Asae is the first repeat winner I can remember. He won back in 2017. That's some good luck! The other two I don't know, but I will send off the PMs and see what they want drawn. Edit: Turns out Ironmania has also won twice.

It's that time again! Enter by replying to this raffle. Only reply once, and don't reply to other replies. (This simplifies my job when I roll for winners.) Don't number your entry, I will do that myself. I'm going to put up a "raffle warning" image in my gallery too so people who don't look at journals have a better shot at getting in.

There is a con coming up only a week (Painted Desert) so shortly before that I will roll for winners so I can work on at least some of them at the con. Each winner gets to ask me to draw something. You don't need to put your request in your initial reply to the raffle, but you can if you want. Odds are I will have questions about references, etc., that will cause me to send you PMs about it anyway.

For each 100 entrants I will roll for one winner, rounding up. If there are 150 I will roll for two, for 201 entrants I roll three and so on.

The requests do not have to be vore drawings. They could be something like a profile picture of your character. I do ask that the requests not be tremendously complicated. I will negotiate with the winners on this subject should I decide the requested drawing is too labor intensive. It's not as though you are paying me to draw, after all. 83

Sorry for the vaguely cryptic title, but FA has a weirdly small character limit for journal titles.

I roll one winner per 100 entries, rounded up. This time there were 302 entries, one below the all time record, so I rolled four. One was a previous winner, which is fine, but also one of the winners was someone I've drawn several things for over the years. He questioned whether he deserved a win but he got his roll fair and square so I rolled a fifth winner in case he felt bad about the whole thing. Winners are:
 Janglur, Ironmania2003, Tigers, Galis, ForsakenOfDarkness and I'll dispatch a PM to each to see what they want drawn. Best case, some of them will get drawn at the con this weekend, but that is short notice so it will probably take longer.

It's that time again! Enter by replying to this raffle. Only reply once, and don't reply to other replies. (This simplifies my job when I roll for winners.) Don't number your entry, I will do that myself. I'm going to put up a "raffle warning" image in my gallery too so people who don't look at journals have a better shot at getting in.

There is a con coming up in two weeks (Painted Desert) so shortly before that I will roll for two winners so I can work on at least some of them at the con. Each winner gets to ask me to draw something. You don't need to put your request in your initial reply to the raffle, but you can if you want. Odds are I will have questions about references, etc., that will cause me to send you PMs about it anyway.

The requests do not have to be vore drawings. They could be something like a profile picture of your character. I do ask that the requests not be tremendously complicated. I will negotiate with the winners on this subject should I decide the requested drawing is too labor intensive. It's not as though you are paying me to draw, after all. 83

We should have known better. I and a local friend both failed to get a room in the MFF room lottery, but we found someone in the MFF chat with two spaces.

First red flag: wanted the money up front (we paid)
Second red flag: Pressured us to contribute to a room party (we didn’t).

The host stayed in touch but I half expected something bad would happen. When we got to the hotel and let him know, he instantly replied with a picture of a damaged car and claimed he’d been in a crash. We pressured him to contact the hotel and get us into the room, at which point he blocked both of us and BOTH of the other two roomies (who had suspiciously similar names) dropped out of the roommate char we’d made. The second was certainly a sock puppet for the first.

Now we are roomless and out some money each. I can’t get the money back through PayPal due to it being a friends and family payment so all I can do is try to get them in trouble with PayPal. Assuming the host isn’t a sock puppet account on PayPal too.

This was all dumb on our parts and a result of the hotel lottery system. We had to register to enter the lottery which meant we paid for a reservation and we’re desperate for a room. We’ve found another room but we’re out the original money.

The lesson to be learned is: do not, under any circumstances, pay for a room sight unseen before you get to the hotel. Even if you know the host, asking for money early is extremely questionable behavior. If you have to bail on the con, at least you’re out only the reservation money.

UPDATE: It's not just us. Others got burned by the same scammer, or one using the exact same photo of a damaged car.

(I found this on my phone as I was thinking about doing a Binky story for the holidays. I probably still will, but the meantime I will post this one. I'm at a family get together so posting journals is about all I can do.)

