Soooo... I would have liked my newest character to be released at the end of November, so I can keep on the trend of releasing a new character every month. Since it's now December 1st, I don't think that's possible. But I'll get it to you all soon, I swear!

And after that... not sure. Christmas is coming up, and I've been going through some trauma crap, and there's a pandemic outside, excuses excuses. I may not be as active during December, but hopefully I'll be back in 2021! (Hopefully we'll all be back in 2021; can't assume anything in 2020) Either way, I promise you that you'll get at least one character in December.

Uhh... here's some trivia:
- A silkmoth's cocoon contains 1000-3000ft of raw silk, but it takes around 3000 cocoons to make a single pound of silk.
- Vinegar is around 2.5pH. You should not look up the pH of vinegar when you're eating salt and vinegar chips, or else you'll get paranoid about your teeth.
- The first Chibi-Robo game, Chibi-Robo!, was released in Japan on June 23rd, 2005, with a North American release the following year.
- I cannot grow a beard.

My question: Just... how are you doing? It's been a wild year; I hope you're getting through it okay.

Happy holidays:
- yoshielder

This one took me longer than I would've liked. After three weeks, I still had more than half of it to write! Then, as is usually the case with these characters, inspiration struck, and I finished the rest of it the next week. I heard someone say that you shouldn't wait for inspiration to start writing, but it's worked wonders for me.

...Then again, he wasn't writing porn. Or at least, kink-driven stories for an internet game.

And speaking of said internet game, I put a lot of references in this one. Probably a bit too many. At least with Charlie Pelletier, all the references were from my source material: with this character, it's all references to Transformania Time itself, and some of them are... pretty out there. In fact, I specifically put in one reference that only one person will get, and another reference that nobody will get. But I'll explain that one during the trivia bit.

One more thing. The height of Faye McKay was requested by my commissioner, and when I first started writing the opening stages, I thought I'd lean in heavily onto that bit about her, referencing her tall height throughout the character, and giving little hints that she has gigantism. Thankfully, I reached out to my friends about the topic, and was told that yes, 6'8 women do exist, and just because I haven't met a woman past 6'1 doesn't mean they're nonexistent without some other trait. I ain't an authority on the seven billion people in the world.

Why was I so skeptical about adding so many gigantism references? Well, aside from it just not being very nice in general... I'm gonna cut the jokes for a sec. I realised that common physical traits for gigantism (tall height, big hands and feet, prominent forehead) could very well be used to... I think the word is 'clock' trans women. That, along with the absence of a Groin stage (which is entirely because the character doesn't involve sex and I'm annoyingly ace) made me worry that the character could be read as transphobic. And... I already have some characters under my belt that are problematic; I don't want any more. So the height jokes were toned down, though not as much as I would've liked.

...Ugh, I always feel like I'm on a soapbox whenever I get into this. Y'all don't wanna be preached at; you want porn, trivia, and horrible attempts at humour. ...Well, you might not want the last bit, but you're gonna get it anyway:

- Like I said, a lotta references in this one, and it starts with the opening lines. Clarke and Claire are a character I've been working on for over two years, but it's so goddamn complicated that I can't get any work done with it. I'm content with them just being the butt of jokes about my inadequacy.
- Muu'laqh is in reference to Dexter Feiselberg, who had a final form with breasts so big the game couldn't measure them.
- “That Silver guy” is Luke Silver, an awesome character who has some pretty gnarly body horror!
- That Mike Thebes rant is a cheeky little reference to how he's been the starting opponent on TT for years.
- I've been using they/them pronouns for the host for years, at first to skirt past the pronoun colorer baked into the character creator, and then as the gender-neutral singular they/them. Now I have LORE for their pronoun usage! Everyone loves overwrought LORE in their porn!
- If you must know, Faye's 'stages of furry' theory is that there's two types of anthro animal forms on Transformania Time: the kekomimis and the fully anthro. She's wrong, btw: there's also the more animalistic anthros like Buck and April! Oh, and the centaurs.
- Music choice for this character was all Radiohead. Huh.
- ...Yeah yeah, I had Faye say an Undertale quote, sue me.

My question: ...Uhhhhh... I dunno. Talk amongst yourselves, I guess.

Oh my Guod, Lois. This is just like the time I was stuck as the last sentence of a porno journal:
- Yoshielder

This character is one of two halves, moreso than my other characters with two 'final forms'. And that's not only from the character itself, but from a bunch of things that happened while I was writing it.

Let's get to the character, first. You probably noticed the relative lack of mental changes in the first half, and that's by design (as if I'd ever skimp on the opportunity for mental changes...). My commissioner wanted more personality tweaks than outright changes, which might actually be a first for one of my characters! As such, it was tricky at first to figure out a direction for this one, since I use mental changes as a big ol' cognitive crutch. But once I found my groove, it went by super quick!

Despite the lack of MC (compared to my other characters, at least), I'm still really proud of this character, and for reasons that I didn't really intend while writing it. My commissioner and I agreed on an 'implant' that could supply mental changes while keeping the character's personality intact. Oh, did I say 'we agreed on'? I meant to say 'they were kind enough to tolerate my rabid need for mental changes'. I kinda feel a little selfish for implementing it-- these characters are for my commissioners and their tastes-- but it did mean I had a lot of fun writing this character, even without big mental changes!

The other big change that happened during the second 'half' of the character is something so big I made a separate journal about it. To recap, I learned basic CSS stuff, got access to the game's information on another site, and found a way to implement characters online without having to upload the base files. The CSS stuff happened literally after I finished the first half of the character; that's why you'll start to see semicolons and paragraph breaks as soon as Meoli makes themselves known. I think it's unintentionally added a really cool aspect to the character's story. Saturn starts off thinking he's just turning into a woman, and the text is very reactionary because of that. Then, just as he's coming to terms with his 'horrible' fate, a whole new world opens up, and he learns about the power he now has, slowly accepting his not-so horrible fate as the text gets more and more detailed, leading to them using their new power to revisit their old stories, and chatting to their programmer friends, and constantly forgetting to close their goddamn brackets...

...Wait, whose transformation were we talking about again?

