Hmm, this serial is going the "come for the hot sizeplay and fetish exploration, stay for the big feels, gender identity and discovering one's own potential through MAGIC" route, if what I've drafted is anything to go by.

Is that a genre? I feel like it should be.

@davidgerard Repetition legitimizes. Making the same point with similar language can drive it home. Doing so three times, with intention, can be a valid literary tool.

Thou shalt not count to four. Five is right out.

Speaking of, want to do an #ArtBite using a story? Go right ahead! Just respect preferences about whether critters would like to receive stories.

If you're a writer, you could also bite a fren or respond to a fren's bite by writing alt text for the picture that captures the same mood!

ArtFight is coming up! It's a fun, collaborative way to meet other artists and trade art with them. I'm a fan!

BUT.. ArtFight bans NSFW. And especially right now given the current political climate, I'm not a fan of NSFW artists being told that it's dangerous for them to exist in public spaces.

#ArtFight #ArtFren #furry #FurryArtist

@GavUnimpressive
The most common rewards I've seen visual artists offer are high resolution and early access. That would let you provide a reward to subscribers without removing access to what people are used to seeing.

I think it's time to finally look into opening a SubscribeStar. Does anyone have any advice/cautions about these subscription services? Rewards you like or dislike? Other artists' pages I should look at? I don't want to paywall content or stop taking commissions, so any input is appreciated.

So what's the equivalent to ArtFight for porn writers, anyway?

My phone's autocorrect decided that "oversized lint" is a phrase we might want to use. That sounds like a good way of insulting a micro between your toes.

#MacroMicro

Ahhh, I wanna commission some #macrofurry stickers and could use some suggestions for artists! Am curious and who knows, maybe there are artists I haven't heard about yet but absolutely like? :drgn_happy:

Thanks for suggestions! :blobcatheart:

My phone's autocorrect decided that "oversized lint" is a phrase we might want to use. That sounds like a good way of insulting a micro between your toes.

#MacroMicro

@Spec_tacular98 Tools like PostyBirb can help quite a bit with that!

@AltAfterDark
Thanks for the reminder to do so!

@AltAfterDark
I'd volunteer as part of the prose category. I also enjoy helping write short things for images.

It’s been a minute, huh? While we’d planned on taking a break around FWA, a variety of things aligned and turned that into a much longer break than we’d intended.

Since we were staff at FWA this year, we spent quite a bit of time before the convention preparing, kept busy during the con, and spent about a week afterwards isolating and resting. While we avoided con crud (N95 masks still work), it still took us a bit to recover from being so damn busy. After the con, we started working on cleaning house a bit, since we moved in February and have not fully unpacked from that. We had guests over for most of the last two weeks—first Tiko, then Zordrak—so being a good host took priority. Now we need to get caught up on housework again, starting with two weeks of laundry that piled up and probably continuing with getting our room in some kind of shape.

All of that to say: We haven’t been doing much writing lately, but it’s not a result of a depressive spiral or other negative life event. It’s just been a whole lot of things, one after another, that have generally kept us from opening Obsidian. We probably (definitely) could have utilized our time and energy more effectively but, in our defense, at least we weren’t rotting in bed for most of the last two months.

The forecast for the next few months is a lot lighter. There are some Pride events we might go to, including a Pirates & Princesses themed party this weekend. We want to go to more furmeets, but those almost always happen on Saturdays and, on average, happen once a month. There’s one guest who might come over next month but, otherwise, we don’t have any specific obligations or commitments between now and taking Amtrak to BLFC in October. This means, barring unforeseeable circumstances, we’ll have time to get back into writing like we’ve intended to.

If you think we owe you some writing and we haven’t recently been in touch, please contact us via Signal, Telegram, or Discord. We’ll offer refunds to anyone who paid us for work that has been incomplete. To help keep ourselves accountable, we plan on getting back into streaming with at least one afternoon and one nighttime writing stream each week, likely starting with a stream on Piczel Thursday evening. We may resume streaming to Twitch as well, just since we like hanging out while playing games. However, we’re also going to make a habit of taking at least two hours each week for self-care since we’ve been neglecting that and spending some time treating ourselves is a tremendous boon to our well-being.

Here’s to hoping we can actually stick with it this time. We’re going to be gradually sliding back into those good habits, rather than diving head-first into them and burning ourselves out. We want this to become a sustainable way of doing things and we want to keep writing for a long time to come. Thank you for your support, whether that’s commissioning us or just reading and sharing our stories.

Signed,
The Author

@Mycroft
As a writer who generally tries to follow the rules of English spelling and grammar: If you're understood, you're communicating well enough.

@KommaChameleon
This is one reason we like contrasting characters. There are plenty of ways to reference those differences to describe the action.