Are there any fictional characters you find hot? Someone with whom you'd like considerable alone time? Or perhaps someones?

My personal fave is good ol' Gatomon. Rita from Animaniacs was also sexy as fuck (you can keep your Minerva Mink).

Still open for Flash Fiction commissions.

Examples (all adult):

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14633072/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14658438/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14668920/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14702048/

You can have one of these of your very own. Just $5 and a prompt (subject to my usual restrictions).

You pushed the red button and climbed into the tube in the mad scientist's lab, not even trying to figure out what it did first. You probably assumed it was some kind of teleporting device given the identical large tube on the opposite side of the room. Anyway, it created a perfect replica of you down to every memory in that other tube. So now there are two of you. What do you do?

Ask me your burning questions.

Journal of my current commission yes and no list (so I can find it easier in the future and edit as need be).

Yes's: Clean. Vanilla sex of any number of MF partners. The usual acts include Masturbation, Oral, Anal, Vaginal, Rimming, etc... Basic BDSM. Incest. I'm cool with violence (simple wild west bang your dead stuff is fine.) Dark stuff (though not really torturous).

No's: Gore, vore, rape, scat, watersports, vomit. torture, micro/macro/hyper/.

Maybe So's: (stuff I'm iffy with but may do depending on the story): Herms, Trickier BDSM mechanics, TF, Cheating.

This list is not exhaustive, feel free to ask if you have questions. I'm not putting up a set number of slots, I'll likely close when I feel overrun. And reopen when I get those completed (likely at higher prices as I'll feel I can get more for my work.)

With actually making a couple of commission sales showing me this might actually work, I need to figure out what, specifically, I am after.

The first goal in this is a quality scanner. The second a quality color printer.

For the scanner I need to figure out what is the best balance between cost and quality. What do other artists use?

As for printer, again I want something quality. Ideally I'd want something with refillable or separate color cartridges. Advice? What do other artists use?

Posted the first story of someone taking advantage of my $5 Flash Fiction commissions:

Dragon, male, portals, orgasm-denial http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14633072/ (adult)

If you'd like one (of course you would) go here! http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6142942/

Okay, worked out a lot of time stuff for Saffron, which involved a lot of playing around with Kepler's Third Law. But this is the end result.

We have 13 months a year, 32 days to a month. There is a 21-month cycle of leap days for monthe. At the end of the seventh and fourteenth months there is a leap day. Each is a holiday with its own lore and traditions. The first is 'The Day of the Lost' a day for solemn reflection of things and peoples lost in their lives. The second is the Day of Life, a celebration of life and such.

Annual leap days are once every seven years, Each leap year a different month gets the leap day. And after thirteen leap days have occurred the next is skipped.

The months are Hennene, Duene, Triene, Tetrene, Pentene, Hexene, Heptene, Octene, Ennene, Decene, Hendecene, Duodecene, and Triskadecene.

Seven days a week, each a color. Auburn, Cerise, Azure, Olive, Ecru, Ochre, Russet Auburn and Cerise are weekend days.

Aside from the Day of the Lost and Day of Life holidays the remaining holidays are linked to days of astronomical significance.

Imbolic (start of spring), Ostara (Vernal Equinox), Beltane (first of summer), Midsummer (summer solstice), Lughnasadh (beginning of autumn), Mabon (Autumnal Equinox), Samhain (start of winter), and Yule (winter equinox).

Hennene first, start of the year, occurs on periheilian and is about half way between Imbolic and Ostara.

Finally, cycles of years. Each annual leap year cycle (fourteen sets of seven years) is named after a gemstone. (They cycle around as well). Current stories are in the 'Ruby' cycle).

Info dump for the curious. This will start to be worked into my tales.

Gimmicky commission idea  Jeevestheroo did before. $5. Give me a very basic description of what you want to see and I write what comes to mind. Example: I gave Jeeves 'feline, female, solo, park' and got this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6074180/ (adult).

Not for a story that requires much detailing or plot. If you want one of those feel free to get my regular story commissions: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6140188/ (I've upped my prices a bit on them because I'm doing these now. Even a 1k word story requires more work for me if I have to figure out the headspace of someone else's character).

Usual rules apply. Comment below.

I am opening for story commissions to help pay for some stuff. I want to switch doing art (on  lapisleopard side of things) over to pencil and colored pencil. I need to get a good quality scanner though to upload the lovely pornings for you all. Plus I'd like to get a tracing board and good quality colored printer.

