I sat down and did the thing that I promised to do in my recent update post in Scraps! I went back through every single upload I've ever made here and painstakingly updated any broken Discord link into a hopefully-more-permanent Dropbox link. If you missed or want to see a particular alt that exists of anything I have ever uploaded, now you can see it! Going forward, I'll try to stop being a lazy-ass and using Discord links for alts, since those don't work in the long term.

Hope you are having a nice day, everyone! As promised in my most recent upload in Scraps, I have created a new Bluesky account that I will be uploading to more frequently once I ditch Twitter/X. Be sure to add me on there! I'll definitely try to be more active there an follow some people back. I'm looking forward to a less overtly toxic user experience, pff.

https://bsky.app/profile/saybingryph.bsky.social

It has come to my attention that, effective July 1st, 2023, Furaffinity is going to be implementing a new site policy that bans, among other things, "humanoids with childlike body proportions". Now, the thing with Rita is that she was never meant to be seen as a child, but rather just a nebulous Pokemon shortstack. If I were to pin an age on her, I'd say she was in her early 20s or something. The thing is, I don't know if I really have any control over this rule change and how people see her, and I am worried about the possibility if she falls under this rule change of "adolescent animals", despite that not being the intent in the first place.

So, what am I going to do about it? Personally, I'm not going to delete anything involving Rita unless Furaffinity absolutely forces me to. She's one of my favorite and most popular characters after all, and doing so would be stupid. I'm going to continue getting art and writing stories involving her. But if I get a warning and my entire gallery is threatened because of it, I will have no choice but to get rid of all the Rita stuff. Because of this, I heavily urge you all to archive all of the Rita stuff that you're a fan of.

If worst comes to worst, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. I will continue posting all of my Rita stuff to Eka's and Twitter, but if FA mods have a problem with her, I will have no choice but to stop posting stuff of her here, unfortunately. Hopefully, it won't come to that, and Rita would be in the clear, but you never know how these things get enforced.

I didn't realize that I left the link to my Discord server to expire after 7 days. Guess that explains why nobody had shown up in there for a while. Whelp! Here's the new version of it that shouldn't expire, then!

https://discord.gg/kwUV4j2mUJ

Hey everybody, I have an exciting announcement to make! My old Discord is about five years old at this point, and it had a lot of really serious problems. To fix things, and to boost engagement of it, I decided to significantly improve things in there! Rearranging things, adding new channels, condensing roles, essentially making things as fun and simple as possible! If you're into vore and scat related stuff, feel free to join and chat with me and other like-minded folks!

https://discord.gg/7u5cy7hM
https://discord.gg/7u5cy7hM
https://discord.gg/7u5cy7hM

Heyo! Been a little bit since my last update, so I figured I'd let everyone know where everything is currently standing for now.

1. Raffle Story for OGCW (About 1/3 to 1/2 done)
2. Raffle Story for Cainiam (Which may or may not feature a new bird character of mine I've been teasing!)
3. Bonus Raffle Story for ChocolateShinx
4. Story for MuskyZune
5. Gift story featuring Rita

These are all the remaining stories that I've been meaning to finish since the last update, and on top of those, there are also a few new ones to add to the list:

1. Trade with Yowesephth
2. Trade with Peppen (may be a while in the future)

With that out of the way, there's been something I've been meaning to bring up for quite a while, now. Despite being closed for commissions for over a year or two now, I still get folks that ask me if I'm open, or if I will be soon. It's difficult, because as much as I would like to take every request I get, the fact of the matter is that it's gotten rather unsustainable for me. From what I already have on my plate to write and my college obligations, I find it extremely difficult to open up and fulfill all of the commission requests I tend to get.

Because of this, I am going to reluctantly turn to the laws of supply and demand when I end up finishing all these other stories, and implement a significant price increase for my stories. I am not doing this because I am greedy, but instead because I seriously need to change how I do things if taking writing commissions is still going to be a sustainable thing for me without going nuts. If it hasn't been made obvious already by how I still haven't finished my raffle stories from four months ago, these things take me a lot of time. Hopefully by increasing the commission prices, I will also be able to manage getting through these stories a lot more efficiently, due to the motivation of delivering something the client will really like.

This isn't set in stone yet, but all of these reasons are why I plan on increasing my pricing from 8 dollars per thousand words to 20 dollars per thousand words. I admittedly feel a bit gross increasing the pricing so drastically, but it feels like the only way to balance the time investment and demand for these stories. Feel free to let me know what you think of this plan.

