(OOC Post)

Hey Everyone!

This is just mostly going to be an update which hopefully explains a bit more about the changes I've made to my accounts and sona.

I've now been active within the fandom for almost 10 years now. It's a long time! When I started I really didn't have an idea of how I should present myself and who I should be, so I went with a very quick "placeholder character" while I thought up something better. Ultimately I quite liked him so I just kept him around. However it was very difficult to personally engage with things since I didn't feel much of a connection to this dragon and that lowered my enthusiasm.

After years of knowing some really lovely people, it really allowed me to explore what I wanted from the fandom and what I really enjoyed. And that was big, muscular horse studs! Having played as a horse for a while I really loved the idea of it and eventually thought I should fully make the change and have a massive horse as a primary OC!

The increase of my productivity as being Max has already been astounding. I will try my best (he says, once again) to maintain some level of consistency with uploads. I'll be using PostyBirb to try and spread things out a bit more. It also helps that I've finally got medication for my ADHD.

Is Nos still around? Yes! I will not be changing any of the usernames of my accounts - I will still be going by nostracon and I will sign all my pics as Nos. So in a sense he's still here. Will the character be though? Perhaps! I still have affection towards him so he may come up intermittently.

Do you exclusively talk IC as Max? No. Although I'm now more likely to talk IC as him, I still talk OOC most of the time. But I've talked as most of my OCs before. I'm not exclusive. It just feels nice to be Max!

Will you ever open up for commissions? Possibly. I've always been nervous about commissions because I don't want to let people down with a patchy drawing schedule. Getting prices right is also a whole challenge since my "style" (if you can call it that) feels all over the place. If I can prove to myself that I can draw and upload consistently, then I may think about commissions (however I may keep it among people I know at first just so I can test my system with people who may be more forgiving and honest with me). I'll obviously be sure to let people know across platforms if this is going to happen!

Any big plans? My biggest plan so far is to do a growth drive of some description. How I'll organise this is still something to think about, but really pushing my limits with how big I can get someone does sound very fun. Other than that, I've got lots of ideas of what to do with Max so I'll try to get those out in an attempt to catch myself back up to speed with drawing after over a whole year (!!!) without posting anything.

I do hope everyone is keeping well otherwise!

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