Welcome to Optica's!

I'm glad you asked, dear reader! Why not fuck around and find out? I won't bite... okay maybe a nibble.

I'll start with the obvious. Where the heck are the animations? Well, it's complicated. I finished two private video commissions before Summer ended, one of which were long overdue, the other just being so long in runtime. I still have two more private comms to go, but those are thankfully coming close to completion. As one can imagine, things have been slowing down a bit when it comes to original animations. I'm trying not to start anything wide in scope because I want the last two commissions to take priority. It doesn't help that the Summer was also spent on a lot of model porting from Blender to Source Filmmaker. I am forever grateful for my customers being patient for so long, I truly do not deserve you guys... In the meantime, I do have some old projects to share that have yet to see the public eye. I'll also likely have more poster and comic renders for October, as well. They've been good for warm-ups, especially with lighting a scene. Plus, as an incentive, higher res renders & some standalone shots are available on my Patreon.

That aside, as for other online stuff... oh boy. Apologies in advance, but bro? I've come super close to giving up on social media. I won't go into too much details, since I know many are already well aware & are sick of it, but the wider Internet has been shitting the bed when it comes to censorship and mass surveillance, among other things. If you don't know more recently, Bsky is ready to push a community guidelines update regarding consent within fictional kink depictions, come next October. As one can imagine, I'm on the chopping block when it comes to this kind of thing because being real, a lot of my vore is unwilling by default. Bsky staff has been under intense (and deserved) criticism, but I'm not holding my breath on them changing their minds. If they do stick to their guns, then I'll be shuttering my Bsky along with my dormant Twitter, and I am not going back to Twitter, either. I don't need social media. I only went to social sites like Twitter before, because of the infamous Tumblr porn ban of 2018. Plus browsing social media a lot, especially in this political climate, should honestly count as some kind of cognitive hazard. I may have had my start on Tumblr sure, but there's a reason why my most resilient presence for lewd content has always been on Eka's Portal, with FurAffinity being second.

Speaking of, I haven't forgotten this, but I have been meaning to re-upload my older pony stuff back on FA. At least with the special GIF previews, since FA lacks video support. The GIFs do offer a fun tease of what to expect for viewers, at least in comparison to the film themed thumbnails I currently use. I'm not holding my breath on this ever happening soon, but if FA were ever to add video support, then I will definitely update existing uploads, even if they kill me. Hell, I'll gladly support FA+ if that happens. A man can dream... As far as my presence anywhere else, well I don't think I ever mentioned it here, but I completely left InkBunny. If you wanted another reason to write off the site, well the founder had some less than savory takes regarding trans folks as well as defending AI slop. No big loss there, maybe aside from having an alternate source for watching videos directly instead of Aryion. If the founder had a change of heart, would I come back? Probably not right away, at least not until I have my gallery on FA and Itaku up to 100 percent with Aryion. More-so Itaku, since they actually have video support for animators. Honestly, if you're not on Itaku yet, then I do generally recommend it. The site is nowhere near as popular as it should be, but it should. I haven't had any issues regarding content moderation, and the site is entirely funded by the community.

That's about it for now. If you made it this far reading, then thank you. This year has been hard for a lot of us, and that's putting it mildly. A lot of us have dealt with such extreme bullshit, but we have to remember that horrible things don't last forever. Keep fucking fighting! Maybe watch K-Pop Demon Hunters while you're at it. Love y'all. ♥

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