It's my birthday today! Thanks everybody for keeping up with my posts, stories, and characters for the past over-half-a-decade, it really means a lot to me.

Happy Holidays, everyone! No matter what you celebrate. ...Even if me sharing this message on Christmas Eve makes it rather apparent which one I celebrate. As if the Rita image I drew for hyperscat day a few months ago didn't already make it evident enough.

Overall, this year has been a very interesting one for me. I decided to change my major and have had some extra time off as a result, mostly using a lot of it to relax while I still had the chance. This year, I uploaded a decent chunk of new stories in the meantime, and also commissioned some more art of my two main gals, Rita and Val. I even tinkered a bit with drawing once again, and drew a pic of my owl that I can actually look back on with some pride! My only regret is that I might have spent a bit too much time playing games this year. Very easy for me to get sucked into various new games and pop out a few weeks later, dazed and confused. On the bright side, I was pleasantly surprised with the new Sonic game!

Though I am going back to class in the Winter, I will be taking less classes this term and thus be able to do some more writing ideally. That will do a good job of relieving much of the stress that I feel that distracts me from other pursuits. I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a good work-life balance this way, and ideally get a good career out of my new major. To celebrate the holidays, I have two gifts for my followers this year!

First up, a new banner! My only real goal with this one was to make something that was marginally better and slightly more serious than the one I had before, and I think this suffices! It's a good compilation of most of my main characters. In order, you got Saybin, Cody, Valerie, Rita, Carol, White, and even Jack! Remember Jack? I still haven't done anything with him yet! Hooray! Maybe that will finally change next year, because he's got a bit of potential in him yet.

Second, spoilers for my plans for next year! First priority, of course, is finishing all of my story raffle winners' stories next year. I may have overestimated just how much effort a 10,000 word story per person would be, especially when I have other plans, so they might not all end up being that long. However, I believe that you can still tell a good story with a smaller word budget, at least! Just means less unnecessary fluff and filler, getting all of the good stuff that the winners asked for. First up is a story that is a sequel to the vore story I wrote with Ornstein ages ago, the second is a Pokemon vore story of sorts, and the remaining two are unknown as of now!

After the raffle stories are out of the way, I'm going to commission a couple more artists that I had been planning on getting art from. There are at least two or three that I have been chatting with lately! Additionally, I'm going to get a new Rita story out as a big thank you to Plasma for being so kind to me with his gift commission. Expect nasty stuff with her next year!

Lastly, I would just like to say, thank each and every one of you for supporting me and following me this year, and every year before that. I never thought my strange, niche content would manage to hit over 1000 watchers on this website, and I honestly can't thank you all enough. Even though it feels like I do with every update that I share, heh. You are all the best, and here's to a great 2023!

I guess FA implemented a new feature, so now it's my job to abuse it to my heart's content. I hope you enjoy looking at this for now on! At least until I get tired of it or decide to change it for one reason or another.

Also, so this journal isn't completely useless, I figured I'd take this opportunity to post an update on all of my planned stories at the moment, as well as the progress for them.

1. Trade with ShieUne (finished, awaiting the okay to post)
2. Trade with Baphowet (outline finished, story in progress)
3. Unknown Secret Santa Project
4. Raffle Story for CGK (still outlining)
5. Raffle Story for OGCW
6. Raffle Story for Cainiam
7. Bonus Raffle Story for ChocolateShinx
8. Story for MuskyZune
9. Story for Existimatio
10. Gift story featuring Rita

It's admittedly a bit of a lot of stuff, but I'm doing my best to work through it with the time I have! I just figured you'd all appreciate a bit of transparency.

The winners of my story raffle areeeee...

Winner Number 1: CGK
Winner Number 2: OCGW
Winner Number 3: Cainiam

I also decided to add an extra, bonus winner spin for a smaller story for fun!

Bonus Winner: ChocolateShinx

Thank you everybody for contributing, and making this stream as fun as it could be!

Here's the details for my 1000 Watchers story raffle that I'm holding!

- 2 winners (possibly 3, if a lot of people enter!)
- Maximum of 10k words
- Must follow my commission guidelines of do's and don'ts, as seen here: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9143299/
- No need to come up with an idea right away! Details will be discussed with the winners after the livestream event.
- Winners will be announced first-thing on the Picarto livestream on November 12th, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time.
- Entry will be closed at the beginning of the livestream!
- Commenting on this journal means you are entered into the wheel!

Good luck, and have fun!