*****

Not actually located either at the north pole nor at North Pole, Alaska, but rather at an unspecified snowy magical location, this workshop complex supports Santa's yearly flight around the world and his distribution of gifts.

Besides producing gifts and allowing the compilation of the Naughty and Nice lists via its vast network of magical information sources, the North Pole is also home to Santa, his assistants and family, his reindeer, and a large group of elves and other workers.

Santa and his family

Santa Binky: A polar bear who ate Santa Claus and discovered when he burped that There Must Always Be A Santa. He was compelled to assume the role and now Santa is a ten-and-a-half-foot-tall, semi-anthropomorphic polar bear who besides distributing gifts is known for eating people who are far enough down the Naughty List and also visiting with "interested" women during his Christmas Eve flight.

Santa only visits with women, despite many males who express an interest. Even Santa is not perfect and has his own inclinations. He sometimes provides a suitable substitute such as Tiguaak (see below.)

Santa Binky has the power to stretch or compress time on Christmas Eve, a necessary power if one is to visit millions of houses in one night. He can also eat and drink any amount on that night. Santa Claus used this ability to tuck away countless saucers of cookies and glasses of milk left out for him. Binky eats those, and, being a polar bear, also the worst offenders from the Naughty List. How this power works no one is certain, as Binky eats much more than his body weight in offenders in one night yet returns to the Pole no fatter than before.

One theory is he stores them in an extradimensional stomach, similar to his gift bags, and digests them bit by bit. By all rights he eats a whole year's worth of food in one night, yet he eats other things throughout the year too. When he swallows a single person they make their way through his digestive tract in a normal polar bear-ey way but there is no sign of what would reasonably happen if he digested fifty people over the course of a day or so. What happens to them? Where do they go? "Magic," he'll growl if asked, and smile a toothy grin.

He is known to eat people with his sheath or cock, converting people to cum or magically ejaculating them (intact) down the throat of someone giving him a blowjob. Santa Binky works in mysterious ways.

Santa Binky has an innate sense of virtue, a magical ability to rate someone's niceness or naughtiness even from a distance. He uses this skill to edit the Naughty and Nice lists and to judge whether someone should receive a gift, receive nothing, or end up inside a polar bear.

As it seemed greedy to him to eat all the offenders himself, though he easily could, he restricts himself to fifty or so and gives the rest as presents to his predatory wife, assistants, workers or Good List animals who live nearby. Some are gifted to Nice List people who are also given the one-time ability to swallow and digest them. This most often happens to bullies of various sorts, who end up as meals for their victims.

As far as Santa is concerned, a simple animal cannot end up on the Naughty or Nice list no matter what it does. Only when sapience and society is in play is their level of morality judged. A normal bear who eats a human is not Naughty. An intelligent bear who breaks an agreement and eats his neighbors is, though. This keeps a lot of extremely predatory creatures in circulation but it's not Santa's business if a badger somehow manages to trap and gulp down a human. Even intelligent animals can stay off the list if they are simply behaving according to their nature and not violating the rules of society - and if they lack a society, they cannot violate its rules.

Other animals who are potentially naughty are outside Santa's prey range. That cannibalistic right whale probably qualifies and so does a certain colossal leopard seal, but Binky believes in a hands on approach and being too big to swallow turns out to be an excellent defense. Plus, Santa is not invincible and the staff dreads the idea of ending up with a half-million-ton Santa Selene should the seal eat him.

Less severe offenders may receive other punishments, such as being beaten black and blue by gentle taps of a fifteen hundred pound polar bear's paws as a lesson to not take their anger out on the wife or kids. Binky does not eat heads of state or similarly prominent individuals as this might start wars or disrupt the gentleman's agreement that lets states and powers look the other way as hundreds of people vanish down various gullets around Christmas.

One thing that will absolutely get you eaten is impersonating Santa to further your predatory ends, or blaming a death on Binky by claiming the victim was a Naughty List denizen. Binky does not approve of these things at all and he will do something about it, albeit with care as the senior elves have advised him that this is a known way to try to lure a Santa into a trap. This is one of the times that he may take a hands-off approach and use someone else to deal with the offender - a prime opportunity for someone the killer has offended to get the one time ability to eat their nemesis.