Back on topic, I love when stories use their medium to portray their themes, which is why, even during this fever I've been battling, and even without extensive mental changes, I really liked writing this character... enough that I wrote the last 50 stages in like two days, lol. Anyway, here's the trivia:

- Saturn Grier is a name my commissioner uses for RPing (I've been lucky enough to RP with them for more than a year!), and so Jeong Jae-hwa's name is my own creation. Jae-hwa means 'respect and beauty', and Jeong is a relatively common Korean surname.
- I really like the trope of a voice in the character's head insidiously reshaping their mind and slowly turning from an enemy to an ally (as if identity death wasn't enough of an esoteric kink...), so I'm happy I got the chance to do it again, with a new twist. Murphy Suder's 'voice' is robotic and pragmatic, Buck Bicorn's 'voice' is dominant and authoritative, and Saturn's 'voice' is understanding and soothing!
- Speaking of Buck, I was reformatting that character while I was working on Saturn, and... holy hell, the ace undertones in that are thick. Can't believe I ever questioned my asexuality when I was writing characters that actively remove their libidos. And that's not even considering the nullification stories I've written! ...Actually, not sure if I've come on here on FA. Yeah, I'm ace. You all probably knew that from... well, the everything that I've written.
- ...No, of course I didn't subconsciously base Fight Mode's initiation code on Jean Valjean's prisoner number, shuddup.
- I wish Meoli's text was a bit narrower, but you can't use semicolons in the creator, even for code, so I had to just change the font and nothing else. Oh, and Meoli is Korean for head, because I have the subtlety of the author of Buck Bicorn.
- The music choices for this character were... ska punk. I'm serious. Nothing but ska punk.
- I got a lot of the details on the augmentations from a friend who's super knowledgeable on cyberpunk and transhumanism. The only things I didn't use were stuff that was too out there for my brain to comprehend (though they also mentioned the removal of organs, and... hoo boy, was it hard to resist the urge to do THAT to poor Saturn. Yeah I know, I'm fucked up).
- Though I'm happy to say that the pronouns replacing middle names thing was my idea! ...And then my cyberpunk friend brought up stuff like 'linguistic superpositions', and I went back to small-brain yoshielder again.
- I also added a bit of late-stage capitalism critique here and there, cuz cyberpunk. My favourite addition is legitimately a subtle touch: the phrase, “All rights reserved” is outdated now, let alone in 2100, but it's there as like a reminder to the consumer that, yeah, you don't own any of this, even though it's in YOUR mind.
- I was way too pleased with myself for ending this cyberpunk character with a Blade Runner quote, if you needed any more evidence that I'm basic AF.

My question to you: what was a recent breakthrough you've had in work or in your life in general?

You're ALL BREATHTAKING!!
- yoshielder

...Yeah, a weird title for a weird journal. But I had to write this for several reasons: first, an update on how I'm doing (since I've been avoiding twitter for a few weeks now, and ill with an off-and-on fever, but I'm still working!), but the big reason I'm writing this is... there's been a lot of changes in Transformania Time SP, and a lot more to come in the future. There's three changes in particular I'd like to bring up here.

A few weeks ago, the creator of the game, Judoo, gave me co-authorship of Transformania Time SP over on TFGamesSite. This was incredibly kind of him, and it gave me access to a bunch of stuff on that site that I've used primarily for presentation, changelogs, and general advertising. It's led to a new audience discovering this game, which might mean new writers!

...But none of that really affects you guys over here, right? All that's on another site. Thankfully, the next two changes are... pretty dang big.

This co-authorship must've lit a coding fire under me, cuz I started looking through the code of Transformania Time SP itself. I'd already found out about how I can make paragraph breaks, and my last character used pink text. But I spoke to a programmer friend, and... well, she showed me stuff I never thought was possible. Like, enough that there was a point where I had to step away, cuz my brain couldn't handle so much information all at once.

I can now bold text. Italicize text. Make text a whole bunch of different colours and even fonts. And I can insert any text character I want. That last thing is really big, but I think I'll only use it for two things: non-roman text, such as Hangul and Kanji... and semicolons.

I can now use semicolons in my characters. I don't think I can express how huge this is. I typically use so many goddamn semicolons that I feel writing in a program that forbids them has actually helped my writing as a whole. This is... very big news for me.

And you know what? That's not even the biggest change that's happened over the past month.

Even though I'm now co-author, I can't change the game itself, since it's all on a website I don't have access to. That sadly means I can't upload the characters onto the site... but I know people who can. This means that, if things go as planned, I can release a character here when it's uploaded to the online version of the game.

And THAT means that you'll no longer have to save and upload new characters. You can just go on the game, and pick the new character. Simple as that.

This solves the biggest problem I've had with giving you all characters; I've hated how the first thing that greets you when you click on a new character of mine is a wall of text, something that you then have to save and then upload to the game yourself. Every single time you want to play as them. But not anymore. In fact, if you check the website now... every single character of mine is already in the online version, along with all the characters other people have written.

I feel like I'm at some porn expo revealing a new technology to horny investors, but here is a tl;dr of all the changes:

- There's a new audience for this game, which might mean new writers.
- I've learned how to alter text, giving me new formatting and new characters for my... characters.
- Every new character should be up online as soon as it's released; you no longer have to add them yourself.

...So what does this mean for all of you here, going forward?

There's two things I hope to implement. First, once I know my character can be released online, I'm gonna alter the descriptions of my submissions again and get rid of all the rules you need to follow. I'm wondering if I even need to upload the character file over here at all, since every character submission will just be directing you to the website. I'm still gonna announce and 'submit' characters here, so you know what's new to the game and so you can leave feedback. You might have to be a bit patient while I work those things out, but I'll get it sorted, I promise.

The next thing I wanna do... okay, hear me out. I wanna reformat my old characters with all the new information I now have. I wanna stress that I'm not rewriting these characters. What I'll be doing instead is adding paragraph breaks, fixing the odd typo, adding some colour or deromanizing languages, stuff like that. I don't wanna George Lucas my porn here, and this isn't even like my remastered stories (remember when I wrote normal stories? Those were the days...); this is just gonna be formatting changes. Think of the changes as... a fresher coat of paint. Less Tony Hawk 1+2, and more Super Mario 3D All-Stars Collection (yeah, I went there). I'm not even gonna make a big deal about the reformatting when they're finished; I might add a little note in the character's description that it's reformatted, and that's it.

