Whoo boy. This was a bitch to write. In every way.
I think it took the longest a character has ever taken for me to finish. It feels disjointed and clumsy. I omitted sections just so I’d have less to write, and by the end, I was just plopping down words so I could just FINISH IT. There’s also a lot of worries I have over how Nymphaeaceae acts, the style of the MC, the personality of Buck… it’s a mess. At least, I think it is. I never even proofread it. I’m glad to be over it. And hey, everyone has that one piece they aren’t fond of, right? I guess this is mine. But don’t let me cloud your opinions. If you liked the character, excellent! I can’t and won’t take that away from you.

Trivia:
- Nymphaeaceae (pronounced Nimm-Fay-uh-Sigh) is the name of the water lily family, a flower that means “purity” in flower language. She was originally called Cytherea, but… it turns out that there’s a pornstar named Cytherea. Well, joke’s on me for not watching normal porn.
- Houyhnhnm is both the language and the species of the horse people Gulliver encounters at the end of Gulliver’s Travels.
- The Bicorn, true to its name, actually has two horns. Like unicorns, it’s not real either.
- Yes, I did have Erasure’s Always on loop while writing this.

My question: Do you have a piece of work that you can’t stand? How did others react to it?

Keep your nine pocket ice horse boots cozy,
-yoshelder

For the longest time, ever since I found out it was a word in Scribblenauts, I've been obsessed, perhaps unhealthily so, with including the phrase "nine pocket ice horse boots" in my life. And now, in writing my newest character, I have a reason to talk about nine pocket ice horse boots.






There's nothing else to this journal. I just wanted to tell the world about this nontuple-pocketed-icy-horsey-footwear achievement.
My question: Do you wear nine pocket ice horse boots? Cuz if you do and you're not some form of equine, that's kinda weird.

Stay icy, my friends,
-yoshielder

Leave it to bdun140 to give me awesome ideas. Not only did they give me details and advice on the character, they provided five references for me to look at. If any other commissions I receive from people are half as helpful as bdun’s are, I’ll be grateful.
I went all over the place with writing this character. Usually I write the openings first, then write them in order of their paths, as in completing all the waitfor sections before moving on to the next. Dexter was completely random: I wrote snippets of the finished tf, the body and limbs in bits, and ended with the mind “as a treat”. As such, I’m worried that there’s a lot of inconsistencies with the character. Maybe.

Trivia:
- I might not play D&D like Dexter, but I’ve been playing NetHack for over a decade. A lot of Dexter’s nerd-speak comes from there. So let’s get nerdy. His equipment follows the syntax of a perfect ascension item (+x blessed rust/fire/corrosion-proof equipment of enchantment). The Staff of Aesculapius and Whisperfeet are artifacts, and like the game, I didn’t really care about his pants.
- He claims that his equipment gives him four stages until a waitfor phase occurs on his mind. I don’t know where he got that information (strange, since I wrote it), but there are indeed four stages before his first mental change.
- Latin is my cheatsheet for when I want to create foreign names that have hidden meaning. The “Ops” in Opsrung is power, and the “Ferox” in Mamferox is fierce (and the mam is obviously mammaries). I don’t really know how I came up with the name Muu’laqh. It just happened.
- Crackpot theory time! Mamferox is the same place that Kentoleth Si’Trana (the tf of Kara Hoovester) is king.
- I spent way too much time forming a conlang for Muu’laqh, only for a single word to appear in the finished product. I started with the language Taurens speak in WoW, and added some sounds that cows and bulls would make.
- Mariah Carey and Gerard way never helped me with this character. Lazy assholes. What, do they have something better to do than provide the soundtrack for a horny dude writing cow porn at 3am?

My question: Do you roleplay? I never got into it, but I see it everywhere in this community. What are some memorable RPing experiences?

Oh, and Buck Bicorn's coming up next, btw

Ohwoh Koosn (Good bye),
-yoshielder

Maybe it’s just the judging eye of its creator, but I feel like I definitely loosened with my writing the further this tf goes. While I was writing the beginning, I was actually worried that I was running out of ideas to describe changes. I don’t think I have this problem anymore, as I had a lot of fun writing the fox tf.
As mentioned before, I’ll also be writing Buck Bicorn next, who’s basically the opposite of our now furry friend. However, that’s been put on the backburner for now, as I am talking with someone about another commission. Don’t worry, you’ll see Buck soon.