Santa and his wife do not age and are supernaturally tough, but not indestructible. The previous Santa was digested by a normal polar bear, after all. Their children and Santa's assistants are mortal, but like the elves, very long lived.

Mrs. Binky: Chugiak was a perfectly normal non-intelligent polar bear sow happened by the North Pole after Binky took over. Binky has to use magical means to fuck smaller lovers in many cases (it's not just chimneys he can fit into, so to speak) but Chugiak wasn't one of those and he enthusiastically mounted the very willing bear sow. They discovered together that There Must Always Be A Mrs. Claus. She assumed the semi-anthro look and intelligence of her husband and they were soon officially married.

Chugiak is named after a mountain range near Anchorage and the joke at the north pole is that "Only Binky can climb that mountain." In fact she allows others to do so, but its is best done carefully as she sometimes sucks lovers into her purple polar bear snatch, where they are digested. No one is quite sure why a Mrs. Claus needs this ability but one otter worker with an acid proof wet suit (a Christmas present from Binky, naturally) has taken the opportunity to "visit" with Chugiak, his suit allowing him to be spat out of her carnivorous pussy undigested.

Despite the predatory qualities of her sex which should by all rights digest Santa's semen, she has borne him two sons.

Adak: The older son, he is seven feet of mostly-grown polar bear and old enough to be interested in women. This Christmas he asked to "visit" with one of Santa's assistants and while Binky told him he couldn't order his assistant to sleep with his son, the assistant happily did it anyway. Like Tiguaak (see below) he benefits from being around various elves and other creatures that have the hots for Binky but don't want to annoy Binky's other lovers. It is a good place to be a horny polar bear.

Lusty and shortsighted, Binky has had to remind him that he's not actually allowed to rape his Naughty List Christmas presents. He's just supposed to eat them.

Halu: The younger son, only about five feet tall and too young to share Adak's interests. He is quite pudgy for a polar bear and is known to swallow and digest prey larger than he is. Adak thinks with his dick, Halu with his stomach, and like Adak he has to be told that even Santa's sons have to follow some rules. "Don't eat the elves," for example.

Santa's Assistants

Four ladies, two from nearby and two from distant lands. All were Binky's lovers before he assumed his current role, which goes to show that nepotism is alive and well at the North Pole. They are still his lovers, but they also do a lot of work supervising various elf teams.

Each is capable of swallowing and digesting same-size prey and each was given a second predatory ability by Binky for Christmas several years back.

Llewella: an arctic fox whose fur is always white. She did not like her "blue" summer color phase and simply stopped color changing with the seasons. Llewella dresses in light green with tassels. Several years back Binky gifted each assistant with a new ability and Llewella became an unbirth pred like Mrs. Binky, though she prefers to use her mouth. It is probably not a coincidence that the "Suck and swallow" effect of her predatory sex makes it more fun for Santa to fuck her. He's big enough that he doesn't have to worry about being sucked in.

Florimel/Flora: a melanistic (black) jaguaress. Habitually wears a dark green outfit with mistletoe both on her tail-root and on the end of her tail. She uses this to get people to kiss her furry pussy, which would be a charming habit if she too weren't an UB pred. Quite a few people have gone in for a kiss only to be sucked in and digested. Like Llewella, her womb acts as a second stomach and prey gets out of her body the same way whether it goes in via her mouth or pussy, via the pink star under her tail.

(It is not known whether the two unbirth pred assistants can have children. When this ability manifests in nature it almost always precludes pregnancy as semen is digested instead of impregnating them. There are exceptions to this and their abilities are magical, so perhaps we'll find out one of these days.)

Deirdre: a skunkette with a great brush of fluffy tail. Wears a red outfit with many bows on her tail. Deirdre's tail is predatory and can eat people two ways. Wrapping people up in the fur can digest them, with the bones spat out for Mirelle (see below) to crunch up. Alternately, the fur can bunch up around someone and swallow them, sending them somehow into Deidre's stomach. Unlike some tail preds she has full control over it and can use its prehensile fur to provide tailjobs, potentially to multiple males at once or to one very large one.

(There's a sperm whale bull who stops by the inlet by the workshop from time to time, for example. He has more than once turned the skunkette's black fur white and sticky from her nose to her tailtip.)