I want to end this journal by saying thank you. I don't think any of these new changes would have come without everyone reading my characters, liking my work, and overall being super kind. You've already given me so much by being here: I feel the need to return the favour by making my TT characters and stories as well-written and easy to access as possible. With these three changes, I think I'm closer to achieving that, and maybe more.

If/else! 20 go to 10! Zoom and enhance!!
- Yoshielder

This character, from the moment I got the request to the final few words, was so much fun to write. I'm not just saying that because I was working with someone's existing OC; I think the main reason why it was so fun is... I'd forgotten how much more detail you can add when you're writing in second person. With the last few characters, I wasn't able to write about what's going on in their minds unless they say something, but with this character, I could go through their whole mental battle, decline, and defeat. And of course, it was so great to be able to write somebody who has such extensive lore. I'm excited when I get a single image as reference for a character, so imagine my delight when I see a full character sheet of the OC I'll be writing for!
What also helped was that this is the first character that was written entirely within my new work schedule, and as such, it only took me around two weeks to get it done. I'm really happy that I've taken to this new routine as well as I have, and it makes future commissions feel a little less scary.

Here's your obligatory ramblings and trivia:
- Name time first. Charlie Pelletier used to be Charlie Princeton, but it sounded too much like the late great Chadwick Boseman, so I changed his surname to Pelletier. It's French, fitting the touch of French in Nakhta's name, and means fur trader!
- There's a whooooole lot of little references I've added throughout the character, and while most of them you can figure out by looking at Nakhta's character sheet, there's a few deep cuts peppered throughout. For instance, Charlie being described as 'mousy' is a reference to Occam's other OC, and his polo shirt is a reference to another self-insert, TFSential!
- I use way too many paragraph breaks in this, eh? It's okay: it's evened out by the seven billion ellipses.
- Music choices during this character were... abrasive? From no wave bands to bass boosted memes, lots of gross yucky sounds.
- ...And speaking of gross yucky sounds, I also listened to something that... admittedly helped how I write these stories in the future. I won't mention it here, cuz it's... well, really dark. And probably doesn't put me in the best light. I make a little reference to it in this character, though!
- That comment about coffee being a “writer's lifeblood” was more true than I'd like to admit for this character. I'd have four cups a day, sometimes two cups back to back.
- I couldn't help myself from adding a Shakespeare quote in one of Nakhta's monologues, cuz I'm a gross smelly nerd. She quotes a line from Julius Caesar, where a character also gives a speech to a crowd 'congratulating' his enemy and turning the crowd against them!

Question: do you have an OC? Who/what are they? I've had the asexual bimbo Beatrice Main for around two years.

Please direct your PLEBEIAN responses away from my royal discussion, and instead towards your local rag:
- yoshielder

For this Extended Thoughts, I'm... actually gonna cut the snark. And I might not talk about writing the character, specifically. That's because something happened during this character that's very important, and going to be even more important moving forward.

So I've always seen writing, even writing commissions, as a hobby. Getting paid was just a bonus, and it was fun to work with people and bring their vision to life. As such, I wrote whenever I felt like it, and only when I felt like it, which meant that as I fell into a depression, I wrote less and less. Characters that used to take a week were taking a month.

But an important thing happened this summer: I was... swamped with commissions. Enough that it was almost a bit intimidating. And I realised I couldn't work at the pace I was currently working.

So I shifted the writing from a hobby to a 'job'. And it has been incredibly helpful.

I'm back to writing ten stages a day. I feel accomplished at the end of the day, no matter how many stages I wrote. And the coolest thing of all is I look forward to my 'shifts'. That's a privilege I'm very lucky to have.

And I have all of you to thank.

I know I'm being way too schmaltzy here, but I really am grateful for all of you, and every one of you helped make this a 'job'. It doesn't matter if you were one of the commissioners, or if you tried a single character, got bored with the minigames, and quit: every one of you has turned this little hobby into something I'm quite proud of. I can only hope you all enjoy my characters as much as I've enjoyed writing them.

Okay, enough Hallmark BS: it's back to the usual list of trivia, and back to the usual pithy snark.

- As always, the story of the name comes first, and this one's a doozy. I don't think I've been this proud of a name since Eddie 'The Ruffian' Clyde. Magnum is Latin for 'great', is too pompous to be a real name, and is in reality a surname. Roux has 'Rx' in it (like the doctor thing!), and is a fatty brown broth. And there's a hidden detail to Dr. Roux's name: both the first and last name are based on two sex doctors, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and Dr. Ruth. Does any of this matter? Not one bit! But names are one of my many strange and esoteric kinks and I'm gonna force them into every thing I write, sue me.
- I picked Heather Stuart's name because I like the name Heather, and Stuart sounds like Roux. All hail my Dickensian power of naming.
- I thankfully didn't have to do research into '''influencer''' videos, since I stan Rina Sawayama and her Youtube channel is pretty... vlog-based? The kinda cringe fandom names, the overly peppy demeanour, the constant calls to action... I got most of that from watching Rina, and a smattering of other content creators. Don't tell her I said that, cuz you obviously talk to her all the time about niche porn writers.
- Eclectic music mix for this one. From lo-fi and city pop, to Renard's back catalogue to Coldplay sped up to 1.5 times speed (if you know, you know...)
- I found out I can colour text! That's why Heather's 'influencer voice' is pink, but did you know that I also pinkened all instances of the word Heather to better match how the word Magnum is automatically coloured? ...Well I did. Now you know, or whatever.

My question: What's your favourite Youtube channel? Or what's a channel that you're into now? I've been watching aGameScout, a channel about professional Tetris. Only played it a couple of times, but I like hearing people talk about it!

Don't forget to shoot over a fave and hit that Watch button for more quality content!
- Yoshielder

Compared to the last commission, this was a lot easier for me to write. Furry characters are always more interesting for me to write about than humans, and almost always more fun, though I definitely feel like I've improved on writing purely human TFs. That much was clear during the first half of this character, which was just focused on muscle growth and mental changes. MG is not one of my main kinks, so I don't really know if it hits all the sweet spots for people who're into that. If you're one of those people, lemme know if I did your kink justice!
I don't think it's just the subject matter that helped: I feel that I'm in a better headspace at the moment. It's been rocky, with some wild moodswings, but that's better than just feeling sad all the time. Now all I need to do is control all the influx of emotions I'm regaining!

