conversations is how I feel about the Torterra drawing. As much as I love it, it's not entirely for the same reasons as the thoughts that went into planning and drawing it. I like the human design a lot, and I love the mid-transformation state depicted in the art itself, but it feels a bit unsatisfying from more of what I guess would be a "lore" standpoint. The story was kinda hastily thrown together while I was very tired, and while it's not bad, it just doesn't reflect what I feel the art represents. And in fact, the idea of this just being the mid-stage of a transformation in itself doesn't really reflect that either. I've come to much prefer the interpretation that it is the final result of the transformation.

Now, why am I using a journal to rant about one particular piece, when I could do so as an edit to the post? Because the point I'm trying (and honestly kinda struggling) to lead into is that I've settled on having her serve as, I guess kinda a 'sona-ish character sort of. Technically the Whaleboat is my fursona, and I still like him as a concept, but with the way my direction with this account has shifted, he no longer feels like a representation of what I'm all about here. After all, I feel the best kind of representative character for a TF-centric account, other than some manner of character who transforms others as a hobby, is a character who herself is permanently stuck in a mostly-but-not-quite-transformed state.

Maybe I'll go back and change the story in the existing art's description to reflect her new status and that story not really being canon anymore. Maybe I'll leave it until the next time I draw her. I'm not sure yet.

tl;dr Half-transformed Torterra girl is being rewritten to be my sona now, at least for the purposes of this FA account. I guess people might've seen it coming with how I already use her as my avatar.

So when I drew that last picture, my intention was for it to be a quick one-off thing before I go back to my work outside of here, but in just over 12 hours it's already hit 33 faves, my highest yet (and the previous holder of that record had nearly 3 years to pick up faves). Clearly my TF art is something people like. Between that, how much fun I had drawing it, and my interest in the subject in general, I'm now planning to draw more TF-focused content going forward.

Not going to say I'll be super active (in fact I won't guarantee I don't just suddenly disappear again for 6 months), but finally being able to draw one of my favourite subjects well is a big boost to my motivation to draw content for here, so I'll probably at least post more often than I have in the past.

I've already decided on the content of my next drawing, but if there's a particular pokemon or TF concept you think I should draw (keeping in mind I prefer to draw large, fat, and generally non-mammalian pokemon), feel free to suggest it. (just nothing too crazy, I'm still new to drawing actual TF; also nothing involving actual people or characters from outside of pokemon, it's not something I feel comfortable with drawing yet)

Hey so first of all happy (late) christmas, new year, and so on, hope everyone had a good time.
So I moved house about a month ago and still haven't actually got internet yet (I've been relying on some pretty limited mobile data so far), this unfortunately means I rarely have the chance to post here. I've got 3-4 older pieces ready for upload, along with something new of Whaleboat, but I just can't upload them yet. When I'm next able to, though, I'll dump em. Could be tomorrow, could be in 3 weeks, not entirely sure when I'll actually have proper internet.
tl;dr gonna dump about 4-5 pictures ranging from new to 2 years old at some point before the 20th, hope you guys like them

Gee, it's been a long time since I last posted anything here.

I've been meaning to go back to posting art here for a while, but for the last year and a half I've been focusing on other projects outside of FA. On top of that, I've just not been in the mood to draw all that often, and when I have it's mostly been for those aforementioned other projects. I have drawn a few things that I guess would belong here in that time, but they're all unfinished. I've been waiting for a time to come where I feel ready to start drawing this stuff more frequently again, and I think now's that time. (Shout-out to  whalegourd for helping motivate me to do so.)

Earlier today, I checked my art folders and found I have a few works in progress I totally forgot about which aren't that far from completion, so finishing and posting those is my current priority. After that, I'll see how I feel, but hopefully I'll have the motivation and ideas to keep uploading stuff. In the unlikely event I get burned out before finishing up those WIPs, I'll just post them as-is. So either way, I'll be posting those three pictures in the next week or so.

In terms of new art going forward, I think I'll try to broaden my horizons. There's a wide range of stuff I'd like to draw that I just haven't felt ready to in the past. Main thing though is I'll probably start drawing non-pokemon stuff alongside what I already draw. I've also come up with a rough concept for an actual fursona, so maybe I'll have something of that soon, whether I draw it myself or get a commission of it.

This'll all look real silly if I end up going inactive for over a year again, but if that doesn't happen, I hope you guys enjoy the stuff I've got coming up.