Mirelle: youngest and least senior of Binky's assistants, this wolverine wears a simple red leather harness which doesn't cover very much at all. She has a love of anal sex and well before Binky became Santa she took his formidable pole up the ass. Her new ability was, of course, anal vore. Besides sucking whole people into her ass and digesting them this also makes her a more entertaining lover for Binky due to the muscular suction action.

(Arguably, all four assistants got new abilities that made them more interesting lovers. Binky thinks of himself sometimes. He's allowed to do that.)

She was the assistant that Adak wanted to "visit with" this Christmas because he correctly guessed what it would feel like to sodomize her. Binky was careful to ask her beforehand, "Please don't suck my son into your asshole", even though Adak is probably too big to fit. Probably.

The three "lower hole" pred assistants sometimes play a tug of war game in which they each try to swallow someone with their predatory orifice. Whoever wins gets a meal. This could conceivably lead to one UBing or AVing a fellow assistant along with the intended meal, so they are quite careful. Tempting though a double meal sounds, someone would have to take over the ingested assistant's work duties and none of them are hungry enough to pay for it with double shifts.

Other staff

Tiguaak: a male polar bear who works as the "front four reindeer" as penance for eating Dasher, Prancer, Comet and Rudolph a few Christmases back. Tiguaak, like a lot of local bears, is as smart as a human and can talk, but he is otherwise an ordinary bear.

The big feral bear isn't a huge fan of this job but he -is- a fan of the fact that a number of Santa's followers have the hots for their boss but don't want to get eaten by Mrs. Binky or one of the assistants. This probably wouldn't happen due to the open relationships involved but then there's the worry that fraternizing with the boss would make their friends jealous. Tiguaak, like Adak, is The Next Best Thing. He may not like pulling the sleigh but he does approve of the daily blowjobs, handjobs, and various orifices people want him to fuck.

While Tiguaak prefers his asshole to be exit only he will lick a pussy or a cock equally willingly as long as he gets some action too. He will fuck a mouth or whatever orifice is offered no matter what it is attached to. He just wants to get his rocks off and he is not picky about how it happens. You might say he's a bi-polar bear.

Being as big and strong as Binky but entirely feral he is not as dexterous as his boss. As a result Binky has had to tell him to be careful with the elves and other small lovers. There were some regrettable incidents early on and even now he occasionally sends a lover to the infirmary due to an excess of enthusiasm and the size differences involved.

The reindeer: only four of the original eight are left thanks to Tiguaak but they are pampered and lead a good life. They are at least semi-intelligent and three of the four are male. Since this would put a lot of stress on one doe surrounded by three healthy bulls, it's a good thing that there are a number of people at the workshop who think reindeer look pretty good. They are routinely exercised, groomed, well fed, massaged, and have their pick or male or female lovers. None of the four have any complaints.

The elves: several hundred elves live at the Pole, most of whom didn't approve of Santa Claus disappearing down the gullet of a bear that became their new boss. Fortunately Binky turned out to be a good boss who often treats them better than Claus did. (The all-expenses-paid vacations to warmer climes for outstanding performers after the holiday season are a new thing, for one. )

The elf majordomo, Tiddles, outranks everyone at the Pole other than Mr. and Mrs. Binky. He has been there for at least a thousand years and can tell you firsthand why there are (or were) eight tiny reindeer, because he knows Sleipnir personally. Claus was not the first Santa, after all. It's a long story and you have to get him pretty drunk to hear it.

Mr. Tiddles happens to be flamboyantly gay and has the hots for Binky, but sadly Binky prefers women. The elf has to satisfy himself with Tiguaak and, now that he's old enough to be interested, Adak. One of these days they are going to get a little too into their regular elf spitroasts and accidentally break him. Fortunately the North Pole has an excellent health plan that has managed to correct the funny walk a thick black polar bear pole gave him shortly after Tiguaak showed up.

Other workers: besides the elves some 50-100 other workers live here, depending on the season. A few are human but most are various sorts of anthropomorphic animals. The North Pole is a bit of a fuckfest when the workers aren't too busy and these furries happily join in for the most part. Most of the human workers are cooks, for whatever reason.