Here's some general trivia (for real this time):
- I put way too much effort into planning out Lian's name, only for it to be relatively unused. Was thinking about having a name that means Spring, and her final name 'blossoming' into Summer... when I ended up picking a common Chinese girl name and a common Chinese surname, and used it for both forms.
- Therefore, this character may be the first I've written where the character doesn't change their name!
- I've never done anything with sharks before (and possibly not with any marine life in general!), so it was really fun looking up references and conjuring up the image of an animal that's not often anthropmorphised in... less kink-laden lands.
- I had to look up what it was called when you smack your fist with your hand, looking for a fight. Best suggestion I got was 'brain blast'.
- Tool got me started, Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Beats got me through the middle, Joji helped me through the later stages, and Andrew WK led me through the final bits.
- I was worried that I made the mental changes too quick and sudden, before I remembered that I always worry that I made the mental changes too quick and sudden.

Question: What's your preferred method of exercise? I'm fond of walks, and am hoping to get back into badminton.

MUSCLE SHARK, GET SWOOOLE!!
Yoshielder

Can I rant? I'm gonna rant.
This has been, without a doubt, the hardest piece of TF writing I have ever done. If it could go wrong, it did. I've already talked about it over on my twitter, but let's recap, hm?
First off, this was one of those commissions that I just couldn't get a handle on until I was nearly finished it. Nobody's fault; it's just how things go sometimes. Because of that, I'll admit I was kinda dragging my feet for the first few days of writing. Then I got quite sick due to weaning off a medication, and I couldn't get anything done then.
And then the protests started in the US. I felt like my time was better spent on things that would help the issues going on down there. Granted, I didn't know what I could do, but I sure did try everything. Donations, reporting racists, reading articles, and a whole lot of 'doomscrolling'.
It affected me so badly that I was getting physical symptoms of high anxiety, so I had to stop for my own good. And after all this, the commission wasn't even half-written.
So I decided to just write as much as I could, and give my commissioner a deadline of June 21st, since another person had just asked for a commission. This is when my computer started crashing. I'd say I lost over 20 stages in total. It was one day until the deadline, and I wasn't even halfway through. So I did what I called a "9 To 9 Last Stand", where from 9PM to 9AM I would do nothing but write. Six hours and 41 stages later, I got it done!
This whole ordeal was bad enough that I contemplated stopping commissions altogether, and even now I'm on the fence about it. Let's hope the other comms are a bit less disastrous!

And now, the trivia:
- JK there is no trivia because I never want to think about this character ever again.

Question: What was the hardest thing you ever had to write?

*sigh of relief*,
- Yoshielder

Through low moods, nervous breakdowns, and a literal plague, I've finally got a new character for you all! And, uhh... this'll be the first time I put a CW in one of these things, cuz I talk about nasty and problematic words. But first, some general thoughts.
This character felt like it took a while to write, even though I later found out it took less than a month. I'm wondering if that's the weird limbo state we're all in. Regardless, it was great to have something to work on every day! And this time, I actually did write a little every day.
...But alright, let's dive in... There's an interesting dilemma I've had with characters with... parts opposite to their gender. How do I write 'sexual stereotypes' without being too sexist (I say TOO sexist, cuz it's next to impossible to write stuff like this without delving into a LITTLE sexism)? It's been tricky as a cis male to write porn involving 'traps' when the very name is a slur. I'm not gonna say I have all the answers with this, but... I kinda feel I've done a DECENT enough job skirting the issue? And with this character, I feel I've done it with the most tact so far. The huge dick that Jill has doesn't make her any less of a woman, even when it's visible in any clothes she wears. I don't wanna come across like I have all (or any) of the answers here, and it's something I've had to really stop and think about. Am I still an ally to LGBT+ if I'm writing (and profiting) off of stereotypes that get people killed in the real world? I mean, one could make a case that any of my TG erotica is sexualizing the struggle of transitioning in the real world. I'd absolutely love to hear others' thoughts on this, but only if you're comfortable.

And now, the trivia:
- First, name time. Joe Rack was subconsciously influenced by two other characters: Miss Rack from Adventure High, and Joe Exotic from... well, real life. Jill Dozer was an attempt to be as close to the average name of Jane Doe as possible.
- Anyone remember Mutant Minx Meltdown? It had an enemy that gave me a lot of inspiration for this character.
- I've never been to Dick's Sporting Goods. It's like a sports shop, right? I guess that's obvious from the name...
- Writing this character reminded me of a Billy Joel song. Therefore, Joe Rack is the best character.

Question: See paragraph on problematic tropes

Kurt Krump who??:
- Yoshielder

Hello! Coming atcha from the Land of Flu to give you my thoughts on the newest character.
It's nice to work with fur again. Err, wool again. I talked about sheep TF on my twitter, and I still think it's a very underutilized animal for transformation. That, combined with the odd trashy kink I've picked up recently, made Jolene really fun to write, even if it took longer than I thought. College is a bitch, y'all.
Before I wrote anything down for this character, I actually looked over the last time I did a country TF, with Janice. I'm glad I did, because I picked up the difference between a cowgirl (literal or no) and a hillbilly: class. Janice was simple, but she had dignity. Jolene... I don't think she can even spell the word. It also helped me with what I can improve on. I personally think Janice holds up after all this time, and I hope you think Bree will too!

Trivia:
- First, as always, name time. Brihonna is exactly how it appears: making fun of purposefully misspelled names that are '''unique'''. Supinius is similar, just a bunch of syllables that sound important but don’t mean anything. I THINK I got Lana from some Greek, but maybe not. And yeah, Jolene is named after one of Country’s greatest man-stealers.
- Speaking of Country, I'm surprised that I didn't get much Country recommendations when I asked for them on Twitter! Though I don't wanna sound conceited; it's probably because nobody saw the tweet, lol. As such, my music during writing was eclectic, from Death Grips to Old Kanye.
- Did everyone catch my SUPER SUBTLE foreshadowing on Bree’s college emblem? It’s totally subtle and not jarring at all.
- I was… kinda worried about my descriptions for the skin changes. I hope that didn’t come off problematic.
- Also, yes that was a Spınal Tap reference, sue me.
- Dolly Billeuve actually isn’t named after Dolly Parton, but Dolly the clone. I wonder if she’s doing okay… oh, she’s dead. Well, that’s a bummer.
- The ending was much different in the first draft, with Jolene leading a pandemic-like army of hilbillies. My commissioner wanted it changed, and I'm glad they did, because I think the current ending works a lot better, even if I was very drunk when I wrote it.