I've got lots of big life expenses coming up, though, and I can't afford to buy expensive equipment now. If these go well, I'll probably keep doing them to help pay for cons and stuff. Really start getting furry to pay for furry and having my 'real job' pay for non-porn related expenses.

Okay, heart of the matter. Pricing. At the moment I'm going to open pricing tiers based on word counts. $10 base + $5 per thousand words over (estimate).

$10: 1-2k words.
$15: 2-3k words.
$20:3-4k words.

And so on. And for the next fun thing, the yes's, no's, and maybe so's

Yes's: Clean. Vanilla sex of any number of MF partners. The usual acts include Masturbation, Oral, Anal, Vaginal, Rimming, etc... Basic BDSM. Incest. I'm cool with violence (simple wild west bang your dead stuff is fine.) Dark stuff (though not really torturous).

No's: Gore, vore, rape, scat, watersports, vomit. torture, micro/macro/hyper/.

Maybe So's: (stuff I'm iffy with but may do depending on the story): Herms, Trickier BDSM mechanics, TF, Cheating.

This list is not exhaustive, feel free to ask if you have questions. I'm not putting up a set number of slots, I'll likely close when I feel overrun. And reopen when I get those completed (likely at higher prices as I'll feel I can get more for my work.)

So comment below, send me a note, or email if you are interested in a story. I'll tell you if it is doable and if I feel I can do it in the word count you want. I'll ask for payment around when I start work on your story. (I don't want to end up doing the same as I had with the alphabet challenge thing.)

So, yes, that. Phone lines are open, operators are standing by.

So a couple of ideas that have been swimming through my head recently (today). Story ideas, world building, character stuff.

First is an Avatar type character. I watched the second season of Korra continrecently (good stuff). And it brought some old ideas to the forefront. I like the regeneration mechanism of the avatar, particularly the 'accessing past lives' avatar state thing. I had a dream ages ago about such a character. Myself and Tirta (my water mage) were trying to help her connect with her past lives so she could own whatever evil we were up against. The Doctor was also somehow involved but I think that's a bit much. The main thing I remember about her from the dream was her wielding a large golden staff.

Anyway, I think she's a character I want to weave into my stories. I have much to learn about her yet. What is her history? What is the nature of her regeneration? I like the 'cycle' idea of Avatar but I don't want to do the element thing. I'll figure something out.

Anyway, the second idea in my head is more yiffy. It harkens back to this story: http://www.chakatsden.com/chakat/St.....s/TOFC-05.html, one of the first I read in discovering the furry fandom. I love the idea of an open sexual type thing. A character having sexual acts 'requested' of them.

I'm thinking of continuing in the foxtaur vein, as foxtaurs are sexy. Also it would let me add a bit of backstory/character to my Kevin. But I imagine a foxtaur tree-city somewhere deep in the jungle. Not allowing outsiders in as they dislike the judgement brought on them of their lifestyle. They have a system of requesting a desired partner for sex.

They have a 'mateship' concept as opposed to marriage, maybe similar to the Chakat universe den mate/life mate sort of thing. I have a couple of ideas I can draw from. We shall see.

The snow leopard Echo looks over her shoulder at you. She smiles, lifting her large fluffy tail to accentuate her nudity.

What do you do?

Since I doubt anyone is going to stuff in last minute entries to my contest, and since my brain has made up itself anyway. I can announce the winner.

The planet is named 'Saffron.'

:LeonandRenei: suggested 'Xaffron' and that had many of the notes I was looking for. Googling it that appears to be the name of a software company, though. So I'm just taking it back to its base. 'Saffron.' Drawing an allusion to the rare and valuable spice is the sort of connection I want for this place.

So yes, Saffron. I'm still declaring  leonandrenei the winner, even though I am not using his suggestion directly, it inspired me.

What are some of your favorite terms for naughty bits?

For guy bits I prefer 'cock'. For female, 'boobs' is silly. I like 'pussy' for the lower stuff.

Simply butt or ass for butts. 'Arse' feels more of a silly reference.

Put up your faves!

Choose a name for my planet. The planet Lyre City and all of them live on. Post one (1) entry below. Winner gets a free short story commission (1-2k) subject to my usual restrictions:


No: Scat, water-sports, gore, vore, vomit, flatulence, sexual snuff, torture, rape, macro, micro, hyper, inflation.