Well, we did it! I absolutely cannot believe the support that you've all given me over the years, especially given how niche my content tends to be, and I cannot thank you all enough for it. A thousand watchers is not a small amount by any means. That's probably more people than live in my town! I can't even put into words how overjoyed I am that you all have been this invested in my writing endeavors.

Therefore, I think a celebration is in order!

Initially, I simply planned to celebrate with a raffle, where people that entered would be able to get a chance at a free story from me. And I still plan to do that! However, I want to do something even more fun, on top of that! A full day of video game streaming, chatting, and more. Basically, just a fun group get-together.

I don't really know how it's all going to work yet, admittedly. What I think I'm going to do is start out on Picarto since I think I'm only really able to discuss much NSFW matters there, then shift things over to my Twitch once all is said and done for that kinda stuff!

Any time I've announced a livestream before, it's been rather spontaneous, and therefore not many folks usually show up for them. This time, I'm going to be proactive and preface it with an exact date and time. Saturday, November 12th, 3:00 PM Eastern Time on my Picarto is where I plan on starting it. I would do it this weekend, but I plan on being out of town! Plus, the extra week gives more people the chance to enter the raffle.

Speaking of the raffle, I will make another journal shortly after this one to serve as a way of entering! So comment on that one once it goes up if you want to participate!

I don't have a specific timetable in mind, but I do know that the flow of events will likely be as such:

- Announcement of Raffle Winners on Picarto
- Q&A Stuff (About me, my characters, or anything else, really)
- Going through some old art, unfinished and unposted stuff, etc.
- Drawing/Doodling some stuff for a while
- Switching over to Twitch to stream some of my favorite games

I'm really excited to celebrate hitting 1k with you all! Thank you again, and I hope to see you there!

My Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/saybingryph
My Picarto: https://www.picarto.tv/SaybinGryph

I was thinking about what I could do to celebrate reaching such a massive milestone, seeing as I'm sitting at about 950 watchers on here at the moment, only growing after that awesome pic I shared from Doof. And now, I think I have an idea for what would be the best way to celebrate: A story raffle!

I realize that I don't really open myself up to commissions as much anymore due to general business, but I would still love to give back to you all for being so kind as to keep up with what I'm doing on here. So, once I hit the big 1000 mark, I'll be making a separate journal detailing my plans for the raffle. Essentially, anyone who comments on my second journal will be entered into a raffle to get a free story from me. (Following the rules of my commission guidelines, and a maximum of 10k words). And to make things more enticing, there will be two winners. Maybe three, depending on how many people actually enter, hah.

The winners will be decided through that one wheel-spinning website, which I will livestream on Picarto at a to-be-announced date for authenticity reasons.

So feel free to spread the word, or whatever! Once I hit 1k, you'll get a chance to get a free story! And tell me what ya think of this idea!

Hello all, it has been a couple months since I made that big update journal a few months ago. I got some very supportive comments on it from you all, and I vastly appreciate you all taking the time to help boost my morale a bit. Since that point, I've had some fairly intense yet brief bursts of writing, as seen in the stories that I've posted since then. However, a few weeks back, I started a brand new term at my university. And given that it was already starting off with everything that I loathed about the last term but worse, I ultimately made the decision to drop out and step away from university for the time being.

There is a mental toll that it has already taken on me that I knew I couldn't reasonably handle, and it seemed like the best-fitting option, especially given the already-slow pace that I've been on towards graduation. If I knew an engineering degree at this university would've taken this long, I probably would've tried majoring in something else, but I suppose it isn't too late to consider alternatives. I can say with certainty that I am much, much happier after dropping these nightmarish courses to focus on other endeavors for the time being instead.

Primarily, I am spending this time to get prepared to become employed so I can at least get something down on a resume, and start getting a reasonable flow of income. My old community college offers many opportunities, so I am not too worried about being able to find something to do that will use what I've already learned. Other than that, I suppose I'm just around and relaxed for now. I already have some more stories planned, and am hoping that the extra cash will give me a chance to commission some more stuff of my characters, hah.

Thank you all for continuing to stick with me for this long! I really couldn't ask for a nicer community to be a part of.

Hello, everyone. I'm not sure how many folks are going to read this, but I first want to apologize for all of the dead air lately. My uploads have slowed rather considerably, at least the ones that aren't commissions. I drew that one Val pic a while back, but my last actual story upload was half a year ago, and the last one before that was another half-year back. I feel like I should probably explain what's been up a bit.