Trivia:
- No clever names this time. I assume the hidden meaning of “Vulp” is obvious. That said, I like the rhyme of Hawthorne and Bicorn.
- I wasn’t really sure how to treat Spencer’s starting libido. Does he hate sex? Is he asexual? Is he scared of sex? Who knows! Definitely not me, it seems.
- I totally buy into the theory that Borgasm sells sex bots similar to Robert Scope and Morgan Faye.
- The stone for nine years of marriage is lapis lazuli. Awww…
- I don’t think I’ll ever get past the fact that I once wrote “like an endless wave of jizz”, and it’s online. To think I wanted to be a lawyer before this.
- I’d like to thank Mariah Carey and Gerard Way for providing the soundtrack to most of my writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zQ53oXITyk

Question for the audience: Did I use too many ellipses in my character? I feel really self-conscious about it.

Have a yiffy day, (on second thought, please don't)
-yoshielder

Hello again. Miss me? (he said to a deadly silent audience)
The results are in, and Spencer Hawthorne has gotten 80% of the vote, a result that I had expected, to be honest. Don't worry, Buck Bicorn will be written as well, but you'll just have to wait a bit. Now, I'll be conjuring up a sexy fox tf. Knowing my work-ethic, expect to see it in either five minutes or five years.
I really enjoyed the interaction from the poll, so you might see more of those in the future.

-yoshielder

Hiya. I feel like I haven't posted in forever, but it's only been three days. Weird.
Anyway, I've finally thought up of a new character idea. Two, actually. They're cofounders of a company, and pretty much opposites. Spencer Hawthorne is chaste and pure, and so turns into a sex-crazed nymphomaniac anthro fox. The other, Buck Bicorn, is a sex-crazed nymphomaniac, and so turns into a chaste and pure anthro unicorn. They're different sides of the same coin, and I can't decide which one to work on first.
So, I leave it up to you. You can either post your thoughts in the comments, or I've provided a handy little poll, found here: http://www.strawpoll.me/13013453 I'll probably decide pretty quickly, so get your thoughts in while you can!

-yoshielder

I'm not sure if this will be a regular thing, but I wanna write something, and I'm out of ideas, so this will have to do. Here I'll write some behind the scenes about my most recent character, in this case, Chase Gramen, aka Chiasa Koneko. I'd of course recommend you play the character before reading this, but it's up to you. I won't tell you how to live your life.
I might have talked about this already (come to think of it, I'm certain I did), but I find it very hard to start writing a character, but once I do, I find it equally hard to stop. This was the same for Chase. I think I had 3 writing sessions for him, and the most passages written was in the third. What I took from this is to just write, and you'll get into a groove. You can always go over your first drafts later.
The character of Chiasa Koneko has an element that I was at first completely unfamiliar with: lolita fashion. Before writing, the only experience I had with lolita is that Gothita evolutionary tree in Pokemon. Being a guy with little to no idea on my own gender's clothing, let alone girls', didn't help matters. But I was for some reason so enamoured with the idea of a catgirl lolita that I just ran with it, reading blogpost after blogpost on different styles, the names of clothes, what not to do, etc. I got very worried when I read posts talking about how cat ears on lolita is Ita (painful looking), but calmed down when others clarified that if the dress fits the ears, go ahead.

Trivia:
- Gramen is Latin for "grass" or "weeds", and Koneko is Japanese for "kitten". Yeah, I'm pretty subtle with names.
- I chose Chiasa as a name at first only for how it looked, before realising that the character's name is Chase. Weird how things work out.
- Chiasa says "Huh? What's happening?" during mind stage 6. At least, I think that's what she says. I originally had pasted the kanji, but the game sorta freaked out when I did that.
- I'm probably too proud of how I explained in-universe why Chiasa was referred to as Chase.
- I still don't know why petticoats aren't actually coats, and to be honest, I'm pretty angry about it.

I always feel the need to ask a question with these journals, so here it is: was there any drawings/stories you made that forced you to do research into a topic you were very unfamiliar with? What was the topic?