Possibly: Transformation, cheating, hypnosis, embarrassment. (These things are generally topics I don't enjoy but can, with the right plot line, be good. If you want a story featuring these don't hesitate to ask, but don't get your hopes up.)

Will do, but your mileage may vary: bondage, herms, any BDSM sorts of thing.

Yes, please: Vanilla sex MF, FF, MM, masturbation (M or F), violence (i.e. Livestone bang-you're-dead is okay, Just no gore). And, of course, anything clean :).

Feel free to ask for anything from 'possibly' on up (if you hit something I'd be willing to do with those subjects at all, it almost certainly get done).


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EDIT:

I suppose I should put a time restriction thing on this. Let's give it two days, so Saturday at noon (Sept. 13 at 12:00 CDT)? But if I don't get any names I like I will rerun the contest and people can submit again.

EDIT EDIT:

Extending the deadline to Sunday at noon. Because I want a few more options. Also, Lapis Lazuli is tossing on a free art commission for the winner. Since these new things are up, I'll also allow people to post two names.

I'm just putting this out there that I do math tutoring online. I tutored  therion87 over the summer for his Calc II class, and he seemed appreciative. My rate is $30 an hour and I can work over Skype in conjunction with OneNote or Google Docs.

So if you need math help or know someone who does, I can provide.

I recently moved out of my apartment by school. I'm living at my parents until I find a place closer to my job. But when I moved out, I had left some of Comcast's equipment in the room. I had been sharing the service with another of the housemates, and I'd left it there so they could get on unitl the service was up.

When I went to cancel the service, though, Comcast told me I had to bring in the equipment. I went back to the place, contacted the landlady, they hadn't seen it. Apparently the equipment, a cable modem and a cable box, were stolen. I've been afraid to call Comcast, not wanting to deal with them. But I need to, I can't pay almost $100 on service I'm not using. Ugh, I wish I was stronger.

So my mother and I went shopping today. I was rather annoyed with this development given it was out of town and I had not been forewarned. But we went to a small zoo as well, so that improved my position on the matter.

Returning home we went through Arby's drive through (or 'thru' as it is colloquially spelled). We placed the order at the box in the accustomed manner. Drove around, exchanged money, and waited. After a few minutes had passed the clerk returned to the window and asked 'I'm sorry, Arby's?' We both stared perplexed for a minute. My mother grasped his meaning, however, before I was able. 'Yes, Arby's sauce.' We had requested Arby's sauce. He was verifying the kind of sauce we wanted.

But in those few seconds before my mother stated this, my brain went, 'Yes, Arby's. We want Arby's, as is why we are in an Arby's drive thru ordering Arby's food from you who are employed by this Arby's.'

Just a bit of daily silliness.

Some background on the Next Blue Rose competition. Consider this the artist/author's commentary. I came up with the idea last summer. Jeeves the roo had gotten me into watching Masterchef Australia. I had had the idea of a group of ladies to do commissions with before. Inspired by Flinters' 'Sugarnutz' women. But I hadn't thought of species.

In one day of random chatting the whole idea came together, though. I originally intended just to pick different species I liked and pit them against one another in the competition, the audience voting on who would win. But I quickly realized that a reality show needed an audition round. At first I thought it would be staged to have my selected favorites win, but then I realized no, I had to go all out. The judges/audience would pick who goes into the competition. It would be (mostly) out of my hands entirely.

Pretty much the entirety of the horrible jokes within the audition round I came up with within two days of concocting the idea. I knew this needed to be more than a series of pinups. The humor is one of the most important things, to me, in the project.

The second is the characters. If I was to have little control over who won, then I had to be certain I'd be happy with whomever did win. And I ended up writing a little blurb for each of the women in the auditions. Yes, each of the forty-five women on stage was given their own backstory. And I know them all by name. It's a good thing I have my judges and audience to decide fates for me, I could never choose myself.

Another bit of the women I'm proud of is the varying ages. That's the number next to the name in their pinup. They range from eighteen to fifty. The story behind that harkens back to chatting with Jeeves. He brought up the idea in light of my Sayen and Itu. I hadn't thought of that. And I hadn't originally planned for that. But was golden year sex really just restricted to those two? No.

So, yeah, I decided to make it all even. To keep an even spread, I divided that 32 year spread into five chunks. For each heat I randomly selected an age from each chunk. And then randomly applied that age to one of the five women in the heat (I wrote their backstories after I had their ages).