My question: Since Jolene drinks so much, what's your drink of choice? For me, mojitos for pleasure, manhattans for pain.

Git'rr dunn:
-yoshielder

I was at first a bit skeptical in writing a straight human transformation. As you PROBABLY have guessed, I’m more comfortable with fur. But the more I worked on it, the easier it got. The way I write furry characters involves a human TF for the first half anyway, so it was easy to take the tricks from that and implement it on a grander scale.
While the character for Jason was super easy to come up with, Vic Farro was a bit harder. So I did what I always do when flummoxed on a writing topic: research!! Research on female punk icons first led me to the Riot Grrrl movement, but the more I looked into that… well, I ain’t a gender studies expert, but some aspects of it seemed… TERFy. I hope I’m not stirring controversy by saying that, but needless to say, I decided to go in a different direction with it, instead taking ideas from the punk of today. As such, Vic is kind of a melting pot of artists, from Courtney Love, to Guerilla Toss, to Hayley Williams… hell, there’s even some Sinead O’Connor sprinkled in.

Anyway, here’s some random thoughts:
- First, name time. Jason Blytley has several layers to it. The most obvious thing is his initials, JB, which spring to mind another sellout singer (to the person who said “Jack Black!”, I’m gonna break your legs). But Blytley has a bit more depth to it. For one, teen idols have weird, made-up sounding surnames—think the members of One Direction, may they rest—but it sounds kinda like ‘blight’… which he is.
- Vic Farro is a bit simpler. Vic because I wanted a fierce, monosyllabic, gender-neutral name, and Farro based on a member of Paramore. Whom I haven’t grown out of. ‘Brand New Eyes’ slaps, yo. And Serena Meretz is pretty transparently ‘Selena Gomez’.
- I had some trouble coming up with a ‘scandal’ that wasn’t TOO scandalous. Hopefully the dabbing was good enough.
- Finally figured out how to use paragraph spacing in prologues and epilogues!! I’m super happy with that, enough that I may edit the other characters.
- I feel super bad for sleeping on Courtney Love.
- That ‘’’apology’’’ Jason gave? Pretty much every line of that is taken from actual ‘’’apologies’’’ from Justin Bieber.
- Also, in the first face change, Jason’s comment is exactly the same as when Bieber got hit with a water bottle. I swear I use that phrase at least every two weeks.
- If you’ve been following my twitter, you’ll know that I wrote a fair bit of this while watching the Ted Bundy documentary. Please please PLEASE don’t look too much into this; I also listened to Ariana Grande and a man who ate century old MREs, and neither of them are ‘punk’.
- I wanna hear ‘Real Ab’ so fucking much. Like, seriously. Someone get on that.

JKD (Just Keep Dabbin’):
- Yoshielder

Just found out I wrote my contacts all wrong, so if you weren't getting anywhere clicking on them, it should work now. Sorry xD

Hi. First off, merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, a super belated Hanukkah for those who celebrate that, and a happy holidays for everyone else.

I try my hardest to get gifts for everyone I know, even if they're acquaintances. And since there's 197 of you who've kindly read and enjoyed my work, that's... a lot of presents. So I'm gonna have to give a bulk gift. Hopefully that's okay. I'm sure you can all talk it out or something.

So, once more, I've kinda disappeared from here. That's... maybe only a quarter my fault. For my past two computers have crashed, and I've been hit with a nasty flu, and none of that really matters. Not saying you're apathetic or anything, but if you've taken the time to both read my work and watch me, well... that's something very special to me. Something that I feel I have to pay back in some way. Unfortunately, I've really been dropping the ball on that.

But I have a solution, of sorts: my gift to you. I've now got a twitter account.

On that, I intend to post at least weekly, with maybe an update, maybe some thoughts, and maybe even some sneak peeks. That way, even if I don't post anything here for a while, at least you'll all know I'm still around. Cuz I'm certain all of us have been in the situation where you find a great TF creator, and then realize they haven't posted in years. I know that, because that creator could very well be me. But not anymore.

Two more things to note. This is not a request to follow me on Twitter, though it is appreciated if you decide to do that. If you've watched me here, you've done more than enough. I'll have the site on my page, so you can either follow me, or just click the link every once in a while. I don't want this gift to require work for you all; that's another situation I know you've all been in before.

The final note is... a bit more personal. See, I've already got a twitter account. I've had it for 7 years. It's an account that I actually use fairly often for dumb memes and the like. But now that I've got another account... things might get messy. Think of it like crossing the streams; if these two accounts meet, everything will be destroyed. But I've handled two reddit and discord accounts fine, so maybe it won't be a problem.

In any case, here's the twitter: https://twitter.com/yoshielder I couldn't get a bow for it.
My question: How do you juggle your rl and your 'alt' online? Or do they intersect?

-yoshielder

This one was a struggle, but not because of writing the thing. No, it’s due to the all-encompassing ‘RL’. Yuck. Lives, who needs’em? Well, if someone finds out how to go on living without a life, let me know ASAP.
I swear, an illness always comes up when I get a commission. Though that might be because I haven’t been truly ‘well’ for six years (insert edgy emo song here). Last time, it was physical. This time, it was… also kinda physical? In that it was a depression stemming from illness burnout. I’ll spare the details cuz I can hear everyone falling asleep through their computer screens, so I’ll just say that I’m happy I’m well again… fingers crossed.
Anyway, on to the actual character! One thing I was cognizant about when writing was, well, the character itself. As you may know if you somehow think reading these is a good idea, I do a lot of research when writing these characters, but for this one, it was a bit harder, since I had to research ‘PC Gamer’ lingo. And if you have to ask, you’ll never know. At least, that’s my view on it. It doesn’t help that my PC gaming begins and ends with NetHack… which came out before the internet as we know it. But I think I sprinkled in enough PC elitism to let you understand who Murphy Suder is, and I’m happy with the character in general.
That also leads into the transformation itself, and I personally think the first bouts of TF are a bit understated. Purposefully so, mind, because the second half is so aggressive with the Implant. Either way, it was a different way of writing it, and I think it worked out in the end!