Health plan: magical healers among the elves can patch up most injuries that aren't immediately fatal in minutes. They also ward Santa with dozens of protective spells whenever he is at the slightest risk, because they just got this new boss broken in and they don't want to have to through that again any time soon.

They cannot on the other hand de-digest someone who has been eaten so certain of the more predatory staff members should be approached with caution. The sexual vore preds like Mrs. Binky particularly, as she gets so into things that she tends to only realize something bad has happened when her pussy burps. Pretending to offer yourself as a meal (which may dressing yourself up as a present given the sort of gifts Binky gives predators at Christmas) is also a bad idea as many locals will take you up on it. The fact they later say "Oops" doesn't correct the fact that things are awfully hot and wet where you are and all you can hear is this gurgling noise.

Santa Binky can bring people back from the dead or even make multiple copies of a person, but these are very rarely used abilities. Only Binky (and maybe Chugiak and definitely Tiddles) understand all the rules and restrictions that come with his powers, but some restrictions definitely exist.

The small folk

A number of martens, squirrels, mice and weasels act as messengers within the workshop, running through various sizes of tubes that connect the many rooms while carrying a rolled up message in wooden capsule. The squirrels and mice have their own blocked-off section of the network due to problems with weasel or marten predatory reflexes. All these little folk are very careful around larger creatures lest they be stepped or snapped up by instinct. Their services are much appreciated by Binky (and Clauses before him) and they are rewarded with long life and health. The drawback is they can neither have nor sire children as long as they are on the premises and most eventually leave. Some have worked here for centuries, though, and have become functionally immortal, even to the point of being durable enough to pass entirely through a predator unharmed.

The local wildlife

The predators in the area around the workshop are well aware that Binky will give them delicious presents around the shortest day of the year and so most of them cause no trouble for the workshop lest they not get a gift-wrapped treat. Even small predators share the wealth and the tied-up school shooter being skeletonized by a hundred ravenous weasels can only dream of dying as peacefully as the bank robber that dolphin over there is swallowing.

The time around Christmas is a sort of festival for the wildlife and many go there during the short days of the year throughout their lives. Immediately after Christmas there is a truce of a few days while the predators are digesting their gifts and much interspecies hanky-panky takes place between various wild animals, the staff, and even some humans invited to the North Pole for the occasion.

 mozdoc and I are off to BLFC Monday after this coming one and so far only have two people for the room. We'd be happy to share with 1-2 more to reduce expenses. We are driving up Monday the 30th and are leaving a little early, driving out around noon on November 3rd (Thursday). If all this works for you and still need a room, let me know.

A last minute opportunity to go to Tulsa Furcon came up, so I'll be flying out there with  mozdoc on Friday. We fly back on Monday so I'll be there part of Friday and all of Saturday and Sunday. I will likely be in whatever passes for a drawing area. If you want to meet, look for the person with the poison headcrab hat (it looks like a black spider eating someone's head) and probably a desk lamp for extra light while drawing. I spend most of my time at cons drawing so I'll be around to talk to you if you like. A lot of cons these days have no dedicated 'zoo' area, so I may end up in the traditional games room. If there are tables and light to draw, that's likely where I will be.

https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....vuzi-972639096

I had forgotten I had this half completed on my phone, so I finished it. Uvuzi receives a gift or maybe loan of magic items that would let someone she swallowed survive the experience. Naturally, the first thing she does is find a volunteer to test it.

https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....vore-972310908

Requested story. This one may be a bit talky, and I haven’t seen Zootopia in a while, but it was fun to write, so there’s that. I do like worldbuilding.

https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....vore-972310908

Requested story. This one may be a bit talky, and I haven’t seen Zootopia in a while, but it was fun to write, so there’s that. I do like worldbuilding.

https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....dogo-972147807

Mdogo the honey badger doesn’t know what Christmas is, but he still gets a very nice present.

I was surprised to find that I hadn’t posted the story to go with the art series. Turns out that was because I never finished said story. I was about to start work on a new Mdogo story so this one had to get finished first.

https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....plan-971962463
Sometimes a genius criminal plan is in fact so obvious the law has already made their own plans to combat it.

https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....naud-971598458

Someone asked for a "Renaud at the zoo" story and that didn’t quite click. Maybe him forcing himself on various animals? Renaud at the Beach was pretty easy to write, though.

