CW: Some soft vore and hard vore featured within the contents.

On Worth and Worship: An exploration into the appreciation of the fictional and connecting sentiment and beauty to its physical aspect.

Here it is! This is the culmination of a whole semester's worth of a college-level Creative Writing class I took last fall. I'm suuuuuuuper proud of this thematically consistent chapbook / collection I managed to put together. I didn't have this idea going into the class, but it all fell into place in a beautiful manner. Gosh, I don't even know how to introduce this thing besides what's written in the foreword below. Expect several poems and a couple short stories featuring some of the following:
1.) A dragon in a forest doing it's thing!
2.) Appreciation for physical things
3.) Intimate and steamy soft vore!
4.) Reluctant hard vore!
5.) Faith!
6.) Philosophy?
7.) Gryphon!
8.) A dragon and boy growing up together!
9.) A poem inspired by a work of visual art!
10.) Positive vibes and good feels!
11.) Some sadness and cynicalness...
12.) Fancy schmancy presentation!
13.) Artsy Fartsy-ness
And much much more! See below for an excerpt of the foreword, and open the document to see the rest of the foreward and the collection of works in their proper order! I'll also be uploading the works by themselves, so see this if you want their intended order to be read! Thank you oh so so much for your time and interest if you decide to go further!




Excerpt from the Foreword:

We live in a cold society, here in the U.S.A and in most of the world. We are expected to be warm to only what culture, religion, and precedence tell us to be warm to. We are permitted to show affection to family, we are permitted to show gratitude to acts of kindness, we are permitted to show appreciation to 'tasteful' art and effort. All of those are all fine, merry, and dandy, and it's a good thing we can. However, the very fact that that there are only certain positives that we can behave positively toward is an atrocity. There is so much room to be explored in the human potential to love, to experience joy, to experience the sublime. There is so much good that can be experienced from people and things in this world and among the conceptual. However, the conformist, dogmatic, and close-minded tendency of our society is so deeply instilled from the historic and current institutions of social control. The institutions of religion preach only one road of life, and they limit and seek to suppress the beautiful phenomenon of alternative sexualities and intragender romantic partnerships. Conservative factions echo the same sentiments and additionally seek to assimilate the cultures and lifestyles of their surroundings to their own, no matter how interesting, creative, or productive the traditions or lifestyles of those other people are. Even movements as casual as "cringe culture" on the internet platforms act as to shame others for liking whatever different, perhaps stranger, things they enjoy. This tendency of our society, to shame others for enjoying what's not in our subjective mainstream, is limiting the capacity for the enjoyment and fulfillment of our lives. Fortunately, many, social activists and fellow artists are pushing back and fighting for the privilege to be proud of their idiosyncrasies, their identities, their sexual orientations, and even simply just what they like. In this collection, I raise my glass to their efforts and continue in their general direction, but I will take my own path and address a niche I, myself, am especially passionate in.

People will tend to view the world around them through similar lenses as their peers and those they respect. This means that the unobservant and standardized nature of our society ends up bleeding into the psyche of most people. While many will thankfully pause and appreciate the grandeur around us, most will still take for granted what sentimental value can be found in the world around us, in often unexplored relationships, and in fictional content. This chapbook, On Worth and Worship, is responding to this neglect and attempting to recreate a vision fully embracing the sentimental value. I seek to help people understand how the physical and spiritual intertwine to expand on how we can interpret beauty and worship in new venues and through unexplored ideas. It will explore the adoration of the physical; it will explore a theological intake of the world; it will explore a sublime longing and beautifully intimate and conflicted fictional relations. This chapbook is on worth and worship, and it will attempt to open your eyes to the value of both realities and fictionional concepts through the use of poetry and speculative fiction.

Certain themes will become immediately clear as you read the works included. Firstly, you'll notice there is a lot of dragon adoration and a lot of vorish themes. This is for several reasons:
1. I see lots of potential for Vore to be used in beautiful manners, whether it be through character interaction or through the appreciation of the frankly gorgeous physical substance in the greater majority of it. As it has this greater potential, which is often times underused and disregarded, and as it does not exist in any meaningful capacity in this world, I think it is a prime candidate to be explored.
2. Dragons are so commonly featured in this chapbook because I believe them to be the perfect other-party for vore to occur, as people already expect them to be man-eaters and should be familiar and comfortable with that idea. Of course, they are also gorgeous creatures that seems to resonate with the mainstream and are flexible enough to both be adored, feared, and worthy to overcome fear for.
Plus, I have a personal affinity and appreciation towards both of them, and it is better to write what you know.