Trivia:
- I actually had to ask friends what ‘PC Gamer’ terms were out there. Yeah, I’m a dork. Most of them are probably easy to determine, but ‘bonjwa’ means the best player… I think.
- Obligatory name time! Murphy Suder was named after Lon Suder, a character from that Star Trek show I’ve never watched. I’m a TNG dude; sue me. Melita means ‘like honey’ or ‘sweet’, and Boosalis sounds a lot like booty, so… that works. As for Mly Bb’tessa? With the first name, I wanted to sound really alien, so I went with no vowels. The surname I wanted to be a bit more human sounding, just so she’d be able to shorten it to just Tessa while on earth.
- This character was an absolute NIGHTMARE to proofread. Originally, the Implant’s voice [WAS TYPED LIKE THIS], <and anything specific was like this>. The game doesn’t like that. Not at all. So I had to go stage by stage and flip them into something else, which ended being {these cuties}. I also flipped the chevrons around. There’s some upsides to the game being old as dirt, though: you know that question mark diamond that shows up whenever something really alien is said? That’s a quotation mark. Just a quotation mark. Which the creator shows fine. I swear this wasn’t a problem in my other characters, but whatever; it works now.
- Speaking of the implant, it’s a mix between the extranet of TiTS and Wikipedia. Mostly Wikipedia. Another inspiration for the Implant? Buck Bicorn’s unicorn horn. I really liked how the mental changes were spurned on by an almost sentient thing directly connected to the brain, so I brought it back for this character.
- Long-time readers might recognise the TT player that Mly watches in the epilogue as Lucas Robertson, my third character! Long-time readers might also want to seek some help. I’m not good for you, kids. Just say no to niche fetish works designed in an aging code by a bored and sickly loser. Weird slogan I know, but at least it’ll work better than DARE.
- ‘Kivt’ is space-slang, and I primarily use it like the word ‘fuck’. It’s kivt in present and past tense, but kivving when inflected. Shut up, linguistics is cool and will totally open up job opportunities.
- The soundtrack to my writing this time was City Pop and Hall and Oates songs on constant repeat. Maneater played me out.
- The ‘Clothes Stealing Droids’ used to be Giants, but were changed to droids so they could better sneak aboard ships. I still wanna write something with invisible giants at some point, though. It probably won’t show up here.
- No, I don’t know what a hythax is. Stop asking.

My question: What are you playing right now? I’ve been on a real Dark Souls kick after Remastered came out and did all sorts of okay. Though I’m waiting for Smash, cuz we’re all waiting for Smash.

GG no RE,
- Yoshielder

Just a quick and only slightly narcissistic update on where I've been. I know I said I'd get back into writing, but around two days after saying that, my computer literally went up in smoke. It was... pretty bad. Hopefully I can salvage some files, but for now I'm on a crappy mac laptop with a missing shift key. Not the best way to write.
Once everything goes back to normal, I might give another update, maybe delete this journal. Who knows, stay safe.

Hi.
First off, sorry for the vague journal title; couldn't fit all I wanted to say in. Though it's probably for the best that it has a character limit, since assholes like me would just put their entire journal in the subject bar.
So, where the fuck have I been? My last story was three months ago, and it was just a remastering! Meanwhile, this commission has been in the works for over a month. Have I been out kayaking? Did I go to Mars? Did I die? Maybe it's a combination of all three: I went kayaking on Mars, and thus died.
Sadly, the reality is much more grounded, though a bit less tragic. I've just been battling very poor health. Not gonna get too into it, but it's been a years long battle that finally came to an end last week. I ain't 100% healthy, but at least I won't be bedridden for over five years. All that said, expect more stuff to come! Or don't; I might just get my life together and leave you fools (I'mkiddingit'sajokeIloveyouallpleasepleasepleasedon'tleaveme).
But nobody wants to read that boring crap. You wanna read the Extended Thoughts! At least, I assume you do. There's gotta be some sort of audience for this, right? Whatever.

Chad is the third trap TF I've done, and while I've learned a lot, I still don't feel as confident writing it as I probably should. A decent amount of research and a heavy amount of overthinking helped, especially thinking about why traps are a thing. That knowledge bled into the latter stages, where Chris grows to love his androgynous self. I also added a few tsundere tendencies in as well, another trope I've grown to understand more. Humans have always been hard for me to write for too, but it helped that this character is shorter than most. Don't worry, I'll be back to furries soon enough!
One of the things I struggled with in the beginning was how douchey Chad should be. I felt...uncomfortable... with using the 'other F-word', even though Chad would DEFINITELY be the kind of asshole that uses it hourly. Instead, I settled for 'cuck' and made him more conceited instead of aggressive.

# this time. Or at least, none I can think of.

My question: Have you ever met any Chad Romans? I'm happy to say that I haven't, but I'm sure they exist.

Brofists all around,
- Yoshielder

This was a really fun character to write. I know pretty much nothing about anime or Japanese culture. At all. Like, the first anime I’ve ever watched was Madoka Magica. I have since learned that that might not have been the best anime to start off with.
In any case, a weeb turning into a slutty Yokai (see? I did learn something!) required lots of Japanese research. I’m still not sure if I’ve got everything right, but I think I did a decent job! It doesn’t hurt that I really like writing the tanuki’s changes, and it REALLY doesn’t hurt that I was given such great references. I’m happy with how it turned out!
A problem I had at the beginning was if Kasumi would be too ‘OP’, since she has access to magic and stuff. That’s one of the main reasons why she’s such a terrible drunk; if she actually focused, she might be able to do some powerful things, but she’s just content to drink and fuck, with the occasional spell.
A weird concern I had with writing it is if I was being too mean with how gross and weebish Kenneth is, but porn is full of stereotypes, especially my type. Nonetheless, I hope I didn’t offend anyone. If I did, then… sorry?