As of August of last year, I transferred to a larger university, and it's been a very difficult and taxing experience for me. All of the classes worked out well in the end, but it was rough enough for me to feel extremely burned out by the time the winter term ended. Now I'm in a depressive, easily-distracted funk that has been keeping me from being able to put work into anything. But honestly, it feels like there's also more to it than that.

I feel like I'm no longer satisfied with my own writing. I feel like I lack the general creativity that it takes to come up with ideas for stuff, and that anything I put effort into writing will just come out wrong. My art is extremely amateurish but could be improved through more practice, but I also feel like I lack the patience or confidence needed to come close to the level of my peers. All of this, combined with my non-existent sleep schedule, has made me feel... petrified?

That, as well as the fact that the two major things that I tend to put focus on with my work, vore and softcore scat stuff, are somewhat incompatible with how many people like one but not the other. I feel embarrassed and freeze up when wanting to commission anything of my characters from most people because of what I often use them for. I'm worried to even put effort into any possible passion projects anymore because I worry what people will feel about how toilet-centric they tend to be. I'm a weird person that kinda sticks out, even in this community, over stuff like that.

I don't really know what the point of me saying all of this is, apart from me wanting to get all of this off my chest. I don't want to leave the community or anything, but I just feel greatly dissatisfied with myself and want to get more content out there, but I'm just stuck. I'll at least continue attempting to power through and get more writing out there. I apologize if any of this comes off as melodramatic, I simply feel it's the only way I can vent all of my frustrations at once.

Hey there, everyone! I know I've been a bit quiet recently, and haven't been uploading as many stories as I probably could or should have over the course of the summer, but I've admittedly been in a bit of a writing slump for a while, now. Every time I attempt to work on a big story that I've had in the works, I can't really bring myself to do so, and I end up becoming more and more depressed and self defeating about it. However, I'm going to do my best and TRY to get a big Val story out by vore day, one week from today. I'm deeply sorry for the inconvenience.

However, that's not why I wrote this journal! I just figured that a lot of my followerbase doesn't follow me on Twitter, and I should probably spread the word about this. Reason being is that there's a few pieces of art involving my characters that I wouldn't feel comfortable posting to my own account, as it would overshadow the original posts by the artists themselves. As a result, you can see some exclusive art involving Val, Rita, and Carol over on my Twitter instead! In fact, I just posted an incredible imageset involving Carol, a gift from FazilHyena and drawn by Tsubasagahoshi! You can check that out over here, and feel free to follow me there for other posts such as it:

https://twitter.com/saybingryph/sta.....590949891?s=20

Hello again, everyone. College being college has kept me from being able to write as much as I'd like to, so I've been hoping to make up for my lack of posting with a bit of content related to my characters and such, in the meantime. The only problem is that I have so many characters, it makes it difficult to choose who I should get art of! Therefore, as I do with most things, I figure it'd be best for me to leave it up to a poll to try and determine who would work best for it, in kind of and indirect poll silly way. Determine what you'd like to see most by voting in the poll below!

https://strawpoll.com/2hr77s8xd

Note: You may notice a glaring omission from this poll... There's a good reason for it. Stay tuned~

Hello again! It's been another short while since I've posted a journal, and I just wanted to make an announcement. I was briefly looking at my gallery and realized how much of a cluttered mess it is, which is probably not the best for my audience. As far as I know, there's a lot of people who like my vore stuff, and a lot of people who like my nastier stuff, but I'm certain that it doesn't all overlap. Therefore, I figured I'd make it easier for everyone by making three different folders for my gallery. One of those is for stories that focus on more vore based content, another folder for nastier kink stories, and the third one mostly serving as a place to dump any non-story art that I may have acquired over time. I hope that this makes my profile a bit more navigable!

Also, I feel like I should probably ask something that's been on my mind for a while. It has been nearly a year since SlobStash has locked their account. I've tried getting back into contact with them before, but it would appear that they are gone for good. Because of this, there are those two Rita images that they drew that are a bit harder to access unless you know to look in the right places. They will show up if you dig for them, but they don't really show up using the on-site search feature anymore. Therefore, I was mulling over in my head whether or not it would be in my best interest to share them here, given that it's the second half of a trade we did and such. I'll leave it to a poll to decide whether or not I should repost them here or not. Every option kinda has their own small list of pros and cons.

https://www.strawpoll.me/42422121

The reason I went from writing/posting a bunch of stories to not posting anything is, unsurprisingly, because of college. Now that I've finished my last final, I can get around to posting a few more stories that I've had on the backburner and ideally write a few more before my next term starts in January. Thanks y'all for being patient with me!