I am at a family get together and the only place I can post anything from my writing phone is DA. So far three new stories are there. These will end up on FA eventually but if you are interested, here are some links.

The littlest gun - Rocket vore story https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....tory-970638511
The lady at campsite 11 - Ranger Rick vore story https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....vore-971155661
How Ellie got her watch back - Friendly Beach vore with a seal and a woman https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....back-971234976 (This one has pretty graphic digestion and like most FB stories, bestiality.)

I have one more very old hard vore-ish sci-fi story I’ve been touching up, plus other ideas to work on. I’ll post links as they go up on DA.

I'm at a family get together and can't really draw, but as long as the keyboard writing phone on its last legs holds up I can write. I'll check this journal in 24 hours and see if anyone has any ideas I like. If so I'll do a short story for them. I've already written a Rocket vore story here, updated an old sort of hard vore story, and am working on a Friendly Beach story. I can't post any of this stuff here from my phone but it'll get posted when I get back. I CAN post to DeviantArt so if anyone is interested the Rocket story is over here: https://www.deviantart.com/greedywo.....tory-970638511

- "Minors involved in SFW or non-sexualized interests, such as vore and transformation, are allowed."

This is a complete about face given what I was told in a trouble ticket reply back in January. I was told that vore and underage characters were never allowed. I ALSO got a TT reply back then that said the exact opposite, that vore was fine with underage characters as long as it was non-sexual.

It is evident that the mods back then were not talking to each other and that there was no overarching direction. I am sure they are all volunteers but more consistent moderation would be nice. Now the rule has been "clarified", which is nice since the only clarification we got back then was the ban hammer.

I sent in a polite trouble ticket and I hoping nothing bad happens. I don't need a repeat of the drama from January, where I was put on the naughty step despite having a trouble ticket in asking for clarification on the new rule. I have requested to have my deleted submissions restored, with the exception of a few that probably should not be. Even those require meta knowledge to even be questionable, as the characters appear adult, as when Merida from Brave was in a couple of my pics.

I am hoping for the best. My trust in the FA staff is very low at this point but fingers crossed, maybe I'll at least get to repost a couple of my comics that were nuked, like The Lost Ball, and even the wholesome Leash series where Mdogo the honey badger ends up apologizing to the kid whose dog he ate.

Besides all my stuff here, when Guardians of the Galaxy 1/2 came out I wrote a bunch of squeaky clean fanfics focusing mostly on Rocket. Unlike the couple of Rocket vore stories I did here these were more or less G rated, with some bloodshed and a lot of trauma, but all the sex took place off camera. I hook Rocket up with Lylla and even his dad shows up. It was great fun to write and as of this moment I have something like 175,000 words of it over on AO3 under Woozletania. I'm still adding to it bit by bit.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/W.....zletania/works

So a month or so a guy popped up in the comments over there and started asking "Why didn't Cosmo appear in your stories" and other innocent stuff. All of a sudden, something like 10 comments in, he asks "Will you do a story where Rocket and Lylla sink into quicksand and can't escape."

Now, when I was a little woozle, if you saw a palm tree or a jungle on your black and white TV, someone was going to fall into quicksand. It was that common back then, I swear it happened in almost every show, plus old black and white movies. And while I probably picked up a vore fetish from all the vore in older cartoons, I had the opposite reaction to this. I am literally quicksandophobic and won't even go into a marshy area without a stick to poke the ground. This despite reasoning out that quicksand has to be denser than water so you won't sink out of sight in it. (Mythbusters confirmed this.) It's still dangerous because you can get stuck and die of exposure, but it's not sucky movie quicksand.

So as you might guess I said "No". At this point he flew off the handle and told me I sucked and my writing sucked. Not the sort of behavior to make friends and influence people.

And then today on FA someone contacted me out of the blue and asked if I took requests. I do, occasionally, but when I looked over at his favorites it was almost all quicksand stuff. I didn't make the connection at the time so I just said our fetishes didn't appear to line up.

Lo and behold, he said "you and your stuff will suck you cowardly cur" quote unquote.

This is a weird thing to have happen twice so I can only imagine it's the same person. I replied back and asked if he was and he'd already blocked me.