Trivia:
- First off, name time. ‘Kuri’ means Chestnut, and the ‘-mi’ at the end is common for a certain character archetype (I’ll get to that later). ‘Mujina’ is a Japanese badger, one that is sometimes called a tanuki. As for her name at the end, ‘Kasumi’ has several meanings, but I kinda just like the name. And ‘Seiyoku-danuki’ means ‘lust tanuki’… I think. I hope! Kenneth Simmons has no cool name origins; I just used a two disyllabic names to represent an everyman. It matters… maybe.
- Perhaps nobody’s noticed this, and I’m certain nobody cares, but I’ll mention it anyway. The game’s text gradually changes from blue to pink depending on the gender of the character. Since Kenneth completely TGs in the middle, I had to rework it so his font turns pink in the middle, and stays that way until the end. It was nasty to implement, and I’m not sure if it was worth it, but whatevs.
- Tanuki are usually depicted with leaves on their heads, as those leaves grant them power. Kasumi wears hers as a hairpin.
- I showed that cringy prologue to several people, and everyone’s response was the same: ‘I want to die’. Mission accomplished!
- There’s actually a tanuki that turned himself into a sake bottle. Apparently he and Kasumi are related.
- Kirito is apparently a character from Sword Art Online. I have only heard bad things about this show.
- Possibly broken Japanese language time! “Itadakumasu” is what you say before a meal, “nihonshu” is sake, “sakazuki” is a sake drinking cup, “Chottō” is an expression of disgust, “Byouso, Mujima-sama” is “focus, Mujima” and the “-sama” is used for someone of authority, though she uses it sarcastically, “Kanpai!” is like “Cheers!”, a “karakasa” is a monster umbrella (seriously), and “gyaru” is kinda like a bimbo, but more of a fashion thing. Did I get any of that right?
- It turns out that Kurimi Mujima is actually a trope! She's called a 'Yamato Nadeshiko', and it basically means a demure, 'proper' Japanese woman.
- One of my favourite lines about weebs is actually from an old Filthy Frank episode:
“I’ve been really thinking about going to Japan soon! I lear-I know how to use chopsticks, I know hiragana. Cuz you know I don’t feel like anybody here is on my anime expertise level. First I’ll have to get a job… that’s… th-that’s the first thing…”
Brilliant. I just HAD to touch on some of that in the character.
- I listened to a lot of overenthusiastic Kawaii Future Bass to get me through long periods of writing. Don’t judge me.
- I literally just looked up girly animes, and came up with Ao Haru Ride. Whatever that is. And I namedrop Utena, though I haven’t seen that either. I HAVE seen Your Name, though! It was pretty dang good.

My question: What’s your favourite anime? Mine’s Madoka, not that I have much else to choose from.

May your hentai be uncensored and your subs fresh,
- Yoshielder

Would you believe this was supposed to come out Valentines Day? Mhm, I'm kinda slow. Take that however you like. Still, I think it was Miyamoto who said "Delayed porn is eventually good, but a rushed fap is forever bad. And I should know, Japanese porn's some crazy shit." I think it got lost in translation, but it works.

Trivia:
- Fuki Sarr is a dreadful pun on the fukuisaurus, I do believe the only dinosaur beginning with f!
- Franklyn was once called Bernard, but then I realised I already have a character called Bernie. The punny name back then was Barryenne Icks, based off the baryonyx.
- Not since that unicorn have I fiddled with the order of the changes so much. Don't want scales to show up before they're mentioned. And after all that, I still missed a spot where Franklyn's talons 'don't fit'.

My question: What's your favourite food? Mine might be pizza, but it hurts my stomach.

According to my calculations, you've reached the end of the journal:
- yoshielder

My writing for this was exponential… stop calling me a nerd, I can explain. I didn’t have much work done on this for the first week, which gave me guilt to no end. Then I’d get two stages done, then five, then ten… until I finished more than a third of it in a single sitting. Go figure.
I also did a lot of research into horses and horse anatomy, so much so that I’m concerned it bogs the character down. Hopefully it’s somewhat decipherable!
Here is a laundry list of ‘cool’ trivia:
- I am SO THRILLED with Eddie’s name. I put 3 different horse references in it: Eddie (Mr. Ed, the talking horse), The Ruffian (a famous racehorse) Clyde (taken from the Clydesdale breed). The other names aren’t as interesting: Donoghue was a race jockey, and Uma means horse in Japanese. And of course, Equus is based on the book/play.
- I had to sneak in a Hot Fuzz reference. I just HAD to.
- Horses actually can get diabetes, so Ellie’s excuse has a bit of merit.
- There’s a bit of cop slang thrown in, but not as much as I’d like.
- I am so pissed that I couldn’t implement nine pocket ice horse boots into the character. It’s one of my greatest regrets.
- Don’t search up ‘horse masturbation’ on Bing. Just… don’t. A shout out to Fenoxo’s CoC for helping me with how a centaur would pleasure herself.
- The lordosis reflex is when an animal curves their back during either estrus or sex.
- I’m not sure if anaphrodesiacs work on horses, but I assume they do.
- Feathering is the super fluffy hair horses grow around their hooves.
- Ellie is not JRHNBR. Sorry to disappoint.

10-4; over and out:
- Yoshielder

Holy shit. Turns out I just hit 1000 pageviews. Wow. I'm... honestly awestruck. Thank you all so much.
But I don't really know what to do to celebrate, so I guess I'll do nothing...
Oh, I changed up my thumbnails because I've finally found out how to use GIMP. So there's that.