Osaki ni,
-yoshielder

Yes, I know I just wrote a journal today, but while attempting to write my new character (you know, the one that's gonna be strange) I was hit with all the restrictions Transformania Time! has. Not with its code, but with its storytelling.
In TT, there are two viewpoints: second person and third person limited, or "Human player" and "Computer player". Both points of view have their strengths and weaknesses. The human player can delve deeper into the character's mind, not only giving more detail to mental changes, but often changing the voice as well, see Janice Mercer and her Southern accent. Computer players are visible to the narrator (the other contestant) and therefore can show more physical changes, while being able to have more dialogue, see Stella Sutherford III. Computer characters can't have the detail of mental changes, and human characters can't have the detail of physical changes.
But you know what doesn't have these restrictions? Pretty much every other form of literature.
That said, I'm not sure I want to dip my feet into writing plain prose, for two reasons. One, it will require a lot more detail on the environment. What drew me to TT is how blunt the changes are. You might get a paragraph at the beginning describing the character, but then you're right smack dab in the teef, the part you're looking for. Other stories won't be able to do that. I'll need to create more characters, more settings, actual conflict. And suddenly the teefs are hidden away.
The other reason is a bit selfish, but I'm not sure if I want to spend that much effort in writing these transformative fictions. I write other, non-lewd things in my spare time, and publish them on several blogs. As much as I love writing these characters, I'll always put more effort into writing SFW stuff. If I write TF prose, that will have to change, and I'm not sure I like that.

As always, I leave this journal with a question. Should I start writing TF prose other than TT characters? Know that if I do, I won't stop writing characters. You'll just get more stories. But should I do it?

-yoshielder

With the recent release of Janice Mercer, my ninth character, I now have around two and a half months of weird kinky tf story experience. Even though it seems like a short time (and felt even shorter) I've learned a lot about writing in general from this. Things that I will now humbly share to you, whether you want me to or not. I'm sure there are some writers reading this, so hopefully these tips make you a better writer too, or at least better than me.

1. Start an outline before anything.
Before writing a single letter of your story, jot down an outline. It's not essential of course, but it really does help the process. I started making outlines with Buster Matthews, and it turned my stories from 65 changes to 100. I wrote a character without it afterwards, and while it was possible, it took way longer than I wanted it to be. I use a program called Scapple, which is easy to toy with and gives me a great image of how the story will play out, especially since I use a lot of "WaitFors", stages that wait on another before they appear. The outlines are always a huge mess, but they should be. It'll then be up to you to take that mess and clean it up into a story. Even if your story is a paragraph long, set an outline.

2. Research, research, research.
Since the format of my stories revolve around physical and mental changes to something else, I really need to properly understand the "something else", and for that, I research. Copiously. I've searched for such strange things as Asian names, Southern slang, bone structure of feet, and looked at enough women's clothing to get Google to send me Sephora gift cards for the rest of my life. If you're going to tell a story, no matter what format or topic, you need to research too. And no, you won't end up using everything you've learned, but you'll have used something, something to give your story more life.

3. Names are important.
Ok, this might only be important to me, but I put tons of thought into names. Probably more than I should, but I believe that a name in a story with no significance is a waste of a name. Everything in your story should reflect your themes, name included. It fits into two sections. First, what the name represents. There's loads of symbolism for pretty much every name on the planet, and if you want to sneakily put some character in your character's names, use that symbolism. Akasuki Hachi, for instance (the bee tf), represents "Wise Helper Bee", which is pretty on the nose for the character. The surname in Taaril Sarkuvonyano, the Elf segment of Stella Sutherford III (the rat tf) literally translates to "Rat Body". As you can see, you can have a lot of fun with this.
What's probably more important than that, though, is the structure of the name. I think of both the metre (the stresses the name gives) as well as the name itself. What kind of characters do you think of when you hear the names Brad Stone, Maxyne Molly, or Josephine Valley? Say the names out loud. Do you think of a tough jock, a flirty and promiscuous slut, and a a laid back country girl? It's ok if you don't, but think to yourself about what feeling generates from the sound and spelling of names. If you still don't really understand what I'm getting at, read some Charles Dickens, the absolute master of the descriptive name. What does a name like Ebenezer Scrooge tell you about a character before anything else is said about them?

4. The hardest thing is to start. The easiest thing is to keep going.
Starting a story sucks. I'm certain that I'm not alone in this. Whether I have a million ideas in my head or none at all, it's always a struggle to start a story. Then I get started, and suddenly five hours have passed and I've written a rival to War and Peace. Starting your story is hard, but once you get going, you won't want to stop. This is another reason why outlines are so important: they give your thoughts an easy bridge to cross onto the page.

5. Have a thesaurus handy, even if you don't think you'll need it. You will.
I don't care if you're Meyer or Palahniuk, I assure you that everyone clings onto the same words over and over. Just like how you'll subconsciously walk in a circle when blindfolded, you'll keep using the same words and structure if you don't realize it. Wanna play a fun drinking game? Pick a word in one of my stories, and drink any time you see it. Such examples are "slight", "change", and "You feel a x as your y z's". Catch yourself when you start focusing on one word, and look up synonyms for it. And much like researching, you'll gain new information on how to write your character.