Now, this is all perfectly harmless. I just thought it was weird it would happen to me twice. People be crazy.

So the order of events went something like this:

I got some hate replies to a comment I made on a 7 year old picture Foshu did. A lot of people were angry about a child prey pic. I put in a trouble ticket because the Twitter raid that hit Foshu was instigated by someone with an FA account. Instigating a raid seems like something that should be against the rules. (It's against the rules on 4chan. 4CHAN.)

In the course of this I heard about the new rule put up on January 3rd. "Minors will not be fetishized." This is pretty unclear so I put in a trouble ticket asking for a rules clarification. I was at Further Confusion at the time and going through my whole gallery looking for possible problems on my phone wasn't going to happen.

I previously assumed that as long as a minor wasn't having sex or near sex all was well. I got a previous suspension because the word "young" appeared once in a story which later on had sex. The young character wasn't involved in the sex, by the way. They had been eaten long before that happened.

While I was waiting for a response on the rules clarification I got suspended.

I put in two appeals, not asking for a relief from the suspension but asking for relief from the strike against my account as it was due to a new rule being applied retroactively.

I took a screen shot of my FA front page to get an idea of what was removed. Eventually I got a reply to my second appeal, which said many of the pictures removed were removed in error as there was no sexual content. The ones removed in error were restored, I was told. 13 were still removed due to sexual content and the strike against my account remained for this reason. I was not told which these were despite asking this question.

Yesterday my suspension ran out and I was able to read the reply to my rules clarification trouble ticket. This said in so many words that any vore involving underage characters is now against the rules because vore is a fetish. This of course contradicts the reply I received to an appeal that said many submissions with my sexual content were restored.

They were not restored, by the way. Whole comics have evaporated including The Lost Ball, Sproing!, and even the wholesome Mdogo strip where he eats a kid's dog, apologizes and even gives her a tour of the camp. All the Weird Kid stories, which have no sex of any sort, got the axe. Anything with both an underage character and vore is now verboten according to at least one mod.

I'll put a link to my Eka's account on my front page here. I've been organizing my gallery there to be more like my FA one. Stuff that evaporated here will still be there.

Weirdly, stuff that is fine to post on Deviantart is now against the rules on FA now and DA bans all "adult" art.

(There were a few in my gallery that included sex with minors present if in your infinite meta knowledge you knew the age of the characters. I assumed Merida or whatever her name was in Brave was an adult but apparently the mods knew better. The rule of thumb now is no minors and nothing that can be perceived as a minor.)

The upshot of all this is that the mods on FA are obviously not talking to each other and no overarching rule is in place about this whole troublesome underage vore thing. One mod says it's never allowed and another says it's fine as long as there is no sexual content. And the fact that they haven't restored the ones I was told were A-OK means they can't be trusted to follow their own internal rulings either. Or maybe they are just overworked. The result is the same.

The extremely poor moderation regarding this new rule has caused me to lose all trust in FA. I had a trouble ticket in asking for a rules clarification. I was paying attention and was perfectly ready to remove any problem content once I was told what that was. Instead I got suspended and a strike against my account.

Presumably this happened because of the new Amazon affiliate ads on the site. Tumblr banned all porn a few years back to get those sweet ad dollars and lost 90% of their user base.

At this point I would not put it past FA to ban all smutty feral art, any feral/anthro or feral/human art, or just plain ban all vore. The same crowd on Twitter that attacked Foshu hates these things too and Twitter seems to be giving FA its marching orders now based on the fact that the FA guy who raided Foshu hasn't been punished in any way. They may decide something else is wrongthink and feral and vore are high on their list.

Any one of those restrictions would probably result in more bad faith retroactive strikes against accounts and probably some "We don't think you are a good fit for our community" bans as were handed out to baby fur artists when they got the axe. Strikes never go away on FA, by the way. Once you get those points on your license you are one strike away from a lost license forever.

I love FA but I've been psychologically preparing myself for a ban because the way they behaved this time makes me think they will find excuses to ban more people.

There is a saying in the military "It takes ten attaboys to make up for one ohshit" and this is a pretty big ohshit on FA's part. A lot of trust has been lost. I hope those ad dollars were worth the cost.