I don't even really know what to say here besides... thank you. Thank you all so very much for commissioning me. Being a college student with no real job experience yet, being able to afford a gaming PC was always a bit of a pipe dream of mine. For reference, my current laptop was the best one that I've ever had, and it can't even run Half Life 2. However, thanks to all of you sharing your story ideas with me in the form of commissions, I was able to make enough money to afford computer parts powerful enough to support VR stuff. And I can't thank all of you enough for it.

My laptop didn't really need replacement as much as I initially thought, with my charger being able to (seemingly randomly) work when it comes to charging my computer again, but this was still very necessary in my opinion. Given that, plus the fact that my computer keeps running slower and slower, and the left Control button keeps breaking off, having to upgrade was almost inevitable. ...Oh yeah, also the CAD class I'm taking went online-only, and forces software that my current laptop couldn't ever hope to run. After I already paid for the course, and bought the textbook for it. Needless to say, I am very, very lucky that this was the summer that I decided to build a PC.

All my computer parts are on the way right now, and I'll be having a friend help me build my computer this weekend. Since I'm getting an extremely significant upgrade, maybe I could start doing more to give back to you all. In between posting all of the stories I've written for this, perhaps I could also stream video games and such on my Discord. It would certainly be a lot easier once I'm upgraded and such.

Oh, and as one more thing, my weak will has resulted in me taking a lot of bonus commissions amid the chaos. Basically, whenever somebody asked me if I was open, I accepted despite the fact that my slots were full. And now that the main round of slots is done, I'll be able to get around to them bit by bit. I still have about plenty stories to write for friends and such, so I physically can't really accept any more without losing my mind. But still, I vastly appreciate your support! I don't know what I'd do without followers and friends as amazing as you.

Right on time, here I am to accept some more writing commission requests! First come, first serve.

Here's my commission sheet with all the important details:
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9143299/

The basic stuff is that I will be charging 8$ per thousand words in my stories for the time being, due to the fact that computer parts are pretty expensive. The ceiling on how many words I'll write for one story is still 7,000 words, unless there's reason to go beyond that.

I will also be opening five slots this time, as opposed to the three I had open before. If you want to check if I am still open, then feel free to take a look my profile description!

Hello, again! As of now, my three commission slots have been finished and uploaded. In order to give myself a breather and tie up a few other loose ends, I won't immediately be opening up again. However, I will be opening up again tomorrow, instead. ^^

Because of how suddenly I opened my more recent slots, I figured I could make things a bit more fair by opening up five next time, along with it all being first come, first serve. These slots will be opening up tomorrow (June 30th) at 4 PM est. And if you end up missing out, don't worry, 'cause I've still got a long way to go before this computer is going to be finished. More opportunities will show up!

Hello again! This may seem rather sudden, but my laptop is giving up on me very quickly. Not that it was a very good one anyway, but now it can barely hold a charge. Given everything that I do here, that is very very not good. Therefore, I've decided that I am once again opening myself up to writing commissions in order to help fund a better computer. Truth be told, I've been meaning to upgrade from my pitiful laptop for a very long time anyway, but never found any reason to until now.

Here's my commission sheet with all the important details:
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9143299/

The basic stuff is that I will be charging 8$ per thousand words in my stories for the time being, due to the fact that computer parts are pretty expensive. I'm deeply sorry for this change, but I will probably go back down to 7 dollars in the future. The ceiling on how many words I'll write for one story is still 7,000 words, unless there's reason to go beyond that.

I will also be opening three slots at a time. I will stop taking commission requests once slots are full, but if necessary, I will open right back up again after the three stories are finished. This is a precautionary measure in order to avoid swamping myself with an overwhelming number of stories to write, if this does get that much attention.

Thank you again, and I'm very sorry for the sudden nature of this.

I just thought that I should bring it up, since I've seen a lot of people who are partial to Telegram instead of Discord, that I now have an account there! Feel free to message me or invite me to any groups there, because I'm curious of getting more familiar with the communities there. My tag is, fittingly, @ saybingryph.

Hey, my watch count hit another major milestone today! I can't believe how much support I've gotten since I started writing this stuff. All things considered, 500 watchers is a pretty big deal! And I couldn't have done it without all of you! Thank you!

Also, very sorry that my special story for this occasion was accidentally an April Fools story. While I still want to do something special, I'm still currently trapped in tons of college work with about a month left to go. Hopefully, there will be an end to all this soon, and I can think of something that everyone might enjoy.