Other than that, lots of little touches. A few of the dumb background jokes I worked in because I could:

On the theatre scene, the giant banners on the theatre are for 'Annabel Lee: the Musical' because I'm a horrible person. (I wanted something that would be absolutely horrible to turn into a musical. I originally thought of 'Where the Red Fern Grows: the Musical' but it didn't have the ring I was looking for).

The shop neighboring the theatre there is 'Kiwi Dictatorship.'

And some stores in the giant tarp scene:

'Boos' is the pub there, and is a bit of a double pun. The original intended pun was to take the infamous 'Cheers' and flip it to its opposite. It also doubles as a pun on booze, so bonus points.

'Meh! Sushi' is a reference to the British chain of conveyor belt sushi restaurants. I originally came up with this for my minecraft world, but needed to bring it over to where people would see.

'Jennifer's Playhouse' is a sex-toy shop. And probably other stuff happens there. The Jennifer there is inspired by Antoneth's Jennifer. (If you like bondagey submissivey slavey type things that have a cute lovey atmosphere attached start here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4979743/). As of the disclaimer on the final page of the comic, Jennifer's Novelties and Consort services is a large chain of sex related products, shops, and services. I'm now saying she's a my-world version, alternate realities and whatnot. Her servants' my-world counterparts in her employ somewhere in the industry.

Moving on. O'Daffy's. Okay, this one is a bit convoluted. It's a play on McDonald's. The Scottish Mc I replaced with the Irish O' (of the). And Daffy for Donald because of the ducks. This is how my brain works.

On the other side of the street, we have BAKERY. Because you've all seen these places, right? No fancy name, no frills, just what it is. Like LAUNDRY, or BANK, or FUNERAL PARLOR.

And lastly the store is just 'Greek Letters' spelled out in Greek letters.

Yeah, those are my horrible street sign jokes. There will be more in the future. I try to stick some for of joke into every page, excepting maybe the pinup pages (well, most of them).

But yeah. I think that's enough behind the scenes for now. I could go on for ages. But yes, if you like naked furry women or dumb humor: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13641289/

The auditions are done, but the show is just starting. So there's a lot more to come.

This isn't a meme I found. But I figured I know the usual questions on these sorts of things.

1.) Are you going to IFC?

Yes, that's why I'm doing this meme.

2.) When are you arriving/leaving?

I'm arriving sometime Friday afternoon, leaving sometime on Sunday.

3.) Who are you hanging out with?

 marefurryfan and some of his Columbus fur buddies. And anyone else I happen to run into.

4.) Can I say 'hi'?

Of course!

5.) Can I hug you?

Maybe?

6.) Can I feel your hot body all over mine?

Since you put it that way, no.

7.) How will I recognize you?

Well, I'll have a handful of badges on that say 'Tygacat.' Also I carry a DMFA Fi messenger bag. And I generally have a small white plush tiger that rides in my bag, or in my pocket, or on my head.

8.) Do you draw?

I try.

9.) Are you in the Dealer's Den/Artist Alley?

No.

10.) Can you help me move a body?

What, no!

11.) Do you fursuit?

I haven't, though Rain suggested maybe lending me his horse suit for a little. We shall see.

10.) Hosting/going to any room parties?

Not planning anything.

11.) Are you hosting any panels?

No.

12.) Going to any panels?

Probably, I'll have to see.

13.) Goals for the con?

Have fun, relax, buy some arts, drink some booze.

Because I've got nothing better to do.

So this morning the cable people came to my parents' house to install a DVR box. But he had issues installing it. And after he left, I tried using it just to test. But the thing kept telling me 'DVR is unavailible or not installed.' I'd hit record as I was instructed, and it would say recording. But trying to change the channel while recording gave the message 'VCR recording blah blah blah'. So I'm fairly certain the DVR is having an identity crisis and thinks it is a VCR.

Then I went to comcast to cancel the service from my old apartment. I had left the apartment, but left the equipment there as I was sharing an account with another tenant and figured he may get the rest of the time to use it. But now going back to Comcast, they can't cancel my service I don't return the stuff. And going back to the apartment, the boxes aren't there. I'll need to call my landlady and find out what she did with them.

And lastly I went to talk to a realty agent about possibly getting a condo. There are some places I like. But my new job, while it pays well is still quite part time. So I probably won't be able to get a mortgage.

*sigh* Just frustrating to be dealing with it all.

