I've really been neglecting my FA account, haven't I?

I'd like to change that. Ever since I got my new job, I've been commissioning a bunch of good stuff that I'd love to share. I've made some changes to my 'sona, Sata. For example, he's a bear now. I've got new characters, new art, new ideas.

However, I don't really write anymore. I haven't written in a long time. You will be seeing fewer stories coming out of this account than before. On the other hand, you will be seeing new artwork!

I don't really know the extent to the changes that are going to be happening here. But I'd like to get more active here again.

Hello! I'm here to announce that, for the first time ever on this account, I will be opening up writing commissions!

I'm looking to get a queue of up to five commissions to work on. I currently already have one slot taken.

My pricing is based on the word count at the end of the story. It's 2 cents per word, or about $1 per 50 words.

What I love to write about (My specialties, and what I have the most practice with):
Macro/Micro, Soft Oral Vore, Super powered characters, Kaiju, Safe Vore, Digestion (Reformation), Digestion (Sentient fat).

What I like to write about (Other things I enjoy writing about, but aren't my absolute favorites):
Burping/Belching, Deep-Gut Spelunking, Clean Full-Tour, Mass-Vore, Digestion (non-explicit, fatal).

What I can write about (but don't specialize in):
Implied disposal (non-explicit, aka clean), Digestion (graphic, fatal), Stomping, Crushing, Violence, Tail Vore, Transformation.

What I can be persuaded to write about (Can do, but costs more. Price on request):
Anal Vore, Inflation, Excessive Weight Gain.

What I won't write about (Sorry. Just not my thing):
Sex or Yiff, Masturbation, Explicit references to genitalia, Watersports/Scat, Most things that would be considered "Adult" by FA.

What I will E-Punch you in the face if you ask for, so don't ask for it! (Seriously, DON'T):
Underage Participants in Fetish Content, Rape, Anything directing hatred towards a racial group, ethnic group, gender (including transgender), or the LGBTQ+ community.

For vore, the predator or prey can be anthro, feral, or even human.
If there was anything I didn't include in the lists above, ask me about it!

Slots are first come, first serve! I appreciate the support!
Reply to this journal or send me a note if you are interested!

~Sata Kalmar

Hey.

So, a lot has happened this year. I don't think I have to go into detail about it. But I wanted to talk about something a bit distantly related. We here it a lot these days. "We're all in this together." But that isn't just true because of the virus, it's true on an ordinary day too. We live in a society, and our lives are connected to each others in intricate and complex ways that are difficult to fully understand. Every action we take, every choice, and every word we say impacts those around us. It impacts their behaviors, their lives, and their own choices. We can't pretend that our choices only impact ourselves. We must consider how our actions impact those around us as well.

We live in a hard and often unforgiving world, where simple bad luck is all it takes to bring a person to their knees. But bad luck has a counter. Kindness, compassion, and simply being considerate of others can make all of the difference in the world. A kind word, timed just right, can save a life. Even if it just brightens a person's day, that effect cascades, and can help that person face what life has to throw at us. When someone is suffering, they usually cannot stop that suffering themselves. They need someone who has what they need to come in and help them. We cannot ignore them, or their suffering will get worse. That suffering, because we are all connected, WILL spill over to others. Misery loves company, and spreads much like a virus.

It's not enough to simply not perpetuate suffering. It's not enough to just not hurt people directly. One of the biggest killers in this world is apathy. I suppose I'm just asking... please care about others. Even if you don't personally know them, they are people just like you. They might not be as lucky as you, though. We can't just look out for our own interests and rely on others to take care of themselves, because our interests will inevitably come into conflict with each other. Not only that, but many people cannot take care of themselves, and neither can the people they know. Without someone coming in to help them, their suffering will grow worse.

Please, be kind. Be gentle. Be compassionate to others, even if you don't know them. Be patient when they mess up. Be generous when they need help.

-Sata Kalmar

Hey, everyone. Sorry to those who watch me regarding my recent silence. I figure I owe anyone who's still here an explanation. I don't have many watchers, but you still deserve an explanation.

What happened was that, for the past month, I have been out of state taking care of my grandparents. The Saturday after Thanksgiving, which is about where my activity here kind of dropped off, my family received a call that my grandmother had fallen, and was in the hospital. The next morning, we got another call that she was unresponsive. The doctors couldn't wake her up. Some of my family, fearing the worst, immediately packed up to get on an emergency flight to California. I was among them.

Grandma did end up waking up later on Sunday, but was still in pretty critical shape. She started to improve throughout the next couple of days, and continued to improve throughout the month. In the meantime, I took care of my Grandpa, driving him around, keeping him company, and making sure he was OK.

During this time, I was too busy to get into the mindset needed to write full stories, so I took a break from most of my writing projects. That included my projects here, as well as on Writing.com. I was only able to keep up with some of my smaller projects, and even those slowed down considerably.




Tldr, I've been away for a while so that I could help take care of my Grandpa while Grandma recovered in the hospital. I wasn't in the right mindset to write anything while I was out there. That, coupled with the technical issues I was having with my computer, is why I've been largely silent for a month on FA.

Now I'm back, though, and I've already started writing again. There's a new chapter up on Writing.com in the interactive story Survival: Mouse Anthro called "The Pawn" that I wrote earlier today. I've got a few other things I'm planning in upcoming days, including a followup to Char's birthday gift, a Skwovet vore story inspired by  rabbitinafoxden's recent drawing of said pokemon, as well as a few other stories probably related to Marin, the Hybrid Pikachu from Char's Birthday story.

In addition to the upcoming planned stories, I also got a drawing tablet for Christmas, and I'm hoping to practice my drawing! So hopefully some digital art will be showing up in not too long.

Anyway, that's what's been going on, and that's what should be coming up soon. Thank you for your patience.

So I went back today while I had the time and made some edits to the previous submissions. I marked them as Mature the first time around because I felt that there were themes that made Sata's story as a whole something that was too much for a General rating. However, after talking to some of my friends who work on S:MA, they let me know that Sata's story arc is for the most part perfectly fine to put under General, because it doesn't quite meet the mature rating. As such, I've gone back and put all the old submissions under a General rating, where most of the chapters will stay until I am told they should move again.

So...

I'm just going to be direct about this. I've been asked to resign from my job.

This came as a pretty big surprise just when I was happiest in my position. I was originally going to re-upload the next chapter onto FA and hopefully even finish writing the next Writing.com chapter as well, but...

Yeah, I don't really think I can.

I'm not going to vanish. I just need a couple of days and wanted to let the few watchers I've got what's going on.

So I was about to start working on getting the next chapter re-uploaded to FA when I realized that this next one is probably going to require some extra tweaking. Things like how it doesn't have a title, and how it's a bit bloated with stuff that probably doesn't need to be there.

I'll have it up tomorrow.

As a head's up to anyone who's watching, I've made a bit of a change to the previous submissions for S:MA Sata the Silver Tongued chapters. Any chapter that doesn't have vore actively in it will be listed under the Macro/Micro topic.

Previously I submitted everything under Vore because that was the main focus of the S:MA story, and Sata's story is meant to be read as a whole, not as segmented parts. I realized though that having something listed under vore that ends up not having any vore in it might get confusing, and likely would chase off people who might otherwise be interested in the story.

So that's basically what this journal entry is about. Just giving a head's up about this change.