I’ll admit it: I’ve hit a brick wall with writing Clarke and Claire. Out of around 150 separate passages, I still have 114 to go. I don’t think it’s writer’s block, though, as I’m still writing LOADS of stuff. It just so happens that that stuff is not my character.
So to soften the blow of my procrastination, I’ll tell you guys a recent event that I was in. It’s called, “The Story Of How Yoshielder Got Into Three Different RPs At Once” (title wip.)
First, a little background. It’s kinda hard to believe how relatively new I am to writing transformative fiction. It feels to me like forever, but I only started in February, when I was writing dog porn instead of watching the Oscars. As such, I didn’t RP. Nothing against it, really. It just wasn’t really my thing. I always thought that it was fantasy-fulfillment, and that’s not really the reason why I write tf. Let’s be blunt, I write to get people off. Maybe I’ll enjoy it too, but the thought of what I’d do in these situations is pretty far from my mind when I write about cows jilling off (what has my life become…)
That said, I did say that I “didn’t RP”, not “don’t RP”, didn’t I? Yes, a couple of days ago, a very patient player on Transformania Time (the multiplayer one, not the one that I’m known for not writing characters) led me through my first RP experience. It was pretty basic: I was told to start it, since I was assuming that I would be the one in charge of the changes (which apparently makes me dom? I dunno).
Now, you know my writing style. When I get into a topic, I write novels. And this RP, well… let’s just say I was cursing the 1000 character limit a lot. I don’t know anything about RPs, but I assume they’re pretty short, as my partner asked if I was fucking with them.
So fast forward to last night. I’m stuck in bed, doing my best to not write anything for my characters, when the original RPer- let’s call them Cat girl- shows up. We continue for a bit, before another player we’ll call Bunny, wants to RP. They didn’t mind that I’d be a bit slow, what with another completely different RP going on, so I accepted. So now I have two RPs- one with Catgirl, and one with Rabbit.
It was maybe a few minutes after the RP with Catgirl ended that Board Game wanted to RP. Since I’d just gotten through one RP, I accepted their request. But then another one showed up.
To recap, I’m now in three different RPs. One with man being turned into a bunny maid, one with a board game dictating the changes, and the third one, a mouse tf. And I still made my responses a book.
I was scrambling to answer all of the RPs. Every time I’d answer one, another one would take its place. It was a hydra of roleplaying; every head I answered, two more heads *sprouts up, looking at you with rage*.
And you know what? It was really fun. Exhausting, but fun.
The bunny RP ended with the promise to add to it tomorrow, the board game went on without a reply, and the mouse ended with a completed tf. Considering that I hit the limit with each RP, I must have wrote over 20000 characters in one night.
So what did I learn? For one, maybe don’t accept every RP you get requested for, at least not until you have space free. Also, that I could get used to this “RPing” thing. It reminds me a lot of improv, as you have to think on the fly in conjunction to your partner. It has a lot of improv ‘rules’, too, like how your partner can make or break an RP, and to never outright contradict a chain of events, go with whatever your partner is referencing.
I guess that means I’m up for RPs here, too. You can probably tell what I’m into from my characters: tf, mc, anthro, mtf, that kinda thing, though it takes a lot to scare me off. If you want to try it, and have a scenario in mind (again, not good at coming up with ideas) and don’t mind an amateur partner, then hit me up either here or on TT; my name is Beatryka Mane!

My question: Are there any RP “tips of the trade”? Things that I should know about first hand?

-yoshielder

I'm gonna call it now, since 4-0 doesn't look like a thing you can bounce back from. The winner by unanimous decision is Clarke and Claire! I'll see if I can up my writing intake, so you don't have to wait four years before it's completed.

-yoshiedler

Hello, and happy Fourth of July for any who are celebrating it!
You may or may not have noticed that I haven't posted anything for a while outside of the odd commission. Probably not. I'm sure you guys follow more people than me. That's because I've been stuck on a character that's... well... ambitious. It's two characters in one, with extensive physical and mental changes. Both are furry, which would be a change from the two human tfs I've done. And it's 118 stages long. The longest I've ever written.
I've only just gotten through the planning stage (I really should show that one day...) and it's going pretty slowly. Slow enough that my thoughts are straying to other characters, which NEVER happens. Character ideas are the hardest part for me.
So I'm faced with a dilemma. Keep working on the current character, presumably for the rest of my life, or work on the new idea, which will probably take a little shorter, but won't be near as complex. It's been bugging me for a while, until I realised that I have 27 other people I can ask! Ok, maybe part of the reason why I asked is because I wanted to get another poll running again. What can I say, I crave attention. Or something.

Basically, the question is whether I should keep working on the longer, but already started piece, or start a new, shorter character, knowing that it might actually take longer since the planning stage isn't done. I guess you should know the characters, too. That might help. The long one is a business couple (why do I always have business people as characters? Is it jealousy at their real jobs?) who turn into a dommy wolf and a subby deer. The possibly shorter one is a messy slob turning into a giggly, highly infectious skunk. Assume, as always, that they're anthro tftgs with loads of mc and the word "changes" in every sentence.

Here's the poll: http://www.strawpoll.me/13358446 I'll gather the information in a couple days or whatever.

-yoshielder

Sometimes it comes easy, and sometimes it comes hard. This one was the latter. Through no fault of the character or bdun140, this took a while to write. Still, I came out happy with the finished product, and learned some things along the way.
For one, I like writing parts as a whole package. Starting with the first stage of a part, then going straight through to the end. I didn't do that this time, instead focusing on chunks of the character, and it didn't work in my favour.
The other thing I learned is I cannot write MG. At all. Hopefully I'll get better with practice (although I'd prefer a more speedy and less work-related option, but oh well), but as it stands now, I suck at writing it. Maybe you disagree, but I sure think so.

Trivia: (not very much this time around)
- It irked me that Tyler/Tyra kept the same last name, so I just added an 'e' at the end. Fixed.
- It was way more fun than I thought it would be to write Tyra's voice. Guess I just needed let my inner bitch run free.

My question: Have you ever met someone who acts like Tyra (minus the ten inch dick)?

Like, toodles!
- yoshielder

Slate Stintman is another commission from bdun140, and boy, do they know how to pitch a character. I got SEVEN pictures for reference, and each one proved to me one thing: Alexandra McTwibb needs a nice ass. I I was actually tossing around the idea of making her a pig, if only because I’m still a bit nervous of straight human tfs, but those reference pictures… they changed my mind in a big way. I think it turned out well; it might be my best human tf yet!
This commission took me the longest it’s ever took to complete, and I blame that on a slew of physical ailments. There was one day that I didn’t do anything at all, period. I kinda feel guilty about it, even though it was only a day longer than usual and I honestly couldn’t get anything done that one day. I pride myself on how fast my commissions get done, and while it was still timely, it could have been done faster. Oh well.

Trivia:
- You know what was the inspiration for Slate Stintman’s name was? MST3K. I searched up all the names used in Space Mutiny, picked a menacing first name, and just used alliteration for the surname.
- Alexandra McTwibb was going to be McTwibbles when she was still in her pig stage.
- I’m not sure why I chose Slate to go to Drexel University in Philadelphia, it was just a quick google search.
- I haven’t played any of the games that Alexandra plays. Guess that makes me a fake fan, eh?
- In my strange google searches, I also looked up basic LGBT knowledge for Alexandra being gay. I hope I didn’t make a fool of myself; I’m just a straight guy who randomly thought that a character should be gay because… I can’t tell you. I really don’t know. But she’s gay.
- bdun140 is a great person and I’ll love them forever. (#truefacts #nohomo #okaymaybealittlehomo)

My question: Is there something about you that you’d like to change, whether in a cosmetic way or a fantastical way? What is it?

See you on the forums,
yoshielder