6. (the final one!) Push yourself.
If you keep writing the same thing over and over again, even if it's the greatest thing since a Shakespeare-Twain sandwich, your readers will go insane. You'll go insane. Think about the things that made you scrunch up your nose and shake your head when writing your story, and write exactly that for the next one. My next character is by far the strangest thing I'll have ever written, and I've written Asian bee porn and elves turning into prostitute rats. And I cannot wait to write it.

That's it. I might do this again, but I might not (excellent observation, huh?) If anyone got even a smidge of advice from this journal, I'll be happy with it. And please share your advice and learnings from writing too. It'll be a weird and slutty schoolhouse.

-yoshielder

My latest TT character is going through a bit of a slog at the moment, but I didn't want to leave all my beautiful, smart, and extremely wealthy watchers without any content at all, so here's a few scattered thoughts I've been having about transformations and, more broadly, fetishes as a whole.
I'm going to assume that the currently nine watchers of mine (twelve more watchers than I'd ever thought to have doing this stuff) aren't reading my work purely because of my unrivaled prose or my gripping stories. It's due to the transformations, the teefs. Some might be interested non-sexually, some sexually. I'm in the sexually side, mostly on mental changes (you might be able to tell based on one sentence of changes about arms, and fifty sentences about the mind). Thinking back, it's been like this as long as I can remember. I was drawing stick figures of people turning into cats in first grade. I was terrified at the game over to Banjo-Kazooie not for any scary imagery, but for the weird way it made me feel. And I distinctly remember reading a CYOA in a library that went a little too into detail about a mouse transformation, and having it really stick with me, for some reason. I'm sure a couple of people can relate, maybe with the same book.
Now, I don't want to get into some weird "kink-shaming" topic, partly because I don't think it's as relevant an issue as it once was, and partly because I just don't wanna. I might get into it at some point, especially of what happened to sortimid, but not today. Today I just want to ramble.
Growing up a horny teen on the internet fueled by an unorthodox fetish, I have seen a lot of shit. And it takes a lot to truly squick me out. Probably because of this, I have formulated my own theory on the growth of fetishes. I'm sure that there are some conflicting theories that in all likelihood make more sense than the one I use, and I'm sure that there are people who brought up this very topic, hell, this very kink, and come out of it speaking more sense than I will, and I'm absolutely sure that some of this will just be me talking through my ass, since I don't have every fetish ever, but here I go anyway.
I think that every fetish ties back, at its basest form, to sex, more specifically intercourse. There are the kinks that are merely for appearance, of course, such as specific parts of the body, but most others go into sex. Watersports and scat stem from control and dominance during sex, and also from the fluid exchange. Vore also comes from that control (one doing the action, another receiving it) but also from the act of something literally entering another. Even more uncommon things like amputees and guro come from control and intercourse.
All I can point to control and intercourse for, except one. My kink. The kink of the mind.
For a lot of people out there, it might come from a feeling of escapism or roleplaying, but I've never really felt that way. I've never really flocked to second-person stories about teefs (ironic, I know, given what I write). There's nothing overtly sexual about changing one's mind, and even though there is a control element to it, that applies more to hypnotism, something that doesn't do it for me. So what is it?
I'm well aware that it might just be how the brain is wired, and I know that this journal has become much more Freudian than I initially intended it to be. But ever since writing my own teefs, the question has come up in my mind more often. I've only been in the writing community for about three months, so I'm sure there's a lot more for me to learn about our shared fetish.
Hopefully this ties you guys over until I do some mental changing of my own and get out of this writer's block. And if you have any comments about what I've brought up, feel free to leave 'em. We're in this together.

-yoshielder

Based on some friends' advice, I will no longer be accepting requests, and am now only using commissions instead. So sorry for anyone who was looking forward to a request.
The commission info is located in... the commission info button. Pretty handy.

-yoshielder

After a lot of tinkering, I've finally submitted my six characters from Transformania Time. I still feel like I messed it up, so if I did, please holler at me.
What is Transformania Time? It's an online game that pits two characters together in a game show environment. When a contestant loses, they change, and the first to completely transform loses. You can find the game here: https://www.transformaniatime.com/T.....maniaTime/Play and load new characters in the game via notepad file.
I've been a fan of it ever since it came out, and just recently I've become addicted to writing my own characters. They've been on tfgamessite for a while, but I finally decided to share them all with you!

Even though I've written six characters already, I still want to write more, but I'm out of ideas. That's where you guys come in. If you have a commission for me, I'll be jumping at the opportunity to do it.

So, if you have any requests, send a comment. If you want a commission, send a note. And to everyone else, happy reading!
-yoshielder