"Upload Policy 2.7 - Content Involving Minors
Content featuring minors is not allowed when the minor is in the presence of sexual activity, sexual objects, or nudity, though exceptions may be made for non-sexual depictions of birth and breastfeeding. Presence is defined as being in the same scene, such as sharing a comic panel, contiguous image, reference sheet, or specific section of a story where characters are engaging each other.

Minors may not have detailed bulges or outlines of normal or hyper genitalia, clothed or otherwise. Minors may not be fetishized. Minors younger than 13 may not be depicted as pregnant. Minors are defined as real or fictional humanoids with a childlike body or younger than 18 years old, and any adolescent animals.

Changes to section 2.7 are highlighted in bold. This change was made to close a loophole some individuals were trying to stretch past our initial intent."

"Minors cannot be fetishized" was boldface in the original.

I am waiting for final clarification on this but one vore artist had a lot of images taken down, some of which did not involve minors but merely size/species differences that could imply that some of the characters were minors. He was also very nearly hit with a permaban. Be VERY VERY careful about including minors in vore art or stories until this shakes out. I am hoping they will warn people and give them a chance to take offending content down, but the artist I mentioned was not warned and came within an appeal of being permabanned.

I have minors in some of my vore. I HOPE to be given the chance to take down any offending material. I HOPE to get a warning. There is no guarantee at this point due to the vague wording of the announcement. It can be interpreted as "any content featuring a minor that we interpret as being fetish in any way is a bannable offense." I’d like clarification but here we are.

Note: I do not have all the information regarding the takedowns and bans. The admin I’ve been talking to says as much. But I still very much want a clarification from the admins.

Two people I don't know and one I know from comments. It's nice when someone I know well wins, but with the number of entries it doesn't often happen. Someone I've known for 20 years won over on Eka's. 83 I'll send them PMs and see what they want to have drawn. 83

It's that time again! Enter by replying to this raffle. Only reply once, and don't reply to other replies. (This simplifies my job when I roll for winners.) Don't number your entry, I will do that myself. I'm going to put up a "raffle warning" image in my gallery too so people who don't look at journals have a better shot at getting in.

On the 3rd (or so) of January I will use a dice roller to roll for winners. For every hundred entries I will roll for one winner. 220 entries = 3 rolls, for example. Each winner gets to ask me to draw something. You don't need to put your request in your initial reply to the raffle, but you can if you want. Odds are I will have questions about references, etc., that will cause me to send you PMs about it anyway.

The requests do not have to be vore drawings. They could be something like a profile picture of your character. I do ask that the requests not be tremendously complicated. I will negotiate with the winners on this subject should I decide the requested drawing is too labor intensive. It's not as though you are paying me to draw, after all. 83

Due to the scheduling of this raffle the earliest I could likely draw something from it would be during Further Confusion a week or so after the raffle closes.

I am off to a family get together for two weeks and won't be able to draw anything, as my family has no idea what I draw and I want to keep it that way. Even bringing a sketchbook seems a bad idea as someone might flip through it and have their eyes suck back into their head in horror. However, I will probably be able to do some writing. If anyone has an idea for a short story, maybe something in one of my settings or a continuation of an existing one you like, maybe I'll be interested enough to write it while I am away. Just reply here and we'll see what happens.

Everyone in my house, myself and my two renters all caught the plague last weekend. Thankfully we all have mild cases. I felt like crap for a day or two and right now all I have left is an occasional cough. Well, that is until my sense of taste went away earlier this evening. That's a pretty common symptom, but I'll take it over the fever or other symptoms coming back.

I've had all the shots and maybe it would be much worse if I hadn't had them. Luckily this happened at a time when it didn't interfere with any cons or family travel. It still sucks but what do you do? This thing is really contagious. I think we all (myself and my renters) had it before anyone knew they were infected.

This is why I haven't posted anything in a few days. Being sick takes a lot out of you. It's hard to get motivated.

I'm a GSFC this weekend. If you're here too and want to talk, look for the guy in the poison headcrab hat in the corner of the dealer's room area. As far as I can tell the only drawing space at this little con is the unused tables there. I usually have a plug in desk lamp but the main thing to look for the is big black spider looking thing on my head. 83