Use Steam? Like tiger shaped friends on Steam? Add me. Tygacat3891

Taur Specialization

With taurs becoming a thing, as well as feeling discriminated against due to older locations that had not been designed with them in mind, new businesses have sprung up to provide consulting and contracting to businesses looking to be more fitting for the four-legged newcomers.

It can be an expensive and daunting task redesigning a place, particularly restrooms, for them. So their guidance is well worth it. In addition, they know the ins and outs of what government funds exist to help with such refitting. (In Lyre City this can change suddenly, so another benefit to having someone who knows.)

Restrooms are one of the biggest issues with refits. Taurs need differently designed facilities than bipeds. And installing new plumbing and toilets is expensive. Not to mention the space considerations of having an entire new set of restrooms. The designers generally are moving toward separate toilet stalls for each person, a small room with a toilet for each. And then shared sink facilities. This has the added benefit of eliminating gender-specific restrooms. Which is another advantage in a world where many people to not identify their gender as the same as their sex.

In many buildings which contain multiple businesses, they often try to convince the entire collection of businesses to pool resources and construct a rear hallway leading to a single large set of facilities. This is usually beneficial to the businesses as, in addition to now better accommodating everyone, they have a nice set of restrooms that are usually maintained well by a third party rather than the stereotypical dingy single stall thing with the handwritten CUSTOMERS ONLY note on the door.

In addition to restrooms, they help with floorplan layout. Taurs due to their bigger size have difficulty navigating tightly stocked items. This can be expensive for curio shops full of breakables. One of the big things they try to stress is reducing inventory. Having a large inventory makes some places look cluttered and confusing. It also leads to more shoplifting, as dense cluttered aisles lead to plenty of blind spots.

In this regard they also offer modern internet ordering options. They help stores get computers and train staff to use it. In this way a staff member can swiftly look up an item a customer has interest in and order it to the store. And in a big city like Lyre City, the item can usually be delivered within a couple of hours. In essence, they try to get shops to make themselves into showrooms for products that the customer can then order a more desired variation of via the staff members.

But still there are those who refuse to modernize. (See the 'trying to get the entire collection to agree' above. That rarely happens, as there is always at least one.) But as customers discover they like the new designs better, their business increasingly moves to the redesigned places.

Medical Magic

Magic is a thing that exists in the Lyre City world. It gets hushed over a lot but there are those who are aware of its presence. Aside from the supernatural things like Tirta and his gang, Ace Fountain Repair, and whatnot, there are those in the more mainstream that are aware of the existence of the supernatural. And nowhere is this more true than within the medical community.

The medical community has two faces. One is the face shown to the public. This admits no knowledge of magic. Any time things get close to that they switch over to thick walls of technobabble to dissuade the curious.

The other side is the side that knows magic is a thing. These people study magic carefully and treat it more or less as something that works, but that they don't understand. They seek to understand as much as they can as that makes it more useful, and less dangerous.

A spell in the Lyre City world is a fickle thing. It must always have a way to break it. And they can behave unpredictably at times. So the medical community likes to keep any healing type magics small, with short lifespans, usually administered in the form of a potion given in the guise of a pharmaceutical.

And they try to offset this with as much practical scientific knowledge as possible.

Disease is a relatively rare thing. There are heavy disease specialist mages who categorize illnesses and work to contain and irradicate any new illness that crops up amongst the population. And they are usually quite effective with it. It is a constant battle, however, as the unpredictably of magic prevents any single blanket cure or methodology from working. Each new illness is a fight from scratch.

This is quite useful for those in the sexiness department, as it means STD's are a non-thing. Pregnancy is still a bit of an issue. But there are a variety of techniques to combat unwanted pregnancy. There are spell-pills that both males and females take. Females are heat management (heat is a thing for furs in this world. And a woman being in heat can be dangerous for her (or even those about her) so such things are common). It is a small leap from there to advance it to prevent eggs developing all together.

Males have pills as well that cease sperm production. There are still exceptions. 'Sexual health' visits to the doctor are usually an annual thing for any fur entering puberty, bi-annual starting in late 20's, and by the 30's it moves to five years. Mainly it's about making sure the fur in question is on the best possible med (spell) combination to keep them healthy (from getting pregnant or getting anyone else pregnant).

Most furs who are interested in becoming pregnant speak with a professional about getting off the meds before doing so. (It can be a challenge.)